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Rattling off memorized Portuguese phrases and well-remembered American hymns, an ebullient, white-haired apostle of Jesus last week exhorted Mormon converts in Brazil to "know in your hearts that Joseph Smith is the true prophet of God." The speaker's evangelical fervor poured forth naturally: he was Joseph Fielding Smith, 84, grandnephew of the founder, grandson of the prophet's martyred brother Hyrum, son of former Mormon President Joseph F. Smith, and himself senior member of the Council of the Twelve (the group of elders who are the spiritual and administrative leaders of the church). Traveling through...
Direct from God. Apostle Smith can well remember when the future of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was not nearly so promising. His life spans the Mormon Church's transition from a persecuted rebel sect to one of the most dynamic congregations in Christendom. As a boy, Smith's father followed Brigham Young across the plains, traveling in a covered wagon with his mother, widowed when a mob lynched her husband. Growing up near the Great Salt Lake, he had five wives and 42 children; his tenth son was Joseph Fielding Smith, who recalls...
...Salt Lake City, young Smith learned not only how to plow a field, but also how to fight off an Indian attack. Throughout his youth the bustling Mormon community was watched over by federal troops and attacked by Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy. Shortly after Smith's 25th birthday, his father, who was senior apostle in the Council of the Twelve, succeeded to the presidency of the Mormon Church. "It was wonderful, but rather frightening to have him in the house," recalls Smith, "because the president is the only man to get revelations direct from...
Utah (4): A Mormon blessing for the G.O.P. NIXON...
...party system going in Orval Faubus' one-party state. ¶ Aging (87) David O. McKay, "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" as well as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sat side by side with Vice President Nixon (in the company of Mormon Apostle Ezra Taft Benson) in the church office in Salt Lake City and said: "I sat by your competitor a few days ago. I said to him, 'If you win, we'll support you.' Today I say to you I hope you are successful.' Though McKay's Nixon...