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Coming up this weekend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Here are some notes from a rough and only partially finished manuscript:<\/p>\n

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Another indication of the Prophet\u2019s sincerity is the striking fact that his own family manifestly believed him.[1]<\/a>\u00a0 \u201cThe parents and all living brothers and sisters of Joseph Smith believed his account of his visions.\u00a0 In fact, the two grandparents still alive in 1830 also believed.\u201d[2]<\/a>\u00a0 For example, the Joseph Smith Sr., the Prophet\u2019s father, traveled two hundred miles\u2014a significant and taxing journey in the frontier America of that period\u2014to carry a copy of the Book of Mormon to his own father, Asael Smith, the Prophet\u2019s grandfather, not long before Asael\u2019s death in 1830.\u00a0 On the basis of what he regarded as divine revelation, Asael had long anticipated that some member of his family would be \u201craised up\u201d as a benefit to humankind. In his eighty-eighth year, he recognized Joseph as the fulfillment of his own revelation.[3]<\/a>\u00a0 Joseph Smith Sr., as Oliver Huntington later recalled, \u201cleaned and relied upon his son Joseph in all spiritual matters as much as boys generally do upon their parents for temporalities.\u201d[4]<\/a>\u00a0 And here is Lucy Mack Smith\u2019s description of life in the Smith household in the period immediately following the visit of Moroni:<\/span><\/p>\n

From this time forth, Joseph continued to receive instructions from the Lord, and we continued to get the children together every evening, for the purpose of listening while he gave us a relation of the same. I presume our family presented an aspect as singular as any that ever lived upon the face of the earth\u2014all seated in a circle, father, mother, sons, and daughters, and giving the most profound attention to a boy, eighteen years of age, who had never read the Bible through in his life.[5]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> \u201cA prophet will always be held in honour,\u201d said Jesus, with slight but realistic hyperbole, \u201cexcept in his home town, , and among his kinsmen and family\u201d (Mark 6:4 [NEB]; compare Matthew 13:57; Luke 4:24; John 4:44).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Anderson, Joseph Smith\u2019s New England Heritage<\/em>, xiv-xv.<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Anderson, Joseph Smith\u2019s New England Heritage<\/em>, 148-149; also Black, Stories from the Early Saints<\/em>, 2, where further references are given.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a>$ Andrus and Andrus, They Knew the Prophet<\/em>, 71.<\/span><\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Lucy\u2019s Book<\/em>, 344<\/span><\/p>\n

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This column of mine appeared today in the \u201cLatter-day Saint Living Weekly\u201d section (previously the \u201cMormon Times\u201d section) of the print edition of the Deseret News<\/em> and, online, in LDS Living<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy Latter-day Saints Need to Defend Our Beliefs, Even as We Avoid Contention\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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