Bruce R. McConkie
Pearl of Great Price Student Manual pg 57
Why should so many religionists unite against an unknown youth of no renoun or standing in the community?
Would the whole sectarian world shiver and shake and call for a sword if some other unknown 14 year old youth in an obscure frontier village should claim that he was visited by angels and that he saw the Lord?
The problem when Joseph Smith announced such a claim was that it was true and that Lucifer knew of its verity.....
Is not the persecution itself a witness of the reality of the First Vision? Or if it were not true, would the worldly wise and the intellectual religionists today devote their talents and means to defaming Joseph Smith and the work that bears his imprint?
What is it to anyone else what we believe unless they in their unbelief fear lest our doctrines are true and our practices may have divine approval.
Full name Bruce Redd McConkie
ReplyDeleteBorn July 29, 1915
Place of birth Ann Arbor, Michigan
Died April 19, 1985 (aged 69)
Place of death Salt Lake City, Utah
LDS Church Apostle
Called by Harold B. Lee
Ordained October 12, 1972 (aged 57)
Ordination reason Death of Joseph Fielding Smith and reorganization of First Presidency
End of term April 19, 1985 (aged 69)
End reason Death
Reorganization at end of term M. Russell Ballard ordained
LDS Church General Authority
First Council of the Seventy
Called by George Albert Smith
Start of term October 6, 1946 (aged 31)
End of term October 12, 1972 (aged 57)
End reason Called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Called by Harold B. Lee
Start of term October 12, 1972 (aged 57)
End of term April 19, 1985 (aged 69)
End reason Death
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