Joseph Smith's Challenge
"[Joseph Smith] was a young man, then a poor farm boy with very little education. He had nothing. His parents had nothing. He lived in a rural community, scarcely recognized outside its borders. And yet the angel [Moroni] said to him that 'he was a messenger sent from the presence of God . . . ; that God had a work for [Joseph] to do; and that [his] name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people' (Joseph Smith--History 1:33). "How could such a thing be? Joseph must have wondered. He must have been absolutely stunned. "And yet it has all come to pass. And far greater will yet come to pass." —Gordon B. Hinckley, "Benediction," Ensign, Nov. 2005, 103)
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