Joseph had a way with most people,
ministers of other religions not excluded. One day Joseph conversed with a
female minister from another faith. If Josiah Quincy stated that Joseph had the
homeliest of all names, what do you think this minister had to say about the
prophet?
a. He was an ignorant ploughboy
b. His name was angelic
c. God doesn’t waste his time on farm
boy prayers
d. He’s the best thing since sliced
bread
Yesterday’s answer:
(C) He had the homeliest of all
names
Josiah Quincy
stated after meeting Joseph Smith: Born in the lowest ranks of poverty, without
book-learning and with the homeliest of all human names, he had made himself at
the age of thirty-nine a power upon earth. . . . His influence, whether for
good or for evil, is potent to-day, and the end is not yet.
Orton, Chad
M. and William W. Slaughter, Joseph
Smith’s America (Salt Lake City: Deseret Books, 2005), 2.
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