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Assassination Attempt (1819)

Attempts to take Joseph Smith's life were common, but the most unusual one occurred when he was only fourteen, several months before the First Vision. Lucy Mack Smith mentions the incident briefly in her biography of Joseph but quickly drops the subject without further reference. An assassin fired at young Joseph as he was about to enter his home in Palmyra one evening at twilight. The lead balls missed the target but struck a cow nearby. Neither the suspect... Read More

The Year Without a Summer (1816)

The Smith family's move to Palmyra was prompted by a series of crop failures in Vermont - the last one in 1816. Known in New England as "the year without a summer," there was snow or freezing temperatures every month of that year. Now thought to have been caused by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815, this freakish weather was responsible for the Smith's move from Norwich, Vermont to Palmyra, New York. In fact there was such an ex... Read More

Here is something my Brother in-law sent me. I have no idea who the author is. I hope you enjoy it.

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cup... Read More

What Manner of Man:

A Weekly Program to Better Know the Savior

Week 4 -- After-Resurrection Roles

By Linda and Richard Eyre

 

Did the heavens close shortly after the Lord's resurrection?   Will not Christ correspond again with the world until his millennial second coming?  ... Read More

A Century Early (1813)

The story of the operation on young, Joseph for osteomyelitis usually revolves around Joseph's stoicism. Less mentioned is the amazing surgical procedure by one of the foremost surgeons in the country. Doctor Nathan Smith of Dartmouth Medical School was probably the only surgeon capable of such a pioneering procedure at a time when surgery was not a medical specialty. Much could be deduced about a seven-year-old future prophet from an impoverished family ending... Read More

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