Amen!
SOME/many Mormons engage in Smith idolatry...and then wonder why Christians get offended at idolatry????
There is also that song worshipping Brigham Young
Hail to the prophet or something like that...
Heres one...
Hail Cumorah, Silent Wonder
by Theodore E. Curtis about a painting of the supposed “cumorah hill”
Hail Cumorah, silent wonder
Of the hidden ages gone,
Lo, the footprints of the thunder
Bares your treasure to the dawn,
And Moroni clothed in glory,
Crowns your visage as of old,
To reveal the ancient story
Written on your heart of gold.
Twice a people’s last protection,
Twice a witness of the world
In the arms of insurrection,
To prophetic ruin hurled.
Ramah,9 of the ancient nation,
Dawns thy glorious day at last.
From your bosom comes salvation
And the story of the past.
And one by William W Phelps
composed in 1835 but dropped from the hymnbooks after 1927
Phelps was the guy who wrote praise to the man
An angel came down from the mansions of glory,
And told that a record was hid in Cumorah,
Containing our Saviour’s most glorious Gospel,—
And also the cov’nant to gather His people.
A heavenly treasure, a book full of merit,
It speaks from the dust by the power of the Spirit;
A voice from the Saviour that Saints can rely on,
To watch for the day when He brings again Zion.
O listen ye isles, and give ear, ev’ry nation.
For great things await you in this generation,
The kingdom of Jesus in Zion shall flourish,
The righteous will gather, the wicked must perish.
O Israel! O Israel! In all your abidings,
Prepare for your Lord, when you hear these glad tidings.
Retired Brigham Young University religion professor Rodney Turner’s “What Do We Hear from Cumorah?” (with music by Janice Kapp Perry)20 attempts exactly that. His text adapts the rhetorical format of Joseph Smith’s 1842 doctrinal “epistle” (Doctrine and Covenants 128), written from Nauvoo to encourage and energize the Saints during this difficult period:
And again, what do we hear? Glad tidings from Cumorah! Moroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the fulfilment of the prophets—the book to be revealed. (Doctrine and Covenants 128:20)
What do we hear from Cumorah?
From its heights holy prophets of old
Witness with power and plainness
Of Jesus, on plates of gold.
Their message is truth everlasting,
The truth that shall save each soul
Who, hearing the call of the Shepherd,
Repents and seeks rest in His fold.
What do we hear from Cumorah?
From its heart humble servants proclaim
Men are alike unto heaven,
As children of God, the same.
Restored is the gospel of gladness,
With joy we can now exclaim
“The burden of sin has been lifted
Because of our faith in Christ’s name.”
What do we hear from Cumorah?
From on high speaks the voice of the Son
Off’ring to all life eternal
Through Him who denieth none.
With Joseph’s word joined unto Judah,
Their witnesses stand as one,
The gospel goes forth to the nations
The work of salvation begun!
This next is interesting...
Darwin Wolford’s oratorio The Land of Joseph,52 on a libretto by Marylou Cunningham Shaver (commissioned by Ricks College in 1976 for the American bicentennial), portrays a sweeping vision of America’s religious history. The oratorio, which concludes with Moroni’s final words of warning at Cumorah, has the unifying theme that the “land of promise” can only be possessed by a righteous people. The narrow patriotic focus connecting the “land of promise” with the United States undoubtedly limits the potential of this work. More universally appealing is Wolford’s Song from Cumorah, a cantata for children’s chorus, with narration and lyrics by Mabel Jones Gabbott.53 The cantata unfolds around important Book of Mormon topics, each narration reinforced with a song, as in this example from the finale:
“The stories we have told are in the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon was translated from the plates which the angel Moroni took from the Hill Cumorah. Joseph Smith translated the record, which is ‘an account written by the hand of Mormon; wherefore it is an abridgement of the record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, and of the people of Jared—and hid up unto the Lord, to come forth in due time by way of the Gentiles to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God.’
I heard the voices ringing
In tones of mighty worth,
From men whose words had waited
Long hidden in the earth.
When fools no longer hearken
And cry that Christ is dead.
Lo! Nephi tells his story;
And Mormon’s word is read.
I heard the voices singing,
Of miracles, of prayer,
Of Christ alive, but wounded,
Of angels gathered there;
When men again are seeking
A hope against the night.
His words will be their comfort,
His love will make things right.
From: “Hail, Cumorah! Silent Wonder”: Music Inspired by the Hill Cumorah by Roger L Miller
http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=13&num=1&id=343