[ejonesie22]

Very interesting selection, indeed I may have to add it to my research base.

I do find a description of the book, one that continues from the link you posted with a simple Google search:

"Book will fill you with a love and appreciation of the prophet Joseph Smith and all the things he suffered to establish the Church. Being a compilation of historical data on the personal testimony of Joseph Smith, his greatness, his persecutions, and prosecutions, conspiracies against his life, his imprisonments and his martyrdom."

I guess we can take from that what we may...

[Utah Binger]

When the book came out in 1952, it was quoted with amazing emotion from the pulpit in my little home town of Hooper Utah. I put up the link to AbeBooks because one can see from the list of offerings that it is not considered a collectors piece by the apologists or the numbers would not be $35-$100.

Virtually everything in the book is anecdotal with virtually no proof sources for things said. Just wonderful urban legends spoken in an emotional way.

I probably gave most of my 2 1/2 minute talks directly out of the book as a kid.

[Utah Binger]

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