From Deseret News archives:
LDS leader writes of Joseph Smith
"That baby boy born 200 years ago this month in humble circumstances in rural Vermont was foreordained to become a great leader in the fulfilling of our Father's plan for His children on Earth.
"We do not worship the prophet. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the prophet; we proclaim him; we respect him; we reverence him as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty in restoring to the Earth the ancient truths of the divine gospel, together with the priesthood through which the authority of God is exercised in the affairs of His church and for the blessing of His people.
"In this same period he established an organization which for 175 years has withstood every adversity and challenge and is as effective today in governing a worldwide membership of some 12 million as it was in governing a membership of 300 in 1830. There are those doubters who have strained to explain this remarkable organization as the product of the times in which he lived. That organization, I submit, was as peculiar, as unique, and as remarkable then as it is today. It was not a product of the times. It came as a revelation from God." From the Ensign, December 2005
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