'Praise to the Man'

Saturday marked 165 years since the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.

As the print edition of this issue of the Church News appears, it is 165 years to the day since the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in Carthage, Ill., on June 27, 1844.

Today, perhaps more precisely than at any time in history, the prophecy of the visiting angel Moroni is being fulfilled that Joseph’s name “should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people” (Joseph Smith — History 1:33).

With the advent of the Information Age and the pervasiveness of the World Wide Web, material about the Prophet Joseph Smith is widely and instantly accessible today.

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