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May 2005 New THE MAY 2005 SPECIAL ISSUE: THE TIMES AND SEASONS OF JOSEPH SMITH The New Era Magazine oseph Volume 35, Number 5 oseph May 2005 Smith . Official monthly publication J Jhas done for youth of The Church of Jesus Christ more, save of Latter-day Saints Jesus only, for The New Era can be found the salvation in the Gospel Library at www.lds.org. of men in this world, than Editorial Offices: any other man New Era any other man 50 E. North Temple St. that ever lived Rm. 2420 Salt Lake City, UT in it” (D&C 84150-3220, USA 135:3). E-mail address: cur-editorial-newera In this @ldschurch.org special issue, Please e-mail or send stories, articles, photos, poems, and visit the ideas to the address above. Unsolicited material is wel- places where come. For return, include a the Prophet self-addressed, stamped the Prophet envelope. Joseph Smith To Subscribe: lived, and feel By phone: Call 1-800-537- 5971 to order using Visa, the spirit of MasterCard, Discover Card, or American Express. Online: all he Go to www.ldscatalog.com. By mail: Send $8 U.S. accomplished check or money order to Distribution Services, as the first P.O. Box 26368, Salt Lake City, UT President of 84126-0368, USA. The Church of To change address: Jesus Christ of Send old and new address information to Distribution Latter-day Services at the address above. Please allow 60 days Saints. for changes to take effect. Cover: Young Joseph Smith begins the great work of the Restoration. See “Praise to the Man” on p. 4. Cover painting and photography: The First Vision, by Liz Lemon Swindle (front) and Shanna Butler, Ryan Carr, Janet Thomas, and Paul VanDenBerghe (back) Treasures of Testimony, p. 44 A Snowy Day in February, p. 26 2 C ONTENTS The First Presidency: Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson, James E. Faust Quorum of the Twelve: Boyd K. Packer, L. Tom Perry, Words of the Prophet: What’s Up? 34 Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, M. Russell Ballard, Praise to the Man 4 Joseph B. Wirthlin, Richard G. President Gordon B. Hinckley Nauvoo: Scott, Robert D. Hales, Jeffrey R. Holland, Henry B. Eyring, Standing as the 15th in line from On the Banks of the Mississippi 36 Dieter F. Uchtdorf, David A. Joseph Smith, I solemnly declare Janet Thomas Bednar my testimony of him. The lessons learned in beautiful Editor: Jay E. Jensen Advisers: Monte J. Brough, Nauvoo are spreading to the ends Gary J. Coleman Managing Director: The Cumorah Connection 8 of the earth. David Frischknecht R. Val Johnson Planning and Editorial Director: Victor D. Cave She had the worst attitude ever, Tears for the Prophet 42 Graphics Director: but on Cumorah’s hill, she made SalliJune Anderson Allred Allan R. Loyborg a connection with heaven. I wasn’t acting anymore. Magazines Editorial Director: Richard M. Romney This was real. Managing Editor: Palmyra: R. Val Johnson Editorial Staff: Birthplace of the Restoration 10 Treasures of Testimony 44 Collette Nebeker Aune, Susan Barrett, Shanna Butler, Ryan Carr Elder L. Tom Perry Ryan Carr, Marvin K. Gardner, The Hill Cumorah is only one of the I had a sweet reminder of the value Jenifer L. Greenwood, Carrie Kasten, Sally J. Odekirk, Adam many inspiring historical sites near of my testimony. Do you share your C. Olson, Roger Terry, Janet Palmyra, in western New York. precious gems of knowledge? Thomas, Paul VanDenBerghe Managing Art Director: M. M. Kawasaki Q&A: Line upon Line: Art Director: Brent Christison Questions and Answers 16 D&C 135:3 47 Senior Designer: Fay P. Andrus , BY DEL PARSON , BY “What do we mean when we say Marketing Manager: Larry Hiller this is the only true church?” Instant Messages 48 Printing Director: A bullet hole in the door; shining Craig K. Sedgwick New Era Distribution Director: Poster: forth and sharing the gospel; grateful Kris T Christensen In One Small Moment 19 for Joseph Smith. © 2005 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Periodicals Postage Kirtland: The Extra Smile 50 Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, and THE LORD APPEARS IN THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE APPEARS IN THE KIRTLAND THE LORD School of the Saints 20 at additional mailing offices. The New Era (ISSN 0164-5285) Paul VanDenBerghe Poem: is published monthly by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- In Ohio, the Saints were taught and Rejoice 51 day Saints, 50 E. North Temple organized for what lay ahead. Kimberly Webb St., Salt Lake City, UT 84150- 3220, USA. A Snowy Day in February 26 Photo 51 POSTMASTER: Send address McKay Hinckley changes to Distribution Services, Church Magazines, Bad weather was ruining my trip P.O. Box 26368, Salt Lake City, to Nauvoo—at least, that’s what UT 84126-0368, USA. I thought. Canada Post Information: Publication Agreement #40017431. Independence: Text and visual material in the New Era may be copied for Living in Zion 28 incidental, noncommercial church or home use. Visual material Shanna Butler may not be copied if restrictions are indicated in the credit line Independence, Missouri, is rich in with the artwork. Copyright questions should be addressed to Intellectual Property Office, 50 E. North Temple St., Salt Lake City, history. It also has a very bright future. UT 84150, USA; e-mail: [email protected]. NEW ERA MAY 2005 3 W ORDS OF THE P ROPHET Praise to theMan BY PRESIDENT GORDON B. HINCKLEY any years ago when at the age of my childhood I had been taught much of 12 I was ordained a deacon, my him in meetings and classes in our ward as Mfather, who was president of our well as in our home; but my experience in stake, took me to my first stake priesthood that stake priesthood meeting was different. meeting. He walked up to the stand, and I knew then, by the power of the Holy I sat on the back row, feeling a little alone Ghost, that Joseph Smith was indeed a and uncomfortable in that hall filled with prophet of God.1 strong men who had been ordained to the priesthood of God. The meeting was called I Have Come to Know Him to order, the opening song was announced, I have not spoken face to face with all of I have come to know and—as was then the custom—we all stood the prophets of this dispensation. I was not the Prophet Joseph— to sing. There were perhaps as many as 400 acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith, at least in some there. Together these men lifted their strong nor did I ever hear him speak. My grand- degree, at least voices, . all singing these words with a father, who as a young man lived in Nauvoo, enough that I can great spirit of conviction and testimony: did hear him and testified of his divine testify that he was a Praise to the man who communed with calling as the great prophet of this dispensa- prophet called and Jehovah! tion. But I feel I have come to know the ordained to stand as Jesus anointed that Prophet and Seer. Prophet Joseph Smith. God’s instrument in Blessed to open the last dispensation, I have read and believed his testimony of this great work of Kings shall extol him, and nations his great First Vision in which he conversed restoration. revere. with the Father and the Son. I have (“Praise to the Man,” Hymns, no. 27.) pondered the wonder of that as I have stood They were singing of the Prophet Joseph in the grove where he prayed, and in that Smith, and as they did so there came into my environment, by the power of the Spirit, I heart a great surge of love for and belief in have received a witness that it happened as the mighty Prophet of this dispensation. In he said it happened. DEL PARSON BY IILLUSTRATED 4 NEW ERA MAY 2005 5 have read I have read the Book of Mormon, which spoke with him. Their matchless light rested I the Book of he translated by the gift and power of God. upon him, and he was instructed in what he Mormon, which 3 Joseph Smith trans- By the power of the Holy Ghost I have should do. lated by the gift and received a testimony and a witness of the power of God. By the divine origin of this sacred record. Joseph A Polished Shaft power of the Holy Smith did not write it of his own capacity. I am profoundly grateful not only for Ghost I have received I have seen with my own eyes the power Joseph Smith as the prophet who served as a testimony and a of the priesthood that came to him under an instrument in the hands of the Almighty witness of the divine the hands of those who held it anciently. I in restoring this work, but also for all of origin of this sacred record. have studied his life and measured his those who have followed him. A study of words. I have pondered the circumstances of their lives will reveal the manner in which his death, and I have come to know him—at the Lord has chosen them, has refined them, least in some degree, at least enough that I and has molded them to His eternal can testify that he was a prophet called and purposes. ordained to stand as God’s instrument in Joseph Smith declared on one occasion: this great work of restoration.2 “I am like a huge, rough stone rolling down from a high mountain; .
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