Making a Difference With Compassion

Beginning in 1820, a young boy of only 14 years of age, began a journey that changed the world for good. His calling as a modern prophet of God brought about the restoration of ancient Christianity, before creeds, before councils, before the doctrine of original sin, before the use of the cross as a symbol by Emperor Constantine the Great, and before the use of the word Trinity. Joseph Smith knew Jesus Christ as Jehovah of the Old Testament and as the risen Lord of the New Testament. Restoring the ancient priesthood and establishing the proxy ordinances of the Temple for the exaltation of the dead combined to raise the animosity of orthodox ministers and their followers to bloodletting. His death with his older brother Hyrum at Carthage sealed their testimonies with their blood. No greater witness exists in heaven or on earth to the veracity of their integrity. The truth will prevail.