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Show 4 ! -I v ? WHO PICKED J S SMITH TO REPRESENT GOD? ! Many persons, Mormon as 4 well ns Gentile, are asking v themselves the question of how v did. the Lord come to select Jos- 4" eph F. Smith to represent Him on earth, when there were so -J many millions of men who were v 4 greater philosophers, who wore 4 b pure in heart, endowed with r1 great hrain, and who were God- -I like? After revolving the ques- ! r tion, tho conclusion is reached 4 that God had nothing to do with I- it, hut rather that Joseph F. 4-I 4-I Smith picked himself out, and 4 J that the prophet, seer and revel- 4 r ator business, as represented by v I- Joseph F. Smith, is the rankest 5 I- kind of a fake. They quickly conclude, too, that there are I b many men in Salt Lake who b could take the job that Joseph :-! :-! F. is now holding on to like ;-b ;-b grim death, and, with no prep- -i-b aration or practice, revelate -b b Smith to a standstill. The aver- 4 v age human being has the same I ideal of a supreme being; that v is, that, he is the personification of all that-is good and pure nud r v holy, and that if He sent a rep- v v resentative to tho earth, that ! 4" representative would be a man S b of like kind. Not a lawbreaker. ! Not a law defler. Not a liar. 4 4 Hence tho conclusion, Joseph F. 4-4 4-4 Smith must have picked himself 4 4 out. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 r 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 |