![]() ![]() ![]() Putting all of this in such a simple little book might make it harder to detect his achievement.īy the time I’d finished the book, my notes were twleve pages long. I don’t think he must have done much research, then, but actually had most of this material in his mind (including, this English teacher hastens to add, references to four of Shakespeare’s plays). The book reads very comfortably, and is very friendly to the reader, some of it coming across as spontaneous, and some parts clearly taken from his own library of sermons. It’s not like he was writing a scholarly tract, but if he had been, this wouldn’t have been a bad start. Even as I just kept a brief mental tally of his sources, I was impressed that he had such a broad store of resources available. After I’d read the first twenty pages or so, I found myself wanting to keep track of all his many offhand references. When he died, I finally pulled my copy of Standing For Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts And Homes off the shelf. As I joined the Church in 1993 but wasn’t very active until 1996, that includes me. At that time, considering the growth of Church membership, he had been the only prophet that about a fourth of all living Mormons had ever known. ![]() Hinkcley, 15th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In a little over a week, it will be a year since the passing of Gordon B. ![]()
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