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Prophets I Have Known: Joseph Anderson Shares Life's Experiences
Prophets I Have Known Joseph Anderson Shares Life's Experiences Author:Joseph Anderson "They have never been mediocore men. They are and were giants of the Lord chosen and ordained before they came to this earth. Fortunately they are not of the same mold. They have been and are prophets of the living God." Says Joseph Anderson, "After half a century of association I can say the men who have p... more »resided over this Church from the beginning have been men raised up by the Lord for the particular time during which they have served."
Few men, if any, have had the opportunity for over half a century to observe the guiding hand of the Lord in the leadership of His earthly Kingdom as has Joseph Anderson. As he relates some of his life's experiences with these Prophets, the reader feels a warm, comforting assurance that the Lord, indeed, directs the affairs of His Church.
It was more than fifty years ago -- February 1, 1922--that the author began a life-long service that permits him to share with us some of the choice experiences and bear witness to the prophetic leadership of fourteen men who have served in the First Presidency during this time. There were in all five presidents of the Church and nine others who were counselors.
Any reader of these memoirs will respond readily and with deep appreciation to Elder Anderson's accounts of close and intimate association with these leaders which draw such comments as those printed above. True to his nature and the trust of his office, Joseph Anderson has safeguarded the things of confidence which are not his right to reveal, but at the same time has given us a warm, intimate, inspired, personal pen portrait of the men he has served and loved.