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Those who were privileged to meet the Prophet Joseph Smith in the flesh were universal in their responses to the experience.
President Lorenzo Snow, who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a young man in Kirtland, Ohio, was just one witness.
George Spilsbury was baptized in England and later became a member of the Nauvoo Legion, seeming to expand on this same theme.
“In his preaching I have heard him (Joseph) quote scriptures in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and German,” he said (see “Personal Glimpses of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” by Hyrum L. Andrus and Helen Mae Andrus). “He was a great man — a statesman philosopher, also a revealer of many things in philosophy and astronomy.”
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