December 2004 Ensign - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

JOSEPH, I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU, BY THEODORE GORKA
Above: “The Prophet was
strong and active, and could
build more rods of good
fence in one day than most
men could in two,” wrote
Jesse W. Crosby, neighbor of
the Prophet in Nauvoo. “His
woodyard was an example of
order.”
When the Prophet’s ax was
stolen, Jesse wrote, “I contrived
to loan him my ax
because of the unfailing habit
of the Prophet to always
sharpen the ax he had been
using before it left his hand”
(in Andrus, 143–44).
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FRONTIER PROPHET, BY NATHAN ANDREW PINNOCK