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Date: October 14, 2018 03:38PM
Want a great, entertaining read?....a romp through the past that Profit-in-Training Joey LOVED TO READ?
Try "The Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs". I promise you will see a charismatic, swindling, god-using shister in the making.
Stephen Burroughs was born in 1765, died in 1840, was the son of a Presbyterian minister, went to Dartmouth like Hyrum Smith and where Lucy hung out a lot, and was known in his youth as "the worst boy in town." He played playful and not so playful pranks for his own continual amusement where his audience continually experienced a love-hate relationship with him.
Putting on many hats seemed as easy to him as skipping out of town when things got a little too warm. He put on the hat of teacher several times, minister by "borrowing" the sermons from his father and, of course, charging money for each sermon. He tried to run away at 14 to become a soldier, an author writing his 2-volume memoirs to make money (which paid off royally), a husband, a father and, probably his staring role, a master counterfeiter.
I challenge you to read just some of this book and not see the career of Joseph Smith in the making.
You can read the book free on the site archives.org.