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English
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Prophets Rendering Christlike Service : Looking to Peter as an Example
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An Eye of Faith : Essays in Honor of Richard O. Cowan
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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213-33
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This chapter highlights an act of Christlike service performed by each of the first sixteen presidents of LDS Church.
1) Joseph Smith helped a widow in 1838.
2) Brigham Young bought a new set of clothes in the 1860s for a boy wearing old clothes.
3) In 1880, John Taylor announced that the Church would forgive $1.6 million in debts to the Perpetual Emigrating Fund.
4) Wilford Woodruff gave a blessing to his wife Phoebe while traveling from Main to Illinois in 1838.
5) As a missionary in Italy in 1850, Lorenzo Snow gave a young boy a blessing, who was then miraculously healed.
6) At a stake conference, Joseph F. Smith invited a young girl who had lost her seat to sit next to him. Smith then spoke about how children were entitled to respect.
7) One year at Christmastime, Heber J. Grant helped a widow pay for her bills and invited widows to join him and his wife on automobile rides.
8) In 1935 George Albert Smith helped a returned missionary feel welcome at a Boy Scouts luncheon.
9) David O. McKay offered work to an orphan boy to help him raise money for his education.
10) After learning that a missionary had only half of the needed funding, Joseph Fielding Smith helped fully fund the mission.
11) As a stake president one Christmas, Harold B. Lee arranged for all the needy families in his stake to receive toys and food.
12) Spencer W. Kimball invited a friend who was less-active in the Church to a weekend camping trip. After spending the trip fasting, reading the scriptures, and praying, the friend returned to the Church.
13) President Ezra Taft Benson helped a Greek man who had become inactive in the Church due to persecution return to the Church.
14) Elder Howard W. Hunter provided constant care for his wife Claire starting in 1973 when her lung collapsed until her death in 1983.
15) Elder Gordon B. Hinckley over 100 LDS soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War and offered to contact their families.
16) In the 1970s, Elder Thomas S. Monson prayed with a couple from East Germany and sent a request to the East German government to allow the couple to attend a temple outside the Iron Curtain, which it surprisingly allowed.