{"id":1153,"date":"2011-12-24T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2012-05-19T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:56:33","slug":"10th-president-of-lds-church-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"10th President of LDS Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th
\n president of the LDS Church, served
\n a shorter tenure at the helm than
\n any of his predecessors.
\n Yet there were many
\n distinguishing features about his
\n administration. Some of these were:
\n – Church membership soared
\n past the 3,000,000 mark during his
\n 2’\/Z-year administration.
\n – Far-reaching organizational
\n changes were made to provide a
\n more extensive supervisory
\n structure across the world.
\n – President Smith was the oldest
\n of the l0 Mormon presidents to be
\n sustained prophet, seer and
\n revelator at the remarkable age
\n of 93.
\n -He brought to the presidency an
\n unsurpassed background in church
\n service, having been an apostle for
\n nearly 60 years, recognized perhaps
\n as the top theologian in the church.
\n President Smith’s death ends an
\n era that stretches back to the
\n pioneer period of the Mormon
\n Church. Brigham Young, the second
\n president and great colonizer, was
\n still alive when be was bom.
\n His heritage reached back to the
\n very beginning of the church. Joseph
\n Smith Jr., prophet and founder of
\n the church in 1830, was his great
\n uncle, and the propbet’s brother
\n I-lyrum, an assistant president of the
\n church, who was martyred with
\n Joseph on June 27, 1844 at Carthage
\n Jail, was his grandfather. Prwident
\n Smith’s father was Joseph F. Smith,
\n sixth president of the church, and
\n son of Hyrum Smith.
\n Thus, the revered 10th president
\n was a product of the church and he
\n honored his heritage with a lifetime
\n of devout living and example.
\n He was a crusader for
\n righteousness, student of the,
\n scriptures, and author in his own
\n right with 24 books and numerous
\n articles and pamphlets to his credit.
\n Church members, from the
\n humble to the great, were shocked at
\n his sudden passing Simday night,
\n and spoke words of praise for bis
\n stature as a man, his church
\n leadership, and his devonon to his
\n family.
\n Funeral services will be held
\n Thursday at the Mormon Taber-
\n nacle where thousands will pay
\n homage to this extraordinary man.
\n With his passing, the direction of
\n the church is temporarily in the
\n hands of the Council of Twelve
\n Apostles, as it has been on several
\n occasions before.
\n Following the tradition of the
\n church, it is likely President Smith’s
\n successor will be the senior member
\n of the Twelve – Harold B. Lee.
\n Elder Lee, now first counselor in
\n the First Presidency, has been
\n spiritual pillar and a popular leader,
\n not only in the church but in
\n education, business and public af-
\n fairs. 1-le became a member of the
\n ‘lwelve April 6, 1941.
\n The Herald joins friends of
\n President Smith everywhere in
\n expressing regret at his passing and
\n deep sympathy to his family. His life
\n was characterized by unswerving
\n purpose and long, faithful and
\n dedicated service qualities which
\n his followers and admirers might
\n well emulate in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of the LDS Church, served a shorter tenure at the helm than any of his predecessors. Yet there were many distinguishing features about his administration. Some of these were: – Church membership soared past the 3,000,000 mark during his 2’\/Z-year administration. – Far-reaching organizational changes were made to provide a… Continue reading 10th President of LDS Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,19,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}