Patriarchal Blessing of Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. by Joseph D. Smith
... You have been greatly blessed in your birthright, and you were called and ordained before you came in the flesh, as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, to represent his work in the earth. You are of Israel ...
You have been blessed with ability to comprehend, to analyze, and defend the principles of truth above many of your fellows, and the time will come when the accumulative evidence that you have gathered will stand as a wall of defense against those who are seeking and will seek to destroy the evidence of the divinity of the mission of the Prophet Joseph; and in this defense you will never be confounded, and the light of the spirit will shed its rays upon your heart as gently, as the dews that fall from heaven ...
There is a great work for you to do. Your humble spirit, if you continue, will open up to your mind truths that you have never before thought of, and you will hesitate to make them known. There will always be safety in doing this to your father [President Joseph F. Smith] while he lives, and to those who may succeed him, before you present them in public. ... Your counsels will be considered conservative and wise...
I bless you with wisdom to use the knowledge that God will give you in the furtherance of his work in the earth, and the preserving of your body until you have completed all you have been sent to do. ...
[Patriarchal Blessings]
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