Friday, August 14, 2026

Heber J. Grant Recording in his Journal (August 14, 1925) that Wallace Smith (son of William Smith) Was Ignorant of the Book of Mormon

  

One of the letters I dictated to the dictaphone this morning was to my cousin, Wallace Smith, the son of William Smith who recently died at Independence. I sent him a copy of the Book of Mormon. He claimed to be shocked to receive a Book of Mormon and said that nothing more than the Bible was needed etc. (Heber J. Grant, Journal, August 14, 1925, in The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1845 Abridged, comp. D. Michael Quinn [Digital Edition; Salt Lake City, 2015])