Identifier: utahitspeopleres001915chur Title: Utah : its people, resources, attractions and institutions Year: 1915 (1910s) Authors: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Temple Square Bureau of Information Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church Publisher: Salt Lake City [Utah] : Bureau of Information, Temple Block Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Text Appearing Before Image: w us copies of the Book, and to furnishus freely with tracts containing further information, our guide ledus back to the Bureau of Information. Several of our party boughtcloth-bound copies of the Book of Mormon. This is not, by the way, the IMormon Bible. The Mormonsuse King James translation as freely as do other Christians, butuse the Book of Mormon as an additional book of scripture, con-taining, they maintain, many valuable truths supplementary to theJewish scriptures. Statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith 27 En route to the Bureau, we passed two life-size statues, inbronze, of Joseph Smith, the prophet, and his brother Hyrum,of whom our guide spoke ahnost reverently in the Tabernacle.Our guide informed us that the statues formerly occupied nichesat the east end of the Temple, but were recently placed in the opengrounds so that visitors might more easily see them and becomefamiliar with the noble mission of the martyr brothers, by meansof the inscriptions on the respective pedestals.

Text Appearing After Image: Statues of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith. Inscription on the front tablet of the Prophets statue:JOSEPH SMITHThe Prophet of the new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord.He was born at Sharon, Vermont, on the 23rd of December, 1805; and suflferedmartyrdom for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus at Carthage, Illinois,on tlie 27th of June, 1844. HIS VISION OF GODI saw tw^o personages whose glory and brightness defy all description. One ofthem spake unto me and said: THIS IS MY BELOVED SOX: HEAR HIM.I asked which of all the sects was right and wuich I should join. I was an-swered I must join none- of them; they were all wrong; they teach for doctrine thecommandments of men; I received a promise that the fullness of the gospel wouldat some future time be made known to me. THE BOOK OF MORMON.This book was revealed to him, and he translated it by the gift and power ofGod. It is an inspired history of ancient America, and contains the fullness of thegospel. It is the Amer

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