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Show Page 266 justified by the original grammar. The Revised Standard Version of the Bible, along with several important Bible commentaries, agree with Orson Pratt on the sense of the Hebrew in Leviticus, leaving polygamy permissible, 60 if not sanctioned. Orson observed his fortieth anniversary as a member of the Mormon Church not long afterwards. Although among his people he had been viewed as a visionary, as a devotee of impractical and dangerous philosophies, perhaps even a little "unbalanced," his apostolic courage and the value of his erudition had at last been publicly recognized. Millennial Star in England printed the word-by-word account of the great debate only a few weeks later, with an evaluation of Orson's performance: the piece was 61 entitled, "Plucky." But his able defense of the Latter-day Saints was earning him a more noble nickname, one more fitting the pilgrimage of this episolary and philosopher: they called him "The Saint Paul of 62 Mormondom." |