A Caring Physician Reaches Out to the Sick

Summary

---

While in Ensenada, Mexico, on vacation this summer, my wife and I stumbled across a little shop selling black velvet paintings -- those campy portraits that tickle tourists but make art critics cringe. One wall of the shop was set aside for pictures of "martyrs." Bob Marley and his dreadlocks were hung there. So were Tupac -- the rapper -- Jim Morrison, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.

And in the middle of them all was a black velvet portrait of LDS prophet Joseph Smith.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

A Caring Physician Reaches Out to the Sick

On a whim I decided to buy it. The vendor wanted $70. I offered him $30. He chided me for thinking such a saint was worth so little. I chid...

See the full content of this document

---