I’d like to suggest looking at the LDS hymn Praise to the Man in a different way. This hymn does not simply praise Joseph Smith, though that is itself surprising. It praises Smith in language that the Bible typically and in most cases exclusively reserves for God and Christ: Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah! “I…will sing praise to the name of the Lord [Jehovah] most high” (Ps. 7:17; cf. 9:2; 30:12; 104:33; etc.). Jesus anointed that Prophet and Seer. Blessed to open the last dispe