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Honour’d and bess’d be the ever-green pine! Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances! Karen Lynn Davidson and others have noted the similarities between the second stanza of “Praise to the Man” and the first four lines of the “Boat Song” from Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake: Phelps, and like many of the other hymns attributed to Phelps, is adapted from an existing hymn. The words have since been credited to early Latter-day Saint hymnist William W. It was titled “Joseph Smith” and intended to be sung to the tune “Star in the East.” It was written shortly after the martyrdom of the prophet Joseph Smith and first published anonymously in the Augedition of the Times and Seasons, an early Latter-day Saint newspaper printed at Nauvoo, Illinois. It is important to note that “Praise to the Man” did not originate as a hymn and was probably never intended as such.

But the hymn is beloved by many, and it would be surprising if it is not included in the next Latter-day Saint hymnal. Critics argue that a hymn praising Joseph Smith does not belong in a book of worship, and that it perpetuates the false image that Latter-day Saints worship Joseph Smith. “Praise to the Man” is easily one of the most controversial hymns in the current Latter-day Saint hymnal.

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