Lawyer-crafts and Doctor-crafts

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A popular quote from the Prophet sent by the Church’s LDS-GEMS email service last week. I had only heard about priestcrafts and had never noticed the part about lawyers and doctors until now. I guess with a little more experience under my belt I now have reason to.

Joseph Smith, Nauvoo, Illinois , May 21, 1843

“I am like a huge, rough stone rolling down from a high mountain; and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force against religious bigotry, priestcraft, lawyer-craft, doctor-craft, lying editors, suborned judges and jurors, and the authority of perjured executives, backed by mobs, blasphemers, licentious and corrupt men and women–all hell knocking off a corner here and a corner there. Thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almighty, who will give me dominion over all and every one of them, when their refuge of lies shall fail, and their hiding place shall be destroyed, while these smooth-polished stones with which I come in contact become marred.”

( History of the Church, 5:401)