Just to illustrate

by LeGrand Richards

For years friends of Elder LeGrand Richards have been urging him to publish the lively illustrations that have made his sermons so vital and stirring, and at last he has reluctantly agreed to do so. In this timely and delightful book Elder Richards presents the fascinating true stories that have made him one of the great speakers of the Church. Told in crisp, clear language, and applied with telling insight, the examples from the lives of others charge us with enthusiasm, challenge us to resourcefulness, prime us to positive thinking, and sober us to avoid pitfalls. Filled with ideas and imagination, 'Just To Illustrate' offers help to leaders and missionaries everywhere, and enjoyable reading to everyone. You will be chuckling and grieving alternately as you read of people and their problems - and the solutions they found. So, here you are - Happy Reading!

324 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1961

About the author

LeGrand Richards was born February 6, 1886 at Famington, Utah, a son of George F. Richards and Alice A. Robinson. He was baptized June 11, 1894, and filled two missions to the Netherlands, the first one in 1905-1908. On his second mission, from 1914 to 1916, —when he presided—he was accompanied by his wife, Ina Jane Ashton Richards, who was born Sept. 14, 1886, at Salt Lake City, a daughter of Edward T. Ashton and Cora Lindsay and by whom he would father ten children. Elder Richards was ordained a High Priest and Bishop June 29, 1919, by Charles W. Penrose, and presided over the Sugar House Ward, Granite Stake, from 1920 to 1925.
In 1926 he filled a short term mission to the Eastern States. In 1931-1933 he presided over the Hollywood Stake, California, and was set apart Dec. 29, 1933, to preside over the Southern States Mission. (See Improvement Era, Vol. 17, p. 250.)
Elder Richards was called as the Presiding Bishop of the Church April 6, 1938, suceeding Sylvester Q. Cannon who had been called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He served in that position until April 6, 1952 when he was suceeded by Joseph Leopold Wirthlin, he himself having been called to follow Elder Cannon into the Quorum of the Twelve and being ordained to this high and holy office by President David O. McKay on the same April 6, 1952.
Elder Richards served in the Council of the Twelve until his death January 11, 1983 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of ninety-six.