"We are all little children as to the great things of eternity"

W. W. Phelp's 1843 letter to Warren Parrish

W. W. Phelps, c. 1850.

William Wine Phelps, a noted Latter-day Saint composer, had a complicated and sometimes strained relationship with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Born in New Jersey in the late eighteenth century he was an early convert and leader. Despite being excommunicated three times he was re-admitted after each episode and …