As a special new feature, we are pleased to present to you each Wednesday an graven image, an icon if you will, reflecting some of the most important Mormon issues of all time. The craftsman, Matthew Page (or Brother Matsby), is a master artist and Painter of LightTM. Please respect the reverence for which BCC is known and keep an appropriate tone in your comments.
Deseret, by Brother Matsby
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February 17, 2010 at 11:32 am
Bee Young indeed.
February 17, 2010 at 11:44 am
Is this because he was so good at fulfilling his “bee fruitful and multiply” commandment?
February 17, 2010 at 11:48 am
Beehold, the founder of Deseret.
February 17, 2010 at 11:49 am
Bee was right. Bee was always right.
February 17, 2010 at 12:17 pm
That’s quite the beeard.
February 17, 2010 at 12:24 pm
O death, where is thy sting?
February 17, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Awesome concept. It gives me the willies because I’m allergic to bee venom.
February 17, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Which of BY’s wives was it who always had a bee in her bonnet?
February 17, 2010 at 12:53 pm
To bee, or not to bee.
February 17, 2010 at 1:00 pm
O bee wise; what can I say more?
February 17, 2010 at 1:09 pm
“In our lovely Deseret….”
Brother Brigham always good at stirring up a hornet’s nest.
February 17, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Matsby, will you marry me and have my grandchildren?
February 17, 2010 at 1:19 pm
I’ll ask my wife and get back to you.
February 17, 2010 at 1:28 pm
He certainly has more bees than President Hinckley who apparently only had six.
February 17, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Ah yes, the famous moment in time when Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass crew bet old B. Young he wouldn’t douse his face in honey at the bee farm.
February 17, 2010 at 2:09 pm
This picture was inspired by that story from church history about how Brother Brigham started wearing a bee-beard shortly after he arrived in the Utah valley and had his grasshopper-sideburns eaten by a couple of seaguls.
February 17, 2010 at 5:17 pm
All the prophets since the Ancient of Days have been a friend to insects.
February 17, 2010 at 5:18 pm
SteveP,
What about John the Baptist? The guy ate locusts. That’s hardly friendly, if you ask me.
February 17, 2010 at 6:28 pm
/shudder/
February 17, 2010 at 7:21 pm
As one who worships Brother Matsby, I know that this new weekly feature is true.
February 17, 2010 at 7:23 pm
I look forward to this series!
February 17, 2010 at 8:09 pm
The Mormon creed: Mind your own beeswax.
February 17, 2010 at 8:11 pm
So that is why Brigham Young is called the American Moses…see this is the eleventh plague.
February 17, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Mark Brown FTW!
February 17, 2010 at 9:55 pm
those bees sure are attracted to awesomeness and righteousness, unlike poor Thomas B. Marsh whom all of the fare bees wouldn’t even glance at anymore.
February 18, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Eat your heart out, Nick Cage.
February 19, 2010 at 8:51 am
Homer: Oh, yeah, what are you gonna do? Release the prophets? Or the bees? Or the prophets with bees in their mouth and when they preach, they shoot bees at you?
February 20, 2010 at 11:19 am
lol!