Receiving the priesthood in 1978 fulfilled Joseph Freeman's boyhood dream. Most young boys aspire to be a truck driver or a fireman. With Joseph Freeman it was somehow different. From his childhood days he always had an ardent desire to be a minister. The absorbing story he tells in this book begins on a small farm in North Carolina, where his honest, God-fearing parents raised their children to live by those same principles. With work and worship as twin pillars of his early years, the young Joseph finally attained the status of a minster in the Holiness faith. Or was it finally? There were doubts, feelings of inadequacy. Faith was there, but where was the power? A stint in the army took him to Hawaii, where the dilemma persisted. Then he found the true Church and his true love—and more problems to solve, bigger decisions to face. Now he was offered a religion he saw as true but in which at that time he no prospect of ever enjoying ministerial status. In the Lord's Due Time is an appealing, well-written story of growing up in a black family in the South, with its work, its play, and its problems; of innate desire to make something of life; of marriage and conversion to the gospel under unusual, even trying, circumstances; and of ultimately receiving the holy priesthood and the accompanying temple ordinances. Intensely readable, filled with interesting personal experiences, here is a heartwarming story that every LDS reader will enjoy.