Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSnow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
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Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Snow family; Snow, Lorenzo, 1814-1901
We returned about three o'clock in the afternoon, and having
consecrated some oil, I anointed my hand and laid it upon the head of
the child, while we silently offered up the desires of our hearts for
his restoration. A few hours afterward we called, and his father, with
a smile of thankfulness, said, "_Mieux beaucoup! beaucoup_!" (Better,
much, much!)
September 8th. The child had been so well during the past night the
parents had been enabled to take their rest, which they had not done
for some time before; and to-day they could leave him and attend to the
business of the house. As I called to see him, Madam Grey expressed
her joy in his restoration. I, in turn, remarked, "_Il Dio di cielo ha
fatto questa per voi_." (The God of heaven has done this for you.)
Finding circumstances favorable as could be expected, I considered
it wisdom to send for Elder Jabez Woodard, of London, with whom I
had formed an acquaintance while in that city. By exertions of Elder
Margetts, President of the London Conference, and the liberality of the
Saints, he was enabled to join us on the eighteenth of September. The
following day, being eleven months from the time the foreign mission
left the city of the Great Salt Lake, I proposed we should commence our
public duties.
It was well known that we had come to establish a church. This was
looked upon by many as an impossibility. But we now found we had the
materials marvelously assembled from four different nations, viz:
England, Scotland, Italy, and America. With one member from each of
these countries, we proceeded to organize the Church. We ascended a
very high mountain, a little distance from LaTour, and having taken
our position on a bold projecting rock, we sang praises to the God of
heaven, and offered up the following prayer:
We, Thy servants, Holy Father, come before Thee upon this mountain,
and ask Thee to look upon us in an especial manner, and regard our
petitions as one friend regards the peculiar requests of another.
Forgive all our sins and transgressions, and let them no more be
remembered.
Look, O Lord, upon our many sacrifices in leaving our wives, our
children, and country, to obey Thy voice in offering salvation to this
people. Receive our gratitude in having preserved us from destruction
amid the cold wintry blasts, and from the hostile savages of the
deserts of America--in having led us by the Holy Ghost to these valleys
of Piedmont. Thou hast shown us that here Thou hast hid up a portion of
the house of Israel.
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