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
Chester Loveland a modern Ajax.--Drives the Sheriff and his
posse.--Holds a mobocratic jury.--Brings them to terms.--Captain
in "Nauvoo Legion."--Comes to Utah.--Goes to Carson.--A scene of
suffering.--Commissioned Probate Judge.--Is left to preside.--Mission
to the States.--John A. McAllister called on mission to
Europe.--Interesting time on the steamer.--Why the "Mormons"
were driven from Nauvoo.--Is sent to the Orkney Islands.--Stops
at his uncle's in Glasgow.--Missionary labors.--In Dundee and
Newcastle-on-Tyne.--Visits London.--Returns home.--Is elected County
Recorder.
CHAPTER LIV.
Discourse by Apostle Lorenzo Snow at the General Conference, Salt
Lake City, April 7, 1882, Reported by George F. Gibbs.--Reference
to Moses and ancient Israel.--Distrusting results the effect of
ignorance.--Latter-day Saints have more faith.--No such thing as
standing still.--Move on, trusting in God, the watchword.--Persecutions
of the Latter-day Saints.--Move on and work on.--If we do our
part, God will do His.--How the Lord overruled in our coming to
the mountains.--Plural marriage.--Good resulting from the Edmunds
bill.--The great worth of the Gospel.--Move on, move on.
CHAPTER LV.
Eli H. Peirce.--Called on a mission.--Thoughtless of religion.--Taken
by surprise.--Throws aside pipe and novel.--What his associates
said.--What Moses Thatcher did.--Eli starts forthwith.--In New
York.--To the coal regions, Pennsylvania.--Great success.--A
testimonial.--Baptizes and administers to sick.--The power of God
attends.--Organizes branches.--Heavenly messenger appears.--Release.--A
second mission.--On the frontier.--Baptized a Sioux.--From _Deseret
News_.--A third mission.--With B. Morris Young.--Meets with
success.--Opposition.--Close of mission.--Happy expression.
CHAPTER LVI.
Alphonso Snow.--Letter from President Taylor.--Called on mission.--In
Tennessee.--Strange dialect.--Travels and preaches.--Organizes
a Branch.--Opposition.--Ordered to leave.--A dastardly
letter.--Opposition promotes good.--Professors of religion the
persecutors.--What a Deacon said.--Presides over a Conference.--In
Georgia.--Alphonso released.--Visits relatives.
CHAPTER LVII.
Introductory.--Letter from Lorenzo's son-in-law on the
Sandwich Islands.--The weather.--Cane crop.--Five hundred and
forty-nine baptisms.--King David Kalakauna is coming to visit
the Saints.--Great preparations for his reception.--Houses
decorated.--Inscriptions.--Breakfast is waiting.--The steamer
comes.--The King is escorted between two files of men, women and
children.--Cheers.--Introductions.--Breakfast, then to the meeting
house.--Reception.--Singing choirs.--Dedication prayer by President
Partridge.--The King speaks approvingly of the Saints.--Meeting
adjourned.--A "big feast" prepared by the natives.--What composed
of.--How the King was seated.--How he ate.--How they all, numbering
one thousand, ate.--The King escorted to the steamer.--A national
custom.--Splendid conference.--Number of the Saints.
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