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
Early in April, 1858, I was called and went to Echo Canyon, in company
with others, to assist in defending the people--traveled south in time
of "the move," and stopped in Provo a short time.
July 2d, 1858, I was ordained a Seventy, and united with the fifth
quorum of Seventies; lived in Salt Lake City until 1861, then, on April
10th, removed to Brigham City, and have lived here from that time.
In the Spring of 1880 I was called and went on a mission to
Germany--arrived at Berlin July 10th. At a conference held there, Elder
Budge presiding, I was called and set apart to preside over the North
German Mission, August 15th, 1880. On the 19th, held an evening meeting
in Berlin--was arrested there for preaching the Gospel, and put in
prison that night--had an examination the next day, which lasted from 7
a. m. until 4 p. m., when the court decreed my banishment from Berlin
and the kingdom of Prussia, with orders to leave the next day at noon,
and never to return, under pain of fine and imprisonment.
August 21st, I left by railroad for the kingdom of Bavaria, traveled
through there and adjoining kingdoms, as Baden, Wurtemburg and Hanover,
for about one year, when I was released and returned home.
Morris D. Rosenbaum.
From the journal of Franklin H. Snow:
I received a letter from President John Taylor informing me that my
name had been presented, and that I had been accepted as a missionary
to Europe.
As soon as I read the letter, I thanked the Lord that my prayers had
been answered, for I had much desired to visit my mother's native
country, and declare the glad tidings of salvation. I knew that the
principles which I had been taught by my father and mother were
principles that would benefit all who put them in practice.
I wrote to President Taylor that I accepted the mission and should
endeavor to magnify my calling. On the 12th of October, 1880, I left my
home in company of fifty Elders, thirty of whom were missionaries to
Europe, the others to different portions of the United States.
None but those that have left their comfortable homes and large
circles of relatives and friends, can imagine my feelings when the
train started out from Ogden City to carry me thousands of miles from
my home. I was not acquainted with any of the Elders on the train
when we started, but all having been baptized into one spirit, we had
associated together but a short time before we were all acquainted.
Strangers on the train, who were not of us, made frequent remarks and
marveled and queried how it was that we put so much confidence in each
other.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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