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
Before leaving Greet's Green to take charge of the Church in London,
Brother Lorenzo held several meetings in Wolverhampton, a flourishing
town numbering several thousand inhabitants. There he succeeded in
establishing a branch of the Church. A man, by name William Henshaw,
was one of the number who embraced the Gospel at that time; a man of
ability and force of character, he became very useful as a minister of
and advocate for the truth.
Brother Snow ordained William Henshaw to the Priesthood, and sent him
on a mission to Wales to introduce and open the Gospel door to that
people. He was very successful and greatly blessed in his labors. He
had baptized several hundred persons and organized quite a number of
branches of the Church in that country previous to the arrival of
Captain Dan Jones, who was sent as a missionary from Salt Lake to that
people.
It is a matter of deep regret that, after having performed a great and
good work--after having been instrumental in bringing into the Church,
among the many whom he baptized, several persons who became prominent
and influential preachers of the Gospel, that he should make shipwreck
of his faith through that destructive demon, intemperance, and by
intoxication destroy the powerful faculties with which God had endowed
him. He crossed the ocean, and, in St. Louis, died a drunkard. Once
beloved and highly respected, he yielded to the weakness of the flesh,
and "died as a fool dieth"--an object of regret and pity, a warning to
those similarly tempted.
Not long after Brother Snow was appointed to preside over the Church
in London, a circumstance occurred which plainly illustrated the
interference of evil spirits in human affairs, and most strikingly
their use as instruments to oppose the progress of the latter-day work.
A band of them undertook to frighten him from his post; but Lorenzo
Snow is one whom neither favor, fright nor force can move from the post
of duty.
At the time referred to, he occupied a well furnished upper room,
and directly after his appointment to the presidency, after retiring
to bed at night, he was aroused from sleep by the most discordant
noises. It seemed as though every piece of furniture in the room
was put in motion, going slash-dash, helter-skelter, back and forth
against each other in such terrible fury that sleep and rest were utter
impossibilities.
He endured the unceremonious visitation for several nights, each night
thinking it was the last, that they would leave as unbidden as they
came, until the fact forced itself upon his mind that so long as he
would tamely submit to their aggressions, so long they would continue
to repeat them. Something must be done. He must claim the right of
master over his own premises.
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