Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow ( born April 3, 1814 Mantua, Ohio; † October 10, 1901 in Salt Lake City, Utah) was from 1898 to 1901, the fifth prophet of the LDS Church. In his youth he studied theology with a focus on Hebrew and Old Testament and the Church joined in 1836. After that, he devoted his whole life to the church, served as a missionary, apostle and prophet. He stabilized during his brief tenure the church's finances, expanded the number of missions and has started its reforms in a new era in the history of the Church.
Life
On 3 April 1814, Lorenzo Snow, the son of Oliver and Rosetta Leonora Snow, born Pettibone in Mantua, Portage County ( Ohio) born. Instead of making a lesson, he preferred academic studies. In 1835 he attended Oberlin College in 1836 and moved to Kirtland, Ohio, to study Hebrew with a rabbi there. After he had already heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints de, he took in Kritland to this faith and was baptized. In 1837 he was in Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky and Illinois as a missionary for his new faith on the go. In between, he worked as a school teacher.
In May 1840 he was sent as a missionary to England, where he presided over the Church in London. On April 12, 1843, he met with 250 converts in Nauvoo. Subsequently, he taught at a school in Lima (Illinois ) and commenced in 1844 election campaign for Joseph Smith as U.S. president.
In 1845 he married according to the then practiced plural marriage in the Church Charlotte Squires and Mary Adaline Goddard. After the departure from Nauvoo in 1846 he lived until 1848 in Mount Pisgah (Nebraska ), over which he presided settlement. Then he led a group of members to Salt Lake City. In 1852 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Territory of Utah and sent the following year by Brigham Young in the northern Utah to preside over the church, he called the capital of Brigham City.
Snow was on the further exercise of public functions prevented by the Edmunds Act of 1882, the polygamists forbade the exercise of public functions. Due to its aggravation, the Edmunds - Tucker Act of 1887, a large part of the property of the Church was confiscated. Because of its polygamy Snow sat from March 1886 to February 1887 in prison.
Apostle and President of the Church
Lorenzo Snow was ordained on February 12, 1849 by Heber C. Kimball to the apostles and confirmed on 8 April 1873 as a counselor to Brigham Young. When the First Presidency with Wilford Woodruff was re- established as President of the Church in October 1880, Snow became President of the Quorum of the Twelve. As president and prophet of the Church he served after the death of Wilford Woodruff of September 13, 1898 until his death on 10 October 1901 in Salt Lake City. He was the first president of the church, not a long time as President of the Quorum of the Twelve led the church, but at God's behest, as he said, the first presidential newly einrichtete immediately. Since this is always done after the death of the Prophet so.
As an Apostle Snow filled from 1849 to 1852 as a missionary in Italy, where he among the Waldenses had particular success the Piedmont valleys. From England he led at that time the publication of the Book of Mormon in Italy, Switzerland and Malta. In 1864 he served a two-month mission to the Hawaiian Islands under the leadership of Ezra T. Benson of the Quorum of the Twelve. 1872/73, he traveled on behalf of Brigham Young and a group led by George A. Smith, a counselor in the First Presidency, parts of Europe and the Middle East, including Palestine. In 1885 he fulfilled several missions among the Indoamerikanern in the northwestern United States. From May 1893 to September 1898 he served as the first president of the Salt Lake Temple.
In the memory of the members of Lorenzo Snow survives primarily by the fact that he in St. George the law of tithing again reiterated and the Total members invited in May 1899 to faithfully pay our tithing and promised them for blessings. This is also illustrated in a short film much used in the church, in-house productions. The call for payment of tithes was the first step to lead the church out of its financial misery.