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YOUNG WOMAN'S JOURNAL.

ORGAN OF THE YOUNG LADIES' NATIONAL MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS.

Vol. XII.

NOVEMBER, 1901.

No. 11.

PRESIDENT LORENZO SNOW.

Dr. James E. Talmage.

For the fifth time in its comparatively brief history of less than seventy-two years, the Church of Je sus Christ of Latter-day Saints is mourning the death of its chief Apostle and President. Word of the deprivation that has so recently befallen the people came almost unheralded; for while it had become generally known that the President's health was impaired, and that his physical strength was somewhat reduced, there appeared to be, even among his intimate associates, small thought that the shadows of the grave were gathering so thickly about him.

The multitudes who assembled at the last General Conference of the Church gave frequent expression to the sorrow and disappointment they felt at the absence of their venerable leader from the earlier meetings; and when he appeared on the stand at the last session on the afternoon of Sunday, October 6th, their joy was openly manifest. Few in that great audience of nearly twelve thousand souls conceived the thought that they were looking for the last time upon the living features of their beloved Prophet. When on that occasion he rose to address them, there was no mistaking the spirit of sustaining faith and earnest prayer that pervaded the congregation, and his words, eloquent in their fervent simplicity.

deeply significant in their import fell upon eager ears and found an echo in faithful hearts.

Four days later the pure spirit had quitted its frail tabernacle of clay, and the people of latter-day Israel were weeping for their honored dead. But they weep not as do those who are without hope; their tears are offerings of resignation to the Allwise will, and of thanksgiving that they have been privileged to live for a season under the inspired guidance of such a man.

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History, it has been said, is largely a matter of biography; and the study of history is the study of philosophy by example. portant epoch in the history of the Church is marked by the administration of President Lorenzo Snow; and all who were privileged to know him personally and intimately are wiser and better for that association. The mantle of his high calling enveloped him, and the spirit of his Priesthood was manifest in all his works. The story of his life is one of training and preparation for the higher labors that awaited him in his later vears.

He presented an unusual and harmonious combination of mental and spiritual powers. By nature a student, by education and training a scholar, strongly philosophical and investigative, he was none the less

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biography of President Snow. Only a brief outline can be attempted here. He was born at Mantua. Portage county, Ohio, April 3rd. 1814, and was the eldest son of the family. He appears to have developed at an early age energy and business ability, combined with a sense of personal responsibility, and of strict devotion to duty. parents were devout members of the Baptist church, but the son, though religiously inclined, refrained from any open profession in sectarian churches. Even the Presbyterian influence dominating Oberlin College, which institution he entered to pursue classical studies, did not convert him to sectarianism. June, 1836, when he was twentytwo years of age, Lorenzo Snow embraced the Gospel and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Apostle John F. Boynton. Soon after his entrance into the Church he was ordained an Elder, and immediately entered upon the labors of a missionary.

efficient as a man of affairs, emi- facts and events important in the nently successful as an organizer and a leader, conservative yet bold in practical enterprises of business and progress. But superior to all these characteristics were those of profound spirituality, and of unqualified devotion to the Divine will. In his tastes and inclinations, Lorenzo Snow was a type of refinement and culture; in his personal bearings and in all his dealings with others he was a true gentleman. To those who knew him best, his biography is a story of a blameless life. He possesed the rare excellence of keeping theory and fact distinct in his mind. It has been the writer's privilege on many occasions to converse with President Snow on matters of scientific import, and more particularly on subjects that belong to the borderland of human knowledge and revealed truth. Every such instance impressed me by the broad liberality with which he treated the opinions of others and not less by the firmness with which he held to what he knew to be true. He saw the workings of the Divine Hand in every phase of human progress, whether of thought or of material achievement; yet he was ever watchful for the word of direct revelation from the fountainhead of truth, that would make plain the errors of man's deductions, and establish the right.

a lover of wisdom, and a friend of education. During his three years' administration as the President of the Church he continued and in many respects amplified the work of his predecessors in developing the schools of the Church; vet he was none the less concerned for the stability and growth of the secular schools of the State in all their grades.

A volume would be required to present an adequate summary of the

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In 1840 he left Nauvoo on a mission to Europe, and returned in 1843. It was during this first mission abroad that he presented the Book of Mormon to Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, Albert. In 1846 Elder Snow bade adieu to Nauvoo in the course of the general exodus, and in 1848 reached the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. February, 1849, he was ordained an Apostle; and eight months later he was called to misionary labor in Ita

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lv, in the course of which he effected the publication of the Book of Mormon and several doctrinal pamphlets in the language of that country. The work of this mission was extended into Switzerland. H was home again in 1852; and during the next vear he was made president of Boxelder Stake, which office he held continuously for