Eliza Roxcy Snow,
Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow…
(1846)
“ Let the building of Temples and houses of worship and education go on; let the Saints continue to school their children, bringing them up in the fear of the Lord ; and let the Gospel still be carried to the nations afar, Israel be gathered, and the people be found always moving on as the purposes of God continue to roll forth. ”
Eliza Roxcy Snow,
Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow…
(1846)
“ He is directing its course and progress, and to promote its interests should ever be uppermost in our minds, that we may exhibit to the world our faith and confidence, and our devotion to the divine principles we have embraced. And because of this exhibition of our faith, confidence and integrity during our past trials and afflictions, God helped us in a marvelous manner to go through the fiery ordeals which indeed appeared to 'the world unbearable, though to us were not so grevious ”
Eliza Roxcy Snow,
Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow…
(1846)
“ I scarcely imagine the Latter-day Saints, in any period of their history, have dis- played such lack of faith and cowardice ; however trying their circumstances may have been, they have never been guilty of such weakness and foolish conduct. When the mob arose against us in Missouri, we were but few, and our circumstances so forbidding, it was impossible to expect deliverance except through the intervention of the God of Israel. ”
