Never Forgetting His Kindness

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Who did Jedediah M. Grant state the Mormons could never forget his kindness?

a.                  President Van Buren

b.                  President Fillmore

c.                   Alexander Doniphan

d.                  Thomas Kane

Yesterday’s answer:

A   South Africa

In 1913, thirty-two-year-old Nicholas Groesbeck Smith, George Albert Smith’s half-brother, accepted the calling to be president of the South African Mission. When his wife, Florence Farr Smith, learning of the mission call, her first response was dismay: “Oh that horrid black place!” Nicholas expressed greater tolerance. One of his four sons, Gerald Gay Smith, recalls Nicholas’s relationship to “Ab” Howells, a black member of West High Schools’ football team, of which Nicholas was team captain. When an Ogden restaurant told Howells that he could not dine with the rest of the team but had to eat in the kitchen. Smith told the manager that “we’ll all eat in the kitchen with him.” And they did.

Russell W. Stevenson, Sonia’s Awakening: White Mormon Expatriates in Africa and the Dismantling of Mormonism’s Racial Consensus, 1852-1978, Journal of Mormon History, Fall 2014, 217.