Karl G. Maeser’s First Introduction to the Church

 

Karl G. Maeser

 Karl G. Maeser was a German convert to the Church who would go on to serve as the first principle of the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah. What was Brother Maeser’s first contact to the Church?

A)     Anti Mormon literature

B)     Missionaries

C)     He was part of a mob

D)     The Mormon Tabernacle Choir on their first European tour

Yesterday’s answer:

(A)   Mississippi

In 1891 a Latter-day Saint community called Republican Square was established in southern Mississippi, by and for African-American converts, but it gradually dissolved as members immigrated west or died.

Arnold K. Garr et al., Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 767.

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