Sunday, June 16, 2013

Sunday Tidbits—Baptismal Fonts



       1.      Brigham Young had a baptismal font constructed just west of his school house. What was the font made from?

a.      An old well
b.      An old wagon box
c.       An abandoned native baptismal font
d.      A dam built across City Creek

       2.      Frederick Kesler was asked by the Presiding Bishop in 1875 to build a baptismal font for native visitors. In what sense was the font Kesler constructed unique?

a.      Built inside a native wigwam
b.      Plumbed in to allow for running water
c.       Built to accommodate a number of individuals at the same time
d.      Built at a warm spring to allow year round baptisms

Yesterday’s answer:

C.   Italy

In the momentous October 1849 general conference, Apostle Lorenzo Snow and Sicilian native Joseph Toronto received calls to Italy, which at the time was made up of several political entities united by language and strong ties with Roman Catholicism. While on his way to the mission field Elder Snow found information in a public library about a group of twenty thousand Protestants know as Waldenses, who were living in several villages in the mountain valleys of Piedmont, Italy. Elder Snow hoped to visit the group as part of his effort to bring the restored gospel to the region. He called upon two English elders, T. B. H. Stenhouse and Jabez Woodard, to accompany him and Elder Toronto. At Torre Pellice, the largest Waldensain village in Piedmont, the missionaries dedicated the land on a nearby mountain they called “Mount Brigham.”

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel,  Their Faces Toward Zion (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996), 63.

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