Friday, August 29, 2014

Riverboat Rabble


The Church owned “Maid of Iowa,” steamed members up the Mississippi River after the long voyage from Europe. It was not unusual when the River boat docked to have persecutors of the Church run on board and create problems? What was a common name used by the persecutor’s of the Church in reference to the Latter-day Saints?

a.      Joe’s minions

b.      Joe’s roaches

c.       Joe’s rats

d.      Joe’s maggots

Yesterday’s answer:

a.      5

We often hear about Samuel Smith’s first missionary labors. We have been taught that he was the first missionary in this dispensation and that on his first mission he felt he was unsuccessful, since he place only a few copies of the Book of Mormon. Not only did he have a difficult time handing them out, he was equally unsuccessful at trying to get the one Book of Mormon back from a Mr. John Greene (thank heaven). Samuel tried five times to retrieve the Book of Mormon. I say thank heaven only because it is this Book of Mormon which converted John Greene, Heber C. Kimball, and Brigham Young. This indirectly was responsible for literally tens of thousands and maybe even hundreds of thousands of baptisms to follow throughout the years. I think Samuel did alright.

Speech of Brigham Young delivered August 8, 1852 at the Tabernacle

Journal of Discourses, 3:91.

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