The Day Elder Joseph Standing was Shot

Rudger Clawson

A mob in Georgia shot and killed Joseph Standing in front of his companion Rudger Clawson. Elder Clawson would eventually be called to be an Apostle in the Church. What did Rudger Clawson do to unnerve the mob when they turned their guns on him?

a.                  Pray

b.                  Preached from the Book of Mormon

c.                   Sing

d.                  Told them to shoot

Yesterday’s answer:

a.      The British sisters

During World War I, local sisters took over missionary work in the British Isles.

V. Ben Bloxham, James R. Moss, and Larry C. Porter, eds. Truth Will Prevail: The Rise of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles, 1837-1997 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).