The Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow

In early 1836, twenty-two year old Lorenzo Snow decided to accept his sister’s invitation to attend a Hebrew class about to begin in Kirtland some 60 miles away from where he had just given up on school. This was only to be a stopover. He was preparing to go to a better school further East. But as he listened to Joseph Smith during the daily Hebrew classes, he soon was asconvinced as his sister of the new Church and its Prophet. At the end of a meeting in the temple he was...
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In early 1836, twenty-two year old Lorenzo Snow decided to accept his sister’s invitation to attend a Hebrew class about to begin in Kirtland some 60 miles away from where he had just given up on school. This was only to be a stopover. He was preparing to go to a better school further East. But as he listened to Joseph Smith during the daily Hebrew classes, he soon was asconvinced as his sister of the new Church and its Prophet. At the end of a meeting in the temple he was astonished when the Prophet’s father predicted, “You will become as great as you can possibly wish—even as great as God, and you cannot wish to be greater.” Four years later, what the Patriarch told him was seared on his soul during a brilliant vision when he heard the words that would ever after enflame him: “As man now is our God once was, as God now is so man may be, and thus unfolds our destiny.” Such was the beginning to the flame of testimony of the future fifth president of the Church.