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President Lorenzo Snow sees the Savior

After receiving word of President Woodruff’s death, President Snow retired to the Salt Lake Temple, where he pleaded with the Lord to reveal His divine will. Upon concluding his prayer he waited for an immediate answer, but none seemed to be forthcoming. Some time later his granddaughter Allie Young Pond gave the following account:

One evening while I was visiting Grandpa Snow in his room in the Salt Lake Temple, I remained until the door-keepers had gone and the night-watchmen had not yet come in, so grand-pa said he would take me to the main front entrance and let me out that way. He got his bunch of keys from his dresser. After we left his room and while we were still in the large corridor leading into the celestial room, I was walking several steps ahead of grand-pa when he stopped me and said:

“Wait a moment, Allie, I want to tell you something. It was right here that the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me at the time of the death of President Woodruff. He instructed me to go right ahead and reorganize the First Presidency of the Church at once and not wait as had been done after the death of the previous presidents, and that I was to succeed President Woodruff.”

Then grand-pa came a step nearer and held out his left hand and said: “He stood right here, about three feet above the floor. It looked as though He stood on a plate of solid gold.”

Grand-pa told me what a glorious personage the Savior is and described His hands, feet, countenance and beautiful white robes, all of which were of such a glory of whiteness and brightness that he could hardly gaze upon Him.

On September 13 President Snow was sustained as the President of the Church with George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith as Counselors.

Source: Heroes of the Restoration. Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1997, p. 197