The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in China - Mormon Missionaries in China, Hosea Stout, Hong Kong China Temple, Chauncey W. West (Paperback)

Chapters: Mormon Missionaries in China, Hosea Stout, Hong Kong China Temple, Chauncey W. West, Tai Kwok Yuen, Taipei Taiwan Temple. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hosea Stout (September 18, 1810 March 2, 1889) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer, and a lawyer and politician in Utah Territory. Stout was born in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky into the large family of Joseph Stout and Ann Smith, both strict Quakers. As a child, Stout was temporarily put in a Shaker school due to his family's financial hardships. However, after four years in the school, his father's circumstances improved and removed him from the school. In 1832, Stout enlisted with a group of rangers to fight in the Black Hawk War. During this time, he became acquainted with Mormonism and was taught by later apostle Charles C. Rich. In 1837 he sold his business and move to Caldwell County, Missouri where the Latter-day Saints had gathered after their expuslsion from Jackson County, Missouri and Kirtland, Ohio. Here he married Smanatha Peck. Shortly after this he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. During the Mormon War of 1838, Stout was a member of the Danites, a Mormon militia, and fought in the Battle of Crooked River. After the Latter Day Saints were forced to leave Missouri and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, Stout served as a bodyguard for Joseph Smith, Jr. During this period he was also a commander in the Nauvoo Legion and the Chief of Police of Nauvoo. He was further set apart as President of the eleventh Quorum of Seventies and made a member of the Council of Fifty, an organization created by Joseph Smith in preparation for the Second Coming of Christ. Shortly after the murder of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2242966