Lorenzo Snow Born: LDS Leader Who Saved the Church's Finances
Lorenzo Snow endured decades of missionary work and a prison sentence for polygamy before becoming the fifth President of the LDS Church at age 84. Inheriting a church crippled by over one million dollars in debt, he revived the tithing principle as a mandatory obligation, transforming church finances within a few years. His leadership secured the financial independence that allowed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to expand aggressively into the twentieth century.
April 3, 1814
212 years ago
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