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100 years ago
President Lorenzo Snow was chosen as the fifth president of the Church by the Quorum of the Twelve on Sept. 13, 1898. President Wilford Woodruff had died in San Francisco, Calif., 11 days earlier.
Prior to that time, more than a year had passed from the death of the previous president of the Church until a new one was chosen.
According to A Comprehensive History of the Church, Vol. 6: "A short time before his death President Woodruff announced to his immediate associates in the administration of church affairs, that `it was not the will of the Lord that in the future there should be a lengthy period elapse between the death of the president of the church and the reorganization of the first presidency.' "
President Snow chose George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith as his counselors. They had served in the same positions with President Woodruff.
Quote from the past
"The responsibility is upon each individual to choose the path of righteousness, of faithfulness and duty to fellowmen. If he chooses otherwise, and as a result meets failure, misery and death, he alone is to blame." - President David O. McKay, then second counselor in the First Presidency, from an address given during the April 1938 general conference
