'The phrase, 'like sheep without a shepherd,' haunts me wherever I find it,' Ardis Parshall of Keepapitchinin writes. 'Latter-day Saints ... have used it many times to express their loneliness and their longing for leadership.'
Turkey's Aintab Sunday school, circa 1904, published in the Juvenile Instructor May, 15, 1905. Joseph Wilford Booth is standing on the right edge, wearing a suit and tie. His wife, Reba, is in the center, wearing a flowery American hat.Responding to the letter of a Turk seeking information, Latter-day Saint missionaries arrived in Constantinople in 1884.
“We as a Branch of the Church of 70 souls are here in the world like sheep without a shepherd, torn by wolves. Our hope is in the salvation of ourselves and our forefathers thru the gospel. Our desires are not realized. Our leaders have left us. If you have forsaken us for sure, do write us and let us know and we will remain hopeless, and our children’s welfare be upon your heads.”
In early 1924, acknowledging the faith’s failure to make significant headway in Japan despite years of valiant effort and great expense, former missionary Heber J. Grant closed the mission. Calling it “one of the greatest disappointments of my life,” he directed that a local member be appointed to oversee the two dozen Latter-day Saints left there.
Latter-day Saint women of Sapporo, Japan , circa 1920, published in the Juvenile Instructor in July 1920.
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