Samuel O. Bennion: A Lifetime of Missionary Labors (Central States and Europe, 1922-1945)

Samuel Otis Bennion (1874-1945) served as a faithful mission president in the Central States Mission (1922-1924) and later presided over the European Mission, laboring among the Saints in England and on the continent. At the October 1933 general conference he was sustained to the First Council of the Seventy, a position he held until his death on March 8, 1945. At that 1933 conference he spoke of the 'secrets of God' made known through the leadership, in Europe, of 'one of the most wonderful men,' and testified that the work was a 'spiritual feast.' The New York Times noted at his passing that he was 'one of seven presidents of the First Council of Seventy.' His decades of missionary and administrative labors are a faith-promoting witness of those who give their lives to bringing the gospel to the nations and to shepherding the Saints across the world.