Hannah T. King's Conversion through the Gospel and the Spirit
Published October 30, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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Hannah T. King, a member of the Church of England in Cambridge, England, was introduced to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by her dressmaker in 1849. Upon hearing the gospel principles, she testified that the Spirit of God witnessed to her spirit that the message was true. She studied, prayed, and compared the teachings with the Bible, which served as her standard of truth. Fifteen months later, she was baptized by an American missionary in the River Cam, eventually emigrating to Salt Lake City in 1853, where the gospel served as a constant light in her life through various trials.
In Their Own Words
“In September, 1849, she was in the house at work, and on the evening of the 4th, when work was laid aside, she told me she wished to communicate with me. I at once gave her the audience she requested and she then laid before me the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with the first principles of the same. Of course, I was startled! But the Spirit of God witnessed to my spirit that she spoke truth! I compared all she told me by the Bible which had ever been my standard of truth—it endorsed all she said! I studied, I prayed—she gave me to read 'Spencer's Letters'—they made me a willing convert! — Millennial Star 91:47”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), Vol. 91, No. 47 (1929). https://archive.org/details/millennialstar9147eng (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Image: King Hannah T.jpg — via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Hannah_T.jpg
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