Success Quote by Lorenzo Snow

Snow is doing pastoral triage: relieving anxiety in a faith that can easily turn devotion into an endless checklist. The line is built like a legal guarantee. "No Latter day Saint" is sweeping and categorical, "who dies" raises the stakes to eternity, and "will lose anything" offers a stark, transactional promise. Then he slips in the crucial qualifier: loss is only attached to neglected duty when opportunity actually existed. Salvation, in this framing, is not a bureaucratic trapdoor.

The intent is double. It reassures the faithful who worry about unfinished callings, missed ordinances, or duties impossible to perform because of geography, poverty, illness, or the limits of a young, frontier church. It also disciplines the community's moral imagination: accountability is tethered to access. Snow is saying God is not impressed by hypothetical obedience. The measure is what was "furnished" - a revealing, almost material verb that makes spiritual life depend on real-world conditions.

Context matters. Snow led in an era when Latter-day Saint practice was becoming more systematized and temple-centered, while members were scattered and circumstances varied wildly. That gap between rising expectations and uneven capability creates guilt, and guilt is corrosive to loyalty. The subtext is institutional as much as theological: a church expanding its demands must also expand its mercy, or it risks producing scrupulosity instead of steadiness.

There is a quiet social ethic embedded here too. If opportunities are "not furnished", someone failed to furnish them. Snow's reassurance implicitly charges leaders and communities to build access, not just preach obligation.