From Siamese Prison to Mormon Memory

“A day after Elam Luddington baptized his first and only convert in Siam, Captain James Trail, the King of Siam thrust the convert into a debtor’s prison without food. The captain’s crime was misunderstanding a command and firing a salute from his ship in the rhodes of Singapore. With only one baptism, is it possible that Luddington’s apparent failure washed him from our collective Mormon memories?”

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