Great Grandfather John was born into a wonderfully well-off family in England where he had just everything a child could want. As soon as he was tall enough, he was sent to Oxford University to study with other well-bred young men and to eat at the head table where the food was the best. Good for John, he was very smart. He became the favorite of Dr. John King who was the Bishop of London, who ran Oxford, and who was very powerful and very rich.
One day, John’s brother Tom came to visit him at Oxford. Tom said that Oxford was a nice place and all that but it was stuck like a cart in a rut. The new ideas were at Cambridge. Tom said “So come,†and John did.
At Cambridge there was a lot going on, especially in religious studies- you know, church stuff-and that took John’s fancy.
This is an excerpt and picture from the full color children’s book by Vivian McConkie Adams; Sometimes you just have to move Across the Ocean: the story of John Lathrop.