Midland saints : the Mormon mission in the West Midlands, 1837-77
Ten years before the pioneer party of the Mormon Church first sighted the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, and determined that this was the place where ~the Saints would find protection and safety,~ missionaries Of Lhe sect were active in England, preaching in the streets, halls and private accommodation to those persons, largely of the working-classes, who were prepared to give them a hearing. As the pioneer Saints planted the first seeds in the soil of Utah, the Church alreadv claimed 14,000 adherents in Britain. Four years later, at the height of its membership for the nineteenth century, the British Mission numbered just short of 33,000. The narrative of the Mormon Church establishing its settlement in the desert has been penned on numerous occasions and romanticized on film; this thesis also chronicles heroism, although its protagonists, the British converts who responded to the teachings of the Mormon missionaries during the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, who faced opposition and persecution for their belief, heeded the doctrine of the gathering and emigrated, to traverse ocean, plain, desert and mountain, ultimately to dwell in 'Lion with their fellow Saints with whom they shared religion, cuiture
Cotterill, John
DA Great Britain
Midland saints : the Mormon mission in the West Midlands, 1837-77. Ten years before the pioneer party of the Mormon Church first sighted the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, and determined that this was the place where ~the Saints would find protection and safety,~ missionaries Of Lhe sect were active in England, preaching in the streets, halls and private accommodation to those persons, largely of the working-classes, who were prepared to give them a hearing. As the pioneer Saints planted the first seeds in the soil of Utah, the Church alreadv claimed 14,000 adherents in Britain. Four years later, at the height of its membership for the nineteenth century, the British Mission numbered just short of 33,000. The narrative of the Mormon Church establishing its settlement in the desert has been penned on numerous occasions and romanticized on film; this thesis also chronicles heroism, although its protagonists, the British converts who responded to the teachings of the Mormon missionaries during the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, who faced opposition and persecution for their belief, heeded the doctrine of the gathering and emigrated, to traverse ocean, plain, desert and mountain, ultimately to dwell in 'Lion with their fellow Saints with whom they shared religion, cuiture
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