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Show 8 The minister concluded Wright "injens" was opportunity Indians, accept. a by asking Wright for a Book of relates that interest in America and intense among the people he visited, to discuss relations hip were especially affording the Book of Mormon and its which his hearers Mormon.1 in the '"' him relationship not al wa ys an to the willing to 2 While Wright continued his labors among his friends and re1a- tives in Banffshire and Aberdeenshire, 1Wright, Samuel Mulliner had conceived January 13, 1840. Note: The Catholic Apos commonly known as the "Irvingite Church" because of its association with the writings of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, He had been impres sed by the "manifestations of Edward Irving. the spirit" (healings, speaking in tongues, etc.) in an outlying part of Scotland in the early 1830's and laid great stress upon the second com ing of Christ. His teachings, many of them similar to those of the Mormon missionaries, were not acceptable to the Presbyterian Church In preaching he drew vast crowds, and he was expelled from it in 1832. especiall y in Edinburgh, and wielded a great influence among the See J. G. Simpson, "Irving and the Catholic Apostolic poorer classes. Church," in Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, edited by James Hast ings (New York, Charles Scribner's and Sons; Edinburgh, T. and T. tolic Church Journal, was 1926), VII, 422-8. It is interesting to observe that the "Irving Barns1ey, England, sent a delegation to visit Joseph Smith in Nauvoo in 1835, with authority to offer the Mormons financial aid if In 1836 Smith recorded that two their views on religion coincided. gentlemen from Scotland called on him, enquired about Mormonism See Smith, op. cit., II, and discussed with him Mr. Irving's work. 230-4, 401; Millennial Star, XV, 260; Edinburgh Review, XCIX, 327, Clark, ites" of 38 I. 2Wright, mon belief, the Journal, January 13, BMormon of the American Indians. See Roberts, op. According to Mor history of the ancestors Note: 1840. is the sacred cit., I, 166-72. |
