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Show 10 rubbish.1 baptized on After nearly into the church four months of by lab,or, eighty Mulliner and Wright, twenty being baptized 3 alone. May Orson Pratt of the Council of the Twelve in Scotland and undertook to 1840,2 persons had been the first of Christ of some Latter-day the Paisley branch arrived now on May 8, hundred branches of the Church of Jesus Saints to be established in Scotland between 1840 3 and 1900. In response to assigned one organize Apostles a request from Pratt, Reuben Hedlock to labor i n Scotland and from him we gain an insight was into early Mormon activities in that land: spirit of inquiry was very general in this place [paisley/ adjoining villages. Many came to hear. Some of the preachers said we were not worth minding when we first began to preach, but soon their hearers began to leave them; then they began to sound the tocsin of war; the people were exorted The and the not to come and hear A master in us. a cotton mill threatened any of his work people who went to hear us, but the truth fastened on the hearts of the people to turn out of his employment with such power that many were determined to sacrifice all things for the sake of it. I found in Paisley and the adjoining villages about sixty-five preaching in this region 1Jenson, 2British Historian1s members of the Church. I commenced in company with Elder A. Wright, The Historical Record, Mission Branch Histories, Office)(hereinafter 3Ibid., Book I, passim. cited as who 349. Paisley (MS in Church Branch Histories, -------). |
