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Show 18 During this period of continuous growth of the Mormon church were established in Scotland, them.in three counties--Lanark, remainder situated in the region, and one or S01,TIe Renfrew and Stirling, Fife, two in such Ayr, seventy branches twenty-eight with most of the Clackmannan and widely spaced places of as Edinburgh Abecrdeen and Thurso in the northeast and Newton Stewart in the southwest. 1 It was in the central part of Scotland that Mormonism made its greatest drive for converts, with but early as 1842 Alexander in the northeast. Highlanders was so great seems to have been speaking preach Mormonism "in the Gaelic same Highlands.4 Highlands encounter to a g oo d congregation but the prega that I could not get another heren. they Gaelic- and in the an Near Inverness he spoke the galek and are very much 2 but the tradition of their fathers. Little records Wright at Nicols mils preached decus as Scots until done toward language mission among the to our were MacKay Scottish sionary to Highlanders" reported from. the commencement of mis William Gibson said that 2Wright, a 1847, when William MacKay offered year five church members Reporting lBranch pregadiced against anything the West work in the had gone there Histories, passim. Journal, Jul y I 7, 3Edinburgh_Conference 4Millennial Star, IX, 1842. Historical Record, 35. 3 September 19, 1847. |
