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Show 24 through public debates between the local ers. In 1841 William Gibson some public meetings doing so he in minister, Mr. Service. church's organization by to a debate public For two evenings debated and was and the Mormon Immediately by the the local" question interest in the new F'Lr-t h iof at Stevenston and later established in the Clyde neighboring church. town of Gibson baptized a Mormons were In the words of to a common able to a dupe" so many minister to In their travels around the one into people a lGibson, Journal, 10 ea.lly lay ministry, a joinintheir were men church.2 who" country- William Gibson could - Book No. why spoke universal want. ,,3 hundred and ten Scottish towns in which he Diary, of the success Review mentions in its discussion of contemporary non-Mormon these feeling; they in the people Irvine.1 Edinburgh 11 stirring branch of the church a missionaries in Scotland may have been the stress upon factor which the of the "true" number of One of the factors which accounted for the a upon Campbellite" instrumental in was preach- church member to hold a Stevenston, Ayrshire. challenged was invited was clergy 150, pp. preached- 12 ff. ; see - name both local and also Sprowl, March 2Edinburgh 3John Review, XCIX, Greenleaf Whittier, Millennial Star, X, 302. 382-3. "A Mormon Conventicle, 'I cited in |
