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Show 26 'caus'ed the Millennial Star to S'cot l a nd the last i doing quarter .. We hope come forward _as valiant sons phant work of this last hear and she shall The wonders; upwards of 400 baptised during .. mining village the message of in 1848 that: proclaim to see thousands of her noble in this men dispensation. prevail. of Hunterfield, near t r iurrr Let Scotland then heard and the Mormon missionaries to the extent of In the same year William Gibson 150 in great and . Edinburgh, branch of seventy members in 1848 out of ninety.2 .' . I a total having of population reported obeyed .a only that: small town in Scotland had almost simultaneously Gospel, and many were ready for emigration; and that in Ayrshire, where the work had slumbered, all was again alive, and the spirit and power of God Were made manifest in "a great i n.c r e a s e of diligence on the part of the priesthood, and of corresponding fruits, in additions to the kingdom of obeyed one' the God.3 With the increase in stress upon the in by an quality of membership th er e also which for membership, some increase in the number of excommunications. the presiding officers is illustrated by developed greater The attitude taken the remark of Ezra T; in 1857 that the purpose of the churchwide reformation arouse, stir and shake them, lMillennial 2Branch Star, X, and, if necessary, 299. Histories, Hunterfield. 3Millennial Star ,. X, 253. years resulted was Benson' "to awaken, to kick and thump, |
