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Show 50 and very much oppressed: gep.erally they have and hard indeed is their battle of life. are families, . emigrationi are prospects for poor, and many-have large . .' Their been quite number of years in the Church, a n d are weary to go horne to If any need the voice of cofort it isthe poor, oppressed and down-trodden May the time soon arrive when the Lord. will gather his elect from the midst of the wi cke a Zion. 0 . As , •• d.J . early 1842 Orson Pratt addressed a as Mormons upon the lowed this with spiritual and States and said that it was produce and r e s o ur c.e s not unreasonable that lithe on regard to show the to necessity ical people mourn. reality work and with 112 a military The in in 1858 that a of God was, location and worship, contemplation Kingdom. recent visit are corning day, a Kingdom geographic in the realization of the burgh acting he stated that the saints politicks should rule civil and the of the Saints by 3 the II Pratt only people who for when any others rule to the "preaching John McComie the mission land. of the Lord in concert and "in and cultivation- -all II a He fol- of the United Angels should go forth and command his people to go to such went Glasgow temporal welfare of mankind. outline of the an of meeting Mormons, and phys- production, were indispensable reported president, a from .Ed irr- Asa Calkins, had the effect of IMillennial Star, XX III , 156. 2Glasgow Conference Historical Record, 3Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin August 15, 1842. Kingdom, an, Economic His tory of the Latter-day Saints (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1958), p. 5. |