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Show 53 The Mormon stress upon "material" tified them in some people's salvation may have iden- minds with the Socialists and at debate in Kilbirnie when the audience voted five to Saints the were o ppo s So c ia l i s ts of that city's Although it i ti on l r charged During Socialists another arose public debate and defended the the Socialist f el.t that "what he had heard on Christianity" accepted and BookNo. and expressed the hope a was in public in favor of the that those who had voted for the the f i r st time he had heard was one a Glasgow, Saits the leader Mor,on viewpoint, Latter-day a decided that it would be Saint speak improvement universally practiced.2 150, 4; Falkirk Branch Historical Record, March 28, 249. p. 1856; Millennial Star, .XII, lLetter, Charles Hamilton, February 10, 1842, Glasgow, Millennial Star, II, to Parley P. Pratt, 169. 2Gibson, Journal, Book No. l51B, p. 58. An interesting side light i.nt o Mormonism and its relationship with Socialism is afforded by Edward W. Tullidge in his biographical sketch of William Budge of He relates that Budge was interested in the social p ro t e s t Lanark. movements of his day and that his uncle, David Budge, was a leading David Budge also member of Robert Owen's community; at New Lanark. edited and gospel published newspaper devoted to the promulgation of the to say that Budge's is very perti remarkable social movement British Mormon Elders; for many of the disciples a of Socialism in Lanark. it hv''th i s connection w nent in the history of Robert Owen, of Tullidge goes on ... and of the Chartists and freethinkers of those times, workers in building up the leading Chartist and. Christian Socialist, claimed on.a visit to Salt Lake City that his father had been a Mormon at one time. See Edward W. Tullidge, History of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho (Salt Lake City, l889L Biographical Appendix, came into the 'Mormon Church, European Mission." Gerald and were Massey, a |
