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Show 54 The Mormon economic and social -laboring,classes willingness to accept the bondage coupled role of deliverers from with their succes s has led many to conclude that this motive in conversions and emigration. was among the the William Robertson indicates that the Mormon missionaries induced Scots and others to by painting it as a paradise which labored. 1 among whom they dreds of converts pour two or new it is in England" Wales, Scotland, recent more masses study Europe's converts as See slums. 3 creatures" Europe every Denmark --among the ;of these 'Countries--in remote dis had with a ... pernicious" faith" greatest al s o his The History XV, is unknown- triumphs.2 same were drawn from the appeal depressed of Salt Lake early inarticulate" and "unlet- City (Salt 389 makes mention of was classes writer further characterized the "submerged, underprivileged, Millennial Star, a Lake City, 1886), 387; Taylor conversation John French Communist leader. lRobertson. and 2Walter 3M. Robertson, Our American Tour, Through America, 1881), p. 225. Gore Marshall, the United States II "poor also asserts that Mormonism's chief economic and that its converts ica, to the into Utah from Britain and that the Mormons win their 330. appeal to Utah Walter Gore Marshall observed that hun- tricts where the truth of this of would come three months and poor and uneducated A prime (London, Hamlin Cannon, "Migration American Historical Review, LII of or 76-7. Nine Months- in English Mormons (April, 1947), 436. to Amer |
