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Show 60 time that others of the poor shall go." 1 The poor circumstances of many church members led Mormon to suggest at would be forward at a planning next Conference in s ion Glasgow As - wide to aid the s c Saints" reported good fund for one emigration Glasgow hem e for in concerning every year which he pounds president, ,,2 This idea Reuben was Hedlock, of the church's poor to Z'i.o n March, aiding penny every 2 months that Emmigration. time when the mission a also is give in 1844 that "if the breth- Glasgow year this would amount to about 200 a thought rn Conference in in the British Isles would all ren in a em Scottish a put was , At the 1845 Hedlock himself presented igr a tion the formation of and gave ins tructions to the a in the Times and Seasons the sole Joint Stock Company. object of the ,,3 company was to establish manufactories between this country ment to the poor when in Nauvoo, Britain they and to open and Arn e r i c a arrive in Zion, , and a trade give employ and furnish food for the poor saints in this country and create business for the whole church more or less.4 Described as "the germ of lMillennial 2Glasgow 3Ibid., 4Times a mighty Star, XI, 248-9. instrument hereafter for Conference Historical Record, March 16, 1845. and Seasons, VI, 990. a November carrying 24, 1844. |
