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Show 13. The history of the LOS British Mission is recorded in P.A.M. Taylor, Expectations Westward: the Mormons and the Emi ration of Their British Converts in the Nineteenth-Century Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell '?University Press, 1966). 14, _ 15 ~ William Mulder, Homeward to Zion: the Mormon Migration from Scandinavia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957), 102-112. 16~ See Gager, Kingdom and Community, 22-28. Gager notes that in early Christianity that "re l ative rather than absolute deprivation most often characterizes premitlenarian conditions. Defined as an 'uneven relation between expectation and the means of satisfaction,' this condition frequently emerges when new hopes arise but for some reason remain unfilled"(p.27). Western New York in the early 1800s was experiencing an economic boom precipitated by the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. The fruits of this new prosperity were, however, not evenly distributed. See also, Cross, The Burned-over District, 55-76, and Brodie, No Man Knows My History, 1-15. 17~ Taylor, Expectations Westward, 144-159. See also, Philip Taylor, The Distant Ma net: European Emi ration to the United States (New ork: Harper and Row, 1971 , 20-25. 18. Kristian Hvidt, Flight to America: The Social Background of 300,000 Danish Emigrants (New York: Academic Press, 1975), 123~135, and Palle Ole Christiansen, "Peasant Adaptation to Bourgeosis Culture? Class Formation and Cultural Redefinition in the Danish Countryside," Ethnologia Scandinavica (1978): 107-113. 19. Arrington and Bitton, The Mormon Experience, 20-43. 20. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 12:282. 21. Doctrine and Covenants, 64:24. 22. Mulder, Homeward to Zion, 16, and Klaus J. Hansen, Quest for Empire: The Political Kin dom of God and the Council of Fift in Mormon History Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967 , 3-23 •. 23. Mormonism has often been characterized as an ''amillennial" religion, because in the nineteenth century it embraced aspects of both premillennial and postmillennial thought. In its "gathering" posture Mormonism was decidedly premillennial for the Saints clearly believed that the Advent would not occur until certain temporal preparations had been accomplished. The strong emphasis, however, on "living in the Kingdom," particularly during the early days in Utah, lends a distinctly postmillennial quality to the Mormon worldview, implying as it does that the millennium had in fact already begun. I am indebted here to conversations with Professor Jan Shipps during the spring of 1984. See Arrington and Bitton, The Mormon Experience, 36-37; Hansen, Quest for Empire, 13-14; Louis Garr Reinwald, "An Interpretative Study of Mormon Millennialism 54 |
