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Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"Smith, Joseph Fielding

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Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

Name: Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"
Author: Smith, Joseph Fielding

Smith, Joseph Fielding

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History

Other missionary appointments to foreign fields were made in these
early days. In July, 1840, William Barrett, a boy seventeen years of
age, was ordained an elder by Elders George A. Smith and Alfred Cordon,
in Hanley, Staffordshire, England, and set apart to take a mission
to Australia, to be the first missionary to that country. In August,
following, Elder William Donaldson, of the British army, having been
assigned to the field in India, was also blessed and set apart to labor
for the Church in that land. The following year, at the conference
of the Church, Elder Harrison Sagers was called to go to Jamaica;
Elder Joseph Ball, to South America; Elder Simeon Carter to Germany;
and Elder Arza Adams to Canada, where the Gospel had previously been
preached.

The Return of the Apostles

On the 20th day of April, 1841, President Brigham Young and Elders
Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, George
A. Smith and Willard Richards, with a company of Saints left Liverpool
on the ship _Rochester_, for New York. Parley P. Pratt continued in
England to edit the _Millennial Star_ and preside over the mission.
After a period of one month upon the water they arrived safely in
New York, and continuing their journey arrived in Nauvoo, July 1,
1841. Some eighteen or twenty months before, these brethren had left
Nauvoo, poverty-stricken, afflicted and sorrowful of heart. Now they
returned rejoicing and with gladness of heart, bearing the fruit of
their labors. They started on their way without money, and returned
with none. Yet, during their labors abroad, they had published an
edition of five thousand copies of the Book of Mormon; and an edition
of three thousand copies of the Hymn Book; over fifty thousand tracts
and pamphlets; had established a permanent magazine, the _Millennial
Star_; organized an emigration agency for the gathering of the Saints
to Zion, and had been instrumental in the hands of the Lord in bringing
thousands of the children of the House of Israel to a knowledge of
the everlasting Gospel. Truly it was a marvelous work, worthy of all
commendation.

The Prophet's Comments

Commenting on the labors of these members of the council of the
apostles, the Prophet said:

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History

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

Smith, Joseph Fielding

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History

Other missionary appointments to foreign fields were made in these
early days. In July, 1840, William Barrett, a boy seventeen years of
age, was ordained an elder by Elders George A. Smith and Alfred Cordon,
in Hanley, Staffordshire, England, and set apart to take a mission
to Australia, to be the first missionary to that country. In August,
following, Elder William Donaldson, of the British army, having been
assigned to the field in India, was also blessed and set apart to labor
for the Church in that land. The following year, at the conference
of the Church, Elder Harrison Sagers was called to go to Jamaica;
Elder Joseph Ball, to South America; Elder Simeon Carter to Germany;
and Elder Arza Adams to Canada, where the Gospel had previously been
preached.

The Return of the Apostles

On the 20th day of April, 1841, President Brigham Young and Elders
Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, George
A. Smith and Willard Richards, with a company of Saints left Liverpool
on the ship _Rochester_, for New York. Parley P. Pratt continued in
England to edit the _Millennial Star_ and preside over the mission.
After a period of one month upon the water they arrived safely in
New York, and continuing their journey arrived in Nauvoo, July 1,
1841. Some eighteen or twenty months before, these brethren had left
Nauvoo, poverty-stricken, afflicted and sorrowful of heart. Now they
returned rejoicing and with gladness of heart, bearing the fruit of
their labors. They started on their way without money, and returned
with none. Yet, during their labors abroad, they had published an
edition of five thousand copies of the Book of Mormon; and an edition
of three thousand copies of the Hymn Book; over fifty thousand tracts
and pamphlets; had established a permanent magazine, the _Millennial
Star_; organized an emigration agency for the gathering of the Saints
to Zion, and had been instrumental in the hands of the Lord in bringing
thousands of the children of the House of Israel to a knowledge of
the everlasting Gospel. Truly it was a marvelous work, worthy of all
commendation.

The Prophet's Comments

Commenting on the labors of these members of the council of the
apostles, the Prophet said:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

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