Item Detail
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2844
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1
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0
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English
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Sailing Vessels and Steamboats
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Our Pioneer Heritage
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1969
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12
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421-92
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"When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in the early part of the Nineteenth Century through the instrumentality of Joseph Smith, the command was given that the gospel should reach every nation, kindred, tongue, and people or, as Matthew records it, in the language of the Savior, 'This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.' Up to 1837, proselyting was confined to the United States and the British provinces of America, but in that year Apostles Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde, together with five other missionaries, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and began missionary work in Great Britian. [I]n 1840, nearly 300 emigrants made their way to America. By the following year it was deemed advisable to establish an agent in England to carry out the tremendous task of organizing the growing emigration." [Author] The article covers the development of agencies to support Mormon emigration through sailing to America.