Item Detail
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29738
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English
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'Good News' at the Cape of Good Hope : Early LDS Missionary Activities in South Africa
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Go Ye into all the World : The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work
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Provo, UT ; Salt Lake City, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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471-502
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"Since its founding on April 6, 1830, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has emphasized missionary work. Fewer than six months after the organization of the Church, the Latter-day Saint prophet Joseph Smith Jr. revealed that it was the will of the Lord to preach the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to every nation and to send missionaries to gather his elect from the four corners of the world. South Africa represented one of those remote corners of the globe. During the 1850s and 1860s, the LDS Church initiated missionary activity in the shadows of Table Mountain and other parts of the British-controlled Cape Colony." [Author]