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Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles

Robert C. Freeman and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Editors
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Remembering the Impact of British Missionary Isaac Russell
    Scott C. Esplin
  • George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41
    Arnold K. Garr
  • The Restoration of the Gadfield Elm Chapel
    Carol Wilkinson
  • Photo Essay of Church History Sites in Liverpool and the Ribble Valley
    Craig James Ostler
  • "More Value . . . Than All the Gold and Silver of England": The Book of Mormon in Britain, 1837–52
    Clyde J. Williams
  • "Nearer, My God, to Thee": The Sinking of the Titanic
    Richard E. Bennett and Jeffery L. Jensen
  • David O. McKay's European Mission: Seedbed for His Administration
    Mary Jane Woodger
  • The Story of the British Saints in Their Own Words, 1900–50
    Jerome M. Perkins
  • Turning the Media Image of the Church in Great Britain, 1922–33
    Alan K. Parrish
  • "The King of Kings Needs a Few Men": British Saints during World War II
    David F. Boone
  • A Tale of Two Temples
    Richard O. Cowan
  • The Church in Twentieth-Century Great Britain: A Historical Overview
    Alexander L. Baugh

About the Book

Volume 7 i​n the Regional Studies Series

History is replete with examples of the accomplishments of the first Latter-day Saint missionaries to England. Prophesying of the importance of the missionaries’ success, Joseph Smith said that their work would be the means of bringing salvation to the Lord’s latter-day Church. In 1837, Latter-day Saint missionaries from America set foot in Great Britain seeking converts to the Mormon faith. Isaac Russell was one of the seven missionaries who served on that historic first mission to England. Elder Russell, unquestionably a successful missionary, later fell into disrepute during those tumultuous times in Missouri in the late 1830s.

Seventh in the collector series, Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles is a collection of scholarly papers having to do with the Latter-day Saint experience in Great Britain. Contributors include Scott C. Esplin, Arnold K. Garr, Carol Wilkinson, Craig James Ostler, Clyde J. Williams, Richard E. Bennett, Jeffrey L. Jensen, Mary Jane Woodger, Jerome M. Perkins, Alan K. Parrish, David F. Boone, Richard O. Cowan, and Alexander L. Baugh with an introduction by Paul H. Peterson.

Some members do not realize the twin challenges the British Saints faced of dealing with the disruption of life due to the constant flux of emigrating fellow Saints and the almost constant harassment of fellow countrymen who resented their religion. A chapter is devoted to this topic and its explanation. Elder George A. Smith’s efforts as well as those of David O. McKay are assessed. This volume includes a photographic essay and a discussion of the restoration of the first Latter-day Saint chapel at Gadfield Elm in Worcestershire. Also included is a dialogue regarding the Titanic disaster and its impact on Latter-day Saints.

ISBN 978-0-8425-2672-2

Published in 2007

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