History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

104 THE STORY OF MORMONISM.
until it could be reinstated in Missouri; another journal,
the Latter-day Saints Messenger and Advocate,
was also established at Kirtland, and a mission organized
for Canada, 47
The work of proselyting continued east and west
without abatement through the year 1834. Two by
John-
Lyman two and singly the elders went forth :
son and Milton Holmes to Canada, also Zebedee Coltrin
and Henry Harriman ; John S. Carter and Jesse
Smith should go eastward together, also James Durfee
and Edward Marvin. Elders Oliver Granger,
Martin Harris, and Brigham Young preferred to
travel alone. To redeem the farm on which stood
the house of the Lord, elders Orson Hyde and Orson
Pratt were sent east to solicit funds. The movements
of many others of the brethren are given. Parley
Pratt and Lyman Wight were instructed not to return
to Missouri until men were organized into companies of
47 ' Concerning our means of diffusing the principles we profess, we have
used the art of printing almost from the beginning of our work. At Independence,
Missouri, in 1832-3-4, two volumes of the Evening and Morning
Star were issued by William W. Phelps and Oliver Cowdery. This was a
monthly octavo of 16 pages, devoted to the faith and doctrines of the church,
and was continued from Independence from June 1832 until July 1S33, when
its publication was transferred to Kirtland, Ohio, from whence it was continued
until September 1S34, when it gave place to the La>ter-daij Saints' Messenger
and Advocate, which continued to cheer the persecuted saints until
August 1S37, when there appeared in its columns a prospectus for a new
paper to be published at Kirtland, called the Elder*' Journal of the Gkurch
of Latter-day Saints, also a monthly, the first number of which bore date
October 1S37. The gathering of the people from Kirtland to Far West in
Missouri transferred the publication of the journal also to that place, from
whence it issued uutil stopped by the persecution and extermination of the
saints in the fall and winter of 1S3S from the state of Missouri. The first
number of the Millennial Star was issued at Liverpool in May 1840, at first a
monthly, then fortnightly, and for many years a weekly, with at one time a
circulation of 22,000 copies, edited and published variously by elders appointed
and sent to edit the paper, manage the emigration, and preside over the
work generally in the European countries. This work is still issued weekly,
and greatly aids the cause in Europe. The Skandinaviejis' Stjerne has been
published in Copenhagen nearly thirty years in the Danish language, edited
by those who have from time to time presided over the Scandinavian missions.
The first number was issued in 1851, and is well supported, being a great aid
in the missionary service in northern Europe. For several years a periodical
entitled the Udgorn Scion was published at Merthyr Tydfil, and was continued
until the number of saints in the Welsh mission was so reduced by emigration
as to render its further publication impracticable.' Richards' BiblU
ography of Utah, MS., 7-9.