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MISSIONS AND IMMIGRATION.
Iceland, 33 where was published The Voice of Josejih, 54,
in Italy, Switzerland, 86 in Mexico, 36 in Chili, in China,
in Siam, 37 in the Sandwich and Society islands, 33
Deseret Neios, July 19, 1865, May 3, 1866; Juvenile Instructor, xv. 92-3; Carson
State Register, June 26, 1872. Several pamphets were published in the
Swedish language, and in 1853 the Scandiuavien Stjerne was established at
Copenhagen, which 30 years later was still the organ of the Mormon church
and was well supported. Richards' Bibliog. of Utah, MS., 9.
33 Utah Pioneers, 33d Ann., 27; Deseret News, July 21, 1875, Sept. 20, 1876.
34 See letter of Francois Stoudeman, in Deseret News, Oct. 16, 1852. Loenzo
Snow, with three elders, arrived at La Tour Sept. 19, 1S20. For results,
see Id., 27; Millennial Steer, xii. 370-4; Smith's Rise, Progress, and Travels,
32; Frontier Guardian, Feb. 21, 1850. Further missionary items will be
found in the Deseret News, Apr. 2, 1853, March S, 1855, Aug. 14, 1867. The
book of Mormon and other works were translated into Italian in 1852. The
Voice of Joseph: A Brief Account of the Rise, Progress, and Persecutions of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; with their present position and
prospects in Utah Territory, together with American Exiles' Memorial to Congress,
by Lorenzo Snow, one of the Twelve Apostles, Liverpool and London,
1852, abbreviated from the Italian edition, was published for general circulation
in various languages, and is a well-written historical sketch, admirably
adapted to the purpose. Besides the expulsion from Missouri and Illinois, a
general view of their 'location, settlements, and government in Upper California'
is well presented. There is also an account of the missionary labors of the
elders in the United States, Canada, England, Wales, Scotland, and elsewhere.
35 Branches of the church were established in Switzerland, under the direction
of Lorenzo Snow, about the year 1S50. Utah Pioneers, 33d Ann., 28. Soon
afterward Elder T. B. H. Stenhouse published at Geneva a volume, entitled
Le Refecteur, and organized a branch of the church in the French quarter of
that city. Richards' Bibliog. of Utah, MS., 11. In 1S56-7 Elder Jno. L.
Smith published two volumes of a monthly periodical styled Der Darsteller
der heiligen der letzen tage. Other books and pamphlets innumerable were
published in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. Richards' Bibliog. of Utah,
MS., 11. For further mention of the Swiss mission, see Deseret News, Sept.
21, 1854, Aug. 14, 1867, Oct. 11, 1867. At the close of 1878 there were in
Switzerland 17 branches, 31 elders, and 494 members of the church, 127 baptisms
being recorded during that year. Millennial Star, xli. 111.
3a A letter from Elder I). W. Jones, dated Concepcion, Chihuahua, Mex.
Apr. 21, 1876, states that he and his fellow-missionaries were hard at work.
About this time Jones preached at the theatre in the city of Chihuahua, but
was ill received. Millennial Star, xxxviii. 3S1, 509. Portions of the book of
Mormon were translated into Spanish for the use of Mexicans, and entitled
Trozos Selectos del Libro de Mormon (S. L. City, 1875).
^Smith's Rise, Progress, and Travels, 33, 35. The Chinese mission was a
failure. See Deseret News, Oct. 29. Dec. 22, 1853.
^Deseret News, Nov. 29, 1851, May 1, 15, July 24, Nov. 27, 1852. In 1856
the book of Mormon was published in Hawaiian by George Q. Cannon. See
Honolulu Friend. An account of Cannon's mission to the Sandwich Islands in
1853-4 is given in his work entitled My First Mission. For further missionary
labors in these islands, see Deseret News, Apr. 2, July 30, Oct. 29, Dec. 15,
1853, Aug. 6, 1856, Jan. 21, Dec. 9, 1857, June 1, Aug. 17, Nov. 30, 1864, June
12, 1867, Aug. 19, 1868, July 3, 187-4; Millennial Star, xxxviii. 3S0; Contributor,
v. 240; Juvenile Instructor, xv. 21. In 1844 Addison Pratt was stationed
on the island of Tooboui, Society group, where he had organized a
church with about a dozen members. At the same time, Noah Rogers and
Benj. F. Grouard were stationed at Tahiti, but met with little success. In
Oct. Rogers went to the island of Huahine. Millennial Star, v. 178-9, vi. 5-
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