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104 THE STORY OF MORMONISM.

until It could be reinstated in Missouri; another jour- nal, the Laiter-day Saints Messenger and Advocate, was also established at Kirtland, and a mission or- ganized for Canada/'^

The work of proselyting continued east and west without abatement through the year 1834. Two by two and singly the elders went forth: Lyman John- son and Milton Holmes to Canada, also Zebedee Col- trin and Henry Harriman; John S. Carter and Jesse Smith should go eastward together, also James Dur- fee 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

" ' Concerning our means of dififiising the principles we profess, -we have used the art of printing ahnost from the beginning of our work. At Inde- pendence, Missouri, in 1832-3-4, two volumes of the Evening and Morning Star were issued by WilHam 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 1833, when its publication was transferred to Kirtland, Ohio, from whence it was con- tinued until September 1834, when it gave place to the Latter-day Sainis' Mes- senger and Advocate, which continued to cheer the persecuted saints until August 1837, when there appeared in its columns a prospectus for a new- paper to bo published at Kirtland, called the E/derti' Journal of the Church of Latter-day Saints, also a monthly, the first number of which bore date October 1837. 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 until stopped by the persecution and extermination of the saints in the fall and winter of 183S 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 vai'iously 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 Eui-ope. The Skandinaviens' Sfjcrne 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. Tlie 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 Seion was published at Merthyr Tydfil, and was contin- ued until the number of saints in the Welsh mission was so reduced by emi- gration as to render its farther publication impracticable.' liichards' Bibli- ograjihy of Utah, MS., 7-9.