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Source: Church History Vol. 2 Chapter 22 Page: 497 (~1841)

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497 are being added by baptism in almost every place where the fullness of the gospel is preached. In Scotland the work of the Lord is going on and souls are coming into the church. In Herefordshire and the adjoining country some forty preachers of other orders have lately submitted to the ordinances and united themselves to the Church of the Latter Day Saints, by which means upwards of forty preaching places have been opened for our elders. May God Almighty bless the people of that region abundantly, because with all readiness they received the word and were willing to be taught in the way of the Lord more perfectly. In Manchester our meetings are well attended; people seem desirous to hear, and some are baptized and added to the church every week. We very much need a larger place to meet; indeed, the largest place in the town would be too small if the public could have general notice. Numbers are being baptized and added to the church in the towns and country around.

"In short, on all sides we turn our eyes we behold the field all white ready to harvest. Calls for preaching are more than we can fill at present. May the Lord send more laborers into his harvest. There are thousands of people in England, if they once knew our principles would embrace them, and even lay down their lives for them if required."-Millennial Star, vol. 1, pp. 20, 21.

Another conference was held on July 6,1840, at Manchester, at which time reports showed an increase over the number of members in April of about six hundred and fifty.

Again, there was a conference held at Manchester, October 6,1840, which showed an increase in the three months of over one thousand three hundred. This ratio of increase will give the reader a fair idea of the prosperity of the work in the British Isles, without going into details.

On August 6 a company of saints sailed from Liverpool for America, in charge of Elder Theodore Turley.

During the remainder of the year the work in Europe spread with unabating interest.

Apostles Hyde and Page were yet laboring in the United States

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