p. 262 | MORMONISM IN EUROPE AND AMERICA

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 28, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 17

MORMONISM IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.

ACCORDING to official statistics, just published, there are in American Mormonism 28 “stakes,” and 374 “wards;” stake being the Latter-day term for diocese, and commonly being bounded by county lines, while ward is equivalent to branch, or local church. Of these 374 wards, 282 are in Utah, while 92 are found in the 6 neighboring Territories. Idaho has 45, and a Mormon population of something more than 12,000. Arizona has 31, and about 4,000 adherents to Joseph Smith. Colorado has 6 wards, and Nevada the same number; Wyoming has 3, and New Mexico 1. In the Sandwich Islands 14 Mormon missionaries are laboring, and in the various branches some 3,600 church members are found. The membership of the Mormon church in Europe was reported, March 1, as 9,759. Of these Scandinavia has 4,497; Great Britain, 4,173; the German mission, including Switzerland and Austria, 999; and Holland, 90. Within a year 1,586 have been baptized; 767 in Scandinavia, 537 in Britain, 266 in Germany, and 16 in Holland. The year’s emigration to Utah from Europe was 1,799; from Scandinavia, 808; and from Great Britain, 804. Since the beginning of the “gathering” in 1840, not less than 85,000 have crossed the ocean, seeking Zion. The present cost per emigrant from Liverpool to Salt Lake is but $53. Latter-day elders, to the number of 12, are laboring among the Maoris in New Zealand. They baptized 545 in 1884, and have gathered a membership of 810.—Independent.

—No pain, no palm; . . . no cross, no crown.— William Penn.