Mormon Missionaries in India - Hugh Findlay, Joseph White Musser, Levi Savage JR., Richard Ballantyne, Chauncey W. West, G. Carlos Smith (Paperback)

Chapters: Hugh Findlay, Joseph White Musser, Levi Savage Jr., Richard Ballantyne, Chauncey W. West, G. Carlos Smith, William Willes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hugh Findlay (Newmilns, Ayrshire, Scotland, June 9, 1822 March 2, 1900 in Fish Haven, Idaho) was one of the first two Mormon missionaries to enter India and opened missionary work in the Shetland Islands. Findlay was baptized in Dundee, Scotland, on July 1, 1844, by missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He married Isabella Ratray that same year. Between 1847 and 1848, Isabella and the two little boys she and Findlay had together, James and Ephraim, died in what was probably a diphtheria epidemic. Both boys were under two years old. Orson Pratt recorded the following about a case of "miraculous healing" involving Findlay in Scotland: St Mary's Parish Church, Dundee, Scotland While in England, Findlay engaged in public debates with anti-Mormon ministers from other faiths. He was serving as a district president (head of the Hull Conference) in England when Lorenzo Snow called him and William Willes to serve a mission in South Asia. Findlay and Willes arrived in 1851, seeking to build on reports from early members of the Plymouth Brethren that India would be a fertile ground for proselytization. However, almost immediately they were met by opposition from the established Protestant denominations, the press, and military officers and chaplains. Findlay labored first in Bombay (now Mumbai); Willes travelled up the Ganges to Simla. Kalbadevi Road, an important road in Bombay, in the 19th Century.It took Findlay six months to baptize his first six converts. While in Bombay, he was restricted from all military areas (cantonments) and was forbidden to preach to m...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=254809