Autobiography 1858 Deseret News
ham Young, on the , and was soon
joined by Elder Willard Richards. Elder
Young remained twenty seven days, preaching,
baptizing, confirming and counseling. Num-
bers were added daily to the church: he then
returned to Manchester.
I spent about seven months in Herefordshire,
Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. We
baptized over eighteen hundred, including all
of the United Brethren save one. We bap-
tized over two hundred preachers of various
denominations in that part of the vineyard.
A synod of church ministers became so alarm-
ed for their flocks in that part of the vineyard,
they petitioned Parliament to adopt measures
to stop our preaching. They received for an
answer, that if they were as well acquainted
with the Bible as their hunting grounds, and
were as much interested in the welfare of the
souls of men, as the chasing of the stags and
foxes, they would not lose so many of their
congregations.
