Church? 11. What is the only safe way to remain faithful.




CHAPTER XVIII.

THE MISSION TO ENGLAND.


In the year 1837, when the evil one was trying with all his might to
overthrow the Church both at Kirtland and in Missouri, the Lord told Joseph
that the time had come for "something new" to be done. This was to send
missionaries to England and open the gospel door to that people.

Elder Heber C. Kimball was chosen to take the lead of this mission, and
with him went Orson Hyde, Willard Richards, Joseph Fielding, John Goodson,
Isaac Russell, and John Snider.

This was the first mission to any foreign country, and in those days of
slow travel, a trip to Europe was no small matter. The brethren set out on
their journey without purse or scrip, but the Lord opened up their way, and
at last they landed in Liverpool, England, July 20, 1837.

They were in a strange country, had no money, no friends.

[Illustration: PRESIDENT HEBER C. KIMBALL]

"Go to Preston," said the Spirit of the Lord to them. Preston is a city
thirty miles from Liverpool, and there they went. Joseph Fielding had a