ABSTRACT
‘All over this vast kingdom the laws of Zion are rolling onward with the most astonishing rapidity,’ rhapsodized a Mormon apostle from London in April 1841. Euphoria, in this case, was based on evidence, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints had established a responsive and vibrating network in little over four years. In that very year it was dispatching over 1,000 converts to Nauvoo, Illinois, the City of Rest for the Saints.
