After the restoration of the Church in 1830, Mormon missionaries were advised to travel with neither purse nor scrip but to rely on the Lord providing through the generosity of friends and fellow Saints. In 1860, Brigham announced at a Sabbath meeting in the bowery, that from this time forward he wanted the Latter-day Saints “in this territory to fit out our own missionaries, to clothe them and give them money to take them to their destined fields of labor.” He had announced in a meeting of bishops in Salt Lake City just previously, that the elders abroad “had to beg so much of the people” that it “must be stopped.” The poor Saints in Europe and England could ill afford to spare from their small incomes.
CHC, 5:84-85.
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