Acts 5:41-42; “And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”
By 1860, approximately 65,000 Saints were comfortably settled into the valleys of the Wasatch Front.1 Everything they owned was either packed into wagons and handcarts, or simply carried for the trek west. The ‘everything’ included the inventory of their hearts. Upon their arrival into Utah, the seedlings of mocking Christianity in Nauvoo were simply unpacked, and replanted in the rich soils of the Utah mountainsides.
Having no outside influence allowed the new fledgling religion to take hold where roots could grow deeply into the rugged mountainsides. And take root it did. Without outsider influence pressing upon them, the gene pool of philosophical thought was rather shallow.
