The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

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Selling Farms to Aid the Work

It was about this time that such men as Hiram Edson, of New York, and Cyrenius Smith, of Jackson, Mich., were led to sell their farms, each worth $3,500, and rent farms for their own use, that they might have means to help in different enterprises that should arise in the prosecution of the work of the message. GSAM 285.1