To associate, to unite oneself.

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1855.  “Why don’t you gather with the Saints?” “O, I don’t know; I am poor now; but I would very much like to gather with them.”—Brigham Young, April 6: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 257.

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1855.  A poor, miserable, sinful creature who gathers as a Saint, is worse than one who gathers as a Gentile.—The same, Oct. 8: id., iii. 120.

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