WI/AHC: Johnny Appleseed based new American religion (1830s)

Probably a bit of a strange question but the development of new religions/denominations fascinates me and I want to incorporate something of this ilk in a TL I am working on. I don't know much about American history but what if Johnny Appleseed is more successful in spreading his version of Swedenborgian Christianity which is perhaps codified by a follower so that it splits off as a distinct Mormon-esque movement in the mid-west during this period. Given the teachings of tolerance towards African-Americans and indigenous inhabitants I could see this having a considerable potential impact on the development of at least northern American expansionism.
 
Is this related to the camp grace?

The Lord is good to me And so I thank the Lord
for giving me the things I need
the sun and the rain and the appleseed
the Lord is good to me
(Johnny Appleseed)
Amen
 
John Chapman is the "Johnny Appleseed" to which to song refers, he was an actual missionary and conservationist in the early 19th century. His compassion for plants and animals is a famous part of his personal legend. Whether it extended to Natives and African-Americans I don't know (I hadn't heard that), but I can't see it recommending a religion for popularity in the 19th-century Midwest, compassion for Natives and African-Americans would generally get in the way of the sanctified American mission of acquiring land and money for people who were "free, White and twenty-one," a slang phrase that very probably dated right back to Chapman's day and correctly expressed what Americans saw as the basic unit of their culture at the time. The frank White supremacism of early Mormonism was at least much more in tune with that reality, even if its fondness for polygamy wasn't.
 
This is kinda ASB, but maybe have him and the Bab make some kind of contact during this period? Like, perhaps have Appleseed end up on some kind of pilgrimage to Jerusalem where he runs into the Bab, and ultimately Johnny Appleseed gains enough prestige within the movement to ultimately claim to be "He whom God shall make manifest?"
 
Heck, you could almost see this becoming a sort of eco-focused, multi-cultural religion today. You could have congregations wearing simple garb, singing kumbaya, and then going forth to plant trees and spread kindness and the love of God. Their missionaries might be called "Johnnies" and they could be seen planting trees, giving out small tracts, and being friendly to everyone.

If this religion gets big enough they could acquire scarred land (old strip mines or burned forests) and make it their mission to make the land into orchards with free food (apples) for the homeless.
 
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