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Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 and their Fulfillment 
 
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 NEPHI LOWELL MORRIS 
 
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Preface 
 
 Time — Truth — Triumph 
 
 Joseph Smith accepted the title and assumed the office 
 of Prophet. He asserted his spiritual leadership, and 
 with avowed authority spoke in the name of the Deity. 
 In addition to the principles of revealed religion which 
 he promulgated, he made numerous prophecies. The 
 publication of both places him at the mercy of Time. It 
 is the purpose of this publication to ascertain and dis- 
 close the verdict which Time has thus far rendered. 
 
 Time is the supreme test of a prophecy. He who 
 undertakes to foretell events must know that Time in its 
 merciless pursuit will find him out. Of all the pretenses 
 of the false prophet, prophesying is the most hazardous. 
 Religious impostors often display qualities of leadership 
 in controlling the affairs of their followers. The more 
 modest their pretenses, however, the more likely are they 
 to escape detection and exposure. But when spiritual 
 leaders assume to exercise the exalted function of proph- 
 ecy, and have the courage to publish their prophecies, 
 they place their reputations before the bar of the world, 
 and as the weight of Time presses out the vintage of the 
 centuries they must sink to a deserving oblivion or be 
 exalted to a place in the skies. Time is a foe of Fraud, 
 but the never-failing friend of Truth. 
 
 Now that the claims of Joseph Smith as prophet have 
 been set up before the world for a century, it is proper 
 that the verdict of Time should be ascertained. To dis- 
 close these findings, this small volume is given out. 
 Only a few of the well-known prophecies are here con- 
 sidered. 
 
iv Preface 
 
 Early prints and old and forgotten manuscripts have 
 been examined with the intent to establish, without bias, 
 the truth with respect to the claims of the Prophet. Such 
 first-hand evidence as has been discovered is laid before 
 the reader. Originals, wherever possible, are submitted. 
 This testimony is highly important for the reason that 
 Joseph Smith, as prophet, must stand or fall w r ith the 
 outcome. 
 
 Thomas Hartwell Home says: 
 
 "Prophecy is a miracle of knowledge, a declara- 
 tion, or representation of something future, beyond 
 the power of human sagacity to discern or to calcu- 
 late, and it is the highest evidence that can be given 
 of supernatural communion with the Deity, and the 
 truth of a revelation from God. 
 
 . . . "The man who reads a prophecy and per- 
 ceives the corresponding event is himself a witness of 
 the miracle." 
 
 Therefore all who read these prophecies and see the 
 corresponding events become witnesses to the miracle. 
 
 We here acknowledge the very kind and helpful offices 
 of Elders Joseph Fielding Smith and Orson F. Whitney, 
 a committee appointed by the First Presidency, who have 
 read the manuscript and have made suggestions leading 
 to its improvement. We also wish to express our appre- 
 ciation to the publishers who have given every aid in the 
 matter of getting out the book. Without their encour- 
 agement it is probable that a sermon would never have 
 grown into the printed volume. 
 
Contents 
 
 The Great Prophecy on War 1 
 
 A Mighty People in the Rocky Mountains 52 
 
 America — the Cradle of Humanity 106 
 
 The Prophecy Regarding Stephen A. Douglas Ill 
 
 Book of Mormon — A Prophecy 125 
 
 Orson Hyde 141 
 
 The Date of Birth and Crucifixion of the Lord 153 
 
 Two Expulsions from Jackson County, Missouri 180 
 
 Conclusion - 191 
 
 Appendix — Prayer of Orson Hyde on the Mount of 
 Olives -193 
 
 Illustrations and Reproductions 
 
 Volume One "A," Original Manuscript History of 
 
 the Church viii 
 
 "The Pearl of Great Price"— Edition of 1851 8 
 
 The Revelation on War, as it Appeared in "The 
 
 Pearl of Great Price," published in 1851 9 
 
 The Revelation on War, as it appeared in "The 
 
 Seer," published in 1854 11 
 
 Facsimile of the Ordinance of Secession, from the 
 
 Charleston "Mercury" 25 
 
 Facsimile of the Confederate Constitution 31 
 
 Secession Banner displayed in the South Carolina 
 
 Convention 33 
 
 The Prophecy on War, photographed from Volume 
 
 One "A," Manuscript History of the Church 41 
 
 Prophecy concerning the Saints becoming "a mighty 
 
 people in the midst of the Rocky Mountains," 
 
 from the "Deseret News," 1855 57 
 
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 Opening page of Anson Call's Journal, commenced 
 in 1839 . .... 72 
 
 Anson Call's diary of the prophecy foretelling Lat- 
 ter-day Saints becoming a mighty people in the 
 Rocky Mountains 73 
 
 Tribute to the State of Utah with respect to its 
 Educational Laws, by Dr. E. A. Winship 89 
 
 Latter-day Saints' Temple, Salt Lake City 98 
 
 Latter-day Saints' Temple at Laie, Oahu, Hawaii.... 99 
 
 Prophecy concerning Saints being out of the power 
 of their "old enemies," from the "Deseret News," 
 1857 104 
 
 Prophecy concerning Stephen A. Douglas, from 
 "Deseret News," 1856 113, 115 
 
 Editorial comment of the "Deseret News" on the 
 famous speech of Douglas, on the "Mormon" 
 question 118, 119 
 
 Prophecy concerning Stephen A. Douglas, from 
 "Millennial Star," 1859 122 
 
 Letter of Orson Hyde, addressed to Stephen A. 
 Douglas ... - 123 
 
 Photograph of "Millennial Star," containing Orson 
 Hyde's prophecy concerning the re-garthering of 
 the Jews 146 
 
 General Allenby at the Head of British Troops En- 
 tering Jerusalem, December 11, 1917 148 
 
TO THE MEMORY OF 
 
 JOSEPH SMITH 
 
 WITH REVERENTIAL LOVE 
 
 "Turned from the reed that, breaking, disappoints 
 The fool that takes it for the oak; and turning 
 On the arm, by which suspended worlds hang 
 Innumerous; and eye upturned to where 
 The sun ne'er sets, where flows the font of life, 
 Beneath the throne of God, unshaken he stood 
 By al] that earth could do.' 
 
Volume One "A", Original Manuscript History of the Church, 
 written under the direction of Joseph Smith, by his secretaries, 
 during his life and ministry. Dimensions, 14 by 9% by 2% inches. 
 Bound in sheep skin. 
 
Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 and their Fulfillment 
 
 The Great Prophecy on War 
 
 "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom 
 against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pesti- 
 lences, and earthquakes, in divers places 
 
 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all 
 the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall 
 the end come" — Matt. 24:7, 14. 
 
 1. Verily, thus saith the Lord, concerning the wars 
 that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion 
 of South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in 
 the death and misery of many souls. 
 
 2. The days will come that war will be poured out up- 
 on all nations, beginning at that place; 
 
 3. For behold, the Southern States shall be divided 
 against the Northern States, and the Southern States will 
 call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, 
 as it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations, 
 in order to defend themselves against other nations; and 
 then war shall be poured out upon all nations. 
 
 6, And thus, with the sword, and by bloodshed, the in- 
 habitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and 
 
Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and 
 the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants 
 of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation 
 and chastening hand of an Almighty God." — Joseph 
 Smith. 
 
 The importance of this revelation and prophecy is of 
 die greatest magnitude. It was given to Joseph Smith 
 nearly a century ago. Because of the remoteness of the 
 period, few, perhaps, will associate it with the affairs of 
 the time. A slight review of that period will give this 
 prophecy its proper historical relationship. It is not a 
 disconnected occurrence. It is rationally rooted in cir- 
 cumstance. The circumstances are these: Animosity and 
 bitterness arose between the people of the North and the 
 people of the South. Industrial rivalries and conflicting 
 opinions relative to slavery began to breed ill-will and 
 the seeds of disunion were sown broadcast. Federal legis- 
 lation on matters affecting Southern industries intensi- 
 fied this conflict until a distinct line of cleavage began to 
 develop between the North and the South. Great excite- 
 ment was created over the "Nullification Act" of South 
 Carolina. The tongue of sectional strife became articu- 
 late in the furious quarrel which followed this act. 
 
 "Congress passed an act in the Spring of 1832, im- 
 posing additional duties on imported goods, and 
 South Carolina was especially indignant. A conven- 
 tion, held on the 19th of November, and presided 
 over by her governor, declared that the tariff acts 
 were unconstitutional and therefore of no effect. 
 The people asserted that the duties should not be 
 paid and that any attempt of the government to col- 
 lect them would be forcibly resisted, followed by the 
 withdrawal of South Carolina from the Union. . . . 
 
And Their Fulfillment 
 
 The following legislature commended this action. 
 . . . The President (Jackson) swore with custom- 
 ary emphasis that the Union should be preserved, 
 and that he would hang 'as high as Haman' any and 
 every one who dared to raise his hand against it. He 
 threatened the arrest of Vice-President Calhoun, who 
 resigned his office and went home to South Carolina, 
 from which he was returned as a United States Sen- 
 ator. The President issued a proclamation on the 
 10th day of December, denying the right of a state to 
 nullify, or declare inoperative, any act of Congress, 
 and warned those concerned. ... He begged the 
 people to sustain him, etc. . . . His appeal was 
 thrown away on 'Carolina, child of the Sun.' Her 
 governor was authorized to accept services of volun- 
 teers; new arms were bought; fortifications were re- 
 paired; and the young men were drilled. . . . The 
 Star-Spangled Banner was displayed Union down, 
 and a flag was made ready to take its place as soon 
 as secession should be proclaimed." — "Ellis's His- 
 tory," Vol. 3, p. 744. 
 
 In this very year, a distinguished visitor from France 
 prophesied the "inevitable separation" of the North and 
 South." Something resembling this prediction is said to 
 have been made by the celebrated English novelist, 
 Charles Dickens, who visited this country about ten years 
 later. Muzzey says of the feeling that characterized the 
 two sections at this period: "It was apparently the honest 
 conviction of the Northerners that every man south of 
 Mason and Dixon's line was a Preston Brooks, 1 and of 
 
 1 Preston Brooks, Senator from South Carolina, became so en- 
 raged over a speech delivered on the floor of the Senate by Sen- 
 ator Sumner, which was characterized by scathing invective and 
 furious denunciation of the "slave-holding aristocrats," that he, 
 
Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 Southerners that every man north of the line was a John 
 Brown. 2 Mr. Russell, the correspondent of the London 
 Times, found that on one side of the Ohio River he was 
 among "abolitionists, cut throats, Lincolnites, mercen- 
 aries, invaders, assassins," and on the other side among 
 "rebels, robbers, conspirators, wretches bent on destroy- 
 ing the most perfect government on the face of the 
 earth." He testified that there was less vehemence and 
 bitterness among the Northerners, but no less deter- 
 mination." 
 
 Allusion to this disquieting situation is made in the 
 chapter of Church history which contains the above rev- 
 elation and prophecy, thus: 
 
 "The United States, with all her pomp and great- 
 ness, was threatened with immediate dissolution. The 
 people of South Carolina, in convention assembled 
 (in November), passed ordinances, declaring their 
 state a free and independent nation; and appointed 
 Thursday, the first day of January, 1833, as a day of 
 humiliation and prayer, to implore Almighty God to 
 vouchsafe his blessings, and restore liberty and hap- 
 piness within their borders. President Jackson is- 
 sued his proclamation against this rebellion, called 
 out a force sufficient to quell it, and implored the 
 blessings of God to assist the nation to extricate itself 
 from the horrors of the approaching and solemn 
 crisis." 
 
 two days later, when Sumner was bending over his desk at work, 
 beat him almost to death with a heavy gutta-percha cane. Sum- 
 ner's brilliant powers were permanently impaired by this assault, 
 which finally resulted in his death. A motion to expel Brooks 
 failed for lack of the necessary two-thirds vote. He was later re- 
 elected to the Senate by an almost unanimous vote from his dis- 
 trict in South Carolina. 
 
 2 John Brown of Lawrence, Kansas, and Harper's Ferry fame. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 
 
 In a debate between Webster and Hayne on the tariff 
 question, Mr. Webster said: 
 
 "While the Union lasts we have high, exciting, 
 gratifying prospects spread out before us for us and 
 our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the 
 veil. God grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain 
 may not rise. God grant that on my vision never 
 may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes 
 shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in 
 heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and 
 dishonored fragments of a once glorious union, on 
 states dissevered, discordant, beligerent; on a land 
 rent with civic feuds; or drenched, it may be, in fra- 
 ternal blood." 
 
 Joseph Smith says that while he was earnestly pray- 
 ing on December 25, 1832, relative to these threatening 
 occurrences, a voice declared to him "that the com- 
 mencement of the difficulties which will cause much 
 bloodshed . . . will be in South Carolina." (See 
 Doctrine and Covenants, p. 461.) 
 
 A state of rebellion actually existed in South Carolina 
 at the very time the prophecy was made. War, however, 
 did not break out until more than twenty-eight years 
 later. 
 
 Great importance naturally attaches to the date of the 
 publication of this remarkable prophecy. It is true that it 
 was not published in the earlier editions of the Doctrine 
 and Covenants. That may also be said of other revela- 
 tions now printed in that book. It is absolutely neces- 
 sary to prove the publication of this prophecy a reason- 
 able time prior to the outbreak of the Civil war to estab- 
 lish satisfactorily the genuineness and force of the proph- 
 
Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 ecy. Fortunately we have incontrovertible evidence to 
 submit on those two points. 
 
 On August 26, 1876, in the "New Tabernacle," Orson 
 Pratt, in speaking on the prophecies of Joseph Smith and 
 their fulfillment, said: 
 
 "I might well mention another prophecy, which 
 was printed in several languages, and published 
 among the various nations in whose language it was 
 printed, which was twenty-eight years reaching ful- 
 filment. The Lord revealed to the Prophet Joseph 
 Smith that there would be a great rebellion between 
 the Northern and Southern States, commencing in the 
 State of South Carolina, and that it would terminate 
 in the death and misery of many souls. This, as you 
 all know, has been literally fulfilled. When I was a 
 boy, I traveled extensively in the United States and 
 the Canadas, preaching this restored gospel. I had a 
 manuscript copy of this revelation, which I carried 
 in my pocket, and I was in the habit of reading it to 
 the people among whom I traveled and preached. 
 As a general thing the people regarded it as the 
 height of nonsense, saying the Union was too strong 
 to be broken; and I, they said, was led away, the 
 victim of an imposter. . . . Year after year 
 passed away while every little while some of the ac- 
 quaintances I had formerly made would say: 'Well, 
 what is going to become of that prediction? It's 
 never going to be fulfilled.' Said I, 'The Lord has 
 his time set.' By and by it came along, and the first 
 battle was fought at Charleston, South Carolina." 
 
 The first printed publication of this important reve- 
 lation and prophecy occurred in the year 1851, just ten 
 years before the Civil War began. If, for the sake of 
 
And Their Fulfillment 
 
 argument, the date of its origin was forced down to that 
 year, it stands as an unquestioned inspiration or revela- 
 tion, for it is absolutely beyond the power of human in- 
 telligence to foretell with such extraordinary exactness 
 events ten years distant. Dickens, DeTocqueville, and 
 Alexander H. Stephens may have predicted an "inevita- 
 ble separation," "bloodshed" and "war," but Joseph 
 Smith in this prophecy declared where it should begin, 
 described the magnitude of the wars and defined the pre- 
 cise nature of the conflict, viz., the rebellion of the South 
 against the North, with other features of the most spe- 
 cific character. To appreciate the magnitude of this 
 "miracle of knowledge" let any living person undertake 
 to describe or foretell events thirty, or even ten years 
 distant. It is humanly impossible. Much more so is it 
 to foretell occurrences of a most extraordinary character. 
 This is exactly what Joseph Smith did, under the inspira- 
 tion of the Almighty God. The publication in which 
 this prophecy first appeared was the Pearl of Great Price, 
 a small volume containing other authoritative writings 
 of Joseph Smith, and was published by Franklin D. Rich- 
 ards in Liverpool, England, at 15 Wilton St.; the pre- 
 face is dated July 11th, 1851. (See photographic repro- 
 duction of the title page of this book, also a reproduction 
 of the Revelation itself, taken from page 35 of same.) 
 
 In volume 13, Millennial Star, under date of July 15, 
 1851, an advertisement of this book appears as follows: 
 
 "Pearl of Great Price, is the title of a new book 
 which will soon be ready for sale, containing 64 
 pages on beautiful paper of superior quality, and 
 on new type of a larger size than any heretofore is- 
 sued from this office. It contains .... 
 
 "A Revelation given December, 1832, which has 
 never before appeared in print." 
 
THE 
 
 PEARL OF GREAT PRICE; 
 
 CHOICE SELECTION 
 
 REVELATIONS, TRANSLATIONS, AND NARRATIONS 
 
 JOSEPH SMITH, 
 
 FIRST PROPHET, SEES, AND REVELATOB TO THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST 
 OF IATTER-DAY SAINTS. 
 
 LIVERPOOL: 
 PUBLISHED B? F. T>. RICHARDS, 15, WILTON STREET. 
 
 . 1851. 
 
 The Revelation on War appeared first in print in this publication. 
 
35 
 
 A. — We are to understand that it was a mission, and an ordinance, for him 
 to gather the tribes of Israel ; behold, this is Ellas ; who, as it is written, must 
 come and restore all things. 
 
 Q. — What is to be understood by lite two witnesses, in the eleventh chap- 
 ter of Revelations ? 
 
 A.- — They are two Prophets that are to he raised up to the Jewish Nation 
 in the last days, at the time of the restoration, and to prophesy to the Jews, 
 after they are gathered, and build the city of Jerusalem, in the land of their 
 fathers. 
 
 A REVELATION AND PROPHECY BY THE PROPHET, SEER, AND REVELATOR, 
 JOSEPH SMITH. 
 
 Given December •Zoih. 1832. 
 
 " Verily thus saith the Lord, concerning the wars that will shortly come to 
 pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will eventually ter- 
 minate in the death and misery of many souls. The days will come that war 
 will be poured out upon all nations, beginning at that place ; for behold, the 
 Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the South- 
 ern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is 
 called, and they shall also call upon other nations, in order to defend them- 
 selves against other nations ; and thus war shall be poured out upon all na- 
 tions. And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against 
 their Masters, who shall be marshalled and disciplined for war : And it shall 
 come to pass also, that the remnants who are left of the land will marshall 
 themselves, and shall become exceeding angry, and shall vex the Gentiles 
 with a sore vexation ; and thus, with the sword, and by bloodshed, the inha- 
 bitants of the earth shall mourn ; and with famine, and plague, and earth- 
 quakes, and the thunder of Heaven, and the fierce and vivid Kghtning also, 
 shall the inhabitants of the earthy be made to feel the wrath, and indignation 
 and chastening hand of an Almighty God. until the consumption decreed, 
 hath made a full end of all nations ; that the cry of the Saints, and of the 
 blood of the Saints, shall cease to come up into the ears of the Lord of Sab- 
 b&oth, from the earth, to be avenged of their enemies. Wherefore, stand ye 
 in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come ; for behold 
 it cometh quicHy, saith the Lord. Amen/* 
 
 A photograph of the Revelation on War taken from the Pearl of 
 Great Price, published in Liverpool, 1851, 
 
10 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 The Pearl of Great Price was thereafter distributed 
 throughout the entire civilized world. The Millennial 
 Star also had a world-wide circulation and in this way 
 the Revelation on War was committed to the "immortal 
 custody of the press." 
 
 References to it thereafter appear in all the literature 
 of the Church. It became the property of the public 
 from the day it left the precss at Liverpool. To publish 
 an edition at a subsequent time with a false imprint 
 would be folly in the extreme. 
 
 In the year 1857, Orson Pratt published the first edi- 
 tion of the "Compendium" of the Faith and Doctrines of 
 the Church. It was printed in Liverpool, and was written 
 by Franklin D. Richards. Under every heading, chapter 
 by chapter, references are systematically made to the 
 Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Cove- 
 nants, and the Pearl of Great Price. Thus, the book con- 
 taining this Prophecy is at once recognized as a stand- 
 ard work of the Church and has continued to be so 
 recognized from 1851 to this day. 
 
 In the year 1854, this Prophecy was reprinted in The 
 Seer. s with reference to the Pearl of Great Price as its 
 source. (See reproduction of this article.) The Revela- 
 tion agrees perfectly with the original publication. This 
 gives us four publications of world-wide circulation, as 
 irrefutable testimony to the existence of this great Proph- 
 ecy all the way from three to ten years prior to the out- 
 break of the War of the Rebellion, as Joseph Smith 
 called it. 
 
 The late President George Q. Cannon, in speaking of 
 this matter said: 
 
 B The Seer was a monthly periodical that was edited by Orson 
 Pratt, in Washington, D. C, and published by Samuel W. Rich- 
 ards, then presiding over the British Mission. It first appeared in 
 January, 1853, and continued for a few years. 
 

 
 ALL ¥E lXHABiT\ 
 
 Vol. II, NO. 4r. 
 
 AM) BWELLEKS OX TIU: EABTIf, SEE 
 OX THE MOUNTAINS — lstiitth XV Hi, 3. 
 
 APRIL, 1S5A. 
 
 WHE3 HI. 
 
 WAK. 
 
 A RHX LLATi 
 
 " Verily thus saith the Lord, con- 
 cerning the wars that will shortly come 
 to pass, beginning at the rebellion of 
 South Carolina, winch will eventually 
 terminate in the death and misery of 
 
 many souls. 
 
 war will be \ 
 
 tions, beginning at that 
 
 behold, the Southern Stat 
 
 lays will come that 
 
 1 out upon all na- 
 
 lace ; for 
 
 s shall be 
 
 divided against the Northern States ; 
 and the Southern States will call on 
 other nations, even the nation of Great 
 Britain, as it is called, and they shall 
 also call upon other nations in order 
 to defend themselves against other na- 
 tions : and thus war shall ho poured 
 out upon all 
 
 -4' 
 
 come to } : 
 shall rise 
 who shall be 
 lined for war. 
 pass also, that 
 
 nations. And it shall 
 alter many days, slaves 
 against their Masters, 
 marshalled and diseip- 
 And it shall come to 
 the remnants who are 
 left of the land will marshal them- 
 selves, and shall become exceeding 
 angry, and shall vex the Gentiles with 
 a sore vexation. And thus, with the 
 *nvord, and by bloodshed, the inhabi- 
 tants of the earth shall mourn ; and 
 with famine, and plague, and earth- 
 quakes, and the thunder of heaven, 
 and the ileree and vivid lightning also, 
 
 El; E Tj * E K K, A X \ * K E "V f '. L AT < ' 13 , .i O S 1 1 !* 1 J .> M i I , •? , 
 EB 25th, 1S32. 
 
 j shall the inhabitants of the earth bo j 
 I made to feel the wrath, and indigna- 
 i tion, and chastening hand of an Al~ 
 i mighty God, until the consumption \ 
 ! decreed hath made a full end of all 
 ; nations ; that the cry of the Saints. 
 
 and of the blood of Saints, shall eeaso j 
 j to come up into the ears of the Lord j 
 | of Sabaoth, from the earth, to be* j 
 | avenged of their enemies. Wherefore. \ 
 ! stand ye in holy places, and be not 
 
 moved, until the day of the Lord come ; 
 j for behold, it cometh quickly, saith the 
 1 Lord. Amen." (Pearl of Great Price, 
 
 page 35.) 
 
 The above revelation was given 
 I twenty-one years ago last Christmas. 
 ! We learn by this, some particulars in 
 j regard to the nature of that universal 
 i war winch is soon to deluge sill the 
 j nations and kingdoms of the earth. 
 ; The first indication of this fearful ca > 
 I lamity was to begin in the rebellion of 
 j South Carolina. The revelation doeK 
 j not inform us that the first symptom 
 | of this rebellion would exhibit any 
 
 thing very alarming in its appearance > 
 ; but says, that it " trill eventually ter-- 
 j minaie in the death and misery of many 
 j wuU" " Eventually •" '(not directly or 
 i immediately.) should the rebellion --of 
 
 The above periodical re-published the Revelation on War with 
 reference to its source. 
 
12 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 "I recollect very well that in the fall of 1860, while 
 going to England, we were invited at Omaha to 
 preach the gospel to the people of that city. A good 
 many of the leading citizens procured the Court . 
 House for us, and Brother Pratt preached. By re- 
 quest I read the Revelation given through Joseph 
 Smith on the 25th of December, 1832, respecting 
 the secession of the Southern States. It created a 
 great sensation, the election of Abraham Lincoln 
 having just been consummated, and it being well 
 known that there was a great deal of feeling in the 
 South in relation to it. A great many people came 
 forward and examined the book from which the 
 Revelation was read to see the date, to satisfy them- 
 selves that it was not a thing of recent manufacture. 
 The Revelation was in the Pearl of Great Price which 
 was published in 1851." 
 
 To the testamentary of these well known publications, 
 to that of these well known men of highest probity and 
 standing we here introduce the testimony of three men, 
 still alive, and of the highest integrity, and intelligence, 
 and of prominence in various lines of public service. 
 
 LETTER OF PRESIDENT ANTHON H. LUND. 
 
 "The First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter-day Saints. 
 
 "Salt Lake City, Utah, April 13, 1920. 
 "President Nephi L. Morris, 
 "City. 
 "Dear Brother Morris: — 
 
 "You have asked me to put in the form of a letter 
 what I know of the publication of the Prophecy on 
 War given as a revelation to the Prophet Joseph 
 
And Their Fulfillment 13 
 
 Smith on December 25, 1832, and now published 
 in the Doctrine and Covenants under Sec. 87. 
 
 "When I was thirteen and a half years old I was 
 called to do missionary work in Denmark, my native 
 land. Because of my membership in the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I had a strong de- 
 sire to learn the English language, and, therefore, 
 took private lessons in that tongue. Though I was 
 but a youth, my familiarity with English fitted me 
 for missionary work in many ways. 
 
 "I remember distinctly reading, in 1858, the Pearl 
 of Great Price which was published in Liverpool in 
 1851, and would verbally translate the Prophecy on 
 War, which first appeared in that publication, to 
 the Danish Saints in their meetings as w T ell as in 
 private. I well remember with what keen interest 
 we followed the events that transpired some three 
 years later when the War of the Rebellion actually 
 broke out. 
 
 "These dates are accurately fixed in my mind by 
 reason of my having to meet at school examination to 
 ascertain if I had sufficient knowledge to be allowed 
 liberty from attending public schools before I was 
 fourteen years of age. 
 
 "Yours Very Truly, 
 
 [Signed! "Anthon H. Lund." 
 
 LETTER OF PRESIDENT CHARLES W. PENROSE. 
 THE REVELATION ON WAR. 
 
 "On the 6th day of January, in the year 1851, I 
 was ordained an Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter-day Saints, at the Church office in Jewin 
 Street, London, England, under the hands of George 
 
14 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 B. Wallace of Salt Lake City, then counselor to the 
 president of the European Mission. 
 
 "I was sent as a traveling elder into the County 
 of Essex, especially in the town of Maldon and the 
 country surrounding, where I was successful in 
 preaching the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and 
 raising up some branches of the Church. Later in 
 the year I obtained a copy of a pamplet published 
 by President Franklin D. Richards at the Church of- 
 fices in Wilton Street, Liverpool, England, entitled, 
 'Pearl of Great Price.' Among other articles it 
 contained a Revelation and Prophecy given through 
 Joseph the Seer, on War, December 25, 1832. 
 
 "This reveluation is now contained, verabtim, in 
 the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, Section 87, com- 
 mencing with these words: 
 
 " 'Verily thus saith the Lord concerning the wars 
 that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the re- 
 bellion of South Carolina, which will eventually 
 terminate in the death ard misery of many souls. 
 The days will come that war will be poured upon 
 all nations, beginning at that place.' 
 
 "During my labors of ten years after obtaining 
 that revelation I preached on the subjects referred 
 to therein in various parts of the British Isles, and 
 confidently looked forward to its fulfillment, as I 
 had a divine testimony of its truth. It became a 
 subject of faith among the Latter-day Saints every- 
 where, and its literal fulfillment in after years has 
 been cited as evidence that Joseph Smith was in 
 very deed a Prophet of God. 
 
 "During the period I have mentioned it was pro- 
 claimed as prophecy on par with divine predictions 
 contained in Holy Scriptures. I still have the pam- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 15 
 
 phlet herein described, and comparison with the sec- 
 tion in the book of Doctrine and Covenants shows 
 that the two versions are identical. 
 
 "I make this statement to meet queries that have 
 been raised concerning the matter by people who 
 doubt the accuracy of the date cf its first publication, 
 and I hereby declare with all solemnity before God 
 and men that this witness is true. 
 
 [Signed) "Charles W. Penrose." 
 
 "State of Utah ) 
 
 i ss 
 County of Salt Lake [ 
 
 "On this seventh day of April, A. D. 1920, before 
 me a Notary Public, personally appeared Charles W. 
 Penrose, known to me to be the same person whose 
 name is subscribed to the foregoing document, and 
 duly acknowledged to me that he executed the same 
 and that the statements therein contained are true 
 and correct. 
 
 "In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
 and affixed my Notarial Seal the day and year first 
 above written. 
 [Seal] "Arthur Winter. 
 
 "Notary Public" 
 
 (See originals in Church Historian's Office.) 
 
 COPY OF SEYMOUR B. YOUNG LETTER. 
 
 "Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 "April 29, 1920. 
 "President Nephi L. Morris, 
 "21 West South Temple, 
 "City. 
 "Dear Brother: — 
 
 "Several years before the first gun was fired by 
 
16 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 the rebels on Fort Sumter, in the Spring of 1861, 
 I remember my attention being called to the publi- 
 cation of the Revelation on War given through the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith, December 25, 1832, now 
 found recorded in the book of Doctrine and Cov- 
 enants, page 304, section 87. . . . The war 
 that was shortly to come to pass had its beginning 
 when the first gun was fired on Fort Sumter on the 
 date above named. . . . The revelation was 
 published and given to the world about twelve years 
 before the Civil War began. Always and often as 
 the allusion was made to the coming war between 
 the North and the South we were reminded of the 
 revelation of the Prophet who predicted this event, 
 and we never had any doubt of its fulfillment. .. 
 "Respectfully your Brother, 
 
 "Seymour B. Young." 
 
 There appears to be absolutely no ground for doubt 
 that this Prophecy was published to the world at least 
 ten years prior to the occurrence of the beginning of 
 events it foretells. And it was subsequently printed 
 numerous times before the great initial event foretold 
 transpired. 
 
 1. "Concerning the wars that will shortly come to 
 pass" 
 
 With the war record of the nations of the earth in 
 mind one could almost predict war for any time in the 
 future without seriously missing it. War, in greater 
 or lesser degree, has almost been perpetual since or- 
 ganized governments began. This Revelation, how- 
 ever, made known the coming of a series of wars, of 
 which the War of the Rebellion was to be the beginning. 
 In naming South Carolina as the beginning place of the 
 
And Their Fulfillment 17 
 
 first of the series of wars it becomes remarkably spe- 
 cific. The declaration includes a European war which 
 was to be subsequent to the American war. More than 
 twenty-eight years after the prophecy was made, the first 
 great conflict actually occurred, precisely as foretold. 
 Then a half-century passes by and Europe still main- 
 tains a "military" and "commercial" peace. The Hague 
 Tribunal had a glorious record of arbitration which 
 seemed to presage the end of rule by might and was 
 taken, by some, to be promise of the reign of right and 
 reason in the earth. Modern inventions, compulsory uni- 
 versal training, great and boundless national resources, 
 military schools and ingenius inventions had made war 
 so incomparably destructive that economists began to 
 realize how utterly niad such a war of destruction would 
 be. Inter-nationalists and diplomatists saw the disad- 
 vantages of such a conflict. Financiers saw the abso- 
 lute ruin of wealth in terms that turned them sickened 
 from the contemplation of war. Peace societies carried 
 on a systematic propaganda and didn't hesitate to as- 
 sume to introduce the Millennium. 
 
 "There will be no war in the future, for it has become 
 impossible now that it is clear that war means suicide," 
 wrote I. S. Bloch in "The Future of War." 
 
 In October, 1910, David Starr Jordan, upon landing 
 from England, was interviewed by the representatives of 
 the press on the European situation where he had been 
 lecturing on universal peace. When asked as to the 
 prospects of a war over there he said, "There is no war 
 coming." Continuing, "As to the prospects of a war be- 
 tween Germany and England, there is about as much 
 chance of a conflict between the United States and Mars. 
 . . . The only battle between England rnd Germany 
 will be on paper." 
 
 
18 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 And Mr. Jordan, in his optimistic book, "War 
 and Waste," 1913, arrived at this very comforting con- 
 clusion in discussing the European situation: 
 
 "What shall we say of the Great War of Europe, 
 ever threatening, ever impending, and which never 
 comes? We shall say that it will never come. Hu- 
 manly speaking, it is impossible. 
 
 "Not in the physical sense, of course, for with 
 weak, reckless, and Godless men nothing evil is im- 
 possible. It may be, of course, that some half-crazed 
 arch-duke or some harassed minister of state shall 
 half-knowing give the signal for Europe's conflagra- 
 tion. In fact, the agreed signal has been given more 
 than once within the last few months. The tinder 
 is well dried and laid in such a way as to make the 
 worst of this catastrophe. All Europe cherishes is 
 ready for the burning. Yet Europe recoils and will 
 recoil even in the dread stress of spoil -division of 
 the Balkan War. . . . 
 
 "But accident aside, the Triple Entente lined up 
 against the Triple Alliance, we shall expect no war." 
 
 "The bankers will not find the money for such a 
 fight, the industries of Europe will not maintain it, 
 the statesmen cannot. So whatever the bluster or 
 apparent provocation, it comes to the same thing in 
 . the end. There will be no general war until the 
 masters direct the fighters to fight. The masters 
 have much to gain, but vastly more to lose, and 
 their signal will not be given." 
 
 While the intellectuals and the pacifists were thus 
 singing their soothing songs to a more or less distracted 
 world that really wished to be lulled into the sweet 
 
And Their Fulfillment 19 
 
 dreams of a warless world, all of a sudden, war clouds 
 began to gather over the Balkans. At that unsuspecting 
 moment in the world's history, August 1, 1914, the torch 
 of human wilfulness was deliberately hurled into the 
 very magazines of European military preparedness and 
 in the four years that followed more than half the world 
 was literally wrecked. The great cataclysm has long 
 been given the august title, The World War. In its fury 
 and destructiveness all other wars by comparison are as 
 events of small moment. This war threatened civiliza- 
 tion. It taught the pacifist propagadist that he must 
 rot only sing and preach and pray for peace but that 
 he really had to _fight for it. It was a rude awakening 
 the world experienced, but it learned that the word of 
 God fails not. The prophets of old had declared that 
 the men should cry "Peace, peace, when there was no 
 peace" and the modern prophet had said "and war shall 
 be poured out upon all nations" 
 
 It is worthy of note that the War of the Rebellion 
 marked the passing of the old methods of warfare to a 
 remarkable extent and the introduction of what we call 
 modern warfare. The wars that have occurred since 
 might well be grouped by themselves as possessing dis- 
 tinctive characteristics. They thereby fall in with the 
 great prediction of Joseph Smith in that they are a dis- 
 tinct group or series of wars. 
 
 On this particular subject it is interesting to read the 
 observations of Ambassador Gerard in his "My Four 
 Years in Germany:" 
 
 "I remember one evening I was asked the ques- 
 tion as to what America could do, supposing the al- 
 most impossible, that America should resent the re- 
 commencement of ruthless submarine warfare by 
 the Germans and declare war. I said that nearly all 
 
20 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 of the great inventions used in the war had been 
 made by Americans; the very submarine which 
 formed the basis of our discussion was an Ameri- 
 can invention; so were the barbed wire and the air- 
 plaine, the ironclad, the telephone and the telegraph, 
 so necessary to trench warfare, and even that meth- 
 od of warfare had been first developed on some- 
 thing of the present scale in our Civil War." 
 
 Mr. James H. Anderson, in an interesting address on 
 this subject makes the following enlightened observa- 
 tions : 
 
 "The wars between 1832 [the year of Joseph 
 Smith's prophecy on war] and the civil war which 
 began in 1861, possess no distinguishing character- 
 istics, such as those wars do which occurred subse- 
 quent to that date." 
 
 He adds: 
 
 "There was, however, a distinguishing feature in- 
 dicated for the Civil War of 1861-4. It was then 
 [1862] that the machine gun was brought forth, the 
 Gatling gun as we know it, which soon was adopted 
 by other civilized nations. It absolutely revolu- 
 tionized warfare on land. This gun then had a ca- 
 pacity of firing 350 shots per minute, improved up- 
 on later; but it was the beginning of new and more 
 destructive methods of warfare that were unknown 
 theretofore." 
 
 He relates how the revolving turret has since evolved 
 into our great ironclad gun boats which revolutionized 
 warfare on sea. Continuing: 
 
 "The first time a submarine was used in war was by 
 
And Their Fulfillment 21 
 
 the Confederates when they went out with the little 
 submarine David and sank the Federal warship 
 Housatonic. It is true the attacking vessel also was 
 sunk, because those in charge did not observe the in- 
 structions of the builder; but this was the beginning 
 of submarine warfare nevertheless." 
 
 It should be stated here that not less than twenty-four 
 war vessels and transports were destroyed by the Con- 
 federacy by means of the torpedo. Mr. Anderson points 
 out how, in his opinion, the "tanks" and "pill-boxes" as 
 well as the fortresses of France are little more than the 
 perfected machine guns and turrets in combination. 
 These inventions were all introduced for the first time 
 in the Civil War and resulted, in their more perfected 
 form, in making subsequent wars incomparably de- 
 structive both of human life and property. 
 
 As a result of these methods being employed now-a- 
 days war has taken on a more deadly aspect than ever 
 before. The battles of these times are fought on the 
 ground and under the ground, on the sea and beneath 
 the surface of the sea. The heavens whirr with pro- 
 jectiles and engines of destruction. From the clouds 
 bombs are dropped that shatter the surroundings where 
 they fall, including human beings who are shattered in 
 mind and body. Bombs are dropped that not only blast, 
 but others that spread deadly and flesh destroying, 
 poisonous gasses that blight and blind every living thing 
 within their far-spreading reach. 
 
 On the oceans deadly torpedoes run scudding for 
 miles beneath the surface of the engulfing deep to 
 bring suddenly beneath the dark waves their victims by 
 the thousands per shot. On land, strange, monster 
 "tanks," armor-clad, and furiously loud with machine 
 
22 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 gun and cannon, walk defiantly into the very ranks of 
 the enemy infantry. 
 
 The poet-prophet Tennyson foresaw the warfare of 
 these times and in graceful verse depicted his vision 
 thus: 
 
 "For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could 
 
 see; 
 Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that 
 
 would be; 
 
 Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of 
 
 magic sails, 
 Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with 
 
 costly bales. 
 
 Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there 
 
 rained a ghastly dew 
 From the nations' airy navies grapping in the central 
 
 blue. 
 
 Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind 
 
 rushing warm, 
 And the standards of the peoples plunging through 
 
 the thunderstorm; 
 
 'Till the war drum throbbed no longer, and the bat- 
 tle flags were furled 
 
 In the parliament of man, the federation of the 
 world." 
 
 2. ''Beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina." 
 
 Before the close of the Buchanan administration, 
 South Carolina had seceded. She had seized property 
 of the United States, consisting of public buildings, forts 
 
And Their Fulfillment 23 
 
 and arsenals within the State. She had seized the guns 
 of a United States battery and had fired them upon a 
 ship flying the Stars and Stripes. Against these acts 
 of defiant rebellion no protest was made by the ad- 
 ministration. Following the seditious example of South 
 Carolina, six other cotton states proceeded to take over 
 arsenals, forts, troops, and money belonging to the 
 United States. And that, too, without so much as the 
 raising of a finger in protest by the government. The 
 Confederate government received from the state of 
 Louisiana $536,000 in coin which was seized from the 
 United States mint at New Orleans. For this beneficent 
 contribution to the cause of rebellion a vote of thanks 
 was tendered the recalcitrant state by the government at 
 Montgomery. These states had thus possessed them- 
 selves of $30,000,000 in property. Secretaries Floyd and 
 Thompson, of the Cabinet were openly aiding the se- 
 cession without even a threat of dismissal by the Presi- 
 dent. Thirty years before, when the first manifestations 
 of sedition cropped out, President Buchanan was at the 
 embassy in St. Petersburg, and Andrew Jackson was in 
 the White House. President Jackson, in a vigorous 
 proclamation went right after South Carolina with a 
 threat to "hang as high as Haman" any man who 
 raised his hand against the government. In a letter 
 to Buchanan written at that time he said, "I have met 
 nullification at the threshold." No wonder the men of 
 the North were in 1860 exclaiming "0 for one hour of 
 Andrew Jackson!" 
 
 "The legislature of South Carolina was in session 
 when the election of Lincoln was announced. It ha. 
 met to choose the presidential electors for the state, (a 
 function elsewhere performed by the people at the 
 polls) and after choosir^; Breckinridge electors it had 
 
24 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 voted to remain in session until the result of the election 
 was known, threatening to advise the secession of the 
 state in case the 'Black Republican' candidate were 
 successful. It now immediately called a convention of 
 the state to meet the next month to carry out its threat 
 of secession. On the twentieth of December the con- 
 vention met at Charleston and carried, by the unanimous 
 vote of its 169 members, the resolution that /the Union 
 now subsisting between South Carolina and the other 
 states under the name of the United States of America, 
 is hereby dissolved. 1 The ordinance of secession 
 was met with demonstrations of joy by the people of 
 South Carolina. The city of Charleston was decked 
 with the Palmetto flag of the state. Salvos of artillery 
 were fired, houses were draped with blue bunting, and 
 the bells were rung in a hundred churches. The an- 
 cient commonwealth of South Carolina after many 
 threats and warnings, had at last 'resumed its po- 
 sition as a free and independent state.' ' 
 
 At this dramatic crisis the government of the coun- 
 try passed over to Abraham Lincoln. A rival govern- 
 ment had been in operation for about one month when 
 Lincoln made his inaugural address, March 4, 1861. 
 
 3. "Beginning at South Carolina" 
 
 Nearly every fort and arsenal in the South had 
 been taken over by the Southern Confederacy. Sedi- 
 tion had honeycombed practically every department 
 in Washington. There was a wide-spread egress from 
 Congress, the executive departments, from federal of- 
 fices, from army and navy posts, as the men from 
 the South departed hurriedly to join fortunes with 
 their states. The little garrison at Fort Sumter, under 
 
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26 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 the heroic command of Major Robert Anderson was 
 reduced to the lowest ebb with regard to stores. 
 
 The inaugural address is said to be the finest sta'.e 
 paper in history. In the most solemn candor this tre- 
 mendous responsibility is placed at the feet of the 
 men of the South: "In your hands, my dissatisfied 
 fellow countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous 
 issue of civil war. The government will not assail 
 you. You can have no conflict without yourselves 
 being the aggressors. You have no oath registered in 
 heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have 
 the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend 
 it." 
 
 A few days after the address, President Lincoln in- 
 formed his cabinet of the threatening situation at 
 Charleston. During the closing days of the Buchanan 
 administration commissioners appeared at the White 
 House representing the "Sovereign State of South Caro- 
 lina" for the purpose of negotiating the transfer of the 
 forts in Charleston Harbor. Buchanan weakly prom- 
 ised not to reinforce the supplies of the forts with the 
 assurance from South Carolina that she would refrain 
 from attacking them. Union sentiment pressed so hard 
 that Buchanan yielded to the extent of sending provis- 
 ions to Major Anderson. The "Star of the West," loaded 
 with supplies, was approaching Fort Sumter and flying 
 an American flag, when, on the 9th of January, 1861, 
 she was fired upon and struck by guns from Fort 
 Morris and was thereby forced to turn back. This was 
 the first act of war, and it occurred in South Carolina. 
 The war did not really begin, however, until early in 
 the morning of April 12, 1861, when shells began to 
 stream from the several forts that surrounded Fort 
 Sumter — Fort Johnson. Morris. Sullivan's and James 
 
And Their Fulfillment 27 
 
 Islands — all had simultaneously turned their batteries 
 on Sumter. Finally, after a heroic but hopeless re- 
 sistance, brave Major Anderson surrendered to the bel- 
 ligerent foe. The day after the surrender (April 15th) 
 Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 state 
 militia troops in order to suppress the combined states 
 naming South Carolina first among the offenders. And 
 since the prophecy specifically declared that the war 
 should originate in South Carolina we deem it signifi- 
 cant that that state should be listed as "head and front 
 of the offenders" in the first six or seven proclama- 
 tions, and messages of the President on the subject. 
 In his message to the special session of Congress on 
 July 4, 1861, he makes this charge: 
 
 "At the beginning of the present Presidential term, 
 four months ago, the functions of the general gov- 
 ernment were found to be generally suspended within 
 the several States of South Carolina, Georgia, et al. 
 . . . They have forced upon the country the dis- 
 tinct issue, immediate dissolution or blood." 
 
 He also asked for an army of 400,000 men and 
 $400,000,000 to commence the war plans. This pointed 
 observation also appears in the message: "It may well 
 be questioned whether there is today a majority of 
 the legally qualified voters of any State, except, per- 
 haps, South Carolina, in favor of disunion." 
 
 It is obvious, therefore, that the War of the Re- 
 bellion hai its beginning, step by step, in South Caro- 
 lina. The first state convention attempting to annul 
 the bonds of the United States was that of South Caro- 
 lina. Hers were the first Senators to withdraw from 
 the Senate, and likewise her Congressmen were the first 
 
28 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 to violate their oaths of office, by proving disloyal to 
 the Constitution. 
 
 Ellis' History has this to say of South Carolina: 
 
 "South Carolina, fiery, impetuous, headlong, was 
 the leader in the secession movement, as she had been 
 in the nullification outburst nearly 30 years before." 
 
 The Democratic national convention, at which there 
 were present 600 delegates, assembled in Charleston, 
 South Carolina, on the 23rd day of April, 1860, to 
 nominate candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presi- 
 dency and to make a declaration of their principles. 
 Radical secessionists from six states bolted this conven- 
 tion. 
 
 DEFIANCE OF THE STATE. 
 
 The State Convention of South Carolina met in 
 Charleston on the 17th of December, with David F. 
 Jamison as presiding officer. On the 20th, the follow- 
 ing resolution was unanimously adopted by the 169 
 delegates and afterwards signed by every one: 
 
 "We the people of South Carolina in convention 
 assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby 
 declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted 
 by us on the 23rd day of May in the year 1788, 
 whereby the Constitution of the United States was 
 ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts, of the 
 General Assembly of the State ratifying amendments 
 of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed and 
 the union now subsisting between South Carolina 
 and other states, under the name of the United 
 States, is hereby dissolved." 
 
 So, it will be seen that South Carolina assumed lead- 
 ership in "defiant confidence;" appointed ministers 
 
And Their Fulfillment 29 
 
 to treat with the United States as though she were a 
 foreign power; and addressed other slave states, invit- 
 ing them to join her in the formation of a confederacy. 
 Governor Pickens, of that state, appointed his cabinet 
 officers, and independent South Carolina entered upon 
 its brief and stormy existence. 
 
 In this very remarkable manner was the Prophecy 
 of Joseph Smith fulfilled to the very letter. 
 
 4. "Which will eventually terminate in the death and 
 misery of many souls." 
 
 The opening words of this remarkable prophecy run 
 thus: "Thus saith the Lord, concerning the wars [plural] 
 that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion 
 of South Carolina." It is obvious that a number of 
 wars, then future, were foretold; that of the series 01 
 group of wars referred to, the War of the Rebellion 
 was to be the initial war; that all of them, in combined 
 result, would cause the "death and misery of many 
 souls." As early as 1854, Orson Pratt, in writing of this 
 prophecy plainly perceived that the war which was to 
 begin at South Carolina was to be by comparison with 
 subsequent wars, by no means a major conflict. Read 
 his interpretation of the text: 
 
 "The revelation does not inform us that the first 
 symptom of this rebellion would exhibit anything 
 very alarming in its appearance, but says, 'will 
 eventually terminate in the death and misery of many 
 souls.' 'Eventually,' (not directly or immediately), 
 should the rebellion of that State lead on to a war 
 more general in its nature, involving the whole na- 
 tion in a formal revolution, not in the loss of a 
 few, but in the 'death and misery of many souls.' " 
 
30 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 The War of the Rebellion, as it began in Charleston 
 harbor, was not, at first, looked upon as a conflict of 
 first magnitude. Indeed, President Lincoln, in his call 
 for troops, required only ninety days service, evidently 
 being persuaded that the rebellion would be successfully 
 quelled within that time. Contrary to human opinions, 
 however, the war dragged slowly and tragically through 
 four fearful and harrowing years. It cost in treasure 
 eight billions. It cost in American lives one million 
 men. And to these two big items of^treasure and blood 
 we may add that it has taken a full generation to wash 
 the bitterness of the conflict out of the souls of the men 
 and women of America. So, the initial war of itself, re- 
 sulted in the "death and misery of many souls." 
 
 5. "The Southern States shall be divided against 
 the Northern States." 
 
 The exact phrasing of this clause seems to depict the 
 South as the aggressor in the oncoming conflict. If 
 that were the intent of the prophecy it has ample verifi- 
 cation in subsequent events. Sufficient proof thereof will 
 be found in the great inaugural address of President 
 Lincoln where he spoke thus, to the South: "You can 
 have no conflict without yourselves being the aggres- 
 sors." 
 
 While rebellion and secession originated in the state 
 of South Carolina, the same spirit instantly spread like 
 a prairie fire throughout most of the cotton states. 
 
 The action of South Carolina was followed, within 
 six weeks, by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, 
 Georgia, and Texas. "Delegates from six of these 'sov- 
 ereign states' met at Montgomery, Alabama, February 4, 
 1861. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was chosen Presi- 
 dent, and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, Vice-Presi- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 31 
 
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 Facsimile of the Confederate Constitution. 
 ".4 tic? £/ie Southern States shall be. divided against the North- 
 ern States" 
 
32 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 dent." A constitution was adopted which sanctioned 
 slavery. A Confederate flag was adopted, known as the 
 "stars and bars." . . . President Davis was author- 
 ized to raise an army of 100,000 men and secure a loan 
 of $15,000,000 to wage war upon the Northern States. 
 . . . A committee of three was appointed and sent 
 abroad to secure the friendship and alliance of Euro- 
 pean courts." Secretaries Floyd and Thompson retained 
 their positions in President Buchanan's Cabinet while 
 "they were working openly for the cause of secession," 
 using their exalted positions within the Union to bring 
 about a tragic disunion. Members of Congress from 
 the cotton states were zealously co-operating with their 
 governors and others in directing and promoting the 
 cause of secession. The Senators from Georgia, Ala- 
 bama, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and 
 Texas caucused in a committee room of the Senate, Jan- 
 uary 5, 1861, and took action favoring the secession of 
 their respective states and advised immediate severance 
 of all political ties. Yet they retained their seats in the 
 Senate until they had been advised of the passage of 
 secession acts by their several states. 
 
 "The South Carolina convention, which had taken 
 the lead in the matter, and had on the 20th of De- 
 cember passed the ordinance of secession, also adopt- 
 ed resolutions for a convention of seceded states." 
 The first of these resolutions was as follows: 
 
 "First, that the conventions of the seceding slave- 
 holding states of the United States unite with South 
 Carolina, and hold a convention at Montgomery, 
 Alabama, for the purpose of forming a Southern 
 Confederacy." 
 
 'Mr. Calhoun, during the proceedings of the 
 

 BUILTFROftfl THE RUINS. 
 
 Secession Banner displayed in the South 
 Carolina Convention 
 
 "Beginning at the Rebellion of Zouth Carolina." 
 
34 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 South Carolina convention, said: 'We have pulled 
 a temple down that has been built three-quarters of 
 a century; we must clear the rubbish away to recon- 
 struct another. We are now houseless and homeless, 
 and we must secure ourselves against storms.' 
 
 "At this time the Legislature of New York passed 
 the following resolution: 
 
 "Whereas, the insurgent state of South Carolina, 
 aftet seizing the post-office, custom-house, monies 
 and fortifications of the Federal government, has, 
 by firing into a vessel ordered by the government to 
 convey troops and provisions to Fort Sumter, vir- 
 tually declared war; and whereas, the forts and prop- 
 erty of the United States government in Georgia, 
 Alabama, and Louisiana, have been unlawfully 
 seized with hostile intentions; and whereas, their 
 senators in Congress avow and maintain their trea- 
 sonable acts, Therefore — 
 
 "Resolved, That the Legislature of New York is 
 profoundly impressed with the value of the Union, 
 and determined to preserve it unimpaired; that it 
 greets with joy the recent firm, dignified, and pa- 
 triotic special message of the President of the United 
 States, and that we tender to him, through the 
 chief magistrate of our own state, whatever aid in 
 men or money that may be required to enable him 
 to enforce the laws and uphold the authority of 
 the Federal government; and that, in defense of 
 the Union, which has conferred prosperity and hap- 
 piness upon the American people, renewing the 
 pledge given and redeemed by our fathers, we are 
 ready to devote our fortunes, our lives and our 
 sacred honor." — History of the Great Rebellion, by 
 Thomas P. Kettel, 1865. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 35 
 
 Thus the South not only assumed the offensive in the 
 war, but in doing so organized a confederation or union 
 of states, chose its officers, organized an army, and fi- 
 nanced by various means the war it deliberately waged 
 against the North. She thus became both instigator and 
 aggressor — just as the prophecy had decreed more than 
 twenty-eight years before. 
 
 6. "The Southern States will call on other nations, 
 even the nation of Great Britain/ 9 
 
 Within six weeks after the secession of South Caro- 
 lina, six other "sovereign states" had dissolved the ties 
 that bound them to the Union. All of these states sent 
 delegates to the convention held at Montgomery, Ala- 
 bama, February 4, 1861, where they organized a new 
 Confederacy. After adopting a constitution, electing 
 officers, and attending to some other formalities, this 
 convention at once authorized President Jefferson Davis 
 to "appoint a committee of three, with impetuous Yancey 
 of Alamaba as chairman," whose mission it was to go 
 abroad and secure the friendship and alliance of Euro- 
 pean courts. As the war proceeded the southern ports 
 were very successfully blockaded by the northern navy, 
 and thus the import trade of the confederacy suffered 
 seriously. England depended upon the cotton from the 
 South to keep her great cotton mills running. These 
 circumstances gave high hope to the Confederacy that 
 Great Britain would soon become an ally. In further- 
 ance of these hopes, Messrs. Mason and Slidell were 
 commissioned to France and England for the purpose 
 of securing the friendly assistance of those two countries. 
 The Trent affair has made this commission somewhat fa- 
 mous in history. Men conspicuous in the affairs of 
 Great Britain were free to express their sympathy for 
 
36 * Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 the southern cause. No less a person than the great 
 Gladstone, then a Cabinet minister, in a speech at New- 
 castle on October 7, 1862, had the frankness to say: 
 
 "There is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other 
 leaders of the South have made an army; they are 
 making, it appears, a navy; and they are making 
 what is more than either, — a nation. . . . We 
 may anticipate with certainty the success of the 
 Southern States so far as their separation from the 
 North is concerned." 
 
 The various reverses of the Northern forces during 
 the campaigns of 1862 led the English leaders to look 
 for ultimate failure in the great attempt to restore the 
 Union. The capitalists of the empire bought heavily of 
 the Confederacy bonds. Something like $10,000,000, 
 was thus wagered on the outcome of the controversy. 
 England even went so far as to build battleships for 
 the South. Two of these, the Florida and the Alabama, 
 slipped away from Liverpool in March and July, 1862, 
 and engaged themselves in the predatory pastime of 
 preying on our commerce wherever it could be en- 
 countered on the high seas. Two more ironclad rams 
 were ready to leave the ways at the docks for similar pur- 
 poses. Our minister to England at this juncture curtly 
 advised Lord Russell, the Foreign Secretary, "It would 
 be superflous in me to point out to your Lordship that 
 this is war." This pointed note called a halt to British 
 piracy and collusion with the South. 4 
 
 With such encouraging circumstances as these in his 
 
 4 The damage done, however, had afterwards to be adjusted 
 and England paid for her meddling. She was adjudged guilty 
 of violating the laws of neutrality by a commission of neutral 
 selection and paid a fine of $15,500,000 as damages. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 37 
 
 favor, Mason was making headway in his mission to 
 England. Slidell was equally industrious on a similar 
 mission across the channel. At a meeting he held with 
 Emperor Napoleon III, in July, 1862, Mr. Slidell under- 
 took to purchase with a hundred thousand bales of cot- 
 ton, worth $12,500,000, the co-operation of the French 
 navy to the extent, at least, of a fleet to break the block- 
 ade of southern ports. Napoleon sought the aid of 
 Great Britain and Russia in demanding that the Wash- 
 ington government recognize the independence of the 
 South. In this he failed. 
 
 Offers of assistance were tendered Emperor Napoleon 
 in the establishing of an empire in Mexico — a dream that 
 might well awaken the spirit of conquest in any im- 
 perial head. Under the guise of collecting honest debts 
 this wiley monarch transported a "royal person" from 
 Austria to Mexico and with the pomp of other imperial 
 escorts placed Maximilian upon the wobbly throne of 
 the empire of Mexico, which was to be resigned to Na- 
 poleon in the event of the success of the southern cause. 
 Plans were ripening, plots were hatching, and the perma- 
 nent separation of our Union was all but an accom- 
 plished fact in the minds of plotters and confederate 
 "spy" diplomats like Slidell and Mason. The one thing 
 necessary to success was the English navy. That could 
 not be secured because England was at that particular 
 time in her history ruled, not by her crown head, but by 
 her people. And the unexcelled qualities of good Queen 
 Victoria were gloriously revealed in that she was 
 conscious of that great fact. She probably had as 
 broad a vision and as deep an understanding of the 
 future of the Anglo-Saxon strain as any person then 
 living, says Mr. Ralph Page in his recent interesting 
 volume on American Diplomacy. At any rate she is 
 
38 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 reported to have met Napoleon's proposals with this 
 flat statement: "You must understand that I shall 
 sign no paper which means war with the United States." 
 On account of the attitude of this great woman, the 
 missions of Mason and Slidell completely failed. But 
 through them the South did call on Great Britain and 
 other nations for assistance in their unlawful undertak- 
 ing. 
 
 7. And the Southern States will call on other na- 
 tions, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is 
 called, and they [i. e., Great Britain and her al- 
 lies] shall also call upon other nations, in order 
 to defend themselves against other nations" 
 
 This part of the prophecy obviously foretells a time 
 when Great Britain should be either engaged in the 
 diplomatic process of forming offensive and defensive 
 alliances with other nations, or she would actually be 
 at war and under stress of circumstances would be call- 
 ing upon other nations to defend herself and her allies. 
 This prediction need not at all apply to the War of the 
 Rebellion as the prophecy distinctly speaks of wars in 
 the plural that were to shortly come to pass — thus fore- 
 casting a distinct group or series of wars. 
 
 Subsequent to this time, Great Britain and other 
 European nations began the formation of alliances which 
 reached their final development within very recent years. 
 They are described by the terms Triple Alliance and 
 the Triple Entente. The two powerful groups stood 
 practically thus: England, France and Russia; Germany, 
 Austria-Hungary and Italy. The great war which broke 
 out August, 1914, brought into conflict these two great 
 alliances. Russia's standing both in the west and in the 
 far-reaching east was vital to British interests. When she 
 
And Their Fulfillment 39 
 
 was attacked the Entente was immediately aroused. The 
 two great German armies were grinding their ways in 
 both directions. One driving ruthlessly into Russia 
 the other ferociously grinding through Belgium toward 
 France. Great Britain was vitally effected by both lines 
 of attack. Her reliance had been largely in her incom- 
 parable navy and in the magnificent army of her ally, 
 France. All the man power of the Entente was imme- 
 diately summoned to the combat. The theatre of war en- 
 larged. The consummate plans of the aggressors soon 
 revealed the colossal objective — the absolute domina- 
 tion of the world by the war lord of Europe. Italy was re- 
 luctant. The fate of empires was already being decided. 
 The fate of the world was soon to be determined. The 
 Orient began to respond. America waited. Then it was 
 that Great Britain called upon other nations. France 
 joined in the call. Then Belgium. Each nation sent 
 their commissions to this country and to other nations in 
 order "to defend themselves against other nations." Fin- 
 ally nineteen nations were united in their defense against 
 the threatening invasions of the Triple Alliance. Never 
 before in the history of warfare or diplomacy was there 
 such a formation of alliances. Never before had Great 
 Britain called so earnestly and so justifiably and effect- 
 ively as in the years 1914, 1915 and 1916. And all this 
 occurred within about fifty-five years from the opening 
 of the series of wars prophecied by Joseph Smith. And 
 what is still more remarkable, the entire procedure con- 
 forms exactly to the prediction made by Joseph Smith, 
 viz.: "they shall also call upon other nations, in order 
 to defend themselves against other nations." A plurality 
 of nations aligned and allied on both sides of the dead- 
 ly conflict. One nation on a side, as is the case in most 
 wars, would not have filled the requirements. It re- 
 
40 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 quired the two contending groups to vindicate this very 
 extraordinary prophecy. Surely history hath affirmed 
 in the minutest detail what prophetic inspiration asserted 
 nearly a century before. 
 
 3. "And then war shall be poured out upon all na- 
 tions." 
 
 The Prophecy reads thus: "The days will come that 
 war will be poured out upon all nations." Associating 
 this particular prediction with the other, "which will 
 eventually terminate in the death and misery of many 
 souls," we would naturally look for a culmination of 
 events in the course of time. And it seems that the time 
 has now arrived to describe the fulfillment of the strik- 
 ing prophecy concerning a war of "all nations." We 
 may now also compute the cost in the "death and misery 
 of many souls." Since Prophets spoke the word of God 
 to men there has not been uttered a prophecy of greater 
 magnitude than this. The Old Testament fairly thunders 
 with prophecies of "wars and rumors of wars." But 
 there is, perhaps, nowhere in Holy Writ a prophecy that 
 foretells a universal war. Perhaps the nearest approach 
 to such a prediction is the one made by the Savior at 
 the close of his ministry. He said: "For nation sha] 1 
 rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and 
 there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes 
 in divers places." 
 
 While these terms could mean many or few they un- 
 questionably suggest the maximum rather than the 
 minimum. Indeed, it appears that these two prophecies 
 describe the same set of circumstances — the same events 
 in human history. At any rate the prophecy of Joseph 
 Smith described a war of the greatest possible magnitude 
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42 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 ing, viz. : a universal war. And such a war, the only one 
 of such proportions in all history began in Europe in 
 August, 1914. In that incomparably great conflict nine- 
 teen established nations assembled their entire human 
 power for the terrific contest. Fifteen on the one side, 
 four on the other. Twelve other nations declared war 
 against one or another of the belligerents. Of the re- 
 maining fifty nations of the earth five severed diplomatic 
 relations with one or more of the contending peoples and 
 all the remaining nations were diitctly and seriously af- 
 fected by this all-engulfing cataclysm. War reached 
 them all on the high seas. There is not a nation on earth 
 today that has not paid, in some degree, its proportion 
 of the cost of this great war in treasure, human woe or 
 human lives. And for years to come will they continue 
 to pay. Here are the terms in figures never before 
 dreamed of as possible in military undertakings: 
 
 At one time there were mustered into service and act- 
 ually on the seas or on battle fields sixty million men, 
 all of whom were at war! Of that enormous number 
 eight million are now dead. Seven million others are 
 maimed and impaired so that one-fourth of that tragic 
 mass of humanity is a permanent wreck. Add to these 
 colossal figures the millions who died from hunger, dis- 
 ease and massacre, back in their home lands, and the 
 figures become appalling. 
 
 The following is from the Literary Digest for June 
 26, 1920: 
 
 "Forty million persons are not living today who 
 might be alive had there been no world-war. Of 
 these some ten millions were lost on the battle 
 fields. These figures were given to the London 
 correspondent of the New York Tribune by the 
 
And Their Fulfillment 43 
 
 Society for the Study of the Social Consequences of 
 the War, a Copenhagen organization, and are based 
 upon personal enquiries into the changes in popu- 
 lation. The report gives not only the actual war- 
 casualties, but the decline of the birth-rate, also the 
 remarkable change in the proportion of the sexes. 
 In the ten countries mentioned below the surplus 
 female population has risen from about five mil- 
 ion to about fifteen million, and the decline of the 
 birth-rate represents 38 per cent of the normal. Sta- 
 tistics show the total loss of life to have been more 
 than thirty-five million persons, but the report de- 
 clares that 'if the losses of Turkey, Greece, Portugal, 
 Montenegro, the United States, the British Domin- 
 ions, and other non-European belligerents and colon- 
 ies were included, then the total loss to the world 
 must be put down at forty million lives.' In some in- 
 stances, such as small states, it was impossible to ob- 
 tain accurate data, so careful computations based up- 
 on data from other countries were made. And in Rus- 
 sia, where the fighting is raging even at this late 
 date, and where hunger, cold, disease, and battle 
 are taking their daily toll of lives, conservative cal- 
 culations of the losses up to the middle of 1919 
 were made." (Statistics of war-casualties and changes 
 in birth and death-rates are then tabulated.) 
 
 Turning from the price in human life to the cost 
 in treasure, we are left as a bankrupt world. The 
 world's debts are today two hundred and sixty-five bil- 
 lion dollars, or about one hundred and fifty dollars 
 per capita as compared with twenty-seven dollars be- 
 fore this war. How long this debt will hang on the 
 world's neck like a veritable millstone no one can tell. 
 
44 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 But the burden is there for a long, long time. Surely 
 here is a sum total of human woe and misery well worthy 
 the prophecy of Joseph Smith that these wars, which 
 were shortly to come to pass, would "eventually term- 
 inate in the death and misery of many souls." 
 
 THE "THUS" AND "THEN" DISCOVERY. 
 
 In the 1851 print of this Revelation on War, two er- 
 rors occurred which changed the context of the prophecy. 
 One we pass as of little consequence. The other, how- 
 ever, is of great importance for the reason that it robbed 
 the prophecy of a most remarkable significance with re- 
 spect to the time of the "war of all nations," or the 
 world-war. The original print reads: "and the Southern 
 States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great 
 Britain, as it is called, and they shall also call upon 
 other nations, in order to defend themselves against other 
 nations; and thus war shall be poured out upon all na- 
 tions," etc. It was discovered by the historians of the 
 Church in 1902 that the earliest manuscript History of 
 the Church, the one written under the direction of Joseph 
 Smith during his life and ministry, rendered that sen- 
 tence: "then war shall be poured out upon all nations," 
 etc. This revelation now appears as originally in the of- 
 ficial History of the Church (Vol. I, 1902.) It is note- 
 worthy that this significant correction was made, not at 
 the time of the outbreak of the World War, nor at any 
 time subsequently, but twelve years prior thereto. 
 
 As we construe this prophecy, in its original render- 
 ing, it was invested with a remarkable value in that it 
 foretold, specifically, when the universal war was to oc- 
 cur, viz., when they [i. e., Great Britain and her allies] 
 should "call on other nations in order to defend them- 
 selves against other nations." 
 
And Their Fulfillment 45 
 
 Never did Great Britain sue for assistance as she did 
 after August 1st, 1914. Up to thw : time in the world's 
 history were we not frequently reminded by a familiar 
 refrain that "Brittania rules the waves?" And was it not 
 a common saying that "the sun never sets en the British 
 Empire"? These very boas.s resolved Germany to con- 
 test British supremacy on sea as well as on land. Then, 
 for the first time in her history, it has been asserted, 
 England plead and sued, and intrigued for aid. She 
 first called upon her colonies. On August first the Can- 
 adian government offered 10,000 volunteers; on the 
 third the Canadian reserves sailed for England; on the 
 fourth mobilization began in the Dominion; on the ninth 
 England accepted 1,000,000 bags of flour from the same 
 source; and on the same day the Canadian Parliament 
 endorsed England's participation in the war; on the 
 twenty-fifth the mobilization of the second Canadian 
 army was commenced; on the thirty -first, Alberta and 
 Quebec contributed vast food supplies; less than a 
 month later, 32,000 troops sailed for England along with 
 the cadets of the Royal Military College. 
 
 On September nineteenth, Mr. Lloyd-George appealed 
 to the Welsh for recruits; Asquith and Redmond ap- 
 pealed to the Irish for aid; and on the 26th the Indian 
 Moslems manifested their loyalty to Great Britain. On 
 September 5th, the Allies signed an agreement that none 
 should make peace without the agreement of all, thereby 
 tightening the bonds of their alliance. In France similar 
 progress was being made in securing the aid of colonials 
 and other countries. Many Americans were enlisted 
 there to fight for France; foreign volunteers were mob- 
 ilizing in Paris; and the services of Anglo-American 
 Rough Riders were accepted. 
 
 At this particular crisis the Allies began to seek aid 
 
46 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 from foreign nations. England, with a desperation never 
 before manifested in her demeanor, sent important com- 
 missions to this country to negotiate loans, contract for 
 food supplies and ammunitions, and to enlist the mili- 
 tary aid of the United States. She sought similar aid at 
 the hands of her ally, Japan, as well as China. She 
 finally won Italy over into action. These aid-soliciting 
 commissions came not from England alone, but from 
 France and Belgium as well. So desperate did the situ- 
 ation soon become that England, France and Italy re- 
 sorted to the intrigue of secret treaty and actually bar- 
 tered with Japan for her more effective aid, and each 
 signed an agreement to take from Germany the Shantung 
 Province, with its 30,000,000 people, which she had vio- 
 lently and wrongfully stolen frOxU China, and turn the 
 same over to Japan as reward for services to be ren- 
 dered, 
 
 In this extraordinary manner they, Great Britain 
 and her allies, called upon other nations for aid and 
 then the world war occurred precisely as Joseph Smith 
 had predicted four score years before: "and they shall 
 also call upon other nations, in order to defend them- 
 selves against other nations, and then shall war be poured 
 out upon all nations" 
 
 9. "And thus with the sword, and by bloodshed, the 
 inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with 
 famine and plague and earthquakes" 
 
 We have recapitulated the toll of the sword and blood- 
 shed under another heading. Here we propose to show 
 that famine and plague have reaped their grim harvest 
 of death as seldom before in the earth. 
 
 No sooner had the great World War been fairly be- 
 gun than the whole world was more or less placed on 
 
And Their Fulfilhnent 47 
 
 rations. "Bread will win the war," was the slogan of pa- 
 triotic self-denial. All kinds of substitutes and subter- 
 fuges were resorted to to sustain the ever-increasing 
 armies of the world. The populace at home was im- 
 poverished in the belligerent countries to keep the men 
 at the front in fighting trim. The aged and the iifant 
 died from under-nourishment. Prices advanced and 
 the poor could not buy the wholesome food their bodies 
 demanded and their burden of toil deserved. Nation 
 after nation became dependent on importation for food 
 supplies. Transportation became both hazardous and 
 inadequate. The close of the war, if not before, found 
 nearly all European and Asiatic nations industrially de- 
 moralized. Prices still soared because of the universal 
 shortage, and the greed of the hoarder and the profiteer 
 sent them still higher. The purchasing power of the coi.i 
 of the realm declined. Political and industrial dis- 
 turbances have been on the increase until famine today 
 stalks through many lands. 
 
 10. Famine. 
 
 The following appeared in the daily papers only re- 
 cently : 
 
 "starvation stalking like spectre throughout 
 cities of moscow and petrograd. — people 
 dying by thousands for want of nourishing 
 food which many are unable to obtain, 
 owing to scarcity. 
 
 "By John Clayton. 
 "Chicago Tribune. — Salt Lake Tribune Cable. 
 
 "Paris, June 26, [1920]. Moscow and Petrograd 
 were starving when I left there in May. Not in the 
 
48 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 figurative sense of the word, but literally. Cities and 
 peoples are dying for lack of food. For more than 
 two years the great bulk of the people have not had 
 enough to keep body and soul together. Bread that 
 is half straw, dirty, sour, unpalatable, has been the 
 chief diet of the Russian city dweller — bread, and 
 tea made of birch leaves. 
 
 ' 'You cannot understand it,' said Kibalshic, one of 
 the young anarchists working with the government in 
 Petrograd, 'until you have been here some time. You 
 know the people are hungry, that even you, with 
 your supply of money, are sometimes hungry. But 
 you do not see your friends dropping out quietly, 
 one by one, almost from day to day.' 
 
 "daily toll is heavy. 
 
 "Dead from starvation, they are, from lack of 
 food and lack of resistance to disease. Petrograd's 
 population has been reduced to the half-million 
 mark by hunger. Workmen will not stay in the city 
 when they find better conditions in their villages. 
 Those who do stay die sooner or later. In Moscow 
 it is the same thing. Moscow, once a city of 2,000,- 
 000 now has a population of about 1,000,000, and 
 this number is being reduced daily. Of the million, 
 perhaps 10 per cent are able to get food in addition 
 to the government ration. They include families 
 formerly wealthy who still have valuables to sell the 
 grafting government official and the speculator. 
 
 "For these there are three large open markets 
 where one can buy white bread, butter, a little bacon, 
 horse flesh, and once in a while beef and vegetables, 
 veal and other meat. A pound of white bread costs 
 twice the daily wage with bonuses of the skilled 
 
And Their Fulfillment 49 
 
 workman, a pound of horse-flesh two-and-a-half 
 times; a pound of other meat four times; and a 
 pound of butter or bacon, five times. 
 
 "I dined one evening in Moscow with a doctor, 
 formerly in comfortable circumstances, and now re- 
 duced to the starvation rations permitted the 'ex- 
 bourgeoisis' by the government, a ration half that 
 of a workman. This family has sold practically 
 everything it owns. 
 
 "The doctor once had an excellent medical li- 
 brary, and that had been the last thing to go. But 
 his children must not go hungry. They served me 
 a special dinner that evening — kasha (any kind of 
 cooked cereal,) fish heads, black bread, and tea made 
 from bread crumbs. It was the first time in days fish 
 or meat had graced their table. But we, in the gov- 
 ernment guest houses had meat every day. 
 
 "meat unfit to eat. 
 
 "And the meat they do get at intervals ! Day after 
 day I watched it being brought into the city in un- 
 covered wagons. Dirty, lean, often putrified car- 
 casses of horses long since past the age of usefulness 
 and fit only for the glue factory. Such flesh as this 
 turned into human food! Twenty, thirty sometimes 
 fifty loads of it are taken to the central distribu- 
 tion point for the public kitchens or for issue on ra- 
 tion cards. 
 
 The normal ration for the working man for a 
 month would provide sufficient food for perhaps 
 six days — that for the brain worker for perhaps four 
 days. 
 
50 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 " 'God deliver us from another winter such as the 
 last,' said one man to me. 
 
 "If we were forced to endure again the suffer- 
 ing we have just past through, none but the commis- 
 sars will be alive when spring comes next year." 
 
 The Russians are not the only sufferers from famine. 
 Millions of Armenians have actually died for food. And 
 yet are there others. 
 
 11. Plagues. 
 
 While the hope of the world was running high be- 
 cause of the prospects of peace, a disease broke out in 
 certain centers and rapidly spread from land to land. 
 The grim reaper gathered in of the flower of all coun- 
 tries as many in some lands as had fallen by the 
 sword. In our own favored land more fell by the plague 
 than by the war. In both cases the young, the promising 
 and the fair, the heads of young, growing families were 
 the ones to fall. In January of the present year the fol- 
 lowing disquieting dispatch came from London, via the 
 Universal Press: 
 
 "London, January 24. — Official admission that 
 the most mysterious disease germ of the ages— the 
 influenza bacillus — has defeated the world's great- 
 est scientists was made to Universal Service today by 
 Sir George Newman, chief medical officer of the 
 British health ministry. 
 
 "The world sits powerless before the greatest de- 
 vastator of history unable to prevent or cure the 
 dread plague, said Sir George. Britain will be in 
 the throes of a new epidemic in February. We have 
 made all possible preparations to combat it, but we 
 are not able to do much." 
 
And Their Fulfillment 51 
 
 Sir George was not surprised at the alarming reports 
 from Chicago, New York and Tokio, declaring that it 
 was the expected natural recrudescence of the world wave 
 of death plague. 
 
 "This mysterious disease," he added, "killed nearly 
 100,000 persons in the British Isles in 1918 and 1919. 
 We were unable to prevent its spread then and we are 
 in the same position now, despite the most searching 
 investigation by the world's best brains. One can truth- 
 fully say that, so far, medical science has been de- 
 feated." 
 
52 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 A Mighty People in the Rocky Mountains 
 
 "Westward the course of empire takes its way; 
 Time's noblest offspring is the last" 
 — Bishop Berkley, verses on the "Prospects of Planting 
 Arts and Learning in America." 
 
 Small value was placed upon the great west by the 
 men of affairs in the first decades of the past century. 
 Great statesmen were referring to that region as the 
 "worthless wilderness of the west." Even so gifted a 
 man as Daniel Webster is accredited with an appraise- 
 ment of the west which betrays, in the light of more re- 
 cent developments, a most remarkable lack of vision or 
 foresight. In 1803 the great north-west region was 
 acquired by the Louisiana Purchase and was soon after- 
 wards (1804-1805) explored by the famous Lewis and 
 Clark. Their report awakened intense interest in the 
 new and romantic country, and finally brought about 
 the establishment there of trading and military posts. 
 These in turn encouraged exploration and adventure 
 in the vast unknown region. 
 
 By 1820, if not earlier, English and American fur 
 hunters had traced their arduous trails all the way 
 from the British possessions in the north to Mexico in 
 the south. These early frontiersmen were often in the 
 lucrative employment of the famous Hudson Bay Co., 
 or the North American Fur Co. They were among the 
 very first white men to become, even in a small way, 
 acquainted with this great territory. The establish- 
 ment of mail routes and the building of forts were con- 
 templated by the government with territorial acquisi- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 53 
 
 tions as the apparent objective. Daniel Webster is known 
 to have been opposed to this western expansion scheme. 
 An alleged statement of his has found its place in our 
 western literature, having been given full recognition 
 as to authorship by more than one historian. Professor 
 Lyman, of Whitman University, in his history of the 
 Columbia River country refers to the statement as having 
 been made on the floor of the U. S. Senate. The al- 
 leged quotation reads thus: 
 
 "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? 
 This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, 
 and shifting sands, and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus 
 and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope 
 to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain 
 ranges, impenetrable and covered to the very base 
 with snow? And what could we ever hope to do 
 with the western coast of 3,000 miles, rock-bound, 
 cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? Mr. 
 President, I will never vote one cent from the pub- 
 lic treasury to place the Pacific Coast one inch near- 
 er to Boston than it is." 1 
 
 1 Congressman Mays from Utah, at the suggestion of the 
 writer, endeavored to ascertain the genuineness of the above 
 extract. Under date of March, 2, 1920, the Congressman re- 
 ported as follows: "I have delayed answering your letter of the 
 13th until I could have some search made of the Record 
 with a view of ascertaining whether or not the passage quoted 
 by me could be discovered among the Congressional debates. I 
 asked the Record Clerk to make a careful search and he has 
 reported that while he found many statements from Webster 
 indicating that he was opposed to the extention of the boundary 
 of the United States westward, he has not found the exact pas- 
 sage. . . . The Record Clerk tells me that in those days 
 they had not developed the science of stenography to such an 
 extent that verbatim reports of speeches could be made, but 
 that the matter of reporting the debates was in the hands cf 
 certain newspapers who undertook to make fairly accurate re- 
 ports." 
 
54 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 Another appraisement of the west, from an altogether, 
 reliable source, however, affords still more striking 
 short-sightedness upon the part of its author. There 
 was great opposition to the holding of the "western wild- 
 erness" in the Union. This was voiced in 1825, by 
 Senator Dickerson, of New Jersey, who said, in debate: 
 
 "But is this Territory of Oregon ever to become a 
 State? Never. . . . The distance . . . that 
 a member of Congress of this State of Oregon would 
 be obliged to travel in coming to the seat of govern- 
 ment and returning home would be 9,300 miles. . . 
 If he should travel at the rate of 30 miles per 
 day, it would require 306 days. Allow for Sun- 
 days, 44, it would amount to 350 days. This would 
 allow the member a fortnight to rest himself at 
 Washington before he should commence his journey 
 home. This traveling would be hard, as a greater 
 part of the way is exceedingly bad, and a portion 
 of it over rugged mountains, where Lewis and Clark 
 found several feet of snow in the latter part of 
 June. Yet, a young able-bodied senator might travel 
 from Oregon to Washington and back once a year; 
 but he could do nothing else. It would be more 
 expeditious, however, to come by water around Cape 
 Horn, or to pass through Behring Strait, round the 
 north coast of this continent to Baffin Bay, thence 
 through Davis Strait to the Atlantic, and so on to 
 Washingon. It is true, this passage is not yet dis- 
 covered, except upon the maps, but it will be as 
 soon as Oregon shall be a State." 2 
 
 2 See guide book of the Western United States, Part B. The 
 Overland Route, U. S. Geol. Survey, Geo. Otis Smith, director, 
 1916. This guide is to be found in the Overland Limited trains 
 of the U. P. System. It proved strikingly amusing to the writer, 
 
And Their Fulfillment 55 
 
 In striking contrast with these two estimates placed 
 upon the great west by men in a position to reflect the 
 best opinions of their day, we will place the Prophecy 
 of Joseph Smith concerning what he saw his people be- 
 come in the "worthless wilderness of the west." 
 
 Under date of August 6, 1842, the following entry 
 appears in the official History of the Church : 
 
 "Saturday, 6. Passed over the river to Montrose, 
 Iowa, in company with General Adams, Colonel 
 Brewer, and others, and witnessed the installation of 
 the officers of the Rising Sun Lodge, Ancient York 
 Masons, at Montrose, by General James Adams, Dep- 
 uty Grand-Master of Illinois. While the Deputy 
 Grand Master was engaged in giving the requisite in- 
 structions to the Master-elect, I [Joseph Smith] had 
 a conversation with a number of brethren in the 
 shade of the building on the subject of our persecu- 
 tions in Missouri, and the constant annoyance which 
 has followed us since we were driven from that 
 state. / prophesied that the Saints ivould continue 
 
 reading it as he did, while gliding over the great "western 
 wilderness" at the rate of 50 miles per hour in a handsomely 
 equipped observation car, and bored with the tediousness of the 
 journey, at that. And, as if to accentuate the ridiculousness 
 of the forecast of Senator Dickerson, as he "dipped into the 
 future" the writer had laid aside the daily papers of July, 1919, 
 announcing the success of Alcock and Brown in thair flight 
 across the Atlantic in a machine in sixteen hours twelve min- 
 utes and the dirigible U 34 which had sailed through the over- 
 hanging Atlantic clouds and rain from Halifax to Scotland in 
 seventy-five hours. These achievements of the twentieth century- 
 air-men made the "able-bodied senator" with his "fortnight's rest 
 before returning home again" — "traveling 30 miles per day" — 
 a grotesque and archaic picture, indeed. 
 
56 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 to suffer much affliction and would be driven to 
 the Rocky Mountains, many would apostatize, oth- 
 ers would be put to death by our persecutors or lose 
 their lives in consequence of exposure or disease, 
 and some of you will live to go and assist in making 
 settlements and build cities, and see the Saints be- 
 come a mighty people in the midst of the Rocky 
 Mountains." 
 
 That Joseph Smith had no private source of informa- 
 tion concerning this western country is apparent to all 
 students of the heroic story of the "winning of the west." 
 It was humanly impossible for him to foretell the possi- 
 bilities of a country so vaguely conceived and of which 
 there was such meagre knowledge. Here is a glimpse of 
 the real situation regarding the knowledge of the west in 
 Joseph Smith's time: 
 
 General Granville M. Dodge, chief engineer of the 
 Union Pacific during the period of construction, in his 
 eleven large volumes, says, in speaking of the Overland 
 Trail : 
 
 "This route was made by the buffalo, next used by 
 the Indians, then by the fur traders, next by the Mor- 
 mons, and then by the overland immigrants to Cali- 
 fornia and Oregon. It was known as the great Platte 
 Valley route. On this trail, or close to it, were built 
 the Union and Central Pacific railroads to Califor- 
 nia and the Oregon Short Line branch of the Union 
 Pacific to Oregon. Its history as a definite route 
 seems to have begun in 1804, when Lewis and Clark 
 visited and described the locality that became the 
 eastern terminus. A fur trading company sent out 
 by John Jacob Astor, in 1810, which founded Asto- 
 
^ 1 Copyright Securer!.] 
 
 "HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMXIH~ 
 
 July, 1842. 
 
 An earthquake was recently felt in Dumblane! 
 Cathedral, near Comrie, Scotland. 
 
 Monday, August 1. — A most disgraceful riot 
 is reported to have coirmifi ced in Philadelphia, 
 between the colored and white people, which 
 continued three or four days. 
 
 -Wednesday, 3.* — In the city, transacting a 
 rnriety of business in company with General 
 James Adams and others. Bi igadier General 
 Wilson Law elected Major General of the Nau-j 
 vbo Legion (by a smalt majority over Lyman] 
 Wig htY in p!uc t> of J. C Bennett cashiered. 
 
 } Saturday, 6.— Pa-sed over the river to Mon- 
 trose, Iowa, in company with General Adams, 
 Colonel Brewer, and others, and witnessed the 
 installation of the officers of the Rising Sun 
 I Lodge of Ancient York Masons, at Montrose, by 
 General James Adams, Deputy Grand Blaster of 
 Illinois. While the Deputy Grand Master was 
 } fcapged in giving the requisite instructions to the | 
 blaster elect, I had a conversation with a number of j 
 brethren huhe shade of the building on the subject I 
 of oar persecutions in Missouri, and the eou^tant ! 
 annoyance which has followed us since we v^erej 
 drire a from that State. I pmpheeied tint the; 
 saints would continue to ruffer much i . illietioti ; 
 find would be driven to the Rocky At ouniains, | 
 many would apostatize, o« hers would be put to ;| 
 : tieath by our persecutors, or los"! their, lives In 
 \ consequence of exposure or (iise;ise 5 and some of 
 | jou will live to iro and -assist i;i r^ *;* k i n rr sett'iv j 
 ! wents and build cities, and see the saints become j 
 . * mighty people in the midst of the Ilucky Mouh- j 
 kins/ 
 
 Prophecy of Joseph Smith concerning the Saints becoming "a 
 mighty people in the midst of the Rocky Mountains," taken from 
 the Deseret News of November 7, 1855. 
 
58 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 ria, Ore., at the mouth of the Columbia River, the 
 following year, returned by a route which had never 
 before been traversed, but which corresponded essen- 
 tially with that later known as the Oregon Trail. 
 Astor had planned a line of trading posts extending 
 from the Great Lakes to the Pacific, the Sandwich 
 Islands, and China, but the war of 1812 put a stop to 
 his schemes. About 1824, William H. Ashley and 
 Etienne Provost [Note the origin of two well known 
 Utah names, viz., Ashley and Provo], of the Rocky 
 Mountain Fur Trading Company, discovered South 
 Pass, which made permanent the mountain-crossing 
 route, of the Oregon Trail, and later attracted the 
 Union Pacific locating parties." 
 
 General Dodge says further: 
 
 "In 1843 the pathfinder, General John C. Fremont, 
 began to spy out the military way across the West, 
 and the same year the Oregon pioneers took the first 
 wagons westward to the Pacific. The trail that be- 
 gan with the journey of those early pioneers was 
 widened and deepened by the wheels of the Mormons 
 in 1847, and when the herald of the first California 
 Golden Age sent forth a trumpet call in 1849, heard 
 around the world, the trail was finished from Great 
 Salt Lake across the mountains to the sea." 
 
 Fremont's great exploration expedition was conducted 
 in 1842 and 1843. His remarkable topographical map 
 describing the daring and intelligent explorer's journey 
 bears the date of 1843. On page 160 of his report, pub- 
 lished by the government, March 3rd, 1845, he cautious- 
 ly gives this information concerning the country: 
 
 "Taking leave at this point of the waters of Bear 
 River, and of the Geographical Basin which encloses 
 
And Their Fulfillment 59 
 
 the system of rivers and creeks which belong to the 
 Great Salt Lake, and which so richly deserves a future 
 detailed and ample exploration, I can say of it, in 
 general terms, that the bottoms of this river [Bear] 
 and some of the creeks which I saw, form a natural 
 resting and recruiting station for travelers, now and 
 in all time to come. The bottoms are extensive; 
 water excellent; timber sufficient; the soil good, and 
 well adapted to the grains and grasses, suited to such 
 an elevated region. A military post, and a civilized 
 settlement, would be of great value here; and cattle 
 and horses would do well where grass and salt so 
 much abound. The lake will furnish exhaustless sup- 
 plies of salt. All the mountain sides are covered 
 with a valuable nutritious grass, called bunch grass, 
 from the form in which it grows, and has a second 
 growth in the fall. The beasts of the Indians were 
 fat upon it; our own found it a good subsistence; 
 and its quantity will sustain any amount of cattle, 
 and make this truly a bucolic region." 
 
 On page 276 of the same work, General Fremont gives 
 a partial description of that region of country lying 
 west of Salt Lake Valley and extending through the 
 western part of what is now the State of Utah, through 
 Nevada and over into the Sierra Nevada, towards Cali- 
 fornia, known as the Great Basin. 
 
 "Of its interior little is known. It is called a 
 desert, and, from what I saw of it, sterility may be 
 its prominent characteristic; but where there is so 
 much water there must be some oasis. The great 
 river, and the great lake, reported, may not be equal 
 to the report; but where there is so much snow, there 
 must be streams; and where there is no outlet, there 
 
60 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 must be lakes to hold the accumulated waters, or 
 sands to swallow them up. In this eastern part of 
 the Basin, Sevier, Utah, and Great Salt Lakes [note 
 the names applied to these bodies of water at that 
 early date — 1842-3], and the rivers and creeks fall- 
 ing into them, we know there is good soil, and good 
 grass, adapted to civilized settlements." 
 
 In making his survey of the Fremont Island, General 
 Fremont and his party thought themselves the first to 
 explore the lake and its islands. This interesting medi- 
 tation was recorded in his journal while making the sur- 
 vey: 
 
 "We felt pleasure in remembering that we were 
 the first who, in the traditionary annals of the coun- 
 try, had visited the islands, and broken, with the 
 cheerful sound of human voices, the long solitude of 
 the place." 
 
 It might also be observed that the description of the 
 Bear River country was made on the very date that 
 Joseph Smith made his prophecy concerning his people 
 going to the "midst of the Rocky Mountains." So, it was 
 impossible for the Prophet to be in possession of Fre- 
 mont's estimate of a meagre part of the great west as 
 early as 1842. The report was not published until three 
 years afterwards. 
 
 That Joseph Smith and his associates contemplated 
 migration with their people to the west is well known to 
 students of Church history. But the idea of making 
 their abiding place here did not take definite shape until 
 after this prediction. Then it became more assured than 
 a plan or a policy, — it was a divine decree to them. It 
 was their destiny. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 61 
 
 That the Mormon leaders subsequently had access to 
 the reports and maps of General Fremont there is also 
 ample evidence. In a letter written to Joseph Smith by 
 Orson Hyde, dated April 26th, 1844, at Washington, D. 
 C, where he and Parley P. Pratt were endeavoring to se- 
 cure governmental aid in the migration to the west, Mr. 
 Hyde makes this report on the advice of Senator Stephen 
 A. Douglas with respect to the great westward move of 
 the Latter-day Saints: 
 
 "We have this day had a long conversation with 
 Judge Douglas. He is ripe for Oregon and Califor- 
 nia. He said he would resign his seat in Congress if 
 he could command the force that Mr. Smith could, 
 and would be on the march to the country in a 
 month. . . . 
 
 "Judge Douglas says he would equally as soon go 
 to the country without an act of Congress as with; 
 and in five years a noble state might be formed ; and 
 if they would not receive us into the Union, we would 
 have a government of our own." 
 
 Regarding the maps and other descriptive matter per- 
 taining to the country the letter continues: 
 
 "Judge Douglas has given me a map of Oregon, 
 and also a report on the exploration of the country 
 lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky 
 Mountains on the line of the Kansas and the great 
 Platte Rivers, by Lieut. J. C. Fremont, of the corps 
 of Topographical Engineers. On receiving it I ex- 
 pressed a wish that Mr. Smith could see it. Judge 
 Douglas says, 'It is a public document, and I will 
 frank it to him.' I accepted his offer, and the book 
 
62 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 will be forthcoming to you. The people are so eager 
 for it here, that they have stolen it out of the library. 
 The author is Mr. Benton's son-in-law (John C. Fre- 
 mont). Judge Douglas borrowed it from Mr. Ben- 
 ton. I was not to tell any one in this city where I 
 got it. The book is a most valuable document to any 
 
 one contemplating a journey to Oregon 
 
 Judge Douglas says he can direct Mr. Smith to sev- 
 eral gentlemen in California who will be able to give 
 him any information on the state of affairs in that 
 country : and when he returns to Illinois, he will visit 
 Mr. Smith." 
 
 The journal of Heber C. Kimball affords reliable in- 
 formation on this interesting subject: 
 
 "Nauvoo Temple, December 31st, 1845. President 
 Young and myself are superintending the operations 
 of the day, examining maps with reference to select- 
 ing a location for the Saints west of the Rocky Moun- 
 tains, and reading the various works which have been 
 written and published by travelers in those regions." 
 (See "Whitney's History of Utah," page 239.) 
 
 These valuable documents undoubtedly were of great 
 assistance to the Mormon pioneers in making their dif- 
 ficult journey out west some two years later. But that 
 they had any effect upon the prophetic declaration of 
 Joseph Smith, no one can claim. It was impossible, 
 made so by a period of two or three years. Perhaps 
 General Fremont's reports were as optimistic as any that 
 could be obtained on the subject. After the great mi- 
 gration westward was begun, all manner of discouraging 
 reports greeted the band of pioneers while on their 
 
And Their Fulfillment 63 
 
 journey, even down to the end. On June 21st, just one 
 month before the first company reached Salt Lake Val- 
 ley, they were told by Major Moses Harris, at Pacific 
 Springs, that the Valley of the Great Salt Lake was sandy 
 and destitute of timber and vegetation, excepting sage- 
 brush." 
 
 On June 28th, they were met by the famous Colonel 
 James Bridger, at the fort that takes his name. Along 
 with much information given by the old scout he ven- 
 tured the consolatory advice that it would be unwise to 
 "bring a large colony into the Great Basin until it had 
 been proven that grain could be raised there." He said 
 that he would give a thousand dollars for the first ear 
 of corn ripened in the Great Salt Lake Valley. 
 
 In the light of these facts, though very superficially 
 set forth, does not the prophecy of Joseph Smith stand 
 out as something infinitely superior to the wisdom and 
 foresight of man? His prediction runs directly contrary 
 to the judgment of well informed men, men who were ac- 
 credited with superior foresight and intelligence. It even 
 defied and ignored the judgment and advice of men fa- 
 miliar with the country by years of residence in it. 
 
 The value, as a prophecy, must be determined by the 
 fact that it was made and publicly known a reasonable 
 time prior to the event it foretold. The earliest printed 
 publication of this prophecy, known to the writer, is to 
 be found in the Deseret News, in 1852. It was published 
 in its regular order as the History of the Church ap- 
 peared in that paper. We have not had access to the 
 original record as kept by the Prophet, containing this 
 remarkable prophecy. We have, however, irrefutable ev- 
 idence which fixes the date of the prophecy some years 
 before the Saints even started west. As evidence of the 
 highest value we refer to the diary of Anson Call, who 
 
64 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 was present at the time the prophecy was made. We 
 submit an extract from the diary, which was placed in 
 the hands of the writer by the courtesy of Mr. Israel Call, 
 of Bountiful, Utah, a son of the pioneer of Davis County. 
 This diary of Anson Call was commenced at Nauvoo, in 
 1839, and appears to have been composed at intervals, 
 and not written up daily as is the practice of a few di- 
 arists. Consequently, intervening events should be veri- 
 fied as to accuracy of dates. In this way we may ac- 
 count for an error in the date of the record of the inci- 
 dent under consideration. Anson Call has the event un- 
 der date of 1843. On August 6th, 1843, Joseph Smith 
 was in Nauvoo, and, though indisposed, attended meet- 
 ings, as it was Sunday. The record of the event, as 
 made by Mr. Call, conforms so faithfully in every de- 
 tail, excepting the date, that there exists no doubt as to 
 the identity of the one event in both records. The en- 
 try of Mr. Call is as follows: 
 
 "On the 14th of July [1843], in company with 
 about 50 or 100 of the brethren, we crossed the river 
 to Montrose to be present at the installment of a 
 lodge of the Masonic order, viz.: 'The Rising Sun.' 
 Whilst together Joseph, who was with us, told us of 
 many things that should transpire in the mountains. 
 After drinking a draught of ice-water, he said breth- 
 ren this water tastes much like the crystal streams 
 that are running in the Rocky Mountains which some 
 of you will participate of. There are some of those 
 standing here that will perform a great work in that 
 land — pointing to Shadrack Roundy and a number 
 of others whom I have forgotten. There is Anson, he 
 shall go and assist in building cities from one end 
 of the country to the other, and shall perform as 
 
And Their Fulfillment 65 
 
 great work as has ever been done by man so that the 
 nations of the earth shall be astonished, and many of 
 them will be gathered in that land and assisting in 
 building cities and temples and Israel shall be made 
 to rejoice, but before you see this day you will pas? 
 through the scenes that are but little understood by 
 you. This people shall be made to mourn. Multi- 
 tudes will die, many will apostatize." 
 
 In making record of this occurrence Joseph Smith said, 
 Today I prophesied." It was not a conjecture, nor a 
 mere prognostication. It was not a vague, unintelligible 
 muttering, clothed in a dark and obscure symbolism such 
 as characterizes the alleged manifestations of spiritism 
 and other musty and delusive occult manifestations. It 
 was not spoken in secrecy and carefully concealed in 
 fear of its failing of fulfillment. It was proclaimed in 
 the presence of fifty or a hundred men. It was prompt- 
 ly recorded in the annals of the Church, and in the 
 natural process of publication it was "committed to 
 the immortal custody of the press." 
 
 2. "The Saints ivould continue to suffer much afflic- 
 tion." 
 
 Two days after the prophecy was made, Joseph Smith 
 was arrested "on a warrant issued by Governor Carlin, 
 . . . founded on a requisition from Governor Reyn- 
 olds of Missouri, upon the affidavit of ex-Governor 
 Boggs, complaining of said Smith as 'being an accessory 
 before the fact,' to assault with intent to kill, made by 
 one Orrin P. Rockwell on Lilburn W. Boggs, on the 
 night of the sixth day of May, A. D. 1842." 
 
 This was but one of a long series of arrests which 
 
66 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 were farcical and illegal as well as impotent and 
 ridiculous, except that they greatly tried and distressed 
 the Prophet and the Saints. He was arrested some forty- 
 nine times and as many times acquitted as innocent. 
 These "afflictions" took on very serious aspects as the 
 mob spirit ran riot in Missouri and Illinois with respect 
 to the Latter-day Saints. Smaller settlements of the 
 Saints were burned, property was appropriated by the 
 mob, a distressed and persecuted people were deprived 
 of all the rights of citizenship, their franchise annulled, 
 their homes desecrated, their property despoiled, and 
 their right to fair and impartial trial by jury denied. 
 They were expatriated and banished from the confines 
 of the state in which they had lived. 
 
 In a high resolve to protect themselves from mob rule 
 and religious bigotry and hatred still more violent, the 
 city of Nauvoo organized a militia. Then battles oc- 
 curred, resulting in the destruction of thousands of 
 homes as well as the ruining of "the City Beautiful." 
 The Quincy Whig, edited by Mr. Bartlett, writing of these 
 inhuman assaults, said: 
 
 "Seriously, these outrages should be put a stop to 
 at once; if the Mormons have been guilty of crime, 
 punish them, but do not visit their sins upon defense- 
 less women and children. This is as bad as the sav- 
 ages. ... It is feared that this rising against 
 the Mormons is not confined to the Morley settle- 
 ment, but that there is an understanding among the 
 antis in the northern part of this and Hancock coun- 
 ties to make a general sweep, burning and destroying 
 the property of the Mormons wherever it can be 
 found." 
 
And Their Fulfillment 67 
 
 As culminating evidence that this clause of the proph- 
 ecy — "continue to suffer much affliction' was amply- 
 fulfilled, let us conclude with an extract from Bancroft's 
 "History of Utah," page 217: 
 
 "There is no parallel in the world's history to this 
 migration from Nauvoo. The exodus from Egypt 
 was from a heathen land, a land of idolators, f*> ~ 
 fertile region designated by the Lord for his chosen 
 people, the land of Canaan. The Pilgrim fathers, in 
 fleeing to America, came from a bigoted and des- 
 potic people — a people making few pretensions to 
 civil or religious liberty. It was from these same 
 people who had fled from old-world persecutions 
 that they might enjoy liberty of conscience in the 
 wilds of America, from their descendants and asso- 
 ciates, that other of their descendants, who claimed 
 the right to differ from them in opinion and prac- 
 tice, were now fleeing. . . . Before this the 
 Mormons had been driven to the outskirts of civiliza- 
 tion, where they had built themselves a city; this 
 they must now abandon, and throw themselves upon 
 the mercy of savages." 
 
 3. "Would be driven to the Rocky Mountains." 
 
 The Latter-day Saints were expelled from Missouri, 
 and were violently and ferociously "driven" from Illi- 
 nois. Suggestions were made that they go out west and 
 establish a country of their own. These suggestions were 
 reinforced with the fury of the mob, the devouring flame 
 and the sharp command of musketry. Dear old Aunt 
 Bathsheba Smith, one who had suffered in all these 
 atrocities, used to say, quoting her husband, George A. 
 Smith: "We came here willingly, because we had to," 
 
68 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 and they remained here because there was no other place 
 for them to go. They were driven to the Rocky Moun- 
 tains. 
 
 4. Many would apostatize" 
 
 "I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be 
 scattered." 
 
 The culmination of persecution which was rapidly 
 shaping for a wholesale banishment was too much for 
 the faith of some less valiant believers. There were also 
 Judases among the Saints, and these trying times were 
 too severe a test for the one and too great an opportunity 
 for the treachery of the other. Among the foremost 
 apostates were John C. Bennett, the head of a college; 
 James J. Strang, Wm. and Wilson Law, William Marks, 
 William Smith, and the brilliant and once prominent 
 leader, Sidney Rigdon. These, with many others, were 
 not equal to the test of the tragic hour. After the mar- 
 tyrdom the flock was scattered, and unity was only 
 brought about by a divine manifestation which indi- 
 cated where the authority and leadership in the Church 
 were divinely placed. There are only a few living to- 
 day who were witnesses to that divine interposition. Sid- 
 ney Rigdon and other ambitious men aspired to leader- 
 ship, and the flock for a time was in danger of being 
 scattered into confusion. Disappointed aspirants fell 
 away with their followers, with the result that several 
 factions have maintained an independent, if not a hos- 
 tile attitude toward the One Church which was never to 
 be thrown down or given to another people. There were 
 the Rigdonites, Millerites, Cutlerites, Smithites, Herdick- 
 ites, Strangites, and the Reorganized Church, the last 
 
And Their Fulfillment 69 
 
 named still maintaining somewhat of a respectable show- 
 ing in numbers. 3 
 
 5. "Others would be put to death." 
 
 On June 27th, 1844, Joseph Smith and his devoted 
 brother Hyrum were shot to death in Carthage jail. John 
 Taylor was all but killed by the same murderous mob 
 that attacked these prisorers in their defenselessness. 
 (Even the guaranteed projection of the State was with- 
 drawn.) 
 
 At the time of making this great prophecy, the prophet 
 perhaps did not think that he was putting the martyr's 
 crown upon himself, but as time unfolded its fearful 
 plans there can be little doubt that Joseph knew that 
 his testimony was to be "signed and sealed" in his own 
 blood. As the end approached he unquestionably knew 
 "where a testament is, there must also of necessity be 
 the death of the testator. For a testament is of force 
 after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all 
 while the testator liveth." (Heb. 9:16, 17.) 
 
 In the battle of Nauvoo, Sept. 12, 1846, William An- 
 derson and his son Augustus were shot by the mob. 
 Other lives were sacrificed upon the altar of human big- 
 otry and outlawry. 
 
 6. "Lose their lives in consequence of exposures and 
 
 disease" 
 
 The final withdrawal of the Latter-day Saints from the 
 
 3 Inasmuch as the genuineness of this great prophecy is estab- 
 lished, and inasmuch as time has vindicated its inspiration, should 
 not our "Reorganized" brethren see that the hand of God still 
 points to the "midst of the Rocky Mountains" as the place where 
 his Saints were to "become a mighty people?" If they desire to 
 abide in the faith of the Prophet Joseph Smith, should they not 
 join his people? 
 
70 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 state of Illinois was brought about by mutual agreement 
 between the state officials and others, and the leaders 
 of the Church. The great exodus began February 4th, 
 1846. The ferries on the Mississippi were kept going 
 night and day until the river froze over. Passage was 
 then made upon the ice. Within about ten days a thou- 
 sand men, women and children had crossed over into 
 Iowa with all their earthly possession that could be 
 taken with them. A camp was established some nine 
 miles west of the river. The ground was white with 
 snow, and frozen hard. It was a bitter exposure that 
 these pilgrims had to endure. On the night of February 
 5th, in tents, covered wagons, or in rudely constructed 
 huts of mud, or logs, nine babes were born. 
 
 About three thousand five hundred human beings, out- 
 casts and exiles, were exposed to the rigors of severe 
 winter weather at what was called Winter Quarters, now 
 the site of the city of Florence. To house these fugi- 
 tives, 538 log and 83 sod huts were provided. During 
 the winter, 334 of their number were afflicted with dis- 
 ease due to exposure and insanitary conditions prevail- 
 ing in the camp. There were seventy -five widows among 
 them. 
 
 A chapter of their history most fraught with hardship 
 and exposure is that one which feebly tells of the heroic 
 journey of the Mormon Battalion from the Mississippi 
 River to the Pacific Coast. That body of men made the 
 first real trail or road through that great stretch of 
 country. Their perils and "exposures" have never been 
 adequately told. Colonel Philip St. George Cooke, com- 
 mander of the Battalion, said of this great march to the 
 sea: "History may be searched in vain for an equal 
 march of infantry." Inadequate food supply, lack of 
 water, arduous toil in digging for it, and in road build- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 71 
 
 ing, and excessive marching, caused untold suffering, 
 sickness and death. 
 
 Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the plains is that 
 known in the history of the pioneers as the hand cart 
 company disasters. Eagerness to get to "Zion," in spite 
 of inadequate provisions for the journey, led a large 
 number of the English and other Saints to undertake the 
 journey across the plains with hand-carts in lieu of ox 
 teams and wagoris. Some of the earlier companies got 
 through successfully, but the two belated ones met with 
 a fate terrible to relate. In a starving and freezing con- 
 dition many of them died on the journey. Of the second 
 company, numbering 600, one-fourth died from these 
 causes, and their graves mark the trail for hundreds of 
 miles. Nothing but the promptest action upon the part 
 of the leaders and the heroic men then at Salt Lake, 
 who went instantly to their relief upon learning of their 
 distress saved them from wolves of the plains. The re- 
 lief companies went to their rescue with team-loads of 
 food, blankets, and other necessities, and saved the sur- 
 viving members of the companies from a cruel and tragic 
 death. To these calamities to which the Saints were 
 subjected might be added the conflict with Indians, the 
 fight for their lives against famine, and the grasshopper 
 plague, and other vicissitudes incident to the conquest 
 of the west. 
 
 So that history verifies the inspiration of the prophecy 
 concerning the loss of life due to "exposure and disease." 
 
 7. Some of you will live to go and assist in making 
 settlements and build cities ." 
 
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 uttered at Montrose on August 6th, 1842, it may not be 
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 Utah. A considerable number, however, are known to 
 have participated in the building of this commonwealth 
 in its larger aspect. Samuel W. Richards, Shadrach 
 Roundy and Anson Call were witnesses to the original 
 prediction. These three names are interwoven with the 
 history of the Saints in building this "inland empire." 
 
 There never was a more conspicuous fulfillment of 
 prophecy in all history. Five or six great States arise 
 majestically out of the deserts and upon the mountains 
 to proclaim its fulfillment. In Utah alone, there are 
 twenty-eight counties, containing in all four hundred and 
 twenty-five cities, towns and hamlets. Many of these 
 identical centers of population were laid out, built and 
 peopled, in part, by the very men who heard the proph- 
 ecy at Montrose. Near half a million people now live 
 within this one commonwealth whose very existence here 
 is directly connected with this remarkable prophecy. 
 Along with this State, others have arisen of equal prom- 
 ise and importance in one way or another. Idaho, whose 
 population approaches the half-million mark, with 100,- 
 000 people of Utah origin permanently abiding there; 
 Arizona, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, California, all 
 containing generous numbers of descendants from the 
 founders of this inter-mountain empire. The presence 
 of this great populace in the empire of the plains, pro- 
 claims with the voice of the millions the divine in- 
 spiration of Joseph Smith. Perhaps, not one lives to- 
 day who heard the prediction, but all can read it, and 
 the whole world may behold its fulfillment. 
 
 In the diary of Arson Call the prophet is said to have 
 predicted that he (Call) would assist in building cities 
 from one end of the country to the other." As a strik- 
 ing fulfillment of that particular prophecy we cite the 
 biography of Mr. Call as written for Tullidge's History 
 
And Their Fulfillment 75 
 
 of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. Upon Mr. Call's 
 arrival in what became Utah, he settled in what is now 
 Davis County. His original homestead and descendants 
 are still there. His worthy descendants have spread over 
 the whole county. In 1850 he was settling in Little Salt 
 Lake Valley, as well as in Parowan. He moved to the 
 northern part of the state, but was subsequently placed 
 in charge of a colonizing company of fifty families to 
 settle in the Pauvine Valley. In 1851 he assisted in 
 laying the foundation of the city of Fillmore, Millard 
 County. There he built roads, constructed mills and de- 
 veloped farms. In 1854 he established Call's Fort, in 
 Box Elder County, and in 1856 was sent to Carson Val- 
 ley on a great colonizing expedition. He came back to 
 Utah County in 1858, and in 1864 was engaged in col- 
 onizing in Colorado and southwestern Utah. Tullidge, 
 the historian, says of him: "Such men as Anson Call 
 make history. They are peculiarly adapted to the col- 
 onizing of new countries — to laying foundations of em- 
 pires in a wilderness." Speaking of Davis County, one 
 of the richest in the state, he continues regarding the work 
 of Mr. Call thus: "He had been an important factor in 
 the development of its resources, and he had arrived at 
 a period of life when a man is generally less capable of 
 great and continued exertion." 
 
 Joseph Smith's prophecy concerning the life's work 
 of Anson Call is almost as complete a biography as that 
 recorded half a century later by the historian. What is 
 prophecy but history reversed? 
 
 8. "And see the Saints become a mighty people in the 
 midst of the Rocky Mountains." 
 
 In analyzing the greatness of the people now occu- 
 
76 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 pying this inter-mountain domain, one is naturally led 
 to survey the vastness of their territory, and its re- 
 sources in mine and field, flocks and herds, forests and 
 watersheds, etc., etc. While these are indispensable to 
 the prosperity of a mighty people there are other evi- 
 dences of greatness that are more befitting the ideals and 
 aspirations of the Latter-day Saints. If in these things 
 only they were to grow mighty they had failed of their 
 mission in the world and had put to very mediocre ac- 
 count the great opporturity afforded by Providence in 
 giving to them this country as a home. We therefore 
 pass aside with mere mention the hundreds of millions 
 annually produced as manufactured commodities, min- 
 eral, and agricultural products, its incomparable de- 
 posits of coal, and iron, its mountains of copper-bearing 
 ore, regularly reduced by big smelters, its fertile fields, 
 feeding scores of sugar factories, and other industrial in- 
 stitutions. These are all the outer manifestations of 
 greatness. True greatness must be spiritual, to endure. 
 The people of Utah, particularly those of the Latter-day 
 Saint persuasion, are believers in the family as the cen- 
 ter of civilization and the source of happiness both here 
 and hereafter. No other state in the union has a larger 
 percentage of white girls and boys. No other state in 
 the union has provided a better system of education for 
 the youth than has Utah. And in making these claims for 
 the people of this state we by no means wish to belittle 
 the efforts in this direction of those higher types of 
 American manhood and womanhood who have done so 
 much for the welfare of the state, though they are not 
 religiously affiliated with the Latter-day Saints. Few 
 people, if any, own there own homes to a greater extent 
 than do the people of Utah. Few, if any, have a higher 
 percentage of their children in regular attendance at the 
 
And Their Fulfillment 11 
 
 public schools. No people on earth have a greater re- 
 gard for the Deity or a higher regard for virtue and 
 chastity among men and women, maintaining a single 
 standard of virtue for both sexes. Few people, if any, 
 aspire higher than do the Latter-day Saints in education, 
 music, charities, social welfare, and patriotic service to 
 country as well as service to humanity. In pointing out 
 these standards we are absolutely true to the traditions 
 of the Latter-day Saints from the time of Joseph Smith 
 to the present. In harmony with these viewpoints we in- 
 troduce a refreshing sentiment expressed by Thomas 
 Henry Huxley upon the occasion of his visit to America 
 in 1876. This observation was made during an address 
 at the founding of the Johns Hopkins University : 
 
 "To an Englishman landing upon your shores for 
 the first time, traveling for hundreds of miles through 
 strings of great and well-ordered cities, seeing your 
 enormous actual and almost infinite potential wealth 
 in all commodities and the energy and ability which 
 turn wealth to account, there is something sublime in 
 the vista of the future. / cannot say that I am in the 
 slightest degree impressed by your bigness or your 
 material resources as such. Size is not grandeur, 
 and territory does not make a nation. The great 
 issue, about which hangs a true sublimity and the 
 terror of overhanging fate, is : what are you going to 
 do with all these things? What is to be the end to 
 which these are to be the means? You are making a 
 novel experiment in politics on the greatest scale 
 which the world has yet seen. Truly America has a 
 great future before her — great in toil, in care, and 
 in responsibility, great in true glory, if she be guided 
 in wisdom and righteousness, great in shame if she 
 
78 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 fail. I cannot understand why other nations should 
 envy you or be blind to the fact that it is for the high- 
 est interest of mankind that you should succeed; but 
 the one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is 
 the moral worth and intellectual clearness of the in- 
 dividual citizen" 
 
 "Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a 
 nation." In tragic verification of that great truth be- 
 hold Russia and then look with envy upon Belgium. 
 Witness what they were when the supreme tests came to 
 both. So, no matter how rich the country, how vast the 
 territory, the hand of Providence led the exiled Latter- 
 day Saints to, the whole affair is a dismal failure if 
 these things ever become paramount with them. They 
 must be secondary. Otherwise the prophet and his fel- 
 low-martyrs have died in vain. We would not say that 
 the Latter-day Saints deserve all the praise that has by 
 some fair-minded men been bestowed upon them. 
 On the other hand we are quite certain that they have 
 not merited all the contumely that is even to this day be- 
 ing heaped upon them by a few puerile assailants. Our 
 opinion is that the Latter-day Saints have actually be- 
 come ''a mighty people," and the prophecy of Joseph 
 Smith in that particular is in process of complete ful- 
 fillment. As a tribute of which any people on earth 
 might be profoundly proud, let us here introduce a few 
 pages from the Congressional Record of November, 1919. 
 They are, to a measure, self explanatory. 4 
 
 4 The immediate circumstances under which these tributes were 
 paid to the Latter-day Saints are described as follows, in a pamph- 
 let recently written by Dr. James E. Talmage, of Salt Lake City; 
 entitled "The Pittsburgh Conference on 'Mormonism :' " 
 
 "As a forerunner of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, World's Chris- 
 tian Citizenship Conference, held in the early part of November, 
 
And Their Fulfillment 79 
 
 BY SENATOR ASHURST, OF ARIZONA. 
 
 "Mr. Ashurst. Mr. President, I am very glad that 
 the Senator from Utah [Mr. Smoot] has spoken as 
 he has. It was time for such a speech. A matchless 
 maker of epigrams said that when "once a lie or a 
 counterfeit statement gets into circulation it is well- 
 nigh impossible to overtake it;" and therefore I be- 
 lieve the Senator has done a service to his country in 
 exposing this infamous slander, which has been pub- 
 lished broadcast against so many worthy people. 
 
 "When I read the article, I felt offended because 
 there are in Arizona a large number of 'Mormon' 
 people; or people who belong to the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter-day Saints; and I would be false to 
 that principle of fair play for which I have always 
 pretended that I stood if I failed at this time to say a 
 word on the subject. 
 
 "It may be true that I do not understand fully the 
 theology of the Mormon Church; but, Mr. President, 
 
 1919, there were press notices sent out and printed in many papers 
 in the United States containing false accusations against Utah and 
 the Latter-day Saints, written by an English novel writer, Wini- 
 fred Graham, and dated London, October 21. The Commercial 
 and Rotary Clubs, and other like organizations in Salt Lake City, 
 demurred against the falsehoods and sent their protests to Senator 
 Reed Smoot with a request that he call the attention of the Senate 
 of the United States to them. This he did on November 10, and 
 we take pleasure in printing his speech and the documents in 
 full, from the Congressional Record of November 11; also the 
 splendid defense of the Latter-day Saints, on the floor of the Sen- 
 ate Chamber by Senator Henry F. Ashurst, of Arizona, Senator 
 Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado, and Senator Charles B. Hender- 
 son, of Nevada. It is doubtless the first unsolicited defense of 
 the Latter-day Saints ever uttered in the Senate of the United 
 Stats, and is well deserved. A host of people in the West are 
 grateful to these gentlemen for the truths presented at the oppor- 
 tune time and place." 
 
80 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 the first church I ever attended was a Mormon 
 Church. When there was no other church within 100 
 miles of the lonely frontier cabin where my parents 
 lived, we found solace and comfort in attending the 
 Mormon Church situated 9 miles distant. Our near- 
 est — in fact, our only neighbors for years were the 
 Mormon people. Better neighbors no pioneer ever 
 had. I am proud of the Mormon people. I am 
 proud of the friendship that I have for them, and 
 that I believe they have for me; and while, as I said 
 before, I do not completely understand their theol- 
 ogy, I am able to say here, in the Senate of the Unit- 
 ed States, that their church has elevated many intel- 
 lects and purified many hearts in my state. 
 
 "As pioneers in a new country, the Mormons are 
 unrivaled. They are sober, industrious, frugal, hon- 
 est. They are pre-eminently state builders; and to- 
 day, if called upon to name a people who could most 
 expeditiously transform a desert of swirling and 
 heated sands into splendid fields and farms, I would 
 unhesitatingly choose the Mormon people. In many 
 places where once cacti lifted their thorny arms into 
 the brazen and heated air, Mormon industry has 
 reared temples, hospitals, homes, factories, and 
 schools. 
 
 "Moreover, I never saw a Mormon I. W. W.; but I 
 have, at some county courthouses in my state, heard 
 disgruntled, lazy, and indolent men who did not be- 
 long to the Mormon Church sit on the steps of the 
 courthouse and curse the Government and curse the 
 President, while Mormon citizens were going into the 
 same county courthouse to pay taxes without com- 
 plaint. 
 
 "Mr. Owen. Mr. Presdient— 
 
And Their Fulfillment 81 
 
 "Mr. Ashurst. I yield for a question. 
 
 "Mr. Owen. I should like to ask the Senator if it 
 is not a tenet of the Mormons to teach and preach in- 
 dustry and thrift? 
 
 "Mr. Ashurst. I am able to state that industry 
 and thrift are amongst the foundation stones of the 
 Mormon Church. Absolute and unquestioned obedi- 
 ence to law is a tenet of the Mormon Church. Re- 
 spect for authority is one of the tenets of the Mor- 
 mon Church. We need more of such people in these 
 perilous times of the Republic; and again I would 
 be false to every principle of justice and to every 
 sentiment of gratitude if I failed to state at this 
 time that when savage Indians galloped along by our 
 pioneer homes, burning and murdering, plundering 
 and scalping as they went, it was to the Mormon 
 people that my defenseless but heroic parents went 
 for refuge and defense. 
 
 "So, Mr. President, I say the Senator from Utah 
 has done well in 'scotching' this falsehood, which 
 has been given such wide circulation. I believe the 
 American people are coming at last fully to under- 
 stand the Mormon people. Their temples, schools, 
 fields, homes, industry, frugality, their morality and 
 their patriotism testify for them in more eloquent 
 terms than the Senator or I could speak. Then, 
 again, observe their Representatives in the House and 
 in the Senate. Look at the high class of public ser- 
 vants they send here. I ask that the Mormons be 
 judged as a people, judged as a religion, as the Sen- 
 ator says, by their fruits; and if they be judged by 
 their fruits the verdict of the world will be in their 
 favor. 
 
 "It seems to me that the time should be welcomed 
 
82 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 in America when men shall not further be assailed 
 because of their religion or lack of religion. Men 
 ought not further to be assailed or discriminated 
 against because of their particular view of how to 
 follow the Master. America was built up, and one 
 of the reasons why the migrations came from the 
 old countries to these shores was that our ancestors 
 desired to find a place to build free and strong states 
 where such ignoble sentiments as bigotry could not 
 survive. 
 
 "Mr. President. I do not forget that this splendid 
 domain of Arizona, one of the imperial states of this 
 Union, came into being largely through the brave ex- 
 ploits of the Mormon people. When Gen. Stephen 
 Kearny was beleagured near San Diego during the 
 Mexican War, and it seemed as if the Mexicans were 
 going to capture and annihilate him and his entire 
 command, it was the Mormon battalion that marched 
 all the long way from Iowa into Tucson, Ariz., and 
 occupied in Mexican territory a domain we now 
 know as the Gadsden Purchase, which was purchased 
 by our Government in 1854. When the commanding 
 officer, Lieut. Col. St. George Cooke, entered the 
 Mexican town of Tucson and raised the American 
 flag, he issued a pronunciamento, and I wish the Ger- 
 man outragers had read that document before they 
 invaded Belgium. The lieutenant colonel entering 
 the city of Tucson, nearly 1,500 miles from civiliza- 
 tion, said in his manifesto to the people of Mexico: 
 
 " 'We do hot war upon civilians. We make war 
 against men in uniform only. The property of indi- 
 viduals will be held sacred. All civil rights will be 
 upheld. Those who obey the law and conform to 
 order will be protected.' 
 
And Their Fulfillment 83 
 
 "The command remained there some days to re- 
 fresh itself and then marched on to the relief of Gen. 
 Kearny, who, as I said, was beleagured and sur- 
 rounded near San Diego. 
 
 "So, Mr. President, the Mormon people, as pio- 
 neers, as state builders, as statesmen, as people of in- 
 dustry and patriotism, in every department of life, 
 compare well and favorably with the general mass of 
 their fellow-citizens. This much I feel I should have 
 said; more than that I need not say. 
 
 "BY SENATOR THOMAS, OF COLORADO. 
 
 "Mr. Thomas. Mr. President, I am not and never 
 have been a communicant of any church, and if I live 
 to be as old again as I am now, I would not change. 
 In my youth I was greatly impressed with a remark 
 of Gibbon, that 'all religions are to the vulgar 
 equally true, to the philosopher equally false, and to 
 the statesman equally useful, 5 and the experience of 
 mature years has served to deepen the impression. I 
 have never been able to reconcile the tenets and doc- 
 trines of all religious faiths with that spirit of persecu- 
 tion and fanaticism they develop toward each other, 
 and which has so many times culminated in destruc- 
 tive and decimating wars. I believe in religious tol- 
 eration, without any conditions whatever, except 
 those required by the tenets of morality and of law 
 and order. Hence I have remained aloof from iden- 
 tification with any faith. 
 
 "Up to this time I have never found occasion to 
 publicly defend the Mormon people, because it has 
 not seemed necessary; but I can not allow the oc- 
 casion to pass without paying tribute to their moral- 
 
84 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 ity and usefulness, not only to their own communi- 
 ties, but as exemplars to the whole country in peril- 
 ous times like these. 
 
 "Mr. President, when respect for the law is the ex- 
 ception and not the rule, when the different forces 
 of society are so antagonistic that the political struc- 
 ture is menaced with danger, it is refreshing to note 
 that the adherents of this faith have at all times been 
 the advocates and the exponents of peace, of justice, 
 of law, and of order; and however just the criticisms 
 aimed against former institutions, the fact remains, 
 as established by more than half a century of prac- 
 tice, that the communities professing the Mormon 
 faith are among the best and highest exemplars of 
 American citizenship. 
 
 "During the war there was much disloyalty in 
 America. Scarcely any commonwealth was entirely 
 free from it. During the war resistance to the draft 
 occasionally punctuated our dispatches, and the ex- 
 pression of toleration or friendliness to the enemy 
 was one of the commonest of occurrences. But dur- 
 ing that critical period upon no occasion which I can 
 remember did the people of Utah, Mormon and Gen- 
 tile, fail to whole-heartedly, loyally, and enthusias- 
 tically respond to every call made by the Government 
 for soldiers or for money. Not in a single instance 
 did this people falter. Their splendid youth were 
 given freely to our armies, and the blood of their 
 boys sanctifies the soil of every battle field in 
 France. 
 
 "Every loan drive was responded to, not by the 
 quota, but far beyond it, and in everything that con- 
 tributed to good citizenship, to patriotism, to loyalty, 
 and to love of country, these people were ever con- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 85 
 
 spicuous ; and it is due to them, as one of the repre- 
 sentatives from a neighboring state wherein many 
 of these people are located, and are among our best 
 citizens, that I should say so. 
 
 "We have not many Mormons in the State of Col- 
 orado. Some years ago a settlement was established 
 in what is known as the San Luis Valley. It has 
 grown, it has flourished, it is prosperous. Its people 
 are law-abiding, they are industrious, they are hard 
 working, they pay their debts, they obey and support 
 the authorities. Bolshevism, anarchism, and social- 
 ism are foreign to the atmosphere of that community. 
 They can not take root in such a soil. 
 
 "These people are today, therefore, one of the pil- 
 lars of the social, economic, and political systems of 
 the country, whose removal might imperil the entire 
 structure of our social, economic, and political life. 
 Their faith I am not concerned with ; their character 
 and their achievements are a credit to them and an 
 incalculable benefit to the country. 
 
 "BY SENATOR HENDERSON, OF NEVADA. 
 
 "Mr. Henderson. Mr. President, I wish to express 
 my approval of and join in all that has been said by 
 the senior Senator from Colorado [Mr. Thomas] rel- 
 ative to those of the Mormon faith. We have in east- 
 ern Nevada a number of Mormon settlements. I have 
 visited a number of them. I wish to say that there 
 are no better citizens in the country than those of that 
 faih. In one community that I know of, established 
 over 40 years ago, there has never been a jail. I be- 
 lieve that is true of the others. These people never 
 have any use for jails. Where they go, law and 
 
86 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 order prevail, and thrift and economy are taught and 
 practiced. 
 
 "Mr. President, the record of the Mormon people, 
 throughout the war, has been without a blemish. 
 Their sons were amongst the first to enlist and their 
 quota was quickly filled. They over-subscribed their 
 proportion of Liberty bonds. Their patriotism h"" 
 been of the highest order and without question. 
 
 "There is much that can be said in their favor, Mr. 
 President, but I shall not detain the Senate longer, 
 as there are some Senators waiting to address the 
 Senate on the proposed reservation to Article 10. I 
 am glad, however, of the opportunity to express my 
 disapproval of the attack directed against the Mor- 
 mons referred to by the Senator from Utah [Mr. 
 Smoot]." 
 In the light of these glowing tributes are we not justi- 
 fied in the conviction that politically, industrially, so- 
 cially, intellectually and religiously, the Latter-day 
 Saints have become "a mighty people in the midst of the 
 Rocky Mountains"? 
 
 TRIBUTE OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN TO THE LATTER- 
 DAY SAINTS. 
 
 And to these complimentary remarks may we be per- 
 mitted to reprint an impromptu tribute paid to the same 
 people, just the other day, at Salt Lake City, by Mr. 
 William Jennings Bryan? Mr. Bryan had attended one 
 of the sesssions of the General Conference of the Church. 
 After the regular services had been dismissed, an organ 
 recital was tendered the distinguished visitor, to which 
 he responded: 
 
 "Mr. Bryan said the truths he had heard expounded 
 
And Their Fulfillment 87 
 
 there that day he should endeavor to carry with him 
 throughout his life, and he believed that through him 
 many people might hear the truth concerning c Mor- 
 monism,' for he would endeavor to give an exposi- 
 tion of what he had heard, in plain truth, to the peo- 
 ple with whom he associates. Mr. Bryan said he had 
 been undecided about coming to Salt Lake. He had 
 been asked to speak in Los Angeles Monday, but he 
 had obeyed a whim, almost, and had come to Salt 
 Lake, he did not know why. But now, he said, he be- 
 lieved it was providential. At any rate, he said, he 
 had heard truths u'tered that impressed him deeply 
 and he knows now he is better equipped to perform 
 his work in the world for having heard 'Mormonism' 
 expounded. Particularly was he impressed, Mr. 
 Bryan said, with the 'Mormon' belief in the personal- 
 ity of God. It is a beautiful belief, he said, and one 
 by which the world might profit. He referred to the 
 application of the Gospel in the lives of the 'Mor- 
 mon' people and said such principles applied to the 
 problems of the world, would, in very deed, solve the 
 difficulties with which the world is beset. He re- 
 ferred to the single standard of morality, as ex- 
 pounded by one of the speakers, and said that in very 
 truth that is a principle that might well be applied to 
 the lives of all men." (Taken from the daily press 
 reports.) 
 
 TRIBUTE OF FRANKLIN K. LANE, FORMERLY SECRETARY 
 OF THE INTERIOR. 
 
 In an article written for the National Geographic 
 Magazine, June 1920, entitled "A Mind's-Eye Map of 
 America," Franklin K. Lane, formerly Secretary of the 
 
88 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 Interior, has this to say, under the heading, "What the 
 Mormons have done for Utah:" 
 
 "Never speak disrespectfully of the Mormon 
 Church. It has as law-abiding, steady, hard-working, 
 kindly a group of people in Utah as will be found 
 anywhere this round globe over. Brigham Young 
 may not have been a prophet of Almighty God, but 
 he worked a miracle when he crossed from the Mis- 
 souri River over that desert, leading his band of a 
 few hundred followers with their push-carts, going 
 out into that unknown waste, and turned the land 
 that lies around Salt Lake City into a garden. 
 
 "I brought from Egypt several years ago the great- 
 est irrigation expert in the world, perhaps, the man 
 who built the Assuan dam upon the Nile — Sir Wil- 
 liam Willcocks, the man who claims to have discov- 
 ered where the Garden of Eden was located, at the 
 junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers — and I 
 sent him to look over the irrigation enterprises of 
 the United States, and he said: 'Nowhere else have I 
 seen people who understand so wisely how to apply 
 water to land as around Salt Lake City.' " 
 
 That a mighty people is really living here in these 
 Rocky Mountains let us here present the opinion of an 
 authority on the subject, the venerable Dean of Amer- 
 ican educators, Dr. A. E. Winship, editor of the Journal 
 of Education, Boston. After a careful study of educa- 
 tional matters in Utah for nearly half a century, during 
 which time scores of visits had been made to this state, 
 Dr. Winship, upon the occasion of the enactment of 
 Utah's new educational laws, published a booklet in ap- 
 preciation of them. This publication is titled, "Utah's 
 Educational Leadership." In sending this booklet to 
 
And Their Fulfillment 89 
 
 XDXTOHUL HOOM8 
 
 journal of Education- 
 
 Mm 
 
 BEACON STSS8X 
 BOSTON 
 
 *. K. WXKMtm E»rrox 
 
 Y am sending you a &u 1 1 e t i n wh I c h 
 is, 1 thank, 'the most important writing 
 Y have^ever done. Utah has placed her« ' 
 self at the head o'f the procession but 
 it will be a tragedy if she is not followed 
 by every state in the onion in h.er* noble .. 
 ef fort, to save from waywardness all young 
 .men and worrfen up* to elflvteen years of -age 
 through tire ^publl.-c schools. 
 -Sincerely , 
 
 Tribute to the State of Utah with respect to its Educational 
 Laws, by Dr. A. E. Winship, of Boston, 1920. 
 
90 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 the educators of the country, the doctor introduces the 
 message thus: 
 
 "I am sending you a Bulletin which is, I think, the 
 most important writing I have ever done. Utah has 
 placed herself at the head of the procession, but it 
 will be a tragedy if she is not followed by every 
 state in the union in her noble effort to save from 
 waywardness all yourg men and women up to eigh- 
 teen years of age through the public schools. 
 
 "Sincerely, 
 
 "A. E. Winship." 
 
 On the occasion of the N. E. A. Convention being held 
 in Salt Lake City, in 1920, the doctor published the fol- 
 lowing leading editorial in his Journal, in the four is- 
 sues for June: 
 
 "Why go to Salt Lake City?" 
 
 "You can get more for your money in a regular 
 excursion railroad ticket to Salt Lake City than 
 to any city in America. 
 
 "No place, not on the sea shore, offers equally 
 good day excursions. 
 
 "No other city offers such a luxury as bathing 
 in the Great Salt Lake. 
 
 "No other city offers as good an auditorium for 
 a large audience. 
 
 "No other city and state presents as good a dem- 
 onstration of marvelous achievement through com- 
 munity co-operation. 
 
 "Utah has made greater strides in the funda 
 mentals of public school education in thirty years 
 than has any other state in the union. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 91 
 
 "Only one state east of the Mississippi has as 
 high rank in the fundamentals of public school edu- 
 cation as has Utah, and only one other state east 
 of the Missouri river ranks as high. 
 
 " Utah leads every state in the union in public 
 school laws that make for morality. 
 
 "Utah is the first state in the union to have a 
 public school law that eliminates loafing of young 
 people up to eighteen years of age. 
 
 "Utah is the first state in the union to have state 
 laws to establish public school responsibility for 
 all young people under eighteen years of age. 
 
 "// you desire an opportunity to study the work- 
 ing of the best public school laws in America go to 
 the National Educational Association, July 5-9 
 [1920]." 
 
 Again, let us say that these achievements for which 
 the people of Utah are given credit have been attained 
 by the co-operation of all peoples living within the state 
 without regard to creed or race or social caste. It might, 
 in fairness be said, however, that the co-operative spirit, 
 and the splendid organization and educational ideals 
 of the Latter-day Saints have been great factors in 
 getting these results. At any rate, there is a people liv- 
 ing out here in the very "midst of the Rocky Mountains" 
 who have drawn from remote and cultured Boston this 
 great tribute. It must be a mighty people who can so 
 move the enlightened, discriminating mind of Dr. A. E. 
 Winship. Perhaps these people in Utah are not the 
 "mighty people" that the writer thinks them to be but all 
 will admit they have received one of the very highest 
 compliments that could be paid to a people. What 
 higher or more worthy aspiration could a people have 
 
92 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 than that of educational supremacy? Especially, if that 
 educational supremacy means the making of men first 
 and scholars secondly. 
 
 It should be stated that the Latter-day Saints main- 
 tain a score of high schools, academies and some higher 
 institutions of learning such as the Brigham Young Uni- 
 versity at Provo, and the Brigham Young College at 
 Logan. Within the Church, and following its organiza- 
 tions everywhere, are auxiliary institutions, whose activ- 
 ities are so diversified as to provide well planned 
 courses of study and specific lines of activity for every 
 member of the Church from the little children to the 
 venerable parents. These organizations are: The Relief 
 Society — a charity institution composed of women ex- 
 clusively and organized by Joseph Smith in the year 
 1842; the Sunday Schools, the Young Men's Mutual 
 Improvement Associations, the Young Ladies' Mutual 
 Improvement Associations, the Primary Association, and 
 the Religion Classes — a sort of supplement to the public 
 schools which provide moral and religious training of 
 children for one or two hours a week after the close of 
 school. Other societies also operate in specialized lines, 
 such as the Genealogical Societies. The male member- 
 ship of the Church is, almost without exception, allotted 
 among the various orders of the Priesthood. These "quo- 
 rums" are perfectly organized and hold weekly meet- 
 ings during which specific courses of studies are pur- 
 sued under competent class leadership. The practical 
 duties of the Priesthod are also given opportunity for 
 exercise either in these meetings or in connection with the 
 "quorum" activities through the week. The labors of 
 the members are reported at these meetings. 
 
 The subjects studied and put into practice by these 
 several organizations embrace the whole moral code, 
 
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 running from the first principles of faith to the most ad- 
 vanced theology. They comprehend the duties of citizen- 
 ship, the laws of health, home economics, social service, 
 scout-craft for boys and girls, the problems of social bet- 
 terment and recreation, and the more advanced methods 
 of relief and charity work. In this way the whole round 
 of life's needs are provided for and a full and live mem- 
 bership in the Church implies a virile and spirited activ- 
 ity in at least a few of these organizations. 
 
 As an agency of enlightenment and progress we might 
 mention the great missionary system carried on by the 
 Church. In normal times the Church annually sends out 
 into the missions of the world, approximately one thou- 
 sand missionaries. For the most part, these are young 
 •men, who cheerfully respond to a call to go to the utter- 
 most parts of the earth at their own expense and spend 
 from two to three years in the service of the Master. 
 Some young women are sent into the missions who thus 
 have opportunities of travel and contact with the world 
 equal to that of the young men. This proselyting system 
 Ijas become a fixed institution in the Church. The 
 younger members look to it as an experience of highest 
 value to them. It is an invaluable part of their religious 
 education and intellectual development. While these 
 missionaries go out into the world with something of 
 great value to offer, they bring back much that is of 
 value to their people. Two or three years mingling 
 with foreign or remote peoples, whose institutions and 
 beliefs are matters of constant study and discussion, could 
 not fail to have a broadening and enlightening effect up- 
 on the youth so engaged. 
 
 "There is no school that disciplines the mind, 
 And broadens thought like contact with mankind.** 
 
94 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 These are the agencies that make the Latter-day Saints 
 a cosmopolitan people rather than a provincial one. 
 Stagnation follows isolation. Mingling in the great cur- 
 rents of the world's endeavor mean progress and enlight- 
 enment. Thus the activities and requirements of the 
 Church provide a progressive occupation in the whole 
 circle of human activities. Every talent, every degree of 
 intelligence, every power developed to its highest point 
 of efficiency is set to work in the activities of the Church 
 for the betterment of the general membership and the 
 good of mankind. 
 
 One of our educators made this observation: 
 
 "A careful study of the work done in the organ- 
 izations of the Church described herein will dis- 
 close a system of real education perhaps without a 
 parallel. The variety of work and the amount of re- 
 sponsibility that almost every member of the Church 
 carries is well calculated to develop all its powers. 
 Such a system in time would produce — not one or 
 two extraordinary characters — but a commonwealth 
 of more than usual ability. It should elevate nearly 
 all its members far above the average, and make 
 a citizenship most desirable. 
 
 "The amount of work done gratis, if paid for in 
 cash at a fair valuation would, without doubt, ex- 
 ceed $10,000,000 a year, or more than $30 for each 
 man, woman and child in the Church. Where is 
 there another people whose desire for advancement 
 is proved by such generosity?" 
 
 " A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither 
 can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." 
 
And Their Fulfillment 95 
 
 The last Article of Faith in the creed of the Latter-day 
 Saints reads thus: 
 
 "We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevo- 
 lent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; in- 
 deed we may say that we follow the admonition of 
 Paul, We believe all things, we hope all things, 
 we have endured many things, and hope to be able 
 to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, 
 lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek 
 after these things." 
 
 Do not the following facts, authorized by the Utah 
 State Board of Health, reveal the underlying principles 
 of the lives of these people? 
 
 In the matter of birth-rate the Latter-day Saints are 
 fifty per cent higher than the general average of the 
 United States, in marriage, twenty per cent higher. The 
 divorce rate of the United States is two-and-half times 
 that of the Latter-day Saints; the death rate is fourteen 
 per thousand, while with the Latter-day Saints during the 
 nine years last past it is only eight per thousand. The 
 average age at death in the United States is thirty-two; 
 the average among the Latter-day Saints is nearly forty, 
 or twenty -five per cent higher — an adding of eight years 
 to the life of man. 
 
 These are the tangible results of proper living. It 
 isn't climate, or wealth, or physical occupation that has 
 wrought the achievement. It is religion applied in the 
 daily walks of life. Where men carry the spirit of the 
 above article of faith with them from the home to their 
 work and return with it to their homes where it has a 
 permanent abiding place, there you will find the days 
 of man lengthened and filled the while with blessing. 
 
96 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 Here is an instance where a religion finds free ex- 
 pression in the entire lives of its votaries. It has made 
 them pre-eminently temperate. The petty vices are still 
 largely resisted. Nation after nation is now abolishing 
 the causes of debauchery which this people in God's 
 name proclaimed against a generation ago. Virtue is 
 held as paramount in old and young. Common honesty 
 is the basis of all conduct. The family group is *i 
 kingdom of eternal promise and the source of eternal 
 glory. The love of home and the love of country, so 
 closely akin, make the good citizen. The love of chil- 
 dren, and their proper care and education, make the 
 enduring state. These are the characteristics of the Lat- 
 ter-day Saints. Must not any people become mighty in 
 the earth that adhere to principles like these? 
 
 9. "Many nations shall be gathered in that land." 
 
 As early as 1860 this graphic description of the many 
 peoples represented in the Rocky Mountain settlements 
 was made by the historian Bancroft: 
 
 "To the student of humanity there were few 
 richer fields for study than could be found at this 
 period in the "Mormon" capital, where almost ev- 
 ery state in the union, and every nation in Europe 
 had its representatives. There were to be seen side 
 by side the tall, sinewey Norwegian, fresh from his 
 pine forests, the phlegmatic Dane, the stolid, prac- 
 tical German, the dapper, quick-minded Frenchman, 
 the clumsy, dogmatic Englishman, and the shrewd, 
 versatile American." 
 
 From that day until the present, the "many nations" 
 have in increasing numbers and variety been gathering 
 
And Their Fulfillment 97 
 
 in "that land." From far-off India, Japan and China; 
 from the Russias and the islands of the Pacific and the 
 South Seas there has been a continuous stream flowing 
 into the "midst of the Rocky Mountains." From all the 
 European countries, as well as from the several states 
 of our own union, men and women continue to come in 
 quest of homes, or health, or wealth, or religious affilia- 
 tion. The peopling of this region has been rapid, in- 
 deed. There are in the several states comprising the 
 Rocky Mountain country more than three millions of 
 people. In Europe such a growth would require a mil- 
 lennium, while here it is an attainment of less than a 
 century. 
 
 10. "Building cities and temples" 
 
 The building of settlements and cities has brought 
 about the creation of a great inland empire — known to 
 all the world today. The aspirations of the Latter-day 
 Saints have by no means found full realization in these 
 material things. Their highest aims are essentially 
 spiritual. From the very beginning, and that, too, at 
 great personal sacrifice, in a worldly sense, they have 
 constructed beautiful and costly temples. Within six 
 years after their arrival in the valley of the Great Salt 
 Lake they laid the foundations of a temple that required 
 forty years to complete and cost three-and-a-half 
 millions of dollars. This great enterprize was under- 
 taken by a people without capital, without credit and 
 with a wilderness to subdue before they could even make 
 their homes a certainty. Could greater exhibitions of 
 faith and spirituality be found? 
 
 Before its completion three other temples, less pre- 
 tentious, but nevertheless very worthy structures, were 
 
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100 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 built — in St. George, Logan and Manti. Then followed 
 the two temples undertaken almost simultaneously, viz: 
 the Hawaiian at Laie, Oahu, and the Canadian at Cards- 
 ton. In addition to these very handsome and costly 
 edifices the plans are well under way for another tem- 
 ple to build at Mesa, Arizona. So, a generation has 
 scarcely passed until this prophecy concerning temple 
 building is adequately fulfilled, and temple building is 
 by no means at an end. 
 
 11. "And Israel be made to rejoice" 
 
 In the fulfillment of this very remarkable prophecy we 
 behold the unfolding of the purposes of God with respect 
 to the gathering of modern Israel. "The Valleys of the 
 Mountains" immediately became the gathering place for 
 the Saints who heard the voice of the true Shepherd as he 
 called through the voices of his messengers, thus : "Come 
 out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, 
 and that ye receive not of her plagues." Joseph Smith de- 
 clared this entire land of America to be the "Land of 
 Zion,"the gathering place of the Saints in the dispensation 
 of the "fulness of times." With these great events now in 
 full view, we see the fulfillment, not of Joseph Smith's 
 prophecies alone, but of the prophecies of the holy men 
 of old who spoke as they were moved upon by the Holy 
 Ghost. 
 
 Of these great events the Hebrew Prophet Isaiah pro- 
 claimed : 
 
 "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the 
 mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in 
 the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above 
 the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 
 
 "And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and 
 
And Their Fulfillment 101 
 
 let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the 
 house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of 
 his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of 
 Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the 
 Lord from Jerusalem." 
 
 And again : 
 
 "And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from 
 afar, and will hiss unto them from the end of the 
 earth; and behold they shall come with speed 
 swiftly; . . . 
 
 "And it shall come to pass in that day that the 
 Lord shall set his hand again the second time to 
 recover the remnant of his people, which shall be 
 left, from Assyria and from Egypt, and from Path- 
 ros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shi- 
 nar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the 
 sea. 
 
 "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, 
 and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather 
 together the dispersed of Judah from the four 
 corners of the earth." 
 
 Again : 
 
 "Fear not: I am with thee: I will bring thy seed 
 from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will 
 say to the north, Give up; and the south, Keep not 
 back; bring thy sons from afar, and thy daughters 
 from the ends of the earth; 
 
 "Even every one that is called by my name; for 
 I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; 
 yea I have made him." 
 
 Jeremiah, speaking of Israel's ultimate redemption, 
 prophesied : 
 
102 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 "Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, 
 whither I have driven them in my anger, and in my 
 fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them 
 again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell 
 safely; 
 
 "And they shall be my people and I shall be their 
 God." 
 
 Again from Jeremiah : 
 
 "In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, 
 the children of Israel, shall come, they and the chil- 
 dren of Judah together, going and weeping; they 
 shall go, and seek the Lord their God. 
 
 "They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces 
 thitherward, saying, Come let us join ourselves to 
 the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be 
 forgotten." 
 
 Again from Ezekiel : 
 
 "For thus saith the Lord, God, Behold, even I, 
 will both search my sheep, and seek them out. 
 
 "As a shepherd seeketh out his flock, in the day 
 that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so 
 will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out 
 of all places where they have been scattered in the 
 cloudy and dark day. 
 
 "And I will bring them out from the people, and 
 gather them from the countries, and will bring them 
 to their own lands, and feed them upon the moun- 
 tains of Israel by the rivers, and in the inhabited 
 places of the country. 
 
 "I will feed them in a good pasture and upon the 
 high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there 
 
And Their Fulfillment 103 
 
 shall they lie in a good fold and in a fat pasture 
 shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 
 
 No better recapitulation of the fulfillment of this very 
 great prophecy could be made than the mere restatement 
 of the prophecy itself : 
 
 I prophesied that the Saints would continue to suffer 
 much affliction — and would be driven to the Rocky 
 Mountains — many would apostatize — others would be put 
 to death by our persecutors — or lose their lives in con- 
 sequence of exposure or disease — and some of you will 
 go and assist in making settlements and build cities — 
 and see the Saints become a mighty people in the midst 
 of the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 The prophecy is both epilogue and prologue. Three- 
 quarters of a century recorded aforetime in ten lines. 
 They contain the tragedy of human woe — man's inhuman- 
 ity to man — the fierceness of human intolerance — the he- 
 roic achievement under stress of necessity — the failure of 
 some under strain — fortitude to highest victory in mar- 
 tyrdom — sacrificial victims on the altar of human bigotry 
 — the goal of achievement won by courageous persever- 
 ance — an empire rising out of the vales and crowning 
 the peaks where all but the Prophet saw vast worthless 
 wastes. 
 
 Time — truth — triumph. 
 
 Another prophecy concerning the deliverance of the 
 Saints from the oppression of their intolerant foes was 
 made by Joseph Smith on February 25, 1844. In re- 
 cording the occurrences at an evening prayer meeting 
 the Prophet wrote: 
 
 "I gave some instructions and prophesied that 
 within five years we would be out of the power of 
 
104 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 our enemies, whether they were apostates, or of the 
 world, and told the brethren to record it, that when 
 it comes to pass, they cannot say they had forgotten 
 the saying." (Vol. 6, p. 225, Church History.) 
 
 This prophecy is to be found regularly recorded in 
 the annals of the Church. It appeared in its chronolog- 
 
 ! PresRleriFYoung went to Kn'oivlt'on'g settle- 
 ; merit on Bear Creek, and preached. 
 
 ! Sunday, 25.— I preached at the Temple 
 
 Block. Hynirri' also preached. 
 
 ; Evening I attended prayer meeting in the 
 
 ! Assembly Room. We prayed that Kiem 
 
 j Smith's views of the powers and policy of the 
 
 | United States" might be spread far and, wide, 
 
 1 r and he the means of opening the hearts of the 
 
 people.. I gave some important instructions, 
 
 and prophesied that within five years we should 
 
 be out of the power of our old enemies, whether 
 
 they were apostates or of the* world, and tola 
 
 ; the brethren to record it, that when it comen 
 
 [to pass they need not say they had forgotten 
 
 [the saying;. 
 
 i Some rain in the evening, cloudy and foggv, 
 i Monday, 26.— At home," a cold wind from 
 I the north. ^ Rainy, duii day. . / • ; 
 ! ^In the afternoon held court at the Mansion, 
 . City . of Kauvoo vs. Orsimus. F« Bostwick, 
 ' on complaint of Hyram Smith, for slanderous 
 
 Prophecy of Joseph Smith concerning the Saints being out of 
 the power of their "old enemies" within five years from February 
 25th, 1844. This prophecy was published in the Deseret News, in 
 the regular course of the Church History, which was being pub- 
 lished in that paper. This reproduction was taken from the issue 
 of June 3, 1857* 
 
And Their Fulfillment 105 
 
 ical place in every printed history running through the 
 various periodicals in which the history was at first pub- 
 lished. We reproduce the print as it appeared in the 
 Deseret News, in 1857. 
 
 Five years from that date, February 25, 1844, the 
 headquarters of the Church, and many thousand of its 
 members, were safely located in the Rocky Mountains, 
 beside the Great Inland Sea. They were fully one thou- 
 sand miles from their hostile neighbors of Missouri and 
 Illinois who had driven them out into the wilderness. 
 Yet they had a different, but no less determined foe to 
 overcome. For about this time they were battling for 
 their existence in the great grasshopper war. In that 
 tragic conflict every vestige of their substance was dread- 
 fully threatened. But they were literally separated by a 
 thousand miles of trackless waste from their human en- 
 emies. There were not even vindictive apostates to assail 
 or betray. "They were out of the power of their en- 
 emies!" 
 
106 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 America— The Cradle of Humanity 
 
 "We have obtained a Land of Promise, 
 A land which is choice above all other lands. 
 If iniquity shall abound, cursed shall be the land. 
 But unto the righteous it shall be blessed forever.' 5 
 
 — Book of Mormon. 
 
 From time immemorial the Garden of Eden has been 
 regarded as having been somewhere on the eastern 
 hemisphere. Within recent times its location has been 
 supposedly determined. Biblical traditions seemed to 
 place it in those parts with which the Bible-reading world 
 was familar, and very naturally so. The New World was 
 entirely out of consideration in connection with such 
 matters for obvious reasons. 
 
 Science and revelation are free. They are not bound 
 by tradition. Their objectives are truth and light. 
 Their mission seems to be the breaking down of false 
 traditions and ridding the world of error. Of the 
 two, revelation is infallible, while science is hon- 
 estly striving as hand-maid to truth. True science and 
 revelation are always in harmony, though the former 
 may require time to reach the perfect development of the 
 truth that the latter releases as a flood of light decend- 
 ing from heaven. 
 
 In a revelation given to Joseph Smith, March 28, 
 1835, at Kirtland, Ohio, the following appears: 
 
 "Three years previous to the death of Adam, he 
 called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, 
 and Methuselah, who were all High Priests, with 
 the residue of his posterity who were righteous, into 
 
And Their Fulfillment 107 
 
 the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and there bestowed 
 upon them his last blessing. 
 
 "And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose 
 up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the 
 Prince, the Archangel. 
 
 "And the Lord administered comfort unto Adam, 
 and said unto him, I have set thee to be at the head — 
 a multitude of nations shall come of thee, and thou 
 art a prince over them forever. 
 
 "And Adam stood up in the midst of the congre- 
 gation, and notwithstanding he was bowed down with 
 age, being full of the Holy Ghost, predicted what- 
 soever should befall his posterity unto the latest gen- 
 eration. 
 
 "These things were all written in the book of 
 Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time." 
 
 In section 116 of the Doctrine and Covenants the ex- 
 act location of Adam-ondi-Ahman is placed by revela- 
 tion at Spring Hill, Davis county, Missouri. 
 
 Thus revelation, without regard to time-honored tra- 
 dition, proclaims America as the land whereon man 
 made his advent. 
 
 To science the question may still be an open one, she 
 always opens the door to truth but seldom closes it. 
 
 It is interesting to discover what the disclosures of 
 science are in this connection. With no attempt at 
 anything like a thorough survey of the great field of 
 speculation and knowledge on the subject, we introduce 
 here some statements which seem to generously support, 
 if not completely confirm, the revelation given to Jo- 
 seph Smith on the matter. 
 
 Agassiz, the great American scientist, eloquently 
 speaks thus on the subject: 
 
108 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 "First born among the continents, though so 
 much later in culture and civilization than some of 
 more recent birth, America, so far as her physical 
 history is concerned, has been falsely denominated 
 the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted 
 out of the waters, hers the first shore washed by the 
 ocean that enveloped all the earth beside; and 
 while Europe was represented only by islands ris- 
 ing here and there above the sea, America already 
 stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova 
 Scotia to the far west." 
 
 Writing of the antiquity of man in America, John 
 Fiske, in his "Discovery of America," says: 
 
 "It is altogether probable that the people whom 
 the Spaniards found in America came by migra- 
 tion from the old world. But it is by no means 
 probable that their emigration occurred within so 
 short a period as five or six thousand years. A 
 series of observations and discoveries kept up for 
 the last half century seem to show that North Amer- 
 ica has been continuously inhabited by human beings 
 since the earliest Pleistocene times, if not earlier." 
 
 Writing on the same subject, Thomas Jefferson, said: 
 
 "I suppose the settlement of our continent is of the 
 most remote antiquity; the similitude between its in- 
 habitants and those of the eastern part of Asia, 
 render it probable that ours are descended from 
 them, or they from ours. The latter is my opinion, 
 founded on this single fact. Among the red in- 
 habitants of Asia there are but few languages radi- 
 cally different; but among our Indians, the number 
 
And Their Fulfillment 109 
 
 of languages is infinite, which are so radically dif- 
 ferent as to exhibit at present no appearance of their 
 having been derived from a common source. The 
 time necessary for the generation of so many lan- 
 guages must be immense." 
 
 Commenting on Mr. Jefferson's deductions, the Ameri- 
 cana proceeds with this contribution to the subject: 
 
 "Since his time, however, scientific research, in its 
 wonderful progress, has developed other reasons for 
 the truth of the theory. Scientists have examined, 
 in America, the skeletons of past geological ages 
 and the remains of dead human beings which gave 
 evidence of as early existence here as any yet found 
 outside of America. ... As early, however, as 
 they indicate the presence of man in the eastern 
 hemisphere, there have been findings of his relics 
 and his bones in America, which show his presence 
 here as early, if not earlier. Evidences of man in 
 America during the Quaternary age, which some 
 geologists estimate as two hundred thousand years 
 ago, while others make the time much longer, have 
 been found in the sands and gravels drifted by gla- 
 cial currents and in localities with surroundings 
 possibly indicating the Tertiary age. . . . They 
 were found imbedded in the sands and gravel, which 
 clearly indicated that they had reposed undisturbed 
 ever since they had been deposited there by the gla- 
 cial flood which deposited the sands and pebbles 
 around them. The hard stone of which they had 
 been made could not have been worn or chipped 
 into the shape they bore by any force except that of 
 the hand of man, and hence it is inferred that man 
 was there when the current of the melting ice of the 
 
110 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 early glacial period bore them there. This would 
 take man back thousands of years beyond the Qua- 
 ternary age to his possible existence in America in 
 the Tertiary age. 
 
 "America possibly had citizens to spare while the 
 eastern hemisphere was void of inhabitants." 
 
 This article thus concludes: 
 
 "In the midst of these perplexities, we can have 
 no reason to doubt that the power which is said to 
 have created man in Asia might have created him 
 elsewhere, and placed him in habitable quarters in 
 America before any part of the eastern hemisphere 
 was ready for his occupancy. The first formed rocks 
 which have yet been seen upon the globe, and the 
 earliest forms of life yet discovered, and the oldest 
 human relics which have yet been found, were in 
 America. If, therefore, man first lived and died and 
 laid down his bones in the western world before he 
 died and laid them down in the eastern hemisphere, 
 why should we look for his origin in the east instead 
 of the west? Why not claim him where we first find 
 his remains, instead of troubling ourselves about the 
 time of his coming and the place whence he came? 
 The Orientals have not been able in thousands of 
 years to fix the latitude and longitude of the Garden 
 of Eden, where the human race is claimed to have 
 first begun existence, and as the question is still 
 open, the occidentals may reasonably claim Ameri- 
 ca as the first land above the ocean and the first in- 
 habited by man, until the proof is made clear of an 
 earlier inhabited continent." 
 
And Their Fulfillment 111 
 
 The Prophecy Regarding Stephen A. 
 Douglas 
 
 A prophecy of surpassing interest, and one of trans- 
 cending importance to the person affected, is the one 
 made by Joseph Smith with respect to the life and destiny 
 of Judge Stephen A. Douglas. 1 Judge Douglas was sit- 
 ting on the bench of the Illinois judiciary during the 
 residence of the Latter-day Saints in that state. He tried 
 some of the cases in which Joseph Smith was defendant. 
 He was at other times a candidate for office and had 
 reason to be informed on all public matters and acquaint- 
 ed with all people of influence and repute. An inti- 
 mate and friendly relationship existed between him and 
 the "Mormon" leader. On one occasion the judge and 
 Joseph Smith had a long and important meeting, during 
 w T hich the story of the expulsion of the Latter-day Saints 
 from Missouri was narrated to the judge. This interview 
 occupied fully three hours, and brought forth words of 
 
 Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was a self-made man of tre- 
 mendous energy, a masterful politician, and an unrivaled debater. 
 He came from a Vermont farm to the new western country, as a 
 very young man, and rose rapidly through minor offices to a 
 judgeship in the supreme court in Illinois. He was sent to the 
 House of Representatives in 1843, and to the Senate in 1846. 
 Although then but thirty-three years of age, Douglas immediately 
 assumed an important place in the Senate, through his brilliam 
 powers of debate. He was soon recognized as the leader of the 
 Democratic party in the north, and after the death of Calhoun, 
 Clay and Webster, he became the foremost figure in American 
 public life. 
 
112 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 condemnation for the state officials of Missouri because 
 of the culpability and turpitude of their conduct with 
 respect to the treatment of the "Mormon" people. 
 
 The conference, both cordial and friendly, terminated 
 rather dramatically by the "Mormon" prophet making 
 this remarkable prediction concerning Mr. Douglas: 
 
 "Judge, you will aspire to the presidency of the 
 United States ; and if you ever turn your hand against 
 me or the Latter-day Saints, you will feel the weight 
 of the hand of Almighty God upon you; and you 
 will live to see and know that I have testified the 
 truth to you, for the conversation of this day will 
 stick to you through life." 
 
 This prophecy was made on the eighteenth day of May, 
 1843. William Clayton was present on the occasion, and 
 to him we are indebted for the record of the incident. 
 
 At the time of this event, Stephen A. Douglas was in 
 his thirtieth year and though a bright and promising 
 young man, he was scarcely known outside of his own 
 state. He was decidedly lacking a national reputation. 
 As time swept on, his political career took definite shape 
 and he was elected to the Congress of the United States, 
 serving in both bodies. There he became a conspicuous 
 character and had much to do with the slavery question. 
 His abilities soon won for him the recognized leadership 
 of the Democratic party. 
 
 While the star of Douglas was rapidly ascending to 
 its zenith, the Deseret News, a small weekly paper pub- 
 lished in the city of the Great Salt Lake, printed the in- 
 terview of Douglas and Joseph Smith, giving the proph- 
 ecy in full. This incident appeared in the regular order 
 of the History of the Church which was then being pub- 
 
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 TTie Deseret News publishes the prophecy concerning Stephen 
 A. Douglas, in 1856, in the regular course of the History of the 
 Church, which was then appearing in that weekly periodical. This 
 was four years prior to the series of dramatic events which com- 
 pletely fulfilled the prophecy. 
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114 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 lished in weekly instalments in that paper. This was in 
 the year 1856. In that year the Democrats passed over 
 their great leader, Stephen A. Douglas and nominated 
 James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania. The Democratic 
 party was successful in the election, Buchanan receiving 
 one hundred and seventy-four electoral votes and Fremont 
 receiving one hundred and fourteen. The presidential bee 
 was busily buzzing in the Douglas bonnet during that 
 year. One historian has this to say of the political situa- 
 tion of that year : 
 
 "It is true that Douglas could not hope to win the 
 Democratic nomination for president without the 
 favor of the South, and perhaps this fact is suffi- 
 cient to account for his willingness to open the 
 Kansas-Nebraska territory to slavery. For the men 
 who in all probability would be his rivals for the 
 nomination in 1856, were all, in one way or an- 
 other, courting the favor of the South. These men 
 were President Pierce, who was almost slavishly 
 following the guidance of his Secretary of War, Jef- 
 ferson Davis; Secretary of State, Marcey, who advo- 
 cated the annexation of Cuba; and our minister to 
 England, Buchanan, who signed the Ostend Mani- 
 festo." 
 In 1856 and 1857 the people of the east were greatly 
 agitated over the "Mormons," because of rumors and 
 dramatic stories that were brought to them by every 
 tneans of communication then available. They were sto- 
 ries of crime, outrages, disloyalty and high treason. 
 Campaigners like effective issues. So Douglas, delib- 
 eratly disregarding the advice and fearful warning of 
 Joseph Smith, given in 1843, stepped upon the platform 
 and took a hand in the "Mormon" affair. His long 
 
gSfOaY OF J03BPH SMITH. 
 
 .May, IHYS. 
 
 
 . and can only be discej 
 cannot see it. bnt w! 
 
 ee that it is all 
 
 • purer eyr 
 
 bodies "a 
 
 
 The priest seemed pleased with" 
 ■S^Tl^-lKn-tna h uing anived at Vol- ^- and slated hi* i.it.Mitioii to j i s !t Xauvoo. 
 ■***{'. ,. f .. .„ o..ir./.v t-i«h tii^rT- ; A conference was h*id tu the Co!umu!a:i 
 t»«fcWe rode home to.^e-JK'i; on out w,n nc J > *- . , - 
 
 2tfa short time at hro.PeWs. Brothers < branches, hi-h pnests,^ ^er«, W pnos,». 
 SB A &nith«:id -W. Woodruff -rode it. my l0 t^'ici.ers, o deacons, aiuv-^. members were 
 ^1 was asked if the hoiso would stand representee; -li» have be,n hapten su.ee las 
 *P\ \ ■ ! i -. ..»•*.!•. ^ v<»« h>>«- 5 ,evfM conference, roanv have moved to Jwiuvoo. and 
 
 «*** 'f Jh ^ Jn/ dr ;/ ^ »*ve been excommunicated. Foot ciders 
 
 rtfciwperty t» the m,uu 01 judgmeat o. a ^ ^ ^.^ ^ ^^^ * 
 
 ^Mlowin, is from the jcrnal of Geo. : Jh«™day, IWWMeK M^lojU about Si 
 
 BtiBotortous anti-Mormon, at ureen i jams, j . ? *4 
 
 iS^^^^sjI^.t'tL^e \a ^ver^/^^a -itb Judge Stephen A, Doughy 
 ■CSm phi south or the house.- Jo?!*^ « F^«5 ft court.. After dmucr au; ge. 
 fcrtrov opinion of W. W. Phelps as an Douglass requited Pre* alent Joseph to gne 
 5 told him thatleon.idere/phelp, 1 ^ a br story ot the M:s*>nn persoc. .on 
 ip-rt of an editor, and that was tie ' ^iich he did in a' very iflinaie mam*r tor, 
 rwhen it came to- the cool discretion aboat three hours; he aiso .fcavo a relaUotiui 
 kiy intrusted to an editor in the control M* J^rm-y to Vy aslmurton c v, and h,s apm.-j 
 |#opiniom the soothing of enmity, hcS^tiou in beliatr of tbe^i >u. to M V ; u , 
 
 - --.- . <*Knr*n. i Ste Pi eminent ■ O L < Ji.ir;.....i._.-u. Lgii .^~ -...-. --.-J >t 
 
 aies were, from six to eight inches in I 
 
 srence; much damage done. 
 
 l*fey, lb. — At 11 o'clock, 1, with George ! 
 
 gWilliam Clayton, Eliza and Lvdi.ipa'r- : 
 
 |pmd J, JM. Smith, started for Carthage, ! 
 
 we tarried about 1 half an hour convers- j 
 
 ^different individuals; when we started j 
 
 i«$; arrived about Z\ p.m., and stayed j 
 
 k G. Perkins' for the evening then [ 
 
 |§£, P: Johnson's with William Clayton ; 
 
 Before retiring, I gave brother and' 
 
 bnson sotnednstructionsf on the priest- ! 
 
 I patting. my hand on the knee of 'Wit- j 
 
 lid, « Your life -is hid with Christ in | 
 
 .-so are many others; nothing but the [ 
 
 ^ able sin can prevent yo;i from inher- | 
 
 Jferaal glory, for yon are^seaded up hy the] 
 
 §of the priesthood unto eternal life,] 
 
 ken the step necessary for that pur- j 
 
 | a man and his -wife- enter into apt" 
 
 w * covenant, arid be "married for 'eter^j 
 Idle in this probation, by$he power and! 
 $£ of "the holy priesthood, they willf 
 ^increase-when they diz> that is, thatf? 
 %$vl haye any children after the i'esur-|| 
 
 3ufc'tho3e who are marrietl by theft 
 |aud authority of the priesthood in tbi^f 
 f eoatiajie without committing the sini 
 r^the Holy Ghost, will continue to in-I 
 ild hs^e children in the celestial glory.f 
 pardonable stn is to shed innoeent blood., 
 
 «aorv thereto; all other sins will be 
 
 • President Smith, in concluding his remarks, : 
 said, that ifvthe government v.h'ch received 
 into hs 'coiTris the mone\; of ' citizens for its 
 public lands, while its officials are roiling in : 
 luxury /l* the expense of its public treasury,! 
 cannot protect such citizens in their lives and ; 
 property, it is an old granny anyhow, and I : 
 prouhesy in the name of the Lord God of is-! 
 rael, that unless file United States redress the! 
 wrongs committed upon (he Saints in the State i 
 of Missouri and punish the crimes committed j 
 by her oificers, th it in a.few years the govern- j 
 meat will be. utterly overthrown and wasted,) 
 and there will not be so much as. a potsherd ; 
 lift, for their wickedness in permitting the \ 
 murder of men, women and children, and the! 
 wholesale plunder and extermination of thou- J 
 sands of her citizens to ^o unpunished; thereof, 
 perpetrating a foul and corroding blot up„an the, 
 lair ..fame of this great republic, the very 
 thought of which would have caused the high 
 minted' and patriotic framers of the Constitu- 
 tion of t&e. J^nited States to. hide their faces 
 with shame. - Judge yon will aspire to the 
 Presidency of the United States, and if ever 
 you tirra your hand against me or the Latter 
 i>ay Saints, y on will feel the weight of the 
 hand of the Almighty upon von; and you will 
 Jive to see and Snow thai I haye testified the 
 truth to you, for-the conversation of this ddy 
 will stick to you through life. i 
 
 He appears very friendly, and acknowledged j 
 the truth and propriety of President Smith's*] 
 remarks " --•*' 
 
 Stephen A. Douglas prophecy published in the Deseret News, 
 in 1856, four years before its complete fulfillment. 
 
116 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 acquaintance with the Latter-day Saints, his eminence 
 as a public man, together with his brilliant abilities as 
 an orator made his speech upon the subject a momentous 
 one. It was delivered at Springfield, Illinois, June 12, 
 1857. A complete report of the address was published 
 in the Missouri Republican, exactly six days later. Ac- 
 cording to that report the great Douglas handled the 
 question "without gloves." He grouped his arraignment 
 of the "Mormon" people under three headings, some- 
 thing like this: 
 
 I. Nine-tenths of the inhabitants of Utah territory are 
 foreign-born. They refuse to become citizens, or to recog- 
 nize the Government of the United States as permanent 
 authority. 
 
 II. "Mormons" are bound by horrible oaths, and terri- 
 ble penalties to recognize and maintain the authority of 
 Brigham Young as paramount to that of the United States. 
 And that they expect ultimately to subvert the Govern- 
 ment of the United States to that of Brigham Young. 
 
 III. That this alien government of Brigham Young 
 is forming alliance with the Indian tribes, inciting them 
 to hostility and organizing bands of "Danites" or "de- 
 stroying angels," etc., etc. 
 
 Now read his own words : 
 
 "Let us have these facts in official shape before 
 the president and Congress and the country wilJ 
 learn that in the performance of the high and solemn 
 duty devolving upon the executive and Congress 
 there will be no vascilating or hesitating policy. It 
 will be as prompt as the peal that follows the flash 
 — as stern and unyielding as death. Should such a 
 state of things actually exist as we are led to infer 
 from the reports — and such information comes in an 
 
And Their Fulfillment 117 
 
 official shape — the knife must be applied to this 
 pestiferous, disgusting cancer which is gnawing into 
 the very vitals of the body politic. It must be cut 
 out by the roots and seared over by the red hot iron 
 of stern, unflinching law. ... To protect them 
 further in their treasonable, disgusting and bestial 
 practices would be a disgrace to the country — a dis- 
 grace to humanity — a disgrace to civilization, and a 
 disgrace to the spirit of the age," etc., etc. 
 
 (See Senator Douglas' advice to Joseph Smith through 
 Orson Hyde, page 59.) 
 
 The mail was carried wi*h emigrant trains in those 
 days, consequently the papers containing this arraign- 
 ment of the "Mormon" people did not reach Great Salt 
 Lake City for some weeks. On Sept. 2, 1857, the whole 
 editorial page of the courageous little Deseret News was 
 devoted to a reprint of and answer to Mr. Douglas' bitter 
 speech. Albert Carrington was editor of the News at the 
 time. The editorial runs over the allotted page and con- 
 cludes elsewhere in the same issue with this incomparably 
 bold and fearless rebuke and overwhelming condemna- 
 tion. After reviewing Judge Douglas' vehement de- 
 nunciation of the Latter-day Saints the editor addresses 
 Douglas as though it were Joseph Smith reiterating his 
 warning of fourteen years before: 
 
 "That you may thoroughly understand that you 
 have voluntarily, knowingly and of choice sealed 
 your damnation, and by your own chosen course have 
 closed your chance for the presidential chair, 
 through disobeying the council of Joseph, which you 
 formerly sought and prospered by following, a^d 
 that you in common with us, may testify to all the 
 world that Joseph Smith was a true Prophet, the 
 
204 
 
 THE DESERET NEWS. 
 
 
 ^ ^:-r:-.y _Jf$ 7 
 
 ALBERT 'CARRINOTOX,' EDITOR. 
 
 j 
 GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2. 
 
 COMMENTS 
 
 w 
 
 UPON 
 
 "Tho Eem&rlis of Hon. Stephen Am Did Doug- 
 las, 
 delivered in* tut: statk norsw at -fpkincj- 
 
 FFKLO. ILLINOIS, OX THE lOTil .TrSK, 1R5;; ,? 
 AKP PKTNTKD IX TUB MISSOURI JlEi*U ; BLliUN 
 OF JUNE 18. 
 
 In compliance with a request, Senator Doug- 
 las remarked at some length upon the three 
 following 'points*; 
 
 "1st. The present condition and prospects! 
 of Kmmn. 1 
 
 2nd. Ti) e pr i n c i pi e $ af»i r in ed .by t h e P ! i nr r m e j 
 Court of the United States in the Dred Scott! 
 ease. 
 
 3rd. The condition of filings in Utah, and 
 the appropriate remedies for existing evils." 
 
 The Senator's remarks upon his 1st and 2nd 
 points will be passed over very briefly, as the j| 
 
 past and present condition of affairs in Kansas j 
 are very well understood; and it is not prob-.j 
 able that either the pro or anti slavery parry ; ; 
 
 Editorial comment on the famous speech of Douglas on the Mor- 
 mon question, in which he recommended the "pestiferous . . . 
 cancer must but cut out by the very roots, and seared over by the 
 red-hot iron of stern, unflinching law." 
 
Jraiiii> vnat you nmy nave »— i 
 
 lesihnony of the truth of the* a^rtions that yoa 
 did knot?/ Joseph £.hd this people and .the charac- 
 ter of th'-ir enemies, {>ud neither class have ^ 
 changed, only as the Saints b «ve heeorne E?:TTEa | 
 irid theirenennes worse.) and also that you may 
 thoroughly uuaVmand that yon have voluntarily, 
 knowingly, and of choice sealed your damnation 
 uid by your ov,- i eho*?*M coarse hive closed your 
 »:iij:; f j{.: for the Pre-s ideaii.il chair, tlircugh dlso- 
 ')< ying the counsel of Joseph, which yoft formerly 
 oi!/hf, and prospered by foUowirg, and that yoa, 
 In common with. us, may testify to all the world 
 tint 3 sZ<> if U svaa a trne Prophet, the following ex- 
 tract (torn the * History of Joseph S;mih' i* vgdiu 
 printed for your benefit and U kindly recem- 
 
 I feuded to your careful perusal and most candid 
 
 ! eonsiu« r > io - — 
 
 [Jfroui the Deseret Xcws, S*p, £G ? 1C5';.] 
 
 Tlnn ?d*y, M ty 18, r : 4'j. — We left Macefhir.ft | 
 b > ti 8f.< a. fii./aiti arihvd a- C;: thane at JO.. 
 T * ' 1 owing brief ^ce »nut ;s ?r m the jour- J 
 
 ■ \\ ..! am Cjavt(!ti, who w«s i^resent: — 
 "DiurjiJ vvhh Judge Sr«;»heji A. I> ;u£la* f wlie j 
 ta irv? Imflr at rourt. Ar>r*d : n;ier Judge DoU£- . 
 la* r^qu**,- ed Pre*? 'dent Ju-ej h to give him a his- j 
 lory ol tic Ml-houii per^onU^, winch he Ck! In | 
 a very minute maiui r for aboU tht\~2 h m«; he j 
 $!*o £ *ve a relation of his j un^vlo \Va ; h:ir- j 
 tea ci'\% :nd hi* r-v;h'«t;ju In behalf of lha I 
 BuMs -o Mr. V:,!, i: tan, tU Pv *-\i,-ui of the j 
 
 h<'d 8'rl"-, lo ; renre>«, h?.il .ur. V :m BureriNi 
 nu€ .;!.■»::!.'' eu - re:n y» ; C*eu ' .lem'-MV, vo* *r c m e the 
 just, httt I can do no-.hte**- Tor v*.**.;;' and <; ,.^ l?M 
 i t:nfWlti:& mj.ime.rjlj ..which he wax treated by ;;i-,*it 1 
 
 ^£ fAe conclusion of the editorial answering Mr. Douglas, the 
 Deseret News reprints the prophecy of Joseph Smith, which it 
 printed the year previous, for his "benefit and careful perusal" 
 boldly adding that he had sealed his own doom and had "closed 
 his chances for the Presidential chair." This was in 1857, three 
 years before his nomination and subsequent defeat. 
 
120 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 following extract from the history of Joseph Smith 
 is again printed for your benefit, and is kindly 
 recommended to your careful perusual and most 
 candid consideration." 
 
 Then followed the prophecy which was printed in the 
 same paper on September 24th of the year previous. "God 
 is not mocked; as ye sow, so shall ye reap." 
 
 Now mark the course of this man standing within 
 reaching distance of the highest of earthly honors. 
 
 This was the anti-climax of his career. He was an 
 avowed candidate for the presidency and by reason of 
 his unequalled leadership, his commanding position 
 seemed to be without a rival. Yet he had put at naught 
 the word of God. Writing of him in 1858, Muzzey says: 
 
 "Towards the end of Douglas' second term in the 
 United States Senate, he returned to his own state in 
 the summer of 1858 to promote his political inter- 
 ests. He was in disgrace with the administration 
 and in considerable private embarrassment. A great 
 part of his fortune had been swept away by a severe 
 financial panic which had come upon the country in 
 1857, as a result of over-confidence in the early 
 fifties and too sanguine investments in western farms 
 and railways. 
 
 "The great conventions of 1860, which were to 
 nominate candidates for the most important presi- 
 dential election in our history, began with the meet- 
 ing of the delegates at Charleston, South Carolina, 
 April 23rd. Six states bolted the convention over an 
 unwillingness to accept the Douglas platform which 
 stood for popular sovereignty. These bolters were 
 intense believers in slavery as a right — a moral, so- 
 cial and political right." 
 
And Their Fulfillment 121 
 
 "The two wings of the Democratic party re-as- 
 sembled in June, at Baltimore, the 'regulars' nomin- 
 ated Douglas and the pro-slavery 'bolters' nominated 
 John Breckinridge, vice-president under Buchanan." 
 
 The wildest enthusiasm followed the nomination of Mr. 
 Douglas. His popularity, his brilliant talents in debate, 
 his political leadership, his senatorial achievements gave 
 him great advantage, especially over the unknown, un- 
 gainly, western man whom the Republicans had named in 
 the "Wigwam" at Chicago. Another advantage or as- 
 surance seemed to exist in the comfortable majority the 
 people had given the then present Democratic administra- 
 tion. Lincoln and Douglas stumped the country together. 
 Their debates were epoch-making of themselves. But 
 when the returns of that November 6th election were all 
 canvassed, the "rail splitter," "honest Abe" Lincoln was 
 found to have received 180 votes of the electoral college 
 while Douglas received but 12. Only two states in the 
 electoral college voted for Stephen A. Douglas. They 
 were Missouri and New Jersey. 
 
 Scarcely anything remains to be said of Mr. Douglas 
 after that unhappy, fateful political contest. Twenty 
 days less than one year after his nomination by the demo- 
 cratic convention, "while yet in the prime of his man- 
 hood, — 48 years of age — Stephen A. Douglas died at his 
 home in Chicago, a disappointed, not to say, broken- 
 hearted man." 
 
 After his defeat Apostle Orson Hyde wrote him a per- 
 sonal letter which the Deseret News published in Novem- 
 ber of that year. This letter, which is reproduced from 
 the files of the News possesses the value of identifying 
 another witness to this remarkable prophecy. 
 
 The divine inspiration of this great manifestation is 
 
THE LATTER-DAY FAINTS' 
 
 MILLENNIAL STAK. 
 
 *' We hane almmmtire sure word #f prophecy ; ichereunto yrdo well that ye t>.:keh??ti, as m>ite a Unfit 
 thutshineth in u dark place-, until the dav dawn and the dwj star arise in y&ttr hfari.,i. ,t — Pktek. 
 
 No. 9, Vol, XXI. 
 
 Saturday, February 26, 1859. 
 
 Price Cue Petny, 
 
 President 
 marks, said 
 
 Smith, 
 
 HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH* 
 
 in concluding his re- | ordained brother 
 
 > 
 
 ~7< 
 
 L Jnd ? e '- 
 
 you wlir aspire to liSe "Presidency oITThe 
 United States ; and if you ever turn 
 your hand against me or the Latter-day 
 Saints, you will feel the weight of the 
 hand of the Almighty upon you; and you 
 will live to see and knpw that I have tes- 
 tified the truth to you; for the conversation 
 of this day will stick to you through life. 
 
 He appeared very friendly, arid acknow~ 
 ledged the truth and propriety of President 
 Smith's remarks/* )f 
 
 worthy of thg o 
 
 IL Anderson vii 
 ment in Lee C< 
 Spent three wi 
 one Priest, and 
 La Salle Court; 
 Prom thence^ 
 visited a large I 
 con sin Territoi 
 dation of a g? 
 There are now; 
 
 Prophecy concerning Stephen A. Douglas, published in the 
 above periodical in 1859. 
 
SRET NEWS. 
 
 ^^v-SN^^-JS ■^/• > -^r- i ^ J -'' ^^-HigiVy^ v^a 
 
 JUDGE~ DOUGLAS." 
 
 Ephraim, Utah Territory, 
 Nov. 27, 1860. 
 
 Will the Judge now acknowledge that 
 Joseph' Smith was a true Prophet? If he will 
 not, does he recollect a certain conversation 
 had with Mr* Smith, at the hoMe of Sheriff 
 Backenstos, in Carthage, Illinois, in the year 
 1843, in which Mr^ Smith said to him: "You 
 will yet aspire to the Presidency of the United 
 States. But if you ever raise your hand, or 
 your voice against the Latter Day Saints, 
 you shall never be President of the United 
 States." 
 
 Does Judge Douglas recollect that in a pub- 
 lic speech delivered by him in the year 1857, 
 at Springfield, Illinois, of comparing the Mor- 
 mon community, then constituting the inhabi- 
 tants of Utah Territory, to a "loathsome 
 ulcer on the body politic;" and of recom- 
 mending th* knife* to*be applied te cut it out? 
 
 Among other things the Judge will doubt- 
 less recollect that I was present and heacd the 
 conversation between him and Joseph Smith, 
 at Mr. Backenstos' residence in Carthage, be- 
 fore alluded to. 
 
 Now, Judge, what think you about Joseph 
 Smith and Mormonism? 
 
 ORSON HYDE. 
 
 Letter of Orson Hyde, addressed to Stephen A. Douglas, after 
 the election the results which fulfilled the prophecy of Joseph 
 Smith concerning Mr. Douglas. This letter also makes known 
 the fact that Mr. Hyde was present when this celebrated prophecy 
 was made. 
 
124 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 proven at the hands of time. Its genuineness is equally 
 well established. Its publication long prior to the cul- 
 minating events it foreshadowed are also proven beyond 
 a doubt. 
 
 It was first published in the Deseret News of September 
 24, 1856. It next appeared in the Millennial Star, a 
 Liverpool publication, in February, 1859. It was re- 
 published in the Deseret News in September of 1857. 
 
 Edward W. Tullidge, official historian for Salt Lake 
 City, whose work was published as late as 1885, says of 
 this Douglas prophecy: 
 
 4 
 
 "This prediction of the "Mormon" Prophet in his 
 conversation with Douglas is singularly authentic 
 and was published years before the Illinois Senator 
 recommended the Government to 'cut the loathsome 
 ulcer out. 5 " 
 
 It should be added that Mr. Tullidge was in no sense 
 an orthodox "Mormon." In fact at one time he left the 
 Church entirely. He was here in very early days and 
 was one of the most gifted men of letters in his time. 
 
 So, this incident, though entirely personal in its char- 
 acter, affords another piece of incontrovertible evidence 
 to the divine mission and inspiration of Joseph Smith. 
 Time — truth — triumph ! 
 
And Their Fulfillment 125 
 
 Book of Mormon— A Prophecy 
 
 The Book of Mormon is a prophecy of a new gospel 
 dispensation which was opened at the time of its coming 
 forth. 
 
 The Book of Mormon is a volume of prophecy and is 
 also the fulfillment of innumerable prophecies. It was 
 translated by Joseph Smith by "the gift and power of 
 God," and was published to the world in 1829 — a decade 
 less than a century ago. It purports to be a religious and 
 political history of distinct and separate peoples who 
 occupied this land at, for the most part, widely remote 
 periods. Both peoples were divinely led to this land 
 from the eastern hemisphere. 
 
 They, through their prophets, were in more or less 
 constant communication with the Deity. From him they 
 received a very clear and exalted conception of the mis- 
 sion and destiny of this land of America. To them it 
 was a "choice land," to be held in reserve until modern 
 times when its great role among the nations of the earth 
 would be played. Some one has said in recent times, 
 "One of God's greatest experiments, the development of 
 North America." 
 
 These declarations concerning the "land of liberty" — 
 America — are largely responsible for the lofty patriotism 
 of the Latter-day Saints. No people of religious develop- 
 ment could have a higher and more exalted conception 
 of the destiny and mission of their country than do the 
 Latter-day Saints. It is as deeply written in their souls as 
 
126 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 it is in the base and fabric of their sacred literature. God 
 hath spoken it, who can deny it? 
 
 So was it with the ancient inhabitants of the land. Here 
 are a few sentiments held by them concerning this land: 
 
 "The land of promise, which was choice above 
 all other lands, which the Lord God had preserved 
 for a righteous people; . . . 
 
 "And now we can behold the decrees of God con- 
 cerning this land, that it is a land of promise, and 
 whatsoever nation shall possess it, shall serve God, 
 or they shall be swept off when the fulness of his 
 wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of 
 his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened 
 in iniquity." . . . 
 
 1. "A choice landP 
 
 "The discovery of the New World by Columbus 
 was the most dramatic incident in the secular his- 
 tory of mankind. It may be in the moral vicissi- 
 tudes of the race something of heroism, of sacrifice 
 more grand and ennobling has occured; but among 
 the distinctly human events nothing so wonderful 
 and inspiring has ever been witnessed as the uplift 
 of the darkness and the revelation of the dawn on 
 that October morning when 'Land Ho!' was the cry 
 from the prow of the Pinta." — From Ellis' History 
 of Our Country. 
 
 Draper says: 
 
 "The discovery of America agitated Europe to its 
 deepest foundations. All classes of men were af- 
 fected. The populace at once went wild with the 
 lust of gold and a love of adventure. Well might 
 
And Their Fulfillment 127 
 
 Pomponius Laetus shed tears of joy when tidings of 
 the great event reached him. Well might Leo. X., a 
 few years later, sit up till far in the night reading to 
 his sister and his cardinals the 'Oceania' of Anghi- 
 era." 
 
 And these early enthusiasts on the greatness of Ameri- 
 ca had only a most meagre suggestion of her real great- 
 ness. She has in little more than a century developed 
 the greater portion of the world's wealth. She has with- 
 in the last five years, literally saved a war-mad world 
 from starvation, as well as from a merciless and tyran- 
 nical despotism. She is creditor to Europe in many bil- 
 lions, and Europe, and humanity as a whole, are debtors 
 to America for something that cannot be measured in 
 treasure — the introduction of a genuine democracy in the 
 earth, and finally, its complete preservation, if not its 
 perpetuation for all time to come. 
 
 Speaking of America's resources, an authority of fi- 
 nance made this remarkable disclosure concerning what 
 our country was able to do during the recent war : 
 
 "In the few months that we were engaged in war, 
 the expenditures made, the obligations authorized by 
 the Government exceed all the expenditures of our 
 Government for all purposes during the prior one 
 hundred and forty years, including the cost of all 
 the wars we have fought; of all the pensions we have 
 paid; of all the buildings and public works the Gov- 
 ernment has constructed; of all the navies we had 
 built and all the canals we had dug; yet after all this 
 tremendous outlay our resources were not seriouslv 
 strained. Had it been necessary to win the war, all 
 that expenditure of treasure would have been re- 
 peated over and over again and again; and the loyal- 
 
128 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 ty and patriotism of our people would have sup- 
 ported the program and our resources would have 
 withstood the strain." 
 
 And of her political mission was it not written in the 
 ages past: "And he will lift up an ensign to the nations 
 from afar?" 
 
 Has she not been the political hope of humanity from 
 the day of her founding? 
 
 Of the importance of her place in the world let the 
 great Webster speak: 
 
 "If in our case, the representative system ulti- 
 mately fails, popular governments must be pro- 
 nounced impossible. No combination of circum- 
 stances more favorable to the experiment can ever 
 be expected to occur. The last hopes of mankind, 
 therefore rest with us; and if it should be proclaimed 
 that our example had become an argument against 
 the experiment, the knell of popular liberty would 
 be sounded throughout the earth." 
 
 In the light of the important part which America has 
 played in the world's great war she was obviously proven 
 to be "a choice land, which the Lord God had re- 
 served for a righteous people," as well as for a sacred 
 and worthy purpose. It is as plain to the world today 
 as it was to those ancient American prophets that God 
 had a mission and a destiny for America. 
 
 2. "And he that fighteth against Zion shall perish, 
 saith God" 
 
 DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST BY SPAIN. 
 
 Immediately upon the discovery of America, the King 
 and Queen of Spain sent a representative to the court of 
 
And Their Fulfillment 129 
 
 Pope Alexander VI for the purpose of securing in them- 
 selves a good and sufficient title to the territory thus 
 found. Precedent had already paved the way, and with 
 the conviction evidently in mind that "pagans and infi- 
 dels have no lawful property in their lands and goods, 
 but that the children of God may rightfully take them 
 away," the bull was issued. Acting on the further as- 
 sumption that "all countries under the sun are subject 
 of right to papal disposal," the transfer was made to 
 Spain "in the fulness of apostolic power, of all lands 
 west and south of a line drawn from the arctic to the Ant- 
 arctic pole one hundred leagues west of the Azores." 
 (This must have been one of the largest real estate trans- 
 fers of the season ; at least it was the most important one. ) 
 
 It directed that unbelieving nations be subdued, "and 
 that no pains be spared in reducing the Indians to 
 Christianity." 
 
 Subsequent events prove with what nicety of expres- 
 sion that word "reduce" was used. The Indians were 
 even denied common Adamic descent. (Cortez and Piz- 
 zaro literally wrote their names across the vales and 
 mountains of Mexico and Peru in living streams of blood. 
 
 Under such headings as the ones that follow, Draper 
 describes the deeds of Spain in a land "consecrated to 
 human liberty:" 
 
 "The American Tragedy," and "The Crime of 
 Spain." 
 
 "The lust for gold was only too ready to find its 
 Justification in the obvious conclusion [viz.: that the 
 Indians were not members of the human family] ; 
 and the Spaniards, with appalling atrocity, proceeded 
 to act towards these unfortunates as though they did 
 not belong to the human race. Already their lands 
 10 
 
130 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 and goods had been taken from them by apostolic 
 authority. Their persons were next seized, under the 
 text that the heathen are given as an inheritance, 
 and the uttermost parts of the earth as a possession. 
 It was one unspeakable outrage, one unutterable 
 ruin, without discrimination of age or sex. Those 
 who died not under the lash in a tropical sun died 
 in the darkness of the mine. From sequestered sand- 
 banks, where the red flamingo fishes in the gray of 
 the morning; from fever-stricken mangrove thickets, 
 and the gloom of impenetrable forests; from hiding 
 places in the clefts of the rocks and the solitude of 
 invisible caves; from the eternal snows of the Andes, 
 where there was no witness but the all-seeing sun, 
 there went up to God a cry of human despair. By 
 millions upon millions, whole races and nations were 
 remorselessly cut off. The Bishop of Chiapa affirms 
 that more than fifteen millions were exterminated by 
 his time! From Mexico and Peru a civilization that 
 might have instructed Europe was crushed out." 
 
 Here Draper asks: "Is it for nothing that Spain has 
 been made a hideous skeleton among living nations?" 
 He answers: "Had not her punishment overtaken her, 
 men would have surely said, 'There is no retribution, 
 there is no God?" He continues in the fearful indict- 
 ment: "It has been her evil destiny to ruin two civili- 
 zations. Oriental and Occidental, and to be ruined 
 thereby herself. With circumstances of dreadful bar- 
 barity she expelled the Moors, who had become children 
 of her soil by as long a residence as the Normans have 
 had in England from William the Conqueror to our time. 
 In America she destroyed races more civilized than her- 
 self. Expulsion and emigration have deprived her of 
 
And Their Fulfillment 131 
 
 her best blood, her great cities have sunk into insignifi- 
 cance, and towns that once had more than a million of 
 inhabitants can now show only a few scanty thousands." 
 
 With such a history as this in a land which had been 
 dedicated to the cause of Freedom, little wonder that the 
 perpetrator of such crimes should meet a speedy and 
 withering judgment at the hands of the God who had 
 uttered these unalterable decrees. 
 
 And, as if to affirm and verify these decrees, this na- 
 tion some score of years ago, in the name of humanity 
 arose in righteous indignation and freed the hemisphere 
 of this ancient unconscionable despot. She was forced 
 to surrender her last Occidental possession when Cuba 
 was let free from her cruel grasp. And thus the greatest 
 prize, the richest possession ever held by earthly monarch 
 was lost to her forever. 
 
 God had declared centuries ago that he would "fortify 
 this land against all other nations," and it was further 
 decreed that "he that fighteth against Zion shall perish, 
 saith God." Thus the fatal verdict fell upon Spain. 
 
 3. "And I will fortify this land against all other na- 
 tions." 
 
 The great powers of the earth were contending for su- 
 premacy in the land. Spain was early on the recession 
 as the foresight of France turned her penetrating eye to- 
 ward America. England's superior statesmanship was 
 steadily supplanting France. Then the newly born na- 
 tion arose in resistence to the foreign encroachments. 
 
 "The armies rose from out the earth, 
 And great ships loomed upon the sea, 
 
 And Liberty had second birth 
 In blood and fire and victory!" 
 
132 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 Three great empires were exercising temporary domin- 
 ion over the land. Three sovereign powers with Eng- 
 land rapidly rising to supreme control. But the God of 
 this land had outlined an altogether different program. 
 Behold the miracle of the God of nations turing their 
 greedy conflicts into a glorious consummation of his 
 own well-defined plans and purposes! Let the old his- 
 torian Marcus Wilson, relate the wonderful story as he 
 interpreted the unfolding plans of the Almighty: 
 
 "Thus closed the most important war in which 
 England had ever been engaged, — a war which arose 
 wholly out of her ungenerous treatment of her 
 American colonies. The expense of blood and treas- 
 ure which this war caused England was enormous; 
 nor, indeed, did her European antagonists suffer 
 much less severely. The United States was the only 
 country that could look to any beneficial results 
 from the war, and these were obtained by a strange 
 union of opposing motives and principles unequalled 
 in the annals of history. France and Spain, the ar- 
 bitrary despots of the old world had stood forth as 
 the protectors of an infant republic, and had com- 
 , bined, contrary to all the principles of their politi- 
 cal faith, to establish the rising liberties of America. 
 They seemed but as blind instruments in the hands 
 of providence, employed to aid in the founding of 
 a nation which should cultivate those republican 
 virtues that were destined yet to regenerate the 
 world upon the principles of universal intelligence, 
 and eventually to overcome the time-worn system of 
 tyrannical usurpation of the few over the many." 
 
 4. "Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever na- 
 tion shall possess it, shall be free from bondage, 
 
And Their Fulfillment 133 
 
 and from captivity, and from all other nations un- 
 der heaven, if they will but serve the God of the 
 land, who is Jesus Christ" 
 
 The heritage of a righteous occupancy of the land of 
 America is perfect freedom. 
 
 The discoverers of America came as conquerors and 
 not as colonizers or home seekers. Lust for gold, and 
 love of conquest never built homes, but have destroyed 
 them by thousands. The Pilgrim Fathers, the Huguenots 
 and the Puritans were essentially home makers. They 
 came to this land to live, not to plunder and destroy. 
 Thus America received from the Old World the virile, 
 the serious, the home-loving, the heroic and the brave, 
 whom Webster befittingly styled "the best blood of 
 Europe." The home is the greatest paladium of freedom. 
 It is the greatest resist ent to encroachment. It is the 
 greatest inspiration to defensive combat. It is the great- 
 est justification and the surest foundation for independ- 
 ence. This is a land that can supply, more perfectly than 
 any other, the infinite variety of man's wants, hence, the 
 natural elements of home making are here. With these 
 abounding, independence becomes natural and also inev- 
 itable. 
 
 Thus while Spain, France, and England were engag- 
 ing in contests of diplomacy and strategy, often resort- 
 ing to arms, the real seeds of patriotism were making 
 sturdy growth in the thrifty colonies which were spread- 
 ing throughout New England. When once men become 
 tillers of the soil, which they call their own, a wholesome 
 and abiding patriotism becomes firmly rooted in it. So, 
 when a king of wretched mental endowments, pursuing 
 a narrow-minded policy, persists in levying oppressive 
 taxes upon the home of patriots, resentment is inevit- 
 
134 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 able. Thus England, unfortunate in having a reaction- 
 ary monarch on her throne, alienated the loyal colonist of 
 America and lost the greatest possession over which she 
 ever exercised sovereign authority. 
 
 It was inevitably so, however. The patriots at first 
 flouted the idea of separation. They patiently and hum- 
 bly plead for redress and adjustment of grievances. But 
 King George III. persisted in provoking them to resent- 
 ment. Let these noble declarations of causes and neces- 
 sity of taking up arms, as framed in Philadelphia in 
 1775, speak for their aspirations: 
 
 "Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our in- 
 ternal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign 
 assistance is undoubtedly obtainable. We grate- 
 fully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine 
 favor toward us, that his providence would not per- 
 mit us to be called into this severe controversy, un- 
 til we were grown up to our present strength, had 
 been previously exercised in war -like operations, and 
 possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With 
 hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we 
 most solemnly, before God and the world declare, 
 that, exerting the utmost energy of these powers, 
 which our beneficent Creator hath graciously be- 
 stowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by 
 our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of ev- 
 ery hazard, with unabating firmness and persever- 
 ance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; 
 being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather 
 than live slaves. 
 
 "Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds 
 of our friends and fellow subjects in any part of 
 the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dis- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 135 
 
 solve that union which has so long and so happily 
 subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish 
 to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into 
 that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any 
 other nation to war against them. We have not 
 raised armies with ambitious designs of separating 
 from Great Britain, and establishing independent 
 states. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We 
 exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a 
 people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without 
 any imputation or even suspicion of offense. They 
 boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet 
 proffer no milder conditions than servitude or 
 death." 
 
 Then came, contrary to their cherished traditions and 
 sincere wishes, the inevitable step by which "whatsoever 
 nation shall possess it [this land], shall be free from 
 bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations 
 under heaven," in the Declaration of Independence. 
 
 "We . . . solemnly publish and declare, That 
 these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be 
 free and independent states; that they are absolved 
 from all allegiance to the British Crown and that all 
 political connection between them and the State of 
 Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that 
 as free and independent states, they have full power 
 to levy w T ar, conclude peace, contract alliances, es- 
 tablish commerce, and do all other acts and things 
 which independent states may of right do. And for 
 the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance 
 on the protection of Divide Providence, we mutually 
 pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our 
 sacred honor." 
 
136 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 5. "A land of liberty" and "no kings upon the land" 
 
 The Book of Mormon, by the mouth of one of its 
 prophets who lived some six hundred years B. C., made 
 this prophetic declaration concerning the land of Amer- 
 ica: 
 
 "And this land shall be a land of liberty unto 
 the Gentiles, and there shall be no kings upon the 
 land, who shall raise up unto the Gentiles; 
 
 "And I will fortify this land against all other na- 
 tions; 
 
 "And he that fighteth against Zion shall perish, 
 saith God; 
 
 "For he that raiseth up a king against me, shall 
 perish, for I, the Lord, the king of heaven, will be 
 their king, and I will be a light unto them forever 
 that hear my words." 
 
 This prediction regarding the land of America, and 
 its occupancy by Gentile nations seems to refer entirely 
 to times subsequent to its discovery by Columbus. 
 
 In the Book of Mormon this land is called the inheri- 
 tance of the descendants of Joseph, but it also says that 
 the "Gentiles shall be blessed upon the land." These 
 are the "times of the Gentiles" and they are today the 
 recipients of Divine favor as never before. During this 
 great and favored period of history this land, which was 
 held in reserve, was to become inhabited. Here Zion was 
 to be built up and to it "all nations" should "flow." 
 Hence we conclude that from the time of the discovery, 
 "there shall be no kings upon the land, who shall raise 
 up unto the Gentiles." 
 
 It is remarkable that so few attempts have been made 
 
And Their Fulfillment 137 
 
 to establish thrones in America. Perhaps the most sub- 
 stantial barrier has been the Monroe Doctrine, although, 
 there has, for the most part, been so little real force be- 
 hind that "doctrine" that its very weakness has invited 
 more than one European monarch to attempt to "smash 
 it." Be that as it may, it is a very remarkable thing 
 that the Book of Mormon decree against kings should 
 find such extraordinary confirmation as this very his- 
 toric pronouncement affords. 
 
 It defied all the world to attempt to set up any author- 
 ity of their own, or to interfere with any of the independ- 
 ent governments then existing in North or South Amer- 
 ica. (According to Joseph Smith the whole of America, 
 both North and South, constitutes the land of Zion.) 
 
 In a word the real meaning of the Monroe Doctrine is, 
 "Hands off" and that too, to all the world. Read the 
 Doctrine : 
 
 "The American continents, by the free and in- 
 dependent condition which they have assumed and 
 maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as 
 subjects for future colonization for European pow- 
 ers. . . . We should consider any attempt on 
 their part to extend their system to any portion of 
 this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and 
 safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies 
 of any European power we have not interfered and 
 shall not interfere. But with the governments who 
 have declared their independence and maintained it, 
 and whose independence we have, on great con- 
 sideration and just principles, acknowledged, we 
 could not view any interposition for the purpose of 
 oppressing or controlling, in any other manner, their 
 destiny, by any European power, in any other light 
 
*138 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposi- 
 tion toward the United States" 
 
 One could imagine that the Book of Mormon prophet 
 might have been standing at the elbow of President 
 Monroe when he signed the document as it was handed 
 to him by his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams. 
 For the Monroe Doctrine is nothing more than the Book 
 of Mormon prophecy put in the form of a state paper. 
 It has been tested and tried. It has been called the 
 "most magnificent bluff in history, and so far the most 
 successful." At any rate, it has stood. It has been 
 affirmed and re-affirmed by President after President 
 until it is now upheld and proclaimed as with the voice 
 of a hundred millions of people. So important is it in 
 the estimation of many of the American people, that the 
 proposed League of Nations is not considered satis- 
 factory to this country until the other nations shall not 
 only recognize the doctrine, but actually accept it, and 
 that, too, as it shall at all times be interpreted and ap- 
 plied by the United States. Could a great nation pur- 
 sue a definite course of action with respect to a fixed 
 policy, with more steadfast purpose than our nation 
 has in maintaining this Doctrine? For well nigh one 
 hundred years we have walked, without deviation, in the 
 path pointed out for us more than two thousand years 
 ago by the prophets of ancient America. 
 
 "THE EMPIRE OF MEXICO." 
 
 While the United States was in the midst of the great 
 struggle of the Civil War, Napoleon III. thought the 
 opportune time had arrived for him to test the integrity 
 of the Monroe Doctrine. France had long appreciated 
 the strength that colonial possessions in America would 
 
And Their Fulfillment 139 
 
 bring to her. She wished to extend her trade in that 
 direction. A handsome kingdom on the other side of 
 the Atlantic appealed to "Napoleon the Little" as an 
 alluring enterprise. Especially, if it proved to be a 
 kingdom of stability, where a comfortable throne would 
 be made secure. So, he decided to try it out on some- 
 body else until it should get beyond the experimental 
 stage. Maximilian of Austria, brother of the late Francis 
 Joseph, Emperor of Austria, was the victim. Archduke 
 Maximilian was escorted by fifty thousand Frenchmen 
 who were expected to see that he did not fall from his 
 "throne of Mexico." With this French army, the em- 
 peror was soon in control of strife-torn Mexico. He was 
 coronated on April 10, 1864. The United States, having 
 on its hands quite a little domestic problem, could not 
 attend the coronation ceremonies, as she would have 
 liked. She thought the affair should have been delayed 
 until such time as she could attend. It really was dis- 
 courteous to treat a close neighbor so. The United 
 States refused to recognize the empire. And when our 
 own domestic problem was finally settled, we notified 
 Napoleon that his make-shift "Emperor of Mexico" was 
 altogether out of style in America and that he had better 
 take him back to Europe. Secretary Seward had also 
 notified him that we could not allow the Monroe Doc- 
 trine to be so infringed. Napoleon had observed what 
 had occurred at Vicksburg and Gettysburg and began 
 to lose faith in the success of his would-be ally, the 
 Southern Confederacy. In 1866 he withdrew his fifty 
 thousand troops from Mexico. He was about to take 
 Maximilian back, when, contrary to all the rules of eti- 
 quette, the Mexican revolutionists took him and some of 
 his generals out to Queretaro, where they were court- 
 martialed and shot to death. Th s the short-livpd "F w - 
 
140 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 pire of Mexico" proved an evanescent dream, coming to 
 a quick and tragic end. 
 
 "There shall be no kings raised up unto the Gentiles 
 upon this land" 
 
 UNHAPPY DOM PEDRO OF BRAZIL. 
 
 It is true that an Imperial throne was established in 
 Brazil in the early part of the last century. It passed 
 through many vicissitudes and revolutions. Emperors 
 were deposed; regencies reigned for juvenile kings; and, 
 finally, the emperor was ordered to "leave the country 
 with his family within twenty-four hours." In the dark 
 of the night the imperial family was taken on board a 
 cruiser. When the ship left the harbor it carried with 
 it, not only the royal family, but as if to rid America of 
 every vestige of imperialism it took with it the cata- 
 falque, i. e. the imperial stage with all its pompous 
 drapings, throne and all. 
 
 And that is the last word of royal occupancy in mod- 
 ern times of any fragment of both North and South 
 America. 
 
 "This shall be a land of liberty unto the Gentiles, and 
 there shall be no kings upon the land" 
 
And Their Fulfillment 141 
 
 Orson Hyde 
 
 "Where there is no vision the people perish." 
 
 — Proverbs. 
 
 "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he re- 
 vealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." — 
 Amos. 
 
 The life's ministry of Orson Hyde, a member of the 
 quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter-day Saints, affords some interesting as 
 well as remarkable instances of prophetic manifestations 
 and their striking fulfillment. It is used as a demon- 
 stration of the evidence of prophecy which has char- 
 acterized the Gospel dispensation now upon the earth. 
 Time affords opportunity to verify these predictions. 
 Some of them arise above the individual into the domain 
 of racial, if not world, concern. But, in every instance, 
 they are the unmistakable evidences of a Divine com- 
 munication. Particular interest arises out of the re- 
 cent occurrences in the Far East. 
 
 Orson Hyde was baptized by Sidney Rigdon in the 
 fall of 1831, and was confirmed a member of the Church 
 by the Prophet Joseph Smith. He was called to the 
 apostleship through the instrumentality of the Three 
 Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, and was set apart to 
 that sacred office by the Witnesses on the 15th day of 
 February, 1835. Oliver Cowdery conferred the ordina- 
 tion blessing, and, in addition to other endowments of 
 
142 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 ordination, blessed him in the spirit of prophecy as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 "That he should go forth to the nations of the 
 
 earth to proclaim the Gospel; . . . and that 
 
 he should go forth according to the commandment, 
 
 both Jew and Gentile; . . . and go from land 
 
 to land and from sea to sea." 
 
 At the time of his confirmation as a member of the 
 
 Church, or subsequently, he was blessed by Joseph Smith 
 
 with the prophetic promises that follow: 
 
 "In due time thou shalt go to Jerusalem, the land 
 of thy fathers, and be a watchman unto the house of 
 Israel; and by thy hands shall the Most High do a 
 great work, which shall prepare the way and greatly 
 facilitate the gathering of that people" 
 
 At a General Conference of the Church held on April 
 6, 1840, at Nauvoo, Illinois, Orson Hyde was one of the 
 speakers. During the course of his address he made the 
 very remarkable statement that "It had been prophecied 
 some years ago that he had a great work to perform 
 among the Jews; and that he had recently been moved 
 upon by the Spirit of the Lord to visit that people, and 
 gather up all the information he could respecting their 
 movements, expectations, etc." 
 
 The conference called Mr. Hyde to go upon this his 
 mission to Jerusalem. Credentials were issued to him set- 
 ting forth the specific work he was to perform in con- 
 nection with the Jewish people and their re-establishment 
 in the land of their fathers. The document runs thus: 
 "The Jewish nations have been scattered abroad among 
 
And Their Fulfillment 143 
 
 the Gentiles for a long period; and in our estimation, 
 the time of the commencement of their return to the 
 Holy Land has already arrived." 
 
 His mission was to visit the cities of London, Amster- 
 dam, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. He was to "con- 
 verse with priests, rulers and elders of the Jews," etc. 
 In the performance of this mission, Orson Hyde made his 
 way across the Atlantic Ocean, spending some time in the 
 several cities mentioned. He interviewed, or correspond- 
 ed with, the leaders of Jewish societies in all of these 
 places. In London he communicated with the Reverend 
 Dr. Solomon Herschell, President Rabbi of the He- 
 brew Society of England, to whom he related the cir- 
 cumstances of his Divine call and the nature of the 
 prophecy pronounced upon his head about nine years be- 
 fore by a young man [Joseph Smith] with whom he had 
 at that time but a short acquaintance. A young man, 
 however, to whom God had made known his will con- 
 cerning many things that were to come to pass in this 
 day and age of the world. In Berlin, Mr. Hyde acquired 
 some knowledge of the German language in order to the 
 better carry on his work in the Orient and with the 
 Jewish people wherever he might come in contact with 
 them. 
 
 He finally reached Jerusalem. Early in the morning 
 of October 24, 1841, as soon as the gates of the city were 
 opened, he went outside of the walls, crossed over the 
 Brook Kedron and ascended the Mount of Olives. There 
 he offered a prayer to God and dedicated the land for its 
 rehabitation by the Children of Israel and the House of 
 Judah. Here are a few of the petitions that went up to 
 the throne of the God of Abraham from the heart of this 
 man who was himself a descendant of Judah: 
 
144 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 "0, Lord! Thy servant has been obedient to the 
 heavenly vision which thou gavest him in his native 
 land; under the shadow of thine outstretched arm, 
 he has safely arrived in this place to dedicate and 
 consecrate this land unto thee, for the gathering to- 
 gether of Judah's scattered remnants, according to 
 the prediction of the holy prophets — for the build- 
 ing up of Jerusalem again after it had been trodden 
 down by the Gentiles so long, and for rearing a 
 temple in honor of thy name. . . . Remove the 
 barrenness and sterility of this land, and let springs 
 of living water break forth to water its thirsty soil. 
 . . . Let the land become abundantly fruitful 
 when possessed by its rightful heirs. . . . Let 
 thy great kindness conquer and subdue the unbelief 
 of thy people. Do thou take from them their stony 
 heart, and give them a heart of flesh. ... In- 
 cline them to gather in upon this land according to 
 thy word. ... Do thou now also be pleased to 
 inspire the hearts of kings and the powers of the 
 earth to look with a friendly eye towards this place, 
 with a desire to see thy righteous purposes executed 
 in relation thereto. Let them know that it is thy 
 good pleasure to restore the Kingdom to Israel — 
 raise up Jerusalem as its capital, and constitute her 
 people a distinct people and government. . . . 
 Let that nation or that people who shall take an 
 active part in behalf of Abraham's children, and in 
 the raising up of Jerusalem, find favor in thy sight. 
 Let not their enemies prevail against them, neither 
 pestilence or famine overcome them, but let the 
 glory of Israel overshadow them, and the power of 
 the highest protect them; while that nation or king- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 145 
 
 dom that will not serve thee in this glorious work 
 must perish, according to thy word — 'Yea, those na- 
 tions shall be utterly wasted.' " 
 
 At the conclusion of this prayer Orson Hyde erected 
 a monument of stones in commemoration of the discharge 
 of his sacred mission. He finished his work in Jerusa- 
 lem and then proceeded on his way back to continental 
 Europe and England. While on his way he addressed a 
 letter to Parley P. Pratt, then editing the Millennial Star, 
 in Manchester, dated Trieste, January 1-18, 1842. This 
 letter purports to be a report of his labors and expe- 
 riences in the Holy Land. This communication, as well 
 as others from him were published in the Millennial Star, 
 the official journal of the European Mission. It ap- 
 peared in volume II, pages 166-169. Numerous copies 
 of this near-four-score-old volume are in existence to- 
 day. The extract that follows was taken direct from the 
 time-stained pages of which we produce a photograph 
 for the readers' examination. 
 
 This volume of the Star is extremely valuable for the 
 reason that it establishes beyond all doubt and cavil 
 the specific performance of the particular mission that 
 the spirit of prophecy declared Orson Hyde should per- 
 form, providing a devoted effort were made by him to 
 perform the mission. This publication also possesses 
 unusual interest and testamentary value in that it con- 
 tains a prophecy made by Orson Hyde concerning a 
 great historical event that has recently transpired and 
 at the same time fixes with positive certainty the genu- 
 ineness of the prophecy as well as its remote antiquity. 
 
 Here is the prophecy: 
 
 "It was by political power and influence that the 
 Jewish nation was broken down, and her subjects 
 
146 
 
 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 THIS I^mSR-BAY SAINTS' « 
 
 MILLENNIAL STAR 
 
 EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY P. P. PRATT, 
 
 r 47, OXFORD STREET, MANCHESTER, 
 
 m MONTHLY NUMBERS, PRICE THREEPENCE. 
 
 No. 11. 
 
 MARCH, 1842. 
 
 Ruins in Central America ............ 161 
 
 Late Intelligence from Joseph Smith and 
 
 tbe Mormons 166 
 
 Highly Interesting from Jerusalem .... 166 
 
 Letter from Glasgow ; . . . . 169' 
 
 Editorial Remarks ., . . 17( V 
 
 On -the Influence of Yalse Spirits. ..... 172 * ; 
 
 Conference Notice 176 
 
 Emigration 176 
 
 Poetry ;..". 176 4 
 
 RUINS IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Ms eyes. Representations of those were 'J 
 
 CTT\fl7VT i 
 
 INTERESTING FROM JERUSALEM. 
 
 169 
 
 jcal power and influence that the Jewish 
 ' nation was broken down, and her .sub- 
 jects dispersed abroad; and Twill hero 
 hazard the opinion, that by political 
 power and influence tbey will be gathered 
 and built up ; and further, that England 
 is destined in the wisdom and economy 
 of heaven to stretch forth -the arm' of 
 political power j and advance in the front 
 ranks' of thk glorious enterprise. The 
 Lord once raised up a. Cyrus to resto/e 
 the Jews, but that was not evidence that 
 ' be owned tbe religion of the Persians. 
 This opinion I submit, however, to your 
 superior wisdom to correct if you shall 
 find it wrong. . 
 
 "There is an increasing anxiety in 
 
 towards Jerusalem as the tender and 
 "affectionate mother looks upon the home 
 where she left her lovely HtUc babe." 
 
 "l^rSrFRc^olAbXJmv"" 
 
 Glasgow, Feb. 10th, 1842. 
 Beloved Brother Pratt, 
 
 1 sit down to inform you that 
 the work of the Lord'is still nu the ad- 
 vance, although Satan and his servants 
 are endeavouring to , stop its progress. 
 We have had several discussions, in all 
 of which the Saints eame off victorious, 
 which set the Priests of Babel mad. 
 There are some honest even amongst 
 our enemies, that wish for truth, and 
 
 Photograph of the remarkable prophecy of Orson Hyde con- 
 cerning the re-gathering of the Jews in Palestine, and the part 
 that England was destined to take in that enterprise, as published 
 to the world in the Millennial Star, March, 1842, seventy-five years 
 before the taking of Jerusalem by General Allenby, at the head 
 of English troops, December 11, 1917. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 147 
 
 dispersed abroad; and I will here hazard the opinion, 
 that by political power and influence they will be 
 gathered and built up; and further, that England is 
 destined in the wisdom and economy of heaven to 
 stretch forth the arm of political power and advance- 
 in the front ranks of this glorious enterprise." 
 
 Perhaps a hundred prophets have predicted the re- 
 establishment of the Jews in the land of their fathers, 
 but this prophecy stands out with singular conspicuous- 
 ness in that it foretells, seventy-five years before the 
 event occurs, the very nation that shall be instrumental 
 in the accomplishment, by political power and influence, 
 of the great enterprise. The taking of Jerusalem by the 
 British forces is obviously the fulfillment of this proph- 
 ecy. 
 
 During the recent war, after a long and hazardous 
 campaign, the city of Jerusalem was slowly and cau- 
 tiously surrounded. Its capitulation was inevitable. Gen- 
 eral Sir Edmund Allenby, with his troops took peace- 
 able possession on December 10, 1917. 1 On the follow- 
 ing day he passed through the gates of the ancient city 
 and at once established martial law and assumed polit- 
 ical control of the city. He cabled to his government 
 the following report: 
 
 "I entered the city officially at noon on December 
 11th, with a few of my staff, the commanders of 
 the French and Italian detachments, the heads of the 
 political missions, and the military attaches of 
 France, Italy and America." 
 
 1 In a readable article on Orson Hyde's mission to Palestine 
 published in the Relief Society Magazine, April, 1919, the in- 
 teresting disclosure is made that a grand-nephew of Orson Hyde 
 was with General Allenby when Jerusalem was taken. 
 
148 
 
 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 General Allenby at the Head of the British Troops Enter- 
 ing Jerusalem, December 11th, 1917. 
 "England is destined in the wisdom and economy of heaven to 
 stretch forth the arm of political power, and advance in the front 
 ranks of this glorious enter prise."— Orson Hyde, January, 1842. 
 (See Mlilennial Star, Vol. 2, p. 168-9—1842.) 
 
And Their Fulfillment 149 
 
 There was "no pageantry of arms; no display of pomp 
 and circumstance of an army victorious in war; no 
 thunderous salutes acclaimed the victory; no flags were 
 hoisted; no enemy flag was hauled down; no soldiers 
 shouted in triumph — just a short military procession 
 took place in the Mount Zion quarter, two hundred yards 
 from the walls." 
 
 In the days of the destruction of Jerusalem not a 
 stone was to be left upon another, but in the days of 
 her redemption from Turkish or Gentile rule there was 
 not a stone disturbed or "an inch of ground destroyed." 
 The whole wonderful and interesting performance was 
 as though it were a solemn religious ceremony — so be- 
 fitting the place held sacred as the birth-place of three 
 of the world's great religions. 
 
 That the populace, a veritable polyglot, might know 
 how great was the liberty thus peaceably come to them 
 the General issued the following proclamation, and had 
 it posted in conspicuous places in the Arabic, Hebrew, 
 English, French, Italian, Greek and Russian tongues: 
 
 "proclamation. 
 
 "To the inhabitants of Jerusalem the blessed and 
 the people dwelling in its vicinity: 
 
 "The defeat inflicted upon the Turks by the troops 
 under my command has resulted in the occupation 
 of your city by my forces. I, therefore, here now 
 proclaim it to be under martial law, under which 
 form of administration it will remain so long as 
 military considerations make necessary. However, 
 lest any of you be alarmed by reason of your expe- 
 rience at the hands of the enemy who has retired, I 
 hereby inform you that it is my desire that every per- 
 
150 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 son should pursue his lawful business without fear 
 of interruption. 
 
 "Furthermore since your city is regarded with 
 affection by the adherents of three of the great relig- 
 ions of mankind and its soil had been consecrated 
 by the prayers and pilgrimages of multitudes of de- 
 vout people of these three religions for many cen- 
 turies, therefore, do I make it known to you that 
 every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, 
 traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or cus- 
 tomary place of prayer of whatsoever form of the 
 three religions will be maintained and protected 
 according to the customs of those to whose faith 
 they are sacred." 
 
 The dismemberment of the Turkish Empire began with 
 the preparation of the peace treaty. Mandatories were 
 to be established thereby relieving the Ottoman of much 
 of his responsibility in administering the affairs of 
 European territory. Syria was assigned to France; 
 Armenia was made an independent republic; and Mesopo- 
 tamia and Palestine were placed under British manda- 
 tory. 
 
 Current History says of this great procedure : 
 
 "The moving factor in bringing about Turkey's 
 vast territorial loss was Great Britain, which, defacto 
 if not de jure, has become the mandatory. Although 
 France owns from sixty to sixty-five per cent of the 
 Ottoman bonds, an Englishman, Sir Adam Block, is 
 president of the Debt Association. Although French, 
 Italian and Greek troops may independetly protect 
 the portions of the empire to be administered bv 
 their respective governments, the British general will 
 enforce the terms of Constantinople, and even the 
 
And Their Fulfillment 151 
 
 sanctity of the harems will no longer be observed 
 by his agents in search of forced alien converts to 
 Islam." 
 
 The attitude of the British government with respect 
 to the future of Palestine was clearly defined in the decla- 
 ration of Mr. Balfour, on November 2, 1917. This 
 declaration was approved by France, Italy and President 
 Wilson. The letter containing the declaration was ad- 
 dressed to the head of the British Zionist organization. 
 It read: 
 
 "His Majesty's Government view with favor the 
 establishment in Palestine of a national home for 
 the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors 
 to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being 
 clearly understood that nothing shall be done which 
 may prejudice the civil and religious rights of ex- 
 isting non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the 
 rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any 
 other country." 
 
 The adoption of the Zionist movement as a national 
 policy with respect to Palestine by Great Britain has 
 given the greatest impetus to that cause. Jews all the 
 world around have turned their eyes toward the city of 
 David. Vast sums of money are being raised for the 
 purpose of rebuilding Jerusalem. The ancient law of 
 tithes is being invoked to that appropriate end. Already 
 a great university is under construction in the Holy City 
 and eminent professors from Berlin and other great 
 cities are registered for service there. The British Gov- 
 ernment has placed Sir Herbert Samuel as British High 
 Commissioner in Palestine and his administration of af- 
 fairs is already under way in Jerusalem. This Jew is 
 
152 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 backed by greater power and authority than was ever 
 enjoyed by Solomon in all his regal glory. 
 
 When Orson Hyde dedicated Palestine for the re-gath- 
 ering of the children of Abraham there were not more 
 than seven thousand Hebrews in the Sacred City. The 
 Jewish population, in spite of a most intolerant hostility 
 to the race has been steadily on the increase from that 
 time until today its Jewish population is approximately 
 fifty thousand. With wealth and political backing from 
 Great Britain, and other powerful nations furthering the 
 Zionist movement, shall we not soon see them "come like 
 clouds and like doves to their windows," as Orson Hyde 
 prayed they might, in 1841? One of the leading officers 
 of the Zionist movement promises the establishment of 
 fifty thousand immigrant Jews in Palestine within the 
 year. In the transpiring of these very recent events 
 we perceive the literal fulfillment of prophecies that 
 were uttered four score years or more ago. These 
 prophecies had all but become obscured by the many 
 years that have lapsed and the general rush of world 
 events that had been going on. But when the time of 
 the Lord arrived his word was fulfilled, and we who read 
 these pointed prophecies, dug up from the past, become 
 witnesses of God's power. They are testimonies to us. 
 
 (See Appendix for the prayer of Orson Hyde on the 
 Mount of Olives.) 
 
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 The Date of Birth and Crucifixion 
 of the Lord 
 
 Little accurate information is obtainable from Bibli- 
 cal scholars concerning the actual date of the birth of 
 the Savior. Many traditions on the question have been 
 handed down to us from the earlier writers, both pro- 
 fane and sacred. Dean Farrar, in his Life of Christ, 
 under an excursus in the Appendix, frankly admits the 
 hopelessness of the problem in these words: "All at- 
 tempts to discover the month and day of the nativity are 
 useless. No data whatever exist to enable us to deter- 
 mine them with even approximate accuracy." 
 
 Edersheim in his work, under an appendix (vii) says 
 regarding the date of birth, etc.: "At the outset it must 
 be admitted, that absolute certainy is impossible as to 
 the exact date of Christ's Nativity — the precise year 
 even, and still more the month and the day." 
 
 The Encyclopedia Brittanica, in an article written by 
 Frederic W. Farrar, above quoted, says: 
 
 "As to the day and month of the nativity it is 
 certain that they can never be recovered; they were 
 absolutely unknown to the early fathers, and there is 
 scarcely one month in the year which has not been 
 fixed upon as probable by modern critics. The date 
 now observed — December 25th — cannot be traced 
 further back than the middle of the 4th century, but 
 was adopted by St. Jerome, St. Augustine, Orosius, 
 and Sulpicius Severus, and in the east by St. Chrysos- 
 tom and St. Gregory of Nyssa." 
 
154 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 Dr. Smith in his dictionary reviews the best known 
 calculations, and toward the end of his article says: 
 
 "Wieseler followed a line of calculation and 
 placed the birth at January 10th. Greswell, how- 
 ever, from the same starting point, arrives at the 
 date of April 5th." 
 
 He adds: 
 
 "And when two writers so laborious can thus dif- 
 fer in their conclusion! ;', we must rather suspect the 
 soundness of their method than the accuracy of the 
 use of it." 
 
 And again the same author says: 
 
 "Similar differences will be found amongst emin- 
 ent writers in every part of the chronology of the 
 gospels. For example, the birth of our Lord is 
 placed in B. C. 1 by Pearson and Hug; B. C. 2 by 
 Scaliger; B. C. 3 by Baronius; Calvisius, Suskind, 
 and Paulus; B. C. 4 by Lamy, Bengel, Anger, Wiese- 
 ler, and Greswell; B. C. 5 by Usher and Patavius; 
 
 B. C. 7 by Ideler and Sanclemente. And whilst the 
 calculations given above seem sufficient to determine 
 us, Lamy, Usher, Patavius, Bengel, Wieseler, and 
 Greswell to the close of B. C. 5 or early part of B. 
 
 C. 4, let it never be forgotten that there is a dis- 
 tinction between these researches, which the Holy 
 Spirit has left obscure and doubtful and the 'weight- 
 ier matters' of the Gospel, the things which directly 
 pertain to man's salvation." 
 
 Edersheim in his "Life and Times of Jesus the Mes- 
 siah" (Oxford 1886) justifies the traditional Christmas 
 observation of the nativity. He says: 
 
And Their Fulfillment 155 
 
 "It was, then, on that 'wintry night' of the 25th of 
 December, that shepherds watched the flocks des- 
 tined for sacrificial services, in the very place con- 
 secrated by tradition as that where the Messiah was 
 to be first revealed." 
 
 Continuing in a foot note: 
 
 "There is no adequate reason for questioning the 
 accuracy of this date. The objections generally made 
 rest on grounds which seem to me historically un- 
 tenable. The subject has been fully discussed in an 
 article by Cassel in Hertzog's Real. Encyc. xvii, pp. 
 588-594. But a curious piece of evidence comes from 
 a Jewish scource. In the addition to the Megillath 
 Taanith, the 9th Tebbeth [a Jewish calendar month] 
 is marked as a fast day, and it is added, that the rea- 
 son for this is not stated. Now, Jewish chronologists 
 have fixed on that day as that of Christ's birth, and 
 it is remarkable that, between the years 500 and 816 
 A. D. the 25th of December fell no less than 12 
 times on the 9th Tebbeth. If the 9th Tebbeth, or 
 25th December, was regarded as the birthday of 
 Christ, we can understand the concealment about it." 
 
 Joseph Smith, in the History of the Church, as if per- 
 fectly oblivious to all these well established traditions 
 and world-wide observances, makes this entry: 
 
 "In this manner did the Lord continue to give us 
 instructions from time to time, concerning the duties 
 which now devolved upon us; and among many oth- 
 er things of the kind, we obtained of him the follow- 
 ing, by the spirit of prophecy and revelation; which 
 not only gave us much information, but also pointed 
 out to us the precise day upon which, according to his 
 
156 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 will and commandment, we should proceed to or- 
 ganize his Church once more here upon the earth. 
 
 "The rise of the Church of Christ in these last 
 days, being one thousand eight hundred and thirty 
 years since the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus 
 Christ in the flesh, it being regularly organized and 
 established agreeable to the laws of our country, by 
 the will and and commandment of God, in the fourth 
 month, and on the sixth day of the month which is 
 called April." (Doc. and Cov., Sec. 20.) 
 
 On the 6th day of April, 1833, the following appears 
 in the Church History, which was kept by, or under, the 
 direction of Joseph Smith: 
 
 "About eighty officials, together with some un- 
 official members of the Church, met for instruction 
 and the service of God, at the Ferry on the Big Blue 
 River, near the western limits of Jackson county, 
 which is the boundary line of the state of Missouri 
 and also of the United States. It was an early 
 spring and the leaves and blossoms enlivened and 
 gratified the soul of man like a glimpse of paradise. 
 The day was spent in a very agreeable manner, in 
 giving and receiving knowledge which appertained 
 to this last kingdom — it being just 1800 years since 
 the Savior laid down his life that men might have 
 everlasting life. . . . This was the first attempt 
 made by the Church to celebrate the anniversary of 
 her birthday." (History of Church, Vol. I, p. 336.) 
 
 We do not know that the Church is technically com- 
 mitted to the date above indicated as that of the date of 
 the crucifixion. We know of no other passage in our 
 standard works that confirms this idea, nor do we hold 
 
And Their Fulfillment 157 
 
 any tradition on the subject that supports the suggestion. 
 So far as the authoritative declarations of the Church 
 are concerned there is, perhaps, nothing that approaches 
 the subject as near as the above extract. This statement 
 cannot be given the same weight and significance that 
 attaches to the one taken from the revelation directing 
 that the Church be organized on the anniversary of the 
 Lord's birth, viz: April 6, (1830). While we make 
 these precautionary observations, on the other hand, we 
 know of no reason why the use of the w T ord "just" should 
 be deprived of the significance with which the prophet 
 might possibly have expressly wished to invest it. At 
 any rate, a little research on the technical subject is re- 
 paid by a disclosure of relevant matter that would al- 
 most conclusively vindicate the inspiration of the proph- 
 et. We submit, later, some of these illuminating find- 
 ings for their value to the studiously inclined. 
 
 The Jewish Encyclopedia, in giving a historical treat- 
 ise on Jesus of Nazareth, opens the article thus: 
 ''Founder of Christianity; born at Nazareth about 2 B. 
 C. Executed at Jerusalem 14th of Nisan." 
 
 In another place, under the heading, "Date of Jesus' 
 Crucifixion," the Encyclopedia says: 
 
 "The greatest difficulty from the point of view of 
 the Jewish penal procedure is presented by the day 
 and time of the execution. According to the Gospels 
 Jesus died on Friday, the eve of the Sabbath. Yet 
 on that day, in view of the approach of the Sabbath 
 (or holiday) executions lasting until late in the after- 
 noon were almost impossible. The Synoptics do not 
 agree with John on the date of the month. Accord- 
 ing to the latter he died on the 14th of Nisan, as 
 though he were the Paschal lamb; but executions 
 
158 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 were certainly not regular on the eve of a Jewish 
 holiday. According to the Synoptics, the date of the 
 death was the 15th of Nisan [first day of the Pass- 
 over], when again no execution could be held. This 
 discrepancy has given rise to various attempts at 
 rectification. That by Chwolson is the most ingeni- 
 ous, assuming that Jesus died on the 14th, and ac- 
 counting for the error in Matthew by a mistransla- 
 tion from the original in the Hebrew Matt. 17 [here 
 follow Hebrew characters in confirmation of the 
 claim]. But even so, the whole artifical construc- 
 tion of the law regarding the Passover when the 
 15th of Nisan was on Saturday, attempted by Chwol- 
 son, would not remove the difficulty of an execu- 
 tion occurring on Friday eve of the Sabbath and eve 
 of holiday; and the body could not have been re- 
 moved as late as the ninth hour (3 p. m.). Bodies 
 of delinquents were not buried in private graves, 
 while that of Jesus was buried in a sepulchre be- 
 longing to Joseph of Arimathea. Besides this, penal 
 jurisdiction had been taken from the Sanhedrin i±i 
 capitol cases 'for forty years before the fall of the 
 Temple.' " 
 
 The Jewish Encyclopedia (a monumental work pub- 
 lished in America, 1901, the compilation of which is 
 said to be the greatest achievement in the history of 
 that race since the dispersion and the fall of Jerusalem) 
 says that the Jewish month Nisan "coincides, approxi- 
 mately, with the month of April. It is a sacred month," 
 etc. This correspondence of the two months would not 
 be exact for the reason that the Jewish calendar pro- 
 vided for months of equal length, from moon to moon 
 and otherwise disposed of the surplus days left over at 
 
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 the passing of the twelve months. Hence the word "ap- 
 proximately." Dr. William Smith in his celebrated 
 Dictionary of the Bible translates the Jewish months 
 and days into what would be the corresponding dates 
 in our calendar. In treating the Life of Jesus, Dr. 
 Smith follows the events towards the close, day by day, 
 giving dates in both calendars thus: "Thursday, the 14th 
 of Nisan (April 6th)." Accordingly the following table 
 would be of Dr. Smith's calculations: 
 
 Wednesday 13th Nisan correpsonding to April 5th 
 Thursday 14th Nisan corresponding to April 6th 
 Friday 15th Nisan corresponding to April 7th 
 
 Saturday 16th Nisan corresponding to April 8th 
 
 Under the heading of the Passover this eminent author- 
 ity in treating on the Last Supper of the Lord makes this 
 observation (Vol. 3, Amer. Ed. p. 2348) : 
 
 "If it be granted that the supper was eaten on the 
 evening of the 14th of Nisan, the apprenhension, 
 trial and crucifixion of our Lord must have occurred 
 on Friday the 15th, the day of convocation, which 
 was the first of the seven days of the Passover week. 
 The weekly Sabbath on which he lay in the tomb 
 was the 16th, and the Sunday of the resurrection was 
 the 17th." 
 
 As the discussion of the subject proceeds in the article 
 this statement occurs: 
 
 "If we admit, in accordance with the first view of 
 these passages, that the Last Supper was on the 13th 
 of Nisan our Lord must have been crucified on the 
 14th, the day on which the paschal lamb was slain 
 and eaten." 
 
160 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 By reference to the above table it will be seen that this 
 conclusion, if accepted, would place the date of the 
 crucifixion on April 6th. Passing to a more technical 
 consideration of the controversy, Dr. Smith perfects an 
 alignment of the scholars into two groups. One of these 
 contending for the 13th of Nisan as the date of the Last 
 Supper and consequently for the April 6th as the date 
 of the crucifixion, as that tragic event occurred on the 
 day following the day of the Supper. Later on this 
 paragraph appears: 
 
 "The current of opinion in modern times has set 
 in favor of taking the more obvious interpretation 
 of the passage in St. John, that the Supper was eaten 
 on the 13th, and that our Lord was crucified on the 
 14th." 
 
 This would be April 6th, as previously pointed out. 
 Belonging to this group of scholars he presents the fol- 
 lowing array of recognized authorities: Lucke, Ideler, 
 Tittman, Bleck, De Wette, Neander, Tischendorf, Winer, 
 Meyer, Bruckner, Ewald, Holtzmann, Godet, Caspari, 
 Baur, Hilgenfeld, Scholten, Ebrard (formerly), Alford, 
 Ellicott; of earlier critics, Erasmus, Grotius, Suicer, 
 Carpzof. 
 
 Toward the end of the article this interesting allusion 
 is made : 
 
 "There is a strange story preserved in the Gemara 
 (Sanhedrin, vi: 2, i. e., the Jewish Talmud) that our 
 Lord having vainly endeavored during forty days 
 to find an advocate, was sentenced, and on the 14th 
 of Nisan, stoned and afterwards hanged." 
 
 In a footnote this observation is made: 
 
 "Other Rabbinical authorities countenance the 
 
And Their Fulfillment 161 
 
 statement that Christ was executed on the 14th of the 
 month. See Jost. Judenth 1,404." 
 
 To this imposing group of critics who stood for the 
 date of April 6th as the date of the crucifixion, Dr. 
 Smith adds the illustrious names of Clement of Alex- 
 andria [b. 150, d. 220 A. D.] and Origen, [2 C] men 
 who lived back in the first centuries of the Christian era, 
 and to whom traditions must have been fresh and new. 
 He says that Chrysostom [347-407 A. D.] expresses 
 himself doubtfully between the two dates, and that St. 
 Augustine [354-430 A. D.] was in favor of the 14th. 
 
 The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 8, says Jesus died 
 on Fiiday the 15th of Nisan. This would make it the 
 7th of April. 
 
 The late Dean Farrar in his Life of Christ [1874], 
 under the heading, "Was the Last Supper an Actual 
 Passover?" discusses at some length the actual date of 
 the crucifixion. A few excerpts from this excursus will 
 throw added light upon the subject under consideration. 
 They follow: 
 
 "It is certain, and it is all but universally ac- 
 knowledged, being expressly stated by all the 
 Evangelists, that our Lord was crucified on Friday 
 and rose on Sunday, lying during the hours of the 
 Jewish Sabbath in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. 
 It is therefore certain that he ate his Last Supper, 
 and instituted the Eucharist, on the evening of 
 Thursday; but was this Last Supper the actual 
 Paschal Feast, or an anticipation of it? Was it 
 eaten on Nisan 13, or Nisan 14, i. e. in the year of 
 the crucifixion did the first day of the Passover be- 
 gin on the evening of a Thursday or on the evening 
 of a Friday? . . . 
 
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162 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 "Now it must be admitted that the Synoptists are 
 unanimous in the use of expressions which admit of 
 no natural explanation except in the supposition that 
 the Passover did begin on the evening of Thursday, 
 and therefore Thursday was Nisan 14, [this would 
 be April 6th according to Dr. Smith's table. — N. L. 
 M.] and that the Last Supper was in reality the or- 
 dinary Paschal Feast." 
 
 The four pages of careful treatment of the subject 
 concludes with this paragraph: 
 
 "To sum up, then, it seems to me, from careful and 
 repeated study of much that has been written on this 
 subject by many of the best and most thoughtful 
 writers, that Jesus ate his Last Supper with the dis- 
 ciples on the evening of Thursday, Nisan 13 i. e. at 
 the time when, according to Jewish reckoning, the 
 14th of Nisan began: [this was, consequently, the 
 day of the crucifixion, or, acording to Dr. Smith, 
 as above observed, April 6th.] That this supper was 
 not, and was not intended to be the actual Paschal 
 meal, which neither was nor could be legally eaten 
 till the following evening; but by a perfectly natural 
 identification, and one which would have been re- 
 garded as unimportant, the Last Supper, which was a 
 quasi-Passover, a new and Christian Passover, and 
 one in which, as in its antitype, memories of joy 
 and sorrow were strangely blended, got to be, identi- 
 fied, even in the memory of the Synoptists, with the 
 Jewish Passover, and that St. John, silently but de- 
 liberately, corrected this erroneous impression, 
 which, even in his time, had come to be generally 
 prevalent." 
 It is not at all likely that Joseph Smith had access 
 
And Their Fulfillment 163 
 
 to these authorities on bibliology. An analysis of the 
 eighty-two authorities mentioned by Farrar as his refer- 
 ences and authority reveals the interesting fact that 
 sixty-one or approximately seventy-five per cent, were 
 published between the years 1840 and 1870. Only 12 
 were in print prior to 1830, and nearly all of these 
 were in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, German, or some other 
 foreign tongue. 
 
 Smith's Dictionary to the Bible, a standard work, was 
 published in London, 1860. The list of contributors 
 exceed fifty in number. They were either professors or 
 clergymen, of the highest rank in both classes. In his 
 preface reference is made to but two works to which 
 frequent recurrence was had in the compilation of the 
 work. These are: u Dr. Robinson's Biblical Researches," 
 London, 1856, and Professor Stanley's "Sinai and Pal- 
 estine," London, 1857. This observation also appears in 
 the preface: 
 
 "Within the last few years, Biblical studies have 
 received a fresh impulse; and the researches of mod- 
 ern scholars, as well as the discoveries of modern 
 travelers, have thrown new and unexpected light up- 
 on the history and geography of the East. . . . 
 
 "No other dictionary has yet attempted to give a 
 complete list of the proper names of the Old and 
 New Testament, to say nothing of the Apocrapha." 
 
 So that Joseph Smith, in all probability did not have 
 access to anything beyond the most meagre biblical com- 
 mentaries, up to the time at which he made these im- 
 portant declarations concerning the birth and crucifixion 
 of the Lord. 
 
 The more modern school of bibliology has come to 
 some rather striking conclusions in regard to the date 
 
164 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 of the crucifixion. These, incidentally, confirm all that 
 Joseph Smith said, or even suggested, with regard to the 
 date of the death of the Lord. We deem these contribu- 
 tions to the subject of such value that we introduce them 
 verbatim. They were taken from the Literary Digest 
 of May 16, 1903, Vol. 26, No. 20. (Translated spe- 
 cially for that journal.) 
 
 "the date of Christ's crucifixion. 
 
 "The day of the month in which Jesus was cru- 
 cified has for decades been a vexed problem in New 
 Testament research, especially in view of the fact 
 that the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of St. John 
 seem not to agree on this point. An entirely new 
 effort to solve this matter has been made by Pro- 
 fessor Hans Archelis, of the University of Konigs- 
 berg, and the result is published in the Nachrichten 
 No. 5 of the Gottengen Academy of Sciences. The 
 novelty of the effort lies in this, that Professor 
 Achelis tries to figure out the date astronomically, 
 and reaches the conclusion that it was Friday, April 
 6th, A. D. 30. His process is as follows: Jesus was 
 crucified on a Friday according to Matt. 27:62; 28:1; 
 Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:31. According 
 to John, he was crucified on the 14th of Nisan; ac- 
 cording to the other evangelists, on the 15th of 
 Nisan. The year is not mentioned. 
 
 "Pilate was governor between 26 and 36, and at 
 Easter of the latter year had been deposed. In the 
 year 26, the 14th of Nisan fell on Saturday; in the 
 year 27, on Wednesday; in 28, on Monday; in 29, 
 on Sunday; in 30, on Friday, April 6th; in 31, Tues- 
 day; in 32, on Monday; in 33, on Friday; April 3rd; 
 in 34, on Tuesday; in 35, on Monday. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 165 
 
 "During all these years the 15th never fell on Fri- 
 day. From these facts two conclusions can be drawn : 
 one, that John and not the Synoptics has the right 
 date, and Jesus could not have been crucified on the 
 15th of Nisan; second, that we must conclude be- 
 tween April 6th, A. D. 30, and April 3rd, A. D. 33. 
 
 "To decide between these two, we must appeal to 
 other data taken from Luke and John. 
 
 "Christ began his public ministry, according to 
 Luke, in immediate connection with the activity of 
 John the Baptist, and the latter began (1) in the 
 fifteenth year of Tiberius; (2) at the time when 
 Pontius Pilate was ruler in Judea; (3) when Herod 
 was tetrarch in Galilee; (4) when Herod's brother 
 Philip was tetrarch in Itureah, etc. (5) when Lysan- 
 ias was tetrarch in Abelene; and (6) when Annas 
 and Caiaphas were high priests. These data fix the 
 time between August 19th A. D., 28 and Aug. 18 A. 
 D., 29. 
 
 "According to John 2:20, the Jews said to Christ, 
 when he entered upon his ministry, that the temple 
 had been in process of erection 46 years. This brings 
 us to the year 27-28. Since Christ, according to Luke, 
 was engaged in his ministry for one year — accord- 
 ing to John, two or three years — both writers have 
 taken the year 30 as the year of his death. Accord- 
 ingly we can with good reason regard Friday, April 
 6th A. D. 30, as the date of the crucifixion. 
 
 This computation has, however, not been satisfac- 
 tory to all, and a critic in the Christliche Welt (No. 
 14) tries to show that it is unreliable in method, al- 
 though correct in result. He says: 
 
 "The Jewish month is not a fixed date like the Ro- 
 man month. It went from new moon to new moon; 
 
166 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 or, better, from the time when the new moon became 
 visible to the next time this occurred. It is accord- 
 ingly only 27 or 28 days long and twelve months is 
 accordingly not a solar year, but only 354 days. Ac- 
 cordingly, at least, once every three years, the Jews 
 had to add an intercalary month. The Jewish year 
 began in the spring, with the month of Nisan. If 
 the month begins with the new moon, then the full 
 moon falls on the 14th-15th. The month of Nisan 
 as the first spring month, was so arranged that its 
 full moon fell after the vernal equinox. In this way 
 the beginning of the years were determined with rea- 
 sonable certainty. But there are two ways of determin- 
 ing the 1st Nisan, and we no longer know which of 
 these ways the Jewish almanac-makers observed. Did 
 they adopt the most reliable way, namely, of count- 
 ing backward from the full moon to the first? This 
 is probably the case; but, if so, then they were at 
 times compelled, as is seen by a glance at our own 
 calendar, to begin the first of Nisan before the new 
 moon had really become visible. But if they fol- 
 lowed the more uncertain way, namely, not to de- 
 clare the first of Nisan until they had really seen 
 the new moon, then the dates of the month could also 
 have been changed. Much of this calculation there- 
 fore, is uncertain, since in the case of cloudy weather 
 the new moon would be seen later than in clear. 
 Nevertheless a careful comparison of these calcula- 
 tions with the two chronological data concerning the 
 beginning of Christ 9 s ministry leads to the conclusion 
 that Chris fs death occurred on Friday, April 6th, A. 
 D. 30." 
 
 Our judgment warns us against an attempt at a too ac- 
 curate determination of these technical questions. The 
 
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 deviations in calendars, the lapse of near twenty cen- 
 turies, and the failure of ancient historians in the mat- 
 ter of preserving for us the actual dates of these two 
 most important events lead us to the view that nothing 
 short of a divine revelation could give dependable in- 
 formation on the subject. The Latter-day Saints have 
 not been without this source of information. They not 
 only have the word of God with respect to the date 
 of the birth of the Lord, but they have received through 
 revelation a translation of an ancient American record 
 of the events connected with the birth and crucifixion 
 of the Savior. This record is known as the Book of 
 Mormon, and was cotemporaneous with the life of the 
 Savior on earth. This Book of Mormon chronolgy af- 
 fords interesting opportunity for comparison with 
 Oriental chronology. In its simple record of events it 
 puts itself on record in such a way as to subject its 
 narratives and chronological events to a merciless ex- 
 posure in the event of errors or falsities. Herein are 
 some interesting facts which go far to prove the trust- 
 worthiness of the record and the innocence and divine 
 inspiration of its translator, Joseph Smith. Inasmuch 
 as the evidence we have to submit deals with the two 
 dates in the same articles we have treated them together 
 for the sake of convenience. 
 
 We here introduce an editorial written by Orson Pratt 
 for the Millennial Star and published in that periodical 
 in 1866. (See Vol. 28, pp. 808-11.) 
 
 "TRUE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S DAY. 
 
 "Christmas, the 25th of December, will open upon 
 us, on Tuesday next. This is a great day among 
 Christian nations. But what peculiar influence has 
 
168 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 been imparted to this day that it should occupy so 
 conspicuous a prominence, above other days? Was 
 man created on Christmas? Did Noah enter the 
 ark on Christmas? Or what great event has trans- 
 pired to make Christmas so memorable? Listen, 
 and I will inform you. In the sixth century of our 
 era, there lived a Romish Monk, by the name of 
 Dionysius Exiguus; he imagined that Christ was 
 born on the 25th of December. This conjecture, 
 without any substantial proof, was received by the 
 Romish Church, and handed down, like many other 
 traditions, to the present day. Learned chronolo- 
 gists are now fully convinced, that this monk con- 
 ceived the idea, and palmed the fabrication upon 
 the world, entirely unsupported by evidence. . . 
 
 "Chronologists have no certain date on which to 
 ground a calculation, fixing the birthday of our Re- 
 deemer. Wieseler, from approximative data, sup- 
 poses it to have been about the 10th of January. 
 Greswell, from similar data, believes it to have been 
 the 5th of April. (See Smith's Die, Vol. 1, p. 1074.) 
 
 "The day of the crucifixion is not so uncertain. 
 Some chronologists assert that it transpired in 
 March; (See Arago's Astronomy, Vol. II, p. 722) 
 but the great majority maintain that it took place on 
 the day of the Passover, as described by St. John 
 the Evangelist, which is said to have occurred on 
 Friday, the 6th of April, corresponding to the 14th 
 of the old Jewish month Abib, now called Nisan. 
 (Smith's Diet., Vol. 2, p. 719.) 
 
 "The year of the Christian era is also a matter of 
 dispute among chronologists. The Romisk monk, 
 Dionysius, in the sixth century after Christ, was the 
 first who proposed to date events and years from 
 
And Their Fulfillment 169 
 
 the birth of Christ; hence, he and many of his co- 
 temporaries conjectured, from insufficient data, that 
 532 years had elapsed from his birth; but the sup- 
 position, like that of his assumed Christmas proved, 
 in after centuries, to be incorrect, and that the birth 
 of the Savior, was several years earlier, than he had 
 erroneously assigned. But an alteration in the era 
 could not well be accomplished, without producing 
 an incalculable amount of confusion, among dated 
 documents which had been accumulating for centur- 
 ies, before the error of Dionysius was clearly de- 
 tected therefore, the epithet 'Vulgar' was attached 
 to our present era, to show that it is not reliable. 
 It is to be regretted that the term incorrect era was 
 not chosen, instead of 'vulgar era,' for the unedu- 
 cated persons would have, at once, known the real 
 meaning of the adjective used; but as it is, there 
 are but comparatively few who understand that the 
 year, for instance, A. D. 1866, is an erroneous date, 
 several years less than the true era. 
 
 "To show the discrepancies among chronoligists, 
 we will give several examples, in relation of the 
 year of the birth of Christ. 
 
 "Birth of 
 
 Christ. 
 
 Chronolo gists. 
 
 B. C. 1 yr. 
 
 
 Pearson and Hug. 
 
 B. C. 2 yr. 
 
 
 Scaliger. 
 
 B. C. 3 yr. 
 
 
 Baronius, Calvisius, Suskind 
 & Paulus. 
 
 B. C. 5 yr. 
 
 
 Lamy, Bengel, Anger, Wiese- 
 ler, and Greswell. 
 
 B. C. 7 yr. 
 
 
 Ideler and Sanclemente. 
 
 "If Christ was born 3 years earlier than the vul- 
 gar era of Dionysius, as calculated by Baronius, Cal- 
 
170 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 visius, Suskind, and Paulus, then our present year, 
 A. D. 1866, should in reality be A. D. 1869. There 
 is certainly much substantial evidence to prove that 
 the vulgar era, now in common use, is 3 years too 
 little. 
 
 The exact age of Christ, at the time of the Cruci- 
 fixion, is furnished us in the Book of Mormon. The 
 Nephite prophets had foretold that the night preced- 
 ing the day on which Jesus should be born should 
 be without any darkness. Accordingly, when 
 this great sign was given, the following day, 
 which was the birthday of Christ, was chosen as 
 the first day, of the first month, of the first year 
 of their civil era. But the precise hour of the day on 
 which Jesus was born is not given; but it is certain 
 from the Nephite record, that he was born after six 
 o'clock in the morning, which was the "tomorrow" 
 referred to in the Lord's declaration to Nephi, on 
 page 433. And, therefore, his birth must have been 
 after 1 o'clock in the afternoon, by the time at Jeru- 
 salem, which is seven and one half hours later than 
 the Nephite time, owing to the difference of the longi- 
 tude of the two locations. (See Book of Mormon, pp. 
 426, 432, 433, 434.)* It was also foretold by their 
 prophets that, during the time of the crucifixion the 
 whole of that continent should be terribly convulsed 
 by earthquakes in which the rocks should be rent, 
 many mountains be thrown down, many level places 
 be broken up, many cities destroyed, etc., and immedi- 
 ately three days and three nights of darkness should 
 succeed. All this transpired, as it was predicted; 
 and the exact date of the three hours of earthquakes 
 was given, namely 'in the thirty and fourth year, in 
 the first month, and in the fourth day of the month.' 
 
 * Earlier editions. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 171 
 
 Thus we perceive that 33 full years had passed away, 
 and also 3 full days of the 34th year, and the fourth 
 day had commenced when he expired upon the cross. 
 (See p. 450). A Jewish day commenced at 6 o'clock 
 in the morning. The crucifixion at Jerusalem com- 
 menced at noon, and ended 3 hours after. With the 
 Nephites just southeast of the Isthmus, this great 
 event would be seven and one half hours earlier than 
 at Jerusalem, owing to their being seven and one- 
 half hours west longitude from that city. With the 
 Nephites it would be half past seven in the morning, 
 when the three hours of earthquakes subsided and 
 when the darkness commenced, and therefore the 
 death of Jesus must have been one hour and one half 
 after the commencement of the fourth day of his 
 34th year. The three days and three nights of dark- 
 ness began at 7 1/2 o'clock in the morning, and must 
 have ended at the same time in the morning. On the 
 454th page, it reads, 'Thus did the three days pass 
 away; and it was in the morning and the darkness 
 dispersed from off the face of the land, and the earth 
 did cease to tremble, and the rocks did cease to 
 rend,' etc. 
 
 "This proves that it was morning with the Nephites, 
 when Jesus expired, and while it was 3 o'clock in the 
 afternoon at Jerusalem. These dates, incidentally 
 given in connection with the remarkable events of 
 the Nephite history, prove, beyond all controversy 
 the exact difference of time, owing to the difference 
 of longitude of the two countries which should sub- 
 sist and yet the inspired translator, Joseph Smith, 
 died without even noticing this remarkable revelation 
 of the difference of dates. For further particulars 
 on this subject, our readers are referred to an arti- 
 
172 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 cle, entitled Divinity of the Book of Mormon, pub- 
 lished in No. 24 of the present volume of the Star. 
 
 "The civil year of the Nephites was undoubtedly of 
 the same length as that of the Egyptians, namely, 365 
 days. The Mexican Lamanites, when America was 
 first discovered, counted 365 days to the year; and 
 at the end of every 52 years, they added 13 inter- 
 calary days. (See Lord Kingsborough's Mexican An- 
 tiquities.') The Nephite calendar was probably regu- 
 lated in the same way, being an improvement upon 
 the Egyptian vague year, and maintaining the months 
 and seasons in a permanent relation to each other, 
 with but slight fluctuations. 
 
 "As the intercalary days were not added until the 
 end of 52 years, it is very certain that the first 33 
 Nephite years after Christ were each precisely 365 
 days, equal to 12,045 days to which add the 3 days 
 of the 34th year, and we have 12,048 days, as the 
 age of the Savior, when crucified. This is equal to 
 1,721 weeks and 1 day, and also equal to 32 years 
 and 360 days, acording to our present method of 
 reckoning 365 1/4 days to a year. 
 
 "We have already brought the testimony of chron- 
 ologists to prove that he was crucified on Friday, 
 the 6th of April. Deduct 32 of our years and 360 
 days from the period of the crucifixion, and we have 
 April 11th for the exact day of birth. Also, if we 
 deduct 1,721 weeks and 1 day from the time of the 
 crucifixion, we find that the 11th day of April or the 
 first birthday of Christ, was on Friday. If he had 
 lived to be 33 years of age, according to our reck- 
 oning, that is, including the 8 intercalary days, (one 
 day of which being added every 4 years) the anni- 
 versary of his birthday would have fallen on Wed- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 173 
 
 nesday; but he was crucified 5 days before this, or 
 on the preceding Friday, which, as already observed 
 was on the 6th of April. 
 
 "From the above data, we have arrived at the cer- 
 tain conclusions that our Lord and Savior, Jesus 
 Christ, was born on Friday after mid-day, Jerusa- 
 lem local time), April 11th, which is the true Christ- 
 mas and New Year's Day. Therefore, the 11th day of 
 April next will be our true Christmas and New Year's 
 day for the true era of our Lord, 1870. 
 
 "The set time that Christ, by New Revelation, or- 
 ganized his Latter-day Kingdom, was on the 6th of 
 April A. D., 1833, Dionysius' vulgar era, which is 
 the same as the 6th of April, A. D. 1833, True Chris- 
 tian Era. This stupendous event, so long predicted 
 by the prophets took place precisely 1,800 years to 
 the very day, from his crucifixion." 
 
 An article written by Orson Pratt and published in the 
 Millennial Star, June 16, 1866, on the hour of the cru- 
 cifixion is of sufficient interest to warrant its reprint 
 in connection with this discussion: 
 
 "divinity of the book of mormon. 
 
 "The divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon 
 has been confirmed to this generation by a multi- 
 plicity of evidences. It is not our intention, in this 
 article, to examine this evidence in detail, but to 
 merely set forth a kind of proof, which, I believe, 
 has never been referred to, by any former writers. 
 This evidence is derived from certain great events 
 mentioned in the Book of Mormon, which happened 
 on the Western Continent, at the precise time of the 
 crucifixion of Christ, and during the three days in 
 
174 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 which his body slept in the tomb. The following 
 is the description of these events: 
 
 6 'And now it came to pass occording to our record, 
 and we know our record to be true, for behold, it 
 was a just man who did keep the record; for he truly 
 did many miracles in the name of Jesus; and there 
 was not any man who could do a miracle in the name 
 of Jesus, save he were cleansed every whit from his 
 iniquity. And now it came to pass, if there was no 
 mistake made by this man in the reckoning of our 
 time, the thirty and third year had passed away, and 
 the people began to look with great earnestness for 
 the sign which had been given by the Prophet Sam- 
 uel, the Lamanite; yea, for the time that there should 
 be darkness for the space of three days over the face 
 of the land. And there began to be great doubtings 
 and disputations among the people, notwithstanding 
 so many signs had been given. 
 
 " '2. And it came to pass in the thirty and fourth 
 year, in the first month, in the fourth day of the 
 month, there arose a great storm, such an one as 
 never had been known in all the land; and there was 
 also a great and terrible tempest, and there was terri- 
 ble thunder, insomuch that it did shake the whole 
 earth as if it was about to divide assunder ; and there 
 were exceeding sharp lightings, such as never had 
 been known in all the land. And the city of Zara- 
 hemla did take fire; and the city of Moroni did sink 
 in the depths of the sea, and the inhabitants thereof 
 were drowned; and the earth was carried up upon 
 the city of Moronihah, that in the place of the city 
 thereof, there became a great mountain; and there 
 was great and terrible destruction in the land south- 
 ward. But, behold, there was more great and terri- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 175 
 
 ble destruction in the land northward; for behold, 
 the whole face of the land was changed, because of 
 the tempest, and the whirlwinds, and the thunderings, 
 and the lightnings, and the exceeding great quaking 
 of the whole earth; and the highways were broken 
 up, and the level roads were spoiled, and many 
 smooth places became rough, and many great and 
 notable cities were sunk, and many were burned, and 
 many were shook till the buildings thereof had fallen 
 to the earth, and the inhabitants were slain, and the 
 places were left desolate; and there were some cities 
 which remained; but the damage thereof was exceed- 
 ing great, and there were many in them who were 
 slain; and there were some who were carried away 
 in the whirlwind, no man knoweth, save they know 
 that they were carried away; and thus the face of 
 the whole earth became deformed, because of the 
 tempests, and the thunderings, and the lightnings, 
 and the quaking of the earth. And behold, the rocks 
 were rent in twain; they were broken up upon the 
 face of the whole earth, insomuch that they were 
 found in broken fragments, and in seams and in 
 cracks, upon all the face of the land. 
 
 ' '3. And it came to pass when the thunderings, and 
 the lightnings, and the storm, and the tempest, and 
 the quakings of the earth did cease — for behold, 
 they did last for about the space of three hours; 
 and it was said by some that the time was greater; 
 nevertheless, all these great and terrible things were 
 done in about the space of three hours; and then 
 behold, there was darkness upon the face of the land. 
 
 x '4. And it came to pass that there was thick 
 darkness upon all the face of the land, insomuch that 
 the inhabitants thereof who had not fallen could feel 
 
176 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 the vapor of darkness; and there could be no light, 
 because of the darkness, neither candles, neither 
 torches; neither could there be fire kindled with their 
 fine and exceeding dry wood, so that there could 
 not be any light at all; and there was not any light 
 seen, neither fire, nor glimmer, neither the sun, nor 
 the moon, nor the stars, for so great were the mists of 
 darkness which were upon the face of the land. 
 
 ' '5. And it came to pass that it did last for the 
 space of three days, that there was no light seen, 
 and there was great mourning and howling, and 
 weeping among all the people continually; yea, great 
 were the groanings of the people, because of the 
 darkness and the great destruction which had come 
 upon them." 
 
 "Nephi in the former part of this book informs us 
 that the night before Jesus was born was as light as 
 mid-day; this being a sign given to the ancient Is- 
 realites of America, that they might know the pre- 
 cise time of his birth. Nephi also informs us, that 
 they commenced reckoning their time from this great 
 event. Therefore, according to the above extract, 
 Jesus must have been thirty-three years and four 
 days old when he was crucified. It appears that 
 thick darkness did not come over the land, during the 
 three hours that Jesus was on the cross, but followed 
 immediately afterwards, and lasted three days. In the 
 eleventh paragraph, in reference to the three days 
 of darknss, Nephi says, 'thus did the three days pass 
 away, and it was in the morning, and the darkness 
 dispersed from off the face of the land, and the earth 
 did cease to tremble, and the rocks did cease to rend,' 
 etc. From this short extract we have a clue to the 
 time of the day when the darkness commenced; for 
 
And Their Fulfillment 177 
 
 as it ended in the morning, it must also have begun 
 in the morning; and therefore the three hours of the 
 crucifixion, which preceded the darkness must also 
 have ended in the morning; that is, it was morning 
 in that particular part of America where Nephi was 
 writing. And we have the strongest reasons for be- 
 lieving that he at that time, resided in the north- 
 western portions of South America, near a temple 
 which they had built in the land Bountiful, which 
 the record informs us was not far south of the nar- 
 row neck of land, connecting the land south with the 
 land north; but which we, in these days, call the 
 Isthmus of Darien [now Panama]. Nephi, the his- 
 torian, and prophet of God, was present with the mul- 
 titude who had gathered around this temple, at the 
 time that Jesus descended from heaven among them, 
 which was only a few months [days — N. L. M.] 
 after the crucifixion; hence, there is the strongest 
 probability that he dwelt on that part of the conti- 
 nent when he wrote. 
 
 "The four evangelists, in the New Testament, have 
 plainly told us, what time of day it was in Jerusalem, 
 during which the Savior* was on the cross; they all 
 agree it was 'from the sixth to the ninth hour.' Their 
 time was kept according to Jewish reckoning, the sixth 
 hour with them, is the same as mid-day or noon; 
 and the ninth hour was the third hour after noon 
 which corresponds to three o'clock in the afternoon, 
 according to English time. This was the time of day 
 at Jerusalem when Christ was taken down from the 
 cross. But the Book of Mormon states, as we have 
 already quoted, that on the western continent 'it was 
 in the morning.' To one unlearned, these statements 
 will appear contradictory; but every well informed 
 
 13 
 
178 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 person can see, at once, that the difference of longi- 
 tude would produce a difference of time. 
 
 "The northwestern part of South America is about 
 one hundred and twelve degrees west of Jerusalem, 
 which is equivalent to about seven and one half hours 
 of time. This subtracted from the time at Jerusa- 
 lem, will show that the crucifixion ended by Ameri- 
 can time, in the morning, between one and two hours 
 after sunrise; or according to our reckoning, about 
 7 hours 30 minutes in the morning. 
 
 "As the Prophet Joseph Smith never referred to 
 this, it is evident that the difference of time alluded 
 to resulting from the difference of longitude, never 
 entered his mind; and that he, by the inspiration of 
 the Holy Ghost, translated the item 'and it was morn- 
 ing' without fully comprehending, why it should be 
 in the morning rather than in the afternoon, accord- 
 ing to the New Testament. Indeed, it is quite evi- 
 dent that this young man, unlearned as he was, had 
 never been instructed in regard to longitude, and the 
 effect it has on time, and was, therefore, quite in- 
 capable of designedly introducing the correct Ameri- 
 can time for the sake of deception. When this im- 
 portant truth is pointed out and clearly explained, 
 it is easy enough for all people, whether enemies or 
 friends, to perceive; but before attention was called 
 to the matter, who thought of it? If it was a matter 
 that the learned when reading the Book of Mormon 
 did not, for more than a quarter of a century, dis- 
 cover, how then can it, for one moment, be supposed 
 that an unlearned youth could think of a fact, ap- 
 parently so foreign, and only incidentally mentioned 
 with other subjects, and for the sake of deception 
 designedly incorporate it in the volume? No candid 
 
And Their Fulfillment 179 
 
 person could come to any such absurd conclusion. 
 There never was a revelation given to man, sub- 
 stantiated with a greater amount of evidence, than 
 what accompanies the Book of Mormon. Evidences 
 both external and internal, are continually accumu- 
 lating, and have already become innumerable. These 
 evidences will continue to increase, until the Lord, 
 himself, shall be revealed in all the fulness of his 
 glory and power; this will be a revelation which the 
 wicked cannot abide, but must perish as the dry stub- 
 ble, before the devouring flame." 
 
180 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 Two Expulsions from Jackson County, 
 Missouri 1 
 
 By Junius F. Wells. 
 
 It was in November, 1833, when the mobocracy of 
 Jackson County, Mo., culminated in the expulsion of the 
 Latter-day Saints from their homes in that county. 
 Scenes of utmost cruelty and inhumanity had marked 
 the treatment of the Saints by the old-time residents and 
 their associates of the border ruffian order, from the 
 time that the thrift of the "Mormon" people began to 
 convert the country into beautiful homes and well- 
 stocked and cultivated farms. It was the avarice of cun- 
 ning scoundrels, the envy of thriftless farmers, and the 
 jealousy of poorly paid but hireling ministers of other 
 faiths, combined with the demagoguery of run-down poli- 
 ticians, which formed the combination of thieving rob- 
 bers and mobocrats bent on despoiling the Saints and 
 stealing their property. This combination became suc- 
 cessful when the power and authority of the state and 
 local governments were at length perverted to the accom- 
 plishment of its devilish purposes. 
 
 ^This interesting narrative is reprinted from the Improvement 
 Era, Vol. VI, p. I, 1902. Its unquestioned integrity and the well- 
 established authenticity of the prophecy it contains, together with 
 the fulfillment thereof seem to justify its being placed along with 
 the group of prophecies herein considered. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 181 
 
 The people were literally driven from their homes, 
 wives and chidren separated from their husbands and 
 fathers, their homes broken into and often burned. Legal 
 remedies, taken at the instance of the governor (in which 
 the name of Doniphan first appears as one of the attor- 
 neys employed by the Saints) were rendered abortive by 
 the double-dealing rascality of official associates, with 
 Lieutenant-Governor Boggs at their head. The warfare 
 was relentless, and the forced evacuation, without re- 
 course or remedy, of the whole "Mormon" people was 
 complete. They fled in peril of their lives, sacrificing 
 homes and lands, and all their possessions, into the ad- 
 joining counties. 
 
 They were welcomed and treated kindly for a time 
 in Clay County, where they remained until 1836. Then, 
 for the sake of peace, and, it was claimed to prevent civil 
 war among their neighbors, and the possible re-enact- 
 ment of tha reign of terror that had been experienced in 
 Jackson County, they removed weLtward and located in 
 Caladwell County, where they built up the town of 
 Far West. They were prospered here, and in the coun- 
 ties of Daviess and Carroll, until fall of 1838. 
 
 By this time, the spirit of relentless hatred of the 
 mobocratic classes that had prevailed against the Saints 
 in Jackson and Clay counties had worked upon the preju- 
 dices of all neighboring non-"Mormon" communities and 
 had so dominated the officials of the state that the lives 
 and liberties of the "Mormon" leaders and people were 
 in constant jeopardy from attacks made upon them by 
 lawless bands of renegades and ruffians, with whom were 
 associated others having claims to respectability, but 
 whose ignorance and prejudice made them little less 
 dangerous. 
 
 The state militia was called out to quell the mob. It 
 was commanded, in part, by men notoriously anti- 
 "Mormon," but there were some exceptions. In partic- 
 
182 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 ular is the name of Colonel A. W. Doniphan held in 
 honored remembrance. He was in command of about 
 five hundred men from Clay County, who had been or- 
 dered by the governor to operate with the commands 
 under Generals Clark, Lucas, and Wilson, ostensibly for 
 the purpose of protecting the peaceable citizens, and dis- 
 pelling the mob; really for the purpose of carrying out 
 \he infamous order of extermination, which the governor 
 had already issued to General Clark, and in which he had 
 used the words: "The Mormons must be treated as pub- 
 lic enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from 
 the state." 
 
 These troops, (numbering over two thousand, ap- 
 proached Far West, and demanded the capitulation of 
 the town upon the following terms: 
 
 First— to give up all the Church leaders to be tried 
 and punished. 
 
 Second — To make an appropriation of their property, 
 all who have taken up arms, to the payment of the debts, 
 and indemnity for damage done by them. 
 
 Third — That the balance should leave the state, and be 
 protected out by the militia, but to remain until further 
 orders were received from the commander-in-chief. 
 
 Fourth — To give up their arms of every description, 
 to be receipted for. 
 
 Colonel Hinkle, in command of the "Mormon" forces 
 who were themselves a lawfully organized part of the 
 state militia, betrayed the leaders of the Church, and, by 
 a stratagem, delivered them into the custody of General 
 Lucas, accepting for his people the above terms of sur- 
 render, without consulting their leaders; and practically 
 condemning the latter to prison, if not to death, and their 
 followers to the confiscation of all their property, and 
 themselves to exile from the state. 
 
 In briefly narrating these events, from the history of 
 the Missouri persecutions, it is for the purpose of direct- 
 
And Their Fulfillment 183 
 
 ing attention to an occasion when the valorous friendship 
 of General Doniphan was fairly put to the test and his 
 love of fair play — of the principles of human liberty 
 upon which our government is founded, and his courage 
 in protesting against their abuse, were conspicuously dis- 
 played. 
 
 The night after the betrayal by Hinkle, a court-mar- 
 tial was held consisting of some fourteen militia officers, 
 and about twenty priests of the different denominations, 
 besides the circuit judge, Austin A. King, and the district 
 attorney. The decision of this anomalous aggregation 
 of military, spiritual and judicial mobocrats, called a 
 court-martial, was that the prisoners — Joseph and Hyrum 
 Smith, Lyman Wight and some six or eight others, who 
 were held as hostages for the carrying out of the terms 
 of surrender and expulsion, should be shot and the fol- 
 lowing morning at 8 o'clock, in the public square of Far 
 West, as an example to the "Mormon" people. 
 
 General Wilson had made an effort to corrupt Colonel 
 Wight of the "Mormon" militia, during the preceding 
 day, and to get him to testify something against Joseph 
 Smith. When the conclusion of the court-martial was 
 reached, he took Wight aside and told him the decision. 
 "Shoot and be damned," said Wight. About this time 
 General Doniphan came up, and, addressing Wight, said : 
 "Colonel, the decision is a damned hard one, but I wash 
 my hands against such cold-blooded murder." He fur- 
 ther said he should remove his troops the following day, 
 as soon as light, so that they should not witness this 
 heartless murder. General Graham and a few others had 
 voted against the decision of the court-martial, but it 
 availed nothing. 
 
 This bold stand, taken by General Doniphan the next 
 morning, in removing his troops and denouncing the exe- 
 cution of the prisoners as cold-blooded murder, alarmed 
 Lucas, and he changed his mind about executing the de- 
 cision of the court-martial. In fact, he revoked the de- 
 
184 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 cree, and placed the prisoners in charge of General Wil- 
 son, with instructions to conduct them to Independence. 
 They /were afterwards taken to Richmond, and finally 
 were committed to Liberty jail, to await trial on a charge 
 of treason. It was during these proceedings that General 
 Doniphan acted as leading counsel for the prophet and 
 his associates, who considered that, under God, he had 
 been the means of saving their lives, after they had been 
 condemned by Lucas' court-martial. 
 
 It was during this incarceration of the Prophet that 
 the Saints were driven out of the state, and in the con- 
 duct of the enforced exodus, that President Brigham 
 Young displayed those great qualities of administrative 
 ability, which afterwards so distinguished him as the 
 leader of the "Mormon" people. 
 
 As to the people of Jackson County, who remained 
 after the Saints were driven out, who and what were 
 they? The history of the town of Independence, and its 
 neighborhood, is the best answer. Up to the end of the 
 Civil war — a generation after the "Mormon" expulsion 
 — the town never attained the population nor impor- 
 tance which the "Mormons" had given it, and the county 
 was notorious for its thriftlessness and ^verty, though 
 occupying a very garden-spot of the whole earth. It was 
 notorious as the refuge of cattle thieves and horse thieves, 
 the home of unrest and discontent, of schism and dis- 
 cord. No spot in the nation was so torn and rent over 
 the question of slavery. In no place was the bitterness 
 of the controversy for and against the Union so violent. 
 Scarcely a family was united upon these questions, and, 
 when the war broke out, in no other place were there so 
 many families broken up, fathers fighting against sons, 
 brothers against brothers. There, however, never came 
 out of this county an organized force of good repute for 
 either side. On the contrary, its people contributed a 
 low-type of guerilla and renegade warfare, which both 
 
And Their Fulfillment 185 
 
 armies despised; and which finally led to a castigation 
 and punishment that fulfilled the words of a prophecy, 
 and held its name up to the contempt and ridicule of the 
 whole world. 
 
 This came about in 1863, when General Ewing was in 
 command of the military district in which Jackson 
 County was located. 
 
 The practice of the guerilla bands of making stealthy, 
 assassin-like, sudden attacks upon the Union troops, from 
 ambush, as they were marching from point to point, 
 and then disappearing, became so intolerable that ex- 
 treme measures were resolved upon to stop it. These 
 contemplated the destruction of the base of supplies of 
 the marauding parties. It was found that the principal 
 location was Jackson County, where forage for their 
 horses, and food for the men, and change of animals and 
 equipment were being secretly furnished, as the oppor- 
 tunity and need of the renegade parties required. Women 
 and children even were frequently discoverd contributing 
 to the sustenance and help of these parties. The whole 
 county came to be regarded as a nest-bed of traitors and 
 spies, a refuge for assassins and robbers, whose murder- 
 ous and uncivilized warfare could not be combatted by the 
 ordinary rules and practices of civilized war, and that 
 must be put down by means that should be effective, how- 
 ever cruel and relentless. This determination led to the 
 issuance of the celebrated "General order No. 11," which 
 has been more widely published and quoted, because of 
 the manner and thoroughness of its execution, than al- 
 most any other order of the Civil War. It is also cele- 
 brated in oratory, and art, affording the theme of many 
 a campaign and historical oration from the lips of Mis- 
 souri's greatest public speakers; and is the inspiration 
 of the widely celebrated painting of Bingham, her great- 
 set painter. 
 
186 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 "General Orders, No. 11 
 
 "Headquarters District of the Border, 
 
 "Kansas City, Mo., August 25, 1863. 
 
 "1. All persons living in Jackson, Cass and Bates counties, Mo., 
 and in that part of Vernon included in this district, except those 
 living within one mile of the limits of Independence, Hickman's 
 Mills, Pleasant Hill and Harrisonville, and except those in that 
 part of Kaw Township, Jackson County, north of Brush Creek and 
 west of the Big Blue, are hereby ordered to remove from their 
 present places of residence within fiften days from the date 
 hereof. 
 
 "Those who, within that time, establish their loyalty to the sat- 
 isfaction of the commanding officer of the military station nearest 
 their present places of residence, will receive from him certificates 
 stating the fact of their loyalty and the names of the witnesss 
 by whom it can be shown. All who receive such certificates will 
 be permitted to remove to any military station in this district, or 
 to any part of the State of Kansas except the counties on the 
 eastern border of the State. All others shall remove out of this 
 district. Officers commanding companies and detachments serv- 
 ing in the counties named will see that this paragraph is promptly 
 obeyed. 
 
 "2. All grain and hay, in the field or under shelter, in the 
 district from which the inhabitants are required to remove, within 
 reach of military stations, after the 9th day of September next, 
 will be taken to such stations, and turned over to the proper offi- 
 cers there; and report of the amounts so turned over made to 
 District Headquarters, specifying the names of all loyal owners 
 and the amount of such produce taken from them. All grain and 
 hay found in such district after the 9th day of September next, 
 not convenient to such stations, will be destroyed. 
 
 "3. The provisions of General Orders No. 10 from these Head- 
 quarters will be at once vigorously executed by officers com- 
 manding in the parts of the districts, and at the stations, not sub- 
 ject to the operation of Paragraph 1 of his Order, and especially 
 in the towns of Independence, Westport and Kansas City. 
 
 "4. Paragraph 3, General Orders No. 10, is revoked as to all 
 who have borne arms against the Government in this district since 
 the 20th day of August, 1863. 
 
 "By order of Brigadier-General Ewing. 
 
 "H. Hannahs, Adjutant." 
 
 The devastation of Jackson County under the above 
 order has been denounced as one of the most cruel and 
 
And Their Fulfillment 187 
 
 unsparing incidents of the Civil War. The driving and 
 herding of women and children from their burning 
 homes, the destruction of barrs, fences, stacks and fields 
 of hay and grain, and the tramping and treading under 
 foot of armed men and horses of almost every acre within 
 the borders of the county, left it desolate, forbidding, a 
 spectacle to wring tears from the eyes of the pitying, and 
 agony from the hearts of those despoiled. Nothing like 
 it had been seen since the expulsion of the "Mormons" 
 from the same county, in 1833. 
 
 I had the pleasure, in the early part of this year 
 [1902] to meet Hon. Leonidas M. Lawson, of New York 
 City, formerly a resident of Clay County, Missouri. Mr. 
 Lawson is a brother-in-law of General Doniphan, and, 
 one night, in the beautiful University Club, a night I 
 shall long remember, he recounted to me many parts of 
 the story here related. He said that his father had told 
 him in his youth of the inhumanity of the Missourians* 
 treatment of the "Mormon" people, and then he told me 
 of his own visit to General Doniphan, in_ 1863 ; of their 
 riding over Jackson County together, and of the incidents 
 related in the following letter, which I requested him to 
 write. Mr. Lawson is a man standing high in his profes- 
 sion, a lawyer of great ability, an orator known in Mis- 
 souri, New York, and London, a man of world-wide 
 travel and information, whose observations upon affairs 
 and men are of recognized weight and value in the cos- 
 mopolitan circle of his acquaintance. It was a pleasure 
 to hear him, without prejudice for or against the "Mor- 
 mons," narrate eloquently the circumstances which he 
 has so briefly, but pointedly, set down in this communi- 
 cation : 
 
 "New York City, February 7, 1902. 
 "Mr. Junius F. Wells, New York. 
 
 "My Dear Sir: — Responding to your request for a statement 
 concerning the devastation of Jackson County, Mo., permit me 
 to say: 
 
188 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 "I am preparing a biographical sketch of General Alexander W. 
 Doniphan. It will be remembered that General Doniphan com- 
 manded the famous expedition, which during the Mexican War, 
 marched from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, and thence to Chi- 
 huahua, fighting en route the Battle of Bracito and the Battle of 
 Sacramento; in this latter engagement his little army of 1000 
 Missourians was opposed by a Mexican army 4000 strong. In the 
 biography occurs the following interesting passage: 
 
 "In the year 1863, I visited General A. W. Doniphan at his 
 home in Jackson County, Mo. This was soon after the devastation 
 of Jackson County, Mo., under what is known as "Order No. 
 11." This devastation was complete. Farms were everywhere de- 
 stroyed, and the farm houses were burned. During this visit 
 General Doniphan related the following historical facts and per- 
 sonal incidents: 
 
 " 'About the year 1831-2, the Mormons settled in Jackson 
 County, Mo., under the leadership of Joseph Smith. The people 
 of Jackson County became dissatisfied with their presence, and 
 forced them to leave; and they crossed the Missouri River and 
 settled in the counties of DeKalb, Caldwell, and Ray. They 
 founded the town of Far West, and began to prepare the founda- 
 tion of a Temple. It was here that the trouble arose which cul- 
 minated in the expulsion of the Mormons from the State of Mis- 
 souri, according to the command of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs. 
 This was known in Missouri annals as the Mormon War. There 
 were many among those who obeyed the order of the Governor, in 
 the State Militia, who believed that the movement against the 
 Mormons was unjust and cruel, and that the excitement was kept 
 up by those who coveted the homes, the barns and the fields of 
 the Mormon people. The latter, during their residence in the 
 State of Missouri, paid, in entry fees for the land they claimed, 
 to the U. S. Government Land Office, more than $300,000.00, 
 which for that period represented a tremendous interest. During 
 their sojourn in Missouri the Mormons did not practice or teach 
 polygamy, so that question did not enter into it. 
 
 " 'Following the early excitement, Joseph Smith was indicted for 
 treason against the State of Missouri, and General Doniphan was 
 one of the counsel employed to defend him, he having shown a 
 friendly interest in Smith, whom he considered very badly treated. 
 Joseph Smith was placed in prison in Liberty, Missouri, to await 
 his trial. This place was the residence of General Doniphan. His 
 partner in the practice of law was James H. Baldwin. 
 
 " 'On one occasion General Doniphan caused the sheriff of the 
 county to bring Joseph Smith from the prison to his law office, 
 for the purpose of consultation about his defense. During Smith's 
 
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 presence in the office, a resident of Jackson County, Missouri, 
 came in for the purpose of paying a fee which was due by him to 
 the firm of Doniphan and Baldwin, and offered in payment a 
 tract of land in Jackson County. 
 
 " 'Doniphan told him that his parner, Mr. Baldwin, was almost 
 at the moment, but as soon as he had an opportunity he would 
 consult him and decide about the matter. When the Jackson 
 County man retired, Joseph Smith, who had overheard the con- 
 versation, addressed General Doniphan about as follows: 
 
 " 'Doniphan, I advise you not to take that Jackson County land 
 in payment of the debt. God's wrath hangs over Jackson County. 
 God's people have been ruthlessly driven from it, and you will 
 live to see the day when it will be visited by fire and sword. The 
 Lord of Hosts will sweep it with the besom of destruction. The 
 fields and farms and houses will be destroyed, and only the chim- 
 neys will be left to mark the desolation.' 
 
 "General Doniphan said to me that the devastation of Jackson 
 County forcibly reminded him of this remarkable prediction of the 
 Mormon prophet. 
 
 "Yours sincerely, 
 
 "L. M. Lawson." 
 
 There is a prediction of the Prophet Joseph, not before 
 put into print, and history has recorded its complete ful- 
 fillment. 
 
 As a remarkable evidence of its literal and exact ful- 
 fillment, I add the following self-explanatory and inter- 
 esting letter from Judge A. Saxey, written in reply to a 
 request for information upon the subject, and call atten- 
 tion to his use of the almost exact words of Joseph's 
 prophecy, though so far as I know, he has not even heard 
 that such a prediction was ever made: 
 
 "Spanish Fork, Utah, August 25, 1902." 
 "Mr. Junius F. Wells, Salt luoke City, Utah, 
 
 "Dear Sir: — Yours of August 22nd received. I hardly know 
 how to write in a letter concerning the subject you inquire about. 
 However, I will give you a little of what I know, and if you can 
 use it, all right. 
 
 "I enlisted in a Kansas regiment in 1861. During the winter of 
 1861 and '62, my regiment was stationed at Kansas City, and we 
 were around in Jackson County a great deal during the winter. 
 Quantrill was operating in that locality, and we were trying to 
 
190 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 catch him. At one time, we surrounded Independence, and arrested 
 everyone in the town. I can testify that Jackson County contained 
 more contemptible, mean, devilish rebels than any I came across 
 in an experience of four years. I had quite a talk with a man I 
 arrested who lived on the Blue River, and who was there when the 
 Saints were driven out, but that, I suppose, would be somewhat 
 foreign to your inquiry. 
 
 "In the spring of 1862, my regiment went south, and it was dur- 
 ing that time that "Order No. 11" was issued, but I was back there 
 again in 1864, during the Price raid, and saw the condition of the 
 country. The duty of executing the order was committed to Col. 
 W. R. Penick's regiment, and there is no doubt but that he car- 
 ried it into effect, from the howl the Copperhead papers made at 
 the time. I went down the Blue River. We found houses, barns, 
 outbuildings, nearly all burned down, and nothing left standing 
 but the chimneys, which had, according to the fashion of the time, 
 been built on the outside of the buildings. I remember very 
 well that the county looked a veritable desolation. 
 
 "I do not know that what I have written will do you any good, 
 if it will, you are welcome. Of course, I could tell a great deal 
 more than I can write in a letter. 
 
 "Respectfully, 
 
 "A. Saxey." 
 
And Their Fulfillment 19 1 
 
 Conclusion 
 
 Was Joseph Smith a Prophet of God? Did he foretell 
 things "beyond the power of human sagacity to discern 
 or to calculate?" Has the "gift" of prophecy been exer- 
 cised by the Priesthood in this dispensation as it was in 
 former gospel dispensations? Precisely. The opening 
 events of this dispensation were linked with prophecies 
 to the effect that Joseph Smith's name should be evilly 
 spoken of in all the world. An obscure boy is projected 
 upon the screen of the world's great, unending drama; 
 his cause thrives upon opposition and persecution; his 
 martyrdom glorifies his mission, and after the lapse of 
 a century his name is "had for good and evil among all 
 nations." He is told that the "Lord is about to perform 
 a marvelous work and a wonder." His followers are 
 driven from county to county, and from state to state, 
 and finally from the national confines. They establish 
 an abiding place of their own in a land far from the 
 haunts of men. The currents of human enterprise follow 
 them. Conflict again arises; they are opposed; they are 
 hated; they are persecuted and imprisoned; they are 
 disfranchised; they are escheated of their property; they 
 are unchurched. The storm subsides; yielding with honor 
 is followed by reconcilement; peace and amity prevail; 
 good will and golden friendships obtain; wrongs are 
 adjusted; restitutions are made; forbearance and charity 
 pave the way to brotherhood and growth and power 
 come to them. Their sacrifices are compensated; their 
 hopes are realized; their motives are understood and the 
 thing called "Mormonism" succeeds. It succeeds socially 
 industrially, intellectually, and, above all, spiritually. 
 "Mormonism" is a success. 
 
192 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 The prophecies considered in this little volume have 
 been fulfilled. Their authorship is established; their 
 genuineness cannot be questioned. These "Mormon" 
 teachers, preachers, writers and historians have told the 
 truth. And now, after the unfoldments of a century, the 
 divine purposes have come to open view so that all who 
 will may see the words of God verified. The historian 
 Bancroft, in 1891, said: "The Church records are truth- 
 ful and reliable." In the publication of their records the 
 Latter-day Saints have displayed their sublime faith and 
 fearlessness. They have nothing to conceal, but every- 
 thing to give. Such are the characteristics of honesty. 
 And what a bounteous harvest has the century brought 
 forth as vindication of their faith in the Almighty who 
 has been their shield and source of light. That He and 
 they might stand justified before the world, behold their 
 prophet's words fulfilled though ambitious men are 
 brought to the dust in humiliation and ruin; empires rise 
 where desolation reigned; nations are bathed in blood, 
 and a world mourns and groans under the burden of its 
 woes; nations irresistibly pursue the course pointed out 
 for them by the finger of God ; ancient and dread powers 
 are broken down and abased; the haughty and the proud 
 are brought low that the oppressed and down-trodden 
 might be let free and become exalted. These great and 
 overpowering events have transpired, contrary to the judg- 
 ment of men, but in fulfillment of God's never-failing 
 word. So that the first century of "Mormonism," preg- 
 nant with mighty events as no other century has been, 
 proclaims as with the voice of thunder and war, as with 
 the pall of scourge and pestilence, as with the hum and 
 music of happy nations thriving in prosperity, and as 
 with the majesty of a great spiritual triumph, Joseph 
 Smith a Prophet of God. 
 
And Their Fulfillment 193 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 Prayer of Orson Hyde on the Mount 
 of Olives 
 
 The following is copied from the Millennial Star, 
 Vol. 19, 1856, Liverpool. It is a part of a letter ad- 
 dressed to Parley P. Pratt, in England, and was written 
 by Orson Hyde, November 22, 1841, at Alexandria: 
 
 "On Sunday morning, October 24 a good while be- 
 fore day, I ( arose from sleep, and went out of the city 7 
 as soon as the gates were opened, crossed the brook 
 Kedron, and went upon the Mount of Olives, and there 
 in solemn silence, with pen, ink, and paper, just as I 
 saw in the vision, offered up the following prayer to 
 Him who lives forever and ever: 
 
 "0, thou! who art from everlasting to everlasting, 
 eternally and unchangeably the same, even the God who 
 rules the heavens above, and controls the destinies of 
 men on the earth, wilt thou not condescend, through 
 thine infinite goodness and royal favor, to listen to the 
 prayer of thy servant which he this day offers up unto 
 thee in the name of thy holy child Jesus, upon this land, 
 where the Sun of Righteousness set in blood, and thine 
 Anointed One expired. 
 
 "Be pleased, Lord, to forgive all the follies, weak- 
 nesses, vanities, and sins of thy servant, and strengthen 
 him to resist all future temptations. Give him prudence 
 and discernment that he may avoid the evil, and a heart 
 
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194 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 to choose the good; give him fortitude to bear up under 
 all things for thy name's sake, until the end shall come, 
 when all the saints shall rest in peace. 
 
 "Now, Lord! Thy servant has been obedient to the 
 heavenly vision which thou gavest him in his native land; 
 and under the shadow of thine outstretched arm, he has 
 safely arrived in this place to dedicate and consecrate 
 this land unto thee, for the gathering together of Judah's 
 scattered remnants, according to the prediction of the 
 holy prophets — for the building up of Jerusalem again 
 after it has been trodden down by the Gentiles so long, 
 and for rearing a temple in honor of thy name. Ever- 
 lasting thanks be ascribed unto thee, Father, Lord of 
 heaven and earth, that thou hast preserved thy servant 
 from the dangers of the seas, and from the plague and 
 pestilence which have caused the land to mourn. The 
 violence of man has been restrained, and thy providential 
 care by night and by day has been exercised over thine 
 unworthy servant. Accept, therefore, Lord, the tribute 
 of a grateful heart for all past favors, and be pleased 
 to continue thy kindness and mercy towards a needy 
 worm of the dust. 
 
 "0 thou, who didst covenant with Abraham, thy 
 friend, and who didst renew that covenant with Isaac, and 
 confirm the same with Jacob with an oath, that thou 
 wouldst not only give them this land for an everlasting 
 inheritance, but that thou wouldst remember their seed 
 forever. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have long since 
 closed their eyes in death, and made the grave their 
 mansion. Their children are scattered and dispersed 
 abroad among the nations of the Gentiles like sheep that 
 have no shepherd, and are still looking forward for the 
 fulfillment of those promises which thou didst make con- 
 cerrirg them; and even this land, which once poured 
 
And Their Fulfillment 195 
 
 forth nature's richest bounty, and flowed, as it were, 
 with milk and honey, has, to a certain extent, been 
 smitten with barrenness and sterility since it drank from 
 murderous hands the blood of Him who never sinned. 
 
 "Grant, therefore, Lord, in the name of thy well- 
 beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to remove the barrenness and 
 sterility of this land, and let springs of living water break 
 forth to water the thirsty soil. Let the vine and olive 
 produce in their strength, and the fig-tree bloom and 
 flourish. Let the land become abundantly fruitful when 
 possessed by its rightful heirs; let it again flow with 
 plenty to feed the returning prodigals who come home 
 with a spirit of grace and supplication; upon it let the 
 clouds distil virtue and richness, and let the fields smile 
 with plenty. Let the flocks and the herds greatly in- 
 crease and multiply upon the mountains and the hills; 
 let thy great kindness conquer and subdue the unbelief 
 of thy people. Do thou take from them their stony heart 
 and give them a heart of flesh, and may the Sun of thy 
 favor dispel the mists of darkness which have beclouded 
 their atmosphere. Incline them to gather in upon this 
 land according to thy word. Let them come like clouds 
 and like doves to their windows. Let the large ships 
 of the nations bring them from the distant isles; and 
 let kings become their nursing fathers and queens with 
 motherly fondness wipe the tear of sorrow from their 
 eye. 
 
 "Thou, Lord, did once move upon the heart of 
 Cyrus to show favor unto Jerusalem and her children. 
 Do thou also be pleased to inspire the hearts of kings 
 and the powers of the earth to look with a friendly 
 eye toward this place, and with a desire to see thy right- 
 eous purposes executed in relation thereto. Let them 
 know that it is thy good pleasure to restore the kingdom 
 
196 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 unto Israel — raise up Jerusalem as its capital, and con- 
 stitute her people a distinct nation and government, 
 with David thy servant, even a descendant from the loins 
 of ancient David to be their king. 
 
 "Let that nation or that people who shall take an 
 active part in the behalf of Abraham's children, and 
 in the raising up of Jerusalem, find favor in thy sight. 
 Let not their enemies prevail against them, neither let 
 pestilence or famine overcome them, but let the glory 
 of Israel over-shadow them, and the power of the high- 
 est protect them; while that nation or kingdom that will 
 not serve thee in this glorious work must perish, accord- 
 ing to thy word: 'Yea, those nations shall be utterly 
 wasted.' 1 
 
 "Though thy servant is far from his home, and from 
 the land bedewed with his earliest tears, yet he re- 
 members, Lord, his friends who are there, and fam- 
 ily, whom for thy sake he has left. Though poverty and 
 privation be our earthly lot, yet, ah! do thou richly en- 
 dow us with an inheritance where moth and rust do not 
 corrupt, and where theives do not break through and 
 steal. 
 
 "The hands that have fed, clothed, or shown favor un- 
 to the family of thy servant in his absence, or that shall 
 hereafter do so, let them not lose their reward, but let 
 a special blessing rest upon them, and in thy kingdom 
 
 1 See Isaiah, 6th chapter. 
 
 We cannot let this paragraph pass without making the obser- 
 vation which recent events in the Holy Land cause to arise in our 
 mind. Compare the relative condition of Great Britain and that 
 of Germany and Turkey at the termination of the World War. 
 Also bear in mind the hostility of the two latter kingdoms with 
 respect to the restoration of Palestine to the descendants of David, 
 and in striking contrast witness the friendship before, and partic- 
 ularly since, exhibited by the British with respect to the "raising 
 up of Jerusalem" for the benefit of the Jews. 
 

 And Their Fulfillment 197 
 
 let them have an inheritance when thou shalt come to 
 be glorified in this society. 
 
 "Do thou look with favor upon all those through 
 whose liberality I have been enabled to come to this 
 land; and in the day when thou shalt reward all people 
 according to their works, let these also not be passed 
 by or forgotten, but in time let them be in readiness to 
 enjoy the glory of those mansions which Jesus has gone 
 to prepare. Particularly do thou bless the stranger in 
 Philadelphia, whom I never saw, but who sent me gold, 
 with a request that I should pray for him in Jerusalem. 
 Now, Lord, let blessings come upon him from an un- 
 expected quarter, and let his basket be filled, and his 
 store-house be filled with plenty, and let not the good 
 things of the earth be his only portion, but let him be 
 found among those to whom it shall be said, 'Thou hast 
 been faithful over a few things, and I will make the 
 ruler over many.' 
 
 "0 my Father in heaven! I now ask thee in the name 
 of Jesus to remember Zion with all her stakes, and with 
 all her assemblies. She has been greviously afflicted 
 and smitten; she has mourned; she has wept; her en- 
 emies have triumphed, and have said, 'Ah, where is thy 
 God?' Her priests and prophets have groaned in chains 
 and fetters within the gloomy walls of prisons, while 
 many were slain, and now sleep in the arms of death. 
 How long, Lord, shall iniquity triumph, and sin go 
 unpunished? 
 
 "Do thou arise in the majesty of thy strength, and 
 make bare thine arm in behalf of thy people. Redress 
 their wrongs, and turn their sorrow into joy. Pour 
 the spirit of light and knowledge, grace and wisdom, in- 
 to the hearts of her prophets, and clothe her priests with 
 salvation. Let light and knowledge march forth through 
 
198 Prophecies of Joseph Smith 
 
 the empire of darkness, and may the honest in heart 
 flow to their standard, and join in the march to go forth 
 to meet the bridegroom. 
 
 "Let a peculiar blessing rest upon the presidency of 
 thy Church, for at them are the arrows of the enemy 
 directed. Be thou to them a sun and a shield, their 
 strong tower and hiding place; and in the time of dis- 
 tress or danger be thou near to deliver. Also the quor- 
 um of the Twelve, do thou be pleased to stand by them 
 for thou knowest the obstacles which they have to en- 
 counter, the temptations to which they are exposed, and 
 the privations which they must suffer. Give us, [the 
 Twelve] therefore, strength according to our day, and 
 help us to bear a faithful testimony of Jesus and his 
 Gospel, to finish with fidedlity and honor the work which 
 thou hast given us to do, and then give us a place in thy 
 glorious kingdom. And let this blessing rest upon every 
 faithful officer and member in thy Church. And all the 
 glory and honor we will ascribe unto God and the lamb 
 forever and forever. Amen." 
 
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