The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

CHORUS.

For we're the true born sons of Zion,
Who with us that can compare,
We're of the root and branch of joseph,
The bright and glorious morning star.
Lo the Gentile chain is broken;
Freedom's banner waves on high,
List ye nation:.! by this token,
Know that your Raleemer's nigh.
For we're the true born sous, &c.
See on yonder distant mountain,
Zion's standard wide unfurled,
Far above Missouri's fountain,
Lo! it waves far all the world.
For we're the true born sons, &o.
Freedom, peace, and full salvation,
Are the blessings guaranteed;
Liberty to every nation,
Every tongue and every creed.
For we're the true born sons, &c.
Come, ye Christian, sect, and Pagan,
Pop -s, and Protestant. and priest,
Worshippers of God or Dagon,
Come ye to fair freedom's feast.
Fur' we're the true born sons, &c.
Come, ye sons of douht and wonder,
Indian, Moslem, Greek, or Jew,
All your shackles burst asunder,
Freedom's banner waves for you.
For we're the true born sons, &c.
Cease to butcher one another,
Join the covenant of peace,
Be to all a friend, a brother,
This will bring the world release.
For we're the true born sons, Sio.
Lo 1 our King ! the great Messiah,
Prince of Peace, shall come to reign ;
Sound again ye heavenly choir,
Peace on earth, good will to men.
For we're the true b.,rn sous, &c.

After this the cnoir in the gallery struck up another
song—'• Ohl say what is truth ?"—and, on its conclu-
sion, Elder Thomas Squires, the chaplain, read the 6. h
chapter of Nephi, in the Book of Mormon, and the 10th
chapter of St. Jobe, in the Ne,w Testament. He then
offered up a fervid and el quent prayer, and the whole
assembly afterwards joined iu a hymn—" Glorious things
are sung or Lon."
El ler Coos, one of " the fathers," next advanced
upon the platform, arid delivered an address illustrative
of the faith and qbedit-snce of Latter-day Saints, and
expressive of their lcie alty and determination to. up-
hold the government of Queen Victoria. Ile said it
was with the moat ardent emotions of love and esteem
that he rose on behelt of his brethren, who were aged
sires or fathers of Israel, to congratulate the presidency
of the Church of Jesus Christ ot Latter-day Saints in
this kingdom, and tne brethren in the apostleship and
ministry on their assembling tee. thvr on that happy
occasion, which would hereafter be remembered as one
of surpassing interest to them as a people whose rising
greatness had began to dawn upon the world, whose
meteoric app arance above the moral horiz en was re-
gerded be the various classes of observers with mingled
teetinge of wonder, admiration, aid fear, and though
there were thousands who would not turn their faces to
the quarter from whence the light none, its influences
would nevertheless be universal, and its rays would
dispel the gross datkeese which covered the minds of
the people. They felt gratefully conscious of
the protection efforded them by the just and
tolerant laws of the constitution under which it was
their happiness to find shelter, and they gladly took
that opportunity of d, cluing their loyal and undivided
attachment to the person and government of Queen
Victoria, the beloved Sovereign of these realms. As it
was the teaching of Christ that they should always re-
spect the laws of the coffin ry wherein their lot was cast,
they would ever be found ready to defend the lawfully-
constituted authorities of any state; and should the
lime ever arrive when the peace of this country was
Menaeed by foreign aggression or the outburst of revo-
lationa'y faction, their loyalty as a people would prove
as additional safeguard to the throne, the constitution,
'led laws of the kingdom. Their prospects on every
hand were most cheering, even io that country where
the Latter-day Salute were cruelly and relentlessly perse-
cuted, where unrestrain-d mobs could assemble with im-
punity in br a I day and sired the blood Of the nrophet
Joseph and the patriarch Hiram, and afterwards con-
summate their guilt by forcibly ejecting from their
homes, in the midst of severe winter, 11,000 unoffend-
ing, unresisting citizens, whose only crime was
that they were Letter-day Saints—even in that coun-
try the hand of persecution has been stay,d,
and the Federal Government had deemed it just to
confer honours on the man whom they had dishonoured
as the leader of a people whom they had previously af-
fected to despise. Their prospects in this country were
also very gratifying, for though but a few years ego,
when three elders came first from America to preach the
everlestieg Gospel, they were not known as a people, yet
now the Lord bad added o -heir b tdy tens of thousands;
and, therefor!, with bounding hearts they might ex-
claim, " The. Lord is with us—the God of Jac ,b is our
refuge " Toe secret of the unperallel. d success which
had attended the labours of the apostles and the other
elders of the church, though oppos,-d by every form of
priesterreft, assisted by the madness of ignorance and
superstition, lay in that unperelleled union of feeling and
readiness to obey those placed over them in the Lord
which hod at all times characterised the saints. While
other communities had beets split up into fragments by
internal dissensions and sectarian strife, their church
presented a mighty phalanx of noble spirits, impregnable
to all the assaults of earth and bell, and he predicted
they would one day become a mighty people, whose in-
fluence should be fait and faith propagated through all
nations of the earth.

The chorus and precession then joined in a song to
"the Rieine Glory o' Zi after which
Mr, JOHN HYDE, jun., delivered an address on be-
half of the youeg men, illustrative of the rise and pro-
gress of the church in Americe, in the British Isles,
and in Lindell at d vicinity. With reference to America,
he said the dark ignorance end superstitions which pre-
vailed in the world, as well as the divisions among the
people, fostered by debate and perpetuated by now sect,
proclaimed that the spirit which baptiz ,d unto one body
had fled; that the time had come for the commence-
ment of the seventh dispensation of justice and mercy to
man, audit therefore pleased the Lord, on the night of the
21st of September, 1823, to send an angel to Mr. Joseph
Smith, jun., native of Sharon. Windsor, county Ver-
aunt, to tell him his sins were forgiven, and that he
was the chosen of God to establish his church, and
usher in the day of preparation for the millennium of
Jesus Christ. The angel revealed many things, the
origin of the American Indians, and the existence and
locality of certain plates, from which the Book of
Mormon was afterwards translated, and the purposes
of God in reference to them. After con-
tinued revelations for four years, on the 22d of Septem-
ber, 1827, the angel delivered the records into his hands.
Mr. t-2mith, by the power of God, translated some of the
inscriptions on the plates, and an edition of such trans-
lation was published in 1830, on the 6th of April in
that year, "The Church" was orgarieed in the town of
Manchester, OLtario county, New York, the month of
December following. The speaker then went on to re-
late how the Lord, by revelation, directed them to the
western b.aelers of the Missouri. as the place where the
New Jerusalem was to be built; how they directed their
steps thither, and wet for the first time in conference in
Jackson county, on the 4th of Angtht, 1831; how the
inhabitants rose en masse. drove them from their chosen
city, killing many and whipping others; burning their
houses, destro) ing their crops, throwing their furniture
piecemeal into the streets, and compelling great numbers
to perish from starvation and exposure; how the
heavens opened gni angels wept to see the atrocity of
man, whilst a meteoric shower of shooting stars struck
terror into the hearts of their persecutors, but infest d
hopes into the bosom of the saints; how they subsequently
d
settled in Clay county, and were again expelled
obliged to procure a refuge in Hancock county, Illinois,
their way thither being marked by graves filled with
their dead, or to bo traced by blood from their suffering,Missourians,
' enfeebled, and emaciated frames.
instead of repenting these deeds of rapine, outrage. and
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