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 nations! by this token,
Know that your Redeemer's nigh.
For we're the true born sons, &c.

See on yonder distant mountain,
Zion's standard wide unfurled,
Far above Missouri's fountain,
Lot it waves for all the world.
For we're the true born sons, &e.
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,
Pope, and Protestant, and priest,
Worshippers of God or Dagon,
Come yo to fair freedom's feast.
Fur we're the true born sons, &c.
Come, ye sons of doubt and wonder,
Indian, Moslem, Greek, or Jew,
All your shackles burst asunder,
Freedom's banner waves for you.
For we're the trus born sons, &c.
Cease to butcher one another,
Join the covenant of peace,
Be to nil a friend, a brother,
This will bring the world release.
For we're the true born sons, &a
Lo I 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 born sons, &c.

After this the choir in the gallery struck up another
song—" Ob! say what is truth ?"—and, on its conclu-
sion, Elder Thomas Squires, the chaplain, read the 6th
chapter of Nephi, in the Book of Mormon, and the 10th
chapter of St. John, in the New Testament. He then
offered up a fervid and eloquent prayer, and the whole
assembly afterwards joined in a by mn—" Glorious things
are sung of Zion."
Elder Coox, one of " the fathers," next advanced
upon the platform, and delivered an address illustrative
of the faith and obedience of Latter-day Saints, and
expressive of their loyalty and determination to up-
hold the government of Queen Victoria. He said it
was with the most ardent emotions of love and esteem
that he rose on behalf of his brethren, who were aged
sires or fathers of Israel, to congratulate the presidency
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in
this kingdom, and the brethren in the apostleship and
ministry on' their assembling together 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 appearance above the moral horizon was re-
garded by the various classes of observers with mingled
feelings of wonder, admiration, -and fear, and though
there were thousands who would not turn their faces to
the quarter from whence the light came, its influences
would nevertheless be universal, and its rays would
dispel: the gross darkness which covered the minds of
the people. They felt gratefully conscious of
the protection afforded 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 declaring 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 country wherein their lot was cast,
they would ever be found ready to defend the lawfully-
constituted authorities of any state; and should the
time ever arrive when the peace of this country was
menaced by foreign aggression or the outburst of revo-
lutionary faction, their loyalty as a people would prove
an additional safeguard to the throne, the constitution,
and laws of the kingdom. Their prospects on every
hand were most cheering, even in that country where
the Latter-day Saints weft:, cruelly and relentlessly perse-
cuted, where unrestrained mobs could assemble with im-
punity in broad ,day and shed the blood of the prophet
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 wore Latter-day Saints—even in that coun-
try the hand of persecution has been stayed,
and the Federal Government had deemed it just to
confer hoeours on the man whom they had dishonoured
as the leader of a people whom they bad previously &f-
-leeted to despise. Their prospects in this country were
also very gratifying, for though but a few years ago,
when three elders came first from America to preach the
everlasting Gospel, they were not known as a people, yet
now the Lord had added to their body tens of thousands;
and, therefore, with bounding hearts they might ex-
claim, " The Lord is with us—the God of Jacob is our
refuge." The secret of the unparalleled success which
had attended the labours of the apostles and the other
elders of the church, though opposed by every form of
priesteraft, assisted by the madness of ignorance and
superstition, lay in that unparalleled union of feeling and
readiness to obey those placed over them in the Lord
which 'had at all times characterised the saints. While
othet communities had been split up into fragments by
interest dissensions and sectarian strife, their church
presented a mighty phalanx of noble spirits, impregnable
to all the assaults of earth and hell, and he predicted
they would one day become a mighty people, whose in-
fluence should be felt and faith propagated through all
nations of the earth.

The chorus and procession then joined is a song to
" the Rising Glory of Zion," after which
Mr. JOHN HYDE, jun., delivered an address on be-
half of the young men, illustrative of the rise and pro-
gress of the church in America, in the British Isles,
and in Landon and vicinity. With reference to America,
he said the dark ignorance and superstitions which pre-
vailed in the world, as well as the divisions among the
people, foStered by debate and perpetuated by new sects,
Proclaimed that the spirit which baptized unto one body
had fled; that the time had come for the commence-
ment of the seventh dispensation of justice and mercy to
man, and it 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-
mont, 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. Smith, 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 organised in the town of
Manchester, Ontario 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 borders of the Missouri, as the place where the
Now Jerusalem was to be built; how they directed their
steps thither, and met for the first time in conference in
Jackson county, on the 4th of August, 1831; how the
inhabitants rose en masse, drove them from their chosen
city, killing many and whipping others; burning their
houses, destroying their crops, throwing their furniture
piecemeal into the streets, and compelling great numbers
to perish from starvation and exposure; how the
heavens opened and angels wept to see the atrocity of
man, whilst a meteoric shower of shooting stars struck
terror into the hearts of their persecutors, but infused
hopes into the bosom of the saints) how they subsequently
settled in Clay county, and were again expelled and
obliged to procure a refuge in Hancock county, Illinois,
their way thither being marked by graves filled with
their dead, or to be traced by blood from their suffering
enfeebled, end emaciated frames. The Missourians.
instead of repenting these deeds of rapine, outrage, and
murder, rejoiced in them, and thousands of soldiers, under