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How the British Nation may Escape De-
Elder orson Pratt, who for some time edited the L
Mormon Millennial Star in London, was recently sn
perseded by Elder Richards hut before retiring be ad
dressed formal prophetic warning TO the people of
Great Britain to fee the wrath to come and 70 avert
utter discontinue or destruction BY receiving the go
pei according to Jo. Smith and t1e Prophets The
document is curious and characteristic: @
Expecting soon to leave Great Britain and return
to our mountain home in the Territory OF Utah, We
feel it duty to leave with the inhabitants OF theae
countries solemn warning concerning those things
which will befall them, and to point out their
only way to escape. lIt
Being called and sent Of God, we hnmbly and In
most respectful manner 70 her most gracious Ma
authorities and inhabitants in the United Kingdom
Great Britain that God Almighty, in this nineteenth
century. has set up His Latter Day kingdom upon
the earth as predicted BY His ancient prophets and
apostles. Angels have been sent forth from heaven,
by whom power and authority have been conferred
upon many, not only to set up and organize the king
dom, but to minister in all things pertaining to the
same. These inspired messengers have been sent by
the commandment Of God, to nearly every nation nm
der heaven and have testified in humility and meek
ness but yet with great bOldnes that the great and
terrible day of the Lord is at hand and that the pre-
paratory kindom isstablished in the heights Of the
mountains on the grest western hemsphere.
The kingdoms of the world have waxed old !; and
because Of wickedness they are destined to be speed
lily broken to pieces but the kingdom Of God will
endure forever It is destined to increase in strength
power, and dominion, and to bear rule over all the
earth. Those nations and kingdoms which will not
unite themselves with the kingdom Of God, and be-
come one with it, honoring its laws and institutions,
will utterly perish, and no place will be found for
| them. &
In view of these things, we humbly as servant Of
the most high God entreat all the people Of these
countries to repent and in the name Of the Lord we
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your midst, and seek the Lord and his kingdom, and
you shall be forgiven and your transgressions shall
| be blotted out, and you shall become great and
mighty branch of that universal theocracy which is
to fill the whole earth, and thenceforth be governed
by its laws.
But if you will not as nation, repent, and unite
yourselves with Gods kingdom, then the days are
near at hand when the righteous shall be gathered
out Of your midst; and woe unto you when that day
shall come, for it shall be day of vengeance upon
the British nation, and your armies shall perish :your
maritime forces shall cease your cities shall be raw
aged, burned, and made desolate and your. strong
holds shall be thrown down; the poor shall rise
against the rich and their storehouses and their fine
mansions shall be pillaged, their merchandise and
their gold and their silver and their rich treasures
shall be pundered then shall the lords and the nobes
and the merchants of the land, and all in high places
be brought down. and shall sit in the DUST and howl
for the miseries that shall be upon them and they
that trade by sea shall lament and mourn, for their
traffic shall cease aas-s.
And thus shall the Lord Almighty visit you, be.
cause of your great wickedness in rejecting his ser
4 wants and his kingdom and if you continue to
harden your hearts, your remnant which shall be left
shall be consumed as the dry stubble before the de-
vouring flame and all the land shall be cleansed by
the fire OF the Lord, that the thiness thereof may
no more come up before him. Yeur armies in India
have already been smitten with sore Judgment be
cause they cast out the Lords seXants who were sci
to warn them and to prophecy them. They were
rejected by your missionaries and your officers, ane
being without purse or scrip, they had not WHERE