The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-24


tiles his way he gone forth from his place TO make
Thy Ind deseate end thy cities shall DO laid waste With
out Inhabitants Speak ye comfortably 70 Jerusalem, and
cry her that her warfare is accomplished that her
hand double for all her SINS Let your warning voice be
heard among the Genes as you pass and call ye upon
them in my name for aid and for assistance With you il
has been told you. All things shall work together for
your good if your are humble and keep my command
mente for must needs be that all men be left without
TO all"
To this Brother Orson adds
Many other things shown and told the vision,
which will be made public at the proper time and places
The vision continued open for number Of hours that did
not close my eyes in sleep.
Thus instructed the church soon furnished the
proper credentials to which Governor Thomas
Carlin added in a brief note his approval of Mr..
Hyde's preaching that he had heard, and witnessed
that he and another apostle, who was appointed to
accompany brother Orson, were gentlemen by re-
putation, for talents and Christianlike department
unexceptionable, and were entitled to the respect
and Kind treatment of ALL
In eight days after his appointment the apostle to
the Jews was ready to start, without purse and
scrip" on mission to Jerusalem, an undertaking
which has ever been regarded by the Saints as a
was heard among the Gentes throughout the States
till the 18th Of February Of the following year;
on that day he left New York for Liverpool. The
other apostle from some cause or other, caved in,
ana returned 10 NauVOO, 10 give an unsatisfactory
account of himself-this retrograde STEP bythe-by,
being the first which led to his apostacy, and an
illustration of the sad effects of disobedience to
orders held up to the gaze Of the faithful from that
day to this
The missionary got across the waters, and was
warmly received by the Saints in England, who took
lively interest in his mission. and helped him to
some ofthe needtul to deray his travelling expenses
for, however willing he might be to travel without
purse and scrip and be unremunerated for his labors
he found that the Casa of the railroads and steam
boats not precisely of the faith and strong
on rendering to Caesar the things that C@sars"
While in London he wrote to DR.. S. Hirschell, Pre-
sident Rabbi of the Jews there at that time desiring
an interviews but in consequence of severe accident
which had recently befalen him, he was confined to
his room and could not receive him. The apostle,
however, wrote him very lengthy address, re-
lated his vision, referred to the ancient glory of
Israel, (which once gave them transcendant eleva
walton above other nations and very delicatey and
very neatly alluded to their ambition being the
accumulation of sordid gain, by buying and selling
the stale refuse with which their fathers would
never have deiiled their hands," Having touched
upon some Jewish "reminiscences not over agreeable
he assured the Rabbi that his pen was pointed with
friendship and dipped in the fountain of love and
goodwill towards his nation. concluding with a
touching exhortation to backsliddeu Israeli
Now, therefore, o ye children of the covenant repent
OF all your backsdings and begin as in Gays of DID, to
turn to the Lord your God Arsel arisel and go out
from the Genfts for destruction is coming from the
North TO lay their cities waste Jerusalem thy home
There the God ofAbraham will deliver thee Joel H., 32)
There the bending heavens shall reveal thy long looked
for Messiah in eecy clouds OF light and glory execute
vengeance upon thine enemies ana lead thee and thy
brethren Of the ten tribes TO conquest and certain
victory. Then shall thrones be cast down. and the
kiI gdoDs Of this world become the Kingdoms OF our
God. Then will they come from the east west,
hcrth and south, and sit down in the kingdom
of God with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob But the chill
cren OF the Kingdom Gentes shall be cast out and the
VuS Ss literal Of the aer es
prophecies the apostle, in the foregoing quotation, just
meant what he wrote about the Gente going down and
ISRAEL coming up an operation which, to most people,
be yet very distant which by the Mornons
is regarded as sat the very DORIS"
On che 10th of June he left London for Rotterdam,
in Holland, where he published small work in the
German language. setting forth the visions Of Jo-
seph Smith the restoration of the ancient priesthood
and the first principles OF Mormonism. While here
Brother Hyde says that he discovered he was an
American, realizing absence makes the heart grow
fonder." When he espied some Of Columbia's fine
merchantmen lying in the waters of the Rhine with
the wide spread eagle in gttering gold on the stern
and the stars ana stripes conspicuously floating in
the breeze, he says his heart eaped into his mouth
the tears burst from his eyes, and before reflection
could mature sentence his tongue invountarily ex-
claimed 81 am an American" He adds, by way of
apology for this burst of feeling that while at home
the warmth and fire of the American spirit lay in
silent slumber in his bosom, but the winds of
foreign olimes had famed it into a flame. From
Rotterdam he passed on to Amsterdam, and on and
on till he reached Jerusalem, about the middle of
October.
On his way he had hard times was many DAYS at
sea without food, bad eat snails in considerable
quantity. but had ultimately TO mourn that even
they We're not 10 be had in sufficient number to
satisfy the cravings of nature. Brother Hyde had
tight place 10 pass through. On his passage from
Beyrout to Jaffa he says
AT one O'Clock, medita,ing on the deck Of the
vessel she beating down against sultry schroke
Wild n very bright ghtterng sword appeared in the
heavens. about two yards in length, with beautiful ht
plain and complete any cut you saw and what
is still more remarkable an arm with perfect hand,
stretched itself out and took bold the bt OF the sword
The appearance really made my hair RISE and the flesh
as II were, to creep on my bones. Tho Arabs made a
wonderful outery al the sight 90 Allah Allah Mlsh
lord Lord Lordll their exclamation all over the
vessel.
The apostle says:
mention this because YOU know there Is a command
ment 10 me which says "Unto you shall be given to
the signs OF the times and the OF coming
OF the Son OF Man"
Brother Orsons troubles were not at an end. He
had an introduction to an American missionary and
growing out therefrom confab with several other
missionaries which led to discussion and burst up
in mountaineering. The missionaries were salts.
fed with old revelations, and as the modern apostle
had not come recommended from any orthodox
society, they gave him the cold shoulder and re.
fused 20 introduce him TO either Jew or Gentle.
Orson was keen and cutting in his replies and
pitched into the chilling blasts of seetarianis and
concluded that
The course which the popular clergy pursue In relation
10 the divine economy looks though they would say:
Lord we Will worship thee with ell our hearts serve
thee with all our souls and be very pous AMI holy We
will even gather Israel convert the heaihep and bring in
the millennium If you will only let us alone that we NAV
do II In way, and according to our own will But
you speak from heaven 10 interfere with our plans or
any W see visions dream dreams. prophecy
whereby disturbed interrupted In our worship
will exert all our strength and skin to deny what you
say, and charge II home upon the devil or some wild
fantastic spirit as being It's author"
In spite Of obstacles. however the Mormon mis-
rLcdh as,,ta
some Of the house of Israel, told his mission rea-
soned with them, and distributed his work in
French, German and English.
There are many very interesting items in Orson's
"Noce from jerusalem" aside from his own mis-.
sion which we would take pleasure in quoting, but
such would demand moro space than we can devote
to this purpose. few extracts, therefore, must
suffice On the manners and customs of the East
he says
They are similar 10 what they were in the days of
our Saviour, that almost everything which the traveller