The record-union., 1896-09-13
A MORMON VERSION.
Elder Tanner Talks of Prophecies
Ancient and Modern.

Elder Henry S. Tanner, President of
the California Mission of the Church Of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said
in Pythian Hall Friday night:
Jacob, in blessing Joseph (Gen.
Xix, 22-26), declared that he would be
fruitful bough by a we'll whose
branches should run over the wall, and
that his dominion would extend unto
the utmost bound of the everlasting
hills (the Rocky Mountains. In Isaiah
twenty ninth chapter, we learn the
manner in which a record should be
brought forth Of that portion of Israel
whose speech should be low out of the
dust, whose eyes were closed, whose
prophets and seers were removed, and
whose history should be hid away in the
earth for centuries and be brought forth
in a wonderful way when God was to
perform His marvellous work among the
people who were only honoring God
with their lips.
This same record is defined as the
stick of Joseph (Ezek. xxxvii., 1920,
which was to become one with the stick
of Judah in the hands of the people
Of God in the latter days, when the
mountains of the Lords house should
be established in the top of the mount
flow Isaiah H., y, the Zion from which
the law shall go forth, for it will be
there where the records Of Joseph and
Judah will be acknowledged as the
united words Of God to confound false
doctrines and establish peace.
'In fulfillment of these prophecies,
Lehi, descendant of Joseph and one
Of the prophets of Jerusalem in Jere-
miah's time, was led with few follow
ers who took the records Of their pro-
genitors with them into the wilderness
and came to this continent Their
prophets and leaders kept a record of
their doings. In the latter part Of the
fourth century one of the prophets,
named Mormon, made an abridgement
of the records of his people and de-
livered it into the hands of Maroni, his
son. the last of the line of Nephite
prophets and the one who deposited the
record in the hill Cumorah. Because Of
Mormons abridgement the book took
his name the Book Of Mormon),
but it is the record of the descendants
of Joseph, called the stick of Joseph in
the hand of Ephriam.
after John had seen the apostacy
from the primitive church, he saw an
angel in the hour of Gods judgment
restore the gospel to the earth Rev.
xiv. 6-7) In the fall of 1927 the angel
Moroni, who had deposited the records
of his people in the hill Cumorah (now
called Mormon Hill. in the western part
of New York;, 400 years before, deliv-
cred them unto Joseph Smith, who
translated them by the power of God,
in fulfillment of former prophecies.
"The headquarters of the church had
been established at Nauvoo, ILL.,, a
thriving city of 10000 of the Saints
While Joseph Smith was at Montrose,
Ia, in company with General Adams,
Colonel Brewer and others witnessing
the installation of the officers Of the Sun
Lodge of Ancient York Masons, Au-
gust 6. 1S42. Joseph prophesied that the
Saints should continue to suffer much
aff1iction and would be driven to the
Rocky Mountains, and that many there
would live to go and assist in making
settlements and build cities and see the
Saints become a mighty people in the
Rocky Mountains. 1 consider this to be
a very remarkable prophecy in the face
of the fact that our Constitution guar
antees religious liberty, but it was as
literally fulfilled as was the prophecy
Of Egypt's servitude
when the church was organized Jo-
seph. through the direction of the Lord,
promised unto the people the Holy
Ghost through the laying on of hands,
and that miracles. signs and wonders
would be shown unto those who believed
on the name of Jesus. That the be-
levers who had implicit faith should
have power to cast out devils, to heal
the sick, to cause the blind to receive
their sight, the deaf to hear the dumb