Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-23
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continent, win be reared Zion, q new
Jerusalem where the Saints viii oven
tually assemble and prepare for the
coming Of the Messiah,
The site for the city Of Zion was
pointed out by the Prophet Joseph
Smith, an Jackson county, Mis-
souri, and there some OF our people
settled In 1881 but were subsequently
driven from their homes This event
while it delayed the building OK the city
did not change the place Of It's loca.
ton. The Latter-day saints fully eX-
pect 10 return TO Jackson county and
build up zion" Their exodus to the
Rocky Mountains, and their sojourn in
"the Stakes Of Zion as the places
are called which they now inhablt-they
regard as preparatory to that return,
and as events thatvhad 10 be. I'm order
to fulfill scripture notably these words
OF ISAIAH 80 Zion, hat bringost good
tdings, get thee up into the hgh noun
tain" "And Il shah come 10
pass In the last days that the mountain
OF the Lords house shall be establish.
ed In the tor Of the mountains ana
shall be exalted above the hills and all
nations shall TOW unto IT,
The predictions Of the Bible In rola-
ton 60 the Lords latter-day WORK are
moi the only ones cited by the evan
gels for the Mormon faith, The Book
Of Mormon, claiming to be a history Of
ancient America, a record of branch
Of the house Of Israel The red mans
white ancestors. to whom the Savior
mlnstered In person after His resurrec-
tion-is also rife with prophetic refers
ences 20 the gathering of the twelve
tribes, and the establishment Of Zion,
and other events of the last days; and
these prophecies are likewise pointed
out by our Elders when yolcing their
testimony 20 the world
Joseph Smith declared that an angel
from heaven revealed to him the golden
plates Of the Book of Mormon, contain
ing the Gospel, and that other heav-
emily messengers ordained him to the
Aaronic and Melchlsedek Priesthood.
thus empowering him to ordain others,
to preach faith and repentance, to bap-
TIE by immersion In water for the re-
mission Of sins, ana to lay on hands for
the gift Of the Holy Ghost; In short,
to do all things necessary to be done
10 usher In the dispensation Of the full
ness Of times Included in this decal'a-
ton was the promise that all who
obeyed the Gospel should experience the
same miraculous gifts and powers that
were enjoyed by the disciples ancient
ly
The effect of such a proclamation,
first among the farmers and artisans
0f Western New York and northern
Pennsylvania, next among the colon.
lzers Of the West and South. and then
among the yeomanry and working
classes Of Great Britain, Scandinavia
aud other European countries, was little
short of marvellous Thousands
throng I to hear the Elders mostly
unlettc ed, but earnest and jealous men.
preaching by the roadside, at the street
corners, indoors and outdoors wherever
they We're permitted to speak-and by
scores and hundreds people Of all re-
l'gions and of no religion, people Of all
classes and conditions, but generally the
humble and the lowly were gathered
into the fold. AS a matter of course,
the work encountered opposition, bitter,
relentless, and az times murderuus but
It throye upon such treatment, and the
more hercely assaled, the more rapidly
its converts multiplied Those who en-
braced the faith, whatever their ma
tionallty We're understood to be Of tho
blood Of Israel mostly Of Ephraim,
their genuine conversion being accepted
as a proof Of their lsraeltish origin.
The Church Of Jesus Christ OF Lat
ter-day Saints when organized at Fay
cite, Seneca county, New York, Aprll
G. 1880, had but six members. A year
later, with its headquarters at Kirt-
land. Ohio It numbered two thousand
souls The colony expelled from Jack
son county, Missouri in 1888 comprised
twelve to fifteen hundred, but this was
only a part OF the Church. Its first
foreign conversions took place in the
summer of 1897, at Preston Lancashire,
England, from which point the work
radiated into the neighborlng counties,