The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
The Prize Prophecy.

demonstrabe test of the prophetic power of Joseph
Smith, Jr, the original Mormon was his prediction OF
the Civil War; uttered on the 25th of December,
1882. Thirty years later the Civil War was in full
force, although Smith, in his revelation intended that
it should have manifested itself much earlier, anil
in that opinion he not alone. For in that con-
clusion says The Tribune, almost every one conceded
and of the of better thinkers no one claimed
powers of divintion.
1t in the fall of 1882 that South Carolina held
a convention in which it arrogated to the State the
right to nulify the laws of Congress relating to inn
port duties and announced its intention to secede
from the Union and establish independent govern
ment unless Congress recognized such right
On the 18th of December following the convention
declaration, President Jackson issued proclamation
in which he said
Mark under what pretense you have been led on
to the brink Of instruction and treason on which
you stand. On your unhappy State will inevitably
fall the evils of the conflict you force upon the gov
eminent OF your country.
Whereupon Joseph then tramp fanatic abiding in
Ohio and Missouri and on the road between the two
States, being beset by the minions of law for his
transgressions, bethought himself of the prophecy
that has since been handed down inspired reve-
lation. Fourteen days after President Jackson had
announced that South Carolina stood on the brink
of instruction and treason, Joseph claiming to have
had personal audience with God, said
Verify, thus saith the Lord (the stereotyped intro
duction to all his pretended reveations) concerning
the that will shortly come to pass beginning at
the rebellion of South Carolina which will eventually
terminate in the death and misery of many souls.
Such was the opening paragraph of what is
preserved wonderful forecast, although almost
any secondhand prophet of the times taking his
from Andrew Jackson could have produced some
thing equally as good.
Mr. Smith warmed to his subject as he proceeded
He portrayed the Southern States appealing to Great
Britain and to other nations for aid and thus he
said war shall be poured out upon all nations"
He conceded that few remnants of the people
would be left but that "they will marshal themselves
and shall become exceedingly angry and shall vex
the Gentiles with sore vexation"
Naturally, under the circumstances the survivors
of CHASTITY period of determination would be
angry and vexed and thus far Joseph did not over
draw the picture excepting in his assumption that
all the nations of the earth were involved in the
scrmmage
But as his prophecy grows he enters deep water
and the revelations of time the accurate proph-
ct show that in opening the future to the gaze of
the world he Numbered as any common mortal might
have Numbered, for he said:
And thus, with sword and by bloodshed the in
habitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine
PidSuC anu earthquakes, ana the OF heaven,
and the fierce and vivid lightnings also, shall the
inhabitants of earth be madc to feel the wrath and
Indignation and Christening hand of an Almighty
God, until the consumption decreed hath made full
end of all nations
All wiped out. That the fate of the world,
according to the rambling prophecy of Joseph the
irst, and the beginning of the tragedy was the Sc
session of South Carolina which Andrew Jackson
lad npped in the bud before the prophetic soul of
Joseph had begun to wander in the real of the future
This the prize revelation of the founder of The