The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-18
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.


tort women and children, and leave them destitute
and beggars, without homes and without protectors
to perish upon the face of all the land and all to
satiate unhallowed and he1lish appetite for blood
And this awful tornado of suffering destruction
woe and damnation they would hurl upon us if they
could but they cannot, and say, in the of Is
raels Cod they never shall do it. We will have
peace II have to fight for it. They have not
the power to destroy Israel neither will they have"
One will not be lost in admiration of the LOYALTY
to country of the greatest practical Mormon of the
entire dispensation after perusal of the words he
uttered during the darkest period of the totterng
Republic. That he was aided and comforted in
his reasonable attitude is testified to by volume 10
of the Journal of Discourses which attributes to
Apostle MILFORD Woodruff afterwards president
OF the church, the following expressions part of
sermon delivered by him to the faithful:
WHO frustrated the army in their designs? The
Lord our God, and now the judgments that have
come upon the Nation in consequence of their treat
ment of this people are a sore vexaton to them,
but it is the hand-dealing of the Almighty, and we
cannot help it. Every elder in this church who
lives his religion, knows that this which is now
Transporting is according to the mind and fore
shadowing of the Holy Spirit and those out of the
chuch may know it if they will *
"Who can stay this that is devasting the
whole Nation both North and South? No human
hand; it is out of the power of man, excepting by
shed the blood of the prophets, driven this church
and people from their midst yes, the very people
that hold the keys of salvation for the world they
have baniShed from their midst; they have turned
those keys that will seal their condemnation, and
for this the Lord our God has taken peace out of
their midst, Will there be any peace
among them? No, not until the earth is drenched
with the blood of the inhabitants thereof"
Volume 10 of the Journal of Discourses of the
hierarchy appears to have been the war volume, for
the militant Heber c. Kimba1l also prophet, seer
and revelator, has a choice corner in the work. in
which he said
'"The South and the North are at war with each
other-are Staying each other-and if they were
not doing that, they would be trying to Stay us;
this they do already in their hearts, and the sill
is the upon the Nation though they did it
in reality | am martyr in the sight of Cod and so
is Brother Brigham, and other men of God whose
lives they have hunted God will chastise them
and all of those who have hand in seeking
destruction. The wicked Staying the
wicked, and the North calculates to up the South
in few days. In this they mistaken; they will
whip each other first one, then the other Let the
Saints acknowledge the hand of God in it all. War
and bloodshed will follow the gospel of the Son of
God until it has spread every nation, tongue
and people who reject the gospel after it is proered
to them and who have spilled innocent blood
consented to it,
Brother Kinball was possessed of other sanity
thoughts, of which must have been released
before the red tide of fratrcidal strife suggested
him the coming doom of the country he called his
own, for they emblazoned upon the pages of
volume five of the Journal of Discourses, and ex-
tract shows their trend
"May the Almighty bless you! May the peace
of God be with you and upon your children and
your children's children, forever and ever And
may God curse your enemies! Voices Amen)
feel to curse my enemies; and when God won't
bless them, [ do not think He will ask me to bless
them If did it would be to put the poor curses
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