Recounting an event held in Mexico in 1903:
A day or two later a Peace
Meeting was to be held here, as in nearly every town in the United States and
in Europe also. I was asked by Sister Gladys Bently and Sister Eunice Harris to
give some Peace sentiments. I responded by giving quotations from the
revelation by the Prophet Joseph Smith given on the subject of the
Revolutionary War. (“Exile in Mexico, 1902-1905,” in Before the Manifesto:
The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris, ed. Meissa Lambert Milewski [Life
Writings of Frontier Women 9; Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2007],
548)
It is interesting that, 38 years after the cessation of the
U.S. Civil War, Mary Lois Walker Morris would quote approvingly what is now
D&C 87. This indicates that at least she did not interpret the prophecy of
the U.S. Civil War in the opening verses of this revelation to be predicting a
global conflict; instead, it would be in the future that “war shall be poured
out upon all nations” (D&C 87:3).
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