As a first step in fulfilment of the prophecies of
Joseph, of the Bible, and of the Book of Mormon, a place was selected to
commence the work, and the Kirtland Saints, and other scattered ones, began to
assemble there. The thing looked a little more reasonable then, but still
Jackson County, Missouri, the place selected, was on the plains, and the Bible
distinctly depicted a great portion of the work of the last days as being on
the mountains, so that the Saints were still not in a position to fully carry out
their work, and fulfil the Scriptures. But how were the Saints put in a proper
position? Why, the mobs, in fulfilment of another prophecy of Joseph Smith,
drove them from that part of Missouri to another, then to Nauvoo, and also from
that place, until the Saints, satisfied that there was no home for them within
the borders of " civilization," determined to retreat beyond it, and
found for themselves a home, four thousand feet above the level of the sea, in
the bosom of the Rocky Mountains, to which spot the gathering of the righteous
among all nations is now going on, where an Ensign is being lifted to the
nations, that the Lord's house may be built on the top of the mountains, and
all nations flow unto it, that they may learn the ways of the God of Jacob, and
walk in His paths.
There, as Isaiah says, the "munition of rocks"
is the defence of the Saints, there they " dwell on high," and are
preparing for the coming of the " King in His beauty." God has
blessed them abundantly in all their operations, and caused " the wilderness
and the solitary place to be glad for them, and the desert to rejoice
and blossom as the rose."
Thus heaven and earth conspired to prove
Joseph a true Prophet, and the very attempts of the powers of hell to hinder
his work were subverted, and brought to bear in pushing along the work they
hated most. (Benjamin Brown, Testimonies
for the Truth: A Record of Manifestations of the Power of God, Miraculous and Providential,
Witnessed in the Travels and Experience of Benjamin Brown [Liverpool:
S. W. Richards, 1853], 30)
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