If the work roll forth with the same rapidity it has heretofore done,
we may soon expect to see flocking to this place, people from every land and
from every nation, the polished European, the degraded Hottentot, and the
shivering Laplander. Persons of all languages, and of every tongue, and of
every color; who shall with us worship the Lord of Hosts in his holy temple,
and offer up their orisons in his sanctuary. (“Minutes
of the general conference of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
held in Nauvoo, Hancock county, Ill. Oct., 3rd 1840,” in Time and
Seasons 1, no. 12 [October 1840]: 188)
