I feel to proclaim against the vices of the age, whether in this nation or others; for we as a nation are fast descending as low as the most degenerate and corrupt nations of Europe, and are practicing infamies which have been the overthrow and ruin of many mighty cities, nations and empires, and which are now the loathsome, unnatural, disgusting, damning sins of Christendom. The standing law of God is, be fruitful and multiply; but these reformers are "swift to shed blood," even the blood of innocence; and with their pre-natal murders and other crimes, are slaying their thousands and tens of thousands with impunity, to say nothing of that other loathsome, disgusting, filthy institution of modern Christendom "the social evil" as well as other infamous practices. We must protest against foeticide, infanticide, and other abominable practices of Christendom being forced upon us, either in the shape of legislative enactment, judicial decision or any other adjunct of so-called civilization. We are American citizens and are not yet deprived of the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It has become unfashionable in the east for women to have large families. I have heard remarks like this: one lady was asked, How many children have you? One or two. Is that all? What do you take me for, do you think I am a cow? Why no, you are not a cow, for cows do not murder their offspring. What a terrible tale is here told! What a horrible state of affairs is here exhibited. And I am told that some of these iniquities are being introduced here. I tell you in the name of God, if you do we will be after you. I am told of Physicians who are acting as they do in the east - as the butchers of infants. Let us look after these things, you Bishops, and if you do find it out, bring them up. As God lives we will not permit such infamies in our midst; you will not commence your fashionable murders here. And I will say now, Wo to this nation and to the nations of Europe, or any people among any nation, that sanctions these things. Have you not read that no "murderer hath eternal life abiding in him?" What shall be of those unnatural monsters, the slayers of their own offspring? This revolting, unnatural, damnable vice may be fashionable, but God will require this crime at their hands. Wo to men and to women that are licentious and corrupt, depraved and debauched, and especially wo, tenfold wo, to the murderers of helpless innocence. I tell you this in the name of the Lord. If these things are not stopped, God will arise and shake the nations of the earth and root out their infamies.

If we were guilty of those crimes so fashionable in the world whereby the increase of families is prevented, I do not suppose their would be one word said about our system of marriage; I have no idea there would be. But the fact that we do raise children, the fact our houses and settlements are full of healthy offspring, is a standing protest against the crimes of the age; it is a standing protest against those abominable practices that are destroying the foundation of many communities within the confines of the United States, and they are determined - those who are guilty of these things - that we shall not exist. The loudest outcry against us, and the most devoted efforts against us, come from the region where these dreadful practices prevail, where women murder their offspring before they are born, are guilty of this pre-natal murder, among the people of the United States who think themselves the most enlightened. Twenty five years ago when I was laboring in the ministry in that region I visited one of the towns, and the President of the branch of the Saints there, (an old resident, whose ancestors were among the first settlers of the town) told me his wife was continually jeered at - and this was twenty five years ago - by her associates, because she bore children, and bore them regularly - that she did not take the means to prevent the increase of her family! If I had not known him I could scarcely have believed it, it was too horrid. I have learned since, however, that that is a common practice in that region. The feature of that society that impresses most vividly a traveler from Utah is the fewness of children in what are called the best families. And yet it is from there that the principle outcry is raised against us, and the determination expressed to break up our families and to destroy us.

God has gathered a few people out from the nations of the earth, out of Babylon. But shall they partake of these influences? I say to you my sisters, you teach your daughters against this accursed practice, or they will go to hell, they will be damned, they will be murderers, and the blood of innocence will be found upon them. A man that would sanction such a thing in his family, or that would live with a woman guilty of such acts, shares in the crime of murder. I would no more perform the ordinance of laying on of hands on a woman who is guilty of that crime if I knew it, than I would put my hands on the head of a rattle snake. We must set our faces like flint against such acts. These dreadful practices are coming up like a tidal wave and washing against our walls; for there are women among us who secretly - so I am told, I know nothing about this personally, but I am told there are women among us who are instilling this murderous and accursed idea into the breasts of women and girls in our midst. Now just as sure as it is done, and people yield to it, so sure will they be damned, they will be damned with the deepest damnation; because it will be the damnation of shedding innocent blood, for which there is no forgiveness; and I would no more, as I say, administer to such women, baptize them, or perform any ordinance of the Gospel for them, than I would a reptile. They are outside the pale of salvation. They are in a position that nothing can be done for them. They cut themselves off by such acts from all hopes of salvation.

Already are we interfering with the laws of nature and stopping the functions of life, and have become the slayers of our own offspring, and employ human butchers in the shape of physicians to assist in this diabolical and murderous work. The sins of this nation, the licentiousness, the debauchery, the murders are entering into the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth, and I tell you now, from the tops of these mountains, as a humble servant of the living God, that unless these infamies are stopped, this nation will be overthrown, and its glory, power, dominion and wealth will fade away like the dews of a summer morning. I also say to other nations of the earth, that unless they repent of their crimes, their iniquities and abominations, their thrones will be overturned, their kingdoms and governments overthrown, and their lands made desolate. This is not only my saying, but it is the saying of those ancient prophets which they themselves profess to believe; for God will speedily have a controversy with the nations of the earth....There are certain principles that belong to humanity outside of the Constitution, outside of the laws, outside of all the enactments and plans of man, among which is the right to live; God gave us the right and not man; no government gave it to us, and no government has a right to take it away from us.

In modern Christendom - in these United States especially, and in staid New England more than perhaps any other portion of this American Continent is this commandment of God to multiply and replenish the earth nullified. The Latter-day Saints are looked upon with envy, with jealousy and reproach because they do not take the same view as they do, and their numerous families stand out in bold contrast with the New England families, where you will find as you go through the land one two, or at most three children in a family, and many families with none. In some instances this apparent sterility may have resulted from various abuses, but in most cases the result of wicked men and women to counteract and prevent the fulfilling of the great commandment of God to multiply and replenish the earth, and in many instances, foeticide, infanticide and child-murder are the result of this very general desire to avoid the responsibility of families. It has become a crying evil in the land. Some writers deeply deplore this crying evil, and represent it in its true light; while many other writers and speakers are either silent upon the subject or give their voice and influence in its favor. A few years ago, I remembered to have read a discourse of Brooklyn's great orator, Henry Ward Beecher, in which he took the ground that any considerable increase of the human species would be a positive evil, something to be deplored; and he elaborately attempted to portray the evils that would result from it, and the whole tendency of the discourse was to discourage the multiplication of human species. Others have followed in the same train of reasoning. They seem to have forgotten the commandment given to our first parents, and never to have comprehended the purposes of Jehovah. Those who adopt these views have seemed to imagine that there would be greater happiness in the gratification of fleshly lusts, and in pandering to pride and worldly pleasures, and the increase of wealth, than to obey the commandment of God. They have resolved to avoid raising large families. The last tour I took through New England, (which is my native country), about twelve years ago, I was more deeply impressed with this state of things than I have ever been before. When I was a boy, in Vermont, I knew not the ways of the world, and comprehended not what was going on, in our large cities and more populous parts of the country. I was born of honest parentage, who reverenced the principles of life and salvation, and I understood not what was going on around me, nor do I think those evils existed there to the same extent that they now do. But as I remarked, when I made my last tour through New England, I was more forcibly impressed with this state of society than ever before. I spoke of it to my aged aunt in Rhode Island. I said to her: "Aunt, when you were young, and when my mother was young, rearing large families, it was a source of joy and pleasure to rear offspring . Now as I go through the land, I see the efforts of the people are in an opposite direction." "Oh, yes," said she, "it is unpopular now, for people to have large families; it is considered vulgar, men and women now seek to avoid these responsibilities." This is a well known fact. The tendency of the age is to animalism, to the gratification of fleshly lusts and worldly pleasures. Well, the Latter-day saints have experienced in their own lives something nobler, and have learned to recognize the wisdom of Jehovah in that order of things which He enjoined upon our first parents. This is the marked difference between the unbelieving world and the Latter-day saints. I say the unbelieving world, because I regard this doctrine which I have referred to as a doctrine of devils and not the doctrine of Christ; that the tendency of it leads as I before remarked, to foeticide, infanticide, child murder, and to the gratification of fleshly lusts and worldly pleasures without fulfilling the great object and purposes of our Father, and the effect in the end would be the wasting away of the human species if it were generally adopted. It is high time that a voice from heaven should rebuke it. It is high time that the Lord, who wishes to raise up seed unto himself, should command his people and renew upon them the obligations placed upon our first parents. It is to the Latter day Saints that this mission has been committed, and the result is the multitude of school children that we find all over this territory. Over fifty thousand Sabbath school children in the territory of Utah - nearly one third of the entire population, as shown our statistics at our various conferences - are children under eight years of age. This is a startling fact to that class of the Christian world who are pursuing the opposite course. One of the Sabbath school superintendents of the city of New York, recently expressed himself very pointedly and plainly upon this subject in relation to the wealthy portion of the church going people of New York. In several thousand families attending the popular churches of New York, there could be mustered only about eighty Sabbath school children, and he attributed it to this prevailing desire for pleasure, wealth, and the shirking of the cares and responsibilities of the household, until the rearing of families was left almost entirely to the poor, to what is termed the vulgar people.......the chief warfare against the Latter-day saints at the present time is an endeavor to compel us to conform to their new state of things, or to their ideas of social sins and social duties.

Not long ago, I was called upon by some intelligent, or those who profess to be intelligent men, who asked me something about polygamy. "How is it with you," said I; "do you know that in this land of yours you are murdering hundreds of thousands of infants every year? Do you know that you have among you people who are considered the most fashionable and honorable that are murderers, who destroy the life that God has given before and after birth, and interfere with the laws of the almighty? Do you know that they are doing that?" "Yes, we believe they are doing it." "Do you know that you are wallowing in corruption and degradation, and that your social evils and other damnable corruptions that exist are spreading and permeating through all your society?" "Yes." "Well, you please go and attend to your own affairs. It certainly does not look well for you who hail from these sinks of infamy and degradation to preach morality to us. Please attend to your own affairs first and get them straightened out before you come to correct us."

President Cannon read as follows:

Dr. Nathan Allen, of Lowell, has declared in a paper read before a late meeting of the American Social Sciences Association, that "nowhere in the history of the world was the practice of abortion so common as in this country; and he gave expression to the opinion that, in New England alone, many thousands of abortions are procured annually."

Dr. Reamy, of the Ohio State Medical Society, says: "from a very large verbal and written correspondence in this and other states, together with personal investigation and facts accumulated that we have become a nation of murderers."

The Rev. Dr. Eddy writes to the Christian advocate regarding one little village of 1,000 inhabitants: "Yet here, and elsewhere, where 15 percent of wives have the criminal hardihood to practice this black art, there is a still large and additional percent who endorse and defend it. * * Among married persons, so extensive has this practice become, that people of high repute not only commit this crime, but do not shun to speak boastingly among their intimates of the deed, and the means of accomplishing it."

Dr. Allen further states: "Examining the number of deaths, we find that there are absolutely more deaths than births among the strictly American children, so that aside from immigration and births of children of foreign parentage, the population of Massachusetts is rapidly decreasing. The birth rate in the State of New York, shows the same fact, that American families do not increase at all, and inspection of the registration in other states shows the same remark applies to all."

Bishop Coxe, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of New York, in a pastoral letter to his people writes: "I have heretofore warned my flock against the blood-guiltiness of antenatal infanticide. If any doubts existed heretofore as to the propriety of my warnings on this subject, they must now disappear before the fact that the world itself is beginning to be horrified by the practical results of the sacrifice to Moloch, which defile our land. Again I warn you that they who do such things, cannot inherit eternal life. If there be a special damnation for those who shed innocent blood, what must be the portion of those who have no mercy upon their own flesh."

Dr. Cowan, M.D., writing on what he styles "The Murder of the Unborn," says: "that this crime is not only wide-spread on this great continent, but is rapidly on the increase, we have the testimony of physicians, whose investigations have been thorough, and whose social standing and integrity cannot be questioned."

President Taylor continuing said: These are the people that are coming here to reform us, and are so disgusted with our corruptions. Yet I am pleased to find that there are, once in a while, men, who have the courage to speak against these damning evils. Bishop Coxe, of the Episcopal Church, is one of these men, and I honor such men whenever I hear of them, and should be glad at all times to extend to them all courtesies possible. Dr. Allen and Dr. Reamy are inspired it seems, by the same detestation of these hellish, these fiendish, these outrageous acts. Yet from these people come our reformers, who are so horrified at the evils they see in Utah. But fortunately, the bed is too short, they cannot stretch themselves on it; and the covering is too narrow and too contracted, it will not cover them, and their evils and abominations crop out on every side, and they become their own accusers.

It is their own statements that I have read to you this morning. I am sorry to know that these things are as they are; but these are facts, and we do not feel very much honored with the association of such people. We do feel honored always to associate with honorable men and women; but with the seducer, with harlots, with thieves, with murderers of the innocents, no! never! no never! We want no association with them. As it is stated here by one of these reverend gentlemen in the East, speaking of these things, no murderer hath eternal life in him, nor no murderesses have eternal life in them....I want to warn our brethren and sisters against these infamies, and against permitting these filthy wretches to come into their houses. They are too low, too debased, too corrupt; and I speak of it because I know what I am talking about; there are some of these people crawling around us like so many vipers, and insinuating their hellish, murderous practices into the families of some who call themselves Latter-day Saints. Woe! to such saints. You cannot have a place among the Latter-day Saints, and I speak of it that the Presidents of Stakes and the Bishops may be apprised of these things. And some of these people would try to pass by the Bishops, and then by the Presidents of Stakes, and then by the President of the Church, and crawl with all their slime and damnable hypocrisy into the Temples of the living God. They may pass by these, but they will have to pass by the angels and the Gods, before they get through, and they will never inherit the Kingdom of God. Hear it you sisters! Hear it you brethren! Hear it you Bishops, and you Presidents of Stakes! Watch well and know well what you are doing, when you sign recommends for doubtful characters to go into these holy places. We do not want them there. It is not their place, and you will have to account for your acts if you permit these things knowingly. It is necessary that you should be particular about these matters, for you will have to answer for your doings as I have for mine. We cannot, because of relationship, because somebody is a cousin, or an uncle, or an aunt, or a brother, or a sister, or a son or a daughter, or a father or a mother we cannot admit and will not admit them to any of these holy places unless they are worthy.

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In pondering over the above sickening details...I note deliberately the weight of testimony furnished by a host of their most honorable and reliable men in the East, to whom I give all honor, who calmly and deliberately pronounce them "a nation of murderers," "the slayers of the innocent," the consumers of their own flesh. In connection with this terrible record we have in our prominent cities, flaunted before our eyes, their dens of infamy and crime, impudently and unblushingly paraded before us, and stuck under our very noses. In looking at these things I ask myself can human depravity descend any lower, and the humiliating answer comes, yes! yes!! yes!!!

I have had these things read for more reasons than one. First to show the hypocrisy of those who come here to teach us morality, and who proscribe the acts of a pure and industrious people who dwell in these mountains. And for another purpose, to guard our brethren and sisters against the encroachments of such fiends in human form as those persons here referred to. We cannot have, and won' t have adulterers and adulteresses among us, much less will we have those who, by murder, stain their consciences and damn themselves forever. You sisters, guard yourselves against these infamies or you will sink yourselves down, down, down to pits of infamy and ruin, that you never dreamed of. I do not wonder that the Prophets have expressed themselves as strongly as they have in relation to the events that shall overtake the world. I remember that some 30 years ago, there was one of our brethren in an eastern city, I heard a report about his wife being engaged in something of that sort. I asked him if it were true. He said it was. I don’’t know when I felt such a loathing for a human being in my life as I felt toward her. I would sooner have touched a rattlesnake than touched her hand. And I feel so to-day. We cannot degrade ourselves with these fiendish practices. All are not guilty; for as I have frequently said there are thousands and millions of honorable men and women throughout the land. But these evils which exist in this and other nations are too terrible almost to be spoken of; yet it is requisite they should be presented before you Latter-day Saints, that you may remember the pit from whence you were dug, and the rock from whence you were hewn; that you may appreciate in some measure the blessings you enjoy, and your freedom from these infamies in this land of Zion. And I would say to you bishops - if you find adulterers and adulteresses in the Church, cut them off, they cannot be associated with the Latter-day Saints.

When the time comes that God sees in the midst of His people an increase of the female element, and the wicked ready to devour that element and appropriate it not in the way to "multiply and replenish the earth," but for the gratification of fleshly lust, and will actually take and employ hellish means to prevent the increase of their species, and show that they are not only beneath the brute, but beneath the vegetable creation, by refusing to bear fruit, thereby placing themselves in the category of the trees that are dried up, fit only to be cast into the fire, he can take measures to counteract this evil. And I say before God, angels and men, that every man and woman who joins in unholy wedlock for the gratification of fleshly lust, and studiously plan to frustrate the command of God in the multiplication of their species, show that they are unworthy - what shall I say? - unworthy to be classed among the honorable of the earth. And we have reason to believe that many have done, and are to-day, in the great cities of Babylon, taking steps to destroy their own offspring, committing infanticide and foeticide, all of whom, and their aiders and abettors, are not ripening for the damnation of hell. And when God sees this damnable doctrine taught, and taught by such men as Mr. Henry Ward Beecher and other modern divines, falsely so called, who teach the world that it is a positive evil to multiply and increase so greatly in the land when such doctrine is taught by leading lights, and so readily accepted by the masses, the Lord says, the time has come for Him to take measures to counteract this great evil, by introducing laws in the midst of those who fear Him and live accordingly to the principles of life; men who are upright, honest and faithful, men who are willing to assume the responsibility; to take the daughters of Eve to wife and multiply and replenish the earth, for those men are unworthy of them. It is as Jesus said concerning the man who hid it in a napkin; he laid it carefully away, and by and by brought it out, saying here it is as I have received it, not having increased at all; in other words, we are just where we are when we started. Another one says I received two talents; and have increased to four, another says I received five talents, and now have ten: the master says to the one who hid his talent, who perhaps laid it carefully away and kept it nice, watching over it with the greatest care; or in other words, to him who did not multiply and increase, but on the contrary took pains to avoid doing so, "Take from him that which he seems to have and give to him that has ten; for he that has and improves upon that which he receives, shall receive more abundantly."

I am a native born American; I was reared in the State of Vermont. In my early days the doctrine taught to our first parents, to multiply and replenish the earth, was popular; but during the period of my life that has elapsed, it has been almost totally ignored by the social circles of New England. When I last visited the old homestead, an old aunt nearly ready to go into her grave, told me that it was irregular for people now-a-days to have large families. And it seems this is the prevailing sentiment of that region; for in traveling through New England it was rarely I saw a woman with more than two or three children. Any of the older families, those honored matrons of New England, who lived contemporary with my mother, thought it honorable to raise large families; but my old aunt who was one of the last of that stock, has, by giving way to allowing the influence of death, has imbibed false notions; and when she thus expressed herself to me I knew she was not speaking the honest sentiments of her heart. Today infanticide and foeticide are popular....yes, child murder, this damnable doctrine of devils has become popular throughout New England, and is fast spreading over the American Continent. And now it is the Irish woman, who believes in raising children, the foreign element that comes to the country that are considered the vulgar people; and were it not for this flood of foreign immigration the staid New England element would soon become extinct, and I say, in the name of Israel's God, the sooner the better unless they repent of their murders, their whoredoms and their abominations that ascend to the heavens and are a stench in the nostrils of the Almighty .

Some time after Joseph’’s (of Egypt) death, there arose a king who knew him not, and observing that the Israelites were likely to become more numerous than the Egyptians - since they did not murder their offspring either before or at birth, as many among the Egyptians did - this monarch enslaved them and placed task masters over them, and by oppression and the destruction of their male offspring sought to prevent their increase. Finally the Lord raised up Moses and delivered them from bondage amid a splendid display of his almighty power, and eventually settled them in the land of Canaan, the land he had promised unto Abraham as an inheritance - where they became a mighty nation.

We were told yesterday by Elder Erastus Snow that men of great influence in the world were preaching the doctrine of human limitation, which leads to murder. And yet these very men will preach morality to you and me. While killing their own offspring and urging others to do it, they tell us that we shall not obey the laws of God pertaining to increase. I say we will. And upon natural principles, upon scientific principles. The boys and girls who live according to the law of the Lord will become the head not the foot. They will have stronger bodies, stronger minds, and by the force of the "survival of the fittest," will, eventually, under the direction of divine revelation, govern the affairs of the world. It has been so predicted; God has decreed it, who will prevent it? Let us therefore unite in turning our faces against the evil practices so prevalent in the world. Let us begin to understand and live according to the laws of nature, realizing that violations thereof bring penalties which sometimes are transmitted to the third or fourth generation. In the transmission of life God has devolved upon His creations the highest and most delicate functions, and which if abused, entail misery and often premature death.

God has his glory in the perpetuation of life. With wonder and admiration we behold life everywhere. We see it struggling in the vegetable kingdom, and breathing in the animal creations. Cut down and trample under foot the noxious weed, and yet by the law that governs its increase, it struggles upwards, and unless utterly destroyed matures seed for new life, and thereby perpetuates itself. All nature responds to the eternal law of increase. Man, being prompted by him who rebelled in heaven, alone seeks to defeat life, and bring confusion and death. While he and his emissaries strive through the commission of horrid crimes, even murder, to limit human increase, let us as Saints sanctify body and soul being pure in heart and mind, a fit lineage through which noble spirits may possess tabernacles unto the glory of God the Father of spirits. Let fathers and mothers in Zion beget children, as Samuel the ancient prophet was begotten, and I tell you there is no power on earth or in hell that can stop the progress of this people, we will increase and spread abroad until Zion shall arise and shine, and the kingdom of God shall have supremacy and sway forever. Amen .

While the wicked are hardening their hearts in sin, and giving themselves up to whoredoms and lust, and seeking to prevent the increase of offspring among them, God is impressing upon us the heinousness of these crimes and showing us the beauty and glory of multiplying the families of Israel. When we visit these settlements of the Saints and attend the Quarterly Conferences throughout the land, what do we hear in the reports? We hear that an average of about thirty percent of the entire population are children under eight years of age, and another one-third between that and twenty, and scarcely one-third of the population are yet old enough to enter into the marriage relation. And what do we hear? Reports from the Relief Societies and the Improvement Associations and the Sunday school teachers and superintendents that are engaged in instructing them - and what do we hear? Why we hear that the spirit of the Gospel is in them, that faith is in them, and that they possess bright and intelligent minds that are reaching out after knowledge, and hearts that are grasping the things of God. It is this that causes the world to fear and tremble and this is the cause of the opposition waged against us.

Here we are taught not to destroy our children, but to preserve them, for they, reared in the path of virtue and trained to righteousness, constitute our true glory.

It is no wish to accuse our sisters who are not of our faith that we so speak; but we are dealing with facts as they exist. Wherever monogamy reigns, adultery, prostitution and foeticide, directly or indirectly, are its co-comittants. It is not enough to say that the virtuous and high-minded frown upon these evils. We believe they do. But frowning upon them does not cure them; it does not even check their rapid growth; either the remedy is too weak, or the disease is too strong. The women of Utah comprehend this; and they see, in the principle of plurality of wives, the only safeguard against adultery, prostitution, and the reckless waste of pre-natal life, practiced throughout the land.

I have felt the greatest concern for the rising generation among us; they are far more numerous than our foreign immigrants. Secretary Evarts and the Cabinet need have far less fear concerning our foreign immigrants than of those that are constantly coming from the spirit world. The enemies of Zion fear this doctrine of the Saints to fulfill the first great commandment given to Father Adam and Mother Eve, instead of adopting that abominable and soul destroying doctrine of devils, infanticide and foeticide, which is practiced to no little extent in the Christian world, which is an open violation to the laws of nature and the law of God to our first parents, to "multiply and replenish the earth." And the practice of this same doctrine is fast depopulating some of our older states; besides, it tends to encourage prostitution; and, strange as it may appear, a future day will yet reveal that among the foremost and prominent votaries of this doctrine of devils are those who fight against Zion and her institution of marriage, under the hypocritical cant as such men as Schuyler Colfax, in his utterance from the balcony of the Townsend House in this city, and Attorney-General Devens, in his argument in the Reynolds case, in effect, that the plural marriage of the Mormons cannot be tolerated, because the burning by widows upon the funeral pile of their husbands was wrong. There is about as much relevancy and consistency in the argument as there would be to say that the practices of the multitudes of families of this Christian land, who are destroying their own offspring and taking villainous compounds to induce barrenness and unfruitfulness, must be tolerated and encouraged, because the practices of the Latter-day saints are filling these mountains with a thrifty population. It is shown by our statistics that our children under the age of eight years are already nearly as numerous as the lay members of the Church. I feel that too much attention cannot be bestowed upon the rising generation.

To check the increase of our race has its advocates among the influential and powerful circles of society in our nation and in other nations. The same practice existed forty five years ago, and various devices were used by married persons to prevent the expenses and responsibilities of a family of children, which they must have incurred had they suffered natures laws to rule pre-eminent. That which was practiced then in fear and against a reproving conscience, is now boldly trumpeted abroad as one of the best means of ameliorating the miseries and sorrows of humanity. Infanticide is very prevalent in our nation. It is a crime which comes within the pervue of the law, and is therefore not so boldly practiced as is the other equally great crime, which no doubt, to a great extent, prevents the necessity of infanticide. The unnatural style of living, the extensive use of narcotics, the attempts to destroy and dry up the fountains of life, are fast destroying the American element of the nation; it is passing away before the increase of the more healthy, robust, honest, and less sinful class of the people which are pouring into the country daily from the Old World. The wife of the servant man is the mother of eight or ten healthy children, while the wife of his master is the mother of one or two poor, sickly children, devoid of vitality and constitution, and if daughters, unfit, in their turn, to be mothers, and the health and vitality which nature has denied them through the irregularities of their parents are not repaired in the least by their education.

The Latter-day Saints do not imitate the examples of the Eastern cities and the old commonwealths of the Atlantic seaboard in destroying their offspring. They do not patronize the vendor of noxious, poisonous, destructive medicines to procure abortion, infanticide, child murder, and other wicked devices, whereby to check the multiplication of their species, in order to facilitate the gratification of fleshly lust. We are not disposed to imitate these examples, nor to drink in the pernicious doctrine once uttered in Plymouth Church by the noted Henry Ward Beecher - that it was a positive evil to increase families in the land beyond a limited extent, and the ability of the parents to properly educate and maintain them, sustaining the idea of small families; in effect, justifying the mothers - of New England, and their partners who sanction their efforts in destroying their own offspring, and in preventing the fecundity of the race. Fancy such a doctrine justified by the noted orator of the nineteenth century, and re-echoed by the smaller fry throughout the country! The Latter-day saints are taught to reverence the words of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, concerning the multiplication of their species, and are called as his children to multiply and replenish the earth. If the traveler who visits Utah, will deign to visit our congregations, our schools, and our Improvement Associations, he can view hosts of children growing up on every hand, all of whom are taught to read and write, and in the common branches of an English education beyond that which is found to exist in any other part of the land under similar circumstances. But notwithstanding all this, they say secretly among themselves, and in the national and state councils: "This will never do. A people multiplying and increasing like this will over-run the land." They say as Pharaoh did of old, "We must do something to stop this increase." Pharaoh devised means of secretly checking it, by charging his midwives, and making a decree, that every male child born in Israel should be put to death. We read that when Moses was born and his mother found him a goodly child she disregarded the decree of the king, and God over-ruled in her favor, in pursuance of her faith, and protected her movements, and Moses was spared and brought into the king' s house, and unwittingly educated under his tuition to become the future deliverer of Israel, and the lawgiver of nations. History but repeats itself. The efforts of the wicked to stop the growth and enlargement of the Latter-day Saints will as signally fail, and the failure will be on as natural principles as it was anciently in the days of Moses. For the Lord has decreed it.

The priests of the day in the whole world keep women, just the same as the gentlemen of the legislatures do. The great men of the earth keep from two to three, and perhaps half-a-dozen private women. They are not acknowledged openly, but are kept merely to gratify their lusts; and if they get in the family way, they call for the doctors, and also upon females who practice under the garb of mid-wives, to kill the children, and thus they are depopulating their own species. (Voice: "And their names shall come to an end.") Yes, because they shed innocent blood. I knew that before I received "Mormonism." I have known of lots of women calling for a doctor to destroy their children; and there are many women in this enlightened age and in the most popular towns and cities in the Union that take a course to get rid of their children. The whole nation is guilty of it. I am telling the truth. I won't call it infanticide. You know I am famous for calling things by their names. I have been taught it, and my wife was taught it in our young days, when she got into the family way, to send for a doctor and get rid of the child, so as to live with me to gratify lust. It is God’’s truth, and I know the person that taught it. This is depopulating the human species; and the curse of God will come upon that man, and upon that woman, and upon those cursed doctors. There is scarcely one of them that is free from the sin. It is just as common as it is for wheat to grow....I will tell you that some of the most noble spirits are waiting with the Father to this day to come forth through the right channel and the right kind of men and women. That is what has to be yet; for there are thousands and millions of spirits waiting to obtain bodies upon this earth.

Strangers if you want to know how fast we are multiplying, just go through our settlements, and look at the numerous children in our Sabbath school; you never heard of such an increase and multiplication, and the Lord foretold that it would be so. There is another very curious thing concerning this people who should come into the desert wilderness. Isaiah (Psalms 107:41-43) says - "He setteth the poor on high from affliction," Now, a great many of this people were very poor on arriving here; they had been robbed five times of all they had, and driven out. After having been thus plundered, we came here very poor; but the Lord "setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock." What a wonderful prophecy this is! A poor man to have not only a family like a flock, but even families. If you do not believe it strangers, go through our Territory, and see the large families, and in some cases you will find in the same vicinity six or eight different families, with their houses and farms, all belonging to one man, and he perhaps a poor man when he came here. "He setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. The righteous shall see it and rejoice." What! The righteous see this and have joy in it? So says the prophecy. "But," says one, "I should have thought every one would have been disgusted with it." To think that a man should have a family or families like a flock, while the righteous see it and rejoice!

There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty? To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into the families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can.

We know their crimes, we know their licentiousness, we know of the millions of murders that are perpetrated by mothers and fathers of children and they know it. Many of these murders are committed while the children are pre-natal; they kill them either before or after they are born, just as it happens.

Who can fathom the depths, of crime and corruption which exist in all the great cities of the world? You may go to the rural districts throughout the United States, and gather therefrom the most virtuous of our country to the number that are gathered together as Latter-day Saints, and I will venture to say that there are half as many children murdered among them annually, either before or after birth, by their own mothers or fathers, as are born to Latter-day Saints in the same period. The Latter-day Saints are proverbial for not murdering their children. They have hosts of them, and they do not try to destroy them neither before nor after birth, but endeavor to rear them to manhood and womanhood, that they may teach them the principles of the Gospel of Christ - the highest code of morals known, that they may be able to bear off the kingdom of God upon the earth, and to regenerate the world.

What Power Shall stay the Heavens?

Chapter 17

MAY HIS STORY NEVER BE FORGOTTEN

We, as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, have consistently been reminded by our leaders that it is the duty of all church members to stand for truth and spread the gospel of our religion when the opportunity presents itself. It is with this in mind that the following points are made; it is a fervent prayer that Latter Day Saints will keep refreshed our rich history and heritage as the one true church of the Lord:

"May this story never be forgotten, so we may never again take for granted the rich blessings we now enjoy as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."

The story of the brutal murder of the prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum:

"Joseph, seeing that there was no safety in the room, and no doubt thinking that it would save the lives of his brethren in the room if he could get out, turned calmly from the door, dropped his pistol on the floor, and sprang into the window when two balls pierced him from the door, and one entered his right breast from without, and he fell outward into the hands of his murderers..." from History of the Church 7:618"Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it. In the short space of twenty years, he has brought forth the Book of Mormon, which he translated by the gift and power of God, and has been the means of publishing it on two continents; has sent the fulness of the everlasting gospel, which it contained, to the four quarters of the earth; has brought forth the revelations and commandments which compose this book of Doctrine and Covenants, and many other wise documents and instructions for the benefit of the children of men; gathered many thousands of the Latter_day Saints, founded a great city, and left a fame and name that cannot be slain. He lived great, and he died great in the eyes of God and his people; and like most of the Lord's anointed in ancient times, has sealed his mission and his works with his own blood; and so has his brother Hyrum. In life they were not divided, and in death they were not separated!

"When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his assassination, he said: "I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I SHALL DIE INNOCENT, AND IT SHALL YET BE SAID OF ME—HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD."(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 135:3 _ 4)Several years before Joseph Smith’s martyrdom, U.S. President Martin Van Buren, after hearing the injustices of the Missouri persecutions, once (in 1839) said to Joseph Smith, "your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you." and "If I take up for you I shall lose(votes of) the whole state of Missouri." (HC 4:80)Does there still exist a respect and appreciation for the revered sacrifice of the Prophet Joseph Smith? Are we seekers of truth and justice or are we as President Van Buren was, seeking political gain without any use for higher causes of righteousness and justice in our lives when they cannot be used for our own self_preservation? Are we going to call those words of Joseph Smith’s story above a lie? Do we feel there is any value to this history worth preserving? Will this great prophet’s life story of heroism and self_sacrifice soon be so distorted beyond recognition that it will be lost permanently? Have we become so frightened by the prospect of truth in our lives and in our beliefs, that we are willing to betray the greatest prophet most responsible for the blessings we take for granted today? You may think not, but consider the following:"...God hath set his hand and seal to change the times and seasons, and to blind their minds, that they may not understand his marvelous workings; that he may prove them also and take them in their own craftiness;

"Also because their hearts are corrupted, and the things which they are willing to bring upon others, and love to have others suffer, may come upon themselves to the very uttermost;

"That they may be disappointed also, and their hopes may be cut off;

" And not many years hence, that they and their posterity shall be swept from under heaven, saith God, that not one of them is left to stand by the wall.

"Cursed are all those that shall lift up the heel against mine anointed, saith the Lord, and cry they have sinned when they have not sinned before me, saith the Lord, but have done that which was meet in mine eyes, and which I commanded them.

"But those who cry transgression do it because they are the servants of sin, and are the children of disobedience themselves.

"And those who swear falsely against my servants, that they might bring them into bondage and death—Wo unto them; because they have offended my little ones they shall be severed from the ordinances of mine house." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 121:12 _ 19)

These words were spoken from the Lord to Joseph Smith, and we, as the collective members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, are guilty of the very offenses described above to be perpetrated against him, with most of us as approving and willing participants, and with nary a word of protest. It is a very serious offense carrying severe penalties to turn against God’s prophet, Joseph Smith. "Those who have accused Joseph Smith of transgression need to take heed of this scripture. The time is arriving when the light shines upon us in our church, and how great is our sorrow, how great is our shame. May the Lord bless this people to awake and repent while there is still time before God begins His judgements starting in His own house.It is tragic, but we, as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, are guilty of falling under the condemnation this scripture warns about. We have been weak in our beliefs, we willingly reject the whisperings of the Holy Spirit to place our blind trust in the weak arm of flesh of mortal men (2 Nephi 28:31).

(2 Nephi 28, Verse 24) "Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion! Wo be unto him that crieth: All is well!"Yea, wo be unto him that hearken to the precepts of men, and denieth the power of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost!

"Yea, wo be unto him that saith: We have received, and we need no more!"And in fine, wo unto all those who tremble, and are angry because of the truth of God! For behold, he that is built upon the rock receiveth it with gladness; and he that is built upon a sandy foundation trembleth lest he shall fall."Wo be unto him that shall say: We have received the word of God, and we need no more of the word of God, for we have enough!"

(Verse 31) "Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, or maketh flesh his arm, or shall hearken unto the precepts of men, save their precepts shall be given by the power of the Holy Ghost."

"We, as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, are guilty of allowing an unprecedented attack on the character and integrity of this great man to not only prosper, but to succeed with our willing consent. Joseph Smith has come under heavy attack from this most recent generation of church members, led by church leaders themselves. Though the attack does not involve strictly all members of the church in a direct manner, the deafening silence of our membership in defense of Joseph Smith implies approval of all church members endorsing the attacks against him.

"We in the church publicly associated ourselves and our church to the occult by publicly accepting an apostate named Mark Hofmann; we embraced his revisions and our new found occult identity until he was exposed as a murderer and a forger, and only then did we question those Hofmann revisions we were so eager to implement. We became as those scoffers the Bible predicted for this day; we have slandered and destroyed the credibility of those who have sought for truth to expose the apostasy rampant in our midst. We ignored the well documented evidence of our acceptance of these forgeries, and did not recant nor repent of awful transgressions revising history against the true gospel as well as the person of Joseph Smith.

"Our present church membership has yielded completely to the spirit of occultism in our church, and have pursued the course laid out for us by the adversary, introducing symbols of occultism on certain church buildings. We now adorn our buildings such as the Church museum across from the Salt Lake Temple and the newly constructed Nauvoo Temple with symbols of devil worship, specifically the pentagram, known to many as the "witches star" and we have begun to proclaim it to be a historical Mormon symbol. We attempt to obscure and confuse the facts and proclaim the pentagram to be no different than our sacred temple stars, and we do this based on our shoddy research. We arrogantly defend symbols of occultism even while the Christian world raises their collective eyebrows at our people’s brazen new affiliations with the occult.Our stories that this occultism is rooted in the Mormon religion are simply bold_faced brazen lies based on nothing more than the deceptions contained within anti_mormon stories of those who hated Joseph Smith the most. We have slandered the good name of Joseph Smith, we have allowed our church history books to be rewritten based on shoddy research and the evil stories of those who hate our church or apostatized from it; we have brought shame upon the Mormon religion. We have betrayed him, we have betrayed all of those who sacrificed their blood as martyrs for God’s Holy Word, and we have betrayed our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.We have destroyed the respect the Mormon Church once attained throughout the world. We imagine that those truths for which Joseph Smith gave his life for, now take a different meaning today, that somehow he will approve of our distortions to the true Gospel and we will not be held accountable for our ignorance, on account of our efforts to conform to what the world wants from us. We have stood by idly and watched as God's Holy Church has become ravaged and corrupted; how can we possibly hide our shame on judgement day? How deep does the betrayal run and who will be left when that day comes that these traitors leave our church?

"We proudly circulate the reports that members of God's Holy Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, are praying for divine confirmation to murder innocent unborn children. In what we consider to be a much more sophisticated approach, we no longer pray for life of the vulnerable and innocent who may sit on life’s precarious edge, but we now blaspheme the Lord by praying for the right to kill these unborn, as in some Satanic ritual, if they fit accepted "exceptions", which we know are countless.President John Taylor, speaking on abortion during general conference said:

"We do feel honored always to associate with honorable men and women; but with the seducer, with harlots, with thieves, with murderers of the innocents, no! never! no never! We want no association with them. As it is stated here by one of these reverend gentlemen in the East, speaking of these things, no murderer hath eternal life in him, nor no murderesses have eternal life in them.... I want to warn our brethren and sisters against these infamies, and against permitting these filthy wretches to come into their houses. They are too low, too debased, too corrupt; and I speak of it because I know what I am talking about; there are some of these people crawling around us like so many vipers, and insinuating their hellish, murderous practices into the families of some who call themselves Latter_day Saints. Woe! to such saints. You cannot have a place among the Latter_day Saints, and I speak of it that the Presidents of Stakes and the Bishops may be apprised of these things. And some of these people would try to pass by the Bishops, and then by the Presidents of Stakes, and then by the President of the Church, and crawl with all their slime and damnable hypocrisy into the Temples of the living God. They may pass by these, but they will have to pass by the angels and the Gods, before they get through, and they will never inherit the Kingdom of God. Hear it you sisters! Hear it you brethren! Hear it you Bishops, and you Presidents of Stakes! Watch well and know well what you are doing, when you sign recommends for doubtful characters to go into these holy places. We do not want them there. It is not their place, and you will have to account for your acts if you permit these things knowingly. It is necessary that you should be particular about these matters, for you will have to answer for your doings as I have for mine. We cannot, because of relationship, because somebody is a cousin, or an uncle, or an aunt, or a brother, or a sister, or a son or a daughter, or a father or a mother we cannot admit and will not admit them to any of these holy places unless they are worthy." JD 25:316

"We, the current membership of the Mormon Church, willingly condone the murder of these innocent unborn children, and we righteously proclaim the right to do so _ what we call "exceptions" _ even while realizing that the "exceptions" are numerous and violate the conscience of all good men. How great is our failing in our mission to be a light to the world; we have joined the legions of scoffers in opposing those who question us on these evils! Our actions have been a disgrace, and we can only at this point repent of all of this and other evils and to pray for the just goodness of our Lord and Savior to be merciful unto us during the time of probation we have left." President Spencer W. Kimball stated "if there ever was a justifiable cause for abortion, it would be extremely rare indeed."

"And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well _ and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell."(2 Nephi 28:21.

President Benson stated it meant the Mormons in the above scripture "being led carefully down to Hell" and stressed to underline the word "carefully."

The words of Isaiah, 3 verse 12, were never more true:"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."

President Joseph Fielding Smith once referred to this passage in Isaiah _ "Those that lead thee cause thee to err" _ as referring to the Mormons.

Helaman 13:36_38 "O that we had repented in the day that the word of the Lord came unto us...and all things are become slippery, and we cannot hold them.

"Behold, our iniquities are great. O Lord, canst thou not turn away thine anger from us? And this shall be your language in those days. But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late..."

"We have distorted and convoluted the meaning of our plain and simple scriptures, allowing our religious instructors to apply vague and mysterious interpretations that confuse and demean the intellect abilities of our unsuspecting membership. We have stood by idly and failed the mission of our church, referred to in scriptures such as 3 Nephi 16:

(Verse 4) "...through the fulness of the Gentiles (current LDS people), the remnant of their seed (the American Indians), who shall be scattered forth upon the face of the earth because of their unbelief, may be brought in, or may be brought to a knowledge of me, their Redeemer."

Verse 7 "Behold, because of their (the Mormon people’s) belief in me, saith the Father, and because of the unbelief of you, O house of Israel, in the latter day shall the truth come unto the Gentiles(Mormon Church), that the fulness of these things shall be made known unto them."Verse 10 "And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you: At that day when the Gentiles(the Mormon Church) shall sin against my gospel, and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations, and above all the people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs, and all manner of hypocrisy, and murders, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms, and of secret abominations; and if they do all those things, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them.

"And then will I remember my covenant which I made to my people(the American Indians), O house of Israel, and I will bring my gospel unto them."

We may soon realize the gospel has been taken from the current Mormon church and built up among the American Indians as this scripture promises, and at that point we have nothing left but to pray and plead for the Lord to be merciful in our time of judgement. The Lord tells us it is time to find him while he can be found. It states in scriptures when this probationary time is over, it is too late. Should He be so merciful, our only hope is to be among those few Gentiles left in the church to be numbered with the Lamanites in building the New Jerusuleum, as in 3 Nephi 16:13 "But if the Gentiles will repent and return unto me, saith the Father, behold they shall be numbered among my people, O house of Israel."

"We, who are identified with the Gentiles in the Book of Mormon (and D&C 109:60) must agree that it is a truly merciful God that will take the fulness of the gospel and bestow it upon the American Indians, as prophesied in 3 Nephi 16, for great is the sorrow of all true Saints that this Holy Church has been so polluted and corrupted, and we are no longer a worthy people. We can only hope that a more worthy people (those of American Indian descent) than we will be swiftly grafted in and blessed so that the true points of the Gospel of the one true Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints may at last be brought to light."

The time has come for us as Mormons to repent and awake to our awful situation. The time has come for true Mormons to stand in defense of their true prophet, Joseph Smith. Ours is a spiritual battle, not one of flesh and blood, to drive out the demons that have invaded our church through our prayers and lifting up our voices to be heard for the cause of truth.

Chapter 18

ONE MUST STAND ALONE IF NECESSARY

"The most cruel exile comes not from being forced to leave ones country, but from standing alone in defense of principle while yet surrounded by ones countrymen." (quote from Thomas Jefferson)

All who believe in the true principles of Mormonism must in a sense leave ones Church and stand alone in the midst of ones churchmen, in defense of the Prophet Joseph Smith, against spurious attacks on the character and good name of our founder, by insinuating hellish inverted pentagrams into the history of our Church.

A FOREIGN SYMBOL IN MORMONISM, .....THAT IS, .....UNTIL NOW!

If the Mormon Church founding and Prophet was tainted by the occult, white witchcraft, practicing cunning men, peep stones, superstition, salamanders or anything like unto it, even to the least degree, as portrayed by the Mark Hofmann forgeries of late and all the other anti_Mormon literature that has ever been written against Joseph Smith from the beginning, since he saw his first vision. Then how could it possibly be the One True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?

The Prophet Joseph Smith conducted himself in a noble, honest and strictly uncompromising manner befitting the dignity of the office that he upheld, even to the point of his martyrdom wherein his own life’s blood was shed thus sealing his testimony.And yet the present leadership of the Mormon Church has embraced the occult symbols as if they were their own. WHY ARE THE PRESENT MORMON CHURCH LEADERS SO DETERMINED TO PUT THE INVERTED PENTAGRAM OUT AS A MORMON SYMBOL, SUCH AS THEY HAVE DONE ON THE RECONSTRUCTED NAUVOO TEMPLE WHEN ALL THE EVIDENCE PLAINLY PROVES THAT IT WAS NEVER USED ON THE ORIGINAL NAUVOO TEMPLE, NOR WAS IT USED ON THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE OR THE SALT LAKE TEMPLE. Even though many ignorant critics claim that there are inverted pentagrams on the Salt Lake Temple they are mistaken! Although the Temple Stars are five pointed they have a raised center point and are clearly not the evil symbol of the followers of Satan.

President Gordon B. Hinkley recently authorized the use of inverted pentagrams on the Nauvoo Temple! Not just one, but well over a hundred! Not only did he authorize them but he insisted on placing them on and in the temple, according to several reports in spite of the concerns of some the men on the temple committee. Just as he ignored handwriting experts that declared that Mark Hofmann’s works were forgeries in the 1980's, almost 20 years ago.Deuteronomy 18:10_12 tells us that witchcraft, and mysticisms, and the occult are abominations to God and are not to be trifled with; " There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD"

There are many more places in the Bible where God strongly condemns trifling with the occult. It is important to ask WHY IS PRESIDENT GORDON B. HINKLEY THE HEAD OF THE MORMON CHURCH PUTTING THE MOST WIDELY RECOGNIZED SYMBOL OF THE DEVIL ( THE INVERTED PENTAGRAM ) ON THE RECONSTRUCTED NAUVOO TEMPLE? Why did he so intently seek after the Hofmann forgeries, fund them, help validate them, give them credence, support Mark Hofmann, and be an apologist for the revised and completely ridiculous position that the forgeries caused in the Mormon Church? (Like defending a forgery of Mark Hofmann’s design, the white salamander as "an angel of fire") Thus, by insinuating the absurd claim that Joseph Smith was involved in the occult while forming the Mormon religion, and that he lied about the Angel Moroni being a white salamander lizard instead? Although these assertions were proven wrong in a court of law(Hofmann trial), the present day leaders to this day have not repented in public (as Church policy dictates)of these egregious errors. The membership should also know that they should repent for their sin in accepting these forgeries as the truth, for we will be judged by what we accept or reject. Each must know for themselves; one cannot be saved in ignorance.Why would anyone put such an evil symbol on a temple of God? This makes absolutely no sense at all. Based on what? A so called preliminary sketch by William Weeks obtained over a hundred years after the fact? Some later sketches by William Weeks directly contradict the so called preliminary sketch in that they show a five pointed star with lines radiating out from the center like a temple star, with twenty lines in it instead of the five that constitute a pentagram.

By his actions President Gordon B. Hinkley has assumed full responsibility! So what are his motives? Why bring upon yourself the criticism of the known Christian world who generally regard the inverted pentagram as an evil symbol of the devil? Why give credence to the prejudicial claims of Mormons being nothing but a cult? Why validate the absurd claims that Joseph Smith was involved in necromancy and the occult? Is this fraud that is being thrust upon us the new symbol of Mormonism? Will the seminary students proudly wear inverted pentagram jewelry to go with their CTR rings? Why did President Gordon B. Hinkley inject these evil inverted pentagrams into the Mormon religion, and thus open the flood gate of derision, of ridicule, of contempt and make a mockery of the Mormon Religion? Did he do this through ignorance? Or perhaps a more sinister influence! In either case a true prophet of God cannot serve two masters! So then the question arises, why is President Gordon B. Hinkley so interested in promoting a symbol of the Devil? Why is he so intent on thrusting this evil symbol of Satan upon the Mormon religion as if it were a part of the legacy of the original teachings of Joseph Smith when it strains the imagination even to consider it?

Daguerreotypes (old style photo’s) absolutely do not substantiate any inverted pentagrams in the fourth floor circular windows of the Nauvoo Temple (unless you are looking at the computer enhanced picture (forgery) of the Nauvoo Temple on the Church website), nor are there any inverted pentagrams on the Kirtland Temple, the Salt Lake Temple, the Logan Temple, Saint George Temple, or the Manti Temple! Temples that were built " following as closely as possible the pattern laid out by Joseph Smith" all had no inverted pentagrams!In the re_constructed Nauvoo Temple, in the Celestial room there are inverted pentagrams prominently displayed embroidered into the curtains! The assembly room has little inverted pentagrams all the way around the perimeter in the frieze molding. The exterior of the re_constructed Nauvoo Temple has inverted pentagrams prominently displayed in the forth floor circular windows.

It is commonly known that an inverted pentagram above a door means that all who enter herein are under the power of Satan! So logically carried to the next step does this also mean that any sacred ordinance that is performed under an inverted pentagram is of the Devil?

It is a very disconcerting thought that so many sacred ordinances performed in the reconstructed Nauvoo Temple are null and void, or possibly worse that they are sealed under Satan’s authority, in that they are completely surrounded by inverted pentagrams just as if they had drawn one on the floor and sat in the center of it to conjure up a demon!"When an evil reaches a certain point, it becomes an evil not to oppose it" (Quote from Joseph Smith.)

Chapter 19

A Testimony of the Divine Origin of the Prophet Joseph Smith

Our prophet was born on December 23, 1805. He was born to goodly parents Joseph Smith Senior, and Lucy Mack Smith. The Smiths were a noble family who through much sacrifice and heartache, helped to bring the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints into being.

People like the Smith family have been maligned and slandered from the beginning, by both the foes of the L.D.S. and by the L.D.S. themselves in the last few years. The paganistic viewpoint that is held by most people today is that nobody could have been that good, honorable, decent and self_sacrificing. Today’s attitude is "what is in it for me?". It has long been known that a self centered pampered religious bigot cannot conceive of a true Christian Saint. It is beyond their ability to realize that a family such as the Joseph Smith family would be willing to give their all, including their own life’s blood for the sake of their religion. Which is exactly what they did. The first one to die was Joseph Smith Sr. who was 67 years old when he was arrested on false charges, was permitted to escape by an apostate constable, and then was hunted like a fugitive criminal, enduring terrible privations; he never recovered from the sickness brought on by exposure and hardship, dying shortly thereafter. Then a little more than two years later both Hyrum and Joseph Smith Jr. were brutally murdered by a mob in Carthage jail under the protection of the Governor of Illinois Thomas Ford who had guaranteed their safety (it is interesting to note that the Carthage Greys, a military division that was to protect them, didn’t suffer a single injury in their defense and although they fired (blanks) on the mob, not a single injury was sustained by any member of the mob). During this time, while fleeing from a mob their brother Samuel injured himself and died a few weeks later in agonizing pain. Thus we have four of the Smith family dying by the hand of mobs,. A terrible price to pay for your beliefs. Joseph Smith Jr. was just a boy of 14 years when he saw God the Father and the Son in a daylight vision. When inquiring as to which church to join, he was told to "join none of them, for they were all wrong"; "their creeds were an abomination in His sight; that those professors were all corrupt"; that " they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of Godliness, but they deny the power thereof."

Just as soon as it became known that the boy Joseph had seen a vision, all Hell declared war on the Smith family! Within a short while the Angel Moroni came to show him the Ancient record of the Lamanite people (the so called American Indians), and as a young man when he finally obtained these Gold plates, all Hell declared war upon him with a renewed vigor. Why it was that great preachers and ecclesiastics came from all over the country to persecute and wreak havoc upon the Smith family, Joseph Smith Jr. in particular, is truly amazing! Why, if he was a misguided boy, did they not show him the way and extend to him the hand of a true Christian in friendship?

Instead he was given hatred and scorn. His life was never the same again, constant threats on his life, musket balls shot at him from nowhere, vicious lies, slander, bullying by full grown men, beatings, and later on in his life mobs used hot tar and feathers that caused him severe burns. They tried to make him drink a vial of acid that they broke severely, cutting his lip and chipping a tooth. Hundreds of frivolous law suits were trumped up to drag him into court. Time after time his innocence was proven! Governor Boggs issued an extermination order against all Mormons in the State of Missouri. He made Joseph Smith spend months in putrid prisons even though he was innocent of any wrong at all. This is what the young Joseph Smith was soon to experience.

In the midst of all this turmoil including being driven from his home several times and constant threats upon his life, Joseph Smith at age 21 was a young man from a rural area, with only three years of formal education, and was able to translate (with the gift of the Urim and Thummin translators from God) THE BOOK OF MORMON , a book containing 522 pages, 300,000 words and 2,600 years of history. Written in many styles, with 54 chapters dealing with wars, 21 historical chapters, 55 chapters on visions and prophecies, all this was brought about in a little over two months time. A sacred book that agrees meticulously with the Bible, the first edition has stood on its own, with only a few grammatical corrections and with no changes to the text.

This BOOK OF MORMON has stood the test of time, many scoffers, so called experts, religionists and scholars have over the past 173 years tried in vain to discredit the BOOK OF MORMON, but still it remains a true and correct record even to the minutest detail, examples including the exact age of Christ to the day, the seven hour time difference between Jerusalem and the Americas and the use of spring steel during the so called bronze age.

Joseph Smith was an uncommon man, of sterling virtue, as was his family and the early leaders of the Church. He lived through a period of the most extreme hatred and persecution, endured imprisonment, hundreds of false trials with trumped up charges that all were proven false and finally giving his life for the principles that he established through the Power of God!

After the Mormons were driven out of Illinois the mobs of Illinois and Missouri continued to rage, stealing cattle and killing off the drovers, murder, robbery and rape became a way of life in these areas, until after the Civil War when the Union sent in troops to destroy the gangs and bring law and order back to this ravaged area.

The enemies of Joseph Smith have tried every 50 years or so to link the Spaulding manuscripts with the Book of Mormon, each time failing miserably, but still they persist. The Spaulding Manuscript a Proven Hoax! In the latter part of November 1832 there were various other annoyances, among which may be mentioned the strife which Dr. Hurlburt, with his lying stories, succeeded in arousing by lecturing in various places roundabout. This Dr. Hurlburt had been excommunicated from the Church for immoral conduct; he it was who originated the theory of connecting The Book of Mormon with the Spaulding story, a theory now (1893) recognized as false by the best authorities outside of the Church. And of course always declared to be false by the members of the church. President James H. Fairchild, in the "New York Observer" of February 5th, 1885, speaking of the discovery by Mr. Rice of the Spaulding Romance, says: "The theory of the origin of the Book of Mormon in the traditional manuscript of Solomon Spaulding will probably have to be relinquished........... Mr. Rice, myself and others compared it (the Spaulding manuscript) with the Book of Mormon, and could detect no resemblance between the two, in general or detail. There seems to be no name or incident common to the two........... Some other explanation of the origin of the Book Mormon must be found, if any explanation is required."

The above article should have put the matter to rest, however a copy of the Spaulding manuscript was found in Hawaii in the 1940's which once again was shown that it had no resemblance whatsoever to the Book of Mormon. Then in the late 1980's a forger named Mark Hofmann forged a land Deed that tied Sidney Rigdon to Spaulding (Hofmann misspelled "Spalding" instead of Spaulding and also dated the document at 1822, _ Spaulding died in 1816) and once again the plagiarism issue briefly reared its ugly head, until Mark Hofmann murdered two people with bombs; and in a court of law was subsequently found to also be a forger of historical documents and whose fear of discovery was the motive that drove him to brutally murder the two people.

During Mark Hofmann’s career he forged the "Salamander letter"implying that the Prophet Joseph Smith was an ignorant superstitious hillbilly who believed in occult practices. Mark Hofmann later admitted getting his idea for this letter from a bitter enemy to the Church, 1834's E. D. Howe’s Mormonism Unveiled. All of Mark Hofmann’s forgeries were based on Anti_Mormon works, every one of his so called historical documents is full of slanderous lies designed to discredit Joseph Smith and the early Church leaders. He delighted in rewriting Church history, with sordid accusations of bitter anti_Mormon apostates and Mormon haters delicately interwoven into the fabric of his forgeries, designed to shake the testimonies of the pious current LDS Church members. The subject matter of Hofmann’s forgeries was everything from plagiarism, to witchcraft, to adultery, to false blessings, to portraying early Mormons as an incredibly ignorant and superstitious people, and all of this was made to order. Why? Because the LDS intelligencia and so called historians were swallowing the changed history hook line and sinker. The scholars at BYU where authenticating these forgeries for $20,000, and Dallin Oaks, a Church Apostle, was giving speeches explaining to us all what a salamander really was (an Angel of Fire?). What he neglected to say is what it really is, an occult symbol from witchcraft. One hundred and fifty five years of dignity was suddenly destroyed by accepting and giving credence to a bunch of poorly done forgeries!

The Church leaders should have known, that while ignoring contradictory opinions of handwriting experts (who stated that they were forgeries), the documents also contained wrong dates, misspelled names, wrong locations of the principal players, similar handwriting on each document, lack of ink blotches, lack of scratched out words (it was common in writing then, as it is now, to change your mind), and an indication in the forgeries of meticulously writing, as in copying a draft of something.

In addition, the Police department exposed the existence of clothes pin marks, ink runs, cracked ink, blue haze, solubility, excess staining. Combined with SAMD testing, this was all the proof necessary to prove that the documents in question were forged documents, and take the case to court for a conviction.

SADLY NONE OF THE STATEMENTS MADE BY THE FIRST PRESIDENCY OF THE CHURCH HAVE EVER BEEN RETRACTED, AND NOT ONE OF THOSE INVOLVED HAVE ASKED FORGIVENESS OR REPENTED OF THIS EVIL DEED! THESE DISGUSTING SLANDEROUS LIES AGAINST JOSEPH SMITH’S CHARACTER ARE STILL WITH US TO THIS DAY!!!!! WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO ACCEPT SOMETHING SO SLANDEROUS AS THESE FORGERIES THAT INSINUATE ADULTERY, WITCHCRAFT, ERRONEOUS CONCEPTS, IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, THE PLAGIARISM OF THE BOOK OF MORMON AND THE CONCEPT OF A SALAMANDER? WOULD A RATIONAL LEADER OF THE MORMON CHURCH WITH A TESTIMONY OF THE DIVINITY OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH PURCHASE THESE DOCUMENTS AND TRY TO HIDE THEM? LET ALONE VALIDATE THEM BY AUTHENTICATING THEM? THESE ARE SOME VERY SERIOUS QUESTIONS YOU MUST ASK YOURSELF!! ALAS ONCE THESE FOOLISH MISTAKES WERE MADE THEY CAN NEVER BE TAKEN BACK. THE MORMON CHURCH IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF TRUE LEADERSHIP, WITH SO MANY ENEMIES WITHIN ALL TRYING TO EVOLVE THE TRUE MORMON RELIGION INTO A PANTHEISTIC WORLD CHURCH THAT PANDERS TO THE MASSES. Mark Hoffman has been praised as being one of the greatest forgers of all time, although this is mainly to cover up the stupidity of those whom he duped. He was however a good con_man and remarkable in his ability to pander to the Mormon history revisionists that so eagerly sought after the evil documents that he produced. Everything from the cramped handwriting style, to the subject matter, to the fact that he was making too many finds of a lifetime (where others had spent their entire life looking for such as these and failed), he was pulling out one startling and extremely controversial discovery (made to order forgery) after another. The odds of finding a single "rare document" such as these is approximately ten_thousand to one, let alone many more; this one fact should have easily given him away as the poor forger that he was.

His techniques were all in books that he had obtained, including the use of old blank pages from antique books for the paper, as this was the one simple thing that fooled most of the supposed experts. Not only this but if Mark Hoffman would not have panicked and resorted to violence he would still in all probability be forging false documents to this day! As evidenced by the protection that was given to him by the Church authorities during the murder investigation. And as a final note, not only was Mark Hoffman a relatively unskilled forger, he was even worse at being a bomber. He was packing around live bombs that could have detonated with the smallest of bumps, no secondary arming devices, just a jiggle switch armed ready to go, drive across town with it on the seat next to you, which proved ultimately to be his undoing! This is an example of Mark Hoffman’s true intelligence. The real intelligence was with the Salt Lake City Police Detectives, and George Throckmorton (he was the one that discovered all of the scientific flaws of the forgeries) these men were they who exposed the entire web of deceit! Thanks be to all of these men and the sacrifices that they made to bring this entire concatenation into the cold hard light of day, against the wishes of the Church leaders who should have been 100% behind the investigation to vindicate the traditional Mormon doctrine.

The old original Mormonism was once again restored in measure............but not for long. The Mormon Revisionists who so eagerly sought after Mark Hoffman’s forgeries, and who seemed silenced by the whole ordeal, have of late delighted in the use of pentagrams on the reconstructed Nauvoo Temple. Gleefully pointing out how an inverted pentagram was the symbol of Christ, and that it was an old Israelitish symbol, and that King Solomon had a ring with this symbol on it and that he captured demons with it and made them do his bidding. What a lot of nonsense!!!! The inverted pentagram is, was and always will be a symbol of evil! ISAIAH 5: 20_21 "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight."

Why did the Mormon Church install inverted pentagrams in the 4th floor circular windows, and interior frieze panels of a room in the reconstructed Nauvoo Temple? Was it to link Joseph Smith and the early Mormons with the Occult? What possible motive was behind this? What possible evidence do they have to support this desecration of a temple? A supposed single solitary preliminary sketch from the architect William Weeks, that had been passed down perhaps through tainted hands, and donated over a hundred years later? Of three existing Daguerreotypes not one of the windows in question is discernable as a pentagram, especially not the Cedar City Daguerreotype, until now.

WE HAVE ANOTHER FORGER IN OUR MIDST!!! WHOEVER IT IS THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INSERTING AN INVERTED PENTAGRAM THAT IS IN THE SO CALLED RESTORED HIGH DEFINITION CEDAR CITY DAGUERREOTYPE IMAGE ON THE CHURCH’S WEBSITE IS GUILTY OF TRYING TO REWRITE CHURCH HISTORY, AND DEFAME THE GOOD NAME OF JOSEPH SMITH AND THE EARLY MORMON CHURCH. This forgery is plainly visible in the far left fourth floor circular window when magnified approx. 2x. Or perhaps from the observable evidence, a sinister implication that is of the modern day leadership’s possible involvement in the Occult and witchcraft. This is a very frightening possibility with extremely serious consequences. DEUTERONOMY 18 : 10_14 " There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners, but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do."

MICAH 5: 12 "And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers":

The pentagram represents evil, it is the symbol of enchanters, witches, wizards, warlocks, and necromancers. It is not a symbol of righteousness nor has it ever been. It has been available to all of the followers of Satan from the beginning."

In the Book of Mormon:

HELAMAN 6: 25_26 " Now behold, it is these secret oaths and covenants which Alma commanded his son should not go forth into the world, lest they should be a means of bringing down the people unto destruction. Now behold those secret oaths and covenants did not come forth unto Gadianton from the records that were delivered unto Helaman; but behold, they were put into the heart of Gadianton by that same being that did entice our first parents to partake of the forbidden fruit..."

From this, it is obvious that not only are the Oaths and Covenants of Satan readily available to those that wish to follow him, but it is also readily apparent that symbols, marks and secret signs have been among us from the beginning.

Joseph Smith had nothing whatsoever to do with witchcraft, so called white witchcraft, sorcery, or anything like unto it. He never had any peep stones or other superstitious nonsense. Joseph Smith was a Prophet of the Lord and he conducted himself as such, with dignity, wisdom and the kind of knowledge that could only be obtained from God. If he had involved himself with anything regarding sorcery, or witchcraft even in the least degree, then he could not have been a prophet of God, he could not have held the priesthood, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints could not be the true church of Christ, for you cannot serve two masters! The seriousness of this matter cannot be overemphasized, for if Joseph Smith the Prophet did practice so called white witchcraft then there is no way that he could have been a prophet of God, and the Mormon religion would also be wrong.

Joseph Smith was a practicing Free Mason, as was most of the early leaders of the Church, and at his death he gave the Masonic distress signal only to be met with a volley of musket balls that tragically ended his life! Also it is interesting to note that nearly all of our great country’s noble founding fathers (except five) were practicing Free Masons. At the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young the new leader distanced himself and the others from the Masons. The Masons also separated themselves from the Mormons who were not allowed membership again until 1984. The Masons have come under a lot of scrutiny of late, but it is very clear that the early Masons were among the best and most noble of the people, men of sterling character, such as our founding fathers and many of our first patriots, who influenced our Constitution and established our Nation’s Ideals. There are a number of places in the Bible where God condemns any dealings with the Occult. It is important to note that the present church leaders dealt in depth in betraying the Mormon Religion by dealing with Mark Hofmann's forgeries, and are now promoting the inverted pentagrams on the reconstructed Nauvoo Temple as a Mormon Symbol. A true prophet of God, Heber C. Kimball, predicted a great test to befall the Mormon people in these last times. Unless a man knew for himself that Jesus is the Christ, he could not stand the test, and that no one would be able to live on borrowed light nor go to the leaders for answers, and that there would be an entire separation of the righteous from the wicked in the Church. The pressure would be so great that the righteous would pray night and day for deliverance. He also said that the church had a very close place to pass through but that it would come through.

Chapter 20

Parley P. Pratt’s Address to the Indians

 Mormon Apostle Parley P. Pratt in an 1851 address to the American Indians said; "You are a branch of the house of Israel. You are descended from the Jews, or rather more generally, from the tribe of Joseph, which Joseph was a great prophet and ruler in Egypt.’ Early church leaders were anxious for the opportunity to convert the Indians, and stressed that the American Indians had to be converted before the foretold gathering of Israel.The last admonition of the Prophet Joseph Smith on June 23, 1844 "This day the Lord has shown to me that which was never shown to me before, that I have thousands of friends that never pretended friendship, while others have sought to crawl into my bosom because of my good feelings towards them, and now are the vipers and do seek my life; and if they shall take it they will pursue you; they will do it anyhow....I therefore will say unto you Saints and Elders of Israel:...you will yet be called upon to go forth and call upon the free men from Maine to gather themselves together to the Rocky Mountains; and the Redmen from the West and all people from the North and from the South and from the East, and go to the West, to establish themselves in the strongholds of their gathering places, and there you will gather the Redmen to their center from their scattered and dispersed situation, to become the strong arm of Jehovah."

Other early church leaders preached on this same theme. Mormon apostle Orson Pratt stated "We [meaning the Mormons] have forgotten the forlorn condition of the sons of Joseph, the American Indians. We have forgotten the predictions of the Holy Prophets among their fathers, who so earnestly prayed to the Most High for themselves, and their children to the latest generation, Whose prayers have been recorded in eternity, and preserved in the archives of Heaven, to be answered upon the head of their posterity in the last days. We have forgotten these things and are dwelling at ease in Zion, and neglecting the great redemption of Israel [the Lamanites].

"We have learned something, we are in possession of knowledge concerning these sons of the forest. Shall we therefore dwell at ease and allow the Indians to remain in ignorance of the great truths that we are in possession of concerning them? If so, woe be to these people [meaning the Mormons], or any other people that are entrusted with the sacred things committed to our charge, and who do not use them, for the redemption of those that are unacquainted with this knowledge. How do you think their fathers would feel to see their descendants, without knowledge of God and their ancestors? And then turn and see a people in their midst in possession of the sacred records and prophecies of their fathers, and yet that people, so careless and so much at ease that they used scarcely any exertion to impart the heavenly knowledge to them [the Lamanites, informing them of their promise as the covenant people in the Book of Mormon].

"And if we do not accomplish this work of bringing this knowledge to the Israelites, we shall be accounted as salt that has lost its savor, and therefore is no longer good for anything but to be trodden under the feet of Israel, or our enemies. Who so will not extend the hand of mercy to help the Indians, will go down and lose their influence with God and all good men."

Doctrine and Covenants, Section 10:62 quote: "Yea, and I will also bring to light my gospel which was ministered unto them, and, behold, they shall not deny that which you have received, but they shall build it up, and shall bring to light the true points of my doctrine (which is the Mormon religion), yea, and the only doctrine which is in me."

Chapter 21

To Believe in the Book of Mormon

If you truly believe in the Book of Mormon then you will realize the great part that the Lamanites are to play in the building of the New Jerusalem on this continent, and that it is only through the blessings extended through their fathers to them that any of us can be numbered with them in this great and glorious New City that will be built by them, and that this New Jerusalem will be the new capital of North and South America.

If you truly believe in the Book of Mormon:

Then you will try to be a moral and clean person in manner and habit. You will not follow the trendy new fads of body piercing’s and multiple ear rings, of nose jewels, and of tattoo’s.And especially you will not listen to or allow your children to listen to the seductive music that is so prevalent today, which presents all of these evils combined in a spectacular array of nearly all the sins known to mankind, to entice all of those who listen, to embrace these evils.

You will not partake of liquors and drugs, or watch unclean movies, for our bodies are Temples of our God and we will not defile them by those things that we do to ourselves physically, or what we think, or what we see, or what we hear, or what we say and what we do.

If you truly believe in the Book of Mormon:

Then you will honor your God

You will not profane his name or take His name in vain.

Or partake of silly jokes or movies that mock Him, for his holy name is sacred.

If you truly believe in the Book of Mormon then you will know:

That life begins at conception and that all human life is sacred and to be cherished and protected.

That abortion is the most vile form of murder in that families kill their own babies and shed the blood of innocence, thereby assenting to the Death of Christ.

And that birth control pills are evil, in that they cause abortions (at the rate of 1 in 20) at the time of conception.

If you truly believe in the Book of Mormon:

Then you will understand that we must be valiant, that we must stand for those things that are right, be awakened to the sense of the awful reality of our sins and repent and be numbered among our brethren the Lamanites (the American Indians), so that we might partake of the blessings that are to come to them.

If you truly believe in the Book of Mormon:

Then you believe that there will be no more soothsayers, witches, necromancers, wizards, or any of the other followers of Satan, or their signs (Inverted pentagrams etc.) in the Church, and that they never have had a place in the Church.

Then you will understand that the Lord will have a people who will serve him, that the natural branches (Lamanites) will be grafted in and that the present corrupted Mormon Church people will be cast out and the Church will be set in order and once again be a light unto the world.

"And they said: Behold, we cannot understand the words which our father hath spoken concerning the natural branches of the olive_tree, and also concerning the Gentiles.

"And I said unto them: Have ye inquired of the Lord?

"And they said unto me: We have not; for the Lord maketh no such thing known unto us."Behold, I said unto them: How is it that ye do not keep the commandments of the Lord? How is it that ye will perish, because of the hardness of your hearts?

"Do ye not remember the things which the Lord hath said?—If ye will not harden your hearts, and ask me in faith, believing that ye shall receive, with diligence in keeping my commandments, surely these things shall be made known unto you.

"Behold, I say unto you, that the house of Israel was compared unto an olive_tree, by the Spirit of the Lord which was in our father; and behold are we not broken off from the house of Israel, and are we not a branch of the house of Israel?

"And now, the thing which our father meaneth concerning the grafting in of the natural branches through the fulness of the Gentiles, is, that in the latter days, when our seed shall have dwindled in unbelief, yea, for the space of many years, and many generations after the Messiah shall be manifested in body unto the children of men, then shall the fulness of the gospel of the Messiah come unto the Gentiles, and from the Gentiles unto the remnant of our seed—

"And at that day shall the remnant of our seed(American Indians) know that they are of the house of Israel, and that they are the covenant people of the Lord; and then shall they know and come to the knowledge of their forefathers, and also to the knowledge of the gospel of their Redeemer, which was ministered unto their fathers by him; wherefore, they shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer and the very points of his doctrine, that they may know how to come unto him and be saved.

"And then at that day will they not rejoice and give praise unto their everlasting God, their rock and their salvation? Yea, at that day, will they not receive the strength and nourishment from the true vine? Yea, will they not come unto the true fold of God?16 Behold, I say unto you, Yea; they shall be remembered again among the house of Israel; they shall be grafted in, being a natural branch of the olive_tree, into the true olive_tree." (Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 15:7 _ 16)

Chapter 22

Do Not Lightly Regard the Word of God

Most people today feel miserable and depressed and they don’t know why. They search for happiness in the pursuit of wealth, and worldly possessions, and they cannot find it. They encumber themselves with their various religions and philosophies, hoping to find happiness and they cannot find it. They look to their fellow human beings for comfort, and guidance, and are disappointed, They wander from church to church, from one persuasion to another in pursuit of truth, and they cannot find it. They are often driven in their misery and boredom away from religion by the self_righteous, who come in the garments of their own holiness, and care nothing about the well being of the poor and meek of the earth.

They do not know what to do to lighten their burdens, and their troubles, and feel at peace. Confusion reigns everywhere, and they don’t know how they can learn the truth. There is no place to go to raise their children in safety where they might not grow up corrupted by the popular culture pervading and attacking every fabric of decency in our once civil society.The words of God are considered to have no value and appear to be trampled under foot, and set at naught. They are considered something to be avoided, and those who believe them are ridiculed, and scoffed at. Good is made evil, and evil is made good.

Witchcraft, and the occult are constantly promoted as something to be desired through every facet of society. It is snuck into nearly every religion, and every form of media; computers, music, trendy children’s books, movies and television. Only the wicked seem to be doing well. Only the light_minded, and the drunkards, appear to be happy. Is it really any wonder that growing children choose the way they now do? They see the exciting, carefree lifestyle on one hand, and the oppressive, self_righteous, holier than thou on the other, and eventually come to believe this is the choice they have to make. Far too often, God’s sheep are driven into sin by the self_righteous.

It is truly written that when God calls His sheep from their dens of iniquity, the self_righteous will be shocked. Although God cannot tolerate sin in the slightest degree; His redeeming grace is full of mercy for those with broken hearts and contrite spirits, wishing to live obedient to His laws. "For though their sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them whiter than snow."It is truly said that God chastises those He loves. Often times He places His sheep in trying circumstances so that they can be meek and humble, and lowly of heart, so they might be more receptive to His word. He puts them through trials and tribulations to teach them wisdom, even though they cannot see His purpose in doing so. He blesses them in ways they cannot comprehend. Often, what people regard as punishments, are often blessings in disguise.

"He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal." John 12:25. It is not possible to find happiness in wealth and material gain, for money is the root of all evil. It is not wisdom to encumber one’s self in vain religions, and philosophies and delusions. It is not profitable to follow the church of the Devil. It is not wisdom to trust in the arm of flesh, and to try to find guidance and comfort solely in one’s fellow human beings, and not to put their trust in God who created us all with His hands, and who loves us all with a greater love than any person on earth is capable of manifesting.God created us all that we might have endless joy, not that we might have endless misery, and punishment. God wishes each of us to receive an inheritance in the eternities, with a joy that exceeds all imagination of the heart, and all calculation of the mind. It is worth every effort to obtain. It is worth all the sacrifices of worldly pleasure.

Today is a day where we "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." For all those people who think this way, and think the Scriptures are of no worth; they should remember another people who thought this way in the days of Noah. It is written that they knew not until the flood came and swept them all away. They should remember that after they were destroyed they spent over two thousand years in spirit prison, until they despaired of ever being delivered, when Jesus Christ our Redeemer visited them in prison after He was put to death and resurrected.

Shall God look upon our generation any less tolerable, than He did the children of the flood? We really must be sober in our thoughts. Can anyone imagine what it would be like to be locked in prison for two thousand years? Is this carefree, luxurious lifestyle, devoid of responsibility, which we all aspire to really worth the sacrifices we must make to achieve it? Is it worth it to ignore the poor, sick and afflicted in our quest for worldly riches? Is it really worth it to trample the Word of God under our feet, so we can live in the fleshly gratification of our sins? We will not always find joy in our sins. Is it really worth it to do all these things, and inherit that eternal misery and punishment?

The Scriptures really are of great worth to those who sincerely give them a chance to work upon their minds. For the honest of heart that do, they will find them surprisingly more interesting, and joyful than anything they have pursued before. If they just allow the seed to be planted in their hearts, and water it and nourish it, they will find it will grow into a solid tree. "The meek shall surely inherit the earth. For it is the meek whom the Father loveth."

Chapter 23

Why Have Ye Polluted the Church of God?

"O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies—because of the praise of the world?" (Book of Mormon, Mormon 8:38)

" Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it." (Old Testament, Isaiah 5:13 _ 14)

"For if ye will not abide in my covenant ye are not worthy of me. Therefore renounce war and proclaim peace, and seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children; And again, the hearts of the Jews unto the prophets, and the prophets unto the Jews; lest I come and smite the whole earth with a curse, and all flesh be consumed before me." (Doctine and Covenants, 98:15)

Those who wish to be numbered with the House of Israel need to speedily repent lest "ALL FLESH" be removed from existence. The words of the Lord are very clear on this matter, and He does not simply warn that this most terrible of all judgements be fulfilled, that is, not some people or some flesh be done away with, but His words are most specific: "all flesh be consumed before me."

The direct commandment of the Lord that a righteous people serve Him and uphold His Gospel principles is a pre_requisite to receive His blessings. The many blessings in the scriptures promised to the righteous are always predicated on the repentance of the righteous and from that time henceforth they are to live the true gospel. Therefore, should there be only one righteous man alive in the world, it is enough to preserve the thread connecting heaven to the earth, for the time being.

Should the ignorant mock the possibility of there being only one righteous man in the world being enough to preserve it, recall the story of Noah, or some of the other prophets we read about in the scriptures. It is the nature of men to become lifted up in the pride of their hearts and stray from the word of God so the can feel justified in succumbing to their own carnal natures. We have many scriptural examples of an entire people becoming corrupt and wicked and one lone prophet exhorting the people to repent. If one believes in the Bible and the Book of Mormon, it would be foolish to think this scenario can’t happen again.

Should the time come where no inhabitants on the earth are worthy to be called God’s people, he will surely carry out his promise that all of the earth’s inhabitants will be done away with, for the words of God are not idle threats. There must be a connection between heaven to a righteous people, that is, a people willing to serve their God no matter what the consequences, or the world and its entire inhabitants are in jeopardy.

"And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard wept, and said unto the servant: what could I have done more for my vineyard? Behold, I knew that all the fruit of the vineyard, save it were these, had become corrupted. And now these which have once brought forth good fruit have also become corrupted; and now all the trees of my vineyard are good for nothing save it be to be hewn down and cast into the fire." Jacob 5:41

It has been said in more than one scripture that the present conditions of the world would be so wicked that when the time arrives that mankind awakes to their awful situations, everyone will be so worried about their own salvation that they will not have time to worry about those of others.

"THEN shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish."They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

(New Testament, Matthew 25:1 _ 13)

The Fulness of the Gospel Being Taken From the Gentiles and Given to the House of Israel

"And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you: At that day when the Gentiles(this refers to those people currently in possession of the Gospel _ the current people of the LDS Church) shall sin against my gospel, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations, and above all the people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs, and all manner of hypocrisy, and murders (the most obvious example being that of abortion), and priestcrafts (one example being pentagrams on the reconstructed Nauvoo Temple), and whoredoms, and of secret abominations; and if they shall do all those things, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them."And then will I remember my covenant which I have made unto my people(the American Indians), O house of Israel, and I will bring my gospel unto them."And I will show unto thee, O house of Israel (the American Indians), that the Gentiles shall not have power over you; but I will remember my covenant unto you, O house of Israel, and ye shall come unto the knowledge of the fulness of my gospel.

(Book of Mormon, 3 Nephi 16:10 _ 13)

How Great is the Responsibility of Calling in the LDS Church

"Now, I say unto you, and what I say unto you, I say unto all the Twelve: Arise and gird up your loins, take up your cross, follow me, and feed my sheep."Exalt not yourselves; rebel not against my servant Joseph; for verily I say unto you, I am with him, and my hand shall be over him; and the keys which I have given unto him, and also to youward, shall not be taken from him till I come."(Doctrine and Covenants, Section 112:14 _ 15)

"Whosoever receiveth my word receiveth me, and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth those, the First Presidency, whom I have sent, whom I have made counselors for my name's sake unto you.

"And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not, and is not baptized, shall be damned.

"Be faithful until I come, for I come quickly; and my reward is with me to recompense every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega. Amen." (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 112:20 _ 34)

"Shall the youth of Zion falter in defending truth and right? While the enemy assaileth, Shall we shrink or shun the fight? No! True to the faith that our parents have cherished. True to the truth for which martyrs have perished. To God’s command, Soul, heart and hand, Faithful and true we will ever stand.

"While we know the powers of darkness Seek to thwart the work of God, Shall the children of the promised cease to grasp the ‘iron rod’? No! True to the faith that our parents have cherished. True to the truth for which martyrs have perished. To God’s command, Soul, heart and hand, Faithful and true we will ever stand.

"We will work out our salvation; We will cleave unto the truth; We will watch and pray and labor With the fervent zeal of youth. Yes! True to the faith that our parents have cherished. True to the truth for which martyrs have perished. To God’s command, Soul, heart and hand, Faithful and true we will ever stand.

"We will strive to be found worthy Of the kingdom of our Lord, With faithful ones redeemed, Who have loved and kept his word. Yes! True to the faith that our parents have cherished. True to the truth for which martyrs have perished. To God’s command, Soul, heart and hand, Faithful and true we will ever stand."

There are many points of scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants that point out that every member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints bears a solemn responsibility. It is a very somber thought to realize the sacred points of the Lord’s gospel are not to be taken lightly, and carry a high price of accountability. The Lord’s words promising judgements are very specific, and very strong."When men are called unto mine everlasting gospel, and covenant with an everlasting covenant, they are accounted as the salt of the earth and the savor of men;

"They are called to be the savor of men; therefore, if that salt of the earth lose its savor, behold, it is thenceforth good for nothing only to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 101:39 _ 40)"For they were set to be a light unto the world, and to be the saviors of men;

"And inasmuch as they are not the saviors of men, they are as salt that has lost its savor, and is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men. (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 103:9 _ 10)"Therefore, inasmuch as some of my servants have not kept the commandment, but have broken the covenant through covetousness, and with feigned words, I have cursed them with a very sore and grievous curse.

"Ye call upon my name for revelations, and I give them unto you; and inasmuch as ye keep not my sayings, which I give unto you, ye become transgressors; and justice and judgment are the penalty which is affixed unto my law."Therefore, what I say unto one I say unto all: Watch, for the adversary spreadeth his dominions, and darkness reigneth;"And the anger of God kindleth against the inhabitants of the earth; and none doeth good, for all have gone out of the way." (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 82:2 _ 6)

"Wherefore, I call upon the weak things of the world, those who are unlearned and despised, to thrash the nations by the power of my spirit; and their arm shall be my arm, and I will be their shield and their buckler; and I will gird up their loins, and they shall fight manfully for me; and their enemies shall be under their feet; and I will let fall the sword in their behalf, and by the fire of mine indignation will I preserve them." (Doctrine and Covenants, 35:12_14)

Chapter 24

The Thread Connecting Heaven to Earth

The Lord has made it clear there must be a righteous people serving him. If everyone realized how important it is to have an Earth, and to have a chance to have a body to live on the earth, they would not consider interfering with the efforts of the righteous to preserve it. Satan’s plan is to lead the earth’s inhabitants to damnation and eventual destruction and the earth along with it. There is no scripture or prophet that has guaranteed any people that they would always be righteous and never be destroyed. Should the occasion arise where righteousness becomes extinct on earth there is no guarantee the earth would be preserved at that point.

We look for that great man named John, who must seal the true followers of Christ. The Lord’s servant John is sent to visit a young man, that same John of the Bible who now possesses wisdom incomprehensible to mortal men. Because this great man has far superior knowledge to that of worldly men, his communications seem to be mostly in parables, with deep meaning. For he is of the knowledge of heaven which far exceeds that of a world whose understanding has been shaped and influenced by the works of the devil.

John spends a great deal of time instructing the young man, and showing him the effects of the works and true influence of Satan upon the world. The young man will be brought into the depths of humility during this time, and realizes there will be no worldly reward, for the works of the Lord seem strange to the wicked and the ignorant and will receive no praise. For a true servant of the Lord must be willing to endure the worst kind of evil directed at him, and few are strong enough to pay the price of persecution. And the young man will be prepared to be severely tested in his love for the Lord, and exercised in his strength in both mind and spirit. After a long period of strange and severe tests, and instruction which is strenuous and grievous for the young man to endure, John commands the young man to put out what he had received. He constructs an altar for the young man to pray and the young servant is instructed make a covenant that he would live honorably.

The young man possesses great natural intelligence, yet due to his roots in poverty and a humble background, is not well versed in the arts of speaking and writing in the eloquent words and manner one would expect of an educated worldly statesman, for his formal education is limited to mostly grammar school. He is of simple words but unshakable faith in his Savior, and so he pays a visit to those who profess to be saints and leaders of God’s Holy church, and tells them what he had experienced, that he has seen the Savior, and been instructed by John the Revelator, and has been shown and experienced many things of God that cannot be explained, as well as the works and influence of the devil upon the church, the government and our world. He does so with a sincere and peaceful intent and hope that they will heed to the warnings and become aware of the evil in their midst.

The message the young servant brings to those professing to be saints of God’s Holy Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is not flattering to them; on the contrary, it exposes many corruptions in their midst among church and government. So they are stirred up to hatred for the Lord’s young servant. And as John has shown him, the influence of the devil has made these men who profess to be the Saints in God’s Holy Church like the Jews of old, and so they seek to destroy this young servant of the Lord.

Being members of what people consider to be a civilized society in which the constitutional law of the land is supposed to protect and defend the rights of individuals, they use a corrupt court and the false physician practices of the day to seize and subdue him. Having deprived him of his constitutional rights, they cause many physical injuries and inflict other gross injustices and unspeakable suffering and indignities upon him, and persecutions upon the servant’s family, and other violations of his constitutional rights, which will continually cry unto the Lord for justice for up to fifty years hence. It is truly written in the Doctrine and Covenants, Section 123, verse10,

"Which dark and blackening deeds are enough to make hell itself shudder, and to stand aghast and pale, and the hands of the very devil to tremble with palsy."

Through the infinite healing powers of the Lord’s mercy, the young servant does not succumb and perish from his injuries, as others would. Still strong in the spirit of God, he survives the attempts to destroy his life and reputation, but now with broken and aged body, having retained the effects of these injustices upon his person, character and health. Through the mercy of the Lord, he finds comfort in the truth of the Lord, and the evil works of slander and injustice they perpetuate against the Lord’s servant will form an undeniable record of the evil designs and works of Satan’s followers and disciples, for which true reparations and retribution for these wrongdoings can and will be only made by God himself. Judgement is nigh, and soon the fear of God will strike the hearts of the unrepentant.

In Satan’s plan, many have handed down their secret plans and signs down to their children from generation to generation, and thus have his works flourished and grown throughout earth’s history and have become a tremendous and cunning force among the works of mankind. And when that John of the Bible, says to the young servant "what chance do you really have?", he means a such truly righteous man serving God has very little chance to have a prosperous life among these great works of evil. Yet, as John completes his record of what transpires among this people, great will be the record of that servant who has given all glory of his life’s efforts to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The servant is left only with his faith in the Savior and the day his Lord will come and heal him.

The Lord speaks to his young servant:

"Come and go with me ..., I am not coming back for you again."

The young servant follows the command of the Lord and journeys without hesitation. Having been led to the desert, the Lord’s young servant receives a communication: "You have been chosen." Three different pinches on his shoulders indicate three separate agreements to his having been chosen. And God calls this young man into the desert, among the prayers of the Lamanites, for the power has been in need of strength. The young man feels a spiritual power from the Lamanites helping, represented by a good smell occasionally to strengthen him. On a cold desert night, the Lord’s young servant would be stranded without the protection and warmth provided by the Lord.

The Lord speaks to the young servant, "Some people don’t belong on this earth..."

The young man feels the Savior’s tears dropping on his face, The Savior sees that the young servant was suffering and knows what he would suffer later. The Savior had given much, and now it is up to the servant to give back. All of the sacrifices of the servants of God were necessary in continuing the earth’s existence. If the Lord’s servants are not successful in their calling, the earth would lose its place to another world in competition to this world, and go slowly down into darkness and eventual dissolution. At times, although they may not realize it, everyone works to preserve the world.

For as the sun gives the earth nourishment, it must have something back, and the Sun’s rays must have power _ that power which is the power of God. And only through spiritual laws may the sun through God’s power gain harvest. And God’s power is connected to the earth, but only through the sufferings of the righteous and their works in His name, with an eye single to His glory alone. For throughout history the Lord has used His servants to bring His great works to fruition, and has built upon that accumulating power of all the deeds and sacrifices of all of the Lord’s Saints and martyrs. And so do the works of Satan need to harvest power by having the righteous to persecute, for there must be a righteous people on the earth for the wicked to be tested by, for Satan seals up those that are his when they knowingly sin against that which is good.

The thread connecting the righteous to heaven, is a thread so thin in width, but soon to become as fine as a thread of silk. For the righteous are scarce, and someone must be in existence to test the scoffers, so that all may be left with no excuse when the Lord comes.

And the servant learns and experiences much in the works of the Lord and the processes of creation, most of which is difficult to endure and requires tremendous mental strength from the Lord’s young servant. And the works of the Savior must have opposition from the devil, and man’s free agency must be tested. The sins of the world had passed through the Savior. He suffered taking on the sins of the world and throwing them off or the world would have been blighted.

You must be tested to be chosen. The Lord prepares His servant, and allows the sun its harvest. On a cold October night after having journeyed far away from mortal men, is a man in the wilderness. He who has prayed for God’s work. He learns and experiences much about the importance and sacrifices of the righteous. For where much is given, much is expected. This young man must prevail in the struggle, with competition from another somewhere. For the Savior’s works must have opposition from the Devil in all things and in creation. That which enters on the right side must exit on the left. The servant endures the process, for he loves the Savior with all of his might, mind and spirit. A directive is given to the young servant: "He who loves their loved ones most, is the one who will prevail in the struggle."

The Lord’s strength comes from the righteous,

Holy Man, a righteous man, where can one be found?

Be still young man, your mind must be strong,

for it is you who must outlast the other.

In this time of the sun’s harvest

Our earth needs Heaven’s power,

But first, the energy must be sent to the sun,

And until you finish you cannot rest.

There is a great work still yet to be done,

The Lord our Savior’s presence above your head directing,

Walk to the sun, blow into the sun.

The young man says a prayer, one with a list of names that he has prayed over and over for weeks. His prayer includes the Indian Lamanites, the Jews, and all the house of Israel. Exhausted and yearning for rest, the young man hears the Lord’s voice, a man’s voice, sounding natural, "Now do you want to say your prayers?" The young man kneels and prays his same prayer again, and this time he feels his voice carried and recorded with heaven.

The man must soon return to that world full of scoffers, of dishonesty and treachery, and fear. A place where her honorable men seek his destruction. See the shooting star, follow that star, change your course to follow its direction, and return to that world.

And this man has the spirit of discernment, a witness unto this generation. A testator who must live in a world full of scoffers, in a world with many scoffers and scorners and much hatred, and hatred of the truth, a world with all manner of dishonesty and treachery, and fear. Our inhabitants have been corrupted, misled by the devil and in possession of only partial truths, for they have eaten up all of their beauty, and the voice of the truly righteous is no longer represented; it has truly been written, "all tables are full of vomit."

Could there be one man who lives, who has kept his integrity in the face of the evil and the scorners, amidst their hatred and scorn and persecution, and all manner of cunning, evil and hypocrisy? The sheep have yearned for truth, but are fed only stones by their leaders, and their jealous ministers lead them only to confusion.

Should such a man be identified; all of the people think a man of such great worth, for his enemies would be no match. For he could easily smite them low, and he would be recognized instantly as having great powers, but none of them understand the principles of righteousness, for the world must be given the opportunity to test their free agency.

For as when the Savior was born humbly as a natural man, the scoffers were also tested and proven. He was not to test the wicked by great powers, but by speaking to them truth. For in truth is the greatest power, the essence of God. And thus there is no search for a man of great worth, one not exuding tremendous powers, but existing as a natural man. For in this time, the time "like the days of Noah", in defense of truth, there is nary a sound.

When the Savior came, the scoffers tempted him, doubting that He was the Lord. He suffered what no man can suffer, even unto his death for the sins of mankind. When the Lord returns again, it will be a dreadful day for the unprepared and the wicked. All who have become members of the Mormon Faith have accepted a great responsibility in their calling as "Saints." They have agreed to bear the vessel of the Lord, not to seek after worldly praise for worldly and vain accomplishments, but to bring the message of the light of the Gospel no matter what the cost of self_sacrifice and persecution. They have agreed to live as in the saying of the Apostle Paul: "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." To be willing to risk everything to speak the knowledge of the Lord to the world, and to not trust in the weak flesh of mortal religious leaders, but to live a life of seeking and following the Holy Spirit and standing for truth above all else.

Our time has been foretold to be "as in the Days of Noah":

So it is with many who call themselves Christians and even Latter Day Saints. When presented with the truth in gospel and the opportunity to serve God, many become as the Jews of old. They do not hesitate to slander and persecute and destroy those who would choose the path of righteousness. In an address of the prophet Joseph Smith to the Relief Society he "read the 14th chapter of Ezekiel _said the Lord had declared by the Prophet, that the people should each stand for himself _that righteous persons could only deliver their own souls_ applied it to the present state of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints_ said if the people departed from the Lord, they must fall _ that they were depending on the prophet, hence were darkened in their minds, in consequence of neglecting the duties devolving upon themselves, envious towards the innocent, while they afflict the virtuous with their shafts of envy."(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 237)

Ezra 3:61_62 is referred to in the Doctrine and Covenants section 85 in referring as to how certain events will take place, such as those who have apostatized and will be publicly put out of the high priesthood. As Heber C. Kimball predicted in the great test shown to him, "only those that know for themselves that Jesus is the Christ will be able to stand." Few people have retained the means to discern what truth is, because they don't realize what it means to have this testimony; if this were not the case then large numbers of Mormons would be quick to embrace the words of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and exhort the Indians to learn of the Book of Mormon.

When the vineyard (Mormon Church) was corrupted in the parable, it was the grafting in of the natural branches that helped save the vineyard. It is foretold that the Lamanites must be grafted in to help save the church, and it has always been a duty of the LDS to put forth an effort to make this come to fruition. A common question has been asked about who will be gathered, and some indications are it may be not many; early church leaders have had visions about large numbers of Lamanites building the New Jerusalem, with very few Gentiles assisting them.

"...be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,..." (Peter 3:3)

Wisdom from the Apocrypha, Chapter 5(excerpts):

1. Then shall the RIGHTEOUS MAN STAND IN GREAT BOLDNESS before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.

2. When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they looked for.

3. And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves, this was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach.4. We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honor.

5. How is HE numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!

6. Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.

7. We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction; yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way, but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.

8. What hath pride profited us? Or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?

15.But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the MOST HIGH.

The Indian children must be sought out and taught the Gospel of Jesus, for His coming is near:

Oh Noble Lamanites (Peoples of American Indian Descent)

Prophesies say that you would be a builder of a mighty nation yet to come. How can this be? Do you know who you are? Are you aware of the blessings that await you because of your fathers? Do you know that you are descended from the royal blood of Israel? Where is your strength? Is your strength in the mountains, deserts or the plain, or among the islands of the Pacific, or North and South America, or all of these combined? Are you united as one people? Have you been convinced of that which has already gone forth among you? Do you know that those who are not of your ancestry can only hope that they can be numbered among you and receive their blessings through your people? Can this all be true? Will this really happen? The Book of Mormon says it will!

For if He who moved upon the mighty deep while organizing the whole Earth, or parted a sea, or razed a mountain with a single command has given His word, then yes, all of this and more will come to pass! And no power on Earth can stop it!

Great judgements are soon to be poured out upon the inhabitants of this earth. Many tumultuous changes are about to take place. The peoples of Lamanite ancestry will be the main ones who will do the things that are prophesied.

Oh noble Lamanite peoples, read the Book of Mormon! Understand the prophesies contained therein, and privately pray with sincere intent about the truth of that which has already gone forth among you. For the Lord God of the whole Earth is about to stretch forth his mighty arm that the inhabitants of the Earth will know that He is God.

Soon there will be all of these great signs in heaven and on Earth: earthquakes, oceans flooding the coastal areas, mighty winds, and terrible storms, the sun turned black, the moon turned blood red, stars falling from the sky, wars, rumors of wars, and no place is safe. Many tribal prophecies have foretold similar happenings. Search them, and search the Book of Mormon, for in the beginning of the Book of Mormon, on the title page, it clearly states: "Written to the Lamanites, who are a remnant of the House of Israel;" The Book of Mormon is your book; it contains your history and your destiny. Watch therefore, and be diligent, for the hour is nigh at hand.

WHAT IS THE TRUE MESSAGE OF THE BOOK OF MORMON?

Is the true message of the Book of Mormon overlooked by the present day Mormon people? The message is not just another testament of Christ, but far, far more, containing over 1000 years of the history of a great and mighty nation, of the people, their struggles, their wars, their destructions, and of the great blessings which await their descendants, the modern_day American Indians and those who are descended from them!

The message of the Book of Mormon is very plain and simple, so that even a child can understand it. The true message contained in the Book of Mormon, is to tell the present day American Indians, and peoples of American Indian descent, about their forefathers, their hardships, their sacrifices, that they fasted and prayed to the Lord, about their children, and the Lord blessed them and covenanted with them, for their children the American Indians of this day. Every word was written by the American Indians fathers, about their history, their blessings, and their birthright, and the wonderful blessings that are in store for their children, the American Indians.

The Mormon Church was organized on the sixth day of April 1830

It was so important to take the wonderful message of the Book of Mormon to the Lamanites (American Indians) that by September of 1830, just six months after the Church was formed, a revelation (Doctrine and Covenants section 30) calling four missionaries (on the first distant mission) to take the message of the Book of Mormon to the American Indians. These four Mormon elders left from Fayette, New York on their mission in the later part of October. They traveled about 2500 miles through a comparative wilderness, mostly on foot, in the worst season of the year, without purse or script, subsisting on frozen corn bread and raw pork, through the snow, without shelter or fire, visiting two of the Indian Nations, "whose interest became intense, the excitement spreading to the whole tribe." Being very successful among the Indians they were soon ordered out of the Indian country by the United States Army who called them peace disturbers. They returned to Ohio the following March of 1831.

The original Mormon leaders stressed time and time again, to take the message to the American Indians. They also considered it their mission, knowing the promises of the Book of Mormon in relation to the blessings and promises of God, to the American Indians of this latter_day. Also the importance associated with numbering themselves with the American Indians who have a superior birthright, so that they might also partake of the blessings, and promises that God has given the sons and daughters of the Lamanites (the American Indians) and all those who are numbered with them.

The Book of Mormon was written by the ancient prophets to their descendants, the American Indians. The title page of the book of Mormon plainly states "Wherefore, it is an abridgment of the record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites __ Written to the Lamanites (the American Indians), who are a remnant of the house of Israel; and also to Jew and Gentile."

Who are the Lamanites?

Answer: They are the indigenous peoples of Ancient North and South America, and those who are descended from them, who originally came here from Israel.They are the children of Judah, and Manasseh. They include all of the full_blooded American Indians, all of the Mexicans that are descended from Indians, all of the South American Indians, and any people in North and South America who are descended from Indians(Lamanites). They have a superior birthright, and according to the Book of Mormon they will inherit this land, for in the Book of Mormon, this land is promised to them.

Who are the Jews?

Answer: They are the descendants of Judah the son of Jacob(Israel). Judah's children became the tribe of Judah(the Jews), one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Who are the Gentiles?

Answer: According to Webster's; "Especially a Christian as distinguished from a Jew, they are mostly the people who emigrated to this land from Europe. Doctrine and Covenants 109 Vs. 60" Now These Words, O Lord, we have spoken before thee, concerning the revelations and commandments which thou hast given unto us, Who Are Identified with the Gentiles"! According to the Doctrine and Covenants, the early Mormon people considered themselves to be identified with the Gentiles.

Throughout the Book of Mormon, it occasionally mentions the word Gentile or Gentiles. Far more frequently are phrases such as "my people who are of the remnant of Jacob", " my people who are of the house of Israel", "the covenant people of the Lord", "a remnant of the house of Israel", "remnant of our seed", "the fruit of thy loins", "my people", "house of Israel", "remnant of the house of Joseph", "our seed", "mine own people", and similar phrases throughout the Book of Mormon, which refers to the descendants of the indigenous peoples of America (the American Indians, or descendants of the American Indians(Lamanites)). The Gentiles are mainly listed as a people who must repent of their sins, in order to be numbered with the people of the Lord (The descendants of the American Indians).

The book of Mormon was written to... the American Indians (Lamanites). The book of Mormon is all about the American Indians forefathers, their birthright, the promises that were made to their fathers in their behalf, and written about the covenants and blessings that are theirs, and theirs alone. That through these covenants and promises, the Gentiles if they repent, will be numbered among them, and partake of the same blessings and promises that were made to them. Let no one make the mistake that the Book of Mormon pertains to the Gentiles in the same way that it pertains to the descendants and children of the holy prophets who made covenants and received promises from the Lord for their children and descendants of this latter_day!

We have learned from the title page of the Book Mormon that the American Indians are the first people listed for which it is intended: "written to the Lamanites (the American Indians), who are a remnant of the house of Israel; and also to Jew and Gentile."

The prophet Joseph Smith affirmed that the title page is a "literal translation" and "not by any means a modern composition" of himself or any other recent man. From the onset of the early church he also spoke clearly on what the book of Mormon is:"The Book of Mormon is a record of the forefathers of our Western tribes of Indians; having been found through the ministration of an holy Angel, and translated into our own language by the gift and power of God, after having been hid up in the Earth for the last 1400 years, containing the word of God which was delivered unto them (the ancestors of the American Indians). By it we learn that our Western tribes of Indians are descendants from that Joseph who was sold into Egypt, and the land of America is a promised land unto them, and unto it all the tribes of Israel will come, with as many of the Gentiles as shall comply with the requisitions of the new covenant." (History of the church, vol. 1, p. 315)

We are now living in that age when the Book of Mormon revelations and prophecies of Joseph Smith have and will come to pass. The fastest_growing areas of the Mormon Church are in those areas heavily populated by the descendants of the people of the Book of Mormon (American Indians). Recently released L. D. S. church statistics show approximately one_third of the LDS membership now resides in the countries of Mexico, Central America, and South America. Even modern experts who have studied and recognized rates of the rapid increase in Mormon church membership in Latin America have predicted that at some point in the early part of the 21st century the majority of the worldwide Mormon Church will be people of American Indian descent. It is evident that the Mormon Church has been established primarily for the descendants of Lehi (a Book of Mormon prophet).

Chapter 26

How Basic Truths of the Bible Have Been Corrupted by Men

From reading the Bible, we know that the scribes and pharisees were most offended by Jesus and His followers. They accused Jesus of being from the Devil. The Pharisees had their Bible as well, and they studied it thoroughly. They utterly refused to accept anything more added to the Scriptures, than what they already had. When Jesus told them He was the Son of God, they were offended and accused Him of speaking blasphemy. They refused to believe that He was the Son of God, because they knew he was the son of Mary, even as Christians today know He was the son of Mary. They didn't believe that Jesus Christ's followers believed in the God of the Old Testament.

In contrast, other Christians believed that God is in the form of a man. They learned from the Bible that man was created in God's image. They learned that Adam walked and talked with God in the Garden of Eden. They knew from the Bible that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had talked with God face to face, as one man talks to another. They knew that Moses did the same. They knew directly from the Bible, that God is not a formless, everywhere present power, but that he is in the form of a man. They knew also from Jesus Christ's ministry on the earth, that He was a man, in the same form as them. They did not believe that the nature of God is a "great mystery."

We have long been aware of the tremendous pagan influence in the corruption of the early Christian church, and in the founding of all the orthodox Christian Churches, but many are not aware of the extent which this pagan influence has infiltrated. Even the translations of the Scriptures themselves were corrupted by this influence. Not just the simple mistakes, and errors in doctrine, but deliberate attempts to corrupt them with pagan terminology.

This flawed translation of the Bible is a curse of confusion laid upon the Gentiles for the past two thousand years, because they rejected the message that was initially preached to them by the Jews. The stubborn Gentiles did not desire to forsake their cherished pagan traditions in favor of the Gospel. They would rather kill the servants of God sent to them, and alter or destroy their message, rather than give up their own cherished opinions and traditions.

"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father." (Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19)

If men do not have the willingness to forego all the world has to offer in worldly possessions and worldly praise and reputation to serve the Lord, they fall into the path of error, for these things are natural to the world, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Savior. Those who diligently and sincerely seek for truth can ask the Lord to guide them through prayer. In instances where sincerity is lacking regarding the matter of truth and praying for truth, it is truly written that: "Behold, I say unto you, that your reasoning is not sincere, for the thing you desire, determines the philosophy you embrace. And if you will search the depths of your heart, your self_deception will become manifest." First Message, 11:13.

In the centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus and the deaths of His disciples, there was a great debate raging throughout Christendom concerning what was termed the Trinity. Some people believed that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost were all the same being _ that He was a formless "everywhere present" being, without "body, parts, or passions." They believed that the Godhead was a "great mystery," and that it was blasphemy to seek to understand God.

When the Pagan Roman empire was "christianized" under the leadership of the emperor Constantine, all Christians who believed that the Father, and the Son were separate beings were forbidden to believe so any longer. The Roman Catholic Church was incorporated into the empire, Christians and Jews who did not subscribe to the official state religion were driven and killed, books were burned; and the great debate was settled not by reason and truth, but by the business end of a Roman sword. It was this murderous mentality that prospered among professed Christians since that time, and again manifested itself centuries later in early European colonization efforts of America, in which countless American Indians were massacred and/or "christianized" by early colonizers under the guise of what was considered acceptable practices of what at the time was considered to be "Christianity."

"The moment you teach some of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God that are retained in the heavens, and are to be revealed to the children of men when they are prepared for them, they will be the first to stone you and put you to death. "It was this same principle that crucified the Lord Jesus Christ, and will cause the people to kill the prophets of this generation...." Quote by Joseph Smith (from Life of Heber C. Kimball by Orson F. Whitney)

If you search the history of this subject you will find many slants and opinions to this subject, but you will find for sure that this early Christian controversy was real. Mormons believe in the Trinity like these early persecuted Christians did, that the Father and the Son are two separate beings, exactly as the Bible declares them to be. Mormons know from the Bible that before Stephen was martyred, he looked into heaven and saw God the Father sitting on His throne, and His Son Jesus Christ standing as a separate Being at His right hand. The mob that martyred Stephen knew that Jesus Christ was in the form of a man from His ministry on the earth. Likewise, His Father in Heaven was also in the form of a man. Stephen's testimony which he sealed with his own blood stands to the world forever, the truthfulness of the Fatherhood of God. Mormons do not believe in "great mysteries" like all the Christian churches do. We believe that the essential principles of the Gospel are plain and simple, so that a little child can understand them.

Every Christian Church in the world today, whether it be orthodox or protestant, can trace it's roots directly to the beginnings of this early Roman Catholic Church, after the first council of Nicea, which used the opinions of men to define their belief on the Trinity and set the course for the beliefs of most Christian religions today. That is why they are all so opposed to the Mormon religion. It is their very traditions that causes them to be so offended by the Mormon faith.

"O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm." (2 Nephi 4:34)

Contrary to what these Christians will try to tell you, Mormons really do believe in the Bible. It is merely these Christians' various interpretations of the Bible, that Mormons don't believe in. Consider that those who ultimately reject truth of that which is referred to as Mormonism will be left with a void that will inevitably be filled with something else. What is it filled with? Everything else, with no exceptions is riddled with absurdities and mysteries, and impossibilities. Atheists must practice a strong faith in their religious dogma to overcome the impossibilities of their so_called scientific theories. If you ask a Christian why the Trinity contains a Father and a Son, they will tell you that no one knows why because it is a "great mystery." They will likely say that you shouldn't ask such questions because it is blasphemy to seek to understand God. If you ask them why they believe that infants who die without being baptized in their church will go to hell without ever committing a single sin they will tell you it is a "great mystery." Some of the Protestants will tell you that they don't even believe in baptism, in direct conflict with the teachings of the Bible. All of their thinking is clearly not sincere.

In contrast, the Mormon religion has no great mysteries, no scientific impossibilities or absurdities. Everything is written in great plainness so concepts are not easily misunderstood, except by the willingly ignorant. If you ultimately cast away Mormon beliefs before serious and sincere examination, you may as well get rid of all the light bulbs in your house, and live by candle light.

There is no known fact, no unalterable proven scientific law which conflicts in any way with anything written in any of the LDS scriptures, though it conflicts with the personal opinions and beliefs of almost everyone alive, including most Mormons. It is all in complete harmony with all known truths. This can be said with total confidence, and no one has ever been successful in proving otherwise. President John Taylor once said that no man can contend with the principles that Joseph Smith taught.

We live in that time of many false prophets and false interpretations. Put your trust in God. Don't let the opinions of men influence you in your decision on who to believe. There is a test to refute all false teachings and false prophets and that is to sincerely pray for guidance from the Holy Spirit. A false prophet will set himself up for recognition and is one who does not give all glory to the Lord, Jesus Christ. The Lord’s servants do not work to bring glory to themselves, but to the Savior Jesus Christ.

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." James 1:5_8 A prayer for true knowledge must be with a sincere heart and the meekness of a child, for there are circumstances of insincere prayers when the Lord cannot answer. To pray for a confirmation of a belief based on the teachings and traditions of men will lead to error: To cling to the false assumptions devised by men can pave the way to be led by the adversary.

Once again: "Behold, I say unto you, that your reasoning is not sincere, for the thing you desire determines the philosophy you embrace. And if you will search the depths of your heart, your self_deception will become manifest. Multitudes there are who will to be deceived, that they may resist the Word of God, and yet avoid self_condemnation; and also that they may not see in the judgments of nature, the condemnation of a wicked people; as it was with my people of old, who slew the prophets that prophesied evil upon the House of Israel." First Message, 11:13_14.

Whether or not you choose to believe in various orthodox Christian views, what you accept to be the truth should stand on it's own merits and guided by careful prayer and scriptural study. Seek guidance from the Holy Spirit for correction of erroneous principles, for all Christian interpretations and conclusions find conflict with each other and are often based on pagan influences. Do not rely on the opinions of arms of flesh who try so hard to influence you and tell you what your beliefs are, for all who follow after the opinions and traditions of men are in error. The Lord commands that men find Him while there is yet still time for Him to be found:

"Yea, I would that ye would come forth and harden not your hearts any longer; for behold, now is the time and the day of your salvation; and therefore, if ye will repent and harden not your hearts, immediately shall the great plan of redemption be brought about unto you. For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors. And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed. Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world. For behold, if ye have procrastinated the day of your repentance even until death, behold, ye have become subjected to the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his; therefore, the Spirit of the Lord hath withdrawn from you, and hath no place in you, and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final state of the wicked." (Book of Mormon | Alma 34:31 _ 35)

Chapter 27

THE POWER OF THE LORD IS NOW AMONG THE AMERICAN INDIAN PEOPLE

Be it declared among all American Indian People of the American Continents: The Power of the Lord is now among this people and great will be the blessings of those who purify themselves to serve the Lord. Be it known that the Lord has taken his power from the Gentiles and given it to the American Indians. Great are the blessings and great is the responsibility now upon the American Indians to be the light of the world. Be it known that the Lord favors His covenant people, the American Indians, as are the Jews favored by the covenant with their ancestors. Be it known that the Lord has chosen this people, and many prophets past have foresaw this time of today when the American Indians would be a light unto the world and are destined to become the greatest and most blessed people in the world at this time. Be it declared to all people of American Indian descent that it is expedient to search out the Lord and the truths of His one and only true Gospel, and be it known that the Indians are to follow the enticings of the Holy Spirit and no longer allow the teachings of men to be of hindrance in coming to a knowledge of all truth. Be it declared that the Lord Jesus Christ will soon make His appearance to His people, the American Indians, and it is expedient for the American Indian People to walk in the ways of the Lord. The time of the blessings of the Gentiles is past, and the hopes of the Gentile Peoples is to repent of their sins so that they may hope to be numbered with the covenant people of the Lord, the American Indians. Be it known that the present people of the LDS Church have rejected the fulness of the gospel and are now without testimony of the true gospel, being as they are unrepentant. Our brethren the American Indians are exhorted to put on this mantle of power formerly in possession of the Gentiles, so that there will be a righteous people in the world serving the Lord.

"And I will show unto thee, O house of Israel, that the Gentiles shall not have power over you, O house of Israel, and ye shall come unto the knowledge of the fulness of my gospel." (3 Nephi 16:10)

The Lord has set up an organization for the House of Israel American Indians to be restored to their former positions of power, that is, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. For although now in the possession and apparent control of corrupted men, it has been established by the Lord to provide His people a gathering place, and no group of men can prevent the Lord from setting His house in order when the time comes. The place for the Saints of the Lord to gather is this church. The Lord will hold those responsible who seek to hinder His work of grafting the Lamanite House of Israel into His Church, whether they be in the church or not. Seek not to destroy the messengers, for all men are as the dust of the ground in the eyes of the Lord. In Chapter four of the book of Mosiah, it discusses after the people had awakened to a sense of their awful situation and fell to the earth in great fear, being made aware of their own carnal state, and that they were less than the dust of the earth. It is the meek whom the Father loves, not the proud.

The power which formerly has rested with the Gentiles has been taken from them and given to the American Indian People. God’s power is now with the Indians and the only hope of the Gentiles is to repent so that they can be numbered with the American Indians. The Gentiles have fulfilled Book of Mormon Prophecies, and are now, "as salt that has lost its savor."

"...but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." (New Testament | Matthew 5:13)

We are now seeing the people of the current LDS Church undergoing a paganization of their beliefs much like what happened to the Christian beliefs approximately 2000 years ago. The capacity of discernment and reasoning has been lifted from the current LDS people and the survival of the Mormon Church now hinges upon the grafting in of the true people and heirs to God’s blessings, the American Indians. The next great work of the Lord will be among this people, the American Indians. The work of the Lord no longer relies upon those Gentiles currently in control of the LDS Church; the power and future works of the Lord is now upon the shoulders of those American Indians who, in this time, are to be grafting in to the Mormon Church to become the spiritual strength of the church and partake of the Lord’s blessings.

According to the teachings of Jesus Christ throughout the Book of Mormon, it is His will that the American Indian people now be grafted into His True Church to save it from being cast out and withering away. For it is with this people that the Power of the Lord now resides, and there needs to be a righteous people raised up when the Lord soon returns, for He will have a people serve Him that are not corrupted. You must enter in through the gate the Lord has established, the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and the American Indians must be grafted in by large numbers. It is the will of the Lord that the American Indians be now gathered, and pray among themselves for the truthfulness of the Gospel; for the power of the Lord is now among this people.

The teachings of the traditions of men can be overcome by a sincere faith in the power of the Holy Spirit. It is God’s will that the House of Israel become a great people as has been covenanted as a promise to their ancestors. The false teachings of men and of false prophets can be proven and overcome by a reliance in the Holy Spirit to manifest truth to the people of the House of Israel, the American Indians, and all who preach must acknowledge that all glory in the work of the Lord belongs to the Lord and Him alone.

We are living in that day when, as in the words of the Book of Isaiah 60:22, "A little one will become as a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time," and accordingly, the Lord’s words on this matter are clear: He will raise up a pure and righteous people to serve Him and bring out the true points of His doctrine. "Behold, thou art my people. Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem..." (Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 8:16)

"Wherefore gird up your loins lest ye be found among the wicked. Lift up your voices and spare not." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 43: 19)

"And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed. Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world. For behold, if ye have procrastinated the day of your repentance even until death, behold, ye have become subjected to the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his; therefore, the Spirit of the Lord hath withdrawn from you, and hath no place in you, and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final state of the wicked." (Book of Mormon | Alma 34:33 _ 35)

The power and destiny of a great people is now at hand; if they will pray for guidance of the Holy spirit with sincere purpose of heart, they will find the overwhelming love of the Savior and power of the Holy Spirit as their guide. The American Indian People are called upon to be a light unto the world, for it is in their heritage that the Lord covenanted with their ancestors to bless their descendants and raise up a pure people from them at this time, and bestow upon them all of the blessings and responsibility that comes with it. Be it one today or a thousand, and a small one growing into a strong nation, the Lord’s Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will have the natural branches of Israel grafted into it to strengthen it, and the strength of the American Indian people will save it from being altogether lost. The fountain of knowledge of the truth of God is now in the hands of the American Indian People, and no other people in the world are destined to come in such great numbers to such a great knowledge of truth and blessings of the Lord at this time

."So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." (New Testament | Matthew 20:16)

The American Indians Will Bring Out the True Points of the Gospel

Chapter 29

A Prophecy Fulfilled

In the year 1845, the leaders of the Mormon Church issued a proclamation to the world, including the gathering of American Indians to become "one nation in this glorious land." The church in recent years has promoted other teachings (i.e., the "Proclamation on Family") that are no longer distinguishable from other significant religious faiths and no longer address these highly significant points of Mormon doctrine. They were given the responsibility to gather the American Indians with the hopes they could be numbered among that people when the Savior returned. There is little evidence that this belief still exists in current Mormon thought.

The words of the Lord are clear: At that day when the Gentiles be guilty of all manner of abominations and then reject the fulness of the gospel, it will be taken from them and given to the American Indians(3 Nephi 16:10). That great church now inhabited by the Gentile people is now adrift in its direction, and can only be strengthened by the grafting in of the natural branches of the House of Israel _ the American Indians.

The comments from the president of the Mormon Church were of tremendous significance, for they rejected scriptures and doctrine taught by Mormon Church Founders to be the fulness of the Gospel, and even modern LDS Church leaders such as Bruce McConkie have taught that is a church belief that this principle will once again be lived again by the church when the law of the land no longer forbids it. Some church officials have even attempted to backtrack from these recent remarks, yet they are unmistakably clear, uttered by Church President Gordon B. Hinckley and heard by millions of listeners on Sept. 8, 1998, in response to a question by his interviewer: "You condemn it?"

"I condemn it, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal."

With these words spoken by the LDS Church President on Sept. 8, 1998, we see the literal fulfilling of the prophecy in 3 Nephi 16:10, when the Mormon Gentiles "shall reject the fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them." With this statement, Hinckley summarily dismissed and betrayed the testimonies and meaning of the lives of many martyred Mormon Saints who established the Mormon religion, from which modern LDS people now reap the benefits, and condemned a basic principle of his Church’s heritage, which was paid for with the blood of many early Mormons, many of whom chose to pay a tremendous price of sacrifice rather than reject their God.

For this was the principle more than any other which caused the early Saints to endure tremendous persecution and be slain at the hands of the mobocrats; a principle paid for with the blood of many Saints of the early Mormon church. It was this principle of polygamy that proved the worthiness of early Saints; it also proved the murderous hearts of some of the early American settlers _ of whom many were professed Christians _ who joined the bloodthirsty mobs which attacked and maimed and murdered the Mormons, and drove them from their homes in every state they lived, until they finally had to escape to the Rocky Mountains for safety. With this official statement by an LDS Church president, it also made official the revoking of the blessings upon the Gentile Mormon people and signaled the taking of the fulness of the gospel from them and the power of the Lord transferring this power and blessings upon the American Indian people. The blessings of the world now hinge upon the light of the American Indian people.

"And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the power of the Lamb of God, that it descended upon the saints of the church of the Lamb, and upon the covenant people of the Lord, who were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and they were armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory." 1 Nephi 14:14

"And I give unto you a commandment, that ye shall forsake all evil and cleave unto all good, that ye shall live by every word which proceedeth forth out of the mouth of God. For he will give unto the faithful line upon line, precept upon precept; and I will try you and prove you herewith." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 98:11 _ 12)

"And the nations of the earth shall honor her, and shall say: Surely Zion is the city of our God, and surely Zion cannot fall, neither be moved out of her place, for God is there, and the hand of the Lord is there;

"And he hath sworn by the power of his might to be her salvation and her high tower. Therefore, verily, thus saith the Lord, let Zion rejoice, for this is Zion—THE PURE IN HEART; therefore, let Zion rejoice, while all the wicked shall mourn." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 97:19 _ 21)

It will primarily be American Indians that will build up the temple in Missouri, assisted by those present LDS Church Gentile members who have repented. 3 Nephi 21 clearly defines the role of the present church members in the the building of the new Jerusalem. (verse 22) "But if they will repent and hearken unto my words, and not harden their hearts, I will establish my church among them, and they shall come in unto the covenant and be numbered among this the remnant of Jacob (American Indians), unto I have given this land for their inheritance;"

Also, the Doctrine and Covenants gives another reference clarifying who is is referred to as "Gentiles" in the American Indians’ history (Book of Mormon) and who is referred to as the House of Israel (Jews and Lamanite/American Indians): "...concerning the revelations and commandments which thou hast given us, who are identified with the Gentiles.", as Joseph Smith explained, where it is plainly spelled out the church members are basically defined as the House of Israel/American Indians/Jews and the "Gentiles" _ the current non_Lamanite members who were in early times the American settlers of European stock and today are "identified with the Gentiles" as referred to in Joseph Smith's dedicatory prayer of the Kirtland Temple. (D&C 109:60) And thus the Holy Spirit has directed it be spoken: The time for the fulness of the Gospel has come to be taken from the Gentiles and given to the Lamanites. It has been written and now it is to be fulfilled:

"And I will show unto thee, O house of Israel, that the Gentiles shall not have power over you; but I will remember my covenant unto you, O house of Israel, and ye shall come unto the knowledge of the fulness of my gospel." (Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 16:10 _ 12)

Chapter 30

Covering Their Tracks

  It states in 3 Nephi, 16 that if the Gentiles reject the fulness of the Gospel it will be taken from them and given to the House of Israel. Modern LDS church representatives have taken upon themselves to add the word "nation" or "nations" in their teaching of the definition they would like to assign to the term "Gentiles." By adding this single word, the complete meaning of this scripture passage is changed, and it can then be taught that the "Gentiles" refers to complete non_believing peoples in nations such as the United States, and the House of Israel would then refer to the current LDS Church members. This is an erroneous interpretation that has been concocted to make the teaching of this scripture more palatable to current members of the LDS church, for instead of a stern warning as intended for the Latter_Day Saints, they have chosen to believe a reverse interpretation of removing total accountability from the current LDS people and unconditionally assigning upon themselves the blessings of the House of Israel.

Does this refer to someone other than the LDS Church being the Gentiles? The passage does not refer to the "Gentiles who reject the Gospel." The words are very specific: At that day when the Gentiles "shall reject the fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them." The passage does not say that those who reject the Gospel before examining it and understanding it are to have it taken away, for how can something be taken away that was never in possession? To be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter_Day Saints carries a tremendous responsibility and level of accountability that non_members do not carry. As only Church members have had the fulness of the Gospel taught to them and are the only people in a position to understand it well enough reject it (you cannot be guilty of rejecting the fulness of something if you have not been in a position to have learned about and understand the complexities of its whole) _ this can only refer to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter_Day Saints.

"Now, I say unto you, and what I say unto you, I say unto all the Twelve: Arise and gird up your loins, take up your cross, follow me, and feed my sheep. Exalt not yourselves; rebel not against my servant Joseph; for verily I say unto you, I am with him..." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 112:14 _ 15)

That organization which the Lord has established to prepare a place and to organize His people of these days, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter_day Saints, although believed to be in a state of rapid growth, has also been rapidly losing members to inactivity and many cases apostasy, for there has been little offered to "feed my sheep." Many falsehoods taught as official church doctrine has left the majority of members of the LDS Church with weakened and hollow testimonies of the true Gospel, leading to unprecedented rates of inactivity and church dropout. If you question most LDS church members, you will find that they know little about their own religion other than that which they have been told to them will be their religious beliefs by their fellow church members.

"Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst." (Old Testament | Isaiah 5:13)

For although the church is now guided by corrupted men (as documented in previous issues of this publication), prophecies have foretold this organization of the LDS Church would at some point become primarily in the possession of the American Indians, the Lord’s covenant people of the House of Israel. Those in and out of the LDS Church who seek to prevent the Lord’s People from being gathered into the Lord’s church will be held accountable before the Lord; and those holding positions of influence within and out of the LDS Church and any governments of the American continents who seek to hinder the Lord’s work and discredit the Gospel will be held accountable before the Lord.

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Old Testament | Isaiah 5:20)

And although the followers of Satan are now seeking to pollute all facets of the LDS Church, such as introducing satanic symbols on certain LDS Church buildings such as the Nauvoo Temple, and have been supported in their works controlling the LDS church by the current church membership, the church still belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. He will come to set His House in order as He drove money changers out of His temple in Biblical Times: "...and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables" (New Testament | John 2:13 _ 15)

For the Power of the Lord is now with those American Indians who pray in all sincerity of heart whether these things be true, and it will become manifest to them that the power of God is now with them to do His works, for that power has been taken from the Gentiles. For this Church was established to stand as an ensign to the world that will not be thrown down.

"And liars and hypocrites shall be proved by them, and they who are not apostles and prophets shall be known." (D&C 65:35)

The teachings of the scriptures of the Mormon Church should be evaluated by studying and praying on the literal words of the Lord, not those actions and interpretations of Gentiles that seek to occupy His church and transform it into a pagan religion according to their own desires.

"Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little..." (Old Testament | Isaiah 28:7 _ 10)

Chapter 31

The Keys of the Gospel

Joseph Smith foresaw that the time would come when many groups would be claiming the keys of priesthood authority, which is now. He stated he would give a sure key so you wouldn't be deceived of where the keys would be, that those keys would be where the main body of the church was; where the church records and the history of the church were kept is where the keys would be. This is important to note in a time when many break_off groups from the LDS Church are falsely claiming priesthood authority; and the arrival of the one mighty and strong is promoted with erroneous pretense by many of those groups.

But verily, verily, I say unto you, that none else shall be appointed unto this gift except it be through him;

"for if it be taken from him, he shall not have power except to appoint another in his stead." D&C 43:4

The 43rd Section of the Doctrine and Covenants explains that when the Leaders of the LDS Church fail to use the power of their calling properly, they have lost their power, and their positions have no more power, except to confer their keys upon another in their stead. They have retained the keys of authority, but the power of the church in those keys lies dormant, and the only power the leaders now hold is to choose who to confer the keys upon next.

The keys of the LDS Church now lie dormant, and we are witnessing the effects of a church spiritually adrift, without spiritual direction. Would the American Indians not take this opportunity and fail to answer the call of saving the true religion, the world will lose the concept of what is truth and soon fall into complete darkness. All people of this time have the opportunity to witness conspiring forces throughout the world attempt to portray truth in a different slant, and the threat of evil taking over the definitions of truth has never been stronger. At no time in history has the battle to define what is believed to be "truth" been such a factor in the survival in the nations of the world. In scriptures the American Indians are prophesied to search out and come to a full knowledge of the truth and bring out the true points of the Lord’s Doctrine.

Chapter 32

Condemnation Upon the LDS People Has Never Been Lifted

In the year 1832, just two years after the time when the LDS Church was established, a scourge and condemnation was placed upon the current LDS people for their disobedience to the Lord. This curse and pending judgement has never been lifted:

"And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief, and because you have treated lightly the things you have received— Which vanity and unbelief have brought the whole church under condemnation. And this condemnation resteth upon the children of Zion, even all. And they shall remain under this condemnation until they repent and remember the new covenant, even the Book of Mormon and the former commandments which I have given them, not only to say, but to do according to that which I have written— That they may bring forth fruit meet for their Father's kingdom; otherwise there remaineth a scourge and judgment to be poured out upon the children of Zion. For shall the children of the kingdom pollute my holy land? Verily, I say unto you, Nay." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 84:54 _ 59)

The church was not even three years old when in January, 1833, it became necessary for the Nauvoo High Council to issue a solemn epistle of warning from the Prophet Joseph to the wayward Saints, regarding their poor attitude toward the restored gospel, and of the great danger of the Church losing its promises:

"There is one clause in Brother Joseph’s letter which you may not understand; that is this: If the people in Zion did not repent, the Lord will seek another place, and ANOTHER PEOPLE.’ Zion is the place where the temple will be built, and the people gathered, but all the people upon that Holy Land being under condemnation, the Lord will cut them off, if they repent not, and bring ANOTHER RACE upon it that will serve Him. The Lord will seek another place to bring forth and prepare His word to go forth to the nations." History of the Church, 1:320

"And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard sent his servant; and the servant went and did as the Lord had commanded him, and brought other servants; and they were few. And the Lord of the vineyard said unto them: Go to, and labor in the vineyard, with your might. For behold, this is the last time that I shall nourish my vineyard; for the end is nigh at hand..." (Book of Mormon | Jacob 5:61 _ 71)

Joseph Smith had so much concern about there being so little time left in which to prune the Lord’s vineyard, that he made every effort to prune the vineyard while he lived, to the extent of ex_communicating those leaders and apostles who taught a different doctrine than he taught.

The Mighty Eagle

How could ye so easily have departed from the ways of Lord

TO THE LAMANITES

AND I MOURN THEIR PASSING