Of the Future

RETRIBUTION— ORDER NO. 11. 927

boyonet, they had been driven from their own homes, and their country turned into a wilderness; they had been deaf to the cry for mercy, and her ears were closed to them in the hour of need. God had said the day of retribution should come, who can doubt that it had come? His words were now vindicated, and in that vindication another evidence was given to the world that the mis- sion of Joseph Smith was heaven-appointed.

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OF THE FUTURE.

Hail to the day of millennial bliss, when all the faithful sons and daughters of God shall enjoy a thousand years of peace on earth! The heralding forth of the everlasting gospel, by the vast hosts of elders in Israel, gives tokens of Truth's onward march. The honest-in-heart are attracted to its magnetic influence; and, like the needle to the pole, an affinity exists between the spirit of the gospel and the heart of the hon- est believer. The harvest of the world has come to gather the elect, and thrice-blessed are those who are accounted worthy to be sampled for the Master's use, from the world's crude mass of sinful humanity. Ancient and modern prophets have predicted the most calamitous events in the world's history, the crises of wars, judgments by sea and land, earth- quakes, with other horrors added to afflict humanity. If sve are travel-

ing in the direction marked out by the servants of God whose right it is to give saving counsel, our feet will not slip in duty's pathway. Thrice blessed are they who keep all the commandments of God, as pronounced by Jesus, and dictated by his living oracles. Though trials may come to test our faith, the Lord's protecting care will sustain the pure in heart, however dark the clouds of opposing powei'3 may be which com- bine to oppress. George W. Crocheron.