---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Lambourne, Alfred
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 9
published: 1919-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Lambourne, Alfred, "July, 1919," *Improvement Era* 22, no. 9 (July 1919): 813.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2209unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2209unse
start_page: 813
end_page: 813
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2209unse
  publication_year: 1919
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# July, 1919

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ZION AND JERUSALEM                          815

Lord, in rewarding him, separated him from his brothers the  —
                      —
other tribes of Israel and gave him an inheritance in a land
that is choice above all other lands, which, we have learned
from the Book of Mormon and modern revelation, is America.
     In this great day of gathering, the Lord has commanded that
those of the house of Israel who are scattered among the Gentiles should flee unto Zion, and those who are of the house of
Judah should flee unto Jerusalem, "unto the mountain of the
Lord's house," which is their gathering place.     (Doc. and Cov.
133:12,13.)
     In each land a holy city shall be built which shall be the
capital from whence the law and the word of the Lord shall go
forth to all peoples.   The Savior said to the Nephites: "Behold, this people will I establish in this land, unto the fulfiling
of the covenant which I made with your father Jacob; and it
shall be a New Jerusalem. And the powers of heaven shall be
in the midst of this people; yea, even I will be in the midst of
you" (III Nephi 20:22).
     Moroni, writing of the Jaredites, has said: "Behold, Ether
saw the days of Christ, and he spake concerning a New Jerusalem upon this land; and he spake also concerning the house
of Israel, and the Jerusalem from whence Lehi should come;
after it should be destroyed, it should be built up again a holy
city unto the Lord, wherefore it could not be a New Jerusalem,
for it had been in a time of old, but it should be built up again,
and become a holy city of the Lord; and it should be built unlo
the house of Israel."
     We are informed in the revelations given to Joseph Smith
the Prophet, that the city of Zion and the New Jerusalem is
one and the same. In a number of revelations the Lord speaks
of the New Jerusalem which is to be built. (See sections 28, 42,
45, 84.)  In Sec. 45:66, 67, we read: "And it shall be called the
New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety
for the Saints of the Most High God; and the glory of the
Lord shall be there, and the terror of the Lord also shall be
there, insomuch that the wicked will not come unto it, and it
shall be called Zion" (See also sections 57:2 and 58:7).
     In section 84:2, we read: "Yea, the word of the Lord concerning his Church established in the last days for the restoration of his people, as he has spoken by the mouth of his prophets, and for the gathering of his Saints to stand upon Mount
Zion, which shall be the city of New Jerusalem."
     Jerusalem of old, after the Jews have been cleansed and
sanctified from all their sin, shall become a holy city where the
Lord shall dwell and from whence he shall send forth his word
unto all people. Likewise, on this continent, the city of Zion,
New Jerusalem— shall be built, and from it the law of God shall