Side by side with all these facts consider how fatal to Joseph Smith's claims as a divinely commissioned prophet of God would have been the failure of his prophecies! After all this is carefully considered, without prejudice and with a candid desire to know the truth, let each for himself answer these questions: Does not the fulfillment of the prophecies of Joseph Smith furnish a volume of testimony sufficient both as to quality and quantity to convince a reasonable mind that he was a divinely inspired prophet? If he was not a divinely inspired prophet, on what hypothesis shall we account for this remarkable list of predictions here set forth and their marvelous fulfillment? Footnotes 1. The writer saw a copy in the Church Liverpool Office Library, in 1887, while acting as assistant editor of the _Millennial Star._ See _Millennial Star,_ Vol. xlix: p. 396. 2. Stephens' History of the United States, p. 448. 3. Stephens' History of the United States, p. 451. 4. See Cooper's American Politics, Book I, p. 33. 5. _Millennial Star,_ Vol. xx, p. 728. 6. Cooper's American Politics, Book I, p. 88. 7. Cooper's American Politics, Book I, p. 88. 8. _Ibid_. 9. Cooper's American Politics, p. 88. 10. Lossing's History of the United States, p. 546. 11. Cooper's American Politics, Book I, p. 88. 12. Lossing's History of the United States, p. 547, note 2. 13. Stephens' History of the United States, p. 604. 14. See War between the States, Vol. II, pp. 346-7, _et seq._; also Appendix N. Stephens' Hist. United States. There the correspondence on the subject is given _in extenso_. 15. Stephens' History of the United States, p. 609. 16. Stephens' History of the United States, p. 610. 17. Stephens' History of the United States, p. 837-8. The figures of Mr. Stephens are sustained by the report of the Surgeon-General, U.S.A.; and also by Mr. Stanton's report for 1866. Mr. S. was Secretary of War. 18. It will be observed that there is a slight disagreement between Mr. Stephens and the _Gazette_ Compilation in this item; the former putting the number of prisoners who died in Confederate hands at 22,576, the latter at 26,000. 19. Lossing's History of the United States, p. 723-4, note 3. 20. Stephens' History of the United States, p. 838. 21. Cooper's American Politics, Book I, p. 99. 22. Lossing's History of the United States, p. 559 and note I. 23. Cooper's American Politics, Bk. I, p. 197. 24. Many believe this part of the prophecy was fulfilled during the war of the Southern Rebellion, when many colored men formerly slaves were enlisted in the Union service. We have already seen that of the 2,653,000 soldiers enlisted in the Union army 186,397 were colored.