Elias: An Epic of the AgesWhitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
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Elias: An Epic of the Ages
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Poetry; Latter Day Saints -- Poetry
4--3003. **New Born Babes.** Nine infants, it is said, were born in
the camps of the fugitive Saints, on Sugar Creek, Iowa, the first
night out from Nauvoo.
5--3011. **Born in a Day. "Little One"--"A Thousand."**--Applications
of ancient prophecy. (Isaiah 60:22 and 66:8).
6--3016. **Cities Twain.** Zion and Jerusalem, the future capitals of
the Saviour's Kingdom; the former the seat of representative
government, the latter of monarchical power. "Out of Zion shall go
forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." (Isaiah 2:3;
Micah 4:2.)
7--3024. **Fain Would Dwell.** The extension of slavery to the West
was the dream of the South before the Civil War. This was one reason
why the Southern States favored the war with Mexico.
8--3026. **Aztec's Altar.** The region settled by the "Mormon"
people, between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, belonged
to Mexico, the Land of the Aztecs.
9--3030. **Golden Empire!** California, as a Mexican province,
included the present States of Utah and Nevada. Some of the earliest
settlers of Salt Lake Valley had previously helped to colonize
California, and were among those who discovered gold there, January,
1848.
10--3032. **Eden on the Desert Brine.** The redeemed Wilderness
surrounding the Great Salt Lake, and formerly known as "The Great
American Desert."
11--3044. **Land of the Honey Bee.** The State of Utah.
12--3045. **Pilgrim Sire.** The author's father, Horace Kimball
Whitney, was one of the Pioneers who entered Salt Lake Valley, July
24, 1847.
13--3054. **Hear Me, My People!** At this point begins the Prophet's
farewell address. The preceding stanzas of this Canto are a
generalization of what follows in detail.
14--3073. **Nebo's Height.** Joseph, compared to Moses, is
predicting his own death and the coming of his successor, the
President of the Twelve, upon whom the Prophet placed the right of
succession.
15--3082. **Stalwart Upon the Mountains.** At Montrose, Iowa, August
6, 1842, Joseph Smith predicted that the Saints would be driven
westward, and would "become a mighty people in the midst of the Rocky
Mountains."
16--3090. **War Shall Wound.** On Christmas Day, 1832, the Prophet
foretold the war between the North and South. (D. and C. 87.)
According to tradition, he also declared that those nations that
first received the Gospel in this dispensation, would be preserved
when "the consumption decreed" "made a full end of all nations."
17--4034. **First Born Fold.** Ephraim, fulfilling his mission in the
region of the Rocky Mountains.
18--4041. **Brave Sons of Battling Sires.** Descendants of the
patriots of the American Revolution.
19--4053. **And by that Power.** "The redemption of Zion must needs
come by power." (D. and C. 103:15.)
20--4066. **Zion's Land.** Zion in a restricted sense--Jackson County.
21--4080. **The Common Good.** Christ's Commonwealth, foreshadowed by
the American Union.
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