6. It may be suspected that Elder Pratt colored his account of this speech to fit the prophecy of the Book of Mormon, but if that were so some reference to its fulfillment of the prediction--"then shall they rejoice"--would naturally be looked for; but it is a singular thing that nowhere in the early literature of the Church is reference made to this prophetic page. The full account of this first Indian mission will be found in the "History of the Church," Vol. I, pp. 111-120, and pages 182-185. 7. "History of the Church," Vol. I, pp. 184-5. 8. "History of the Church," Vol. V., Chapters xxiv and xxv. The prophet had been visiting relatives in Dixon, and while there fell into the hands of his enemies, who sought to take him to Missouri. He escaped them, however, by a writ of habeas corpus, on which he was tried and acquitted at Nauvoo. 9. "Millennial Star," Vol. XXI, pp. 634-5. 10. Amos ix: 14. 11. Obadiah i: 17. 12. Deut. vii: 6. 13. Zechariah ii: 12. 14. Isaiah xiv: 1. 15. Ezekiel xxxvii: 21-27. 16. Isaiah xix: 21. 17. "In the opinion of some, it may become a training-ground for those who are eventually to go to Zion. * * * Whatever solution the East African scheme may find, it can be but a temporary one. The eye of the people's soul cannot be turned from the object upon which it has rested for centuries and centuries. * * * The soul of Israel has always felt, and when occasion offered has always said, that such a concentration at such a rallying-point, can be induced only in the ancient home of the children of Israel, in Palestine."--Richard J. H. Gottheil. 18. See Doc. & Cov., Sec. 110. 19. "Biography of Lorenzo Snow," p. 496. 20. Since the foregoing was written the following press dispatch from Jerusalem, under date of July 28th, 1906, appeared in the daily papers of the United States: Jerusalem, July 28--The Zionist movement--the return of the Jews to Palestine--is being carried actively on, and during the last few months there has been a remarkable influx of Israelites into the Holy Land. A fertile region, east of the Jordan, toward Kerak, has been inspected by a party of Jewish financiers, with the idea of colonizing it. * * * * * * The intending colonists are negotiating with the government for the purchase of land and for guarantees of protection against the Bedouins. Five thousand Jewish emigrants from Russia and the Balkan States recently landed at Jaffa. They will be distributed among the various Jewish colonies, which are to be found in all the fertile districts of Palestine. It looks as if the Chosen People are literally coming to their own again. 21. "A mighty dawn of ideas is peculiar to our own age (nineteenth century)."--Victor Hugo.