Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsCouncil of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
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Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Latter Day Saint churches; Latter Day Saints
While truth and knowledge shall make them free, and love cement their
union. The Lord also shall be their king and their lawgiver; while wars
shall cease, and peace prevail for a thousand years.
Thus shall American rulers, statesmen, citizens, and savages know,
"_this once_," that there is a God in Israel, who can utter his voice,
and it shall be fulfilled.
Americans! This mighty and strange work has been commenced in your
midst, and must roll on in fulfilment.
You are now invited, and earnestly intreated, to investigate it
thoroughly, and to aid and participate in its accomplishment.
You ask. What can be done?
We answer: Protect the Saints; give them their rights; extend the
broad banner of the Constitution and laws over their homes, cities,
fire-sides, wives, and children; that they may CEASE to be BUTCHERED,
MARTYRED, ROBBED, PLUNDERED, AND DRIVEN, and may peaceably proceed in
the work assigned them by their God.
Execute the Law upon the offenders, and thus rid your garments of
INNOCENT BLOOD.
Pass acts, also, to indemnify them in the millions they have lost, by
your cruel and criminal neglect.
Contribute liberally of your substance for their aid, and for the
fulfilment of their mission.
Let the Government of the United States also continue to gather
together, and to colonize the tribes and remnants of Israel (the
Indians), and also to feed, clothe, succor, and protect them, and
endeavor to civilize and unite; and also to bring them to the knowledge
of their Israelitish origin, and of the fulness of the gospel which was
revealed to, and written by, their forefathers on this land; the record
of which has now come to light.
It is these records, together with the other scriptures, and the
priesthood and authority now conferred upon the Saints, that will
effect their final conversion and salvation; while the creeds of man,
and the powerless forms and dogmas of sectarianism will still remain
powerless and inefficient.
The Lord has spoken, and who can disannul it? He has uttered his voice,
and who can gainsay it? He has stretched out his arm, and who can turn
it back?
Why will not the government and people tof these States become
acquainted with these Records? They are published among them for this
purpose.
They would then begin to know and understand what was to be done with
these remnants, and what part they have to act in the great restitution
of Israel, and of the kingdom of God. They would also know the object
of the labors, and the final destiny of the Latter-day Saints as a
Church and people. And this very subject has been a source of wonder
and conjecture, and sometimes even of anxiety among the people, ever
since the first organization of the Saints in the year 1830.
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