13. Moses 1:39. 14. Matt. 28:18. 15. Said President Woodruff, in his address upon the judgments: "Can you tell me where the people are who will be shielded and protected from these great calamities? I'll tell you: The priesthood of God who honor their priesthood, and who are worthy of their blessings. . . . . No other people have a right to be shielded from these judgments. They are at our very doors; not even this people will escape them entirely. They will come down like the judgments of Sodom and Gomorrah, and none but the priesthood will be safe from their fury." The President meant, no doubt, to include in this reference those who follow the servants of the Lord and are guided by their counsels. He was speaking to a general congregation, and said, in addition to the words just quoted: "If you do your duty, and do my duty, we shall have protection, and shall pass through the afflictions in peace and safety." 16. Prov. 3:12. 17. D. & C. 88:114. ARTICLE TWENTY-SEVEN. The Consummation. Time, mighty daughter of Eternity! Mother of ages and of aeons past! Assemble now thy children at thy side, And ere thou diest teach them to be one. Link to its link rebind the broken chain Of dispensations, glories, keys and powers, From Adam's fall unto Messiah's reign-- A thousand years of rest, a day with God, While Shiloh reigns, and Kolob once revolves. [1] Gathering the Gatherers.--The Dispensation of the Fulness of Times is distinctively a gathering dispensation. But it stands for more--far more than the assembling of the dispersed House of Israel. It is the spiritual harvest-time of all the ages, the long-heralded Era of Restitution, [2] when the great Garnerer of "all things in Christ" will reveal himself in power and glory, and place the capstone on the temple of heaven-inspired human achievement. The gathering of Israel is only the preface to the book, only the prologue to the play. The gathering of the gatherers--such is the meaning of the preliminary work now in progress, a work in which Gods, angels and men have joined. The Final Development.--This great era of restoration was made necessary by the departure of the Christian word from the faith delivered to the former-day Saints. But that is not its full significance. In accordance with the foreknowledge of God, and in consonance with his sublime, far-reaching purposes, this vast, all-comprehending period was foreordained from the beginning as the final development of the Divine Plan--"the winding-up scene" of the Creator's work pertaining to this planet. [3] All in One.--Joseph the Seer, referring to this mighty dispensation, and the object for which it was "ushered in" says: