_Joseph's Blessing._--Another name for America, authorized by the Book of Mormon, is the Land of Joseph, referred to by the Patriarch Jacob in blessing his twelve sons, [7] and by the Prophet Moses in his farewell benediction upon the twelve tribes of Israel. [8] Jacob's allusion to Joseph as "a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall," was fulfilled in the migration of Lehi and his companions from Asia to America over the Pacific Ocean. It is hardly necessary to add, in further exegetical comment, that one of the main features of these western continents are those mighty mountain ranges, the Andes and the Rockies, well termed by the Hebrew Patriarch "the everlasting hills," nature's depositories for "the precious things of the earth"--gold, silver, and other minerals--and for "the precious things of heaven"--the sacred records that have already been discovered, and others that are yet to come forth. _Joseph and Judah._--The Book of Mormon has a divine mission in connection with the Hebrew Scriptures, "unto the confounding of false doctrines and laying down of contentions." [9] It is "The Stick of Joseph," referred to by the Prophet Ezekiel, that was to be one with "The Stick of Judah" (The Bible) "in the hand of Ephraim." They were also to be one in the hand of Jehovah, symbolizing the reunion of the two great branches of the Israelitish race, after many centuries of separation. "And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel," saith the Lord, "and David my servant shall be king over them." [10] _Zion and Jerusalem._--David's ancient empire, which parted in twain, forming the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel, may it not have been a foreshadowing of God's greater empire of the last days, which will consist of two grand divisions--two in one? Here upon the Land of Zion, "a land choice above all other lands," [11] the children of Joseph, the descendants of Ephraim, are even now assembling to make preparation for Messiah's advent. The Jews will greet him at Jerusalem. Christ's Kingdom will have two capitals, one in the Old World, one in the New; one in America, the other in Palestine. "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." [12] Footnotes 1. Mormon 9:32. 2. Hist. Church, Vol. 1, p. 15. 3. 3 Nephi 21:23, 24; Ether 13:3-8. 4. 1 Nephi 13:10-19; 22:7, 8. 5. 2 Nephi 10:11-13. 6. Ether 2:8-12. 7. Gen. 49:22-26. 8. Deut. 33:13-15. 9. 2 Nephi 3:12. 10. Ezek. 37:16-24. The king here mentioned is not David, son of Jesse, but "another by the name of David" who is to be "raised up out of his lineage."--Hist. Ch., Vol. 6, p. 253. 11. Ether 2:10. 12. Isa. 2:3. PART TWO SEERSHIP AND PROPHECY. ARTICLE SIX. _What Joseph Beheld._