But in what way did the revolt of South Carolina, which began the Civil War, prove a "beginning" of wars for "all nations"? This question is intelligently discussed in a pamphlet recently put forth by Elder James H. Anderson, of Salt Lake City. That writer shows that with the outbreak of the Southern-Northern conflict, the whole system of modern warfare underwent a change, and that since then it has experienced a complete revolution, through the invention and use of machine guns, airships, submarines, and other death-dealing instrumentalities, absolutely unknown in previous military history, and marking a distinct beginning, such as the Prophet indicated. [2] Dangers Upon the Deep.--One frightful feature of the unparalleled struggle that ended with the signing of the armistice (November 11, 1918), was the havoc wrought by the German U-boats, otherwise known as submarines. There had been, before the coming of the U-boat, dreadful dangers upon the waters, as the fate of the ill-starred "Titanic"--ripped open by an iceberg--testifies. But the submarine, the assassin of the "Lusitania," multiplied those dangers a hundred fold. Did the proud world know that a prophet of God had foreseen these fearful happenings, and had sounded a warning of their approach? In August, 1831, Joseph Smith, with a party of friends, returning from their first visit to Zion in Jackson County, encamped on the bank of the Missouri River, at a place called Mcllwair's (or Mcllwaine's) Bend. There, one of the party, William W. Phelps, saw in vision the Destroyer riding in awful fury upon the river, and the incident called forth a revelation in which the Lord says: "Behold, there are many dangers upon the waters, and more especially hereafter; "For I, the Lord, have decreed in mine anger many destructions upon the waters; yea, and especially upon these waters; "Nevertheless, all flesh is in mine hand, and he that is faithful among you shall not perish by the waters. * * * * * * "Behold, I, the Lord, in the beginning blessed the waters, but in the last days, by the mouth of my servant John, I cursed the waters. "Wherefore, the days will come that no flesh shall be safe upon the waters, "And it shall be said in days to come that none is able to go up to the land of Zion upon the waters, but he that is upright in heart. . . . . "I, the Lord, have decreed, and the destroyer rideth upon the face thereof, and I revoke not the decree." [3]