O'er the wide fields he once could call his own; Where oft in youth he sported in the chace, Mourning the change, he scarcely knows the place; With bursting heart his streaming eyes survey The sacred mound where lies his father's clay. O'erwhelmed with grief to heaven he lifts his eyes Before the throne his prayers like incense rise: Great Spirit of our fathers lend an ear, Pity the red man--to his cries give ear, Long hast thou scourged him with thy chastening sore, When will thy vengeance cease, thy wrath be o'er; When will the white man's dire ambition cease, And let our scattered remnants dwell in peace? Or shall we, (driven to the western shore) Become extinct and fall to rise no more? Forbid, great Spirit; make thy mercy known, Reveal thy truth, thy wandering captives own, Make bare thine arm of power for our release, And o'er the earth extend the reign of peace. CHAPTER V. Coming forth of the fulness of the Gospel--Restoration of the Indians and their gathering West of the Mississippi, by the present administration in fulfilment of prophecy--Commission and Ministry of the servants of God in the last dispensation--Commencement of the gathering of the Gentile Church--Their persecution and dispersion in fulfilment of prophecy, from which reflections are drawn on the subject of persecution in general--The enduement of the servants of God and their ministry among all nations--The power of God displayed in making bare his arm in the eyes of all nations--They flow to Zion--Possess the land in peace--Build up a holy city no more to be thrown down--The wars, earthquakes, pestilences, famines and signs in heaven above anil earth beneath which are to precede the Millennium--The resurrection of the saints--The coming of Christ with all his saints--The burning of the wicked--The restitution of the earth with all its blessings.