parts given to them developed so sublime a system of ecclesiastical government, the like of which was not to be found in all the world." (A New Witness for God, pp. 255-7.) LESSON XLIV. (Scripture Reading Exercise.) DOCTRINAL AND ORGANIC DEVELOPMENT (Continued.) ANALYSIS. IV. Organization of Stakes of Zion. 1. Zion. 2. Stakes of Zion. V. Doctrinal Growth. VI. The Order and Presidency of all Dispensations. REFERENCE. Book of Mormon, III Nephi, ch. xxi:20-25. Missouri Persecutions, chs. ii, iii. Doc, & Cov. Sec. lvii:1-5. History of the Church, Vol. I, pp. 188-191. History of the church, Vol. II, pp. 513-514 and note. New Witness for God, chs. xiv and xv. See also History of the Church, Vol. IV. Introduction, pp. xxxiii-xli and note. History of the Church, Vol. IV Introduction, pp. xxxix-xli; Mormon Doctrine of Deity, pp. NOTES. _Zion:_ The word Zion is variously employed: "This is Zion, the pure in heart." (Doc. & Cov.) In this instance the word refers to a people who are declared to be the pure in heart. In the south part of Jerusalem is a hill frequently spoken of in Jewish scripture as Zion, or Mount Zion. Then Enoch the seventh from Adam gathered the righteous and built a city, "that was called the city of Holiness, even Zion." The Lord in speaking to Enoch about the great events to take place in the last days, in which He would come to the earth in His glory, said He would with righteousness and truth sweep the earth as with a flood to gather His elect to "an holy city. * * * and it shall be called Zion, a new Jerusalem." The Nephite prophet, Moroni, tells us that Ether in vision saw the days of the coming of the Son of Man, and that "he spake concerning a new Jerusalem upon this land (America)," that was to built up unto the remnant of the seed of Joseph. (Ether xiii.) Jesus also after his resurrection, when He visited the Nephites on the American continent, told them that He would establish them upon this land, and if the Gentiles would not harden their hearts, but would repent of their sins, they should be included in the covenant, and should assist in building up the city New Jerusalem. (III Nephi xx.) The word Zion, then, is applied to a people; it is the name of a hill in the south part of Jerusalem; it is the name of a city built by Enoch and his people; it is to be the name of a city built in the last days by the saints of the Most High upon the continent of America. (Missouri Persecutions; also Outlines of Eccl. History, pp. 349-50.)