For there are crowns and thrones on high, And kingdoms there to be conferred; There honors wait that never die, There fame's immortal trump is heard. Truth speaks--it is Jehovah's word; Let kings and queens and princes hear: In distant isles the sound is heard-- Ye heavens, rejoice; O earth, give ear. The time, the time is now at hand To give a glorious period birth-- The Son of God will take command, And rule the nations of the earth." It will be seen that our Hebraic poetess has suggested for Victoria of England the title of "Zion's Nursing Mother." The reference is to Isaiah's glorious song of Zion. He, according to the universally accepted interpretation, foresaw the rise of Messiah's kingdom on the earth in the last days. "And they shall call thee the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. "And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. "And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers. "Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. "Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him and his work before him." This is the subject of which the gorgeous Isaiah sang; and the prophesy of Joseph and the poetry of Eliza have applied it principally to America as Zion, and conditionally, to Queen Victoria as her "Nursing Mother." Many earthly thrones were about to totter. Soon France--from the days of Charlemagne styled "The Eldest Daughter of the Church"--saw her crown trampled in the very gutter, by the rabble of Paris, and a few years later the scepter of Rome was wrested from the hands of the "successor of St Peter" by Victor Emanuel; yet of Victoria of England, Zion's poetess sings: "But still _her_ sceptre is approved." Mark the poetic and prophetic significance between America as Zion, and Great Britain, represented in Victoria. A new age is born. Victoria is its imperial star; while from America--the land that owns no earthly sovereign--come these apostles to her realm just three days after the sceptre is placed in her hands. The prophet of America sends them to proclaim to Great Britain the rising of a star superior to her own. It is the star of Messiah's kingdom. She is called to her mission as its Nursing Mother. Seeing that Joseph was the prophet of America, and that the British mission has given to the Mormon Zion over a hundred thousand of her children already gathered to build up her cities and rear her temples, it is not strange that the burden of this prophesy should have been claimed and shared between the two great English speaking nations.