O Pratt Preached upon the second coming of Christ the Building of Zion & Jerrusalem & their final location on the Earth the Thrones of Christ & his Twelve Apostles will be in Jerrusalem while the New Jerrusalem & Zion of Enoch & the Zion of the Saints will be in Jackson County Mo. Adam dwelt in that land as the garden of Eden was there

I went into the Mountain alone & built an Altar of stone and Dedicated the land to God for the Benefit of the Saints.

While in this situation, on Saturday, 21st, Col. Sconce with two other leading men from Ray County came to see us desiring to know what our intentions were; "for" says he, "I see that there is an al- mighty power that protects this people; for I started from Richmond, Ray Coun- ty, with a company of armed men having a fixed determination to destroy you; but was kept back by the storm and was not able to reach you." When he entered our camp he was seized with such a trembling that he was obliged to sit down to compose himself; and when he had made known the ob- ject of their visit, I arose and address- ing them gave a relation of the suf- ferings of the Saints in Jackson Coun- ty, and also of our persecutions gener- ally, and what we had suffered

Thus Ends the year 1889 And the word of the Prophet Joseph Smith is begining to be fulfilled that the whole Nation would turn against Zion & make war upon the Saints. The Nation has never been filled so full of lies against the Saints as to Day 1890 will be an important year with the Latter Day Saints & the American Nation

The greatest Event of 1893 was the Dedication of the Great Salt Lake Temple Wilford Woodruff Dedicated it first And attended the first 21 Meetings & through sickness was absent on the 15 & 16. The Power of God was Manifest in the dedication of this Temple & many things Revealed by the power of God to the Presidency of the Church Near 50 years ago while in the City of Boston I had a vision of going with the Saints to the Rocky Mountains Building a Temple And I dedicated iy two nights in succession before John Taylors Death president Young gave me the Kees of the Temple & told me to go and Dedicate it which I did

God is visiting this Nation with Judgment He will Avenge the blood of the Prophets & Saints & fulfill the Testimony of the Prophets & Apostles upon this Nation

W Woodruff spoke one hour {in the power of God} I took up the subject of the office of Administration of Angels & the office of the Holy Ghost I testified that the Lord did not send Angels to Men on Earth ownly for the purpose of Performing a work which Men could not do while Holy Ghost should be with Every Saint of God to reveal to him his duty hourerly

Feb 2728, 1897 ^Sunday^ This was one of the most important days of my life By Appointmet the sabbath school children of this stake of Zion assembled in the Tabernacle and there were thousands who could not get in as the galleries were occupied with many Adults there were some 10000 children in the building I was called upon to address them The scene perfectly overpowered me as the whole scene of my childhood & Early manhood and come upon me the prayers I had offered to the Lord to Let me live to see a prophet or Apostle to teach me the Gosple of Christ and here I stood in the Great Tabernacle in the Rocky Mountains filled with ten thousand children of the Prophets, Apostles & Saints

The blood of my servants Joseph and Hyrum, and of mine apostles and elders, which has been shed for the word of God and the tes- timony of Jesus Christ, cries from the ground for vengeance up- on the nation which has shed their blood. But their blood shall speedily be avenged, and shall cease to cry unto me, for the hour of God's judgment is fully come and shall be poured out without measure upon the wicked. But hearken and hear, O ye Apostles, elders and people of my Church, to the word of the Lord concerning you, that for all the

The Lord is performing a marvelous ^work^ indeed in this generation & although I sometimes mourn to look upon the a [page torn] earth & see the darkness error & pollution that covers this generation & the destruction that awaits them yet I again rejoice to see the Church of Christ travling out of the wilderness leaning upon her beloved Yea it gives me Joy to know that the little stone cut out of the mountain that hath began to roll forth in these last days will fill the whole earth & the Saints will possess the kingdom