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Joseph Smith Letter to N. C. Saxton, 4 January 1833Joseph Smith writes about some of the foundational principles of the gospel and the need for the restored Church among the nations of the earth.
been left from
Assyria, and from Egypt and from Pathros &.c. and from
the Islands of the sea and with them to bring in the fulness
of the Gentiles and establish that covenant with them
which was promised when their sins should be taken
away. See Romans 11. 25, 26, & 27 and also
Jeremiah 31. 31, 32, & 33, This covenant has never been
established with the house of Isreal nor with the
house of Judah for it requires two parties to make a
covenant and those two parties must be agreed or no
covenant can be made. Christ in the days of his flesh
proposed to make a covenant with them but they
rejected him and his proposals and in consequence
thereof they were broken off and no covenant was made with
them at that time but their unbelief has not rendered the
promise of God of none effect; no, for there was
another day limited in David which was the day of his
power and then his people Isreal, should be a willing
people and he would write his laws in their hearts and print
them in their thoughts their sins and their eniquities
he would remember no more, Thus after this chosen
family had rejected Christ and his proposals the
heralds of salvation said to them "lo we turn [un]to the
gentiles," and the gentiles received the covenant and were
grafted in from whence the chosen family were broken
off but the Gentiles have not continued in the
goodness of God but have departed from the faith that
was once delivered to the saints and have broken the
everlasting covenant in which their fathers were
established see Isaiah 24th 5th and have become high
minded and have not feared therefore but few of them will be
gathered with the chosen family Has not the pride
highmindedness and unbelief of the Gentiles provoked
the holy one of Israel to withdraw his holy spirit
from them and send forth his Judgments to scourge them for
their wickedness; this is certianly the case, Christ said to
his deciples Mark 16, 17 & 18 that these signs
should follow them that believe; In my name shall they
cast out Devils they shall speak with new tongues they
shall take up serpants and if they drink any deadly thing it
shall not hurt them they shall lay hands on the sick
and they shall recover, and also in connection with
this read 1 Corinthians 12 Chapt, By the foregoing
testamonies or through the glass of the foregoing
testamonies we may look at the Christian world and see
the apostacy there has been from
Joseph Smith Letter to N. C. Saxton, 4 January 1833Joseph Smith writes about some of the foundational principles of the gospel and the need for the restored Church among the nations of the earth.
the Apostolic platform,
and who can look at this, and and not exclaim in the
language of I[s]aiah, ["]the earth is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the Laws,
changed the ordinances and broken the everlasting covenant"
The plain fact is this,
the power of God begins to fall upon the Nations, and the
light of the latter day glory begins to break forth through
the dark atmosphere of sectarian wickedness and their
iniquity rools [rolls] up into view and the Nations of the
Gentiles are like the waves of the sea casting up mire and
dirt or all in commotion and they hastily are preparing to
act the part allotted them when the Lord rebukes the
nations, when he shall rule them with a rod of iron &
break them in peaces like a potters vessel, The Lord has
declared to his servants some Eighteen months since that he
was then withdrawing his spirit from the earth, and we can
see that such is the fact for not only the churches are
dwindling away, but there are no conversions, or but very
few, and this is not all, the governments of the earth are
thrown into confusion & division, and distruction to the
eye of the spiritual beholder seemes to be writen by the
finger of an invisable hand in Large capitals upon almost
evry thing we behold--
And now what remains to
be done under circumstances like these, I will proced to
tell you what the Lord requires of all people high and low,
rich and poor, male and female, ministers & people
professors of religion, and nonproffessors in order that
they may enjoy the holy spirit of God to a fulness, and
escape the Judgments of God, which are almost ready to burst
upon the nations of the earth--Repent of all your sins and
be baptized in water for the remission of them, in the name
of the father, and of the son, and of the Holy Ghost, and
receive the ordinance of the laying on of the hands of him
who is ordained and sealed unto this power, that ye may
receive the holy spirit of God, and this according to the
holy scriptures, and of the Book of Mormon; and
Joseph Smith Letter to N. C. Saxton, 4 January 1833Joseph Smith writes about some of the foundational principles of the gospel and the need for the restored Church among the nations of the earth.
the only way that man
can enter into the Celestial kingdom. These are the
requesitions of the new Covenant or first principles of of
the Gospel of Christ; then add to you[r] faith virtue and to
virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance, and to
temperance patience, and to patience, brotherly kindness and
to brotherly kindness charity (or Love) and if these things
be in you and abound, they make you to be neither baran nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ--
The Book of Mormon is a
record of the forefathers of our western Tribes of Indians,
having been found through the ministration of an holy Angel
translated into our own Language by the gift and power of
God, after having been hid up in the earth for the last
fourteen hundred years containing the word of God, which was
delivered unto them, By it we learn that our western tribes
of Indians are desendants from that Joseph that was sold
into Egypt, and that the land of America is a promised land
unto them, and unto it all the tribes of Israel will come.
with as many of the gentiles as shall comply with the
requesitions of the new co[v]enant. But the tribe of Judah
will return to old Jerusalem. The City, of Zion, spoken of
by David in the 102 Psalm will be built upon the Land of
America and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come
to it with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, and
then they will be delivered from the overflowing scourge
that shall pass through the Land But Judah shall obtain
deliverence at Jerusalem see Joel 2. 32. Isaiah 26, 20 &
21, Jer. 31, 12, Psalm 50. 5, Ezekiel 34, 11. 12 & 13,
These are testamonies that the good Shepherd will put forth
his own sheep and Lead them out from all nations where they
have been scattered in a cloudy and dark day, to Zion and to
Jerusalem beside many more testamonies which might be
brought--And now I am prepared to say by the authority of
Jesus Christ, that not many years shall pass away before the
United States shall present such
Joseph Smith Letter to N. C. Saxton, 4 January 1833Joseph Smith writes about some of the foundational principles of the gospel and the need for the restored Church among the nations of the earth.
a scene of bloodshed as
has not a parallel in the hystory of our nation pestalence
hail famine and earthquake will sweep the wicked off this
generation from off the face of this Land to open and
prepare the way for the return of the lost tribes of Israel
from the north country--The people of the Lord, those who
have complied with the requisitions of the new covenant have
already commenced gathering togethe[r] to Zion which is in
the State of Missouri. Therefore I declare unto you the
warning which the Lord has commanded me to declare unto this
generation, rem[em]bering that the eyes of my maker are upon
me and that to him I am accountable for every word I say
wishing nothing worse to my fellow men then their eternal
salvation therefore fear God, and give glory to him for the
hour of his Judgment is come. Repent ye Repent, ye and
imbrace the everlasting Covenant and flee to Zion before the
overflowing scourge overtake you, For there are those now
living upon the earth whose eyes shall not be closed in
death until they see all these things which I have spoken
fulfilled Rem[em]ber these things, call upon the Lord while
he is near and seek him while he may be found is the
exhortation of your unworthy servant
Joseph Smith Jr
To N. E. Sexton [N.C.
Saxton] Rochester N Y.
Joseph Smith, Jr.Lewis A. Ramsey, 1910
Hyrum Smith said,
"There were prophets before, but Joseph has the spirit
and power of all the prophets" (History of the
Church, 6:346).
Joseph SmithUnknown, 1845
"Even his most
bitter enemies were generally overcome, if he could
once get their ears" (Autobiography of Parley P.
Pratt, 46).
Joseph Smith PreachingSam Lawlor, 2001"I give unto you a commandment, that when ye are assembled together ye shall instruct and edify each other, that ye may know how to act and direct my church" (D&C 43:8).Joseph Smith's Last Meeting with the ApostlesRobert Barrett, 2004"Teach the children of men the things which I have put into your hands by the power of my Spirit" (D&C 43:15).Joseph Smith PreachingMichael T. Malm, 1997
"Preach my gospel
by the Spirit, even the Comforter which was sent forth
to teach the truth" (D&C 50:14).
Joseph Smith Letter to N. C. Saxton, 4 January 1833Joseph Smith writes about some of the foundational principles of the gospel and the need for the restored Church among the nations of the earth.
Kirtland 4th
Jany. 1833-
Mr. Editor Sir,
Considering the
Liberal prisciples upon which your interesting and
valuable paper is published and myself being a subscriber
and feeling a deep intrist in the cause of Zion and in
the happiness of my brethren of mankind I cheerfully
take up my pen to contribute my mite at this every
[very] interesting and important period
For some length
of time I have been car[e]fully viewing the state of
things as now appear throug[h]out our christian Land and
have looked at it with feelings of the most painful
anxiety while upon the one hand beholding the
manifeste withdrawal of Gods holy Spirit and the vail of
stupidity which seems to be drawn over the hearts of the
people and upon the other hand beholding the Judgments
of God that have swept and are still sweeping hundreds
and thousands of our race (and I fear unprepared) down
to the shades of death with this solemn and alarming fact
before me I am led to exclaim ["]O that my head were
waters and mine ey[e]s a fountain of tears that I
might weep day and night &c." I think that it is
high time for a christian world to awake out of sleep and
cry mightely to that God day and night whose anger we
have Justly incured. Are not these things a sufficient
stimulant to arouse the faculties and call forth the
energies of evry man woman and child that poseses feeling
of sympathy for his fellow[s] or that is in any degree
endeared to the buding cause of our glorious Lord; I
leave an inteligent community to answer this important
question with a confession that this is what has
caused me to overlook my own inability and expose my
weakness to a learned world but trusting in that God
who has said these things are hid from the wise and
prudent and reve[a]led unto babes I step forth into the
field to tell you what the Lord is doing and what you must
do to enjoy the smiles of your saviour in these last
day[s]--The time has at last come arived when the God
of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob has set his hand
again the seccond time to recover the remnants of his people
which have
The Prophet Joseph Keeps His Preaching AppointmentSam Lawlor, 2001"He that preacheth and he that receiveth, understand one another, and both are edified and rejoice together" (D&C 50:22).
