Sept 10th 1843 Sunday Morning
Conference met according to adjournment
Meeting was opened by singing & Prayer By Elder
after which Elder W. Woodruff arose
& addressed the assembly from Amos 3 ch 7 ve[rse]
'Surely the Lord God will do nothing dut [but] he
revealeth his secrets ^un^to his servents the Prophets'
The speaker Remarked that according to the
Testimony of the scriptures in all ages of the world
whenever God was abot to Bring a Judgment upon
the world or accomplish any great work, the first
thing the Lord has done has been to raise up a prophet
& reveal unto him his secrets & send him to warn the
people, that they may be left without excuse. This
was the case in the days of & . God was
about to Bring Judgments upon the people & he raised
up prophet & warned them of it but they did not
give heed to them But rejected their Testimony
& the Judgments came upon them & they were
destroyed, while the prophets were saved by persui-
ng the course marked out by the Lord. Jesus Christ
Testifyed to the Jews of the things that awaited
them as a nation the fall of & their
dispersion among the gentile world but they did
not believe it yet the secret of all these things
was revealed to the Prophet & Apostles & they
Believed it & looked for its fulfillment, & it
came to Pass as it was predicted, though conterary
to the expectations of the Jewish Nations. In like
manner do we look for the certain fulfillment of
those tremendous events upon the heads of the
gentile world, which have been spoken of & pointed
out by all the Holy Prophets & Apostles since the world
began who have spoken as they were moved upon
by the power of God & the gift of the Holy Ghost
events which more deeply consern the gentile
world than the overthrow of & the disper-
sion of the Jews did the Jewish Nation, for
while they stumbled at the stone they were broken
but while it falls upon the heads of the gentile
world it will grind them to pow[d]edr. And the full
set time is come for the Lord to set his hand to
accomplish thies mighty events. And as the Lord
has done in other ages, so he has done now he has
raised up a Prophet & ^is^ revealing unto him his secrets
& through that Prophet He has brought to light the
fullness of the everlasting Gospel to the present
generation, & is again once more for the last time
esstablishing his Church upon the foundation of
the Ancient Apostles & Prophets Christ Jesus
Being the . In the Church is
now found Judges as at the first & councillors as
at the beginning. The Church is composed of Apostles
& Prophets, Pasters & Teachers, gifts & graces for
the perfecting of the Saints the work of the
ministry & the edifying of the body of Christ
The Lord has raised up servents & sent into the
vineyard to prune the vineyard once more for
the last time, to Preach the gospel of Jesus Christ
to warn the Nations that they may be left without
excuse in the day of their visitation & to gather the
honest in heart & the meek of the earth that Zion
may be built up & the Prophets fulfilled; one of
the secrets that God has revealed unto his Prophet
in these days is the Book of Mormon, & it was a
secret to the whole world untill it was revealed
unto , home [whom] God has raised up as a
Prophet Seer & Revelator unto his people. This
record contains an account of the ancient inhabita
nts of this continant who over spread this land with
cities from sea to sea, the ruins of which still remain
as a standing monument of their arts, science
power & greatness. it also points out the essta-
blishing of this owur own Nation & also its progress
decline, & fall, & those predictions contained in
the Book of Mormon, the in
the hands of will as truly be fulfilled
as those contained in the Bible the & record
of [Ezekiel 37:16], & Both of these records contained
Prophesys of Great import, concerning the
gentile nations & esspecially this land & nation which
are not yet fulfilled, but must shortly come
to pass, yea its fulfillments is nigh even at the door
Though the secretts which God is revealing
through his servant the [Amos 3:7] in the last days, may
be unpopular & unbelieved by the world
yet their unbelief will not make the truth
of God without effct eny more than it did
in the days of & or in the fall of . When Jesus Christ said their should
not be left one stone upon another in the
that should not be throw^n^ down [Matthew 24:2] The Jewsish
nation did not believe it neither would they
receive such testimony but they were ready
to look at outward circumstances, & ready to say
who can prevail against us what nation like
onto our nation, we have held the giving of the
Law the articles, the , the
Lawgiver has never departed from between
our feet. We have held the power of government
from generation to generation & what nation now
hath power to prevail against us, & through this
ordor of reasoning they were Blinded & knew not
the day of their visitation they understood not
the things that belonged to their peace. They
rejected their Lord & king, contended against
his word & Testimony & finally put him to death
on the cross with many who followed him. But
this did not hender the fulfillment of the words
of Jesus Christ concerning that nation the words of
the Lord had gone out of his mouth & could not
return unto him void, the things that belonged to
their Peace were hid from their ^eyes^. they were count
ed unworthy as a nation. The kingdom was to be rent
out of their hands & given to annother, the die was
cast & Judgment must come. The city was soon
surrounded by the roman army led on by the
inspired , & a scene of calamity, judgment & woe
immediately overspread the inhaditants of that city
which was devoted to destruction, such a calamity
as never before had rested upon the nation of Israel
Blood flowed through their streets tens of thousands
fell by the edge of the sword, & thousands by famine
women were evil towards the children of their
own bosom in the straitness of the seige the scen-
ery of which shocked the roman soldiers as they
entered the city. The Jews were crucified in
such numbers by their enemies, that they coul[d] find
no more wood for crosses or room for their bodies
in their midst, & while dispair was in evry face
& evry heart sinking, while suffering under the
chastning hand of God their enemies rushed upon
them in the city to strike the last fatal blow & as
their last resort they rushed in to the for
safety which was soon on fire & they sunk in the
midst of the flames with the cry of their suffering,
assending on high accompanied by the smoke of her
crackling spires & the remaining miserable few were
sold as slaves & driven like the dumb ass before his
burthen & scattered as corn is sifted in a sive through-
out the gentile nations world. was raised
from its foundations & the Temple thrown down
& the foundation thereof plowed up that not
one stone was left upon another & Christ said that
should be trodden down of the gentiles
untill the times of the gentiles be fulfilled which
has been the case to the vary letter untill the present
generation [Luke 21:24]. Will not God in like manner as truly
& faithfully bring to pass those great, important and
tremendious events upon the heads of the gentile
world which have been proclaimed by the Prophets
, , , , & many of the Holy
Prophets & Christ & the Apostles, on the continant of
Asia as well as th , , & &
others who wrote on the continant of America
all of which have proclaimed these things as they
were moved upon by the spirit of Inspiration the
power of God & the gift of the Holy Ghost. The
says that no prophecy of the scriptures is of
any privat interpetation [2 Peter 1:20], but commandments
came not of old time by the will of man but
Holy men of God spake as they were moved upon
by the Holy Ghost [2 Peter 1:21]. Isaiah soul seemed to be on
fire & his mind wraped in the visions of the Almighty
while he declaired in the name of the Lord, that it
should come to pass in the last days that God should
set his hand again the second time to recover the
remnant of his people [Isaiah 11:11], assemble the outcast of Israel
gather together the dispersed of Judah [Isaiah 11:12], make men
go over dry shod [Isaiah 11:15], gather them to Jerrusalem on
Horses mules swift beasts & in charriots [Isaiah 66:20] to rebuild
Jerrusalem upon her own heaps [Jeremiah 30:18], while at the same
time the destroyer of the gentiles was on his way [Jeremiah 4:7]
& while God was turning the captivity of Israel, he
would put all their curses & aflictions upon the
heads of the gentiles their enemies, who had not
saught to recover them but to destroy them &
had troden them under foot from generation to
generation, at the same time the standard should
be lifted up that the honest in heart & the meek
among the gentiles should seek unto it & that
Zion should be redeemed & be built up a
Holy city, that the glory & power of God shou
ld rest upon her, & be seen upon her that
the watchman upon mount Ephraim might cry
arise ye & let us go up unto zion the city of the Lord
our God, that the gentiles might come to her light
& kings to the brightness of her rising. That the
Saints of God may have a place to flee to & stand in
Holy places while judgment works in the earth
that when the sword of God that is bathed in heav-
en falls upon Idumie or the world when the Lord
pleads with all flesh by sword & by fire & the slain
of the Lord is many that the Saints may escape these
calamities by fleeing to the places of refuge like
& , in his 24 ch gives sumthing of an
account of the calamity & Judgments that shall come
upon the heads of the gentile nations, & this because
they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinances
& broken the everlasting covenant. St says
to his Roman Brethren that if the gentiles do not
continue in the goodness of God they like the house
of Israel should be cut off [Romans 11:20-22]. Though Babylon says I
sit as a queen am no widow & shall see no sorrow
The says, Therefore shall her plagues come
in one day death and mourning and famine & she
shall be utterly burned with fire for strong is
the Lord God who Judgeth her [Revelation 18:7-8]. Jesus presents
a parable of the Fig tree that when we see the signs
in the sun, moon moon stars, heavens & earth of
which he spoke we might know that his coming
is near that the generation in which those signs
appeared should not pass away untill all should be
fulfilled. Though Heaven & earth should pass away
his words should not pass away but should all be
fulfilled [Luke 21:7-33]
Those things are about to come to pass upon
the heads of the present generation notwithsta-
nding they are not looking for it neither do they
believe it yet their unbelief will not make the
truth of God without effect, the signs are
appearing in the heavens & on the earth and
all things indicate the fulfillment of th prophets
the fig tree is leaving summer is nigh. And the Lord
has sent his angels to lay the foundation of this
great and important work, then why should not
God reveal his secrets unto his servents the
Prophets [Amos 3:7] that the Saints might be led in
paths of safety that they may escape those
eveils that are about to engulf a whole genera-
tion in ruin
