31^st Sunday the last day of the year of AD 1848 A synopsis of my Journal
will be found on A following page

THUS ends the Year of eighteen hundred and forty eight
A Year big with events. A year in which the fig tree
hath rapidly put forth her leaves & blossomed for the summer
A year which has lade the foundation for the fulfillment of
more prophesy & Revelation than has been fulfilled in whole
centuries in other Ages. Thrones have been cast down, whole
Kingdoms have been oveturned, the power of the Pope of Rome
laid prostrate & he driven from his Kingdom. All the nations of
the earth convulsed Revlutions, wars Anarchy & confusion follo
each other in rapid succession. Cholera, plagues, & famine follow
in the train. And last of All though not least in importance
is the foundation laid for the disolution of the American
Government while these things are going on the Jews are gathe-
ing home to rebuild Jerrusalam. Some 7000 Latter Day Saint
have gatherd into the valley at the mountains of Israel by the
Grate Salt Lake, And the Saints of the valley of the Sacremento
have discoverd vast quantities of Gold, silver, coper Iron & other
mettels the report of which has spread like electricity through
through the world which is causing tens of thousands of the
world to flock to that place these are some of the features
of the signs of 1848

The revolutions of Europe commenced with France. The people
rose in mass had 3 days fight, At the end of which they drove Louis
Philipi King of the French out of France with All the Royal family
the people entered the Turrelles took the Throne upon their
shoulders carried it into the streets & dashed it to peaces upon the
ground. The people then undertook to esstablish A republican
government. it was said to be ownly 500 killed in the first 3 days
fight. Afterwords A reaction took place with A fight & some
15000 killed. they have finally organized, And the world are now looking
Daily for the Account of their electing A President And it is expected
by many that much Blood will be shed on the occasion in consequence
of the many conflicting parties. The Jerman States And Prusia next
follow in Revolution which is still unsetled. Next the people of
Austria Arose And Rove the King from his Throne & Kingdom He
Afterwards returned with Armies And Bombarded Vienna 8 days
And regained his Kingdom but has bBeen driven to the necessit[y] of
giveing his people A milder form of government & more toleration
Still his Throne is in danger. The Emperor of Rusia has had
much war And his Throne is in danger. The Irish have
made A struggle to throw of[f] the Brittish yoak & they have failed
yet deep trouble is brewing for that nation. The inhabitants
of Rome have risen up in their strength And compelled the
pope to make change after change, And at last have dashed his
power to the earth Assassinated his councellors And Driven him
from his Papal seat which has never before been shaken for
the last fourteen hundreds years And He has had to seek prot-
ection by fleeing to other Nations. While this is going on in for-
eign countries let us turn our eyes for A moment to the position
of Blood Stained America. A Nation though Blessed Above All
other Nations under Heaven yet she has of late been guilty of sheding
the Blood of Apostles Prophets Patriarchs And Saints she has suffered
mob rule to take the place of constitution law & order And what
position is she in at the close of this year. not ownly one of her
states Ohio has disgraced herself by having A legislaton sit for

weeks & spend their time in fighting ifor the mastery instead of
organizing & doing the business of the people, but the hleaders of the
whole Nation itself at wWashington are engender[ing] the spirit of party
strife, hatred disunion & war meeting in seperate parties And
laying plans for the dissolving of the union And the Anhilation
of the American Government. And James Gordon Bennett of
the New York Herald & other editors After Prophesying month After
month that their was no danger of disolving our union Are with
all their prophesies recorded in their paper steareing them in the
face, under the necessity of recording the Account of the parties
ways And means made use of to accomplis & bring to pass the vary
things they have been prophesying Against. And while the senators
& statesman of the slave states meet in convention And resolve that
if slavery in the Distrect of Columbia is Abolished or prohibited
from New Mexico or Calafornia that they will immediately dissolve
the Union, lay taxes upon the shiping of the free states &c At the
same time citizens And statesmen of the free states meet in conyven-
tion And Resolve if these things are not done they in like manner
will dissolve the Union. while these parties are growing more &
more determined, & further & wider Apart. Still the public mind
seems to be blinded As to the result of these resolutions, And are
ignorant concerning the fruit which will be produced by the seed of
there own sowing yes they have "eyes but see not, ears but hear not &
hearts but do not understand" [Matthew 13:15] while the servent of God wfilled with
inspiration, can behold the scene in its true light And knows well
the result, with As much certainty As Noah, Lot, And Jesus,
did each in their day while gazing upon the conduct of the Anted-
eluvians, Sodom & Gomorrow, or the inhabitants of Jerrusalem And
As the words of the Lord were fulfilled in the former case in like
manner will they in the latter. During the past year the Asilaatic
cholera one of the plagues of the last days has Also again commen[ce]d
its march through the earth slaying its tens of thousands. it has now
made its Appearance in England & Scotland And has just Arived
in the United States is in New York New Orleans Mobeel Memphis
And Cincinnati the lasrt report states about 100 daily in New Orleans
the signs of the gathering of the Jews has been vary prominant during
the past [year]. the govenments of the world have in some measure been
exherted to favor that people. And while I turn my eye towards Zion
I can see the Lord is vefavoring her. The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints has been organized with A first Presidency
of three viz Brigham Young, Heber C Kimball, And Willard Richards,
who have gatherd to the mountaisns of Israel in the valley of the
Great Salt Lake took with them about 3000 souls & some 8000
Head of cattle of All kinds which now makes a population of about
7000 Saints in the city of the Great Salt Lake Great Bason North
America. The Saints who were located near the Bay of San
Francisco have found A vast amount of welth in mines, such
as Dimonds, Gold, silver, quick silver, platina, copper, lead, tin, zink
Iron &c. these things have been found to such an extent that it is
creating great excitement throughout the world esspecially in
the United States And tens of thousands Are flocking to that land.
Crime of evry kinbd has Apparently increased 100 per ct throughout the
United States And the cup of their iniquity is full And the hour of
their Judgment is come Calamity sorrow & Death has recieved its comm-
ission to visit this land. And the spirit whispers to me that eighteen
hundred & forty nine will lay waste many thousands of the inhabitants
of the earth esspecilly of this land by cholera fire plage And Judgments