Letter from James Hooper, 25 July 1890
Pleasant Grove Utah
To the first Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter day Saints
Greeting
Holy and much respected Brethren
Think it not strange that a word should come to you
from one so obscure and lowly as the author of this short message
I am come from ^the Desert^ where I have bin for four years past under
the tuition of the Lord if I am not exceedingly mistaken, and
not being able to find rest, or relief from the burden upon
me in any other way, I am constrained to present it
before you, leaving the consequences to you and our God.
You may write it upon the tablets of your memory, and
in your Book, you may engrave it with the pen of iron and
lay it in the rock forever, that the Lord God spake, and
said unto me, that "All things whatsoever that is
done in my name from this time forth, that is not
for the gathering of the whole House of Israel, is not
from me saith the Lord of Hostes
Now Holy Brethren condesend to to hear council from
one obscure, humble and lowly. The Spirit dictates me to
say, the end of Joseph's dispensation is near at hand and
a new one soon to usher in, wherein the Saints must stand
in Holy places and wait the coming of the Lord, which
he, the Prophet Joseph foresaw and was permitted to know
the time ^(of the comeing dispensation)^ viz fifty six years after the going forth of the
Apostles to prune the vinyard for the last time
Now the Spirit presses me to council
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