LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL.

apostles, dreams, visions and revelations in the church of
Christ, the same as they had who lived in ancient days; and
he believed the Lord would raise up a people and a church,
in the last days, with prophets, apostles and all the gifts,
powers and blessings, which it ever contained in any age of
the world.

The people called this man, the old prophet Mason.

He frequently came to my father's house when I was a
boy, and taught me and my brothers those principles; and I
believed him.

This prophet prayed a great deal, and he had dreams and
visions, and the Lord showed him many things, by visions,
which were to come to pass in the last days.

I will here relate one vision, which he related to me. The
last time I ever saw him, he said: "I was laboring in my
field at mid-day when I was enwrapped in a vision. I was
placed in the midst of a vast forest of fruit trees: I was
very hungry, and walked a long way through the orchard,
searching for fruit to eat; but I could not find any in the
whole orchard, and I wept because I could find no fruit.
While I stood gazing at the orchard, and wondering why
there was no fruit, the trees began to fall to the ground upon
every side of me, until there was not one tree standing in the
whole orchard; and while I was marveling at the scene, I saw
young sprouts start up from the roots of the trees which had
fallen, and they opened into young, thrifty trees before my
eyes. They budded, blossomed, and bore fruit until the trees
were loaded with the finest fruit I ever beheld, and I rejoiced
to see so much fine fruit. I stepped up to a tree and picked
my hands full of fruit, and marveled at its beauty, and as
I was about to taste of it the vision closed, and I found
myself in the field in the same place I was at the commence-
ment of the vision.

"I then knelt upon the ground, and prayed unto the Lord,
and asked Him, in the name of Jesus Christ, to show me the
meaning of the vision. The Lord said unto me: 'This is the
interpretation of the vision: the great trees of the forest
represented the generation of men in which you live. There is
no church of Christ, or kingdom of God upon the earth in

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL.

apostles, dreams, visions and revelations in the church of Christ, the same as they had who lived in ancient days; and he believed the Lord would raise up a people and a church, in the last days, with prophets, apostles and all the gifts, powers and blessings, which it ever contained in any age of the world.

The people called this man, the old prophet Mason.

He frequently came to my father's house when I was a boy, and taught me and my brothers those principles; and I believed him.

This prophet prayed a great deal, and he had dreams and visions, and the Lord showed him many things, by visions, which were to come to pass in the last days.

I will here relate one vision, which he related to me. The last time I ever saw him, he said: "I was laboring in my field at mid-day when I was enwrapped in a vision. I was placed in the midst of a vast forest of fruit trees: I was very hungry, and walked a long way through the orchard, searching for fruit to eat; but I could not find any in the whole orchard, and I wept because I could find no fruit. While I stood gazing at the orchard, and wondering why there was no fruit, the trees began to fall to the ground upon every side of me, until there was not one tree standing in the whole orchard; and while I was marveling at the scene, I saw young sprouts start up from the roots of the trees which had fallen, and they opened into young, thrifty trees before my eyes. They budded, blossomed, and bore fruit until the trees were loaded with the finest fruit I ever beheld, and I rejoiced to see so much fine fruit. I stepped up to a tree and picked my hands full of fruit, and marveled at its beauty, and as I was about to taste of it the vision closed, and I found myself in the field in the same place I was at the commencement of the vision.

"I then knelt upon the ground, and prayed unto the Lord, and asked Him, in the name of Jesus Christ, to show me the meaning of the vision. The Lord said unto me: 'This is the interpretation of the vision: the great trees of the forest represented the generation of men in which you live. There is no church of Christ, or kingdom of God upon the earth in