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1 Verily thus saith the Lord, unto you my servant Joseph Smith,
I am well pleased with your offering and acknowledgments which
you have made; for unto this end have I raised you up, that I might
shew forth my wisdom through the weak things of the earth.
Your prayers are acceptable before me, and in answer to them,
I say unto you, that you are now called immediately to make
a solemn proclamation of my gospel and of this stake which
I have planted to be a corner stone of Zion, which shall be
polished with that refinement which is after the similitude of
a palace. This proclamation shall be made to all the kings
of the world to the four corners thereof—To the honorable president
elect, and the high minded governors of the nation in which you live
and to all the nations of the earth scattered abroad. Let it be
written in the spirit of meekness, and by the power of the Holy
Ghost which shall be in you at the time of the writing of the
same; for it shall be given you by the Holy Ghost to know my
will concerning those kings and authorities, even what shall befall
them in a time to come. For, behold! I am about to call upon
them to give heed to the light and glory of Zion, for the set
time has come to favor her.
2 Call ye, therefore, upon them with loud proclamation and
with your testimony, fearing them not, for they are as grass,
and all their glory as the flower thereof which soon falleth,
that they may be left also without excuse, and that I
may visit them in the day of visitation, when I shall
unveil the face of my covering, to appoint the portion of
the oppressor among hypocrites, where there is gnashing
of teeth, if they reject my servants and my testimony
which I have revealed unto them. And, again I will
visit and soften their hearts, many of them, for your good,
that ye may find grace in their eyes, that they may come to
the light of truth, and the Gentiles to the exaltation or lifting
up of Zion. For the day of my visitation cometh speedily, in
an hour when ye think not of, and where shall be the safety
