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Contents:
The Mormon Position............................................. 2
Manifestations of Conflict..................................... 4
The Mormon Experience...................................... 6
A Voice of Warning................................................ 8
Warnings to Flee From the Wrath to Come..... 11
Escaping from Babylon........................................ 13
Since that historic day at Fort Sumter, men have sought to evaluate the Civil War
and determine its basic causes. Among others who have spoken on the subject is Joseph
Smith, the Mormon Prophet. His views are unique not only because of their content but
also because they were first expressed over thirty years before hostilities commenced.
Thereafter he continually repeated his views as he and his followers, with others, felt the
lash of disrupting forces that finally terminated his life and brought civil war to the nation.
People referred to the tall Yankee Prophet and his associates as Mormons, but to
themselves they were Latter-day Saints (abbreviated Saints), called by modern revelation
to usher in a new dispensation of the Christian gospel. While preaching a message of
warning, they sought to build a New Jerusalem in Missouri, that a society capable of
bringing peace to the earth might be established. The story of their successive treks while
spanning the continent is the more interesting in light of their “foreknowledge” of the Civil
War.