| 600 few weeks back, may serve as a telegraph to more melancholy details. Several thousand infuriated persons out of the inhabitants who have dwelt with the saints in sweet peace, rush up to exterminate them for a supposed criminality without a trial, and finally murder two of their principal men while prisoners in jail, under the faith of the state, pledged by the governor for the protection of their lives. In Boston, a state convention of Mormons is interrupted by a set of dishonorable rowdies, whereby the hitherto untarnished fame of the "cradle of liberty" is disgraced. Philadelphia, the city of loving brotbers [brothers], forgetting that in her sacred domains the Declaration of Independence was signed and delivered to the sons of liberty to secure equal rights to the "oppressed of all nations who might seek asylum
"In the land of the free
And the home of the brave,"
has become recreant to those rights, and actually mustered military and mob for "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness," whereby, after an attack with cannon and small arms, some twelve or fourteen persons have been killed, and fifty wounded. We need not say more, the great flood on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, the fermentation of society over the whole country, and the lack of confidence among rulers, priest and people, are occurrences so prominent that all ears must hear and all eyes must see. Should there be any so calous [callous] as to say, "O these things have always been so," we answer, events have always happened, men have often fought, and waters have risen and fell, but rarely by a specified time of the prophets.
If any one will take the pains to read Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, they will find a destruction determined for the whole earth, which, 'from the time it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For the Lord will rise up in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts, a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth."
If the great family of man collectively and individually cannot see a time of trouble coming speedily upon the world, like a whirlwind, the Spirit of God must have nearly withdrawn, as in the days of the flood. From one of our exchanges the following is added to show that trouble seldom comes single.
"The Cholera, which started from India in its desolating progress through the world, is making sad havoc in the same region at present. Four American missionaries have died at Madura, and the natives are dying at the rate of one thousand a day."
Notwithstanding all nations seem to be expecting something extraordinary to take place, yet the Latter Day Saints are the only people that are truly sounding the alarm, and preparing for "the strange act." The word of the Lord unto the elders is, when they have faithfully warned the people "after your testimony, cometh wrath and indignation upon the people; for after your testimony cometh the testimony of earthquakes, that shall cause groanings in the midst of her, and men shall fall upon the ground, and shall not be able to stand. And also cometh the testimony of the voice of thundrings [thunderings], and the voice of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, and the voice of the waves of the sea, heaving themselves beyond their bounds. And all things shall be in commotion; and surely men's hearts shall fail them; for fear shall come upon all people; and angels shall fly in the midst of heaven, crying with a loud voice, sounding the trump of God, saying, prepare ye, prepare ye, O inhabitants of the earth; for the judgment of our God is come: behold and lo, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him." [See D. C., page 105, par. 25.]
CX PSALM.
Among the many strange things presenting themselves to the gaze of intelligence, we have thought that three translations of the cx psalm might have their good effect to cause men to reason and reflect for themselves on the subject of religion, as well as on arts and sciences. The first translation was made in the 15th century, and bears the printers date "1582" in old English black letter. We give the original spelling, and Italicise [italicize] their additions:
A PSALM OF DAVID.
1. "The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstoole.
2 The Lorde shall sende the rodde of thy power out of Zion: be thou ruler in the middes of thine enemies
3 Thy people shall come willingly at the time of assembling: thine army in holy beauty: the youth of thy wombe shall be as the morning dewe.
4 The Lorde sware and will not repent,
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