| 525 During my visit with the Governor I was treated with the greatest kindness and respect; nothing was said about any requisition having come from the Governor of Missouri for my arrest. In a very few hours after I had left the Governor's residence he sent Thomas King, Sheriff of Adams County, Thomas Jasper, a constable of Quincy, and some others, as a posse, with an officer from Missouri, to arrest me and deliver me up to the authorities of Missouri.
"Saturday, 5th. While I was staying at Heberlin's Hotel, Bear Creek, about twenty-eight miles south of Nauvoo, Sheriff King and posse arrested me. Some of the posse, on learning the spirit of the officer of Missouri, left the company in disgust and returned to their own homes. I accordingly returned to Quincy and obtained a writ of habeas corpus from Charles A. Warren, Esq., Master in Chancery; and Judge Stephen A. Douglas happening to come to
driven from one city to another, yet the purposes of Jehovah will at the same time be consummating.
One thing, however, is certain: that Zion shall be established, her foundations shall be laid, her beauty shall astonish the world, and she become the glory of the whole earth. These things are decreed by the King of kings and Lord of lords, and he hath declared that heaven and earth may pass away, but not one jot or tittle of his word shall fall to the ground.
Knowing then that the work of the Lord is propelled by Almighty power, the saints can rest satisfied, under all circumstances, that it will roll forth with power and energy that shall comport with the purposes of Jehovah.
And if in the short space of ten years it has risen from obscurity, penetrated into the different States of the Union, spread and flourished in the European Isles, caused the wisdom of wise men to perish and the understanding of the prudent to be hid, risen above the persecutions of individuals and communities, and appears so marvelous in the eyes of this generation,-what may be expected ten years hence? Where is the individual whose mind is sufficient to grasp the fullness, extent, and glory of the church? None but those who catch the sacred spirit which animated the bosom of the prophets when they foretold of the glories of the last days, and when the visions of the Almighty rested upon them.
A field wide as eternity, a labor worthy the archangels, appear before the saints of God, and to accomplish which they must be faithful, diligent enterprising, and prepared to make whatever sacrifice the Almighty may require at their hands. By doing so they will not only be instrumental in securing the happiness of their fellow man, but their own; and when the judgment is set and the books are opened and every man rewarded according to his works, they will hear from the righteous Judge, "Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, now I will make thee ruler over many things, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."-Times and Seasons, vol. 2, pp. 423, 424.
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