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Show I98 THE MORMON LION and I say they're as rotten as an old punkin what has been froze seven times and then melted in a harvest sun! There ain't no legal government on earth 'cept the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." He faced the East, threatening with his clenched fist. "Come on, you Gentile cusses!-come on with your knives, your swords, and your faggots of fire! You got to destroy the whole of us rather than we'll forsake our religion! Whether the doctrine of plurality of ;wives is true or false is none of your busmess. We ve as good nghts to adopt tenants in our religion as the Church of England or the Methodists or the Baptists have to theirn. Yes, come on with your thousands of illegally-ordered troops, and I'll promtse you, m the name of Israel 's God, you'll melt as snow before a July sun! " He paused with his fist dramatically uplifted, while two tliousand votces burst out in frenzted applause I whispered to Lucy that the July snows on the peak~ were unmelted. But the Prophet did not see what was above !urn, He. was looking down from the colossal mountam of his pnde and egotism, to whose topmost crest he was upborne by the cheers of his fanatical followers. " Remember my words, ye faithful ones of Israeli " he cned. " I, your Prophet, has said it. The Gentiles shan't enter the land of the honeybee. We'll smtte the Amalekites! This is the acceptable day of the Lord. Ten years ago I predicted that, given ten years of peace, we wouldn't ask no odds of Uncle Sam. Them ten years has passed and henceforth we'll be a free and independent St~te-the State of Deseret. " I don't ask no odds of Uncle Sam no nor of the devil, either. The beginning of the days of the worldwtde tnumph of the Kingdom is at hand. Joseph prophested that m r8go the face of Christ would agin be seen on earth. I say unto you, in twelve years I'll THE MORMON LION I99 be President of the United States or I'll name the successful candidate. Twenty years'll not pass away before the Elders of this Church' II be constdered as kings on their thrones.': . The multitude burst mto frenzted hosannahs and hallelujahs and am ens. He held out both hands to us and flung them upwards- . . . . " Rejoice I reJOICe, ye nghteous, and gtve thanks I You shall go forth into battle, clad m your Endowment robes, the armour of the Lord. to slay upon the right hand and upon the left, unttl you wade m the gore of apostates and Gentiles. ReJOice, ye strong men of Israeli Like lions among the flocks of sheep, you'll sweep clean across th~ United States, treading down, breaking in pieces, wtth none to dehver your enemies, leavmg the land desolate and wtthout inhabitants. Thus shall the Kmgdom, the ortly true Government, be 'stablished upon earth, and you shall return unto Zion singing hosannahs to God and the L bl" aHe signed to a group of musicians at the end of the platform. They struck up the mspmng tune of one of the most familiar of the Church hymns. . A moment later the entire assemblage was thundenng out the triumphant words : "Thrones shall totter, Babel fall, Satan reign no more at all ; Saints shall gam the vtctory, Truth prevail o'er land and sea, Gentile tyrants smk to hell. Now's the day for Israeli" Again the Prophet raised his hands, this time in benediction- . . " God bless you! God has blessed you! ReJOICe I dance before the Lord! Go to your games and your fun and your love-making with a zest that'U do credit to the glorious things which God has promtsed |