midday
Thus had confusion been brought to the last quibbler in Zion . It was this earlier teaching that the faithful of Amalon clung to , perhaps not a little by reason that immediately over them was a spiritual guide who had been trained from infancy to know that salvation lay in belief , -- never in doubt . For a sign of the end they believed that on the night before the day of it there would be no darkness . This would be as it had been before the birth of the Saviour , as told in the Book of Mormon : `` At the going down of the sun there was no darkness , and the people began to be astonished because there was no darkness when the night came ; and there was no darkness in all that night , but it was as light as if it were midday . '' They talked of little but this matter in that small pocket of the intermountain commonwealth , in Sabbath meetings and around the hearths at night . The Wild Ram of the Mountains thought all proselyting should cease in view of the approaching end ; that the Elders on mission should withdraw from the vineyard , shake the dust from their feet , and seal up the rebellious Gentiles to damnation . To this Elder Beil Wardle had replied , somewhat testily : `` Well , now , since these valleys of Ephraim have got a little fattened a whole lot of us have got the sweeny , and our skins are growing too tight on our flesh . ''