This and much more he said to induce the people to
obey the will of the Priesthood. I believed all he said,
for he supported it by quotations from Scripture, and
if I believed the Bible, as I did most implicitly, I could
not help believing in Joseph, the prophet of God in
these last days. Joseph declared that he was called of
God and given power and authority from heaven to do
God's will; that he had received the keys of the holy
Priesthood from the apostles Peter, James, and John,
and had been dedicated, set apart, and anointed as
the prophet, seer, and revelator, and sent to open the
dispensation of the fullness of time, according to the
words of the apostles; that he was charged with the
restoration of the House of Israel, and to gather the
Saints from the four corners of the earth to the land
of promise, Zion, the Holy Land (Jackson County),
and to the setting up of the Kingdom of God prepara-
tory to the second coming of Christ in the last days.
76 THE MORMON WAR

Every Mormon, true to his faith, beheved as fully in
Joseph and his holy character as he did that God
existed.
