THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST COLLECTIONS OF QUOTES I COULD FIND ON OUR BELOVED CONSTITUTION;
The Constitution Hanging by a Thread
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ENSIGN, J SMITH JUN:1976
Even this nation will be on the verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground and when the Constitution is on the brink of ruin this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.
Joseph Smith Papers, LDS Church Historical Archives, Box 1, March 10, 1844 Also: D. Michael Stewart, "I Have a Question," Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
ENSIGN, J SMITH JUN:1976
Parley P. Pratt wrote in 1841 that the prophet said, "The government is fallen and needs redeeming. It is guilty of Blood and cannot stand as it now is but will come so near desolation as to hang as it were by a single hair!!!!! Then the servants goes [sic] to the nations of the earth, and gathers the strength of the Lord�s house! A mighty army!!!!!! And this is the redemption of Zion when the saints shall have redeemed that government and reinstated it in all its purity and glory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
George A. Smith Papers, Church Archives, Box 7, Folder 5, January 21, 1841. Also: D. Michael Stewart, "I Have a Question," Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
ENSIGN, J SMITH JUN:1976
The time would come when the constitution and government would hang by a brittle thread and would be ready to fall into other hands but this people the latter-day saints will step forth and save it."
James Burgess Journal, 1818-1904, Church Archives, vol. 1-found among loose sermons. Also: D. Michael Stewart, "I Have a Question," Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
JD, O HYDE 6:150
The time would come that the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow and said he, if the constitution be saved at all, it will be by the Elders of this Church. I believe this is about the language as nearly as I can recollect it.
Also: D. Michael Stewart, "I Have a Question," Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
ENSIGN, E SNOW JUN:1976
Eliza R. Snow said, "I heard the prophet say, �The time will come when the government of these United States will be so nearly overthrown through its corruption, that the Constitution will hang as it were by a single hair, and the Latter-day Saints-the Elders of Israel-will step forward to its rescue and save it."
In a Pioneer Day celebration in Ogden in 1871 - Journal History, MSF 143 #28, July 24, 1871 Also: D. Michael Stewart, "I Have a Question," Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
ENSIGN, J M GRANT JUN:1976
Jedediah M. Grant, during the dark days of threatened invasion of Utah by a federal army, referred to the Prophet�s utterance as he addressed a Mormon Battalion gathering in Salt Lake City, February 6, 1855. "What did the Prophet Joseph say? When the Constitution shall be tottering we shall be the people to save it from the hand of the foe."
Deseret News Weekly, January 19, 1870 Also: D. Michael Stewart, "I Have a Question," Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
JD, B YOUNG 12:204
Brigham Young, reflecting on the prophecy of 1868, expressed: "It would not be many years before these words come to pass."
Also: D. Michael Stewart, "I Have a Question," Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
JD, J TAYLOR 25:350
"It may be nearer...than some of us think."
Also: D. Michael Stewart, "I Have a Question," Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
CR, J R CLARK OCT:1942
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., warned in 1942: "Whether it [the Constitution] shall live or die is now in the balance."
Also: D. Michael Stewart, "I Have a Question," Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
CR, C W NIBLEY OCT:1923
Brethren and sisters, let me say in closing that we have it of record, that the prophet Joseph Smith said the time would come when, through secret organizations taking the law into their own hands, not being governed by law or by due process of law, but becoming a law unto themselves, when, by those disintegrating activities, the Constitution of the United States would be so torn and rent asunder, and life and property and peace and security would he held of so little value, that the Constitution would, as it were, hang by a thread. But he never said, so far as I have heard, that that thread would be cut. I believe, with Elder Richards, that this Constitution will be preserved, but it will be preserved very largely in consequence of what the Lord has revealed and what this people, through listening to the Lord and being obedient, will help to bring about, to stabilize and give permanency and effect to the Constitution itself. That also is our mission. That also is what we are here for. I glory in it. I praiseGod with all my heart and soul that I am a member of it.
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