No more missionaries sent out. They are called home.
Do
you think there is calamity abroad now among the people? Not much. All
we have yet heard and experienced is scarcely a preface to the sermon
that is going to be preached. When the testimony of the Elders ceases to
be given, and the Lord says to them, "Come home; I will now preach my
own sermons to the nations of the earth," all you now know can scarcely
be called a preface to the sermon that will be preached with fire and
sword, tempests, earthquakes, hail, rain, thunders and lightnings, and
fearful destruction. "What matters the destruction of a few railway
cars? You will hear of magnificent cities, now idolized by the people,
sinking in the earth, entombing the inhabitants. The sea will heave
itself beyond its bounds, engulfing mighty cities. Famine will spread
over the nations, and nation will rise up against nation, kingdom
against kingdom, and states against states, in our own country and in
foreign lands.
JD, O PRATT 18:64
When God has called out the righteous, when the warning voice has been
sufficiently proclaimed among the Gentile nations, and the Lord says,
'It is enough,' he will also say to his servants -- 'O, ye, my servants,
come home, come out from the midst of these Gentile nations, where you
have labored and borate testimony for so long a period; come out from
among them, for they are not worthy; they do not receive the message
that I have sent forth, they do not repent of their sins, come out from
their midst, their times are fulfilled. Seal up the testimony among them
and bind up the law.
CR, MJ BALLARD OCT, 1923
I stand here without any fear and say without any danger of anybody
successfully being able to prove the contrary, that if the warning voice
of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the elders of this Church had been
heeded by the nations of the earth, we would not have seen the dreadful
calamity of war through which we have passed, that these problems could
have been solved and averted.
The means was provided, and the means was rejected, and then when our
Father has done this, though he be God, is yet limited to law, by
obedience to which he became God, and he must honor the same, he cannot
step beyond those limitations and set aside the law. The law must take
its course, and when men refuse the offer and tender the Lord has given
by which they may be saved, they cannot blame the Lord if calamities,
judgments and destructions come upon them. The Lord cannot avert it, it
must take its course, and yet our Father in his kindness and mercy has
offered the way and the means of escape.
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