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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