792 THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION [kth.ank.i* 



APPENDIX 

 THE MORMONS AND THE INDIANS 



While, the Indian excitement was at its height in 1892, a curious 

 pamphlet was published anonymously at Salt Lake City in connection 

 with a proposed series of lectures, from which we make some extracts 

 for the light tliey give on the Mormon attitude toward the Indians. 

 The pamphlet is headed, " The Mormons have stepped down and out 

 of Celestial Government — the American Indians have stepped up and 

 into Celestial Government." It begins by stating that the Messiah 

 came to His people at the time appointed of the Father — March, 

 1890 — notwithstanding the assertion in the Deseret Evening Xews, 

 made January, 1892: '1890 has passed, and no Messiah has come.'" 

 It goes on to say : 



"1891 has passed, and no pruning of the vineyard."' The vineyard of the Lord 

 is the house of Israel. — Isa. 5:7. In the part of the vineyard the American Indians, 

 descendants of the righteous branch of Joseph, who were led to the Western Conti- 

 nent or hemisphere — Zion — we find the vine, the stone-power of the Latter Days. 

 Ps. 80. 



The celestial prophet, seer, and revelator, Joseph Smith, jr., prophesied on the 2d 

 of April, 1843, that the Messiah would reveal himself to man in mortality in 1890. 

 Doctrine and Covenants, 130, 15, 17, which reads: "I was once praying very ear- 

 nestly to know 7 the time of the coming of the Son of Man. when I heard a voice speak 

 the following: 'Joseph, my son, if thou livest until thou art eighty-five years old, 

 thou shalt see the face of the Sou of Man.' " 



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Five years later ( than 1882) the sign that was to usher in the work of the Father 

 was given to the American Indians, while March, 1890, witnesses the organization of 

 a church under the restored order, where twelve disciples were chosen and ordained, 

 whose first allegiance is given irrevocably to the Lord God, whereas that of the 

 Celestial Church is given to the government fostering it. 



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The following seven signs were to precede the fullness of the Gentiles upon the 

 laud of America; Zion, the time, place, and parties given with each. [The first, 

 second, and third "signs'' are omitted here.] 



4. When the Bible and Book of Mormon become one in the hands of the Messiah. 

 Ezk. 37 : 19 ; III Nephi, 21 : 1-7. In 1887, sixty years alter the plates were delivered 

 to Joseph Smith, jr., the Book of Mormon in Spanish was delivered to the American 

 Indians, with the promise to those who are identified with the Gentiles that if they 

 will not harden their hearts, but will repent and know the true points of my doctrine 

 they shall be numbered with my covenant people, the Branch of Joseph. Doctrine 

 and Covenant, 19:511-62; 20:8-17; III Nephi, 21 : 1-7. 



5. The coming of the Messiah. Three years later, March, 1890, the people of God, 

 who were notified by the three Nephites, met at Walkers lake, Esmeralda county, 

 Nevada, when- a dispensation of the Celestial kingdom of God — tin- gospel in the 

 covenant of consecration, a perfect oneness in all things, temporal and spiritual — 

 was given unto them. Twelve disciples were ordained, not by angels or men, but 

 by the Messiah, in t lie presence of hundreds, representing scores of t ribes or nations, 

 who saw liis face, heard and understood his voice as on the day of pentecost. Acts 

 2. also fulfilling see. 90:9, 10, 11 of Doctrine and Covenant. Ezk. 20:33-37. 



