Discourse, between circa 26 June and circa 4 August 1839–A, as Reported by William Clayton
Source Note
JS, Discourse, [, Lee Co., Iowa Territory, or , Hancock Co., IL], [between ca. 26 June and ca. 4 Aug. 1839]. Version from report copied [1880] in L. John Nuttall, Notebook, pp. 11–25; handwriting of L. John Nuttall; L. John Nuttall, Papers, BYU.
will be taken in a snare. The time is soon coming when no man will have any peace but in and her . I saw men hunting the lives of their own sons and brother murdering brother, women killing their daughters and daughters seeking the lives of their mothers. I saw armies arrayed against armies. I saw blood, desolation and fires &c. The Son of Man has said that the mother shall be arrayed against the daughter and the daughter against the mother &c, &c; these things are at our doors, they will follow the Saints of God from city to city. will rage; the spirit of the Devil is now enraged &c. I know not how soon these things will take place, and with a view of them shall I cry [p. 22]