This translation appears very plausible from what Esdras <​and the Mormons​> says of the ten tribes being carried into a country where mankind had never dwelt, which occupied a year and a half for the Journey; and that they were gatherd in the last days: “the land spread out as wings” could mean “the north and south” for the 89 Psalm says he created them and although the bible throughout, holds language that the earth hath foundations, and is set on pillars, yet the “North,” according to the 26 of Job was “Stretched out over the empty place, and the earth hangs upon nothing” there, so that Esdras’s Esdras’s ten tribes may live on one of the wings and be a “part” “of the globe" as the this translation shows,— and see when the standard is set up” and return with gift to the gathering place, when the Lord says to the to the “North, give up.” This <​is​> mormon Philosophy, and, like all others, time must prove it.

With all the “reasons” and “truths” as thick as grasshoppers, as a Yankee would say the Mormons have not made me over, but I like there “open course” of “trying all things” and “proving all things” and “holding fast what is good.” [p. [3]]