[, (Viator, pseud.)], Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to the Editor of Boston Daily Bee, , Suffolk Co., MA, 18 Aug. 1843. Version published in Times and Seasons, 1 Sept. 1843, vol. 4, no. 20, 306–307. For more complete source information, see the source note for Letter to Isaac Galland, 22 Mar. 1839.
out as wings,” could mean “the north and the south” for the 89th 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 Job was “stretched out over the empty place,” and the earth hangs upon nothing there, so that Esdras’ ten tribes may live on one of the wings and be a “part of the globe,” as this translation shows—and see when the “standard is set up,” and return with the gift to the gathering place—when the Lord says 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 grass-hoppers,’ as a yankee would say, the Mormons have not made me over, but I like their ‘open course’ of ‘trying all things,’ and ‘proving all things,’ and ‘holding fast what is good.’