Verily I say unto you my friends, behold I will give unto you a revelation, and , that you may know how to act in the discharge of your duties concerning the salvation and redemption of your brethren who have been scattered from the land of , being driven and smitten by the hands of mine enemies; on whom I will pour out my wrath without measure in mine own time: For I have suffered them thus far; that they might fill up the measure of their iniquities, that their cup might be full: And that those who call themselves after my name might be chastened for a little season, with a sore and grievious chastisement, because they did not hearken altogther unto the precepts and commandments which [p. 1]