Our modern revelations, as recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants of the restored Church, (Section 58) declare that this is the land upon which the Zion of God shall stand. The faithful are to have this land as an inheritance for their children forever and forever. Here the poor and the lame and the blind and the deaf are “to partake of the supper of the Lord.” But in this land, these revelations tell us, the law of the Lord must be obeyed, and here, the record says, no man is to be in bondage to any other man, and it declares that the Constitution of our country was prepared under divine guidance. The Prophet Joseph when dedicating the Kirtland Temple prayed that the Lord would have mercy on all the nations of the earth, and he appealed especially for the Lord to have mercy upon this our own government, so that the principles of freedom and justice for all men guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States might be “established forever.”

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