Prayer by Elder B. Young; after which <​the​> choir sung a hymn.

President Joseph Smith said.

It is just as impossible for me to continue the subject of yesterday as to raise the dead; my lungs are worn out; there is a time to all things, and I must wait. I will give it up and leave the time to those who can make you hear, and will continue the subject of my discourse some other time. I want to make a proclamation to the Elders; I wanted you to stay, in order that I might make this proclamation. You know very well that the Lord has led this Church by revelation. I have another revelation in relation to economy in the church— a great, grand, and glorious revelation. I shall not be able to dwell as largely upon it now, as at some other time; but I will give you the first principles. You know there has been great discussion in relation to Zion; where it is, and when the gathering of the dispensation is, and which I am now going to tell you. The Prophets have spoken and written upon it, but I will make a proclamation that will cover a broader ground. The whole of America is Zion itself, from North to South; and is described by the Prophets who declare that it is the Zion where the mountain of the Lord should be, and that it should be in the centre of the land; when Elders will take up and examine the old prophecies in the bible they will see it The declaration this morning is, that as soon as the Temple and baptismal font are prepared, we calculate to give the Elders of Israel their washings and anointings, and attend to those last and more impressive ordinances; without which we cannot obtain celestial thrones; but there must be a holy place prepared for that purpose.