![]() Chicago was not way out on the “western frontier” but in the eastern part of our nation. We had ¼ of all the wealth of the earth, did 1/3 or all the banking, had ½ of all the railroads of the earth, and did ½ of all the printing in the earth. Even after World War I, we were producing 1/3 of all the coal, doing 1/3 of all the manufacturing of the earth, producing ½ of all the steel of the earth, 2/3 of the cotton, and 4/5 of the corn. Now let us get the comparison today in this land of the United States, with only 1/20 th of the landed area of the world and only 1/16 th of the population of the world. In that year, many of our people went hungry because we did not raise enough food to feed them in this land that was supposed to be a choice land above all other lands. We were so poor as a nation that the President and his cabinet had to borrow on their personal finances to pay the cost of government in the year 1830. We had only three miles of steam railway. Dearborn, way out in the Western frontier, with sixty five inhabitants, most of them military men who slept with their rifles within their reach for fear the savage Indians would scalp them in their sleep. Let us go back about 124 years and get a quick picture. I’ll use this as just one example, “a land choice above all other lands.” We find the evidence of this statement not only in I Nephi 13:30, but also over in the record of the people of Jared – in Ether, 1:42-43, and 2:8, 10, 12. There was not a vestige of evidence in 1830 that there would be a nation on this continent greater than any nation upon the face of the earth. A youngster on the street today would not think that was a fantastic or ridiculous statement, would he? He would say, “Why any one knows, even in the fifth grade, that that statement is true.” But in 1830 they were still calling the United States “that great and foolish American experiment.” Europe didn’t even give us the status of a nation. Imagine a book coming off the press in 1830 and making a fantastic statement that in the latter-days the greatest nation upon the face of the earth would be built upon this continent. We have to go along with the prosecution just a little bit though on this charge. We testify to the world that every statement still remaining in this book which has not yet come to pass in prophecy, and that it will come to pass just as surely as dozens upon dozens of prophecies have already come to pass since 1830. ![]() Our answer: Many statements that sounded ridiculous in 1830 have since been proven completely true. THE FIFTH CHARGE OF THE PROSECUTION WAS THAT IF THE BOOK WERE TRUE, IT WOULD NOT MAKE SO MANY RIDICULOUS STATEMENTS. ![]()
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