Wednesday, May 27, 1970

The following lines slipped out of my pen a few days ago:

And prophets there are that walk in our day:
Men of God,
Men of wisdom and vision,
Who raise heaven-inspired warning
For all who will follow.
For where there is no vision,
People perish
And nations flounder and men walk in darkness
At noon-day. 

A boy, a quest, a prayerful search, a sacred grove. One hundred and fifty years ago this spring the boy Joseph walked into a quiet grove and came out a different person and the world a better place for his having prayed. The Restoration was to be of such importance that God the Eternal Father and His Son Jesus Christ, the God of this earth, both personally appeared to begin its ushering in.