Book 2

The Gathering

May – July 1856

[The] subject of the gathering . . . is a principle I esteem to be of the greatest importance to those who are looking for salvation in this generation, or in these, that may be called, “the latter times.” All that the prophets . . . have written . . . in speaking of the salvation of Israel in the last days, goes directly to show that it consists in the work of the gathering.

Joseph Smith, letter to the elders of the Church, September 1835