Apostle Parley P. Pratt recalled one instance ( among many ) of the Prophet 's great intolerance for oppression , injustice , and the amorality of ' mobocracy ' , in Pratt 's sharing upon a time a jail cell with Joseph as they were , once again , unjustly detained . He recorded that they , and the other brethren imprisoned with them , had : '' ... listened for hours to the obscene jests , the horrid oaths , the dreadful blasphemies and filthy language of our guards ... as they recounted to each other their deeds of rape , murder , robbery , etc. , which they had committed '' '' against our people '' '' while at Far West , '' '' Missouri '' '' and its vicinity . They even boasted of defiling by force , wives , daughters , and virgins , and of shooting or dashing out the brains of men , women , and children . I had listened till I became so disgusted , shocked , horrified , and so filled with the spirit of indignant justice that I could scarcely refrain from rising upon my feet and rebuking the guards ; but had said nothing to Joseph , or anyone else , although I lay next to him and knew he was awake . On a sudden he arose to his feet , and spoke in a voice of thunder , or as the roaring lion , uttering as near as I can recollect , the following words : ' SILENCE , ye fiends of the infernal pit ! In the name of Jesus Christ I rebuke you , and command you to be still . I will not live another minute and hear such language . Cease such talk , or you or I die THIS INSTANT . ' He ceased to speak . He stood erect in terrible majesty . Chained , and without a weapon ; calm , unruffled and dignified as an angel , he looked upon the quailing guards , whose weapons were lowered or dropped to the ground , whose knees smote together , and who shrinking into a corner , or crouching at his feet , begged his pardon and remained quiet till a change of guards . I have seen the ministers of justice , clothed in magisterial robes , and criminals arraigned before them , while life was suspended on a breath , in the courts of England ; I have witnessed a Congress in solemn session to give laws to nations ; I have tried to conceive of kings , of royal courts , of thrones and crowns and of emperors assembled to decide the fate of kingdoms , but dignity and majesty have I seen but once , as it stood in chains , at midnight , in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri " ... '' '' And in '' '' those '' '' days ... shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom , which shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom shall not be left to other people , but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms , and it shall stand for ever ... '' ( Dan 2:44 ) Finally , at the conclusion of five years of consecrated toil and most remarkable sacrifice to build a fully ordinal Temple to their God , in divinely revealed similitude to Jerusalem 's first Solomonic temple , the Saints were able to at last participate fully in sacred ritual worship , performing saving ordinances for themselves and for their deceased loved ones — even as their determined enemies began , once again , to subject them to the most bitter hostilities — relentlessly seeking thenceforth to abuse , pillage , and oppress them
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