Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you, my servant Joseph Smith, I am well pleased with your ^aoffering and acknowledgments, which you have made; for unto this end have I raised you up, that I might show forth my ^bwisdom through the ^cweak things of the earth.

 2 Your prayers are acceptable before me; and in answer to them I say unto you, that you are now called immediately to make a solemn ^aproclamation of my gospel, and of this ^bstake which I have planted to be a ^ccornerstone of Zion, which shall be polished with the refinement which is after the similitude of a palace.

 3 This proclamation shall be made to all the ^akings of the world, to the four corners thereof, to the honorable president-elect, and the high-minded governors of the nation in which you live, and to all the nations of the earth scattered abroad.

 4 Let it be ^awritten in the spirit of meekness and by the power of the Holy Ghost, which shall be in you at the time of the writing of the same;

 5 For it shall be ^agiven you by the Holy Ghost to know my ^bwill concerning those ^ckings and authorities, even what shall befall them in a time to come.

 6 For, behold, I am about to call upon them to give heed to the light and glory of Zion, for the set time has come to favor her.

 7 Call ye, therefore, upon them with loud proclamation, and with your testimony, fearing them not, for they are as ^agrass, and all their glory as the flower thereof which soon falleth, that they may be left also without excuse—

 8 And that I may ^avisit them in the day of visitation, when I shall ^bunveil the face of my covering, to appoint the portion of the ^coppressor among hypocrites, where there is ^dgnashing of teeth, if they reject my servants and my testimony which I have revealed unto them.

 9 And again, I will visit and soften their hearts, many of them for your good, that ye may find grace in their eyes, that they may come to the ^alight of truth, and the Gentiles to the exaltation or lifting up of Zion.

 10 For the day of my visitation cometh speedily, in an ^ahour when ye think not of; and where shall be the safety of my people, and refuge for those who shall be left of them?

 11 Awake, O kings of the earth! Come ye, O, come ye, with your ^agold and your silver, to the help of my people, to the house of the daughters of Zion.

 12 And again, verily I say unto you, let my servant Robert B. Thompson help you to write this proclamation, for I am well pleased with him, and that he should be with you;

 13 Let him, therefore, hearken to your counsel, and I will bless him with a multiplicity of blessings; let him be faithful and true in all things from henceforth, and he shall be great in mine eyes;

 14 But let him remember that his ^astewardship will I require at his hands.

 15 And again, verily I say unto you, blessed is my servant Hyrum Smith; for I, the Lord, love him because of the ^aintegrity of his heart, and because he loveth that which is right before me, saith the Lord.

 16 Again, let my servant John C. Bennett help you in your labor in sending my word to the kings and people of the earth, and stand by you, even you my servant Joseph Smith, in the hour of affliction; and his reward shall not fail if he receive ^acounsel.

 17 And for his love he shall be great, for he shall be mine if he do this, saith the Lord. I have seen the work which he hath done, which I accept if he continue, and will crown him with blessings and great glory.

 18 And again, I say unto you that it is my will that my servant Lyman Wight should continue in preaching for Zion, in the spirit of meekness, confessing me before the world; and I will bear him up as on ^aeagles' wings; and he shall beget glory and honor to himself and unto my name.

 19 That when he shall finish his work I may ^areceive him unto myself, even as I did my servant David Patten, who is with me at this time, and also my servant ^bEdward Partridge, and also my aged servant Joseph Smith, Sen., who sitteth ^cwith Abraham at his right hand, and blessed and holy is he, for he is mine.

 20 And again, verily I say unto you, my servant George Miller is without ^aguile; he may be trusted because of the ^bintegrity of his heart; and for the love which he has to my testimony I, the Lord, love him.

 21 I therefore say unto you, I seal upon his head the office of a bishopric, like unto my ^aservant Edward Partridge, that he may receive the consecrations of mine house, that he may administer blessings upon the heads of the poor of my people, saith the Lord. Let no man despise my servant George, for he shall honor me.