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—