ts of the Latter-day
Saints, and that it has brought to some aching hearts a little ray of
hope and consolation.

Nephi Anderson.

Liverpool, November 5, 1904.

PREFACE TO THE FIFTH AND ENLARGED EDITION.

This story of things past, things present, and things to come has been
before the Latter-day Saints for fourteen years. During this time, it
seems to have won for itself a place in their hearts and in their
literature. A reviewer of the book when it was first published said that
"so great and grand a subject merits a more elaborate treatment." Many
since then have said the story should be "added upon," and the present
enlarged edition is an attempt to meet in a small way these demands. The
truths restored to the earth through "Mormonism" are capable of
illimitable enlargement; and when we contemplate these glorious
teachings, we are led to exclaim with the poet:

"Wide, and more wide, the kindling bosom swells,
As love inspires, and truth its wonders tells,
The soul enraptured tunes the sacred lyre,
And bids a worm of earth to heaven aspire,
'Mid solar systems numberless, to soar,
The death of love and science to explore."

N.A.

Salt Lake City, Utah,
May, 1912.

PART FIRST.

"The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of
old.

"I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth
was.

"When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no
fountains abounding with water.

"Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought
forth:

"While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest
part of the dust of the world.

"When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon
the face of the depth:

"When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the
fountains of the deep:

"When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his
commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

"Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his
delight, rejoicing always before him."--_Prov. 8:22-30._

ADDED UPON

"Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?...
When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons
of God shouted for joy?"--_Job 38:4,7._

The hosts of heaven--sons and daughters of God--were assembled. The many
voices mingling, rose and f