Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842

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Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842
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“Mr. Fare Play,” Poem, to JS, [
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Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....
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, Hancock Co., IL], ca. late 1842; unidentified handwriting; twenty pages; JS Collection, CHL.

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Book III

1 The hands of prophets true should be <-[upheld>

But this to do the saints are not compeld

But if their hands are up the saints prevail

And they to gain The point will never fail

No armies can withstand when saints obey

For God will help and powr sometimes <display>

Let saint in God alone put all their trust

God is Omnipotent benign and ever Just

2 But if the prophets hands be let to <fall>

The saints for help in vain on God may call

O friends let us our prophets hands uphold

That God may unto us his truth unfold

That we in knowledge true may daily grow

And live and serve the Lord while here below

Or shall we turn and back to Egypt own

And tell the Lord a scattering has begun

3 O friends awak awake attention give

Let us in friendship true hereafter live

And God I’m sure our souls would daily <bless>

And by us dwell in house of deep distress

But tatlings low O friends we must despise [p. [13]]
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Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842
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