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Show PREDICTED THE CIVIL WAR. Anjus N Cannon Tells of Visions He Has Seen. Angus M. Cannon claimed yesterday at the Tabornaclo that ho had received Inspiration In-spiration from God to predict the Civil war Just beforo It took pluce. Ho began by telling of his experience In Washington while ho was a witness In tho Smoot investigation. in-vestigation. "It was not long ago T was asked in Washington about the ceremonies in the Temple I told them those ceremonies were for the preservation of our posterity and for tho benefit of our progenitors. I could not exi?ct them to understand some thlogs. for all men aro not as susceptible lo certain influences as we are. You mibi have tho spirit of God to understand the things of God, Just as you must have the spirit of man to understand the things of rran "Of tho multitude that are gathered Into the Mormon chuich, how many survive sur-vive with a testimony? Tho reason they do not Is because they profess to believe be-lieve some things which they do not follow." fol-low." Mr. Cannon then went on to tell how. when be was a young missionary in the Eustcrn States, ho had an Impulse to testify tes-tify In a meeting that a great disaster was to come upon the nation. This was previous to tho Civil war. After he sat down the adversary. Satan, came to hlui and gave him a vision of millions of people peo-ple walking beforo him. und asking him hew anything of the sort could come upon so many people. He could not sec. and became convinced that ho had been lying, which made him so miserable that he desired de-sired to die. Later he had another vision, in which he saw the dead child of a widow, who came in the form of a messenger, mes-senger, saying; 'T died beforo ou had a. chance lr know mr, but I know you very well." The sequel to theso visions was that In the spring of 'CO Buehunan sent an army to persecute the Mormons fqr things their enemies said they were guilty of, but 6f which they wore Innocent. Inno-cent. About this lime John Brown was executed at IJarper's Ferry, and soon after af-ter came the Civil war, Just as Cannon had predicted when a young missionary. This was a testimony to him that Mormonism Mor-monism Is true. Arnold Shuttles was the other speaker. He related an experience of yesterday with a tourist, who remarked that all the Christians he had met seemed in doubt that tho churches In which they believed were the churches of Christ. Shuttles suld that ho knew that tho real church Is the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and any one who would pray for the truth of this could get it |