Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-03 | Page 4 | Once in Ten Times

ONCE IN TEN TIMES. The recent death of a notable piouecr tiom.i.i in Suit Lake, led to the examination exam-ination of her property effects and to the discovery of wheat hoarded in tin can -ind vessels of all descriptions covered carefully with lime so that the material and the covering might preserve pre-serve the contents from mice and weevil wee-vil All this recalls one of the prophecies and superstitions of the decade from ISTii to lfcSO In this then Territory of Utah. From North to South went the proclaimed pro-claimed of the word that famine was to descend again upon the people and that they must hoard their wheat. There had been one bitter year of almost al-most famine due to grasshoppers, and this gave Impetus to the prophets to testify that the Leord wanted his chosen people to store up wheat so that when the rest of the world starved they might be preserved. There was no doubt about the poaitlvenesa and pertinacity perti-nacity of this prophetic teaching, and it went from town to town and from home to home throughout all t'tah In many localities wheat was stored and ruined, and some of the bre thren lost faith. But Ihe sisters, God bless their transcendent souls! They built granaries grana-ries and they stored wheat when the weak souls of the men gave out. No explanation has ever been given of the failure of this prediction for It has utterly tailed. Famine may come now- and universally, but not possibly In the way predicted, nor would the efforts ef-forts then urged be sufficient to avert such famine to any degree whatever. The whole thing was a vagary of the human mind; hut as it was supported by the solemn declaration "thus saHh the Uord" It had vogue for a considerable consider-able time What the brethren and BlaterB think of a false prophecs of that kind it is Impossible for a mere outsider to say, but they can probably reconcile it by the famous sintement of one of the first presidency of the church; "That It was a mighty good prophet who guessed it once In ten times