By USN Columnist Morgan Philpot / Jul 18, 2020

In the August 1832 edition of the Evening and Morning Star was an article titled “The Cholera.” It read in part:

“This desolating sickness is spreading over the United States. The account of its ravages, in many places, we cannot give: The whole number of cases in New York, to July 31, is—3731. Deaths—1520.”

“No man can stop the work of the Lord, for God rules the pestilence, and the pestilence rules man. …and who shall escape his pointed arrow? …none but him that trusts in God, shall be able to stand when a thousand shall fall at his side, and ten thousand at his right hand, by the noisome pestilence.”

In 1833, during the march of Zions Camp, Joseph Smith recorded that, “At the commencement, I attempted to lay on hands for their recovery, but I quickly learned by painful experience, that when the great Jehovah decrees destruction upon any people, and makes known his determination, man must not attempt to stay his hand. The moment I attempted to rebuke the disease I was attacked, and had I not desisted in my attempt to save the life of a brother, I would have sacrificed my own. The disease seized upon me like the talons of a hawk, and I said to the brethren: ‘If my work were done, you would have to put me in the ground without a coffin’.”

Now, take the time to read or listen to Elder Bednar’s talk about Zion’s Camp from from July 2010.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/…/on-the-lords-side…

In the Book of Mormon, Helaman 7-16, the Nephites are afflicted with “all manner of pestilence.” Why?

Because the people had given their government over to corrupt and unprincipled politicians who were then, “filling the judgment-seats—having usurped the power and authority of the land; laying aside the commandments of God, and not in the least aright before him; doing no justice unto the children of men;

Condemning the righteous because of their righteousness; letting the guilty and the wicked go unpunished because of their money; and moreover to be held in office at the head of government, to rule and do according to their wills, that they might get gain and glory of the world, and, moreover, that they might the more easily commit adultery, and steal, and kill, and do according to their own wills—“ Helaman 7:4-5.

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