- Blessings & Songs of Zion — Warren Parrish (January 7, 1836)
- Only Peace in Zion in Near Future — Willard Richards (Between circa June 26 and August 4, 1839)
- Live to Build Zion — Times & Seasons (October 4, 1840)
- Expansion of Law from Zion Follows Obedience to Ordinances by the House of Israel — Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (March 21, 1841)
- Mountain of the Lord's House in the Center of North & South America — Wilford Woodruff (April 8, 1844)
- America is Zion — William Clayton (April 8, 1844)
- Building of Zion Our Greatest Object — Willard Richards (Between circa June 26 and August 4, 1839)
- After Temple Is Built and Ordinances Are Completed, Elders Should Build Churches until Zion Is Established — Wilford Woodruff (April 8, 1844)
Blessings & Songs of Zion — Warren Parrish (January 7, 1836)
. . . before we parted we had some of the Songs of Zion sung, and our hearts were made glad while partaking of an antipast of those Joys that will be poured upon the head of the Saints wen they are gathered together on Mount Zion to enjoy each others society forever more even all the blessings of heaven and earth where there will be none to molest nor make us afraid—
Journal, 1835-1836, pp. 101-102, The Joseph Smith Papers.
Only Peace in Zion in Near Future — Willard Richards (Between circa June 26 and August 4, 1839)
The time is soon coming when no man will have any peace but in Zion & her Stakes.
Discourse, between circa 26 June and circa 4 August 1839, as reported by Willard Richards, p. 70, The Joseph Smith Papers.
Live to Build Zion — Times & Seasons (October 4, 1840)
In conclusion we would say. Brethren and Sisters be faithful, be diligent, contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints—let every man, woman and child realize the importance of the work, and act as if its success depended on their individual exertion alone, let them feel an interest in it, and then consider they live in a day, the contemplation of which animated the bosom of Kings, Prophets and Righteous men, thousands of years ago the prospect of which inspired their sweetest notes and most exalted lays’ and caused them to break out in such rapturous strains as are recorded in the scriptures; and by and by, we shall have to exclaim in the language of Inspiration,
“The Lord has brought again Zion—
The Lord hath redeemed his people, Israel.”
Report of the First Presidency, 4 October 1840, p. 188, The Joseph Smith Papers.
Expansion of Law from Zion Follows Obedience to Ordinances by the House of Israel — Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (March 21, 1841)
The Lord will begin by revealing the House of Israel among the gentiles and those who have gone from the ordinances of God shall return unto the keeping of all the law and observing his judgments and statutes to do them Then shall the law of the Lord go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord to the priests and through them from Jerusalem
Discourse, circa 21 March 1841, as reported by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, p. 28, The Joseph Smith Papers.
Mountain of the Lord’s House in the Center of North & South America — Wilford Woodruff (April 8, 1844)
. . . I have now a great proclamation for the Elders to teach the Church hereafter which is in relation to Zion, The whole of North and South America is Zion, the mountain of the Lords House is in the Centre of North & South Americ[a]
Discourse, 8 April 1844, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff, p. 241, The Joseph Smith Papers.
America is Zion — William Clayton (April 8, 1844)
has ben great discussin in rel to Zion— prophets— make a proc that will cover a broader gd— the whole Americ is Zion itself— from North to South— that is the Zion where the Mountain of the Ld shd be
Discourse, 8 April 1844, as reported by William Clayton, p. 31, The Joseph Smith Papers.
Building of Zion Our Greatest Object — Willard Richards (Between circa June 26 and August 4, 1839)
We ought to have the building up of Zion as our greatest object.— when wars come we shall have to flee to Zion. The cry is to make haste.
Discourse, between circa 26 June and circa 4 August 1839, as reported by Willard Richards, p. 70, The Joseph Smith Papers.
After Temple Is Built and Ordinances Are Completed, Elders Should Build Churches until Zion Is Established — Wilford Woodruff (April 8, 1844)
. . . when the [Lord’s] House is done, Baptisim font erectd and finished & the worthy are washed, anointed, endowed & ordained kings & priests, which must be done in this life, when the place is prepared you must go through all the ordinances of the house of the Lord so that you who have any dead friends must go through all the ordinances for them the same as for yourselves; then the Elders are to go through all America & build up Churches untill all zion is built up, but not to commence to do this untill the Temple is built up here and the Elders endowed then go forth & accomplish the work & build up stakes in all North and South America . . .
Discourse, 8 April 1844, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff, p. 241, The Joseph Smith Papers.
