Good Wishes From Latter-Day Friends

In 1841 Orson Hyde, a Christian apostle traveling in the Middle East, knelt in humble prayer on the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem. At a time when only 10,000 Jews lived in Palestine, the church leader dedicated the land \"for the gathering together of Judah\'s scattered remnants, for the building up of Jerusalem again ... let the land become abundantly fruitful when possessed by its rightful heirs ... raise up Jerusalem as its capital, and constitute her people a distinct nation and government.\"