Hello Doves,
 
I've read this a number of times over the years. I have always been troubled by the term "azure standard." Our standard (flag) is red white and blue, the UN's standard is azure (blue). Do any of you have thoughts on this?
YSIC Loni
 
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2005/mjm117-12.htm
 
"Then once more I beheld the villages, towns and cities springing up where I had seen them before, while the bright angel, planting the azure standard he had brought in the midst of them, cried with a loud voice" `While the stars remain, and the heavens send down dew upon the earth, so long shall the Union last.' And taking from his brow the crown on which blazoned the word `UNION,' he placed it upon the Standard while the people, kneeling down, said, `Amen.'