In a sermon, John Taylor teaches that the Saints will one day be Saviors of the nations, both in a religious and political sense.
John Taylor, "Knowledge and Power—Progress of the Saints in Regard to Those Principles." April 13, 1862. Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: George Q. Cannon, 1862), 9:342
when the nations shall be convulsed, we may stand forth as saviours . . . and finally redeem a ruined world, not only in a religious but in a political point of view