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Show 348 TRAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. countries than one ? You may say the keys of the Gospel were given to the Jewish apostles, but they were so far off as not to be able to reach the western hemisphere, even if they had had a knowledge of it. Were there ships and steam vessels to bear them to this country ? No. Was there any communication kept up, or was this country known to them ? No. But the waves, and winds, and elements, and the great depths that intervened, even the unexplored ocean, said to the ancient apostles, " Thus far shall ye go, and no further." This ocean, however, was no barrier to the fleet-footed angel of God, to the risen Jesus, and to immortal man. They could come to this hemisphere, and reveal the things of heaven to the people, and could rejoice in the same,. glad tidings, whether it was here or in Jerusalem, or if it were in the uttermost parts of the earth. Though Peter was crucified at Rome, and Paul suffered in the same manner; though saints of the Most High were slaughtered by thousands and tens of thousands, and bled at the feet of Roman altars ; yet a crucified and risen Redeemer, angels of God, and the Holy Spirit of truth that fills all things, were not thus curtailed and limited, but could minister truth to the uttermost bounds of the universe of God, where intelligences were mourning in darkness ; wherever the ravages of death had spread sorrow, wherever there was a broken heart to be bound up, or wherever there was a despairing mortal to be inspired with hope, they could go and tell the glad tidings of life and salvation. The Book of Mormon says they did come to this continent. It is a history of their coming, and contains the doctrine taught to the people here by the risen Jesus, and by his predecessors. In short, the doctrine taught and prac- |