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Show M0EM0NISM. 349 tised in ancient America is there portrayed, together with the history of the people. Again, is this book of no interest with regard to the prophetic value ? It reveals many things not noticed by the Jewish prophets. Did the old prophets touch upon every item that pertains to man in other countries? No, they did not, only in general terms together with the rest of the world. These other prophets portrayed many things not in their book, though agreeing with it as far as it goes, but touching events on which their book is silent. Has any person any cause to say that there has not been a multiplicity of revelations, testimony, prophecy, history and doctrine, developed in various countries by the same Spirit of God, and by angels? And is not all this of great worth, to compare, in order to blend it together, that we may see more clearly the principles of the doctrines of salvation, and understand prophecy more extensively, especially in an age when the mind has been obscured by priestcraft. If these are the principles of " Mormonism," where can you point out an innovation on Christianity ? But is this all ? No, this is not all, and I shall not tell it all today. I do not know it all yet. I have been twenty-three years learning "Mormonism," and I know but little of it. If any one expects to learn all the doctrines of " Mormonism," he must learn more than twenty-three years. For be it known unto you all, that " Mormonism," instead of being confined to a few dogmas or general truths, opens the flood-gates of all truth and knowledge, and teaches mankind to retain all the truth they cao already comprehend,-and comprehend as much more as they can all the time. |
