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Show of the Mormon priesthood to be a living oracle, the only man with authority to speak for God to the church of Christ on earth, and of the Mormon priesthood to be the only priesthood on earth to speak the will of God as though angels were here to speak it themselves, are as sure to be swallowed up by the diffusion of light as the Adam-God doctrine and the attempt of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young to give religious sanction to plural marriage. Joseph Smith's claim that he was given authority to re-establish the Christian church is quite as weak as his claim that he was given authority to rehabilitate polygamy. His claim was quite as baseless when he began to multiply bibles as when he began to multiply gods and wives, and is as sure to go, but it will go as the Christian church magnifies its office by overcoming evil with good and the gospel of Joseph Smith with the Gospel of our Lord Christ. <br><br> |