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Show u8 DOCTRINE OF THE ence to shape and figure. Man has legs and so has God, as it is evident from His appearance to Abraham. Man walks with his legs, so does God. God cannot only walk but He can move up and down through the air without using his legs. He can waft himself from world to world by His self- moving power," etc. On this same subject I might quote higher authority than Orson Pratt. During the visit of Mr. Colfax to Salt Lake City in 1865, he requested the President to preach a sermon on the doctrines of the church, and Mr. Colfax went the next day to the tabernacle to hear him. In this sermon, Mr. Bowles reports him as having said : " That God was a human natural person, with like flesh and blood and passions as ourselves, only perfect in all things ;. that He begot his Son Jesus in the same way children are begotten now ; that Jesus and the Father looked alike, only the Father looked older." Concerning the materiality of the third person in the Trini ty, the writer I first cited remarks : " The Holy Ghost is also a material substance. It exists in vast immeasurable quantities in all natural worlds. God the Father, and God the Son cannot be everywhere pres ent ; indeed they cannot be in two places at the same time ;, but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent. No one atom of the Holy Spirit can be in two places at the same instant. Each atom is intelligent, and like other matter has validity, etc. If several atoms of the Spirit should exist united together in the form of a person, then this person of the Holy Spirit would be subject to the same necessity as the other two persons in the Godhead ; that is, it could not be everywhere present," etc. They also teach that Adam is the God of this world, and I believe they make it out in some way that he was a polyg-amist. Referring to Adam, reminds me of an individual, a little more crazy than most Mormons, who imagined himself to be God of this world. He had had a wife who was not much sounder in mind. It seemed to be a monomania |