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Show MOEMONISM. 331 days, but the patriarchs, prophets, and apostles applied it prophetically, speaking of the people of God in the latter days, when the kingdom should be given to the people of God, and the principles of God should bear rule over all the earth. Daniel and the other prophets, in speaking of this subject, always call them the saints of the Most High. They do not call them " Mormon-ites," Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Jews, Pagans, or Mohammedans, nor yet Catholics; but the language of the apostles and prophets is, that the SAINTS of the Most High shall prevail-prevail over the world, establish a true order of government, and, in short, rule the lower world ; and that all the nations shall bow to him who is at their head, and to the principles held by them. Why not this be continued and sustained, Oh ye people of Christendom, and, letting these party names go by the board, and be classed among the things that were in the darker ages, come to the proper and correct Scripture language, and when we speak of the people of God, call them SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH ? Well, then, such is the name that the Church which I represent, do their business in. As such, they are known on their own records, and on the records of heaven, inasmuch as they are recognized there. But we know what the world mean when they say " Mormonism," and " Mormon." What are the principles called "Mormonism ?" You may ask those who profess to be instructors of the people abroad in the States, and elsewhere- and very few of them will give you one correct idea in regard to the doctrines of the latter-day saints. Indeed, they have not informed themselves, but remain in ignorance on the subject; and when they would |