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Show 334 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. Christ. Cornelius had the ministering of angels before he became a member of the Christian Church, or understood there was a crucified and risen Redeemer. He prayed to the living God, and gave alms of such things as he had. He was a good man, and an angel came to him and told him his prayers were heard, and his alms had come up as a memorial before God. It is astonishing then, to me, that the modern Christian world consider this a new doctrine, an innovation- a trespass on Christianity. No! it is as old as the world, and as common among the true people of God, as His every day dealings with man. We will leave that point, and say, it is the Christian world, and not the latter-day saints, that have a new doctrine, provided they discard that principle. What'next? Why, that man, by vision, the ministering of angels, and by revelation, should be called with a high and holy calling-commissioned with a holy mission to preach, and teach, and warn, and prophesy, and call men to repentance. That was one of the first principles introductory to what is now called " Mormonism" in this age. Is there anything new about that, anything strange, anything that differs from the patriarchal ages, from the Jewish economy, the Mosaic dispensation, or from the dispensation called Christian? Similar things happened before Moses, in his day, and after his day; and among the prophets, and in different ages. Were not such things common in the days of Jesus Christ, and after that in the days of the apostles ? Was not John the Baptist thus commissioned? Was not Jesus thus commissioned. -And were not His apostles, elders, and seventies? After his resurrection and ascension into |
