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Show M0EM0NISM. 341 of the truth which they have received, and confirms them in the faith'of it, and fills them with the spirit of utterance and prayer, and with gifts whereby they prophesy, or speak in tongues, lay hands on the sick and they recover, in the name of Jesus, or whereby they are filled with the spirit of any gift, renewed in their utterance, strengthened in their powers of intellect, so as to be able to speak with eloquence to the edification of others by the word of wisdom, knowledge and prophecy; or perad-venture some one, two, or three of them have a heavenly vision, and happen to relate it-is this something new ? Are these things an innovation on Christianity ? Let the apostles of the ancient church come up now, and be judges, not these innovators. Oh yes, saints of ancient days, are these things new to you ? " No," they reply, " but just exactly what we used to have among us; and you who have read the New Testament know it is so. " If this, then, is Mormonism, it is nothing new, but simply that which should have been in the world in order to constitute true Christianity. Now suppose, after all these have been established, the people organize on them; and that in the enjoyment and cultivation of them, this people unite their efforts, both temporally and spiritually, to build up themselves as a people, and each other as individuals, in righteousness upon the earth; and the Spirit of the Lord God into which they were all baptized, should make them very great in union-in union of effect, in counsel, in operation, in fellowship, in temporal things in a great measure, and in spiritual things, by which they are all of one heart and mind to a great degree, and growing in it every day-is this something new, because it is " Mormonism ?" Or is this the very doctrine which |