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8 AROUND THE WORLD.
saw visions, and prophesied.
Devils were cast out, and the sick healed
by the laying-on of hands. . . .
" "We believe in the same organization that existed in the primitive
Church, viz., apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, ... in
the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation
of tongues, &c."
/ All denominational religions originated in spiritual manifestations.
Guatama Buddha, Jesus, Mahomet, Swedenborg,
and Joseph Smith, all had visions, and saw angels. In the
\ beginning of Mormonism, polygamy was undreamed of.
\ ^^fir^^ggfifte^ attach themselves to the thrifty trunk, rather
\than the tender sapling.
THE MORMON TABERNACLE.
A nondescript, — spheroidal-shaped and arched. It holds
some ten thousand people. The organ is said to be equal to
any in the United States. The music, the Sunday we attended,
was heavy, but not soul-inspiring. While Elder
Andrews was preaching, the deacons distributed the " Lord's
Supper,"— bread and water. This latter is cheaper and better
than any intoxicating symbol. The officiating clergyman
dwelt largely upon the persecutions of the saints. They
had been " pushed westward like the Indian ; " their prophet
Joseph, and his brother Hiram, were " murdered in 1844 in
Carthage Gaol ; " their president had been " arrested as a
criminal; " and more afflictions at the hands of the
Gentiles
awaited them. It was a transitional period with their
church. The sermon was pathetic, practical, and not devoid
of aU merit. There were about five thousand present. Polygamy,
of its own unnaturalness, is declining. The system,
considered by itself, has not a redeeming trait. There is less
seahng of wives each year. And yet the churchal doctrine
taught is, that the more wives, the greater glory to the man ;
the more children, the greater glory to the woman. This appears
plausible when the Mormon doctrines are elaborately
elucidated.