Upon another occasion the same Scotch brother referred to above advocated Adam as the God to whom we must all look and venerate. This assertion did not strike the brethren as being the true doctrine, and caused quite a disruption among the groveling elect of God, and was, I am informed, the principal question to be decided upon by the great Gentile-eating politico-theologian, Smoot, and his two counselors, John and Cluff. I may add in this collection, that in defending the position he had taken, the Scotch brother produced a sermon of the late omnivorous prophet promulgating the same doctrine to be true, and this as the patent of the idea he had set forth. This printed witness evidently interfered somewhat with the predetermined decision of the Latter-day expounder of divinity, as was obvious when he disposed of the case by telling the old men he had no “authority to preach it” even if Brigham had declared Adam God.

Now, let me ask what would any sane man say to such reply after producing the identical words of him whom he revered, and believed previously to be a mouthpiece of God who, of course, was, or must have been, Adam, or the prophet would not have said so? If not such a rebuke enough to open the eyes, partially at least, of any man who is not afflicted with monomania, or have been fed for a long time upon one species of food? Any man who will suffer himself to be hushed by such divine ruling is certainly devoid of the faculties of reason, and it is such people who fall so easy prey to speculative vultures. They are honest in their belief, a good many of them, and are to be pitied