or a living soul. It is a medium of communication between the souls of other beings; for as our bodies have intercourse together, so have souls and spirits: And God is a spirit; and it is said that, they who worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. We are not to build up Babels in our own will and wisdom; for none of this is the worship, that I want us all to come into. And we never can worship till we have experienced this manifestation-till it has cleansed our hearts and rectified our passions for God will not dwell in impure or unholy vessels. And what is it that produces these effects? I can remember when my soul was brought into a concern for its everlasting well being; I can remember when I mourned for a Saviour, almost in my infancy; and when my soul was cast down in deep humility within me, in solitary places, when young in years; and this was not because I had been educated in a formal observance of these things; for I never had been thus educated. It was from a concern originating in my own mind; and I feel no hesitation in believing, that every concern on your minds, has been impressed upon it by the finger of God. This is a baptism of the Holy Ghost; and it is a baptism essential unto salvation.

Now if we attend to these things as they pass in our own minds, they will bring us into a knowledge of ourselves. We shall come to

know that which is livingly written in every heart that is born of God; and here we get instruction. Now if we continue under the operation of these principles, we cannot commit an evil action, think an evil thought, or speak an evil word, without feeling sorrow, trouble, and confusion; and this trouble and confusion, arise from a kind of despair and of horror; nay, from every feeling in which there is torment, and thus bringing ourselves into a hell even on this side the grave, and while clothed with mortality. There will be no joy, no hope, no consolation while in time, for we have crucified unto ourselves the son of God, and put him to open shame; but must continue in a place of torment, and if we have denied these manifestations, we shall grow stronger in evil propensities, and hence our testimony will grow weaker and weaker. When fully come under this divine influence, the more fully shall we be united to the gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto salvationthis is Christ in you the hope of glory. There are many corroborative scripture testimonies, which go to prove, that there is a portion of this manifestation given to every man to profit with all-a manifestation sufficient unto salvation. Here the gospel is preached baptisingly in every creature. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptising them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy

Ghost. This is presented to you under the influence of this power, and thus we come into a knowledge of God, as many of you can bear testimony. And when you have been reading the scriptures, and when your minds have been brought into solemnity and quietude, you have had your understandings opened-perhaps passages of scriptures may have appeared to you in a more beautiful garb. Perhaps from other writings, and not from the scriptures only, have you been instructed, and impressions made upon your minds, furnishing evidence of the mercy, wisdom, power and other attributes of God. Now when this kind of instruction is sealed upon the mind, we never can be moved, we cannot be led into doubts and fears; for it does not lead into, but out of perplexities. builds on a foundation, against which, all the powers, of death, hell, and the grave, can never prevail. And it has an unequivocal effect to produce, in our minds, the state of which John testified "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord;" and when this is done, "every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough plain: And the glory of the Lord thall cover the whole earth, even as the waters cover the sea. Now, I cannot conceive that the roughness and undulating surface of this

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globe is understood to be brought under the influence of this operative principle; every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked and perverse dispositions shall be made straight, and the rough places smooth. And I apprehend, that according to our various dispositions will be these operations. The minds may be compared to the mountains, lofty, high, cruel, fierce, &c. If there are any of these mountains in the mind, which have not been brought low, this operation will have a tendency to bring them to a proper level; for all of these will have to come low, and be brought under this regulating power; as many, very many, have had to mourn over the inequality of their own temper and dispositions; because they have given way to the ebullitions of anger, cruelty, passion and lust; and where these have been predominating feelings in their minds, and if willing to submit, feelings of sorrow, distress, judgment, then come into that Godly sorrow, which worketh repentance not to be repented of. This is the ministration of condemnation, and it is glorious in its season, because it makes way unto the ministration of life.

When our minds become alienated from our darling lusts, then this divine principle reproves for evil, and speaks peace to the soul, and then we become partakers of the divine consolation,

and bear testimony to the joy of God's salvation. And this knowledge of God-this experimental knowledge, will grow with our growth, and increase with our strength, and we shall thus be brought first to be babes and children in Christ, and our ideas will be few, and confined to our immediate observation; but as we grow up through faith, we shall experience a growth of our ideas in experimental things, and as the opening buds of reason, and the powers of the child are more fully developed, we shall become as young men, strong, but wanting experience. Here it is that we are apt to be rash and headstrong-here it is that we are liable to give way to vain imaginations, which lead to open rebellion. We are apt to imagine, that now we have attained to a knowledge of God, we may take our rest. Many have gone thus far, and praised God on the banks of deliverance, but have set down with the knowledge obtained, and instead of going on from stature to stature, and to give unto babes meat in due season, we have set down content with what we have experienced, and have finally become proud, high minded and Pharisaical, instead of being leaders of others. They have been in a degree partakers of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, having been educated, nominally, in the school of Christ, and according to the forms of this or that religious society; and their habits have led them into a