necessarily a few hundred years after the apostles, did slay and torture the saints of God. Truly, the legs of the lame are not equal.
This revelation answered Joseph's purpose in another respect. It made Joseph dictator over the entire Mormon fraternity. No contract, civil or religious, and, of course, that included marriage vows, was binding without the seal of the Holy Spirit affixed by him who had the key of that authority!! We now know what the new and everlasting covenant is, as revealed to Joseph. It was a law authorizing polygamy, and establishing Smith's right as an absolute monarch! We understand now how Mormonism, through its oracle, gave the fulness of the gospel! I wonder by what blood this covenant was dedicated?! One is made to wonder whether the founders of Mormonism ever saw a book that is called the New Testament? Yet we know that they had, for otherwise they could not have stolen the amount from it that they did in making the Book of Mormon. But, gentle reader, they had about as much respect for its authority as a true servant of Jesus Christ can have for the authority of such a miserable blasphemer as Joseph Smith was. That wonderful revelation continues:
"3. Behold! Mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion. Will I accept an offering, saith the Lord, that is not made in my name? Or, will I receive at your hands that which I have not appointed? And will I appoint unto you, saith the Lord, except it be by law, even as I and my Father ordained unto you before the world was? I am the Lord thy God, and I give unto you this commandment, that no man shall come unto the Father but by me, or by my word which is my law, saith the Lord; and everything that is in the world, whether it be ordained of men, by thrones, or principalities, or powers, or things of name, whatever they may be, that are not by me or my word, saith the Lord, shall be thrown down and shall not stand after men are dead, neither in nor after the resurrection, saith the Lord your God; for whatsoever things remaineth are by me; and whatsoever things are not by me shall be shaken and destroyed."
This will do for one mess, so we pause.
