the effort of God to reach humanity." To ask us to believe that a set of preachers that would adopt the heathen idea in salvation instead of the Bible teaching were inspired of God, is asking too much. The Book of Mormon says that the American Indians were the descendants of the Lamanites, the children of Lehi, the father of the Nephites. I wonder if the advocates of that book will say that the savages of America borrowed their ideas of a trance state in religious exercises from those Nephite preachers? Such an idea was not in America, according to their own authority, until the Nephite preachers introduced it. With those Indians in the West that still practice the ghost dance the trance is very common. When in their religious exercises, the chief of which is their ghost dance, they become excited to a certain degree, they go into a trance, lay prostrate for hours, then wake up full of joy; for they have been to the happy hunting ground.
