"God Himself was once as we are now; and is an exalted Man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God." "The spirit of man is not a created being; it existed from eternity, and will exist to eternity. Anything created cannot be eternal." "The spirit and the body is the soul of man; and the resurrection from the dead is the redemption of the soul." "It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with another." "Jesus was in the beginning with the Father. * * * Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be." "Jesus treads in the footsteps of His Father, and inherits what God did before; and God is thus glorified and exalted in the salvation and exaltation of all His children." "The things of God are of deep import; and time and experience and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out. Thy mind, O man, if thou wilt lead a soul unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss and the broad expanse of eternity--_thou must commune with God_!" The Prophet represents God as saying: "I give unto men weaknesses that they might be humble, and my grace is sufficient for all those who humble themselves before me." To one who inquired how he governed men so well, he said: "I do not govern them: I teach men correct principles, and they govern themselves." These sayings, with many others of like character, in the future literature of America, philosophical and religious, will make its pages blaze with glory. They are destined to become generally accepted principles of truth. They will become household aphorisms. They are words spoken by inspiration of God. They come from what Carlyle calls, "the inner Fact of things." They will live to influence the future generations of America, and of men everywhere. VIII. AN AMERICAN PROPHET. AMERICA THE "OLD WORLD:" There is one more thought I would like to present to you respecting this Prophet, Joseph Smith. He is pre-eminently the American Prophet. He is not the "boy prophet;" I dislike that term. He is not the "Prophet of Palmyra;" he is the Prophet of the dispensation of the fulness of times; if localized at all he must be known as the "American Prophet." Never was greater mistake made than to suppose that the disciples of Joseph Smith could be unpatriotic Americans. They must be ardently patriotic Americans. That this is true, let me a little show it. A line in one of our hymns runs: "For in Adam-ondi-Ahman, Zion rose where Eden was."