The visions of the Old and New Testament are so plainly legible in many books, that he who runs may read. Those who had these latter visions, instead of being covered or unknown, are well known, and preached every Sabbath day. Don't shrink from this issue, sir, but meet it like one who feels his destiny to be suspended on a correct faith in revealed truth. What mysterious collection of visions, arranged into the form of a BOOK, that no uninspired man can read, IS THIS? It must be the visions of _some_ prophets and seers, that have lived and prophesied to _some_ people, that have now faded from the knowledge of men. Mankind is ignorant of them. And when the BOOK, that contains their _records_ is found (taken out of the earth, as I shall show by Isaiah's testimony), no man can read it or is the wiser for it (unless God reveals it). Now, sir, as you are a teacher, professing to be sent from God, I again ask, whose visions are all these, so curiously wrapped up in a BOOK, and sealed too, and kept hid from the knowledge of mankind? You will not deny that the prophet saw a _book_, containing important records of some certain unknown prophets and seers. But if you believe the prophet, as I know you do, and humbly acknowledge, that you cannot tell what this mysterious BOOK of RECORDS means; then, by the spirit and blessing of God, I will further endeavour to show that it is the same that the angel announced to the young man Joseph. This mysterious BOOK of records was found in that identical _stone_, spoken of by Daniel the prophet. The prophets and seers, whose records constitute that book, lived among a mighty nation on the American continent, whose history is as important as that of other continents in its place. Another topic dwelt upon by Isaiah is, that "truth" (plainly alluding to this book of inspired records) should "_speak out of the ground_, and thy speech shall be low _out of the dust_, and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit _out of the ground_, and thy speech shall whisper _out of the dust_."