7. Renan. He thus tells the story of the appearing of Jesus to the five hundred brethren at once: "More than five hundred persons were already devoted to the memory of Jesus. In the absence of the lost Master, they obeyed the chief of the disciples, and above all, Peter. One day when following their spiritual chiefs, the Galileans had climbed one of the mountains to which Jesus had often led them, they fancied they saw him again. The air on these mountain tops is full of strange mirages. The same illusion which had previously taken place in behalf of the more intimate of the apostles [he refers to the transfiguration, Matt. 17] was produced again. The whole assembly imagined that they saw the divine spectre displayed in the clouds; they fell upon their faces and worshiped." _The Apostles_, p. 76. 8. Renan. This is his "rational" (!) conception of the event: "One day when they were assembled together a thunder storm arose. A violent wind burst the windows open--the sky seemed on fire. Thunder storms in those countries are accompanied by wonderful illuminations; the atmosphere is furrowed, as it were, on every side with garbs of flame. Whether the electric fluid had penetrated into the very chamber itself or whether a dazzling flash of lightning had suddenly illuminated all their faces, they were convinced that the spirit had entered, and that he was poured out upon the head of each one of them under the form of tongues of fire." _The Apostles_, p. 95. 9. Renan, _The Apostles_, p. 98 _et seq._ 10. Thus Alexander Campbell in _Millennial Harbinger_, vol. II, (1831) pp. 86-96. Also _Howe's Mormonism_ (1834). He thinks the Witnesses incompetent, "Nor will any one disagree with us, when we shall have proven that the Book of Mormon was a joint speculation between the 'Author and Proprietor.' [Joseph Smith is alluded to] and the Witnesses," ch. 7. 11. _Mormonism and the Mormons_, by Daniel P. Kidder, pp. 54, 55. 12. _Prophet of the Nineteenth Century_, p. 46. 13. Doc. and Cov. sec. 17. 14. Doc. and Cov. 5:24-26. 15. _Hist. Illinois_, (Ford) pp. 257-8. 16. _The Mormon Prophet_, by Lily Dougall, preface, p. 7. 17. History of the Church, vol. I, pp. 54, 55.