Without the power to unlock the heavens, and the Elijah faith to call the angels down, there could be no new dispensation--no millennial civilization for the world, to crown the civilization of the ages. Light came to Sidney Rigdon from the Mormon Elijah, and he comprehended the light; but Alexander Campbell rejected the prophet when his message came; he would have none of his angels. He had been preaching the literal fulfillment of prophesy, but when the covenant was revealed he was not ready. The lamp, not the light, was his admiration. Himself was the lamp; _Joseph had the light from the spirit world_, and the darkness comprehended it not. Alexander Campbell was a learned and an able man--the very _form of wisdom_, but without the spirit. Joseph Smith was an unlettered youth. He came not in the polished _form_ of wisdom--either divine or human--but in the demonstration of the Holy Ghost, and with signs following the believer. Mr. Campbell would receive no new revelation from such an one--no everlasting covenant from the new Jerusalem which was waiting to come down, to establish on earth a great spiritual empire, that the King might appear to Zion in his glory, with all his angels and the ancients of days. The tattered and blood-stained commissions of old Rome were sufficient for the polished divine,--Rome which had made all nations drunk with her spiritual fornications,--Rome which put to death the Son of God when his Israel in blindness rejected him. Between Rome and Jerusalem there was now the great controversy of the God of Israel. Not the old Jerusalem which had traveled from the east to the west, led by the angel of the covenant, up out of the land of Egypt! The new Jerusalem to the earth then, as she is to-day! Ever will she be the new Jerusalem--ever will "old things" be passing away when "the Lord cometh!" And the angel of the west appeared by night to the youth, as he watched in the chamber of his father's house, in a little village in the State of New York. On that charmed night when the invisibles hovered about the earth the angel that stood before him read to the messenger of Messiah the mystic text of his mission: "_Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts._" CHAPTER VI. AN ANGEL FROM THE CLOUD IS HEARD IN KIRTLAND--THE "DAUGHTER OF THE VOICE." Now there dwelt in Kirtland in those days disciples who feared the Lord. And they "spake often one to another; and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name." "We had been praying," says mother Whitney, "to know from the Lord how we could obtain the gift of the Holy Ghost."