One had risen up in the august name of Jehovah. Mormonism represents the powers invisible of the Hebrew God. Shall Jehovah reign in the coming time? Shall he be the Lord God omnipotent? This, in its entirety, is the Mormon problem. Joseph is the prophet of that stupendous question, to be decided in this grand controversy of the two worlds--this controversy of mortals and immortals! There are lords many and gods many, but to the prophet and his people there is but one God--Jehovah is his name. A Mormon iliad, nothing else; and a war of the invisibles--a war of spiritual empires. That war was once in Kirtland, when the first temple of a new civilization rose, to proclaim the supreme name of the God of Israel. No sooner had the Church of Latter-day Saints been established in the West than remarkable spiritual manifestations appeared. This was exactly in accordance with the faith and expectations of the disciples; for the promise to them was that these signs should follow the believer. But there was a power that the saints could not understand. That it was a power from the invisible world all readily discerned. An influence both strange and potent! The power which was not comprehended was greater, for the time, in its manifestations, than the spirit which the disciples better understood. These spiritual manifestations occurred remarkably at the house of Elder Whitney, where the saints met often to speak one to the other, and to pray for the power. The power had come! It was in the house which had been overshadowed by the magic cloud at midnight, out of which the angel had prophesied of the coming of the word of the Lord. The Lord had come! His word was given. But which Lord? and whose word? That was the question in that hour of spiritual controversy. Similar manifestations were also had in other branches of the church; and they were given at those meetings called "testimony meetings." At these the saints testified one to the other of the "great work of God in the last days," and magnified the gifts of the spirit. But there were two kinds of gifts and two kinds of spirits. Some of these manifestations were very similar to those of "modern spiritualism." Especially was this the case with what are styled physical manifestations. Others read revelations from their hands; holding them up as a book before them. From this book they read passages of new scriptures. Books of new revelations had been unsealed. In letters of light and letters of gold, writing appeared to their vision, on the hands of these "mediums."