A few days since, Mrs. Pratt and myself, together with some others,were kindly invited to take tea with a very respectable gentleman ofthis town (Liverpool), who, though not connected with our church, yetwas, with his family, sincerely enquiring after the truth. They seemedto be fully convinced in relation to the most important features ofour doctrine, and were desirous of extending their investigationsstill further. We hope that their researches may happily result in afull conviction of the truth, and that they may obtain that certainty,so much to be desired, as to the divine authority of the great andimportant message now revealed from heaven—a message which mustassuredly prove a savor of life or death to the generation nowliving. This message is beginning to awake the attention of the honest,virtuous, and upright among all classes of society. They seem to bearoused from the slumber of ages.
A message of simple truth, when sent from God—when published by divineauthority, through divinely inspired men, penetrates the mind like asharp two-edged sword, and cuts asunder the deeply-rooted prejudices,the iron-bound sinews of ancient error and tradition, made sacred byage and rendered popular by human wisdom. It severs with undeviatingexactness between truth and falsehood—between the doctrine of Christand the doctrines of men; it levels with the most perfect ease everyargument that human learning may array against it. Opinions, creedsinvented by uninspired men, and doctrines originated in schools ofdivinity, all vanish like the morning dew—all sink into insignificancewhen compared with a message direct from heaven. Such a message shinesupon the understanding like the splendors of the noon-day sun; itwhispers in the ears of mortals, saying, "this is the way, walk yein it." Certainty and assurance are its constant companions; it isentirely unlike all plans or systems ever invented by human authority;it has no alliance, connexion, or fellowship with any of them; itspeaks with divine authority, and all nations, without an exception,are required to obey. He that receives the message and endures to theend will be saved; he that rejects it will be damned. It matters notwhat his former righteousness may have been—none can be excused.
As a specimen of the anxious inquiry which now pervades the minds ofmany in relation to this church, we publish the following extract froma letter, which was kindly read to us during our afore-mentioned visit,by the gentleman who received it from his friend in London. We werestruck with the apparent candor, the sound judgment, and the correctconclusions of the author of the letter, and earnestly solicited theprivilege of publishing it. Permission was granted on condition thatwe would withhold names. We here present it to our readers, and shallendeavor, in the same spirit of candor, to answer the all-importantinquiries contained in it.
July 15th.
MY DEAR SIR,—I have been expecting, time after time, to be able toreturn you the "Letters" you so kindly left with me. As I informed youin my last, I cursorily read through the letters, and then handed thebook to Mr. —. With him it is at the present time. The impression madethereby on his mind is very remarkable, and he requests me to informyou, that if you will allow him, he means to keep the book, if youwill please to let him know the price thereof. He and I concur in ourview of Mormonism at present. Do you enquire what that view is? I willthen proceed to state it. We consider that the p
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