Show LINKS BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH notwithstanding the most zealous professors professor of modern christianity declare their di disbelief in modern modern revelation and their ministers tell their congregations congregations it is folly a delusion and a it snare for them to believe in the appearances al ipe arances of angels ange Is or spirit spirits yet we find there is a great number of people who ft ho believe in what they call the supernatural A short time since the editor of the sacramento record retard union gave Z an invitation to every person who knew of any alleged supernatural incidents or who could tell of any auch such incidents as second hand band to communicate them to that journal what object the record union man had in view whether he has faith in such things and is seeking confirmation of his belief by the experience peri ence of others we do not know but already two persons have responded and related in the columns of the record narratives which the they declare to be true and which it is la impossible for any one to prove to them to be otherwise the first is that of a oung young man who lost hh his father at a tender age but had conceived the most tender affection for his widowed mother which 21 grew deiv stronger with age age vet yet he had never expressed his love for his parent in words but had often desired and intended to do so 11 lie had left home and his hiss mother had married again one night he wrote to his hi mother a lengthy letter dellill telling her what he be had dedred to tell for years liow deeply and sincerely he lie loved her he ile retired to bed and slept afler a while lie suddenly a awoke woke and saw his mother nt standing anding at the foot of ochi ili i bed lied smiling ng upon him the narrator says I remember that a doubt for one moment crossed my mind hid bad I not been the victim of if an all illusion had not my lily continued thought fancifully fail cipully materialized this form had not my mind without the violation of my will wrought upon the walli walls of fances chamber this satisfying picture if now I reasoned this figure could but move could but come at my desire closer to me I should know it to be no allu ion almost instantly and as if answering to my doubts my mothers form not with the ahot glio Qt like not clad in in snowy robes but draped in atti attire re such as graced her e everyday every cry day life and standing out upon a semi lu minous baal background I ground of apparent haze moved from the foot of the bed her ifer sweet voice spoke to me again I come sec see it ia your mother I was w as fully awake two weeks later liis his letter was returned unopened accompanied by a I note stating that his mother died the very night he wrote her the rhe other incident is said faid by the writer to have occurred on the tile of february 1859 tv two men myron strong and albeit short owned own ed and worked a mining claim in california they worked their cl claim aim in in a ca careless manner drifting too f far ar in along its entire surface their friends warned them of the danger of their modo of operating era ting but were unheeded on oil the date above named the mine mine caved in P buried and vied killed the it I two proprietors the catastrophe W was a s not discovered until the next day by john 11 bradley Brad lcy who at the same time declares he be saw the t two wo men standing on the opposite bank from where he lie was while looking it at the cave they were doing the same havin hav ing T special business to attend to he lie did not stop to speak to strong stron 41 and short but passed on not suspecting for a moment that their bodies were w ere buried in thi din cave from which the they were exhumed several hours afterwards now there is no doubt but these gentlemen would feel indignant were any one to doubt their vera veracity ity orto or to question the truth of their statements we have no desire to to do either but how low would the statements of joseph smith be reached received by these two persons and many others who believe in supernatural apparitions parit ions or the appearance of spirits after they have left the body while the latter lies in the grave the prophet L p ln l n joeph jo eph t ez tidied that a it number of angels appeared to him at sundry times and all declared they were messengers sent from god to make known to him his will concerning Ilin himself elf and the tic people of this generation amon among the tile allis who vi visited him were moron Sl Moi elijah elia john jolin the baptist acter james and john michael gabriel and these were nvere all former inhabitants of this planet the aliey were prophets of alic lord w ho held the keds of the tile ministries of various abis dispensation when god biad a people on the earth in ill ancient timea and aa as all ill men can call learn if they will re read ad the tile seri scriptures p turea and bel believe ive what they do read it was biem necessary ary for all these prop heta to come to the earth again in the dispensation odthe of the filli fallness neos of times and restore their ke keys ys or authority to the person whom god had appointed and ordained to receive them that the church of god could be organized his ilis kingdom established that the ordinances of his house can be administered min for the salvation of tho the nations who will receive them aa As that young youn ginan mail knew he saw his mother aft erber deat liso did joseph smith know he lie L saw and communed with the angela angels above named and we are under tinder as much obligation at least to receive his testimony as those of the two men spoken of above thousands of people in in many nations have received the testimony ony of joseph smith an and d c can an and do testify that they know it is true it is right that they ell should auld know otlien otherwise vise they would not profit prof it by the message sent to them I if they received it there are many Nicodem uses in these latter days who would like to know whether joseph smith was ivas a prophet and whether mormonism is true and they arc are saily thyi trying g to find it but but there is only one way in which they can make the discovery and that is to search earnestly and honestly forthe for the truth and when they find it obey it i for the love of it they then can know that mormonism for monism ir i true and that this is an in age age in which the lord sends angels and the spirits of ju just jut t men ile to reveal the deep things of god the plan of the redemption of the earth and those who dwell on it |