. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . e authorized to perform the or-dinance of baptism, but the latter has no power to administerin spiritual things. Hence only a priest after the holy orderof the Son of God, or the order of Melchisedec, can per-form the ordinance of confirmation, or laying on of handsfor imparting the Holy Ghost, which is to lead the new-born Saint into all truth, and teach him the things tOcome; thus protect him from all falsehood and imposition, 2
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . e authorized to perform the or-dinance of baptism, but the latter has no power to administerin spiritual things. Hence only a priest after the holy orderof the Son of God, or the order of Melchisedec, can per-form the ordinance of confirmation, or laying on of handsfor imparting the Holy Ghost, which is to lead the new-born Saint into all truth, and teach him the things tOcome; thus protect him from all falsehood and imposition, 23 354 RECEIVING GIFTS AND GRACES. and placing him in the most perfect state of progressionwhich, if real, would be a state of the highest felicity andmost assured salvation. Two or three elders lay their hands upon the head of theperson to be confirmed, one of whom acts as a mouthpiecefor the rest, and pronounces the blessings and promises,generally exhausting his full list of mercies upon him whomthey are receiving into full Sainthood. There are twoessentials in this ordinance which are never omitted — Iconfirm you a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of. Mormon Confirmation. Latter-Day Saints, and, I also confer upon you the Giftof the Holy Ghost. Oftentimes the elder becomes so thoroughly filled withinspiration that he cannot cease his blessing until he hassealed the young Saint up to eternal life, with a perfectassurance that he shall inherit all the blessings of Abra-ham, Isaac, and Jacob, with a fulness of the holy priesthoodafter the order of an endless life ; thus placing him be-yond the possibility of falling from grace or missing thecelestial gate : though he may wander from the fold andbecome bewildered in fogs and darkness, yet in the consum-mation of his mission to earth he will find his way back to GOING TO THE ENDOWMENT-HOUSE. 355 the fold of Christ; and as it is supposed that the Word of God,spoken by the mouth of His servant, cannot fail, will inheritthron
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