Juvenile Instructor . incompletewithout it, and so lack one of thoseessentials which make the sound andperfect whole. The man, however, who pins his faithto the Gospel simply on the ground of thehealing power or manifestations, who isnever quickened by the eternal spirit,seeing only the outward, when con-vinced that healings have belonged toall ages and all sects, that it has beenmanifested irrespective of Church organ-ization and Church influence, will find THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. 613 the foundation of his faith graduallysliding from beneath his feet; while hewho stands on the rock of eterna
Juvenile Instructor . incompletewithout it, and so lack one of thoseessentials which make the sound andperfect whole. The man, however, who pins his faithto the Gospel simply on the ground of thehealing power or manifestations, who isnever quickened by the eternal spirit,seeing only the outward, when con-vinced that healings have belonged toall ages and all sects, that it has beenmanifested irrespective of Church organ-ization and Church influence, will find THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. 613 the foundation of his faith graduallysliding from beneath his feet; while hewho stands on the rock of eternal truthand personal revelation will stand un-moved amid the countless manifestationsof spirit-force and spiritual manifesta-tion, which will be associated with the latter days so as to deceive, if it werepossible, even the very elect. Readthe prophesies and it will be seen thatthe healing of the sick or the raisingof the dead, will be trifling to those whowalk by sight when they see men calldown fire from heaven. . MYTHOLOGY AND FOLK-LORE OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS, THE DELUGE AND THE TOWER OF BABEL. (CONTINUED XAT E have shown in a former articleiJlV that the Quiches of Yucatan, be-^-^ lieved that the first race of menwere destroyed from the earth by account is given by these people of thedetails of this great deluge, while otherof the Indian tribes, whose history doesnot appear to be as well preserved as thatof the Quiches, give us very interestingaccounts of the flood, some of them cor-responding very closely with the Bibleversion. The Tezcocans, who lived near thecity of Mexico, say that in the begin-ning there were giants on the first age they call the age of water,because it was ended by a tremendousflood, which destroyed every livingthing, one man and one woman;the water, they say, covered the entireearth, and all the people were drownedor turned into fishes, except Cox-cox(Cos-cos) and his wife Xo-chi-quet-zal(So-chi-kate-sal), who saved them
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