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their belief in miracles, inAhe anointing and healing
of the sick ly the elders„ in prophecy, in speaking
in tongues, in gifts from, the Spirit, &c. They hold
that Christ was the Stan of God, that he came to
e leetn the world, yet, they believe in a plurality of
gods, conceiving the Father, the Son, and the H)l7
Ghost to be distitact personages. 1113 Mormoul
catechism asks:—" Are there more Gods than one?
A. Many. Must we worship more than one God ?
A. No. To us there is but one God, the Father of
mankind, and the Creator of the earth ?" By a
literal interpretation of the Bible they infer that God
has a body, parts, and passions, not himself omni-
present, yet everywhere by his Holy Spirit. " IVe
cease to feel any surprise at a deity so limited in
power when we learn that this Father and God of
the human family is Adam. This startling fact was
announced in the Millennial Star in 1853. The
human race is Adam's fanaily, and he therefore is
the god who governs the inhabitants of this planet,
and to whom their prayers are to be addressed.
livery saint will reign as a god over his own family
in the future state." " Our God and Father in
heaven is a being ,of tabernacle" (tabernacle is the
cant word for body). "His Son, Jesus Christ, has
become a personage of tabernacle," but the Holy
Ghost is not "a person of tabernacle. These three
are one in character and attributes, but not in sub-
stance." Christ differs from his Father in nothing
but age and authority, the latter, being older, has
the right to preside over him. " Each has an orga-
nized, individual tabernacle:" The Holy Ghost being
unencumbered with a tabernacle, enjoys the privilege.
of being everywhere present,governing and control-
ling all other substances, producing all the pheno-
mena of nature—instinct in animals, reason in
man, vision in prophets, the grand moving cause of
all intelligences. " Every part of the universe is
body, and that which is not body is no part
of the universe." They hold with
.Hobbes,
who says—" By the name of spirit -we understand a
body natural, but of such subtilty that it worketh
not upon the senses, but that filleth up the 'place
which the image of a visible body might fill up-''
The elements of the universe are eternal and un-
created, possessing intelligence adapted to their
spheres. The emotions or affections of spirit are
but actions or motions of these elements, and the
powers of thought and feeling which any orga-
nism possesses must have belonged equally to all
the particles of that organism in their independent
state. The creative power, by which this eternal
and intelligent matter was organized into worlds
tit for the habitation of living beings, was " a ge-
neral assembly, quorum, or grand council of the
gods, with the President at their head," the world
being formed to provide a habitation for the pro-
existing spirits of men ; gods, angels, and men are
all of one species; men will hereafter rise to the
condition of gods, and gods have formerly passed
through that of men. Man first dwelt with the
Father in the eternal mansions. Those spirits who
keep this estate are permitted to descend to the
second, here with a tabernacle of flesh, though entirely
unconscious of the past. Having kept the second,
man enters a probationary sphere, called the world
of spirits. Those who have heard and obeyed the
Gospel, either in former times or in this age, will
rise from the spirit-world and reign on the earth
during a thousand years, while those who have re-
jected it will remain in the spirit-world till the last
trump. There are three general resurrections, in
which spirits are reunited to their bodies, one past
an 1 two future. The first was in connection with
he Resurrection of Christ, and included all who
died in him before his advent. The second, at the
-ommencement of the Millennium, will be in a few
years, and will include the Former-day and Latter-
day Saints. The third will be more than one thou-
sand years later, that is, after the conclusion of the
Hillennium, and will include all men. Those who
were raised with Christ were conveyed to some
other sphere; while those who aro to rise in the
approaching Millennium will inhabit the earth,
re-formed and rendered more glorious ; its moun-
tains levelled, its valleys exalted, while the human
body raised from the dead will be able to launch
forth into the boundless expanse, ascending and
descending at will, and visiting other planets.
After a thousand years are past there will be
a new heaven and a new earth, on which the
saints will reign as kings and priests throughout
eternity.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON.

The half-yearly general meeting of this Company
was held at Liverpool on Friday, Mr. Maxwell ia

the chair.

The report was taken as read.

The CHAIIMAN, in moving its adoption, said that
they ha I not received any pigment from the Grand
Trunk Company since the last general meeting.
In October last, out of the funds in hand, £12,500
was paid by the directors to the trustees of the bond-
boliers. The chief subject in the report was the
new arrangement which the Board had nego-
tiated with the directors of the Grand Truuk Com-
pany, but the formal agreement was not yet ready
for the consideration of the propri,tors, as the em-
bodiment of the terms in legal form had not yetbeen
completed. The late Board had negotiated an
agreement with the Grand Trunk Company which
it was thought by several shareholders was not
such as they ought to accept, among whom
were the majority of the present board. He
believed that the late board had sincerely atleart
the welfare of the company ; but those who acted
with him found it needful to bring matters to the
vote, and the result was a majority against the late
board, and the election of four of the present direc-
tors. The new board at once endeavoured to bring
about some improved agreement with the Grand
Trunk Company, and the result had been the pre-
sent arrangement. The terms were the best the
directors had been able to secure, and the board
recommended the shareholders to accept them as a
compromise under the special circumstances of the
case, being a considerable improvement on what the
proprietors previously rejected. In bygone times a
very unpleasant feeling existed between the two
boards, but now, he thought, they might say that
the board of the Grand Trunk Company and the
board of the Buffalo Company were in amicable
relations with each other, and he believed there
was a desire to carry out in good faith the terms
of the agreement, the heads of which were given
in the report of the directors.

Mr. HEALEY seconded the motion for the adop-
ion of the report.

Mr. PENNY considered that the shareholders had
great reason to be satisfied with the negotiations
which the directors had so ably conducted. He
understood from the report that the ordinary Buffalo
shareholder was to receive one-half the amount of
his shares in Grank T .•übk ordinary shares, and
one-half in Grand Trunk fourth preference, and
therefore his interest was to be entirely fused in
that of the Grand Trunk Company. A further part
of the arrangement was the payment of an annual
sum of money, commencing with £42,000 for the
year ending the Ist of July, 1869, and gradually
increasing to £70,000 at the end of ten years.
The annual payment was to be available for the
bondholders and preference shareholders. He hoped
that no feeling of hostility would be raised at their
meetings, and that the arrangement would be
carried into effect.

A long discussion ensued, in the course of which
resolutions were passed adopting the report-; re-
electing the retiring directors; appointing Mr.
Penny, Mr. St. George, and Mr. Bigham to confer
with the directors as to the claims of the preference
shareholders and bondholders; voting thanks to
the chairman and directors for the energy and
ability with which they had conducted the affairs
of the company ; and adjourning the special meet-
ing for the consideration and confirmation of the
agreement between the Grand Trunk and Buffalo
Companies to the 18th of January instant, at the
Law Rooms, Liverpool.

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BIRTHS.
at Kensington, the wife of John
Aut,BlYeriNdngonLtcre4sttehrjSatn:Aubyn, Esq, of son.
N-- On the lst Jan., at Horsham Park, the wife of
GoeLA
S. Godman, of a daughter.
Percy
3f:lßn/1 GES.
COOKE—GonDox—On the 27th Nov., at the Cathedral,
Calcutta, Edward Samuels Cooke, Lieutenant Bengal
81,ff Corps, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the 1.4. V.
George Gordon,_ LL.D., of 13iruie, Elgin, N.B.
3/AcwitIItTEIt—KELSALL -Oa the 29th Nov., at the Old
Mission Church, Calcutta. Lestock C. 11. Mac whirter,
62.1 Regiment, to Elizabeth Harriette, of daughter
of the late Thomas Seddon Kelsall, Esq., of Aldridge" road, Bayswater.

DEATHS.
GnEviLLE—On the 31st Doc., at her residence, in Ettscm'
place, Lady Louisa Greville, sister of the late and aunt
of the present Earl of Warwick.
LOWDEN—On the 316 t Dec., at 149, Cheapside, London,
Mr. James Lowden, aged 74.

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