the second letter of July 24th, 1859.  Then I wrote three other letters before breakfast, at which I heard the first report of “the Peace Treaty.”  After that I was occupied all day in the cities of New York and Brooklyn.  I thought proper, to write this episode this morning, July 26th, before my starting to other business; because it is in such a connexion with the “Peace Treaty,” that it will be in the proper place more particularly explained for a great illustration of the three extra-ordinary witnesses.

“Christ’s first-born Son in the Dispensation of Universal Harmony and Peace on the whole globe” is the third angel preaching powerfully in the 9th, 10th and 11th verses of the 14th chapter of the Revelation.  There have been a number of prophecies which have been referred to Christ who has been crucified by the Jews more than eighteen hundred years ago, but which cannot be understood except in regard to his first-born son and the whole Body of Messengers whom he represents.  Since our public appearance some mediums have preached that now Christ’s first-born son appears, and were quoting a number of Biblical passages testifying this.  If there would be room, I would write some pages regarding my meetings in Cincinnati of Ohio with the principal of those mediums.  He after having been an elder in the Mormon Church, separated from them and was preaching “the Judgment Dispensation,” and that Christ’s first-born Son Was coming now.  Although my meetings with that prophet would be for a peculiar illustration of the testimony of the three extraordinary witnesses, I can mention here only the substance, that he was often times possesed by some of the generals of Napoleon I. to give from his position peculiar testimonies to our mission.  Once, for instance, was he so strongly inspired by his leader, that he wrote a decree by the authority of that his god, in which he appointed me to be “Pope Andrew I.”  It was A.D. 1846.  He gave a copy of that decree to an editor of a newspaper in Cincinnati,—­to the same who publishes now in Washington City the National Era, which will be used before the close of this treatise in a peculiar connexion with the three witnesses, and he handed to me a copy of the same decree.  At the perusal of that decree I saw that a dragon was the god by whom he was inspired, and I wrote directy a protest, to accept any office from his God who was a spirit of delusion and destruction, I handed my protest to the same editor with the remark that if he publishes the appointment for me to be Pope Andrew I, he must publish also my protest.  He made known this to that medium who under those circumstances withdrew the decree.  He was a rich general, and there is no doubt, that as Pope in a new shape I had found soon support of other rich, persons to carry out the plan of the dragon for destruction.