Sir, As the prophet was expatiating on the character of John and Jesus, I had a peculiarly fair view of his person, and to my astonishment beheld a man destitute of all those qualifications so essential to the life and interest of the man of the keenest Memory, <​keen​> the Razor; for if men generally did not need shaving more than than <​the​> Mormon prophet, Shaving <​Barbers​> shops would be of little use; indeed if he shaves, at all, I think it must be for fashion’s sake, for I would judge him to be a beardless hero, of about thirty seven— or eight years. The way he explained the difference between the Holy Ghost in the form of the Dove, & the Sign of the dove <​was curious, inde[e]d,​> &, after critically noticing all the nice distinctions between the two, he closed that part of his subject by calling on all the learned men pesent, of every sect— and denomination, or, of no denomination at all, to come forward, and by their greek & Hebrew, refute what he had stated, and when they had done it, he pledged himself to prove them all false, before the <​all <​whole​>​> world, from <​by​> their own witnesses. There were several learned men present but no one accepted the offer, & it was presumed they dare not do it, for fear they should expose themselves.

There is the greatest spirit of liberality among this “deluded” people, I have ever met with. They will let any man who professes to be a minister of the gospel, preach in their houses, or on their , & I have never known them flinch from investigations but always appear frank & open in all th[e]ir faith & practice.—

The way the way the prophet uses his lungs, when he addresses a great multitudes, in the open air, (and he seldom speaks to less than several thousand on such occasins) would be a caution to almost any man;— when he gets engaged, he roars, so that all who will may hear,— & all who will not, must not stand very near.

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