Thus was fulfilled the vision of "Mother Whitney." Kirtland had heard the "word of the Lord." The angel that spoke from the cloud, at midnight, in Kirtland, was endowed with the gift of prophesy. The "daughter of the voice" which followed Israel down through the ages was potent still—was still an oracle to the children of the covenant.
Footnotes:
[1]. She died in the early persecution of the church, and when Parley was in prison for the gospel's sake her spirit visited and comforted him.
CHAPTER VIII.
WAR OF THE INVISIBLE POWERS—THEIR MASTER—JEHOVAH'S MEDIUM.
"You have prayed me here! Now what do you want of me?"
The Master had come!
But who was he?
Whence came he?
Good or evil?