In our last reply we stated that when the reverend gentlemen succeeded in proving from the Scriptures that we have assumed a false position on the first points he advanced against us we would take up each of the others. But discovering that our position in relation to the personality of God and the number of Gods was absolutely impregnable, he hastily retreats, acknowledging that we are right by saying that he has "no controversy with the teachings of the Bible," and pleads that his quotations were only an introduction to his quotation from one of Brigham Young's speeches. He then quotes the world-renowned leader as saying that "Adam is our Father and our God and the only God with whom we have to do." Why does he not present the whole sermon? Simply because if he did he would have no case, but to score a point he singles out an isolate sentence and undertakes to make capital of it.

Now let us examine it in the light of reason. According to the passages of Scripture cited above God is the Father of the spirits of all men, including Adam. John said: "When Jesus comes we (who obey His laws) shall be like Him, and He is a God." He is our elder brother and as Adam is one of the sons of God, he is a brother of Jesus Christ and will be a God. Then as he is the great progenitor and father of the human race, he will stand at the head of his family. The Prophet Daniel says: "The ancient of days shall sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire * * thousands, thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the judgment was set and the books were opened." So we see Adam, or the Ancient of days will sit and ten thousand times ten thousand shall stand before him. Then our Father Adam has developed into quite an important personage, with dominion, power and glory.

Adam as a son of God and the progenitor of the human race will stand at the head of all the generations of man crowned with immortality and eternal life, the great patriarch over all the sons of men, a God among the sons of God. But he is not the God to whom we pray, now did Brigham Young undertake to convey such an idea. We worship the God who made the heavens and the earth, the seas and the fountains of water—the Being who placed Adam in the Garden of Eden.