Subsequently in a booklet entitled "The Utah Survey," Bishop Spalding charged me with asserting, in a public meeting at Provo, that the Priesthood of the Mormon Church were perfect, and that Joseph Smith stood next to Jesus Christ in authority. I answered him through the Deseret News, showing that he had misunderstood my references to Priesthood, which means to a Latter-day Saint two things:—first, divine authority; second, the men in whom that authority is vested. I was speaking of divine authority when I said the Priesthood was perfect. As for Joseph Smith standing next to Jesus Christ, I had neither said it nor thought it; the Prophet himself having taught that Adam stands next to Christ and Noah next to Adam, in the Priesthood. I showed that Joseph's true place is at the head of this Gospel dispensation.