3d, As to their belief, it is founded on a literal interpretation of isolated passages of Scripture. Everything that is spoken of the miraculous powers of St. Paul and the earliest disciples, they apply directly to themselves: and, strange to say, persuade themselves that they or their leaders actually possess these powers. They pretend to have the gift of the Holy Ghost; of foretelling the future; of speaking new languages on the spur of a moment and of interpreting tongues, spoken or hieroglyphic. (This interpreting of tongues, (hieroglyphic) their head prophet Smith does, with some writings on papyrus taken from an Egyptian mummy and interpreted [?] by him to be a supplement to the Bible, written, he says, by the hand of Abraham, &c. This is quite another thing than the ‘Book of Mormon,’ and of it Smith makes what use he pleases.