A Request by M. E. Cornell

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1860

A Request.

By M. E. Cornell

WHEN all their arguments fail, our enemies often raise the cry of "mormonism" to create prejudice, because of our views that the Gifts of the Spirit have never entirely ceased. For several months I have had it in my mind to publish a history of miracles in the Christian dispensation. I have been selecting well authenticated facts, recorded from the second century down to the present time, under the following heads:

Visions, Dreams, Tongues, Remarkable deliverances, Healing the sick in answer to prayer, &c. &c. The object is to stop the mouths of gainsayers by showing from their own authors the same that they condemn in us.

Whatever of the kind may be in the possession of any of the readers of the Review, I hope they will send me a verbatim extract, giving the title of the book and page where it is found. Let those who send be careful to make no mistake in book or page; for the work will be closely criticised. Direct to M. E. Cornell, Battle Creek, Michigan.