“ For unless they actually have visions, they cannot see the Lord; and if they cannot see him they cannot bear testimony of him. For, a man to be a witness for either God or man, he must have something to which he can testify; and no man can testify to what another sees and hears; but to what he sees and hears himself. In order, therefore, for a man to be a witness for Jesus Christ, or for God the Father, he must have more testimony than any man or all the men of the world combined could give ”

“ There is no society of which we have an account in the revelations of God, that he acknowledged as his own, except they had visions among them, and that as long as they continued to walk according to the directions of the Holy Spirit: indeed it was essential to their character as saints; it would be a marvelous thing to find a body of saints on earth and yet there would be no visions among them; we will venture to assert that such a thing was never seen since the world began. We readily admit that a corrupt religion can exist, and false prophecies exist, and sectarian dogmas abound ”

“ Take visions away therefore, from the scheme of heaven, and God must cease to judge the world, because he would have no witnesses, and he could not condemn a people for not believing when they had not testimony in which they were justified in believing ”