Who today would suppose that if we had a Moses at the helm and were surrounded by miracles as they were in the days of Moses, we would have revilers and dissenters among our numbers? Yet our prophets are to us as Moses was to the children of load; is not the Book of Mormon a miracle to match the crossing of the Red Sea? Does not Joseph Smith’s vision of the degrees of glory match the bringing of manna from heaven?
And Joseph F. Smith’s vision of the redemption of the dead-does it not match the bringing forth of water from a rock? Many of our miracles are in the realm of understanding, other than temporal survival. Yet where and when have a people enjoyed such a marvelous opening of the heavens?