n in the year 1825, and the knowledge
of the elements being made known to me, I sought more than ever to
obtain true holiness before the great day of judgment should appear, and
then I began to receive the true knowledge of faith. And from the first
steps of righteousness until the last, was I made perfect; and the Holy
Ghost was with me, and said, "Behold me as I stand in the Heavens"--and
I looked and saw the forms of men in different attitudes--and there were
lights in the sky to which the children of darkness gave other names
than what they really were--for they were the lights of the Saviour's
hands, stretched forth from east to west, even as they were extended on
the cross on Calvary for the redemption of sinners. And I wondered
greatly at these miracles, and prayed to be informed of a certainty of
the meaning thereof--and shortly afterwards, while laboring in the
field, I discovered drops of blood on the corn as though it were dew
from heaven--and I communicated it to many, both white and black, in the
neighborhood--and I then found on the leaves in the woods hieroglyphic
characters, and numbers, with the forms of men in different attitudes,
portrayed in blood, and representing the figures I had seen before in
the heavens. And now the Holy Ghost had revealed itself to me, and made
plain the miracles it had shown me--For as the blood of Christ had been
shed on this earth, and had ascended to heaven for the salvation of
sinners, and was now returning to earth again in the form of dew--and as
the leaves on the trees bore the impression of the figures I had seen in
the heavens, it was plain to me that the Saviour was about to lay down
the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and the great day of judgment
was at hand. About this time I told these things to a white man,
(Etheldred T. Brantley) on whom it had a wonderful effect--and he ceased
from his wickedness, and was attacked immediately with a cutaneous
eruption, and blood ozed from the pores of his skin, and after praying
and fasting nine days, he was healed, and the Spirit appeared to me
again, and said, as the Saviour had been baptised so should we be
also--and when the white people would not let us be baptised by the
church, we went down into the water together, in the sight of many who
reviled us, and were baptised by the Spirit--After this I rejoiced
greatly, and gave thanks to God. And on the 12th of May, 1828, I heard a
loud noise in the heavens, and the Sp