thus we may trace the
history of the dispensations of God to man.

I will now touch, in short, upon the history of Moses, who lived
several hundred years after Jacob—at a period when circumstances
called for commandments and revelations different to any that had ever
been given before. After having slain the Egyptian, Moses fled from
the house of Pharaoh, and went down into the land of Midian, and dwelt
there forty years. At a certain time, when he
was herding the
flocks of his father-in-law, Jethro, he saw a bush burning with a very
brilliant flame. This excited his curiosity, and he drew near, and saw
the bush apparently burning, and yet not consumed. As he drew nearer
God spoke to him out of the burning bush, and told him to take the
shoes from his feet for theplace on which he stood was holy ground.
He never could have found out by former revelation that the ground
whereon he stood was holy. This God, who appeared in the burning bush,
or the angel, as the case may be, had something for Moses to do that
he could not possibly learn from former revelation, and that something
was to arise and go down into Egypt and deliver God's people—the
descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—from the hands of their
enemies. Do you not see that it required new revelation to inform him
of this fact? He was obedient to the commandment, for taking Aaron
with him, he went down into Egypt and stood before the king, and then
commenced a series of new revelations that were wonderful and
marvelous in their nature. The revelations of today, however,