but
my presence shall not go with you, you are too corrupt.” By and by we
find that an angel was left with them, and a cloud by day, and the
shining of a flaming fire by night, guided all their camps. The voice
and presence of the Lord were made manifest to Moses, and Moses
conversed with the Lord as one man talks with another, and during
forty years in the wilderness he from time to time received
revelations and communications to guide the people. Do you not see
that under these circumstances, during the whole of that forty years,
there was not one year—probably not one month, and it may be, not one
day but what new revelation was necessary? The code of laws given on
Mount Sinai was not sufficient without new revelation.

We might trace thehistory of the people of God, if we had time, but I
see we have not, from the days of Moses to the days of Joshua, Gideon,
Samuel, Barak and various other ancient worthies, all of whom received
revelation. If we come to the days of Gideon we find that he was a
man who had seventy sons, and how many daughters, I do not know. The
Lord conversed with Gideon and sent an angel to him to tell him that
he would raise him up as a mighty man of valor, to go forth in his
might and in his strength to deliver his people Israel from bondage.
We might relate all these things to show forth that the bondage of
the children of Israel called forth new revelation from heaven, and
that because of it the