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Mormonism was a unique phenomenon for its day, and to receive this new gospel,
peculiar people were raised up in widely scattered areas of America and Europe, most of
whom had one thing in common. They placed unquestioned trust in God's Spirit and were
seeking diligently for the living manifestations of its power. They were looking for a
restoration of ancient Christianity in its purity; and here, they contended, was its most
essential characteristic.