While in Boston this summer I had the pleasure of attending a few Sunday-school exercises, and I found them very instructive, in my effort to gain the spiritual significance of the Word. These lessons helped me so much that I thought I would try and give the Journal readers a few interpretations, as I remember them, trusting they will be as beneficial to others as to me.
The subject of one lesson was John the Baptist, the messenger of Christ, and it was brought out very clearly what John's raiment signified. His dress was that of the old Prophets, a garment woven of camel's hair, attached to the body by a leathern girdle. The characteristics of the camel were John's also. The garment means endurance, gentleness, and patience, and other virtues necessary for those who would go about preaching, the wonderful Truth that has come to us. The leathern girdle represents the power of Omnipotence encircling him.
The camel can take in water enough, we are told, to last a long journey over the hot and dusty desert. John had a supply of pure thoughts (of which water is the type), which sustained him in going through the desert of error.
