Latter Day Saints
The Gospel Defined.--The English word "Gospel" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "Godspell," or God-story--the story of God. It derives its significance from that great central idea of the Christian faith--the coming of God as the Son of God to redeem and save mankind. The joyful int...
Use of the Figurative.--When Jesus told Nicodemus that a man must be born again--born of water and of the Spirit--he virtually declared the meaning of the ordinance and prescrib...
22. CHAPTER VI."The sons of Moses, and also the sons of Aaron shall offer an acceptable offering and sacrifice in the house of the Lord, which house shall be built unto the Lord in this genera...
11. CHAPTER V.The Initial Ceremony.--As faith is the first principle of the gospel of Christ, so baptism is the initial ceremony. Baptism is twofold, corresponding to the soul, its subject, w...
10. CHAPTER IV.The First Fruit of Faith.--The first fruit of faith is repentance. Repentance follows faith as naturally as kindness follows love, as obedience springs from reverence, as a desi...
24. CHAPTER VIII.Ocean of dispensations--rivers, rills, Roll to your source! End, to thine origin! And Israel, to the rock whence ye were hewn! For He that scattered, gathereth his flock, His an...
28. CHAPTER IV.All in Christ.--The Savior's personal visits to the various branches of the house of Israel were preliminary to a general gathering of the sheep into one fold, with himself as t...
25. CHAPTER I.History and Destiny.--"He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock." In these words of Jeremiah the Prophet, are summarized the past and...
23. CHAPTER VII.A stranger Star that came from far To fling its silver ray Where, cradled in a lowly cave, A lowlier Infant lay; And led by soft sidereal light, The Orient sages bring Rare gift...
18. CHAPTER II."Commencing with Adam, who was the first man, * * * the first and father of all, not only by progeny, but the first to hold the spiritual blessings, to whom was made known the p...
16. CHAPTER III.An Incomparable System.--The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is conceded to be an almost perfect system, even by men outside its pale. Such a one has said of it: "It...
14. CHAPTER I."Priest" Defined.--The English word "Priest" is generally derived from the New Testament term "presbyter" (Elder), which means "to preside." Aristotle's definition of "Priest" i...
17. CHAPTER I.One Plan of Salvation.--As there is but one Savior, so is there but one plan of salvation. There never was, and there never can be, another "I marvel," wrote Paul to the back-sl...
15. CHAPTER II.A Twofold Power.--In an article on Priesthood, prepared by the Prophet Joseph Smith, and read at a conference of the Church in Nauvoo, Illinois, October, 1840, the following sen...
27. CHAPTER III.A Decadent Empire.--Joshua, succeeding Moses as the leader of Israel, conquered the land of Canaan and divided it among the twelve tribes. Then followed the reigns of the Judges...
7. CHAPTER I.Man Helpless.--When Adam and Eve had transgressed the divine command by partaking of the forbidden fruit, it was as if the human race had fallen into a pit, from which they were...
1. CHAPTER I.The Gospel Defined.--The English word "Gospel" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "Godspell," or God-story--the story of God. It derives its significance from that great central idea of...
3. CHAPTER III.Essentials to Progress.--The story of God embraces the fall as well as the redemption of man. Both these mighty vicissitudes are steps in the march of human progress. The fall w...
8. CHAPTER II.The First Requirement.--Faith, however, not repentance, is the first requirement. The probable reason why Peter omitted to mention faith at that time, was because he perceived t...
19. CHAPTER III."The Seventh from Adam."--Enoch was contemporaneous with Adam, and was ordained and blessed by him (D&C 107:48). The period in which Enoch figured was prolific of wonderful even...
9. CHAPTER III.Faith Founded on Evidence.--The second of the Lectures on Faith is a discussion of the object upon which faith should rest; that object being God, the evidences of whose existen...
20. CHAPTER IV.The Son of Lamech.--Noah was the son of Lamech, who was a grandson of Enoch, and after him "the next great grand patriarch who held the keys of the priesthood." Lamech was ordai...
12. CHAPTER VI.For the Remission of Sins.--Baptism is the divinely instituted process by which sins, when truly repented of, are remitted; that is, forgiven and washed away. All men have sinne...
4. CHAPTER IV.Fore-ordination.--The parts played by Adam and Eve in this sublime tragedy were doubtless cast at the same time that the pre-eminent role was assigned to the Redeemer and Savior...
26. CHAPTER II.Privileges and Requirements.--It was intended that the children of Israel should have "room to dwell;" and it was of the utmost consequence that they should have. They were to b...
21. CHAPTER V.The House of Israel.--The Abrahamic period was signalized by the founding of the house of Israel, of which Abraham is the earthly head; Christ, or Jehovah, the God of Israel, be...
2. CHAPTER II.Gospel Code and Fundamentals.--The gospel, as a code or System of laws and ordinances, is a creation, a work of God; but like all other creations it was organized out of materia...
5. CHAPTER V.Two Creations.--There were two creations--the first spiritual, the second temporal. This truth is taught inferentially in the first and second chapters of Genesis, King James's...
6. CHAPTER VI.In solemn council sat the Gods; From Kolob's height supreme, Celestial light blazed forth afar O'er countless kokaubeam; And faintest tinge, the fiery fringe Of that resplendent...
29. CHAPTER V.And now, a word to the brethren--particularly the young brethren--who will read this book. I have endeavored to impress upon you the relationship that you bear to heaven and to...