VIII.—DIVINE AUTHORITY.
The World (to the Latter-day Saints):—Do you claim to have received authority from the Lord to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof?
Latter-day Saints:—We do. The Lord has in these last days restored, through the ministering of angels, both the Aaronic and Melchisedek Priesthood, empowering His servants to preach the Gospel, baptize repentant believers for the remission of their sins, confirm them members in His Church, and by prayer and the imposition of hands call down upon them the Holy Ghost.
The World:—Must a man be called of God and divinely appointed before he can preach acceptably the Gospel of Jesus Christ and administer its ordinances?
Latter-day Saints:—He must, as the Apostle Paul and others will testify.