[INTRODUCTION]

[PART I.]
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH

[PART II.]
THE APOSTASY

[PART III.]
THE REFORMATION

[PART IV.]
THE RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL

[INDEX]

PART I.
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH.

SECTION I.

1. Birth of Messiah.—Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Savior of the world, was born, most probably, in the year of Rome 753; at a period of the year corresponding to our month of April (see notes 1, 2, end of section). The place of his birth was Bethlehem [Beth-le-hem],[[1]] a small town about four miles south of Jerusalem. The birth-place of Messiah was foretold by Micah [Mi-kah], the prophet, more than seven hundred years before the event, in the following prophecy: