The Articles of Faith / A Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

by James E. Talmage

Church Organization.

1. What is the Church? (Sustain your definition by scriptural records.)

2. What is meant by the Primitive Church?

3. What evidence have you that a general apostasy from the Primitive Church occurred?

4. Show by the scriptures that this apostasy was fore-told. (Give evidence: 1, from the Old Testament; 2, from the New Testament; 3, from the Book of Mormon.)

5. Show that the restoration of the Church to earth was fore-told.

6. Define "priesthood."

7. Name the principal orders of priesthood as revealed.

8. What relationship exists between the Aaronic and the Levitical priesthood?

9. Name the special offices in the Aaronic priesthood, in order, with a statement of the specific duties and authority of each.