[13]. D. & C. 84:6-17. See also 107:40-52.
[14]. D. & C. 13. Ib. 128:20.
[15]. Ib. 68:4.
[16]. D. & C. 121:41-43.
[17]. Ib. vv. 36,37.
[18]. Matt. 25:21-46.
[19]. Hist. Ch. Vol.3, p. 385.
ARTICLE TWENTY-NINE.
Church Government
An Incomparable System.—The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is conceded, even by many outside its pale, to be a most admirable and most thorough system of government. It ought to be; for it is a product of divine wisdom. The Church on Earth is the counterpart, so far as mortal conditions will permit, of the Church in Heaven, as beheld in vision by Joseph the Seer.[[1]] While the Church founded by him is not yet perfect, it is approximately so, and is destined to attain that condition. It is doubtful that the Church of Christ in any former age had so complete an organization as it possesses at the present time. This wonderful scheme of spiritual-temporal government was revealed from above, and established here below, that the Lord's will might be done on earth even as it is done in heaven.