"While time, or thought, or being lasts,
Or immortality endures."
"GOOD TIDINGS."
OR THE "NEW AND EVERLASTING GOSPEL."
QUESTION.—What is the Gospel?
ANSWER.—There is only one true system of doctrine that can properly be called the Gospel; and that one system is so definite in every point, and so exactly adapted to the situation of sinners, that every person may immediately embrace it wherever it is preached, and by so doing they become saints, or Christians.
The first principle of action required in the Gospel is belief in the name of Jesus Christ, the once crucified and now risen Redeemer.
The second is repentance; which signifies nothing more nor less than the putting away of sins, with humility and meekness before God—feeling sorry for our sins, and a determination to forsake them.
The third is baptism, by immersion in water, in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.
The fourth is the laying on of hands, in the name of Jesus, for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. All who do these things in a proper manner, and under proper authority, are saints; and if they endure to the end they will be saved in the Kingdom of God.