COMPREHENSIVE SALVATION, OR THE GOSPEL TO LIVING AND DEAD: First Principles—Authority—Miraculous Gifts—Organization—Apostasy—Restoration—The Gospel Preached to the Spirits of the Departed—Different Degrees of Glory—Turning the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children, and the Children to the Fathers—By John Nicholson, [174].
THE MEANS OF ESCAPE, OR, EXISTING EVILS AND THEIR CURE: Christ's Second Coming—Restoration—Visions of the Prophet—Priesthood Restored—Persecution—Growth of the Church—Missionary Work—The Gathering—By Elder John Nicholson, [195].
THE LATTER DAY PROPHET: Prophets Needed and Should Be Expected—Organism of the Church of Christ—Effects of Obedience to the Doctrines Introduced by Joseph Smith—The Book of Mormon Authentic—Modern Prophecy and Its Fulfilment—By Elder John Nicholson, [200].
THE GOSPEL OPENS COMMUNICATION WITH JEHOVAH: Necessity of Adversity—Angels Have Appeared in the Last Days—Heaven—Condition of the World—Paragraphs from a Sermon Delivered by President John Taylor, June 12, 1853, [221].
A WORD OF ADVICE: Elders' Authority—Their Attitude Toward Ministers—Rely Upon Spirit of God—Advice to Missionaries—By Elder Parley P. Pratt, in "Millennial Star," 1846, [226].
A Prophet of Latter Days.
A GLORIOUS THOUGHT: Should Prophets Be Expected in Our Day—God's Word Indicates that a Prophet Should Come—Prophets Sent to Announce All Important Events—Positive Promise of the Lord to Send a Messenger—Necessity of Prophets and Apostles in the Church—Church Founded Upon Prophets and Apostles—Power Given Apostles and Prophets—Object of Inspired Men in the Church—How Long They Should Remain—Is the Canon of Scripture Full—Without Modern Revelation Bible Prophecies Cannot Be Fulfilled—Treatment of Prophets in Past Ages—Jesus a Stumbling Stone—Many Prophets Rejected—Persecution to Follow All Inspired Teachers—Conclusions Drawn from Scriptures Quoted—Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, [230].
WAS JOSEPH SMITH A PROPHET? Testimony of His Works—Judging by the Fruits—Joseph Smith's Claim—His Claim Compared with Scripture—Predictions that the Gospel Should Be Restored—Joseph Smith Treated the Same as Ancient Prophets—Account of Some of His Works—Bible Prophecies Fulfilled—Church Organization the Same as Formerly—Same Doctrines as in Former Days—The Holy Ghost Received—How to Obtain Proof—Outward Proofs—Testimony of Witnesses—Ancient Prophecies Being Fulfilled—The Gathering of Israel—Gathering Peculiar to Latter-Day Saints—Events in the History of the Saints—Words of the Psalmist Fulfilled—Isaiah's Prediction Fulfilled—A Prophecy of Malachi—Salvation for the Dead—Facts Proven—Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, [235].
JOSEPH SMITH'S WORKS: Evidence of His Inspiration—Scriptural Tests—Prediction of the Angel—None Can Stop God's Work—"A Marvelous Work"—Testimony of Disinterested Men—Prophecy About War—Fulfilled Twenty-eight Years Afterwards—Predicted Men's Lives Would Be Spared—The Saints' Exodus Foretold—Gathering Predicted—Joseph Smith as an Expounder of Scripture—Church Organization—All His Works Proclaim Him a Prophet—Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, [254].
THE BOOK OF MORMON: An Evidence of the Inspiration of Joseph Smith—Its Purport—Impossible to Write Without Divine Aid—Prophecies in the Book of Mormon—A Bible! A Bible!—Isaiah's Prophecy—Book Gives a Test of Its Truth—Attested by Direct Evidence—Testimony of Three Witnesses—Testimony of Witnesses Unchanged—Testimony of Eight Witnesses—Secular Proof of the Book of Mormon—Colonists from the Tower of Babel—Origin Before the Christian Era—Of Hebrew Origin—Indian Customs—Indian Practice Resembling the Passover—Tradition of a Sacred Book—Acquainted with the Old Testament Record—Tradition of Moses—Tradition of Eve—Tradition of the Flood—Led by Youngest Brother—Engraved on Plates of Metal—Egyptian Writings—Evidences of Advanced Civilization—Ruins Discovered—Indians All of One Origin—Ruins in Yucatan—Ancient Glass Jar—A Ruined City—Ancient Coins and Implements—Destruction at the Time of the Crucifixion—Ruins on the Ridge of a Mountain—Destroyed by the Action of Heat—Remains Found Under Lava Beds—Discovery of a Hidden City—Evidences of Great Eruptions—The Messiah Known to the Ancient Inhabitants of America—The Cross as an Emblem—Knowledge of the Godhead—Tradition of the Christ—Strong Proofs of the Truth of the Book of Mormon—Conclusion—Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, [260].