--- title: The Articles of Faith description: "1899 book by James E. Talmage, a Mormon apostle, written at the request of the Mormon Church's First Presidency: twenty-four lectures on the thirteen Articles of Faith, with notes, an outline for class review, and an index." authors: - Talmage, James Edward collections: - theology tags: - theology - doctrine - 20th-century - mormon-writings - articles-of-faith published: "1899" publisher: The Deseret News publisher_place: Salt Lake City edition: First edition (Salt Lake City, 1899) language: en type: book reference: 'James E. Talmage, *The Articles of Faith* (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1899), "The Articles of Faith."' source: url: https://archive.org/details/articlesoffaiths00talm2 identifier: articlesoffaiths00talm2 scan: Harold B. Lee Library (Brigham Young University) copy of the 1899 Deseret News edition, Internet Archive transcription: OCR text of the 1899 scan, with line-break hyphens joined, running heads and page numbers removed and obvious scan errors corrected; printed pagination kept as page markers. Footnotes are kept as bracketed notes after the paragraph they follow. Not proofread against the page images. curator_note: The 1899 first edition, before later revisions; treated as a Mormon primary source, included for historical and doctrinal study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: 1899 US publication (Salt Lake City, The Deseret News; copyright notice of 1899); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/articlesoffaiths00talm2 publication_year: 1899 note: Publication year of the edition used is 1899; any modern rights notice in the Internet Archive metadata does not apply to this 1899 text. --- # The Articles of Faith OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER- DAY SAINTS. 1 We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. 2 We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression. 3\. We believe that through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. 4\. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: — (1) Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; (2) Repentance; (3) Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; (4) Laying on of Hands for the Gift of the Holy Ghost. 5\. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands, by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof. 6\. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, viz: apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, etc. 7\. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, etc. 8\. We believe the Bible to be the word of God, as far as it is translated correctly; We also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God. 9\. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. 10\. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; That Zion will be built upon this [the American] continent; That Christ will reign personally upon the earth: and, That the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory. 11\. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may. 12\. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law. 13\. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul, We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.— Joseph Smith.