---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 8
published: 1914-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Joseph Smith, "The Articles of Faith," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 8 (June 1914): 703–704.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1708unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1708unse
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1708unse
  publication_year: 1914
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Articles of Faith

— ;

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 orchnances of the

Gospel are                  —

First, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ

:

Second, Re-

;

pentance Third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins

;

Fourth, 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, evan-

gelists, 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    translated correctly we also believe the Book of Mormon

is                               ;

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.

n.             We

claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God

according to the dictates of our own 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.

JosEPPi Smith.