Volume 16

46 chapters

• Establishment of the Kingdom of God: Permanent Equality Should Be Maintained Among the Saints; Covetousness; Tithing; Consecration; Distinctions
• The Order of Enoch: Study of Law; How to Become Rich
• Testimony: Sickness in Sanpete County; Increase of Crime in the World; The Inevitable Overthrow of the Wicked
• Assistance of the Ladies of The Relief Societies Required in Promoting the Manufacture of Paper and the Printing of Schoolbooks: Light and Easy Labor Now Performed By Men More Adapted to Women; Should Be Self-Sustaining; Frivolities and Fashions of Babylon Should Be Discarded By the Sisters; Poverty of Those Who Follow After Mining
• Friends and Enemies: Object of Gathering; Babylon to Be Forsaken; Prayer; Personality of the Godhead
• Home Manufacture: Offenses Must Needs Come; Zion is Growing in Importance on the Earth; The Kingdom of God is Now Established; Second Coming of Christ; Unpopularity of Our Religion; The Holy Ghost is the Infallible Testimony to the Believer; The Gospel Embraces All Truth
• Unbelief: The Saints Require Constant Instruction; Contrast Between the Gospel of Christ and the Religions of Men; Evil Would Cease Among the Saints If They Would Live Their Religion; Gathering the Poor; Tithing; Knowledge of God; Progress of the Work is Due to the Operations of the Spirit
• Meeting of Adam With His Posterity in the Valley of Adam-Ondi-Ahman: Location of the Valley; The Covenant With Enoch; Records of God's Dealings With Men From the Period of the Creation; Method of Preserving the Records of Ancient Prophets; Christ's Advent Among the Nephites; Fufillment of God's Purposes and the Fullness of Times
• Improved Circumstances of the Saints in Utah: Potency of the Law of Tithing
• Extension of the Utah Northern Railroad: The Building of the Meetinghouse and Other Public Improvements Urged on the People; Faith Made Manifest By Works; Unity in Labor and Cooperation in All Things Pertaining to the Kingdom; Labor Builds Up the Kingdom; Number of Those in the Congregation Acquainted With the Prophet Joseph; Early Experience in the Church; Rewards Will Follow Obedience; Object of the Law of Tithing; Serves the Lord Because of the Purity of Revealed Truth
• Ignorance of the World Concerning Our Faith: Character of Christ's Teachings; Organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is Similar to that of Former-Days; Belief Alone Insufficient; Exhortation to the Saints to Live Their Religion and to Acquire All Useful Knowledge
• The Rise of Zion in the Last Days
• An Account of His Journey to Palestine
• Obedience: By Reason of Their Disobedience, Ancient Israel and the Land of Palestine Were Visited With and Still Remain Under the Curse of God; Tithing a Heavenly Requirement
• Continued Obedience to the Laws of God is Necessary to Insure a Complete Salvation to the Latter-Day Saints: The Disobedience of Ancient Israel is Shown As a Warning to the Present Generation of His People; The Nature and Necessity of the Law of Tithing; The Fewness of Those Who Faithfully Observe that Law
• Altered Circumstances of Gathered Israel: Allurements of Satan at Work; Selfishness and Avarice Should Be Cast Aside; Devotion to the Work of God; The Order of Enoch the Means of Establishing An Equality in Temporal Things; Heavenly Agencies Cooperating With the Saints
• The Order of Enoch
• Purpose of God in Creating Man: Man's Agency; Duties of Those Who Have Entered Into Covenant With God; Reward of Faithfulness; Work to Be Accomplished Before the Second Coming of Jesus; Avoid Evil Associations
• Necessity of Miracles: Belief of the Latter-Day Saints
• The Authority to Preach: It is God Who Has Guided the Work; Glorious Prospects Before the Faithful; Celestial Marriage; Mission to Arizona; Increasing Negligence of the Saints in Attending Meetings; Consequences of Unvirtuous Actions
• The Manifestations of God's Power, in Behalf of His People in Modern Times, Are Different From Those of Former Ages: Consecration; Order of Enoch; Tithing; Stewardships; Redemption of Zion
• The Gospel Incorporates All Truth: Mode of Administering the Sacrament; Abiding Counsel; Heavenly Blessings Are Conditional; Progressiveness of the Work; Plural Marriage; Tithing; Tardiness of the Saints in Observing Practical Duties; Cooperation
• Marriage
• Ordinances that Can Only Be Administered in the Temple: Endowments, Etc.
• Visit of the Presidency to the Northern Settlements
• The Knowledge of God and Mode of Worshiping Him
• Ancient Prophecy, Relating to the Time of the Restitution of All Things, to Be Fulfilled
• Evidences, Relating to the Divine Authenticity of the Bible and Book of Mormon, Compared
• A Word of Exhortation
• The Importance of Living Up to the Knowledge Possessed By, and the Requirements Made of, the Latter-Day Saints, Through the Living Oracles of God
• Affairs in Sanpete County: “One-man Power”; Unity Required Among the People
• The Word of Wisdom: Education
• The Saving Ordinances of the Gospel
• The Character of the Church of Christ: Testimony is Given by the Spirit; Trials to be Encountered and Sacrifices to be Made in Order to Prove the Faith of the Saints; The Love of Wealth
• The Instructions Given Are Intended for All the Saints: The Latter-Day Work An Individual Work; Men and Women Are Responsible for Their Own Acts; Obedience is Essential to Salvation; The Present Sinful Condition of the World the Result of Disobedience; Counsel to the Saints on the Necessity of Living Exclusively for the Building Up of the Kingdom of God
• Temples to Be Built to the Name of the Lord: The Location of Their Erection, and the Purposes for Which They Shall Be Built
• Unchangeableness of the Gospel: God Has Chosen the Weak Things of the World to Confound the Wise; Prophecies Relating to the Latter-Day Work; Joseph Smith's Ministry; Zion to Be Built Up; Baptism for the Dead; The Order of Enoch; Babylonish Fashions
• Our Temporal Interests to Be Directed for the Work of the Lord: Cooperation and Home Manufacture in Box Elder County
• Means Required to Build the Temples: The Word of Wisdom; Unity Needed in Building Up Zion; Sabbath Schools; Journeyings in the Holy Land
• Distinguishing Characteristics Between the Latter-Day Saints and the Various Religious Denominations of Christendom
• Honesty of Purpose Should Actuate All True Believers: Views of Mankind in Relation to God; The Existing Modes of Divine Worship; Ancient Christianity Compared With Modern So-Called Christianity; The Principles of the Gospel
• The Creation: The Seventh Thousand Years, and Events Which Are to Follow the Period of the Millennium
• Revelation on the Judgments of the Lord: Firstfruits of the Resurrection; What Becometh of the Souls of Men; Redemption Universal
• The Stick of Joseph and of Judah: Times of the Gentiles; Apostasy From the Ancient Order; Restoration of the Everlasting Gospel
• The Increased Powers and Capacities of Man in His Future State
• What the Gospel Teaches: Revelation From God Necessary; The Faith and Doctrines of the Latter-Day Saints