Volume 23

43 chapters

• The Preaching and Practice of the Gospel: Visitations of Angels, Etc.
• The Indians: The Influence of the Elders Among Them in the Interest of Peace, Etc.
• The Settling of Southern Utah: Building of the Temple, Etc.
• Travels of the First Presidency and the Twelve: Temporal and Spiritual Condition of the Saints; Their Educational Progress; Temple Building, Its Object; Organization of the Priesthood, Its Duties; The Gathering and General Duties of the Saints of God, Their Ultimate Destiny
• The Dispensation of the Fulness of Times: Restoration of the Gospel; Duties of the Priesthood; The Future of Zion; Inconsistency of the Saints' Persecutors; Incidents of Church History, Etc.
• The Southern States Mission: Faithfulness of Young Elders; Opposition to the Truth; Gradual Spread of the Gospel; Changes in Religious and Political Sentiment; Hard Times in the South; Vice and Degradation; The Colorado Settlements
• The Gospel's Restoration: Its Priesthood and Principles; The Saints Misrepresented; The “Mormon” War; Comparative Statistics; The Impending Judgments of God; Duties of the Saints; A Warning to Their Oppressors; The Wickedness of the World; Exhortation to Righteousness
• The Laws of God and the Laws of the Land: The Saints An Obedient and Law-Abiding People; Their Persecutions Productive of Prosperity; Their Past and Prospective Experience and Eventual Triumph
• Man's Free Agency: The Gospel Restored; Opposition to God's Work; Increase of Wickedness; The World Warned of Retribution; The Saints Exhorted to Righteousness
• The Last Dispensation: The Saints' Religion Practical; Hostility to God's Work; Divisions in Sectarian Churches; Unity of the Saints; Early History of Utah; “Mormon” Thrift and Enterprise; The One-Man Power; God's People a Free People; Increase of Corruption; The Saints Hopeful
• Peace and Prosperity of the Saints: Growing Importance of the Church From Its Organization; The Work of God and Not of Man; God's Blessing Upon the Righteous; His Curse Upon the Unrighteous; The Liberty of the Gospel; The Saints Preserved From War and Bloodshed; Their Union and Universal Goodwill
• The Lord's Work: Warfare not Required of the Saints; An Overruling Providence; Corruption and Perjury in High Places; Violation of the Constitution; False Accusations Against the Saints; Words of Comfort and Exhortation
• Modern Fulfillment of Ancient Prophecy: Rise of Joseph the Prophet; Organization of the Church of Christ; Persecutions of the Saints; Their Undying Faith in God; The World Proving Joseph Smith a Prophet; Satan Busily at Work; The Gospel of Liberty and Humanity
• Liberty of Conscience: Man Accountable to God; The Fall of Adam and Eve Preordained; Redemption and Resurrection; The Gospel in Ancient and in Modern Times; Fulfillment of Prophecy; A Falsehood Refuted; Patriarchal Marriage; Its Purity and Its Eternal Purpose
• How the Gospel is Preached By the Elders: Value of the Training They Receive; Historical Compilation of Experiences of the Elders Would Be Interesting; Prospects of the Rising Generation; Faith of the Ancients Restored; Fulfillment of the Destiny of the Church Cannot Be Hindered; The Saints Purified By Trial
• Human Rights: Origin, Duty and Destiny of Man; Correct Knowledge Due to Divine Revelation; Truth Ever Absolute and Unwelcome to the World; God's Authority Unrecognized; The World's Present State and Future Prospects
• Ancient and Modern Israel Compared: God's Work Progressive; His Overruling Providence
• How to Find Out God: How Man May Know Himself; Necessity of Divine Revelation; How and By What Means Received; Testimony of the Latter-Day Saints; The Nature and Origin of Man; His Mortal Experience and Its Purpose; The Fate of the Wicked; The Lot of the Righteous; Eternal Life and How It May Be Attained
• The Preaching of the Gospel in the Latter Days: Signs Promised to Follow Believers As Anciently; The Gospel in Force Upon All the World; Sincerity No Excuse for Willful Disobedience; A Positive Personal Testimony Attainable Through Obedience; Unauthorized Administrations Unrecognized of God; New Revelation Essential and Desirable; True and False Charity
• Man a Mortal and An Immortal Being: Temporal and Spiritual Death; Redemption Through the Atonement and Gospel of Christ; Sons of Perdition; Man's Pre-Existent, Disembodied and Resurrected States; Jesus Christ the Great Example; The Righteous to Be Conformed to His Image; His Similarity to the Father; His Mission not Completed at His Death; His Resurrection and the Redemption of Humanity
• The Death of the Faithful No Cause for Mourning: The Perpetuity of the Priesthood; Probationary Ingress and Egress; All Knowledge Comes From God; Temple Building and Its Purposes; Exhortations to the Saints
• God's Peculiar People Called a Kingdom of Priests: Their Ministry Thus Foreshadowed; The Melchizedek and Aaronic Priesthoods; Their Restoration in the Latter Days; The Preaching of the Gospel; Ephraim and Manasseh; The Lineage of the Prophet Joseph Smith; Predestination and Election; The Dispersion and Gathering of Israel; The Priesthood Endless, Administering in Time and Eternity; The Blindness of the Gentiles to the Things of God; The Results of Persecution; The Future of the Faithful
• The Establishment of Character: Traits that Are Admirable; How to Have Influence With Heaven; Why Men Should Do Right; The Cultivation of Spiritual Gifts; The Things of God Must Be Sought After; Fasting, Prayer, Devotion and Sacrifice
• The Mission of the Holy Ghost: Commissions of the Ancient and Modern Apostles; Unbelief, Division, Superstition and Fanaticism; Sincerity No Evidence of Truth, But Always Entitled to Respect; Marriage Commanded of God and Forbidden By Man; Moral Courage and Anti-“Mormon” Legislation; Righteous and Unrighteous Dominion; The Purity of the Elders of Israel; The Worship of Wealth and Its Poverty; Public opinion and Independence of Character; The Latter-Day Saints Never Destined to Be Slaves; Persecution and Its Consequences; Exhortation to Loyalty, Long-suffering, Kindness, Integrity and Righteousness
• The Temple at Logan: The Liquor Traffic; Church Organization; Duties of Its Officers; Treatment of Transgressors; An Interesting Anecdote and Its Moral; Various Offices and Callings of the Priesthood, Etc.; The Guidance of God; Honor Due to His Priesthood; Growth and Progress of God's Work; Its Opposition By the World; The Regeneration of the Lamanites and General Salvation of Man
• The Marriage Question: Lawful Concubinage and Its Unlawful Counterfeit; Various Views Concerning the Union of the Sexes; Plural Marriage Among the Latter-day Saints; The Example and Character of Abraham; Exhortation to Justice and Equity; Christian Crimes in New England; Oppression With Its Real and Pretended Object; Fruits of “Mormonism”; Prisons and Penalties Powerless to Stop the Lord's Work; The God-given Boon of Liberty to Man; The Final Triumph of His Cause
• The Work of God and Building Up of Zion: Preaching, Temple Building and Other Duties; Corruption and Hypocrisy of Christendom; Rights of the Latter-Day Saints As American Citizens; The Saints Counseled to Be Pure, Honest, Upright, Charitable, Long-suffering and Forgiving; Difference Between Bigamy and Polygamy; Unjust Legislation and American Justice; God for Israel As Long As Israel is for Right
• Dependence Upon the Holy Spirit: The Gathering and Its Object; Sacrifices Required of the Saints; The Risk of Rejecting the Testimony of the Truth; Profession and Practice, Pretensions and Principle; Impending Trials and Troubles, Trust in God; Time and Eternity, Body and Spirit; “More Blessed Are They that Believe and Have not Seen”; The Spirit of Truthful Intuition the Safest Guide; Exhortation, Counsel and Instruction
• The Gospel of Christ or Ancient Christianity: Its Growth and Progress Despite of Opposition; Christ's Sermon on the Mount; Similarity of Ancient, to Modern Opposition to the Truth; The Early Apostasy and the Gospel's Latter-Day Restoration; The Object of Anti-“Mormon” Legislation not the Suppression of Immorality; The Saints Willing to Abide the Issue
• The Mighty Mission of the Saints: God's Dealings With the World in Ancient and Modern Times; God's Authorship of Creation and Right to Rule; Man's Agency, the Gospel and the Gathering; Its Attempted Suppression, Contrasted Statesmanship; The Mother of Harlots and Her Daughters; The Political Situation in Utah; The Rights of Man, the Supporters and Subverters of Law and Order; Religious Intolerance and Political Injustice; The Latter-day Saints the Future Saviors of America; The Edmunds Act and Its Unjust Operation; Reverend Falsifiers and Their Dupes; Exhortation to the Priesthood and the People
• Persecution Fulfilling Prophecy: Vermont, the Birthplace of Prominent “Mormons” and Their Oppressors; The Faith and Integrity of the Saints to Be Tested; Peace Among God's People a Peculiar Characteristic; In Time of Trouble Trust in God, “Watch the Captain”; The Acts of the Utah Commissioners; God's Overruling Power and Wisdom; A Great Work Requires Great Sacrifice; Non-Performance of Duty No Cause for Self-Gratulation; Man's Penalties More Endurable Than God's; The True Saviors of the Latter-day Saints; Better to Disobey Man Than God; The Danger of Disobedience, of Diverse Temporal Interests and Class Distinctions; All God's Gifts Intended for the General Benefit and Blessing
• Love for and Forgiveness of Enemies: Such Things Possible Without Association and Assimilation; The Saints Exhorted Against Bartering Away Their Inheritances; The Idolatry of Riches; Man Cannot Build Up Zion, But God Can and Will
• The Revelations of the Holy Spirit: Sacrifice Brings Forth Salvation, Episode of Queen Esther; Where Knowledge is Given Obedience is Required; Noah and the Antediluvians, Penalty of Disobedience; The Knowledge Which Comforts the People of God, the Skepticism of the World; The Testimony of the Latter-day Saints; The Indestructibility of “Mormonism”; God Will Overrule and Deliver, If the Saints Will Do Their Duty
• The “Twin Relics,” Slavery and Polygamy: Confounding of Polygamy With Bigamy, “Christian” Statesmanship; Joseph Smith's Proposition for the Abolition of Slavery; The Great Rebellion, Church Division; The Bible and Polygamy, Origin of Monogamy; The Work of God in the Latter Days, the Mission of Ephraim; The Ten Tribes and Scattered Israel, the Book of Mormon; Present Persecution and Future Prospects of the Saints
• ”Mormonism” As True Now As Ever: Many Called But Few Chosen; God's People to Be Tried and Tested; Rapid Growth of His Kingdom; The Blindness of the World; Animosity of Satan; Blessings Cannot Be Withheld From the Faithful; Exhortation Against Covetousness and Other Evils; Ordeals Ordained From the Beginning; The Reward of the Faithful
• Tithes and Offerings: Consecrations and Stewardships; The Law of the Lord to the Latter-day Saints; The Meaning of “Surplus Property”; Tithes and Offerings in Ancient Times; The Year of Jubilee or Release; The Importance of Paying Tithing; God the Giver of Every Good Gift; Tithes and Offerings His Due
• Man's Natural Spirit and the Spirit of God: Our Relationship With Him; His Dealings in the Latter Days; What is Expected of the Saints; Their Position and Labors Among the Nations; Christ the Example to All His Followers; Words of Counsel to Priesthood and People
• Hardship the Heritage of the Saints: The Necessity of Trial Forgiveness of Enemies; Inspired Dreams, “Get the Spirit of God”; The Great Work Expected of the Saints; Labors Among the Lamanites
• Men Powerless Except as God Permits: Ordeals Necessary to Purify; Zion Will Triumph
• The Lord Interested in the Salvation of the Whole Human Family: His Plans, Purposes and Dealings All to that End; Necessity of Charity, Love, Union, Etc., in the Church of Christ; The Logan Temple and a Prophetic Glimpse at Its Future
• Revealed Religion and Man-Made Methods of Worship: Only One True and Acceptable Way to Worship God; Ancient and Modern Revelations Corroborate Each Other; God's Spirit the Light and Life of the Whole World; Men Generally Choose Darkness Rather Than Light; The Coming Forth of the Light in the Latter Days; Joseph Smith and His Doctrines; The Speaker's Personal Experience; The Operations of the Spirit; The Way to Obtain Knowledge From God; The Necessity of Priesthood and Church Government; The Head of the Church God's Mouthpiece to the Church; The Perfection, Beauty, and Harmony of the Lord's Work
• The Power and Authority of the Priesthood Continuous: Pseudo-Prophets and Their Revelations; Ordination Prerequisite to Action in Any Office; Joseph Smith the Head of this Dispensation; The Twelve Ordained By Him to Bear Off the Kingdom; Joseph's Legal Successor and Brigham's; The Priesthood, As It Now Exists, the Rightful Authority of God on Earth
• Why the Saints Meet Together: Their Pretensions; What Their Profession Implies; No Right to Sit in Judgment on the World; All Children of a Common Father; Many Good Men Inspired By the Spirit of God Who Did not Possess the Gift of the Holy Ghost; How Joseph Smith Obtained Knowledge; The Gospel; What the Savior Required; Operations of the Holy Ghost; What is Required of the Saints; Their Feelings; Duty of Missionaries; National Feelings Buried in Embracing the Gospel; Relationship to God; Destiny of the Faithful; What Have Religionists of the World to Offer? Character of the Would-Be Reformers; Rights to Be Contended For; Corrupt Practices Condemned