Jesus Appeared Unto The Ancient

At Various Times During The Last Four Thousand Years God Has Asserted His Rights And Endeavoured To Establish His Own Authority, His Own Laws, And His Own Government Among The Children Of Men

Do Not Suffer Any Man To Baptize Or Minister Unto You, Unless God Has Spoken Unto Him By The Voice Of His Servants, And Authorized Him To Minister In His Name

I Discover That Some Of The Eastern Papers Represent Me As A Great Blasphemer, Because I Said, In My Lecture On Marriage, At Our Last Conference, That Jesus Christ Was Married At Cana Of Galilee, That Mary, Martha, And Others Were His Wives, And That He Begat Children.

An Order Of Government, Established By Such An All-wise, Powerful Being, Must Be Good And Perfect, And Must Be Calculated To Promote The Permanent Peace, Happiness, And Well-being Of All His Subjects

On The 1st Day Of December, 1830, I Was Confirmed, And In Accordance With The Word Of The Lord I Was Ordained An Elder Under The Hands Of The Prophet