Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual Religion 324 and 325 Prepared by the Church Educational System Published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Salt Lake City, Utah Send comments and corrections, including typographic errors, to CES Editing, 50 E. North Temple Street, Floor 8, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-2722 USA. E-mail: <[email protected]> Second edition © 1981, 2001 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America English approval: 4/02 Table of Contents Preface . vii Section 21 Maps . viii “His Word Ye Shall Receive, As If from Mine Own Mouth” . 43 Introduction The Doctrine and Covenants: Section 22 The Voice of the Lord to All Men . 1 Baptism: A New and Everlasting Covenant . 46 Section 1 The Lord’s Preface: “The Voice Section 23 of Warning”. 3 “Strengthen the Church Continually”. 47 Section 2 Section 24 “The Promises Made to the Fathers” . 6 “Declare My Gospel As with the Voice of a Trump” . 48 Section 3 “The Works and the Designs . of Section 25 God Cannot Be Frustrated” . 9 “An Elect Lady” . 50 Section 4 Section 26 “O Ye That Embark in the Service The Law of Common Consent . 54 of God” . 11 Section 27 Section 5 “When Ye Partake of the Sacrament” . 55 The Testimony of Three Witnesses . 12 Section 28 Section 6 “Thou Shalt Not Command Him Who The Arrival of Oliver Cowdery . 14 Is at Thy Head”. 57 Section 7 Section 29 John the Revelator . 17 Prepare against the Day of Tribulation . 59 Section 8 Section 30 The Spirit of Revelation . 18 “Your Mind Has Been on the Things of the Earth” . 64 Section 9 “Your Bosom Shall Burn within You”. 20 Section 31 “Govern Your House” . 65 Section 10 God’s Wisdom “Is Greater Than Section 32 the Cunning of the Devil” . 22 The First Mission among the Lamanites . 66 Section 11 “First Seek to Obtain My Word” . 24 Section 33 “Declare My Gospel” . 67 Section 12 Revelation to Joseph Knight Sr. 26 Section 34 A Revelation to Orson Pratt. 69 Section 13 The Restoration of the Aaronic Section 35 Priesthood . 28 “I Have . Prepared Thee for a Greater Work”. 70 Section 14 Revelation to David Whitmer . 29 Section 36 Revelation to Edward Partridge . 72 Sections 15–16 Revelations to John Whitmer and Section 37 Peter Whitmer Jr.. 31 “Ye Shall Go to the Ohio” . 74 Section 17 Section 38 Revelation to the Three Witnesses . 32 “If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear”. 75 Section 18 The Worth of a Soul . 34 Sections 39–40 Revelations to James Covill . 79 Section 19 The Gift of Repentance . 36 Section 41 The First Bishop Is Called . 81 Section 20 The Articles and Covenants of the Section 42 Church . 39 The Law of the Lord . 82 iii Section 43 Section 64 “The Lord Shall Utter His Voice out “Of You It Is Required to Forgive All of Heaven” . 87 Men” . 136 Section 44 Section 65 The Fourth General Church “May the Kingdom of God Go Forth, Conference . 90 That the Kingdom of Heaven May Section 45 Come” . 139 “Looking Forth for the Great Day of Section 66 the Lord” . 91 “You Are Clean, but Not All” . 140 Section 46 Section 67 “Seek Ye Earnestly the Best Gifts”. 98 I Give You a Testimony of the Truth Section 47 of These Commandments . 141 The Importance of Church Records . 102 Section 68 Section 48 Scripture Is the Will, Mind, Word, Ohio: A Temporary Abode . 103 Voice, and Power of God unto Salvation . 143 Section 49 “Preach My Gospel unto the Shakers” . 104 Section 69 Instructions to Preserve Historical Section 50 Records . 147 “That Which Doth Not Edify Is Not of God” . 107 Section 70 The Lord’s Stewards . 149 Section 51 Bishop Edward Partridge and the Law Section 71 of Consecration . 110 “If Any Man Lift His Voice against You” . 150 Section 52 “Let Them Go Two by Two” . 112 Section 72 Duties of a Bishop . 151 Section 53 A Call to Sidney Gilbert to Forsake the Section 73 World . 113 Revision of the Bible . 153 Section 54 Section 74 “Stand Fast in the Office Whereunto I Little Children Are Holy . 155 Have Appointed You” . 114 Section 75 Section 55 “Neither Be Idle but Labor with Your W. W. Phelps Is Called and Chosen . 116 Might” . 156 Section 56 Section 76 The Lord Commands and the Lord The Vision of the Degrees of Glory . 158 Revokes . 117 Section 77 Section 57 Questions and Answers on the Book Independence: Center Place of Zion . 118 of Revelation . 167 Section 58 Section 78 The Land of Zion . 119 Consecration: An Everlasting Covenant . 171 Section 59 “That Thou Mayest More Fully Keep Section 79 Thyself Unspotted from the World” . 124 The Lord Will Bless His Faithful Servants . 173 Section 60 “Thou Shalt Not Idle Away Thy Time Section 80 nor Bury Thy Talents” . 130 “Declare the Things Which Ye Have Heard, and Verily Believe, and Know Section 61 to Be True”. 174 The Lord Has Blessed the Land and Cursed the Waters . 131 Section 81 The Call of Frederick G. Williams . 175 Section 62 “Ye Are Blessed, for the Testimony Ye Section 82 Have Borne” . 132 “I, the Lord, Am Bound When Ye Do What I Say” . 177 Section 63 “For This Is a Day of Warning, and Section 83 Not a Day of Many Words” . 133 The Laws of the Church Concerning Widows and Orphans . 179 iv Table of Contents Section 84 Section 107 The Oath and Covenant of the The Organization of Priesthood Priesthood . 180 Quorums . 262 Section 85 Section 108 Those Who Put Forth Their Hands “to Obedience Brings Blessings . 269 Steady the Ark”. 186 Section 109 Section 86 Prayer of Dedication for the Kirtland The Parable of the Wheat and the Temple . 270 Tares . 189 Section 110 Section 87 Messengers with Keys . 274 War in the Last Days . 192 Section 111 Section 88 The Greatest Treasure . 277 The Olive Leaf. 197 Section 112 Section 89 The Word of the Lord to the The Word of Wisdom . 206 Twelve . 279 Section 90 Section 113 The Oracles of God . 212 Isaiah Interpreted . ..