"Seeing Salt Lake City" being an illustrated description of a tour through Salt Lake City on the observation cars of the American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company .. . to preach and administer in the Gospel, un-salaried, at home or abroad, when called upon to do so. TheChurch has innumerable publications, but the four doctrinalstandards are the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrineand Covenants and the Pear! of Great Price, the latter twocontaining the revelations given through the JosephSmith. The Mi rnii n Church government is very complete andeffective. Over the entire body pres
"Seeing Salt Lake City" being an illustrated description of a tour through Salt Lake City on the observation cars of the American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company .. . to preach and administer in the Gospel, un-salaried, at home or abroad, when called upon to do so. TheChurch has innumerable publications, but the four doctrinalstandards are the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrineand Covenants and the Pear! of Great Price, the latter twocontaining the revelations given through the JosephSmith. The Mi rnii n Church government is very complete andeffective. Over the entire body preside three High Priests,known as the President and his counselors, or as the Council of the First Presidency. Xext in authority to themare the Twelve Apostles, whose special mission is to preach the Gospel and regulate the affairs of the Churchin all the world, under the direction of the First Presi lency. Whenever the latter Council is dissolved—whichis invariably the case when the President dies — the Twelve Apostle- preside until another First Presidencyis organized. The numbers of these two councils are all sustained a- Prophets, Seers and Revelators, but. HYRUM SMITH. Brother cf the Prophet, and father ofJoseph F. Smith, the present Presidentof the Mormon Church. Assassinatedwith Joseph at Carthage. only one of them — the president—nas the right to reeeive revelations, voice new doctrines or establishgeneral policies for the guidance and government of the Church. Next to the Apostolic Council are theFirst Seven Presidents, who preside over a great body of Priesthood called Seventies, assistants to theApostles. The Seventies, in the absence of the First Presidency and Twelve, would preside over the Churchuntil the higher councils were reorganized. The other general authorities are the Irc-idm:.; Patriarch whogives blessings to the people, and the Presiding Bishopric, these High Priests whose special ministry is intemporal things. All these authorities when chosen, ar
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