The Restoration of the Gospel

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Osborne J. P. Widtsoe. The Restoration of the Gospel

The Restoration of the Gospel

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FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

The Restoration of the Gospel

I. A RELIGIOUS REVIVAL

II. A VISION OF THE FATHER AND THE SON

III. SEVEN MARKS OF THE GREAT APOSTASY

IV. THE RESTORATION PREDICTED

V. AN ANGEL FLYING

VI. HIDDEN GOSPEL RECORDS

VII. THE LESSER PRIESTHOOD

VIII. THE HIGHER PRIESTHOOD

IX. THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST

X. THE GOSPEL ORDINANCES

XI. THE PLAN OF GOVERNMENT

XII. THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS

XIII. SACRED WRITINGS OF OLD

XIV. A SACRED BOOK OF TODAY

XV. THE KEYS OF GATHERING

XVI. THE FATHERS AND THE CHILDREN

XVII. THE GOSPEL BROTHERHOOD

XVIII. A NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT

XIX. THE VISION OF GLORIES

XX. IN THE MOUTHS OF WITNESSES

XXI. FURTHER WITNESSES TO THE RESTORATION

XXII. THE TEST OF SECTION SIXTY-SEVEN

XXIII. THE TESTIMONY OF MARTYRDOM

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Osborne J. P. Widtsoe

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Such was the first vision—a vision of the Father and the Son. It was the first act in the great drama of the Restoration. Of course, Joseph's friends could scarcely believe that anything so wonderful had happened to him. He related the strange experience to the ministers; but they scoffed at the suggestion of a new revelation. Moreover, they became suddenly possessed of a bitter and inexplicable hatred of the young seer. They made him a public butt of ridicule; they maligned him in their discourses; and they persecuted him when he came among them. For having exercised a remarkable "capacity for individual self-control"; for having sought from the Lord Himself to know the truth; for testifying that he had received the truth in a vision—the boy seer was cast off by his fellow-men and doomed to stand alone. But "I had actually seen a light," he wrote in after years, "and in the midst of that light I saw two personages, and they did in reality speak to me; and though I was hated and persecuted for saying that I had seen a vision, yet it was true; and while they were persecuting me, reviling me, and speaking all manner of evil against me falsely for so saying, I was led to say in my heart. Why persecute me for telling the truth? * * * For I had seen a vision; I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it, neither dared I do it, at least I knew that by so doing I would offend God, and come under condemnation."[B]

[Footnote B: "History of the Church," Vol. I, pp. 6–8.]

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