Produced by the Mormon Texts Project, http://bencrowder.net/books/mtp. Volunteers: Benjamin Bytheway, Meridith Crowder, Ben Crowder, Cameron Dixon, Eric Heaps, Tod Robbins, David Van Leeuwen. A VOICE OF WARNING AND INSTRUCTION TO ALL PEOPLE, OR, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FAITH AND DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. By PARLEY P. PRATT. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.--_Isaiah xlii, 9_. Produce your cause, saith the Lord, bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.--_Isaiah xli, 24_. ELEVENTH EDITION. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: DESERET NEWS COMPANY, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, 1881. CONTENTS. Preface to the Second European Edition Preface to the First American Edition CHAPTER I. On Prophecy already Fulfilled. CHAPTER II. On the Fulfilment of Prophecy yet future. CHAPTER III. The Kingdom of God. CHAPTER IV. The Book of Mormon--Origin of the American Indians, etc. CHAPTER V. The Resurrection of the Saints, and the Restoration of all things spoken by the Prophets. CHAPTER VI. The dealings of God with all Nations in regard to Revelation. CHAPTER VII. A Contrast between the Doctrine of Christ, and the False Doctrines of the nineteenth century. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EUROPEAN EDITION. When the following Work was first published in America, in 1837, it was but little known, and seemed to meet with little or no encouragement. Months passed away, and very few copies were sold or read. But, to the astonishment of the author, it worked itself into notice more and more, by the blessing of God, and by virtue of its own real merits; till, in two years, the first edition, consisting of three thousand copies, was all sold, and many more were called for. A new edition was published in 1839, consisting of two thousand five hundred copies; these were also disposed of. Other three editions have since been published, making in all thirteen thousand copies now disposed of, and the demand is still increasing both in America and Europe. It has already found its way into most of the American States, and into the provinces of the Canadas, as well as many parts of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. It has visited the cottages of the humble, and the parlors of the great; and from the best information we have on the subject, very few have risen from its perusal without a deep and settled conviction of the truth of its principles. The author has now in his possession the testimony of hundreds of people, from different states and nations, all bearing witness that this Work has been a means, in the hands of God, of saving them from infidelity, from sectarian error and delusion, and of guiding them into the light of TRUTH.