The Atonement and the Resurrection--Adam and Christ--Why a Law was Given unto Adam--The Results of Disobedience to that Law--Testimony of our First Parents--"Adam fell that Man might be"--The Fall a Necessary Portion of the Plan of Salvation--God's Plan a Merciful Plan--The Plan of Lucifer--Man's Free Agency--The Chain Complete. CHAPTER XVIII. Christ as the Son of God--A Comparison between His Position, Glory, etc., and those of other Sons of God--His Recognition by the Father--Christ called the Very Eternal Father. CHAPTER XIX. Man as Man--His Excellency and His Limitations--Salvation and Eternal Progression Impossible without the Atonement--In Christ _only_ can All be made Alive. CHAPTER XX. Christ to be Subject to Man--His Descent below all Things--Man's Condition had there been no Atonement--The Sons of God--Man's Inability to Save Himself--Christ's Glory before the World Was-- Necessity for an Infinite Atonement--The Father and Son have Life in Themselves. CHAPTER XXI. The Relation of the Atonement to Little Children--Jesus Assumes the Responsibility of Man's Transgression, and Bears the Weight of his Sins and Sufferings--The Inferior Creatures and Sacrifice--The Terrors and Agonies of Christ's Passion and Death--The Tribulations, Earthquakes, etc., when He gave up the Ghost--Universal Nature Trembles--The Prophecies of Zenos and Enoch--The Testimony of the Centurion--Heirship, and the Descent of Blessings and Curses. CHAPTER XXII. The Operations of the Priesthood in the Heavens and upon the Earth, in Time and Eternity--The Heirs of the Celestial Kingdom--Those who Die without Law--The Judges of the Earth--Priests and Kings--Christ the King of Kings--Condition of Patriarch Joseph Smith, Apostle David Patten and Others--Moses and Elias--The Visits of Angels and their Testimonies--Peter, James and John--The Angel in the Book of Revelation. CHAPTER XXIII. The Laws of God Unchangeable, Universal and Eternal--Examples and Definitions--Evolutionists--Kingdoms and Light--Christ the Creator, etc.--Deviations from General Laws--Every Kingdom has a Law Given. CHAPTER XXIV. The Results of the Atonement--The Debt Paid--Justice and Mercy-- Extracts from the Teachings of Alma and Others. CHAPTER XXV. The Resurrection--The Universality of the Atonement--The Promises to those who Overcome--The Gospel--Its First Principles--Faith, Repentance, Baptism and the Gift of the Holy Ghost--Its Antiquity--It is Preached in Various Dispensations, from Adam until the Present--The Final Triumph of the Saints. THE MEDIATION AND ATONEMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. CHAPTER I. Introductory--Christ's Testimony with regard to His Sufferings-- Christ came to do the Will of His Father--The Testimony of the Father at His Baptism and Transfiguration.