This book was revealed to him, and he translated it by the gift and power of God. It is an inspired history of ancient America, and contains the fullness of the Gospel. It is the American Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH. Joseph Smith received divine authority through the ministration of angels to teach the Gospel and administer the ordinances thereof. He established again in the earth the Church of Jesus Christ, organizing it by the will and commandment of God on the 6th day of April, 1830. He also received commission to gather Israel and establish Zion on this land of America; to erect temples and perform all ordinances therein both for the living and the dead; and prepare the way for the glorious coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to reign on earth. The contents of the tablet on the east side of the base of the Prophet's statue are these gems from his teachings: TRUTH GEMS. The glory of God is intelligence. It is impossible for a man to be saved in ignorance. Whatever principles of intelligence we attain unto in this life will rise with us in the resurrection. There is a law irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world upon which all blessings are predicated; and when we obtain any blessing from God it is by obedience to that law on which it is predicated. This is the work and glory of God: to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. Adam fell that man might be; and men are that they might have joy. The intelligence of spirits had no beginning, neither will it have an end. Jesus was in the beginning with the Father: man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be. The spirit and body is the soul of man; and the resurrection from the dead is the redemption of the soul. It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the character of God; and to know that man, (as Moses) may converse with Him as one man converses with another. {XLV} This message of the Prophet, and these doctrines of the east bronze tablet, together with other doctrines taught by him in this PERIOD I of our CHURCH HISTORY, and to be found scattered through the six volumes now published of that history, await only the mind of some God-inspired Spencer to cast them into synthetical form--to be adequately presented and witnessed--to constitute Mormonism both the Religion and the Philosophy of modern times--to bring to pass and to glorify the Golden Age of the long-promised Millennium of Christian hope. Footnotes: