An officer was given today and his duties explained; another given at another time, when the development of the work required his services, and his duties explained. After a lapse of years men began to discover that these fragments of government constituted a most elaborate yet simple system--a consistent whole, based on the highest and truest principles of government; a system that while it was suited to the conditions of the church in the earlier years of its existence, yet is capable of answering the needs of the organization should it be so expanded as to fill the earth. This is a fact as astonishing to the world as it is gratifying to the Saints. The church is its own witness that the mind which fashioned it is divine. It is too great in its organization, and yet too simple in its administration to be the creation of an uninspired mind, especially of a mind so narrow in its knowledge and inexperienced in affairs related to government as that of Joseph Smith. No, neither the hand of man {357} nor the mind of man created it; it came from God, and bears the impress of its divine creation. REVIEW. 1. What is priesthood? 2. What is the spirit of the government by the priesthood? 3. For what was the church instituted? 4. What powers and authority appertains unto it? 5. How is the priesthood divided? 6. Why was the higher priesthood named after Melchisedek? 7. What are the powers of the Melchisedek priesthood--of the Aaronic? 8. Enumerate the officers of the respective priesthoods. 9. What constitutes the first presidency of the church? 10. What are the rights and powers of the first presidency? 11. What are the rights and powers of the twelve apostles? 12. What is the mission and calling of the seventies? 13. What are the duties and the special calling of the patriarchs? 14. What are the powers and special duties of the high priests--of elders? 15. What can you say of presidencies in the Aaronic priesthood? 16. What are the privileges and duties of priests?--of teachers?--of deacons? 17. What is the significance of "appendage" in connection with priesthood? 18. What can you say of the territorial divisions of the church? 19. Describe the stake organization--the organization of the ward--of the branch. 20. What institutions are recognized as helps in government? 21. What can you say of the church judiciary system? 22. State how difficulties are to be settled in the church. 23. What are the means of punishment legitimately within the right of the church to exercise? 24. What can you say of the effectiveness of church punishment? 25. What regular conferences are held by the church? 26. What can be said of the church as an ecclesiastical system of government? {358} SECTION VI. Having paused to consider the church as a system of ecclesiastical government, it now remains for us to return to the historical development of the work of the Lord as connected with the dispensation of the fullness of times.