Before the Bar of God.--When the Son of Man, sitting upon "the throne of his glory," shall require of all nations and of all men a final accounting, and shall put to them the crucial question: "How did you treat my servants whom I sent unto you?" happy the nation or the man who can reply: "Lord, I showed them the respect to which they were entitled--I honored them as I would have honored Thee." Warning and Exhortation.--Grievous the sin and heavy the penalty incurred by those who mistreat the servants of the Master. But more grievous and more weighty still, the sin and punishment of those who betray them. "See to it," says the Prophet to the Elders of the Church, "that ye do not this thing, lest innocent blood be found upon your skirts, and you go down to hell. All other sins are not to be compared to sinning against the Holy Ghost and proving a traitor to the brethren." [19] Again that ancient admonition, sounding down the centuries, "Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm!" blending with the Savior's solemn warning to the world: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto Me." Footnotes 1. Hist. Ch. Vol. 4, p. 207; D. & C. 107:1-20. 2. D. & C. 29:34, 35. 3. Gen. 14:18; Heb. 7:1-21. 4. Hist. Ch. Vol. 4, p.207. 5. 1 Sam. 13:9-14; 2 Sam. 6:6, 7; 2 Chron. 26:18-21; Heb. 5:4. 6. Hist. Ch. Vol. 4. pp. 208, 209. 7. Heb. 3:1. 8. D. & C. 107:2-4. 9. Abr. 3:27; John 14:24. 10. Ib. p. 386. 11. Ib.p. 386. 12. Ib. p. 386. 13. D. & C. 84:6-17. See also 107:40-52. 14. D. & C. 13. Ib. 128:20. 15. Ib. 68:4. 16. D. & C. 121:41-43. 17. Ib. vv. 36,37. 18. Matt. 25:21-46. 19. Hist. Ch. Vol.3, p. 385. ARTICLE TWENTY-NINE. Church Government An Incomparable System.--The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is conceded, even by many outside its pale, to be a most admirable and most thorough system of government. It ought to be; for it is a product of divine wisdom. The Church on Earth is the counterpart, so far as mortal conditions will permit, of the Church in Heaven, as beheld in vision by Joseph the Seer. [1] While the Church founded by him is not yet perfect, it is approximately so, and is destined to attain that condition. It is doubtful that the Church of Christ in any former age had so complete an organization as it possesses at the present time. This wonderful scheme of spiritual-temporal government was revealed from above, and established here below, that the Lord's will might be done on earth even as it is done in heaven.