STATEMENT OF PROMINENT NON-MORMONS: Opinions of the Leading Statesmen of the United States on the Edmunds Law--Gentile Opinions of the Mormon People--Statistics of Crime and Education--Refutation of the Spaulding Story--Judge Summer Howard on the Mountain Meadow Massacre--Rights of Self Government.--By Elder John Morgan, 327. JOSEPH SMITH. WAS HE A PROPHET OF GOD? AN INVESTIGATION AND TESTIMONY: Books of the Bible Given to Meet the Special Condition and Need of the People--Contents of the Pentateuch, the Historical Books, the Poetical Books, the Prophetical Books--Interval of Fifty Years--Revival of Prophecy--Restoration of the Jews--The Last Prophets of the Old Covenant--Conclusions from the Foregoing--The New Testament--The Four Gospels--Gospel According to Matthew, Mark, Luke, St. John--Testimony of the Gospels--The Acts of the Apostles--The Epistles--Prophecies of the New Testament--Difficulties in Ascertaining the Meaning of the Scriptures--Christian Sects an Evidence--Retrospective Evidence--Prospective Evidence--Direct Evidence--Moral Evidence--Peculiarities of the Message--Effects of the Doctrine--Spiritual Evidence.--By Elder J. M. Sjodahl, 350. PIONEER SKETCHES--UTAH IN 1850: By Elder James H. Martin, in the "Contributor," 1890, 429. THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: Its Priesthood, Organization, Doctrines, Ordinances, and History.--By Elder John Jaques, 435. {iv} PLAIN TALKS TO PARENTS: Paragraphs taken from the Writings of Apostle Orson Pratt, in the "Seer." 1853. 453. MY REASONS FOR LEAVING THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND JOINING THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: Apostasy--Officers Necessary in the Church--Gifts of the Holy Ghost--Baptism--Infant Baptism--Baptism for the Dead--Internal Corruption of Early Christian Church--Reformation--History of Mormon Church--Restoration--Book of Mormon.--By R. M. Bryce Thomas, London, England, 458. THE EARLY CHRISTIANS: Letter Written to the Emperor Trajan by Pliny the Younger, while He was Governor of Bithynia. It is the First Connected Account of Christ's Followers that has come to us from a Pagan source, 486. REORGANIZATION WEIGHED: Presidency Permanency--Appointment--Revelation on Permanent Order of Priesthood--Law of Lineage--Ordination.--By German E. Ellsworth, 489. A GOSPEL OUTLINE: A few of the Most Important Scriptural References Bearing on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Arranged in Logical Order, and Designed to give to Missionaries--and all other Students of the Gospel--a Working Knowledge of such Scriptural Quotations as may be Required from the First.--By Elder Nephi Anderson, 503. A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST AND THE FALSE DOCTRINES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.--By Apostle Parley P. Pratt, 517. BAPTISM FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, 526. "GOOD TIDINGS" OF THE NEW AND EVERLASTING GOSPEL: First Principles--Men Judged According to Their Works--Obedience to the Gospel Necessary, 529. A PLEA FOR MODERN REVELATION: By Apostle Orson Pratt, 533.