A Glorious Thought--Should Prophets be Expected in our day?--God's Word Indicates that a Prophet should Come--Prophets sent to Announce all Important Events--Positive Promise of the Lord to send a Messenger--Necessity of Prophets and Apostles in the Church--Church Founded upon Prophets and Apostles--Power given Apostles and Prophets--Object of Inspired Men in the Church-How long they should Remain--Is the Canon of Scripture Full?--Without Modern Revelation Bible Prophecies Cannot be Fulfilled--Treatment of Prophets in Past Ages--Jesus a Stumbling Stone--Many Prophets Rejected--Persecution to Follow all Inspired Teachers--Conclusions Drawn from Scriptures Quoted. CHAPTER II. Was Joseph Smith a Prophet?--Testimony of His Works--Judging by the Fruits--Joseph Smith's Claim--His Claim Compared with Scripture--Predictions that the Gospel should be Restored--Joseph Smith Treated the same as Ancient Prophets--Account of Some of his Works--Bible Prophecies Fulfilled--Church Organization the Same as Formerly--Same Doctrines as in Former Days--The Holy Ghost Received--How to Obtain Proof--Outward Proofs--Testimony of Witnesses--Ancient Prophecies Being Fulfilled--The Gathering of Israel--Gathering Peculiar to Latter-day Saints--Events in the History of the Saints--Words of the Psalmist Fulfilled--Isaiah's Prediction Fulfilled--A Prophecy of Malachi--Salvation for the Dead--Facts Proven. {290} CHAPTER III. Joseph Smith's Works--Evidence of his Inspiration--Scriptural Tests--Prediction of the Angel--None can Stop God's Work--"A Marvelous Work"--Testimony of Disinterested Men--Prophecy about War--Fulfilled 28 years Afterwards--Predicted Men's Lives Would be Spared--The Saints' Exodus Foretold--Gathering Predicted--Joseph Smith as an Expounder of Scripture--Church Organization--All his Works Proclaim him a Prophet. CHAPTER IV.