THE LATTER DAY PROPHET: Prophets Needed and Should Be Expected--Organism of the Church of Christ--Effects of Obedience to the Doctrines Introduced by Joseph Smith--The Book of Mormon Authentic--Modern Prophecy and Its Fulfilment--By Elder John Nicholson, 200. THE GOSPEL OPENS COMMUNICATION WITH JEHOVAH: Necessity of Adversity--Angels Have Appeared in the Last Days--Heaven--Condition of the World--Paragraphs from a Sermon Delivered by President John Taylor, June 12, 1853, 221. A WORD OF ADVICE: Elders' Authority--Their Attitude Toward Ministers--Rely Upon Spirit of God--Advice to Missionaries--By Elder Parley P. Pratt, in "Millennial Star," 1846, 226. A Prophet of Latter Days. 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--Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 230. {iv} 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--Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 235. 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 Twenty-eight 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--Elder Edwin F. Parry, Liverpool, England, 254.