_4. The Voice of God and the Voice of the People in Church Government:_ Thus the church was organized; and in that organization we see the operation of two mighty principles--the voice of God; the consent of the people. At the time that Joseph and Oliver received instruction to ordain each other to be elders of the church, they were told to defer their ordination until such time as would be practicable to get their brethren who had been and who would be baptized assembled together: for they must have the sanction of their brethren before they ordained each other elders of the Church; and their brethren must decide by vote whether they would accept them (Joseph and Oliver) as spiritual teachers. Thus, notwithstanding Joseph and Oliver had been ordained apostles under the hands of Peter, James and John, and had doubtless re-ordained each other as already stated, yet when it came to being ordained Elders of the church, and made the spiritual leaders of it, it must be done by the common consent of the church; and thus early we see enforced that law which says: All things shall be done by common consent in the church, by much prayer and faith. But no sooner was the church organized than a prophet, a seer, a translator, is appointed and the church commanded to give heed to his words, and to receive them as coming from the mouth of the Lord himself. Here in the very inception of the church organization is clearly established the great truth, the grand principle, that in the government of the church there is to be a union of the voice of God and the consent or voice of the people. Not _vox populi, vox Dei;_ nor _vox Dei, vox populi;_ but _vox Dei et vox populi._[A] (Outlines, pp. 319-21.) [Footnote A: The voice of God and the voice of the people.] LESSON XLIII. (Scripture Reading Exercise.) DOCTRINAL AND ORGANIC DEVELOPMENT (Note 1). ANALYSIS. I. The Name of the Church: 1. The Church of Christ. 2. The Church of the Latter Day Saints. 3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. II. The first officers of the Church: 1. Elders. 2. Priests. 3. Teachers. 4. Deacons. III. Subsequent additions of officers and Councils. 1. The Presidency of the Church. 2. High Priests. 3. Bishops. 4. Standing High Councils. 5. Councils of the Seventy. REFERENCES. History of the Church, Vol. II p. 79, 62--See title of minutes as also minutes and footnote; also Ibid pp. 79, 249. Doc. & Cov. Sec. cxv. and History of the Church Vol. III, pp. 23-4 and note 2, note 1. Doc. & Cov. Sec. xx. New Witness for God, ch. xxiv. Doc. & Cov. Sec. xx; 65-67. Also Ibid Secs, lxxxiv, cvii; cxxiv, (Presidency.) Doc. & Cov. Sec. xx; 2, 3. History of the Church Vol. I pp. 76-78. Ibid 243 and foot note. Ibid p. 267. Ibid p. 334 (Doc. & Cov. Sec. xc; 6. And Vol. II p. 176. Doc. & Cov. Sec. cvii-22.) History of the Church Vol. I pp. 175-6 and foot notes. Doc. and Cov. Sec. xli; 9 and foot note lxxii; 1-15.