was brought forth out of the water. And thus he was baptized, and the Spirit of God descended upon him, and thus he was born of the Spirit, and became quickened in the inner man. And he heard a voice out of heaven, saying: Thou art baptized with fire, and with the Holy Ghost. This is the record of the Father, and the Son, from henceforth and forever; and thou art after the order of him who was without beginning of days or end of years, from all eternity to all eternity. Behold, thou art one in me, a Son of God; and thus may all become my sons. Amen." (Book of Moses, chs. VI:51-59, 64-68). Thus a dispensation of the Gospel was committed unto Adam, and the means of his redemption was clearly made known unto him. He was not left to perish in ignorance of God's purposes in respect of his earth life, and whatever intellectual or spiritual darkness, had come over him as a consequence of his fall and his banishment from Eden it was now dispelled by this dispensation of the gospel given unto him, granting to him a knowledge of that eternal life "which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began." (Titus, i; 2.) LESSON XII. (Scripture Reading Exercise.) THE ADAMIC DISPENSATION--VI. ANALYSIS. I. The Rejoicing of Adam and Eve on Receiving a Dispensation of the Gospel. II. The Place of Adam in the Divine Economy of the Gospel Dispensation. REFERENCES. Book of Moses, ch. v:10-12. Note 1. Millennial Star, Vol. XVII, pp. 310-311. Also Vol. XVIII, pp. 164-5. Mormon Doctrine of Deity, pp. 243-251. Doc. and Cov. Sec. cvii:53-56. Notes 2, 3, 4. NOTES.