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Introductory Remarks Increased Faith in God The Ideas Advanced By Joseph Smith Lapse of Eighteen Centuries and No Voice From the Heavenly Worlds! Joseph Smith's Testimony in Regard to the Father and the Son and Holy Angels The Effect of His Revelations Upon the Minds of Men Spiritualism The One Power Through Which Godliness, the Power of God, and the Gifts of God Can Be Made Manifest With Safety, i.e., the Priesthood Joseph Smith Did Not Attempt to Preach the Gospel Until He Was Duly Commissioned of God John the Baptist The Higher Priesthood The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Stands Alone The Results Following the Restoration of the Gospel Wonderful Faith of the Latter-Day Saints Considering Their Traditions Progress of the Church The Generation Growing Up in These Mountains Conclusion

George Q. Cannon · 1883 October General Conference · 1883-10-07

Fidelity

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Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 24, pp. 339-346. Reported by John Irvine in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.

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Journal of Discourses 24:339-346

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