Essays on Gospel Topics

Essays on Gospel Topics

Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of Mormonism, believed that "Mormonism is truth; and every man who embrace it felt himself at liberty to embrace every truth: consequently the shackles of superstition, bigotry, ignorance, and priestcraft, falls at once from his neck; and his eyes are opened to see the truth, and truth greatly prevails over priestcraft. . . The first and fundamental principle of our holy religion is, that we believe that we have a right to embrace all, and every item of truth, without limitation or without being circumscribed or prohibited by the creeds or superstitious notions of men, or by the dominations of one another, when that truth is clearly demonstrated to our minds, and we have the highest degree of evidence of the same; we feel ourselves bound by the laws of God, to observe and do strictly, with all our hearts, all things whatsoever is manifest unto us by the highest degree of testimony that God has committed us." This book is a collection of essays which discuss topics such as marriage, women and the priesthood, death and the world of spirits, ordinances, the paying of tithes, and other principles with respect to God's dealings with mankind as restored through Joseph Smith Jr.