DIVIDED INTO VERSES, WITH REFERENCES, THIRD ELECTROTYPE EDITION. LIVERPOOL: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY BRIGHAM YOUNG, 42 ISLINGTON. 1891. DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS. LECTURES ΟΝ FAITH. LECTURE FIRST. On the Doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, originally delivered before a Class of the Elders, in Kirtland, Ohio. 1. Faith being the first principle in revealed religion, and the foundation of all righteousness, necessarily claims the first place in a course of lectures which are designed to unfold to the understanding the doctrine of Jesus Christ. 2. In presenting the subject of faith, we shall observe the following order 3. First, faith itself-what it is. 4. Secondly, the object on which it rests. 5. Thirdly, the effects which flow from it. 6. Agreeable to this order we have first to show what faith is. And, 7. The author of the epistle to the Hebrews, in the eleventh chapter of that epistle and first verse, gives the following definition of the word faith; 8. "Now faith is the substance (assurance) of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” |
