the gospel in almost every state in the Union; it has penetrated
our cities, it has spread over our villages and has caused
thousands of our intelligent, noble, and patriotic citizens to obey
its divine mandates, and be governed by its sacred truths. It has
also spread into England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales: in the year
1839 where a few of our missionaries were sent over five thousand
joined the standard of truth, there are numbers now joining in
every land.

Our missionaries are going forth to different nations, and in
Germany, Palestine, New Holland, the East Indies, and other places,
the standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop
the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine,
armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will
go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated
every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and
sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be
accomplished and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.

We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in his son Jesus
Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

We believe that men will be punished for their own sins and not
for Adam's transgression.

We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may
be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

We believe that these ordinances are 1st, Faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ; 2d, Repentance; 3d, Baptism by immersion for the