The Lost Sermons series on history.lds.org features excerpts from these recently transcribed sermons, punctuated to improve readability.The full transcriptions are made available to researchers via a link to the Church History Catalog website at the bottom of each sermon.Additional sermons will be made available regularly.

Joseph Smith, a youth of 14, saw God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ in a personal visitation in the spring of 1820. Through him, until his martyrdom at Carthage Jail in 1844, came the unfolding of the “greatest gospel dispensation 1 of all time.” 2 The Lord described the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and His Church as “a marvelous work 3 among the children of men.” 4

Tell Me the Stories of Jesus. The purpose of the International Art Competition, now in its 10th iteration, is to showcase the breadth and diversity of Latter-day Saint cultural production and to make manifest the various styles, techniques, media, and voices of Mormon art.

The coming forth of the Book of Mormon, foretold by ancient prophets, began with an angelic visitation in 1823 to 17-year-old Joseph Smith. Seven years later, in 1830, this scriptural canon of the Latter-day Saints was published for the world. “The Book of Mormon [is] the most correct of any book on earth,” Joseph Smith stated, “and the keystone of our religion.” These scriptures ...

Always sensitive to the things of God, John Taylor acted upon the promptings he received. He was a faithful missionary, gifted writer, and compassionate leader. His faith in God was an example to all he served. Wilford Woodruff (Apr. 1889–Sept. 1898)

“By the power of God I translated the Book of Mormon from hieroglyphics, the knowledge of which was lost to the world, in which wonderful event I stood alone, an unlearned youth, to combat the worldly wisdom and multiplied ignorance of eighteen centuries, with a new revelation.” History of the Church, 6:74.

“I am a witness that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. . . . He was a man of God and had the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the words of Jesus Christ to the people. He did build and establish the kingdom of God on earth, and through him the Lord Almighty again restored the priesthood to the children of men. . . .

Tell Me the Stories of Jesus. The purpose of the International Art Competition, now in its 10th iteration, is to showcase the breadth and diversity of Latter-day Saint cultural production and to make manifest the various styles, techniques, media, and voices of Mormon art.

“We consider that God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, and a faculty which may be enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated from heaven to the intellect; and that the nearer man approaches perfection, the clearer are his views, and the greater his enjoyments, till he has overcome the evils of his life and lost every desire for sin ...

“The duty of the President of the office of the High Priesthood," 1 the Lord revealed, "is to preside over the whole church, and to be like unto Moses . . . ; yea, to be a seer, 2 a revelator, 3 a translator, and a prophet, 4 having all the gifts of God 5 which he bestows upon the head of the church.” 6 At a conference in Amherst, Ohio, January 25, 1832, Joseph Smith was ordained president ...