As the restoration of the fullness of the gospel continued to unfold in the early 1840s,

one revealed doctrine thrilled the Latter-day Saints beyond imagination.

Yes, there were some references to this doctrine in the Holy Bible,

but no Christian denomination at that time understood it and none practiced it.

When the Prophet Joseph first made public this amazing truth on Saturday, August 15, 1840,

many of the Saints present were so excited they immediately ran to the Mississippi River to begin

the practice. And what is this doctrine? Baptism for the dead. Today we'll talk about this glorious

truth in detail. Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. We are Scott and Maureen

Proctor and we are delighted to be with you again this week as we give our 145th podcast.

We love being with you each week and are excited to cover sections 125 through 128 of the doctrine

and covenants today with the lesson entitled A Voice of Gladness for the Living and the Dead.

As many of you know, Scott has created what he calls the Curtlyn Diary for Thoughts and Personal

Revelation. This provides daily space to write down thoughts and ideas, insights, revelation,

or just appointments and birthdays. You have to know that Scott has been passionate about

photodocumenting the Church history sites for all of his adult life. He has pulled out all the

stops on the Curtlyn Diary and given his warmest, best, most moving pictures of Curtlyn and

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In order to understand the coming forth of this most wonderful doctrine of salvation for the dead,

we first have to go back in time about 17 years to the late fall of 1823. As you well remember,

some six weeks after young Joseph was told about the plates by the angel Moroni, Alvin, Joseph's

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