It is recorded in Holy Scripture that as many as would believe and be baptized in the holy name of Jesus Christ and endure in faith to the end should be saved and should also receive the Holy Ghost as a gift from God, and this to apply as well to people who lived previously to the coming of the Son of God in the flesh as well as to those who live in our after his coming to earth; even unto all is the promise made who shall believe in the gifts and callings of God by the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of the Father and of the Son." (Doctrine and Covenants, section xx:22)

This was the word of the Lord to the forming Church in 1830, and the part on which I would lay stress is that the major work of the Holy Ghost is to bear record of the Father and of the Son.

With this the BOOK OF MORMON—a new dispensation scripture—is in strict accord. In one place it represents that a terrible gulf separates the righteous and the ungodly. "Yea, even the word of the Eternal God and the Messiah, who is the Lamb of God, of whom the Holy Ghost beareth record from the beginning of the world until this time, henceforth and forever." (I Nephi xii:18.)

Again; "And the Holy Ghost beareth record of the Father and me [the Christ speaking], and the Father giveth the Holy Ghost unto the children of men because of me." (III Nephi xiv:11.)