Who communicated with our great modern prophet and revealed through him as a medium the ancient history of a hemisphere and the records of the ancient dead? Moroni, who had lived upon the earth fourteen hundred years before. Who ordained Joseph the prophet and his fellow servant to the preparatory priesthood to baptize for remission of sins? John the Baptist, who had been beheaded.

Who ordained our first founders to the apostleship to hold the keys of the kingdom of God in these the times of restoration? Peter, James, and John from the eternal world. Who instructed him in the mysteries of the kingdom and in all things pertaining to priesthood law, philosophy, sacred architecture, ordinances, sealings, anointings, baptisms for the dead, and in the mysteries of the first, second, and third heavens, many of which are unlawful to utter? Angels and spirits from the eternal worlds.

Who revealed to him the plan of redemption and exaltation for the dead who had died without the gospel, and the keys and preparations necessary for holy and perpetual converse with Jesus Christ and with the spirits of just men made perfect and with the general assembly and church of the firstborn in the holy of holies? Those from the dead!