1  The rise of the Church of Christ in these last days, being one thousand eight hundred and thirty years since the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the flesh, it being regularly organized and established agreeable to the laws of our country, by the will and commandments of God, in the fourth month, and on the sixth day of the month which is called April—

  4  For thus shall my ^bchurch be called in the last days, even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  5  He that receiveth my law and doeth it, the same is my disciple; and he that saith he receiveth it and doeth it not, the same is not my disciple, and shall be cast out from among you;

  2  And he that will not take up his cross and follow me, and keep my commandments, the same shall not be saved.

  3  And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the ^astatutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.