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The Gift Of The Holy Ghost

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“The gift of the Holy Ghost... quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges,

expands, and purifies all the natural passions and affections, and adapts them, by the gift of

wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates, and matures all the fine­toned

sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue,

kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of person, form,

and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties

of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is,

as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to

the whole being.” (Elder Parley P. Pratt)

Our Heavenly Father’s stated “work and glory” is “to bring to pass the immortality and

eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39). Because the Holy Ghost is “one” with Heavenly Father and

His Son, Jesus Christ, in purpose (“Which Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one God, infinite and

eternal, without end. Amen.” (Doctrine and Covenants 20:28)), the work and glory of the Holy

Ghost, like the Father, is to bring to pass our immortality and eternal life. He assists The Father

(and Jesus Christ) in a variety of ways.

The Doctrine and Covenants asserts, in both section 42 and section 20, that a role of the

Holy Ghost is to bear record of The Father and Son. Verse 17 of

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