Preach Restoration

Lift up your heart and rejoice, for the hour of your mission is come and your tongue shall be loosed … You shall declare the things which have been revealed to my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun. You shall begin to preach from this time forth, yea, to reap in the field which is white already to be burned. Doctrine & Covenants 31:3-4

The instruction given to Thomas B. Marsh regarding how to proclaim the restored gospel is true for us today as well. Elder Marsh was called upon to lift up his heart and rejoice, to “declare glad tidings of great joy” (D&C 31:3). What was he to do? Was he to deliver again the Sermon on the Mount? Was he to teach once again the Bread of Life sermon? Was he to go into all the world quoting hundreds of passages from the Old and New Testaments? No, he was to declare the glad tidings of the Restoration, to make known the things that had been revealed through Christ’s preeminent, prophetic revealer, Joseph Smith. In short, Thomas B. Marsh was instructed to be true and loyal to the message of the Restoration. In so doing, he would avoid the condemnation, scourge, and judgment that come to those who treat lightly that which God has revealed in these latter days (D&C 43:15-16; 49:1-4; 84:56-58). (Robert L. Millet and Lloyd D. Newell. Draw Near Unto Me: Daily Reflections on the Doctrine and Covenants. 85)