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"Mormonism" is the original plan of salvation. Mormonism, a nickname for the real religion of the Latter-day Saints, does not profess to be a new thing, except to this generation. It proclaims itself as the original plan of salvation, instituted in the heavens before the world was, and revealed from God to man in different ages. That Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and other ancient worthies had this religion successively, in a series of dispensations, we, as a people, verily believe. To us, the gospel taught by the Redeemer in the meridian of time was a restored gospel, of which, however, He was the author, in His pre-existent state. Mormonism, in short, is the primitive Christian faith restored, the ancient gospel brought back again -- this time to usher in the last dispensation, introduce the Millennium, and wind up the work of redemption as pertaining to this planet.
Source: Williams, Clyde J. ed., Teachings of Lorzeno Snow, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1984. 100.