ist.

Christ and Messiah, significance of the titles, 36.

Christians, early persecutions of, 746.

Church discipline of individuals, 391.

Church of England, origin of, 751;
affirms great apostasy, 753.

Church of Jesus Christ;
foundation of, 361;
rapid growth of Primitive, 705, 707, 712;
name of, 736;
among Nephites, 737;
of Latter-day Saints, establishment of, 769.

Churches of man's making, 752.

Circumcision, 88.

Clay, applied to blind man's eyes, 413.

Clearing of the temple, the first, 153;
the second, 527.

Cleopas, 685.

Coasts, as descriptive term, 368.

Coin, image and superscription on, 546, 563;
in mouth of a fish, 385.

Columbus, Christopher, his mission, 754, 757.

Comforter promised, 603, 606;
given, 702.

Commandment, the great, 549.

Common ownership, 705, 718.

Common people, attentive to hear Christ, 529.

Confession, the great, 361.

Congenital blindness healed, 413.

Consent, common, observed in Primitive Church, 702, 718;
in the Church today, 778.

Consistency of Church's claims, 779.

Conspiracy of Pharisees and Herodians, 544.

Constantine the Great, gives state recognition to Christianity, 746.

Constitution of the United States, a necessary preliminary to the
restoration of the gospel, 755.

Consummation, the celestial, 792.

Contention forbidden, 726.

Corban, 352, 366.

Corner stone, Jesus the chief, 535, 706.

Cost, counting the, 452.

Council, the Jewish, see Sanhedrin.

Council in Heaven, primeval, 9, 15.

Court of the Women, in temple, 407, 422.

Cowdery, Oliver, ordained with Joseph Smith, 767;
witness of heavenly manifestations, 774.

Creator, Jesus Christ the, 33.

Creed of Athanasius, 756.

Cross, figurative, 365;
of Christ, borne by Simon, 653.

Crucifixion, 655, 667;
of Jesus Christ, 654;
hour of, 668.

Cumorah, scene of last Nephite battle, 742;
Book of Mormon plates taken from, 767.

Cups and platters, ceremonial cleansing of, 437.

Dark ages, the, 749.

Daughters of Jerusalem, Christ's lamentation over, 653, 666.

David, Son of, see Son of David.

Dead, gospel preached to, 24;
ministered unto by Jesus Christ, 672, 673;
missionary labor amongst, 674;
vicarious labor for in Church today, 777.

Death, inaugurated by Satan, 20;
overcome by the atonement of Christ, 20;
and resurrection of Christ predicted, 381, 382,
accomplished, 662, 678.

Decapolis, 367;
Jesu