“The Christian world lays on unauthorized hands, confers divinity degrees to bestow authority, or assumes power by simple desire …
“ … there can be no question as to how one is ordained with the power to minister for Christ and how that power is used to bestow the Holy Ghost. Another plain and precious teaching has been restored in the Book of Mormon, and we can now read biblical statements on receiving the priesthood and bestowing the Holy Ghost without misunderstanding” (Parsons, “Practices of the Church,” 283–84).