Mormonism is a restoration of the ancient Church of Christ, with a prophet of God at its head. As Christ organized the early Church with Peter, James, and John as its "First Presidency," and called twelve apostles and seventy other worthy men as their emissaries, so is the Mormon Church organized. The true name of the Church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, signifying that Christ directs the Church, not only through His prophet, but by bestowing authority to act in His name. The name of the Church also signifies that this is the "latter days," the last Dispensation of time before the second coming of Christ, a time for the "restoration of all things," a time for the fullness of the gospel to be revealed to man. The restoration of the gospel began in the early 1800s, in N