Summary
A one-volume history of the Church from the birth of Joseph Smith to the early twentieth century, with introductory chapters on the antiquity of the gospel and the apostasy: Kirtland and Missouri, Nauvoo and the martyrdom, the trek west and the first generations in the Rocky Mountains, with the revelations and every quoted writer in their own voices.
The book
- Author
- Joseph Fielding Smith
- Date of the work
- 1922
- Edition recorded
- 1922 edition (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press)
- Listening time
- 23 h 59 min
- Chapters
- 56
Where this text comes from
Published by the Deseret News Press in Salt Lake City in 1922. Short headings inside each chapter are read aloud, and so are the explanatory notes at the end of a chapter; notes that only cite a source appear as small numbers you can tap. The appendix on the auxiliary organizations is included; the book’s other appendices (lists of General Authorities, stakes, publications and authorities) are not.
Text produced for Project Gutenberg by the Mormon Texts Project (released March 3, 2014).
Public domain
Public domain, free to share. The text of Essentials in Church History is in the public domain in the United States. It was first published in 1922. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright there.
This site claims no copyright or trademark in the text. It uses no logos, trademarks or modern artwork of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or anyone else, and the cover picture is also in the public domain. Names such as “Book of Mormon” or the Church’s own name appear only to identify the book and its subject, and belong to their owners.
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