Summary
A hundred and four short essays on the faith of the Latter-day Saints — the Godhead and the Atonement, the Restoration, the Book of Mormon, the life before and after this one — each only a few minutes long. Most open with an Article of Faith, read here in the voice of Joseph Smith.
The book
- Author
- James E. Talmage
- Date of the work
- Weekly essays, collected as a book in 1919
- Edition recorded
- 1919 edition (Salt Lake City)
- Listening time
- 11 h 40 min
- Chapters
- 105
Where this text comes from
Talmage wrote these as weekly newspaper essays over about two years and gathered them into a book in 1919 (his preface is dated February 3, 1919). The author’s few footnotes appear as small numbers you can tap and are not read.
Text produced for Project Gutenberg by the Mormon Texts Project (released October 23, 2014).
Public domain
Public domain, free to share. The text of The Vitality of Mormonism is in the public domain in the United States. It was first published in 1919. 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.
This is an independent project, not produced, sponsored or endorsed by the Church. The voices are AI-generated.