A String of Pearls / Second Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints

Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints.
SECOND EDITION.
JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE,
Salt Lake City,
1882.

The first book of this, the FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES — My First Mission —which was published some months since, has been so well received by the public that we are encouraged to continue the publication of works of a similar character.
We herewith give A STRING OF PEARLS to our readers, feeling assured that they will find the contents of this little work of inestimable value.
Probably no people in the world possess so rich and varied an experience as do the Latter-day Saints, and especially the Elders who have labored in the ministry in various lands. Contributions from them, giving a relation of their personal experience, are most profitable to young people to peruse.
The present age is one of doubt and unbelief. Faith in God, in His willingness to hear and answer prayer, and in the gifts of the gospel, has almost vanished from the earth. As a people we have this to contend with. Our children, not having had experience themselves, have to be carefully watched, lest they, too, should partake of the leaven of unbelief. We feel that it is a duty that we owe to them to place within their reach the evidences that their fathers and their mothers have received of the existence of God, of His willingness to hear and answer prayer, and to bestow His gifts upon those who seek for them in the right way.
God has wrought as marvelously in behalf of the Latter-day Saints as He did in former days in behalf of His people.
We hope that this little volume will prove of great value to those who read it, by inspiring them with faith, and furnishing them a foundation upon which to build and obtain knowledge from the Lord.