Table of Contents

Part One — Introductory: The Gospel in Ancient and Mediaeval Times

[Chapter 1. Antiquity of the Gospel]

[Chapter 2. The Falling Away]

[Chapter 3. The Protestant Revolution]

Part Two — Opening of the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times

[Chapter 4. Necessity for a Restoration]

[Chapter 5. The Ancestry of Joseph Smith]

[Chapter 6. Boyhood of Joseph Smith]

[Chapter 7. The Vision ]

[Chapter 8. The Visitation of Moroni]

[Chapter 9. Joseph Smith Receives the Record—The Priesthood Restored]

[Chapter 10. The Witnesses of the Book of Mormon]

[Chapter 11. Revelation on Doctrine and Church Government]

[Chapter 12. Organization of the Church]

[Chapter 13. Beginning of the Public Ministry of the Church]

[Chapter 14. The Public Ministry of the Church (2)]

Part Three — The Ohio and Missouri Period

[Chapter 15. Removal of the Church in New York to Ohio]

[Chapter 16. The Land of Zion—Its Dedication]

[Chapter 17. The Book of Commandments—The Vision of the Glories—The Hiram Mobbing ]

[Chapter 18. Organization of the First Presidency—Important Revelations]

[Chapter 19. Expulsion from Jackson County]

[Chapter 20. The Patriarchal Priesthood—Zion’s Camp]

[Chapter 21. Choosing of the Twelve and Seventy—Dedication of the Kirtland Temple]

[Chapter 22. Clay County Rejects the Saints—Apostasy and Sorrow]

[Chapter 23. The Presidency Move to Missouri—Excommunication of Oliver Cowdery and Others]

[Chapter 24. Difficulties in Missouri—Governor Boggs’ Order of Extermination]

[Chapter 25. Persecutions of the Saints]

[Chapter 26. The Expulsion from Missouri]

Part Four — The Nauvoo Period

[Chapter 27. The Founding of Nauvoo]

[Chapter 28. Foreign Missionary Labors]

[Chapter 29. Appeal to Washington for Redress—Further Missouri Persecutions]

[Chapter 30. The Nauvoo Temple and Ordinances Therein—Important Events]

[Chapter 31. Joseph Smith Accused as Accessory to Assault on Boggs]

[Chapter 32. Doctrinal Development and Prophecy]

[Chapter 33. Missouri’s Third Attempt to Capture Joseph Smith]

[Chapter 34. Joseph Smith’s Candidacy for President—Nauvoo Conspiracy]

[Chapter 35. The Martyrdom ]

[Chapter 36. The Succession of the Twelve Apostles—Preparation to Leave Nauvoo ]

Part Five — The Settlement in the Rocky Mountains

[Chapter 37. The Exodus from Nauvoo]

[Chapter 38. The Mormon Battalion]

[Chapter 39. The Pioneers ]

[Chapter 40. In “the Land of Promise”]

[Chapter 41. Organization of the Presidency—Church Activities]

[Chapter 42. Church Activities]

[Chapter 43. “The Utah War”]

[Chapter 44. The Mountain Meadows Massacre]

[Chapter 45. The Army in Utah]

[Chapter 46. A Period of Strife and Bitterness]

[Chapter 47. The Mission of Governor Shaffer and Judge McKean]

[Chapter 48. Church Colonization and Progress]

Part Six — Recent Development

[Chapter 49. The Second Period of Apostolic Presidency]

[Chapter 50. The Administration of President John Taylor]

[Chapter 51. The Administration of President Wilford Woodruff]

[Chapter 52. The Administration of President Lorenzo Snow]

[Chapter 53. The Administration of President Joseph F. Smith]

[Chapter 54. The Administration of President Heber J. Grant]

Appendix

[The Auxiliary Organizations of the Church]

[General Authorities of the Church]

[Stakes of Zion]

[Church Publications ]

[List of Authorities and Books of Reference]