The Great Apostasy, Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History

by James E. Talmage

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THE GREAT APOSTASY

CONSIDERED IN THE LIGHT OF SCRIPTURAL AND SECULAR HISTORY

By JAMES E. TALMAGE
D. Sc. D., Ph. D., F. R. S. E.

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Independence, Jackson County, Missouri.

Published by the Missions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in America

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PREFACE.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims the restoration of the Gospel and the re-establishment of the Church as of old, in this, the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times. Such restoration and re-establishment, with the modern bestowal of the Holy Priesthood, would be unnecessary and indeed impossible had the Church of Christ continued among men with unbroken succession of Priesthood and power, since the "meridian of time."