Essentials in Church History / A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

by Joseph Fielding Smith

Essentials in Church History

A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the “Falling Away”

By Joseph Fielding Smith of the Council of the Twelve, and Church Historian

Published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Salt Lake City, Utah
Deseret News Press
1922

Copyright 1922, by Heber J. Grant, Trustee-in-Trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Electronic edition produced by the Mormon Texts Project.

Volunteers who helped with this book: Eric Heaps, Meridith Crowder, Byron Clark, Jean-Michel Carter, Tod Robbins, Ben Crowder, Stephen Bruington, Benjamin Bytheway.

Version 1.0

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