To Parents and Teachers[1]
CHAPTER I.
A Parable[9]
CHAPTER II.
The First Vision[12]
CHAPTER III.
The Angel Moroni[16]
CHAPTER IV.
The Sacred Plates[18]
CHAPTER V.
The Book of Mormon[23]
CHAPTER VI.
The Three Witnesses[27]
CHAPTER VII.
The Priesthood Restored[32]
CHAPTER VIII.
Organization of the Church[34]
CHAPTER IX.
Persecution of Joseph[38]
CHAPTER X.
The Mission to the Indians[41]
CHAPTER XI.
Removal to Ohio[45]
CHAPTER XII.
The Land of Zion[49]
CHAPTER XIII.
Persecution in Jackson County[52]
CHAPTER XIV.
Expulsion from Jackson County[56]
CHAPTER XV.
Zion's Camp[60]
CHAPTER XVI.
The Church at Kirtland[65]
CHAPTER XVII.
The Twelve Apostles—The Seventies—Kirtland Temple[68]
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Mission to England[72]
CHAPTER XIX.
Far West[77]
CHAPTER XX.
Haun's Mill Massacre[82]
CHAPTER XXI.
Driven from Missouri[86]
CHAPTER XXII.
In Missouri Prisons[92]
CHAPTER XXIII.
Nauvoo[96]
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Martyrdom[103]
CHAPTER XXV.
Expulsion from Illinois[109]
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Battle of Nauvoo[114]
CHAPTER XXVII.
Westward[118]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Mormon Battalion[123]
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Pioneers[127]
CHAPTER XXX.
Great Salt Lake City[132]
CHAPTER XXXI.
Growth of Utah and the Church[187]
CHAPTER XXXII.
The "Utah War"[141]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The "Utah War" (Concluded)[145]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Prosperity[148]
CHAPTER XXXV.
The "Crusade"[152]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
The Presidency of Wilford Woodruff[157]
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Temple Building[163]
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
The Presidency of Lorenzo Snow[167]
CHAPTER XXXIX.
The Presidency of Joseph F. Smith[171]
APPENDIX.
First Presidencies of the Church[182]
List of Twelve Apostles[183]
MAPS.
Fayette and Kirtland[36]
Missouri and Illinois[59]
Routes of Mormon Battalion and Pioneers[128]
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Joseph Smith, the Prophet[FRONTISPIECE]
Hyrum Smith the Patriarch[2]
Brigham Young[68]
The Hill Cumorah[19]
The Three Witnesses[28]
Sidney Rigdon[47]
President Brigham Young[68]
The Kirtland Temple[70]
President Heber C. Kimball[73]
Haun's Mill[83]
The Nauvoo House[97]
The Nauvoo Mansion[99]
Carthage Jail[106]
A Pioneer Train[120]
Salt Lake Valley in 1847[133]
The Old Fort[135]
Salt Lake Tabernacle (Interior)[149]
Salt Lake Tabernacle (Exterior)[150]
President John Taylor[153]
President Wilford Woodruff[157]
The Pioneer Monument[161]
Salt Lake Temple and Grounds[164]
President Lorenzo Snow[168]
The First Presidency, 1916[174]
Joseph Smith Monument and Memorial Cottage[178]
Church Office Building[180]

A YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY

OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

CHAPTER I.

A PARABLE.

Once upon a time the owner of a very large garden planted therein a tree, the fruit of which was very precious and of great value to all who ate of it. For a time, the tree grew and bore much good fruit. But the owner of the garden had an enemy who went about secretly sowing seeds of weeds and all manner of briers and brush, that they might spread all over the garden and kill out the good tree which the master had planted. The enemy also persuaded many of the workmen in the garden to neglect the good tree, and let the briers and weeds grow up around it and so prevent its growth. Thus in time the once precious fruit of the good tree became wild and scrubby, no better than the enemy's trees which grew around it.

Years passed, and the master, grieving that the precious fruit should have become so worthless, determined to plant the good tree once more in the garden. He did not try to clear away a spot for it amid the old, overgrown parts of the land, but he called upon certain workers to go to a distant part of the garden where nothing had been planted for a long time, and there prepare the ground for the planting of the tree.