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"Smith, Joseph Fielding
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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"
Smith, Joseph Fielding
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History
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
Part One
Introductory: The Gospel in Ancient and Mediaeval Times
Chapter 1
Antiquity of the Gospel
The Gospel Older than the Law
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