THE
ARTICLES OF FAITH
A SERIES OF LECTURES ON THE
PRINCIPAL DOCTRINES OF
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF
LATTER-DAY SAINTS
BY
JAMES E. TALMAGE,
One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church
PREPARED BY APPOINTMENT, AND PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH
Eleventh Edition in English
INCLUDING THE FIFTY-SECOND THOUSAND
The Deseret News,
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.1919
Entered According to Act of Congress
In the year 1890,
By James E. Talmage,
In the Office of the Librarian of
Congress, at Washington.
Copyright 1913
By Joseph F. Smith
Trustee-in-Trust for the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
The lectures herewith presented have been prepared inaccordance with the request and appointment of the FirstPresidency of the Church. The greater number of theaddresses were delivered before the Theology Class of theChurch University; and, after the close of the class sessions,the lectures were continued before other Church organizationsengaged in the study of theology. To meet the desireexpressed by the Church authorities,—that the lecturesbe published for use in the various educational institutionsof the Church,—the matter has been revised, and is nowpresented in this form.
In anticipation of probable question or criticism regardingthe disparity of length of the several lectures, it maybe stated that each of the addresses occupied two or moreclass sessions, and that the present arrangement of thematter in separate lectures is rather one of compilationthan of original presentation.
The author's thanks are due and are heartily rendered tothe members of the committee appointed by the FirstPresidency, whose painstaking and efficient examination ofthe manuscript prior to the delivery of the lectures, hasinspired some approach to confidence in the prospectivevalue of the book among members of the Church. Thecommittee here referred to consisted of Elders Francis M.Lyman, Abraham H. Cannon, and Anthon H. Lund, ofthe Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Elder George Reynolds,[iv]one of the Presidents of the Presiding Quorum ofSeventy; Elder John Nicholson, and Dr. Karl G. Maeser.
The lectures are now published by the Church, and withthem goes the hope of the author that they may prove ofsome service to the many students of the scriptures amongour people, and to other earnest inquirers into the doctrinesand practices of the Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints.
James E. Talmage.
Salt Lake City, Utah, April 3, 1899.
Preface to the Tenth Edition.
This issue of "The Articles of Faith" presents some departuresfrom the earlier imprints in wording, in the substitutionof several rewritten paragraphs, and in the introductionof numerous additions to the notes and