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Title: A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Author: Nephi Anderson

Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #16534]

Language: English

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[Illustration: JOSEPH SMITH, THE PROPHET.]

[Illustration: HYRUM SMITH, THE PATRIARCH.]

A Young Folks' History

OF THE

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

By NEPHI ANDERSON

"_We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,
what Work thou didst in their days, in the time of old_"--_Psalm
xliv:1_.

Published by the
DESERET SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
Salt Lake City. Utah
1916

_Copyright, 1889,
By Nephi Anderson

Copyright, 1916,
By Joseph F. Smith,
For the Deseret Sunday School Union_.

To Parents and Teachers.

Studying the history of our country creates patriotism and engenders
loyalty. For the same reason, a study of the history of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints will implant in our boys and girls a love for
its heroes, a loyalty to its principles, and an appreciation of its
achievements. By a knowledge of the history of the Church, our young people
will prize more highly that heritage given them of God and preserved for
them by the sweat and blood of their fathers.

The teacher using this little book will understand that it is not
exhaustive, but rather suggestive. The teacher should be in possession of
much more history than is given here. He should fill in much of the
undercurrent of heroism, faith, and devotion exhibited by the characters of
the history, very little of which can be given in the text. The importance
of this larger knowledge on the part of the teacher will be understood by
an examination of the review and questions at the end of each chapter. The
aim in t