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Twenty-nine-year-old geologist and college president James E. Talmage noted in his journal in 1891: "Today I had an interview with the First Presidency of the Church ... another appointment for an interview was set for Monday next." From these two meetings came a commission to write twenty-four lectures, twenty-two of which were delivered to college audiences, treating the basic tenets of LDS belief. The lectures were published by the church as The Articles of Faith, to date the only authorized, book-length explication of Mormon doctrine. The book proved to be the first of several seminal treatises by Talmage that would dominate the landscape of LDS thought to the present.
Talmage said that he was honored to write for the church and that he intended his work to be a gift. However, after the first print run of 10,500 quickly sold out, church president Lorenzo Snow insisted that he receive a reciprocal "gift" from the church of $1,500 for the copyright. The book sold well for half of a century. Besides articulating well-established points of doctrine, The Articles of Faith addressed controversies concerning eternal progress, the Holy Ghost, the kingdom of God, rebaptism, and unforgivable sins.
Accompanying this edition of The Articles of Faith--an exact, photomechanical reproduction of the first edition--is another, albeit lesser-known work compiled by Talmage entitled Latter-day Revelation, a 1930 abridged version of the church’s Doctrine and Covenants that was apparently intended to replace the lengthier compilation. Latter-day Revelation was translated into several languages and was, for some time, the only version of the Doctrine and Covenants available in those languages. Yet the book quietly disappeared soon after its release. In the preface to the present edition, Talmage scholar James P. Harris explains why and provides further context for Talmage’s treatment of the Articles of Faith.
About the Author
Elder James E. Talmage was born in England in 1862. He was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve of the Church in December 1911. Elder Talmage is known for his classic works about the fundamental doctrines of the Restored Church, including The House of the Lord and The Great Apostasy. Much of his beloved classic Jesus the Christ was written in an upper room in the Salt Lake Temple. Elder Talmage passed away July 27, 1933.
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FOREWORD
James P. Harris
On Friday, 11 September 1891, future LDS apostle James E. Talmage1 made the following entry in his journal: “Today I had an interview with the First Presidency of the Church, relative to the Religion Class system. Being the Superintendent of such classes for the Stake, and having found from the labors of the past, that the Bishops of many of the wards feel they have now all they possibly can carry in the way of special organizations, I asked instructions from the authorities as to the proper procedure [to provide support for such classes]. Plans for some change in the system are pending, and another appointment for an interview was set for Monday next.”2 Three days later Talmage met with the First Presidency and there began a course of events that would eventually result in The Articles of Faith, a classic in the literature and theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Almost eight years passed from Talmage’s first mention of the religion class to 4 April 1899, the day The Articles of Faith was formally released to an eager public. The chapters of the book had passed through a unique evolution culminating in official endorsement by church president Lorenzo Snow and by his successors in years to come.
Talmage’s journals provide a rough outline of his appointment and work on the book. Although not a general authority, he was nevertheless a logical candidate for such an endeavor. When a young man attending Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, he had come to the attention of church president John Taylor, who consented to send him east to be educated at Lehigh and Johns Hopkins universities.3 In 1888 Talmage was appointed by church president Wilford Woodruff to be the principal of LDS College, the higher end of the Latter-day Saint school system, located in downtown Salt Lake City.4
When he met with the First Presidency three years later on 14 September 1891, Talmage recorded:
Met by appointment with the First Presidency relative to the Religion Class system … It is the intention of the brethren to cause to be published a class-work on Theology, for use in Church Schools, and in Religion Classes generally. The need for such a work has long been felt among the teachers of the Latter-day Saints. The plan of the work is not fully matured as yet, the probability of issuing a series of two or three books is strong. Several preliminaries have to be arranged before the work is begun; but the First Presidency have expressed to me their intention of appointing me to do the labor. I find myself very busy already, but I have never yet found it necessary to decline any labor appointed to me by the Holy Priesthood; and in the performance of duties so entailed as my day, so my strength has ever been.
Talmage makes no other entry regarding this work for the next year and a half, probably because he was preoccupied as principal of the college. He also taught classes, consulted professionally as a geologist, and fulfilled other church commitments. However, he may well have begun already to prepare outlines and lectures and to index the scriptures and church authorities’ statements, as well as to reflect on Mormon theology and how to present it most effectively.5 On 31 January 1893, he recorded:
This day in an interview with Presidents [Wilford] Woodruff and [Joseph F.] Smith of the First Presidency, I was appointed to now proceed with a work before given and subsequently withdrawn,6 I am requested to prepare a work on Theology, suitable as a text-book for our church schools and other organizations. In making the appointment Pres. Woodruff gave me his blessing. Told the brethren that I would accept the appointment as a mission; with no expectation of any pecuniary reward should the work ever be published, hoping that the book would be sold more cheaply if I waived all claim to royalty in the sale. Without the blessing of the Almighty, and the support of the brethren I should shrink from even attempting such a work.
By this time, the treatise had been reduced from a two- or three-volume work to one volume.
Late the next month on 22 February, the First Presidency sent Talmage a letter formally commissioning him:
Dear Brother:
From conversations we have had with you in the past, we know that you in common with many others who are connected with the educational interests of our Church have seen the great need of properly arranged text and reference books in theological and religious subjects, for use in our Church Schools, Sunday Schools, etc.
It is our desire that a book suitable for the purposes named should be placed in the hands of our people as soon as possible. Knowing your experience in this direction we should be pleased to have you prepare such a work. We understand it is your intention not to make any charge for the preparation of this work so that it may be placed on the market at so low a price that it will be within the reach of all; with this suggestion we hastily concur.
Wishing you the fulfillment of every righteous desire in your calling as a teacher of the youth of Israel, we are
Your Brethren:
W. Woodruff
Jos. F. Smith
George Q. Cannon, the other counselor in the First Presidency, was not in the city at the time the letter was signed.
Later that year a formal theological class was organized for LDS University with Talmage as instructor, the class lectures from which would come the substance of Talmage’s later book. A leaflet distributed prior to the first class of 29 October 1893 outlined the topic of discussion, as would be the practice for subsequent sessions. Previously it had been decided that the lectures would be based on the format developed in Joseph Smith’s thirteen Articles of Faith. The October leaflet stated that: “Theology, as taught by the Latter-day Saints, comprises whole scheme of the Gospel. Many leading principles, but not all, are set forth in the ‘Articles of Faith,’ accepted by vote of the people, re-adopted October 5, 1890.” As the first edition of TheArticles of Faith explains: “As these Articles of Faith present the leading tenets of the Church in systematic order, they suggest themselves as a convenient outline for our plan of study … Of the doctrines treated in the authorized standards, the Articles of Faith may be regarded as a fair, though necessarily but an incomplete epitome.”7
Prior to Talmage, other people had similarly found the Articles of Faith a convenient outline for categorizing church doctrine. In 1882 Elder Franklin D. Richards of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Elder James A. Little compiled A Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel.8 In 1887 missionaries from the church’s British mission compiled a cut-and-paste collection of scriptures entitled Ready References that began with the Articles of Faith and scriptural cross references to support each topic therein.9
Talmage kept a notebook entitled “Record of Church University Theology Class” with minutes and newsclippings for each class proceeding. The minutes were kept by a student, Leah Dunford, later the wife of Talmage’s colleague in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, John A. Widtsoe.10 Either Talmage or Dunford clipped articles from the Deseret News and Salt Lake Herald chronicling the progress of each class.11
In his journal entry of 29 October 1893, the date of his first lecture, Talmage noted that “the large lecture room in the University building was filled to overflowing: every seat being occupied. Chairs were brought from the College adjoining and every corner taken possession of while the aisles were filled, and the stand crowded, many sitting on the edge of the platform … So many applicants had to be denied admission that it was decided on the recommendation of Pres[iden]t Angus M. Cannon to adjourn the class at its close to meet next Sunday in the Stake Assembly Hall.”
The following week Talmage stated that “[b]etween 500 and 600 persons attended” his class of 5 November. Attendance increased to over 1,200 by 25 February 1894. The purpose of the class may have been to provide Talmage with a kind of focus group to monitor responses to the material presented. The classes initially included review time during which questions were solicited, but this format was abandoned after 11 February due to time constraints.
Talmage wrote in his journal on 6 November 1893: “Today the Presidency of the Church gave instructions that the lectures delivered before the University Theology Class be published in full in serial form, and that the arrangements for republication in book form be left for subsequent consideration. The ‘Juvenile Instructor’ was selected as the organ of publication.” Indeed, from 15 November 1893 to 15 August 1894, the Juvenile Instructor, a semi-monthly publication, carried eighteen installments commencing with the introduction to theology, the role of Joseph Smith, and the first Article of Faith through the final lecture given in the series on the Gathering of Israel.
A comparison of the Juvenile Instructor and The Articles of Faith reveals that Talmage made several changes to the text. However, most of these pertained to grammar and sentence structure. Accompanying the first installment in 1893, the Instructor‘s editor took liberty with a portion of Talmage’s text on Joseph Smith. The editor stated:
Here followed a graphic desciption of the conditions which led the boy, Joseph, to the Lord for information concerning the true Church; of his first prayer; and the glorious appearance unto him of the Father and the Son; of the persecution that followed his testimony of the vision; of the visits of the angel Moroni; of his receiving the plates of the Book of Mormon from the angel; of hi...
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