JOSEPH SMITH, THE PROPHET.
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"—Psalmxliv: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.
[Transcriber's note: Minor typos in text corrected and footnotes moved toend of text.]
To Parents and Teachers.
Studying the history of our country creates patriotism and engendersloyalty. For the same reason, a study of the history of the Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints will implant in our boys and girls a love forits heroes, a loyalty to its principles, and an appreciation of itsachievements. By a knowledge of the history of the Church, our young peoplewill prize more highly that heritage given them of God and preserved forthem by the sweat and blood of their fathers.
The teacher using this little book will understand that it is notexhaustive, but rather suggestive. The teacher should be in possession ofmuch more history than is given here. He should fill in much of theundercurrent of heroism, faith, and devotion exhibited by the characters ofthe history, very little of which can be given in the text. The importanceof this larger knowledge on the part of the teacher will be understood byan examination of the review and questions at the end of each chapter. Theaim in these questions is not only to review the facts of the lesson, butby suggestions and reference to bring out more fully deductions andprinciples.
It is believed that by combining the topical and the question methods thebest results may be obtained. The topics are to be assigned certain pupilsfor treatment. Questions should not be limited to those in the book. Theteacher should find many more to ask.
Special attention is called to the maps. Have pupils locate each importantplace. Quite a number of dates are found in the text. It is not intendedthat the pupils should memorize them all. Most of them should be usedmerely in fixing the relative time between events. It is suggested that thepupils be encouraged to refer to the Church works and other books mentionedin the text.
For further preparation the teacher is referred to "The History of theChurch," "Cannon's Life of Joseph Smith," "Whitney's History of Utah." The"Faith Promoting Series," Evan's "Hundred Years of Mormonism," etc., willgive much interesting and valuable information.