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JESUS THE CHRIST

A Study of the Messiah and His Mission
according to Holy Scriptures both
Ancient and Modern

By

JAMES E. TALMAGE

One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH

FIFTH EDITION-INDIA PAPER

COMPRISING TWENTY-SIXTH AND TWENTY-SEVENTH THOUSAND

Salt Lake City, Utah

The Deseret News

1916

MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
GIFT OF

ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL
JG_81933

Copyright

September 1915, December 1915, April 1916
and November 1916

By

JOSEPH F. SMITH
Trustee-in-Trust for the

Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints

PREFACE.

The scope of the subject presented in this work is expressed on the title page. It will be readily seen that the author has departed from the course usually followed by writers on the Life of Jesus Christ, which course, as a rule, begins with the birth of Mary's Babe and ends with the ascension of the slain and risen Lord from Olivet. The treatment embodied in these pages, in addition to the narrative of the Lord's life in the flesh comprizes the antemortal existence and activities of the world's Redeemer, the revelations and personal manifestations of the glorified and exalted Son of God during the apostolic period of old and in modern times, the assured nearness of the Lord's second advent, and predicted events beyond-all so far as the Holy Scriptures make plain.

It is particularly congruous and appropriate that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-the only Church that affirms authority based on specific revelation and commission to use the Lord's Holy Name as a distinctive designation-should set forth her doctrines concerning the Messiah and His mission.

The author of this volume entered upon his welcome service under request and appointment from the presiding authorities of the Church; and the completed work has been read to and is approved by the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve. It presents, however, the writer's personal belief and profoundest conviction as to the truth of

what he has written. The book is published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A characteristic feature of the work is the guidance afforded by modern scriptures and the explication of the Holy Writ of olden times in the light of present day revelation, which, as a powerful and well directed beam, illumines many dark passages of ancient construction.

The spirit of the sacredness inherent in the subject has been a constant companion of the writer throughout his pleasing labor, and he reverently invokes the same as a minister to the readers of the volume.

Salt Lake City, Utah,

September, 1915.

JAMES E. TAIMAGE.

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE TO THE FIFTH
EDITION.

This imprint of Dr. Talmage's great work is made from the plates used in the fourth edition. To meet the convenience of missionaries and others who make of the book a traveling companion, the current issue is printed on India paper and the volume is thus greatly reduced in bulk and weight.

Salt Lake City,

December, 1916.

THE PUBLISHERS.

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