"Essentials in Church History" by Joseph Fielding Smith, a senior chief in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who in the end have become the LDS Church's tenth president. This book has been deemed a historic and has been a first rate collection of ideas that are comprehended into a single draft to study via readers of several age organizations. The plot has such a lot of twists and turns that can interact a reader. This book is an exquisite device for getting to know more approximately the LDS Church's origins and upgrades. In "Essentials in Church History," Joseph Fielding Smith recounts a first-rate account of the LDS Church's early records, thru its status quo by means of Joseph Smith in the 1820s via the flip of the 20th century. Smith's writing sticks out via painstaking research and an in-depth expertise of church records. The work covers fundamental activities inside the church's history, together with the recovery of the gospel, persecutions continued with the aid of early individuals, the march west to Utah, and the church's international improvement. Smith also discusses good sized doctrinal traits and the LDS Church's organizational framework.
Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. (July 19, 1876 – July 2, 1972) was an American religious leader and author who served as the tenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1970 to 1972. He was the great-nephew of Church founder Joseph Smith and the son of previous church president Joseph F. Smith. Smith was elected to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1910, when his father was president of the church. Smith was 93 years and 6 months old when he became president of the Church; he began his presidency at an older age than any other president in church history. Smith's president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1951 to 1970 was the third-longest in church history; he served in that position throughout David O. McKay's presidency. Smith worked as the Church Historian and Recorder among the Twelve Apostles for a while. He was a religious scholar who also wrote a lot. Many of his publications are consulted by church members.
