Early Scenes in Church History Audiobook by George Q. Cannon, Legacy LDS Audiobook Foundation

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your choice for free. Title: Early Scenes in Church History Author:
George Q. Cannon, Legacy LDS Audiobook Foundation Narrator: Michael
Neeb Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins Language: English
Release date: 01-08-18 Publisher: Legacy LDS Audiobook Foundation
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Thought Publisher's
Summary: Early Scenes in Church History, is the eighth in a series
of 17 books called The Faith-Promoting Series. Published between
1879 and 1915, this series of books was published by the Juvenile
Instructors Office for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young
Latter-day Saints. It was George Q. Cannon's inspiration that
produced the series, however. In 1866, Cannon, then a member of the
Quorum of the 12, began publication of a magazine for youth and
young adults called The Juvenile Instructor, which he owned and
published until his death in 1901, when his family sold the
magazine to the LDS Church's Sunday School organization. Thus, in
1882 when the present work, Early Scenes in Church History, was
published, it was a work undertaken under the direction of Cannon,
with the blessing of the Church's governing leadership. In the
preface, the publisher provides that the purpose of the work is to
preserve stories of faith from early Church history before they are
lost, primarily for the benefit of the next generation of
Latter-day Saints. The underlying premise for the work is that the
rising generation of Latter-day Saints understand the legacy of
faith bequeathed to them and thereby be inspired to acquire their
own faith to carry on in the work of the Lord initiated by their
spiritual, if not literal, forbearers. Put another way, the premise
for the work was to remember what God has done for this people,
both collectively and individually. Portions of The Faith Promoting
Series, including the present work, amount to almost an oral
history project of people from Joseph Smith's generation. The
simple narratives presented amount to the raw material of history,
and preservation of these narratives saved from oblivion many
personal and profound experiences of conversion and service.
Prophetically writing in one preface, Cannon observed that "men
will seek with avidity" for such firsthand information "but a few
years hence."