A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

he great prophet of the last days. The hills and valleys of Vermont look beautiful in the summer, but at the time here spoken of they were no doubt

arge family for the father and mother to take care of. Joseph's parents were poor and had to work hard for a living, so when the boys were old enough they had to help on the farm; this they willingly, did. For this reason Joseph did not go to school much, but he learned to re

he western part of the state of New York. Four years later they moved agai

lieve in God and the Bible. Joseph thought he would like to join the true church of Christ, but what troubled him was to know which of all these sects was the true church. He could see that all of them could not be true, as God surely would not have a great many churches, one striving against the other;

boy and girl that reads this book should remember it. It is this: Ask God. Joseph did not know this until one da

God, that giveth to all men liberally and

nly lacked wisdom, and here was a way to find out what he wanted to know about th

ure that he was alone, he kneeled down on the grass under the trees and began to pray. No sooner had he begun than some awful power which he could not see took hold of him and made i

wn and touched the tops of the trees, Joseph wondered why it did not burn them. Then it shone all around him, and in the light, standing in the air above him

is my Beloved

ght; that they all had gone astray from the truth; and that he must join none of them. Joseph was told many other th

had seen them and they had spoken to him. That same Jesus of whom he had read in his Bible had c

ny things. First, that God has a body like unto man's. Second, that the Father and the Son are two persons, not one, as many in the world believe.

. 2. The Vision. 3. What ma

od for wisdom? 4. Repeat James I:5. 5. Why can not all the sects in the world be right? 6. Did the Father and the Son come to