Truth Eternal: Six Essential Doctrinal Works Every Latter-day Saint Should Know

by Joseph Smith Jr. (Contributor), Lorenzo Snow (Contributor), Eliza R. Snow (Contributor)

Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote, "There are approved and inspired writings that are not in the standard works. These writings also are true and should be used along with the scriptures themselves in learning and teaching the gospel." This classic collection of doctrinal essentials includes "The King Follett Discourse," "The Sermon in the Grove," "The Wentworth Letter," "The Father and the Son," "The Origin of Man," "The Lectures on Faith," "Man's Destiny," and "Invocation, or the Eternal Father and Mother."

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2007

About the author

Joseph Smith, Jr. was the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism, and an important religious and political figure during the 1830s and 1840s. In 1827, Smith began to gather a religious following after announcing that an angel had shown him a set of golden plates describing a visit of Jesus to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. In 1830, Smith published what he said was a translation of these plates as the Book of Mormon, and the same year he organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

For most of the 1830s, Smith lived in Kirtland, Ohio, which remained the headquarters of the church until Smith began encouraging members to gather the church to a Latter Day Saint settlement in Missouri. There, tensions between Mormons and non-Mormons resulted in the expelling of the Mormons. Smith and his people then settled in Nauvoo, Illinois where they began building a new temple aided by new converts from Europe. He was assassinated by a mob of non-Mormons at the age of 38.

Smith's followers consider him a prophet and have canonized some of his revelations as sacred texts on par with the Bible. His legacy as a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been recognized by millions of adherents.