As life has grown more complex, the cares and perplexities and anxieties about things of the world have grown steadily more intrusive, demanding more and more of our resources, time, worry, and energy. Spiritual considerations come later, if at all. Yet faith is more than ever needed in what is at best a simmering disquiet as wars, terrorism, natural disasters, injustices, changing mores, aggressive materialism, political turbulence, and widespread human suffering all combine to produce an unprecedented uncertainty. To appreciate how relevant and responsive the Restoration is, it is necessary first to take at least a superficial measure of the consequences of the spiritual famine that preceded it.

    

    

    Examines the lives of the prophets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

    This book presents a wealth of vital information for people seeking greater understanding of the peoples of the world and the beliefs that motivate them.

    Beyond that, it offers motivation and enlightenment that will help leaders renew their commitment to the work. Filled with personal experiences, quotations, charts, and easy-to-follow checklists, Lead, Guide and Walk Beside is a must-have resource for women leaders throughout the Church.

    From 1835 to 1921 the Lectures were printed as the first part of the Doctrine and Covenants. Since 1921 they have been available for study mainly in a little booklet edition published by N. B. Lundwall about 1940, and in a Deseret Book Company version published in 1985."As we studied the printed versions in connection with the symposium on the Lectures on Faith sponsored by the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University, we decided to prepare a newly edited version of the Lectures to correct several mistakes that had found their way into the printed versions. We also decided to try to make some of the long, complex sentences easier to read."We present here a newly edited version of the Lectures on Faith. We have restricted our editing to making the language clearer and easier to read; we have not changed any of the doctrinal teachings."We are pleased to be able to print a whole book containing the Lectures on Faith and discussions of those lectures. If our readers can gain as much from reading this book as we have from seeing it throughout the printing process, our efforts will be richly rewarded."We wish to express gratitude to those who have helped us in this project. We are especially grateful for those who presented papers at the symposium, and to the staff of the Religious Studies Center Publications Office for their work in preparing the manuscripts for printing."Larry E. Dahl and Charles D. Tate, Jr."(The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective, Larry E. Dahl & Charles D. Tate, Jr., ed. [Prove, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1990] p. ix.)A PDF copy of the 1990 printing is now available online at http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/doc.... Many of the Relgious Studies Center publications are now available via the digital collections at http://lib.byu.edu/rsc/ (simply select the "Search" button without entering any text to see a full selection of available titles).