Contents

Copyrights and Acknowledgments

Foreword / Leonard J. Arrington

Introduction

1. History
Young Joseph's Illness / Lucy Mack Smith
Joseph Smith Tells His Own Story / Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Missouri Persecutions / B.H. Roberts
The Mormons / Thomas L. Kane
The First Year in the Valley / Leonard J. Arrington
The Death and Burial of Jesus Christ / James E. Talmage

2. Biography and Autobiography
from The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt / Parley P. Pratt
The Martyrdom / John Taylor
Some Early Mormon "Fast-Days" / Daniel W. Jones
Indian Episode of Early Days / S.A. Kenner
Grandma / Florence A. Merriam Bailey
How I Became a "Mormon" / Karl G. Maeser
Home Reminiscences of Uncle Will Brooks / Juanita Brooks

3. Letters
To Emma Smith / Joseph Smith
To Emma Smith / Joseph Smith
To W.W. Phelps / Joseph Smith
To the Brethren Returning from Missions / Brigham Young
Brigham Young's Last WIll and Testament / Brigham Young
The Hascall-Pomeroy Correspondence / Ursulia B. Hascall and Irene Hascall Pomeroy
To Ellen Pratt McGary / Ellen Spencer Clawson

4. Journals and Diaries
Crossing the Plains / Hosea Stout
Arriving in Zion / William Clayton
Death Strikes the Handcart Company / Mary Goble Pay
Historical Chips / Priddy Meeks
Cohabitation: The Day of the U.S. Marshal / Joseph Smith Black

5. Discourses
The King Follett Discourse / Joseph Smith
Conference Remarks on Science and Religion / Brigham Young
Discourse on the Plan of Salvation / Orson Pratt
What Is a "Good Man"? / J. Golden Kimball
Protest Against the Science-thought of "A Dying Universe" and No Immortality for Man: The Mission of the Church of the New Dispensation / B.H. Roberts
The True Strength of the Church / Gordon B. Hinckley

6. The Essay
Home Literature / Orson F. Whitney
Mormonism and Literature / William Mulder
Mormonism: An Eternal Quest / Parley A. Christensen
A Literary Critic Looks at the Book of Mormon / Robert K. Thomas
Educating the Saints: A Brigham Young Mosaic / Hugh Nibley
Human Anguish and Divine Love / Truman G. Madsen
Goodbye to Poplarhaven / Edward Geary

7. Poetry
Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Once I Lived in Cottonwood
The Handcart Song
A Marriage Proposal
Gently Raise the Sacred Strain / William W. Phelps
Now Let Us Rejoice / William W. Phelps
Hosanna Anthem / William W. Phelps
Praise to the Man / William W. Phelps
From W.W. Phelps to Joseph Smith, the Prophet / William W. Phelps
The Vision: From Joseph Smith to W.W. Phelps, Esq. / Joseph Smith
The Apostate: A Fragment / John Lyon
Family Prayer / John Lyon
High on the Mountain Top / Joel H. Johnson
How Great the Wisdom and the Love / Eliza R. Snow
Invocation, of the Eternal Father and Mother / Eliza R. Snow
Be Not Discouraged / Eliza R. Snow
My First View of a Western Prairie / Eliza R. Snow
Mental Gas / Eliza R. Snow
Come, O Thou King of Kings / Parley P. Pratt
The Morning Breaks; the Shadows Flee / Parley P. Pratt
An Angel from on High / Parley P. Pratt
Evening Prayer / Parley P. Pratt
Ye Elders of Israel / Cyrus H. Wheelock
Come, Come, Ye Saints / William Clayton
Oh Say, What Is Truth? / John Jaques
Up, Awake, Ye Defenders of Zion / Charles W. Penrose
Israel, Israel, God is Calling / Richard Smyth
Millennium / Ina Coolbrith
Thoughts Within / Augusta Joyce Crocheron
Parting / Augusta Joyce Crocheron
Estranged / Augusta Joyce Crocheron
To Nephi, Seer of Olden Time / Joseph L. Townsend
Hope of Israel / Joseph L. Townsend
The Wintry Day, Desending to Its Close / Orson F. Whitney
Ararat / Orson F. Whitney
from Elect of Elohim, in Elias, An Epic of the Ages / Orson F. Whitney
The Long Steel Road / Josephine Spencer
Twentieth-Century Poetry
The Brothers: June 24, 1844 / S. Dilworth Young
The Fable of the Rose / Vesta Pierce Crawford
Modern Christmas / Christie Lund Coles
My Father Tamed Wild Horses / Veneta L. Nielsen
On This Gray and Silver Day / Arthur Henry King
Hot Weather in Tucson / Arthur Henry King
To Utah / Edward L. Hart
The Gentle Way: (To President David O. McKay) / Edward L. Hart
Lines on a Line / Marden J. Clark
The Pagans / Lael W. Hill
The Centaur / May Swenson
Any Object / May Swenson
A Letter from Israel Whiton, 1851 / Clinton F. Larson
Advent / Clinton F. Larson
The Witness / Clinton F. Larson
Granddaughter / Clinton F. Larson
Widow Spring / Max Golightly
The Martydom / R. Paul Cracroft
Pruning the Sage / Emma Lou Thayne
Heretic / Emma Lou Thayne
First Loss / Emma Lou Thayne
Sunday School Picture / Emma Lou Thayne
The Assassination of Emma Gray / John Sterling Harris
Hay Derrick / John Sterling Harris
A Gathering of Saints / David L. Wright
The Heart of My Father / Thomas Asplund
From the Land of Song / Harrison Davis
Today's Dignitary / Nolyn Hardy
News Express / Marilyn McMeen Miller
At Mountain Meadows: for Juanita Brooks / R.A. Christmas
To the Mormon Now Blessed with Roses Instead of Tar and Feathers / Carol Lynn Pearson
Guilt / Carol Lynn Pearson
Ritual / Carol Lynn Pearson
To an Atheist / Carol Lynn Pearson
Reformation / Charis Southwell
Waking / Charis Southwell
Heritage / Clifton Holt Jolley
To Jacob Hamblin (1819-1886) / Dennis Drake
Statement before the World Expands / Dennis Marden Clark
Meadow / Dennis Marden Clark
A Name and a Blessing / Dennis Marden Clark
Cornerstone (Tracting in New Mexico) / Helen Walker Jones
Trip toward Prayer / Linda Sillitoe
Sterling and Jenny / Ann Doty
Give, Said the Little Stream / Anonymous
I Am a Child of God / Naomi W. Randall

8. Fiction
A Dialogue Between Joseph Smith and the Devil / Parley P. Pratt
A Trial of Hearts / Josephine Spencer
Lester Amsden's Love / Nephi Anderson
The Darling Lady / Virginia Sorensen
The Willows / Eileen G. Kump
Under the Cottonwoods / Douglas H. Thayer
The Week-End / Donald R. Marshall

9. The Novel
from Marcus King, Mormon / Nephi Anderson
from Children of God / Vardis Fisher
from The Giant Joshua / Maurine Whipple

10. Drama
The Mantle of the Prophet / Clinton F. Larson
And They Shall Be Gathered / Martin L. Kelly