Excerpt from Young People's History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Vol. 1 Dear Sister: At a meeting of the Board of Publication and Church Historian agreeably to a resolution of General Confer ence, to consider the publication of a Juvenile Church History, you were chosen to write that part of the history from the begin ning of the church to 1859, the compensation to be arranged with the Church Historian and the Executive Committee of the Board, President E. L. Kelley, Manager A. Carmichael, and F. B. Blair. A resolution was passed providing that the writing of the his tory should be under the general direction of the Church His torian. Very sincerely in bonds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.