A Study of the Messiah and His Mission
according to Holy Scriptures both
Ancient and Modern by James E. Talmage
CHAPTER 37 The Resurrection and the Ascension
Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, had passed, and the night preceding the dawn of the most memorable Sunday in history was well nigh spent…
CHAPTER 38 The Apostolic Ministry
After witnessing the Lord’s ascension from Olivet, the eleven apostles returned to Jerusalem filled with joy and thoroughly suffused with the spirit of adoring worship…
CHAPTER 39 Ministry of the Resurrected Christ on the Western
Hemisphere
By considering the apostolic ministry in immediate sequence to our study of the Lord’s ascension from the Mount of Olives, we have departed from the chronological order of the several personal manifestations…
CHAPTER 40 The Long Night of Apostasy
For over seventeen hundred years on the eastern hemisphere, and for more than fourteen centuries on the western, there appears to have been silence between the heavens and the earth…
CHAPTER 41 Personal Manifestations of God the Eternal Father
and of His Son Jesus Christ in Modern Times
In the year of our Lord 1820 there lived at Manchester, Ontario County, state of New York, a worthy citizen named Joseph Smith…
CHAPTER 42 Jesus the Christ to Return
"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into…"