James E. Talmage

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James Edward Talmage (September 21, 1862–July 27, 1933) born in Hungerford, England was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1911 until his death in 1933.

He studied chemistry and geology at Lehigh University, Johns Hopkins University, and Illinois Wesleyan University for nonresident work. Dr. Talmage was elected to life membership in several learned societies, and for many years was a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (London), Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (Edinburgh), Fellow of the Geological Society (London), Fellow of the Geological Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Associate of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, or Victoria Institute, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He taught science at Brigham Young Academy and served as president of the University of Utah.

He was the author of several religious books such as Jesus the Christ, The House of the Lord, The Great Apostasy and The Articles of Faith. Books clarifying LDS doctrine, still widely read by Latter-day Saints (see Bibliography below).

Talmage also went to Washington D.C. to testify in the Smoot Hearings

[edit] Published works

• The Articles of Faith, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, 1899, ISBN 1-56085-167-8
• The Essential James E. Talmage, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, 1997, ISBN 1-56085-018-3
• The House of the Lord, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, 1998, ISBN 1-56085-114-7 (reprint of the first edition)
• Jesus the Christ, Deseret Book, 1915, ISBN 0-87747-903-8
• Latter-Day Revelations: Selections from the Book of Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, 1915
• The Great Apostasy, Deseret Book, 2001, ISBN 0-87579-843-8
• The Story of "Mormonism" and The Philosophy of "Mormonism", Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-4191-8364-8

[edit] External links

• Works by James E. Talmage at Project Gutenberg
• Grampa Bill. James E. Talmage. Grampa Bill's G. A. Pages. Retrieved on August 5, 2005.

Preceded by: Joseph Fielding Smith

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles December 8, 1911–July 27, 1933

Succeeded by: Stephen L. Richards