The Great Apostasy

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims the restoration of the Gospel and the re-establishment of the original Church of Jesus Christ. Such restoration would be unnecessary and indeed impossible had the Church of Christ continued among men with unbroken succession of the Priesthood. The evidence of the decline and final extinction of the primitive Church among men is found in scriptural record and in secular history. "The Great Apostasy" has undertaken to present a summary of the most important of these evidences. In so doing, author James E. Talmage has published one of the most detailed books on the apostasy with hope that it may assist missionary efforts of the restored Church of Jesus Christ.