THE TALMAGE PARABLES BY JAMES E. TALMAGE
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- Includes an autobiographical sketch of the author
- This book includes original artwork
- Unabridged with 100% of it’s original content
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- Easy-to-read 14 pt. font size
- Proper paragraph formatting with Indented first lines, 1.25 Line Spacing and Justified Paragraphs
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- Custom Table of Contents and Design elements for each chapter
- The Copyright page has been placed at the end of the book, as to not impede the content and flow of the book.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Original publication: 1914
Book 5 of 8
THE TALMAGE PARABLES is a collection of eight short stories, or parables, that James E. Talmage wrote based upon his life experiences. These parables were initially published in the church’s Improvement Era in 1914, three years after Elder Talmage was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
These parables have been compiled and published as Elder Talmage’s 5th book of 8 in the James E. Talmage collection. This publication includes the following parables:
THE TWO LAMPS
THE DEFECTIVE BATTERY
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE
THE OWL EXPRESS
THE MINTED COIN
THE UNWISE BEE
THE TREASURE VAULT
THE STORY OF THE CRYSTAL
THE TALMAGE PARABLES will make a very nice edition to your LDS library.
Chapters 8
Words: 9,000
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Elder Talmage served as an Apostle for 22 years and wrote two Church books that are in wide use to this day: Jesus the Christ and The Articles of Faith. Elder Talmage also published a series of parables—stories taken from his personal experience that teach gospel principles. James Edward Talmage was 13 years old when his family emigrated from their native England and settled in Provo, Utah. Intelligent and thirsty for knowledge, James was a part-time member of the faculty of the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, by the time he was 17. He went on to study chemistry and geology at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Membership in many prominent scientific societies gave James Talmage access to important people and publications and helped him combat much of the prejudice faced by Latter-day Saints at the time. In 1888 he married Mary May Booth. They became the parents of eight children. From 1894 to 1897 he was president of the University of Deseret in Salt Lake City (now the University of Utah). During that time he bought one of the popular new chain-driven bicycles and rode it often. One evening he arrived home an hour late for dinner, bruised, bloodied, and dirty. Near his home was a single-plank bridge across a ditch. Normally, he dismounted and crossed on foot. But this time he felt he could ride across. He kept at it, crash after crash, until he mastered the maneuver. Elder Talmage was an effective lecturer, and some of his talks and lessons became the basis of some of the books for which he is well-known, including The Articles of Faith. Prior to his call to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1911, the First Presidency had asked him to write a book on the life and ministry of the Savior. Later, a room was set aside in the Salt Lake Temple where Elder Talmage could concentrate on his writing. His 700-page book, Jesus the Christ, was published in 1915 and has been reprinted several times since then.
