Description
In April 1888, Andrew Jenson, Danish immigrant and convert to the Mormon faith, received an unexpected invitation from church leaders to speak at their general conference. Jenson was an outsider to this conference tradition, a layman whose only standing before the main body of Latter-day Saints came from a contracted position with the Church Historian's Office.Forty-two years later, in April 1930, Jenson offered his twenty-eighth and final general conference sermon. He had become the voice of institutional record keeping in his over forty-year career as an Assistant Church Historian. His sermons demonstrated the growth and expansion of the Mormon general conference tradition in the twentieth century, as they placed the Latter-day Saint story front and center for church members to learn from and celebrate. In addition, Jenson urged conference goers to keep better personal and institutional records and believed he was often the solitary advocate for church record keeping and historical preservation.A Voice in the Wilderness presents all twenty-eight of Andrew Jenson's general conference sermons, with introductions and annotations that set them within their historical and religious contexts. His speeches capture a unique period in Mormon history, one of institutional change, accommodation, and growth. This study of Jenson's sermons uncovers the richness and diversity that thrives just beneath the surface of official ecclesiastical discourse.
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsEditors' PrefaceIntroductionGeneral Conference SermonsChapter 1: "Every Man and Every Woman Should Have a Testimony," April 1888Chapter 2: "God Is No Respecter of Persons," April 1903Chapter 3: "The Power of God Is with His Servants," October 1905Chapter 4: "We Want to Make You All Historians," October 1906Chapter 5: "This Gospel of the Kingdom Shall Be Preached in All the World," April 1907Chapter 6: "Let Us Place Them and Ourselves on Record," October 1907Chapter 7: "The Great Principle of Gathering," April 1908Chapter 8: "A Pleasant Abode for the Pure in Heart," October 1908Chapter 9: "Every Member of the Church Is Entitled to Revelation," October 1912Chapter 10: "Becoming 'One Nation upon the Mountains of Ephraim,'" April 1913Chapter 11: "Come, Come, Ye Saints," April 1914Chapter 12: "Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits," April 1915Chapter 13: "Many Things Are Not Recorded That Ought to Be," April 1916Chapter 14: "Those Pioneer Fathers and Mothers of Ours," October 1916Chapter 15: "The Eastern States . . . the Cradle of 'Mormonism,'" April 1917Chapter 16: "Records Have Been Kept from the Beginning," October 1917Chapter 17: "A Kingdom That Shall Endure Forever," April 1918Chapter 18: "A Most Extensive Labor at the Historian's Office," October 1919Chapter 19: '"Mormonism' for One Hundred Years," April 1920Chapter 20: "God Is with the True Latter-day Saints," October 1921Chapter 21: "A Far Greater Future than We Have Had a Past," October 1922Chapter 22: "Why Do We Build Temples?," October 1923Chapter 23: "The Necessity of Record Keeping," April 1924Chapter 24: "Faithful and Diligent in Preaching the Gospel," April 1925Chapter 25: "Places That Have Become Sacred to the Latter-day Saints," October 1925Chapter 26: "A General Awakening in Regard to the Importance of Record Keeping," October 1926Chapter 27: "The Missionary Operations of the Church," April 1927Chapter 28: "This Centennial Conference of the Church," April 1930BibliographyIndex
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