Over the decades, it has had a place among the very few books in the “reference library” that Church missionaries are allowed and encouraged to carry with them as they are transferred from place to place within their missions. Talmage is still in wide use by Latter-day Saints and is what scholars reckon to be the best-selling doctrinal work in Church history.įrequently quoted by Church leaders, writers, speakers and teachers, it has served at least twice as an instructional manual in Church classes. Today, 100 years after its publication, Jesus the Christ by James E. It is the only book in Church literature to have been written in longhand in a temple, directly commissioned by the First Presidency.
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