---
title: The Articles of Faith
description: "1899 book by James E. Talmage, a Mormon apostle, written at the request of the Mormon Church's First Presidency: twenty-four lectures on the thirteen Articles of Faith, with notes, an outline for class review, and an index."
authors:
  - Talmage, James Edward
collections:
  - theology
tags:
  - theology
  - doctrine
  - 20th-century
  - mormon-writings
  - articles-of-faith
published: "1899"
publisher: The Deseret News
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
edition: First edition (Salt Lake City, 1899)
language: en
type: book
reference: 'James E. Talmage, *The Articles of Faith* (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1899), "Title Page."'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/articlesoffaiths00talm2
  identifier: articlesoffaiths00talm2
  scan: Harold B. Lee Library (Brigham Young University) copy of the 1899 Deseret News edition, Internet Archive
  transcription: OCR text of the 1899 scan, with line-break hyphens joined, running heads and page numbers removed and obvious scan errors corrected; printed pagination kept as page markers. Footnotes are kept as bracketed notes after the paragraph they follow. Not proofread against the page images.
curator_note: The 1899 first edition, before later revisions; treated as a Mormon primary source, included for historical and doctrinal study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1899 US publication (Salt Lake City, The Deseret News; copyright notice of 1899); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/articlesoffaiths00talm2
  publication_year: 1899
  note: Publication year of the edition used is 1899; any modern rights notice in the Internet Archive metadata does not apply to this 1899 text.
---

# Title Page

THE

ARTICLES OF FAITH

A SERIES OF LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPAL. DOCTRINES OF

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS,

BY

Dr. JAMES EX TALMAGE,

WRITTEN BY APPOINTMENT; AND PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH.

The Deseret News,

salt lake city, utah,

Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1899,

By James E. Talmage,

In the office of the Librarian of

Congress, at Washington.