---
title: The Great Apostasy, Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History
description: 1909 book by James E. Talmage, a Mormon apostle, arguing that the early Christian church fell into apostasy and that the Mormon Church restored it; ten chapters on the claimed apostasy, its causes and its sequel.
authors:
  - Talmage, James Edward
collections:
  - theology
tags:
  - theology
  - church-history
  - 20th-century
  - mormon-writings
  - apostasy
published: "1909"
publisher: The Deseret News
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
edition: Sixth thousand, copyright 1909 (Salt Lake City)
language: en
type: book
reference: 'James E. Talmage, *The Great Apostasy, Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History* (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1909), "Title Page."'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/greatapostasycon00atalm
  identifier: greatapostasycon00atalm
  scan: Brigham Young University copy of the 1909 Deseret News printing (sixth thousand), Internet Archive
  transcription: OCR text of the 1909 scan, with line-break hyphens joined, running heads and page numbers removed, library stamps and end papers dropped, and obvious scan errors corrected; printed pagination kept as page markers. Footnotes are kept as bracketed notes. Not proofread against the page images.
curator_note: Printing stated as the sixth thousand; the text carries the 1909 copyright. Treated as a Mormon primary source, included for historical and doctrinal study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1909 US publication (Salt Lake City, The Deseret News; copyright notice of 1909); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/greatapostasycon00atalm
  publication_year: 1909
  note: Publication year of the edition used is 1909; any modern rights notice in the Internet Archive metadata does not apply to this 1909 text.
---

# Title Page

THE GREAT APOSTASY

Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History

BY

JAMES E. TALMAGE

D. Sc. D.. Ph.D., F. R. S. E.

t'tX

SIXTH THOUSAND.

Published by

THE DESERET NEWS

Salt Lake City, Utah

COPYRIGHT

by

JAMES E. TALMAGE

1909

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