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Contents
Introduction
1 “Upon You My Fellow Servants”
2 Every Member Was a Missionary
Aaronic Priesthood
3 From Men to Boys: LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, 1829–1996
4 Ordained and Acting Teachers in the Lesser Priesthood, 1851–1883
5 Bishop, History of the Office
6 Edward Hunter, Pioneer Presiding Bishop
7 Ward Bishops and the Localizing of LDS Tithing, 1847-1856
Melchizedek Priesthood
8 Brigham Young and Priesthood Work at the General and Local Levels
9 LDS Pastors and Pastorates 1852–1855
10 The Priesthood Reorganization of 1877: Brigham Young’s Last Achievement
11 The Seventies in the 1880s: Revelations and Reorganizing
12 The Priesthood Reform Movement, 1908–1922
Administrative/Organizational History
13 Organization
14 Enough Water: Baptism, an Ever Changing Quality
15 Mormon Sundays
16 Organization of Wards and Stakes: A Historical Approach
17 Nauvoo Stake, Priesthood Quorums, and the Church’s First Wards
18 Brigham Young’s Overland Trails Revolution: The Creation of the “Down-and-Back” Wagon-Train System, 1860–1861
19 Common People: Church Activity during the Brigham Young Era
20 War and Peace and Dutch Potatoes
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