Orson Pratt (1811-1881) was an apostle of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints; at 24, he was the third youngest member of
the original Quorum of the Twelve.
Pratt was a genuine polymath, with major
writings on theology, astronomy, and
mathematics. He supervised the work of
transcribing the Book of Mormon to the
Deseret Alphabet and is responsible for our
current chapter-verse divisions in the Book
of Mormon. He wrote numerous pamphlets
that were long used in missionary work.
He and his brother Parley were, after
Joseph Smith himself, the most important
theologians in the early LDS Church.
We reprint here twenty of his sermons
as recorded in the Journal of Discourses.
This book is in the Deseret Alphabet, a phonetic alphabet for writing English developed in the mid-19th century at the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah).
