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Early Scenes in Church History, is the eighth in a series of 17 catalogs called The Faith-Promoting Series. Shared between 1879 and 1915, this series of books was printed by the Juvenile Teachers Office for the Instructions and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints. It was George Q. Cannon's enthusiasm that produced the series, however. In 1866, Cannon, a person in the Quorum of the 12, started out publication of an magazine for youngsters and young adults called The Juvenile Instructor, which he owned or operated and printed until his death in 1901, when his family sold the publication to the LDS Church's Weekend School group. Thus, in 1882 when the present work, Early Scenes in Chapel History, was printed, it was a work performed under the direction of Cannon, with the blessing of the Church's governing leadership. In the preface, the publisher provides that the goal of the task is to preserve stories of beliefs from early Chapel history before they can be lost, mainly for the benefit for the next generation of Latter-day Saints. The primary premise for the task is usually that the rising generation of Latter-day Saints understand the legacy of beliefs bequeathed to them and therefore be inspired to acquire their own beliefs to transport on in the task of god, the father initiated by their religious, if not literal, forbearers. Put another way, the idea for the task was to remember what God did because of this people, both collectively and singularly. Portions from the Beliefs Promoting Series, including the present work, amount to almost an oral history project of individuals from Joseph Smith's generation. The simple narratives presented amount to the raw material of background, and preservation of the narratives kept from oblivion many personal and profound experiences of alteration and service. Prophetically writing in one preface, Cannon witnessed that "men will seek with avidity" for such firsthand information "but a couple of years hence."
