Bearing in mind the new focus on personal and family study for this year's
Come Follow Me curriculum, I decided to make a goal of rereading
Jesus the Christ alongside learning about the Savior under the new program. Since James E. Talmage takes a somewhat different approach to the organization of (mostly) the same material, I decided to create a study guide to match up the content and align my personal study with the topics and events being discussed in the lesson manual each week. I've used page numbers taken from the Missionary Reference Library hard copy, but since I will mostly be using an electronic copy for convenience, and I suspect others may want to do the same, I included a column detailing the topics covered each week. These are intended to be a loose guide and do not match up exactly to Talmage's headings but should give a general idea of where and how much to read, bearing in mind that most of the chapters (with a few exceptions) are divided into nonequal but consecutive *halves* (i.e., beginning to stopping point, starting point to end). I've included on this page a copy of Talmage's table of contents, which includes page numbers and headings, which should help orient the electronic user somewhat. Also, I know the study guide technically starts last week, and catching up would be a LOT, since this week is already pretty JC-heavy, so I included a *free* week on Easter that you can use to catch those up and/or read ahead some of the related chapters. Finally, I know the correspondence really only carries through the first half of the year, so I stopped where I ran out of material, but included a list of lessons that correspond to the last few chapters of Jesus the Christ; I may or may not simply finish JC in July once I run out of Come Follow Me material, or I may use the second section to bring harmony to my studies—hey, I may do both, who knows? Feel free to use it in the way that is most useful for you.
Here is the link in my Google Drive file (because I can't figure out how to embed something in this blog page for direct download):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13GLjn2XLmZCA5gWJMbMiXoTWZjVXlbKR/view?usp=sharing
Here's a JPG image of what the guide looks like:
And here is Talmage's TOC, for reference (can also be found at
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22542/22542-page-images/):
