In 2008, BYU Religious Education hosted the annual BYU Church Symposium featuring President John Taylor. This book is a compilation of selected presentations from that symposium. John Taylor left a great legacy. It is the purpose of this book that his legacy might be remembered. The Prophet Joseph Smith told John Taylor, "Elder Taylor you have received the Holy Spirit and if you heed promptings of the same it will become whithin you a Fountain of Continuous Revelation from God." President Taylor's words, as we study them in this volume, will become a continuous fountain of revelation for the reader. On the flyleaf of the Improvement Era, John Taylor wrote, "What you young people want is a book that can be bound and kept with something in it worth keeping." Certainly the essays about the life and teachings of John Taylor bound in this volume are worth keeping.