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Show ) BOOK HELAMAN. the people unto destruction. and covenants did/not’come Now behold, those secret a forth unto from the Gadianton records which were delivered unto Helaman; but behold, !h were put into the heart of Gadianton, by that same eee sent did entice our first parents to partake of the forbidden he : a that if yea, that same being who did plot with Cain, o yim known be not should it. murder his brother Abel, world. And he did plot with Cain and his followers, that time forth. And also it is that same being ek the hearts of the people, to build a tower putticle ny 5 ing they might get to Heaven. And it was that eas led on the people which came from that tower, 1 all the face of the land, until he dragged which spread the works of darkness and eee the par as se shat “ch land ove! raat ‘+ je tha an entire destruction, and to an everlasting hell ; ae ~¢ill ca same being who put it into the heart of Gadianton, “ . gnih he ry on the work of darkness, and of | secret mur ven dow? to hath brought it forth from the beginning of man, se r of pil st autho this time. And behold, it is he which 1s thie OOM SO A ae hee 2 La man- statutes and commandments, : oe in truth and uprightness before him. And thus s = the spirit of the Lord began to withdraw from the cn s ecause of the wickedness and the hardnes of their wean nd thus we see that the Lord began to pour out his Pmt upon the Lamanites, because of their easiness and w }Bes to believe in his word. i ei on i pass that the Lamanites did hunt the band adianton ; and they did preach’ the Word of aan a 1¢ more wicked part of them, insomuch that this teeta vn was utterly destroyed from among the Lamantd saa . came to pass on the other hand, that the N ephites Wkel os oe up and support them, beginning at the more the Ne P r - them, until they had overspread . ites, and had seduced the more part of all the land of the righ bl,“ ot xytheirHad come down to believe in their work Nee spoils, and to join with them in ehite on “pp sal ‘nd combinations. And thus they did cht! ee eae le eet of the government, insomuch that th at sole 0d es nme net their feet, and smite, and rend, © Poor, and the meek, and ¢ and humble follow nd unto the world, lest they should be a means of bringing - to keep his while the ad aren covenants, which Alma commanded his son should not go forts eee abominations, P behold, - . and ™S, Now wickedness ‘shamed exceedingly in the knowledge of their God; that a more ee rts YM DT Kishkumen. secret oaths and . insomuch ~ and it is these * a - years, eee te jet ol which belonged to their band, should reveal unto the world not tried, be should abominations, their and their wickedness according to the laws of their country, but according to the Gadianton laws of their wickedness, which had been given by space of not many part of it had come unto them in the sixty and seventh year of the reign of the Judges ver the people of Nephi. And they a 7 their iniquities, in the sixty and eighth year also, ; great sorrow and lamentation of the righteous. And ls we see that the Nephites did.begin to dwindle in unbelief. z all manner of wickedness,‘ contrary to the laws of their cout try, and also the laws of their God; and whosoever of those them, in the p io not be injured by his brother, nor by those who did belong to his band, who had taken this covenant; and thus they might murder, and plunder, and steal, and commit whorecoms, and dols of their gold and their silver. Andit came to pass that all these iniquities did come unto stsCW do, he should ee brother should his nee that whatsoever wickédness trample under their feet the commandments of God, and did “tun unto their own ways, and did build up unto themselves nen And it came to pass that they did haye their signs, yea, their secret signs, and their secret words; and this that they might distinguish a brother who had entered into the covenant, yea, insomuch that they had become exceeding wicked 7 yea, fhe giore paxt of them had turned out of the way of righteousness, and did ca msi ee their stealings. got great hold upon the hearts of the Nephites; . should not suffer for their murders, and their plunderiigs, and ys deli that they would protect and preserve one another, in whatsoever difficult circumstances they should be placed in, that they oa wanasifie ne Ro pm ee behold, satan did stir up the hearts of the more parts of the Nephites, insomuch that they..did unite with those bands of robbers, and did enter into their covenants, and their oaths, And behold, he doth carry on his works of darkness and seeret murder, and doth hand down their plots, and ‘)eir oaths, and their covenants, and their plans of awful wickedness, from seneration to generation, according as he can get hole upon the hearts of the children of men. “And now behold, he ld ee But = 420 HELAMAN, — to destroy them off the face of the earth. OF Be their power, OF ‘dae? nem ee BOOK A 424 |