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Show BOOK OF ENOS. BOOK i44 with dwelling in tents, and wandering about in the wilderness, n; shave a short skin girded about their Joins, and their heads axe.— the and , and their skill was in the bow, and the cimeter and meat; raw was And many of them did eat nothing save it us. y they were continually seeking to destro And it came to pass that the people of Nephi did till the land, and raise all manner of grain, and of fruit, and flocks of herds, and flocks of all manner of cattle, of every kind, and I have given unto them this land; and it is eommandments. a holy land; and I curse it not, save it be for the cause of in: quity ; wherefore, I will visit thy brethren, according as I have their and said: my words, And after that I, Enos, had heard these be to began faith with sorrow will I bring down transgressions upon their owmheads. the in unshaken Lord; and] long strugglings for my brethrer, prayed unto him with many ihe Lamanites. And it came to pass, that after I had prayed, and labored svith all dilgence, the Lord said unto me, I will grant unto thee according to thy desires, because of thy faith. And now bethe desire which this was hold. I desired of him: That if tt Lamanites, that perhaps goats, and wild goat’, and also malich horses unto the sying of wars, and contentions, and - they might be brought unto salvation: for at the present, our And struggles were vain, in restoring them to the true faith. would they swore in their wrath, that if it were possible, they of ow s tradition the all also, and, us; and destroy our records fathers. Wherefore, I knowing that the Lord God was able to pr es records, I cried unto him continually; for het ad said our ve ser unto me, Whatsoever thing ye shall ask in faith, beheving that ye shall recieve in the name of Christ, ye shall receive lt And I had faith, and I did cry unto God, that he would pre and he covenated with me that he wou serve the records; re is bring them forth unto the Lamanites, in his own due time. «1 hice And I, Enos, knew it would be according to the covenant Lor the And rest. did soul my he had made; wherefere; i — eee 1 ~~ hitsy gaid unto me, Thy fathers have also required of me this thei for faith, their to according them and if shall be done unto af thine. unto faith was like And now it came to pass, that I, Enos, went about amos the people know, 4hat in him er eae 1 shall rest: and I rejoice in the day BGs . = ¥-4 : ia 3 ” a Ff minty P nto: full of idolatry, and filthiness ; feading upon beasts ot pre, + - 2 x2 K i? : oe / “fe SUe : Ss Re Te eo fe {1} rey : when him: then shall Isee his face with pleasure, and he will say unto me, Come unto me ye blessed, there is a place prepared Jor you in the mansions of my Faraer. Amen. to restore tne yecord thatthe people of Nephi did-seck. diligently were val!) labors ¥ smanites unto the true faith in God. ‘Bit our evil natul?: a blood-thirsty gyat they became wild, and ferocious, and and continu- on immortality,) and shall stand before And Ibaret led by their heir hatred was fixed, and they were destructions, ally reminding them of death, and the duration of eternity, and ihe judgments and the power of God; and all these things stirving them up continually, to keep them in the fear of the Lord. I say fhere was nothing short of these things, and exceeding great plainness of speech, would keep them from going down And after this manner do I write speedily to destruction. And I saw wars between the Nephites and conceming them. Lamanites, in the course of my days. And it came to pass that I began to be old, and an hundred and seventy and nine years had passed away from the time that our father Lehi left Jerusalem. And as I saw that | must sopn go down tomy grave, having been wrought upon by the power of God, that I must preach and prophesy unto this people, and declare the word according to the truth, which is in Christ,/ And I have. declared it, in all my days, and have rejoiced in it, above that of the world. And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my redeemer; for I of Nephi, prophesying of things to,.eome, and fifying of the things which I had heard and see. And theregwere An the people were a exceeding many prophets among us. And there was nothtand. wnders to stiff-necked people, hard ing, and prophepreach ess, -harshn ing ing save it was exceed should so be, that my people, the: Nephites, should fall into ‘ransgression, and by any means be destroyed, and the Liwould manites should not be destroyed, that the Lord God it 90 if even s; Nephite the preserve a record of my people, brougil be might it that arm, be, hy the power of his holy forth, at some future day, 145 ENOS, OF 10 |
