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Show ‘pOOK OF ‘BOOK MOSIAH, and drink, and rest themselves from the labors of their journey; for they had suffered many things: they had suffered hunger, thirst, and fatigue. And now, it came to pass on the morrow, that king Limi gent a proclamation among all his people, that thereby they might gather themselves together to the temple, to hear the words which he should speak unto them. And it came to ass that when they had gathered themselves together, that 1e spake unto them in this wise, saying, O ye, my people, lift up your heads and be comforted: for behold, the time is at hand, or is not far distant, when we shall no longer be in subjection to our enemies, notwithstanding our many strugglings, which have been in vain; yet I trust there remainet an effectual struggle to be’made. ‘Therefore, lift up you heads, and rejoice, and put your trust in God, in that God who was the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob; and also, that God who brought the Children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, and caused that they should walk through the Red Sea on dry ground, and fed them with manna, that they might not perish in the wilderness ; and many more things did he do OF MOSIAR. 173 tnd not fallen into transgression, the Lord would not have suffered that this great evil should come upon them. But behold, they would not hearken unto his words; but there arose contentions among them, even so much that they did shed blood among themselves. And a Prophet of the Lord have they slain; yea, a chosen man of God, who told them of their wickedness and abominations, and prophesied of many things which is to come; yea, even the coming of Christ. And. because he saith unto them, That Christ was the God, the bondage, and that they are smitten with sore afflictions? For ehold, the Lord hath said, I will not succor my people in the And again: That same God hath brought our fathers day of their transgression; but I will hedge up their ways, people, even until now. And behold, it is because of our ini- block before them. And again: He saith, If my people shali Sow filthiness, they shall reap the chaff thereot,.in the whirl- king over this people, he being over zealous to inherit the land forthem, out of the land of Jerusalem, and hath kept and preserved Is guities and abominations, that has brought us into bondage.— And ye all are witnesses this day, that Zeniff, who was made of his fathers, therefore being deceived by the cunning and eraftiness of king Laman, who having entered into a treaty with king Zeniff, and having yielded up into his hands the posses sions of a part of the land, or even the city of Lehi-Nephi, an¢ the city of Shilom, and the land round about; and all this he done, for the sole purpose of bringing this’ people into subjec’ / ‘Tro OF n; into bondage. And behold, we at this. time do pay ". f bute to the king of the Lamanites, to the amount of one half 0! our corn, and our barley, and even all our grain of, every kind, and one half of the increase of our flocks, and our herds; and f even one half of all we have or possess, the king of the Lama And now, is not this griev” ites doth exact of us, or our lives. ous to be borne? And is not this, our afflictions, great ‘ Now behold, how great reason haye we to mourn. Yea, I say unto yo": great are the reasons which we have to mourn: for behold, their blood hath how many of our brethren have been slain, and heen spilt im vain, and all because of iniquity. For if this people » erof all things, and saith that he should take upon him 72 the mage of man, and it should be the image after which man was created in the beginning; or in other words, he said that man was created after the image of God, and that God should come down among the children of men, and take upon him flesh and blood, and go forth upon the face of the earth; and now, because he said this, they did put him to death; and mahy more things did they do, which brought down the wrath of God upon them. Therefore, who wondereth that they are in at they prosper not; and their doings shall be asa stumbling wind; and the effects thencant esOlson, And again: He saith, my a people shall sow filthmeéss;they shail-reap the east Which bringeth immediate destruction. And now, be- fe: the promise of the Lord is fulfilled; and ye are smitten, alilicted. But if ye will turn to the Lord with full pur- ‘hex heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with his misence of mind; and if ye do this, he will, according t a. | oe ROE —wi will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.y— Un Vit VILL of - on to pass that after king Limhi had made an end UY oe ities : 7S to his people, for he spake many things unto told © Only a few of them have I written in this book, he Were in Ee all the things concerning their brethren which should é land of Zarahemla ; and he caused that Ammon all that “wt up before the multitude, and rehearse unto them appened unto their brethren, from the time that eniff . inigel i up out of the land, even until the time that -he, And he also rehearsed unte them th oy up out of the land. aad Pye © 288t Words which king Benjamin had taught them, ned them to the people of king Limhj, so that they | PE te |
