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Show 265 And BOOK Alma and oe OF BOOK ALMA. synagogues, “And as many Which was built after the manner of as wotild hear their words, unto them they did impart the #oR of God, without any Respe cts of per- soms continually. And thus did Alma and Amulek and also many more which had been chosen preach the word throughout all the land. ment of the Church the region round go forth, for the work, to And the establish, became general throughout the land,in all about, among all the people of the Nephites And there was no ine quality among them, for the bord @ id pour out his spent on all the face of the land, for to prepare the minds ofthe children of men, or to prepare their hearts to recieve the word which should be taught among them at the time of his coming, that they might not be hardened against the word, that they might not be unbelieving, and go on to destruction, but that they might recieve the word with joy, anc" as a branch be grafted into the true vine, that they mighte mto the rest oi the Lord their God. Now those priests which did go forth among the people, aid pa against all lyings, and deceivings, and envyings, and strifes, and malice, and revilings, and stealing, robbing, plurdering, murdering, committing “adult y, and all manner of lasciviousness, crying that these things ought not <o to be; hold. ing forta things which must shortly come; yea holding forth the coming of the Son of God, his sufferings 2and death, and also: the resurtéction’of the dead: And many of the people did inquire concerning the place where the Son of God shoulc *¢ome ; and they were taught that he would appear unto them ‘alter his resurrection; and this the people did hear with great joy atid gladness. And now after the Church having been ¢* tablished throughout all the land, having got the vi ictory over the Devil, and the word of God béing preached i in its purity in all the Jand : and the Lord pouring out his blessings upon the people ; and thus ended the fourteenth year of the reign of the _ Judges, over the people of Nephi. ALMA, CHAPTER ulek went forth pr aching repentance un- to the people in their tempels, and in their sanctuaries, and alsoin their the Jews. OF : 9 hel XIL= Behe An account of the-sons of Mosiah, which rejected their rights to the king don, jor the word of God, be went up.to, the land of Nephi, to preach to the Lamanites.—Their sufferings and deliverance, according to the record of Alma, AnD now it came to pass that as Alma was journeying from the land of Gideon, southward, away to the land off Manii, behold, to his astonishment, he met with the sons of | Mosiah, uya journeymg towards the land of Zarahemla. Mosiah were with Alma at the time Now these.sons_of the ange | first. appeared unto hima ; therefore Alma Gid-rejoice excees dingly, | to see his brethren ; “and what added more to his joy, they were still bis brethren in the Lor: d; yea, pate | they had waxed strong in the knowledge of the truth’: for they were men of a sound understandin’, "and they had searche a, Scripture s.culigenyy, that they might know the word of God. But this is not all: they had given themselves tO much prayer, and fasting, therefore they had the spirit of prophec “Ys. and the spirit of revelation, aad when they taught, they taught with power é and authority, even as with the power and authority.of God. And they od been teaching the word of God\for the space of fourteen years, among ithe Lamanites28, hayime had much success in Panging meny to the knowledge of thé truth ; yea, by the power of.thei words, many were brought before the altar of God, to cail.en hig hame, and confess their oak: before him... Now these are the circumstances which attended them in their, journey for they had many afflictions: they did syffer much, ody and in mind; suchas hungey, ‘Suit an d iatigue,. an: 80 uch labor in the spirit. Now these were their jour 1e ngs, having taken leave of their father Mosiab, in theirs: ye ear A the reign of the Judges; having refused the kingdom which heir father was desirous to confer upon them ;..and also. this Was the minds of the people; nevertheless they departed out of the land of Z arahemla, and took their swords, and iheir ag their bows and their arrows, and their slings ; and eae that they night prov vide. food for themsclve: Winle in the wilderness: and thus they depart ed into. the wi emess, with their numbers which a1. they to the land of Nephi, to preach the word had ; selec cted, fo go up of God unto the LaManites, ; gota i Came to pass that they journcyed many days in the |
