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Show ALMA, EBOOK OF ALMA, so dearly beloved us, would thy joy doth carry thee away untoboasting. But Ammon saith unto him, I do not—boast-m my own strength, or in my own wisdom; but behold, my joy is full, yea, my heartis brim /_with joy, and I will rejoice in my God; yea, | know that Tam nothing ; as tomy strength, [ am weak; therefore| will meh boast of myself, but I will boast of my God; for in his strength i can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, forever. for which we will praise his ~ he loosed from the pains of hell; and they are brought To Yea, we have reason to praise him forever, for he is the Mos High God, and has loosed our brethren from the chains : hell. Yea, they were encircled about with everlasting ness and destruction; but behold, he hath brought them Y his everlasting light, yea, into everlasting salvation; ae ite }are_encireled about with the matchless bounty of ae thi we havé been instruments in his hands, of aomg ., great and marvellous work; therefore let us glory, Yye% will glory in the Lord; yea, we will rejoice, full; unio such it is given to know the mysteries of God : such it shall be given to reveal things which yea, we will praise our glory too much im the Lord?’ * of God forever. for our J°) Behold, who Yea, who can say too muc his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long A wards the children of men? Behold I say unto you, ! ¢ ¢a” : 0 g toeaot yea, unto never have been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto such, to bring thousinds of souls to repentance, even as it hath been given unto us'to bring these our brethren to repentance. Now do ye re- member, my. brethren, ind of Zarahemla, that we said unto our brethren in the We go up to the land of Nephi, to preach unto our brethren, the Lamanites, and they laughed us to scorn? or they said unto us, Do ye suppose that ye can bring the Lamanites to the knowledge of the truth? Do ye suppose at ye can convince the Lamanites of the incorrectness the traditions of their fathers, as stiffnecked a people as hey are; whose hearts delighteth in the shedding of blood; Behold, how many thousands of our brethren nee Tes ing love; and this because of the power of his nie which is in us; therefore have we not great reason to eid yea, and dept; yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and bringeth orth good works, and prayeth continually without ceasing: whose days have been spent in the grossest iniquity ; whose Vays have been the ways of a transgressor, from the beginning? “Ww my brethren, ye remember that this was their language. = have | say unto you, these things,. save it be the peni- ha cs, the did say, Let us take up arms against them, estroy them™and their iniquity out of the land, lest oc us and destroy us. But behold, my beloved wie i, we came into the wilderness not with the intent to Bs 2 ee rethren, but with the intent that perhaps we might § coke : ew of their souls. Now when our hearts were comforted” and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord dan a and said, Go amongst thy brethren, the Laman- UNO the « far with patience thine afflictions, and I will give ont a uccess. And now behold, we have come, and been how . Ongst them; and we have beer patient in our suffer- ut We have suffered every privation; yea, we have tray- es, which wral'man is there, that knoweth these things? There is none that knoweth - brethren, still have heen racked with hatred against us, yea, and they would also have been strangers to God. And it came to pass that when Ammon had said these words, his brother Aaron rebuked him, saying: Ammon, I fear that fall ee beloved did he not let the sword of his justice ——— them up at the last day. Blessed be the name of our God: let us sing to his praise, yea, let us give thanks to his holy name, for he doth work righteousness forever. For if we had not come up out of the land of Zarahemla, these our dearly yea, why ee listeth to carry them. But be hold, they are in the hands of the Lord of the harvest, and they are his; and he will raise traction; upon us, and doom us to eternal despair? O my soul, almost as it were, fleeth at the thought. Behold, he did not exercise his justice upon us, but in his great mer y hath brought us over that everlasting gulf of death and misery, even to the salvation of our souls. And now behold, my brethren, what nat- ee the enemy de neither. shall whithersoever ~~ + in their place yea, Behold, we went ee winds, them ; us from our awiul, sinfu!, and polluted state? lorth even in wrath; with mighty threatnings to destroy his church. O then, why did be not consign us to an awful des- eet fierce to the Who could have supposed os be gathered together penetrate yea, neither but when say the smallest part which I feel. that our God would have been so merciful as to have snatched ee day; the whirlwinds; shall not 2 with last be gathered they py be driven shall cannot at the up by yea, i they storm they shall F Sepa by the storm, be harrowed storm cometh, they that the not tie be beaten down shall they are eet wasied; they . and that 4 of your sheaves, the garners, an hold the number into 297 ion OF _ BOOK |
