The Collected Works. Joseph Smith Jr.

The Collected Works - Joseph Smith Jr.


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Ammon, who were Lamanites by birth, did also go forth into this

       land.

      Helaman 3:13

       13 And now there are many records kept of the proceedings of

       this people, by many of this people, which are particular and

       very large, concerning them.

      Helaman 3:14

       14 But behold, a hundredth part of the proceedings of this

       people, yea, the account of the Lamanites and of the Nephites,

       and their wars, and contentions, and dissensions, and their

       preaching, and their prophecies, and their shipping and their

       building of ships, and their building of temples, and of

       synagogues and their sanctuaries, and their righteousness, and

       their wickedness, and their murders, and their robbings, and

       their plundering, and all manner of abominations and whoredoms,

       cannot be contained in this work.

      Helaman 3:15

       15 But behold, there are many books and many records of every

       kind, and they have been kept chiefly by the Nephites.

      Helaman 3:16

       16 And they have been handed down from one generation to another

       by the Nephites, even until they have fallen into transgression

       and have been murdered, plundered, and hunted, and driven forth,

       and slain, and scattered upon the face of the earth, and mixed

       with the Lamanites until they are no more called the Nephites,

       becoming wicked, and wild, and ferocious, yea, even becoming

       Lamanites.

      Helaman 3:17

       17 And now I return again to mine account; therefore, what I

       have spoken had passed after there had been great contentions,

       and disturbances, and wars, and dissensions, among the people of

       Nephi.

      Helaman 3:18

       18 The forty and sixth year of the reign of the judges ended;

      Helaman 3:19

       19 And it came to pass that there was still great contention in

       the land, yea, even in the forty and seventh year, and also in

       the forty and eighth year.

      Helaman 3:20

       20 Nevertheless Helaman did fill the judgment-seat with justice

       and equity; yea, he did observe to keep the statutes, and the

       judgments, and the commandments of God; and he did do that which

       was right in the sight of God continually; and he did walk after

       the ways of his father, insomuch that he did prosper in the land.

      Helaman 3:21

       21 And it came to pass that he had two sons. He gave unto the

       eldest the name of Nephi, and unto the youngest, the name of

       Lehi. And they began to grow up unto the Lord.

      Helaman 3:22

       22 And it came to pass that the wars and contentions began to

       cease, in a small degree, among the people of the Nephites, in

       the latter end of the forty and eighth year of the reign of the

       judges over the people of Nephi.

      Helaman 3:23

       23 And it came to pass in the forty and ninth year of the reign

       of the judges, there was continual peace established in the land,

       all save it were the secret combinations which Gadianton the

       robber had established in the more settled parts of the land,

       which at that time were not known unto those who were at the head

       of government; therefore they were not destroyed out of the land.

      Helaman 3:24

       24 And it came to pass that in this same year there was

       exceedingly great prosperity in the church, insomuch that there

       were thousands who did join themselves unto the church and were

       baptized unto repentance.

      Helaman 3:25

       25 And so great was the prosperity of the church, and so many

       the blessings which were poured out upon the people, that even

       the high priests and the teachers were themselves astonished

       beyond measure.

      Helaman 3:26

       26 And it came to pass that the work of the Lord did prosper

       unto the baptizing and uniting to the church of God, many souls,

       yea, even tens of thousands.

      Helaman 3:27

       27 Thus we may see that the Lord is merciful unto all who will,

       in the sincerity of their hearts, call upon his holy name.

      Helaman 3:28

       28 Yea, thus we see that the gate of heaven is open unto all,

       even to those who will believe on the name of Jesus Christ, who

       is the Son of God.

      Helaman 3:29

       29 Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of

       God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all

       the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead

       the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that

       everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the

       wicked—

      Helaman 3:30

       30 And land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the right

       hand of God in the kingdom of heaven, to sit down with Abraham,

       and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers, to go

       no more out.

      Helaman 3:31

       31 And in this year there was continual rejoicing in the land of

       Zarahemla, and in all the regions round about, even in all the

       land which was possessed by the Nephites.

      Helaman 3:32

       32 And it came to pass that there was peace and exceedingly

       great joy in the remainder of the forty and ninth year; yea, and

       also there was continual peace and great joy in the fiftieth year

       of the reign of the judges.

      Helaman 3:33

       33 And in the fifty and first year of the reign of the judges

       there was peace also, save it were the pride which began to enter

       into the church—not into the church of God, but into the hearts

       of the people who professed to belong to the church of God—

      Helaman 3:34

       34 And they were lifted up in pride, even to the persecution of

       many of their brethren. Now this was a great evil, which


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