The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-22

fered that we Should make much fire
as we journeyed in the wilderness;
for he said. I will make thy food be-.
come sweet that We cook it not
'And it came to pass that did
make tools of the ore which I did
| molten out of the rock.
tAnd when my brethren saw that
was about to build a ship, they be-
gan to murmur against me, saying,
our brother is a fool, for he thinketh
| that he can build a ship; Yea, and he
also thinketh that he can cross these
great waters.
And thus my brethren did COM
plain against me, and were DESTROYS
| that they might not labor, for they
did not believe that could build
a ship; neither would they believe that
I was instructed Of the Lord.
''And it came to pass that I, Nephi,
did guide the ship, that we sailed
again toward the promised land.
| "And it came to pass that after we
| had sailed for the space of many days.
we did arrive to the promised land
| (believed to be on the coast Of Chile,
South America; and we went forth
upon the land and did pitch our tents;
and we did call it the promised land"
| The quarrel among the sons of Lehi
after his DEATH. over the leadership of
| the younger brother, Nephi, and the
transformation of the recalcitrant He
| brews into dark-skinned American In
| dams, are recounted in the following
passages from the second book of
Nephi:
| Behold, it came to pass that J.,
Nephi did cry much unto the Lord
my God because of the anger of my
brethren.
"But, behold, their anger did in
crease against me; insomuch that they
did seek to take away my life.
Yea, they did murnaur against me,
saying: Our younger brother thinks
| to rule over us; and we have had
much trial because Of him; wherefore,
now let us slay him, that we may not
be afflicted more because Of his
him to be our ruler, for it belongs
unto us, who are the elder brethren,
to rule over this people,
| Now, / do not write upon these
plates all the words which they muir
INJURED against me. But it sufficeth
me to say, that they did seek to take
| away my life.
did warn me that T. Nephi, should
depart from them and flee into the
wilderness, and all those who would
go with me.
"And the Lord had caused the ours.
ing to come upon them, yea, even 9
} sore cursing, because of their iniquity
For, behold, they had hardened their
hearts against him, that they had be.
come like unto a flint; wherefore, as
they were white, and exceeding fail
and delightsome, that they might mo-
be enticing unto my people, the Lore
God did cause a skin of blackness tt
come upon them.
And thus saith the Lord God, 9
will cause that they shall be loath.
,, some unto thy people, save they shall
repent of their iniquities.
And cursed shall be the seed Of
him that mixeth with their seed; FOL
they shall be cursed even with the
same cursng, and the Lord spake
J, and it was done. 80 s
And because of their cursing which
r was upon them, they did become al
;, idle people, full Of mischief and sub
tlety, and did seek in the wilderness
for beasts of prey b
The account of the final battle be.
tween the Christian Nephites and the
heather Indians, or Lamanites as
they are called, is given in the Book
of Mormon as follows:
'.And it came to pass that we die
I march forth to the land of Cumoraf
(Ontario county, New York;, and we
did pitch our tents round about the
hills of Cumorah; and it was in lan6
Of many waters, rivers and fountains
and here we had hope to gain ad-
vantage over the Lamanites.
And it came to pass that when WE
had gathered in all our people in one
to the land of Cumorah, behold, T
Mormon, began to be old GA years
old); and knowing it to be the las
struggle of my people, and having
been commanded of the Lord that
should not suffer that the record:
which had been handed down by oul
fathers, which were sacred, to fail
into the hands of the Lamanites (fo1
the Lamanites would destroy them)
therefore I made this record out O.
the plates of Nephi and hid up in thu
hill Cumorah all the records which
had been intrusted to me by the hant
of the Lord save it were these few
lplates which I gave unto my sol
Maroni. .-... .-.
And it came to pass that my PEG
pie, with their wives and their chill
dren, did now behold the armies o
the Lamanites marching toward
them and with that awful fear o
death which fills the breasts Of al
the wicked, did they await to receiv
them. a
"And it came to pass thatthey com
to battle against us, and every sou
was filled with terror, because of tn
greatness of their numbers.
"And it came to pass that they di
fall upon my people with the swor
and with the bow and with the arro1
and with the AK and with all name
Of weapons of war.
And it came to pass that my me
were heWn down, yea, even my te
thousand who were with me, and
fell wounded in the midst; and the
passed by me that they did not pu
an end to my life.
"And when they had gone thru an
hewn down all my people save it wer
twenty and four of us (among who1
was my son MaronD and we lavin
survived the dead of our people, di
behold on the morrow when the Lam
antics had returned into their camps
from the top of the hill Cumorah, tn
10000 Of my people who were hew
down..
The supplementary record is sur
posed to be written by Mormon's sol
Moroni, who tells in the Book of Ethe
how the plates are to preserved
Footnotes explain that their prophe
sled finder is Joseph Smith, jun
here is the account:
''And now l. MOrOni have write