CHAPTER XIX.

Two Distinct Nations--Intermingled--Mixed Blood in Lamanites--Nephi and Company Settled in an Earthly Paradise--Greatly Prospered--Law of Moses Observed--A Live Religion--Nephi Conversed with the Spirit of the Lord--Heard Voices of the Father and the Son--Understood the Gospel of Jesus--Simplicity and Plainness of His Teachings, Prophecies and Revelations Wonderful Extent and Variety of His Knowledge--Writes of the Days of the Savior as a Contemporary Might--Exactness of the Description of the Great and Abominable Church--Also the Events which Should Take Place in Connection with Zion--Only Two Churches--The Whore of all the Earth should Gather Multitudes among all the Nations of Gentiles to Fight Against the Church of the Lamb--Power of God Poured Out Upon the Latter, His Wrath Upon the Former--They who Fight Against the House of Israel shall War among Themselves and Fall into the Pit they shall Dig to Ensnare the People of the Lord--The Righteous Should Not Perish--Great Value of These Promises to the Latter-day Saints--Secret Combinations--Many Churches to be Built Up--Their Character--The Book of Mormon, How it should be Received--Churches Put Down the Power and Miracles of God--Preach up their own Wisdom and Learning--Contend One with Another--Grind the Poor--Literal Fulfillment as Latter-day Saints can Testify