of chapter.

[1436] Acts 9:26-28; 13:2, 3.

[1437] Acts 13:9.

[1438] Acts 16:37-40; 22:25-28; 23:27; 25:11; 26:32; 28:19.

[1439] Acts 22:17-21.

[1440] Acts 23:11.

[1441] 1 Cor. 15:3-9.

[1442] Note 5, end of chapter.

[1443] Col. 1:23; see verse 6; also "The Great Apostasy," 1:20, 21.

[1444] Acts 9:36-43.

[1445] Rev. 1:9; see Note 6, end of chapter.

[1446] Rev. 1:1; read the whole chapter.

[1447] Rev. 1:10-20.

[1448] Page 694 herein.

[1449] Isa. 24:1-6; Amos. 8:11, 12.

[1450] Matt. 24:4, 5, 10-13, 23-26.

[1451] Acts 20:17-31, particularly 29, 30; 1 Tim. 4:1-3; 2 Tim. 4:1-4; 2
Thess. 2:3, 4, 7, 8; 2 Peter 2:1-3, read the entire chapter and observe
its application to conditions in the world today; Jude 3, 4, 17-19; Rev.
13:4, 6-9; 14:6, 7. See "The Great Apostasy," chapter 2.

CHAPTER 39.

MINISTRY OF THE RESURRECTED CHRIST ON THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

By considering the apostolic ministry in immediate sequence to our study
of the Lord's ascension from the Mount of Olives, we have departed from
the chronological order of the several personal manifestations of the
risen Savior to mortals; for very soon after His final farewell to the
apostles in Judea He visited His "other sheep," not of the eastern fold,
whose existence He had affirmed in that impressive sermon concerning the
Good Shepherd and His sheep.[1452] Those other sheep who were to hear
the Shepherd's voice and eventually be made part of the united fold,
were the descendants of Lehi who, with his family and a few others, had
left Jerusalem 600 B.C. and had crossed the great deep to what we now
know as the American continent, whereon they had grown to be a mighty
though a divided people.[1453]

THE LORD'S DEATH SIGNALIZED BY GREAT CALAMITIES ON THE AMERICAN
CONTINENT.

As already set forth in these pages, the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem had
been made known to the Nephite nation on the western hemisphere by
divine revelation; and the glad event had been marked by the appearance
of a new star, by a night devoid of darkness so that two days and the
night between had been as one day, and by other wonderful occurrences,
all of which had been predicted through the prophets of the western
world.[1454] Samuel the Lamanite, who through faithfulness and good
works had become a prophet, mighty in word and deed, duly chosen and
commissioned of God, had coupled with his predictions of the glorious
occurrences that were to mark