ng the saying, 'Other sheep I have, which are not of this
fold; them I must go and bring also.'

"Individuals of the Lamanites, at times, were obedient to the
faith. The Nephites, after Christ's appearance, were faithful for
many years; but, in the third or fourth century, iniquity began to
abound, and their love began to wax cold. Some dissented, and
raised up churches for the sake of gain; and thus they were
troubled with the spirit of pride and haughtiness. God commanded
Mormon, who lived in the fourth century, to preach repentance to
them, and foretell their destruction if they would not repent. The
Lord, foreseeing that they would not repent, commanded Mormon to
collect the writings of his forefathers,--their revelations and
prophecies, &c.,--and make an abridgment of them, and engrave them
upon new plates, (their manner of keeping records was to engrave
them on metallic plates.) But in consequence of their wars, and
their flight to the north, to escape the Lamanites, he did not
live to finish this work; and, when the final destruction of the
Nephites drew near, he gave the records to his son Moroni, who
lived to see their final extermination, or destruction, by the
hands of the Lamanites, and they, with his father, left to moulder
on the plain.

"Thus a powerful nation, whose fathers were the favorites of
Heaven, were cut off, and their names have faded into oblivion!

"The Indians of America are the descendants of the Lamanites, and,
according to predictions that are in the Book of Mormon, they will
yet lay down their weapons of war, and be converted unto the Lord.

"Moroni finished compiling and abridging the records of his
fathers, which he engraved upon new plates, for that purpose, to
use his own words, as follows:--'And now, behold, we have written
this record, according to our knowledge, in the characters which
are called among us _the reformed Egyptian_; being handed down and
altered by us, according to our manner of speech. And, if our
plates had been sufficiently large, we should have written in
Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and, if we
could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no
imperfection in our record. But the Lord knoweth the things which
we have written, and also that none other people knoweth our
language; ther