[19]. 3 Nephi 19:4.
[20]. Ib.28:4-23.
[21]. 4 Ib. 1:22.
[22]. Though tramped upon for many generations, the Lamanites are not a dying race, as is generally supposed. According to Doctor Lawrence W. White, of the United States Indian Bureau, the Indian population in 1870, when the first reliable census was made by the bureau, was placed at 313,712. It is now 333,702, a number not exceeded, thinks that expert, by the total of aborigines in America at the time of its discovery by Columbus.—See editorial article, "Indians Reviving," Salt Lake Tribune, February 13, 1920.
PART SIX
THE ERA OF RESTITUTION.
ARTICLE TWENTY-TWO
The Call of the Shepherd.
"Come Out of Her, My People."—The Dispersion of Israel has for its complement the Gathering of Israel; the prophets who predicted the one likewise foretelling the other. The Savior's personal visits to the various branches of the Israelitish race, before or after His resurrection, were prophetic of a general restoration of the Lord's people to their ancient lands, and the folding of the scattered sheep into one great flock, with him as the Shepherd over all.[[1]]
Prophecies of the Gathering.—The more notable of the Hebrew prophecies pertaining to the Gathering are as here given: