The Story of the Book of Mormon - Unknown

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[ The Glorious Appearing of Jesus to the Nephites]	Armitage	Frontispiece
[ Ancient Aztec Chart, Showing Lehi's Travels. No. 1]	Boturini	21
[ Ancient Aztec Chart, Showing Lehi's Travels. No. 2]	Boturini	31
[ Vision of Nephi]	Held	33
[ Ancient Aztec Chart, Showing Lehi's Travels. No. 3]	Boturini	36
[ Ancient Aztec Chart, Showing Lehi's Travels. No. 4]	Boturini	37
[ Ancient Hieroglyphic Chart]	Farerri	43
[ The First Sacrifice on the Promised Land]	Ottinger	45
[ The Jews Led Away to Captivity]		62
[ The Land of Helam]		79
[ Discovery of the Records of the Jaredites]	Ottinger	86
[ Baptism of Limhi]	Ottinger	91
[ Wilderness of Hermounts]		121
[ Moroni Raises the "Title of Liberty"]	Ottinger	151
[ Destruction of Zarahemla]	Ottinger	202
[ Ancient Egyptian Characters]		290
[ Copy of Characters on the Plates from Which the Book of Mormon Was Translated]		292
[ Appearance of Christ to the Brother of Jared]	Held	358
[ Ether Finishing His Record]	Morris	367

THE

Story of the Book of Mormon.

INTRODUCTION.

AMERICA THE FIRST INHABITED OF ALL LANDS—ITS ANCIENT PEOPLES—THE GARDEN OF EDEN—THE ANTEDILUVIANS—THE JAREDITES—THE NEPHITES AND LAMANITES.

THE story that we are about to relate is a true one. It is the history of the races who lived on this broad land of ours long, long ago. From it we shall learn many lessons of God's great love for man. We shall also learn how oft his love has been spurned, how apt his favored children have been to walk in ways of sin, and how prone to disobey his holy law. It is a story full of light and shade, one which it will be well for all of us to take to heart, for by so doing our faith in God will increase, and we shall be prompted to strive the more earnestly to avoid the evils that others, by their misdeeds, have brought upon themselves and their posterity.

America, the land we love, is, in our Heavenly Father's eyes, choice above all other lands as the home of those of his sons and daughters, whom he has placed upon this earth. For all God's creatures are not here. He has made many worlds and filled them with his children. How many we know not; they are countless to us. The stars, that shine in myriads in the heavens, are nearly all suns like the one that gives us light: the remaining few are worlds like unto this on which we dwell; and ours is one of the very smallest of them all. To the works of God there is no beginning, neither is there any end.