Based on actual events as
recorded in the Book of Mormon: Another Testament
of Jesus Christ.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[LAUGHTER]
Stop this! Stop!
Are you all right?
[GRUNTING] Thank you.
Beloved, this day I am weighed
down with much more desire and anxiety for the
welfare of your souls than I have hitherto been.
It grieveth my soul and
causeth me to shrink with shame before the presence
of my Maker, that I must testify unto you concerning
the wickedness of your hearts. And also it grieveth
me that I must use so much boldness of
speech concerning you, before your wives
and your children, many of whose feelings are
exceedingly tender and chaste and delicate before God, which
thing is pleasing unto God.
Wherefore, it burdeneth my soul
that I should be constrained, because of the strict
commandment which I have received from God,
to admonish you according to your crimes, to enlarge the
wounds of those who are already wounded, instead of consoling
and healing their wounds.
But I must do according to
the strict commands of God, and tell you concerning your
wickedness and abominations.
And this is the word which
I declare: many of you have begun to search for
gold, and for silver, and for all manner of
precious ores, in the which this land doth abound
most plentifully. And because some of you have
obtained more abundantly than that of your
brethren ye are lifted up in the
pride of your hearts, and wear stiff necks and high
heads because of the costliness of your apparel, and
persecute your brethren because ye suppose that
ye are better than they. Do ye suppose that God
justifieth you in this thing?
Nay. He condemneth you, and if
ye persist in these things his judgments must
speedily come unto you. O that ye would listen unto
the word of his commands, and let not this pride of your
hearts destroy your souls!
Think of your brethren
like unto yourselves, and be free with your
substance, that they may be rich like unto you. But before ye seek for riches,
seek ye for the kingdom of God. And after ye have obtained a
hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye
will seek them for the intent to do good--to clothe the
naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and
administer relief to the sick and the afflicted. The one being is as precious
in his sight as the other.
