1 Burry your weapons of peace, my brethren and sisters. Or rather, burry your weapons of war for peace (Alma 24:19). Be ye clean, even as the Lamanites. Yay, even they who had only but one wife. Oh man, ye fool, do ye think that ye are better than they? Yet even the Lamanites loved but one wife. Yay, they loved and served their precious wives and children better than even those of the Nephites. 2 Yay, even those Lamanites who were said to be the wicked posterity of Laman and Lemuel, who Nephi prophesied to be a cursed people; even Nephi, he of old, the prophet who said that the Lord placed a curse upon the skins of the Lamanites and made them dark, because of the foolish traditions of their fathers. In the which was a misunderstanding, as God loves all his children. No son or daughter is greater than the rest; not one gender, and not one colour of their skins is loved above another. 3 Yay, oh man, be not fooled by the Pharisees and Sadducees of thy people: all are loved of God, and his love is unconditional and eternal. Yay, Christ loves all men, even these the Lamanites, who were more righteous than their brethren the Nephites, who had the word of God. 4 Yay, even the Nephites had God’s word, but they were corrupted by their pride and self-righteousness. They were corrupted by their own riches. Yay, they were tempted and led away, even by that old serpent who calls himself the “prince of this world.” Be not fooled by the deceiver, who corrupts Christs paths. Ye see that ye can only have but one master: for, if any shall love the one, they shall despise the other. 5 Hold yet firmly to the rod of iron and press forward through the shadows and mist. Yay, do not be blinded by the darkness; do not follow ye after that deceiver who creates winding paths to deceive and confuse the minds of the children of men to be lost; Yay, be ye not ashamed by the mockery and the haughty countenances of the rich and pervasive. Yay, all they who can be seen in that great and spacious building that has no foundation. Know ye not that it shall fall? 6 Press forward saints! Have courage! Press on and come forward, even unto the fruit of the tree, which is most desirable and precious. Partake of the fruit and be filled. Yay, even seek ye after Him, whose path is strait. Even him who is the father of all righteousness. Brethren and sisters, walk each after His ways, follow in His footsteps, and feast upon His words. 7 Yay, brethren and sisters, remember even the Lamanites, even these who were more righteous than those of the Nephites; in so much, that when converted, many became a delightsome people to the Lord; Yay, even so much that many called themselves the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi. 8 Oh, remember, remember, thy brethren the Lamanites, even the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi. Remember how each man, woman, and child prostrated themselves upon the Earth, and before God that day, when their brethren came to war. Those left of the Lamanites were angry with them for joining the people of God; Yay, insomuch that they came to war against their righteous brethren to change their ways and to remove their king. 9 Yay, even these, who were left of the Lamanites, were deceived by the Nehors and stirred up to anger against their brethren, the Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s; in so much that they did come upon their brethren as lions. Yay, even they did fall upon them with the sword. But instead of returning hate against the remaining Lamanites with their own swords, these righteous children of God fell upon the Earth before their brethren in the attitude of prayer and of faith (Alma 24:21). Yay, even they, allowed themselves to be slain by their brethren; Yay, and in the self-same moment that they fell by the swords of their brethren, they did so while praising their god; even that Jesus the Christ of Nazareth.
