The patience and care of the farmer will nourish their Tree of Life. They will know it is good as it grows and swells within them. They will “[look] forward to the fruit thereof.” The result of the long process of nourishing faith, or the tree, will yield “a tree springing up unto everlasting life.”
There is no chapter break at this point in the 1830 edition. Alma’s sermon continues in the next chapter.