The unity of feeling did not last long, but dissentions develop very quickly. In the commencement of the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges the churches are established. We have the word of dissentions that occur within that same year, as we do not have the commencement of the twentieth year of the reign of the judges until Alma 50:1. Thus the establishment of the true religion lasts less than a year. This tells us that the pressures against the Nephite religion and way of life are mounting rapidly. These are internal dissentions, not attacks by Lamanites. At this point in history the Nephite political hegemony is beginning to fall apart from the inside out.
Textual: There is no chapter break at this location in the 1830 edition. Indeed, we will not see a chapter break until the end of our current chapter 49 which will conclude the events of the nineteenth year. Mormon is now organizing his sections in the same way as his source material, by year markers.