Those who did not belong to the Church of God and who did not believe in the coming of Christ to Atone for the sins of the world, called the true believers, Christians. The latter, the Sacred Record says, "took upon them, gladly, the name of Christ," and suffered themselves to be treated with scorn and become despised "because we take upon us the name of Christ." Surely, of a certainty, unless we by transgression forsake the Lord, He will not suffer, Moroni said, that we be "trodden down and destroyed." "He will not forsake us nor leave us in our grief;" he thought of the Psalmist, "My help cometh from God. Upon Him I cast my burden, and He will grant me strength according to the days He has apportioned to me." All of us, he undoubedly mused are His, and no power no matter how great can take us out of His hands.
Thus strengthened by his call upon the Lord, Moroni proclaimed all the land wherein they lived, both north and south, "A chosen land, and the Land of Liberty," or in other words, "the Land of Zion."