It is important for Mormon to show that righteousness can completely defeat the secret combinations. While it is part of his over-arching narrative theme that the secret combinations can destroy the society of God, it is equally important that we remember that they have power over us only to the extent that we are not righteous. If we are righterous, if it is true of us that “there [is] not a living soul among all the people of the Nephites who [does] doubt in the least the words of all the holy prophets who had spoken,” then we too may defeat the modern secret combinations that attempt to tear down the kingdom of God. All hinges upon our choice to follow the gospel in righteousness.