“At one point Mormon ‘utterly refuse[d]’ to be the commander and leader of a people so wicked, so ignorant, so bent on self-destruction. It was a wrenching time for him because these were his people, and he loved them. Indeed, he loved them ‘with all [his] heart.’ Furthermore, he had poured out his soul in prayer ‘all the day long for them.’ But alas, such earnest prayer—and we can scarcely imagine a more loving and faithful effort on behalf of a people—was by Mormon’s own admission uttered ‘without faith’ because of the hardness of the hearts of the people” (Holland, Christ and the New Covenant, 320).