“May the Lord Jesus Christ Grant That Their Prayers May Be Answered”

George Reynolds, Janne M. Sjodahl

....Moroni finished the Record commenced by his father with a prayer unto God, the loving Father of all men, that the prayers offered by all the Saints who ever dwelt in the Land of Promise made for the benefit and blessing of his brethren, the Lamanites, would be answered, and also that He Who reigns On High would remember His Covenant made with the House of Israel, of which both the Nephites and the Lamanites were members; "and may He bless them forever, through faith on the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen."

“According to Their Faith”

From the very first when contention among them divided into two groups, the sons of Lehi, the prayers of those who followed after Nephi, continually were for the welfare of their brethren who had followed Laman and Lemuel.

For the consideration of Book of Mormon students, we submit as proper evidence the words of Enos, who was a grandson of the Prophet Lehi. His words are to be found in the records of the Smaller Plates:

"And after I, Enos, had heard these words, my faith began to be unshaken in the Lord; and I prayed unto him with many long strugglings for my brethren, the Lamanites.

"And it came to pass that after I had prayed and labored with all diligence, the Lord said unto me: I will grant unto thee according to thy desires, because of thy faith.

"And now behold, this was the desire which I desired of him-that if it should so be, that my people, the Nephites, should fall into transgression, and by any means be destroyed, and the Lamanites should not be destroyed, that the Lord God would preserve a record of my people, the Nephites; even if it so be by the power of his holy arm, that it might be brought forth at some future day unto the Lamanites, that, perhaps, they might be brought unto salvation-

"For at the present our strugglings were vain in restoring them to the true faith. And they swore in their wrath that, if it were possible, they would destroy our records and us, and also all the traditions of our fathers.

"Wherefore, I knowing that the Lord God was able to preserve our records, I cried unto him continually, for he had said unto me: Whatsoever thing ye shall ask in faith, believing that ye shall receive in the name of Christ, ye shall receive it.

"And I had faith, and I did cry unto God that he would preserve the records; and he covenanted with me that he would bring them forth unto the Lamanites in his own due time.

"And I, Enos, knew it would be according to the covenant which he had made; wherefore my soul did rest.

And the Lord said unto me: Thy fathers have also required of me this thing; and it shall be done unto them according to their faith; for their faith was like unto thine. (Enos 11-18)

Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 7

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