Moroni had been pouring his heart out to the Lord, concerned for his role in an important event, and worried that he was insufficient in his efforts. God replied: “If they have not charity it mattereth not unto thee, thou hast been faithful.” What God requires of us is that we are faithful. God does not require of us that other people have the reactions to our efforts that we desire. It is sufficient that we be faithful.
With that encouragement, Moroni is ready to return to his task. He bids “farewell unto the Gentiles, yea, and also unto my brethren whom I love.” He is nearing the conclusion of his writing, and appears to believe that after he has finished, he will write no more. In Moroni 1:1 he stated: “Now I, Moroni, after having made an end of abridging the account of the people of Jared, I had supposed not to have written more, but I have not as yet perished.”
As he bids his own farewell, he returns yet again to his fear of his weakness in writing (verse 40). His final statement of his own, before concluding Ether’s record, is “I would commend you to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written.” That is Moroni’s message, and that was his father’s message. That was also the Nephite message. However, it is not the message of the book of Ether. We are seeing Moroni in this chapter, quite apart from the text that he is editing.
This is the end of the chapter in the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon.