Identifier: storyofbookofmor00reyn2 (find matches)
Title: The story of the Book of Mormon
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Reynolds, George, 1842-1909
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Publisher: Independence, Mo.: Zion's Printing and Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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erriin his book entitled Giro del Mondo. Clavigero, Humboldt and othershave endeavored to explain the meaning of this drawing. You willnotice a palm tree near a hieroglyphic which much resembles thatsupposed to represent Jerusalem in the commencement of the Boturinimanuscript. This is said to signify the house of God; here the journeybegan. Near by is a bird, which stands for Asia. The tradition runsthus: Huitziton was a person of great authority amongst the Aztecs,in Asia, who for some reason not remembered, persuaded his country-men to change their country. While he was thus meditating, a birdwas heard singing in a bush ti hui, ti hui, which means let us go.Do you hear that? said Zacpaltzin, it is the warning voice of thesecret Deity to leave this continent and to find another. Thereforethey started, with those they could persuade to go with them, travelingby Tlapalan, translated, the country of the Red Sea, and after longjourneys reached the land where the hieroglyphics leave them.
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STORY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON. 49 CHAPTER IV. THE PROMISED LAND—CHILI—ITS NATURAL PRODUCTIONS—THE DEATH OF LEHI—HIS BLESSING ON HIS POSTER-ITY—PROPHECIES OF HIS ANCESTOR JOSEPH. (I. Nephi Chap. 18 to II. Nephi Chap. 4.) WHEN the little colony, which numbered, we imagine,from sixty to eighty souls, landed on the promisedland they pitched their tents and soon after began to tillthe ground. From their sowing they reaped abundantcrops. They explored the wilderness around them, andfound beasts of the forest of many kinds; also the ox, thehorse, the goat and the wild goat. In the rocks they dis-covered ores of gold, silver and copper. Of the gold oreNephi was commanded of the Lord to make plates on whichto keep the records of his people. The description given by Nephi of the region wherethe colony landed exactly corresponds with what we knowof the country now called Chili; and it was on its coast, theProphet Joseph Smith informs us, that the Nephites land-ed, and there they establis

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