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Show ET NEWS, SATURD'AY, IT F HENIAT A. SMITH N the pietureteacrited today is tanother evidence of the blessings of the Lorilitpon the people of Lehi and especially of the favor Nts ibt rojoyed in the inghtOf "non , God and all 'Tin toutmondmetits,,, according to Law of Moses. Arousted by est t icistots Of himself and his other, Nenht sjtole Peverely- to his )rOtherS refMuting them of the 4hidrcn of Israel whom he sold t Quid not have been 4.1clivered from the hands of the Egjptions if,lhey had not heal li, Shed to the weeds of the-- Lord. asked hts brothers; DO ye tole led pose that they Neould hove hecn 41,,tr eut of bondog lit the Lord had should he commanded Meneq that lead them out of bondage' Nephi told h brothers In somewhat of detail the story of the ,111 eranCe of the Children of Isearl from the Egeptions and of the Etert the hord played in this delitet,- - J to fhe ' - heavenly Father. The'picture is of :tphi and his brothers building the ship which as to take them from the Land Hountlful to the Promised Land, The story of this etrent is a oust one. as it marks the interesting end of the Wei( through the &lerrieSS undertaken Onti years II C. by Lehi mid hbc srn and th1,1r families. and the embarking on new ;adventure. Eight 't,siti-- in the 'A iiderness lacing all Manner of hardship and birth privation, the women giving to Mittlea, living upon raw meat and bearing their burdens with less and less murmurings, the party ar- rived in the Land ilountirttl. Tiny gave it this name because of its much fruit and also wild honey. lfere thee were en the shores ofthe sea, which they called Irreanturn, Moaning "rnanY waters:" Here they pit. bed their tents and at the :blessings of the rejoiced Lord in bringing them to such a land. Their stay was to be short., however. for they had not beenF many tiays.in the land, when the1 voice of the Lord came to Nephl: t14; urging that he go into mountains. He did As he was tki and in the mountains the LcircL spoke to him saying: thou shalt construct a ship. after the manner Which I shall show, thee. that I mot carry thy people, Of l'OSM these waters." in answer to Nephi's query the 3,ord toki him where be might fg0 that he could find Me to molten; that he could Make WOW With: Yct,tii-O- S ,.1'..' . and judgments of 13Y kAtemet NO-O- . , v,t10, (NO thulnder, v,0114:11 Imethren. end they aball npt withve before thve; hut f wIfl shock then, Faith the 'tkrel: um ahts wilt I rio,, that thcy 'nay 1,new that I am the did cauge if It were to earth to ,ilakr asunder 'And; ye also kolOse that by the power ot his AInngiy wo,d he ran esittse the eareti that tt titian paRit away; yea, anti yetknow that by 11..: ; 1,orrt, theft 4,12,ot.l. - "And It- (711Ille to, ptoqi that I sirewised IorIi nty hand Ikon) ttrethren.and they did not Other hetore rue: lltrt the I.,ord did rhake thorn, t'VPri, aeoording to the 1sPord hit he NO sphktt11-Fveling thif ITIVnirestatiori, the brottlen-- , ni linowieriged it as the ppwer of the Lord and fell down rind were about to before worsniv hint. Nephi forbade them saying they should wi,reintt the Loirt 114eir. God arid honor thole - iy his A,s,obti he ean iiicrer the Otti4i1 placeS to be :,tadis tinoot 0014 lw hrotan op, smopth c'ail he O. then, why is it, ithau So hard in y,ot he4rt.r hei spoke ttiel;e Neniti wto-as so tilled with th? spin-i- t worda ot Cd flcI his hrothers o gogered that he watned them not to totieh him tor Cott should $44,1rety smite them. tle!toomteled that they Shoulti mOrtour no more .! agailiwt his lather nor against him I - parents. Front this time on Nenhi brat the Of his brothers in the eniSiaTICe , , Book of 'Mormon stu,- - ' &las are invited to clip these pictures which will be printed in series, one each, wet, by pertnission of the Sunday S'Fhool Gen.' cral Board for Omni they were painted. Tht entire series, when cornpleted, will contain 36 pictures, all to Most rote the Rook of it arm which to construct the ship in the had N 110 w ed Win. bumper the Lord Nephi made a bellows of the skin o f aniinals and made hia lire by sulk mg two stones together. The lord had couneeled the traveler in the wildernesS oot to have Much fire arid he Would make their loud tweet and be their light In the wik - ., enee, the 4lua'S. of MOrnitilli story, re airs further thut Nephi kept AMP commandments of the Lord and hi, brottiPrs also to faithful. The building of this great Let's. Jill was an occasion of great hot upon Neplii ,beeklise Of ' the lack of faith of Ws brothers with 'v. hom he must work to comeitte the task. Nephi did as he wall kid , and made tools of the ore. When his brothers saw that ItleWikii ready to build his ship they is gan to persecate hink calling hint a loot for thinking he Could build a ship and thinking that' he cohld cross those great waters. These 'brothers did not believe Nephi stias being instructed by the Lord in tine building of this ship and would not eh - labor With him. Thieseondition brought Sorrow to Is:ephi and the brothers rejoiced in had caused him to Ihe the fact they sorrowful. ' ,They took his saiint 4s a as tha4 he was at a loss to proceed with fbe ship and said they had kiroven he was larking in juilgfilen( and they l.new lie could not build the ship and accomplish this U rk. The brothers begrie murmuring further, telling Nephi he was like their lather, "led away, by the foolish imaginations of bin heart." To empha.,fize their critical fitatements the brothers recalled all the 'baledships they and their wives and e l til- th en had suffered In the long ye ma of wilderness travel. saying; "It would have been better that they had died before the came Out of Jerusalem than to have staler i these afflictions." They claimed they would have able to have enjoyed their possessions in the land of their haler-Ponc- e and been happy' rather than lo suffer those many years lio ihe . sn ' Is-e- wilderness. They went so far in these felon to declare that the petiole millings CC Jeritqatem were a righternia people and that they kept the, stateliest Building ofthe ship once. He told Itif the wickedness Of these descendants of the ehltiren of Israel and that the day must surely come that they must be'destroyed, save Only a few. Still furthea Nephi sahl: "Wherefore; the lord commanded my father that lie should depart into the wilderntlis; and ths Jews also sought to told away Illy life: yea. and ;,ye also- hare sought to take away his life; wherefore. ye are murderers In your betists 4,9,11 yedre like unto tlicni. 'Ye are swill. to do gliquity 'hut sloW,,. to remoriber the loond your A'e have seen an angel. and he spoke unto you; yea. yr had to heard life vtlice from Hinc time; and he lath spoken unto you in a still !idiot voice. but ye wero ye could not fi,c1 past feeling. his words; wherefore. he his unto itou like unto the spoken - ' , i7içh is' to rat take tern troll the Lend Bountiful to thi for be bad been by the I.,,ord to budid a shin. And Nimbi said to bie brothers "If God bad contmanded me :to do all things I could do them. If he should corgmaid me that, I be should say into .this water, thou earth, It should be earth; and be If I. should say, 14 It 'would , done. Lord has such And nów;' ft, thá as wrought so power and great miracles' am aig the children many 9f men. how is it' that be cannot instruct ?re, that should build As Nephi P.O spOke his brother become confoundet and could' not contend against hinuond they dared pot lOtich him beCatitio of he lipirit ()lithe Lord ' which possessed Nephi, "And it came 10 pass that the Lord said unto rue:, (Nephi) Stretch forth thiiic hand 41golin unto the - . .11 Promised Loud ship and trt Worked building of the the timbers in I manner. yevenied to him lq the lard., and tiot' stip or the manner of men's learning. IVeptil frequently went into the motintainli end teemed malty great I things bet the Lord, After Nephl had finished the rhip. according, to the litatrucbtilar be had reeeived from a divine source lds brothers beheld that it was finer so line ths Jticy ' .'workmanehip. humbled ,themselves sestet before of his the lard ,Ift seanowiedgment blessings. J. Leo lilairbanks, painter' ofthis aeries of pictures foe. the General hoard of the Lteseret Sunday School Union. has here an excellent p'coof' 14.a lure, depicting this hoseThis pie-- . Book of', Mormon Story. aeries of the others tore as bhave I. printed herewith through the courtefY of the General 'Somalis tendeney. -- i ' ' ' , - |