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THE SECOND BOOK OF MORONI
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The Second Book of Moroni concludes the Nephite record, written by its final surviving prophet during decades of solitary wandering after the destruction of his people. Moroni had expected his work to end with the Jaredite abridgment, but his unexpected survival and the slow passage of years prompted him to add further material of lasting worth to future readers, particularly to the Lamanites and to those who would receive the record in a later dispensation. The book divides naturally into three movements.
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The opening chapters preserve the liturgical and ecclesiastical patterns of the Nephite church: the conferral of the Holy Ghost, the ordination of priests and teachers, the sacramental prayers over bread and wine, and the standards governing baptism, membership, and discipline. These passages function as a practical handbook of restored ordinances. The middle section transmits the voice of Moroni's father Mormon through a sermon on faith, hope, and charity, a doctrinal letter rejecting infant baptism, and a final anguished letter detailing the atrocities consuming both nations.
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The closing chapter is Moroni's own farewell, containing his celebrated promise concerning prayerful inquiry into the record's truth, his catalog of spiritual gifts, and his summons to come unto Christ and be perfected in Him. Central themes include the unchanging character of God, the indispensability of charity, the reality of continuing revelation, and the saving merits of the Atonement extended even to a doomed people.
