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THE THIRD BOOK OF MORONI
Chapter 18
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Under the high priest's direction, Mentina formalizes a church order grounded in personal confirmation rather than coercion: dissenters are neither punished nor shunned, and civil law addresses only breaches of public peace. Tucantor's followers, granted land for their own synagogue, practice a faith resembling the Nem but exalt the priesthood almost to worship and bar women from service and ordinances, producing internal divisions watched warily by the Peli. The northern lands prosper spiritually, while southern cities near the gulf decline through lingering Gadianton influence and hoarding.
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Moroni, aged beyond a tree's lifespan, closes his record. He testifies of a life redeemed: sealed to his wife, having beheld Christ together, blessed in posterity and labor. He extols the atonement that lifts humanity from beastly wilderness into the Father and Mother's likeness, transforming his former field of blood into a field of white.
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He bequeaths his stylus to his son Shioni and departs to his rest.
