Book of Mormon Studies (17 October 1929)

RELIEF SOCIETY

BOOK OF MORMON STUDIES

For the first lesson in November

The opening chapters in the Book of Moroni are short, but they are full of valuable information pertaining to the proper methods of administering the ordinances of the Gospel. Read Moroni, chapters 1 to 6, inclusive, for this lesson.

Witness a picture rare to behold!—Moroni, almost the last faithful man of his race, being limited by a roving band of savages, knowing that detection almost surely meant death, having no place to go, and no mortal with whom to take counsel. The records of his fathers, the first of which had been brought from Jerusalem more than a thousand years before, and which had accumulated greatly, as it may be supposed, were his charge and chief concern. He spent the last days of uncertain life, as his own words tell ns, writing, abridging. He recorded most of the ordinances of the Church in his day; then he added a few inspired words of his own as it pleased him. Such faithfulness, diligence and industry under such conditions and in the face of death, hold out to all men an example well worthy to pattern after.

QUESTIONS

1. Tell the pathetic story of Moroni’s last days, as he gives it in his own words in the first chapter of Moroni.
2. Which was more acceptable to Moroni, death in faithfulness, or life, having denied the Christ? Which do you feel would be more acceptable to you, if you were brought to the test?
3. How was the Holy Ghost bestowed in the days of Moroni? Compare with the procedure now.
4. How was the Sacrament administered in that day? Compare it with the procedure of the present time.
5. How was baptism performed then? Compare it with the procedure now.
6. How does it strengthen your faith, and what does it indicate to you, to know that these fundamental ordinances of the Gospel have not varied in these many centuries?
7. What is the greatest lesson to you to be gained from chapters 1 to 6 of Moroni?

R. L. E.