I now bear my humble testimony to all the nations of the earth who shall read this that the Book of Mormon is a divine revelation, for the voice of the Lord has declared it so. Having been commanded of the Lord, in His name, I humbly warn all mankind to repent of all their sins, to turn away from all their false doctrines, and to forsake the precepts of uninspired men. Yea, come forth with meek humble and contrite hearts, and be immersed in water for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands of the Apostles or Elders of this Church; and signs shall follow them, that believe, as they did the believers in times of old; and all people, nations and tongues, who will not do this, shall be dammed, and shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of God, for this God giving message shall condemn them at the last day.

Repent, therefore, all ye ends of the earth, for the great day of the Lord is at hand; the sword of justice of the Eternal God will soon fall upon you except ye repent. Repent, O, ye kings and queens of the earth, for the day of the Lord’s controversy with the nations has come; and thrones shall be rent asunder, and there shall be no safety for you, unless you repent. Let the Lords and nobles and all those in high places repent for calamity shall come from all quarters like a whirlwind; fear and terror shall encompass you round about, and there shall be not a place of refuge for you in the day of the Lord’s fierce vengeance upon Babylon. Woe unto you ye rich men, who trade and traffic among the nations, and who have heaped up gold and silver as the dust, for except you repent, your riches shall be despoiled, your trade and traffic shall cease, and ye shall howl for the miseries that shall come upon you: repent therefore, and gather up your riches, and flee out from among the nations and carry your gold and silver with you unto the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion, and make use of your riches as the Lord shall direct to beautify the place of the Lord’s sanctuary, otherwise ye shall perish with your riches.

Let all the bishops, and clergy and priests of every denomination repent and cease to preach false doctrines, and let them be baptized and come into the Church of Christ, and seek no more to fight against the Lord’s work, but unless they do this, the Lord shall visit them in swift judgment and they shall perish quickly out of the earth; for they are the ones that have corrupted the earth with their false, vain, foolish and powerless doctrines; they are the ones who have blinded the eyes and hardened the hearts against the Lord’s great and last message; therefore except they repent, there is in reserve for them a heavier judgment and they shall gnaw their tongues for pain.

Repent all ye inhabitants of the earth, lest the Lord shall smite you with the rod of His mouth and with the breath of His lips consume you as stubble. Let all Israel repent, and turn unto the Lord, for the time of the fulfilling of the covenant made with your fathers, is at hand – the time when all things are to be restored that have been spoken by the mouth of all the Holy Prophets since the world began – the time when the kingdom is to be restored to Israel, and the Lord God of their fathers is to reign over them in power, glory, might, majesty and in great glory from henceforth and forever more.

Again, the present age, have angels restored the gospel: Again, have they committed the keys of the Apostleships? Again, have they opened some of the events of the past, present and future?

The Book of Mormon contains the everlasting gospel in all its fullness; and it has been revealed to the inhabitants of our earth by an angel; it was by an angel that the apostleship and priesthood were again restored; it was by an angel that men were called and ordained by the Holy Ministry, and empowered to preach, baptize and administer all the ordinances of the everlasting gospel, contained in the Book of Mormon; therefore, let all people rejoice for the gospel is once more restored to the earth; let the nations be glad that after to many years and generations of darkness, a Christian, Christ’s Church has again been organized upon our dark and benighted globe: let songs of praise and thanksgiving ascend up before God, among all nations, that glad tidings of great joy have once more been sent down from heaven – that inspired apostles and prophets have once more been sent to preach, baptize, and show unto man the way of salvation.

Never was there a work more clearly predicted than the great and marvelous work for the restitution of Israel; and never had mankind more prophetic evidences in confirmation of a revelation, than they have for the Book of Mormon.

None of the books of the Old or New Testament were prophesied of before they were revealed, whereas this great revelation of the lat days has been clearly predicted by many of the inspired writers. In this respect, the Book of Mormon is confirmed by testimony to this generation, such a no other prophets could bring forward to establish their books in the day that they were given.

In this situation the records of Moroni leave them, the fifth century of the Christian era, and much in the same situation, with some exceptions, the Europeans found them after a lapse of another thousand years.

O, who can contemplate the disgusting deformity. The dark features, the filthy habits, the idleness, the cruelty, the nakedness, the poverty, the misery, the sufferings, the ignorance of the descendants of this once favored branch of the royal blood of Abraham and Joseph, and not weep for very anguish, while his bosom yearns, and fountains, the depths of his inmost soul, are stirred and moved within him!

Reader, all these things have come upon them on account of the abuses, the consequent decline and final loss of the keys and powers of the science of Theology. But comfort your heart, their redemption is at the door. If we except murder, there is scarcely a more damning sign on the earth than the prostitution of female virtue or chastity at the shrine or pleasure or brutal lust, or that promiscuous and lawless intercourse which chills and corrodes the heart, perverts and destroys the pure affections, cankers and destroys, as it were, the well-springs, the fountains or issues of life.

A man who obeys the ordinances of God, and is without blemish or deformity, who has sound health and mature age, and enjoys liberty and access to the elements of life, is designed to be the head of a woman, a father, and a guide of the weaker sex and of those of tender age, to mansions of eternal life and salvation.

A woman under similar circumstances is designed to be the glory of some man in the Lord, to be led and governed by him as her head to honor, obey, love, serve, comfort and help him in all things, to be a happy wife, a faithful and affectionate mother, devoting her life to the joys, cares, and duties of her domestic sphere.

The overthrow of those ancient races is a type of that which now awaits the nations called Christian in other words the great whore of all the earth, for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Where is the nation called Christian that does not permit prostitution, fornication and adultery with all their defacing, demoralizing, degenerating and corroding effects, with all their tendencies to disease and crime, to heave and corrode society?