at the end of the Book of Mormon, we shall see the wonderful translation, and make our remarks.
Mosiah reigned thirty-three years being sixty-three years old, and he dies—making the whole time since Lehi's departure from Jerusalem, five hundred and nine years, p. 221. Thus endeth the reign of the Mormon kings. Alma, of renowned conversion to the doctrines of the New Testiment about an hundred years before it was published, is constituted Judge over the people of Zarahemla, and is also high priest over the church of Christ. He was the exclusive law-giver and umpire in all matters, both civil and ecclesiastical, and the most absolute monarch of which we have ever heard or read.
CHAPTER VI.
A new era has now commenced; Judge Alma, the high priest, is an engraver, as a matter of course, and is represented as keeping his own record: he tells us that in the first year of his reign a man was brought before him who had been preaching and bearing down against the church, persuading the people that ministers ought to become popular, and that they ought not to labor, but ought to be supperted—"and he also testified unto the people that all mankind would be saved at the last day," p. 221.
The name of our ancient Universalist is called Nehor, and is represented as quite successful in gaining proselytes. Gideon, an orthodox Nephite priest, meets Nehor, and a warm debate on Christianity ensues between them—they
