Alma both asked and answered that important question. The psychology, or method, of bringing sharply to the minds of his hearers the close relationship that existed between them and the involved subject matter, was Alma's strong appeal. They knew whereof he spoke. They, personally, were being discussed by him. He lay bare before them their very own history. Their parents had undergone the temptations and the wrath of hell, they remembered all that he said of them, but, he also said that they had repented, believing, too, on the Lord Jesus, who was their God. "Were they destroyed?" Alma asked, and then answered his own question, "Nay, they were not." The whole matter of which Alma spoke, was touched, everywhere, by the power of repentance and faith in "redeeming love." (V. 9)