“They Went Forth Again to Declare the Word”

George Reynolds, Janne M. Sjodahl

After a short period of mutual rejoicing and thanksgiving, the brethren, praising the Lord that He had raised up friends to minister unto their needs, lost no time in again declaring the Gospel Plan. Forgetting the pains they had suffered and the indignities they had endured while in prison, they commenced once more to deliver the faithful message for which they had come. Relying upon the promptings of the Holy Spirit, they preached the Word of God in every synagogue of the Amalekites, and every place where else they could get the Lamanites to listen to their words. Upon every hill, upon the streets, in their homes, and in all the assemblies into which the Lamanites gave consent, the missionaries testified of God's goodness.

Unmindful of the many times their words had been rejected, and their testimonies scorned, again and again, Aaron and his fellow laborers preached Christ and His mission here below. Disdaining the injustice of their imprisonment and the soreness of the afflictions therein suffered, they forgave all those to whom the Light of Christ had been denied, and in their labors sought to dispel the darkness that had overtaken their fallen brethren.

The missionaries were, as the Lord admonished them at the beginning of their labors, patient under trial, and thereby they showed to the sons and daughters of Laman and Lemuel that the Lord whom they served was indeed the Father of all men and that He despised none.

Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 3

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