“Moroni Was Angry Because of Their Indifference Concerning the Freedom of Their Country”

“[An investigator recounts her feelings while first reading the Book of Mormon] When finally, three years later, until late in the evening I read the very Book of Mormon those earlier missionaries had left, I was literally transported in the spirit. I felt elevated with a brightness around me and in my mind that must be experienced to be understood…Captain Moroni of 70 B.C. was a great missionary in A.D. 1962. Reading about him, I felt great joy in the confirmation of my activities in relation to the defense of freedom for which I had been maligned so often. I felt that he was fighting the same battle we were. I still thrill over his words: ’…Moroni was angry with the government, because of their indifference concerning the freedom of their country.’ (Alma 59:13Alma 59:13.) So was I, in the modern context! ’Can you think to sit upon your thrones in a state of thoughtless stupor, while your enemies are spreading the work of death around you? Yea, while they are murdering thousands of your brethren [and suppose] because of the exceeding goodness of God, ye could do nothing and he would deliver you? Behold, if ye have supposed this, ye have supposed in vain.’ (Alma 60:7Alma 60:7, Alma 60:11 11.).” (Janice Le Tellier in No More Strangers by Hartman Rector, Jr. and Connie Rector 3: 79.)