This is Mormon’s most concise statement of his purpose in writing—to “persuade all… ends of the earth to repent and prepare to stand before the judgment-seat of Christ.” He was keenly aware of his work’s eschatological purpose; its appearance would be a harbinger of end-time events preceding the Messiah’s second coming. It is no mistake that he highlights here the inevitability of judgment for all humankind.
Text: This is the end of a chapter in the 1830 edition.