Two Distinct Nations--Intermingled--Mixed Blood in Lamanites--Nephi and Company Settled in an Earthly Paradise--Greatly Prospered--Law of Moses Observed--A Live Religion--Nephi Conversed with the Spirit of the Lord--Heard Voices of the Father and the Son--Understood the Gospel of Jesus--Simplicity and Plainness of His Teachings, Prophecies and Revelations Wonderful Extent and Variety of His Knowledge--Writes of the Days of the Savior as a Contemporary Might--Exactness of the Description of the Great and Abominable Church--Also the Events which Should Take Place in Connection with Zion--Only Two Churches--The Whore of all the Earth should Gather Multitudes among all the Nations of Gentiles to Fight Against the Church of the Lamb--Power of God Poured Out Upon the Latter, His Wrath Upon the Former--They who Fight Against the House of Israel shall War among Themselves and Fall into the Pit they shall Dig to Ensnare the People of the Lord--The Righteous Should Not Perish--Great Value of These Promises to the Latter-day Saints--Secret Combinations--Many Churches to be Built Up--Their Character--The Book of Mormon, How it should be Received--Churches Put Down the Power and Miracles of God--Preach up their own Wisdom and Learning--Contend One with Another--Grind the Poor--Literal Fulfillment as Latter-day Saints can Testify. The separation of Nephi and his people from Laman and those who adhered to him made them a distinct nation. Thus two nations--the Nephites and the Lamanites--grew up upon this continent, as dissimilar and as much at variance in their modes of thought and habits of life, in their religious views and traditions and governmental policy and aims, as if they were two races of widely separated and foreign origin. Under the influence of two causes, which operated at different periods almost through their entire existence, members of each nation were led to intermingle and identify themselves with the other; these were: apostasy from their religion on the part of the Nephites, and conversion to its holy principles on the part of the Lamanites. The Nephite nationality had an existence of a little less than ten hundred years; but for nearly the entire first six hundred of these, and a little more than the last hundred, a wall of division existed between them and they were distinct peoples. They had, however, mingled together at various periods, as we have said, to such an extent that, after the last great battle which resulted in the destruction of the Nephite nationality, descendants of all the original families were left among the survivors; so that the blood of Nephi, of Sam, of Jacob, of Joseph and of Zoram still coursed in the veins, as it does to this day, of those known by the name of Lamanites; besides, there was the blood of the people known as Zarahemlaites, who came to this land with Mulek, a son of Zedekiah, king of Judah, and who were afterwards identified with the Nephites.