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I, Jacob, having ministered much unto my people in word, write a few words, which will give a small degree of knowledge concerning us.

Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts,

that they may know that we knew of Christ,

and we had a hope of his glory many hundred years before his coming;

And now I am led on by the Spirit unto prophesying;

for I perceive by the workings of the Spirit which is in me, that the Jews will reject the stone upon which they might build and have safe foundation.

But this stone shall become the great, and the last, and the only sure foundation, upon which they can build.

How is it possible that these can ever build upon it, that it may become the head of their corner?

Do ye not remember to have read the words of the prophet Zenos, which he spake unto the house of Israel, saying:Hearken, O ye house of Israel, for behold, thus saith the Lord, I will liken thee, O house of Israel, like unto a tame olive tree

which a man took and nourished in his vineyard...

…and it grew, and waxed old, and began to decay.

And... he pruned it, and digged about it, and nourished it.

After many days it began to put forth somewhat a little, young and tender branches;

but the main top began to perish.

And it came to pass that the master of the vineyard saw it,

and he said unto his servant...

It grieveth me that I should lose this tree;

Go and pluck the branches from a wild olive tree, and bring them hither unto me;

and we will pluck off those main branches which are beginning to wither away, I will take these young and tender branches, and I will graft them whithersoever I will. Take thou the branches of the wild olive tree, and graft them in, in the stead thereof.

That perhaps I might preserve the roots I have done this thing.

Watch the tree, and nourish it, according to my words.

These will I place in the nethermost part of my vineyard;

and I do it that I may preserve unto myself the natural branches of the tree;

And the Lord of the vineyard went his way, and hid the natural branches of the tame olive tree in the nethermost parts of the vineyard...some in one...

...and some in another, according to his will and pleasure.

Look here. The wild olive branches have begun to bear fruit.

It is like unto the natural fruit.

The branches of the wild tree have taken hold of the moisture of the root,

that the root hath brought forth much strength;

and because of the strength of the root,

the wild branches have brought forth tame fruit.

Let us go to the nethermost part of the vineyard,

and behold if the natural branches have not brought forth much fruit also.

It has brought forth much fruit, and it is good.

Take of the fruit and lay it up against the season, that I may preserve it unto mine own self.

How comest thou hither to plant this tree?

It was the poorest spot in all the land of thy vineyard.

Counsel me not; I knew that it was a poor spot of ground;

wherefore, I have nourished it this long time, and it hath brought forth much fruit.

Look hither...

This spot of ground was poorer than the first. But, behold the tree.

I have nourished it this long time, and it hath brought forth much fruit.

Look hither;

The last have I planted in a good spot of ground,

and only part of the tree hath brought forth tame fruit,

the other part wild fruit.

I have nourished this tree like unto the others.

Pluck off the branches that have not brought forth good fruit,

and cast them into the fire.

Let us prune it, and dig..., and nourish it a little longer,

that perhaps it may bring forth good fruit unto thee.

And the Lord of the vineyard and the servant of the Lord of the vineyard did nourish all the fruit of the vineyard.

And it came to pass that a long time had passed away.

Come, let us go labor again in the vineyard. The end soon cometh;

wherefore, I must lay up fruit against the season, unto mine own self.

This long time have we nourished this tree.

There is none of it which is good, and it profiteth me nothing,

notwithstanding all our labor;

and now it grieveth me that I should lose this tree.

What shall we do unto the tree, that I may preserve again good fruit?

Because thou didst graft in the branches of the wild olive tree

they have nourished the roots, that they are alive and they have not perished.

I know that the roots are good,

and because of their much strength they have hitherto brought forth, from the wild branches, good fruit.

But the wild branches have grown and have overrun the roots thereof;

and hath brought forth much evil fruit; and it beginneth to perish; except we should do something for it to preserve it.

Let us go down into the nethermost parts of the vineyard,

and behold if the natural branches have also brought forth evil fruit.

What could I have done more for my vineyard?

I knew that all the fruit of the vineyard, save it were these, had become corrupted.

And now these

which have once brought forth good fruit have also become corrupted.

These I had hoped to preserve,

but they have become like unto the wild olive tree,

and they are of no worth.

Notwithstanding all the care which we have taken of my vineyard,

the trees thereof have become corrupted.

It grieveth me that I should lose them.

What could I have done more in my vineyard? I have nourished it,

and I have digged about it, and I have pruned it, and I have dunged it; and I have stretched forth mine hand almost all the day long.

It grieveth me that I should hew down all the trees of my vineyard.

Who is it that has corrupted my vineyard?

Is it not the loftiness of thy vineyard?

Have not the branches thereof overcome the roots which are good?

And because the branches have overcome the roots,

taking strength unto themselves,

is not this the cause that the trees of thy vineyard have become corrupted?

Let us hew down the trees of the vineyard and cast them into the fire,

for I have done all. Lord,

spare it a little longer.

Yea,

I will spare it a little longer,

for it grieveth me that I should lose the trees of my vineyard.

Let us take of the branches which I have planted in the nethermost parts of my vineyard,

and let us graft them into the tree from whence they came.

And the roots of the natural branches which I planted whithersoever I would are yet alive; I will take of the branches of this tree,

and I will graft in unto them the branches of their mother tree,

that when they shall be sufficiently strong

perhaps they may bring forth good fruit unto me.

This I do that, perhaps, the roots thereof may take strength because of their goodness...

...and because of the change of the branches,

that the good may overcome the evil.

I have preserved the natural branches and the roots thereof,

and I have grafted in the natural branches again into their mother tree,

and have preserved the roots of their mother tree,

that, perhaps, the trees of my vineyard may bring forth again good fruit.

Go to, and call servants, that we may labor diligently with our might in the vineyard, that we may prepare the way, that I may bring forth again the natural fruit. Let us go to and labor with our might this last time,

for behold the end draweth nigh, and this is for the last time

that I shall prune my vineyard.

And the Lord of the vineyard labored also with them;

and they did obey the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard in all things.

And thus they labored, with all diligence, according to the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard. Even until the Lord had preserved unto himself that the trees had become again the natural fruit; And they became like unto one body; and the fruits were equal;

And the Lord of the vineyard had preserved unto himself the natural fruit, which was most precious unto him from the beginning.

Blessed art thou; for because ye have been diligent in laboring with me,

and have kept my commandments,

ye shall have joy with me because of the fruit of my vineyard.

For the last time have I nourished my vineyard.

And when the time cometh that evil fruit shall again come,

then will I cause the good and the bad to be gathered;

and the good will I preserve unto myself.

And now, this is my prophesy –

that the things which this prophet Zenos spake, concerning the house of Israel, in the which he likened them unto a tame olive tree,

must surely come to pass.

And the day that he shall set his hand again the second time to recover his people, is the last time that the servants of the Lord shall go forth in his power, to nourish and prune his vineyard;

and after that the end soon cometh.

How blessed are they who have labored diligently in his vineyard.

How merciful is our God unto us, for he remembereth the house of Israel...both roots...and branches.

And he stretches forth his hands unto them all the day long.

O then, repent ye, and enter in at the strait gate, and continue in the way which is narrow, until ye shall obtain eternal life.

O be wise; what can I say more? Amen.