Today's Favorite Verse: Alma 35:8-10

Today's Favorite Verse: Alma 35:8-10
"Now the people of the Zoramites were angry with the people of Ammon who were in Jershon, and the chief ruler of the Zoramites, being a very wicked man, sent over unto the people of Ammon desiring them that they should cast out of their land all those who came over from them into their land.
And he breathed out many threatenings against them. And now the people of Ammon did not fear their words; therefore they did not cast them out, but they did receive all the poor of the Zoramites that came over unto them; and they did nourish them, and did clothe them, and did give unto them lands for their inheritance; and they did administer unto them according to their wants.
Now this did stir up the Zoramites to anger against the people of Ammon, and they began to mix with the Lamanites and to stir them up also to anger against them."

Whenever I hear about people that are angry and prejudice against immigrants, legal or otherwise, I think about how such displaced people were treated in the Book of Mormon. The Nephites not only accepted the people of Ammon they willingly gave them the land of Jershon for their inheritance. Then when the Zoramites kicked out their poor and those that accepted the words of Alma, the people in Jershon received them. This is how we should treat others coming to our land. Except for a very few, we are all immigrants of one flavor or another. It is a wise purpose of the Lord that people are led here.

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." ("The New Colossus", written on the Statue of Liberty)

"But, said he, notwithstanding our afflictions, we have obtained a land of promise, a land which is choice above all other lands; a land which the Lord God hath covenanted with me should be a land for the inheritance of my seed. Yea, the Lord hath covenanted this land unto me, and to my children forever, and also all those who should be led out of other countries by the hand of the Lord.
Wherefore, I, Lehi, prophesy according to the workings of the Spirit which is in me, that there shall none come into this land save they shall be brought by the hand of the Lord.
Wherefore, this land is consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that they shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath given, it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down into captivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes, but unto the righteous it shall be blessed forever. "
(2 Nephi 1:5-7)

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