The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 96

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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 96: May 17, 1934Now, Nephi in his account of this extraordinary journey tells us that the travellers suffered much af¿iction, hunger, thirst, as well as fatigue. He notes specially that they had to eat raw meat, not being permitted to make much fire. The Lord would make the food palatable, and He would also be their light Nephi 17: 2, 12, The obvious inference is that Lehi and his company were travelling through a hostile country, avoiding the common trade routes, and not betraying their whereabouts, not even by smoke from camp fires. Fire for sacrifices they probably had, accord ing to the Mosaic law, but not fire for their own comfort. It is this detail of the Book of Mormon account of the sufferings of the colony of Lehi across the Arabian peninsula, that receives a new illustration in the report of the French explorers concerning the hostility of the Arabs, even now.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.