6  Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the ^binhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

  30  And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have ^apower to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased, speaking unto the church collectively and not individually—