The signs are given so that there might be something tangible on which to base one’s belief, but they do not, and cannot, force belief. Thus, Samuel reiterates: “Ye are permitted to act for yourselves.” Samuel then uses terms we have seen from Alma’s doctrine of restoration (see Alma 41): “ye can do good and be restored unto that which is good … or ye can do evil, and have that which is evil restored unto you.”
This is not the end of a chapter in the 1830 edition.