Mormon 9

Mormon seemed to be always admonishing us. With each story he seems to explain "thus we see". Moroni thought seems to much more direct. Maybe because he felt his time was possibly very limited. To the readers of the latter days, he says -

"...I speak unto you as if ye were present, and yet ye are not..." (Book of Mormon Mormon 8:35)

He can speak directly to us because -

"...behold, Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing." (Book of Mormon Mormon 8:35)

We know that this true as he tells us -

"...I know that ye do walk in the pride of your hearts; and there are none save a few only who do not lift themselves up in the pride of their hearts, unto the wearing of very fine apparel, unto envying, and strifes, and malice, and persecutions, and all manner of iniquities; and your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted because of the pride of your hearts." (Book of Mormon Mormon 8:36)

He also knows that our generation -

"...do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted." (Book of Mormon Mormon 8:37)

He directly asks this people -

"...O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies—because of the praise of the world?
39 Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?
40 Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads?" (Book of Mormon Mormon 8:38 - 40)

"...will ye believe in the day of your visitation—behold, when the Lord shall come, yea, even that great day when the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, yea, in that great day when ye shall be brought to stand before the Lamb of God—then will ye say that there is no God?
3 Then will ye longer deny the Christ, or can ye behold the Lamb of God? Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under a consciousness of your guilt? Do ye suppose that ye could be happy to dwell with that holy Being, when your souls are racked with a consciousness of guilt that ye have ever abused his laws?
4 Behold, I say unto you that ye would be more miserable to dwell with a holy and just God, under a consciousness of your filthiness before him, than ye would to dwell with the damned souls in hell.
5 For behold, when ye shall be brought to see your nakedness before God, and also the glory of God, and the holiness of Jesus Christ, it will kindle a flame of unquenchable fire upon you." (Book of Mormon Mormon 9:2 - 5)

For those that believe we can live the way we want to live and the Lord will forgive all us and all will be well, Moroni makes it very clear our condition in His presence. Moroni tells this generation very directly what is required -

"...turn ye unto the Lord; cry mightily unto the Father in the name of Jesus, that perhaps ye may be found spotless, pure, fair, and white, having been cleansed by the blood of the Lamb, at that great and last day." (Book of Mormon Mormon 9:6)

You can sense a little bit of differences in personalities of Mormon and Moroni.