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Rh might no longer cry unto Him from the ground against them. Kishkumen is mentioned only in connction with its destruction.  KORIHOR. An anti-Christ, who appeared among the Nephites B. C. 75. He taught many of the heresies of Nehor, prominent among which were the denial of the coming of the Redeemer and of the efficacy of His atonement. His doctrine was that every man fared in this life according to his management, prospered according to his shrewdness, and conquered according to his strength. He proclaimed that whatsoever a man did was no crime, for when a man was dead there was an end thereof.

As a missionary Korihor was, for a short time, a success. We first hear of him preaching his satanic doctrines in the land of Zarahemla, and, as he claimed to fully believe all he taught, the law could not touch him, as full religious liberty was guaranteed under the constitution and laws of the Nephite commonwealth. From Zarahemla he went to the land of Jershon, to inoculate the Ammonites with his soul-destroying vagaries. But they were a wiser and more zealous people for the gospel than were many of the Nephites. They took him, bound him, and carried him before Ammon, their high priest. He directed that Korihor should be removed beyond the border of their land, which command having been obeyed, we next find the unabashed impostor laboring among the people of the land of Gideon. There he also met with rebuffs. He was arrested by the people and taken before the chief officers in that land. They found they could do nothing that would be satisfactory with him, so they remanded him into the custody of the proper officers with instructions to carry him before Alma and Nephihah, in Zarahemla. When brought before these worthies — the highest dignitaries of the church and state — Korihor continued in his 