West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-12-10
THE MORMON BIBLE.

oook is IAN account written by the
Hand of Mormon upon Plates taken
from the Plates of Nephi, trans
lated by Joseph Smith and divided
into chapters and verses with ref
erences by 0rson Pratt, Sem" The
different books or divisions of the
work, in their order, are as follows:
The First Book of Nephi, with
% chapters.
The Second Book of Nephi, with
33 chapters.
The Book of Jacob. 2 chapters.
The Books of Enos, Jarom,
0mni and Words of Mormon, one
chapter each.
The Book of Mosiah, with 30
chapters.
The Book of Alma, which is the
longest i'm the work and occupies
nearly 200 pages, with 90 chapters.
The Book OF Helaman, with 16
chapters.
The Third Book OF Nephi, with
80 chapters.
Fourth Book of Nephi, with one
chapter.
The Book Of Mormon, with nine
chapters.
Book OF Ether, with Eve chapters.
And the Book of Maroni, with ten
chapters, making In all fifteen
Books and 239 chapters, covering
623 pages.
The divinity and genuineness of
the work is attested to, first by
three witnesses, Oliver Cowdery,
David Whitmer and Martin Harris,
who solemnly swear that they saw
the engravings and plates, shown
them by the power of God and not
of man; and further, that an angel
came down from heaven and
brought and laid before their eyes
the said plates and engravings, and
that the voice OF the Lord com
manded them to bear record Of it.
Then in order to further strength
en- aud confirm the matter. the
following testimonial is offered:
"AND ALSO THE TESTIMONY OF
EIGHT WITNESSES.
BE it known unto all nations,
kindreds, tongues aud people unto
whom this work shall come, that
Joseph Smith, Jun, the translator
of this work, has shown unto us
the plates of which hath been
spoken, which have the appearance
Of gold; and as many OF the leaves
as the said Smith has translated.
we did handle with our hands; and
we also saw the engrayings thereon.
all Of which has the appearance Of
ancient work and of curious work
manship, And this we bear record
with words of soberness. that the
said Smith has shown unto as, for
we have seen and hefted, and know
of surety that the said Smith has
got the plates Of which we have
spoken. And we give our names
unto the world, to witness unto the
world that which we have seenj and
we lie not, God bearing witness Of
it.
Christian Whitmer, Hiram Page,
Jacob Whltmer, Joseph Smith, Sr.,
Peter Whitmer, Jr., Hiram Smith,
John Whitmer, Samuel IL. Smith.
The Book Of Mormon is totally
unlike the Protestant Bible and
makes curious reading for COM
parison. Nephi, one of the princi-
pal writer's, was the fourth son of
Lehi and Sarah. Lehi was a direct
descendent Of Joseph. Jacob was
q brother Of Nephi and Enos was "a
son of Jacob Jarom was son of
Bnos aud Omni son Of Jarom.
Mosiah and Helaman we're sons Of
Benjamin. Alma, who wes the son
of Alma. She founder Of the
church of Nephi, was the Chief
Judge over the Nephites in the
land Of Zarahemla and also the
High Priest over the church.
Mosoni was q son Of Mormon and
Mormon was descendant OF Nephl.
Ether was a defendant Of Coriantor
and the latter was twenty sixth
generation defendant Of Jared who
came fourth with his brother and
their families from the great Tower
Of Babel when the language Of the
people we're confounded and they
we're scattered all over the face Of the
earth. Hence the great variety Of
language in the world, but 10 is all
gradually drifting back to one
tongue again and some time the
world will speak but one language
as in the beginning Then christi.
anity and civilization will have full
sway and the millennium viii be
upon US.