efore he hath prepared means for the interpretation
thereof.'

"He also engraved on them an account, called the 'Book of Ether'
of a people who left the old world, and came to this continent at
the time the language was confounded at Babel, which was a partial
fulfilment of the saying, 'So the Lord scattered them abroad from
thence upon the face of all the earth.' (Gen. 11:8.)

"Moroni was then commanded to deposit this record in the earth,
together with the _Urim and Thummim_, or, as the Nephites would
have said, _Interpreters_, which were instruments to assist in the
work of the translation, with a promise from the Lord that it
should be brought to light by means of a Gentile nation that
should possess the land, and be published to the world, and go
forth to the Lamanites, and be one of the instruments in the hands
of God for their conversion. It remained safe in the place where
it was deposited, till it was brought to light by the
administration of angels, and translated by the gift and power of
God."

The Mormon Bible contains five hundred and eighty-eight duodecimo pages,
and purports to have been written at different times, and by the different
authors, whose names the parts respectively bear. The following are the
names of the different books, in the order in which they occur:--

1. First Book of Nephi.

2. Second Book of Nephi.

3. Book of Jacob, brother of Nephi.

4. Book of Enos, son of Jacob.

5. Book of Jarom, son of Enos.

6. Book of Omni, son of Jarom.

7. Words of Mormon.

8. Book of Mosiah.

9. Book of Alma.

10. Book of Helaman.

11. Book of Nephi, son of Nephi, son of Helaman.

12. Book of Nephi, son of Nephi, one of the disciples of Christ.

13. Book of Mormon.

14. Book of Ether.

15. Book of Moroni.

Two new books have recently been published,--the Prophecies of Enoch, in
the _Morning and Evening Star_, and the Book of Abraham, in the _Times and
Seasons_.

The Mormons seem to think that revelations from Heaven and miracles
wrought, are as necessary now, and as important to the salvation of the
present generation, as they were to any generation in any preceding age or
period.

In a volume entitled "Doctrine and Covenants," are a great number of
revelations, purporting to be from Jesus Christ to Smith and his
coadjutors. The following extra