TABLE OF CONTENTS.
[PART I.]
THE VALUE OF THE BOOK OF MORMON AS A WITNESS FOR THE AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGRITY OF THE BIBLE, AND THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
The Bible in the Nineteenth Century.
The Witness of the Western Hemisphere.
The Purposes for Which the Book of Mormon was Written.
[PART II.]
THE DISCOVERY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON AND ITS TRANSLATION.—MIGRATIONS, LANDS, INTERCONTINENTAL MOVEMENTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND THE RELIGIONS OF ITS PEOPLES.
How Joseph Smith Obtained the Book of Mormon.
The Translation of the Record—Martin Harris Amanuensis.
Translation of the Record (Continued)—Oliver Cowdery, Amanuensis.
The Manner of Translating the Book of Mormon.
Publication of the Record.
An Analysis of the Book of Mormon.
Migrations to the Western Hemisphere and the Nations that Arose from Them.
I. Jaredites—
Migration and Place of Landing.
Capital and Centers of Civilization.
Extent and Nature of Civilization.
Numbers.
Literature.
Government.
Religion.
History.
II. The Nephites.
Lehi's Colony.
Mulek's Colony.
Book of Mormon Lands.
Inter-Continental Movements of Book of Mormon People.
Nephite Movements Southward.
Nephite Movement Northward.
Government and Religion Among the Nephites.
Nephite Government.
Religion.
The People of Mulek.
Government and Religion.
The Lamanites.
Civilization, Government, Religion.
[PART III.]
EVIDENCES OF THE TRUTH OF THE BOOK OF MORMON.
Classification of Evidences.
Direct External Evidences.
The Testimony of the Three Witnesses.
The Testimony of the Eight Witnesses.
Direct External Evidences—The Three Witnesses—Subsequent Life and Testimonies.
Oliver Cowdery.
Direct External Evidences—the Testimony of the Three Witnesses—Subsequent Life and Testimonies (Continued).
David Whitmer.
Direct External Evidences—Testimony of the Three Witnesses—Subsequent Life and Testimonies (Continued).
Martin Harris.
Direct External Evidences—Reflections Upon the Testimonies of the Three Witnesses.
Direct External Evidences—Testimony of the Eight Witnesses.
Christian Whitmer.
Jacob Whitmer.
Peter Whitmer, Jr.
John Whitmer.
Hiram Page.
Joseph Smith, Sen.
Hyrum Smith.
Samuel Harrison Smith.
Direct External Evidence—Reflections on the Testimony of the Eleven Witnesses.
The Testimony of Incidental Witnesses.
The Probability of Joseph Smith's Story of the Origin, Translation and Final Disposition of the Plates of the Book of Mormon.
I. The Ministration of Angels is Neither Unscriptural nor Unreasonable.
II. To Believe in Media for Ascertaining Divine Knowledge is Neither Unscriptural nor Unreasonable.
III. Of Returning the Plates of the Book of Mormon to Moroni.
IV. On the Loss of One Hundred and Sixteen Pages of Manuscript, Being the Translation of the First Part of Mormon's Abridgment of the Nephite Records.
Indirect External Evidences—American Antiquities. Preliminary Considerations.
I. What the Book of Mormon Requires as to the Location and Character of the Jaredite Civilization.
II. What the Book of Mormon Requires as to the Location, Extent and Nature of the Nephite Civilization.
Indirect External Evidences—American Antiquities. Preliminary Considerations (Continued).
III. Of the Probability of Intercourse Between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres During Jaredite and Nephite Times.
IV. The Western World Since the Close of the Nephite Period—The Lamanite Civilization.
V. Of the Writers on American Antiquities.
Indirect External Evidences—American Antiquities.
I. The Evidence of the Existence of Ancient Civilizations in America.
II. Chief Centers of Ancient American Civilization.
Copan.
Palenque.
Indirect External Evidences—American Antiquities (Continued).
I. Antiquity of American Ruins.
II. Successive Civilizations.
III. Peruvian Antiquities.
IV. The Mound Builders.
Summary.
External Evidences—American Traditions and Mythologies.
I. The Creation.
II. The Flood.
Indirect External Evidences—American Traditions and Mythologies (Continued).
III. Tradition of the Tower of Babel.
IV. Migrations.