LESSON II.

SCRIPTURE READING EXERCISE.

THE ANCIENT AMERICAN SCRIPTURE—THE BOOK OF MORMON. (Continued.)

ANALYSIS. REFERENCES.
I. The Nephite Plates.
1. Dimensions.
2. Weight and Appearance.
Note 1. Wentworth Letter, Mill. Star Vol. XIX: 117.
II. Writers of the Book of Mormon.
1. First Group.
2. Second Group.
See Book of Mormon also Y. M. M. I. A. Manual (No. 7), Chap. ix.
III. Purposes for Which the Book of Mormon was Written. Ibid (No. 9), Chap. xxxvii. Doc. & Cov. Sec. iii, 16-20. Book of Mormon--Moroni's Preface Title Page. Book of Mormon, Chap. v: 12-15. Ibid vii, 540, I Nephi, Chap. xiii. Y. M. M. I. A. Manual (No. 7), Chap. iii.
IV. Original Books of the Nephite Record.
1. The Small Plates of Nephi.
2. The Abridgement of Mormon.--Nephite History.
3. The Abridgement of Moroni--The Jaredite History.
Note Ibid. Book of Mormon, pp. 1-157. Words of Mormon, Chap. i, p. 158; pp. 160-548. Book of Mormon, 570-608. Y. M. M. I. A. Manual (No. 7), Chap. ix. Myth of the Ms Found, Chap. v.