Points to be remembered in this story: Nephi kept a record of his people so they might remember what the Lord had done for them--If they did not have the Lord's commandments written they would easily forget them--Nephi makes plates of metal on which to write the history of his people--These plates were given by one man to another to keep for many hundreds of years--Moroni the next to last man who wrote on the plates copied a short history of the people from them which is called the Book of Mormon--Moroni, Mormon's son finished the records and hid them in a stone box--Fourteen hundred years afterwards Moroni showed Joseph Smith where the plates were hidden, and gave him permission to take them out of the ground--With the urim and thummim Joseph Smith translated the writings on some of the plates--Before he died Nephi anointed a man to be king over the people. Transcriber's Note: A few extraneous punctuation marks were corrected as seemed reasonable. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Book of Mormon Stories, by Anonymous