3. The third division of the Book of Mormon is made up of writings of Moroni, the son of Mormon. He finishes the record of his father, Mormon, in which he occupies seven and a half pages. After that he abridges the history of the people of Jared, who were led from the Tower of Babel to the north continent of the western hemisphere, and whose record was found by a branch of the Nephite people. [4] This abridged history of the Jaredites occupies thirty-eight pages; and in character of composition is much like the complex style of Mormon's abridgment of the Nephite records. It was modeled doubtless after that work. Then follows his own book, the Book of Moroni, which occupies fifteen and a half pages, making in all sixty-one pages written by Moroni. The following is a summary of the three divisions: I. Direct translation from the Small Plates of Nephi, nine writers (of whom two write 149 of the 157 pages)...157 pages II. Mormon's abridgment of the various books written upon the Large Plates of Nephi...390 1/2 pages III. Mormon's personal account of events that occurred in this own day...14 1/2 pages IV. Moroni's writings--completion of this father's record, abridgment of the Jaredite History, his own book, called the Book of Moroni...61 pages Total...623 pages The total number of writers in the Book of Mormon is eleven, of whom four do the principal part of the writing, these are the First Nephi, Jacob, Mormon and Moroni. Of these four, Mormon does the major part. For purposes of reference I make the following summary: Mormon writes...405 pages Moroni...61 pages Nephi...127 1/2 pages Jacob...21 1/2 pages The other seven writers...8 pages Total...623 pages Such is the Book of Mormon as to its construction--the number of its writers, and the style employed in the parts that are abridgments from the larger records of the Nephites and Jaredites. All this may now seem unimportant to the reader, but he will find when I come to the argument for the truth of the Book of Mormon, and the consideration of the objections urged against it, this analysis will become an important factor in that work. Footnotes 1. One hundred and fifty-one in the first edition. 2. That is of the current editions of the book. The references in the analysis throughout are to current editions. 3. Mormon was born about the year 311 A. D., and was killed by the Lamanites after delivering his writings to his son Moroni, about 385 A. D. 4. See p. 142 [Chapter X--Transcriber]. CHAPTER X. MIGRATIONS TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE AND THE NATIONS THAT AROSE FROM THEM. [1]