Christian Whitmer, Jacob Whitmer, Peter Whitmer, Jr., John Whitmer, Hiram Page, Joseph Smith, Sr., Hyrum Smith, Samuel H. Smith; instead of in a double column as in our current editions. By the way, in passing, it may not be amiss to state that some importance is attached to the arrangement of the names in our current edition, for the reason that if read across the page instead of down the columns, then Page and the members of the Smith family alternate with the Witnesses, supposedly to divert attention from the fact that the witnesses, excepting Hiram Page, were of but two families! Such is the conclusion at least of one profound (!) critic of the Book of Mormon. 9. Doc. and Cov., sec. 30. 10. _Latter-day Saints Biographical Encyclopaedia_, p. 278. 11. _History of the Prophet Joseph_, by Lucy Smith, ch. 19. 12. History of the Church, vol. I, p. 15. 13. See Doc. and Cov., sec. 11. 14. _Rise and Fall of Nauvoo_, p. 146; also History of the Church, vol. II, p. 338. 15. Book of Mormon, Ether 12:36-38. Also Doc. and Cov. 135:5. CHAPTER XXI. DIRECT EXTERNAL EVIDENCE--REFLECTIONS ON THE TESTIMONY OF THE ELEVEN WITNESSES. Doubtless the Lord had his own purpose to subserve in giving different kinds of testimony--divine and human--to the same truth. The testimony of the Three Witnesses, attended as it was by such remarkable displays of supernatural power, he knew would be opposed from the very circumstance of its being supernatural. It cannot be but that God fore-knew of the rise of that so-called "Rational Criticism" of divine things which would resolve inspired dreams, visions, revelations and the administration of angels into hallucinations, brought about first by an inclination to believe in the miraculous, (and "ordinarily," argue the "Rational Critics," "expectation is the father of its object.") [1] supplemented by the theory of self-deception, self-hypnosis or hypnotic influence of others. This particular school of philosophers took its rise in the last century, and in the twentieth is much in vogue.