"'If we had those one hundred and sixteen pages of manuscript which Martin Harris got away with, you would know all about it, for Ishmael's ancestry is made very plain therein. The Lord told me not to translate it over again, but to take from Nephi's other plates until I came to the period of time where the other translation was broken off, and then go on with Mormon's abridgment again. That is how it came about that Ishmael's lineage was not given in the Book of Mormon, as well as Lehi's."'--Frankling D. Richards, "The Contributor," Vol. XVII, p. 425. 13. Ether iii. 14. I. Nephi x: 11, 12. 15. See I. Nephi v: 11. 16. Ether i: 3-6. 17. History of America Before Columbus, P. De Roo, Vol. I., 423, 424. 18. Ibid. p. 517. 19. Conquest of Peru, Vol. I., pp. 96, 97. 20. History of America Before Columbus, Vol. I., pp. 523-4. 21. Native Races, Vol. III., pp. 438-9 22. Prehistoric America, p.531. CHAPTER XL INTERNAL EVIDENCES.--THE ORIGINALITY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON AN EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF ITS CLAIMS. (Continued.) VII. _The Fall of Adam--The Purpose of Man's Earth Existence._ In the matter of some Christian truths, it sets forth, as well as in some it emphasizes, the Book of Mormon is original; and in none more so than in dealing with the doctrine of Adam's fall, and the purpose of man's existence. In the second book of Nephi, chapter ii, occurs the following direct, explicit statement: Adam fell that men might be: and men are that they might have joy. This sentence is the summing up of a somewhat lengthy discussion on the atonement, by the prophet Lehi. It is a most excellent and important generalization, and is worthy to be classed with the great generalizations of the Jewish scriptures, such for instance as that in the closing chapter of Ecclesiastes, "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man;" Paul's famous generalization: "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive:" or the Apostle James' summing up of religion: "Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world." Or of Messiah's great summing up of the whole law and gospel; "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and all the prophets." I care not whether you regard the literary excellence of this Book of Mormon generalization or the importance of the great truths which it announces, I repeat, it is worthy in every way to stand with the great generalizations quoted above. It deals with two of the mightiest problems of theology: 1st, The reason for Adam's fall; 2nd, The purpose of man's existence.