7. I have already, at pages 167-8, and note, called attention to the fact that the colony of Lehi was made up of families from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh respectively. Orson Pratt also says, "The American Indians are partly of the children of Manasseh though many of them are of Ephraim through the two sons of Ishmael who came out of Jerusalem 600 B. C., and some of Judah through the loins of David and the kings that reigned over Jerusalem." Pratt's Works, pp. 92; see also chapter XXXIX and footnotes. 8. The reason that Alma, born late in the second century B. C., is the first one mentioned of the Nephite warriors is not because he was the first distinguished member of that class among the Nephites, but because the secular history of the Nephites for the first four centuries of their annals was lost through the criminal carelessness of Martin Harris when he lost the 116 pages of manuscript which was the translation of the first part of Mormon's abridgment of that Nephite secular history. We have its place occupied by the translation of the Smaller Plates of Nephi which record gives prominence to spiritual things and to spiritual characters. (I. Nephi xix: 3, 4). But as "there were brave men before Aggamemnon," so also doubtless there were warriors among the Nephites before Alma, but in consequence of not having a translation of the part of the record which dealt with the affairs of government and of wars, they remain for the present, unknown to us. 9. Not Moroni, the son of Mormon. 10. Alma xxxix: 17-19, I. Nephi xxv: 23-26, Mosiah iii: 13. 11. Chapters xxvi and xxvii. 12. III. Nephi xv: 12, 13. 13. III. Nephi xx: 21, 22. 14. III. Nephi xxi: 20-25. 15. Ether xiii: 5-8. 16. II. Nephi iii: 3-15. I am not unmindful of the fact that the objector, with some show of reason, could say that it would be an easy matter for an imposter to set down such a prophecy as this--one that would coalesce with the facts of his own life and claim it as a fulfillment of prophecy, and hence an evidence of his calling. The shallowness of such a position is, of course, apparent, but it is not in this way that I refer to the circumstance, but to call attention to the fact that it is in harmony with this Josephic idea of the Book of Mormon, and I am not at all relying upon it in my argument as being a fulfillment of prophecy. 17. Compare I. Nephi i: 1-2. Mosiah i: 1-4. Mormon ix: 32-33. 18. "And thus my father, Lehi, did discover the genealogy of his fathers; and Laban also was a descendant of Joseph, wherefore he and his fathers had kept the records." I. Nephi v: 16. 19. I. Nephi i: 2. Mosiah i: 4. 20. Mormon ix: 32, 33. 21. Isaiah xxix: 9-24. 22. II. Nephi xxvii: 6-11. 23. See Vol. II, chapters iv and v. 24. Isaiah xxix: 1-2. 25. Orson Pratt's Works, p. 11. 26. St. John x: 14-16.