One thing I cannot forbear to mention, and that is, in the part of the Book of Mormon translated from the "smaller plates" of Nephi, we find none of these comments or annotations mixed up with the record that we have already spoken of {158} as being peculiar to the abridgment made by Mormon--a circumstance, I take it, which proves the Book of Mormon to be consistent with the account given of the original records from which it was translated. There will be found, however, in this translation direct from the "smaller plates" of Nephi, as also in Mormon's abridgment, extracts from the old Jewish Scripture--especially from the writings of Isaiah--this is accounted for by the fact that when Lehi's colony left Jerusalem, they took with them copies of the book of Moses and the writings of the prophets, and a record of the Jews down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah, all of which were engraven on plates of brass (see I. Nephi v, 10-13), and the Nephite historians transcribed passages from these sacred records into their own writings. There are a few suggestions about these transcribed passages which may not be uninteresting to the reader, and which to the student will be invaluable, as they furnish an indirect evidence to the truth of the Book of Mormon. The Nephites having transcribed passages from the brass plates they carried with them from Jerusalem into their records, wherever such passages occur in the Book of Mormon, and corresponding passages are found in our English Bible, it will be seen by the reader that so far we have two translations of the writings of the old Hebrew prophets; and it will be found on comparison that the passages in the Book of Mormon are stronger and more in keeping with the sense sought to be expressed by the prophet than the corresponding passages and chapters in the Bible. As a proof of this I ask the reader to compare I Nephi xx and xxi, with Isaiah xlvii and xlix. In some instances there are sentences, in the Book of Mormon version of passages from Isaiah, not to be found in our English version, as witness the following: BOOK OF MORMON. BIBLE. O house of Jacob, come ye and O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the let us walk in the light of the Lord; _yea, come, for ye have all Lord.--_Isaiah ii_, 5. gone astray, every one to his wicked ways.--II Nephi xii_, 5. In other instances it will be found that the sense of the passages is different, and that the passages in the Book of Mormon best accord with the sense of the whole: {159} BOOK OF MORMON. BIBLE.