What mean ye? ye beat my people What mean ye _that_ ye beat my to pieces, and grind the faces people to pieces, and grind the of the poor.--_II Nephi xiii_, 15. faces of the poor?--_Isaiah iii_, 15. {160} The above is a case where the inserted word of the translator, which I have written in _italics_, is omitted, and to my mind the passage as it stands in the Book of Mormon is stronger, more beautiful, because more harmonious. Here is a passage where different words are used than those inserted by the translators: BOOK OF MORMON. BIBLE. Say unto the righteous, that Say ye unto the righteous, that it is well with them; for they _it shall be_ well _with him_; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! for they Woe unto the wicked! _it shall shall perish; for the reward of be ill with him_; for the reward of their hands shall be upon of his hands shall be given them.--_II Nephi xiii_, 10, 11. him.--_Isaiah iii_, 10, 11. I think it will be readily conceded that the above passage as it stands in the Book of Mormon is much superior to the version given in our common Bible, indeed it is so throughout, and when it is remembered that Joseph Smith and those who assisted in translating that work were most likely uniformed as to the supplied words of the translators being written in italics, it is an incidental evidence that those passages in the Book of Mormon to which are found corresponding passages in the Bible were not merely copied from the Bible, but in the Book of Mormon we have really another translation of those passages taken from original records of the Hebrews, uncorrupted by the hand of man, and hence more perfect. One suggestion more I would make to the readers of the Book of Mormon, and that is that they read it prayerfully, with a real desire to know if it is of God. If they will peruse it with that desire in their hearts, I am sanguine that the Spirit of God which searches all things, yea, the deep things of God, will bear witness to their understanding that the book is of divine origin, and they will have a witness from God of its truth. Such a promise, in fact, is contained within the book itself. When Moroni--into whose keeping the plates of the Book of Mormon were given--was closing up the sacred record previous to hiding it up unto the Lord until the time should come for it to be revealed as a witness for God, he engraved the following passage on the plates as words of counsel to those into whose hands the record should fall: