CHAPTER XXIII.

The Probability of Joseph Smith's Story of the Origin, Translation and Final Disposition of the Plates of the Book of Mormon. I. The Ministration of Angels is Neither Unscriptural nor Unreasonable. II. To Believe in Media for Ascertaining Divine Knowledge is Neither Unscriptural nor Unreasonable. III. Of Returning the Plates of the Book of Mormon to Moroni. IV. On the Loss of One Hundred and Sixteen Pages of Manuscript, Being the Translation of the First Part of Mormon's Abridgment of the Nephite Records.