Actually, efforts to correct the NT text were well underway before the 1800s. Today, NT textual criticism has come a long from those earliest efforts. Joseph Smith penned, “We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly”, and today the rest of the Christian world agrees. Except for those who cling to the obviously false belief in inerrancy.
Come on Don - comparing apples to rocks here. The efforts to improve the TR were based upon the discovery of older, more reliable MS that allowed Textural critics to more readily identify the errors contained in the vulgate (and thus the KJV). Not suprisingly, smith carried these same errors into the bom through his volumous copy of the KJV. Not suprising that Smith plagerized the KJV for major portions of the bom.
Smith's work of 'fixing' the KJV was done in complete ABSENCE of these ms. In fact ALL of smith's changes are not even REMOTELY supported by these ms record. Just like the results of smith's translation of the Joseph smith papyri eh don?