Show evidence the interview published relative to excavation and discoveries recently made m certain ancient arums rums near mesa arizona is fraught with considerable sid erable interest to day saints for tha facy therein set forth sustain or rather demonstrate the truth of some of the most remarkable statements contained in the book of mormon american continent must havo been very greaty judging from tha statements of that record and corroborating proofs discovered since its publication in the form ot ruined cities temples and other structures roads canals of land once cultivated found in both north and south america in fact it haa teen fully shown that vast regions of country in the western world once swarmed with a teeming civilized and industrious population before the birth of columbus A chapter in the book of mormon describes the manner in which that population was suddenly destroyed with the exception of about souls and its declaration that this vast destruction was accomplished m the space of about three hours has been indicated as one which challenged the credulity cre dulty of intelligent persons that such an event as the almost instantaneous depopulation of a inhabited continent with the exception of a remnant comparatively very email has ever occurred in the history of our planet was formerly incredible to the masses of mankind and the statement that such a thing had happened couched in the simple but impressive language of the mormon only had the effect to increase the ridicule heaped upon the believers of that book but such discoveries as those made in arizona of which our correspondent wrote absolutely demonstrate beyond the possibility of a doubt or cavil that those orical declarations of the book of mormon are true As explorers visit one after another of the hundreds of ruined cities in theT egions formerly inhabited bulhe race of which that book is a history they find multitudes of skeletons buried an fn arums rums in a manner which tells more forcibly and plainly than language could that overtook tho populace at an instant suddenly the account given by the of mormon of the origin of is far less wonderful ande asierto be liev athan the account it gives of their extermination bufa the truth of the record in its narrative tion f the race with the exception of a small remnant having been fruy demonstrated why should not its statements concerning the origin of the same people be received time will unfold such further and resistless proofs of tha truthfulness of the book of mormon not only ill its historical statements but also in its religious teachings as will compel all honest men everywhere to accept it for what it claims to be a divinely prepared and preserved repository of truth news |