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Show Speakers At Street Meet Tell How History Proves Mormon Belief Approximately 400 people attended at-tended the street meeting at the county court house corner last Sunday night. Following community com-munity singing of the L.D.S. hymn, "We Thank Thee, O' God, for a Prophet", the special feature of the evening was an illustrated lecture on the evidence of the earlier inhabitants of the American Ameri-can continent. The film projector was operated by Rex Stratton, while Donald Seegmiller gave a brief explanation of the existing ruins of buildings, shrines, cathedrals, cathed-rals, pyramids, cement highways, vauits, and irrigation tubes, all of which' bear witness to the intelligence, intelli-gence, and the apparent high culture cul-ture and skilled workmanship of the people who builded on both North and South America more than 4000 years ago. Tine screen was stretched across the front of the entrance landing above the court house steps and in pite of the light breeze the pictures were well projected and the audience expressed keen interest in-terest in the presentation, as well as in the explanations given. The questions put by Mr. Seegmiller Seeg-miller in concluding his address. wcre- "What people were the mas-(Continued mas-(Continued cm page eight) Street Meeting (Continued from first page) ters of these massive structures with their elaborate carvings, and their gold trimmings from which the Spanish invaders carried Kick vast wealth to their nation and where can one find their history?" his-tory?" Mrs. Mellvi Raker and Mrs. Ruth Miles responded with the vocal duet "An Angel From On High" the L.D.S. song concerning the delivering of the records by the angel Moroni to Joseph Smith, the prophet, from which he translated the manuscript which is known at the Rook of Mormon. I-owis Christian, who served a three year's mission in South ; America and had viewed msr.y of i the ruins portrayed in the illustrations, illus-trations, was to have given the address of the evening, but bei-; ill. Wayne C Gardner, also a" missionary consented to serve in his stead. In his address, he told r of the findings in the great Tar 1 Pits near the present sight of Hollywood, where in 1913 the fos-silirod fos-silirod remains of the horse, ele-! ele-! phant. camel and many other aru mals told of in the Book of Mor-l men. were unearthed and now are to lx- seen in the museum there. Giving quotations from the so called "LD.S. Bible" his remarks " wcro directed to the substantial i evidence of the accuracy of this i record of the former inhabitants I of this western continent, as vie ed by the Latter Pay Saints, Thes benediction w.vs given by Lflswl I Lamoreoux. - I |