Show THE DIVINE 17 BOOK OF MORMON BT DY ELDER W 11 II 11 II I 1 10 NO rid IV ithe the beautifully situated ruined city of habab seo see aee stephena stephens Yu Yuca citati tari vol voli 1 page to produces ruins ruina more grandly decor abed than those of uxmal has alwa almaa a been consid conald ered onu one of ot the tho principal and leading ruined cules cities ot sculptured beauty until mr stephem aston lahty the century with the of the magnificent ruins of Kaban if the dieva displayed la in building the city call ei ba even put to ed the severest teet of rules rulea governing the he archi in our isy lay flay improvement la in design would be entered into for the design in front of their build lugs inga and ana over their doorways would embellish the arch architecture ot any known era sueh such suo h ia is the language of tit mr stephens stephen L hamid amid a mass mats ot of barbarism of nude and uncouth conceptions Katti hs build luga iuga offer t b e 01 se the cintr ican jean ai as worthy of accept kucy hucy and imitation for their designers vaid wom a polished and artistico arti artia stio llo ilu peo peu people die who when prosperity and nd wealth poured in upon upun thum thorn froat every avenue uaea the earno to beautify aud and decorate their homes their publio public places their temples and their altars no one reading the book of mormon lin fin in with ehtee ruins ruina aau others in the land ca can u fail fall to tort kt the tho reference of the historic historical ai revelations contained within it ite ita dak PAK dakey to the builders buil ders deis of the cities and their location we were found in almost eve every every TY building examined finely cited carted carved wooden linkels lintels made from tbt that wonderful tree the mapote whose weight almost equalar atone and is one ot of the most lve timbers known in america amerl ca of these lintels lint lin els elaborately carved curved was cons coni considered by mr aa as the tife nie morial mortal of thal that and departed people that he had bad found massive beams covered with carvings were ilso foulad aund in this city the book of page verge verae 4 describes thia this fine line workmanship in and buildings building st step ep by step the field of discovery enlarges t n 1 arkes n new e YZ designs of buildings ara are revealed dut of opening new how light and unfolding of st secrets erets the be hid bid den history of their builders draws closer the curtain that shroud almost impenetrable folds ibe mysterious editimus of the entombed cily city oi dead oue must enter elten inlo into the eacret pages of the book of for thi this light slight and a history of thy the past the thu ruins which are found in central america yucatan Yu catani catao cos costa ua rici ric and indeed over the land from california to peru ruins during the fourth century beginning with the year A adaid D and at the close of the year the whole ot of that region of ut coultry mentioned above was desolated and thu the for lur thu the last time titue looked upon their great and mighty cities citie elj arid and fled to their aaa bast piane plane of gathering the valley of cumorah luia ilia a remarkable fact standing in bold relief that many of these clelta today to day show the effects of file fire aa as being one of the means meang ot ui this has been noticed leed iced by lium ilum humboldt boldt stephens and UA catherwood therwood aud others the book of mormon sas bays on page v at 4 but it camu came to paa that lands landa we had bad parsed by and ghe the thereof were nut not gathered in were destroyed dua dea troyed by he the ij e and aud their towns and aud villages and cities were burn ed with tite file thia this fearful war which finally ended in the valley of 0 cumorah in thu the state stale ef of new yolk with ane overthrow of the Nep tilte nations nation who were one builders buffi bulli Jers of thebe these cities aud of those cities found by thum them when they took of pt lne the soil which were lne tue memorials of the thu departed ua dou tiou of Jared ites ittS who preceded the hem commenced with the dea des truc tion tiou of thu the cities desolation and rear reat icum of in the bookoff book of murmur which were built anthe en the mem dea coast near the narrow neck of fand fund in the sou suu southern thern portion of cental america amr Ame urlus riua the tho Nep bleeg were iud ltd by general mormon and the by king aaron from city to city from tufu to towne town and anti laud to land were the no pritts driven until every city was de populated and the country a t masa masi of rulus ruins forte forten nears neara eana did this thia fearful carnage go ghou on and mormon finally dually with bih bis ob altered tittered army and peoples people rested in the he valley ot of cumorah Cuoi orah before leaving the land of centra thal america called desolation by tho the Neph Nephi itea teh teu and seeing that the nama Lama nitea were about tc te land mormon went lo 10 the hill bill shim shim and took out all the sacred records the thelfa theLla liahona Lia lla hona hond the arim and dr or interpreters as they were called cannedy and all thes acred acied things that almaron had bad 55 sears years before deposited unto 0 the lord thus these theao sacred records and things were with him during this I 1 lonk fonk ong and cloudy war and were de do by ty him in the hill cumo uumo rb rth juat previous to the great and last struggle bt rugie of the Nep hites 8 and lamn Lama around that hill bill where the J ended their dynasty about 1585 yzier years ars are before page v 6 bouk at d ether atte after r the Neph ites itea had landed in the valley of Cumo cumorah rab there wasat wab was a cessation of hostilities fora period of four yearb yeara during which ime time all the tho people both Lama nitea and Neph ltee itee throughout the whole laud assem bled bied to their thein respective leader rhose chose who were General tui fui mormon took up their in iti the valley of cumorah and near around belog the portion of the thu blate slate of new now york where the there thero re are over 45 lakes and lauy streams and rivers just ja as tue the book of mormon dC describes rines ribes the place or land hind near 1500 years ago dating from the present page w v 1 iland land l and it was a land of many and fountaine foun taina q general cormona Mor mons mona army a t the hend nd of the four yearb yeara numbered 23 troops besides women and children being leis leid by 23 generals gene rais rala including himself and his hla son eon moroni the Lama occupied land in ohio and und pennsylvania more than thin anywhere else as will wilt be shown As the fie nield field d of our research we will now contemplate the mound builders ot of north america it is corta certainly ane 6 ne of the most moat important that hab has du groDd th attention and research of every antiquarian of the tho century all who why have examined into and written upon the origin odgin of their original thil builders hava havo more or less based heir beir conclusion a upon the lathe h histories of the To toltec itee ltee Chlap enese onese and mexican nations na tlona tiona which isem jiem is embodied in the following hypothesis which I 1 propose to prove ia is not correct 11 mal mat the mound build builders bre W were aree the ibe and first people who gho america and aa as they increased and became prosperous they built bulit the the tho many great cities now found in ruina ruins in mexico central Americ america ts f and costa C oata rica blea this ia lne belief f of many writers upon america and the antica ties the truth of the matter is in the assertion which I 1 claim to toby be correct that the mound builders of america were the ne philes and they rested tested by the tho wayon way on their long and fearfully fought battle road of death bod miles long reaching from coata cosla rica to the state of NW york built these mounds mome to bury their dead in some bome tor lor places biages of religious or idolatrous fites rites of wor worship 8 h 1 P b ome borne for places of and bome some especially designated aa ng the last resting place ince of meir mori illustrious dead the moat Int iut erting interesting class of mounds are those thode connected with walls walla of defence composed of rock and earth these are mostly along a route going nort north from mexico through texas up the mississippi valley into lulu kentucky indiana ohio pennsylvania bi und and tew new lew york when we enter unter into indiana and ohio these works of mounds and walls walla of defence increase in size elze and military peculiarities some ol 01 which I 1 wiil will mention and from some of which I 1 will produce evidence to establish the truth of the assertion made above and evidence that tbt the divine authenticity of the book of mormon rhyse embankments or walls of defence enclose land from feet square 0 to 10 acres acree some urel are in circles 83 equates oblene alid and iril 1112 meth moth shapes in bome somo ceh cea Is those whose wails walla are systematically ati cally arranged are faced clode close uy it it enclosures e 11 cl of defence defonce erected without regard to system or form those of a aulenti scientific fl jot order der are perfect circles and perfect squares enclosing two to td four hundred acres ot laud showing in many instances a knowledge of mathematics and sud surveying in others the valls walls are built in fu tho the form of serpents cm ern of idolatrous worship aino amongst ngat the iia Zia manUes mannes in others delenco you ito ite mounds and walls wals of defence places of sacrifice peculiar to savage worship many ut these mounds are built in rows outside of walls walla of devience defa deft de fience nce nee and invariably var bibly show them to be places of burial aud exhumations have almost always shown the skull pierced and anti the bones frequently broken as it they were the remains of those engaged in battle in others an eutize entire difference and order of arrangement both in the thy etyle style of burial bunai and the surrounding I 1 and BO so incongruous are thebe thebo rib ria lations relations that borne of thit the uund mound m and writers bave have two nations of people i a aa 2 having been their bul bui idera in one cla cia c of mounds which belong to thu th scientific order of arrange ment are found relics of high civil and a knowledge of the arts arte in those of a military order of bf con bt ruction aro are found the remains remaina ot I 1 large largo containing re 1 lica wa of nead neada and sand lance muce points made madu from a aud C product very hurd and fund nowhere nearer the tho flabia aipel valley than the mexican mountain th lu of 0 f cerro gordo la in those mounds and fortifications which in their erection snow enow more determination than skill hill are toung relics peculiar to the indian or la 17 lum Lua nitus buch such as beads rings diner but art feles leles of ornamentation and ana stone pipes rudely made whose carvings car vinga in which bavage savage art iasu lasu usually ally aily delights whilst the pipes pipea found in thode those fortifications built by calculations are beautifully carved beasts birds birda arid and serpents indigenous to the country in which reila rella kire tire found alaert aliso rt presentations of animas animals not known in the zoological catalogue probably repart benting and cure lomb 10 spoken of in the iho book took mormon v 3 many these beautiful figures figured still retain a hwi high polish in mou moo ii iva kpa anund a atone covered with carved characters of a www lare tAta tataipu liu iju in iu wu bunro am aro found bones of indigenous animals worked into daggers awis awls and ornaments in the form of beads also teeth and talons of beasts and birds and teeth of animals which are not identified five varieties of marine shells shella all from the gulf shores have been found pearls whose bize size an and id numbers prove that they agrenot are aro not of fresh water origin at newark ohio there are bis els of these snare enclosures a long distance apart A rem coin coln cadence exists in their construction each one of these fortified enclosures measures mesa MeFA exactly 1080 feet considering the fearful stata state 9 of idolatry attributed to the Liman Lama ties in the history of the book of mormon it is no wonder that we find many of these enclosures and mounds in the forms forma of beasts bata and birds reptiles and fishes end in some awes the sig gig antic form of man m ad this subject of evidences from the mounds of or america will wiil be continued in ahe the next chapter to be continued |