Show confirmatory EVIDENCE THE interviews given in wednesdays wednesday t 0 relative to excavation and discoveries co recently made in certain ancient ruins rains near mesa Ari arizona jona is ir fraught aught v with considerable ini interest eret to tatter latter day saints sainta for the facts therein set forth sustain or rather demonstrate the truth of some of the most remarkable statements contained in the book of mormon the population of the american continent must have been very great judging from the statements of that record and corroborating proofs discovered since its publication in the form of ruined and other structures roads canals vast tracts of land once cultivated etc which have been found in both and south america in n fact it has been fully ally shown that vast regions of country in I 1 n the western world once swarmed with a teeming civilized and industrious population centuries before the birth of columbus Co lumous 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 in the space of about three hours has been indicated as one which challenged the credulity ot intelligent persons that such an event as the almost instantaneous depopulation ot of a thickly inhabited continent tin erit with the ex exception i caption of 0 a remnant comparatively very small has bas nver ever occurred in the history ot 1 our planet was formerly incredible to the masses of mankind and the statement that suca a thing had happened couched in the simple but impressive language of the book of 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 historical declarations of the book of mormon are true As explorers visit one after another of the hundreds of ruined cities in the regions formerly rv oy the race of which that book is a bl history they find multitudes ot of tons buried in ruins in a manner which ells more forcibly and plainly thao than language could that death overtook the populace at an instant sudden ly the account given by the book of mormon of tile the origin of that race is far less wonderful and easier to melieve than the account it gives ol of their extermination but bat the truth ot of the record in its narrative of the destruction st of the race with the tee excel tion of a small remnant having been fully demonstrated why should not its statements concerning the origin oi of the same keople people be received time w vill 11 unfold such further and resistless proofs of the truthfulness ol of the book of mormon not only in its it historical hist orieal orteal statements but also in its religious teachings as will compel all honest men everywhere to accept it fox for what it claims to be a divinely prepared and preserved repository ol of truth |