| Show THE 3 HE BOOK OF MORMON THE KEY the discovery of an ancient copper line iu in montana announced a few ago in a dispatch from butte to ie likely to interest students atu dente of american go biogy and perhaps furnish some bom ulue jue 0 go o toe the solution lution Bo of problems with which they at present are grappling who are the people that worked these quines ainee in ages past pail the report had it that two reliable prospectors proa found evidences evidence of a cov COD per ledge in the mountains about sixty miles milea cout mout beast ot of butte sue and that they while for the ledge covered li a tunnel that led into a well developed mine the tunnel was waa walled with huge blocks of rook rack while the root roof was waa tupp arted by byfelt ant at the mouth of the tunnel wae VMS a pine pin tree grown brown evidently after the wi w had bike been abandoned the implements found were all of stone atone amilar ilar to those discovered to in the mounds of the mississippi valley indicating it would seem that the civilization attained by the race occupying the northern continent in truee remote times was wab very much on oil a level and certainly far fair au ad toi that oab 0 s indians indiana found in n the new world orld by y Europe europeans ons in the fifteenth and sixteenth oen the discovery blaco very of aoh such evidences of an varly farly in the abe we stert hemispheres hardly inferior to that of the Par garliest carlle liest Bt known nations of asia and od europe may not be considered to re mebble soy any longer loneer because they are all over mexico central and wath orth americ Aoi eric but the questions que tiona of their anu and tue the causes that led to the decay of that civilization and to the all but total extinction of the whole race while the human family in the old world steadily progressed aed and multiplied remain topics of supreme interest in the case of the old world atu dents dento of have fountin found in the earliest sacred records the first hints binte as to abe rt of nations and their on a large area of the globe stid researches in the various branches of oo leno bearing on this thie have affirmed the be authenticity of the sacred wrt tere with refard rd to the now new world the result W will lr ai bially be similar iollar after all resources have been exhausted the account in the book of mormon a synopsis sya of records record of at the ancient of america will be found to off r the only odly true and rational guide into those these lark mysteries of the past part according to this authority t roe ree different colonies at different times came over from the old world one left asia alia at the be time of the confusion of tongues at a related in genesis another party left palestine about six lix hundred years tore before christ at the time that country was threatened with invasion and le and a few years later another party darty also from palestine crossed the oman and landed on OD this continent it if to these facts be added another which undoubtedly will be recognized when bas baa penetrated far enough into the depths depth of antiquity that man first appeared and developed upon this continent before the flood there to 1 no ireat great difficulty to in accounting for the various evidences of very ancient and somewhat daveral diversified red civilizations although illar in soma features fea turee still atall found all over america it la Is just juat whit maybe may be expected the book of mormon la Is equally plain on the he question que atlon of the retrogression of the descendants of theae ancient poo pec plop As aa far as aa their history to Is otA outlined lined it accounts satisfactorily for the causes that led to it and the results wrought that record la is undoubtedly the key to american thai thas science bears testimony to the genuineness and authenticity of the record |
