| Show OB LE AND ANCIENT AMERICA readers of the NEWS will remember that a low few months ago we gave an ad haidee notie notice of dr lo lie Plon Keone s book of travels and explorations to lo central america the work has just bat beep issued it deals largely with the explorers explore ts travels in yucatan where a olee study wall wae made of the ancient hieroglyphics found male there here from up ap ri vate letter laiter irum from bluer joaeph aarder sor formerly fur merly marly 0 of f the NEWS composing room and now dow bu on a mission to albe bartera statue states we learo learn bat put elder I 1 der samuel W Iti charde present of the IOD POW paid a vleit visit to dr le Plon geon in on april 14 and bad an interview with him on his bie travels tra vele the letter de dr lo lie Plon geon as aa a very pleasant man to converse wibb ja about five teet feet five in high higbe with wilb a loog white beard and very little hair bair ou the top of his hie head he be is heavy built with a long body anu abort legs days he be to Is a trw tree and la 16 he be is IB not a does not believe to la any religion and bate hateful all christendom BB an tar far an ae religion iou la in concerned 11 the letter then says Plon geon eon la Is a great admirer ot of ingersoll ebat he maintains main taina taa coriat was not a christian and baw bases jlia assertion on the claim that the of today do not teach the some doctrine thab he taught that after rio hie crucifixion the carls tiang persecuted the true followers follo were of christ brief and he be claims that jeene come to earth to fill all 1 a minion jupt as aa many great men but will not noi concede do that he was greater than ot other or reformers the latter also stated dr le Plon geon claims to have traveled with president john taylor in europe and informed us ua that he corresponded with him until a abort time be fore his hia death in 1887 he thinks a great deal of president taylor we are further informed that the veteran explorer declined to enter emter into any as to the divinity of the vaie mis slon aioo of the prophet joseph smith or to listen to 10 any evidence thereon the letter continue conti i dr le Plon geon quotes from the bible and book of mormon in his bis work but does not believe in any kind of religious faith he claims his work to be plain facts as he be has studied them out by his hia learning and presents them as they actually exist he says he is able and ready to prove that the first habitation of inan man was the american continent call it the garden of eden or whatever you like he has some excellent engravings of ancient ruins ard ar d wall paintings found in houth bouth america and says bels be is ablerto able to interpret the majority of them correctly although some he is unable to decipher at present he admits that his work wh which lh has just been published corroborates a great deal of ahe book ol of mormon but will not say eay that the book of mormon is a correct history of the people of ancient america he tells an incident about the rev dr lamb paying a visit to him blia lamb said he claimed tu to be a christian but in his remarks about mormonism he became so abusive that thai I 1 was compelled to inform him that I 1 did not even believe that he was a christian and was under the painful necessity of requesting him to leave my house thus ended my in with the rev bev lamb once a minister in salt lake city from the forecast of what dr le s book contains alna it could be easily seen that it was a work of great interest to those who have given attention to the history of ancient america |
