A Book of Mormon Claim Substantiated

A BOOK OF MORMON CLAIM SUBSTANTIATED

The Book of Mormon states that cement was used anciently for building purposes (Helaman 3:7-11). Those opposed to the book claim cement was unknown to the aboriginal inhabitants of America. In late years, expeditions to Mexico, Central and South America, have found ruins made partly or wholly of cement, which cement still is perfectly preserved, proving that cement was known and used in those days as the book states. The following is from Bulletin No. 145, Bureau of Plant Industry, (Washington, D. C.) 1909, page 14:

The survival of the humus-inhabiting animals on the ruin-covered hills is hardly to be considered possible, for the pyramids and chambered buildings which covered the summit, as well as large areas of the elaborately terraced approaches, appear to have been faced all over with cement.