Show CHRIST LIVED MANY YEARS AFTER U IS CONTENTION OF MOORE NEW ROMANCE ITHE BROOK 1 rid Famous Author Has Just Published Story founded Hounded Founded on What He Calls The Gospel Legend Which He Describes for Telegram Readers By GEORGE MOORE i In an Interview With Mary Boyle ORiley Bj By Tri Telegram m leut S Service l' l CONDON LONDON Oct 10 The The Brook is a romance not a Y r. In my opinion Jesus is not an historical but only a a Jegen Jegen- t character It seems to me that Jesus Jesus was one of the many f called into being by the prophecies of Daniel written ii in r hope that I 1 have ed Ii d the task of or telling the story olA oft of ol the crucifixion with- with A t AFTER violating any text text to tood and od in the gospels I say fla na fla j violating because the three r ir gospels betray a good deal of ol regarding the death on the John who wrote about the thee thele le e of ot the second century A A. D. D Ito illo handle the life of ot Jesus in dance ance with his own fancy His 1 1 l' l like Ilke my Brook Kerith is a ace anee nee ce ce he and I claim the same sort John introduced scenes at athe he was not present and andes es s of which he ha had no knowl- knowl He trusted to his i nation and I take off my hat I for or his Pilate is a capital char- char Kerith starts with the fhe theod od of Joseph of Arimathea a a through Syria and Egypt in Bof of religious adventures Jo Jo- through his friend Pilate hears sus the itinerant preacher disciples are ignorant peasants being a Sanco Panza iok k on Jesus as the baptists baptist's s 's se le Ie e Johns John's message to him is isif of if a master My Iy book seeks to the curious that through Christ's Christs teaching a dis dis- ncy between and nd the very chastened message us ius All AU the violent passages as as coming from the came crae from John the Baptist i ermon ermon on the mount was spoken j I the supposed death mind of the time anticipated he day day of of judgment was at hand fore Jesus preached to leave the tto to distribute all ones one's goods mattered Jesus cone cony con con- y e attacked the priesthood fore THEY determined on his rion during the great feast so millions of pilgrim Jews might the the tidings of his degradation hout the near East Pilate gave jQ J the priests only because Jem Jem Jet Je- Je m t was crowded with zealots and ande se e his Roman legionaries had not d from Caesarea turn r turn urn to the crucifixion sted sled so far as Jesus was con con- l. l but three hours Pilate was led ed by this early death The Theas as ras a sort of pillory and ex ex- might last for days before itt it itaL itI aL I t Victims were usually tied ed led only John years after as ns the print of nails inventing is 51 she he invented what Pilate said prisoner when they were alone The crucifixion small incident in the life of ot Interesting only in its effect ee ee it Jesus after being ed from the cross but recovered a a a feeling of the utter failure of Illusions He was not Messiah Thad thought ANGELS HAD RESCUED HIM HID Everything he lit ht right was wrong He had haded haded led ed error to his own people tore fore ore when He recovered BUty suf- suf y In the house of ot Joseph of ea ica He remained there as a er tr There is no reason for tor forB J g B that Jesus practiced the cars car's car car- 8 s 's s' s trade He was more shepherd Hiding from the world und and that among the sheep He escape escape the misery of thinking f 3 Years rs passed Then a shepherd from Jericho wearing a sheep- sheep and land the smell of ot that skin im- im Jesus to return to the lived iced in monastery by the Brook nT There He finds that He can ber b r the past without pain Fit Fir rears pears after the crucifixion he rethe re- re the Itlo monastery on the very day Paul and Timothy rach rack the Brook seeking shelter l aa a Salvation of the Century He wished people to all tail day and to be he religious at pHe He boasted that he practiced aft au while teaching ng as Paul was a n. practical ohn and Paul made Christianity Both have havo much to the e Brook Kerith I never quote ospel sospel To do so eo would bust 1 book All my miracles are and rand all 1111 my maxims that hat I should like to put into the theace nee ace is a passage on the p passing iiI u For as I see It Paul in his hise e till loving foreign trav travel l and o ir In ing that tho the end of the earth lay an aln 1 gt iet g et t forth to preach that the theof 2 w of God was at hand hanel until one Thule feeling a a. great es ij upon him he summoned a lad ad to to lift him up Then his eyes yes eyes saw Jesus of the Brook Drook nd nd he cried out But Dut the r boy seeing nothing yet felt ut ear that something great and inart had passed from the world |