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Show Tin: i.tsr 1 1 hm.s or juiik. Concerning a recently discovered manuscript coulalnlug a Hjrlio vtr-slot! vtr-slot! of the four Oospels, the New Vork Jndrycndcnt publishes the subjoined sub-joined larllciiUrs. The valusb'u document docu-ment was found at Mount Hluals Tin text IsCrotoiiUn Hyrlac. Wears not jot liifomint whethur Itcontnlii tbo whotoew'luktaiiient or not, butlliluos contain at least tliti lour IIii.)Ir subsuu-imlly subsuu-imlly couiplole. It Is a palluipsoit lilstiu-script lilstiu-script and Ihe wuik or reading It Is not ruy. tlio I'rotonUu Is Iho turlloitUy-rlsi turlloitUy-rlsi torsion of ibnNew loniAiuent,goitig tsik. tt Is lclloed. Into tho mlioihI ,sn. tury and waareplHCiit In common usoby Hie t'cililtn, which Is tlio ordinary Hyrlso vi rslon and hitherto tbo most slu iblo of all Iho vursluos ol Hie Haw leMUuionl Only fragments of tlio fretonlan Myrlao wcro knoivn, obtnlur.1 from odd Uaves of p.ircbuioni fuuml In ilui Mtrlsu inoimi. icry. hcboIurslllboery much Inter-m Inter-m ed to know that this now uisnuNcrln , wlih h wehopo will bo publlsli,il beforo long, iloei not toutslii Ihe last eight etkOi ut Isrk, nlthoiuh iho Nltruti f rnunioiits do rnitisiii u urt or tliom. o cm hardly say what liny jot bo expeclul. Uliblu Hie list low jesrs lliorolmobMii dWctmrcd a cointneut-arv, cointneut-arv, from which wo rccoir much of iho liIauiHseron ul 'latlaii, tlio touching nf iho Apusile, tlio apology of .rlIU, jtirtlousof fragtnciis Jurtisuleiu, ,rUu version of tlm .Now Testauioiit an I iho llutpuliind Koi elation of l'etor. If we ii buck a Utile further wo should haiolondiltlia Hlimluo miniuctlnl, inu plillosopliiiinciia cf lllppiilvtus Nan, what wo most wont lu Unit urn ihe writings ot IMplai and ihe Aruinilo Miiilhtiw, iniy uddaa another In-lorebliug In-lorebliug Item tlista erj lino old ropy iiMhohuiurllan I'eulsteuch lim lately bfi n bniughyto Ihli conn ry bj the llev Williams U ut. nn o( i,u triilnirg, N.J and llisi It tfinlalns u m1 , l10n, htntlni-lluit htntlni-lluit it wis wrlltoii in iui, A ll bi Ahruliniii.llon lartift lien Kehralin llii Joii-nli irln rime king of l.nifl mt would ItA II. 1-1, liii.ii. Hum l tljeirs earlier f in ihotarlusi doled Sainaritau mamuicrli t la tbo lliltlah uiutvum. riirrs Is a ten lei r am Hi. I n Hrsl sclmlsrs t ciiisWer not n li n usl eight vernsof Mark tut tin nlmlei r Hun nf the loll chapter It ml veMH 0 as n later imMiII m. The twu most nnclent tlretk manuscript! manu-script! eicliidu Ihem and slliirs give an entirely different ending to the Uospel. It Is evident, liowover, that If these verses were not penned by Ihe author whoso name the book bears, lh y were added so esrly tbst the exact data Is no more obtainable through the ordinary rescurces of history They may have Ictu aided, for nughl we know, by someboJy personally scqualntnd with Mall, or with l'etur under wbota supervision the (Jospet was probtbly written, and they roay conttlii the subslanco cf what these mm told the Malnls In the publlo assemblies. as-semblies. The rifironci-j to the reiurrtctlonof Olirlsl; Hlsnparnce tollladisclples; the commission given to the Twelve to preach lbs (loirel, and the promises of miraculous mani festations following faith are luuda-mentsl luuda-mentsl partsof Ohtlitlanlty. And not one of thun Is rendered lies Important by any doubt that can bu cait upou tlio genuineness of this part of the New Teitauu'ut. All the (robablllly so fir Is that the verses In question are both genuine and authentic, but twn if their genuineness should siino time be provoi doubtful, their authenticity Is beyond n doubt, supported as they arebyaacrodHcrlplures and by modern mod-ern revslst on. |