| Show j J A copy ot of the London Dally Daily ot at Ma May 2 his hall bon received at this om It a ot of the theold old In inscrIptIon r recently at B and announced to the congress at nome by Professor of the Vienna Tit fh 11 the InscriptIon was submitted to Professor Murray ot of the h and that e pro pronounced pronounced It genuine It If thia Is the discOvery Is III ot of the greatest Importance toe tOl It sustains who alleges that a noe act took plate between ot of and our Lord In the year n fl two letters wore found beneath a stone Iton In th the ot of the ot of On One of these was supposed to he from the king t ip Je Jesus us It roads as al follows fellow I 1 hAve heard sad of thee and amI the cures wrought by thee without herbs or cint Is reported that thou vs sight to the blind thou the lame to walk th the I leper tr theo the dead out devils delIe and am unclean sPirits anti and tho hop that are tormented of disease of 4 1 long Hearing all 81 this of thee I was tully folly persuaded thAt thou art the vt very God come down from to do 40 such miracles or that thou are the Son 0 of God and them wherefore I have sent lent thee a tf few lines thee to come corne hither and cure cur my mr hearing that the Jews murmur against thee and aDd ron con linus to tIo do th the mischIef I 1 Invite th to lo my city which Is II but a lIttle on one but butIs Is beautiful and to entertaIn II both The other is II supposed to he be the reply ot of our Lord to the royal roal message It reads d Blessed art thou Ir believing Me whom thou halt best not ien tor or It I Is writ t tin ot of Me Ie that they thi that seen Mn M Me Meshall shall not bell believe Cud ant th y that have not nol seen Me shall Ihan belieVe anti nil be tHI saved but the matter thou hast about this I is to acquaint you rau that sit In thing for tor which I 1 as hither must be fulfilled and then I Iball Ishall shall ball be taken up and return to Him that sent Me fe but JUI after My ascension I will send Oft one ot of My d disciples that shall Ibre thee thet of th thy distemper a and give life nf to all them that are with thee letters were declared spurious during th the ot of Leo III the tradition relatIng raUn to the subject has haA been relegated to domain of ne fib netlon lion Reference to the In this found at B would however seem Hem tuta the authentIcity of tl tr tradition though the genuineness of the letters QUoted would still In doubt The style atlo ot of the litter leUer ascribed to lQ our L Lori rl It I so a different from lII Ills nude midi of it Himself as al ed In the Gospels as 81 asto to suggest an entirely author doting clong statement It is as al tallow follows If he I Ii re reported reported ported Certain alt 11 ISO 4 D fl aad giving ife 8 tM let lett t lV Q Df t beIng lit thi fh U ot of the stO stone tt te r e this an and makes It tolerably that hat as e earls as 88 the flOWS newa ur of Christs mIracles had spreAd to coun COUll countrIes trIes and that the be eart early ChrIstians be that hat asked Christ to come to hid heal him film and aM that ChrIst ti n plied JIlted Jastrow ot of the of cautions the he to withhold judgment na aa to the tbt t the listed d discovery until Inquiry h hi been n into Inlo the nub wt III He this Inscription proves proVIt nothing more Inore than this thill that a I lege was llla inscribed that the Ind had bad re is ctol II so much muth credence u a to have b become worthy to Lie be In ston Iton bl historical toral over a heathen 1 1118 Hut this would not prove that thaI ChrIst ever e wrote a Jitter lie r the port does not tell in 1 what hal tile the Ion tiun was al written And It Is II Impossible to N pay until Wt ac hear har further details In what bt century the In inscription was AI made I I Thu Th origInal ouId have been In character for tor Ule these w not developed until lung long after ChiMe |
