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Show The London Express produces a , fac-simile and official translation of I the correspondence between Jesua t v - Christ and King Agrippa, said to have been verified by a recently discovered . inscription on the gateway of an old palace at Ephesus. The letters In Syro-Chaldaic characters charac-ters to which the Inscription refera were originally diicovered beneath a stone at a spot about 84 miles from the City Iconium A. D. 97. The authenticity authentic-ity of these letters was doubted by I ope Gelasius and during the pontificate pontifi-cate of Leo in. were declared to be purius. ribgarus ia identical with. King "B-;vi, tradition affirms that. Christ sent St. Philip to heal the sick king. fP0f-JGe0r?e E' M M""-aj. keeper the department of botany in the British, museum, when questioned by the correspondent of the press regarding regard-ing the reported rediscovery after being be-ing lost for more than 900 years, by Irof. Heberdey, of letters alleged to - lave passed between Christ and B grrippa, and to have been carved in etone over the gateway of the palace of the kings of Ephesus, says tioTr"6 V5 noioubt tht the inscription inscrip-tion found at Ephesus is a genuine production of the fifth centurv. Ce"! tarn Syrian documents, dated' in the 1 t 'iiJZrgeries. The dis--I - -very of the .toneTSBdrw relieve ,hi, I suspicion and makes it tolerablv WP. I am that as early as the second century cen-tury Hews of Christ's miracles had . spread ttrheathen countries! sua that the early Christians believed that Agrippa asked Christ to come to heal him and that Christ replied Jew Testament. Whether it was actually ac-tually sent, or was the result oTa continuing con-tinuing tradition, .transferred fro", to ston. a question openTn " too wide a field for a mere aremteofo-fnst. aremteofo-fnst. Many points in Prof Heberdev's -overy, However, are most iinpor- |