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Faris.-"I Im afraid that Sydney, (N.S.W.), July 15. Professor Sir Edgeworth David Colonel Fawcett, the British ex- portant documents relating to has stepped into a new world. plorer, has been so long lost! Biblical episodes appear in the It is a strange exciting world among the Indians in the interior i bulletin of the John Rylands of beauty and of surprise which of Brazil that he will never be Library just issued (says the wil make geologists, evolutionists seen again," is the opinion ex- Land paleontologists readjust pressed recently by M. Robert "Morning Post.").

their ideas of the antiquity of Courteville, who was the last man These are further translations life on this earth.

to cot the Colonol in the wilds' Briefly, Sir Edgeworth David of South America. by Dr A. Mingana of the Arabic

M. Courteville, a Franch explor- and Syriac manuscripts which he has discovered in rocks taken

from the Mount Lofty and Fliner, has just returned home after has collected, and which are inders Ranges, of South Australia; crossing Brazil to Peru. He found cluded in the series known as the perfectly preserved remnants of Colonel Fawcett, faver-stricken and animal life millions of years older almost mad, by the jungle path. Woodbrooke Studies,

far classified by The Frenchman was unable to lure the Englishman back to Europe and had to leave him.

The first deals with the Resur-than any so rection of Christ and the lamenta science. tions of Mary on the occasion of the Crucifixion, and the second is

It was in August, 1926," M.

Highly Evolved. While the discovery pushes an Apochryphal document, en-our knowledge of animal life Courteville told the British United titled "Martyrdom of Pilate." further into the past, one must Press, when I was passing the In each case Dr. Mingana understand that from evolution's Rio da Sasca that I met Colonel states that the immediate author point of view these organisms, Fawcett As I bumped along in of the document is said to be with their highly evolved loco-my six-wheeled car I saw a strange- Cyriacus, Bishop of Oxyrhyn-motor appendages and spiral gilla ly dressed, man sitting by the side chus, but the real author of all for breathing air dissolved in of the path, his head, bent in his the historical events is Gamaliel, water, are already so complex hands. He looked up with terror who often speaks in the first per-that, assuming animal life to in his eyes at the sight of a motor- have begun in the very simplest car where no automobile had ever

son.

fixion.

Herod or Pilate, "For one of His Holy Disciples to walk with her," she asked for each by name, but found "All had filed and forsaken him from fear of the Jews."

sun.

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By his side was

a Boy

It seems to constitute another of forms, this Adelaide fossil been before. link in the Apocryphal chain of fauna would be about nine-tenths "I then saw that he was a white! the Acta Pilati or the Gospel of of the way up the life column. Nicoddemus. He states that the

The newly-discovered fossils mah, although burned red by, the document dealing with the range through the thickness of Scout's hat. He was shaking from lamentation of the Virgin con-at least 10,000 feet of stratum. fever. tains a touching passage relating This fauna must, therefore, have "I jumped out before the car Mary's search on the day of cruci- existed for many millions of had stopped and moved to seize The animals of which his hand, but he drew away from years. Professor David has discovered the remains appear to be entirely "I saw then that his body was new to acience.

covered with insect bites. His The Discoveries,

khaki shorts left his long limba These consist, mostly of well-open to the blistering sun and the The document supports the be-preserved portions of the harder insects."

"I offered to put him in my car lief of the Ethiopic Church that skeletons of animals allied to the

modern and take him under my care, but it was Herod and not Pilate who sandworms found on was responsible for the Cruci- beaches, and to the shrimp-like he did not even deign to reply, 1 fixion of Christ. It states that creatures, and to forms related to tried for an hour to get him in the heads of the Jews appealed to the crayfish. These last possibly terested in the idea of accompany- could not get him Herod for power to crucify Him, were up to four or five inches ing me, but

long.

The sandworms are less roused, and was at last obliged to as they feared He would be snatched from their hands, "on than an inch to three inches long. leave,

"I did not know, the man was the advice of Pilate," who "with Besides, these several forms of

Fawcett, said M. a great number of people loved animal life are present, and Colonel

well-preserved for classification Courteville, "until I got into the Jesus."!

The author states that Pilate in the animal kingdom after Mormon settlement of Cuyaba, in studied the State of Matto Grosso, 1,000 and his wife "Loved Jesus like paleontologists have

them.

miles from the coast. There, their own soul," and that Pilate

The most wonderful, almost after my description, I was told only ordered the flogging because he believed it would save Jesus miraculous feature of these re- that I had met the man for whom mains is their fine preservation Great Britain and Brazil had been from death.

Their limbs and shells were seeking for a very long time." The Jews had promised to re- lease Him if Pilate would "chas-formed almost entirely of a tise" Him. After the Crucifixion horny substance called chitin. Pilate rebuked the centurions and Usually this substance decays the High Priest, and, realising away in old rocks, but, in many that the High Priest was still of the specimens Professor David lying to him, he "rose from his has examined, the chitin has chair. scourged him with a rough scarcely altered since it covered a whip," and afterwards sent him live organism.

The colours range from a dell-

Melbourne, July 25, to prison.

Shortly after 2 a.m. to-day an Pilate then proceeded to search (cate rose madder to pale bronze for the body of Jesus, and the greens, and are exquisitely lovely, attempt was made to wreck the In fact, the specimens are so confectioner's shop occupied by document tells how he questioned the guards; first together, then nearly perfect that science will Percy Jenkins, East Melbourne, separately, when each told a dif- probably know more about this when an improvised bomb was No remote period of nearly 600,000,- placed under the premises. ferent story regarding the dis-1000 years ago than it knows of serious damage was done, and no appearance of the body.

others much more recent.

one was injured.

Sight Restored.

Finally, there is a moving ac count of Pilate giving the wrap- pings from the body of Jesus into the hands of a centurion, blind in one eye, believing that they would restore sight.

He suggests that the centurion should inhale the exquisite per- fume of the wrappings in this way. The centurion touches his face with the wrappings, and his sight is restored.

...

This document ends with the story of the finding of the body In a well in the garden where Jesus was buried, the body prov ing to be that of the robber who was crucifled with Jesus and pro- mised eternal life.

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Pilate orders the body to be swathed in Christ's wrappings, and it is then laid in Christ's tomb. Pilate then stretched his hands at the door of the sepul- chre and, prayed, and when the tomb is opened the Spiritual form! of the robber appears and testifies to his resurrection, saying that he had "been deemed worthy of all favours and gifts before My Lord Jesus Christ, because of the few comforting words that I uttered while He was on the wood: of the cross.

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The outrage is believed to be another underworld act against Jenkins, who several nights ago Brighton Watch Committee have was shot at and Beriously injured ordered the removal of the waste by a number of men who drove up waterpipe near the West Pier which to his shop in a motor car and was the cause of the death of two fired at him when he was stand- bathers.

ing outside his premises. The police think that the men who The naval inquiry into the shot Jenkins were responsible for stranding of H.M.S. "Dauntless" in the bomb..:** Halifax Harbour Nova Scotia, Miss Madge Vaughan, who had Canada, on July 2 opens at Ports-been in charge of the shop since mouth.

Jenkins has been, in hospital, was aleeping in a bedroom at the rear of the premises; She was aroused by a terrific explosion. Gétting out of bed she made her way to the shop, and found it in a state of great disorder. Glass show- cases and containers had been shattered and fruit and sweets were strewn about the floor. An examination by the police this morning showed that a ventilator under the floor at the front of the shop had been removed, and into the opening explosive mat- erial, contained in a jam tin, had been forced Jenkins was to have toft the Melbourne Hospital yesterday, but was detained, evidently without the knowledge of the person or persons who were responsible for the tomb out- rages.

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