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42 Scriptures. As Dr. Miller observed: "This book never was needed until now, and it is like all God's providences, always brought out at the right time." Another minister wrote to say he "was more than delighted;" it was like calling up the dead; all the circumstances of Calvary were brought vividly before him, and when he read Caiaphas's second report he both wept and rejoiced. Such is the testimony of almost everyone who reads it.

In an extract from a private letter to the Brunswicker Dr. Rubin says:

"I saw, while in the Vatican at Rome last week, Dr. W. D. Mahan, of Boonville, Mo., Drs. McIntosh and Twyman, of Scotland, with a number of clerks, both readers and scribes, going through these old manuscripts and scrolls that have been lying there for hundreds, yea, thousands of years; they seem to be men of great age and learning, and well qualified for their business. They were going next week to Constantinople to go through the records of the Sanhedrim and the ancient Talmuds of the Jews. Their object is to bring out a new book as a supplement to Acta Pilati. I am satisfied, from the character of the men and the nature of the book, it will prove to be one of the most interesting books ever presented to the Christian world, from the fact that all the works on archæology have been written in such a style that but very few could read and understand them."