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Rh Missouri, General J. B. Douglass, to me well known, and made affidavit to the foregoing certificate.

Witness my hand and notarial seal hereto affixed at Columbia, Mo., this 25th day of January, A.D. 1887.

Frank D. Evans, Notary Public.

State of Missouri, County of Cooper, ss.

Be it known that on this, the 12th day of January, A.D. 1887, personally came before me, the undersigned, clerk of the Circuit Court of Cooper County, in the State of Missouri, John S. McFarland, well known to me to be a reputable citizen of the city of Boonville, Mo., who, being by me first duly sworn, on his oath says: I have been personally acquainted with Rev. W. D. Mahan for sixteen years or more, and have always found him to be honorable and trustworthy, and a very useful minister in the Church to which he belonged. To my knowledge he was for some time previous to 1883 engaged in preparing himself for a trip to Europe, and that in the fall of 1883 he took leave of his family and friends and started for the cities of Rome and Constantinople to investigate those old records that he said he had found was there on archæology. After he had been gone some time his wife received a letter from him dated at Rome, Italy. I did not see the postmarks on the letter, but understood it was from Rome.

After some months Mr. Mahan returned and brought quite a lot of manuscripts with him, some