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62 thoroughly practised in their art. The procurator of the diocese has also received instructions by letter from our Clemency to be careful to furnish all things necessary for the preparation of such copies, and it will be for you to take special care that they be completed with as little delay as possible. You have authority, also in virtue of this letter, to use two of the public carriages for their conveyance, by which arrangement the copies, when fairly written, will most easily be forwarded for my personal inspection, and one of the deacons of your church may be intrusted with this service, who, on his arrival here, shall experience my liberality. God preserve you, beloved brother."

Now this was done about three hundred and twenty-seven years after the great questions were started, and only about two hundred and seventy years after the last apostle was dead. Suppose some one should write a book denying that such a man as Washington ever lived; that there never was a revolution of the United States against the King of England; what would people say of him? The children of this country would rise up and show him to be false. Then suppose there never was such a man as Jesus Christ; that he never was born at Bethlehem; that he never had any disciples; that they never organized a Christian Church; and suppose someone should say there was no persecution of the Christian Church for two hundred years; what would you think of a king doing such a thing as making the