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 SIS THE INDIAN ANTIQIARW [Octobeil, 1875. hither from Bagdad. 8 Did Jomsalnm by ovdor ol tba Catholic archpritJt at Uniliui. lug En ilii- nit ol tlifl Meaaiak. 745 in taraipauy with tho merckit,: Tliumu-.., - ' I urn ma without irnromt, limn, for connecting the early Syrian Cburuh in XUhikir with BdoW. Why (La tho priests cherish thin tradition, and why do m thd . i n---Irtnr., nvmri of hideiaa, lirabJU or Urrhei. — a • CO o-rily B ir«— if there ia no fmindatiun for their tala- at ? 4. Tu return to EuscbiuB'H account of Pan-, !>•■. Ii,n-iiMl[ roviv.' -uin, wlii4ih lion been need only too of ecu and too recklessly — I iCTS— oh a teaping'pale for his* i obstacle*, that "India was in thu early wsutarinn a.ii. tUii namo of nii.ir]y tins v. including China. "' This itiuciucnt hoi a fuunda- ciu.-j irf truth i but to hbo it whenever the name India ii mentioned by curty hiaUfriaii* ia siuiply to sweep i to argument by u ,,. yrineipii. According to tUia argument Megaa- . for ln f '-rrgh ho willed hie hook it, may have risited Fuh-aliau, Thti game argon sedMenaboaftftifij ag&ji XiuKm's oi Man fa us aguiuat Euaebiua's account of I'autccnns. Further, Dr. Ban :ho evidence of Knsabius about Pautainus on tho g.' it iu »raay," and tlit.-refln'u " valuuksi nith.*' If this canon, again, ia to ta np. plied iii id .iim-i.M'w,! Mpiug u Bciure in our judgment of tho aiatcmnnu of history, it i* i-g how miioh will appear to m " valuekf a for truth" j history must then ho rn- writ tun. and ia u vury vtuull volume too. How many, for instance, of Cicero'* ehormiiig anoc- itbOdpl -rything intreducssd i of sarpe i"' pinnM; bo regarded m either " pious'* or impious " hetiona.™ Sandy wo moat- bo allowed Mono dig. •Timiiiui Son. Whoa '* hearsay 1 * ia really " late hoar* say," and whou tho thing related ii an improbable rat of scmio obacura person, or wants col- lateral evidence of its trnth, wo may indeed doubt. Jlu: f, ..isnotao obscure a par- »uu that Euacbius ia likely to hara modo a tola* Uke,. UK, ut burnt, ia clear, namely, that. Olamona Aluiauiiriuii.i, the pupil and immediate moocaaor of Puntienua in the n f |04i Culuchctical school at Alexandria. wius pretty troll ver». 1 En T ud'un mutters, which lie ia guueml 1 to havu loomed from Puritm- Rrtifc. llo know enough to write us follow* ;— Indian Gytuaotopbut* ore ahto in the number, and Lho other barbarian philosophers, and of theoe there are two claaaofl* flotna of thani called Sarmamc,* and oth«rs» Brahmuus. And Lboae of tho Sarmann who aro callH IlyJobti (l^J^iw'i t ncithvr inhabit cities, nor Iibtc roo£» ovur thorn, but ore clothed in tho bark of tr#ej, food on nuta, and drink w»t«r in their hands. Uky thow colled Knrnktiun m the present, day, they know not horns go nor tho begetting of children. Sontv too or tho Indiana the prwfljitfl or Buddha (Dovrra), whom, on account of his extraordiuurj- BOnotity, raised to divine hoitoam." Clemen a was alao ac- quainted with the (boa ei tout writings of Megos- i h en es, as fu rther on he says, " Tl • D 'fiaa- Uienes, tho oootOtDpotttff of Botottko* Nikator, wnua as fuUows in the third of bb bookt, on In* — "All that was nftid about nature by the ancients is said also by those who ph pblcn bryiiml grace t Bomo Uiingn by tho Jilrah- iitg tho hi r ma j, and other* by tlioso called Jews m .Syria* " (Ol«m, Utromata, I. 15, trans tatod in tho J Chriftim to). I V. pi i ,. India, then f was pretty well .! nod ututaratood in Alesaudra in the lima inena ; and £nsebiua, nf whom that "he knew all that hud buet, hint," muat hare been a more obtuse, ignorant, or careless man than we gviitndlygiv iitfoT if, with the Utroinata of Ciemena l«kiro his ayes* ho could make a raiatako aa to when and what India was, and as to where I'antwnus went. Alorc- pnr, 1 troiild reuturo to oak, is it fair to any that Euaebius's testimony as to tho journeying of Pi -jdid on lait hearwiy. whuo Clnmona died in a.o, 32i}nml Knoabinji was born in 2's t Indeed it ia far from improbable that Clemens, who Bcareely «ror necms to hnvo been without a pen in Ida hand and who wrote in his Slroirtohr, "My inoniunuida are atorod up sgiunvt old age, aa a remedy against Frtrget Fulnesa, truly an Imago and outline of those vigorous and animated discourses which 1 was privilrged to hear, and or hk'ttued. and truly remarkable men.*' amongst which remarkable tneti ho apparently ploctrd RUH toons Grat taoo CUm, Stmmata, bk, i. eh. i)— it ia, I say, far from improltahle that Clemens left note*, in addition to what we find in the Siromaia. of I'&utiitnut'fi toooont of India* and that from tboaa notaa Euaobius drew hi* infi.irntatii.n. ."•. Dr. flurtiult tttaukM that Euaebius'a account of Pantmnua " says nothing about Thomas.*' This is tron. But it liQtking about Christians haring the original Hebrew Tersion of 3t. Mat- thew's Gospel in tho second century in aomo part of India, and that before Manca had come Ttt**? 1 *-