. Mysterious discovery of nature, shown in a dream to Dr. P. Polack, and relating directly to the question of the discovery of the North pole. Facts governing the movements of the earth, and many important secrets of nature that have never been given to the world up to this day are shown to him. s taken fromlife. A long discussion has been going on in many countriesamong artists and students of sacred archaeology as to how theSaviour really looked. Lttdwig Fahrenkrog. a distinguishedGerman artist believes that the Saviour should be representedas a beardless man because that was the custom of t
. Mysterious discovery of nature, shown in a dream to Dr. P. Polack, and relating directly to the question of the discovery of the North pole. Facts governing the movements of the earth, and many important secrets of nature that have never been given to the world up to this day are shown to him. s taken fromlife. A long discussion has been going on in many countriesamong artists and students of sacred archaeology as to how theSaviour really looked. Lttdwig Fahrenkrog. a distinguishedGerman artist believes that the Saviour should be representedas a beardless man because that was the custom of the race andclass in which He was brought up. This view is at variance with many of the most ancient por-traits of the Saviour, found in the Catacombs and elsewhere,portraits which by many are believed to be accurate likenesses. A LETTER WRITTEN BY THE SAVIOUR The image ofEdessa, whoseaccuracy is now-strengthened,shows a beard-ed face of thewell-known an-cient type andthus sustainsthe traditionalbelief ratherthan the artistFahrenkrog. The historyof the newlydiscovered let-ter is an in-tensely inter-esting one. Ac-cording to tra-dition and his-tory, there wasa minor kingor toparchnamed Abgar,who ruled overthe city ofEdessa in Ar-menia, beyondthe River Eu-phrates. His name has been variousl. King Abgar Handing His Letter to tthe CourierAnanias. known in different lan-guages as Abgar, Aghar, Abagar and Augar. This king sent an embassy to Marinus. a tribune of Caesar,and governor of Phoenicia, Palestine, Syria and ambassadors, during their journey, heard of Jesus Christand the marvels He had performed. They sought and found an opportunity of seeing Him them-selves and saw Him heal the sick with their own eyes. On their124 MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY OF NATURE return the am<-bassadors r e-lated to KingAbgar the won-derful thingsthey had wit-nessed, and theimplacable hat-red against theSaviour of theScribes andPharisees, whoout of envywished to en-compass H i sdeath. Now i
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