Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-24
New Sayings Of Christ.


VIII all reverence the Christian
wori reads the account of the discov-
erieahade by a group of scholars from
Oxtpl University in a buried and for
gotfHtown once called Oxyrynchus.
on N$ edge of the Libyan desert.
| TheSA lexplorers after patient and
careiA search among crumbling ruins
of certlses long past, have found nu-
merouA heets of papyrus bearing re-
ports oChrist's sermons and collec-
tions ofxs sayings, transcribed from
100 to ears, after the crucifixion.
1t is notAe first time that similar
finds havebeen made in Egypt but
these are e most extensive and i'm
portant. Kdoubt critics will disagree
as to wheth.these are genuine words
of the Saviorbut it seems only reason
able that chst uttered many things
of weight whAf were treasured by mis-
followers andln the early churches,
which have noakGme down to us in the
four accepted ,@pels.
Whatever thhistory of these new
sayings ascribsefo Christ. they are
the most interesting Biblical literary
discovery made fcenturies and they
will probably stiAalate keener study
than ever into thArigin and compost
ton of the gospels. It is not to be ex-
pected that they WI be given the au-
thority of acceptaAe' by the church,
but it will be agreaithat they furnish
confirmatory evidmea of the gospel
story and bring -9afusion to those
scoffers who have attended that Je-
sus Christ was fittious parsonage
and the story of his fesand work and
death an invention ga period far
later than his supposed existence.
These records. which al'undisputably
as old as the third centuy, prove that
in Egypt, on the edge Of Ne desert, the
sayings of Christ, true e not. were
treasured and passed abut as price,
less possessions.
Thee new discoveries vN'furnish a
fine field for the operations of the
higher criticism" But Wen it has
had it's say, people will go q Believing
as they have believed. Belor'are CIV
en- translations of few of tt sayings
as far as the broken edges aid 'frayed
texture of the papyrus allo*transla-
ton. Some are practically identical
with those found in the accexed gos-
pels while others are less famtar:
and then shalt thur see
clearly to cast out the mote tht IFS in
thy brothers eye.
Jesus saith, Except We fast ., the
world, We shall in no wise fipp the
kingdom of God; and except yekeep
the Sabbath we shall not see the faher.
Jesus saith, stood in the mids lof
the world, and in the flesh was zen
of them; and 1 found all men DRUNKEN.
and none found thirst among .lefn,
And my soul grieveth over the soas of
men because they are blind in heir
heart.
Jesus saith, Wherever there ares
and there is one abne.''
I am with him. Lift the stone ind
thou shalt find me; cleave the we'd,
and l am there.
Jesus saith, A prophet is not accett
able in his own country, nor doth d
physician work cures upon them tht
know him.
Jesus saith, The city built Upon tie
top of a high hill and established cat1
neither fall nor be hid.
Let not him that seeketh cease from
his search until he findeth, and when
he findcth he shall wonder; wondering,
he shall reach the kingdom, and when
he reacheth the kingdom he shall have
rest.
Woe to you. scribes; for We have
taken away the key of knowledge; We
entered not in yourselves, and to them
that were entering in we did not open.