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| defend the outlying provinces. lie
wants more soldiers, more provisions
more money. He complains of the
Ours that surround him and that
| represent the enemies Of Egypt Us
friends. The king, 1t appears. finally
gave him the advice to fight more and
to write less The conclusion from
this correspondence is that Egypt was
losing It's hold upon Palestine and
Syria, In her struggle With the Hittites
and other peoples, and that the way
was thus being prepared for the Israel
ties to escape and to take possession OF
Canaan, which would have been out
of the question had Egypt retained It's
sovereignty over the country. AS 1t
was, when Israel entered the land of
promise. there was no great military
power 10 fight; only (; number of dis
united tribes. In the letters are found
the names Of Damascus. Sdon, Lachis.
corroborating the Bible. one of these
letters reads:
TO my lord, the king;--Abd- hiba.
your servant. At the feet of my lord.
the king. seven and seven times ! fall.
Behold the deed which Milki-il and
Suardata have done against the land Of
the lord, the kins--thcy have hired the
soldiers of CARR, OF Gimti, and Of
Kilt, and have taken the territory of
Rubuti. The territory of the king is
lost to Hnbiri. And now. indeed, Il city
of the territory of Jerusalem. called
BitNlnb. one Of the cities Of the king,
has been lost to the people of Kilt.
Let the king listen to Add -hIba, his
servant, and send troops that l may
bring back the kings land to the king.
For II there are no troops. tho land of
the king Will be lost to the Tabiri. This
is the deed Of Suardatn and Milki-ll
. and let the king take care OF his
land"
This is an interesting document. II
shows. rs we have said, the losing
struggle of Egypt in the north. Incl
dentally we notice the expression ter
ritory of Jerusalem" which is Identical
with an expression found in the Book
of Mormon, LAND of Jerusalem and
which has been objected to BY fastidi-
GUS critics as incorrect, Jerusalem be
Ing a city by this Tel-cl-Amarna let
ter it appears that Jerusalem was ~
"tcrritory" as well as IL city, and the
writer of the Book of Mormon is cor
roboratcd
In Genesis We read that Amraphel,'
king OF Shinar, and his associates.
made war upon certain kings. These
kings were once said TO be mythical.
but Amrap he has now been identified
with fIammurabi whose marvelous law
code was discovered Il short time ago
at Susa, by De Morgan. The Bablyon-
ian kings held the region about the
Dead Sea- for II years. Then re-
.bellion took place, and Chcdorlaoner
ana those associated with him met the
rcbellious allies In the valley of sid
dim and completely overcame them
Lot was among the captives. ana
would have been carried to Bahyloiin
but for the interference Of Abraham
who pursued and conquered the M
vaders near Damascus.
1t would be easy to fill this page
with proofs derived from the re-
searches of recent years, of the his
torical accuracy of the Bible. The
facts stated above give a good idea OF
the nature of those proofs. Objcc-
tons were once made to the Scriptures
because they represent the following
customs MS Egyptian: Keeping dom
KEYS; the presence of cunuchs: tho
use of wine. which Ifcrodotus says was
not made in that country: rings ana
ornaments: the custom, OF sitting n
table, etc. But these have all boon
confirmed by modern discoveries.
Upon the monuments found appear
pictures of eunuclls. stewards, ornd-
ments, and habits of social inter
course such as the Bible refers to.
THAT shepherds were treated with con-
tempt and that foreigners We're natur-
allied by clothing them in Egyptian
linen, arc now proved facts. And as
for the New Testament. the supposed
new Sayings of Christ, discovered in
Egypt few years ago, afford con-
flrmatory evidence or tile Gospel story.
and tend to destroy the contention that
Jesus of Nazareth was q fictitious per-
sonage and His story an invention of u
period far subsequent to His supposed
existence, The records in which these
sayings are found are undoubtedly Mt
least as old as the third or fourth
century. They prove that the sayings
cf Jesus. authentic or apocryphal,
were at that epoch treasured and
passed upon as priceless possessions.
The thought occurs here. that IL
scholars are still doubling the his
torcal truth Of tho Bible, notwith-
standing the overwhelming evidence
of science, aud asserting that 1t is
myth. allcgory, and organism, VIC
hardly wonder that ignorance stub
bornly refuses 10 accept the Book of
Mormon as authentic history. The
proofs of the authenticity of this rec
ord are. In the nature Of the case, in
some respects different from those
produced by science for tho Bible be-
cnuse scientific rcsonrch on this Con-
tinent has not proceeded far enough
to speak with any degree Of certainty
on that subject. But the Book Of
Mormon has one indisputable proof.
which the Bible has not, and that IL
the testimony of the witnesses who
saw the Angel and the original rec
ords in his possession. This testimony
to, I'M, p.,I,u al To- al