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CONDUCTS REVIVAL

Sister Precious J. Gibson is
conducting a revival with the Eel
lowship Holiness church, 18th
Ave. and Yuma st. She is a reg
istered evangelist of the General
Commission of Evangelism of the
A.M.E. Church. She is from Illi-
nois.
Mr.. Charles Luckey left the
city Saturday night for Salt Lake
City, Utah, where he hopes to join
his brother, Mr. Luckey may. To-
cate in that city. ,
Mrs. Smiley Joseph, 1908 w.
Tonto ST., left Thursday night.
Jan. 16, for California, to visit
her son. She hopes to return the
early part of the week.
Mrs. Clay Perkins, of 1908 SO.
3rd Ave, left Wednesday, Jan.
22, for New Mexico. She will
probably be away two or three
weeks visiting relatives and
friends.
Miss Alma Battle, daughter of
Mrs. Cornelius Battle, of 1917 E.
Monroe St., and Mr.. Jestus Proc
tor eased away from their many
friends Friday, Jan. II, and
quietly married. They are at home
to their many friends at 1881 E.
Monroe Street.
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UNION WINS DINING
CAR VOTE F--

WAsHINGTON--(ANP) - T he
mighty A. F. of l.. went down TO
defeat here last week in the en-
Move election held on the Atlar1tic
Coast Line railroad by the Nation.
al Mediation board, precipitated
bv the several attempts Of the A.
F, of L. Dining Car Employees
union to oust the Brotherhood 9!
Dining Car employees. Counting OF
ballots was concluded at the Ma
tional Mediation board headquaF-
tiers tuesday, showing the brother'
hood winning by the narrow Nat
gin of 65 to 81 votes: .Is. ~
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Dr.. S. RI, Archer
Is FuneraIized
Recalled as Man Who Taught Life Rather
Than Books; Tender Yet Exacting;
Linked with DR.. John Hope in Service
ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)

Final tribute to the unselfish life OF Samuel howard
Archer late president emeritus of orehouse College and one
of the men responsible for the budingp OF this nstto
was paid Sunday afternoon by hundreds OF his ana
he scene Of much of his activity at this famed institution
Dr. Archer died early Wednesday morning January lo al
his Atlanta home after long illness He had been retreo
from Morehouse in October, 1888.
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inches and let out a Texas yell
for the benefit of some of our mu-
tual friends.
The six models displayed at the
Beauty Culturists league indicate
in some manner, the hair fashions
for the spring as Mrs Marjorie
Stewart Joyner OF the Walker
Company explained.
How about those folk down in
Tennessee marking ballots so
they could tell how certain
folk voted? That seems to be
some kind of a violation of
something or other inasmuch
as the ballots are supposed to
be secret and unidentifiable.
But that is Tennessee any any
thing might happen down there.
Judge Toney of New York STEP
ped off the Penn train Tuesday at
2:30 looking the part. Visiting IL
the District of Columbia for few
days, maybe taking in the inaugu-
ration.
- s.
The boys are singing the praises
Of Sam Lacey'S Bruins basketball
tenn and they are winging along
nicely until Sam gets them Or
ganized sufficiently well to take on
the big stuff. And Washington has
taken to the team like ducks take
TO water.
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INSTITUTE, w. VA President
John W.. Davis announces the od.
fieial proclamation of the Hon.
Homer A, Holt, governor Of tue
state of West Virginia, designating
the period from March IT., until
May 8, 194l, as the time Tor OBJ
servance of the Fifth Anniversary
of west Virginia State College. -
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ON E,cHrH GOES TO CAMP

CHICAGO-(ANP)-The Tenain"
ing 754 officers and men OF the
184th field artillery, formerly the
eth regiment of the Illinois national
guard, left Chicago wednesday
morning on two special trains tor
a wears training at Fort Custer
Mich. An advance unit OF omceis
and men had gone a few days be-
fore.
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CLUB NEWS

Just to be united in matrlmony.
They are at home to their many
friends at 110Y w. Gilbert st.
The Johnson family was to-
eether for the holidays. Mr. and
Mrs. Wesley johnson, Mrs. IneZ
Parish, Miss Jeanette Johnson, of
1857 w 35th ST., Los Angeles,
California; Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Luckey, of Salt Lake City, Utah.
were the house-guests of their
sisters, Mesdames Milton, Marina,
Mariah, Bar, and Mrs. Lockhart,
all of w. Tonto Street. There was
a happy time with these sisters.
Mrs. Gussie Craft McVay was also
a member of this company.
NOTICE
Get your Phoenix index at l110
South nth Avenue, and leave your
news articles here
Rev. Henry, the one-time pastor
of Lone Star Baptist church, is
very i'll at this writing.
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cher with the immortal men OF
Morehouse-Graves, Sale Robert,
Morehouse, BraWley, and Hope.
Another speaker, President James
B. Watson of Arkansas State Col
1ege, was a school mate of DR..
Archer at Colgate University. He
referred to the deceased as a man
with little pretenCe--a good schol-
ar, a physical giant in his prime
who was always willing to have
it said that someone else could do
things better than he coulo--a man
who was generous i'll his praise and
sparing in his criticism. A man
who taught life and not books!
PRAISED FOR CHRISTIAN
CHARACTER
The principal eulogy at the serv-
ices was delivered by DR.. E.. r.
Carter, the venerable pastor OF
Friendship Baptist church, of
which the deceased had long been
a member. A close friend and as
sociate Of DR.. Archer, the speaker
exalted his virtue as a Christian
gentleman, stating that he wanted
nothing more out of life than what
he put into it. Whether coaching
a football team, he said, or with
the boys on the campus, or with
his family, DR.. Archer's first
thought was that he was there to
give service and to make someone
happier.
BODY LAY IN STATE
For four hours Sunday morning
the body lay in state in Sale Hall
Chapel. The doors were opened at
ten O'Clock. and until the services
began at two in the afternoon,
steady streams of men, women, and
children filed down the aisles Of
the chapel to look on the face Of
the man they knew as their friend.
Two students of the college stood
constantly at the head and foot of
the beautiful grey caSket, while
others served as ushers to direct
those attending. At the afternoon
service, graduates of the College
served as usherS.
Promptly at two o'clock the fu-
neral services began with the en-
trance into the chapel of the
flower bearers, the family, and
representatives from organizations
Of which the deceased was q men,
ber. After the congrega ton joined
in singing one of DR.. Archer's
favorite hymns, Nearer My God
to Thee" Dr.. Lloyd O. Lewis, Of
the faculty Of the School of Re
ligion, read selected passages of
Scripture, and prayer was offered
ty DR. Crawford, secretary of the
Georgia Baptist convention. The
singing of Deep River" by the
MorehouSe Quartet followed, after
which Reverend William. Holmes
Borders, pastor of the Wheat Street
Baptist church and also a member
nf the faculty of the School of Re-
ligion, gave the Obituary and read
kilograms from many who were
unable to be present. Following
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Miss Margaret Callahan and Mr..
PINK Mosley made q flying trip to
Lordburg, New Mexico. Friday,
January II, and returned the same
day. getting away from friends.
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RESOLUTIONS
The Passing Of the Late DIR. Sam.
ueI Howard Archer
(MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
AIITMNT ASSOCIATIONS


(MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
WHEREAS, in the passing Of
DR.. Samuel Howard Archer the
race and the cause of education
have sustained an irreparable loss,
and
WHEREAS DR. Samuel Howard
Archer was one of the great build
ers of Morehouse College, having
served the College as a teacher and
administrator for period of thir-
ty-three years, and
WHEREAS, his Christian life
and dynamic personality had a
great influence upon the shaping
of the lives Of thousands Of More
house men and college students.
and
WHEREAS, DR.. Samuel Howard
Archer's life was one which was a
blessing to mankind, because Of his
devotion to the education of Negro
youth and the development OF
Christian character:
THEREFORE,, BE IT RESOLVED
BY THE MOREHCUSE COLLEGE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION:
FIRST, that we bow in humble
submission to the Divine will Of
God, who has called our beloved
teacher and friend from labor to
reward,
SECOND, that we express our
profound sympathy to his devoted
wife end members of the family in
their bereavement, and urge them
to cast all of their cares upon the
Lord,
THIRD, that copies of this reso-
luton shall be placed upon the
records of the Alumni Association
of Morehouse College.
AND FOURTH, that a copy of
this resolution be sent to the fam
lily of the late DR.. Archer.
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
Charles w. Greene, president
Committee on Resolutions:
J. H. Calhoun, Jr.. chairman
w. f. Thompson
X. L. Neal
j. w. Dobbs
Roland Smith, ID.
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SICK LIST

SICK LIST
Mr.. w. M. Helm is on the sick
list. Mrs. Phillie Greene is still
on the sick list but is improving
nicely. Mrs. Bette R. Scott is
much improved after a serious
attack. Mr.. Joseph Island is able
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LAUDS HOPE, ARCHER
At the chapel service, which was
participated in by men who hao
been close friends of the deceased,
President Benjamin E. Mays Of
Morehouse College, appraised the
Importance of the two men, Jonn
Hope and Samuel Archer whose
names are linked together when
ever Morellouse College is men
toned, stating that although
Morehouse College needed John
Hope with his wide contact in the
nation and in the world order to
give standing and prestige to the
institution, it also needed Samuel
Howard Archer to keep the home
fires burning--to give stability and
direction to faculty and Students
and to develop that indefinable
something which we like to call the
Morehouse spirit. Without either
of these, he said, Morehouse would
have been weaker.
TELLS OF BROAD INTERESTS
DR.. Charles D. Hubert, director
of the Morehouse School of Relig-
ion paid tribute to his departed
president as a man not interested
in just Morehouse College, but one
whose interest and service were
as broad as humanity. In the
classroom, DR., Hubert stated, the
deceased was as tender as g. father,
yet as exacting as d military chief.
Representing Atlanta University
President Rufus e. Clement, in
his brief remarks ranked DR.. Ar
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VOTE OF THANKS

VOTE OF THANKS
wish to thank my many trlel1ds
for their assistance during my re-
cent illness and my club members
for tl1oughtfulness in giving the
donation Anderson,
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BORN-to Mr.. and Mrs. En-
lnitt j. Burton, January l6, son.
Freddie Lamar Burton and mother
are doing nicely.
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the four brief addresses, the con-
gregation joined in singing "This
is my Fathers World" and DIR.
Carter gave the Fulogy. Another
selection by the College Quartet
Peace, Perfect Peace" preceded
the benediction, which was deliv-
cred by DR.. Crawford.
MANY PARTICIPATE
Honorary pa1lbearers at the
service included Dean James P.
Brawley of Clark College; Rev.
erend M. l.. King, of Ebenezer
Baptist church; Reverend Roland
Smith, statistician for the National
Baptist Convention, Incorporated:
President William A. Fountain of
Morris Brown College; Director
Forester B. Washington Of the
Atlanta University School of Social
Work; Professor Joseph j. Dennis
of Clark College and president Of
the omega Psi Phi fraternity;
Reverend M. M. Dowdell, and
Reverend B. H. ToWnSley.
The active pallbearers were B.
r. Harvey, c. H. Wardlaw K. l..
Neal, Charles w. Greene, Joseph
Thomas, and Abraham P. Jackson.
Flower bearers were Mrs. Ken1-
per Harreld, Mrs. George A.
Towns, Mrs. L. o. Lewis, Mrs. Con-
stance Nabrit. Mrs. Charles H.
Wardlaw Miss Ruby Wise, Miss
Mildred Burch, Miss Kay Clark,
Mrs. Archie Nelson, and Miss Julia
Rivers. +
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Mr.. True Breedlove Of w. Grant
ST., passed Saturday morning at
two q a.m.). Arrangements for
funeral had not been completed
at press time. His death came url-
expectedly to the family, and his
friends. ..
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Personal Mention

to be out again after several days
illness.
Word was received last week by
Mrs. Irene Hutcherson of the Sc
rious illness of her mother in
Mississippi.
ONE. Phoenix Jan 20 BONDS
Word was received last week
from Mrs. Anna Bennett, who left
the city first of the month for
Marshall Texas, to be with her
son who was reported very i'll, OF
his passing.
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Evie Wright, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Wright Of East
Madison ST., left Phoenix, Satuf-
Gay, January II, for California
where she will attend school the
remainder of the school year.
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BURIED AT SOUTHVIEW

At the. burial in Southview
Cemetery. Reverend G. N. Ellis.
pastor of Reed Street Baptist
church, officiated.
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ton, and angular incisons are not letters but
were merely used to denote water and waves.
The fourth stella is no less interesting than
the first in that it is an archaeological curl
osity. The dead man is represented re-
Ginning in boat which has mast yard and
sail His right hand is extended towards and
a little beyond the mast; but it is not as might
be thought at careless glance, engaged with
any part Of the ships tackle.
AS matter of fact, the right hand holds
a cup as if he were at dinner and it appears
that the stone carver combined two designs
Taking the reclining figure from the often
used pattern of the banquet, he has simply
imposed IL upon the boat and in doing so has
placed the man with his feet TO the paddle
To understand the full significance Of the
imagery behind the stella showing the female
figure on the shore and the male figure in the
boat. Professor Bonner says that one must go
back 10 the Greeks.
The seafaring Greeks" said he saw an
analogy between the vcisstudes of human
life and the dangers and hardshps Of a sea
voyage"
This was centuries before Christianity And
1t must be remembered that the Greek nflu-
ence was felt throughout the then known
world.
The comparison Of life TO a sea voyage was
in fact. a Hellenic tradition as was the idea
of a safe harbor or haven at the end The
harbor is the goal at which the mariner aims
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the Divine Pilot, when he interpreted Isaiah,
18; verses 1 and 2. Without a pilot ship
was lost, and without the Divine Pilot the
Church could not go forward.
l. Woe to the land shadowing with wings
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.
2. That sendeth ambassadors by the sea,
even in vessels of bulrushes upon the
waters, saying, Go, We swift messengers, to
nation scattered and peeled, to a people
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a
nation melted out and trodden down, whose
land the rivers have spoiled!
- Isaiah, I8.
Another of the early Church fathers took
the Church as a ship, with Christ as the Mas
ter, the bishop as the bow-officer the sailors
the elders, the boatswains as the deacons,
the stevedores as the catechists, and the con-
gregation as the passengers.
Clement Of Alexandria, in the third quarter
of the second century, A. D., approved a de-
sign of ship running before the wind as a
seal ring for Christians.
Returning to the Egyptian grave stella
showing the woman on the shore and the male
figure in the boat, Professor Bonner said that
the female figure was undoubtedly the de-
ceased, the dead Christian woman for whom
the marker had been erected.
Who, then, the male figure shown
on the stella
Certainly not the repellent Charon Of the
Greeks, whom the Christians had rejected. And
probably not John the Baptist, although there
is evidence in a curious Coptic sermon that
John the Baptist sometimes believed to
transport certain pious souls across the river
Of fire in Amenu, the Egyptian Hades.
Professor Bonner holds that the male fig
ure represented Christ. whom the Church
fathers often mention as the Kindly Pilot
of the soul in life and death
Another old hymn using the theme of
life as a storm-tossed sea voyage was
translated from the Greek of st. Joseph
of the Studium, who wrote 1t at time when
Christianity was still struggling against the
powers of the Roman empire. 1t was set to
music in modern time by Sir Arthur Sullivan
and goes as follows:
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Egyptians were very tenacious TO their old
customs Naturalization of the dead lasted
long after Christianity came to them, and
sculptures on Egyptian Christian monuments
sometimes showed the old sacred animals
such as the hawk cat, and jaCkal. Even the
cross on Coptic gravestones has the form of
the ancient ANKTI, the hieroglyph of life
The most interesting of the four grave slabs
from the Egyptian cemetery IS described by
Professor Bonner as follows:
I'm the left background on the shore of
stream, stands female figure with hands
raised in the posture OF prayer. Her Chiffon
or undergarment is a dark sea green, all
other color has been destroyed by time
out in the stream is a boat, and in ii
sits youthful figure Here also the design
of the banquet has had some influence for
the left elbow and part Of the forearm of the
man in the boat rests upon cushion. and the
hand in consequence is held straight ont in
stead of resting on the steering paddle.
But the sculptor has given the right hand
something 10 do. II seems TO be drawing upon
a rope as if to swing the craft round to
new position probably to lay the boat along
side"
or the other three stelae with the boat
symbol, one shows young man named Apion
twenty-six years old. in a small boat His
hands are raised in prayer, and the boat has
a steering paddle but no sails Another shows
man sitting in boat There is no inscrip-
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The early Chris
tians also had the ac-
count of Christ still
ing the storm tossed
waters of the sea of
Galilee, as proof of
the Divine power
over the sea.
Hippolytus, one of
the early Christian
Church fathers, who
died about A. d. 236,
in his writings, COM
pared the Church to
a storm tossed ship.
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The Church was the ship. the Cross was
the mast and yards and Christ was the Pilot,
This Church father even used the ark Of
Noah a type of the Christian Congregation
made up Of men and women of all conditions:
in his Interpretation of Genesis, s; verse 1:
And God remembered Noah, and every
living thing and all the cattle that was
with him in the ark: and God made a wind
to pass over the earth, and the waters
asswaged."
Hippolytus stressed the need of Christ as
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voyage with a safe haven at the end.
How very closely the early Christians
felt the ideas later expressed by Lord Tenny-
son in his great death poem may be gathered
from part of a Coptic epitaph about the young
Cosmas, an inscription dated A. D. 7s6
D voyage in which III is hard 20 come to
the other Shorel
The sea is wide. IFS waves are wild. and
little is my boat
The youth of my body. the brief count of
my years.
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in the later Christian
mind.
The thought Of a
haven or harbor of
rest, at the end of life's
voyage, was also used
by the Psalmist, when
he sang:
Then they are glad
because they be
quiet; so he bringeth
them into their de-
sired haven.
Psalms, 1O7; verse
80.
The idea that a god
might guide a ship and
deliver mariners is as
old as Homer and
Aeschylus; and there
was also the ancient
idea that the goddess
of chance steered the
ship Of human fortunes.
A e $ C h ylus, tn e
Greek poet who lived
from 525 TO 456 b. c.,
in his tragedy, Seven
Against Thebes," sings
of the dark ship that
passes over Acheron,
conveying souls to a
sunless land. I'll e
souls companion on
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Safe home. safe home
in port!
Rent cordsge, shat
tered deck,
Torn sails. provisions
short,
And only not a
wreck:
But oh! the joy upon
the shore,
To tell our voyage
periIs Ger.
st. Joseph under
stood the Gre Elk
thought Of life as a
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this last vayage was Charon.
The Christians took over the beautiful
symbolism Of life as sea voyage with
Divine Pilot guiding the individual through
storms and dangers to a safe haven at the
end but they rejected the pagan Charon.
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at the end of
his efforts.
The thought
of the haven of
rest at the end
of the turbulent
voyage Of life
was as appro-
pirate in the
Greek mind as
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For tho from out our bourne of Time and
Place
The flood may bear me far,
hope 10 see my Pilot face TO face
When have crossed the bar.
ALFRED Tennyson's Crossing the Bar"
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tian tombs in the cata-
combs OF Rome.
In previously pub
lished material from
Christian Egypt, this
symbol is rarely found;
and yet the Christian
idea OF the ship of the
soul divinely guided TO
its final harbor was
probably accepted all
the more readily in
Egypt, because the peo-
pie had inherited from
dynastic times the be-
lief that the soul was
carried in a boat,
sometimes with the
guidance OF a divine
ferryman. TO the abode
of the blessed"
The symbolic id g a
that death was a haven
after LIES voyage was
emphasized in Egypt
by the fact that the
cemeteries were often
on the bank of the
river opposite the city,
and the last voyage to
the grave was actually
made in a boat.
Professor onner
pointed out that the
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4 Pre- Christian Roman Monument Show
ing the Ship of the Soul Approaching the
Lighthouse, Which Marks the Haven at
the End of Life on Earth.
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Jesus lover of my soul.
Let me 10 Thy bosom fly,
While the nearer waters roll,
While the tempest still rs high!
Hide me- my Saviour hide,
TIL the storm of life S past;
Safe into the haven guide.
O receive my soul at LAST
An expedition from the University OF
Michigan. under the direction Of F. f. Peter
son had excavated a Christian cemetery in
lower Egypt dating back TO the late fourth
and early fifth centuries A -. The site was
at kom Abu BLU.
About 125 limestone grave slabs, averaging
eighteen by sixteen inches or less in size. were
brought back TO the Museum of Classical
Archaeology at the University Of Michigan.
Originally these slabs had been set in the ends
of the grave mounds If 10 close the grave
itself
Most of these showed the deceased on a
couch holding a cup in the right hand. Profess
sor Bonner found nothing unusual in this pic
turc for a death marker. since the idea of
feasting in world to come vas very ancient,
going back long before the advent of Chris
tianity.
The Orphic cults of the ancient Greeks,
for example concerned themselves with the
philosophy Of life and death AS early as 500
u. G.. Orphc societies We're connected with the
mysteries of the cult Of the god Dionysus Tor
Bacchus), and some went so far as TO promise
a banquet with eternal drunkenness in world
after death a reward
Four of the grave slabs brought back to
the University of Michigan greatly interested
Professor Bonner, however, because they
showed the dead person not at banquet but
in a ship. about TO enter a ship; he had
done considerable research on the ship-sym-
Dol in religion.
1T is well known" Professor Bonner said
that the ancient Greeks often compared hui
man life to a VOYAGE and the imagery con-
nected with the ship Of life was taken over
by the Christians. In consequence of this,
the shp-symbol occurs on number of Chris
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Remarkable Discover
les by a University Of
Michigan Expedition in
a Fifth Century Egyp-
fion Tomb Which Fore
shadows by Many
Centuries Tennyson's
Famous Poem. Gross
ing the Bar" and the
Old Hymn. Jesus.
Lover Of My Soul