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possible deceive the elect. Now it seems to me an astonishing- 

 thing that nearly all of our Missionary Societies, individually and 

 collectively, and so very few people seem to have realised the truth 

 of the first promise, given of course in threat or warning to the 

 Serpent, " it shall bruise thy head." 



I think that one reason, humanly speaking, why so many false 

 prophets will arise and get a great following is this, that the true 

 Christ and the true doings of that Christ when He comes again in 

 glory, are not proclaimed as a preliminary to the preaching of the 

 Gospel by our Missionary Societies. How many are dead in their 

 iniquities. It is a most important truth which should be proclaimed, 

 to those who are looking for somebody. It is the first duty to 

 proclaim that person and so get in touch with them. If you 

 proclaim a coming King }^ou are in touch with Mohammedans and 

 Hindus. Before you can bring them into touch with other 

 points you must bring them into touch with something which 

 has been handed down — a truth which they have never truly 

 lost, however much it has been corrupted. 



Mr. Rouse.— In Mr. Griswold's paper we have a quotation from 

 Nicholas Notovitch's Unknown Life of Christ. I daresay that some 

 of us remember, I think it was about ten years ago, a remarkable 

 statement in the newspapers that this traveller had discovered in a 

 Buddhist monastery in the far north of India — on the borders of 

 Tibet or in Tibet itself — a remarkable life of Issa, that is, Jesus, in 

 which it was stated, as here mentioned, that He spent a great part 

 of His boyhood and youth in travelling to and about that region. 

 That statement however was at once disputed by the Moravian 

 missionaries, who have the credit of first carrying the Gospel into 

 this region ; for they declared that, after careful inquiries at the 

 monastery they could find no record of Notovitch having visited it 

 at all But anyhow, even if he had, his statement, as we here see,, 

 does not at all harmonize with that of the so-called Mirza ; because 

 the visit was paid, if it be true, by Jesus when He was a boy or 

 youth, and not after He was supposed to have risen from the dead, 

 as the Messiah of Qadian says. 



Again, we read here that, according to him, the words, " I was 

 not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel," and " Tlie 

 Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost," refer to 

 the Ten Tribes. This they certainly mainly do not ; because the 



