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The Cutest Story Ever Told, Chapter 33 Tomb Confron jjsa." srtr as Tlie den. One was His mother, from that Jcf.us appeared visibly to open window. "Did you not understand me just now when 7 told you this town was in an uproar?" asked the high priest of Jerusalem primly. "You know very it ss Hie Feast of Weeks, Caiphas. The city is simply crowded again, full of visitors." rv iiuiu uurusaienj, and Ihere a higher life." a angel looks like, so I find itjpeared and ate with "That is the sort of talk they hard to visualize." i slory; each had tried to sift it down to its realities.

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$10 in prizes every wees. Again there was silence except, for the droning of the insects. "Lord Annas," said Caiphas, "the tales of rising from a family the story, incredible to them both i JSLT 2 bish They even call to me, as 1 a waste of time?" nfl oii.i mat, said Annas, "depends "it is not so the entirely on how much of it you the next don't I call the Hardener and ask hoar. too. that thev a' young in him what wnai ne about it.

of Mount Olivet, had to jump on i Promised em "Lo, I am with is when He' alwavs even until the con- suddenly to have appeared summa 011 OI ne orld" --and midst of His friends, right! tilen had V1 sinl departed hcaven-j 4 i i i 11 iCLIUo iiilJi i i i vi man silting on the right side of heje in Jerusalem. He nearly ard i He was hidden lost in clouds. "Are you sure a He i a (hat Annas hud. testimony of what he said here "A Strung Polk-y" The reason 1 came here, to-f night," explained Caiphas, "is! have to comical they are subversive." Old Annas sucked oh his noisy tooth. "We Have Blundered 9 "Very well," he said.

"Do as you will do anyhow. But Caiphas, these roots are deep and spreading. I have a horrible feeling that' we have blundered. History may blame all our nation, all Israel, for the guilt that belongs so much to you and me and our rich and powerful friends who were afraid of the truth." Caiphas was pretty story, too. Do you know where they laid that cadaver? in the tomb that Joseph had built for himself!" Annas lowered his fan, folded his arms, and gave a toothless grin, barely visible in the dark.

''Is the scoundrel's body still in the tomb?" he asked softly. "No!" "It is goneV" "Yes!" "But where, Caiphas? You have; Wddenly become quite rnonosyl-i labic." "It was stolen." "I see. Why did not Joseph) and Nicodemus see to it that the' of the nlinor i a in in was crucified. He. is risen! is not here! Behold the where they laid and feet, that it is I self; handle and see; for a spiri and'fcorres as von enccs.

there emerged in all sential substance, accounts a were impressively the same. Joseph and Nicodemus freely admitted to Annas wJrnl done. The garden in Joseph had made for himself a sepulcher hewed in stone was quite close to the hill of ll le that He before you into carried the body and, while the two Marys helped, they laid Him away. "It is queer," continued Annas humming voice, as he reviewed the testimony; securely against the tomb?" "That was done, but. "And weren't there guards? "I believe so." told "L)o you mean to sit there and me to believe that you do put any belief in them now? Are i you going to tell mc Jesus nf ijVazareth did rise from the "I don't know." grinned Annas uncomfortably.

"I wish I did, but I dnn't. I don't know." "You know that such a notion I is mad," Caiphas retorted coldly. "Judge For Yourself" Annas ducked his tongue lips together. "But I thought you had ready started on this sort Do I truth itself that we nailed to (he. and cross and then buried a al- of as usual, rose again." Annas chuckled softly.

"I am old and sleepy," he mut- thing without bothering to consultjtered. "Good night, Caiphas." me. Haven't I heard that you moved toward his bedroom. The End "Some Mystical Blessing" "He showed them the wound in His side," Annas went on. "He! ate with them.

He bestowed i a a oun man named Stephen! them some mystical blessing mi ght upon charges? Wasn't he' the Holy Ghost, whatever that! a foll of Jesus? Did you may be: the whole business isj a of troul3le him?" beyond my comprehension. We condemned him too." "But there was one remark- YeS and you stoned him i able circiunstance which we must! and the followers of Jcsus now declare that he is a martyr! Cleveland News Strike Ends never forget," the old man continued. "One of their members- Thomas Didymus by name --was "The Smartest Spies" "You know so. You yourself specifically asked Pilate to i i A I them there. Then how could "Before dawn ke.

Some talk about an angel with shining face coming down and the soldiers falling unconscious with fear. Anyway, a woman came into the garden. Her was Mary, she came from i. and si: absent at this visitation. The others told him all about it but doubting Thomas shook one have stolen the body? Sup pose the disciples had done so.

Where have, they hidden the mains? I spies in Judea, experienced Thev Jesus as no Jt; sus was poignant evidently tomb self. The women went back and told Peter, whom I mentioned, and another, younger disciple -a decent enough young man called' John. Both men ran to the after hearing the slory from I the women. John peered into the 'tomb and saw the linen clothes. the face napkin lying loosely 'on the shelf where the of it." "The first Christian with of sense," said Caiphas.

"The first true scientist, --the first among themselves." "Perhaps he will not be the last." "But has it occurred to you, By Lurry Friedman i Friday, April 5-CLEVELAND, Ohio AP)Cleveland's newspaper strike Is! haps. Anyway, Jesus returned to confront Thomas, the skeptic. Caiphas, that thi brave death contradicts all that you had to say earlier this evening? Would 1 any man be willing to die in a heroic, glorious martyrdom like conjurer's trick stealing of a corpse! in a hoax, a sham? No! He was I over after a record 126 days. a true believers. We got nowhere i It was still but she could be both aston- She, ran back town to tell this new leader i I've talked with him: who was put to: a fiery fellow who won't back- death, have disappeared under down Peter of Capernaum She your very nose.

Now you tell Peter that she feared rob- the body has been stolen. What bers had stolen the body of their Alc-i-i j-ixxnU with His a the tie saw the in palms left by the tent pegs the wounds in His feet; he one of the men the say Jesus when i them I else could you say?" "Then where can it be, Father- Lord!" "Rubbish!" grumbled Caiphas. "Most mysterious rubbish! Pret- did not loiter at the plunged right on into the 1 sepulcher; he, too, saw the loose' 'grave clothes and the napkin that! had about the head of Jesus up and put carefully in' a separate place." "So what is the, point of all miracle story, Lord Annas?" A warmer light came into the bleak eyes of the old man. "The point I made to you is a point in logic, a point in sheer Ireason, my son-in-law. Dismiss his own hand wound in Jesus's 'spear of it." "And what did then?" asked in spite of the open i present showed the wound side." 'I still don't see "On the night we killed Him, Longinus had pierced that two of His disciples followed Him into Jeru- but one of them denied times and both kept hidden.

What happened to the other nine? They my couldn't get away fast enough. Why? Because they were afraid." "What Makes Them Brave?" "Cowards as well as fools!" fleered Caiphas. "But what makes them brave 'Because you have seen me. Thomas, you have believed. Blessed are they that have not seen and have Both knew that it was not necessary for Annas to complete the now?" asked Annas sternly.

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