Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — A Costly Manuscript. [ARTICLE]

A Costly Manuscript.

A papyrus manuscript found in the den of an old hermit in a cave near Jerusalem in the year 1880, and which experts have all along believed to have been the handiwork of St. Peter, “the friend of Christ,” was submitted to a committee of the Biblical Society of London in 1890. They have arrived at the conclusion that the work is in reality exactly what it porports to be—the latest literary work of the great apostle. It has not been ascertained exactly who has charge of the relic, but it is said that a “society of British literary voluptuaries” has offered SIOO,OOO for the document.