BECAUSE of the much purported information being given out these days by higher critics and by those who are making it their business to destroy the belief of millions of Christians by attempting to prove that a man by the name of Jesus never lived and that no man ever did the things reported to have been said and done by Jesus in the four Gospels, we are giving to our readers what we hope will disprove these false claims for them once and for always.

We have before us a book entitled, “The Reports, Letters and Acts of Pontius Pilate, being the Official Records of Pilate as made to Tiberius Caesar, Emperor of Rome, concerning the Apprehension, Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.”

This book was published in 1889, and a copy of it is in the Akron Public Library. We quote from the Introduction of the book:

THE volume here presented is a collection of the papers of Pontius Pilate, officially made to the Emperor of Rome, Tiberius Caesar, concerning the apprehension, trial and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.

The documents are translated chiefly from manuscripts discovered by the late eminent Dr. Constantine Tischendorf. Each document is accompanied by such notes as make its history clear to the ordinary reader, and at the same time there is placed before the critical enquirer the opinions of the learned of ancient and modern times in regard to the value attached to these very remarkable papers.

No similar collection of these documents has been heretofore made, and while doubts may be entertained as to the genuineness of some of them, yet, in the main, it must be confessed that very few of the writings that have come down to us from early antiquity can claim such confirmation of their text as is possessed by these deeply interesting documents. They are therefore presented to the reader not only as an historic account of, but a most valuable direct testimony to the truth of Christianity.

So little testimony from outside sources, from the civil history of the time (and all that little so indirect in its character),