“USED BY CHRIST.”
TH EOLO GIAN’S CLAIM. ANCIENT GLASS CUP. LONDON, Dec. 3. The Westminster Gazette says that a controversy is likely to rage round the reported discovery of the identical first century glass cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper. The owner. Dr. James Kendal Harris, Curator of Manuscripts at the John Hyland's library, Manchester, and the ’author of innumerable works bused on the Scriptures, Bought the cup for a high price from its dtecoverer, a German archaeologist, who unearthed it in the Crimea. The cup is a golden yellow, and was probably made in one of the glass factories of Sidon- It is nearly -1-J inches high, and is shaped like the lanterns used in garden party decorations. It bears a Greek' inscription. The cup is carefully guarded.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 December 1926, Page 4
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132“USED BY CHRIST.” Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 December 1926, Page 4
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