Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

were necessary to the Jesuits. Both needed to
protect themselves from the damaging testimony of
this revolutionary historical find. At the same time
the unearthing of the original had occasioned too
much widespread excitement to permit of its being
destroyed without a substitute.
Dr. Charles W. Wall maintains that the Syriac
inscription upon the stone is genuine. He lays down
the following three lines of argument to prove that
the Chinese letters chiseled upon the marble are a
falsification:
“(1) by the circumstances under which it was
communicated to the public;
(2) by the nature of its contents; and
(3) by the characters in which it is written.”[44]
On the first point, that the original was
destroyed by the Chinese government, it can be
said that this fact is well authenticated. It is
claimed that an exact copy was made. D’Athenese
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