The Friend of India and Statesman Friday December 19th 1879

It is out of the question to imagine that there is single tribe or perhaps even a single individual who welcomes us and it is surprising that after;s11 we have experienced of the nature of the Afghan we should still hug the idea that we are welcomed as the saviours of the country or that the formal submission of a few petty chieftains is other than a hypocritical profession or the outcome of [...] A high oval mound rose iu its midst and was said to give its name to the mei as Dengil Tepe or " the notable hill." Six guns were seat into position to shell the coal from the front while two others with a small escort of dragoons and.Cossacks occupied the left rear and the Daghestan Irregular Horse were moved directly in the rear of the noel to cut off the retreat of the Takes. [...] The Lieutenant-Governor hopes that the results of the labours of the Committee will be made public before long." Althiegleere are at the end of another year nothing so far as we are aware is yet known to the public regarding the result of the Cummittee's investigation and we begin to suspect that nothing ever will be known. [...] Had the collections been properly made and not allowed to fall into arrears there would have been a small surplus." It is a pity that the collections fell into arrears but the explanation given by the Commissioners I. as follows :—" The debt and deficit of the preceding year—the retarded collections owing to an unfortunate change in the form of rate bills which threw bank the writing of the b [...] He considers that " the time has now come when the miraculous element (with the reservation tion of some of the works of healing and of some visible manifestations of the spiritual resurrection of the Saviour) may be regarded as doubtful or unhistorical without any prejudiceto the worship of Christ." Bow then it may be asked did the miraculous element find its way into the Gospel narrative?