THE BIBLE-NEW TESTIMONY FOR IT
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THE BIBLE-NEW TESTIMONY FOR IT.

 The Rev. Charles Foster, we'll known as a writer upon ecclesiastical history and criti- cism, and who is now publishing a volume of researches made in Arabia, has recently communicated most interesting discovery in letter to Bishop Doane, of New Jersey The Bishop publishes the following extract from Mir. Fosters letter:

 fl voicc from Me Pafriarchiaz Age-"As your copy of 'The Historical Geography of Arabia, will, trust soon float across the At lantic, should leave it to tell its own story, was it not for one result so beyond all hu- man calculation, and therefore so likely to get abroad on the wings of rumor, that do not like 1t should first reach you in a news paper advertisement, or from any but my own pen. The result alluded to is the re- covery of the long lost, and once famous IIamayritic tongue; and in 1t inscriptions, (perhaps the oldest monuments in the world,) containing a confession of the Patriarchal faith, and an anticipated Gospel. These wonderful remains of Arabian antiquity be- long to period of the world, to reach which all the internal evidences oblige us to ascend $500 years, or within 800 years of the food For they are records of the lost tribe of Ad, the immediate descendants of Shem and Noah; people of Arabia who perished ut terly, not only long prior to all protane his tory, but before the books of Moses were written. The unknown inscriptions were published in Wellsted's Travels ill Arabia, who discovered them on the coast of Hadra- mant, in lS34. Copies were forthwith trans- mitted to Germany, to Professors Cesenius and Rodiger, who it appears, have been at work on them for years as it turns out, without decyphering single word.

 Their existence first became known to me last summer, when my publisher sent down Wellsted's book, on the chance of it's con- taining materials for my work. After exam ming the unknown characters closely, had laid the inscriptions aside, as altogether un- decypherable, at least to me; when it pleased Providence, in the way the most un- looked for, to put the key into my hands. found it, without a dream of looking for it, in the Monumental Vetustiva Arabi9' of A. H. Schultens. At the first glance, thought 1 detected, III one of these monuments, an