I found in a religious monthly the following: "No part of the 16th chapter of Mark after the 8th verse is genuine." Can it be, think you? F. F. F. Alford, a profound and versatile critic, after research and study, concluded that the passage itself was genuine, but may not have been written by Mark. He concluded, however, that it was inspired Scripture. We would commend to our querist a little work published by Ivan Panin, of Grafton, Massachusetts. Mr. Panin has studied the inspiration of the Bible in a different way from others. He concluded that if the Bible was inspired in its original tongues, it must have evidence of that in its mathematical construction; and so he has found, as he has found in no other books in the world, certain mathematical repetitions, products, factors, etc., etc., combining such numbers, for instance, as the sacred number 3, and the complete number 7, certain cubes and squares repeated again and again, in what even the skeptic must be forced to admit is most marvelous. Men have studied some of these writings to scoff, and have really been convinced. Applying these mathematical tests to Mark 16:9-20, Mr. Panin is compelled to believe, and so it seems to us any one would who has followed his law of mathematics in the Scripture, that the passage is genuine, and truly belongs to the rest of the Gospel. The marginal note of the American Revised Version says the two oldest Greek manuscripts admit from verse 9 to the end. Some of the authorities have a different ending to the Gospel. But the common ending is found in ancient authorities. The mere fact of an omission in some of the ancient copies does not argue against its genuineness.