id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044022682017 Southgate, Horatio Narrative of a visit to the Syrian [Jacobite] Church of Mesopo tamia with statements and reflections upon the present state of Christian ity in Turkey, and the character and prospects of the Eastern churches / by Horatio Southgate 1844 .txt text/plain 84913 4839 76 the subject of Picture Worship.–Importance of studying the Eastern Churches for the sake of their Testimony.—The Steadfastness of the Eastern Christians in maintaining their Confession of The English Church at Mossoul.—State of the Christians.—Divisions.—State of Learning.—The Nestorian and Chaldean Churches of the East, remaining still in their present unprepared state, convulsed by the sudden blaze of free inquiry and unregulated knowledge, fall into pieces, of which Church, comes at length to look upon all religion with contempt, as a mercenary priestcraft or an empty form, unfit to hold the sway over free and Bearing of the Testimony upon the subject of Picture Worship.–Importance of studying the Eastern Churches for the sake of their Testimony.—The Steadfastness of the Eastern Christians in maintaining Christian man can look upon the present state of the Eastern Churches and reflect upon their long bondage of centuries, and see them still trodden down by the feet of Infidels, ./cache/hvd.32044022682017.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044022682017.txt