...tidings to Ceylon and_ Bombay, we are still more su? read in Gibbon that " ( sionaries from Balkh a pursued without fear the footsteps of the roving Tartar,...the valleys of Imaus, and the banks of the Selinga." When India was thus penetrated and surrounded by Christian missions so early as the fifth and sixth...

...hands of the Nestorian Christians the rites of baptism and ordination, when ' the missionaries of Balk and Samarcand pursued, without fear, the footsteps...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the vallies of Imaus, and the banks of the Selinga.' — ' In its long progress,' continues Gibbon, ' to...

...hands of the Nestorian Christians the rites of baptism and ordination, when ' the missionaries of Balk and Samarcand pursued, without fear, the footsteps...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the vallies of [mans, and the banks of the Selinga.' — ' In its long progress,' continues Gibbon, •...

...derived their ordination from the Catholics * of Babylon. In a subsequent age the Missionaries of Baleh and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of...Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the valley of Imans, and the banks of the Selinga. In their progress by sea and land the Nestorians entered...

...had confined the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Balkh and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of...baptism, and even of ordination ; and the fame of Prester or Presbyter John has long amused the credulity of Europe * .... In their progress by sea and...

...true sons of " the missionaries of Balkh and Samarcand," who, according to the testimony of Gibbon, " pursued without fear the footsteps of the roving Tartar,...the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga." If, in the early age of the Church, according to the same writer, " In their progress by sea and land,...

...with an increasing multitude of Christians, 1 Gibbon, ibid. 2 Assem. p. Ixxvi. 3 Ibid. t 3, p- 441. and the bishops and clergy of those sequestered regions...camps of the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga."1 SECTION III. THE MONOPHYSITES. Eutyches was Archimandrite, or Abbot, of a Monastery in the...

...Gibbon. ', The missionaries of Ualkh and Savnarkhand, " says he, " pursued without fear the feotsteps of the roving Tartar, and insinuated themselves into...the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga." — Itceord pf the Free Church of Scotland. ILLUSTRATIONS OP CHINESE SUPERSTITION. Ting Pao-chen. Governer...

...and the bishops and clergy of those sequestered regions derived their ordination from the Catholicus of Babylon. In a subsequent age, the zeal of the Nestorians...camps of the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga."1 SECTION III. THE MONOPHYSITES. Eutyches was Archimandrite, or Abbot, of a Monastery in the...

...had confined the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Balkh and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of...the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga." The Christianity of China between the seventh and the thirteenth century, Gibbon adds in a note, "...