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Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Sri Lanka India
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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improbable in this conclusion. The means oflocomotion in the time of the Roman Empire were not unfa-vorable to long journeys. Life was quite as secure as in recentdays. Paul was much safer in his journeys through Asia Minorthan any European traveller would be to-day. When the per-secution broke out in Jerusalem, and the Christians were com-pelled to leave, it would not be unreasonable that the apostlesshould distribute the accessible territory among themselves. Ifto Thomas was assigned Persia, it would only be a question ofmonths when he could reach there; and, having organized thePersian Church, it would require but a short time to go farther, * Book Hi., ch. xviii. f Journal, vol. iii., p. 212, 4th ed. \ Christian Researches, p. 134, 5th ed. ;; Transactions of the Royal Archaeological Society, vol. i., p. 161. THE 8YRIA \ 7//.7W7 LVS 1\ 1\1>1.\ 311 following the drift of comraeroe, and oome Booth ward t thehead of the Persian Gulf,and liixl his w,-i\ far down tin- Indian
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— ii BABD8TOK1 DOOB^ K\ Mill a.n coast. Such a journey would not be more difficult than Bur-tons in Arabia, or Vamberys in the uplands of Northern Aor Thomas Corvats walk, in the seventeenth century, all the 312 INDIKA. way from Jerusalem to Ajmir, and who spent but two poundsand ten shillings for the entire journey.* Whether Thomas was the founder of the Church in India ornot, this remains certain—that by the time of the Council ofNicEea, in the year 325, Christianity had so far advanced as to berepresented by a bishop in that most important conference of theearly Church. The name of Johannes, Bishop of India Maximaand Persia, stands as one of the subscribers to the Nicene decrees. By whomsoever founded, Indian Christianity took the laterNestorian type. This was due to its relations with Persia, wherethe monophysite vagary carried the people with it. When theMohammedan faith arose, and Christianity was swept aAvay fromPersia, the Indian Church was left to fight its battle alone,

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