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Title: What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Rawson, Albert L. (Albert Leighton), 1829-1902 Hagar, George J. (George Jotham), 1847-1921
Subjects: Religions
Publisher: New York, Gay Brothers & company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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thelites until the twelfth century, when they unitedwith the Roman Church on the condition that they shouldretain all their ancient rites and customs. It is claimed by many ecclesiastical historians that theAbyssinians and Ethiopians, as w^ell as other sects in Africa,are in reality branches of the Greek or Eastern Church, cutoff in the very remote past. As Christianity has been intro-duced into every important section of The Dark Continent,and as the representatives of all creeds have met with an en-couraging degree of toleration, and in many instances suc-cess, the reader wTill doubtless better appreciate narrativesof the condition of the various denominations in operationthere at the present time, than a repetition of statementsthat have the indefiniteness of tradition and the flavor ofextreme antiquity. For a view of the present state of thevarious denominations in Africa, the reader is referred toChapter VIII., and those in which the denominations of theUnited States are treated.
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CHURCH OF ST. ISAAC, ST. PETERSBURG!! CHAPTER XXIII. THE RUSSIAN (GREEK) CHURCH. Early Ecclesiastical History of Russia—The Russian Mass—Reverence of Relicfl,(mages, and Pictures—The Benediction of the Waters—Observances ofLent—Baptism—Matrimony—Funeral Ceremonies—The Sect of Raskolniki. EARLY ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA. IT is impossible to settle with any certainty at whatperiod, or by whom, Christianity was first introducedinto Russia. What we learn with most appearance of proba-bility is, that the Grand Duchess Olga, grandmother toVladimir, was the first person of distinction converted toChristianity in Russia, about the year 955, and that she as-sumed the name of Helena at her conversion ; under whichname Bhe still stands as a saint in the Russian calendar.Methodius, and Cyril the philosopher, traveled from Greeceinto Moravia, about the year 900, to plant the gospel : wherethey translated the service of the church, or some parts of it,from the Greet into the

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