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History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.

CHAPTER XXXIII
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Thirteen members, heretofore connected with that church, were formed into a separate organization at Cutterbul.
[1] Known to the reader as _Tomas_.

_Baron_ is equivalent to _Mr_.
These services were like our own; and how much more rational and appropriate must they have appeared to the people, than the ordination services prescribed in the Liturgy of the Armenian Church, as described by Mr.Goss.

"In the first place, the exercises are all performed in an unknown tongue, the old Armenian.

The bishop sits at one end of the church, the candidate enters at the other, walking on his knees, and thus proceeds to the altar.

The skirt of the bishop is thrown over his head, and the bishop asks a few general questions, which are answered by a third person, either priest or deacon.


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