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THE

AMERICAN

BIBLICAL REPOSITORY;

DEVOTED TO

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Biblical and General Literature, Theological Discussion, the History
of Theological Opinions, etc.

CONDUCTED BY

ABSALOM PETERS, D. D., AND SELAH B. TREAT.

SECOND SERIES.

VOL. V.-NOS. IX, X.-WHOLE NOS. XLI, XLII.

NEW-YORK:

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ENTERED according to act of Congress, in the year 1841, by William R Peters, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York,

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THE

AMERICAN

BIBLICAL REPOSITORY.

JANUARY, 1841.

SECOND SERIES, NO IX.-WHOLE NO. XLI.

ARTICLE I.

THE NESTORIAN CHRISTIANS.

By Rev. Justin Perkins, Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M., Ooroomiah, Persia.

THE interest with which we contemplate a people is often in great disproportion to its numbers. The little states of Greece stand unrivalled on the pages of history, as the early instructers and civilizers of the human species. The small community of the Waldenses, pent up in the narrow valleys of Piedmont, was the repository of that inestimable treasure, the vitality of our holy religion, during the long night which veiled the rest of Europe. The few thousands of the Moravians have gained a place on the records of the church, by the vigor of their zeal and the energy of their efforts to extend the triumphs of the gospel, which great Christian nations might worthily covet. And the small island of Britain is now exerting an influence on the condition and destinies of the world, which the vast extent and the unnumbered myriads of China have never known, and never will know till her broad territory and her countless inhabitants shall be illumined by the light of science, and controlled by the spirit of Christianity.

The obscure people, named at the head of this article, possess a humble claim to illustrate the statement I have made. The SECOND SERIES, VOL. V. NO. I. 1

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