The Death Of A Nation Or The Ever Persecuted Nestorians Or Assyrian Christians

The author gives a "history of the persecutions of the Nestorian Church in general, and to make public some further information on the sufferings and massacres to which, as the result of this terrible war, they are subject to-day."--Preface.

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Excerpt from The Death of a Nation, or the Ever Persecuted Nestorians or Assyrian Christians During a titanic struggle marking the death of nations, While the moral foundations of the world seem to be moved, it is not an easy matter to awaken interest in small com munities Which heretofore have claimed but little of the thought or concern of the public; but the tragedy enacted against the Syrian N estorians in Urumia, Persia, in proportion to their numbers and social condition, is hardly equalled, and never exceeded in his tory. It has brought baleful influence, de vastating blight, and hideous crimes in its train. No such issues have ever before confronted Christian states as those raised during this war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... XVI OTHER MEANS OF SPREADING CHRISTIANITY The three important factors in the spreading of Christianity in these distant lands of the East were captives, commerce, and monasticism.1 Slaves were not infrequently Christian captives. When they were carried off en masse from the Christian empire, as sometimes happened under Sassanian kings, their ecclesiastical leaders were taken with them. The captivity of the Jews in Babylon is an illustration of this. Commerce was then more than even now the handmaid of the Gospel. The clergy would follow the merchants in order to supply them with the ordinances of the church. And so episcopal dioceses would be established. "Whence has Al-Asha his Christian ideas?" says an Arab poet. "From wine-dealers of Hira of whom he bought his wine; they 1 Thomas of Marga, ii., p. 506. Barhebraeus, Ecc. Chron., p. 125. brought them to him."1 Commercial and colonizing enterprises were made to minister to the cause of missions. The chief aim of the monks was a life of solitude and tranquility, fasting, prayer, and study, but the ascetics of both sexes were moved with the true missionary spirit and lived in communities. The nuns were very often women self-dedicated to a life of good deeds, but wearing plain garments and working in their own homes. The monks who during the reign of the Arab Caliphs did not enjoy full freedom to work among the Muhammadans, did a great work among the pagans in the most uncultivated regions of the East. In many instances the patriarchs, bishops, and priests were dragged out of their cells and ordained, almost by force. In some cases they gave up their offices and went back into their cloisters. Isaac of Nineveh was much against his will consecrated Bishop of that city (660). 1 Wellhausen, ...

It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical histories and Syriac martyrdom narratives that date to centuries after the fact. In this groundbreaking study, Kyle Smith analyzes diverse Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources to show that there was not a single history of fourth-century Mesopotamia. By examining the conflicting hagiographical and historical evidence, Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia presents an evocative and evolving portrait of the first Christian emperor, uncovering how Syriac Christians manipulated the image of their western Christian counterparts to fashion their own political and religious identities during this century of radical change.