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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN donation made by HIS HIGHNESS THE MAHARAJA on behalf of the Syrian Christian Youths, on Kanom and therewith met the expense of their education. The Reverend the missionaries who have come down to Kottayam, in their profuse benevolence taught the youth at the Seminary, English and other languages, protected our children like loving fathers, caused books to be printed for the benefit of all classes, rendered all necessary help in maintaining the prevailing discipline of the Syrian Church caused the annual interest due, to be drawn on the receipt of the Metropolitan, had superintendence over the affairs of the Seminary and caused ordination to be made agreeable to the request of the people and the power of the prelates. While affairs were being thus conducted the Missionaries took to managing the Seminary without consulting the Metropolitan, themselves expended the interest money drawn annually on the receipt of the Metropolitan, dispersed the deacons instructed in the Seminary, conducted affairs in opposition to the discipline of the church and created dissensions amongst us, all of which have occasioned much sorrow and vexation. For this reason we do (would) not follow any faith or teaching other than the Orthodox faith of the Jacobite Syrian Christians, to the end, that we may obtain salvation through the prayers of ever happy, holy, and ever-blessed Mother of God, the redresser of all complaints and through the prayers of all Saints. Witness, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen One group of believers and priests who believed in the reformation principles joined with the C.M.S and started the CMS church. Those who came from the Syrian Christian Church retained their identity even within the new church. Another group of believers under the leadership of Palakunnathu Abraham Malpan (1796-1845) decided to stay in Malankara Syrian Church and worked for reformation from within the church. 152
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN Here is how the early CMS mission understood the history of Syrian Christians till their arrival. THE MISSIONARY CONFERENCE: SOUTH INDIA AND CEYLON, 1879. VOLUME II HISTORICAL SKETCHES, OBITUARY NOTICES, AND APPENDIX. MADRAS: ADDISON & CO., MOUNT ROAD. LONDON: JOHN SNOW & CO., 2, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER Row. 1880. XVI.—THE SYRIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH. By the Rev.. R. H. MADDOX. THE Syrian Christian Chnrch of Malabar has an interest all its own in the annals of Church History. In the darkest ages and in the most distant and obscure regions God has always had His own people, His appointed witnesses for His truth. Side by side with this ancient Christian Church in Malabar, there exists a considerable colony of Jews who, it is supposed, made their way to India as early as the year A.D. 70, shortly after the destruction of the second Temple, and the final destruction of Jerusalem. The presence of these two large and influential communities in the country, linked by no common tie, yet witnesses together through strange vicissitudes for eighteen centuries to the truth of God's revelation in the midst of heathenism, is a startling as well as deeply interesting phenomenon in the history of the Church of God. It is difficult to account with certainty for the origin of the Syrian Church in Malabar. The Christians themselves claim the Apostle St. Thomas as the founder of their Church. This early and distinguished origin has been called in question by many: it seems, however, to be pretty generally conceded by recent writers on the subject, that to accept the truth is perhaps after all the most rational, as it is the simplest way, of accounting for the tradition. That the tradition which ascribes the origin of the Syrian Church in Malabar to the preaching of the Apostle St. Thomas is a very ancient one, and that it was very early diffused, is clear from the fact, that our own King Alfred in the ninth century sent an embassy, under Singhelm, Bishop of Shireburn, to visit the shrine of St. Thomas in India. We have authentic records to show that as early as the second century there were Christians in India. History records how that certain Egyptian sailors, who had been to India, brought back word to Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria, that the people who lived on those coasts desired further instruction and Christian guidance. Accordingly we find the learned and eloquent Pantaenus was sent by the Bishop, to visit and instruct them. From the account which the historian gives of the place and customs of the people there seems to be no room to doubt that the country referred to is our own India, although it must be allowed that the word India is used by early writers in a lax and uncertain way. The next reminder we have of the existence of this Church is at the Council of Nicaa (A.D. 325) by the presence of John, styled Metropolitan of Persia and of great India, establishing the fact that there was then a Church in India, over which the Metropolitan of Persia claimed authority. 153
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