History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

city which they had once peopled."[83]
Geddes says of those in Malabar:--
"The three great doctrines of popery, the pope's
supremacy, transubstantiation, the adoration of
images, were never believed nor practiced at any
time in this ancient apostolical church. . . . I think
one may venture to say that before the time of the
late Reformation, there was no church that we
know of, no, not that of the Vaudois, ... that had so
few errors in doctrine as the church of Malabar."
He adds concerning those churches "where never
within the bounds of the Roman Empire," "it is in
those churches that we are to meet with the least of
the leaven of popery."[84]
Mr. Massie further describes these Christians:--
"The creed with which these representatives of
an ancient line of Christians cherished was not in
conformity with papal decrees, and has with
difficulty been squared with the thirty-nine articles
of the Anglican episcopacy. Separated from the
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