Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

nation.
In other letters to a certain Rabban Sergius, the
patriarch not only records the fact that he was
preparing to consecrate a metropolitan for the
inhabitants of Tibet, but also that in his time many
missionaries “crossed the sea and went to the
Indians and the Chinese with only a rod and a
script.” In one of these epistles he apprises his
correspondents of the death of the metropolitan of
China.[13] Thus while Charlemagne by the strokes
of his battle-ax was destroying the beautiful centers
of Celtic Christianity in northwestern Europe, and
while agents from Rome were laboring to resist the
onward march of Scottish and Irish Christianity
into England, the Church of the Wilderness in the
East was consecrating metropolitans to superintend
spiritual leaders in Tibet, China, India, and among
the nations of the Turks.
Thomas of Marga, writing concerning the
indefatigable labors of Timothy, tells of the
appointment of eighty missionaries sent to convert
the heathen of the Far East:
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