Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

leaders who, for decade after decade throughout
Asia, turned many to righteousness.
In the midst of these labors India was not
forgotten. It has already been noted how Timothy
sent many missionaries to India at the same time he
was sending them to China. The patriarch
Ishoyabh, who consummated the contract with the
Moslem caliph for the protection of his people
more than one hundred years previous to Timothy,
censured for misconduct the metropolitan of
southeastern Persia, who was located near the
borders of northwestern India. His written rebuke
bemoaned the disastrous effect of this leader’s
irregularities, because he says that, “Episcopal
succession had been interrupted in India,” and that
“divine teaching by means of rightful bishops” had
been withheld from India. In other words, the
rebuke infers that throughout the whole of the
Hindu peninsula, clergy, provincial directors,
organized churches, and companies of Christian
communities could be found.
Of Timothy himself it is recorded that while
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