Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Chapter 22
Marcos of Peking
These historical facts suffice to prove the
existence of the land bridge between China and the
Roman Orient; and that ancient China had overland
communication with Mediterranean countries as
well as with India. The route may have been by
way of Khotan and Turkestan, go northern India,
Afganistan, etc. It would be very strange if the
energetic Syrian Christians’ full of true missionary
zeal, did not proceed to China after reaching Persia
about the middle or end of the second century![1]
An outstanding figure during this period of
expansion in China was Marcos. From obscurity
this lad in China rose to be supreme administrator
over the Church of the East.
During the three centuries of stormy wars and
many dynasties between the fall of the Tang
emperors and the ascendancy of the Mongol rulers
(A.D. 1204), there is little in the way of reports
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