Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

necessary for the mandarins to depend upon their
help? The Jesuits saw quickly that the historic
monument proclaimed the early advent into China
of the Church of the East, which had been
excommunicated about A.D. 200 by the bishop of
Rome.[48] Here was a chance to write the
doctrines of the Church of Rome upon this part of
the stone, taking care that the other facts did not
clash with the part of the marble chisled in Syriac.
As the lettered class were totally ignorant of church
history and of Christian doctrines, they were
obliged to have recourse to the Jesuits to fabricate a
story which would not suffer exposure by
conflicting with what was written on the Syriac
part of the stone.
Taking up the second point, one can see that
the nature of the doctrines presented in the Chinese
part of the inscription also proves a Jesuit fraud.
These references in the present Chinese text
relating to the use of images in Christian worship
and to prayers for the dead were declarations of
doctrine which had never been taught by the
Church of the East. Yet the Jesuits were compelled
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