Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H. G. O. Dwight in Armenia: Including a Journey Through Asia Minor, and Into Georgia and Persia, with a Visit to the Nestorian and Chaldean Christians of Oormiah and Salmas ...Crocker and Brewster, 1833 |
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Researches of the REV. E. Smith and REV. H. G. O. Dwight in ..., Volume 2 Eli Smith,Harrison Gray Otis Dwight No preview available - 2015 |
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Abbas Mirza Aderbaiján affirmed Akhaltsikhe ancient Antonio Aras Armenian church assured Bagdád baptism Bayezeed bazár bishop bread called caravanserai Catholicos ceremony Chaldean CHALDEAN CHRISTIANS Christ Christian clergy communion confessed consecrated Constantinople convent conversation cross Ctesiphon cultivated Datev deacon declared Deezeh-khaleel descended Diarbekr diocese distance district doctrines Echmiadzin entered Eriván Erzroom eucharist extreme families fasting festival fúrsakhs Greek heaven holy horses hour informed inhabitants inquired Jamálava kétkhoda khan Khósrova Khoy Kürdish Kurds language learned lodgings Mar Shimón Mar Yohanna mass ment missionaries Mohammedanism monks morning moslem Mosul mount Ararat mountains Nakhcheván Nestorius night observed occasion ordination original sin papal passed patriarch Persian plain prayers present priest prince province reached received replied residence respecting road Russian Sabbath sacrament Salmás Savior sect seemed Shoosha side sins snow tandoor Tebriz tion travelled Trebizond Turkish valley vartabéd village whole wine
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Page 236 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Page 236 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 61 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Page 189 - Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ; and to thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven"?
Page 177 - They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Page 90 - In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood : this do, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
Page 189 - ... twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
Page 44 - ... Lord's days, and once a fortnight besides on the lectures in his own congregation, but he made his weekly visits unto the lectures in the neighbouring towns ; how often was he seen at Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, Dorchester, waiting upon the word of God, in recurring opportunities, and counting "a day in the courts of the Lord better than a thousand!
Page 90 - ... the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ.
Page 87 - The congregation being in the meantime exhorted to salute and kiss each other for the appearance of Christ, a deacon, taking the salutation from the Bishop, went and saluted the Catholicos, and from him the ceremony passed through the whole congregation, each one bowing this way and that over the other's shoulder, as if to kiss him. "The consecration followed. In performing...