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CORRESPONDENCE AXD tflSCELLAXBA. 313 into erintesn-in; and tny object i« not prima*- nd ill at St. Tbuuuw* come lo India— though I hare something mora 10 cajr about that; I hut that the early Christian sect* troiv orf ■ a till aoi Gnustre or Munichsxin, bb Dr. Baruell itnppoJteA, All that 1 maintain ftbout 6t Thomas if that iboro i» AnWer evidence that ho was the drat missionary than that lbs borftghwtih M UM Or any follower ot hii. founded sect a which have tines became Christian. Lot ua oh haft tha fact i lunch iui mention* the existence of a Huh row Gospel or St Matthow among tha Christiana whom Pauiu'itus visited in Ehdia fflrnlafaea reiy s£PO«nj presnnipttra evidence that hit story is true, tho earliest Gospel, Used by what ha* been called tha " Hebrew party" in tho Church, as diatiu- neuV. fid Ion to party," was this Tory original ilahraw, or Syro-CU-i of St, BColtboW] and if ©no of tho Twelve, or any of their immediate disciple*, visit** I Indie* tfalat is the Gk*n»*l they would be certain ta kiting. (See tha subject of tha Hebrew Gospel ably handled In the .Edinburgh Jln'tvit? for April 1875. in ft .taon duptrnatnml MB-wa bare • bat tha Christian! Pan- tnmus found were iu Malabar, a ad not in Arabia, Abyaainiu. Of China, all which ptacea want equally nnoV the denomination thotllM of Eusebiits, ac>ftordiug (0 I>f. Barton and Dr. Bur- nell Hut thora is a prommption of tolerable stability Hint they wore iomewhere in India. And no haw proof in the evidence of Cosmos Endicoploai W> I am happy to , accepted by Dr. BurucU. Chriationa in tha tith century in M n 1 e, or Malabar. And aa tho church fonnd by Cosmos was evi- dently tha aamn that still exists in Mn lobar, thora ui little dUftculty in beHoviztg that tho Christiana Paul wnn a ii i t;t in tha second century forefather a, The Christians reported on bi mm ware nut Munich loans, or he would not have spoken ortlwin aa " faithful." nor would Ha hara p." who had boon * consecrated In Persia.** I hub enraa acroa* the tamo church, tha members of tlmt ohotrb ware ortho- dox in tbO n ry> C, aUssoma to "have strong impiet> ajona" aa well aa myself, His laal iinproaalon n ro be tliat unorthodox Persian sell lore. U, Moiitetuwuisor Growties. used tho Pali la vl language in Malabar ti El ihv ttiotti -vntury, and Ibftl th» Neaioriau missionaries conTcrtcd them, through tha instrument^ efts* partly. »hb*v1 lan^nege, whtab they retainwl. ahhongh it had died • The eritoel ManirhiHui, in aad about tba ninth «>n- tui7, wu aot mowlj und, u Dr. DuraaH •oppowt, l»j "'«> Qiruuaaa in ab*aNr aao*)usri but it wa» » U-rm .- Pemw, But how doea tin* coitirid* witl. Ooamna 's evidence in the sixth century? Ho, being n X^atorian. would not hara taken QnottlOS or Ma- nichaaana for orthodox ChVnthuM A ud that Ncb- trrrinnft in tho niii'luTiiinrv ahontd liiivu written Inscription* at K^ttayam In a language thr-y d aw. is not, Rurnly, no I il. orthrxlox C'hmiuuiij 1 rum Pcraia uhonld have written them during the Pah tart period. There ia no mason why rann knowing tha Pa igo ihoohl hare •' ion or Manic hmana, and not I7hriaiuma. And w hen 1 lind r 1 1 • • gyviim c a i n m tbig their parly bbno of Edeaso : when I rid laa rcpurtLncr tho existence of a BLahep in HaUbnr in tho aixth century, oonJiRcrat««l in when T limi in it>- Do hum! of Xiaoo, in a 0. '42U, a fiiiihop atgrun^ lumaelf " lletropolitau -«ia and kho fhmk En d I« '- when I End nyl apeakiujf— but being spoken of aa having found a (Soipel or Bt. Ilotiboir iwiue- Lii tiidiu Iu the socond century— I think t uaraaoma ground for an imprnsslnn that thum wna Orthodox ^ "'icwherp in India between the Sth and 2nd centuries, and also soma grounds fur iuafMMftiug tlmt won Malabar And wbco 1 am told by Dr. Bnrnall that ha has found a Pohiart Inaoiiptirjii I nrenito connect that in tliu must tuttuntl way, in my own mjiul. aritb. ','•■ t Ede«aa in khe > da, and tho Indo* Persian Bishops ot Cosmos and tl h'ii In uppouition to this, and in sapport of tho uup- I m I a only PortUm Btu or Manirhmtins in MaUtbsr for eight centuries. Hi Tlcirri'- : tho following alAlcmeuta: — that " At XadEm saya that Mint ' called on* Hind, Mid iliv poople of Khurojrln. nnd "made m deputy of ona of hl| Kiuitinuloiu in meb pro* ibat Mnnea wTOCo an Bpwit* to tha i) m Arab geographer Abu Said lun, "TiuTi' i^ o niinierona OOklO] Jews in Ssrandib, and people of otltur ri'ligions, ha». there ia a place in Malabar l-uI led Jfiiuoran settled: and, in fact, though not in so many words, that no oue know PahUrt w ho Persian ra but l ! nasties andManicbamns; of which it may bo brirlly ivmarked that thn coupling of Kliorasan with Hind would iet-ui to draw one's at* mi to i ho north of India : that no result of Manca'a preaching or Epistle remains in India {'hristlana still nrfniiiL' thn l-ttitychtau Patriarch of AnliocU do r0> main Mnidehwoue^ofCoyhra ware, as 1 lti*t luul irtit Iu U- Mvd irtJieiainiiuatdr 1 wr aa j Chris tiaiiN mho wen- out Ri Uta f>-»t of tha gnat Bkbop of MOM