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into existence; and my object is not primarily to contend that St. Thomas come to India—though I have something more to say about that too- bat that the early Christian sects more orthodox, and not Gnostic or Minichæan, as Dr. Burnell supposes. All that I maintain about St. Thomas is that there is better evidence that he was the first missionary than that the (illegible text) Manos, or any follower of his founded sects which have since become Christian. Let us observe that the fact that Euseubius mentions the existence of a Hebrew Gospel of St Matthew among this Christians whom Pantwaus visited in India furnishes very asrong presumptive erulence that his story is tron. For the earliest Gospol, used by what has been called the "Hebrew party" in the Church, as distin. guished frota tho “ Hellonio party,” was this wory original Hebrew, or Syro-Chalitev, version of St. Matchow; mnd if oan of the Twairs, or any of their immediate disciples, visited India, this is the Gospel they would be certain to being. (See then rubject of the Hebrew Gnepal nbly handled In the Edinburgh Revino for April 1875, in a critiqua on Supernatural Religion.] Of course we bare no certain proof that the Christians Pan- tmous found were in Malubar, and not in Arabia, Abyuzlain, or China, all which phous want aqually under the deamination of India in the time of Eusebius, according to Dr. Barton nad Dr. Bur- nell. But there is a prosumption of tolerabla stability that they were fumowbore in India. And we have proof in the evidence of CosmĀLI Indicopleustes, evidenco which I am happy to Find is accepted by Dr. Baroeull, that there with Christinus in the 6th century in Ma Iv, or Malabar. And a tho chorah found by Cormas mas ori- dontly the same that still exists in Malabar, there in little difficulty in bellowing that the Obrista mu Panternas met in the macond century were their forefathers. The Christians reported on by Cos. mas were not Manichman, or he would not havo spoken of themo un "faithful,” nor would be hava found & "Baltop," who had boen "consecrated in Perzis." If Pantonus caron across the amo church, the mombora of that ohurch were notho- dox in the second century. H H ப ti. Dr. Harnell seems to “have strong impres- Bioma” as well as myself. His het impression appears to be that unorthodox Pernian nettlers, i.a. Mantelupansor Gnostics, used the Pallavi language in Malabar till thy uinth century, and that thon Nostorian missionariae converted them, thrangh zbe instrumentality, ok least partly, of tho Pohior] langungo, which they retuned, although it had died The epithet Maalehman, in mad about the ninth ven- tury, was but morely used, us Dr. Durueil soppoes, by one sool of Christiaan ti abusing another; but it wo 313 qol in Pernia. Bat bow does this anincide with Cosman's evidenco in the sixth century? He, being ■ Nestorun, would not have taken ŝinostles or Ma. Biches for orthodox Christians, And that Non- tarians in the ninth ovulary should have written Inscriptions at Kottayam in a langungs they did not know, ka nnt, auraly, an likely as that orthodox Christians from Persis should liave written them doring the Pablavt period. There is no reason why eta kamming the Fahlar) language should have been Caustion or Manichmana, and not Christinar. And when I find the Syrians connecting their early bistory with that of Edison; when I fin Camas reporting the existence of a Bishop in Malabar in the sixth cuntury, consete io Portia when I find in the Council of Nica, in A.D. 325, a Bimbop signing kiravalf "Metropolitwu of Persia and the Great Tilia when I onl Pantu-nub speaking-but boing spoken of ubaving fortnit n Gospel of St. Matthew some where in India in the swoond century-I think I baramma ground for an impression that there will orthodox Christaznity somewhere in India het woob the 8th and 2nd centuries, and niso some grounda for unapoeting tluit was Mulalar. And when 1 am told by Dr. Barnall that he has found a Pahlavi Insoription to the Trinity at Kottayam, I seem to conneợt that in the muni matural way, in my own mind, with the story of Elesan in the Syrian legends, and the Indo-Porman Bishops of Coumes and the Nicone Connoil. சம் T - In opposition to thir, und in sopport of the rap- posed fact that there were only l'erslan finantios or Manichmans in Malabar for eight centarios, Dr. Burnell addnces the following statcidents -- that "Al Nadim mys that Mitel 'called co' Hind, 2tn, and the people of Khoršaka, nad 'mado n deputy of one of his companions in a pro. vinou use Anges wrote an Epiale to the Tudinner that the Arab geographer Abú Bard mys of Coylon. "There l • numorone colony of Jown in Barandib, and people of other religions, expecially Manlahan that there in a place in Malabar called Manigramus, where Iravi Korttan settled: and, in fact, though not in so many words, shat no one know Fahlar among the Persian settlers hut linomics and Manichæans; of which it may be briully remarked that the compling of Khorleba with Hind would seats to draw obu's St- tention to the north of India: that no realt of Manor's prmoking or Epistle robins in India mither now or in history, though Christians B owning the Entyahan Patriarch of Antioch do re- main: that the Munichmans of Coyim wara, ną 1 1 that had got to be meal indimorimimutely for way Chris. tiana who were not at the foot of the great Bishop of Kane.