Lingerings of Light in a Dark Land: being researches into the past history and present condition of the Syrian Church of Malabar.

Whitehouse, Thomas.

Published by William Brown & Co., London, 1873

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xiv, 338 pp., frontispiece folding map, original cloth faded and rubbed at spine extremities,from Bath Public Library with the usual blindstamps, errata slip verso front cover, front endpaper cut out, inscription on title page, copy inside clean and in very good condition. RARE. In 1852 the author travelled to Malabar Coast, from that central position he conducted his observation and research with members of the Syrian Church. ?The object of the writer is to throw some additional light on the most heart-stirring chapter in Church history. The attention of Christian World is increasingly turned to ancient churches of the East; and not one of them should excite deeper sympathies, or call for more earnest prayer and loving effort, than ? the remnant which is left? in South India- the Syrian Church of Malabar; or as the members often call themselves, The Christians of St. Thomas?. (Preface). #34969. Seller Inventory # 012889

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Title: Lingerings of Light in a Dark Land: being ...

Publisher: William Brown & Co., London

Publication Date: 1873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition