THE

ORIENTAL CHURCH,

AND

THE LATIN.

BY

JONAS KING,

UPWARD OF FORTY YEARS MISSIONARY IN PALESTINE AND GREECE.

New-York:

JOHN A. GRAY & GREEN, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS,
Corner of Frankfort and Jacob Streets.

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✓NOV 7 1878

Dedicated

TO THE GOOD PEOPLE IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA,

WHO WISH TO UNITE WITH

The Oriental Greek Church.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

FAREWELL LETTER OF JONAS KING TO HIS FRIENDS IN

PALESTINE AND SYRIA.

HIS ANSWER TO THE BISHOP OF KARYSTIA IN GREECE.

EXTRACTS FROM THE "CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE

REV. JONAS KING," PRINTED BY ORDER OF CONGRESS,

PAGES 81, 82, AND 108-118. (Thirty-third Congress,

Second Session, "Ex. Doc. No. 67.") AND

THE PARDON GIVEN TO PILGRIMS AND OTHERS BY THE

GREEK PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM.

FAREWELL LETTER

OF

JONAS KING

ΤΟ

HIS FRIENDS IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA,

SEPTEMBER 5th, 1825.

WRITTEN IN ARABIC, AND FORTY COPIES OF IT SENT IN MANUSCRIPT.

DEAR FRIENDS:

As I have often been asked in this country, "Have the English any re ligion? Do they believe in the Divinity of Christ? Do they hold to the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper?" I have thought proper, before my departure from you, to give you, in few words, some of the leading Articles of my own faith, and then exhibit to you some rea