Supna and in the Berwari district; from joining the ranks of the papal Chaldeans.
"Yet if this be all that the Church will undertake, it will be doing but little indeed, and therefore we beg that the Societies at home will not delay sending us such powers as may enable us to carry out the recommendations made in a former report. To that I refer your committee in preference to entering into any fresh details, or of making any new propositions, with regard to our proceedings in this country. Many Chaldeans at Mosul are anxiously waiting for us to enter upon some such measures as have already been proposed, and if these are sanctioned, I dare to express the hope, that through the Divine blessing, the Church of England will be instrumental in doing much good to the ancient churches in these regions."
Before leaving Asheetha Mar Shimoon gave me a letter addressed to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, of which the following is a translation.[1]
"The salutation of safety from God, and the peace of our Lord, from the mouth of Mar Shimoon, Catholicos and Patriarch of the Eastern regions, to you the Primate and Archbishop, the Catholicos and Patriarch of the English regions.
"Be it known unto your Grace that the presbyter George came unto us in these Eastern parts, and brought unto us three affectionate Epistles, one from your Grace, another from the Lord Bishop of London, and a third from the Bishop of the Holy City Jerusalem, which Epistles he read and explained in our hearing. We rejoiced exceedingly and beyond measure, first on account of the words which you sent to us in your fatherly epistles, and secondly, because of the arrival of George, the elect presbyter, and your deputy. He himself witnessed the
- ↑ The original of the above, and of several other letters from Mar Shimoon, addressed to the Primate and Bishops of the English Church, which will be found in this work, are preserved I believe in the archiepiscopal archives at Lambeth.
- ↑ All the Patriarch's epistles are headed with this cipher. The two Syriac letters stand for JAH, and the three dots above and the one below them are intended to denote the Trinity in Unity.
