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THE NESTORIANS AND THEIR RITUALS.
interested in their welfare; but the truth must be told in all faithfulness, and the following extracts carefully translated from the recognized authorities of the Nestorians may perhaps tend to a fuller and more just appreciation of their tenets, and ultimately lead to the best mode of correcting in them what is erroneous, and of perfecting in them what is wanting. To this end the present work was undertaken, and to this end the blessing of the Great Head of the Church is invoked upon it.
