Two Nestorians at the Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Limehouse, 1862. Priest Yohanan (John)...had heard of the Turkish Missions Aid idea struck him that if of his people [ie extreme poverty] were more widely known in England help would be set out for England on ;without purse or scrip"...attended by Deacon Yiskhak (Isaac)...When we add that Yohanan is sixty-two years of age, and knows only a few words of English, the strong faith or love of adventure which animated the old man, who previous to 1861 had never wandered beyond his nat
Two Nestorians at the Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Limehouse, 1862. Priest Yohanan (John)...had heard of the Turkish Missions Aid idea struck him that if of his people [ie extreme poverty] were more widely known in England help would be set out for England on ;without purse or scrip"...attended by Deacon Yiskhak (Isaac)...When we add that Yohanan is sixty-two years of age, and knows only a few words of English, the strong faith or love of adventure which animated the old man, who previous to 1861 had never wandered beyond his native plain, becomes [They] crossed the Caucasus, wandered over the Steppes of arrived [in London] the first Nestorians who ever visited this John's discourse is thoroughly primitive and Oriental, and evinces an intimate acquaintance with the Holy [He has] features of the highest Syrian deacon a sallower evangelical section of the British probably desire to become more nearly acquainted with these interesting strangers who appeal to our sympathies both as representatives of a primitive Christian Church and as footsore wanderers from the shores of the Caspian'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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