. Castes and tribes of southern India. Assisted by K. Rangachari . hem the most unqualified support. Themissionaries who superintended the education of theSyrian students in the seminary, having begun to teachthem doctrines contrary to those of the Jacobite Church,the cordiality and friendship that had existed betweenthe missionaries and the Metropolitan gradually gaveplace to distrust and suspicion. The party that clungto the time-honoured traditions and practices of theirchurch soon fanned the flame of discord, and snappedasunder the ties of friendship that had bound theMetropolitan to the m
. Castes and tribes of southern India. Assisted by K. Rangachari . hem the most unqualified support. Themissionaries who superintended the education of theSyrian students in the seminary, having begun to teachthem doctrines contrary to those of the Jacobite Church,the cordiality and friendship that had existed betweenthe missionaries and the Metropolitan gradually gaveplace to distrust and suspicion. The party that clungto the time-honoured traditions and practices of theirchurch soon fanned the flame of discord, and snappedasunder the ties of friendship that had bound theMetropolitan to the missionaries. Bishop Wilson ofCalcutta proceeded to Travancore to see if a reconcilia-tion could be effected. But his attempts in this directionproved fruitless, because the Syrians could not accepthis proposal to adopt important changes affecting theirspiritual and temporal concerns, such as doing awaywith prayers for the dead, the revision of their liturgy,the management of church funds, etc., and the Syriansfinally parted company with the missionaries in MAR DIONYSIUS. 439 SYRIAN CHRISTIAN Soon after this, disputes arose in regard to the funds andendowments of the seminary, but they were soon settledby arbitration in 1840, and the properties were dividedbetween the MetropoHtan and the missionaries. Themissionaries had friends among the Jacobites, some ofwhom became members of the Church of England. The Syrians were rather distressed, because theythought that the consecration of their Metropolitan byMar Philixenos was insufficient. They therefore memo-rialised the Patriarch of Antioch. There grew up also aparty hostile to the Metropolitan, and they sent toAntioch a Syrian Christian named Mathew. His arri-val at Antioch was most opportune. The Patriarch waslooking out for a proper man. Mathew was thereforewelcomed, and treated very kindly. He was conse-crated as Metropolitan by the Patriarch himself in 1842,and sent out with the necessary credentials. He arrivedin 1843 a
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