Identifier: lifelightforwoma23woma (find matches)
Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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tells us of the Armenian king,Abgar Ucomo, who corresponded with Christ, inviting him to his beautifulcity, and that Thaddeus, one of the seventy, made this the seat of hisapostolic labors. An unchallenged Iecord, however, is found on the coins■of Abgar, in 170 A. D. : the cross of Christ is placed instead of the previoussymbols of idol worship. There was a Christian church in Edessa as earlyas 202 A. D. A hundred years later, through the teachings of Gregory, theIlluminator, the Armenian king, Tiridates, became a Christian, and wasbaptized; and then a national conversion followed, and Christianitygained a strong foothold. This was several years before Constantine had■established the Church in the Roman Empire, and thus the Armenian nationwas the first of all kingdoms in which Christianity became the religion of■the state. Very decidedly did the Edesseans at one time refuse to join in the 508 LIFE AND LIGHT.
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TOWER OF EDESSA. THE OLDEST OF SOLDIERS MONUMENTS. 309 heathen festivities of the Roman emperor and nobles who visited Haran (acity mentioned in Gen. xi. 31, near Ur), though it caused great enmity. Many great and eminent bishops lived in Edessa, some of whom werepresent at that great and important council at Nice, and fifty-five churcheswere founded within the city walls. Edessa became famous, also, for its intellectual activity, and many schoolsof learning were formed. The large tower represented before us marks thesite of the great theological seminary, to which the youth from other coun-tries came for an education ; and its students were sent out as missionaries,some as far as China. Stones have recently been found in China bearingancient inscriptions of the life and labors of these Edessean missionaries.This theological seminary was broken vip by Zeno, in 489 A. D. Many heathen countries contended for this territory, and it was successivelytaken by the Byzantine emperors, the Mon

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