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Church attribute to it many superstitious views and 

 observances ; but as recent inquiries bring to us 

 more and more information, it is found to be much 

 more free from all such additions than the Roman 

 Church. Being an oriental Church, of course its 

 modes of expression are much more glowing and 

 striking than are usual in the Churches of the West ; 

 and embracing within its fold a very large proportion 

 of uneducated persons, there are superstitious views 

 and practices maintained by some which are not 

 authorized by the authority of the Church itself. 

 Her highest authority has declared the faith of the 

 Eastern Church to be "that which the Holy Scrip- 

 tures, the Apostolic tradition, and the Ecumenical 

 Councils of the undivided Church have defined for 

 us." 



Important movements are now progressing on the 

 part of the Anglican and American Churches to 

 secure more thorough information respecting the 

 principles of the Eastern Church, with the view of 

 bringing about, if possible, some re-union. The 

 movements to this end are watched with great 

 interest, because of their bringing to light the actual 

 condition and the internal affairs of a great branch 

 of the Church of Christ, which has for so many 

 years been, as it were, locked up from the gaze of 

 Western Christians. 



The Church of England. — It took man/ 



