The Nestor fail Church.

Southland Times, Issue 4186, 29 November 1881, Page 2

The Nestor fail Church.

TO THE EDITOR. T ' SiR r — rljperceiye>fi;om^ jth% rlqcaL, which appeared in your- issufr of the 24th inst. that -a representative of the^egtoiiajl Church is in our midst collecting subscriptions for the ' purpose of educating 'his people. All true philanthropists will fwish him success in this noble and praiseworthy enterprise, seeing that " Edtic^fiori " md the." Press Lamthit £w£ jeotfn^ jyenft of diffusing knowledge and cinlising^ the human race^ciyilizationjfirst, Christianity next. The Neetorians have derived iheir name as a distinctive sect from NeatowM, the celebrated Bishop of Constantiqppjjl. In those days of dissension vft dispute had arisen between Nestorius q Qyrja), Prelate of Alexandria. It began about the titles of the Virgin Mary, and. the question was whether- she 'ought to<be honored with the epithet " Mother- of God." Nestorius in adopting th'^nefcative Was upon the side •of truth: This^ dispute, (howeTeTrfnoQfftinued ■ntil^ irilvaihiattempta to explain thi union of the two -natures iniChrist, the Nestorians asserted that there were two persons:'! ttnltejj mqdpr oi^e aspect > ;This fixed upon them.; the charge of heresy -and their— enemies .- tciumphad^ Sa_this .section of theiGcrleek .Chjirch. .spre^o^er Persia and; Arabia before the tin>*. <>f j|aho^t, Serguis,. the m^xate aß.so,piate of M*homat, and tlve principal contfiTer L of the w.hich be»r^ the impostor's name belonged. ' He had cdatfact^an m--fimacy \yim' l! thd youthful and engapag : tfephew, Abu Jileb, whom he first to«V*t ■ Bostra, a city' pn the cbnfiaes <6f and it wae further cherished by the particular attentjpn; afterwards, him by the olegaqt/hj^parid of the opulent Cadigha, when ho revipj^ed ; |ha^.city, or xrhtsa ' they taeU at Jerjjaajqgj, l^hprtij aftei-; this Serguis, ipal^^Xsth^^rjjibjan writer*, the iiuonkj is an iAwUjiaiiW^f^jWgnifyingrjQam^VtwneJ-jOut,

pasture), was a minister of the Greek Church (the Nestorian class) who had fallen' into error and immorality of the deepest dye. Exconnnunicated from the Church aad expelled from the monastery, he fled to Mecca. A man of genius and literature, suited to the purposes of Mahomet, and novr reduced to the necessity of laboring for his bread, he entered readily into thtriewsof the grandson of the famed llotallab. Both were unrestrained by moral principle ; the one was needy, and the other a splendid merchant of uncommon address and boundless ambi- • tim But Mahomet felt one deficiency which was likely to prove irremediable. H« with all his natural talentß and acquirements, lived in a socisty into which literature had nerer been introduced, and he could not himself either read or write, j Without the smoke of the pit nothing could bt done. The Koran must be contrived «nd executed, and to this task the son of Abdallah was entirely unequal. He had mot the bey of the Abyss. Tho Koran is the smoke (smoke in the figurative language of Scripture denotes delusive doctrines) from which tho locusts spread over the land, and tho author of the Koran is the person designated in the prophecy of the book o£ Revelation, chapter ix, 1, as "the fallen Btar 1 ' unto whom was given the key (power or knowledge) to open the Abyss. -This fallen star is Serguis— in •yihbolic language, a star fallen from hearen to earth, signifies either a civil or theological character degraded from the political or •eclesiastical heavens. To Berguis, therefore, must be ascribed the Work of composing the Koran, the religion of the Mussulman. The histories of that age appear, it is truo, at a losa'wbetber to ascribe the work to a Jew, a Persian, or a Monk, for each of those threjt jfaa an associate to the impostor, but internal eTidance is furnished by the Koran itself that it ojf.es its origin to some one acquainted with Christianity, and undiubtedlythe "Apocalyptical prediction determines the question. It *as a fallen ■tar"' *that opened the Abyss and let loose the smoke (the Saracenic hordes) ' inder their King. His name is Abaddon •rApollyoo— each of these words sigaihes * a destroyer. It was in the year 606 a.d. that Mahomet commenced his imposture by retiring to the cave of Hera under pre- " tence io receive communications of the angel Gabriel, as he gave out The monk Serrm was the Gabriel of Mahomet. When he had finished his work in composinjt the Koran, he was put to death by his base patron for fear he should afterwards betray the imposture. Though the period «f 1260 years measures the duration of the little horn of Mecca, it does not measure tQe'dutation of the judgments of God, but only the commencement of these. Ihe Wnnihg of the end" will be seen at the termination of the 1260. If then to A.D. '■ fiO6 We add 1260, 1290, and 1335 we have " „ the Jesuit a.d. 1866, 1896, and 1941 (Daniel, 12 chap.)— l am, &c. W. G. MacKat. November 28th, 1881: