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preserve *! by the spirit of bigotry ; and the mass of the . people do not fancy that there are in the world any tr \ k& Christians except themselves , and the . Russians . As for the English they contend they are not Chrisiia > Bs at all . If asked of
what religion we ace , they say , " We do not know , perhaps of none ; some call you Lutherans ; it is certain you are not Christians , you do * not cross yourselves" ( 5 £ j / xdwsts t 5 err an oh ) . A
respectable person addressed this argument to myself . The Turks have pretty much the same opinion of us ; and seeing that we show none of the external signs of reverence for Panagia , or other pictures , conclude us to bealtogether such
, infidels as themselves . A party of us were standing at the back part of a Roman Catholic chapel at Pera , whilst the service was going on at the other end . Just as the host was
elevatedj a Turk looked in at the door ^ and seeing the congregation paying their reverence to the wafer ^ thre w up his head with a look&of in-finite pity and contempt ,
at the-sanfe time smiling , and giving u shrug at us who were standing , as if < h # said , ' What must you * and i think of these poor fools ** " > .
The English have no place for public worship at Pera , and may , therefore , be thought itever to pray ^ ^ ajfr -tail ; service , however , ha $ been once or twice performed in tbe « tmba ^» ftdor s palace . But the . minister ^ ofvGatholic nations to
5 oitteUtn « s go ^ pcocession mass * Notwithstanding the disdain e « ite «|( Mm « d ' by ? the Turks for the Christian religion , they grant thek % protection to : * the Greek cle 5 < art and fed it their interest to ratify . the ordination of the great
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dignitaries of the church , Mahomet the Great presented to the first Patriarch chosen in his reign , the same gifts as the Emperors of the Greeks bad formerly given ; and , to this d ay , that sovereign
priest is invested in a triumphant manner by a minister of the Porte , who assists him in taking possession of the patriarchal church in that quarter of
Constantinople called Balat . His influence with the Porte is very great , and his applications to the Sultan are generally effectual : he can punish with death .
The dignity is now exposed to sale , costing about sixty thousand crowns , and the patriarch indemnifies himself by selling every lu *
crative place , the patriarchates of Jerusalem , Antioch , and Alexan * . dria , and all the archbishoprics within his jurisdiction . The Greeks themselves were the
beginners of this practice , and the first patriarch so elected ejected the incumbent by force ; a custom of which there are now frequent examples . Although the whole of the pa * triarch ' s usual revenue does not
amount to more than three thou 4 - * sand pounds , yet he has occasionally , by fines and extortions , the means of increasing his income"The richest bishops have not niore
than three hundred pounds a year . I find by the registry of a parish , in Yorkshire , that subscriptions were made in the beginning of Charles the First ' s reign , for the relief of the Greek church .
The synod of Constantinople * composed of the three patriarchs and twelve archbishops , meets every month for the manag ^ medt of church affairs , the only affairs now left at the absolute disposal of the Greeks .
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State of Religion amongst the Modern Greeks : 441
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/17/
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