The Isle That Is Called Patmos. E-book. Formato PDF William Edgar Geil   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

N ow behold the Crown of Ionia, the ?ower Of the Levant, the queen city of the East. Smyrna is beautiful, lying from the water's edge up to the solitary cypress tree which, like a lone sentinel, keeps watch beside the grave of the angel of the church at Smyrna, Polycarp.

Yankee on the Yangtze: Being a Narrative of a Journey, From Shanghai Through the Central Kingdom to Burma. E-book. Formato PDF William Edgar Geil   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The Roman Christians tried next, Franciscans and Jesuits both innoculating the East. They were only too complaisant to native ideas, the Jesuits, at least, wire drawing their doctrines to an unprecedented tenuity. Yet they too failed, and their work was cut short.