The Search for Peace in Times of Chaos—Volume Armenian, Jacobite, and Malabar communities Recent discussion between Coptic and Eastern Orthodox theologians has indicated that the controversies of the past, provoked mainly by verbal differences, could possibly be overcome and communion restored between the two.3 (see “An effort toward Union” in Special Doctrine.) The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abyssinian Church The Abyssinian Church is a daughter of the Coptic, and was founded in the fourth century, by two missionaries…from Alexandria It presents a strange mixture of barbarism, ignorance, superstition, and Christianity Its , which dates perhaps from the first missionaries, includes in the Old Testament, the apocryphal The Chronicles of Axuma (the former capital of the country), dating from the fourth century, receive almost the same honor as the Bible…The Abyssinian Church has retained even more Jewish elements than the Coptic It observes the Jewish Sabbath together with the Christian Sunday…Singularly enough it honors Pontius Pilate as a saint, because be washed his hands of innocent blood The endless controversies respecting the natures of Christ, which have died out elsewhere still rage there The Syrian Orthodox Church The Jacobites reside mostly in Syria, Mesopotamia, and Babylonia Their name comes down from their ecumenical metropolitan Jacob Baradai His followers teach that this remarkable man, in the middle of the sixth century, devoted himself for thirty-seven years (511–578), with unwearied zeal to the interests of the persecuted Monophysites In the garb of a beggar, he journeyed across the region amid the greatest dangers and privations; revived the patriarchate of Antioch; ordained bishops, priests, and deacons; organized churches; healed divisions; and thus saved the Monophysite body from impending extinction A part of the Jacobites have united with the Church of Rome Lately, some Protestant missionaries from America have also found entrance among them The Armenian Orthodox Church These are the most numerous, interesting, and hopeful of the Monophysite sects, and now the most accessible to evangelical Protestantism Their nationality reaches back into anti uity, like ount Ararat, at whose base lays their original home ~ 163 ~