ABYSSINIA AND CHRISTIANITY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 24.

ABYSSINIA AND CHRISTIANITY.

THERE is a very large negro church in this city known as the Abyssinian Baptist Church. When it was founded some one told the pastor that it was abominable to name a Christian church after a heathen country; but Abyssinia is not a heathen country. Christianity went down there at a very early period, and the traveler in Jerusalem who fails to visit the Abyssinian convent, or to see the Abyssinians performing religious services allowed to them in the holy places, fails to make realistic to himself the existence of this great semibarbaric Christian people, now ruled by one of the greatest men of the world.—N. Y. Christian Advocate, Jan. 22, 1903.