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Rh 4. Mâr Thomas Christians (the Reformed body; about 100,000; 168 churches, one bishop now alive).

5. The Church of Anjur in British Malabar (a small body with one bishop, in communion with the Mâr Thomas Church).

6. The Nestorians at Trichur (about 8000, one bishop).

7. "Church of England Syrians" (those who have joined the Church of England under the C.M.S.; under the Anglican clergy).

8. The Yoyomayans, a small Christian Chiliast sect, founded in 1874 by a Brahmin convert, Justus Joseph, called "Vidvan Kutti " (the learned person).

Lastly, there is a racial difference between the "Northist (Nordhist)" and "Southist (Suddhist)" Christians of Malabar. This crosses all the religious bodies and leads to much further quarrelling. Northists and Southists do not intermarry; each despise the others. Even the Uniate Northists and Southists quarrel. The Southists have lately secured a special Vicar Apostolic of their own race. But this belongs to the history of the Uniate Churches.

With regard to their Canon Law, it may be taken that the Jacobites follow that of the Jacobite Patriarch, the small Nestorian body at Trichur that of Mâr Shim'un. The priests are "Katanars," the deacons "Shamâshe." The non-Uniates have no monks, nor nuns, nor minor orders. Silbernagl says that priests may marry after ordination! But so gross a violation of Canon Law seems impossible in any old Church. I think he must mean the Reformed sect, or confuse with them. They, naturally, hold the usual Protestant principles.

6. Faith and Rites

Little need be said about these, because both are simply Jacobite.

The editor of the Madras Church Missionary Record for November, 1835, draws up a list of the "principal errors of