THIS book forms a continuation, or second part, of The Orthodox
Eastern Church by the same author. Its object is to describe the
lesser separated Eastern Churches in the same way as that described
the greatest. .. Greatest and lesser, by the way, are only meant to
qualify their size. No opinion is thereby expressed as to their
relative merit (see p. 446). There is a difference in the subject
of this volume, which affects its treatment. These smaller Churches
are much less known. There is a vast literature on the Orthodox
Church, so that the only difficulty in writing the former book was
that of selection and arrangement. Moreover, Orthodox official
documents and service-books (at least in their original form) are
in Greek, which it is no great merit to know. Much of the matter
treated here is rather of the nature of a land, if not unknown, at
least difficult of access. There is far less information to he had
about the other Eastern Churches. And their native literature is
contained in many difficult tongues. So to write this book was a
much more arduous task, and the result may be less satisfactory. On
the other hand, it has tIle advantage of greater originality.
Concerning the Orthodox I said nothing which could not be found
fairly casily in European books already. Here I think I have been
able, in certain points, to bring what will be new to anyone who
has not made some study of Eastern matters and languages. Part of
this is gathered from notes made by myself in their lands,
interviews with prelates and c1ergy of these rites, observations of
their services, and information supplied by friends in those parts.
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