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BR 1390 .H65 1898
Holme, Leonard Ralph.
The extinction of the
Christian churches in Nortt



THE EXTINCTION



OF THE



CHRISTIAN CHUECHES



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NORTH AFRICA.



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PRINTED BY J. & C. F. CLAY,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.



THE EXTINCTION



OF THE



CHRISTIAN CHURCHES



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NORTH AFRICA.

HULSEAN PRIZE ESSAY, 1895.



BY

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L. R. HOLME, B.A.,

FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

LECTURER ON POLITICAL SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, ETC., IN THE UNIVERSITY

OF bishop's COLLEGE, LENNOXVILLE, P.Q. C.VNADA.



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C. J. CLAY AND SONS,

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,

AVE MARIA LANE.

1898
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PREFACE.



N breaking ground almost untrodden by modern
writers I have met with many difficulties, especially
in finding sources of information. In overcoming these
I have to acknowledge much kind assistance, without
which indeed this essay could never have been under-
taken or brought to a conclusion. Mr Thomas Hodgkin,
D.C.L., and the late Comte de Mas Latrie both shewed
the utmost kindness in answering the letters of a
beginner in the art of which they were masters. The
Rev. H. B. Swete, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity
in the University of Cambridge, was kind enough to
give much valuable advice and the Rev. W. Cunning-
ham, D.D., of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Mr James
Kennedy of the East India Club, referred me to in-
formation I should not otherwise have obtained.

The Rev. Professor Parrock, M.A., of the University
of Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Province