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immigrated into the plains of Salmas and Urmia, to take up
arms against their respective Governments. The result was
that half of his people perished in the war and the rest
expelled from their native lands.
The great question which for a long time had been
working its solution in the mind of this priest was now
approaching its climax. Was Christianity, with all its multi-
tudinous shapes and colors, and with its unauthentic,
spurious and corrupted Scriptures, the true Religion of God?
In the summer of 1900 he retired to his small villa in the
middle of vineyards near the celebrated fountain of Chali-
Boulaghi in Digala, and there for a month spent his time in
prayer and meditation, reading over and over the Scriptures
in their original texts. The crisis ended in a formal resigna-
tion sent in to the Uniate Archbishop of Urmia, in which he
frankly explained to (Mgr.) Touma Audu the reasons
arms against their respective Governments. The result was
that half of his people perished in the war and the rest
expelled from their native lands.
The great question which for a long time had been
working its solution in the mind of this priest was now
approaching its climax. Was Christianity, with all its multi-
tudinous shapes and colors, and with its unauthentic,
spurious and corrupted Scriptures, the true Religion of God?
In the summer of 1900 he retired to his small villa in the
middle of vineyards near the celebrated fountain of Chali-
Boulaghi in Digala, and there for a month spent his time in
prayer and meditation, reading over and over the Scriptures
in their original texts. The crisis ended in a formal resigna-
tion sent in to the Uniate Archbishop of Urmia, in which he
frankly explained to (Mgr.) Touma Audu the reasons