APPENDIX,

(No. I.)

JOURNAL

OF

JOHANNES LAZARIDES.

(See p. 135.)

JULY 8, 1828 I arrived at the Point of Andros, from whence I made a tour of the neighbouring villages. I found a young Cephalonian, with whom I conversed, at length, on religious duties, on Regeneration, and that by the works of the Law no one can be justified (Rom. iii. 20); and that God hath given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son (1 John V. 11.) In the end, he became pleased, and professed his need of reformation. I sold a considerable number of Gospels (i. e. New Testaments) and Tracts; and presented copies of the latter, gratis, to many poor Children. From thence I went to the Kastro of Andros.

July 12

Conversation with a learned Latin (i. e. Roman Catholic). He expressed the opinion, that the English take the words of the Gospel according to the letter; and brought forward, as an example, 1 Tim. iii.12. i. e. they marry::-but the Wife of the Latin Priests is their Church." I read to him 1 Tim. iv. 1-3: The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some

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shall depart from the faith-forbidding to marry, &c.: and he remained without answer. I also proved to him concerning the Bread and Wine, that they are not changed, but remain in their original substance: and that the Scripture nowhere speaks of the Mediation of Saints, Angels, and the Holy Virgin: and even concerning the danger of Idolatry; and that they teach their people according to their own Tradition, and not according to the Gospel: (Matth. xv. 8, 9.) He was almost persuaded by my words.

July 18, 1828: Lamyra-Conversation with Hadji Papas Elias, concerning the Seven Mysteries. I pointed out to him two only as more essential, Baptism and the Communion, but with extreme friendship;—and spoke of the Traditions of their Fathers, who have handed down things at variance with the Gospel; and the injury resulting from them;-and concerning the new Forms of Prayer, and Uncanonical Books, which ought not to be read in the Church, but only those which are Canonical, and which these are;-and that the modern Idolatry (work of men's hands) resembles the Idolatry of the Ancient Greeks. I also read to him the passage Rom. i. 23. After I had spoken concerning many similar subjects, he said to me, "O that we might be counted worthy, Brother, to see one fold and one Shepherd; and that then the subjects of accusation, and the errors, might be obliterated from amongst us!"

I then passed to Mesaria, and was engaged in selling and distributing from noon to evening. I visited two

other villages, Menites and Apikia.

Throughout the whole of Andros, I did not leave Children, or small or great, without bringing them to an enthusiasm for reading such useful books. They have also a School, well built; to which Mr. Brewer presented ten dollars, for the payment of the Master. Hitherto, one of the Committee retains the ten dollars, and their School is not in a good state; since those Children only learn to read who are able to pay the Master. I therefore said twice to the Committee, many others being present: "Brethren, that present of the ten dollars was solely for the poor Children, who have not the means to pay a Master. You ought to have performed your duty in harmony with our object: we ought to have seen your Children enlightened. But since, hitherto, you have neglected duties so pleasing to God and so useful to the public, I now entreat you, in the name of God, to neglect them no more. I really see the desire of your Children. hope I have benefitted you all, both with words and with the distribution of the Word of God: and if I perceive that you have the desire and a change of mind, I will present you with 15 Gospels, gratis, for the poor Children; which, after they have read and been catechized from them at least twice in the week, must be left in the Library of the School; and thus must always remain there, for successive scholars." They gave me promises, that, on the arrival of the Governor, Count Metaxa, they would act according to the advice which I had given them. Almost continually I was conversing in the style of

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exhortation, in different parts, and often in assemblies of many Christians:-"Brethren, what advantage is it to us to abstain from various kinds of food, whilst we devour the flesh of our brethren with evil-speaking; and with other impieties, by means of which we defile the true kind of fasting? True Fasting consists in bringing into subjection our evil passions. There are some persons who abstain, during Lent, from smoking tobacco, and from coffee; and who become inaccessible, and of downcast appearance, in order to do honour to the Fast and some adorn the pictures and temples of the Saints, whilst they oppress the innocent, and leave without assistance Christians suffering want, who are the temple of the Living God. And yet such persons imagine that they have accomplished all that is necessary for their salvation. No, no, Brethren, they have not accomplished what is necessary; and, in fact, they subject themselves to the rebuke of Christ, by confining their piety to external observances, and neglecting the weightier matters of the Law-judgment, mercy, and faith: Matth. xxiii. 23. Such persons, according to the heavenly Truth, worship God in vain, with the lips only, and not with their heart; and teach other doctrines—their own commandments: (Isaiah xxix. 13. Matth. xv. 8, 9.) In order that we may avoid all unlawful worship, we must not have before us (as the Holy Scripture commands us) either an Image, or the likeness of any thing that is in heaven or in earth; but, on the contrary, we must worship God with spirit and truth."