hich adorn the records of the Church in
North Africa may be mentioned: St. Cyprian, a native of Carthage, and
afterwards Bishop of that city, who suffered martyrdom, A.D. 258, and
St. Augustine, a native of Numidia (or what we now call Algeria), who
was educated at Carthage, was consecrated Bishop of Hippo, A.D. 393,
and died A.D. 430. He left behind him a great number of writings, the
influence of which has been largely felt by the Church of England.

[Sidenote: St. Matthew in Ethiopia.]

The CHURCH OF ETHIOPIA, now represented by Abyssinia, was planted by
St. Matthew, the way having, perhaps, been prepared by that "man of
Ethiopia," the eunuch "under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians," of whom
we read in Acts viii. 27-39. Little is clearly known of the early
Christian history of this region; but the Ethiopian Church appears to
have come under the patriarchal rule of the Bishop of Alexandria
towards the beginning of the fourth century. Though keeping clear of
Arianism, the Ethiopian Christians became deeply tinged with the
Eutychian heresy, by which Dioscorus and his successors were unhappily
led away.

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Section 6. _The Eastern Church._

Of the Churches now comprehended in Turkey in Asia, the foundation and
early history of PALESTINE, as represented by the CHURCH IN JERUSALEM,
and of SYRIA, as represented by the CHURCH IN ANTIOCH, have been
already related (Chapters I. and II.).

[Sidenote: Death of St. James.]

St. James the Less, first Bishop of Jerusalem, was martyred A.D. 63,
and succeeded by Simeon, the son of Cleopas, in whose episcopate the
destruction of Jerusalem took place, A.D. 70. [Sidenote: Flight to
Pella.] The Christians, in obedience to the prophetic teaching of their
Divine Master, had already fled for safety to Pella, whence they
afterwards returned to take up their abode amongst the ruins of the
Holy City. In A.D. 132, a rebellious outbreak of the Jews, under the
leadership of Barchochebas, drew down on them a severe chastisement
from the Emperor Hadrian, and the Jewish Christians suffered much from
being confounded with their rebellious countrymen. The ruins of the
ancient city were completely destroyed, whilst no Jew was allowed to
enter the new city of Aelia Capitolina, which was built on its site.
[Sidenote: Extinction of Judaism in Church of Jerusalem.] The Jewish
Christians now entirely gave up all profession of Judaism, and the
first Judaism in _Gentile_ Bishop of Jerusalem