Eastern Orthodox Churches

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    “Now Morn her rosy steps in th’ eastern clime
    Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
    You may get a bland smile from these sages;
    But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
    Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)