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202 CITIES THAT NEVER DIE China had kept pretty good historical records up to that time — the oldest in the world. This old codger ordered them all burned on the theory that, with the records out of the way, he would be remembered as the first ruler of China. However, Sianfu, though its population is a million, is of little importance to-day to the out- side world, the chief interest in it centering in the fact that the Nestorian Christians located here about five hundred years after Christ. Ne...storius was a Christian priest at Antioch who fell out with the church authorities over some doctrinal matter. He picked up a colony and set out for China, having among his following one negro. For centuries these Christians sur- vived and battled away against the inborn paganism of the Chinese. Several hundred years ago they prepared a tablet telling of the glories of Christianity and set it up at Sianfu. It is still in existence. The Nestorians disap- peared from China long since, although when Marco Polo crossed the country he found many of them.
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