We ARE what YOU once were.
We believe what you once believed.
We worship as you once worshipped.
If YOU were RIGHT then, WE are RIGHT now.
If WE are WRONG now, YOU were WRONG then!!!
"Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today; and the same forever." (Hebrews 13:8)
We follow the unchanged Dogmatically defined precepts of the Apostolic Church as prescribed by centuries of Saints, Blesseds, Doctors of the Church and Dogmatic Councils.
Here we cannot boast in great numbers, neither of renown, nor of wealth, nor of learning - all that is valued in this world. We are strong here only in one thing - in possessing the Orthodox Faith, "and that not of ourselves; it is a gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8); and we should ask the Lord for the increase of this gift. Let them stand fast in Thy Holy Church in the Orthodox Faith.
[St. Tikhon, Bishop in America from 1898-1907, Patriarch of Moscow from 1917-1925]