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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
    "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
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      "chunk_title": "Gauhati Policy Introduced",
      "chunk_data": "135. THE GAUHATI POLICY (1895 A.D.)\nThe Gauhati Policy was devised by American Baptist missionaries working the Gauhati field of the Assam Mission as practical means of implementing the much talked about three-self formula. Largely the work of C. E. Burdette, it is especially noteworthy for its views on the proper relationship between missionaries and the Indian churches. C. E. Burdette in the Assam Baptist Missionary Conference Report, 1895, pp. 26-29, Cited in F. S. Downs, The Mighty Works of God, pp. 189-191.",
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      "chunk_title": "Mission Aim Defined",
      "chunk_data": "This aim (of the Gauhati policy) is not specifically and simply the conversion of sinners; neither is it anything so vague as the conversion of the world. And whatever it is, it embraces more than the conversion of souls, for it must include the building up of them into a Christian society. Adopting the language of another it sets forth this as the true aim of missions, - the development of native churches with a view to their ultimate settlement upon a self-supporting, self-governing, self-extending system'...",
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        "event": "The Gauhati Policy defined the aim of missions as developing native churches toward self-support, self-government, and self-extension.",
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      "chunk_title": "Church Development Responsibility",
      "chunk_data": "In such a field as this, which has reached its present stage of progress after more than fifty years of mission effort and influence, we not only conceive of it as very important to do directly all we can to help forward the right development of these existing churches, and others that may spring up in connection with them; but, more than this, we conceive it to be incumbent on us not to do that which would tend to hinder or thwart their truest development. And instead of being content to look to some far-off future day for the 'ultimate' settlement of these churches on a self-supporting, self-governing and self-extending basis; we regard this ultimate end as a very present and progressively attainable end; and are constrained to bend our energies to its quickest and fullest possible attainment, confident that in this way we are doing most to hasten the day when in all parts of our large District the way of the Lord shall be fully known...",
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        "event": "The missionaries committed themselves to advancing the existing Indian churches toward their immediate and complete self-supporting, self-governing, and self-extending development.",
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      "chunk_title": "Missionaries as Fellow Servants",
      "chunk_data": "While striving to recognize to the full our relation to the native Christians as their brethren, and members with them of the body of Christ, and as fellow-servants with them of our one Lord and",
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