{"pages":{"266":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00290-e75670ba88674b1f96d0.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"266","box":{"x":130,"y":148,"width":62,"height":18}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":358,"y":158,"width":479,"height":20}},{"text":"poor are, even now, enemies of the Christian Church! Now","box":{"x":136,"y":206,"width":921,"height":29}},{"text":"compare this with Islam. In the Mohammedan countries, all","box":{"x":133,"y":233,"width":922,"height":32}},{"text":"the ordinances are firmly established upon the Islamic religion,","box":{"x":134,"y":261,"width":918,"height":36}},{"text":"and its own preachers are greatly venerated by all the officials of","box":{"x":134,"y":288,"width":924,"height":35}},{"text":"the State, and teachers of other religions also are respected.","box":{"x":136,"y":315,"width":859,"height":36}},{"text":"135. THE GAUHATI POLICY (1895 A.D.)","box":{"x":271,"y":436,"width":645,"height":31}},{"text":"The Gauhati Policy was devised by American Baptist missio-","box":{"x":221,"y":496,"width":780,"height":28}},{"text":"naries working the Gauhati field of the Assam Mission as practical","box":{"x":183,"y":520,"width":819,"height":28}},{"text":"means of implementing the much talked about three-self formula.","box":{"x":180,"y":543,"width":820,"height":29}},{"text":"Largely the work of C. E. Burdette, it is especially noteworthy for its","box":{"x":182,"y":571,"width":819,"height":31}},{"text":"views on the proper relationship between missionaries and the Indian","box":{"x":180,"y":594,"width":820,"height":28}},{"text":"churches. C. E. Burdette in the Assam Baptist Missionary Conference","box":{"x":178,"y":620,"width":824,"height":31}},{"text":"Report, 1895, pp. 26-29, Cited in F. S. Downs, The Mighty Works","box":{"x":176,"y":647,"width":823,"height":27}},{"text":"of God, pp. 189-191.","box":{"x":183,"y":668,"width":246,"height":25}},{"text":"This aim (of the Gauhati policy) is not specifically and","box":{"x":176,"y":729,"width":871,"height":34}},{"text":"simply the conversion of sinners; neither is it anything so vague","box":{"x":130,"y":757,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"as the conversion of the world. And whatever it is, it embraces","box":{"x":127,"y":783,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"more than the conversion of souls, for it must include the building","box":{"x":127,"y":813,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"of them up into a Christian society. Adopting the language of","box":{"x":126,"y":840,"width":924,"height":35}},{"text":"another it sets forth this as the true aim of missions, -","box":{"x":129,"y":867,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"the development of native churches with a view to their ultimate","box":{"x":145,"y":897,"width":900,"height":29}},{"text":"settlement upon a self-supporting, self-governing, self-extending","box":{"x":126,"y":924,"width":919,"height":35}},{"text":"system'...","box":{"x":126,"y":946,"width":150,"height":31}},{"text":"In such a field as this, which has reached its present stage of","box":{"x":171,"y":1008,"width":875,"height":32}},{"text":"progress after more than fifty years of mission effort and influence,","box":{"x":122,"y":1038,"width":921,"height":31}},{"text":"we not only conceive of it as very important to do directly all we","box":{"x":119,"y":1063,"width":922,"height":35}},{"text":"can to help forward the right development of these existing churches,","box":{"x":116,"y":1091,"width":924,"height":35}},{"text":"and others that may spring up in connection with them; but,","box":{"x":122,"y":1121,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"more than this, we conceive it to be incumbent on us not to do","box":{"x":119,"y":1148,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"that which would tend to hinder or thwart their truest develop-","box":{"x":120,"y":1176,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"ment. And instead of being content to look to some far-off future","box":{"x":117,"y":1204,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"day for the 'ultimate' settlement of these churches on a self-","box":{"x":115,"y":1232,"width":919,"height":29}},{"text":"supporting, self-governing and self-extending basis; we regard","box":{"x":116,"y":1259,"width":919,"height":35}},{"text":"this ultimate end as a very present and progressively attainable","box":{"x":114,"y":1287,"width":921,"height":35}},{"text":"end; and are constrained to bend our energies to its quickest","box":{"x":114,"y":1316,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"and fullest possible attainment, confident that in this way we are","box":{"x":113,"y":1344,"width":922,"height":35}},{"text":"doing most to hasten the day when in all parts of our large District","box":{"x":110,"y":1373,"width":922,"height":35}},{"text":"the way of the Lord shall be fully known...","box":{"x":116,"y":1400,"width":603,"height":31}},{"text":"While striving to recognize to the full our relation to the native","box":{"x":152,"y":1459,"width":882,"height":31}},{"text":"Christians as their brethren, and members with them of the body","box":{"x":110,"y":1487,"width":925,"height":36}},{"text":"of Christ, and as fellow-servants with them of our one Lord and","box":{"x":112,"y":1515,"width":922,"height":29}}]}}}