{"pages":{"213":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00237-912e6044dc4dab75a94a.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":466,"y":155,"width":249,"height":20}},{"text":"213","box":{"x":994,"y":150,"width":56,"height":21}},{"text":"121. BEGINNINGS OF PERMANENT CHRISTIAN WORK","box":{"x":155,"y":232,"width":896,"height":25}},{"text":"AMONG THE NAGAS (1872 A.D.)","box":{"x":337,"y":260,"width":514,"height":29}},{"text":"Godhula, an Assamese evangelist, was the first to undertake a","box":{"x":221,"y":315,"width":781,"height":27}},{"text":"successful Christian work among the Nagas. After an exploratory","box":{"x":186,"y":340,"width":816,"height":28}},{"text":"journey into the hills occupied by the Ao Nagas in the winter of 1871,","box":{"x":181,"y":365,"width":820,"height":29}},{"text":"he spent the winter months in the village of Dekha Haimong (Molung-","box":{"x":182,"y":389,"width":822,"height":28}},{"text":"kimong) during the succeeding years. There he gathered the first Naga","box":{"x":182,"y":415,"width":820,"height":27}},{"text":"Christian congregation. In a letter dated October 31, 1872, Edward","box":{"x":182,"y":441,"width":822,"height":27}},{"text":"Clark, who was to become the pioneer foreign missionary among the","box":{"x":183,"y":465,"width":819,"height":27}},{"text":"Nagas, describes the new Naga work. Cited in the Baptist Missionary","box":{"x":182,"y":490,"width":820,"height":28}},{"text":"Magazine, vol. LIII (1873), pp. 51-53.","box":{"x":182,"y":516,"width":444,"height":27}},{"text":"But what shall be done about this Naga work? I had much","box":{"x":179,"y":567,"width":873,"height":29}},{"text":"fear that I should be troubled to keep Goodhula and his wife on the","box":{"x":136,"y":593,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"hills during the rains. But not so. I presume he would have","box":{"x":134,"y":623,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"been down by this date, but he could not persuade the Nagas to","box":{"x":134,"y":651,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"delay longer in building him a good house. So he remains to see","box":{"x":134,"y":678,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"about that","box":{"x":137,"y":708,"width":148,"height":25}},{"text":"The Deka Harmong hill, where Goodhula and his wife have","box":{"x":182,"y":763,"width":876,"height":31}},{"text":"lived in good health during the last rainy season, is a low hill,","box":{"x":139,"y":790,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"2,600 or 2,700 feet high, but has no high hills close by.","box":{"x":136,"y":819,"width":808,"height":32}},{"text":"But other Nagas, talking the same language as the Deka","box":{"x":179,"y":875,"width":878,"height":31}},{"text":"Harmong, are on hills 4,000 or 5,000 feet high; villages large and","box":{"x":130,"y":903,"width":928,"height":35}},{"text":"powerful. But these villages, if accessible at all by missions now,","box":{"x":137,"y":927,"width":918,"height":36}},{"text":"must be reached by their own paths, which are by the Detoi","box":{"x":136,"y":956,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"River","box":{"x":136,"y":990,"width":84,"height":21}},{"text":"Let me give you a pretty literal translation of one of the last","box":{"x":185,"y":1042,"width":871,"height":34}},{"text":"letters from Goodhula. In these days, the Naga people are some-","box":{"x":137,"y":1071,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"what anxious about religion. Those calling themselves Christians","box":{"x":136,"y":1096,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"do so understandingly; thus many people desire to meet me. At","box":{"x":134,"y":1125,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"the present time there are 25 or 26 persons worshipping with me.","box":{"x":137,"y":1152,"width":917,"height":35}},{"text":"The Naga people say that their forefathers, in worshipping evil","box":{"x":136,"y":1180,"width":919,"height":35}},{"text":"spirits, found only the way to hell. We passed all our life-time in","box":{"x":137,"y":1208,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"fear. That there is death we know; besides this, that after death","box":{"x":139,"y":1236,"width":915,"height":38}},{"text":"our spirits went below the earth in company with ghosts, this we","box":{"x":139,"y":1264,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"learned from the mouth of our forefathers and so knew. That","box":{"x":139,"y":1293,"width":915,"height":27}},{"text":"there is a heaven we knew, but that man could go to heaven, this","box":{"x":140,"y":1320,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"we never heard. But against the teachings of our forefathers a new","box":{"x":140,"y":1347,"width":915,"height":38}},{"text":"doctrine has appeared; how true! how sweet! When we hear","box":{"x":139,"y":1377,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"this new story, water appears from the eye. Much sweeter than","box":{"x":141,"y":1406,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"all arrack, and than all pig meat do we find this narrative. To","box":{"x":140,"y":1429,"width":912,"height":36}},{"text":"continually hear this, our minds strongly desire. Goodhula's is","box":{"x":140,"y":1460,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"our happy house. In his house we find rest from all anxiety and","box":{"x":140,"y":1487,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"misery. How strange !","box":{"x":139,"y":1517,"width":329,"height":32}}]}}}