{"pages":{"149":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00173-39d477898bf5604b6313.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":455,"y":140,"width":246,"height":20}},{"text":"149","box":{"x":982,"y":132,"width":55,"height":21}},{"text":"98. THE LEIPZIG MISSIONARY SOCIETY ON CASTE","box":{"x":123,"y":201,"width":907,"height":25}},{"text":"(1851 A.D.)","box":{"x":494,"y":230,"width":165,"height":31}},{"text":"During the early nineteenth century the question of the attitude","box":{"x":218,"y":271,"width":768,"height":32}},{"text":"missionaries should take towards caste was much debated. The state-","box":{"x":172,"y":298,"width":816,"height":25}},{"text":"ment given here was made by K. Graul in a pamphlet entitled Expla-","box":{"x":172,"y":322,"width":816,"height":31}},{"text":"nation concerning the Principles of the Leipzig Missionary Society,","box":{"x":172,"y":348,"width":815,"height":27}},{"text":"with regard to the Caste Question, in the context of a disagreement","box":{"x":171,"y":372,"width":816,"height":28}},{"text":"with missionaries of the S.P.G. The portion quoted here is from","box":{"x":171,"y":396,"width":815,"height":27}},{"text":"pp. 1-4.","box":{"x":174,"y":427,"width":101,"height":20}},{"text":"The Leipzig Society fully acknowledges that Caste (although","box":{"x":172,"y":462,"width":864,"height":32}},{"text":"on its outset apparently a rather natural distinction of race and","box":{"x":127,"y":489,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"occupation) is, as it now exists among the heathen, not a merely civil","box":{"x":129,"y":518,"width":910,"height":38}},{"text":"but also religious institution, inasmuch, as in its course of deve-","box":{"x":123,"y":544,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"lopment, in order to stamp it with a higher authority, it has been","box":{"x":129,"y":573,"width":908,"height":34}},{"text":"based on a religious ground. She acknowledges moreover, that","box":{"x":126,"y":600,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"Caste, in the sense of the Hindu Shastras, is totally opposed to the","box":{"x":126,"y":630,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"word and spirit of the Gospel, -asserting however, that the holding","box":{"x":122,"y":657,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"of Caste in the Native Churches is essentially different from the","box":{"x":126,"y":682,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"holding of Caste among the heathen: (1) because the indiscrimi-","box":{"x":127,"y":713,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"nate partaking of the same cup at the Lord's table necessarily","box":{"x":129,"y":741,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"involves the breaking of Caste in the full sense of the Shastras; and","box":{"x":132,"y":765,"width":908,"height":38}},{"text":"(2) because, by introducing the holy Scripture, which expressly","box":{"x":129,"y":795,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"declares the common origin of the whole human race, instead of the","box":{"x":125,"y":824,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"Shastras, the heathenish superstitious basis is withdrawn and Caste","box":{"x":127,"y":852,"width":911,"height":31}},{"text":"so ceases to be a religious us institution with the Native Christians.","box":{"x":132,"y":877,"width":879,"height":36}},{"text":"But although our Society views Caste among the Native Chris-","box":{"x":169,"y":925,"width":872,"height":34}},{"text":"tians in the light of a national institution, devoid of its. superadded","box":{"x":130,"y":953,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"heathenish basis, she is fully aware that even so it is not the best one","box":{"x":130,"y":981,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"now, and hopes indeed that in the course of time its rigour will be","box":{"x":134,"y":1009,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"subdued and the social chasm between the different Castes be filled","box":{"x":133,"y":1037,"width":910,"height":28}},{"text":"up,-believing at the same time, that a thoroughly satisfactory","box":{"x":132,"y":1065,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"change of that deepest rooted national institution cannot be brought","box":{"x":129,"y":1092,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"about, before the Native congregations attain to the full growth","box":{"x":132,"y":1120,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"of a national Church. The best means, to help on that natural","box":{"x":132,"y":1149,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"course of development, the Leipzig Society sees in a sound Christian","box":{"x":132,"y":1176,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"education for the lower classes, in the effort of raising them to","box":{"x":130,"y":1205,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"respectability by means of their acquirements and in a gradual","box":{"x":133,"y":1233,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"discountenancing of religious Caste distinctions in the Church.","box":{"x":126,"y":1258,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"This last point was expressly stipulated and agreed to by the Seceders","box":{"x":130,"y":1289,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"at Vepery, when they petitioned for readmission into the Lutheran","box":{"x":134,"y":1315,"width":908,"height":34}},{"text":"Church.","box":{"x":130,"y":1347,"width":113,"height":25}},{"text":"The principal difference between our society and those, who","box":{"x":176,"y":1387,"width":866,"height":34}},{"text":"differ from them, seems to me to consist in the method adopted for","box":{"x":130,"y":1415,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"the removal of the Caste evils. According to Romans XIV. 17. the","box":{"x":134,"y":1441,"width":910,"height":31}},{"text":"Leipzig Society does not hold herself entitled to cut off any one","box":{"x":132,"y":1471,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"from the body of Christ on account of Caste, if it be not made a","box":{"x":132,"y":1500,"width":912,"height":29}}]},"150":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00174-a4f02697138ccfc702fb.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"150","box":{"x":144,"y":146,"width":53,"height":18}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":365,"y":154,"width":474,"height":21}},{"text":"pretext for notoriously immoral behaviour. Instruction, exhortion","box":{"x":143,"y":200,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"and example that Society acknowledges to be the most efficient","box":{"x":144,"y":229,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"means and in that point she knows herself to be in full harmony","box":{"x":141,"y":256,"width":910,"height":36}},{"text":"with the Word and Spirit of the Gospel as well as with the practice","box":{"x":140,"y":286,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"of the Apostles, who did not interfere with national institutions in","box":{"x":143,"y":313,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"any way, except by preaching the truth, by exhorting the weak,","box":{"x":144,"y":343,"width":905,"height":35}},{"text":"and by setting a good example, -as for instance in the case of","box":{"x":143,"y":369,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"slavery, although the Greek word for slave (being a neuter) as well","box":{"x":144,"y":398,"width":904,"height":35}},{"text":"as the general usage did not only obscure the common origin of","box":{"x":140,"y":426,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"slave and of the master, but placed the slave without the sphere of","box":{"x":141,"y":454,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"rational beings altogether, and compared him not only to a 'horse","box":{"x":141,"y":482,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"or ox' but even to an inanimate 'tool' in the hand of the 'artisan'.","box":{"x":141,"y":509,"width":903,"height":29}},{"text":"(Aristotle: 'the slave is an animate tool and the tool an inanimate","box":{"x":134,"y":537,"width":911,"height":29}},{"text":"slave.') Moreover the Leipzig Society knows herself to side with","box":{"x":137,"y":564,"width":907,"height":38}},{"text":"the great majority of Christian Missionaries from the very beginning","box":{"x":135,"y":592,"width":908,"height":35}},{"text":"of the Christian Church up to the present time. In one word, the","box":{"x":134,"y":621,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"attacks of our Society are not so much aimed at the Caste Institu-","box":{"x":134,"y":649,"width":907,"height":31}},{"text":"tion, as at the trusts that as soon as the Caste Spirit is expelled by","box":{"x":135,"y":677,"width":907,"height":35}},{"text":"the Spirit and in the way of the Spirit, all that is wrong in Caste,","box":{"x":134,"y":702,"width":907,"height":36}},{"text":"will fall down as a ' caput mortuum'. Now, as the Word of God","box":{"x":129,"y":729,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"is Spirit that Society thinks it to be her duty to handle it in its full","box":{"x":134,"y":761,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"extent by preaching, teaching and exhorting, and then patiently to","box":{"x":131,"y":786,"width":910,"height":38}},{"text":"wait for the final result, of which there can be no doubt, since the","box":{"x":127,"y":813,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"word of God is quick and sharper than any two edged sword and","box":{"x":127,"y":844,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and the joints","box":{"x":127,"y":871,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"and marrow.' Whatever may be effected by merely outward","box":{"x":128,"y":898,"width":908,"height":34}},{"text":"measures, our Society sees in the light of St. Mark ii, 21.22. and","box":{"x":124,"y":926,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"although it may be admired by many it cannot excite her admiration,","box":{"x":127,"y":954,"width":907,"height":34}},{"text":"because she knows, that man looketh on the outward appearance,","box":{"x":124,"y":982,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"but the Lord looketh on the heart.'","box":{"x":122,"y":1005,"width":480,"height":27}},{"text":"In order to illustrate the principles of the Lutheran Church on","box":{"x":170,"y":1068,"width":864,"height":32}},{"text":"similar points, I beg leave to quote here some words, spoken by","box":{"x":124,"y":1096,"width":910,"height":36}},{"text":"Luther on occasion of Carlstadt's hasty and forcible measures","box":{"x":120,"y":1123,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"against Popish abuses. 'One ought to catch first man's heart,","box":{"x":123,"y":1152,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"which is effected by handling the word of God, by preaching the","box":{"x":113,"y":1176,"width":917,"height":36}},{"text":"Gospel and by detecting the errors of the people. If you would","box":{"x":113,"y":1208,"width":917,"height":36}},{"text":"proceed in that manner, then the word, you preach, would fall","box":{"x":116,"y":1234,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"to-day into this man's heart and to-morrow into that man's heart.","box":{"x":119,"y":1260,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"So the abuse itself would at last crumble and vanish. Charity","box":{"x":117,"y":1289,"width":910,"height":36}},{"text":"requires, that thou shouldst have patience with the weak, until","box":{"x":120,"y":1319,"width":907,"height":35}},{"text":"they become strong in faith like thyself. Thus all the apostles","box":{"x":116,"y":1346,"width":910,"height":35}},{"text":"have acted. Summa summarum, I will preach it, I will teach it,","box":{"x":114,"y":1377,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"I will write it, but I will not use any forcible means. I have all the","box":{"x":116,"y":1402,"width":908,"height":35}},{"text":"time only handled, preached, and written the word of God, and while","box":{"x":113,"y":1431,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"I have been sleeping, that very word has wrought so much, that by","box":{"x":113,"y":1457,"width":912,"height":38}},{"text":"its power Popery has been weakened more than by any monarch","box":{"x":113,"y":1487,"width":908,"height":35}},{"text":"or emperor.\"..","box":{"x":111,"y":1515,"width":193,"height":25}}]}}}