{"pages":{"204":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00228-873be16841106c2743d4.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"204","box":{"x":126,"y":153,"width":56,"height":18}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":350,"y":155,"width":472,"height":18}},{"text":"do need a liturgy of some kind. Then again, the status to be given","box":{"x":125,"y":205,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"to our native pastors, is a difficulty which each year waxes greater","box":{"x":127,"y":232,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"than ever. So long as the power of ordination is vested solely in","box":{"x":127,"y":259,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"the head of the Ecclesiastical Establishment of this land, and the","box":{"x":126,"y":287,"width":918,"height":28}},{"text":"native pastor becomes, to some extent, identified with European","box":{"x":126,"y":316,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"missionaries and clergymen, there must always be a danger, lest","box":{"x":126,"y":344,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"ordination should diminish, rather than increase his influence and","box":{"x":126,"y":371,"width":918,"height":29}},{"text":"usefulness amongst his countrymen; and a really worthy and useful","box":{"x":126,"y":401,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"fellow-labourer becomes sadly puffed up with pride and self-","box":{"x":126,"y":427,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"importance, by finding himself suddenly raised to such a position.","box":{"x":129,"y":455,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"Doubtless, this danger might be to a great extent obviated, were","box":{"x":120,"y":483,"width":922,"height":32}},{"text":"ordination conferred on our native pastors in our mission churches,","box":{"x":125,"y":511,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"-and still better, in the presence of their own congregations; but it","box":{"x":120,"y":539,"width":925,"height":31}},{"text":"is the fact of there being such danger at all-as illustrating the want","box":{"x":127,"y":567,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"of adaptation of a European and national system, to an Oriental","box":{"x":125,"y":595,"width":919,"height":29}},{"text":"and missionary church, -to which I desire to call your attention","box":{"x":126,"y":623,"width":917,"height":29}},{"text":"now.","box":{"x":125,"y":658,"width":69,"height":15}},{"text":"If this is so, and if it is really our object-not, as I remarked","box":{"x":174,"y":695,"width":871,"height":32}},{"text":"just now, to magnify ourselves, or to gain mere party adherents,","box":{"x":123,"y":723,"width":922,"height":36}},{"text":"but to bring glory to our Saviour, and win souls for Him, then","box":{"x":122,"y":748,"width":922,"height":32}},{"text":"surely we must all try, quietly and unobtrusively, to bring about","box":{"x":126,"y":777,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"such a state of things as Mr. Newton has sketched in his essay:","box":{"x":125,"y":803,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"and, instead of reproducing our own errors, or our own failings, in","box":{"x":126,"y":832,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"the Native Church of India, we shall seek to give it strength, and","box":{"x":125,"y":860,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"stability, and unity, -by sinking all minor considerations in the one","box":{"x":125,"y":888,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"great object of building it on the one foundation, even Christ:","box":{"x":123,"y":916,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth into an","box":{"x":146,"y":944,"width":897,"height":31}},{"text":"holy temple in the Lord.'","box":{"x":123,"y":972,"width":346,"height":31}},{"text":"117. ECUMENICAL PROBLEMS REGARDING BURIAL","box":{"x":125,"y":1053,"width":914,"height":24}},{"text":"GROUNDS (1866 A.D.)","box":{"x":417,"y":1081,"width":333,"height":28}},{"text":"One of the ecumenical problems often faced during the 19th century","box":{"x":211,"y":1128,"width":784,"height":27}},{"text":"concerned the question of the burial of Christians of other denomi-","box":{"x":176,"y":1152,"width":815,"height":27}},{"text":"nations in Anglican cemetaries. The following is part of a letter written","box":{"x":176,"y":1177,"width":815,"height":28}},{"text":"from Nowgong, Assam, by the American Baptist missionary Miles","box":{"x":175,"y":1203,"width":816,"height":25}},{"text":"Bronson, describing the problem and arrangements that had been made","box":{"x":171,"y":1229,"width":822,"height":25}},{"text":"to circumvent it by Bishop Cotton. Cited in the Baptist Missionary","box":{"x":178,"y":1254,"width":817,"height":25}},{"text":"Magazine, Vol. XLVII, (1867), pp. 46-47.","box":{"x":175,"y":1278,"width":486,"height":25}},{"text":"That good, devoted man of God, bishop Cotton, of Calcutta,","box":{"x":174,"y":1326,"width":866,"height":32}},{"text":"has just left us. His visit has been a pleasant one. The Episcopal","box":{"x":127,"y":1354,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"ceremony of consecrating the public burial ground here being about","box":{"x":125,"y":1383,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"to take place, I wrote him, stating that the burial ground had from","box":{"x":129,"y":1411,"width":911,"height":31}},{"text":"the first been open to Christians of all denominations, and that, in","box":{"x":129,"y":1438,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"consequence, we had children, missionary associates and friends","box":{"x":127,"y":1466,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"buried there; and, in case the act of consecration would in future","box":{"x":126,"y":1495,"width":915,"height":27}},{"text":"debar us from the right of sepulture there, in behalf of the mission","box":{"x":123,"y":1522,"width":917,"height":31}}]}}}