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This Conference considers that no one who belongs or has","box":{"x":136,"y":322,"width":873,"height":32}},{"text":"belonged to a Church, with full rights and privileges of membership,","box":{"x":92,"y":348,"width":917,"height":38}},{"text":"should be received into the fellowship of the Church of a sister","box":{"x":92,"y":380,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"Mission, without reference to the official representative of the former,","box":{"x":91,"y":406,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"or to the Mission with which the applicant is or has been","box":{"x":94,"y":435,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"connected.","box":{"x":92,"y":469,"width":148,"height":22}},{"text":"2. This Conference considers it generally desirable, in the","box":{"x":141,"y":517,"width":868,"height":34}},{"text":"interests of Church discipline and harmony, that excommunicated","box":{"x":97,"y":545,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"persons, or persons under discipline in any Church, shall not be","box":{"x":95,"y":575,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"received into the membership of any other Church until the bar","box":{"x":98,"y":600,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"has been removed by the Church which exercised the discipline.","box":{"x":94,"y":628,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"143. CONVERSION EXPERIENCE OF SADHU","box":{"x":193,"y":747,"width":725,"height":25}},{"text":"SUNDER SINGH (1904 A.D.)","box":{"x":336,"y":779,"width":435,"height":31}},{"text":"Sadhu Sunder Singh became well known throughout the world","box":{"x":183,"y":836,"width":781,"height":31}},{"text":"for his effort to adopt his forms of Christian ministry to the traditional","box":{"x":144,"y":862,"width":822,"height":31}},{"text":"religious patterns of India. This account of his conversion expe-","box":{"x":147,"y":886,"width":817,"height":32}},{"text":"rience, on 18th December 1904, was given by Sadhu Sunder Singh","box":{"x":148,"y":911,"width":815,"height":32}},{"text":"himself twenty-five years later. Extracts from Sadhu Sunder Singh,","box":{"x":143,"y":938,"width":820,"height":28}},{"text":"With and Without Christ, pp. 92-102.","box":{"x":144,"y":966,"width":445,"height":27}},{"text":"I often used to read the Hindu Scriptures till midnight, that I","box":{"x":143,"y":1024,"width":869,"height":32}},{"text":"might in some way quench the thirst of my soul for peace. My","box":{"x":94,"y":1055,"width":918,"height":36}},{"text":"father often objected, saying: 'It is bad for your health to read","box":{"x":97,"y":1081,"width":917,"height":36}},{"text":"so late. Though there was much in my home to make me happy,","box":{"x":92,"y":1110,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"I was not attracted by it. My father often remonstrated with me,","box":{"x":97,"y":1137,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"saying: 'Boys of your age think of nothing but games and play,","box":{"x":94,"y":1166,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"but how has this mania possessed you at so early an age? There is","box":{"x":97,"y":1194,"width":915,"height":38}},{"text":"plenty of time to think of these things later in life. I suppose you","box":{"x":91,"y":1223,"width":919,"height":34}},{"text":"must have got this madness from your mother and the Sadhu.'","box":{"x":93,"y":1249,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"I frequently asked the pundit to explain my spiritual difficulties","box":{"x":144,"y":1305,"width":868,"height":35}},{"text":"for me. He said: 'Your difficulites seem to be of new and strange","box":{"x":95,"y":1335,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"kind. I can only say that when you grow up and get more expe-","box":{"x":94,"y":1362,"width":918,"height":36}},{"text":"rience and knowledge about spiritual life, these difficulties will","box":{"x":97,"y":1388,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"disappear of themselves.","box":{"x":94,"y":1425,"width":337,"height":31}},{"text":"I spoke to the Sadhu several times about my difficulties, but he","box":{"x":144,"y":1474,"width":872,"height":34}},{"text":"also gave me a somewhat similar answer: 'Do not worry about it.","box":{"x":94,"y":1502,"width":922,"height":34}},{"text":"H.C.I.-19","box":{"x":191,"y":1550,"width":126,"height":25}}]},"290":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00314-468178ea9b210d36c040.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"290","box":{"x":157,"y":130,"width":59,"height":18}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":388,"y":136,"width":479,"height":18}},{"text":"When you get knowledge (gyan), all these difficulties will disappear.'","box":{"x":157,"y":183,"width":925,"height":34}},{"text":"I replied: No doubt oubt it is true that when I obtain this perfect","box":{"x":164,"y":210,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"ultimate knowledge my difficulties will disappear, but even at this","box":{"x":160,"y":238,"width":924,"height":34}},{"text":"stage, the little knowledge that I have should remove some of my","box":{"x":164,"y":265,"width":919,"height":34}},{"text":"difficulties, while I should be able to hope for further enlightenment","box":{"x":160,"y":293,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"in the future. But I do not see how this increase of knowledge","box":{"x":164,"y":318,"width":918,"height":38}},{"text":"will be able to do much, for it looks as if further knowledge will","box":{"x":158,"y":350,"width":924,"height":32}},{"text":"result in my needs and difficulties being still more clearly seen by","box":{"x":162,"y":377,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"me, and how will these new needs be met? Here one requires","box":{"x":160,"y":405,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"not only knowledge but bread for the hungry, for when this little","box":{"x":162,"y":433,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"knowledge has shown my needs to me, then more knowledge","box":{"x":160,"y":462,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"will show more needs, so the question is: \"How am I to meet","box":{"x":157,"y":490,"width":924,"height":31}},{"text":"these needs?\"\"","box":{"x":162,"y":518,"width":214,"height":24}},{"text":"The Sadhu replied: 'Not with imperfect, finite knowledge,","box":{"x":203,"y":567,"width":876,"height":35}},{"text":"but with perfect and final knowledge will your needs be met; for","box":{"x":158,"y":595,"width":921,"height":31}},{"text":"when you get perfect knowledge you will realize that this need,","box":{"x":157,"y":625,"width":921,"height":29}},{"text":"or want, is only an illusion, and that you yourself are Brahma (God)","box":{"x":158,"y":650,"width":919,"height":34}},{"text":"or a part of him, and, when you realize this, then what more will","box":{"x":160,"y":678,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"you need?'.","box":{"x":155,"y":707,"width":176,"height":27}},{"text":"Again I was disappointed. 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The loss of these two dear ones was a","box":{"x":160,"y":913,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"great shock to me; especially did the thought that I should never","box":{"x":160,"y":941,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"see them hem again cast me into despondency and despair, because I","box":{"x":161,"y":969,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"could never know into what form they had been re-born, nor could","box":{"x":160,"y":997,"width":915,"height":29}},{"text":"I ever even guess what I was likely to be in my next re-births. In","box":{"x":160,"y":1025,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"the Hindu religion the only consolation for a broken heart like","box":{"x":158,"y":1052,"width":915,"height":29}},{"text":"mine was that I should submit to my Fate, and bow down to the","box":{"x":157,"y":1081,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"inexorable law Karma.","box":{"x":158,"y":1106,"width":308,"height":25}},{"text":"Now another change came into my life. 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