{"pages":{"107":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00131-dfb1bc724e1b08c6c640.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":438,"y":160,"width":246,"height":18}},{"text":"107","box":{"x":963,"y":158,"width":49,"height":18}},{"text":"81. RAJA RAMMOHUN ROY ON THE PROSPECTS OF","box":{"x":126,"y":239,"width":865,"height":27}},{"text":"CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA (1824 A.D.)","box":{"x":277,"y":268,"width":571,"height":28}},{"text":"This material was written in a letter to the Rev. Henry Ware","box":{"x":196,"y":314,"width":764,"height":28}},{"text":"of Cambridge, Mass., in reply to a letter from him. It is dated 2nd","box":{"x":161,"y":339,"width":801,"height":27}},{"text":"February, 1824. It deals with the manner in which Christianity should","box":{"x":161,"y":366,"width":801,"height":27}},{"text":"be promoted in India. The English Works of Raja Rammohun Ra Roy,","box":{"x":160,"y":386,"width":799,"height":31}},{"text":"pp. 875-877.","box":{"x":160,"y":419,"width":140,"height":17}},{"text":"Sir,","box":{"x":108,"y":477,"width":48,"height":27}},{"text":"With no ordinary feelings of satisfaction I have the honour to","box":{"x":148,"y":523,"width":857,"height":28}},{"text":"acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April last, which together","box":{"x":106,"y":548,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"with the queries it enclosed, I had the pleasure of receiving by the","box":{"x":104,"y":575,"width":901,"height":34}},{"text":"hands of my friend Captain Heard. I now beg to be allowed, in","box":{"x":104,"y":603,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"the first place, to express my gratitude for your kind notice of a","box":{"x":108,"y":632,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"stranger like myself, myself, residin residing in a remote country and, secondly,","box":{"x":101,"y":650,"width":903,"height":43}},{"text":"to return my sincere thanks for the most acceptable present of","box":{"x":105,"y":688,"width":901,"height":34}},{"text":"books with which you have favoured me.","box":{"x":104,"y":716,"width":553,"height":29}},{"text":"I should have answered your letter by the ship Bengal; but I","box":{"x":150,"y":759,"width":857,"height":34}},{"text":"regret to say, that my time and attention had been so much","box":{"x":106,"y":788,"width":897,"height":31}},{"text":"engrossed by constant controversies with polytheists both of the","box":{"x":104,"y":812,"width":898,"height":35}},{"text":"West and East, that I had only leisure to answer by that oppor-","box":{"x":99,"y":842,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"tunity a short letter which I had the pleasure of receiving from","box":{"x":102,"y":870,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"Mr. Reed of Boston, and was obliged to defer a reply to your","box":{"x":102,"y":899,"width":903,"height":35}},{"text":"queries until the present occasion. For this apparent neglect I","box":{"x":102,"y":925,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"have to request your pardon.","box":{"x":101,"y":955,"width":390,"height":29}},{"text":"I have now prepared such replies to those questions as my","box":{"x":144,"y":998,"width":858,"height":34}},{"text":"knowledge authorises and my conscience permits; and now submit","box":{"x":98,"y":1028,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"them to your judgment. There is one question at the concluding","box":{"x":99,"y":1054,"width":901,"height":34}},{"text":"part of your letter, (to wit, Whether it be desirable that the in-","box":{"x":98,"y":1080,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"habitants of India should be converted to Christianity, in what","box":{"x":98,"y":1110,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"degree desirable, and for what reasons?') which I pause to answer,","box":{"x":99,"y":1137,"width":897,"height":32}},{"text":"as I am led to believe, from reason, what is set forth in scripture,","box":{"x":98,"y":1166,"width":900,"height":31}},{"text":"that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness","box":{"x":98,"y":1194,"width":898,"height":29}},{"text":"is accepted with him, in what ever form of worship he may have","box":{"x":99,"y":1221,"width":898,"height":32}},{"text":"been taught to glorify God. Nevertheless, I presume to think, that","box":{"x":97,"y":1249,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"Christianity, if properly inculcated, has a greater tendency to","box":{"x":95,"y":1277,"width":903,"height":31}},{"text":"improve the moral, and political state of mankind, than any other","box":{"x":98,"y":1305,"width":900,"height":31}},{"text":"known religious system.","box":{"x":94,"y":1330,"width":322,"height":29}},{"text":"It is impossible for me to describe the happiness I feel at the","box":{"x":140,"y":1375,"width":857,"height":31}},{"text":"idea that so great a body of a free, enlightened, and powerful people,","box":{"x":97,"y":1406,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"like your countrymen, have engaged in purifying the religion from","box":{"x":94,"y":1431,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"those absurd, idolatrous doctrines and practices, with which the","box":{"x":94,"y":1458,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"Greeks, Romans, and Barbarian converts to Christianity have","box":{"x":88,"y":1486,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"mingled it from time to time. Nothing can be more acceptable","box":{"x":91,"y":1514,"width":900,"height":35}}]}}}