{"pages":{"121":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00145-676b027175fd1edc9ff6.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":477,"y":160,"width":246,"height":21}},{"text":"121","box":{"x":1006,"y":150,"width":49,"height":21}},{"text":"4. Schools should be established in connection with every","box":{"x":189,"y":207,"width":864,"height":31}},{"text":"parish church.","box":{"x":147,"y":243,"width":195,"height":29}},{"text":"5. The clergy should expound the Gospel each Sunday to the","box":{"x":195,"y":291,"width":862,"height":36}},{"text":"people during the Divine Service.","box":{"x":153,"y":323,"width":446,"height":31}},{"text":"6. Prayers should be in Malayalam instead of in Syriac.","box":{"x":199,"y":376,"width":767,"height":32}},{"text":"90. 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Cited in Daniel Wilson, ed., Bishop","box":{"x":202,"y":669,"width":812,"height":29}},{"text":"Wilson's Journal Letters, pp. 52-53.","box":{"x":204,"y":699,"width":407,"height":25}},{"text":"A fine rain of two hours has been falling; but a more gracious","box":{"x":204,"y":746,"width":857,"height":36}},{"text":"rain has also, as I trust, been descending. Such a Confirmation","box":{"x":161,"y":774,"width":901,"height":35}},{"text":"and Sacrament at the Mission Church at nine this morning! Forty-","box":{"x":161,"y":804,"width":901,"height":28}},{"text":"eight candidates. Two came forward at the time to renounce","box":{"x":157,"y":832,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"heathenism and Popish Christianity, and receive the Gospel. There","box":{"x":157,"y":859,"width":907,"height":34}},{"text":"were 149 communicants, the chief civil and military personages","box":{"x":154,"y":887,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"kneeling at the altar with Soodras and Pariahs without dist nction.","box":{"x":158,"y":915,"width":904,"height":31}},{"text":"The congregation consisted of upwards of 1000 persons, of whom","box":{"x":157,"y":942,"width":907,"height":38}},{"text":"at least 300 were heathen, crowding outside every door and window","box":{"x":161,"y":970,"width":904,"height":35}},{"text":"as far as the eye could see. Seventy were European gentry, the rest","box":{"x":160,"y":998,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"were native nominal Christians from twenty villages around. The","box":{"x":156,"y":1025,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"service lasted nearly four hours. I pronounced the Confirmation","box":{"x":161,"y":1055,"width":903,"height":31}},{"text":"prayer, the Sentences on delivering the elements, and the Benedic-","box":{"x":161,"y":1081,"width":903,"height":35}},{"text":"tion, in Tamil. I told the congregation that I aimed at no distinc-","box":{"x":158,"y":1109,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"tion of civil ranks; that the Europeans would naturally approach","box":{"x":160,"y":1138,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"the altar first; that the respectable and educated natives, Soodras","box":{"x":161,"y":1165,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"and Pariahs, would naturally come next; that servants and persons","box":{"x":161,"y":1194,"width":903,"height":31}},{"text":"of the humblest stations would follow; but that there was to be no","box":{"x":161,"y":1221,"width":904,"height":28}},{"text":"inseparable barrier, no heathen dread of defilement, only the natural","box":{"x":165,"y":1248,"width":903,"height":31}},{"text":"gradations of society which prevailed in Christian churches at home.","box":{"x":158,"y":1278,"width":907,"height":31}},{"text":"However, the English gentry voluntarily mixed themselves, on","box":{"x":160,"y":1305,"width":907,"height":34}},{"text":"purpose to show the natives there were no inseparable divisions in","box":{"x":163,"y":1332,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"Christanity, but all were one body. 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