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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
    "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
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      "chunk_title": "Carey's Evangelistic Methods",
      "chunk_data": "The work of William Carey and his colleagues at Serampore and Calcutta played an important part in the development of the modern missionary movement. Here Carey describes his evangelistic methods in his journal of 11 January 1796. Cited in Eustace Carey, Memoir of William Carey, pp. 255-258.",
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      "chunk_data": "I wish to say something about the manner of my preaching, but scarcely know how. As a specimen, however, I will just describe the season at a large village, about four miles from Mudnabatty, called Chinsurah. I went one Lord's Day afternoon to this place, attended by a few persons from Mudnabatty.",
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      "chunk_data": "When I got into the town, I saw an idolatrous temple, built very finely with bricks. In order to excite attention, I asked what place that was they said it was Thakooranne, that is a Debta. I asked if it was alive; they said, yes; well, said I, I will see her, and accordingly went towards the place, when they called out, 'No, Sir, no, it is only a stone.'",
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      "chunk_data": "A bazaar or market, near, was very noisy; I therefore removed to a little distance under a tamarind-tree, where we began by singing the hymn 'O who besides can deliver.' By this time a pretty large concourse of people was assembled, and I began to discourse with them upon the things of God.",
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      "chunk_data": "It is obvious that giving out a text and regularly dividing it, could not be of any use to those who never heard a word of the bible in their lives; I therefore dwelt upon the worth of the soul and its fallen state, the guilt of all men who had broken God's righteous law, and the impossibility of obtaining pardon without a full satisfaction to divine justice.",
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      "chunk_data": "I then inquired what way of life consistent with the justice of God was proposed in any of their shastras. They, said I, speak of nine incarnations of Vishnu past, and one to come, yet not one of them for the salvation of a sinner.",
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      "chunk_data": "They were only to preserve a family, kill a giant, make war against tyrants, &c.; all which God could have accomplished as well without these incarnations. An incarnation of the Deity, said I, is matter of too great importance to take place in so ludicrous a manner and for such mean end purposes.",
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      "chunk_data": "Mutchee Obeetar, or fish incarnation said I, was to become rudder of a boat, and preserve a family in a great flood; and the wild hog incarnation was to kill a giant and draw up the earth out of the sea when it was sinking; but this God who created it could have accomplished without any such interposition.",
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