{ "book_metadata": { "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials", "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose", "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge", "published_on": "2011" }, "chunks": [ { "chunk_index": 1, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. Resolutions of the South India Missionary Conference, Madras", "page_numbers": [ 270 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00294-48284eb7a7359e2f7cd1.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Conference Background", "chunk_data": "138. RESOLUTIONS OF THE SOUTH INDIA MISSIONARY CONFERENCE, MADRAS (1900 A.D.) The South India Missionary Conference held at Madras on 2-5 January, 1900, was one of the more important of the conferences of this type. Its resolutions, some of which are reproduced here, had far ranging influence. Its pattern of preparation and organisation as a 'work conference' was widely copied in subsequent missionary and ecumenical meetings. Report of the South India Missionary Conference Held at Madras, 1900, pp. 9 ff., pp. 16 ff., and pp. 70 ff.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "2-5 January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [], "places": [ "Madras", "South India" ], "event": "The South India Missionary Conference met at Madras and issued influential resolutions.", "tags": [ "Christianity", "Missions", "India" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 2, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. 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In village congregations this may be more easily done than in towns and large centres, where circumstances are exceptional; but allowing for such cases, the Conference recommends the general principle as being the only sound one for the self-support of the Pastorate by the Native Church.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Native pastors" ], "places": [ "South India" ], "event": "The Conference recommended that pastor salaries should reasonably correspond to congregational income.", "tags": [ "Church", "Finance", "Missions" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 6, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. 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In the opinion of the Conference the Missionary Societies should at once move concurrently in the direction of making Native Churches more self-supporting under their own Pastors and should mutually support each other in this undertaking.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Missionary societies", "Native pastors" ], "places": [ "India" ], "event": "The Conference urged simultaneous missionary action to make native churches self-supporting.", "tags": [ "Church", "Finance", "Missions" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 15, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. 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Villages just beyond the border of one Mission may be closely connected with villages of that Mission, and may therefore be more advantageously worked by it, than by its neighbour.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Missionaries" ], "places": [ "South India" ], "event": "The Conference allowed mission boundaries to be modified by language and local relationships.", "tags": [ "Missions", "Politics", "Church" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 29, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. Resolutions of the South India Missionary Conference, Madras", "page_numbers": [ 274 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00298-c119fcbad182da031bc2.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Unused Mission Territory", "chunk_data": "2. That a Mission ought not to exclude others from territory which it is not really working itself.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Missionary societies" ], "places": [ "South India" ], "event": "The Conference opposed missions excluding other agencies from territory they did not actively serve.", "tags": [ "Missions", "Church", "Administration" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 30, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. Resolutions of the South India Missionary Conference, Madras", "page_numbers": [ 274 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00298-c119fcbad182da031bc2.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Pastoral Visits Across Boundaries", "chunk_data": "3. That where converts of one Mission take up their residence within the boundaries of another Mission, the agents of the former should not be debarred from visiting them and administering the ordinances of their church if they desire it, it being understood that such visits are purely pastoral and not for aggressive purposes.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Christian converts", "Mission agents" ], "places": [ "South India" ], "event": "The Conference protected pastoral visits to converts living within another mission's boundaries.", "tags": [ "Missions", "Church", "Religion" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 31, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. Resolutions of the South India Missionary Conference, Madras", "page_numbers": [ 274, 275 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00298-c119fcbad182da031bc2.webp", "raw\\pages\\00299-977487e8600ac500fea2.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Benefits of Territorial Comity", "chunk_data": "The above points being accepted, the committee recommend:\n4. That considering, on the one hand, the benefits that have followed in the past where territorial divisions have been observed, namely, concentration of effort, evangelization of whole fields, economy of labour, the securing of effective discipline, the promotion of harmony, and avoidance of denominational rivalries; remembering on the other hand the evils that have resulted from a disregard of this principle, namely, misunderstandings amongst missionaries, quarrels amongst native agents, questions regarding pay of workers and Church order, unsettlement of the minds of converts, disruption of churches, separation of Christians on caste lines, contention and heart-burnings of various kinds this Conference affirms its cordial adherence to the principle of comity in regard to territorial divisions; urges its adoption in cases where for any reason it may not have been observed hitherto, and would express the earnest hope that new Societies beginning work in South India may be guided to labour in unoccupied portions of the country.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Missionaries", "Native agents", "Christian converts" ], "places": [ "South India" ], "event": "The Conference reaffirmed territorial comity to promote orderly evangelization and prevent rivalry and disruption.", "tags": [ "Missions", "Church", "Evangelism" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 32, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. Resolutions of the South India Missionary Conference, Madras", "page_numbers": [ 275 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00299-977487e8600ac500fea2.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Opposing Exclusive Claims", "chunk_data": "5. But in expressing its cordial adherence to the principle under reference, the Conference would, with equal emphasis, place on record its strong sense of the injury done to the cause of India's evangelization by Societies' exclusive claims to fields manifestly inadequately provided with workers. With any policy which would aim at preventing other agencies from beginning work in such districts this Conference has no sympathy, but, on the contrary, would earnestly counsel withdrawal from such positions wherever they may exist, so that room may be made for other missions better able to undertake the work.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Missionary societies", "Missionary agencies" ], "places": [ "India" ], "event": "The Conference condemned exclusive claims over inadequately staffed mission fields.", "tags": [ "Missions", "Evangelism", "Politics" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 33, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. Resolutions of the South India Missionary Conference, Madras", "page_numbers": [ 275 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00299-977487e8600ac500fea2.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Consulting Other Missions", "chunk_data": "Resolution II\nThe Conference draws attention to and endorses the resolution of the last Decennial Conference held at Bombay, recommending the various Missionary Societies neither to employ agents nor members from other missions without proper reference to those from whom they come nor to receive members under discipline without similar consultation.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Missionary agents", "Church members" ], "places": [ "Bombay", "South India" ], "event": "The Conference endorsed consultation before missions hired agents or received members from other missions.", "tags": [ "Missions", "Church", "Administration" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 34, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. Resolutions of the South India Missionary Conference, Madras", "page_numbers": [ 275 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00299-977487e8600ac500fea2.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Church Status Certificates", "chunk_data": "Resolution III\nThe Conference would advise that every Missionary or Pastor should give to any member removing to a distance a certificate of his church status.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Missionaries", "Pastors", "Church members" ], "places": [ "South India" ], "event": "The Conference recommended issuing church-status certificates to members who moved away.", "tags": [ "Church", "Administration", "Missions" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 35, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. Resolutions of the South India Missionary Conference, Madras", "page_numbers": [ 275 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00299-977487e8600ac500fea2.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Coordinating Mission Schools", "chunk_data": "Resolution IV\nThe Conference urges managers, in localities where colleges and schools of different missions exist, to come to a mutual understanding with reference to the scale of fees to be levied and scholarships granted, so that there may be no unhealthy rivalry among mission institutions.", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Mission school managers" ], "places": [ "South India" ], "event": "The Conference urged mission schools to coordinate fees and scholarships to avoid unhealthy rivalry.", "tags": [ "Education", "Missions", "Cooperation" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 36, "chapter_name": "138. 1900. Resolutions of the South India Missionary Conference, Madras", "page_numbers": [ 275 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00299-977487e8600ac500fea2.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Co-operation in Mission Work", "chunk_data": "B. Co-operation in Mission Work\nResolution I\nThe Conference heartily endorses the principle of co-operation in Missionary enterprise, and considers it valuable for the promotion of comity, as well as for the attainment of economy and", "time": { "start_year": 1900, "start_month": 1, "start_date": 2, "end_year": 1900, "end_month": 1, "end_date": 5, "time_display": "January 1900" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Missionary societies" ], "places": [ "South India" ], "event": "The Conference endorsed cooperation in missionary enterprise for greater comity and economy.", "tags": [ "Missions", "Cooperation", "Church" ] } } ] }