{"pages":{"221":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00245-7491547c2ec9e953a92f.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":466,"y":167,"width":251,"height":18}},{"text":"221","box":{"x":996,"y":167,"width":50,"height":18}},{"text":"123. THE MISSIONARY CONFERENCE: SOUTH INDIA","box":{"x":132,"y":247,"width":915,"height":29}},{"text":"AND CEYLON, BANGALORE (1879 A.D.)","box":{"x":290,"y":278,"width":603,"height":31}},{"text":"The following papers and resolutions of the South India Mission-","box":{"x":220,"y":329,"width":777,"height":31}},{"text":"ary Conference held at Bangalore in 1879, are found in the Report","box":{"x":187,"y":356,"width":809,"height":27}},{"text":"of the Missionary Conference; South India and Ceylon, Bangalore, 1879,","box":{"x":185,"y":380,"width":812,"height":31}},{"text":"vol. I, (1) pp. 293-301; (2) pp. 320-327; (3) pp. 331-335; (4) pp. 346-451","box":{"x":185,"y":408,"width":812,"height":27}},{"text":"(selection); (5) pp. 372-378; (6) p. 402; (7) p. 421.","box":{"x":185,"y":430,"width":621,"height":28}},{"text":"1. W. Burgess on the dangers of a Christian Community Emerging","box":{"x":130,"y":501,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"from Heathenism","box":{"x":467,"y":529,"width":235,"height":25}},{"text":"My subject is divided into two parts:-1st, the dangers incident","box":{"x":174,"y":582,"width":871,"height":34}},{"text":"to a Christian community emerging from heathenism; and 2nd,","box":{"x":130,"y":606,"width":914,"height":38}},{"text":"what are regarded as indications of an attachment to Caste, and","box":{"x":126,"y":637,"width":919,"height":35}},{"text":"how should they be dealt with.","box":{"x":130,"y":665,"width":420,"height":31}},{"text":"1. With respect to the first, it is scarcely needful for me to","box":{"x":178,"y":721,"width":866,"height":36}},{"text":"remark that the dangers incident to any Christian community","box":{"x":131,"y":748,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"necessarily take their colour from the surroundings out of which the","box":{"x":131,"y":777,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"community takes its rise. One of the marked peculiarities of","box":{"x":130,"y":803,"width":917,"height":35}},{"text":"Hinduism is its elaborate ritual. Its spirit is essentially ceremonial.","box":{"x":130,"y":832,"width":917,"height":36}},{"text":"In fact, beyond that, it speaks of little little else. According to its","box":{"x":131,"y":859,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"teaching, salvation might have no connection whatever with any","box":{"x":130,"y":887,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"internal moral change. Now, one of the chief dangers, incident","box":{"x":131,"y":915,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"to a Christian community emerging from such a faith, naturally","box":{"x":126,"y":944,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"will be that of supposing that the essence of Christianity consists","box":{"x":126,"y":970,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"in forms and ceremonies duly observed without any recognition of","box":{"x":132,"y":1000,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"the fact that a change of heart is the chief object to be aimed at.","box":{"x":132,"y":1028,"width":910,"height":31}},{"text":"And this is just as we find it. The danger of trusting in form, and","box":{"x":126,"y":1055,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"resting satisfied with the mere nominal profession of Christianity,","box":{"x":133,"y":1082,"width":908,"height":36}},{"text":"is by no means confined to India...","box":{"x":127,"y":1110,"width":483,"height":28}},{"text":"Another danger threatening the very existence of the Church of","box":{"x":171,"y":1160,"width":872,"height":31}},{"text":"Christ in India arises from the retention of heathen customs. Many","box":{"x":127,"y":1188,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"who enter the Christian Church are not in the first instance moved","box":{"x":127,"y":1216,"width":912,"height":27}},{"text":"by the purest of motives. Certainly we oftentimes have to mourn","box":{"x":127,"y":1242,"width":911,"height":31}},{"text":"over motives, which, if not out and out unworthy, are yet very","box":{"x":130,"y":1271,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"doubtful and defective; and there is a probability of such persons","box":{"x":127,"y":1299,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"bringing with them into the Christian fold, much which, if allowed","box":{"x":129,"y":1326,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"to remain, will undoubtedly prove very detrimental to the purity of","box":{"x":130,"y":1355,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"the Church of God. It is quite possible, too, that even though","box":{"x":131,"y":1381,"width":904,"height":36}},{"text":"the motive may be pure and the intention is good, still, owing, to","box":{"x":129,"y":1408,"width":907,"height":36}},{"text":"peculiarities of early training, the power to perceive what is perni-","box":{"x":127,"y":1438,"width":908,"height":35}},{"text":"cious may yet be wanting, and thoughtlessly they may retain","box":{"x":137,"y":1463,"width":898,"height":36}},{"text":"customs and practices, which in their tendency are evil. We cannot","box":{"x":129,"y":1492,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"forget the hold which Hinduism has on its subjects. It lays hand","box":{"x":127,"y":1520,"width":905,"height":36}}]},"222":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00246-5d7692c6b77ee8216cc5.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"222","box":{"x":141,"y":175,"width":53,"height":17}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":364,"y":175,"width":470,"height":18}},{"text":"upon them in infancy, enters into the commonest acts of daily life,.","box":{"x":140,"y":224,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"grows as they grow, and becomes interwoven with the very fibres of","box":{"x":141,"y":253,"width":912,"height":29}},{"text":"their nature. And the danger is, that, when a Hindu becomes a.","box":{"x":144,"y":278,"width":910,"height":31}},{"text":"Christian, he may find it almost impossible, all at once, to break","box":{"x":141,"y":308,"width":908,"height":31}},{"text":"clean away from many things, which, through constantly repeated.","box":{"x":140,"y":336,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"habit, have become second nature to him. Every day a thousand","box":{"x":140,"y":365,"width":910,"height":31}},{"text":"things occur which bring back to his mind old customs, and no","box":{"x":141,"y":391,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"wonder if now and then we find him slipping into old practices.","box":{"x":137,"y":422,"width":921,"height":31}},{"text":"and tripping somewhat. He has not had the advantages of a","box":{"x":141,"y":447,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"Christian home with all its power of example and the restraining","box":{"x":137,"y":476,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"influence of its love. Born in heathenism, cradled in it, bred in","box":{"x":143,"y":504,"width":912,"height":29}},{"text":"it, the hands that hold him are not gossamer, but iron cables.","box":{"x":143,"y":532,"width":921,"height":29}},{"text":"which have been years in the forging. But while we remember","box":{"x":136,"y":559,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"this and exercise the utmost possible patience and forbearance,","box":{"x":140,"y":588,"width":917,"height":29}},{"text":"there should yet be great firmness in resisting whatever is heath-","box":{"x":141,"y":616,"width":910,"height":29}},{"text":"enish. The retention of heathen customs in connection with","box":{"x":137,"y":643,"width":917,"height":27}},{"text":"daily life, such as, the observance of lucky days; placing lights","box":{"x":136,"y":670,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"during the day in the sick room and about the dead; falling","box":{"x":134,"y":696,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"into old ceremonies in times of epidemics; hiring temple girls to","box":{"x":140,"y":724,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"dance at weddings, and the performance of other degrading rites","box":{"x":136,"y":754,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"in connection with marriages and funerals, should never be","box":{"x":139,"y":780,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"pandered to in any measure...","box":{"x":136,"y":811,"width":414,"height":29}},{"text":"With regard to the second part of my subject, I must content:","box":{"x":179,"y":864,"width":879,"height":31}},{"text":"myself with brevity. I doubt not but that it will be more fully and","box":{"x":137,"y":895,"width":912,"height":28}},{"text":"much more ably dealt with by my colleagues in this paper.","box":{"x":134,"y":921,"width":792,"height":32}},{"text":"There are in the Christian Church those who assert that caste is.","box":{"x":181,"y":975,"width":882,"height":27}},{"text":"simply a civil institution recognizing differences analogous to the","box":{"x":136,"y":1005,"width":917,"height":29}},{"text":"social distinctions of rank and birth observed in other lands, and,","box":{"x":137,"y":1032,"width":912,"height":28}},{"text":"as such, they insist on its retention as a privilege and a right. What-","box":{"x":137,"y":1061,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"ever it may be in the estimation of those who hanker after it in the","box":{"x":134,"y":1088,"width":917,"height":25}},{"text":"Christian Church, I think there cannot be two opinions as to the","box":{"x":137,"y":1116,"width":915,"height":29}},{"text":"way in which Hindus themselves regard it. Certainly, by the","box":{"x":132,"y":1143,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"orthodox, its claims are considered religious and sacred as well as","box":{"x":137,"y":1172,"width":912,"height":27}},{"text":"social. It is the very last thing a Hindu can bring himself to","box":{"x":136,"y":1197,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"surrender. His gods may go-nay, all things else may go, if only","box":{"x":136,"y":1228,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"this may be retained. The nature of caste is too well known to","box":{"x":134,"y":1253,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"require any new delineation at my hands. Its presumptuous claims","box":{"x":134,"y":1284,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"on the soul; its civil enactments respecting those who are under","box":{"x":133,"y":1312,"width":917,"height":28}},{"text":"its displeasure; its virulent spirit; and the ridiculous and sinful","box":{"x":136,"y":1338,"width":914,"height":29}},{"text":"basis on which it builds its authority, are matters with which every","box":{"x":132,"y":1367,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"student of Hinduism is conversant, and which have occupied the","box":{"x":134,"y":1396,"width":914,"height":29}},{"text":"attention of conferences similar to this, in days gone by. Sentence","box":{"x":136,"y":1423,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"has been pronounced against it: the ban of the Christian Church is","box":{"x":134,"y":1451,"width":914,"height":29}},{"text":"already upon it and you might as well expect to gather grapes of","box":{"x":136,"y":1479,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"thorns, or figs of thistles, as look for anything generous, or noble,","box":{"x":136,"y":1508,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"or good, from such a source. Taking it for granted then, that the","box":{"x":139,"y":1536,"width":911,"height":31}}]},"223":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00247-4033f233735a656ea441.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"کر","box":{"x":4,"y":108,"width":18,"height":21}},{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":463,"y":147,"width":251,"height":15}},{"text":"223","box":{"x":991,"y":144,"width":55,"height":18}},{"text":"institution which prevents a man being esteemed according to his","box":{"x":133,"y":195,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"goodness, and places birth-heritage above the pure life, is bad;","box":{"x":130,"y":221,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"the question remaining is, what are to be regarded as indications","box":{"x":129,"y":251,"width":914,"height":29}},{"text":"of an attachment to it...","box":{"x":129,"y":279,"width":337,"height":24}},{"text":"2. Jacob Chamberlain on the Relation of the Foreign Societies to","box":{"x":129,"y":345,"width":915,"height":29}},{"text":"Native Churches","box":{"x":491,"y":374,"width":220,"height":25}},{"text":"What then should be the relationship existing between the infant","box":{"x":169,"y":425,"width":875,"height":31}},{"text":"churches which we of different lands and different branches of the","box":{"x":130,"y":452,"width":912,"height":27}},{"text":"Church of Christ are planting in India? This is a matter on which","box":{"x":129,"y":481,"width":915,"height":28}},{"text":"I have thought much and studied long and widely, and I cannot","box":{"x":129,"y":508,"width":915,"height":29}},{"text":"but come to this conclusion :-","box":{"x":126,"y":535,"width":434,"height":24}},{"text":"We should so constitute and instruct our Churches that there","box":{"x":172,"y":579,"width":871,"height":29}},{"text":"may be a cordial working harmony between them all. We should","box":{"x":129,"y":605,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"organize them as different regiments and brigades and army corps","box":{"x":129,"y":633,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"of the one grand army of the Living God, and so order and control","box":{"x":129,"y":664,"width":917,"height":27}},{"text":"them that we may never be guilty of the awful mistake of turning","box":{"x":129,"y":691,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"our suicidal guns on one another instead of on our common enemy.","box":{"x":132,"y":719,"width":911,"height":31}},{"text":"It may be best for us to keep up our regimental organizations, our","box":{"x":130,"y":745,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"distinctive denominational peculiarities for the present, but we","box":{"x":129,"y":773,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"should all be careful to exalt the Royal Banner of our Jesus above","box":{"x":130,"y":802,"width":912,"height":28}},{"text":"all our regimental colours:-to make much of the essentials in","box":{"x":130,"y":828,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"which we all here agree and less of the non-essentials in which we","box":{"x":125,"y":857,"width":919,"height":28}},{"text":"chance to differ...","box":{"x":130,"y":885,"width":246,"height":24}},{"text":"I may not live to see the day, but my sons now in the university,","box":{"x":178,"y":930,"width":864,"height":32}},{"text":"preparing to come to India as missionaries, may, when there shall be","box":{"x":126,"y":958,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"organized a 'Church of Christ in India', not American, not English,","box":{"x":129,"y":985,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"not German, not Danish but of India and suited to India, in which","box":{"x":130,"y":1011,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"we shall see not Scotch Presbyterianism nor English Anglicanism,","box":{"x":129,"y":1041,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"nor German Lutheranism, but the best features chosen out of all","box":{"x":130,"y":1068,"width":912,"height":29}},{"text":"denominations and incorporated into one visible Church of Him","box":{"x":127,"y":1095,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"of Nazareth. To this end, it seems to me, should all of us work.","box":{"x":130,"y":1124,"width":912,"height":29}},{"text":"It may not be feasible now, but I do believe that greater organic","box":{"x":129,"y":1152,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"unity than we now possess is feasible and should be earnestly sought","box":{"x":129,"y":1180,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"for in the near future...","box":{"x":129,"y":1207,"width":325,"height":25}},{"text":"I would not at this stage advocate the amalgamation of all the","box":{"x":174,"y":1253,"width":869,"height":29}},{"text":"Churches either in China or India into one. As in the great conflict","box":{"x":129,"y":1278,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"in America, when there were a million men under arms, it may be","box":{"x":133,"y":1305,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"necessary to have five or six army corps' in the Church militant's","box":{"x":132,"y":1336,"width":911,"height":27}},{"text":"'army of India'. We could not at present all be Episcopalians, or","box":{"x":126,"y":1362,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"Presbyterians, or Lutherans, or Baptists, or Methodists, or Inde-","box":{"x":127,"y":1391,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"pendents Now I feel quite convinced that an unprejudiced","box":{"x":125,"y":1417,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"reading of the apostolic records point to the Consistory and Classis","box":{"x":130,"y":1445,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"and Synods of my own 'Reformed Church' as the nearest to the","box":{"x":132,"y":1473,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"apostolic model of any existing Church organization...","box":{"x":129,"y":1499,"width":753,"height":32}}]},"224":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00248-8fe0f87d95e41109c063.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"224","box":{"x":109,"y":139,"width":59,"height":17}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":336,"y":139,"width":474,"height":20}},{"text":"Be it so. Grant that we cannot amalgamate into one church","box":{"x":160,"y":189,"width":873,"height":31}},{"text":"organization at present, we can at least lessen the number of inde-","box":{"x":112,"y":216,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"pendent and isolated organizations. Is it too much to believe that","box":{"x":111,"y":245,"width":924,"height":29}},{"text":"we could have, if we each were willing to yield as much as we wish","box":{"x":111,"y":272,"width":921,"height":31}},{"text":"others to yield to us, one Presbyterian army corps instead of nine","box":{"x":112,"y":298,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"detached regiments and so one Episcopalian one Methodist :","box":{"x":115,"y":328,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"one Baptist... And in God's good time, working thus together,","box":{"x":115,"y":357,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"it might be possible in the premillenial future to have one self-","box":{"x":115,"y":384,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"supporting, self-governing 'Church of Christ in India'.","box":{"x":115,"y":414,"width":761,"height":29}},{"text":"This I believe then to be the relationship which should subsist","box":{"x":160,"y":462,"width":871,"height":31}},{"text":"between the rising native Churches connected with the different","box":{"x":112,"y":490,"width":919,"height":29}},{"text":"missions in India.","box":{"x":115,"y":518,"width":242,"height":24}},{"text":"This granted, the second part of the question almost answers","box":{"x":158,"y":567,"width":869,"height":31}},{"text":"itself and my remarks on it shall be exceedingly brief.","box":{"x":112,"y":595,"width":732,"height":32}},{"text":"The relation which Foreign Missionary Societies should hold","box":{"x":158,"y":647,"width":872,"height":29}},{"text":"toward the rising native Churches should then be such as to allow","box":{"x":109,"y":674,"width":919,"height":28}},{"text":"of such progress towards this so desirable a goal. There should","box":{"x":113,"y":701,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"then, in ecclesiastical matters, be the greatest maximum of liberty","box":{"x":109,"y":730,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"to the native Churches with smallest minimum of authority over","box":{"x":112,"y":758,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"them exercised from home lands...","box":{"x":112,"y":785,"width":476,"height":24}},{"text":"3. W. T. Satthianadhan on the Relation of the Foreign Societies to","box":{"x":108,"y":857,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"Native Churches","box":{"x":456,"y":889,"width":221,"height":21}},{"text":"At the same time every encouragement should be given to make","box":{"x":151,"y":942,"width":873,"height":32}},{"text":"the native Church self-supporting. There is a feeling on the part","box":{"x":108,"y":969,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"of some, that the system which existed formerly, of native congre-","box":{"x":108,"y":998,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"gations under the pastoral charge of foreign missionaries, should","box":{"x":105,"y":1026,"width":924,"height":31}},{"text":"still continue. With this view I candidly confess I do not sympa-","box":{"x":106,"y":1054,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"thize. That system was necessary for an incipient state of the native","box":{"x":106,"y":1083,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"Church, but as it has grown and the native pastorate has increased,","box":{"x":106,"y":1109,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"it is very inexpedient to continue that system, except where there","box":{"x":109,"y":1138,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"are as yet no native clergy. The Home Societies are therefore","box":{"x":108,"y":1165,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"naturally desirous of introducing a different policy which shall","box":{"x":108,"y":1193,"width":917,"height":35}},{"text":"advance the self-reliance and self-support of the native Church.","box":{"x":106,"y":1220,"width":872,"height":35}},{"text":"The system pursued to help on the independence of the native","box":{"x":150,"y":1273,"width":872,"height":35}},{"text":"Church is mainly the voluntary system, supplemented by a grant-","box":{"x":101,"y":1301,"width":922,"height":38}},{"text":"in-aid from foreign Missionary Societies. 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