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    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
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      "chunk_data": "144. AN APPEAL TO INDIAN CHRISTIANS BY THE FOUNDERS OF THE NATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY (1905 A.D.) The National Missionary Society (Bharat Christya Sevak Samaj) was founded at a meeting of Indian Christians held in Serampore from the 24th to 28th of December, 1905. This appeal was made shortly thereafter. Found in The National Missionary Society of India (N.M.S. Press, Madras, n.d.). Cited in Donald Fosset Ebright, The National Missionary Society of India, 1905-1942, pp. 94-95. The source is not identified by Ebright.",
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        "event": "The founders announce that the National Missionary Society has been organised.",
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      "chunk_data": "We stand between a hundred millions of our fellow-countrymen without Christ, and the Christian community which could be aroused to give them the gospel.",
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        "people": [
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        "event": "The founders describe Indian Christians as standing between the non-Christian population and the Christian community that could evangelize it.",
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      "chunk_title": "Called to Witness for Christ",
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        "people": [
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          "India"
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        "event": "The founders present Indian Christians as chosen witnesses responsible for giving the gospel to their fellow-countrymen.",
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      "chunk_title": "The Hour of India’s Need",
      "chunk_data": "Shall we fulfil our trust or fail God in his hour of our country's need and the Church's opportunity?",
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        "end_month": null,
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        "people": [
          "Indian Christians",
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        "places": [
          "India"
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        "event": "The founders challenge Indian Christians to decide whether they will fulfil their religious responsibility during India's need.",
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      "chunk_title": "A Great Service Expected",
      "chunk_data": "God expects a great service of us.",
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        "end_month": null,
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
          "God",
          "Indian Christians"
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        "places": [
          "India"
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        "event": "The founders state that God expects significant service from Indian Christians.",
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          "Religion"
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      "chunk_title": "Trusted to Win India",
      "chunk_data": "Our Lord in calling us has trusted us that we would prove faithful, that we would win India for Him.",
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        "end_year": 1905,
        "end_month": null,
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
          "Jesus Christ",
          "Indian Christians"
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        "places": [
          "India"
        ],
        "event": "The founders interpret their calling as a divine trust to remain faithful and win India for Christ.",
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          "Christianity",
          "Evangelism",
          "India"
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      "chunk_title": "The Call of Opportunity",
      "chunk_data": "No man need wait for a further call.",
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
          "Indian Christians"
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        "places": [
          "India"
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        "event": "The appeal declares that Indian Christians need not wait for another divine summons.",
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          "Christianity",
          "Religion"
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      "chunk_title": "Opportunity as Divine Calling",
      "chunk_data": "The call of God is not so often a personal call as the call of an opportunity.",
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        "end_month": null,
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        "people": [
          "God",
          "Indian Christians"
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        "places": [
          "India"
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        "event": "The founders define divine calling primarily as responding to an opportunity rather than receiving a personal summons.",
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          "Religion"
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      "chunk_title": "India’s Great Opportunity",
      "chunk_data": "And what opportunity could be greater?",
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        "start_date": null,
        "end_year": 1905,
        "end_month": null,
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
          "Indian Christians"
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        "places": [
          "India"
        ],
        "event": "The founders present India's evangelization as an unparalleled opportunity.",
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          "Christianity",
          "Evangelism",
          "India"
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    {
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      "chunk_title": "United Christian Effort",
      "chunk_data": "To unite as members of the one Body of Christ, to join hands as Christians from every province in this great empire in one mighty and unceasing effort to win our land for Christ—this is the opportunity to which God is calling us.",
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        "end_month": null,
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
          "Indian Christians",
          "Jesus Christ",
          "God"
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        "places": [
          "India"
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        "event": "The founders call Christians from every province to unite in a sustained effort to evangelize India.",
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          "Christianity",
          "Evangelism",
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      "chunk_index": 12,
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      "chunk_title": "Taking Responsibility for India",
      "chunk_data": "After two hundred years of Protestant Missionary effort from foreign lands, are we not yet ready to take up our own burden, and live and die for our own country?",
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
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        "places": [
          "India"
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        "event": "The founders ask whether Indian Christians are ready to assume responsibility for missionary work in their own country after two centuries of foreign Protestant effort.",
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          "Missionary Societies",
          "India"
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    {
      "chunk_index": 13,
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      "chunk_title": "A Delayed Responsibility",
      "chunk_data": "If we are not ready now, when shall we be?",
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        "end_month": null,
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
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        ],
        "places": [
          "India"
        ],
        "event": "The founders urge Indian Christians to act immediately rather than postpone their responsibility.",
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          "Christianity",
          "Missionary Societies"
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    },
    {
      "chunk_index": 14,
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      "chunk_title": "Strength Through Effort",
      "chunk_data": "We have waited too long already; we have been weakened from inactivity; we shall grow strong only by effort.",
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        "end_year": 1905,
        "end_month": null,
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        "time_display": "1905"
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
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        ],
        "places": [
          "India"
        ],
        "event": "The founders argue that delay and inactivity have weakened Indian Christians, while active effort will strengthen them.",
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          "Christianity",
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    {
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      "chunk_title": "India’s Opportunity Has Struck",
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        "end_month": null,
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
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        "places": [
          "India"
        ],
        "event": "The founders proclaim that the decisive moment for India's Christian opportunity has arrived.",
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    {
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      "chunk_title": "Confidence in God’s Power",
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        "end_month": null,
        "end_date": null,
        "time_display": "1905"
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
          "Indian Christians",
          "God"
        ],
        "places": [
          "India"
        ],
        "event": "The founders pledge that Indian Christians will remain faithful during God's time of power.",
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      "chunk_title": "India Is Awakening",
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      "meta": {
        "people": [
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        "places": [
          "India"
        ],
        "event": "The founders describe India as entering a period of spiritual awakening.",
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      "chunk_title": "Revival in Wales",
      "chunk_data": "God is speaking to our age and to our own land in the mighty reviving work of His Spirit.",
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        "people": [
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        "event": "The founders interpret contemporary revival movements as God's work among their generation and in India.",
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        "event": "The founders cite the Welsh Revival as an example of a nation experiencing rapid spiritual renewal.",
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      "chunk_title": "Revival Reported in Assam",
      "chunk_data": "In Assam we have heard of His mighty power.",
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        "people": [
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          "Assam"
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        "event": "The founders report witnessing God's power in the revival in Assam.",
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        "end_month": null,
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          "Western India",
          "Southern India"
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        "event": "The founders state that revival has begun in parts of northern, western, and southern India.",
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      "chunk_data": "A revival of whom—and for what? The spirit of Pentecost is arousing the Church to-day, not for ecstatic emotions or pleasant feelings as an end in themselves, but in order to give service for the unsaved.",
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        "people": [
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        "event": "The founders argue that revival should awaken the Church to serve and evangelize the unsaved rather than pursue emotion for its own sake.",
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      "chunk_data": "We have heard of visions and voices in these days of revival, and we rejoice in every true vision; but let us not forget this vision of the day in men",
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        "event": "The founders acknowledge reports of visions and voices during revival while introducing a broader contemporary vision among people.",
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