{"pages":{"292":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00316-0e693f6efd451f0624b2.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"292","box":{"x":98,"y":136,"width":60,"height":21}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":327,"y":139,"width":476,"height":21}},{"text":"144. AN APPEAL TO INDIAN CHRISTIANS BY THE","box":{"x":147,"y":220,"width":831,"height":22}},{"text":"FOUNDERS OF THE NATIONAL MISSIONARY","box":{"x":206,"y":252,"width":732,"height":24}},{"text":"SOCIETY (1905 A.D.)","box":{"x":403,"y":284,"width":322,"height":29}},{"text":"The National Missionary Society (Bharat Christya Sevak Samaj)","box":{"x":190,"y":343,"width":780,"height":25}},{"text":"was founded at a meeting of Indian Christians held in Seram-","box":{"x":150,"y":368,"width":822,"height":25}},{"text":"pore from the 24th to 28th of December, 1905. This appeal was","box":{"x":151,"y":394,"width":820,"height":25}},{"text":"made shortly thereafter. Found in The National Missionary Society","box":{"x":150,"y":419,"width":822,"height":25}},{"text":"of India (N.M.S. Press, Madras, n.d.). Cited in Donald Fosset Ebright,","box":{"x":153,"y":444,"width":817,"height":27}},{"text":"The National Missionary Society of India, 1905-1942, pp. 94-95. The","box":{"x":151,"y":471,"width":822,"height":25}},{"text":"source is not identified by Ebright.","box":{"x":153,"y":493,"width":406,"height":25}},{"text":"The National Missionary Society is now organised. We stand","box":{"x":146,"y":552,"width":872,"height":31}},{"text":"between a hundred millions of our fellow-countrymen without","box":{"x":98,"y":580,"width":918,"height":28}},{"text":"Christ, and the Christian community which could be aroused to","box":{"x":97,"y":608,"width":921,"height":29}},{"text":"give them the gospel. We are men called to witness for Christ,","box":{"x":95,"y":634,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"chosen out of many as a kind of firstfruits, that we might give the","box":{"x":95,"y":662,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"gospel to our fellow-countrymen. Shall we fulfil our trust or fail","box":{"x":95,"y":690,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"God in his hour of our country's need and the Church's oppor-","box":{"x":92,"y":717,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"tunity? God expects a great service of us. Our Lord in calling us","box":{"x":98,"y":746,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"has trusted us that we would prove faithful, that we would win","box":{"x":97,"y":773,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"India for Him.","box":{"x":99,"y":804,"width":199,"height":22}},{"text":"No man need wait for a further call. The call of God is not","box":{"x":143,"y":857,"width":873,"height":27}},{"text":"so often a personal call as the call of an opportunity.' And what","box":{"x":101,"y":884,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"opportunity could be greater? To unite as members of the one","box":{"x":94,"y":913,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"Body of Christ, to join hands as Christians from every province","box":{"x":91,"y":939,"width":922,"height":32}},{"text":"in this great empire in one mighty and unceasing effort ort to win","box":{"x":94,"y":967,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"our land for Christ-this is the opportunity to which God is","box":{"x":94,"y":994,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"calling us. After two hundred years of Protestant Missionary","box":{"x":91,"y":1023,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"effort from foreign lands, are we not yet ready to take up our","box":{"x":94,"y":1051,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"own burden, and live and die for our own country? If we are","box":{"x":97,"y":1079,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"not ready now, when shall we be? We have waited too long","box":{"x":97,"y":1105,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"already; we have been weakened from in-activity; we shall grow","box":{"x":94,"y":1136,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"strong only by effort. The hour of India's opportunity has struck !","box":{"x":94,"y":1162,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"We shall not fail our God in the day of His power.","box":{"x":87,"y":1190,"width":767,"height":34}},{"text":"India is awakening. God is speaking to our age and to our own","box":{"x":143,"y":1247,"width":868,"height":29}},{"text":"land in the mighty reviving work of His Spirit. In Wales we have","box":{"x":92,"y":1274,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"seen a nation well nigh reborn in a day. In Assam we have heard","box":{"x":95,"y":1302,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"of His mighty power. In parts of Northern, Western and Southern","box":{"x":94,"y":1330,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"India the revival has already begun. A revival of whom-and for","box":{"x":94,"y":1358,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"what? The spirit of pentecost is arousing the Church to-day,","box":{"x":88,"y":1386,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"not for ecstatic emotions or pleasant feelings as an end in themselves,","box":{"x":91,"y":1417,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"but in order to give service for the unsaved. We have heard of","box":{"x":91,"y":1441,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"visions and voices in these days of revival, and we rejoice in every","box":{"x":88,"y":1470,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"true vision; but let us not forget this vision of the day in men","box":{"x":92,"y":1498,"width":911,"height":31}}]}}}