{"pages":{"90":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00114-8831099e65601fa0fce8.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"90","box":{"x":104,"y":150,"width":50,"height":21}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":336,"y":159,"width":472,"height":21}},{"text":"of the Church Establishment within the East Indies and parts","box":{"x":109,"y":205,"width":904,"height":38}},{"text":"aforesaid; any Law, Charter, or other matter or thing to the","box":{"x":115,"y":232,"width":903,"height":36}},{"text":"contrary notwithstanding.","box":{"x":109,"y":258,"width":358,"height":34}},{"text":"72. ABBE DUBOIS ON THE STATE OF CHRISTIANITY IN","box":{"x":112,"y":353,"width":901,"height":27}},{"text":"INDIA (1815-1816 A.D.)","box":{"x":389,"y":382,"width":332,"height":28}},{"text":"Three of the letters written by Abbe J. A. 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Dubois, Letters on the State of","box":{"x":150,"y":740,"width":815,"height":27}},{"text":"Christianity in India, pp. 1-14.","box":{"x":154,"y":762,"width":350,"height":29}},{"text":"The question to be considered may be reduced to these two","box":{"x":208,"y":821,"width":794,"height":32}},{"text":"points: First, Is there a possibility of making real converts to","box":{"x":102,"y":846,"width":904,"height":39}},{"text":"Christianity among the natives in India? Secondly, Are the means","box":{"x":96,"y":875,"width":907,"height":36}},{"text":"\"employed for that purpose, and above all, the translation of the","box":{"x":91,"y":905,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"Holy Scriptures into the idioms of the country, likely to conduce","box":{"x":91,"y":920,"width":915,"height":48}},{"text":"to this desirable object?","box":{"x":101,"y":957,"width":334,"height":32}},{"text":"To both interrogatories I will answer in the negative: it is my","box":{"x":144,"y":1015,"width":858,"height":36}},{"text":"decided opinion, first, that under existing circumstances there is no","box":{"x":98,"y":1043,"width":901,"height":36}},{"text":"human possibility of converting the Hindoos, to any sect of Christi-","box":{"x":96,"y":1070,"width":903,"height":35}},{"text":"anity, and, secondly, that the translation of the Holy Scriptures","box":{"x":95,"y":1099,"width":901,"height":35}},{"text":"circulated among them, so far from conducing to this end, will,","box":{"x":98,"y":1125,"width":900,"height":38}},{"text":"on the contrary, increase the prejudices of the natives against the","box":{"x":95,"y":1156,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"Christian religion, and prove in many respects detrimental to it.","box":{"x":95,"y":1181,"width":901,"height":36}},{"text":"These assertions, coming from a person of my profession, may to","box":{"x":95,"y":1211,"width":900,"height":39}},{"text":"many appear bold and extraordinary; I will therefore support","box":{"x":95,"y":1237,"width":901,"height":38}},{"text":"them by such arguments and proofs as long experience and practice","box":{"x":94,"y":1268,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"in the career of proselytism have enabled me to adduce.","box":{"x":96,"y":1295,"width":746,"height":32}},{"text":"Before I go farther, it will not be amiss to say a few words","box":{"x":137,"y":1352,"width":855,"height":32}},{"text":"about the manner in which the Christian religion was first brought","box":{"x":93,"y":1380,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"into the country; and on the industry with which its interests were","box":{"x":91,"y":1408,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"managed by the first preachers.","box":{"x":91,"y":1434,"width":425,"height":31}},{"text":"The Christian religion of the catholic persuasion was introduced","box":{"x":135,"y":1491,"width":855,"height":32}},{"text":"into India a little more than three hundred years ago; at the epoch","box":{"x":88,"y":1518,"width":904,"height":35}}]},"91":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00115-c4b6ca09d1229f1d4fde.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":479,"y":150,"width":246,"height":20}},{"text":"91","box":{"x":1013,"y":144,"width":38,"height":20}},{"text":"of the Portuguese invasions... (the writer goes on to describe the","box":{"x":147,"y":196,"width":905,"height":35}},{"text":"introduction of Roman Catholic Christianity).","box":{"x":150,"y":224,"width":619,"height":35}},{"text":"Such is the abridged history of the rise, the progress, and the","box":{"x":196,"y":288,"width":857,"height":34}},{"text":"decline of the Christian religion in India. The low state to which it","box":{"x":144,"y":313,"width":907,"height":35}},{"text":"is now reduced, and the contempt in which it is held, cannot be","box":{"x":150,"y":343,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"surpassed. There is not at present in the country (as mentioned","box":{"x":150,"y":369,"width":904,"height":35}},{"text":"before) more than a third of the Christians who were to be found in","box":{"x":154,"y":398,"width":898,"height":32}},{"text":"it eighty years ago, and this number diminishes every day by frequent","box":{"x":153,"y":428,"width":900,"height":31}},{"text":"apostacy. It will dwindle to nothing in a short period; and if","box":{"x":150,"y":455,"width":908,"height":34}},{"text":"things continue as they are now going on, within less than fifty","box":{"x":153,"y":483,"width":901,"height":31}},{"text":"years there will, I fear, remain no vestige of Christianity among the","box":{"x":150,"y":510,"width":901,"height":34}},{"text":"natives.","box":{"x":153,"y":539,"width":99,"height":25}},{"text":"The Christian religion, which was formerly an object of in-","box":{"x":196,"y":599,"width":855,"height":34}},{"text":"difference, or at most contempt, is at present become, I will venture","box":{"x":148,"y":628,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"to say, almost an object of horror. It It is certain that during the","box":{"x":151,"y":652,"width":901,"height":36}},{"text":"last sixty years no proselytes or but a very few have been made.","box":{"x":150,"y":682,"width":900,"height":35}},{"text":"Those Christians who are still to be met with in several parts of the","box":{"x":146,"y":711,"width":904,"height":32}},{"text":"country, and whose numbers (as I have just mentioned), diminishes","box":{"x":150,"y":736,"width":900,"height":35}},{"text":"every day, are the offsprings of the converts made by the Jesuits","box":{"x":150,"y":767,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"before that period. The very small number of proselytes who are","box":{"x":147,"y":795,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"still gained over from time to time, are found among the lowest","box":{"x":151,"y":822,"width":898,"height":32}},{"text":"tribes; so are individuals who, driven out from their castes, on","box":{"x":150,"y":850,"width":898,"height":31}},{"text":"account of their vices or scandalous transgressions of their usages,","box":{"x":150,"y":878,"width":897,"height":31}},{"text":"are shunned afterwards by every body as outlawed men, and have","box":{"x":147,"y":905,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"no other resource left than that of turning Christians, in order to","box":{"x":150,"y":934,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"form new connexions in society; and you will easily fancy that","box":{"x":146,"y":959,"width":901,"height":35}},{"text":"such an assemblage of the offals and dregs of society only tends to","box":{"x":148,"y":990,"width":901,"height":34}},{"text":"increase the contempt and aversion entertained by the Hindoos","box":{"x":148,"y":1016,"width":898,"height":34}},{"text":"against Christianity.","box":{"x":147,"y":1047,"width":270,"height":31}},{"text":"In fact, how can our holy religion prosper amidst so many","box":{"x":193,"y":1106,"width":857,"height":34}},{"text":"insurmountable obstacles? A person who embraces it becomes a","box":{"x":148,"y":1133,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"proscribed and outlawed man; he loses at once all that can attach","box":{"x":147,"y":1159,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"him to life. A husband, a father is forthwith forsaken and deserted","box":{"x":147,"y":1188,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"by his own wife and children, who obstinately refuse to have any","box":{"x":146,"y":1217,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"further intercourse with their degraded relative. A son is un-","box":{"x":147,"y":1242,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"mercifully driven out of his paternal mansion, and entirely deserted","box":{"x":147,"y":1272,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"by those who gave him birth.","box":{"x":147,"y":1302,"width":392,"height":34}},{"text":"By embracing the Christian religion, therefore, a Hindoo loses","box":{"x":192,"y":1361,"width":857,"height":32}},{"text":"his all. Relations, kindred, friends-all desert him! Goods,","box":{"x":150,"y":1385,"width":898,"height":35}},{"text":"possessions, inheritance, all disappear !","box":{"x":148,"y":1417,"width":526,"height":34}},{"text":"Where is the man furnished with sufficient stock of cynical","box":{"x":190,"y":1473,"width":858,"height":34}},{"text":"fortitude to be able to bear such severe trials?","box":{"x":147,"y":1505,"width":617,"height":28}}]}}}