{"pages":{"251":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00275-3209ae9d626979670915.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":452,"y":160,"width":251,"height":20}},{"text":"251","box":{"x":985,"y":161,"width":52,"height":20}},{"text":"learning with eagerness. Many of them manifest a deep interest","box":{"x":122,"y":205,"width":912,"height":36}},{"text":"in the things of God and His Christ. Some have proceeded so far","box":{"x":122,"y":234,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"as to express faith in Christ, but are unable to receive baptism on","box":{"x":120,"y":263,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"account of the peculiar trials in their way. A few have overcome","box":{"x":115,"y":291,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"all difficulties and declared their faith.","box":{"x":119,"y":318,"width":516,"height":28}},{"text":"It is difficult to estimate the number of secret believers in the","box":{"x":176,"y":376,"width":857,"height":29}},{"text":"zenanas, or to say how many have openly received baptism. We","box":{"x":116,"y":404,"width":917,"height":35}},{"text":"have no reliable statistics of either. We know there have been","box":{"x":116,"y":431,"width":915,"height":29}},{"text":"several converts in connection with our mission. Only last year","box":{"x":117,"y":458,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"there were three most interesting cases of baptism in Lodiana.","box":{"x":115,"y":487,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"These ladies were long under instruction and were distinctly the","box":{"x":115,"y":515,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"fruit of zenana labours.","box":{"x":116,"y":540,"width":320,"height":25}},{"text":"132. THE ROYAL COURT JUDGEMENT, TRAVANCORE","box":{"x":117,"y":655,"width":911,"height":31}},{"text":"(1889 A.D.)","box":{"x":487,"y":688,"width":167,"height":31}},{"text":"The portion of the judgement of the Royal Court of Travancore of","box":{"x":199,"y":747,"width":780,"height":25}},{"text":"1889 here cited has importat bearing upon the question of the rela-","box":{"x":162,"y":771,"width":812,"height":27}},{"text":"tionship of the Orthodox Church in Kerala with the Patriarch of","box":{"x":164,"y":795,"width":815,"height":25}},{"text":"Antioch. The judgement as a whole related to the controversy which,","box":{"x":157,"y":821,"width":817,"height":25}},{"text":"as a result of this judgement, led to the formation of the independent","box":{"x":162,"y":846,"width":812,"height":28}},{"text":"Mar Thoma Church. The Majority and Minority Judgements of the","box":{"x":159,"y":871,"width":817,"height":28}},{"text":"Royal Court of Final Appeal, Travancore, 1883, pp. 115-116.","box":{"x":155,"y":893,"width":742,"height":29}},{"text":"(Para.) 347. The conclusions we have arrived at on the whole,","box":{"x":151,"y":953,"width":875,"height":32}},{"text":"are that the Respondent's claim is not barred by limitation; that","box":{"x":109,"y":981,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"the Ecclesiastical Supremacy of the See of Antioch over the Syrian","box":{"x":109,"y":1010,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"Church in Travancore has been all along, recognised and acknow-","box":{"x":103,"y":1037,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"ledged by the Jacobite Syrian Community and their Metropolitans;","box":{"x":109,"y":1063,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"that the exercise of that supreme power consisted in ordaining,","box":{"x":108,"y":1091,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"either directly or by duly authorised Delegates, Metropolitans","box":{"x":106,"y":1119,"width":917,"height":35}},{"text":"from time to time to manage the spiritual matters of the local","box":{"x":108,"y":1147,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"Church, in sending Morone (Holy oil) to be used in the churches","box":{"x":105,"y":1174,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"in this country for Baptismal and other purposes and, in general","box":{"x":108,"y":1203,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"supervision over the spiritual government of the Church; that the","box":{"x":108,"y":1232,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"authority of the Patriarch has never extended to the government","box":{"x":105,"y":1258,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"of the temporalities of the Church which, in this respect has been","box":{"x":105,"y":1287,"width":919,"height":34}},{"text":"an independent Church; that the Metropolitan of the Syrian","box":{"x":105,"y":1315,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"Jacobite Church in Travancore should be a native of Malabar","box":{"x":103,"y":1342,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"consecrated by the Patriarch of Antioch, or by his duly authorized","box":{"x":105,"y":1372,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"Delegates and accepted by the people as their Metropolitan to","box":{"x":98,"y":1400,"width":924,"height":34}},{"text":"entitle him to the spiritual and temporal government of the local","box":{"x":99,"y":1426,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"Church; that the Respondent had been so consecrated and accepted","box":{"x":95,"y":1456,"width":926,"height":32}},{"text":"by the majority of the people and consequently had a perfect right","box":{"x":101,"y":1480,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"to succeed to the Metropolitanship on the death of Mar Athanasius;","box":{"x":99,"y":1508,"width":918,"height":35}}]}}}