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      "chunk_data": "192. THE CHURCH OF NORTH INDIA: A STATEMENT ON ITS APPROACH TO UNITY (1965 A.D.)\nIn the fourth edition of the Plan of Union for North India the Continuation Committee included an explanation of what was being attempted and why. This was intended for the information of the churches that would now vote on the proposal. Plan of Church Union in North India and Pakistan, 1965, pp. viii-x.",
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        "event": "The churches expressed their desire to pursue an increasingly broad union with other parts of the Universal Church.",
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      "chunk_data": "(e) With full trust in the Holy Spirit, we are looking towards a united Church which, as its members learn together in a wider fellowship, will maintain in reverent humility a readiness to correct and reform itself as God's will becomes more clearly known.",
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      "chunk_data": "(f) Though we are established as separate Churches in India/Pakistan through the missionary zeal of Christians in other lands, we desire the healing of these historic separations without the surrender of any essential principle of Faith or Order.",
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