{"pages":{"349":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00373-7e17d1c56e8b1fc5b0b5.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":460,"y":173,"width":251,"height":17}},{"text":"349","box":{"x":991,"y":171,"width":55,"height":21}},{"text":"171. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ALL-INDIA","box":{"x":256,"y":257,"width":654,"height":24}},{"text":"CONFERENCE ON CHURCH UNION, NAGPUR","box":{"x":220,"y":289,"width":732,"height":28}},{"text":"(1931 A.D.)","box":{"x":497,"y":322,"width":172,"height":29}},{"text":"The All-India Conference on Church Union was convened at","box":{"x":214,"y":384,"width":778,"height":24}},{"text":"Nagpur in accordance with a resoluion of the Round Table Confe-","box":{"x":172,"y":409,"width":820,"height":27}},{"text":"rence (North India negotiations) held at New Delhi in 1930. It met","box":{"x":178,"y":432,"width":816,"height":28}},{"text":"to consider the principles that should be accepted in the formation of a","box":{"x":176,"y":459,"width":817,"height":28}},{"text":"United Church for India', and thus brought together those involved","box":{"x":169,"y":483,"width":823,"height":27}},{"text":"in church union discussions in both the south and north. Cited in","box":{"x":173,"y":509,"width":820,"height":24}},{"text":"A. J. Arangadan, Church Union in South India, its Progress and","box":{"x":168,"y":535,"width":826,"height":27}},{"text":"Consummation, pp. 100-102.","box":{"x":171,"y":558,"width":332,"height":25}},{"text":"This Conference of members of Churches in North and South","box":{"x":169,"y":617,"width":869,"height":28}},{"text":"India, appointed to consider the principles that should be accepted","box":{"x":125,"y":647,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"in the formation of a united Church for India', records the following","box":{"x":120,"y":671,"width":918,"height":38}},{"text":"resolutions :-","box":{"x":123,"y":703,"width":202,"height":21}},{"text":"1. That in Christ individual Christians in the various","box":{"x":196,"y":751,"width":838,"height":29}},{"text":"Churches in this land are already joined together in faith and","box":{"x":119,"y":779,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"experience.","box":{"x":119,"y":808,"width":154,"height":27}},{"text":"2. 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That, with regard to the type of organisation that may","box":{"x":202,"y":732,"width":840,"height":31}},{"text":"ultimately prove acceptable for a united Church in India, the","box":{"x":123,"y":758,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"Conference records its opinion that this would be found through","box":{"x":118,"y":787,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"the general adoption of a constitutional constitutional episcopate responsible to","box":{"x":123,"y":811,"width":915,"height":38}},{"text":"representative assemblies and synods, in a form that would com-","box":{"x":123,"y":842,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"prehend, as far as practicable, the advantages of the episcopal,","box":{"x":120,"y":869,"width":919,"height":38}},{"text":"presbyterian and congregational modes of government.","box":{"x":119,"y":898,"width":799,"height":35}},{"text":"6. 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