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Man may propose, but God disposes. The way for me to","box":{"x":144,"y":1023,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"return seemed to be very plain. The Ecumenical Conference","box":{"x":148,"y":1048,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"Committee of New York sent me a very kind invitation to be","box":{"x":148,"y":1078,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"present in New York at their meetings in March, and the executive","box":{"x":147,"y":1105,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"officers of the Missionary Union also gave me as kind an invitation","box":{"x":147,"y":1134,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"as ever a missionary need to have to come home and to attend the","box":{"x":151,"y":1162,"width":910,"height":31}},{"text":"Ecumenical Conference at New York and to be present at the anni-","box":{"x":143,"y":1189,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"versaries in Detroit. I intended to go and my passage home was","box":{"x":148,"y":1219,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"tentatively engaged, yet for several weeks the signs of the continua-","box":{"x":148,"y":1246,"width":915,"height":36}},{"text":"tion of the semi-famine became more imminent day by day, and I","box":{"x":146,"y":1275,"width":921,"height":29}},{"text":"was ill at ease. But the time came when I must decide whether","box":{"x":148,"y":1300,"width":917,"height":31}},{"text":"I would go or not. There were anxious days for me, and during","box":{"x":151,"y":1328,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"the night before the final decision had to be made I tried to sleep,","box":{"x":153,"y":1358,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"but sleep would not come. 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My daughter when I made my decision known to her","box":{"x":154,"y":1500,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"bore it gracefully, but not without tears, and later she returned to","box":{"x":154,"y":1527,"width":914,"height":34}}]},"280":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00304-453b19d62693b3e6ae7f.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"280","box":{"x":94,"y":151,"width":59,"height":18}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":322,"y":155,"width":479,"height":18}},{"text":"the homeland with her sister and Professor Martin, and the good","box":{"x":97,"y":205,"width":922,"height":29}},{"text":"Lord has evidently recognized her sacrifice and given her many","box":{"x":92,"y":231,"width":928,"height":31}},{"text":"blessings.","box":{"x":94,"y":260,"width":137,"height":28}},{"text":"As anticipated, the famine came on, and by the first of April","box":{"x":140,"y":315,"width":882,"height":31}},{"text":"thousands of the poorer classes were without work and in a starv-","box":{"x":97,"y":343,"width":925,"height":31}},{"text":"ing condition. Friends in America had now taken in the situa-","box":{"x":99,"y":371,"width":922,"height":28}},{"text":"tion and had begun to forward money for relief. The 'Christian","box":{"x":97,"y":401,"width":922,"height":31}},{"text":"Herald of New York had also inaugurated, on behalf of India, a","box":{"x":94,"y":427,"width":931,"height":29}},{"text":"most magnanimous charity. Personal friends were not slow in","box":{"x":97,"y":455,"width":925,"height":31}},{"text":"sending contributions. But the question was how to utilize these:","box":{"x":101,"y":483,"width":921,"height":29}},{"text":"various charities. Government in this section had not established","box":{"x":98,"y":511,"width":919,"height":25}},{"text":"relief work, and on account of the already fearful condition exist--","box":{"x":101,"y":540,"width":926,"height":28}},{"text":"ing in Central and northern India there was no probability that.","box":{"x":99,"y":566,"width":922,"height":31}},{"text":"any relief work on a large scale would be started here. But I","box":{"x":99,"y":592,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"knew, unless something was done, thousands of the depressed","box":{"x":97,"y":623,"width":921,"height":31}},{"text":"classes, great numbers of whom were Christians, would inevitably","box":{"x":97,"y":650,"width":921,"height":31}},{"text":"die of starvation, or of disease brought on by hunger. 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