{"pages":{"231":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00255-71e2f5fcdc0e30d1dc75.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":456,"y":167,"width":248,"height":17}},{"text":"231","box":{"x":987,"y":161,"width":49,"height":20}},{"text":"125. KESHUB CHUNDER SEN ON JESUS CHRIST","box":{"x":199,"y":244,"width":766,"height":24}},{"text":"(1879 A.D.)","box":{"x":498,"y":272,"width":167,"height":29}},{"text":"In the ten years since delivering his lecture on' The Indian National","box":{"x":217,"y":332,"width":774,"height":25}},{"text":"Church' (cited above) the Brahmo Samaj leader, Keshub Chunder","box":{"x":178,"y":356,"width":813,"height":29}},{"text":"Sen had come under increasing Christian infleunce. Yet the emphasis","box":{"x":178,"y":382,"width":813,"height":24}},{"text":"on Indianness remains. This is a brief passage from his lecture,","box":{"x":178,"y":405,"width":813,"height":27}},{"text":"'India Asks: Who is Christ? The full text is found in Keshub","box":{"x":176,"y":429,"width":815,"height":25}},{"text":"Chunder Sen's Lectures in India, Vol. I pp. 359-393.","box":{"x":179,"y":456,"width":600,"height":27}},{"text":"I desire to speak of Christ... Most eagerly and most earnestly","box":{"x":172,"y":519,"width":871,"height":34}},{"text":"she (India) asks-Who is Christ ?","box":{"x":129,"y":547,"width":455,"height":32}},{"text":"Look at the flood of Christian literature that has swept","box":{"x":235,"y":603,"width":809,"height":29}},{"text":"over the length and breadth of the country. There are heaps of","box":{"x":130,"y":631,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"books and numberless preachers and teachers around you, all","box":{"x":129,"y":658,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"ready to give, in his own way, a complete answer to the question","box":{"x":133,"y":687,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"before us. Doubtless from these sources India has gathered some","box":{"x":127,"y":712,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"knowledge of Christ of Nazareth. But such knowledge has not","box":{"x":130,"y":741,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"given her complete satisfaction. It is true the people of India have","box":{"x":130,"y":769,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"been satisfied in some measure with what they have heard and read","box":{"x":130,"y":798,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"of Jesus, but they have been disappointed in a much greater","box":{"x":133,"y":826,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"measure. For England has sent unto us, after all, a Western Christ.","box":{"x":132,"y":853,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"This is indeed to be regretted. Our countrymen find that in this","box":{"x":132,"y":881,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"Christ, sent by England, there is something that is not quite congenial","box":{"x":129,"y":908,"width":917,"height":35}},{"text":"to the native mind, not quite acceptable to the genius of the nation.","box":{"x":132,"y":938,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"It seems that the Christ that has come to us is an English man,","box":{"x":133,"y":964,"width":908,"height":31}},{"text":"with English manners and customs about him, and with the temper","box":{"x":129,"y":993,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"and spirit of an English man in him When they feel that Christ","box":{"x":134,"y":1021,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"means nothing but the worst form of denationalization, the whole","box":{"x":132,"y":1047,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"nation must certainly as one man stand up to repudiate and and banish","box":{"x":133,"y":1072,"width":911,"height":36}},{"text":"this acknowledged evil. But why should you Hindus go to England","box":{"x":133,"y":1104,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"to learn Jesus Christ? Is not his native land nearer to India than","box":{"x":133,"y":1130,"width":910,"height":31}},{"text":"England?... Gentlemen, go to the rising sun in the East, not to the","box":{"x":130,"y":1161,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"setting sun in the West, if you wish to see Christ in plentitude of his","box":{"x":132,"y":1185,"width":911,"height":36}},{"text":"glory and in the fulness and freshness of his divine life... Recall","box":{"x":129,"y":1215,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"to your minds, gentlemen, the true Asiatic Christ, divested of all","box":{"x":133,"y":1245,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"Western appendages, carrying on the work of redemption among","box":{"x":127,"y":1274,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"his own people. Behold, he cometh to us in his loose flowing","box":{"x":129,"y":1298,"width":915,"height":36}},{"text":"garment, his dress and features altogether oriental, a perfect Asiatic","box":{"x":132,"y":1328,"width":915,"height":36}},{"text":"in everything... Indeed, while reading the Gospel, we cannot but","box":{"x":135,"y":1356,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"feel that we are quite at home when we are with Jesus, and that he","box":{"x":134,"y":1383,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"is altogether one of us. Surely Jesus is our Jesus...","box":{"x":134,"y":1415,"width":703,"height":32}},{"text":"But can we say the same thing of the invisible Christ: the soul","box":{"x":175,"y":1469,"width":872,"height":32}},{"text":"of Christ? Is that oriental? Can you as Asiatic appreciate and","box":{"x":136,"y":1499,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"accept the spirit of Christ as that of a fellow Asiatic?... Though","box":{"x":132,"y":1522,"width":915,"height":36}}]}}}