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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
    "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
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      "chunk_title": "Monuments to Christian Frederick Schwartz",
      "chunk_data": "68. MONUMENTS TO CHRISTIAN FREDERICK SCHWARTZ (c. 1807 A.D.)\nChristian Frederick Schwartz (1726-1798) was a German missionary who is especially well known for his various public and diplomatic services during the time he was resident in Tanjore as a missionary and English chaplain. In his memory the Raja of Tanjore and the Madras Government erected monuments in Tanjore and the Church of St. Mary in Fort St. George, Madras, respectively. Cited in Jesse Page, Schwartz of Tanjore, pp. 184, 187-188.",
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      "chunk_data": "Monument erected by Raja Serfojee at Tanjore\nTo the memory of the\nReverend Christian Frederic Schwartz,\nborn at Sonnenburg of Neumark, in the Kingdom of Prussia,\nthe 26th of October, 1726\nand died at Tanjore, the 13th February, 1798,\nin the seventy-second year of his age.",
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      "chunk_title": "Schwartz's Character and Influence",
      "chunk_data": "Devoted from his early manhood to the office of Missionary in the East, the similarity of his situation to that of the first preachers of the Gospel produced in him a similar resemblance to the simple sanctity of the Apostolic character. His natural vivacity won the affections, as his unspotted probity and purity of life alike commanded the reverence, of the Christian, Mohammedan and Hindu; for Sovereign princes, Hindu and Mohammedan, selected this humble pastor as the medium of political negotiation with the British Government, and the very marble which here records his virtues was raised by the liberal affection and esteem of the Raja of Tanjore, Maha Raja Serfojee.",
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        "event": "The inscription praises Schwartz's missionary character and records his role as a trusted intermediary between Indian rulers and the British Government.",
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      "chunk_data": "Monument erected by the British Government of Madras Presidency\nSacred to the memory of\nThe Rev. Christian Frederic Schwartz,\nWhose life was one continued effort to imitate the example of the Blessed Master.",
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      "chunk_title": "Schwartz's Fifty Years of Service",
      "chunk_data": "Employed as a Protestant missionary from the Government of Denmark, and in the same character by the Society in England for the Promotion of the Christian Knowledge, he, during a period of fifty years, went about doing good, manifesting, in respect to himself, the most entire abstraction from temporal views, but embracing every opportunity of promoting both the temporal and eternal welfare of others. In him religion appeared not with a gloomy aspect or forbidding mien, but with graceful form and placid dignity.",
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        "event": "Christian Frederick Schwartz served as a Protestant missionary for approximately fifty years and promoted the temporal and eternal welfare of others.",
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      "chunk_title": "Schwartz's Institutional Legacy",
      "chunk_data": "Among the many fruits of his indefatigable labours was the Erection of the Church at Tanjore. The savings from a small salary were, for many years, devoted to this pious work, and the remainder of the expense supplied by individuals at his solicitation. The Christian seminaries of Ramnadporam and in the Tinnevelly province were established by him.",
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      "chunk_title": "Schwartz's Public Reverence",
      "chunk_data": "Beloved and honoured by Europeans, he was, if possible, held in still deeper reverence by the Natives of this Country, of every degree and every sect; and their unbounded confidence in his integrity and truth was, on many occasions, rendered highly beneficial to the public service.",
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