{"pages":{"233":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00257-d97657101450f34ca8ef.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":465,"y":148,"width":248,"height":18}},{"text":"233","box":{"x":994,"y":143,"width":50,"height":20}},{"text":"127. THE SECOND DECENNIAL CONFERENCE,","box":{"x":218,"y":249,"width":740,"height":27}},{"text":"CALCUTTA (1882-1883 A.D.)","box":{"x":383,"y":277,"width":417,"height":29}},{"text":"The second all India decennial Missionary Conference (the first","box":{"x":223,"y":342,"width":771,"height":25}},{"text":"having been held at Allahabad in 1872-73) was held at Calcutta.","box":{"x":183,"y":367,"width":809,"height":25}},{"text":"Portions of some of the papers read which are reproduced here are","box":{"x":182,"y":393,"width":812,"height":25}},{"text":"from the Report of the Second Decennial Conference Held at Calcutta,","box":{"x":185,"y":417,"width":809,"height":27}},{"text":"1882-83. (1) pp. 62-63; (2) pp. 111-119; (3) pp. 251-260.","box":{"x":185,"y":444,"width":714,"height":27}},{"text":"1. W. Hooper on The Native Agency","box":{"x":326,"y":519,"width":505,"height":29}},{"text":"It has happily become an axiomatic truth in all Missions, that","box":{"x":179,"y":581,"width":866,"height":34}},{"text":"the work, though begun by foreigners, must be carried on by","box":{"x":134,"y":607,"width":911,"height":36}},{"text":"natives; and that therefore, after the first introduction of the","box":{"x":134,"y":636,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"Gospel in a new country, the next great duty of the foreigner is,","box":{"x":127,"y":663,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"to set agoing that succession of native workers for God, which","box":{"x":133,"y":691,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"must before long take the whole work in their own country into","box":{"x":132,"y":719,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"their own hands. Peculiar circumstances in this country have","box":{"x":132,"y":747,"width":912,"height":29}},{"text":"indeed delayed the commencement of this task, and even now","box":{"x":136,"y":776,"width":907,"height":31}},{"text":"retard its realization, beyond what is the case where the people","box":{"x":136,"y":803,"width":908,"height":34}},{"text":"have been less long accustomed to dependence, and where the","box":{"x":133,"y":830,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"foreign missionaries have not had the misfortune of belonging, in","box":{"x":134,"y":859,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"the eyes of the unthinking mass, to the foreign government; but","box":{"x":132,"y":887,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"it is now, God be thanked, taken up on all sides with an energy","box":{"x":134,"y":915,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"and a determination which ensüre success; and what is of still","box":{"x":136,"y":940,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"better augury, our native brethren are learning, and have in some","box":{"x":132,"y":970,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"cases thoroughly learnt, to discard the 'ma-bap' system, and to","box":{"x":130,"y":998,"width":912,"height":36}},{"text":"gird up their loins for the task which is above all theirs, and which","box":{"x":129,"y":1027,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"may be solely theirs sooner than any of us think.","box":{"x":132,"y":1055,"width":665,"height":32}},{"text":"But the starting of the system of native agency must be, from","box":{"x":174,"y":1115,"width":869,"height":34}},{"text":"the necessities of the case, mainly if not entirely the work of","box":{"x":134,"y":1143,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"foreigners; and it is, as I have observed, the most important of","box":{"x":134,"y":1172,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"the various tasks which are imposed upon them at the","box":{"x":132,"y":1196,"width":911,"height":36}},{"text":"present time. For on the manner in which it is started, and the","box":{"x":133,"y":1227,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"direction given to it at starting, will very greatly depend,","box":{"x":126,"y":1256,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"under God, the usefulness or uselessness (and if uselessness,","box":{"x":132,"y":1283,"width":908,"height":34}},{"text":"then, surely, positive harmfulness) of the ever-increasing native","box":{"x":133,"y":1311,"width":908,"height":34}},{"text":"Christian agency in the land. The river is now a tiny stream,","box":{"x":130,"y":1341,"width":908,"height":31}},{"text":"high up in the bosom of the mountain; on us mainly","box":{"x":130,"y":1366,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"depends whether it will flow down on the one side, and after causing","box":{"x":132,"y":1394,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"ruin and devastation by its headlong course soon lose itself in the","box":{"x":134,"y":1423,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"sea, or whether it will gently descend on the other side in ever-","box":{"x":134,"y":1452,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"increasing volume, and fertilize a whole continent with life-giving","box":{"x":134,"y":1478,"width":907,"height":35}},{"text":"influence, before it is received into the bosom of eternity.","box":{"x":133,"y":1509,"width":770,"height":31}}]},"234":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00258-2e38bec33c4b1dd0e273.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"234","box":{"x":143,"y":153,"width":59,"height":18}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":368,"y":160,"width":476,"height":21}},{"text":"There is indeed, one respect in which it is not given us to","box":{"x":193,"y":206,"width":862,"height":35}},{"text":"determine the course which native agency in this country will take.","box":{"x":143,"y":233,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"Most of us, no doubt, honestly believe that it would be best for India,","box":{"x":140,"y":263,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"if its Church could be formed, if not exactly, yet essentially, on the","box":{"x":145,"y":292,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"lines of those European and American churches to which we","box":{"x":148,"y":318,"width":907,"height":34}},{"text":"severally belong. But God has ordained it otherwise, and our","box":{"x":147,"y":348,"width":908,"height":34}},{"text":"meeting here in this conference is a proof that we have accepted","box":{"x":141,"y":376,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"the facts which He has brought about; and not only resignedly","box":{"x":145,"y":401,"width":908,"height":39}},{"text":"accept them, but, knowing the inability of our own several churches","box":{"x":144,"y":432,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"to cope with the mighty task before the whole church in this country,","box":{"x":144,"y":459,"width":910,"height":35}},{"text":"we rejoice that what we, severally, could not do, is being done by","box":{"x":144,"y":485,"width":910,"height":35}},{"text":"others and thus we leave to our Divine Head who has the interests","box":{"x":141,"y":514,"width":910,"height":31}},{"text":"of His body at heart infinitely more than we can have them, to","box":{"x":141,"y":542,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"evolve the constitution of His Indian Church as He will; meanwhile","box":{"x":141,"y":570,"width":911,"height":29}},{"text":"believing, that we are best hastening forward whatever may be His","box":{"x":141,"y":597,"width":910,"height":35}},{"text":"gracious design, by strenuously, and yet charitably, urging on the","box":{"x":140,"y":627,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"development of native agency on those lines which we severally","box":{"x":138,"y":652,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"believe to be best, best for the people of this land and not only for","box":{"x":143,"y":681,"width":907,"height":34}},{"text":"us occidentals.","box":{"x":143,"y":706,"width":199,"height":27}},{"text":"2. W. Miller on Higher Education","box":{"x":361,"y":778,"width":473,"height":28}},{"text":"I am asked to give in twenty minutes my thoughts on Higher","box":{"x":189,"y":823,"width":861,"height":31}},{"text":"Education, and the only guidance I have got from the Managing","box":{"x":134,"y":850,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"committee is that I am to deal with the question of how to maintain","box":{"x":138,"y":877,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"efficient Scripture teaching in College classes. I think that I cannot","box":{"x":137,"y":904,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"do more than notice this one aspect of the whole large theme. Its","box":{"x":133,"y":932,"width":917,"height":35}},{"text":"being prescribed, indicates that some experience difficulty in teaching","box":{"x":138,"y":961,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"it in other classes. For my own part I have no experience of any","box":{"x":140,"y":989,"width":910,"height":39}},{"text":"difficulty of the kind. It surely stands to reason that even though","box":{"x":136,"y":1015,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"there be no distinctly spiritual interest aroused, young men passing","box":{"x":140,"y":1045,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"through a course of liberal training should care more than school","box":{"x":138,"y":1071,"width":911,"height":31}},{"text":"boys for the unfolding of moral principles, for the study of character,","box":{"x":133,"y":1099,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"for the discussion of the deep questions concerning God and man,","box":{"x":140,"y":1127,"width":911,"height":36}},{"text":"concerning duty, revelation, and immortality, to which every hour","box":{"x":136,"y":1155,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"of Scripture study leads the way. In a class of students I should","box":{"x":137,"y":1184,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"therefore expect to find a keener sympathy, a more thoughtful","box":{"x":138,"y":1211,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"attention, and also from time to time, a more intelligent opposition,","box":{"x":137,"y":1240,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"than it would be reasonable to count on in a class of younger boys.","box":{"x":138,"y":1268,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"Upon the whole I have never found this expectation disappointed","box":{"x":134,"y":1295,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"in the students of the Madras Christian College. I may quote from","box":{"x":138,"y":1325,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"myself a sentence that stands on the records of the Education","box":{"x":136,"y":1353,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"Commission now sitting in this city: No complaint has ever","box":{"x":131,"y":1381,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"reached me of the four best hours of the students' week being","box":{"x":137,"y":1410,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"devoted to subjects that count for nothing in the University Exami-","box":{"x":136,"y":1435,"width":914,"height":38}},{"text":"nations.' I may safely add that it is not only that no complaint","box":{"x":136,"y":1466,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"has reached me, but that to the best of my belief no desire to make","box":{"x":134,"y":1494,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"the complaint exists.","box":{"x":134,"y":1520,"width":281,"height":29}}]},"235":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00259-3f5e9a27e0e4d0d03040.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":456,"y":160,"width":248,"height":18}},{"text":"235","box":{"x":984,"y":164,"width":57,"height":18}},{"text":"I think I may venture to state a fact that shows the prevailing","box":{"x":166,"y":206,"width":869,"height":35}},{"text":"feeling of our students on this point. Quite recently I heard that","box":{"x":122,"y":234,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"some months ago the leading Debating Society in the College","box":{"x":123,"y":262,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"discussed the question :- Ought religion to form part of public","box":{"x":117,"y":290,"width":919,"height":39}},{"text":"education?' and that the decision arrived at was in the affirmative.","box":{"x":122,"y":316,"width":914,"height":29}},{"text":"That the education given in their own college should embrace","box":{"x":123,"y":345,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"religion, it probably had not occurred to the members of the Society","box":{"x":124,"y":372,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"to question: But so well is that side of things appreciated among","box":{"x":119,"y":402,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"us, that a majority at all events were prepared to hold that public","box":{"x":122,"y":427,"width":914,"height":36}},{"text":"instruction at large should be religious. What kind of religious","box":{"x":124,"y":455,"width":908,"height":35}},{"text":"teaching our young friends wished to have, and how they proposed","box":{"x":123,"y":486,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"to meet the practical difficulties that have puzzled more experienced","box":{"x":122,"y":512,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"heads than theirs, this I do not know; and if I did, I should not","box":{"x":120,"y":540,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"tell it. The Society is so entirely an affair of the students' own,","box":{"x":122,"y":565,"width":908,"height":36}},{"text":"originated, managed, controlled so completely by themselves, that","box":{"x":119,"y":594,"width":914,"height":36}},{"text":"I have hesitated a little as to whether I have the right even to mention","box":{"x":122,"y":622,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"their doings publicly. However, I believe they will excuse me. I","box":{"x":120,"y":650,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"am sure they are not ashamed of their opinions...","box":{"x":122,"y":679,"width":675,"height":32}},{"text":"Yet another point occurs to me as deserving of attention. It","box":{"x":158,"y":729,"width":873,"height":35}},{"text":"regards the mode in which the Scripture teaching is given in our","box":{"x":120,"y":756,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"classes. I do not mean to imply that our practice in this respect","box":{"x":115,"y":785,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"differs from what prevails elsewhere. But I have little doubt that","box":{"x":116,"y":811,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"some part of the interest that Scripture instruction has hitherto","box":{"x":119,"y":839,"width":910,"height":35}},{"text":"commanded among our students should be ascribed to this cause.","box":{"x":116,"y":868,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"The aim has been more to awaken thought than to inculcate dogma.","box":{"x":116,"y":895,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"The giving of full expression to imperfect views, and to antagonistic","box":{"x":119,"y":924,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"views when it seemed to proceed from honest thought, has always","box":{"x":116,"y":951,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"been rather encouraged than repressed. Full recognition has","box":{"x":113,"y":979,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"been given to all that is good and true in every system of belief,","box":{"x":115,"y":1007,"width":910,"height":35}},{"text":"and any cleaving has been welcomed to the gleams of light that,","box":{"x":116,"y":1035,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"apart from Christianity, have shone across the darkness of the","box":{"x":115,"y":1060,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"world, to the thoughts that 'Through many a dreary age upbore","box":{"x":112,"y":1091,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"whate'er of good or wise yet lived in bard or sage.'","box":{"x":110,"y":1117,"width":700,"height":34}},{"text":"That is the mode of teaching that the whole principles of the","box":{"x":157,"y":1169,"width":872,"height":36}},{"text":"divine dealings with our race has sanctioned, and it promises more","box":{"x":113,"y":1196,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"fruitful, though it may be more tardy, results than any other-at","box":{"x":113,"y":1225,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"least in the judgement of those who have faith in the might of","box":{"x":115,"y":1252,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"truth and in the Spirit's promised presence, and who care more for","box":{"x":116,"y":1280,"width":912,"height":38}},{"text":"one atom of moral life that is germinating within, than for a whole","box":{"x":116,"y":1303,"width":911,"height":39}},{"text":"system of professed truth that has no living root within the soul...","box":{"x":115,"y":1336,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"3. W. T. Satthianadhan on Self-Support and Self-Propagation of","box":{"x":115,"y":1408,"width":917,"height":36}},{"text":"the Native Churches","box":{"x":437,"y":1441,"width":267,"height":21}},{"text":"1. It is a fact admitted by all that the Native churches were not","box":{"x":160,"y":1487,"width":866,"height":29}},{"text":"originally founded on this principle. Hence the great lesson of","box":{"x":116,"y":1515,"width":914,"height":35}}]},"236":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00260-26d9fdf0c7fb5cf9a262.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"236","box":{"x":130,"y":153,"width":55,"height":17}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":357,"y":154,"width":473,"height":17}},{"text":"self-help is one of the hardest for the native congregations to learn.","box":{"x":136,"y":200,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"But the churches in Southern India have advanced so much that","box":{"x":130,"y":228,"width":918,"height":28}},{"text":"it ought to be inculcated and enforced slowly but steadily even if,","box":{"x":136,"y":254,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"in some cases, it may not be learnt readily and cheerfully. To","box":{"x":139,"y":284,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"quote from a paper on a similar subject:-' The idea of supporting","box":{"x":134,"y":312,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"religious teachers is indigenous to the country. The Hindus","box":{"x":137,"y":338,"width":910,"height":38}},{"text":"recognise the principle and give large offerings to the Brahmin","box":{"x":137,"y":366,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"priests. A short time since, a heathen came into one of the Church","box":{"x":134,"y":396,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"Missionary Society's churches in the northern part of the diocese","box":{"x":134,"y":424,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"(of Travancore and Cochin), and put a small sum into the hands of","box":{"x":132,"y":452,"width":922,"height":34}},{"text":"the catechist saying that he wished to make an offering to the","box":{"x":136,"y":480,"width":915,"height":32}},{"text":"God whom the Christians worshipped. The large number of","box":{"x":132,"y":508,"width":924,"height":32}},{"text":"churches, about 500, built by the people, and of priests supported","box":{"x":137,"y":535,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"by them, in connection with the Roman and Syrian communities,","box":{"x":134,"y":563,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"are a recognition of the same principle.'","box":{"x":140,"y":592,"width":542,"height":31}},{"text":"2. In order to effect this object it is essential for each member","box":{"x":183,"y":647,"width":868,"height":29}},{"text":"of Christ's Church to feel, or to be made to feel, his or her own","box":{"x":141,"y":676,"width":910,"height":29}},{"text":"individual responsibility and duty in setting apart a portion of their","box":{"x":141,"y":705,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"income for the support of their church and ordinances, from a","box":{"x":143,"y":732,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"feeling of indebtedness to Him who though He was rich, yet for","box":{"x":141,"y":761,"width":910,"height":29}},{"text":"our sakes became poor, that we through His poverty might be","box":{"x":143,"y":786,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"rich. It is doubtless a well-known fact that the majority of Native","box":{"x":140,"y":813,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"Christians are poor, and are consequently not in a position to give","box":{"x":137,"y":842,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"largely for this object. But there is a liberality even in poverty,","box":{"x":141,"y":870,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"as was the case with the churches of Macedonia, and with the poor","box":{"x":140,"y":899,"width":915,"height":29}},{"text":"widow who gave all that she had of her living. It is a great point","box":{"x":139,"y":925,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"gained if the principle is indicated, and the sense of responsibility","box":{"x":141,"y":953,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"felt, by which every one who bears the name of Christ learns to","box":{"x":143,"y":982,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"give something however small, for the noble cause. There are some","box":{"x":140,"y":1012,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"members of native churches who are in easy circumstances, and","box":{"x":141,"y":1037,"width":912,"height":31}},{"text":"who may contribute largely of their substance with a view to promote","box":{"x":137,"y":1068,"width":918,"height":31}},{"text":"the self-support of their church. But it is not so much from the","box":{"x":143,"y":1093,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"rich few, as from the poor many, that the largest and steadiest","box":{"x":144,"y":1121,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"support must be expected. It is better for instance to secure one","box":{"x":141,"y":1150,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"rupee from sixteen persons at the rate of one anna each, than to","box":{"x":143,"y":1178,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"have the whole amount from one individual only; for in the latter","box":{"x":141,"y":1206,"width":914,"height":29}},{"text":"case, it may be lost by his removal or withdrawal; whereas in the","box":{"x":144,"y":1233,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"former its continuance may fairly be reckoned on. What I mean is","box":{"x":144,"y":1261,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"that each member of a church, however poor, should learn to give a","box":{"x":141,"y":1289,"width":911,"height":31}},{"text":"portion of his income systematically, though it may not be much","box":{"x":141,"y":1318,"width":912,"height":34}},{"text":"more than a pie. They should feel by experience that it is more","box":{"x":141,"y":1346,"width":911,"height":32}},{"text":"blessed to give than to receive'. No convert should be received,","box":{"x":144,"y":1374,"width":908,"height":31}},{"text":"no new congregations formed, nor churches funded without the","box":{"x":146,"y":1403,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"lesson of self-help being first distinctly inculcated and enforced.","box":{"x":146,"y":1430,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"In this important matter they should rely more upon the strength","box":{"x":141,"y":1460,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"and promised aid of their Divine Head, and upon themselves, than","box":{"x":146,"y":1488,"width":907,"height":31}},{"text":"upon on the support of Foreign Missionary Societies...","box":{"x":143,"y":1516,"width":704,"height":34}}]}}}