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  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 92,
  "chapterName": "1835-1836. C.M.S. Questionnaire Relating to the Ecclesiastical Crisis in Kerala",
  "pageFrom": 126,
  "pageTo": 128,
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      "ocrText": "126\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\n92. C.M.S QUESTIONNAIRE RELATING TO THE\nECCLESIASTICAL CRISIS IN KERALA (1835-1836 A.D.)\nThe following are the answers given to Question XLIX of the\nquestionnaire sent to the C.M.S. missionaries in Kerala by J. Tucker.\nsecretary of the C.M.S. Corresponding Committee. It reveals the\nattitudes that led to the controversy between the missionaries and the\nleaders of the Syrian Christian Community. Papers relating to Cotta-\nyam College 1835-1840, I vol. United Theological College, Bangalore.\nArchives, No: CMS 38. Cited in T. V. Philip and K. Baago. A\nDocument from the Ecclesiastical Crisis in Kerala, 1835-1836, Indian\nChurch History Review, vol. I, No. 2, (December 1962), pp. 113-132.\n(Tucker asks the missionaries whether they consider a list of 'errors\nand abuses' of the Syrian Church to be correct. In most cases they\nanswered 'yes'. Answers are only given here where the answer was\nnot a simple 'yes').\nQuestion XLIX. Adverting to the errors and abuses of the\nSyrian Church, do you consider the following arrangement correct\nand complete ?\nI. Error contrary to scripture authorized and enjoined by the\nChurch herself in her canons or formularies, and requiring a decree\nof the Church to remove them:\n1. Transubstantiation.\n2. The Sacrifice of the Mass 'in which it is said that the\nPriest offers Christ for the quick and dead to have remission of pain\nor quiet'.\n3. Worship of the Virgin Mary, and fasts in honour of her.\n4. Worship of Saints.\n5. Prayers for the dead.\n6. Purgatory, or the possibility of a transition from an un-\npardoned to a pardoned state between the periods of death and\njudgement.\nAnswers. Rev. Messrs. Norton, Peet, Woodcock: Yes.\nRev. S. Ridsdale: The Catanars deny Purgatory,\nbut the words of the Liturgy prove the second\npart.",
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      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n127\n7. Prayers in an unknown tongue.\n8. Attributing to the Clergy the power to curse and destroy\nmen's bodies and souls.\nAnswers-Rev. Th. Norton: I wish for full information.\nRev. B. Bailey: I doubt.\nRev. J. Peet: I think it ought to be more fully\nenquired into.\nRev. W. J. Woodcock: I think it proved.\nRev. J. Tucker: I think it explicitly stated in\nthe Liturgy, but shall be glad of more infor-\nmation.\n9. Holding seven sacraments.\nAnswer - All: To be further investigated.\n10. Prayers to the altar and chancel.\nAnswer - Rev. B. Bailey: I wish to enquire further.\n11. Extreme unction.\nAnswer - Rev. W. J. Woodcock and S. Ridsdale: Not sure.\nII. Ceremonies and other abuses authorised and enjoined by\nthe Church, which are not directly forbidden by the Word of God, but\nwhich, as in their present use they have much blinded the people\nand obscured the Glory of God, are worthy to be cut away and clean\nrejected', but require a Decree of the Church to remove.\n1. The genuflexions, prostrations, crossing themselves and\nmarking all the vessels, etc., with the sign of the cross, and all the\nother vain ceremonies attending the celebration of the Lord's supper,\nincluding the elevation of the Host, incense, ringing of the bells, the\npriest receiving the Mass alone, kissing the priest's sleeve, the kiss\nof peace, burning vax lights, etc.\n2. Vain ceremonies at Baptism.\n3. Vain ceremonies at Marriages.\ngrave.\n4. Vain ceremonies at Burial, with burning of candles at the\n5. Confession in Lent, and absolution upon payment of one\nChukrum. (One Chuckrum is a little more than half of an Anna;\n28 Chuckrums make one Rupee.)",
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      "pageNumber": 128,
      "ocrText": "128\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\nIII. Sinful and corrupt practices, and abuses tolerated and\nallowed but not enjoined by the Church at present and practiced by\nlaity or clergy.\nOn the part of the Metran:\n1. The ordination of the boys from 8 or 9 years old and\nupwards to inferior orders from which they cannot retract, and\nadmission into the priesthood at 17 years age, contrary to Canons.\n2. The ordination of a greater number than are required or\ncan be supported.\n3. The sin of Simony practiced by the Metran.\n4. His taking no notice of the ungodliness of the Clergy.\n5. His being suffered by the Clergy to live in open and\nnotorious sin.\n6. His paying public honours to a noted sorcerer.\nAnswer - All: Yes, on the authority of the Rev. J. Peet.\nThe Rev. B. Bailey knows that sorcery was practised, at the\nsame place.\nOn the part of the Clergy:\n1. Some of them engaging in merchandise.\nAnswer - Rev. S. Ridsdale: Not sure.\n2. The notorious vices of some of them.\n3. The total neglect of public preaching, and even of public\nand stated reading of the scriptures.\n4. The same of educating and instructing the people;\nmaking no efforts to catechise the children, or distribute the scrip-\ntures.\n5. Either the opposing or manifesting a disinclination to all\nattempts at an efficient reformation.\n6. Discouragement of the marriage of the Clergy, or general\nCelibacy.\nAnswers Rev. Messrs. Norton, Ridsdale, Woodcock think\nit correct.\nRev. Messrs. Bailey, Peet, Tucker prefer calling it\n'discouragement of the marriage of the Clergy'.\n7. Irregularity in the time of performing Divine Service.\nAnswer - Rev. S. Ridsdale: not sure.",
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