{"pages":{"345":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00369-1d2c220b3aa7472e2863.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":431,"y":143,"width":252,"height":20}},{"text":"345","box":{"x":964,"y":140,"width":55,"height":21}},{"text":"168.","box":{"x":199,"y":211,"width":55,"height":24}},{"text":"RADHAKRISHΝΑΝ ΟΝ ΤTHE ATTITUDE","box":{"x":284,"y":211,"width":624,"height":22}},{"text":"OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES TO OTHER","box":{"x":210,"y":245,"width":691,"height":25}},{"text":"RELIGIONS IN INDIA (1929 A.D.)","box":{"x":293,"y":277,"width":526,"height":29}},{"text":"In this portion of his book, East and West in Religion, Sarvepalli","box":{"x":181,"y":336,"width":789,"height":25}},{"text":"Radhakrishnan surveys critically the changing attitudes of Christian","box":{"x":140,"y":360,"width":827,"height":28}},{"text":"missionaries towards non-Christian religions in India since the advent","box":{"x":143,"y":385,"width":826,"height":25}},{"text":"of the East India Company's rule. East and West in Religion, pp.21-25.","box":{"x":143,"y":412,"width":826,"height":27}},{"text":"This point can be illustrated by a reference to the delicate ques-","box":{"x":139,"y":468,"width":879,"height":31}},{"text":"tion of the attitude of the Christian missionaries in India to Indian","box":{"x":95,"y":495,"width":924,"height":25}},{"text":"faiths. This attitude has changed somewhat in the same way as","box":{"x":98,"y":523,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"have the political relations between Great Britain and India. The","box":{"x":95,"y":551,"width":924,"height":32}},{"text":"latter may be broadly distinguished into the three stages of (1) The","box":{"x":97,"y":578,"width":924,"height":32}},{"text":"East India Company, (2) The British Empire, (3) The British","box":{"x":94,"y":606,"width":925,"height":35}},{"text":"Commonwealth of Nations. In the first stage, India was simply a","box":{"x":95,"y":634,"width":926,"height":31}},{"text":"field for exploration. She had no rights of her own and John","box":{"x":99,"y":663,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"Company did not believe it necessary to treat her with any respect,","box":{"x":95,"y":688,"width":922,"height":34}},{"text":"much less reverence. The Christian missionaries of that day did","box":{"x":97,"y":716,"width":924,"height":29}},{"text":"not recognize anything vital or valuable in the Indian religions.","box":{"x":97,"y":744,"width":922,"height":35}},{"text":"For them, the native faiths were a mass of unredeemed darkness","box":{"x":98,"y":775,"width":919,"height":28}},{"text":"and error. They had supreme contempt for the heathen religions","box":{"x":98,"y":800,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"and wished to root them out, lock, stock and barrel. It is a natural","box":{"x":98,"y":830,"width":924,"height":29}},{"text":"tendency of the human mind to suppose that its own god is God of","box":{"x":95,"y":856,"width":926,"height":35}},{"text":"all the earth, while all other gods are mumbo jumbo' made with","box":{"x":97,"y":884,"width":924,"height":34}},{"text":"human hands. Bishop Heber's famous hymn brings out admirably","box":{"x":95,"y":911,"width":925,"height":32}},{"text":"this attitude of iconoclasm. That Christianity is the one true reli-","box":{"x":98,"y":938,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"gion and all other religions are utterly false has been the belief not","box":{"x":95,"y":967,"width":925,"height":36}},{"text":"only of the rank and file in the Christian Church but also of many","box":{"x":95,"y":995,"width":925,"height":32}},{"text":"Christian men and women of high intellectual standing. This","box":{"x":97,"y":1023,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"agressive propaganda lacked the one thing needful-charity.","box":{"x":101,"y":1052,"width":857,"height":34}},{"text":"In 1858, after the great Indian Mutiny-a mutiny was necessary","box":{"x":146,"y":1107,"width":875,"height":32}},{"text":"-the British Government took charge of India and recognized","box":{"x":94,"y":1135,"width":925,"height":31}},{"text":"certain rights and interests of the Indian people; but India became a","box":{"x":99,"y":1163,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"dependency, a means to an end, and the interests of Great Britain","box":{"x":97,"y":1191,"width":924,"height":34}},{"text":"were paramount. All the same, it is an improvement on the condi-","box":{"x":97,"y":1220,"width":922,"height":31}},{"text":"tions of the East India Company. Similarly the Christian mis-","box":{"x":99,"y":1247,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"sionaries of the second stage realized the futility of aggressive","box":{"x":98,"y":1274,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"propaganda, and did not dismiss the Indian faiths as a mass of","box":{"x":98,"y":1301,"width":926,"height":35}},{"text":"superstition and a sink of iniquity, but regarded them as posses-","box":{"x":102,"y":1331,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"sing some virtues of their own. For a religious development","box":{"x":101,"y":1358,"width":918,"height":32}},{"text":"existing over forty centuries and attaining spiritual heights which","box":{"x":98,"y":1385,"width":924,"height":34}},{"text":"challenge comparison with the best products of other religions","box":{"x":98,"y":1411,"width":921,"height":38}},{"text":"cannot be set aside as having no survival value. The other systems","box":{"x":101,"y":1441,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"came to be regarded as a preparation, and Christianity as a crowns","box":{"x":102,"y":1470,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"and completion of them all. While the first attitude is reminiscent","box":{"x":94,"y":1496,"width":924,"height":34}}]}}}