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    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
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      "chunk_data": "On 15th May, 1806, William Carey wrote to Andrew Fuller, the Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, proposing the convening of a decennial world missionary conference at the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), with the first meeting being between 1810 and 1812.",
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      "chunk_data": "Cited in Ruth Rouse and Stephen C. Neill, eds., A History of the Ecumenical Movement, 1517-1948, p. 355.",
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      "chunk_data": "The Cape of Good Hope is now in the hands of the English; should it continue so, would it not be possible to have a general association of all denominations of Christians, from the four quarters of the world, kept there once in about ten years?",
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      "chunk_data": "I have no doubt but it would be attended with very important effects; we could understand one another better, and more entirely enter into one another's views by two hours conversation than by two or three years epistolary correspondence.",
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