{"pages":{"82":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00106-cbd6e458a10ad6180d73.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"82","box":{"x":137,"y":134,"width":42,"height":17}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":358,"y":141,"width":467,"height":20}},{"text":"67. WILLIAM CAREY'S PROPOSAL FOR A WORLD","box":{"x":140,"y":217,"width":893,"height":27}},{"text":"MISSIONARY CONFERENCE (1806 A.D.)","box":{"x":308,"y":245,"width":595,"height":31}},{"text":"On 15th May, 1806, William Carey wrote to Andrew Fuller, the","box":{"x":227,"y":300,"width":760,"height":28}},{"text":"Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, proposing the convening","box":{"x":186,"y":325,"width":799,"height":28}},{"text":"of a decennial world missionary conference at the Cape of Good:","box":{"x":189,"y":349,"width":798,"height":29}},{"text":"Hope (South Africa), with the first meeting being between 1810 and.","box":{"x":183,"y":375,"width":805,"height":28}},{"text":"1812. Fuller dismissed the proposal as a pleasing dream.' Though:","box":{"x":187,"y":399,"width":796,"height":29}},{"text":"there was actually no connection, much was later made of the fact","box":{"x":186,"y":425,"width":796,"height":28}},{"text":"that the World Missionary Conference held at Edinburgh in 1910","box":{"x":185,"y":450,"width":799,"height":28}},{"text":"was convened just one hundred years after Carey had first proposed","box":{"x":182,"y":474,"width":801,"height":29}},{"text":"the convening of such a meeting. The original letter is preserved in","box":{"x":183,"y":499,"width":798,"height":29}},{"text":"the vestry of St. Mary's Baptist Chu Church, Norwich, England. Cited in","box":{"x":186,"y":525,"width":795,"height":29}},{"text":"Ruth Rouse and Stephen C. Neill, eds., A History of the Ecumenical","box":{"x":178,"y":549,"width":803,"height":29}},{"text":"Movement, 1517-1948, p. 355.","box":{"x":181,"y":574,"width":344,"height":24}},{"text":"The Cape of Good Hope is now in the hands of the English","box":{"x":218,"y":625,"width":791,"height":34}},{"text":"should it continue so, would it not be possible to have a general","box":{"x":130,"y":651,"width":897,"height":34}},{"text":"association of all denominations of Christians, from the four","box":{"x":130,"y":679,"width":898,"height":32}},{"text":"quarters of the world, kept there once in about ten years? I earnestly","box":{"x":130,"y":708,"width":897,"height":35}},{"text":"recommend this plan, let the first meeting be in the Year 1810,.","box":{"x":132,"y":736,"width":896,"height":32}},{"text":"or 1812 at furthest. I have no doubt but it would be attended","box":{"x":132,"y":764,"width":896,"height":29}},{"text":"with very important int effects; we could understand one another","box":{"x":125,"y":792,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"better, and more entirely enter into one another's views by two","box":{"x":127,"y":817,"width":896,"height":35}},{"text":"hours conversation than by two or three years epistolary corres-","box":{"x":126,"y":846,"width":901,"height":35}},{"text":"pondence.","box":{"x":123,"y":876,"width":144,"height":28}},{"text":"The churches are numerous; but as they are in general poor,","box":{"x":166,"y":929,"width":855,"height":35}},{"text":"and are obliged to be supplied with priests from Goa, one vicar","box":{"x":125,"y":956,"width":897,"height":35}},{"text":"holds upon an average five or six churches. The number of","box":{"x":125,"y":983,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"Christians composing these churches must be great, as all the fisher-","box":{"x":123,"y":1014,"width":898,"height":31}},{"text":"men are Roman-Catholics.","box":{"x":126,"y":1039,"width":362,"height":28}},{"text":"68. MONUMENTS TO","box":{"x":403,"y":1126,"width":339,"height":22}},{"text":"CHRISTIAN FREDERICK SCHWARTZ (c. 1807 A.D.)","box":{"x":195,"y":1151,"width":756,"height":32}},{"text":"Christian Frederick Schwartz (1726-1798) was a German missio-","box":{"x":210,"y":1207,"width":763,"height":27}},{"text":"nary who is especially well known for his various public and diplo-","box":{"x":172,"y":1231,"width":799,"height":31}},{"text":"matic services during the time he was resident in Tanjore as a missio-","box":{"x":171,"y":1258,"width":805,"height":27}},{"text":"nary and English chaplain. In his memory the Raja of Tanjore","box":{"x":172,"y":1283,"width":796,"height":29}},{"text":"and the Madras Government erected monuments in Tanjore and the","box":{"x":172,"y":1309,"width":801,"height":28}},{"text":"Church of St. Mary in Fort St. George, Madras, respectively. Cited","box":{"x":169,"y":1335,"width":802,"height":31}},{"text":"in Jesse Page, Schwartz of Tanjore, pp. 184, 187-188.","box":{"x":174,"y":1361,"width":641,"height":25}},{"text":"Monument erected by Raja Serfojee at Tanjore","box":{"x":255,"y":1418,"width":612,"height":31}},{"text":"To the memory of the","box":{"x":420,"y":1456,"width":294,"height":31}},{"text":"Reverend Christian Frederic Schwartz,","box":{"x":308,"y":1494,"width":518,"height":31}}]}}}