{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 156,
  "chapterName": "1920. Christians and the National Movement: Resolutions of the All-India Conference of Indian Christians",
  "pageFrom": 322,
  "pageTo": 322,
  "pages": [
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      "pageNumber": 322,
      "ocrText": "322\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\nGandiji: Yes, and Hinduism teaches the same great truth, and\nMohammedanism and Zoroastrianism, too.\nMrs. Polak: Do you think Hinduism does teach 'all men are\nbrothers' as Christianity does?\nGandhiji: Do not take men's imperfect interpretation, as you\nsee it, for the real teaching of any great faith. You would not\nsuggest to me that the Christian world lives as brothers, would you?\nThink of its wars, its hatreds, its poverty and its crime !\nMrs. Polak: That is true. I suppose the ideals of mankind\nare always far ahead of them, and men and women are very much\nthe same in whatever part of the world you find them.\nGandhiji: If we realized our ideals, they would cease to be\nideals. We should have nothing to strive for.\n156. CHRISTIANS AND THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT:\nRESOLUTIONS OF THE ALL-INDIA CONFERENCE OF\nINDIAN CHRISTIANS (1920 A.D.)\nThe first All-India Conference of Indian Christians, which brought\ntogether the various provincial Indian Christian Associations, was\nheld in 1914. The leaders of the AICIC, who counted among their\nnumber the most highly qualified and influential Indian Protestant\nleaders of the pre-Independence period, were committed nationalists,\nbut, as these resolutions indicate, were often reserved in their attitude\ntowards the Indian National Congress. Selections from Report\nof the VII All-India Conference of the Indian Christians held at\nCalcutta, Dec. 28th, 29th, 30th & 31st 1920, pp. 32-36.\nXV. That this Conference is strongly of opinion that Indian\nChristians should take an active part in all healthy\npolitical movements of the country and earnestly urges\nupon the community to support all that is good for the\ncountry and oppose that which may be harmful to the\ncountry and the Government of the land.\nXVI. That while admitting that there are some causes for the\npresent discontent in the country, this Conference of\nIndian Christians strongly condemns the policy of non-\nco-operation as proposed by the special session of the\nCongress held in Calcutta in September last and is\ndecidedly of opinion that it is impracticable, unwise and\nunnecessary and is suicidal to the best interests of the\ncountry.",
      "status": "completed"
    }
  ]
}