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Some Missionary Societies are in great advance","box":{"x":94,"y":316,"width":922,"height":34}},{"text":"in this respect over others. In the Young Men's Christian Associa-","box":{"x":98,"y":345,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"tion we have a body that stands foremost in having successfully","box":{"x":95,"y":373,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"solved the problem...","box":{"x":95,"y":401,"width":297,"height":29}},{"text":"I do not deny that there is blame on both sides. That cannot","box":{"x":141,"y":457,"width":871,"height":32}},{"text":"but be so. I do not overlook the fact that hindrances to a proper","box":{"x":91,"y":485,"width":919,"height":36}},{"text":"relationship exist also on the side of the Indian Christians, but","box":{"x":95,"y":514,"width":915,"height":31}},{"text":"since my audience is not composed of these, I feel that it will serve","box":{"x":91,"y":541,"width":922,"height":32}},{"text":"no useful purpose to detail them here...","box":{"x":89,"y":562,"width":553,"height":38}},{"text":"I. Let us first consider the Personal relationship that ought","box":{"x":168,"y":625,"width":841,"height":34}},{"text":"to exist for effective co-operation. For the idea of this relationship","box":{"x":89,"y":652,"width":919,"height":34}},{"text":"we look to our Master and Lord. 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He says: 'With abundance of kind feeling","box":{"x":93,"y":295,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"for, and unsparing labour and self-denial on behalf of Indian","box":{"x":97,"y":322,"width":911,"height":34}},{"text":"Christians, the missionaries, except a few of the very best, seem to","box":{"x":94,"y":351,"width":914,"height":31}},{"text":"me to fail very largely in getting rid of an air of patronage and","box":{"x":97,"y":379,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"condescension, and in establishing a genuinely brotherly and happy","box":{"x":94,"y":406,"width":918,"height":34}},{"text":"relation as between equals with their Indian flocks...","box":{"x":100,"y":436,"width":719,"height":31}},{"text":"The pioneer missionaries were 'fathers' to the converts. The","box":{"x":144,"y":490,"width":868,"height":31}},{"text":"converts in their turn were glad to be their children.' 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Is it not such a relationship, and such alone, that","box":{"x":102,"y":768,"width":917,"height":34}},{"text":"can, more than anything else, prevent the growth of the spirit of","box":{"x":101,"y":797,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"false independence, foolish impudence, and flagrant bitterness","box":{"x":105,"y":825,"width":914,"height":34}},{"text":"against missionaries that we often meet with in Indian Christian","box":{"x":104,"y":851,"width":917,"height":35}},{"text":"young men to-day?","box":{"x":102,"y":888,"width":274,"height":29}},{"text":"The Bishop of Lahore goes on to make some practical sugges-","box":{"x":153,"y":933,"width":869,"height":36}},{"text":"tions. He says: 'If we could get into the way of treating Indian","box":{"x":105,"y":960,"width":915,"height":39}},{"text":"Christians with perfect naturalness, exactly as we treat English","box":{"x":102,"y":991,"width":921,"height":35}},{"text":"friends, asking them more frequently to stay with us in our houses,","box":{"x":109,"y":1019,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"and genuinely making friends of them, realising in how very many","box":{"x":104,"y":1046,"width":922,"height":35}},{"text":"things we have to learn from them, and how large are the contri-","box":{"x":108,"y":1075,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"butions which they can bring into the common stock-this, I believe,","box":{"x":105,"y":1104,"width":921,"height":32}},{"text":"would do more than anything else to draw us more closely together","box":{"x":105,"y":1131,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"again... 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I think of a pastor, who is","box":{"x":108,"y":1383,"width":919,"height":35}},{"text":"confessedly the right hand of a station missionary, who said to me","box":{"x":108,"y":1411,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"that during the eighteen years he had been a pastor, his missionary","box":{"x":111,"y":1440,"width":919,"height":35}},{"text":"had never once visited his humble home. Two men, holding very","box":{"x":105,"y":1468,"width":928,"height":35}},{"text":"high positions in a native state, said to a friend of mine recently that","box":{"x":109,"y":1495,"width":922,"height":36}},{"text":"H.C.I.-20","box":{"x":206,"y":1543,"width":122,"height":24}}]},"306":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00330-1cbaf9b98fc473eb3ac0.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"306","box":{"x":147,"y":120,"width":55,"height":18}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":371,"y":125,"width":480,"height":22}},{"text":"though they had been for several years in the city, and even calledi","box":{"x":145,"y":174,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"on the missionary, the missionary never thought of returning the","box":{"x":145,"y":203,"width":921,"height":34}},{"text":"call. I remember two or three younger missionaries who have","box":{"x":145,"y":229,"width":919,"height":32}},{"text":"told me that while they themselves like to go and call on the leading","box":{"x":147,"y":257,"width":918,"height":35}},{"text":"Indian Christian gentlemen, their senior missionaries are against.","box":{"x":147,"y":286,"width":919,"height":34}},{"text":"such innovations. I recall how years ago a young ng missionary told","box":{"x":145,"y":314,"width":915,"height":35}},{"text":"me of what he called the impudence of an Indian clergyman, who","box":{"x":145,"y":342,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"was a graduate of one of the Indian universities, in going forward","box":{"x":138,"y":369,"width":922,"height":35}},{"text":"to shake hands with him. This man,' he said, 'thinks, that because","box":{"x":144,"y":398,"width":914,"height":29}},{"text":"he is a graduate and has put on European costume, I must shake.","box":{"x":140,"y":425,"width":924,"height":34}},{"text":"hands with him!'","box":{"x":140,"y":450,"width":252,"height":25}},{"text":"I do not want you to think that these instances represent the","box":{"x":186,"y":498,"width":868,"height":35}},{"text":"general state of affairs, nor do I want you to think that these are:","box":{"x":137,"y":525,"width":925,"height":31}},{"text":"but solitary instances...","box":{"x":134,"y":551,"width":326,"height":28}},{"text":"On the other hand, I can never forget a sight I saw near the foot","box":{"x":183,"y":604,"width":871,"height":29}},{"text":"of the Himalayas, on the borders of Kashmir. 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I noticed that that mission on the whole was far","box":{"x":136,"y":823,"width":911,"height":31}},{"text":"ahead in this respect of most others.","box":{"x":133,"y":850,"width":500,"height":29}},{"text":"Let me not be misunderstood. I do not plead for returning:","box":{"x":176,"y":901,"width":876,"height":34}},{"text":"calls, handshakes, chairs, dinners, and teas, as such. I do, on the","box":{"x":129,"y":928,"width":917,"height":32}},{"text":"other hand, plead for all of them and more if they can be expressions.","box":{"x":129,"y":956,"width":921,"height":35}},{"text":"of a friendly feeling, if these or anything else can be the outward","box":{"x":129,"y":983,"width":915,"height":34}},{"text":"proofs of a real willingness on the part of the foreign missionary to","box":{"x":124,"y":1009,"width":917,"height":36}},{"text":"show that he is in the midst of the people, to be to them, not a lord","box":{"x":129,"y":1039,"width":912,"height":35}},{"text":"and a master, but a brother and a friend.","box":{"x":129,"y":1066,"width":557,"height":29}},{"text":"II. The effective co-operation will only be possible with a","box":{"x":206,"y":1122,"width":838,"height":35}},{"text":"proper official relationship.","box":{"x":126,"y":1150,"width":372,"height":31}},{"text":"The official relationship generally prevalent at present between","box":{"x":172,"y":1197,"width":865,"height":36}},{"text":"the missionary and the Indian worker is that between a master and","box":{"x":124,"y":1227,"width":914,"height":32}},{"text":"a servant in fact, the word often used in South India by the low","box":{"x":126,"y":1254,"width":911,"height":35}},{"text":"grade Indian workers in addressing missionaries is ejaman or","box":{"x":122,"y":1283,"width":917,"height":36}},{"text":"master. The missionary is the paymaster, the worker his servant.","box":{"x":122,"y":1311,"width":914,"height":35}},{"text":"As long as this relationship exists, we must admit that no sense of","box":{"x":116,"y":1339,"width":924,"height":32}},{"text":"self-respect and individuality can grow in the Indian Church.","box":{"x":123,"y":1365,"width":817,"height":34}},{"text":"The aim of the Missionary Societies, we know, is to develop","box":{"x":207,"y":1416,"width":827,"height":38}},{"text":"self-governing churches and to give freedom and scope to indi-","box":{"x":119,"y":1444,"width":917,"height":38}},{"text":"genous leadership, and to strive to make themselves unnecessary","box":{"x":116,"y":1470,"width":917,"height":41}}]},"307":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00331-63abff417f865a448331.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":472,"y":140,"width":252,"height":17}},{"text":"307","box":{"x":1006,"y":139,"width":56,"height":20}},{"text":"in the field. But the Societies have not convinced the natives that","box":{"x":140,"y":185,"width":919,"height":31}},{"text":"this is their aim. Nay, in some missions Indian Christians truly,","box":{"x":139,"y":212,"width":919,"height":35}},{"text":"though I know erroneously, believe tnat the missionaries are against","box":{"x":139,"y":242,"width":922,"height":34}},{"text":"any full self-support and real self-government, because that will","box":{"x":136,"y":271,"width":925,"height":32}},{"text":"make them unnecessary in the leadership of the work. 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True co-operation is possible only with a proper spiritual","box":{"x":201,"y":990,"width":848,"height":35}},{"text":"relationship.","box":{"x":122,"y":1017,"width":172,"height":31}},{"text":"No personal relationship will be true and permanent that is not","box":{"x":161,"y":1064,"width":884,"height":35}},{"text":"built on a spiritual basis. India is a land that has a 'religious","box":{"x":119,"y":1089,"width":926,"height":36}},{"text":"atmosphere. To the Hindu 'the one and only ultimate is God:","box":{"x":122,"y":1119,"width":925,"height":34}},{"text":"his great and only reality the unseen his true and eternal environ-","box":{"x":120,"y":1147,"width":922,"height":34}},{"text":"ment the spiritual.'","box":{"x":118,"y":1173,"width":260,"height":29}},{"text":"In such a land, therefore, the easiest point of contact with the","box":{"x":164,"y":1220,"width":878,"height":31}},{"text":"heart is on the spiritual side. 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