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Volume14: Some Documents on Christinaisation of India and Alterations in Strategies, c.1700 - 1900
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We address you upon this occasion, entreating you to lend your aid, not as a favour to us, but as your duty to Jesus Christ. This is a matter purely religious, and the general question is of the utmost consequence to Christianity. Is it possible then that good ministers can remain inactive or unconcerned. In such a case, he that is not with Jesus is against him. This business is entirely in your own line; and we trust that you will not allow the cause of your Master to suffer either by your cowardice or sloth. You are put in trust with the Gospel; it is yours to promote its cause in the world, and to attend to the things that belong to the everlasting peace of your fellow creatures. It is yours, in such a cause, to lift up your voice like a trumpet, to cry aloud, and spare not, to shew yourself a faithful watchman on the battlements of Zion.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->23. ROBERT SOUTHEY, KESWICK TO W. WILBERFORCE: JUNE 1813
BOD : MSS Wil d.15, ff 82-3
It is our duty to use every allowable means for weaning the natives from their own false religion ... It is our interest, because every native christian has a common interest with the British Government, and he becomes a faithful subject of it. Native churches therefore are the strongest foothold we can erect.
The work has been begun at Serampore. Carey is no carrier, and his work will last longer than that of the great jesuit, because it is built upon a surer foundation. But without the missionaries government could do nothing I fear that our missionaries without government cannot do much for while the English in India pay no regard to their own religion, the natives will necessarily despise it. A church establishment is the first they need...schools the second in which we should take as much pains for communicating our own language as is (most properly) bestowed in acquiring that of the country. Lastly the converts, whenever it is possible, should be employed both by the state and the individuals, in preference to other persons.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Volume14: Some Documents on Christinaisation of India and Alterations in Strategies, c.1700 - 1900
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"â¦
We address you upon this occasion, entreating you to lend your aid, not as a favour to us, but as your duty to Jesus Christ. This is a matter purely religious, and the general question is of the utmost consequence to Christianity. Is it possible then that good ministers can remain inactive or unconcerned. In such a case, he that is not with Jesus is against him. This business is entirely in your own line; and we trust that you will not allow the cause of your Master to suffer either by your cowardice or sloth. You are put in trust with the Gospel; it is yours to promote its cause in the world, and to attend to the things that belong to the everlasting peace of your fellow creatures. It is yours, in such a cause, to lift up your voice like a trumpet, to cry aloud, and spare not, to shew yourself a faithful watchman on the battlements of Zion.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->23. ROBERT SOUTHEY, KESWICK TO W. WILBERFORCE: JUNE 1813
BOD : MSS Wil d.15, ff 82-3
It is our duty to use every allowable means for weaning the natives from their own false religion ... It is our interest, because every native christian has a common interest with the British Government, and he becomes a faithful subject of it. Native churches therefore are the strongest foothold we can erect.
The work has been begun at Serampore. Carey is no carrier, and his work will last longer than that of the great jesuit, because it is built upon a surer foundation. But without the missionaries government could do nothing I fear that our missionaries without government cannot do much for while the English in India pay no regard to their own religion, the natives will necessarily despise it. A church establishment is the first they need...schools the second in which we should take as much pains for communicating our own language as is (most properly) bestowed in acquiring that of the country. Lastly the converts, whenever it is possible, should be employed both by the state and the individuals, in preference to other persons.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->