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India, Beloved of Heaven

India, Beloved of Heaven

Badley, Brenton T.

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Indian & South Asian History

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ISBN10: 1154744493
ISBN13: 9781154744491
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... all, even those that are robbers, are regarded as very respectable by many castes of Hindus, they have regular incomes because they are of the robber caste, and nearly every village has a few families of Maravars whom they gladly support because long experience has taught them that unless they do pay this regular income frequent robberies will deprive the villagers of far more than the cost of that support. And in every case the Maravars of the village, to the last individual, will have a gilt-edged alibi for the entire night of the robbery. But as long as his salary is paid, the Maravar insures the village against robbery of all varieties. However, when he becomes a Christian, the fact that he is no longer a potential robber, or in any sense a menace to the community, is recognized, and the salary is immediately cut off. Thus folks who were comparatively well to do were suddenly forced to seek remunerative employment, and they had no funds to build a church in Talikat Apuram. In their distress and urgent need of some sort of building which would serve as a place of meeting, they took me to a site on the main street of the town, and there urged me to kneel and pray. This I did, asking God to give them some sort of church, and, as they requested, grant that we might build it on that very plot of ground. Before I left that village, the deed for that piece of land was in my pocket, the donor having made a free gift of it to the Mission for a church building. But when a week or two had passed, I found a new sign of God's wonderful mercy, for a letter from a little town in southern Ohio brought me news that an old lady there was sending, through the Board of Foreign Missions, eighty dollars to build a little church in India. I fell upon my knees and thanked him...

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