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The Christian Conquest of India (excerpts) - By Bishop James Thoburn


Bishop James M. Thoburn (1836-1922) wrote in his book, The Christian
Conquest of India in 1906, about the Millions Waiting to be converted
in the British Empire:

"In her most palmy days Rome ruled over only one hundred and twenty
million people, while in India today nearly three hundred million
souls are subject, more or less directly, to the rule of the King-
Emperor. China alone among the great kingdoms and empires of the
world
can compare with India in population at the beginning of this new
century, and this splendid realm has opened all her gates and doors
to
the Christian missionary. Instead of the wretched little vessels in
which Paul coasted around the Mediterranean ports, the Indian
missionary has floating palaces to convey him at sea, while palatial
cars await him when he wished to travel by land. God has opened his
pathway to even the most remote tribes, while a sympathetic and
enlightened government protects him from hostile persecution, or even
the menace of danger. The original commission to evangelize the
nations still stands, while God, who rules over all nations, sets an
open door before his servants who are willing to enter and evangelize
the waiting millions."

"The time is auspicious, and the missionaries of India should not
lose
a day or an hour in sounding the trumpet for a great forward
movement.
As Paul, the ideal missionary for all lands and all times, aimed
first
at Greece and next for Rome, so should the missionaries of our modern
day aim for all the great centers of population, commerce, and
political rule in the empire. This does not mean that outlying and
distant places are to be negated, but only that the great centers of
power and influence should be quickly seized and strongly held. A
wide
and firm grasp is needed. The word should be passed all along the
line
that India is to be won for Christ, and that the greatest movement
ever attempted in the history of Christianity is now at hand. Nothing
in all modern history, nothing since the day of Pentecost, has been
equal to the present opportunity.

The old may rejoice that they have lived to see this day, but the
young may rejoice still more in the hope of seeing a day when a
million souls will be found inquiring the way to Zion in North India,
a  million in West India, a million more in Burma, and still a
million
more in South India. A million? Why not ten million?

Why not the Christian Conquest of India?

(source: The Christian Conquest of India - By Bishop James M.
Thoburn p. 244-245).












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