Word: tranquebar
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...Will of God. The fact that Christians in India are a tiny religious minority has always tended to blur denominational differences. Even so, the road to union has been an uphill climb. In 1919, at the village of Tranquebar, south of Madras, where India's first Protestant missionaries had landed, 50 ministers of evangelical churches met to discuss union. Some of them-Anglicans and members of the South India United Church*-signed a manifesto proposing union...
...period", Perish the thought! And let us by all means make haste and be off in the remaining 125 pages to a consideration of the exciting details of Talleyrand's liason and marriage with Madame Grande, the very beautiful, albeit mildly illiterate, daughter of a French official at Tranquebar in India...
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