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The century just passed was that of the foreign missionaries. The coming one is ours.
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The quote contrasts two eras. It says the previous century belonged to “foreign missionaries,” while the next should belong to “ours”—the speaker’s own community. In simple terms, responsibility for carrying forward a religious message is presented as shifting from outsiders to insiders.
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- The Missionary Review of the World, “The Indian Poet, Narayan Vaman Tilak”
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