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It was succeeded by a long night which settled upon the East when

the Sun of rlghteomness rose upon the West.

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rule, and the sky to be overspread with innumerable lesser lights; dark-

ness and thick darkness sank upon the land; man separated {rom man;

the laborer, the trader, the woman, the child, the people were enslaved

by the priests, themselves slaves to a yoke of traditions which grew

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The work of Missions in India is beginning to conquer.

The apathy

of the Churches of Europe—the fears and shortsighted policy of the ru-

lers of the country—the proud confidence of Hinduism-the spell of caste—

the formidable and patience-trying difficulties of the commencement of

the work itself,—all have given way before the gracious counsels of God.

Many countries, many tribes, all the chief castes of India have sent,

however reluctantly, some forerunners and representatives into the

Church of Christ.

God by the power of his grace has effected a change far surpassing

the hopes and fears entertained by friends or foes of past generations.

Let us take courage; the Lord has shown Himself faithful and full of

mercy.

Let us hope for greater things, believe greater things, pray

for greater things, and He, if we open our mouth wide, will fill it.

During the past year we have heard voices of joy and triumph from

the Eastern coast; and, praised be the name of the Lord, are enabled

to re-echo them joyfully from the west.

Our work has been steadily

progressing at most of our stations.

With one exception we have been

preserved from disease.

All our lives have been spared.

Our congre-

gations have increased in number. Two brethren indeed have returned

to Enrope, but in their stead a new brother and two sisters have joined

us

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9

and one of our invalid brethren is purposing te return with new

strength and health to his field of labor, before the end of the year. At

Mangalore the Lord has wrought a sign and wonder in the face of the

people, by the happy conversion and subsequent baptism, in the midst

of enraged enemies, of some Brahman youths, the firstborn from a-

mong a tribe which three centuries ago retired with its goods and gods

from Goa, when the Portuguese and the zealous Xavier raised there the

standard of the cross of Christ.

"The breaches in Satan’s strongholds

are multiplying. May the Lord multiply grace, faith, and strength, to

all His servants.

From home we have also received cheering news.

The deficit in the

accounts of the Socicty has been less than was expected last year, a-

mounting to 10,000 Rs. instead of 30,000 Rs. which had been the defi-

cit of the preceding year.

The Mission, which,.as stated in our last re-

port, was re-established on the Gold Coast in Western Africa by four bre-

thren, (viz. Br. Riis, the only survivor of the brethren formerly sent out

to that country, Br. Widmann, Br. Thompson, their assistant, a native

of Africa educated in the Basel Institution, and Br. Halleur, the intend-

ed superintendant of the agricultural and economical department) and

twenty-four free christian Negroes from the West Indies, is prospering.

The bre-

The whole party have removed to the Hills in the interior.

thern Riis and Widmann have overcome the coast fever, Br. Thompson’s

health has not suffered at all, and Halleur only will have to return

home on account of ill health.

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THE MANGALORE STATION.

Rev. C. Greiner and Mrs. Greiner, Rev. H. Mocegling, Rev. G

Weigle, Rev. J. Ammann, and Rev. A. Biilrer.

The past year, over which this report extends, has been one of

changes, trials, and joys, not easily to be effaced from our memory.

When the last report was preparing, Br. Frey from Malsamudra was

staying with us. His health at last forced him to return to Europe.

He went to Bombay and took his passage in one of those ships which,

in the April of last year, were nearly lost off the Mauritius.

Br. Frey

not having the means of taking a passage in another vessel, was detain-

ed in the island for some months, during which time he received much

kindness from the Rev. Mr. Baker and other friends, who at last paid

his passage in a homeward bound ship. This second vessel met with a

similar fate, and with difficulty reached St Helena, where it was pro-

nounced un-seaworthy.

This is the last account we have had from our

dear brother. Twice the mercy of God had saved him from death,

but his health was sinking, and he felt uncertain whether he should live

to reach home.

In June last year Br. Supper, by the advice of the brethren in the

Southern Mahratta country, accepted our invitation to come to Manga-

lore, and left Hubli, where he had for many months been suffering in

mind and body. We all hoped that a change of air, scene, and labor,

would prove beneficial to him ; but after many variations of his mental

and bodily state, he despaired of recovery as long as he remained in

this country, and returned to Europe by the last Steamer before the

Monsoon.

In August last Br. Moegling, accompanied by five of the elder boys

of the Institution, undertook a Missionary journey through the greater

part of the Canarese country. I visited Mercara, Mysore, Seringapa-

tam, Srdvana Beligula, Gubbi, Toomkoor, Sivaganga, Bangalore, Bel-

lary, Shimoga, Hurryhur, and Sringeri.

In most places I was well re-

ceived by the natives high and low. At Srdvana Beligula, the renown-

ned Jain establishment, where we staid three days, I spent several hours

every day in friendly and interesting conversation with the chief guru,

and on the last day was with my companions invited to a dinner, which

one of the principal people of the Mattha served to us in person. Also

at Sringeri, the chief place of the Smérta Brahmans, I was civilly re-

ceived, and invited to the house of the Minister of the head Guru, then

absent on a long pilgrimage, where the principal Shastri treated me

with a long conversation or rather disputation in presence of a numer-

ous and respectable assembly.

I had also, during this journey, the

great pleasure of seeing most of the brethren of other Missions Ia-

boring among the Canarese. The days [ spent at Mysore, Baug;do‘rej

6

Gubbi, and Bellary, with the brethren-of the different Missions, are a-

mong the most delightful of my Indian life.

We rejoiced, comforted,

and strengthened one another as members of one household, and the

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I beg to enclose a trifle for the Mission ; would that T could

offer more, but the many demands upon my limited means will not al-

low me to do so.

To

The Reverend the German Missionaries, Mangalore.

On Visitation, én route to Jawlnal

29th. January 1844,

My Dear Mr. Moegling,

I am so bad a reader of newspapers, having indeed no time and but

little taste, for ordinary * news,” that the subject on which I now tal

e

the liberty of writing to you m:

a1y or may not be of old date to every one

in India except myself. It was, however, but last night that the account

of the recent conversion, through God’s grace, (and to Him be all the

glory) of the young Brahmins in your excellent Institution at

Mangalore,

caught my attention in the Bombay Times, and g

ave me a deep feeling

of joy and thankfulness to Him who has

thus called them out of dark-

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ness to His marvellous light.

May they be endued wi

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h continual grace

and strength to make their calling and election sur

e through Christ oar

Lord, without whom none can do any

thing that is good, or

escape

from the pollution and the consequences of any thing that is evil

.

I know something of the fluctuating hopes, and of the m

any cares and

griefs of a Missionary’s life, for I am myself in one sen

se, although not

in so pure a sense as you and those who, lik

e you, attend continu

ally

on this very thing, a

Missionary to the Heathen, and I can enter

into

your feelings of gratitude at the conversion of thes

e youths, which, if

I rightly understand the case, has been brought

about, under God,

slowly and deliberately, and as it were by a process

and a progress like

that mysterious ladder revealed to Jacob, which le

ads the soul step by

step from earth to Heaven; and I ¢

an equally enter into your

feelings of anxiety lést the enemy of souls

should snatch th

em again ous

of your hands.

It has occurred to me therefor

e that, as it is most un-

scriptural to expect that God’s Providenc

e will effect for us by some

extraordinary method, that which He h

as called many of us in this land

to accomplish by his or

dinary allotment to us of

means, to help our

poor brethren, something ought to be done,

if necessar

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some maintenance for these poor youths (but they a

e rich) who have

given up all to follow Christ.

Should such a measure be £

hought de-

sirable, perhaps you will accept from me on

shall be ser

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e hundred Rupees, which

t whenever you ask for them, and if my name ¢

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be

of the least service in promoting such an object,

in the event of your

wishing it to be set forward, you are quite

free to publish this letter,—

8

The subjects of Great Britain in India have by no means done hi-

therto what they ought to do among their India fellow subjects for the

promotion of the Gospel.

If they had, I should not travel, as it is my

lot and duty to do, over so many hundred miles, and not meet a

limits of direct Missionary influ-

single native, beyond the very narrow

ence, who has ever heard of Christ.

From the opportunities which I

had of seeing the German Mission at Mangalore and those of your Rev.

Broethren at Hubli and Dharwar, I am satisfied that you are doing your

uimost to win all the Heathens to Him whom your voice can reach, and

that you are doing this soberly and lovingly, keeping the words of

Christ’s patience.

I cannot sherefore but feel deeply interested in your

he Hindoos to whom the Church of England

evangelical labours among t

that

has not been able to stretch out her arms; and I heartily pray

and that the Holy spirit, the Lord

God may bless and speed your work,

and giver of life, may thro’

your instrument

ality rouse many more souls,

from the savour of death unto death, and

as these young Brahmins,

bring them unto the bread

which cometh down from Heaven, and thro’

which alone they and we can live for ever.

Believe me my dear Mr. Moegling,

Very truly Yours

G. T. Madras.

To

The Rev. Mr. Moegling and his Rev. Colleagues

of the Gierman Mission, Mangalore.

On Visitation, Camp Soupiak

5th March 1844.

My dear Mr, Moegling.

Owing to the wandering life Iam now leading, your letter of

February

did not reach me until yesterday.

because I feel I do not dessrve it, be-

I cannot receive your praise,

ing a far more unprofita

ble servant than

any of my brethren ; but I do

at of your Reverend Colleagues, and the feeling

receive your love and th

that I possess it, makes

me thank God and take courage.

Tt is indeed a joyful and a pleasant thing to learn,

that these young

men have

endured so faithfully the fiery trial that has tried them, and

are happy in deing reproached fo

r the name of Christ.

May the spirit

on them, so that on their part Christ

of glory and of God ever rest up

may always be glorified in a pla

ce where, alas! He is evil spoken of

untrymen.

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by so many of their blinded co

trying to you and also to Mr.

Weigle, when the heathen were ra-

our door to get po

ssession of your converts,

ging so furiously around y

hese fellows who have been with

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Jesus of Nazareth: and I have never read

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had acquired a certain degree of knowledge of the English language.

These hopes however were long deferred, and after some time they

were glad to find employment in our printing office.

They both

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persecution and the loss of reputation, caste, and the little property

they possessed, they took care not to open their minds to any of us.

Anandrao, who had eatered the English School by the advice of Bha-

gavantrao, made considerable progress in learnin

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times a lively interest also in the Bible lessons; but in religious conver-

sation with his school fellows, he took his position as a defender of the

old faith, and as their opponent, whenever they ventured to speak in

A change however

favor aund praise of the Bible and of Jesus Christ.

was preparing. During the last monsoon, Anandrao was taken ill with

fever.

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very slow.

During the lonely days and the long and weary nights of

his~ sickness, his affliction now and then appeared to him as a punish-

ment from God.

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He prayed, but not in the name of Christ.

the return of his health, his mind also seemed to recover its usual tone

and strength. “ On the morning of the 24th. November, he came to me

on an errand from one of our friends.

He stood at the window of my

room. I was engaged and could not attend to him at the moment. He

seemed to linger; and it struck me, that he might have come with a

desire for some serious conversation.

I therefore gave him a new al-

manack of the religious tract society, and said ‘read in this; I will speak

to you by and by when I have finished my writing.”

He went away

After half an hour he returned, showed me a

with the little book.

page in which the conduct of the old Grecian king, who in order to

s, gave one of

keep his law and yet to save his guilty son from blindnes

Dy &

his own eyes to satisfy the demands of justice, was contrasted with the

manifestation of divine mercy and justice in the death of Jesus Christ;

There was

and begged me to explain the meaning of the passage.

nothing which he might not have easily understood without my assist-

ance.

I was therefore confirmed in my opinion, that he had come to

speak and perhaps to open his mind to me. ‘Well then,” I said to him,

‘come in and sit down.” He jumped through the window and sat down

before me. I then spoke fully and strongly on the text which he himself

had shown me. He was much moved ; seeing which, I addressed him

with more courage and hope.

At last, summing up, I said, you have

heard these things often from my Brethren and myself.

You know

them, do you believe them ? You ought, if they are true. Mind : either

this is the truth, that no sinner can be saved but by the blood of Christ,

or the Bible is a lie, and I, who believe it to be the vrord of God, a fool.

But if what I speak be the truth, then I know that you being a sin-

ner, yet a stranger to Christ, haye no peace in your heart.’

Tears gush-

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ed from his eyes and he was much shaken in soul and body.

doors and comforted him with the comfort of the Gospel.

‘If you con-

fess your sins and believe in Jesus Christ, the son of God, and Saviour

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of the world, you will receive pardon, peace, and life

He opened his

heart to me

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knelt down and prayed together

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they heard from his own mouth, the confession that he now believedin

Christ

against whom he had so often spoken, with a faith which, how

and why he could not understand or tell, God had given him

After a

few days Bhagavantrao and Mukundrao confessed to me, that, though

they had for a long time believed in Christ, they had concealed their

convictions from fear of the world.

‘But now,

said they,¢ as we see this

our friend who has always opposed the Bible, and who has much more

to lose than we have, so courageous aud joyful, we will no longer keep

back from confessing the name af Christ ; so that, thouch we lose the

This was on the

little we have in this world, we may save our souls

I6th. and 17th. of Dech

From that time, these three young men with

the two others before mentioned, spent the greater part of their mor

nings and afternoons by the side of my couch.

We read the Gospels,

prayed together, and frequently conversed regarding the trials which

would soon follow their escape from the snares of Satan

On Christ-

mas-day our troubles commenced

Anandrao and his two younger

schoolfellows were kept at home by their relations, who began to sus-

pect them, on account of their daily and long intercourse with a

Missionary.

The two latter have never returned

Anandrao gained

his liberty on the Saturday after Christmas; (see the subjoined letter No.

1) and at the

same time Bh: agavantrao and Mukundrao openly confessed

their faith in Christ

that

The rage of their relations was so great,

none of them could venture to retum home; so they remained with us.

The next day a mob broke into the Mission house and tried to carry

the converts away by force; but their attempt was defeated. (S

op

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letter 2.)

During the succeeding week the whole Hindu population of Mangalore

was

The conversion of Brahmans was somethng alto-

in an uproar.

gether unexpected. It was a wonder, proving the power of the word of

God, which fell like a thunderbolt upon the rulers and scribes, who had

hmxerto thought themselves and their people secure from the influence

of Mlsmo*mmes

On Epiphany, the 6th. of January, the three converts

were baptized in the presence of our Native congregation and all the

Brethren of the Missios. Bhazavantrao, the eldest (he is 28 years of age,)

received the name of Christian ; Mukundrao, 25 years of age, that ot

Jacob ; and Anandrao, who is nineteen, that of Herrmann.

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following morning, Sunday the 7th. January, a pig was found cut

up and thrown into the tank belonging to the principal Mosque.

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were you these last days, while acting on this principle ?’ ¢ Without

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have broken through all my chains. Idid not” ‘Why ? ‘I do not know.

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between fear and hope, set before him, and I trust faithfully, all the

difficulties and dangers that would beset his path if he confessed

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1er relations, friends

bili

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to s

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him, and to pe

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nothing again

1e rules of caste. I must say that A

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relations, influ-

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enced no doubt by the example and presence of the Moonsiff, conduct-

ed themselves with the utmost

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was a Cro

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After afew hours

sons, but 10 noise, no criminations, no open anger.

we were left alone.

Late in the evening Anandrao and his two companions took off their

Brahmanical strings, and partook of some coffee and bread, after hav-

ing fasted the whole day.

This simple narrative, I trust, will exonerate us in your eyes from

3

fvuls

eUITrTr

ed in our conduct to-

the blame which we might seem to have i

Qe

[Sie]

If, on account of the coincidence of Anandrao’s visit to your

wards your

house, with his final renunciation of his former religion.

A quarter

before ten o’clock yesterday morning, no man on earth knew what A-

nandrao’s fate would be.

He only, before whom nothing is hid, who

only knew the approaching

had thoughts of mercy towards us, He

manifestation of His glory amongst us.

To Him be Praise for ever

and ever.

I remain, my dear Mr. Blair, with sentiments of sincere regard, in

which my Brother, to whom I have read this letter, begs to unite,

Yours very truly,

H. MOEGLING.

No. 2.

Sunday.

My Dear Mr. Moegling,

Most heartily do we both rejoice at the glad tidings contained ia

your letter

just received, and bless and praise God for the great things

he has done for dear Anandrao.

When I spoke with him yesterday,

I had no idea there was any doubt or wavering in his miand; and what

I said to him as to waiting patiently, was simply with reference to a

I did not doubt,

change in the feelings of his relatives towards himself.

that he meant openly to declare his belief in Christ. I should have

been grieved indeed, if from any thing I had said, he should have de-

laved his renunciation of heathenism.. God be praised that he was eua-

bled to take the decided step at once, and thus free his mind from the

Qur earnest

painful conflict that must have been going on within it.

prayers will be with him, that he may be abundantly supported in the

trials he may have yet to endure.

The Moonsiff came over to me in a state of great excitement, evi-

dently with a view of seeing if there was any chance of my assisting

I of course told him, that was out

bim to recover his lost son-in-law.

est advice I could, to remain quiet,

of the question; and gave him the b

and not to attempt any violence or constraint with Anandrao, which

would only bring himself into trouble.

Mrs. Blair begs you will tell our dear young fellow Christian, how

she rejoices to hear, that he has been enabled to cast aside for ever the

badge of heathenism.

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With our united kindest regards, believe me ever,

Yours most sincerely,

H. M. BLAIR,

No

3

My Dear Sir,

The circumstances which induced us on the 31st. December to apply

to you for protection, were these:

On Sunday afternoon, when all our people had gone down to the

chapel, my Brother Mr. Weigle, had private service with our new

Brethren in his room, while I kept quiet, on account of my sickness,

in a distant room. Towards four o’clock, my Brother came over to me

in company of the converts for the purpose of prayer, in which they,

he feared, would be disturbed by the number of visitors who had

come to the other part of the house.

While we were at prayer Bha-

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gavant’s name was called.

My Bro

er went outside to tell the people,

that after a little while we would come over to the open hall, and then

they might see and converse with us.

So we did after a few minutes.

We sat down round the table in the centre of the hall; viz. my Brother

on one side, I on the other, and between us Anandrao and Bhagavant-

rao.

Mukundrao did not sit down, because his relations said they

wished for a private conversation with him.

He stood a few steps be-

hind us.

We were just preparing for a general conversation similar to

that which had taken place on the preceding day, when one of Muk-

undrao’s relations cried, Seize him!

That moment five Bolara people

fell upon him, and carried him from the verandah of the open hall, into

the level place in front of our house.

We all started up, and turned

towards

others.

Mukundrao, when Bhagavantrao was seized by

A large crowd of Hindus, some Maplis ; about two hundred people

had in the mean time run up the hill and gathered around the house.

My Brother ran to the assistance of Mukundrao, and I turned out

9

towards Bhagavantrao, when I heard Anandrao calling, * Sir, Sir.

He was in the arms of two relatives.

I ran back to him, and a few

words and pulls liberated him.

My Brother kindly assisted by Mr. W.

Haydon, fifer of the 28th. Regiment N. I. who happened to be visiting

us, had also succeeded in rescuing Mukundrao ; and these two converts

ran into a room where they were safe.

In the mean time, Bhagavant-

rao had been carried, and partly dragged on the ground, to a distance

of about fifty paces.

Some of our servants and my Brother ran after

him, and turned the people away ; when the whole assault-party moved

down the hill towards the gate of the compound.

You will see from the above that few people as we were, we could

not have prevailed against such numbers, if all had come for the pur-

pose of attacking us; but a dozen people or so, had certainly the in-

tention of carrying away our Brethren by force ; and, if the Lord had

not protected us, they would have been assisted by the rest of the crowd,

.

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and have effected their purpose.

Your prompt assistance, and vigilant

are have hitherto, under God, preserved us from danger ; and you

~ O

ia

t we shall ever remember the debt of gratitude which

may be assured tl

we owe to yourself, and to the Christian Government of this country,

under whose shield we are secure from the rage of the poor people, who,

from ignorance, are now our enemies.

I remain,

My Dear Sir,

Your most obedient Servant

H. MOEGLING

No 4.

To fhe Magistrate of the Zillah of Canara.

Petition of Santappa, brother of the late Vakeel Rangappa, Néra-

nappa and Vitthaleyya. &c. inhabitants of Mangalore, dated 31st

December, 1843.

Anandrao, the son of the above late Vakeel Rangappa, was yes-

terday the 30th. Instant, staying in his father-in-law, Janardanaya’s

house; when about 7 o’clock in the jmorning a Peon of this Department,

(the magistr

ate’s) a mussulman, brought an English letter to this boy,

and said that the Principal Collector of this Zillah had ordered him to

bring this boy before him. Accordingly be took him into the Presence.

From the Presence he was given in charge of the Peon, and sent to

the house of the Padres.

There they have kept him in their power.

There is a rumour that they will spoil him from our caste (literal trans-

The boy is very young, and

lation) and receive him into their religion.

still a minor; we, and many other persons, are his protectors, masters,

and gu

@l

ar

dians.

Such being the case, we are in great alarm, as the boy

has been taken from us by force, as it were, and without any body’s

If this boy be

knowledge ; and is now in the possession of the Padres.

not delivered to us, we, the guardians, are in danger of being deceived.

-n

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er

to

The Peon having come from the Presence, it was out of our pos

reisist the power of the Master

For some days the boy had been sick,

bilious, and somewhat deranged : - (the last hint is not quite clearly ex-

N o

pressed in the original

9] &

nd therefore he had stayed with his father-

s

LY

in-law to undergo a cou

e of medicine. (The magistrate) having thus

suddenly carried away the boy, and delivered him into the power of

the Padres, and the Presence having authority to dispose of this affair,

we have written (this petition.) We intreat most earnestly that your

honor may regard with compassion the weal of our family, and restore

hich he has been

again the boy to our house in the same manner in w

This order (we beg) may be given.

If

carried away by the Sircar.

your honor be disinclined to grant our petition, we beg that this pe-

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1

7

tition, and a copy of the answer may be given to us, under sign and

seal.

(Signed.) Santappa.

Lakshminarayana.

N

Néranappa.

Néarayana

Vitthalayya.

WNo. 5

To

H. M. Blair Esquire, Mangalore.

My dear Sir,

Having been favoured with the sight of a petition made by some of

my relatives for the purpose of gaining possession of my person, I take

[V

ad

the liberty of

dressing to you a few remarks on the statements con-

tained in that paper.

1. They say that I was summoned on Saturday last by a peon to

appear before you, aud try to convey the idea that you sent me an order

in your Magisterial capacity.

The real fact is this,

When I had by the grace of God resolved on

rencuncing Hinduism and confessing my faith in Christ, I endeavour-

ed to communicate my new tho

ue

it

hts and feelings to my wife.

After

a few days, my confidential addresses and exhortations were communi-

cated to my mother and father-in-law.

The consequence was, that on

Sunday the 24th December last, while I was staying at the Mission

house with some other friends, a messenger came, who called me home

on pretence of some business.

On the same evening my father-in-law

came to my house, and questioned me concerning the word of God and

my beliefin it ; told me that I should no more go to the English School,

as I had learned enough there; took my Bible from me, and asked me

to accompany him to his house.

From that time till Friday evening, I

stayed there. My relations and many other persons of our caste spoke

to me day after day on the subject of religion, and tried to turn my

mind.

I was not confined, but wherever I went, one or two persons

accompanied me, so that I could in no wise escape.

In this dif-

ficulty, I remembered your former kindness towards me ; and conceived

the hope, that you would send me an invitation to your house, if I asked

for this favour.

At ten o’clock on Friday morning, Isaw Mr. May

riding to the School, ran out to him, and requested him to acquaint

Mr. Moegling with my desire of being invited to yourself.

I thought

that my relations would not have the courage of interdicting me from

waiting upon you. You were kind enough to comply with my request.

On s

a.ur

o ¢

day morning one of your peons, who had learned from Mr.

Moegling that I was staying in my father-in-law’s house, brought me a

note from that gentleman, and told me that you had sent him to invite

me to your house,

This took place at eight o’clock.

My father. in-

I8

He sent, however,

law, as I had expected, did not refuse his leave.

one of his peons to accompany me.

After my departure from you, I

went with my father-in-law’s peon over to the Mission house.

There,

after some conversation with Mr. Moegling and Mr. Weigle I was

convinced that, if I ever wished to become a Christian, I could no

I left the

longer delay with safety the open confession of my faith

Mission house with Antha the peon; but

b (ks

3¢

approaching

the gate, I

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sent him home alone,

and returned to n

1

o

y

Christian friends, never to

leave them again. This short relation will abundantly prove the ground-

lessness of the above statement brought forward by my people.

2. Regarding my minority, as alleged by them, I have only to say,

that I was born in Parthiva Sanvatsara Chaitra Shuddha padya, and

am consequently 18 years and 10 months old; and that I have acted

as independent proprietor in Sircar affairs.

3. I am said to be in the possession of the Padres. The fact is, that

I have taken refuge with them, because I know them to be my best

friends.

4. Having renounced Hinduism, and having thrown away my Brah-

manical string, I cannot be received back into my caste, and it is there-

fore difficult to see what object my relations can have in trying to

recover my person, except it be for some evil purpose.

5. You are asked to restore me to my father in law.

I know

that

you will not accede to their request; but having been born, thanks be

to God, a British subject, I know also that such a petition cannot and

dare not be complied with.

Thanking you most heartily for the kindness you have shown me,

and begging your indulgence for the length of this letter,

I remain

My Dear Sir,

Your most humble and obedient Servant,

A. KAUNDANYA.

No. 6.

To

The Magistrate of the zillah of Canara.

';I‘he petition of Santappa, brother of the late Vakeel Réngappa,

Néranappa, Nérayana, Vitthalayya, and Lakshminérayana ; dated 6th

January, 1844.

It is well known that Anandrao has been sent for from the Presence,

through a peon, and in the order given in answer to our petition, this

fact has been acknowledged; and you have also acknowledged, that

since Anandrao was sent to the Padres’ Bungalow, you have placed

there your peons for the sake of security.

If Anandrao who is placed

in such bondage (literal) loses his caste, being neither sent to the place

from which you have called him, nor given up into our hands, the res-

ponsibility will rest with your Honor ; because there is no reason what-

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g

ever, to hold any other person responsible.

Your Honor will have to

answer for him, if he be neither placed in our hands nor kept in some

other place, till we receive an answer to the appeal we are going to

make to Government, and to the Supreme Court.

We beg therefore

you will comply with this our request, or give Anandrao over to us

till that time. After he will have undergone medical treatment for six

weeks, we shall bring him up before the Presence, and shall not object

to his going whither he pleases.

We are prepared to give a written

There -

promise to bring him before the Presence in the said manner.

fore we pray that an order may be given with regard to the above

stated two proposals, (to send A home, or to keep him in some other

place—note of the translator) and that a copy of the order given in

ho

answer to this, may

T

delivered to us under sign and seal.

(Signed.) Naranappa.

Vitthalayya.

Santappa.

Narayana.

Lakshminarayana.

An appeal has been made to Madras, by the relations of our

converts ; but no answer, as far as we have been able to learn, has been

returned to their petition.

It is a pity that Government have not noticed the excellent conduct

of the Mohammadan party and their leaders, in an affair in which,

though their religious feelings were so deeply hurt, they did not

allow themselves to be excited to the slightest act of turbulence or dis-

order.

Some public acknowledgement of their goud behaviour would

have been as judicious as well deserved.

About the middle of January Br. Hiller, and Br. Essig, who were

married on the 26th December by Br Weigle, returned with

4

19

heir

brides to their stations in the Southern Mahratta country.

Mrs. Essig

was a Miss Streckeisen of Basel, and Mrs. Hiller is a sister of Br.

Moegling.

Br. Metz was sent by our Committee to the assistance of the brethren

o

Moeglin

S

and Weigle.

His arrival was most seasonable as Br. Moeg-

ling had to leave the station in March, on account of his health; when

Br. Weigle could scarcely have borne the whole burden of labor and res-

ponsibility devolving upon him, without the assistance ofa new Brother.

The fullowing pages present a brief account of the state of the con-

e«

i1y

e

ik

an

gregatio

1t Mangalore

d Kadike; and a short notice of the Semina-

ry, the English School, and the Printing Office.

O

T

£

>

I

I'HE CONG

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2

) &)

GATION.

On my return from a little preaching tour, the painful duty devolv-

ed upon me of enquiring into the misconduct of some members of the

J

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AT @ ()

YWas

eved

to

I

tl

1]

[

t ev

cn

(s

S

OIY

ic O

of those from whom

congti egnm“

1o

it w

1e

ast to be c\:p

d,

W

ol

op

e de

SOL

fa)

Vi

;’

f

severe reproof.

With

the increase of the

whe

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7

ulc

ares

also bee

g

me more abandant ; and

oaq

Y

unless those elements of darkne

T3S

Wi

11¢ ‘h h

ve crept in, be effectually

;

1

wenr

check

ed b

y the murcy of the Lord, an

10 DY the po

YW COL

of licht and truth

which s

Ve

Ve

mt is to be found in the congregat ior, v

shall vet have to shed

U

L1ATL

ndap

these circumstanc

many a tear in the progress of our work.

I find it difficult to give an account of the last year ; yet, in reviewing

,111 that the Lovd has been pleased to do amongst us during its course

I cannot but speak of triumphs and sing of g

eut mercies.

Many members of the wxz(zre’»nt on (mo*v in grace and knowledge,

hei

oo 9

ud are walking worthy eft

1101

r

Christian nam

© 4 A

nd w

e trust thatt

this

iast trial also will have it

on the souls of

alutary effect, particuls

those concerned

as weil as

ie last

‘1 the conbrsguuon at large

d by an.incr

ase of the church; 45 new

year has been peculiarly bless

members having been admitte d mto it by baptis

(X,

A Tamil family

D

consisting of 4 persons was baptized by Br.

>

\an on the 13th August ;

8 persons were ba,pt ized on the 10th of fﬁpmmb er, and 24 on Christ-

mas-day, by Br. Greiner

May the Lord keep and lead them unto

eternal life

A family living in a village 3 m

ST

11T

s from her

which for a longe time

has been under a regular course of instruction from Br. Biithrer will be

baptized in a few days.

‘here are also others

nder preparatory in-

struction. Some of them appear promising

in others there is, however,

still much remaining to be hoped and desired.

It is certain that the

Gospel is gaining g Ground in and near Mangalore; and the work of the

Lord is gradually “and steadily advancing.

We hope, wait, and pray

for the time when the captives of the mighty one shall be taken away

and the prey of the terrible one shall be delivered ; when the Lord shall

lift up his hand to the Gentiles, and set up his standard to the people

around us; when they shall b

o their sons in their arins, and their

daughters upon their shoulders.

'lhe Lord’s Supper has been administered every month.

On Sunday

mornings and afternoons, and on Wednesday evenings, divine service is

performed in Tulu, and missionary prayer meetings are held on the

first monday in every month. A'luu}GI‘ me

g for practical exposition

of the word of God, and mu

tual communi cmon on points of Christian

experience, has been continued on Friday evenings in the English School

room, and is geuerally attended by one of us.

With a view to improve the organization and superintendence over

L3

§ et

[

ve the office of

ounr infant church, four elders have been elected, who }

vmmm memb

ers

in their houses, praying and reading with them, at-

and seeking

ten dum the sick, watching over the interests of the church,

every opportunity. of prcclalmmm the word of God to their heathen

neighbours. A collection is made every Sunday towards a church fund

£

B

or the support of widows and disabled members.

To distribute

these

alms is also the office of the elder

3

L

i

The dirls’ School under Mrs. Greiner is flourishing. The Girls are

making progress in Bible History, Geography, Writing, Reading, and

casting accounts, as well as in needle work and knitting. They attend

school from 8 to 11, and from 2 to £ in the afternoon. The rest of their

time they pass under the eye of Mrs. Greiner.

The number of Girls

is at present 22, seventeen of whom are boarders. We expect 4 others

soon to join us.

The Canarese school under the superintendence of

Br. Biihrer has greatly fallen off in consequence of the conversion of

the Brahman youths.

The attendance before that time was 50 ; after

the baptism in January, only 3 remained ; and for a considerable time

no others had courage to join these.

Now there are again 15 boys in

the school.

No doubt others will return as soon as the excitement has

entirely subsided. The Canarese school in our compound is not in a

flourishing state.

The schools in Cép and Padabiddri were given up

on account of our not being able to superintend them properly.

A missionary tour of one month’s duration, was made by Mr. Greiner

in March. He had many opportunities of preaching the word to crowds.

He was glad to observe that in some places the word of God is read,

though it be only for the purpose of cavilling.

A Brahman at Bant-

wall said, that ¢ Christ could not have been God because he died. Had

he been God, how could he have cried,

¢ My God why hast thou for-

saken me ?’

He might have been an able and learned teacher; and

performed wonderful cures on the sick.” At Vitla, where the gospel had

never been preached before, the seed was sown and gladly received by

some. In Uparangadi the word had free course; a Brahman boy and

three others professed themselves willing to follow Christ; they were

several times with me, even till after midnight, but they had not faith

and strength enough to break through their chains. I committed them

to our good shepherd. At Bellatangadi the ground is hard ; the people

are in gross darkness, and quite absorbed in their demonolatry.

At

Karkala where I had always found the people kind and attentive, a

terror seemed to pervade them at this visit; only 4 months ago they

had requested me to establish a school among them, but now they

would not even hear the subject mentioned.

I have observed in seve-

ral places that people are altogether afraid for their religion. When

they see and hear what is going on around them, they stand amazed,

and appear to despair in their hearts of the cause ofidolatry. In Perdar

and Brahmavara, I had many disputes with Brahmans,

At Cap, beiag

pressed for time, my stay was too short.

In places where the door is

open, a stay of less than a fortnight or a month is scarcely sufficient.

I returned to Mangalore by way of Mulki and Suratkall, strengthened

in body and soul.

May God graciously look on us and strengthen us

to go on in our work.

C. GREINER.

A. BUHRER.

MANGALORE. April, 1844.

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4

g amd

2. THE SEMINARY.

N ()‘1’

10

eater pért of tl

1e past year this institution has been

During ti

under the superintendence and ¢

are of Br. Weigle, assisted for some

Moegling

months by Br. Huber,

and since January by Br. Metz. Br.

1is three month’s journey.

After

left Mangalore early in August for |

ked by a long and serious illness,

his return in November he was attac

mlar

uidt

work for any length of

which did not permit him to attend to reg

+hn

time. Mr Ball, the English Schoolmaster of

GILT

seminary, has through -

ado

h

) i

1Y

qself useful both in the

out the year been very diligent, and m

AT

school and in the superintendence of the boy

s during their hours of

recreation.

ses. All are taught Canarese and

The school is divided into five clas

rvg

ish also.

T'he young

est boys have

Tulu; the upper classes learn Eng!

the common elementary lessons.

The fourth and third classes, read

and write Canarese and Talu.

'The gospels and easy tracts are their

reading books ; they have begun to le

arn the Canarese Psalms by heart.

and in English spel-

In Arithmetic they are instructed by the Moonshee,

ling and writing by Mr. Ball.

The Second Céas.§ have the following lessons :

1. Reading of the Bible in Canarese and English, accompénied by

expositions suited to their capacities.

9

[\

. Translations from English into Canarese, and vice versa.

.

Translations from Canarese into Tulu, and wvice versa.

.

Arithmetic in English and in Canarese.

.

History of the world (as far as the Roman Empire.)

]

fo o)

O O WO

.

History of the ¢

i

urch (to the Diet at Au

B2

burg )

7. English Cate

chisms, the first and second of Watts’.

The Lessons of the first class : (this class consists of the three new

converts and of the two most advanced boys of the former first, (now

second,) class of the Seminary.)

1. Arithmetic and Geometry.

2. Geography (Palestine.)

3. Charch History.

S

Biblical Archaeology.

Prophecies of the Old Testament.

.

Canarese Grammar.

7

.

Greek Grammar and Reading.

elect pieces of Poetry.

8. English Grammar and Reading of s

Six Of'

the boarders who had been received into the Seminary at an

advanced age, and showed little capacity for learning, have been taken

it

19 P

from the school and are now employed as servants under the cl

ge

of Brethren of the Mission, at Malsamudra, Bettigherry and Mangalore.

Some of them since this change, have caused us considerable trouble,

others have given us satisfaction.

23

Seven new boarders, (one of them a Chinese orphan, brought to this

&

country by the compassion of an English Officer,) have been received

into the institution. On the other hand six have left. One, a half caste

lad, has taken service in the band of the 28th Regiment, N. I. station-

ed at M

C

“

ingalore. The other five, most of them young boys, have been

taken or enticed away by their parents, relations, or friends.

n

The uncertainty of our hold

1P

on children

whom we receive into

TiiUT

fatayerel

which we have to bear

the Seminary, is one of those trials of pati

in the hope, that we may yet see some fruit of our labor even amongst

those who forsake us in this manner, before their education is finished.

The number of pupils is at present forty two.

Of the spiritual state of the Seminary we shall say little.

1t cannot

be expected, but that among such a number of boys gathered from

different countries, tribes, and castes, there should be a great difference

of character and conduct.

On the whole we have more reason to be

thankful than to feel disheartened, for we see that the Lord is watehing

over these souls, and assisting us in various ways in the superintendence

of our precious charge. There are some of the elder pupils, particularly

those of the first class of whom we might speak with confidence and

joy ; but as these pages will be seen and read by them, we rather forbear_

G. WEIGLE.

F. METZ.

3. PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT.

Books lithographed from the 1st of March, 1843 to the

1s¢ of March, 1844.

CANARESE :

Pages.

Copies.

1,950

Tract on Caste by Br. Moegling..........cccoeeneenenen. 34, 8vo.

Tract on the good Way by Br. Layer................... 38. 8vo.

1,930

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G

WEIGLE.

R

4. THE ENEL!SH SCHOOL.

This institution has been carried on much in the usual way, till the

end of the year 1843. The attendance varied from 30 to 60 boys. The

Scholars were of different castes, the majority of them consisting of

Brahmans and Portuguese.

The Schoel has been regularly attended

during the greater part of the year by Br. Weigle, who besidés occa-

sionally examining the other classes, regularly instructed the first class

i English, Mathematics, and some other branches of knowledge.

He

usually spent 2 hours a day in the school, and was frequently delighted

with the ready and intelligent answers of the boys of the upper classes,

with their growing interest in the study of the Bible, and a consequent

change in their demeanor.

The second class was regularly instructed

in translating select passages from English writers into their own native

languages. For upwards of two months, Br. Huber, (now at Hubli)

rendered us valuable assistance in a manner most acceptable to both

teacher and scholars, by giving daily lessons in physical and astronomi-

cal Geography.

In June last, the former schoolmaster Mr. Ball, was

transferred to the seminary, and the services of Mr. May, a well inform-

ed young man, who has hitherto given us satisfaction in every respect,

were secured for the English school.

The conversion to Christianity,

on the la:t day of the year, of the above mentioned Brahmans, and the

inclination of their two younger friends likewise to forsake Brahmanism,

having alarmed the people, the attendance at the school at once fell to

seven. After some days however, the first shock having passed the Roman

Catholic boys and some of the Mussulmans and low caste Hindus re-

turned.

Still the school has not yet recovered its strength, the atten-

dance on an average being only from 15 to 20 ; yet we are not discou-

raged, but hope that the Lord will continue to use this institution for

the spread of his knowledge. Since the 1st of January Br. Weigle has

found it impossible, on account of numerous other duties, to continue

Br.

his visits to the school, and Br. Metz has taken his place there.

Metz is instructing the first class, which consists now almost exclusive-

ly of Portuguse boys, in Geometry, in which they have made conside-

rable progress.

He also reads the word of God with them. The Bible

is used as a class book for all classes. May the Lord continue to grant

his blessing upon this work, which abundantly esercises our faith and

patience.

G. WEIGLE.

mrr S

F. METZ.

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5. KADIKE, OUT STATION.

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Some of the people who were mentioned last year as being under

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religious instruction, have gone back, because

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the temporal advantages they had looked for; others,

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much

distressed in their outward ecircumstances

long mo

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earnestly

than

before for admission into the church. On the 6th of Ja

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nuary, the Pajari

wife

and

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(Bhata priest) mentioned in the last report, with his

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children and a Brahman youth, were baptized and made a 373

/ful pro

sion of their faith in Jesus Christ. The latter had fre Q

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last

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ation. become better acquainted with th

vord of God,

he about

8

months ago was terrified at the sinfulness of an act which

ne was about

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to commit, and in this state of alarm beg

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an to pray to the Lord

Yet from f

ca

r.of the people and love of his relations he kept to himself

all that had passed in his mind. In the course of two lon

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g conversations

he confessed to me that he believed in the Lord

Jesus, but stated’ at

the same time, that he felt unable for the above reasons

, to make a pub-

lic confession of his faith.

I called upon him to pray with me, and he

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agreed on the condition of my keeping it

From that time [

prayed with him almost daily.

His fear of the people soon passed a-

way, while his anxiety on account of sin

, as well as his joy on account

of salvation as it is in Jesus, increased.

At last the most formidable

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obstacle, the anxiety on account of his parents, was also overcome.

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this time he heard of the conversion of the youths at Mangalore aad of

the commotion occasioned thereby, when his boldness increased so tl

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having previously made known his resolution to the people with w!

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be bhad been in the habit of taking his meals, he came to me on the last

evening of the year, declared his intention henceforth to w

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path of salvation as one made free by Christ, and delivered to me hi

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string, the badge of Brahmanism.

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The day after this you

1 had taken the decisive step, another

Brahman, likewise employed by me as Schoolmaster, came to me to

confess the uneasiness he felt on account of his sins, and the desire he

had of knowing and laying hold on the truth.

Soon after he was de-

tained at home by his friends, and it was only after several days that he

.

.

was permitted to return to the 1

Vlission House.

On his return he st

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pretended to believe in Jesus, and prayed with me, yet the care

of his mother, wife, and children, weighed too heavily on him, and he

remained under the bondage in which the enemy of souls kee

ps the un-

happy people of this country.

With regard to some members of the congregation,

I am

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ometimes

tempted to think that they are of the bad fishes which have

een gather-

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into my net; (Matthew, 13 chap. 47 v.) while other

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that the Lord does

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knowledge of the Lord. But I remember

.

before the time of harvest.

1 had

not

WIS

h us to pluck up the tares

lage 16 miles to the East

hoped that one or two families living in a vil

Gl

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ut they

of Kadike, would come out from the kingdom of d

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have been so frightened by their heathen neighbours that for the preser

I have but little hope of them.

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The little room adjoining the Kadi

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e school which 1 have hitherto

occupied, being situated in an unhea

lthy place and otherwise inconve-

nother building on a

nient, it has been thought necessary to provide a

19

e houses of our

Christ

i

ns,

more suitable spot, not too remote from th

Mulky has been fixed apon

and near some populous heatheu villages.

for my new residence.

Praise be to the Lord, who has mercifully

assisted and protected us

jul

£

thermore keep

during another year of struggles and trials.

May he

fold.

his flock, and bring in many sheep which are not yet of this

J. AMMANN.

Kapixg, March, 1844.

THE DHARWAR STATION.

Rev. J. C. Lehner and Mrs. Lehner, Rev. J. Layer and

Mrs. Layer, and Rev. H. Albrecht.

In making another report of our Mission, we desire to acknowledge

the goodness of the Lord who has spared our life and health, sustained

and encouraged us under various trials, and strengthened our feeble

Blessed be his holy name for all his

hands to go on with His work.

mercies.

The public preaching in the town h

as been carried on with few in-

Dic

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ed ;

termissions.

Also some of the surrounding villages have been vi

but thouzh we have not met with much opposition, we cannot speak

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customed to the o

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en heard

of success.

The natives around us ge

When

truths, and their hearts seem to grow indifferent and callous.

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walking through the same street

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that every word we say and every step

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will conduce to-

we take in the name of Christ among these idolaters,

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and will

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help to

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which will terminate in the glorious and everlasting triumph

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of

th

Uit

e latter.

It is hard to say w

hat keeps the people baclk from er

freely

bracigg the precious truths of the Gospel, for many of them

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confess that idolatry has no more hold on t

aud others go even so

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as

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heir priests ;

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op:mt of God alone can remove this great barrier,

the

ear

of man,

Du rouse their

areless hearts to valuﬂ

the truth as

it is

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Jesus.

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he encouragement of some poor people who were desi-

ous

to 1

ew%irum‘ d in the way of salvation,

and at the same time

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to earn their b"ml by their own mbom, we commenced a plan-

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ring the last year, from ten to fifteen men.

They were daily instructed in the word of God

'The time has been

too short for any decided result,

ana taough

ve observe

in them a

growing acqualntauc e with the prmclpal trut“o oi Christianity, yet we

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7 come {o us for the sake of the loaves and fish

LT,

"This

undertaking, mo‘qn; connected with trouble and expense, we think it

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on a small scale, tr

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tuw it may y et prove a meauns

of su ppon for some sincere and honest enq

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On

Sundays we have I?"Lhal‘ﬂ'

two Services

one in (/mare%)

the

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There w

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four persons baptized Tas

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year; a Tamil youth, who hafi been

ght up in an Indo-~Briton’s

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vich u» was in some dm ‘ee ins t*‘upted in the principles of

chr

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was baptized by B

r. Layer; two women - and a girl; one

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Wlfe of a young man who had been livi ng with us for some

months,

t

e other

ra C:ma

€se woman,

and her (nu@hter

Y

a glrl about

8 years old Who ca

al

1e to us in a state of perfect demtuhon.

The girl

o

is now in our boardin

‘S

school, and the mother is employed in our

household

Visitors continue to come to the Mission House all the vear round

though not in such large numbers, as forn nerly.

The voluntary Vlcltq of school boys "and schoolmaster

Q

Q

on Sundays

are Ctﬂl going on, and afford us pleasing opportunities of sowing the

gOO

seed

In the distribution of portions of buiptum and Tracts we have been

more sparing, as we found to our grief that boys,

especially at Dharwar,

madc a bad use

of them.

Uor

been more liberal m

We hm e, howes

V’v.p

bi

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g them away in other places.

ﬂxe number of girls in our boardmgr school is still the same as last

SE

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year,

"VIZ. th*rtoen.

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some 4 or 5 more, bu

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short time they were removed by thm’ relations

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who either f

from

LOAX

that these children low born as ihey are, might lose their caste by being

with us, or for the sake of selling them.

lhe conduct of the \,hz dren

and althongh

th

on the whole has been satis LLctory

ey are still very

far from what we could wish them to be, yet compared with what they

were,

and what tho

se around them still are,

we feel thankful for the

degree of improvement that has taken place in them. They have con-

tmaed their sev ral employments without interr uption. and some of

the elder gitls have been t‘mfrht lace making, by a girl who was kindly

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8

sent us by Mrs. Guandert for that purpose

Our English school we have

thought it right to discontinue, finding the trouble and expense of it dis-

iar

proport

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1ale to the result obtained.

The scholars consisted chiefly of boys belonging to the regiments

stationed here, hence their number was ﬁuctuatihg, and they generally

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left the school ; before they had

ade sufficient progress to be of any

real advantage to them or to afford us any satisfaction.

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Our Canarese sehools are 6 in number, viz.

13

for boys and one for

girls,

They are all tolerably well attended, and some of the children

give us much encouragement, and fill our hearts with gratitude for the

influence we are allowed to exercise over their tender minds.

Fresh

applications for schools have been made from villages too distant for

regular superintendence.

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The poor of the place about 200 in numn

X1z

er, still assemble weekly in

our compound, have a portion of scripture explained to them, and their

wants in some measure relieved from contributions of some of the

residents,

Br. Albrecht has lately been added to our numbers.

He is engaged

in the study of the Canarese, and at the same time assists us in the

instruetion of our Native Girls.

Extract from a journal of Br. Layer written on a tour through the

neighbouring district.

¢ In Hebli I was conducted to a weaver, who,

as the people said, had thrown away his idols

On my asking him

about it he gave rather an evasive answer, perhaps from fear of too

great publicity, bat still declared Ioudly, and in the presence of a great

number of people, that idols were nothing, and that the religion which

I was preaching would soon become prevalent in India.

“ At the same place I was visited late one evening by a youth, who

was very friendly, and asked me if I had come to preach Christ.

Yes,

He :

at Dharwar.

was my answer, where have you heard his name?

I. What do you think of Christ?

He: He performed many glorious

miracles. I was very glad to see that he spoke of Christ with reverence.

To some young Brahmins who had come to visit me, I proved

that their gods were no gods, from the stories so frequent in their

Puranas, that Bramha, Vishnoo, and Siva, had for their sins been sub-

Has not, was the immediate reply

Jected to grievous curses by saints.

of one of them, Jesus Christ also been cursed by our God Brambha ?

I

asked hfn where that was written ? He answered without hesitation:

0

In the

iy

g

mayana, and Mahabhrata !

It was in vain that I urged him

to a conf

ssion of his having said what he knew to be false. He insist-

ed that i1

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;,

as written in those books.

“In Muruppa, I was preaching one evening to a large assembly of

eommon people, who were very attentive.

One of them sasked me if

it was easier for the rich than for the poor to get to Heaven? For the

poor, I replied according to our Saviour’s own declaration. Well then,

ke answereg

it is therefore much easier for us

in a triumphant tone,

who are poor, to get to heaven, than for you who are rich. Upon this,

29

I proceeded to show that it was not riches in themselves, but the set-

ting of the heart upon them, that was dangerous to salvation; that,

though it was difficult, many rich were going to heaven, while many

poor, though it was easier for them, were going to hell.

This was

approved of by the whole crowd.

“ Another man of the same party asked me, how he could see with

his own eyes which of his actions were pleasing to Glod, and which

were not.

I answered, you cannot see this with your bodily eyes, but

you can feel it in your heart.

He:

How so?

i

If on a thought of

defrauding your neighbour you reflect that this would be wrong and

refrain from doing so, do you not then feel some satisfaction within

yourself ?

He agreed, but not fully.

It seems that he is a stranger

to such experience.

Take another instance, I said; a poor man asks

alms of you. At first you tell him to walk off, but afterwards you think

it was not right to do so, and open your hand to give him something:

Do not you then feel a satisfaction within yourself at having done so ?

He answered : no ! for whenever I give alms, I do it uuwillingly. You

are at least upright, thought I.

“ When in the village called Oogurugolloo, I visited the celebrated

temple of the goddess Yellamma, which is only one mile distant.

In

one of the porches I found a Mussulman dressing and adorning with

flowers a little brass image of the idol. Are you not a mussulman? said I.

I am, was his answer,

I: What then have you to do with idols ? He:

I had a disease from my childhood which nobody could cure, but which

Since that time I serve her

Yellamma healed about three years ago.

by dressing this image, and by doing so I earn at t

he same time my

livelihood.

Returning from this temple I met a Lingaite monk, who threw away

his Linga several years ago, and whose only clothing was a tiger skin.

He showed me the cave in which he formerly dweit, and to which peo-

ple came to worship him as a god.

He spoke against idolatry. I was

very glad to see that from a book which he had received from me be-

fore, he had learnt the Lord’s prayer by heart.

He accompanied me

for several days.

In one village he brought me milk, butter, a fowl,

bread for my servants, and grass for my poney.

He wanted also to

honor me by killing a sheep, part of which I was to eat, while the rest

was to be given to the poor; but from this I dissuaded him.

Many of

the common people worship him as a god, and this honor from men

seems to be the principle obstacle to his nearer approach to Christi

anity.

In a place called Hooli, I saw on the top of a steep hill a small

white-washed cell. .

I was told that the foot print of God was visible

on a rock there, and that therefore the Mussulmans had built.

this cell over it ; but that not only Mussulmans, but Hindus also went

up there to worship. I went up to see it.

There is indeed a kind of a

large imperfect mask of a human foot in the rock, but so rude that

many similar ones might easily be found in rocky places.

In Moorwalli the Brahmins made some objection to my staying in

30

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one of their temples, A cloth-merchant of the Li

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it, offered me immediately his new built shop in the middle of ¢t

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Bazaar. His offer rejoiced me. I went with him and found in the sh

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a small but cle

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1 room, where during my stay I had as many peo

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to preach to as I could wish.

who 1s the

In 7Torkul 1 had a long conversation with a Brahman

head Karkoon of the Jagheerdar of the place.

One of his principal

objections against Cht

istianity was, that if it was of God, and the only

rue religion, it could not have come to India so late. I told him, God

granted his blessings in times fixed by himself, and that when such a

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time came we ought thankfully to accept them.

A poor man on b

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offered great riches would not say, my forefathers have been b

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why should I take these riches?

Nor would a sick man, ©

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offered health, say, I have been sick so long, of what use is healt!

me now ?

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her should the Hindus say, we will not have the b

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sings of Christ’s religion, because it comes to us so late

town, Hamdoorga, which belongs to a Brahman widow, I found

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great many weave

LS,

who, as weavers generally are, were very atten-

tive to all I had to say.

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by saying that

I answered him, as the v

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they were parts of the Deity.

the part; as the mass of gold is, so is the part taken from it; if Brahma,

Vishnoo, and Shiva are parts of the true God, they must also possess

the perfections of the true God.

However this may be, he replied, as

long as you preach the ¢ Invisible Spirit,” we agree to what you say;

S

only be silent about Jesus Christ, for in him we shall never believe.

I answered, that He who formed and disposed the hearts of men could

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ed the

also change his; and then went on to relate how he had ch

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ce the Hindus had sat in the

hearts of our European forefathers, wh

darkness of idolatry, but among whom long ago, it had been so rooted

YT

up, that there was no idol to be found in the whole count

LYy

So it will

On

be in India also according to the predictions of the Scriptures.

my saying this, he and the others walked off shaking their heads.

|

On the road from Hamdoorga to Sirsungee, a village 6 miles distant,

I passed at least 400 pilgrims, going to a feast at the temple of Yellam-

ma.

I conversed with the different groups as I passed them, telling

them shortly that there was only one true God, that he dwelt in Hea-

ven, and that Yellamma was merely an image of stone. I asked many,

why do you go to worship this stone, Yellamma ? Some said, we go to

and to avert her

beg food and clothing of her ; others, she torments u

displeasure, we must worship her by breaking and pouring out cocoa-

nuts before her.

An emaciated woman who was riding on a bullock,

answered me if Yellamma is powerless, why then has she been able to

deprive me of the power of walking? Others again said, we go there

because others go, adding the Hindu saying. Is it the feast, or the con-

flux of people that attracts men?

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In Dodda X u,;ﬂmm I was greatly pleased

1 two \lmp‘LO Ie.)ula

who e

ne

1O

After

ouraged me to go on patiently in instructing the people.

tw

three, years thw said,

many people will side with you,

thou

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e

¥

hey are now clinging so close to their old w

Lu\tl

avy

May God gt

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their prc\dxc’t on may become true.

In Nowlgoond 1 found a number of pilgrims returning I

O

from

the Yellamma feast, sitting in a shop ] asked them where

they lived ?

They answered, you and we are one

we are of Malsomoodra, (one of

ha

110

re never told you that

our stations.) I continued, Have my friends t

these

tone images are nothing ?

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no! was their lying rep

Or

this I proceeded to tell them that they must worship Jesus Chris

Your

God Jesus Christ, said one of them, is certainly

not to be despised, but

ither are our Gods; Yellamma heals us when

we fall sick. In concla-

Sion

he added, if Jesus Christ will throw me down here a lump of

aold

I will at once wo

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and uo other

I thought of Jonn

hip him only

Lv’

Chanter 6, v. 4 and the following.

P e

TE

HUBLI STATION

Rev., F. Miiller, Rev. F. Hu

The past year has not been marked by any events of particular im-

as a cane

portance.

The man who was mentioned in our last report

didate for baptism, stayed with us for nearly a whole year, and we had

fair hopes of him ; when, in March 1843, we were sorely disappointed

by receiving intelligence, that on a Sunday night, he had p“med up

his

things zmd decamped.

Painful as this news was to us, yet we could

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with us, also left us. Thus noue are left except Isaak, the Christi

u?llf ioned in our two last rﬂports.

We thank the Lord for being en

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n!eq to state,

that his conduct also during the past year, has been on

the whole sauszactorﬂ.

With him, and with 2 or 3 men employed in

our service, we have had 2 Sunday services, as well as daily morning

prayers

The latier, however, were discontinued in October, Whan

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Lhu men fell sick of fever.

One of them left us on that occasion

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another resumed his usual work as soon as he felt better ; but the fever

returning two or three times, his friends conceived the idea that he

we m po&%os sed with a devil, owing to his having heard the word of God

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man has recovered, but is afraid to attend prayers as formerly

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o frighten away people who had entered into conn

ion with us.

l'o the nine schools mentioned last year, four others have been added,

wnd it would be easy still to increase their number, if we had the means

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of properly superintending them.

The new schools are two boys’

schools, one girls’ school, and one for adults.

Three are situated at Hubli, and one in a village four miles distant.

Thus we have altogether 13; 7 for boys, 4 for girls, and 2 for adults.

Of the boys’ schools 3 have an attendance of from 70 to 80 each; 2

are attended by from 40 to 45, and the remaining 2 by from 15 to 20

boys.

The state of the schools: and the progress of the scholars is on

the whole satisfactory.

Tracts and parts of scripture have been read and explained and the

more advanced boys, about 80, have committed to memory ; select pas-

sages of the Bible. and several tracts and catechisms. We find Luther’s

catechism particularly useful, chiefly because it affords abundance of

matter for preaching whenever we examine the schools. Also on Sun-

days we had frequently the satisfaction of seeing a number of our school

boys gathering around us, to whom we explained parts of scripture

history. Even our Sunday services were sometimes attended by them ;

and they frequently gave us pleasure by quick and correct answers to

our questions.

It is to be hoped that lasting impressions will be made

on the hearts of many.

The four girls’ schools, attended by from 12

to 15 each, are suffering much from fluctuation of attendance.

Even

those who do attend, are excessively thoughtless, and it is rarely possi-

ble to fix their attention for a quarter of an hour.

They come to the

About 12 of

Mission House once every fortnight, to be examined.

the girls read tolerably well and have begun to commit scripture pas-

sages to memory.

Insignificant though this part of our labour may

appear, yet we are thankful for this means of usefulness, and consider

even the slightest advance in the course of female education, as a breach

made in the stronghold of Satan.

The two schools for adults have been established without any exer-

tion of ours, during the past year. Young men from 20 to 30 years of

age, meet daily after sunset and spend about two hours in reading and

writing. The attendance is from 10 to 15 in each school, about one

half of whom are now able to read.

We regret being unable, on ac-

count of other engagements, to visit these schools as often as we could

wish.

Every fortnight, however, we assemble these young men for an

examination at our house, which is always concluded by addressing

them on the subject of Christianity.

Bazaar preaching has not been kept up so regularly as we could have

desired, though we have frequently preached at the schools, as well

as on our way to and from them. We hope however, if the Lord gives

us strength, to be more regular in this duty during the next year. The

word of God has been proclaimed to many visitors in our own house,

although most of them came rather with a wish to see than to hear.

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Br. Miiller having been quite alone for a considerable part of the

year, was unable to make extensive missionary tours. InJanuary 1844

however, he was enabled to make one of a fortnight, through the nsigh-

bouring villages.

On this occasion many applications were made to

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him for the erection of schools, with which he w

as unable to comply for

the above re

ason. Br. Huber joined the station in November last and

has begun to share in the dutics of the Mission.

May the Lord, whose

is the kingdom and the power and the glory,

strengthen his servants

and prosper their work.

F

MULLER.

HusLri, Jenuary, 1844.

F. HUBER.

THE BETTIGHERRY STATION.

Rev. C. Hilier, Mrs. Hiller. Rev. M, Flall. Sutyandden Catechist.

In the last report it was stated, that all the persons, who had been

baptized, had fallen back, with the exception of Chittapa, who on the

22nd of May 1843, separated from us in a most distressing manner,

being unwilling to continue in the renunciation of caste, though pre-

vious to his baptism he had willingly and unequivocally broken its

rules.

As we had long rejoiced in his apparent sincer

ity and know-

ledge of the Scriptures, and been comforted by his steadfastness at a

time when the others drew back, it was the more deeply trying to us,

to see even this last convert fall away.

His wife who had left him,

and whose place of abode had been unknown to us since May last, has

now returnec, and joins him in his work, though she does not dwell

with him, because he Las not yet been re-admitted into his caste.

Of

late he has visited us again, and we have been to see him.

So there

is still some hope of his returning ; but we cannot venture to say, what

may be his ultimate decision

He still is staunch in professing him-

self a worshipper of the true God, and declares that he will remain

such till his death ; yet there can be no mistake about his anxiety to

be readmitted iato his caste. May the Lord in mercy make him aware

of his danger and grant him repentance unto life.

The others give us but little hope.

A widow who had come to us

with her brother-in law, had attended a course of instruction during se-

veral months, and had been baptized in the presence of numerous wit-

nesses from among the heathen inhabitants of the place, after having ex-

pressed her belief in Christ and her desire to receive the ordinance of

baptism, used the followiag remarkable words in declaring her resolu-

tion of going back to heathenism, * if your Jesus be God, let him shew

it by punishing me if I have ever been baptized.”

In September last

she died of a sudden sickness.

A girl of another baptized family, died

soon afterwards.

Some of these unhappy people are living in great

destitution.

They come now and then and ask us to assist them in

obtaining re admission into their caste.

We tell them, that they may

still be re-admitted into communion with us, but that it is no business

We call

of ours to assist them in returning to their old way.

upon

them, sometimes with kindness and sometimes witl

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unto the Lord, telling them how deeply we are afflicted by their back-

sliding.

The people of this place in general are not averse to hearing the

word of God, but we have no prospect of any of them approaching

more nearly for some time to come.

The bad example of those who

have turned back, is a stumbling-block in their way, and some inilu-

ential people, who formerly cared but little for us and for the people

under our instruction, have now set their faces against us, and frighten

away those who might be inclined to connect themselves with us.

Yet we do not lose courage, for the Lord reigneth and he is able to

pverrule even the opposition of our encmies for the establishment

of His kingdom in his own time.

In the meantime we are sowing the

good seed in faith and hope.

Our Schools are much in the same state as last year.

In 5 schools,

established at Bettigherry and in 3 neighbouring villages, from 180 to

200 boys are instructed in Reading, Writing, Casting accounts, and

Parts of the Bible and religious tracts

the elements of Geography.

are used as class-books.

At Gadak, a village 2 miles to the west of

Bettigherry, from 12 to 16 adults meet every evening and are instruct-

ed in reading and writing, under the superintendence of Br. Hall. A

similar evening school for the young men of Bettigherry, we have hi-

therto been unsuccessful in establishing.

Br. Hall had collected about 10 girls in a school at Gadak, the su-

perintendence of which he kindly resigned to Mrs. Hiller, on her

arrival at the station. Two other girls’ schools, attended by from 16 to

20 girls, have been established at Bettigherry and in a neighbouring

village. During the last year, Br. Hall made 2 preaching tours, each

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of a fortnight, through the neighbouring district.

In the beginning of October, Br. Hiller set out on a tour to Bellary,

where he met Br. Moegling. From thence they both continued their

journey by way of Vijayanagara, Hurryhur, Shemoga, and Sringeri to

Mangalore.

They bad during this journey many opportunities for

preaching the word of God. After a short stay at Mangalore Br. Hiller

went to Bombay to meet Miss Moegling his intended partner. They

were married at Mangalore on the 26th of December, and went to Bet-

tigherry in the middle of January.

C. HILLER.

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M. HALL.

BeTTIGHERRY, February, 1844.

THE MALSAMUDRA STATION.

Rev. C. Essig, Mrs. Essig. and Mr. G. Stanger.

The second year of our Mission colony has passed very quietly. The

Of the five families, which were

number of settlers has decreased.

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with us in the beginning of the year, two have left us of their own ac -

cord, be

cause they feared, that if they remaine

d, they would ultimately

lose their caste

This however does not dise

ourage us.

The people

who came first, did not fully k

are better known

now what were our inteutions; now they

aud if there are persons who wish to come to us,

they know now, partly from our own

people, partly from such as have

been with us and left us again, tl

1at the Missionaries at Malsamudra do

not only give lands to their people, but aim at turnine them to the true

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aud living God the saviour of their souls

. Although we cannot expect

that many people,

moved by a desire to serve the livin

g God, will

come, yet we hope th

at there may be some, who have come unconsci-

ously seeking rest for their troubled souls.

Only three families and one man are at

settlers.

present residing with us as

They have renounced id

olatry and regularly attend divine

worship ;

but none of them have as yet come forward with a desire

for baptisr

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In the month of March one of our servants

a native of Mangalore

was baptized. Thus a fourth

ative christian has been added to the three

whom Br

Erey two years ago brought with him to Malsamudra.

On Sundays (which are kept holy by a

Il persons in the colony,) two

services are held,

one in the forenoon which is

usually attended by

about 20 persons, and one in the afternoon.

On week day evenings

the history of the Bible is explained at prayers.

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The number of our schools has in t

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1e course of the last year in-

creased to five, estab

lished in five different villages in our neighbourhood.

The nearest of them are visited once a week, those more distant once

a month. The total number of boys attending these schools is about

140. The history of the Bible, and Christian tracts, are read with but

little objection ; yet it has occurred that native schools have been esta-

blished in the same villages, where we have schools, in order to keep

the boys away from the influence of our teaching ; but although

by this

opposition we lose some boys,

yet we are glad to see the number of

schools increase, and more of the rising

eneration

thus enabled to

read and better prepared to receive the word of God

There are about 12 villages in a semicircle from one to four mil

es

distant from Malsamudra in which we preach dail

y if possible.

These

villages are inhabited principally by ryots, who be

ing the simplest class

of Hindus, are our best hearers.

Almost every day we have visitors at the Mission House, who come

partly from curiosity, p

artly and prineipally for medicine.

We

are

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surprised at the confidence with which they t

ake the medicines, which

we, whom they call deceivers of the people,

give them,

In the month of August Br. E

ssig made a short missionary tour

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with Br. Hall of Bettigherry.

We travelled through J

aghirdars’ dis-

tricts, and came to several

populous towns, viz. Moolgoond, Seerhuttee

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Lakshmeswra, Savanooreto. We met everywhere wit}

ype

1 eivility an

tention and we

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ften requested to establish schools.

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In the middle of November Br. Essig set out on a journey to Bomi-

A few days after her

bay to meet Miss M. Streckeisen from Basel.

arrival they went to Mangalore, where they

were married on the 26th

December by Br. Weigle.

After staying there 3 weeks,

they left for

Malsamudra, where they arrived on the 27th of January.

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February, 1844,

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THE CANNANORE STATION.

Rev. S. Hebich ; Aaron, Guanamuttu, Timothy and

Jucob, Catechists.

We were troubled on every side,

A year full of tribulation is past.

within were fears.

But blessed be God, the

without were fightings

Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fatber of mercies,

and the God

of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be

able to comfort them which are in trouble, by the comfort wherewith

we ourselves are comforted of God ; for as the sufferings of Christ a-

bound in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ.

The present state of the Native congregation is, thanks be to God,

pretty good.* We know that we want a Saviour, and we know that we

have a Saviour. During the past year one of our members fell deeply,

and by his impeniten

t heart gave us great grief ; but thanks be to God,

tance and brought him back

who in His merey has given him repen

Another man, wh

om 1 had baptized,

again into our church-fellowship.

pretended to be mad and lives with his family, bei

ng now excluded from

the congregation.

A few others have been halting and as a man for-

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ged by us under

Mr. Brown at Angercandy, who of his own

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those who are

accord left his work, is now labouring at Cannanore,

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imes the Holy Lord’s Supper.

4 Couples married.

1 Man,

3 Women,

5 Children,

5 Heathen, were Baptized.

14 Children Baptized of the Congregation.

5 Members received into the Congregation.

6 Children and

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1 Woman

} Died.

4 Members excluded with 2 Children.

14 Members and 9 Children left the station,

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weary of our discipline, join this bad man, who has succeeded in gain-

ing support from other quarters.

The native services are held regularly as before; on Sundays aund

Thursdays from 1 past 10 to 1 o’clock, and on Wednesday evenings

On Saturdays from 11 to 1 o’clock another

from 71 to 9 o’clock.

service is held at Tahy, which is however transferred to the Chapel on

Saturdays preceding the celebration of the Lord’s Supper.

With the

9th regiment N.I. three families left the congregation, but I am sorry to

say they have not profited much except one. May the Lord have mercy

upon them, - Amen.

According to letters the dear souls in the 36th re-

giment N. I. are growing in grace, praised be His Holy Name ; may

Br. Huber

He fully prepare them for His glorious kingdom, Amen.

in August last went to Mangalore to assist Br. Weigle during Br.

Catechist Ananden

Moegling’s absence and is now stationed at Hubli.

was sent to the flock at Angercandy, after the desertion of the above

mentioned catechist.

The Malayalam schools have increased to four, viz. one in the Mis-

sion Compourd attended by from 60 to 80 boys, most of themn of the

Teer caste, one at Tahy in the fisher village attended by from 25 to 40

boys, (these are often employed by their parents in fishing;) one 2 miles

from Tahy at Curuwey, of Teer boys, asked for by the poor people there;

and one on the road to Mercara, 10 miles from Cannanore, at Kootaly

quite new, 30 boys, also established at the request of the villagers.

At the fishing village, Tahy, Aaron was residing with Timothy,

but has now again removed to the Tamil congregation, which Anannden

has left for Angercandy.

Therefore Timothy is now alone there.

On Saturdays I preach regularly to members of the Tamil congrega-

tion who assemble there. During the year the word has been frequent-

ly preached there often till midnight.

Many visitors came, for, as it

happens, the preaching of the Gospel attracted much people in the

beginning. Many came also from other places.

Most of them are re-

lations of the fishermen. The young men come often in a very friendly

maanner to our house, whilst their fathers amuse themselves with drink-

ing, and smoking Bang; but they are all or at least most of them friend-

ly.

One family is drawing near to us, but all here is still new ; we

must wait in patience.

These people are worshippers of Bhutas or

Demons, but besides this they have a kind of Philosophy of their own.

They talk of Para Bramha the great spirit, but this Philosophy troubles

them not, as the sins committed in the flesh do not, according to their

doctrine, defile the spirit. However it happens with them as with all

men who have changed the truth of God into a lie, according to the

Epistle to the Romans 1, 18—382 and who hold the truth in unrighte-

ousness. There is a conscience within every man, and as soon as death

approaches, the sinner feels that the sentence, ¢ it is appointed unto

men once to die, but after that the judgment,” is but too true. At the

sight of death he fears and trembles and takes refuge in any lie.

An

example of this we had in the months of August, September and Oc-

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tober 1843, when cholera was at Tahy

The Pujaris at their festival

when possessed by the Bhata, prophesied, that the cholera, which was

then at Tellicherry, would not come to Tahy. It came notwithstanding

Afterwards there came a fisherman from Mahe (6 miles on the othe

side of Tellicherry) who gave out that he was some great one. Arrived

at Tahy, he sat down in a house speechless and breathless. The people

offered him flowers and plantains, which he ate

When many people

had gathered around him, he began to address them in this manner,

¢ what shall I do? 1 can do nothing. I came down fiom Bramha out

of Heaven

The Gods

ho ascended resisted my coming down, but

I requested them not to do so, as Bramha had sent me; so they left

off resisting and worshipped me

I sent the cholera and during eight

months it shall not come to Tahy.” (This was fine news indeed.) The

people worshipped him and presented him with money and clothes,

When he had collected about 40 Rupees, and 40 pieces of cloth

he

went to another village

At that time I had just prepared medicine

for the cholera, and made it known to the people, that whoever wished

and stood in need of it,

should freely come either by day or night.

Nobody made use of my offer. The cholera was now raging and I was

grieved to the heart,

that these poor pecple should listen to that de-

ceiver, and in this my grief I called upon the Lord publicly, that He

might be pleased to take notice of their lies and to make them mani-

feat to the people.

What happened ? That deceiver came soon back to

a house at Tahy

In the very same house and on the same day one

and one in the evenine at 4

man died of the cholera in the mornin

o’clock

The deceiver said, that this latter man would not die, but at 4

o’clock he would recover

What had that

at that very hour he died

deceiver now to say? oh, he said

this cholera was not sent by me

but by another spirit

He thought it however best to leave Tahy, and

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went off for a time

In this manner the people are deceived, because they love lies

Af-

And at

terwards I shuwed this to the people and they were ashamed

least so much fruit appeared to have come out of it, that this deceiver

ho came from time to time, is at present no more received by them

Oh, that the people might believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and the

only Saviour from Devil, Death, IIeH, Sin, and World, and that they

might put their trust in Him and in Him alone, to the savmg of their

boul%

Amen.

Fishermen, Roman Catholics, and Maplis died around us, but the

Lord in his mercy was pleased to spare us

Praises and thanksgivings

Amen.

belong unto him.

In the beginning the schoolmaster at Tahy, was one of the Astrolo-

ger-caste (Kaneshen) but him we removed to the Curuwey school, and

the schoolmaster now at Tahy is one of their own caste, a fisherman.

limothy is at present alone there, I am just now preparing an out -

on the Mangalore road,

station near the weaver’s village, Chirakal,

about 4 miles from Cannanore, where I have got from the Rd‘]J a piece

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of ground for this purpose.

I hope this will bring me into more im-

mediate connexion with the Malayalam people.

English preaching has been regularly kept up as formerly 3 times a

week, viz. on Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday evenings, from L past 6 to

8 o’clock.

Every first Monday in the month a Missionary meeting

takes place from half past six to 8 o’clock.

A uumber of Europeans

join the Lord’s Supper in the Native congregation, and the word of

God is, as everywhere so also here, the power of God to them who be -

come obedient unto it to the saving of their souls. Hallelujah ! Amen.

Recommending myself with my fellow labourers and the whole work

to the prayers of the people of God, I continue to pray that He in His

mercy may prepare us all to stand before the Son of Man, that when

He comes, we may have joy and be not asham ed.

Even so, O Lord

Jesus, hasten thy glorious kingdom and come soon! Amen,

CANNANORE

Ly &

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March, 1844,

THE TELLICHERRY STATION.

Rev. H. Gundert, Mrs. Gundert. Rev. C. Irion, Rev. Ch: Miiller,

Muss Mook, Catechist Vedamuttu.

If it be difficult for the Christian to speak as he ought of the Lord’s

dealings, when his course is marked by striking changes and stirring

events, much more does he find himself embarrassed, when he has to

recount the experience of days of small things.

How easily is he led,

now to despise the Lord’s arm as if it were shortened, now to sit down

discouraged by his own unworthiness, now to attempt to silence the

accusations from within by various excuses !

Such being the state of

our feelings in preparing again an account of the occurrences of our

station, we hope our friends will be satisfied with a meagre recital of

our small things, and pray with us that the Lord may be pleased to

do greater things amongst us in His own good time.

We have not had the joy of witnessing any conversions here from

the heathen during these 12 months, but have on the contrary been

tried by severe falls and backslidings.

One of the christian school-

masters after an apparently consistent walk of several years, has fallen

into adultery and made the name of Christ stink among the heathen.

Though humbled thereby he is but slowly rising, and his removal from

the station became necessary even for his own good. The spoiled N ayer

youth mentioned in our last report, felt offended at his exclusion from

the Lord’s table on account of indifference, and has been persuaded by

his former friends to return to a life of dissipation.

He has broken

off all connection with us.

He was brou

ght near the grave by cholera,

but so far from benefiting by the chatisement, he paid vows for his res.

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toration fo Bnagawati, and has apparently retained nothing of Christi-

anity but his name. A youth

of christian parents was in August last,

sub-

thought werthy of the full privileges of christian brotherhood, but

sequent inconsistencies have made us doubt his real conversion. The

number of communicants is thus reduced to 16.

We have at present 8 candidates for baptism.

Some of them have

been under instruction for 1 or 2 years. The reason why none of them

te]

oe self de-

have been baptized arises from our unwillingness to encoura

ho come under the sound of the Gospel.

If we had

ception in those w

once a traly regenerate, well united, and steadily pr

ogressing body of

native christians, however small, we might hope that their walk would

preac

h more effectually and plainly the substance of our faith, than any

words of ours without

a powerful drawing of the Father towards the

Son. We might then baptize those, who truly desire gospel fellowship,

without an over scruplous examination of all their motives. We do not

even now look so much for the fruits of conversion before we baptize,

as to earnestness of desire after holiness. But the difficulty of discern-

tion into the church, may

ing the motives of those who apply for recep

One candidate after care-

be seen from instances like the following.

ful instruction ran away on the very day fixed for his baptism, panic-

tion from his family so near: he has never

struck by seeing the separa

since been able to regain even his first state.

9 Tiars of good family,

the determination

in easy cir

cumstances, after occasional visits came to

left

of living with us to hear the word

. Both broke caste and yet they

uaded, the other frightened by their

us after a few days, the one pers

once a scholar

aearest relatives.

The son of a Government servant,

ho was convinced of

of the general assembly’s institution at Madras, w

heart, wished

the evil of idolatry, but not of the wickedness of his own

his need of Christ,

but in

for immediate baptism without confessing

the progress of instr

uction he could not bear his m

otives being sub-

jected to the scrutiny of the two-edg

ed word of God, and withdarew.

hemselves for a while,

Nor are other cases rare of rogues insinuating t

o, and le

and then making

hearing, askin

o7

arning with apparent anxiety,

off with some property.

There remains then a num

ber of applicants

mostly of low caste, not habituated to

any exercise of mind but more or

If asked about their de-

less willing to be guided into the right way.

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if not asked, they do not seem to

sires, they will answer scripturally

see any hardship in remaining unbaptized.

Herein we will not accuse

knows also how much has

them, the Lord knoweth their hearts; he

kening the sleepy, and exciting

been neglected by his servants in awa

the dull.

We wish to repr

esent the state of our catechumens in the

light in which we see them ourselves, and may

the Father himself man-

ifest unto us those whom he is drawing to the Son.

e heathen in the 6

The Gospel has been regularly preached to th

schools established near the highways of the surrounding country upon

1e sole super-

the request of the people.

These schools are under tl

Calicut

intendence of Br. C. Miiller, since Br. ¥. Miiller has left us for

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(October, 1843.) The attendance at the old schools is: in Dharma-

patam 35, Catirur 45, Tellicherry and weavers’ village 70. One newly

established at Cuttaparmuba, the next station on the Wynaad road, has

about 30 scholars ; lastly, one commenced at Nettur, upon the wish of

a Nayer, who had begun to read the gospel with his children and found

it far from objectionable, averages between 40 and 50.

When the strange reports circulated through the country, that several

Brahmin youths at Mangalore had been suddenly converted, by means

of a very fine powder blown into their

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rs, or by a magical fumigation,

they produced some commotion, which for a time considerably reduced

the number of scholars, especially in the new schools. In ail the schools

the first classes have made gratifying progress in the history of the Old

and New Testaments.

They commit parts of scripture to memory.

The middle classes are chiefly occupied with a Catechism translated

from a German work of C. Zeller

¢ Divine answers to human ques-

tions,” which answers for a compendium of the most essential doctrines

of the word of God.

The little children who write only in sand, have

likewise to repeat on each visit to the school a verse of seripture, learn-

ed in the mean time with the help of the master or one of the elder

boys.

Besides these occasions for preaching the gospel and distributing

books—the poor house with weekly distributions of rice to some hun-

dreds of paupers—a Sunday service held during the first half of the year

in the house of a gentleman anxious to bring the gospel before his

domestics—journeys of Br. Gunder tto Cottayam and the Southern Ma-

labar in November last, and into the Wynaad in Febraary—frequent

excursions of all of us to neighbouring stations, and visits to the sick

during the time of cholera may be mentioned among the opportunities

more or less improved for inviting the heathen to pariicipate in our

great salvation.

Since June last Anjercandy has been visited regularly twice a month

by one of our number.

The church there has gone through several

trials. Their catechist lost, through drinking and priestly insolence, the

confidence of his hearers to such a degree, that after having annouuced

one day that he felt uneasy in his mind, he quitted his post without

leave. Happily it was in our power to procu

re a better teacher agreeably

to the desire of the philanthropic masters of that flourishing plantation.

Other trials were the results of the government measure of the aboli-

tion of slavery, and of the apprehended pollution by the approach of low

caste people on the public roads.

The higher classes, the Tiars espe-

cially, did not bear these changes without taking some revenge by mal-

foolish rumours.

treating several christians and frightening the community with divers

All this has tended to good, as it preserved the tran-

sition of these poor people into an ameliorated civil condition from ex-

travagant joy or exultation, and from the abuses incident to such changes.

Baptism has been administered to four men and two women at their

earnest request,

The growth of grace and knowledge in the members

42

of this chutch does not, come up to what we pray for. Anger, jealousy,

pride, evil lusts and the other inheritances of the old man, are general-

ly not struggled against with that energy which we see in truly con-

verted European Christians : but it is always easier for us to demand

than to give, easier to complain than to bear with unwearied patience

and intercession.

"The number of communicants amounts to 27, five

being at present exciuded from the communion.

Our Seminary contains now 29 boys of whom 19 are baptized, 8

Heathen, 2 Mchammadans. They live in a large hall adjoining the

room of their head Master, Br. Trion. They are a mixture of Malayalam

>

Tamul, Telugu, Portuguese, :

5

nd Tando-Briton boys, hut seem sufficient-

ly assimilated to each other and satisfied with their position and pro-

spects. Dr. Irion teaches the higher classes in 5 daily lessons the above

mentioned Catechism, the harmony of the Gospels, [ which will be fol-

lowed up by a course of Church history, ] Geography, Universal History,

History of the Old Testament, Arithmetic, and Singinz. Br. Gundert

The lower classes are chiefly instructed

gives daily 1 English lesson.

by the native schoolmaster.

Their progress on the whole is gratify-

ing, though there are few amongst them who show superior talents,

or try to learn without being commanded. Four of them were baptized

on the 23rd July by Br. Irion, 2 orphans about 6 years of age, and 2

members of the first class.

One of these, Nathanael, proved himself

truly converted during the preparatory course of instruction : the other

has still a goed deal of his caste-pretensions, though the word of God

We

has sufficient power over him to humble him sometimes to tears.

pray for a time of grace upon their young souls, and for an assurance

‘to ourselves, which may enable us to receive also those who still re-

-main unbaptized, into the body of the church.

They have been pre -

served from severe diseases, even during the time when numbers died

around us of cholera and small pox. One boy only was dangerously ill

Cases of

;:

-of typhous fever, but recovered through the grace of God.

cholera occured amongst the girls, but yielded almost immediately to

Colonel Wallace’s famous mixture.

One girl of the institution, given

up to us some years ago by an unfeeling mother in her 6th montb,

after being long troubled with bowel complaints, was taken from us

during the monsoon.

Her grave and that of Br. Gundert’s child are

A

still the only ones in our new burial groun

U

We have every reason

to thank the Lord for this gracious preservation, for it is an anxious

thing in times of disease to think of our responsibility for the souls and

bodies of these 50 or 60 little ones.

The boarding school under the superintendence of Mrs. Gundert and

Miss Mook has 24 girls. Amongst these there are some new ones who

have replaced such as have either retarned to their families or have

been married to persons connected with the Mission.

This continual

change, to remedy which we see no immediate prospect, does not allow

of many additions to the branches of education mentioned in former

|

o

reports.

Malayalam Writing, and Readi

ng

3

Learning the Bible-Cate-

43

chism, reading the Scriptures, Casting accounts, these are all the occu-

pations of the greater part of the children during the day. 15 of the

elder girls ave learning English, in which 6

|k

£

{

ave considerably advanced ;

whilst the youngest children hear Bible stories related to them and

commit them to memory with the help of seripture prints. Their other

occupations are sewing, knitting, making lace ; a number of them are

beginning to make themselves useful by these works.

Many are the

marks of impressions made by the word of God, many and sudden also

bett

our disappointments in watching the steps of those w

ho ouce promised

er things; hence we are afraid of speaking prematurely of conver-

sions amongst them. Ours is to sow, others will enter into our labour,

and God grant they may reap abundaatly. Then both he that soweth,

and he that reapeth, will rejoice together.

H. GUNDERT.

TeLLICHERRY, March, 1844.

C. IRION.

CH. MULLER.

Wt oo

Supplement to the Tellicherry report communicated

wn July, by Br. GUNDERT.

Two Mapilla youths, who entered the boarding school in November

1843, became in a short time traly attached to their comradas and

their teachers.

One of them Baker, about 20 years old, had then, as

he afterwards confessed, no intention of remaining, but wished to learn

for some time and then to return to his family.

He soon however be-

gan to compare what he read in the New Testament, with what he

knew of Mohammadarism and its priests, and his faith was shaken.

He sometimes disputed with the Christian boys, maintaining that

Mohammad had created the world, and that the prophet wasall in all,

He was

but by degrees he became slow to speak and quick to hear.

often seen reading the gospel, when the rest went to play, and showed

himself very kind to the little boys in the lower classes.

His father,

who had missed him, found him after an anxious search, in our seminary,

and eould not prevail on him to return home.

His native place is

about 20 miles to the south of Tellicherry. “How shall I go,” answered

he, “where every body will laugh at me, I have already lost all faith

3

in Mohammad.” T

nis-v

vae in January. Two months afterwards his father

visited him again and begged him to go to see his sick mother, promis-

ing that he should be permitted to return to his books.

It was now

time to tell him, that ridicule was not the worst he had to prepare for,

in case he should decide on going home.

The father also appeared to

listen with interest to the comparison drawn between the religion of

the sword and that of the cross.

But neither of them seemed to anti-

cipate any violence.

Baker took leave with the hardly credible pro-

mise, that whatever might happen he should be baol\< on the third day.

44

When that day arrived, the 12th March, the

young man returned. He

had been sorely beset by a concourse of priests an

d zealots, who tempted

Early in

him first with offers of money, then with threats of death.

=)

o, the mother supported

the morning when his father was still waverin

g

ither his heart

the son in his earnest request for permission to go wi

From that time

drew him, and the father could do nothing but yield.

29

Baker pursued his studies with gr

Ta

¢ diligence, showing the utmost

er youth

readiness to do every thing he was bid. The brother of the oth

he made

Hassan, came to persuade him to a similar visit, but seeing

he left him as one to be counted henceforth among the

no impression,

dead.

Not so Baker’s relations.

They visited him repeatedly and

seemed content to have him where he was. But by

degrees the priests

One of them exe

luded the father

began to interfere with the family.

Baker’s

from the Mosque in order to effect the recovery of the son.

the family

sister lately married, was deserted by her husband, and

the offender

threatened with the heaviest curse, if they did not bring

and begged

back.

On the second June two friends of Baker came

sick uncle. He felt his danger, but trust-

permission for him to visit a

g

e hopea to

ing too much to his own strength, he went saying that

he knew of the gospel.

He had not

proclaim in his own house what

then areal insight into the lost condition of a sinn

er; nor could he call

God was with

Christ his strength and his life; but he was sure that

that he would

us of a truth, and said to a native brother in parting,

at if in three day

s he

rather die than return to his vomit, adding th

should not come back, the cause must be sought in

violence done to him,

not in any abatement of his convictions.

When

he reached the house

of his uncle, he was confined for four day

s in a room near the Mosque

even should he escape this

and there harrassed in every possible way ;

martyrs by kil-

time, he was told, that hundreds were ready to become

se on 'w

hose protection

ling him a renegade and outlaw, and that tho

1

When confinement was

s

1e now relied, would have to share his fate.

supposed to have broken his spirit,

he was brought into the Mosque

ol

CK,

by the priests and but-

and forced, swords being held over kis ne

ould not return to the Missionaries.

He first

chers, to swear that he w

refused 10 swear. He confessed to us subsequently that

he felt in those

if he should be

moments

a

S

if he would have no Saviour and no hope,

th

killed

At last he yiclded to their

vii

reats, and swore by the pillar of

tiaa

Then the Moslems

the Moso

ue,

at he would no more run away.

s, exalted Mohammad, and sent the young

ridiculed the person of Jesu

man under a guard to his fat

her’s house, where flatteries and the sight

~

]

of th

(o

rreat trouble he ha

A

brought on the family were emy

bloyed with

5 |

¥

§

f

2

10 D€

hbeen

better prospe

O

of success.

One person, s

posing that he h:

de him a present of a pony.

attracted by the sight of our horses, ma

iest a long

But still he was forced by blows to pronounce after the pr

3]

train of expiatory formulas, upon which a gra

v

nd dinner was served to

him in the Mosque.

He was told that his case had been referred to

Mecea, and that all the measures recommended in case of his repen-

iﬁ

=

49

tance were now executed

A tract which he was observed

readaing

was torn in pieces ; a letter which he once attempted to write to Tel-

He was a second time forced to swear,

hcherry shared the same fate.

that he would not return to us, after which the title

leeds of 5 or-

chards and a marriace were offered him

Up to that time our search for him and an application to the Talook

But on the morning of th

2th

for his protection had been in vain

June, he observed two peons sent by our worthy Magistrate Mr.

Crozier, loitering abont his house, and effected “*s escape with them.

He was overtaken

in Mahe

which he had reached by by-ways, but

defended by the peon, who was himself a Mapli

After some days of

investigation, in which he was also brought before the Cazy and made

acquainted with all the errors of christianity

his repeated wish to re-

turn to us has been granted. Mr. Crozier went himself to the spot on

which the outrage had been committed, and did what he could to quiet

the exasperated Mussulmans

Baker has asked for baptism in order to

be better prepared to meet death, whenever he may have to encounter

it, and we have the joy of witnessing his true and increasing thirst for

the knowledge of the salvation which is in Jesus Christ

May he soon

become fully assured, that the ways of our God are not ways of death,

but of eternal life !

May the Lord grant the gift of his Holy Spirit to

this dear youth,

who without peculiar talents or quickness of percep-

tion, is stea(hlv seeking the truth s

at the risk of his life

He has a heart

without guile; may he soon be established in the faith and made wise

unto salvation

GUNDERT

THE CALICUT STATIO

ler ; Catechi

Titus

Rev. M. Fritz, Rev. F.

During the past year we have again experienced the gracious assist-

ance of our Lord in many outward and inward trials

His name b

praised. In the beginning of last year the Lord was pleased to visit Br.

2 him to leave the station for

Fritz with bodily sufferings, which oblig

a while.

But his health having 1mpr0wd since the beginning of the

moasoon, he has been able to resume his usual avoeation.

bf Almcm having been transferred to Dharwar by our

- Committee,

Br

Mm]u‘ of th@ Tellicherry s

tat

lo.lx

on, came to

is place in order

to duslst Br. Fritz in the increasing duties of our work

The word of life has been frequently proclaimed in public as well as

in vrivate during the last year.

As yet we have seen but litt

fruit of

aouorh we know that it will no

be in vain in the Lord

ur labour

The Tamil Ci mstmns mentioned in the last report, have attended our

Sunday services pretty remhriy Little, certs

inly, is to be seen in their

minds of that living faith which

works by IOx e, so d

es

e

irable in a nativ

46

congregation, placed, as it were, as a city on a hill in the midst of a

heathen people. With a view to their further instruction in the word of

God a week-day service was commenced, but given up again for want

of attendance.

A Roman Catholic family of Tamil extraction was received into our

May the Lord

small native congregation after 3 month’s instraction.

give them grace to live unto Him who has died for them.

Some other enquirers the Lord has led to us, who have, with few

There seem to be traces of the

interruptions, been daily instructed.

working of the Holy Spirit in some, and if the Lord will grant them a

more complete knowledge of their depravity, and a more earnest longing

for salvation, we shall not * forbid water ”” unto them.

A distressed widow with 3 Children having sought an asylum with

us, was staying in our compound for 3 months, and earning her liveli-

hood by her own labour.

She was constant in her attendance on the

means of grace, and her behaviour gave evidence of a good work begun

within her. We frequently heard her repeating and impressing on her

memory, what she had heard in the course of instruction, while she

was at her work.

We cherished the hope of being soon permitted to

admit her together with her children into our congregation, but the

Lord was pleased to call her away from this earth sooner than we

She fell a victim to the small pox which was then raging.

thought.

On the following day 2 of her children also died.

The remaining

child is still with us.

In the department of native schools our patience has been tried more

than once during the past year.

The schools have been repeatedly

emptied, and 2 of them effectually destroyed by malicious rumours of

an intention on our side to carry the children away ; yet we succeeded

in establishing 3 new Schools, which are pretty regularly attended.

The number of scholars has thus remained the same as last year. Parts

of scripture, and appropriate tracts and catechisms, are used as class

books.

Of late we have been cheered by the attendance of several

high-caste boys.

At the schools the word of God is frequently pro-

claimed. People appear to take an interest in the examinations which

afford them numerous opportunities of hearing the truth as it is in

Jesus not only from the missionary, but even from the mouths of their

own children.

Another call on our time and strength was made within the last 6

months by a tribe known under the name of Nayadis.

Long ago the

moral and physical misery of this abject class had excited the sympa-

thies of christians in this province., Mr. Conolly, the principal collector

of Malabar, at last succeeded in settling a few families on a piece 0

ground about 30 miles to the south of Calicut, on the high road to

aged

Paulghaut. Little huts were erected for them, and a man was eng

to instruct them in agriculture and other useful occupations.

'This

benevolent plan presented almost insurmountable difficulties, arising

chiefly from the inveterate habits of beggary or laziness, which have

47

prevailed for ages among these people. At the request of Mr. Conolly

we took charge of the settlement in November 1843, aund notwith-

standing much to discourage us, we have had some opportunities of

seeing that this also isa work by which, under the blessing of the

Lord, we may humbly hope to be able to advance His glory. There

are at present 9 families consisting of about 50 souls settled there.

They begin to accustom themselves to a more orderly way of lifs, and

to see the advantages of their present situation, compared with their

former savage and degraded existence.

The men cultivate the ground

allotted to them, and the women take care of the gardens round their

huts.

A christian Schoolmaster, married to a former pupil of Mrs.

He has a

Gundert’s girls’ school, settled among them in January.

vast field before him, and so far as appearances go, it is to be hoped

that the Lord will not withhold his blessing.

The frequent celebration of the Lord’s supper has been a blessed

means of reviving faith, love, and hope, in our native congregation. In

partaking of this holy ordinance we were several times cheered by the

presence of European Brethren.

The Lord, whose we are, granted

unto us that peace which passeth all understanding.

The want of another Catechist besides Titus is severely felt. We

had another, but were obliged to dismiss him as uufit for the work.

May the Lord hasten to establish amongst us his kingdom of peace to

the glory of his name.

Cavicur, March, 1844.

F. M. FRITZ.

G. H. MULLER.

CENSUS OF THE MISSION.

Missionaries and their wives

-

-

-

24

Brethren in Europe on account of ill health

(8]

Mangalore Station.

Tulu Congregation

-

(%3

-

-

-

126

Kadike Congregation (Communic

-

-

-

-

ants i6, Cz;techum eni

23) 39

Seminar

o

-

-

-

42

Female Boarding School

-

-

-

-

24

Catechists and Schoolmasters

o

-

-

-

9

Schools at Mangalore and Kadike -

-

58

English Schooi at Mangalore

20

— 318

350

48

Dharwar Station

=3

Congregation

-

-

-

-

13

Fems ‘Te Boarding School

Girls’

School

22

Bovs’ Schools

242

294

Hubli Station

10

Schoolmasters

3 Girl

Schools

35

380

7 Boys’ Schools

425

Bettigherry Station

Congregation consisting of people from Mangalore

Catechist

-

o

-

=

-

-

-

Schoolmasters

-

-

-

-

-

-

6

10

Girls’ School

Boys’ Schools

-

-

-

-

212

234

Malsamudra Station

-

-

30

Congregation (Communicants 6)

Schoolmasters

-

-

~

Boys’ Schools

-

-

-

S

-

112

146

Cannanore Station

Catechists

-

5

Schoolmasters

Congregation

146

Schools

-

13

288

Tellicherry Station

Catechists

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Schoolmasters

Scholars

-

-

-

™

-

200

7|

Congregations at Tellicherry and Anjercandy

-

56

Boarding Schools, boys 31, girls 25

338

Calicut Station

-

-

-

=

-

Catechist

Schoolmasters

210

Scholars, ‘v’(alayalum 175 T:mml 25, Nayadis 10

-

Congregation including 10 Catechumeni

47

264

Total

23

J

49

List of donations received during the year 1842—43, viz.

At Dharwar.

-

W. Lavie, Esq.

- 100 0 0

]

60

Mr. C. Blair for the

Captain P. Oliphant,

girls’ school -

-

-

40

Major W. Bremner,

32

W. Lavie Esq.

-

= 100

0

0

Captain C. Taylor,

’

30

A. N. Shaw, Esq. -

220

Atkins, Esq. for the

-

.

=

-

-

girls’ school -

Dr. Doig,

50

W. Lavie Esq. -

-

- 100

R. S. Bazett, Esq.

-

-

Capt. P. Oliphant Esq. 100

((z))

Mrs. Morse,

10

Subscriptions to the

Captain S. Thornton

20

- 862

((())())

Lieut. W. C. Anderson

50

English School -

Dr. D. Mec. Farlane

-

20

(o (o) o) (@) (o) (@) @le) (@) ()

(@) @) (o) (o) (@) @) (o) (@) (@) ()

.

At Tellicherry.

Offering of thanks for

=

2

Lawe,

-

-

- 100

mercies received, by

a Pilgrim

e

-

-

200

.-

A. Crozier, Esq. - 100

J.W. Muspratt, Esq. -

100

Harris, Esq.

.1.~

50

-

-

300

.

OT:.

Franzis, Esq.

(&

<

H. Stokes, Esq

-

-

QoS

.

\j;

aters, Esq

-

Major H. Prior

-

50

. Waters, Esq.

-

Sebach Shelamim,

50

-

Mr. Courpalais,

-

45

HOO

03

ird, Esq. -

Mr. Kyte

-

-

-

I~

10

. Crosier Esq.

-

-

COOOCOO0COO

() (@) (@) @) (=) (=) (=) (o)

=

ev. B. B.

-

-

833388

() il (@) (o) e

Eooceccoso

Narayana Karkun,

From the Dharwar Na-

-

At Calicue,

tive Christians -

16

(VY]

~1

(S

H. V. Conolly, Esq. for

-

-

-

At Hubl,

Schools

=195 2 6

Lieut. C. F. Irby, -

- 100 0 0

30

David Devasicamony, -

15 0 0

Lieut. ‘ G. S. Anderson

At Bombay.

At Trichinopoly, through Captain

30

W. B. McAlpin.

Dr. Gibson, by Br. Frey

-

Lieut. Col. Milner

[

=)

-

At Mangalore

Capt. Davenport -

-

bR

Nicholls -

£

o

C. J. Shubrick, Esq.

- 100

b

McAlpin

-

-

T. Lushingtou Es

109

Col. More

-

-

:

50

Lieut. Lyster -

-

Dr. Booth,

N. 8. Ward Esq.

Dr. Tarnbull,

-

-

F. Anderson Esq.

300

For a Bible

-

-

-

Oy v v © O O e

CooocoCoo

Soes e o

Col. Smith -

-

20

A few members of the

W. Caddle, Esq.

100

Total abstinence So-

H. Stokes, Esq.

- 310

§

§

ciety and some other

50

20

00

friends of H. M. 94th

Rev. Alex. J. Rogers,

Regiment

-

-

-

20

Ensign A. Ch. Jourdan,

Mr. Tem

by Capt. A. Begbie,

15

00

N

E.

I

-

ple,- 12th f‘[}eg—.

-

20

J. A. Hawkins Esq. for

1841 & 1842 by the

00

At Bangalore.

Rev. Dr. J. Haeberlin 200

Native Conyregation.

Major Briggs, by Col. A.

=

-

-

- 100

Box,

Y

e

-

-

Clarke.

Anna -

-

-

-

-

-

-

(?)

At Hydrabad.

Philip

Serjt. Ringrow -

-

Several friends

-

o

;

(f%

:

g

General F. S. Fraser - 100

Collection at the Month-

Col. J. Bell by Lieut.

A. Cooper

-

=

@

26

ly Missionary meet-

ings

-

-

-

-

- 137

3 2

At Cannanore.

Conductor J. Ball for

QOctober

-

-

-

-

2

-

-

-

20

Capt. McAlpin,

-

-

30

C. W. Ewer

C. W. West, Esq.

-

Ch. J. Shubrick Esq.

50

75

Lieut. C. F. Irby

-

50

(;;)(;))

Capt. J. P. Woodward

-

subscription

Capt. E. T. Cox.

30

Monthly

M.

Capt. W. B. McAlpin

30

of friends in H.

-

-

Serjeant Johnson, -

-

20

25th. Regt. -

29 0 0

Mr Stevans,

-

-

-

40

s

-

15

@) Sl S (e )

) () (o) (o) (@) [@ie])

Total. Rs. 6280 3 9%

Lieut. H. P. Hill, -

|

Donations received since the 1st. November 1843.

At Cannanore.

Sergt. P. Currey, for

-

-

-

21 2

11

February

Lieut. C. F. Irby -

-

70 00

Conductor

JoBoll for

-

Monthly Subscription

February

-

-

2

0

of Friends in H. M.

-

-

Z2oth. Regt. -

29 2. b

At Tellicherry.

Conductor J

B

a.ll f(;}‘

Nov.

-

-

-

-

-

200

G. Waters Esq.

-

- 100 O

Serjt. Major Twain

A traveller, for the girls’

Subseription from H.

-

-

-

-

M. 25th Regt. for

School

-

December.

-

.

33

1 3

A native convert

Ditto. for January -

o

dd

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0

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§

Mrs. Conolly to

the

Conductor J. Ball for

Girls’ School

December & January

400

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G. Waters Esq

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§

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-

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At Calicut

Narayana

Lieut. G. Anderson

0

0

H. V. Conolly Esq. for

Malayalam Schools

At Mangalore

Nov. Dec. & January

54

From C. G

-

-

-

Lord Bishon of Madras

50

F. R. Elton Esq

-

50

W. Lavie Esq

-

100

-

30

o) (@)ei<)

(@ Ne N}

40

Rev. W. Fyvie

A. H. Chamier Esq

300

F. Anderson Esq

At Dharwar

F. Johnstone Esq

100

H. M. Blair Esq

300

-

225

W. Lavie Isq.

-

100

A. N Shaw Esq. -

150

-

100

H. E. Goldshmid Esq

G. Harris Esq.

W. H. Payne Esq

-

25

T. Lushington Esq

300

Doctor Doig

-

-

F. Anderson Esq. -

200

Lieut. Meyers

-

24

W. Lavie Esq.

o

210

-

2

-

- 500

Mr. Courpalais

-

-

-

H. Stokes Esq.

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Mr

Kyte

10

Lord Bishop of qulas

100

Mr. Harrington

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SO OSSO &)

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Ezxpenditure of the Mission during the year 1842 —43

Private expenditure of the Brethren, four of whom are

-

=

-

-

-

arried

16,537

Br. Frey’s voyage to Europe

-

-

1,155

Journeys -

-

-

1,347

Native Schools

-

2,332

Catechists

824

&

Munshees

-

760

Libraries

-~

552

Postage

-

93

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Bundmgs and Repalrs

-

3,669

English Schools

-

117

Seminaries

,988

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Girls’ boarding Schools and day sc‘lools

1,636

Printivg esmbhshment

-

-

-

-

2,176

L‘wucu]tuml outlay

1,459

Sundrleb

-

-

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627

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39,275 3

Total Rupees

2Ol

52

CONCLUSION.

In laying this report before our friends, we give them our hearty

thanks for the liberality with which they have supported us in the

course of the past year, and commend our work and ourselves anew

It will be seen, that we are will-

to their sympathy and their prayers.

ing to dig, nor are we ashamed to beg. The work and the wants of

our German Mission are increasing.

Our Society is poor. We have

come to this country, subjected and entrusted by the Providence of

God to the British Nation, to supply the lack of service of the churches

of Great Britain ; and we feel confident, that our claims on the love and

liberality of our British fellow christians will not be rejected nor dis-

regarded.

May the Lord continue to grant His blessing to our united efforts

and prayers for the proclamation of the truth, and the establishment of

the Church of Christ among a people, now indeed degenerate and ig-

norant, but most assuredly, capable of being taught and ennobled and

restored to its ancient rank among the nations of the earth, by the power

of the Gospel.

S. Hesics,

.. Essic,

Cu. IrION,

J. C. LEHNER,

MULLER,

A. BUHRER,

C. L. GREINER,

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J. HUBER,

M. Frirz,

H. MoEkcLING,

G

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