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EIGHTEENTH REPORT

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GERMAN EVANGELIGAL MISSION

ON THE

WESTERN COAST OF INDIA.

MANGALORE:

PRINTED BY G. PLEBST, GERMAN MISSION PI?ESS

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REPORT,

In former reports we have been in the habit of limiting ourselves

to an account of that part of the mission-work, which has been com-

mitted to our hands on the western coast of India and in some of its

contiguous districts, the assistance of our Indian friends being parti-

cularly required for its maintenance. Herein we have simply followed

the example of such of our English fellow-missionaries, as publish

local reports of their Indian labors; but we could not like them, refer

our readers to the annual reports of our home-committee as to the

other engagements of our society, those being only published in

German and French for our continental supporters.

Having on that

account been repeatedly requested to embrace in our Indian report a

sketch in a condensed form of all the different spheres of labor taken

up by our society for the spread of the Gospel in all parts of the

world, we have resolved on enlarging our report to its present demen-

sions, and trust, that it will be the means of arousing an increased and

deeper interest in our Mission and in awakening a feeling of mutual

trust and confidence between our English friends and ourselves, who

though Foreigners rejoice in the previlege of sharing with them in the

labor connected with the conversion of the country, which the Lord

has particularly committed to their care.

Although in our third report, printed in 1843, we published in

English a General account of the German or Basel Evangelical or

German Missionary Society, we trust that a republication of the origin

and history of the Mission carried down to the present time may not

be without interest, while it will serve to refresh the memories of our

readers.

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Origin of the Basel Society.

Between the years 1806 and 1816, when none of the German Mis-

sionary Societies of the present day were in existence, and the Moravi-

ans were almost the only body of continental Christians zealously

engaged in missionary labors, a circle of pious friends at Basel (a city

of Switzerland in a central situation close to the frontiers of Germany

and France), were in the habit of meeting together to read the periodi-

cal accounts of Moravian and English missions and to consult what

they on their part could do for the Lord. These Christian friends

were clergymen and laymen, belonging partly to the reformed church

«of Basel, and partly to the Lutheran church of Wiirttemberg. One of

them was the Rev. N. von Brunn, the still gratefully remembered

pastor of one of the churches of Basel, and the spiritual father of

many a soul now with the Lord. Another was the Rev. C. G. Blum-

hardt, a clergyman of Wiirttemberg, and at that time the secretary of

a Christian association which had its centre at Basel, and its members

spread over most parts of continental Christendom.

A third was one

of the most enterprising Christians of the south of Germany, still

indefatigably engaged in the Lord’s work, the originator or co-origi-

nator of ‘most of the Christian institutions, which have sprung up in

Basel and its neighbourhood since the beginning of this century. A

forth was one of the members of the senate of Basel, and the head of

one of the greatest mercantile houses of the city. Loving and serving

one Lord, these friends of various denominations were one in His

Spirit; rich in Christian graces and spiritual gifts, they sought not

their own but the things which are Jesus Christ’s, and no differences could

ever break the bond of peace which united them. They opened their

hearts to a number of kindred spirits in Germany and Switzerland, who

with them were waiting for the kingdom of the Lord.

In the year

1815 when the allies were engaged in their last conflicts with France,

many hordes of various nations in the service of Russia, pagan Tartars

and Calmues, marched through Basel to invade France and besiege

the French fortress of Hiiningen in its vicinity. Basel being much

exposed to the fire of the besieged, those friends so‘lemnly gave one

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another the right hand of fellowship, agreeing together to form a

seminary for training missionaries, if the Lord should spare their city

from the ravages and desolations, with which it was threatened. And

in that year under a deep sense of gratitude to the Lord of hosts for

hearing them their long cherished hopes ripened into a distinet

plan of operation.

In the summer of 1816, the Rev. C. G. Blumhardt, who some years

previously had returned to his country and become there the richly

blessed pastor of a parish, was called to Basel to take charge of the

infant institution. He accepted the call and arrived in the same year,

accompanied by a little band of ten pious youths, who in order to

give themselves up to the service of Christ among the heathen, had

left their different trades and occupations to prepare themselves

Three of them were

in the new seminary for their future labors.

natives of Switzerland; four had come from Wiirttemberg, one from

Bavaria, and one from Courland in Russia.

The students lived with

their principal, their only teacher at that time, and were instructed by

him in the Latin and Greek languages, Biblical history and theology,

universal history and some other branches of general knowledge.

The first years abounded with trials of faith.

1817 was a year of

great famine. The funds were very low, so much so, that the rent for

the humble lodgings, occupied by the principal and his students, was

paid with considerable difficulty.

Other obstacles, such as always

attend the first outset of a new enterprise, were scarcely surmounted,

when Mr. Blumhardt was thrown on a sick-bed.

Il disposed, and

hostile parties in the city of Basel, and the neighbouring countries,

seized every opportunity for harassing and traducing the new Christian

association.

But the Lord sustained their hearts and hands, and gave

them grace to stand the fiery trial.

The new society was in a short

time strengthened by the accession of a number of auxiliaries, the first

of which was formed in Wiirttemberg. The society then for the first

time took the name, of the % Geerman Missionary Society,” and subse-

quently of the “ Basel Evangelical Missionary Society.” In the course

of some years lines of auxiliary societies spread in quick suceession over

the German and French cantons of Switzerland, and the protestant parts

5

of Germany.

In France also some ground was gained. The number

of young men, presenting themselves for the service of the Mission,

increased from year to year, and larger numbers were received into

In 1820

the seminary. Contributions flowed in to a larger amount.

the committee was enabled to purchase the present Mission-house si-

tuated in a healthy and retired part of the city, in a street which has

In 1821 the

ever since gone by the name of the Mission-lane.

anniversary of the society was celebrated for the first time in public.

Connections of the Basel Society with other Missions.

The original object of the Basel Society was the training of

missionaries for such other Societies, as should have the desire and

means of engaging their services, and sending them abroad. The

Rotterdam and the Church Missionary Societies were the first, with

which connections were formed for that purpose. Of the ten young

men, with whom Mr. Blumhardt opened the seminary, seven entered

the service of the Rotterdam Mission, two went to England to join the

Church Missionary Society, and one retired on account of ill health.

The connection with Rotterdam was dissolved after a few years,

because the principles of the Dutch Colonial Government were inimical

to the settlement of foreign Missionaries. The connection with the

Church Missionary Society on the other hand continues unaltered to

the present day. Nearly every year some students of the Basel semi-

nary are sent to England to join that Mission, and prepare themselves

in the Islington Institution for ordination. Of the 172 European Mis-

sionaries at present in the service of that society, 43 or the fourth part

have received their education at Basel, and 23 former students of the

Basel seminary have died on its various Mission fields.

About six years ago a similar connection was formed with the

North German Missionary Society at Bremen; some few of our brethern

joined it, and very many others of our old students were led by

different circumstances to choose America and other parts of the world

as their field of labor.

Thus 61 missionaries educated at Basel,

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are engaged at the present day in active mission-work in various

parts of the earth, though not in the service of the Basel Society. They

are attached to the following missions, viz:

Church Missionary Society

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Missionary association of Assam

Church of Scotland Mission

London Society for the conversion of the Jews

North German Missionary Society at Bremen

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These brethren are occupied in the different Mission stations spe-

cified below, viz.

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In 1821 the attention of the Basel committee was specially attract-

ed to the spiritual wants of various German colonies in Southern Russia,

which threatened to become a prey to licentiousness and to the errors

of Mahommedanism. The Emperor Alexander, with his wonted libe-

rality, permitted the appointment of brethren educated in the

college at Basel to pastoral offices among them; and from that time

ministers of the Gospel were furnished from Basel to the Germans in

Bessarabia, 7000 in number who were dwelling in about 40 villages with-

in a circumference of nearly 100 miles from Odessa; also to those in the

Crimea, in Caucasia and Astrachan, and to the German settlements in

Georgia to the south of the Caucasus, which had been formed under

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the favor of the Russian Government between the years 1817 and 1819

by about 500 families principally from the kingdom of Wiirttemberg,

who had emigrated thither from some conscientious objections to lati-

dunarian changes in their native church, and a desire to be nearer to

the Holy Land in expectation of the Lord’s second advent, which they

considered very near.

Similar spheres of labor were subsequently assigned to many

more brethren from Basel among the German immigrants in North

America, where to this day a goodly band of Evangelists from the

Basel Seminary are at work to gather and feed their country-men, so

many of whom are wandering about in those parts like sheep Without

a shepherd.

Missions to the Provinces of the Gaucasus and Persia.

As far back as 1820, when contributions increased, the committee

conceived the hope that they might be enabled by the help of God

to extend their plans, so as not only to train mrissionaries for other

societies, but themselves to oceupy some out-posts on the wide fron-

tiers of heathenism; and when in 1821 their anniversary was celebrat-

ed for the first time in public, a resolution was passed, that as soon as

the Lord would provide the means, the society should make an attempt

to establish missions of their own, while the original plan of training

missionaries for the service of other societies should still be carried on.

During events which led to the formation of the Basel seminary,

the attention of our committee had been peculiarly directed to the

non-christian nations of Russia. Accordingly in the year 1821 the

brethren F. Zaremba and A. Dittrich were sent abroad to recon-

noitre the countries between the Black and Caspian Seas, and to

select a favorable spot for the establishment of a free Christian colony,

a Persian-Tartar college, and a typographic press.

In 1822 the

imperial sanction was obtained. The brethren, joined by some more

laborers sent from Basel, settled at first in Astrachan, and engaged in

preparotory labors among the Tartar, Circassian, and Persian popu-

lations of the Caucasian provinces, and in evangelical exertions among

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the lifeless Christian churches of Armenia and Persia.

In 1824 they

separated to establish several stations.

North of the Caucasus the colony of Carass was occupied by

Br. Lang, who took charge of the protestant church there, and set

himself courageously to work among the Tartars, notwithstanding

many severe trials, caused by cholera, famine, and the attacks of wild

bands of Circassians.

In 1827 Br. Keenig settled at Madshar, two

days’ journey from Carass.

‘Amidst great dangers both brethren

continued to preach the word of Christ to the Mahommedan tribes as

well as to the inhabitants of the scattered villages of the German colo-

nists.

Joined by two new brethren from Basel, they entertained the

hope of collecting a number of Mussulmans, who showed themselves

accessible to the truth, in one of the colonies, and training several

promising young men for the service of the mission. All appeared very

promising, when in the summer of the year 1835 an ukase from the

Emperor Nicholas peremptorily prohibited the operations of protestant

missions throughout the empire, and forced the brethren to confine

their ministry to the Geerman colonists. This was a sad disappointment.

Shusha, a place South of the Caucasus, the chief of the Russian pro-

vince of Karabagh, was selected as a situation favorable to the prose-

cution of their plans in behalf of the neighbouring Turkish and Persian

provinces. Zaremba, Dittrich, Hohenacker, Pfander, and Haas settled

there, and were subsequently joined by Hoernle, Schneider, and some

more brethren.

Tartar and Armenian youths were collected, and

received Christian instruection.

In 1826 the station was besieged by

the crown prince of Persia; but notwithstanding the brethren went on

building their new mission-house, because circumstances rendered

it necessary, that they should not abandon the undertaking, and

after a seige of six weeks the Persians fled before an advancing

Russian force.

In 1828 there followed an imperial sanction to the

work of the mission, by which they were allowed to travel about free-

ly in the countries between the Caspian and Black seas, to circulate

the scriptures, to establish schools, and to labor for the conversion of

the Tartars in any manner they wished. The brethren set to work

with new courage and zeal.

A school was opened for the Armenians

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at Shusha and began to prosper.

Some Armenian youths were train-

ed for the management of future mission schools.

Several priests

received instruction in the Hebrew and Greek languages and Biblical

theology, for which they had applied. A typographic press was set

up. Dittrich translated the New Testament into the vulgar tongue,

published tracts and school-books, and assisted Haas in attending to

the schools.

Zaremba visited again and again all the surrounding

Tartar districts.

Pfander performed several long preaching journeys

in Mesopotamia and from there down to Bagdad, where he stayed

some time; also in Persia and among the Kurds. Hohenacker perform-

ed the two-fold work of physician and evangelist.

In 1832 a Persian

station was established at Tebris by the brethren Haas and Hoernle.

For some time the work prospered remarkably well. The Armenian

church, (whose patriarch was a pious man, anxious for the spiritual

welfare of his people,) seemed to open itself to the influence of evan-

gelical knowledge.

The publications of the mission were extensively

read. Two Armenian deacons were converted, and preached the pure

Gospel faithfully. Laymen were awakened.

Valuable and zealous

native assistants were gained. Among the Mahommedans also the

effect of the mission and its publications soon became visible. At this

crisis however the fanaticism of the Armenian church was roused. The

pious patriarch retired from his office, and was succeeded by a covetous

and worldly minded man.

Both the converted deacons died under

persecutions. The Armenian clergy lodged a complaint with Govern-

ment against the encroachments of the protestant mission, and a decree

was obtained forbidding the continuation of the labors of protestant

missionaries among the Armenians.

The worst however was to

come. An ukase, dated the 23d August 1835, pointing to the fruit-

lessness of the Basel missionaries among the Mahommedans, and to

the complaints raised against them by the Armenian clergy, revoked

the edicts formerly given in favor of the Evangelical mission, and

commanded its formal dissolution.

All remonstrances and petitions

were of no avail.

The Greek church claimed its exclusive right over

the conversion of the new provinces.

The committee had no alterna-

tive, but to break up the establishment of the Shusha mission, and te

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turn their energies to other fields.

Tebris was occupied by American

missionaries.

The services of several laborers were transferred to

the Church Missionary Society, among whom there were the brethren

Pfander, Hoernle, and Schneider, since then employed in the Agra

and Peshawar missions. The rest of the brethren left for other spheres

of usefulness in Europe.

Br. Zaremba sold the premises, the press,

and the other property of the mission at Shusha, and returned to

Basel in 1838, since which time he has been unweariedly engaged as

travelling agent of our society, visiting its various auxiliaries and

friends, and advocating its interests.

And though now a sexagenarian,

he has during the last year been once more to Russia on the same

errand, and his services proved most acceptable. The last news we heard

of him, came from the scene of his former labors and trials in Southern

Russia, and bear full evidence, of the blessing attending his work in

those provinces.

Br. Haas, who for a number of years held a living

in the kingdom of Wiirttemberg, is at present engaged in a similar

mission in the Baltic provinces (in behalf of our society, and thus the

ties by which our Mission from its very origin was connected with

Russia, are tightening again.) May the Lord continue to prosper the

labors of these devoted brethren for the glory of His name!

Missions to Western Africa.

In the year 1827 the state of the Negro population on the Western

coast of Africa was specially brought under the notice of the Basel

Society by invitations from Mr. Ashmun, the pious and zealous Ame-

rican agent of the colony of liberated negroes in Liberia, and M. de

Richelieu, the governor of the Danish settlement on the Gold Coast,

requesting the committee to establish missions among the native popu-

lations under their charge.

Both calls were attended to, though with

very different results.

In 1827 the brethren Handt, Sessing, and Hégelé were directed

to proceed to Liberia, and were speedily followed by the brethren

Wulff and Kissling. A hut in the midst of thick bushes where fever

was most prevalent was the only place of residence open to receive

the brethren on their landing. Wulff was the first who fell a victim

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to the climate.

He was followed by Mr. Ashmun, the American

agent. Hégelé fell dangerously ill, and Sessing had to accompany

him back to Basel, leaving Handt and Kissling alone on the field.

When the brethren recovered from these attacks of fever, they set

themselves in good earnest to labor among the Bassa tribe.

A school

was established at Monrovia, the progress of which was encouraging.

But new trials awaited them. Handt had to leave Africa broken in

body and mind, and Kissling stood alone, when in 1830 Sessing

returned with three other brethren.

No sooner had the latter set

their feet on the deadly shore, than they sunk in the grave.

Of the

eight brethren, sent to that mission within three years, four were now

buried, and two had left the country completely broken down in health.

The remaining two, Sessing and Kissling, were so discouraged by

these afflictions, that they resolved on quitting their post.

They sub-

sequently joined the Church Missionary Society and found other

stations of labor.

Sessing was sent to Jamaica, where he lately died

in the midst of a Negro congregation, whose pastor he had been for

years.

Kissling is still actively engaged in the New Zealand Mission,

in charge of the Auckland station.

In consequence of so many dis-

appointments the Basel society gave up the Liberia Mission, and

American societies have since taken possession of the field.

In 1828 four brethren, Salbach, Henké, Schmidt, and Holzwarth,

were sent from Basel to Christiansborg, the chief place of the Danish

settlement on the Gold Coast, in answer to the proposal received from

M. de Richelieu.

This mission-field had become in the last century

the scene of many a severe trial, undergone by a devoted band of

Moravian missionaries, eleven of whom, with one sister, had died

there between the years 1737 and 1771.

For years the Bagel mis-

sionaries met with a similar fate. Early in 1829, the brethren Salbach,

Schmidt, and Holzwarth, after a residence of a few months, fell a

prey to the coast fever.

Henké, the only survivor, divided his time

between ministerial labors among the Danish colonists, the instruction

of some Negro candidates for baptism, and the superintendence of a

Negro school; but before the end of the year 1831 he followed his

brethren to the grave. The account of these mournful events produced

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a deep sensation at Basel, but did not dishearten the committee. It

was hoped that the mission might be transferred to the interior in a

healthier part of the country, and finaly established in the midst of the

native population.

Three brethren, Riis, Jaeger, and Heinzé, the first

a Dane, and the latter a skilful physician, were selected for the execution

of the new plan. But no sooner had they landed in 1832, than Heinzé,

was seized with fever and died. Jaeger soon followed him, and again

one solitary laborer remained alone in the field. Riis himself was three

times on the brink of the grave, but a timely removal to the healthier

climate of the Akuapim hills, from 20 to 30 miles distant from the

coast, was by the grace of God the means of saving his life and res-

toring his health. Often however he was obliged to visit the coast on

account of the spiritual destitution of his countrymen in Christiansborg.

In 1835 Riis succeeded at last in taking his post permanently at

Akropong on the Akuapim hills. There he had to build a house with

his own hands, assisted by some Negro laborers.

The people among

whom he settled, were a barbarous race, given up to the worst idola-

try and to all the vices which disgrace the lower tribes of Africa.

Human sacrifices were in vogue all over the country. After some

time, however, Br. Riis was encouraged to establish a school, and

by degrees found himself gaining ground in the affections of the peo-

ple.

The word of the Gospel also appeared to meet with friendly

attention.

Under these circumstances the committee resolved on

sending out a wife for Br. Riis, and two brethren, Stanger and Miird-

ter, who rejoiced in being selected for the service of a mission, for

which so many of their brethren had sacrificed their lives.

Early in

1836 they arrived at Christiansborg after a prosperous voyage. They

entered with zeal on their studies and other labors, but before the end

of the second year, in December 1837, Stanger was called to his rest.

In 1838 Riis and Miirdter made a tour along the Volta river to Ak-

uambu, to the north-east of their district, and were earnestly entreated

by the reigning prince, that white teachers should come to live among

his people.

But soon after the journey Miirdter also died, and a

second time Riis was the solitary survivor by the side of eight graves,

though now assisted by his wife.

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Br. Riis continued to explore the adjacent Negro countries and

visited the country of Akim, to the north-west of his field, and

penetrated into Ashantee, the capital of which, Kumassee, he succeed-

ed in entering. But his prospects became more and more clouded.

A Danish governor had succeeded, who was ill-disposed towards the

mission, and Riis had to endure many annoyances from him. Distur-

bances broke out between the Danish authorities and some Negro

chiefs, and although Riis carefully abstained from meddling with

political affairs, he was closely watched and represented to the Danish

government at home as a person whose presence was dangerous to

the interests of the colony.

The committee being informed of the

precarious situation of their misssionary, desired him to return home

for a season, for the benefit of his health and for personal consultation

as to the state of his mission.

When Riis left the Akuapim country,

the Negroes flocked around him, and begged him with tears to return,

promising to listen to his words and to receive his teaching better for

the future.

Riis told them that for so long a time they had rejected

the word of God. They replied with affecting simplicity, % you must

remember, that you are but one man, and we are a numerous people;

you have been amongst us but a short time, and we have been living

many years in darkness; you have frequently left us; we have had

wars amongst ourselves; you have not thoroughly understood our

language; we shall yet be changed, if you return; have we not consi-

derably improved since you have come amongst us?” — A similar

testimony was received by the Basel committee from another side.

Br. Passavant, a Moravian missionary who for years had labored

among the negro slaves in Surinam, had heard one of them who was

brought to his part of the country from the Danish Gold Coast, speak

of the love his people bore to their «white father”, and of the reve-

rence in which they held him.

After a residence in Africa of about eight years, Br. Riis returned

to Basel in the summer of 1840. The interesting information he

communicated, encouraged the committee to make another attempt.

In the mean while a favorable change had taken place in the colony.

War had subsided; the governor who had formerly opposed the mis-

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sion, was dead; and the Danish government, satisfied with the expla-

nations of Br. Riis, promised to' protect the mission in its unfellered

operation, the missionaries in the free exercise of their duties, and the

negroes connected with the mission, in the enjoyment of their civil and

religious liberty. Br. Riis and his wife declared their perfect willing-

ness to return to their post, if the committee would send them back;

and the students of the seminary, with one accord, offered themselves

for the service in Western Africa.

At the same time the committee,

profiting by dearly bought experience, saw the necessity of providing

some means in order to relieve the new brethren as far as possible

from such bodily exertions, as had proved so destructive to their

former laborers.

With this view Br. Riis was sent in 1842 to some

of the Moravian stations in the West-Indies with the consent of the

board of those missions, (which took a lively interest in the success of

the undertaking,) and was directed to engage a number of volunteers

from among the Christian negroes to accompany him to the Gold

Coast and settle there, hoping that with the assistance of such Christi~

an Negro-colonists the object in view might be attained, and a firm

footing secured for the mission among the savage tribes on the

Akuapim hills.

In Jamaica especially Riis met with a sufficient

number of Christian negroes, willing to enter upon the enterprise.

Twenty-seven were selected; and in February 1843 they arrived with

Br. Riis at Akropong, their new home.

Nearly at the same time

another missionary, Br. Widmann, together with a lay-assistant (who

however from want of spiritual life was subsequently compelled to re-

tire), reached the station via, England and thus a new period for our

African mission had commenced.

In 1844 the mission was strengthened by the arrival of the

brethren Sebald, Schiedt, and Riis junior, a nephew of the missionary

of the same name.

A coast station having become necessary as a

medium of intercourse between Europe and Akropong on the Akuapim

mountains, the native town of Christiansborg called Ussu by the negroes,

was now occupied, and the mission divided into two districts, each

with a different language, viz. the Akkra district at the foot of the

mountains, where G4 is spoken, and the Akuapim district above the

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mountaing, of which Otshi is the language.

All these places were no

gooner completed than new afflictions arose.

In 1845 Sebald died

within a year after his arrival.

Riis senior was obliged by broken

health to leave the country for good, and on his voyage to Europe

had to bear the grief of committing in a watery grave, the last earthly

remains of the partner of his many trials and sorrows.

(Four years

after this event be was himself called to his rest.) In 1846 the

brethren Dieterlé, Stanger, Meishel, and Mohr with a wife for Br.

Widmann were sent from Basel, to strengthen the mission; but Schiedt

was soon afterwards under the necessity of quitting seeking another

sphere of labor in North America.

Riis junior, whose peculiar gifts

as a linguist rendered his services especially valuable for the purpose

of investigating the languages of the populations in his vicinity and

committing them to writing was for the first time interrupted in his

work by a tumor, which obliged him to visit Europe in order to

undergo an operation. He returned as soon as practicable, accompani-

ed by his wife; but shortly afterwards she was taken from him and

his health became so much affected as to render a second voyage to

Europe unavoidable.

Arrived at Basel, he finished some works in

the native languages upon which he had been engaged, and after

having carried them through the press, retired to his own country,

Denmark, where he continued to be engaged in other works for the

spread of the Gospel.

In 1847 Abudé, a second station in the

Akuapim district, on the way from Akropong to the coast, was taken

up by Br. Meishel, but he was shortly afterwards obliged to return

home leaving the station unoccupied.

He has since joined the stations

Thus of the

of the Leipzig Missionary Society among the Tamulians.

nine missionaries who had arrived in Africa between the years 1842

and 1846, only four remained in 1849, and the arrival of three new

brethren, Koster, Locher, and Zimmermann proved a most necessary

increase. Br. Koster was not suffered to remain long, he soon sunk into

the grave, and Br. Siiss who arrived in 1850 replaced him in the

work.

Up to this time the difficulties and obstacles, which met our mis-

sionaries at every step had undoubtedly been very great; moreover

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the negro colonists from the West Indies proved in many cases a

hindrance, instead of a help, and most of them have since left the mis-

sion. Notwithstanding these trials it was evident that the influence

of the mission was felt and that a firm footing had been established.

In 1851 we were enabled to publish in our report the following account

of this mission: At Christiansborg, Abudé, and Akropong, our three

stations in Western Africa, seven missionaries are at present employ-

ed with evident success.

After many severe trials, among which was

the death of twelve of our fellow-laborers (10 brethren and 2 sisters),

the Lord has of late begun to vouchsafe to our brethren health, cheer-

fulness, and zeal, and to give them free access to the hearts of the

negroes of the Akkra and Akuapim tribes.

The seed of the word of

God has taken root; the dry bones are shaking; and our missionaries

have been permitted to collect small congregations from among our

black brethren, and establish boarding and day schools, both for

Christian and heathen children.

In 1851 Br. Mader, and in 1852 the brethren Christaller and

Steinhauser arrived, whilst Br. and Sr. Widmann were obliged to visit

Europe about the same time for the restoration of their health.

In

September 1853 Br. Siiss left Akropong on his own account to esta-

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blish a new station more in the interior with the object of renouncing

all pecuniary assistance from home, and supporting himself by farm-

ing and trade.

He selected for this purpose Gyadam, a populous

negro town in the Akim country, three day’s journey to the north-west

of Akropong. Although the committee at Basel strongly disapproved

of this step, they permitted him to make the experiment of establish-

ing a mission among the Akim negroes on his own principles, and

Gyadam was added to the number of our stations in Africa.

In 1854 our coast station, Christiansborg or Ussu, was visited by

a calamity of quite a new description.

Some years previously the

Danish settlement on the Gold Coast bad been transferred to the

British Government, which introduced in 1852 a polltax of one

shilling per head, whereby great dissatisfaction was given and seri-

ous disturbances were produced.

The natives at last submitted to

paying a heavy fine, and the ‘difficultics were arranged for the time.

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In August 1854 the collection of the polltax was resumed at

Christiansborg, and paid by our missionaries with their people, as

well as by the mulatto inhabitants of the town; and although the

negroes were not required to pay it, great excitement prevailed

among them.

About the same time some natives tried to smuggle

a brandy cask from Dutch Akkra into the colony. They were dis-

covered, and some soldiers arrived to confiscate it; but the smugglers

resisted, and the riot threatened to grow into a revolt.

The British

Commandant of Christiansborg Castle, Captain Bird, resolved upon

putting the rebellious spirit down by force, and called for a “man of

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war

Under these circumstances Br. Locher with his sick wife re-

moved to Jamestown,

The other three brethren stationed at Christi-

ansborg, together with their families, were invited by Captain Bird

to take refuge within the small fort; but on obtaining a promise,

that their premises would be spared, they preferred to remain

at their post with their people.

The “Scourge” arrived on the

11th September, and on the 13th the bombardment commenced

both from the $man of war” and the fort.

During the day our pre-

mises remained untouched, but at about 4 o’clock P. M. the position

of the “Scourge” was altered and her guns were turned on our houses

which for two long hours seemed doomed to destruction.

The next

day the bombardment was resumed; the town converted into a heap

of ashes, the mission-houses, which were built of more solid mate-

The circum-

rials esecaped, but they were in a sadly ruinous state.

stance that many of the rebellious negroes had endeavored to hide

themselves behind the mission buildings, appears to have rendered

Our

whole loss was ealculated to

their exemption impossible.

amount to nearly 8000 Rupees, all the property of our mission esta-

blishment having been destroyed; and as far as we know, no indem-

nity has ever been obtained, notwithstanding all the efforts on the

part of our committee.

To the praise of God none of our missiona-

ries, nor any of their people were hurt; but our Christians were

scattered, our schools broken up, and the people so intimidated

that some time elapsed before they could be prevailed upon, to return

to their ruined houses.

Under these circumstances it was thought

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advisable to remove our negro congregation together with our board-

ing schools to an inland station, and the plantation of Abokéby, about

12 miles from Christianshorg on the way to Akropong, was selected

for the purpose.

Here a Christian village has since been raised and

the place has become our second station in the Akkra or G4

District.

About this time Br. and Sr. Widmann returned to their post at

Akropong with re-established health, and Br. Rottmann, a young

merchant, arrived from Basel to set on foot a mercantile establish-

ment at Christiansborg on the plan pursued in several Moravian

stations with great advantage to the mission.

On the other hand

the brethren Dieterle of Akropong and Stanger of Christiansborg

found themselves so shaken in health, that they were compelled to

return to Europe for a season.

In 1855 our committee resolved

upon sending the brethren Baum and Herzog to Gyadam, both

having volunteered to join Br. Siiss at his isolated out-post, and to share

his peculiar trials and difficulties.

They set out accordingly, but

before they reached the place of their destination, Br. Herzog was

called to his rest.

In 1856 the brethren Mohr and Locher were obliged to return

home for the restoration of their health, whilst the various stations

were strengthened by the arrival of four new brethren, viz. Schall

for Christiansborg, Heck and Ried for Abokéby, and Haas for Akro-

pong.

These four brethren, together with a sister, now the wife of

Br. Christaller of Akropong, had left England for the first time in the

autumn of 1856, but their vessel having been wrecked on the coast of

Kent, they had a narrow escape from a watery grave, and lost the

whole of their out-fit.

After considerable delay in England, another

ship took them out at last in safety to Africa at the beginning of

1857.

They were soon succeeded by Br. Dieterle, who returned to

reoccupy Abudé, which had been relinquished for a time during which

it had become particularly promising. He was accompanied by four

more brethren, viz. Laisle and Lindenmeyer for Christiansborg, and

Honger and Kromer for Gyadam to join Br. Baum, because Br. Siiss,

tired out of patience by the ingratitude and plundering disposition of

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the negro king of that place, had left it and settled in the vicinity of

the king of Krobo on the Volta river, giving up his connection with

the Basel society. Since then one more brother has been called to

his reward, viz. Br. Steinhauser of Christiansborg, who died in 1857

after nearly five years of faithful missionary labor in Africa.

Thus since the year 1828, when the first missionaries were sent

from Basel to the Gold Coast, altogether 35 brethren have been

engaged in that mission. Of these 12 have died in Africa and one

at home; 4 have left for other spheres of labor; 3 are recruiting

their health at home, and 15 are at present in charge of the 5

stations, to which our mission in Western Africa has extended. We

proceed finally to describe in a few words the present state of each

of these five mission establishments.

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Akkra or G4 District.

This district is situated between the sea and the fort of the Akua-

pim hills, about 15 miles from the coast.

The language of the people

being the G4, it is also called the G4 district.

Here we have two

stations, Christiansborg on the coast, and Abokéby 12 miles inland.

1. Christiansborg or Ussu.

This station was commenced in 1845.

Here we have a small church of 79 baptized Christians, which lost its

pastor last year through the death of Br. Steinhauser. The brethren

Rottmann and Schall manage the mercantile establishment and all secu-

lar concerns of the station; and the brethren Laisle and Lindenmayer

have set up a carpenter’s shop in order to teach the natives. In con~

nection with this mission there are some promising schools, and the

books in the G4 language, which have been lately printed in Europe

and sent to our brethren, have become the means of producing a great

change among the people.

Old and young men of all classes are

eager to learn the art of reading; and it is most cheering to see this

population who were before quite ignorant of letters studying our

books and manifestly appreciating their contents.

2. Abokdby, established in 1854.

At this place many of the

Christians who were scattered by the bombardment of Christiansborg

bave settled, and a Christian village has sprung up.

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40 heathen were added to the church, which numbers now 77 baptiz-

ed Christians, and 18 Catechumens are preparing for baptism.

Br.

Heck is their pastor, whilst the secular affairs of the station are in

charge of Br. Ried. The Christians here are called ¢ praying people’’,

and striking answers are vouchsafed to their simple prayers offered in

childlike faith. Thus when Br. Heck was sick of fever, Abraham

Adgeté, one of the converts, came to pay him a visit, and said to him,

«Dear master, your eyes are very small just now, and your face

shows great weakness but in two days you will take your usual

evening walk again, for I have prayed on your behalf to the Lord

Jesus Christ; therefore what I tell you, is quite certain.”

And so it

proved; within two days Br. Heck recovered.—The girls boarding

school of the G4 district, which formerly had been under the care of

Br. and Sr. Locher at Christiansborg, has been lately removed to

Abokéby, and placed under the management of two schoolmistresses,

Miss Maurer and Miss Riidi, sent from Basel to Africa for the

purpose.

At Damfa, an outstation, about ten miles to the north-east of

Abokéby, several Christian families are living who have erected a

prayer-house at their own expense.

II. Akuapim or Otshy District.

This district extends over the southern part of the Akuapim moun-

tains, as far as the Otshy is spoken.

Here two stations, about ten

miles distant from each other, have been occupied, Abudé to the south,

and Akropong to the north. They have lately become the scene of a

hopeful awakening amongst the negroes, the first we have been permitted

to witness in our African mission.

During the last year our brethren

have had the privilege of adding to their churches in their district

sixty souls from all classes and ages; free and unfree, masters and

servants, old and young.

Nor does the fire which has been evidently

kindled by the spirit of God, appear to languish. Although the abo-

minations of fetish worship together with poisoning, necromancy,

witcheraft, and similar works of darkness have lately revived with

new power, the work of the Spirit proceeds, and these mountains,

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where the Gospel of peace has been so long proclaimed under

such peculiar difficulties, bid fair to become a city of the living God,

showing forth the praises of Him, who has called the inhabitants out

of darkness into His marvellous light.

This is the Lord’s doing, and

it is marvellous in our eyes.

1. Abudé, the most populous negro-town in the Akuapim distriet,

on the road from the coast of Akropong, was occupied for the first

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time in 1847, but relinquished in 1849 from want of laborers.

1856 seventeen inhabitants, all of them grown-up men, most unex-

pectedly asked for baptism, and Catechist Clark was accordingly

stationed there to instruct them in the word of God. Br. Widmann

visited the place every fortnight, and was much cheered by the eager-

ness with which the people, at times to the number of several hundred,

erowded around him to hear his addresses.

Most of the catechumens

were baptized in due time.

One of the new converts was a young

man, whose mother had long been sick, she consulted fifteen fetish

priests without the slightest benefit.

Happening to see a man of

Akropong pray before taking his meal, it ccecurred to him that he

should ask God to heal his mother. He did so, and in all his pursuits

this one prayer was constantly uppermost in his soul. He was heard,

and his mother completely recovered. This made an impression on him

and from that day he determined to become a Christian; he joined the

class of catechumens, and regularly attended divine service, in defi-

ance of the opposition and severe trials he underwent.

His mother

His elder

complained bitterly that she had lost her chief support.

brothers confined him, and consulted with fetish-priests how they might

bring about his death.

The chief of the place decided, that the son

was bound to obey his mother.

Still he had grace to stand firm, and

love Christ more than mother and brothers; and since he has been

baptized, his brothers have not only been reconciled to him, but one

of them shows a growing interest in the word of God.—The former

chapel having altogether gone to ruin during the time that the station

was unoccupied, a new prayer-house was erected and opened for

divine service on the 14th December 1856, on which occasion Br.

Widmann baptized the first woman convert and at the same time the

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Lord’s Supper was received by about 30 persons, several of whom

had come from other stations to be present at the solemnity. Last

year Br. and Sr. Dieterlé, on their return from Europe, permanently

settled at the place, and have now under their care a small church of

19 souls, and a school attended by 8 boys and 8 girls, 11 of whom

are still heathen.

2. Akropong is our oldest African station, for here Br. Riis settled

in 1835, and to this place our West-Indian colonists were brought

in 1843. Only two of the latter have remained faithful; these still

continue to live to the Lord. And in place of those who deserted us,

a church from among the natives of the place has been collected; and

92 Christians, a considerable number of whom have been baptized during

the last year, as well as 8 catechumens are at present under the pasto-

ral care of Br. Widmann.

Some of the former backsliders have re-

turned; who though still loving sin, can no longer rest satisfied with

themselves; but feel that they have no peace with God. By the hea-

then the Word is very differently received.

In one place the

missionary was plainly told by the inhabitants that it was utterly in

vain to preach the gospel to them, as they would never accept it.

Now and then they would use the following style of address, “I serve

God, have but one wife, neither lie nor steal, have no quarrels and

so on; what lack I yet?” But when invited to follow Jesus, they

remain silent or else go away. An old man lately observed, “I will

wait until all others have received the word of God before I do!”"—and

one of the chiefs said he was of opinion, that the Holy Secriptures,

had been given to the white people, and the fetish to the black. Not-

withstanding these unfavorable signs, the number of inquirers is in-

creasing, and not long ago as many as 30 persons in two different

places expressed a desire for baptism. Two boarding schools have

been established at this station consisting of 11 boys and 18 girls,

who are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and

besides these two day-schools, where 27 boys and 26 girls, chiefly

heathen children, receive Christian instruction by Christian school-

masters. A coffee and arrowroot plantation aad a carpenter’s shop,

both under the management of Br. Haas, are connected with the station.

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Moreover there is here a seminary for the education of Catechists for

the whole of our African mission, attended by 14 pupils, whilst two

Afriean youths are at present in the Basel seminary, preparing for the

ministry. Up to the last year the G4 and Otshy districts had each

its own institution, that of the G4 district being under the direction of

Br. Zimmermann at Christiansborg and subsequently at Abokdéby,

and that of the Otshy district under the management of the brethren

Christaller and Mader at Akropong.

But these two brethren being

both entrusted with the task of preparing the neccessary books in

their respective languages and translating the Holy Seriptures into

them, it was thought advisable to unite the two institutions info one

in Akropong, so as to enable the brethren to assist each other in

their educational and literary engagements.

Ere this, grammatical

outlines and vocabularies of both the Otshy and G4 languages have

been published in English; a primer and a hymn-book, as well as

translations of Barth’s Bible Stories, the history of the passion of our

Lord, and the four gospels have been printed in the G4, and a trans-

lation of Barth’s Bible Stories in the Otshy. For the publication of

these works great assistance has been derived from the Basel Bible

Society and the Christian School-book Society of Calw in Wiirttemberg;

the British and Forcign Bible Society has also came forward with its

usual liberality to defray the charges of printing the translations of

the Holy Scriptures, prepared by our brethren.

Odumasé Outstation in the Krobo District.

During last year the

attention of our brethren has been most particularly directed to the

Krobo district and its capital Odumasé, about 25 miles to the north-

This place had been repea-

cast of Akropong, near the Volta river.

tedly visited by them.

In 1856 our late Br. Steinhauser met with a

most marked reception on the part of the King Odonko Aso, who

every eveni

ng would listen with great attention to his accounts of

European industry and skill, of iron-manufactories, of the erystal

palace and our large cities; and when our brother took occasion to

speak to him of the things belonging to his peace, of the judgment to

come, and the necessary change of the heart, and explained to him

the way of salvation, he observed with joy that the king, unlike most

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negroes, cheerfully received his words.

«This is the right thing”,

said he; it is not like that of the fetish priests; God has no need

to lie; but the change will not take place so sudden; it will be pecu-

liarly hard for an old man like myself; the young may find it less

difficult.”—In October Br. Steinhauser returned to Odumasé, and

commeneced instructing 24 persons for baptism, the king himself being

of the number.

Some had already committed to memory a small

catechism containing the most important Christian doctrines.

When

however the day of baptism drew nigh, the king declared, that not

only he, but all Krobo should come to be baptized, and for that reason

it was necessary, for himself to delay somewhat longer, but that his

It was evident that he was

sons might receive baptism at once.

deeply impressed with the truth, but lacked the courage to break

through all his difficulties, being no doubt apprehensive of losing his

throne.

His eldest son preferred likewise to wait. Two others how-

ever, from twenty to twenty-six years old, were baptized in the pre-

sence of their father and the whole town, and have given evidence

since of being living members of the church of Christ. — A great

desire to read the word of God manifested itself among young and

old. Once when they practised spelling and wanted a teacher, they

called to their assistance a dumb and deaf servant of Br. Steinhauser

who had learned to pronounce the letters with some accuracy.—A

chapel and schoolhouse are in course of erection; and the distance

which devides this place from our stations render a regular attention to

the spiritual wants of the place very difficult, it is to be hoped that

ere long some more satisfactory arrangement will be effected, to meet

this difficulty. May the Lord soon disentangle the heart and mind

of the king from all the chains by which he is still held back, and

cause the light, which has sprung forth in his capital, to spread over the

whole of the Kobo country.

III. The Akim District.

As before mentioned, Gyddam, the capital of the Akim distriet, 50

miles to the north-west of Akropong, was taken up by Br. Siiss in

1853, who went there with the intention of supporting himself by his

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own labors. For three years he suffered the severest privations with-

out ever alluding to them in his letters.

During his first year he had

a sharp attack of fever which threw him on a sick-bed for nine weeks,

during which time he was quite unable to look after his affairs. No earth~

ly friend was near to afford him relief, whilst the negroes cheated and

robbed him right and left, and would not give him even a drink of water

to quench his burning thirst, so that he was compelled while the fever

was on him, and while suffering great pain to fetch water for himself

from a neighbouring well.

During his recovery he was tortured with

incessant hunger, the king allowing him scarcely enough to keep

him from starving and all this in the face of a solemn promise fo

furnish him with all the necessaries of life. Siiss however persevered,

and when in 1856 Br. Baum arrived, circumstances began to wear

a brighter aspect.

Although Siiss continued to suffer from various

complaints, and Baum had twenty-five attacks of fever within nine

months, they succeeded in laying out a plantation which gave fair

promise for the future, they also set up a shop with European goods,

as a means for providing them with the daily means of subsistence.

Several negroes were under instruction for baptism; and the day

of the first ingathering in this district seemed approaching, when

the king took it into his head to act dishonestly and rob the brethren of

their goods instead of paying for them.

In consequence of this Siiss

left Gyddam in August 1856 and went to Akropong to consult with

the brethren and in October he informed Br. Baum by letter, that it

was his determination to settle for good in the Krobo district on the

banks of the Volta river.

Since then Baum has been relieved from

his solitude by his bride, and the brethren Honger and Kromer, who

have lately joined him. Mission-houses have been erected capable of

affording more adequate shelter than the wretched negro-huts in which

the brethren used to live, and it is to be hoped that under a different

management this station will yet become another fertile field of our

African mission.

So much for the work of our society in Western Africa, where

269 Christians, 26 catechumens, and 105 heathen scholars at present

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are under the care of our missionaries.

We rejoice and sincerely

thank the Lord for permitting us to give such encouraging accounts

of the present state of this mission.

Still we rejoice with trembling,

for wherever the Lord works effectually by His servants, a fiery war-

fare generally takes the place of a delusive peace. We feel we are op-

posed by a powerful, cunning, and cruel enemy, designated by the Lord

himself with the name of %the murderer from the beginning.” We must

not forget that our brethren stand constantly exposed to his sudden

attacks; and even the bravest of them is but a defeated soldier, unless

the Lord Jesus, the great captain of our salvation, leads and covers

him with the wings of His almighty grace, and supplies him with a

rich measure of His Spirit, so as to enable him to withstand in the

evil day, and to hold fast; we therefore urgently recommend our

African brethren and their work to the prayers of our friends.

Mission to the Western Coast of India.

Our committee at Basel had long contemplated, if compatible with

the extent of their resources, the establishment of a mission in one of

those parts of India which was not occupied by another society, and

on the renewal of the East India Company’s charter in 1833 when the

country was thrown open to foreign as well as British settlers a way

seemed prepared for them, and encouraged by this providential dis-

pensation, they ventured in 1834 in full reliance on the Lord’s help

to send three missionaries, among whom were Br. Hebich and the late

Br. Lehner, they were instructed to settle at Mangalore and commence

a mission on the Western Coast of India.

In October 1834 they

reached their destination and were soon so far prepared as to enter

in their mission-work amongst the various classes of the population.

In 1836 they were followed by Br. Moegling and three more brethren. In

1837 a station was taken up at Dharwar in the Southern Mahrattha

country at the particular request and with the support of English

friends.

About this time our society having received the offer of a

house with an extensive compound near Tellicherry in the Malabar

province, on condition of establishing a mission station there, Br.

Gundert, formerly employed among the Tamil people in connection did

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with the late Mr. Rhenius, and since 1838 one of our missionaries at

Mangalore, was directed to occupy Tellicherry. Thus within little

more than four years three stations in three altogether different dis-

tricts were established, and henceforth it became the object of the

brethren to extend their work over the surrounding country from

these various centres of operation.

In South-Canare in the course of time three stations, all situated on

the coast, were occupied, first Mangalore the capital of the province,

then Mulky and Udapy, respectively 20 and 40 miles farther north.

As before stated, Mangalore was selected in 1834 as the head-quar-

ters of our mission.

Our brethren were obliged to cultivate two

languages, Tulu and Canarese, the former being the tongue of the

bulk of the population, and the latter almost the sole literary language

all over the province.

In 1837 the first converts were baptized.

At the close of 1840 our native church at Mangalore consisted of 18

communicants and 11 children.

The fire, which had been kindled,

spread especially towards the north among the Tulu people, and in

1843 a new station at Mulky became necessary. The work continued

to prosper notwithstanding many short-comings and disappointments.

In 1845 there were altogether 324 converts in the district; in 1850

they amounted to 420, and in 1855 to 796. In the latter year it was

thought advisable to take up Udapy, the stronghold of Tulu Brah-

manism, and to form there a northern centre of our Tulu mission,

several out-stations along the coast having been established in its

neighbourhood. In 1856 our census showed 841 converts, excluding

54 catechumens under instruction for baptism. Since then, however,

the numbers have become less, our census of 1857 giving only 830

converts and our present census but 769.

This decrease will not be

wondered at, if we take into account the sad events which were no-

ticed in our sixteenth Report two years ago. As one of the missiona-

ries, whose departure from India was recorded at that time, had not

for years walked in the light, it could not be expected that he should

be fit to lead others.

Caring more for numbers than for spiritual life,

he admitted many to baptism, who ought never to have been baptized,

and church-discipline grew necessarily lax in his hands, though things

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not look so bad as they were, for he knew well how to hide the real state

of things from his fellow laborers. Since then it has been our arduous

task to rouse many of our Christians from a state of spiritual lethargy,

into which they had sunk by degrees, and to maintain church disci-

pline with greater strictness than ever. In consequence many forsook

us, and others who had shown an inclination to join us, stood aloof.

We cannot regret these results; on the contrary we desire to thank our

Lord for such sifting years and take them as earnests of future bles-

sings, which he will not fail to grant us from the time that all these

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accursed things which have obstructed his way are removed.

mean while many of our people have learned, that something ‘more

than a formal attention to the means of grace, and outward accomoda-

tion to the demands of Christianity, is required, and though we still

regret to observe a great want of spiritual life in many of our Tulu

converts, we are permitted to see on the other hand some among their

number who are truly the Lords own people; and of many who have

preceded us, we have good reason to hope that they will be found

among those who have washed their robes and made them white in

the blood of the Lamb. We find moreover by comparing the present

number of communicants with our numbers two years age, that an in-

crease has been vouchsafed to us as an evidence that the Lord has

not altogether withdrawn his blessing. While in 1856 we had 339

communicants, we have now 369. This is the more encouraging, con-

sidering the various changes, which it became necessary to make among

our European laborers all of which were very prejudicial to a steady

supervision over the spiritual wants of our converts. In our last re-

port we stated that twelve brethren were engaged in this mission. Four

of them lay-brethren, all of whom were fully engaged in works con-

nected with our industrial establishment.

Of the others, four were

mentioned as having been employed in active service for the space of

ten years, and more; but it so happened that during the last year, the

mission was deprived of the services of every one of these very brethren

either in part or altogether.

Br. Gundert was called to another

sphere of labor.

Br. Ammann was obliged to visit the Nilagiris du-

ring the monsoon.

Br, Deggeller was altogether laid aside by ill

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health and will have to return to Europe; and Br. Hoch was likewise

compelled to remove to the Nilagiris for a season.

Consequent on

these changes the charge of our three Tulu congregations with 769

baptized Christians, and of our various English and Vernacular schools

and our Boarding schools with 485 pupils devolved in great part

upon four younger brethren, two of whom had been scarcely a few

months in the country. Since then however, our Tulu mission has

been considerably strengthened by the arrivals on the 10th January

of Br. and Sr. Hauff and Br. Finckh, and the brethren Wiirtelé and

Maenner on the 26th February of the current year; the industrial

department has also received a fellow-laborer in Br. Schoch, who

landed at Cannanore on the 11th November 1857.

Thus it is hoped

that our present difficulties with regard to the European agency will

be in a great measure removed and as soon as the new brethren have

mastered the language, fifteen brethren and three sisters will be

actively engaged in the work of the mission.

Although our present stations in Canara are all within the limits

of the Tulu-country, the claims of North-Canara have not been alto-

gether overlooked. Besides occasional preaching excursions, together

with our mission schools and the publications of our press, which

exercise an influence all over the province, the town of Honore, 110

miles north of Mangalore, has been occupied as one of our stations

from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1852 to 1856; and though at

present abandoned from want of laborers, we trust that it will be taken

up again at some future time, especially as we have signs that the

seed sown there in former years is not altogether lost.—Shimoga also,

about 110 miles to the north-east of Mangalore, though no more in

the Canara, but in the Naggar district of the Mysore country, has

been taken up from 1854 to 1855 in connection with our Canara

mission. At present it is without a missionary and we look to the Lord

to make ways and means for resuming the work in this promising

field.

Our mission in the Southern Mahrattha country comprehends at

present five stations, one at Dharwar, the capital of the southern part

of the province, occupied in 1837; one at Hoobly, 10 miles to the

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south-east of Dharwar taken up in 1839; two at Bettigherry and

Malasamudra, about 25 miles to the east of Dharwar established since

1841; and one at Guledagudda, about 40 miles to the north-east of

Dharwar, occupied since 1851.

Though the province is called the

Southern Mahrattha country, Canarese is the prevailing language all

over the districts.

At Dharwar, our oldest station, the Gospel has

met with comparatively little success, especially among the Canarese

people, notwithstanding this there has always been a small congrega-

tion under the charge of our brethren, since the establishment of the

station. But most of its members are Tamulians, officers servants, and

their erratic and roving characters, combined with the inconsistent

lives of many nominal Christians, seems to have impeded the advance

of the Gospel among the Canarese, though some progress has of late

been made amongst them.

In order to gain better aceess to this part

of the population, some brethren settled in 1839 at Hoobly, the mercan-

tile capital of the province, inhabited by about 50,000 natives, busily

engaged in various trades and handicrafts.

In the same year they

had the pleasure of baptizing our first three converts from the Cana-

rese people above the Ghauts, but many years passed before they had

fresh seals of their labors, in 1847 a new quickening took place, and

a former scholar of one of the mission—schopls renounced heathenism.

Since then the little church at Hoobly has steadily, though slowly,

grown in numbers and life.—Shortly after the establishment of the

Hoobly mission, a deputation from a certain sect came to the brethren,

to say that the latter desired to embrace Christianity. They called

themselves Kalagnanis or men who knew the times.

They numbered

several thousand adherents, and believed in some predictions, that

after the capture of Seringapatam and the fall of the Indian empire

a Guru of the west would send his messengers to introduce new laws

and manners,.

They requested to be assisted in obtaining stations

where they might settle and support themselves by their own exer-

The brethren discovered ere

tions, and be safe from persecution.

long that most of them were actuated by mere carnal motives, but

still hoping to meet with some honest-minded people among their

numbers, they did not give them up; and in 1841 two settlemgnts

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were commenced, one for weavers at Bettigherry, and another for

farmers at Malasamudra; but not one member of the sect above men-

tioned joined them, for years all the labors of the brethren in these

Till at last in 1852 several families at Bet-

places seemed in vain.

tigherry came forward to confess Christ; and since then at Malasamu-

dra a small church has also been collected.—In 1847 the brethren at

Bettigherrry were visited by a Lingaite priest from the Nudi-sect,

whose founder had lived 300 years ago and taught a new religion

mixed up from Vadantic and Mahommedan ingredients, and from the

teachings of the Kalagnanis.

This man made very careful inquiry

into the doctrine preached by the missionaries.

He stayed to learn

and was baptized. Through him they found access to other members

of the same sect, and in 1851 some of its headmen at Guledagudda

declared themselves in favor of the Gospel.

Br. Kies settled among

them, and has been permitted to gafher a small church in the neigh-

bourhood. Though our present census shows 210 Christians in con-

nection with our Southern Mahrattha station 23 more than last year;

no great progress has been made during the last year in this field.

This increase is chiefly due to the admission of children into our

boarding-schools, the number of communicants has only increased

from 74 to 79. The disturbed state of the country, and the threaten-

ings to which our converts were exposed, kept inquirers away. Still

we have much cause to praise the Lord, that our little flocks have

been kept together and strengthened to confess the name of Christ at

a time, when it was attended with some little risk. Our last report

mentioned six brethren and four sisters as laboring in this branch of

the mission. All of them have been graciously spared though three,

of the number namely, John Miiller, Wiirth, and Kies, have been

respectively upwards of seventeen and twelve years in the country.

The stations which were attended to single handed, by one brother,

have been reinforced by the arrivals of the brethren Roth and Hahn

in November last, and of Br. J. Huber in February of the current year.

In January Miss Hornberger, now Mrs. Kaufmann, arrived; and our

European agency for our 210 baptized Christians and 714 scholars

in this district amounts at present to nine brethren and five sisters.

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Our Mission in the Malabar province among the Malayalam peo-

ple has been extended all along the coast, where we have at present

four stations, Cannanore, Tellicherry, Chombala, and Calicut.

A fifth,

Palghaut, about 75 miles to the south-east of the latter place, will be

added to them in the course of this yéar.

As mentioned before,

Tellicherry was the first station established by our society in this dis-

trict.

It was in April 1839 that Br. Gundert settled there, preaching

the Gospel wherever an opportunity was offered, he established boarding

and vernacular day-schools.

In 1840 he was joined by two fellow-

laborers, and the first fruits of this mission were gathered in.—In

January 1841 Br. Hebich was stationed at Cannanore, fifteen miles

north of Tellicherry, in charge of a small native church hitherto des-

titute of the superintendence of a missionary, and his preaching both

in the Vernacular and in English was attended with great blessings.—

At the same time the attention of our brethren at Tellicherry was

directed to Calicut, the wealthy and populous capital of the province,

about 50 miles farther south, where a number of native Christians

lived without the benefit of Christian fellowship.

In 1842 Br. Fritz

removed thither and the step he took was blessed to the spread of the

truth.—Towards the end of 1847 three Malayalam stations numbering

404 baptized native Christians were visited in an unusual manner by

the spirit of repentence and prayer.

This powerful awakening, for

such it truly may be called, spread to Cannanore, Tellicherry and

Calicut, and much of the spiritual life in our Malayalam mission is

attributable to those days of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.

In 1849 Br. Christian Miiller settled at Chombala, seven miles south

of Tellicherry, in the midst of a promising congregation which he had

been the principal means of collecting.—All over the province the

Slaves as well as Tiers and

Gospel was preached to all classes.

Nayers were brought within the fold of the good Shepherd, and made

one in Him. During the last year the progress of this mission has

continued to be blessed.

It numbers at present 1018 native Chris-

tians, being an increase of 45 over last year.

The number of com-

municants has grown from 457 to 491, and that of the pupils of our

various schools from 1053 to 1189, of whom more than 300 are

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Christians.—The sad loss sustained by this mission at the beginning

of last year through the death of Br. Ramavarma at Cannanore was

recorded in our last report.

Since then another much beloved and

highly blessed fellow-laborer has been taken from us, Sr. Fritz of

Calicut; she was called to her rest on the 20th September 1857.

In the month of May of the same year Br. Diez was taken seriously

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ill, but by God’s grace he was mercifully preserved to us.

further to thank our good Lord, that the strength of Br. Hebich, the

senior of our Mission, continues unbroken after an uninterrupted resi-

dence of more than 23 years in India, and that the services of our

brethren Fritz, Irion, and Ch. Miiller have been spared to us through

a period of seventeen, sixteen, and fifteen years respectively, spent

in mission-work. Two new brethren have a,rrive_d in the course of the

year, namely Hanhart and Convert, who landed at Cannanore on the

11th November 1857; and the European agency in this particular

mission consists at present of thirteen brethren and five sisters.

In 1845 our missionaries were led to occupy a fourth mission-

district, at the Nilagiris.

In the same year our late Br. Weigle was

obliged to go there for the sake of his health. When he felt his

strength returning, his attention was naturally engaged in the natives,

of whom the most numerous tribe, the Badagas, speak a dialect of the

Canarese.

The late Mr. G. Casamajor, who had long been desirous

of doing something for the evangelization of the hill tribes, provided

for the establishifent of a station in so liberal a manner, that our

committee sent a second missionary, our late Br. Biibler to this field,

and resolved at the same. time to connect with it a sanitarium for their

missionaries. In 1849 the brethren Moerike and Metz joined the mission;

but in the same year, on the 29th May, its highly esteemed founder,

Mr. €asamajor, was called: to his rest.

He left the bulk of his pro-

At the end of 1849 Br. Weigle left

perty to the Nilagiri mission.

the hills.

In 1854 Br. Biihler departed this life; and in 1856 Br.

Kittel was added the strength of the mission.— Village for village has

been repeatedly visited and the Gospel proclaimed. Many seemed

impressed, but none ventured to come forward and confess Chuist.

For a long time all efforts to establish schools failed, and though the

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Gospel of Luke had been published in the Badaga dialect, there were

gearcely any able to read it.

We have therefore great joy in reeord-

ing, that during the last year our brethren have succeeded in establish-

ing a number of schools for the Badagas, and further that at the

beginning of the current year some Badagas the first fruits of the

mission were baptized.

A fifth mission-field was taken possession of by Br. Meegling

in 1853.

It so happened that at the time he intended going home

from bad health, but being desirous of accompanying a Coorg convert

(who was baptized at Mangalore in January 1853) to his native place

to see him settled on his family estate and among his people, he

went to Coorg, and finding his health improved by the cooler climate

of the mountains, and a door for the preaching of the Gospel opened,

Br. Meegling decided on remaining there, and though his mission has

not been formally adopted by our Home-committee up to the present

date, it is to be hoped that by his present visit to Basel his affairs

will be satisfactorily arranged.

In summing up the efforts made by our society for the evangiliza-

tion of the different districts, in which our stations are situated, we

find that from the beginning altogether 68 brethreni, including two

Five of

native missionaries, have been supported in the mission.

them have died at their stations, besides three missionary wives.

Seventeen have left the mission for other engagements, two of whom

have since departed this life.

Four brethren are recruiting their

health at home, and 42 brethren, 16 of whom are married, are at pre-

Between 1834 and

sent actively engdged in our different stations.

1840 eighteen brethren were sent to our mission, but only afew of them

are now among us.

From 1841 to 1846 fifteen brethren arrived, of

whom eight are present, and four are at home for thé sake of their

health.

In 1847 and 1848 we received no reinforcements, but bet-

ween the year of 1849 and 1855 seventeen brethren have joined us,

eleven of whom are still of our number.

During the last two years

we have been cheered by the arrival of eighteen new brethren, many

of whom are now so far advanced as to take their share in our labors.

The present number of our native Christians amounts tc 2060 souls,

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948 of whom are communicants.

Our various school-establishments

are attended by 2585 pupils, of whom more than one fourth are

Christians, about one-sixth are girls.

Sixty-two Catechists and

Christian schoolmasters, and eight school-mistresses assist us in our

various duties, and forty heathen schoolmasters still continue in the

pay of our society, though we anxiously desire as soon as circumstan-

ces permit, to replace them with Christians.

Such is at present the work which has been entrusted to our hands

in India, and though we have much reason to thank the Lord for the

blessing he has hitherto vouchsafed on our efforts, still considering

that there are three and a half millions of heathen living in the pro-

vinces, over which our stations are scattered, it must be admitted that

but a small beginning has been made.

We therefore need more

laborers ready to devote themselves with soul and body to Him who

has bought us with His blood; for at present we have on an average

but one missionary to eighty thousand souls. Still more do we require

an outpouring of the Holy Spirit to prepare us better for the warfare

to which we are called.

If we think of the hundreds who daily die

in our parts without knowing of the saving love of God manifested in

Jesus, should we not yearn after souls, and gird up our loins in the

strength of our Master to go to the streets and lanes, the highways

and hedges, and call in whomsover we meet! Oh, that the love of

Christ would constrain us to live no more unto ourselves, but to Him

who died for us and rose again! With the desire to urge upon our

friends the necessity of calling down upon us a new share of the love

of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, we proceed to

lay before them as usual, a simple and unvarnished report of each

separate station, showing our wants and trials, our shortecomings and

failures, as well as such tokens of the Lord’s presence with our work,

as we have been permitted to witness.

I. CANARA

MANGALORE.

Rev. W. Hoch (1846)* and Mrs. Hoch (1851). Rev. H. Kaundinya

Rev. H. Hoauff and Mrs. Hauff

(1851).

Rev. F. Keuler (1856).

(1857).

Rev. A. H. Finckh (1857).

INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.

Messrs. J. Haller (1851), G. Plebst (1851), G'. Pfleiderer (1854),

J. Hunziker (1856), and S. G. Schoch (1857).

Catechists and Schoolmasters.

G. Kolb, J. Kamsika, Daniel Aaron, Leonhard Shire, Samuel and Theophil

Ammann, Samuel Sonna.

Schoolmistresses.

Miss M. Will and Johanna.

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THE CONGREGATION. After Br. and Sr. Biihrer had left Mangalore

in January 1857 to return to Europe, the care of the congregation

devolved upon the brethren Kaundinya and Camerer, assisted by Br.

and Sr. Gundert.

In May Br. Camerer was obliged to return to his

former station at Udapy, which was then without a missionary. About

the same time Br. Gundert was called to a different field of labor, and

Br. Hoch had to take charge of the greater part of his duties. During

the monsoon Sr. Hoch, and in November Br. Hoch, were taken so

seriously ill, that they were sent to the Nilagiris.

In October Br.

Camerer was once more enabled to assist Br. Kaundinya in his pasto-

ral duties, till he was relieved by Br. and Sr. Hauff, who though new

*®The figures after the names of missionaries show the date of their first leaving Europe.

in India, could at once take a share in the work, as they had enjoyed

in their native country many opportunities of collecting valuable ex-

perience in the care of souls.

Our brethren derived moreover consi-

derable help from Br. Hebich, who in the months of April, November

and December, and at the beginning of the present year paid several

long and blessed visits to the station to strengthen the hands of his

young fellow-laborers.

The service on Sundays and Wednesdays and the various classes

for united prayer and the reading of the word of God among our

Christians were regularly attended to, and the brethren rejoice to ob-

serve that these are better attended than formerly, especially since

changing the time of the Sunday morning service from 11 to 81/2

o'clock A. M. Those Sundays in particular, on which the Lord’s

supper was administered, proved to be highly blessed seasons. Some

English brethren being generally present on such occasions as well

as at our monthly Missionary Prayer Meetings, these services were

conducted both in English and Tulu, and served to unite white and

black brethren more closely in the love of Jesus.—The Sunday col-

lections of our converts realized so much, that some infirm members

of the church are supported by them. Every Saturday the missiona-

ries and catechists used to meet, when such converts as needed it,

were advised and exhorted. In many cases public confession before

the assembled congregation, of such trespasses as had given general

offence, proved very beneficial.

Several abuses, especially in the

matrimonial life of our converts, were through the Lord’s grace brought

to light and removed.

A considerable number of catechumens, and many of the more

ignorant adult members of the congregation were under regular in-

struction throughout the year.

Of the former many were brought to

acknowledge that they had joined the mission at first on false preten-

ces; but as they now appeared really to desire our fellowship from

higher motives, we allowed them to remain.

On the 24th January

last nine persons were baptized, and twenty-two boys and twenty-

seven girls admitted to the Lord’s Supper after having been carefully

prepared and examined. On the whole we may say of our Mangalore

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congregaﬁﬂon that it has grown in the knowledge of the word of God

during the last year, and there are apparent signs, of a healthier state

of things.

Several members of the church have departed this life,

among whom was our late Catechist Eliezer, whom we rejoice to count

amongst the number of those who have overcome by the blood of

the Lamb.

Eliezer was the son of the late Tamil Catechist Aaron who died at Canna-

nore many years ago.

In 1837 he, together with his four younger brothers,

was received into our then newly established boarding-school at Mangalore.

In 1840 he was married and from that time up to his last sickness served the

mission as schoolmaster and catechist.

In 1852 he was stationed at Bolmah,

five miles from Mangalore, to attend to the spiritual wants of a few Christians

living there and to the education of their children.

Towards the end of 1856

he was taken ill and obliged to leave his post to be placed under medical treat-

ment. But the Lord had other designs in store for him than we, (who much

desired to retain his valuable services) caleculated on. He cast him upon a long

and painful sick-bed to purge him from many impurities still attaching to his

soul, and prepare him fully for the entrance into his joy. Eliezer had grace in

this affliction to look to Jesus alone, and to cast upon Him all the cares which

now and then assailed him with respect to his wife and children and brothers.

Songs of praises were often heard from the room in which he lingered; and he

gladly seized every opportunity to testify of the unchangeable love and faith-

fulness of his Saviour to those who came to visit him. On the 11th July he

The Lord be blessed for all He hag done

was permitted to enter on his rest.

for this soul!

OUuTsSTATIONS.

Our outstation at Bolmah, of which Catechist

Leonhard received charge after Eliezer had fallen sick, was visited as

regularly as possible every Tuesday. To some of our Christians at

this place these ministrations appear to have proved a savour of death

unto. death; instead of opening their hearts to the grace of God, they

became more and more hardened against it.—Another outstation with

a school for heathen children was erected at Samuka, fifteen miles to

the southeast, and Catechist Samuel put in charge of it.

This place

was visited once a month whenever circumstances permitted,

PreEAcHING TO THE HEATHEN. From the paucity of laborers and

the: great variety of duties in which they were engaged, it could not

be expected, that much in the way of open air preaching would be

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done though the usual preaching in the town and at festivals in the

vicinity was continued.

The Carecuist Crass had to be dissolved in April 1857. On a

journey to Coorg, which Br. Kaundinya undertook with his class, the

Another one was retain-

two most promising pupils died of cholera.

ed in Coorg, and the few remaining lads being such doubtful characters

were dismissed, and Br. Kaundinya was thereby set free for the pas-

toral duties of the congregation, as well as for the literary department.

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As however our committee urgently desired us to re-open the school

and even sent Br. Finckh to assist Br. Kaundinya in its management,

a preparatory class of eleven boys from fourteen to sixteen years of

age, was formed with the hope, that some of them may hereafter prove

fit to become catechists.

GirLs Boarping Scmoor. The number of girls was considerably

increased owing to the life in many of our families being still such as

to have an evil influence on their education.

Miss Will continued

faithfully to assist Sr. Hoch in the management of the school. When

Sr. Hoch was obliged to leave Mangalore, Sr. Deggeller took her

place, till relieved by Sr. Hauff. The managers of the school had

still much cause to complain of a spirit of disobedience and a great

want of uprightness, which rendered much stricter discipline and more

careful supervision necessary. Daily prayers and Bible classes were

reverted to as a means for pressing upon the children the necessity of

a change of heart and a decided conversion from darkness to light.

At last our prayers have been heard. Many of the girls were led to

repent of their sins and to seek pardon in Jesus.

Our Parocuian scEOOLS been attended by all the children of our

converts as well as our boarding schools, both by boys and girls,

from 6 to 14 years old, with the exception of some elder boys, ad-

‘When Catechist Leonhard was sent

mitted into the English school.

to Bolmah, Catechist Daniel was transferred to the girls school, and

schoolmaster Albert from Mulky succeeded him in the boys school.

The principal object of these schools has been to render our children

familiar with the word of God, in the hope, that quickened by the

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divine Spirit, it may live in their hearts, and houses, and work out

the changes for which it has been given.

TrE ENGLISH SCHOOL, WITH TWO VERNACULAR SCHOOLS attached to

it, has continued to offer to the youths of Mangalore and the neighbour-

hood the means of acquiring a sound education on scriptural principles,

appropriate to their wants.

Br. Gundert, and subsequently Br. Plebst

aided Br. Hoch in the lessons of the first class. Br. Keuler had charge

of the second class, and the lower classes were taught by three assistant

teachers. During part of the monsoon Br. Hausser also gave some lessons.

In September a training class for twelve pupils was opened in connec-

tion with the above, to supply teachers for Government schools, which

it is the intention to establish in different parts of the province. When

Br. Hoch was obliged to leave the station, the brethren Kaundinya,

Keuler, and Plebst took up his duties in the school.—In the beginning

of this year a considerable number of boys left, merely because a brah-

man lad, not in any way connected with the school, showed some

inclination to renounce heathenism. Though such sudden fluctuations

in the attendance of the pupils are most disagreeable, especially when

due to the idle fancies of a boy (as was the case in this instance), still

they bear evidence that the power of the word of God is felt, and we

trust to the Lord, that after so many years of apparently fruitless labor,

this school will be hlessed again with some tokens of His quickening

Spirit.

Our new school-house was nearly roofed in, when in consequence

of an early and heavy monsoon the pillars and arches of the lower

story gave way and the whole building fell.

Thank God, that the

disaster happened at night, when neither workmen nor boys were about.

Still the loss in money and labor was most trying. The Lord however,

who thought good to humble us, awakened friends to our aid, and

induced our home-committee to supply the necessary means for another

house, which, though consisting of only one story, contains three large

class-rooms for the accomodation of the pupils, instead of the hall in

which it was formerly held.

A second VErNACULAR GirLs Scmoon was opened by Br. Hoch

before he started for the hills.

We much regret that from want of the

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necessary female superintendence these schools are left at present far

too much in the hands of the schoolmasters.

We hope however, that

in the meanwhile the girls as well as the parents, will become more

accustomed to a regular attendance and the schools receive a firmer

footing when a stricter superintendence is again available.

INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.

Our weaving establishment supplies

at present 48 members of our congregation with adequate labor.

Some of them are still apprentices. A considerable number however

have obtained the means of supporting themselves and their families

with the labor of their hands. They are not paid according to time,

Several of them are so far indepen-

but by the work accomplished.

dent as to have European looms in their own houses, where they

work for the establishment.

Br. Haller being often obliged to spend

considerable time at such stations as possess similar workshops,

Br. Schoch has been sent to his assistance.

He arrived at Mangalore

in November 1857.

The bookbinders shop has been of late transferred to Lucas

Joshua, our first apprentice in this branch, to be continued on his

own account and responsibility.

Our Press under the superintendence of the brethren Plebst and

Hunziker gives employment for 21 workmen, and continues to sup-

ply the literary wants of our congregations and schools, as well as

the people of Canara in general.

Among the works published dur-

ing the last year, we may specify the Heart-book in English and in

a collection of Bible-texts for

Canarese, a new Canarese Primer,

schools, a Canarese Almanac for 1858, a new edition of the Method of

Surveying in Canarese, and réprints of several Canarese Tracts, such

as the Essence of Knowledge, and Twelve Letters.

A new edition of

the New Testament in Tulu, a Canarese Liturgy, the tract “ Balasundare

Tagor”, and several school-books are in the press. Since July 1857

the Canarese Messenger has been published every fortnight, but has

not hitherto met with sufficient support to pay its expenses and secure

its continuance.

Colporteurs have been repeatedly sent in different

directions to offer our publications for sale, and though the results

have not been very encouraging, we have seen thus much that by per-

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severance a literary taste among our people may be gradually awaken-

ed.—Br. Plebst’s health having failed, he has gone to the Nilagiris for

a change.

Br. Pfleiderer besides attending to his duties as treasurer of the

migsion, has relieved the brethren of the management of all secular

affairs of the station and of several endowment-funds for our churches

and institutions, formed from presents given for that special object,

and laid out in cocoanut-gardens and pady-fields.

The bookshop

under his care continues to prosper, and some experiments recently

tried by him in making silk have been so far successful as to promise

a new and must suitable occupation for the women and pupils of our

boarding schools.

MULKY.

Rev. B. Deggeller (1846) and Mrs. Deggeller (1856),

Rev. G. Hausser (1856) and Rev. J. F. A. Maenner (1857)

Schoolmasters: Paul and Albert.

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Although this station is considered by our committee as form-

ing part of the Udapy one, it has always been our practice to

give a seperate report of each of our two mission settlements in the

northern Tulu district, and it will be more convenient for our readers,

if we adhere to this practice.

Br. Deggeller’s health had become so impaired, that he was

obliged to leave the station early in 1857 for the ghauts.

A sani-

tarium in the neighbourhood of Mangalore, as well as Merecara and

the Nilagiris having been tried by him in succession without avail, his

return to Europe has become necessary. Upon Br. Deggeller’s leav-

ing Mulky, the congregation and orphan school were looked after by

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the brethren at Udapy, assisted now and then by a brother from

Mangalore.

It soon appeared however, that the orphan school re-

quired much more supervision than it would receive under such ecir-

cumstances. In consequence, its transference to Mangalore was resolv-

ed upon as a temporary measure, and the school was placed under

Br. Pfleiderer’s superintendence.

About the same time the spirit of

discontent among many of our Mulky converts, mentioned in our last

report, gained new ground and was carried so far, that the mission

premises had to be shut up for part of the year and the deluded

members of the congregation left to themselves.

Several years ago two brothers, one the Catechist of Mulky, the other at the

time a pupil of our Catechist Class at Mangalore, feeling annoyed by the

removal of some of their pastors to other stations where their services had

become necessary, appear to have made a secret agreement gradually to as-

sume the management of the Mulky congregation, many members of which

were related to them. In conformity to this compact the younger brother flatly

refused after his course of preparation was over, to be posted to any other station

than Mulky. We had some reason to think, that he was converted and anxious

to serve the Lord, and when he accepted a call to Udapy, our confidence in

him returned. But in a short time he took his discharge in a spirit of insub-

ordination, and returned to his brother at Mulky. Ere long both appeared to

exercise an unhealthy influence upon their fellow-Christians, and to counteract

it, the Catechist of Mulky was offered the choice between his removal to an-

other station or his dismissal. He preferred the latter. Still we were not aware

of the secret motives by which they were actuated. About the same time we

observed with much regret that a practice prevailed among some of our Chris-

tians, of interfering, whenever one of their number became liable to punishment

for trespasses against the laws of the country, because, said they, Christians

have nothing to do with heathen magistrates.

We felt ourselves called upon to

put an end to this practice.

In consequence of which the ringleaders held a

meeting, in which such a hostile spirit against their teachers manifested itself, that

their excommunication in conformity with 1 Cor. V, 11 could no longer be deferr-

ed. They had however obtained such influence over the congregation, as to be

able to persuade most of its members to make common cause with them and

appeal to the home committee, separating themselves from us in the meanwhile.

Subsequently a few were found, who had kept themselves free from

the spirit of rebellion, or showed a desire to return to us.

In conse-

quence occasional visits Were/paid to them, which became more frequent

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after Br. Ammann’s return from the Nilagiris.

At the beginning of

this year Br. Hausser was permanently stationed at Mulky and the

orphan-boys returned from Mangalore.

On the 28th February

Br. Macnner arrived from Europe to assist Br. Hausser. The latter to-

gether with Br. Ammann from Udapy found more access to the hearts

of the people in proportion to the increasing difficulties in which they

saw themselves involved, and when an answer to their appeal arrived,

expressing the strongest disapprobation of their proceedings and an

earnest solicitude for this spiritual welfare, their hearts were so far

softened, that they confessed their sins one after another before

the assembled congregation and anxiously asked for readmission.

Thus the first weeks of March, in which these occurences took

On the 14th March the

place, proved a season of rich blessings.

Lord’s Supper was celebrated in the Mulky church after a long

interruption, and the presence of the Lord was mightily felt; peace and

joy filled every heart.

So far the evil leaven of discontent and self-

exaltation has been purged out, and we can look now upon this

congregation with greater hopefulness than ever. Some of them have

known and loved the Lord for years, but blinded by the pride of their

hearts, they fell into the snares of Satan.

The remembrance how-

ever of their fall and escape from much greater evils will, we trust

not be lost upon them.

Many of them have been led to see, that

even in their secular affairs the blessing of the Lord had been with-

drawn.

Not only did they find themselves involved in debts, while

in former years their farms supplied them with the means of living,

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but had also to regret the loss of that respect with which they were

formerly regarded by their heathen neighbours.

It will take a consi-

derable time before such results of their defection are totally effaced.

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Bev. J. J. Ammann (1839) and Mrs. Ammann (1845).

Rev. G. Camerer (1854).

Rev. Ch. J. Wiirtelé (1857).

Catechists and Schoolmasters.

Isaac Sona, Daniel Ammanna, Suvartappa.

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From the above statistics it will be seen that the defection among

the Tulu Christians during the past year, mentioned in our introduc-

tion, has been greatest at this station.

Several families and some

young men belonging to our outstation at Gudde, broke off all con-

nection with us and returned to the worship of idols. Worldly motives

had from the beginning been so uppermost in their minds, that the

truth of the gospel could not take root in their hearts; besides being

disappointed in the expectations they had entertained when renounc-

ing heathenism, and feeling the restrictions, to which they were sub-

jected by Christianity, so irksome, they threw off the cloak, and return-

ed again to their old ways.

Though some of them appear of late to

regret this step, their sincerity can be little depended upon; still we

commended them to Him, who judges the heart, and who would not

break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax.

The Udapy station has suffered during the last year as much as

the rest of our Tulu mission by constant changes among our European

laborers.

At the beginning of 1857 Sr. Ammann was obliged to

remove to the Nilagiris, whence she has but recently returned with

re-established strength. Br. Ammann joined her during the monsoon,

his health and the revision of the Tulu translation of the New Testa-

ment rendering a temporal retirement to the hills most desirable.

While he was absent from the station Br. Camerer took his place at

Udapy. Br. Hausser was sadly interrupted in his study of the lan-

guage by an accident seriously affecting his health. He was obliged

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to spend part of the year at Mangalore under medical treatment. Qur

good Lord however blessed the means employed, and he was enabled

to re-join his station in the middle of monsoon, and to take his share in

the work., With the beginning of the present year he has been sta-

tioned at Mulky and Br. Camerer put in charge of the Udapy congre-

gation, while Br. Ammann has been set apart for itinerancy in Canara,

a most important branch of missionary labor in a provinee, where the

people live in widely scattered farms, and must be sought after in their

isolated houses.

Br. Ammann’s familiarity with the Tulu and Cana-

rese languages, as well as his long experience and peculiar gifts render

him particularly fit for this new department.

May the Lord richly

In March

bless his journeyings, and grant him an abundant harvest.

last Br. Wiirtelé arrived to assist Br. Camerer, and is now engaged

in the study of the language.

Of the spiritual life of the congregation not much can be said,

though there are a few among its members, whose growth in faith and

stedfastness in days of trials have been a great comfort to their pastors.

Most of them are poor farmers and toddy drawers, who gain their

daily pittance by hard and constant labor. Several catechumens have

been baptized.

Among these there was an-aged mother, who soon

after her baptism was permitted to enter into the joy of her Lord, and

a young Brahman, who promises to become a useful assistant to Br.

Ammann in his preaching excursions.

Several new catechumens

have joined the mission and are under regular instruction, while some

interesting inquirers seem to allow worldly considerations still to in-

terfere with their publicly confessing Christ in whom they profess to

believe.

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A sick woman at Kilendshy, six miles to the north-east of Udapy, anxiously

and repeatedly asked for baptism, and as her sincerity and faith in the Gospel

had been sufficiently evineed to grant her request, Br. Camerer visited her in

the middle of the monsoon. He had many difficulties to surmount in the jour-

ney, which lay through a part of the country inundated with water, where he had

to cross a river swollen from the monsoon torrents. When at last he spoke to

her about her soul, and took occasion to draw her attention to some untrue

statements she had formerly made, she was so much provoked, that for some

time she feigned to sleep, and her baptism could not be proceeded with. On

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seeing this, she observed, that Br. Camerer did not wish to baptize her; when he

told however of the length and difficulties of his journey, she was much distres-

sed and said in her simplicity: “If master tells me again of my sins, I will take

good, care no more to grow angry.”

She was baptized some time after, and

during the last days of her life gave cheering evidence of her lively faith in

declaring that she looked forward with unfeigned joy to the prospect of being

soon with her Lord and Saviour.

Narasimha, a Brahman of Bangalore, born in 1831, spent his youth in ab-

solute idleness up to his sixteenth year, when he learnt to read and write. For

many years more he walked in perfect security according to the course of this

world, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and the mind, and found a particular

pleasure in abusing those who proclaimed Christ.

When about twenty-two

years of age, he was now and then disturbed by doubts as to whether his course

of life was not sinful, and his increasing anxiety to become free from sin induc-

ed him to submit to various mortifications of the flesh and to undertake pilgri-

mages to some of the most famous Hindoo shrines. In this latter resolution he

was confirmed by the idea, that married life was a hindrance to his obtaining

righteousness, and that it would be well for him if he could sever his family

ties.

In his twenty-third year he proceeded to Benares, where he lived for two

years, bathing in the Ganges, and visiting the various temples; but instead of

finding liberty from sin, the bondage became greater. One day he heard a

Catechist preach the Gospel, and following him to his house, asked for further

instruction, the hope beginning to dawn upon him that here he might find peace

for his soul.

Still he entertained some expectation of obtaining pardon of his

sins by following the prescribed duties of his own religion, and fearing the loss

of caste, and having some misgivings that the Christian religion might contain

other doctrines less acceptable than those he had heard of hitherto, he left

Benares without obeying the word of truth.

On his way home he met two

Catechists at Vizagapatam who had been Brahmans formerly. He asked them

by what means they had been led to believe in Jesus, why it had been necessa-

ry for the Son of God to become man in order to save the world. Still he did

not believe. But when again at Bangalore, he could not hide from himself that

instead of pardon of his sins and peace to his soul, great hardships and fatigues

of body had been the fruits of his pilgrimage.

He now engaged in many dis-

cussions with native Christians at Bangalore,.

The sermon of a Catechist from

Matt. x1, 28 left a deep impression on his mind. He procured a New Testament

and a Genesis, read them carefully, and asked some Christians for the explana-

tion of such passages as he could not understand. Still Holy Trinity, Satan,

and the resurrection of the dead were. difficulties to which he found no satis-

factory solution.

In the meantime his wife died, and a quarrel with his

brother induced him once more to forsake his books and home, and undertake

a pilgrimage to Rameshwara, Anantasthayana, and Udapy. At the latter place

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he hoped to obtain righteousness by visiting the shrine of Krishna. Not in the

reputed temples and cloisters of this bigoted place however, but in the mission-

house on its outskirts he found at last what he had looked for so long. Here

he satisfied himself that his shdstras and idols were delusions, and pardon of sin

was to be found in Jesus alone.

Still he could not at once renounce heathe-

nism; yet he learnt to cry to Jesus, and received strength to overcome the fear

of men and his aversion to forsake the way of his fathers. He gave up his

Brahmanical cord and had his scalp-lock eut off. His childlike faith and exten-

sive knowledge of the Word of God encouraged Br. Ammann to baptize him on

Palmsunday. His name is now Obadiah.

Among the Catechumens admitted during the year there was a boy belong-

ing to the so-called slave-caste.

In his anxiety to read the Word of God, he

contrived in the field when keeping his employer’s herds, to study our Canarese

Primer with such effect as to master the rudiments of reading without the ass-

istance of a teacher.

When he attended divine service for the first time, another

catechumen, a respectable but also proud farmer, felt so annoyed that he declar-

ed, he would have nothing more to do with the missionaries if they admitted all

classes without discrimination.

His heart was however so far impressed with

the truth, that for the sake of his peace he at last submitted to the inevitable

necessity of being thrown together even with slaves, and both, master and

servant, are preparing themselves together for baptism, and promise soon to he

one in Christ.—Another catechumen, likewise a farmer, was reduced to great

hardship by publickly confessing Jesus. When he attended divine service for

the first time, his wife, though much attached to him, left the house with all

the children at the instigation of the headmen of the caste, taking with her

provisions, furniture, ready cash, in short every thing she would lay her hand

upon. Having lost the aid of his wife, he was forced to hire servants, and

when the landlord came to ask for his rent, he had no money to pay him. Still

he had grace to remain firm, and the Lord, who so far helped him through his

trials, will surely not forsake him.

The establishment of an English school at Udapy has been tried,

the inhabitants being so anxious to possess ome, as to subscribe a

considerable sum for the purpose.

But on finding, that all classes of

boys would be admitted, they felt so shocked at this interference with

their caste-prejudices, that they sent none of their children to the

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school, and it had to be closed again from want of pupils.

The labors of our brethren at the Uchilla outstation, twelve miles

farther south between Mulky and Udapy, were interrupted for a great

part of the year by troubles very similar to those which grieved us so

much at Mulky.

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Catechist Titus, preferring to devote himself to his fields and worldly affairs

threw up his office on finding that his demands for a loan were not acceded to,

and his worldly-mindedness was a source of no little grief to the missionaries.

The malcontent members of the Mulky church found a ready ear with him,

and he with several of his Christian neighbours, who had been suspected of

theft, joined the ringleaders of the Mulky defection, and forced the brethren

Most of the Christians at Uchilla took

into excommunicating them likewise.

part with their former catechist and our connection with the place wasin a

great measure broken off for a time.

Still the erection of a new prayer-house, which had become necess-

ary, was continued by our brethren in the hope that better days were

in store.

They were not disappointed. On the 8th March the letter

of our home-committee to the rebellious Tulu Christians was read at

Uchilla with the same blessed effect as at Mulky, and on this occasion,

when tears of repentence, confession of sins, and requests for pardon

gave our brethren new access to the hearts of the deluded people, the

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new prayer-house was first occupied for divine service.

March the Lord’s Supper was celebrated in it.

Since then poor Titus

also has had grace to repent and confess his sins.

May he have

strength to cast off the idol of worldliness which he has so long wor-

shiped.—Catechist Isaac has been of late removed to Uchilla, and

Daniel Ammanna put in his place at Guddé.

Both are urgently re-

commended with their charges to the prayers of our friends, of which

they stand much in need.

Although the brethren were unable to preach regularly to the hea-

then, still they not only seized such opportunities as offered themselves

to speak to the people of the love of God manifested in Jesus, but

visited also, whenever they could, the bazar of Udapy and the heathen

Thus the

festivals in their neighbourhood with the message of peace.

Gospel was proclaimed at a swinging festival which was held at

Mudabidry a few months ago.

Such exhibitions make us cry with

the prophet, “Oh that Thou wouldest rend the heaven, that Thou

wouldest come down, that the mountains might fly down at Thy

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SOUTHERN MAHNRATTHA COUNTRY.

DHARWAR.

Rev. O. Kaufmann (1853) and Mrs. Kaufmann (1858).

Lev. J. Handrich (1856).

Catechist and Schoolmaster: John Banawasi.

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The brethren have been permitted through the Lord’s sparing

mercy to attend to the various duties of their station without interrup-

tion.

In the month of February of the current year Br. Kaufmann’s

hands were much strengthened by his marriage to Miss Hornberger-

Ten souls were baptized during*the past year, among whom were

Narainaswamy, a Tamulian, with his family, and Sahebanna, a Canarese

man from the neighbourhood of Shikapore, the latter however fell back

into heathenism soon after his babtism.

Narainswamy, or Ramswamy, now Isaac, was born at Negapatam of wealthy

parents his father being the highly paid overseer of a plantation.

He received

a good native education and was at the same time instructed in the English and

Dutch languages.

When about twelve years old, a renowned Sanyasi, well

versed in Hindoo medicine and witcheraft, visited his father’s house and gained

a powerful ascendency over the boy by his wonderful tales and mysterious

cures.

The boy clandestinely left his parental roof, and followed his new mas-

ter for six years through all parts of India, and even visited Ceylon in his com-

pany. At last an English gentleman taking interest in the lad, received him into

his service and shewed him great kindness, and even put him in charge of his

house at Ootacamund, upon leaving India. Narainaswamy, now took to drinking,

and became dissipated in his habits. He succeeded however in ingratiating him-

self with the various masters, he successively served for several years. At length

he came to Dharwar, where he established himself as a native Doctor.

Some

years ago a Bible and several Christian books fell into his hands, and convine-

ed him of the sinfulness of his life and the magic arts he made use of in his

medical practice.

He accordingly gave up drinking, burnt all his books of

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witcheraft, and asked for farther instruction. He, and still more his wife giving

evidence of their love to the Word of God, they were baptized together with

their children on the 30th August.

Sahebanna was led to Dharwar by a friend of his called Stephan, a member

of our congregation, who had paid a visit to his native place.

Being received

into hospital on account of severe illness, by which he was reduced to a state

of the greatest prostration, he repeatedly asked to be baptized, maintaining

that his only desire was to go to Jesus.

His request baving been granted, he

soon afterwards most unexpectedly recovered, and after a few visits to the

missionaries, disappeared altogether, aud was no more heard of.

Six members of the congregation left Dharwar during the year for

other stations, among whom was a Tamil woman, who has since then

departed this life in the faith to the Lord. A sickly boy, who was

baptized a year ago, has been released from his sufferings by death.

Some of the converts have greatly grieved their pastors by their sins,

and want of discernment between the works of darkness and the light.

For instance they maintained that there was no harm in employing

charms in cases of sickness, nor in permitting heathenish ceremonies

on account of their cattle.

On the - other hand the missionaries have

been cheered at times by manifest tokens of the Lord having begun a

good work in the harts of some, by granting them the spirit of repen-

tance and prayer.

Still they have much reason to sigh for more ge-

nuine li_fe from above for themselves as well as for their little lock.—

The parochial school, though small, occupies a considerable share of

the time of the missionaries, and promises well.

The heathen schools

are regularly visited by them, the word of God being read with the

boys.

Occasionally they have the privilege of observing that the

minds of their pupils are impressed with the blessed truth brought

home to their souls; but with reason suspect that the influence of their

heathen schoolmasters is secretly at work to counteract its effects.—

Preaching to the heathen population in and about Dharwar has been

carried out as regularly as possible, and several preaching tours were

undertaken.

In the neighbourhood of Dharwar the soil was found

very hard, while in other parts the manner in which the message of

peace was received, proved encouraging.

In and about Dharwar the brethren were rarvely well received; only a few

listening, while in general the name of Jesus was either heard with enmity or

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with obsolute indifference, a sad condiﬁon which there is too much reason to

fear is in part attributable to the inconsistent walk of nominal Christians. Cow-

dung and stones were frequently taken up to throw at the missionaries, but

with one exception the adversaries were prevented by others from carrying out

the intents of their hearts.—In the villages to the north of Dharwar chiefly

careless hearers were met with. They appeared very anxious to possess free

schools, but cared very little for the free grace offered to them in Jesus. Br.

Kaufmann was therefore much cheered, when some people, whom he one day

happened to address, gave evidence of a fair knowledge of the truth, which

they had gathered from a copy of the Heart-book, they had received some years

ago.—In June Br. Kaufmann accompanied one of his flock to his birth place

in the neighbourhood of Harpenhally, in the Bellary Collectorate, where the

latter had to settle some money affairs, and returned with the impression, thatg

there the people were much better inclined towards the Gospel than in the

immediate neighbourhood of Dharwar.—At Harpenhally a shepherd paid him a

visit and said to him, I wish to be received into your caste; pray let me know

what I have to do for the purpose: I am ready to submit to whatever you ask

of me".—Missionary: “why do you desire to become a Christian ?” Shepherd:

«T have been told that you pay the debts of those who join you; I owe a

hundred Rupees; if you pay this sum for me, I am ready to give up my caste,

and to do whatever you tell me”. M. “we do not pay people’s debts, but in-

vite them to come to one who has procured payment of all the debts we have

incurred against God”. Sh. If that is all, I do not see why I should join your

caste; but if you pay my debts and secure me a livelihood, I will become one

of yours; and about ten families of my acquaintance, all of them much in debt,

are ready to follow me on these conditions.” —On this excursion Br. Kaufmann

was much cheered by meeting, in three different villages, some native Christians

who had been baptized by the missionaries of Bellary, and now lead a peace-

ful life among their heathen neighbours, without suffering any persecution from

them.

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HUBLY.

Rev. J. Miiller (1839) and Mrs. Miiller (1844).

Rev. J. Huber (1858).

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The Lord has graciously supported B.r. and

Sr. Miiller under

many trials during the past year, and blessed them with the necessa-

ry measure of health and strength. Single-handed they had to bear

all the cares in connection with their little flock, as well as to carry

the light of the Gospel to the benighted hearts and houses of the hea-

thens in their vicinity. They were however in March 1858 strengthen-

ed by the arrival of a young fellow-laborer, Br. Huber* who we trust

will have grace speedily to overcome the first difficulties of the study

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In August last great uneasiness prevailed in Hubly upon the dis-

covery of the intrigues of a Mahommedan emissary from Delhi; and

the faith and sincerity of the native congregation were subjected to a

severe trial, when they found that they would have to bear the brunt

of the enemies hatred in case of an outbreak.

A Faquir from Delhi had found access to the houses of some influential

Mahommedans, and was busily engaged in connection with his confederates at

Poonah, Belgaum ete., in spreading their hateful web over these parts of India,

when he was providentially discovered and apprehended in good time. In these

days the Mahommedans proved by their overbearing behaviour their entire

syrapathy with the mutineers in the North-west. Our small flock of Christians

was in great fear, and several of them repeatedly entreated their pastor to leave

the station along with them, te seek safety in the fort of Dharwar. He had

however grace to stand firm, trusting in the Lord of Hosts, as his flight would

have caused a general panic and offered to the enemy a welcome occasion for

*He is no relation of the Rey. J. Huber, late of Calicut.

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an outbreak. These days certainly shewed that the faith of our people was

still very weak and far from being able to stand severe trials; yet it was a sea-

son of rich blessings, teaching them to take their refuge in prayer, and to seek

strength in the .consolation of the Word of God.—The Hindoo in general ob-

served the strictest neutrality. Some of the more intelligent freely admitted

that a return to Mahommedan rule would be accompanied with hard oppression

and great misery; yet they gave us plainly to understand that they were not

sure whether they ought to prefer a Christian government, as they could not hide

from themselves the eventual downfall of their old idolatrous systems, if much

longer left exposed to the working of divine truth, the effects of which they

had witnessed more than once in the conversion of some of their countrymen.

The congregation gave on the whole more satisfaction to Br. and

Sr. Miiller, than in the previous year, though cases were not wanting,

which called for their censure. All of the converts support themselves

by the lobor of their hands, working at their different trades. A wi-

dow and her four children were baptized. Two young men, Lingap-

pa and Basappa, and the much abused wife of a drunkard were

received as Catechumens.

Lingappa formerly attended one of our schools, which had been established

in his village. His house was frequently visited by the brethren, and the lad

apparently took much interest in their discussions, and attentively read the

tracts and portions of the New Testament he had reccived. In the evening

he usually gathered some of his friends around him, and read to them from

his books. Last year he made a first effort to join us, but was persuaded by

his brothers to return to them. He had however no rest whatever, and some

months ago, forsook his home a second time to become a follower of Christ.

His brothers, when coming again to reclaim him, found him so firm in his well-

matured resolution, that they soon ceased from giving him any more trouble.

Lingappa is pre-

Their house however is now shut against the missionaries.

paring for baptism, and works cheerfully to support himself.—Of Basappa, a

young weaver of Hoobly, so much cannot be said; it would rather appear that

he hoped to secure to himself a more comfortable life by becoming a Christian;

and as he has been disappointed in this, it is still questionable, whether he

will not go back to spend his life in heathenish idleness.

The children

The Parochial School is in a promising condition.

together with some grown up female converts, consider it a great pri-

vilege to spend their evenings with Sr. Miiller, who reads, works,

speaks and sings with them on such occasions. After school hours

the schoolmaster assists the catechist in visiting his countrymen to

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speak to them of the one thing needful. The Vernacular-schools con-

tinue much as in former years.

The schoolmasters, though heathens,

are well aquainted with the word of God, and far from opposing it,

maintain its superiority in the presence of their pupils; yet at the same

time shew little anxiety for the things belonging to their own peace

and prefer to retain their own old ways as long as practicable.—During

a preaching excursion in November, Br. Miiller was much encouraged

by finding that the name of Jesus was no longer unknown in the dif-

ferent places he visited

BETTIGHERRY

Rev. G. Wiirth (1845) and Mrs. Wiirth (1853)

Rev. W. Roth (1857)

Catechist: Paul Badawa

Schoolmistress: Mary Chittawadige

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The immediate duties of the station during the past year have

required Br. Wiirth to be almost constantly present; he has therefore

great cause for thankfulness in the arrival of Br. Roth in December

last, as he will thus be enabled ere long to spend more time in preach-

ing the gospel to the heathen around. With the exception of a pain-

ful affection of the eye, from which he and his family have suffered,

they have enjoyed good health. Br. Roth is already busily engaged

in the study ef Canarese.

No gross sins have been observed in the

congregation.

The word of God was diligently heard; family pr ayer

in the houses was regularly attended to, and a form of godliness at

least carefully observed; yet decided proofs of spiritual life are sadly

wanting. Our converts are still to a great extent under the law: but

even this is not to be despised, as the law, we trust, will prove in

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their case also, the schoolmaster to bring them unto Christ.

There

has been no increase from amongst the heathen; on the contrary one

of the catechumens of last year returned to his own people.

The ORPHAN GIRL'S SCHOOL now contains 22 boarders, being an

increase of nine since last year.

Many of them being still very young,

they require a great deal of care.

Their health, thank God, has been

much better than last year.

School lessons, and such kinds of female

work as are likely to prove useful to them in after-life, fill up their

time.

The progress of the elder girls has been on the whole satis-

factory. Though correction has at times been necessary, yet through

the grace of God the children have been kept from any glaring sins.

VERNACULAR BOYS SCHOOLS.

Though a small entrance fee was

introduced in the schools, the attendance has greatly increased, and the

schools appear to be better consolidated than ever.

The progress of

the boys in the knowledge of Bible history, as well as in reading,

writing, and ciphering was satisfactory. The Catechist spent much of

his time in these schools to make up as far as possible for the want

The schools were

of knowledge on the part of the schoolmasters.

regularly visited by Br. Wiirth for the purpose of reading the word

of God with the more advanced boys, and examining them as to the

progress they had made.

One of the four schools is an evening-

school for young men, lately opened by one of the schoolmasters and

placed under the management of the missionary. One of the day-

schools was closed for a month in consequence of the intrigues of

some enemies, but has since been reopened.

Br. Wiirth writes of these schools: The wealthy but weak neighbour of one

of our schools, stirred up by some parasites he had gathered about him, has

repeatedly tried to open an opposition-school, yet with little effect.

A new

effort however was made last year.

A ruined temple was repaired, and a Lin-

gaite priest hired as schoolmaster; boys were invited to attend and regaled

with parched rice and sugar, while the poorer ones were presented with clothes.

Many were induced to desert our school for the new one; yet there were some

who remained; for it is too well known, thatlittle progress is made in an orthodox

Hindoo school, in which as the afternoons draw mnear, schoolmaster and

scholars may be seen all fast asleep, under the patronage of Ganésha, the Hin-

doo god of wisdom.—Meanwhile a former school-boy, thinking himself more

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fitted for the charge of a school than a loom, volunteered his services; but as

our opinions differed, and I did not think him capable for the post, I declined

his offer. He was very angry, and to revenge himself, spread a report that our

schoolmaster was persuading his pupils to turn Christians. This took effect.

Boy after boy was withdrawn, until at last not one was left, and the school

was closed, whilst the neighbouring temple-school flourished more than ever.

At this time a young man, who some years ago had acted for one of our

schoolmasters, and since attended a Government school, proposed to reopen

the school.

He was told that his services would be accepted if he succeed-

ed in collecting 25 boys.

Within two months the requisite number was

assembled and now the school appears to prosper again.

The former school-

master after having lost all his boys, gathered a number of young men

around him for an evening school from 6 to 10 P. M. This is attended by

those who desire to retain the knowledge they have already acquired; and by

such as are anxious to make up for the neglect of their early school-days. They

pay the schoolmaster and furnish their own oil and lights.

The more advanc-

ed youths are able to read the Bible-stories in the old and new Testaments;

and others who were before quite ignorant, have learnt to read and write since

the time of their frequenting this class.—The usual school-hours of the three

day-schools are from 7 to 11 A. M. and from 2 to 6 P. M. on all week-days

except Saturdays when the weekly examination takes place, after which the

boys are dismissed.

In the forenoons two hours are given to Bible lessons

and reading, and two to writing from dictation and calligraphy. In the

afternoons two hours are set apart for Arithmetic, and two others for read-

ing and copying official papers in Canarese.

The first year is generally

spent in learning to read and write the different characters.

The second

year is occupied in reading and writing words, and the multiplication table.

During the third year easy books are read, and calligraphy, wiriting from

dictation, numeration and the four rules are learnt.

In the fourth year the

Bible-stories of the Old Testament are read and explained, and writing and

the compound rules are practised. The fifth year is set apart for the Bible-

stories of the New Testament, the rule of three and fractions; and if time

permits, attention is paid to the elements of Grammar and Geography,

Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress and suitable tracts are also read.—Most of the

boys belong to the weaver-caste, and as such are either Lingaites, or Devanga-

weavers, or worshippers of Vishnu and Shakty. Many are the children of

Lingaite shopkeepers.

Some few are Mahommedans.

Br. Wiirth had many opportunities of speaking to inquirers who

visited him, he also met with encouraging cases which lead him to

hope, that the leaven of the word of God is secretly working in the

hearts of many.

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A wealthy weaver came occasionally to the mission-house to be told, as

he said, of “the imperishable good;” for he would observe, “worldly riches

can never be long enjoyed; they are perishable.” He is evidently anxious to

have part in that which perisheth not, and to obtain the pardon of his sins

and enjoy the fellowship of Christ, but dreads the inevitable consequence,

loss of caste.—Omne evening he fell down before the missionary and asked him

by the imposition of hands to bestow a blessing on him.

He was advised

to seek a surer and better blessing from Christ, the fountain head, in the way

appointed in the word of God; and finding atlength that an open confession

of Christ could not be averted, his visits became fewer and less frequent. —

One of the heathen schoolmasters, who at times felt impressed had of late an

opportunity of experiencing how the Lord is a hearer of prayer,

and de-

rived much encouragement from it.

One of his boys grossly misbehaved

one day when at school, and was severely punished, upon which he shame-

fully abused his teacher, and even called his. friends to the school for the

same purpose.

They threatened to lodge a complaint against him, and this

greatly alarmed him.

In his distress he cried to the Lord, and to his as-

tonishment the boy returned to school, and all bitterness was forgotten.—

One day Br. Wiirth was asked for “the journey to heaven” which, he soon

learnt, meant Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.

Upon further inquiry he heard,

that the hook had heen seen in a Lingaite convent, in the hands of a priest,

who had read it with much interest and used to speak very highly of it.

In December Br. Wiirth made a preaching excursion with four of

his converts to the east of his station, and had many opportunities of

He returned with

sowing the good seed in hopes of a future harvest.

the impression that there are many, still resisting the truth who are

no longer at rest with themselves and though pricked in their hearts

by the words they have heard, still kick against the pricks.

It is not

so much idolatry, he observes in his report, that lies in the way of the

Gospel, as the carnal mind of the people intrenched within the system

of caste.

On this journey Br. Wiirth visited Katriguy, where the wife of one of

his catechumens has lived since the conversion of her husband. Though he

and his companions failed in their object of persuading her to rejoine her

husband, yet the day spent in that village was by no means lost, the vill-

agers thronged them to hear the word of God; and all were busily engaged

in preaching to the inhabitants.

“The new way,” as they called the Gos-

pel, became the subject of general conversation, and the strangest opinions

were uttered regarding it.

One said, that their trade would be ruined by

it, and every thing turned upside down.

Another observed that the new

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way would suit but a few. A third was afraid lest it would put an end to

their feastings. Others thought that they could no longer properly attend to

their work, if all of them had to pray.

All however admitted that the new

doctrine was good; but said they thought it impracticable under prevailing

circumstances. In another village (the birth-place of Joshua, one of Br. Wiirth’s

companions), they were likewise well received. When his aged mother saw

Joshua, she fell on her face before him, because he had “now found the

way of God”.

She would fain have entertained him were it not for the

traditions of caste, by which she was bound. She however gave him flour,

sugar, milk, and ghee to prepare a meal for himseclf and his party. Some

of his former friends came and asked him, “Why did you turn a Christian?

would you not have served God without forsaking us?”—There were many

hearers at this place, but few of them had grace to understand the things

belonging to their peace.

One man however seemed struck with the sin-

fulness of idolatry, he asked for a tract, and promised to reflect on the words

he had heard.

MALASAMUDRA.

Br. J. Leonberger (1849) and Sr. Leonberger (1854).

Br. F. Hahn (1857).

Catechist: Christion Sutchy.

Schoolmaster: Lot Géry.

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In the beginning of last year this station was visited with much

fever, and at a later period Br. Leonberger and his family suffered

from disease of the eyes which was then prevalent.

In December Br.

Hahn arrived from Germany to strengthen Br. Leonberger’s hands.—

Of the fourteen catechumens mentioned in last year’s report, four adults

and one child were baptized; five remain under instruction, and four

were dismissed.

Several members of the congregation left for other

stations.

At Easter it was necessary to exclude three persons from

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the Lords Supper, because it was discovered that they had resorted to

We feel that most of our converts are in many

heathenish practices.

respects like mere children and must be dealt with as such.

Still we

have much reason to be thankful to the Lord, that instances are not

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wanting of the working of the Spirit of God in their hearts.

days of danger, especially in the middle of the year, proved a blessed

visitation.

The lonely situation of the mission premises, and the dis-

covery that they had been sccretly visited by some evil-minded peo-

ple, evidently with the view of ascertaining the localities in case of an

out-break, contributed much to increase the great anxiety of the peo-

ple, and to show them the necessity of committing themselves solely

to the protection of our heavenly King.

Much greater was the terror

by which the heathen were seized in these days of danger, this how-

ever is not surprizing, for they had no one in whom to trust, not even

among their best friends.

They brought their ornaments and valua-

ble property and entrusted them to the missionary, and native Christians,

to take care of, feeling that in their hands they were safe; yet the sal-

vation of their souls, which Br. Leonberger frequently urged upon

them on such occasions, was utterly disregarded. Oh that they would

know the time of their visitation!

The OrpuAN Bovs INsTiTUTION now contains 24 boarders, seven

of whom are under three years af age.

Br. Leonberger was able fo

discharge some servants and entrust their duties to the elder boys.

All the vegetables required for their food, are grown by the boys

themselves.

They are evidently less tinged with heathenish ideas,

than children brought up in native families.

It is their frequent cus-

tom to intone a hymn or repeat some Bible texts to render work more

pleasant.

Future trials however must prove whether they love the

Lord Jesus in sincerity. On the whole they much more resemble in

their daily behaviour Christian lads at home than heathen boys, from

whom they are distinguished especially by their greater vivacity and

energy. When in their garden, cheerfully working away, the neigh-

bours have often been heard to remark, that “animal food evidently

renders people more vigorous”.

They evince their pleasure at times

by giving the boys presents of sugarcane and fruits.—The school-les-

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sons were at first attended by eight heathen boys; these however were

withdrawn by their parents as soon as they had mastered the alphabet,

and were required to learn Bible texts or Christian hymns by heart.

They would not have objected to their reading the Holy Scripture,

but to commit such things to memory appeared to them to be too

dangerous an experiment.

A Christian schoolmaster, though still

very young and inexperienced, has at length been secured for this

school.

He was brought up in our Mulky orphan institution.—

Br. Leonberger mentions shocking instances of the indifference with

which heathen parents will give up their children whenever they feel them

to be an encumbrance, or when carried away by some superstitious

fear. Indeed it can be said with too much truth that a heathen mother

may forget her sucking child, and have no compassion on the son of

her womb, often for the sake of being free to pursue their own sinful

ways, they will abandon their children in the most shameful manner,

as will be seen from the following extracts from Br. Leonberger’s

report.

In September a woman brought us her child about fifteeen months old, a

strong and hearty boy. She simply said, “I bring you my child; take it!” On

our consenting she left us, quite relieved, without casting a last look on her

poor boy. We learnt afterwards that she had given birth to him when a wi-

dow. A man desired to marry her, but the fact of her boy being without caste,

while the expense of the ceremonies, for admitting him was beyond their means,

proved a serious obstacle to the marriage. She however accompanied her new

husband to his village.

When he asked her, “what are you going to do with

your boy?” she replied, “Oh, I will throw him into some welll”

“No”, was

his remark, “rather give him to the Padres.”

It soon afterwards happened

that the man was detained on the way, and when hastening on to overtake his

wife, he heard the cries of a child proceeding from a copse by the wayside, and

discovered that she had left her hoy behind. He took him up and restored him

to his mother, once more urging her to give the child to the Padres.

She

assented at last, adding however, “If the Padres do not receive him, I shall

throw him away.”—Only six days after this another woman of most wretched

appearance desired us to receive her son six years of age, because her husband

was dead. We invited her to remain with us likewise, and learn how to take

care of her immortal soul; but she preferred forsaking her child in order to

follow a man who had become attached to her.

Her boy is still so wild as to

suffer scarcely any clothing to be put on him.—About the same time a man of

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Malasamudra intreated us to receive his new-born child, because it was born

on a Wednesday, “for”, said he “children born on a Wednesday, will cause

much grief to their parents. As at so early an age it could not be received by

the mission, the father consulted a Brahman as to the future fate of the child,

and having received an auspicious answer, he resolved to rear it.—This system

of consulting the future is on all occasions resorted to, as in the buying and

selling of cattle or in commencing any agricultural operation, and is managed

in various ways. Thus flowers are scattered in front of an idol, and from their

relative position the priest pretends to determine an answer, which however

Or a picture book is

he shapes so as to secure himself a good remuneration.

employed; the inquirer thrusts a straw into it while closed; the picture he

More fre-

happens to hit upon, is thought to afford the desired information.

quently still a book is made use of, in which various replies are arranged

under different numbers. After some ceremonies before an idol, a ring is thrown

on the first page where all the numbers are separately arranged, and the num-

ber it is found to cover, is thought to refer to the reply asked for. It is almost

incredible how much these poor deluded people are kept in bondage by such

superstitions.

They will undergo the greatest sacrifices in order to act up to

the instructions thus obtained, even giving up their children in obedience to

them without any hesitation, removing them from the house not by the door,

If a child is born with a

but by a hole in the wall formed for the occasion.

tooth in its head the whole family is in alarm, as such an event is considered

an omen of general ruin, and the mildest plan ever resorted to, is its extraction.

Oh that they knew Jesus, who has come to destroy him, that had the power of

death, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time sub-

ject to bondage.

No preaching excursion was undertaken, Br. Leonberger being

unable to leave his station from the pressure of other and more im-

mediate duties. Heathen darkness is still awfully great in the sur-

rounding country, and the people are at the mercy of any designing

impostor as the following history regarding the origin of a Lingaite

convent well serve to illustrate.

Seventy miles to the north of Malasamudra there is the splendid Lingaite

This man

convent of Kalaburgy, in which the far-famed Swamy R. resides.

was formerly only a poor undertaker; a friend of his, called Chinabaseia, per-

suaded him to go to Hyderbad to try their fortune together.

Arrived at

that place, R. concealed himself while Ch. hired a little house, which was

forthwith transformed into a little temple hung with tapestry and garlands. A

throne was constructed in the middle of the room, and two tame serpents were

placed behind it and carefully concealed among flowers.

One morning R. was

’

found sitting on the throne quite naked, holding his linga in one hand and his

rosary in the other, with his eyes intently fixed on theground. Crowds flocked

together to see this new supposed incarnation of diety. Lamps were lighted

and offerings spread before him.

But nothing seemed to move him. Even the

serpents left their hiding-place and moved over his body, without attracting

his attention or withdrawing his thoughts from their apparent concentration on

Shiva; for his cunning companion had not failed to instruct him before hand

in the part he was called upon to play, and threatened him with a severe chas-

tisement, if he should ever move at such times.

His worshippers increased

from day to day; even the first minister of the Nizam came and prostrated him-

self before this new Swamy. R. remained perfectly motionless and all were

unanimous in praising his sanctity and declaring that he could not be a

common mortal, since his whole mind had been absorbed by the deity. The

minister presented him with an elephant gorgeously dressed, and gave him two

villages.

Chinabaseia, who had acted the swamy’s faithful servant to perfec-

tion while any spectator was present, placed his friend on the elephant, and

they departed to take possession of the villages granted to them. Here the

convent of Kalaburgy was built, and since that time R. has spent his days in

endless follies, playing with monkeys and tigers, and amusing his worshippers

with his buffooneries.

A B s SR

GULEDAGUDD A.

Rev. G. Kies (1845) and Mrs. Kies (1853).

Catechist: Solomon Bhaskar.

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With the exeeption of one unhappy man who

left us to join the

Mahommedans, the members of our little church at this place have

been growing in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His

word.

The poor backslider alluded to had been led to us in 1853 by great

compunction of heart in consequence of a murder he had committed, since

which all peace of mind had forsaken him.

From the time of his connection

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with our mission he seemed to enjoy more peace of mind, and his walk on the

whole was unblamable; still Br. Kies could not help suspecting his sincerity

and subjected Lim to an uncommonly long trial before baptizing him. Two

years ago his former restlessness returned ; for some time he took the advise of

his pastors, and fought against his enemy, but with no firm determination to

conquer.

He admitted freely that the prevailing tendency of his reflections, if

submitted to, would lead to temporal and eternal ruin, but added that he was

unable to resist it.

Learning that some Mahommedans were gaining great in-

fluence over him, Br. Kies once more earnestly warned him. The poor man

seemed grateful for the advice, and publicly withdrew from his temptors.

After

the lapse of a few weeks, however, he visited Br. Kies to take final leave of him

and our Christians, feeling he could no longer resist the implﬂse of his matural

heart, and before many days were over he was led in triumph through the town

by the Mahommedans to undergo the rite of circumecision.

One family, which in former years was considered unfit to be intrusted

with the education of its younger members, and was consequently deprived of

the trust, had the children returned to them during the year.—Our ‘converts

continue to prosper in the different trades by which they support themselves.

A new and simple machinery applied to their looms by Br. Haller in April 1857

has proved a great boon, as it enabled them to manufacture with much greater

ease and celerity any kind of figured stuffs which are generally in demand

among them.—The course of lectures on Church History, for which they used

to assemble in the mission-house after their day’s work, having been concluded

were succeeded by a practical exposition of the Revelation, in which they take

particular interest, the more so as most of them were formerly deeply imbued

with the Nudikalagnana or the peculiar prophecies of a sect to which they belong-

ed before they embraced Christianity.

Of the four Catechumens mentioned in last report, two were baptiz-

ed on Christmasday. The remaining two appear now to have broken

connection with a crafty relation who opposed them much and to have

submitted to the order of our church and the enlightening power of

the word of God, so that we may look forward to their being baptized

ere long. We record with great grief that no new Catechumens were

received during the year, the Gospel of Christ has met with less atten-

tion in and about Guledagudda this year then formerly.

This

however may in some respects be attributed to the fact that none of

our stations were so seriously effected by the commotions, which

spread from the north-west more or less over the whole of Southern

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India.

The month of August especially proved a very anxious time;

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the missionary with his family and flock had daily to be prepared for

instant flight, if not for worse trials.

The Lord gave our native

Christians grace in the midst of many enemies, to remain faithful and

to have their loins girded, and even to die, if necessary, for the name

of Christ.

The Lord be praised, that he suffered them not to be

tempted above that they were able to bear.

Long before the outhreak in the north-west hints were received by silk-

mercers at Bagalcote from mercantile connections in the north, to limit their

engagements for the next year and call in their debts

Gloomy rumours then

gained ground from day to day threatening Europeans and native Chris-

tians with ruin and death; and to this day great uneasiness prevails in

the district, to which Guledagudda helongs.

The impression made upon the

natives by the victories of the British cannot be easily defined as yet. On the

whole very little is seen of a greatful attachment to British rule. On the other

hand, however, the general opposition to improvements and changes has no

doubt lost much of its former tenacity by the defeat of the rebels, though the

Hindoo will soon be husy enough to discover again some new means of secretly

counteracting for his own selfish purposes the beneficent intentions of his rulers.

Oh, that they would learn to receive Jesus, who alone is able to set them free

from the corruption and bondage of former ages, and bring about such a blessed

change as to justify the words of the Apostle, © Old things are passed away ;

behold all things are become new!”

The parochial sehool appears to thrive under the care of Catechist

Solomon, who continues to give satisfaction by his diligence, humility,

and faithfulness.

A school for heathen boys will be opened, as soon

as the house now building on a site granted by Government for the

purpose, is ready.—Br. Kies again visited in company with his Cate-

chist and some of his converts the festival at Kappady Sangama, near

the confluence of the Malapahary (Mulpurba) river with the Kishnah,

The people

about forty miles to the north-east of Guledagudda.

seem gradually to have become accustomed to the presence of a Euro-

pean missionary at these festivals, this year his tent was almost con-

tinually visited by some one or other, to whom the good message was

addressed.

At this festival, which took plé,ce some time before the mutinies in the

North broke out, Br. Kies’s addresses were once and again met with the asser-

tion, that the British rule would cease within the year,—7The most attentive

Several of its leaders

hearers were members of the Nudi Kalagnana sect.

repeatedly directed the attention of their disciples to the missionaries yet not

from a desire that they should become Christians and embrace the truth as it

is in Jesus, but thereby to point-out the confirmation of their own peculiar

tenets. They affirm that the introduction of English rule and the preaching of

the Gospel in India completely coincided with some prophecies of which they

are the depositaries, their sole object was to show by the apparent fulfilment of

these old predictions that the remainder will likewise be accomplished and that

accordingly their deified saint, Chana Bassawa will reappear.— On the whole

the fear and bondage, in which the people in general are held by their spiritual

leaders, prove almost greater barriers to the spread of the Gospel, than the whole

system of caste, which in fact owes its powerful influence chiefiy to these men

who have aided in raising it to such a mighty superstructure of Satan merely

to serve their own ends.

It is not a very uncommon thing for Hindoos to

change their religion, renounce caste-distinctions, or break caste-laws, and

become out-casts; yet as long as the absolute authority of their spiritual guides

is not set aside, they are permitted to continue daily intercourse with their

neighbours without much inconvenience,

As soon however, as these leaders

see their own power disregarded, all their influence is employed, and every

infernal engine in their power, of which caste is no doubt the most power-

ful, is set in motion, and made to bear on the individuals by whom their

anger was provoked. Obh! that our God of peace would bruise Satan under

our feet.

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M. MALABAR.

CANNANORE.

Rev. S. Hebich (1834). 1kv.cw.ﬂﬂukr(1842)ané

Mrs. Miiller (1842).

Rev. F. Sauwvain (1854) and Mrs. Sawvain

(1853).

Rev. J. Strobel (1856).

ENcLISH SCHOOL.

Bev. I'. Lehmann, headmaster.

Messrs. Pires, Viegar, Gerard, and Beck

Catechists and Schoolmasters.

Cannanore: Timothy Parayil, Joseph Jacobi, Abraham Dshatayappen,

Israel Aaron.

Chiracal: Sebastian Furtado.

Chovva: Charles Stocking, Abraham Mulil.

Taliparambu: Paul Iitirariishan, Diego Fernandez.

Palghaut: G. O’Berin.

CONGREGATIONS.

Canna-

Chira-

Chov-

Talipa-

Palghaut. Total. Last year.

nore.

cal

va

rambu.

Communzcants

72

38

88

10

12

220

199

Non-Communicants

15

2

21

38

Children

51

54

45

6

e

18

174

154

Catechumens

3

20

Total

141

96

135

16

32

420

411

(exclusive of Europeans)

SCHOOLS.

1 Girls Boarding school

Girls,

54 last year 45

1 English school

Boys, 115

-

-

0

-

-

Boys,

356

383

6 Vernacular schools

Girls,

29

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-

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This station has during the past year sustained many severe trials

and changes especially among its laborers.

The heavy loss it suffer-

ed in February 1857 by the death of Br. Ramawarma was recorded

in our last report.

In April Br. Sauvain joined the station from Tel-

licherry, and after having been married to Miss Kegler, took charge

of the girls’ ingtitution at Chiracal, to relieve Br. Diez, whose services

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were much required for the inereasing native congregations at Canna-

nore and Chovva.

At the beginning of June however, it pleased the

Lord to visit Br. Diez with a severe attack of illness, twice he was

nearly despaired of, but in mercy he was spared;—the Lord did not

tempt us above that we were able to bear; the prayers of His children

were graciously heard and our brother, recovered in a remarkably

short time. After a month spent at Tellicherry, he was able to return

to his work, merely however to wind up his affairs and prepare for

his transfer to Chombala, as in the meanwhile it had appeared advi-

sable that Br. Miiller of Chombala and he should exchange places.

Accordingly in September Br. Diez left Cannanore where he had la-

bored for nearly six years, and after having received charge of Chom-

bala from Br. Miiller, the latter arrived at this station.—Since then

Br. Strobel has been directed by our committee to establish himself at

Palghaut, to which place he removed in May last.

Thr()illgh the goodness of our Lord Br. Hebich was permitted to

attend with unbroken strength and undiminished vigor to his work,

and his peculiar gift of rousing sinners from a false peace, and leading

them to the knowledge of Jesus was again richly blessed. In Febru-

ary and March he visited as usual the festivals of Payawur and Tali-

parambu with as many of his catechists as could be spared. In April

he went to Mangalore and Mulky where his presence was urgently

required.

Towards the end of May he set out on his annual tour to

Palghaut and the Nilagiris, but before reaching the latter place he was

recalled to Cannanore by the dangerous illness of Br. Diez.

In De-

cember his assistance was a second time rendered necessary at Man-

galore.—Some more preaching excursions were made by several of

the catechists; in particular Br. O’Brien of Palghaut attended to this

part of our work with zeal and faithfulness, and among other places

visited Malliapooram.

At Payawur and Taliparambu Br. Hebich missed our late Br. Ramawarma

very much, he used to accompany him every year to these places, where his

quiet, but at the same time faithful and well-adapted addresses proved particu-

larly attractive.—At Taliparambu our brethren found in 1857 a much smaller

number of people assembled than usual, on acconnt of the small-pox which

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was raging in the neighbourhood. The music was uncommonly bad, in con-

sequence of a quarrel between the regular musicians and their employers, the

Brahmans. Thus excellent opportunities were offered to our brethren to speak

of the utter hopelessness of paganism, and to call the poor deluded people to

Jesus.

The hatred to the gospel at this place seems rather on the increase

than otherwise, Satan and his followers begin to feel that their days are num-

bered. A boy came to Br. Hebich when at Taliparambu, and bought a tract.

Scarcely had he turned his back to the missionary, when he tore the little book

in pieces with peculiar delight and to the great satisfaction of the spectators.

The people on the whole appear to be much afraid of our books and words,

and if worldly affairs and bodily wants did not at times lead them to us, they

would altogether keep aloof. A man of Chiracal once came to Br. Sauvain to

ask for a plaster. As soon however, as Br. 8. began to speak to him of his souls

he went off, saying—%There is great wisdom in the Sahib’s words, but I must

go home; I have no time to hear.”

Cananore was again refreshed during the past year with days of

special blessings.

On the 24th April Br. Hebich was permitted to

baptize twenty-four souls.

On three other occasions twelve more

were added to them, besides eighteen Christian children baptized in

the course of the year.

Five men, as many women, and seventeen

children belonging to the congregation died during the same period.

Of several of them we have the confident assurance that they depart-

ed in peace and were gathered to the church above.

Two periods in

the day were set apart for humiliation and prayer.

Both seasons

proved real times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord; powers

of life were communicated from above, and many of our converts

were more closely united to us in the love of Christ than ever.

A great number of our coverts are poor coolies who are much exposed to

the weather and have to work nearly the whole day in the sun for their liveli-

hood. Under such circumstances we cannot expect them to be so regular in

their attendance at the daily prayers, morning and evening as we should wish.

Nor can we be astonished at a spirit of murmuring after the fleshpots of Egypt

which manifests itself occasionally. We must not forget whence these people

have come, and who they were before being brought under the influence of the

gospel, and that most of them have received no education enabling them to stu-

dy the blessed word of God for themselves.

The Lord at times cheers us with

undeniable evidence of the good work he has begun in their hearts by calling

them out of darkness to his marvellous light, and by keeping them under the

inflence of the Holy Spirit, moving them to put off more and more the works of

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darkness. Thus one of them came of his own accord, and from real contrition

of heart revealed a plan he had formed with some others for leaving the church,

and returning to the old ways of sin.

Moveover the spirit of prayer manifests

itself among them, many having learned to pray not only for themselves and

their own wants, but also for their own country, and their European benefactors.

There is no doubt much room for improvement; their domestic life is far from

what is ought to be. We observe however, that in the same measure as they grow

in the knowledge of Jesus, the evil fruits of darkness disappear. They have pe-

culiar claims to our sympathy and patience especially when we think of the feax-

fal state of bondage from which they are but gradually emerging; and the

hearty reliance with which they lean on their pastors is sufficient evidence that

the pains bestowed upon them are far from being thrown away. It is true that

sometimes it seems as if we labored in vain and spent our strength for nought;

but how are we put to shame with our unbelief, and at the same time refreshed,

when permitted to see a sinner, of whom we almost despaired, throw off the

works of darkness and come to the light.

Moreover do we ourselves so grow

in proportion to the means of grace placed in our hands, as to be justified in

being displeased with the slow progress of a poor convert who for years had

lived under the stupifying influence of Satan? And is not our patience richly

rewarded when we are now and then permitted to stand at the death-bed of a

black brother or sister, ready to be gathered up to the great multitude of all

nations and kindreds and people and tongues before the throne and before the

Lamb! How refreshing is it to hear, as we were lately permitted to do the

dying testimony of a poor old native woman, whose last words were— Oh how

glad I am that Lam permitted to go to my Saviour!

Every week four services have been held in our mission chapel

in English (on Sundays from 6 to 7 A. M. and from 6 to 8 P. M,

and on Tuesdays and Fridays from 6 to 8 P. M.) and as many in

Malayalam (on Sundays from 101/s to 1212 A, M. and from 2 to 3

P. M. and on Tuesdays and Fridays from 1 to 2 P. M.) The efforts

of our brethren to provide such of the children of their converts as are

not brought up in our boarding-schools with an adequate Christian

education, are still met with many difficulties.

They write: we have not been able to open separate schools kept by Chris-

tian schoolmasters for all the children of our congregations, as it is exceedingly

difficult to enforce regular attendance.

Among our converts at Chovva espe-

cially the obstacles are very numerous; for instance during the great scarcity

which prevailed on the western coast in last rainy season, all the children were

required to assist their pavents in out-door work, or the daily gains would not

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have sufficed for their support.

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Our brethren have again been blessed in their endeavours to pro-

vide their Christians with the means of earning their own livelihood,

and have reason to expect that the pains bestowed upon them in this

respect will ere long be richly rewarded.

Prominent attention has been paid to the cultivation of rice and cocoanuts

at Chovva, which promises fair to become more profitable from year to year.

Our blacksmiths and cartmen were able to support themselves. All the stuffs

woven on our looms were disposed of, and sufficient was realised to pay off part

of the debts of the weaving establishment, though two weavers died and two

others ran away during the year. A native bookbinder lately joined the station

from Mangalore, it is hoped he will soon meet with sufficient customers to carry

on his trade without loss.

Thé GirLs BoArpiNG ScmooL at Chiracal was visited with much

sickness, especially dysentery. Eleven girls died; several of them,

we trust, departed in faith. Though our brethren are occasionally

cheered by observing a work of grace in some of the pupils, yet they

are grieved to add that most of them are still strangers to the Lord.

One of the girls who has now departed this life, was of a very cross and

quarrelsome disposition, though she had for a long time suffered from a desease

in the lungs. It was only after the Lord had humbled her more and more by

successive attacks of small-pox and dropsy, that she was led to see her utter

sinfulness. From that time forward she was changed, and up_to her death the

free grace of Christ alone could satisfy her soul.—Another one who was blind,

had grace to turn to the Lord on her death-bed. From that moment the room

in which she lingered, became a Bethel, her companions meeting frequently

there at her request to sing spiritual songs.—It is not so much in ability, that

the girls are wanting, as in love of order and obedience,

Many of them have

impressions of the truth, but do not walk in its light.

ExcLisH AND VERNACULAR SCHOOLS.

During the past year our

brethren were enabled to open an English school at Cannanore in

connection with our mission.

They have much reason to praise the

Lord for the blessing he has vouchsafed to this new branch of their

work., Br. Lehmann was called to Cannanore to take charge of the

school as its headmaster. Mr. Pieres, a Portuguese who had received

an excellent education and been led to the Lord by Br. Hebich, was

appointed second master.

Sufficient assistants were secured for the

lower classes.

Brethren Ramawarma (up to his death,) Sauvain,

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Strobel, and lately also Br. Chr. Miiller took charge of different class-

es, and the school began to thrive, though much embarassed by want

of funds, the support it received being inadequate to the expenditure.

At the close of the year the school was attended by 115 boys, viz.

24 Protestants (16 of whom were Europeans), 30 Roman Catholics

(Portuguese), 59 Hindoos, and 2 Mahommedans.

The Hindoo boys made decidedly much better progress than any of the

others, the Buropeans included. The Portuguese seem to have been much

neglected previous to their admission, and much patience and perseverance is

required in order to rouse them out of the stupor by which their minds are be-

numbed. The Bible has been introduced as one of the class books.

‘When

some ohjections were raised against it, and we requested the pupils to select

between the Word of God and a Madras reading book, they unanimously choose

the former. The Hindoo boys are better acquainted with Bible history than

their European fellow-scholars, and in most cases when the latter are unable to

answer questions the former have the replies ready at their finger ends.

The

second class, consisting chiefly of Tiers (Malabar toddy-drawers) appear parti-

cularly promising. All the boys of that class have bought Bibles to read at

home as well as at school.—One of them happened once to be absent, and the

teacher learned that he had been confined by his mother for disregarding her

injunctions to discontinue his attendance.

The teacher told his boys that he

would not give them a lesson until the prisoner had been set free.

They

accordingly went off to his house and besieged his mother with their importu-

nities till at last they returned bringing the boy in great triumph, and since

that time the boy has never been absent for a day even during the heaviest

rains.

Of our Vernacular schools that at Chiracal is of all the most unsatisfac-

tory, being greatly imbued with an inveterate hostility to the gospel by which

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the whole village is characterised. Much more promising is another one near

Cannanore, attended by about 80 boys from six to twenty years of age, they at

least observe a certain decorum and behave with befitting respect during the

prayers, with which the school is daily opened and closed. One of our heathen

schoolmasters is not far from the kingdom of heaven. He occasionally attends

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divine service, searches the Scriptures, and prays, yet is still afraid of openly

declaring himself for the Lord. We recommend him to the prayers of our

I

friends, lest he be among the number of those who being first, shall in the end

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be found among the last.—On the whole we observe that traditional superstition

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is no longer so powerful at Cannanore, as at Chiracal and Taliparambu. At

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Cannanore we meet at times with some who have been pierced by the two-edg-

ed sword, the Word of God; but are kept back by their unwillingness to sacri-

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fice family connections.

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In conclusion Br. Hebich sends his love to all his dear Brethren

and children in the Lord. Deeply impressed with the heathen dark-

ness which he met with at the last Taliparambu festival (where he

preached the gospel for the fifteenth time) he concludes his report

with the following words, “How awful is the power of the prince of

darkness, with which he keeps the natives of this country in bondage!

Who can break it? One only! Jesus is His holy name! How does he

break it? By the Word of his Truth! Hallelujah! Let every one that

reads this, pray for these people that our gracious Lord may thus

hasten to deliver them! Amen.

TELLICHERRY,.

Rev. Ch. Irion (1841) and Mrs. Irion (1844).

Rev. Ch. Aldinger (1855).

Rev. W. Herre (1856).

Catechists and Schoolmasters.

Mattai Kunyen, Mattu Peter, Gabriel Piratshen, Esra Arundshelam

English Teachers.

Messrs. Montriro, I'ugle ete.

Communicants

90 ° 0890800000908 80 0000900 TONLOOC

76; last year 66

4

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6

Non-Communicants

Children

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87

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The last year was one peculiarly blessed to the converts at this

station in that it drew their attention to the judgements of the Lord in

India. The news that many of their brethren in the north had sealed

their faith in Christ by a bloody death, left a deep impression on all.

Added to this the famine drove many to seek the Lord more earnestly,

and about the same time many were smitten down by small-pox, and

others (among whom was Mrs. Irion) brought to the brink of the

grave; these despensations so rapidly succeeding ome another urged

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upon all the neccessity for preparing to meet their Lord, and finally

the suicide of an excommunicated opium-eater seems to have come

home to all hearts and ecalled them to seek for that liberty in Jesus

by which alone they can be made free.

By such admonitions the

maintenance of church discipline was made comparatively easy. Our

services on Sundays and Weekdays were well attended. Twice a

week the women used to assemble with Mrs. Irion for reading, prayer,

and work. The men held prayer-meetings on Sundays among them-

selves besides the regular services.

Family worship was properly

attended to in almost all the houses.

Though our converts are poor,

and during the famine many parents were known to have suffered

hunger in order to provide for their children, yet sixteen Rupees were

contributed by them in the monthly missionary prayer meectings, and

twenty-two Rupees given towards the relief of the sufferers in the

North. Though most of them are no doubt, at the best, but very

weak Dbrethren, still it is evident that the Word of God has decidedly

produced a great change for the better.

There were only a few per-

sons among them requiring the support of our poor fund. Most of

them worked for their own livelihood, and our workshops and farms

proved of essential service in providing them with the means of earn-

ing their bread.

Thomas, the opium-eater alluded to, had been subjected to an uncommon-

ly long trial before baptism, as his dissipated appearance was far from pre-

possessing; but as he secemed to take great pains to amend and give up his

former bad habits, we could not send him away. It was only after his bap-

tism that we knew he had been addicted to drinking and opium-eating, besides

having been in jail for years for some crime he had committed. For a time

we had reason to believe that he had conquered himself of his bad habits until

one day he was found lying in the street so intoxicated as to render the inter-

ference of the police necessary. When sober he appeared so truly penitent,

that he was simply excommunicated and placed under special supervision. For

some time he gave no cause of complaint, till in May Br. Irion was informed

that he was dying from the effects of arsenic he had swallowed. In his agonies

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he regretted, he had not put an end to himself by cutting his throat, he obsti-

nately rejected all remedies, saying that he wished no longer to witness the

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incessant quarrels of a heathen sister with his wife.

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Eight children of converts, four boys of our orphanschool, a Tier

family consisting of four souls, a mother with her child, two young

men, and a woman, altogether twenty-one souls, were baptized in the

course of the year.

Three catechumens, two of whom have but lately

joined us, remain under instruection.

Four members of the congrega-

tion have departed this life.

One of the latter was our old ferry-man, John, who had been baptized

about fifteen years ago, and formerly given us much trouble by his irritable

temper.

We are happy to say that he departed in peace, rejoicing in the Lord.

INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.

Our lithographic press was as usual

made use of for executing such orders as we were entrusted with,

besides providing our Malayalam stations with the necessary books

and tracts.

The demand for the latter has been much more limited

of late owing to our determination to discontinue the gratuitous dis-

tribution of them. Bookbinding and weaving were carried on with

success.

There was no want of work especially for our looms which

had to furnish the cloth for the Malabar Police Corps.

The farm at

Edacadu affords occupation not only to our Christians in the vicinity,

but also to some coolies from the neighbourhood.

List of books printed in 1857

Copies.

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ORPHANAGE FOR BOYS. Several new boarders were received in

the course of the year.

Three were withdrawn by their heathen pa-

rents; two were dismissed, and two ran away. At the close of the

year, forty-three boys remained in the school, all of whom are now

baptized. At the beginning of last year the Lord gave grace to most

of the boys spontaneously to confess their sins and bring to light their

works of darkness. They showed then great zeal in praying together

and watching against sin,

Though the fire abated after a time, and

punishments again became occasionally necessary, still we have much

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cause to be thankful to the Lord for this season of grace. 'We have

reason to be satisfied with the progress of the boys, especially with

their growth in the knowledge of the Word of God. Out of school

hours they work in the garden, make coir-ropes or are usefully em-

ployed in any other way.

In December 1856 a lad ran away, and the poor boy was bitten by a mad dog.

When in March the symptoms of hydrophobia appeared and he became aware

that his death was drawing nigh, he showed great anxiety to obtain pardon

from his former teachers, and to thank them for all their love, and according-

ly drew up a letter in which he expressed deep contrition for his former diso-

bedience and insolence, and begged that as the Lord had forgiven him his

masters would do so too, he expressed his confidence in the Lord that He would

receive him in his grace. Not having sufficient strength left to write out a fair

copy, he despatched the original, which did not fail to make a deep impression

upon all our young people, when they heard it read.

Soon after this we were

informed of his death.—Another boy of the school, distinguished not only by

uncommon talents in almost every respect, but also by an unbending love of

sin, had to be dismissed, his bad example being very prejudicial to the other

boys.

ExcLisE ScHOOL.

On the 16th February the first year’s course

of this school was concluded with a public examination.

During the

vacation Br. Sauvain who for some time had taught in the school, left

for Cannanore, and Br. Herre who had been sent out to attend exclu-

sively to it, entered upon his new duties on the 7th April, when the

school reopened; and he has since conducted it assisted by the bre-

thren Irion and Aldinger. During the year a more convenient school-

room, newly built for the purpose, was occupied. Notwithstanding

the troubles caused by some objections which were raised against the

introduction of daily Bible reading, and by the irregular attendance

of many boys, the school continued to thrive and was attended at the

end of the year by 154 boys (20 Protestants, 33 Roman Catholics,

8 Mahommedans, and 93 Hindoos) of whom on an average 112 were

present every day. The progress of the boys appears to have been

very satisfactory. School fees and fines for irregular attendance were

readily paid.

It was a most pleasing sight, when on the 16th February 1857 all the boys

were assembled in their best dresses for a public examination.

Br. Irion exa-

mined the first class in Old Testament History, Grecian Mythology, and Eng-

lish History. Br. Sauvain questioned them on Lord Clive’s life, and one of the

assistant masters in Geography. On this occasion the Sudr Ameen, who though

a native, had been for some time a monthly subscriber to the school fund, with-

drew his contribution upon finding that his son, a worthless lad, was not pre-

sented with a prize.—When the new hall built for the school, was for the first

time made use of, Br. Herre opened the lessons by reading a chapter and offer-

ing a short prayer.

The next day, first the Hindoos, and then the Mahommed-

ans objected to this arrangement; it was accordingly left optional with them to

attend the prayers or not as they pleased. Most of them are generally present

from the beginning; about twenty only prefer remaining in the Verandah till

prayers are over.—Since last examination the first class read the History of

Rome from the time of its foundation to the Mitthridatian wars, the History of

England from Henry II. to James IL., Mathematical Geography, Geography of

Africa, History of India from Warren Hastings to the present day, and the first

book of Euclid, besides lessons in Arithmetic, and exercises in paraphrasing,

composition, grammer, and translation.—As in all similar schools, even the

most advanced boys as yet scarcely understand how to think and act for them-

selves in the pursuit of their studies.

Away from their teachers and books,

they feel utterly helpless, except their memory, the most cultivated part of their

faculties, be happily stored with some materials to help them out of their

difficulties.

Our VERNACULAR SCHOOLS were regularly visited by the brethren

and some of the catechists.

These occasions proved in many cases

very favorable opportunities for preaching the gospel to the spectators

who came to witness the examinations.

Preaching excursions were

rendered impossible owing to the many Flaims on the time and strength

of the brethren.

In one of our two Vernacular schools the boys evidently take much more

interest in the gospel than in the other, where the schoolmaster seems to oppose

our efforts in secret, though he may be heard sometimes saying, that he is of

the very same persuasion as we.—The heathen of the neighbourhood generally

meet the preaching of the gospel with great indifference or even with hostility.

The preacher is interrupted by some joke or other, or if listened to, it has in

many cases turned out to be merely to procure his favorable opinion for some

particular object in view. The hearers in general have so little consciousness of

their sinfulness, that they do not feel the want of a Saviour; nor can we wonder

at such a lamentable dull state of feeling among a people who have been nurs-

ed in the doctrine, that in the present evil period of Kali sin is no longer sin,

but worship of God. More discouraging still is it to see a hearer lift up his

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hands to heaven, affirming that he believed every word he had heard, and was

anxious to receive farther instruction, and then to run away highly amused by

the joke; or to have attentive hearers dispersed by some mischievous adver-

sary who interrupts the missionary with questions like the following,—“who

came down from heaven to teach you such things?” and walks off without

an answer.

On the first of November a Carrcuist Crass was opened at this

place for our Malayalam stations attended by eight pupils, who give

fair promise for the future.

May the Lord grant them the spirit of

wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him!

CHOMBALA.

Rev. E. Diez (1851) and Mrs. Diez (1856).

Rev. C. G. Hanhart (1857),

Catechists and Schoolmasters.

Paul Tshandren, Timothy Kotshen, Aaron Tshatappen, Thomas Mander.

Schoolmistresses.

Lydia Peitel, Magdalena Mannen.

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In a former page it has been stated that Br. Christian Miiller

received a call to Cannanore, and accordingly left this station with

his family in September last, after surrendering charge of it to his

successor, Br. Diez.

This change was a severe trial to our brother.

It was he who opened the first school at this place in 1844. Under

his fostering care a promising congregation was collected, claiming

more and more his constant attention.

In March 1849 he left Telli-

cherry to reside henceforth among his little flock, and since then this

place was the principal object of his struggles and prayers.—In

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Novembef Br. Hanhart landed, and added to the number of laborers

at this station.

Br. Miiller writes in his last letter from Chombala: When I look ba;ck to

the day, in which the Lord permitted me to kindle a faint light in this then

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heathen darkness by establishing a school, and contrast with it the present

state of things, I cannot help saying, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that

is within me, bless his holy name!”—TLooking however to myself, to my want

of faith, my shortcomings, and manifold sins, my prayer is, Lord enter not

into judgment with thy servant! God, be merciful to me, poor sinner!” I in-

deed leave Chombala as a poor sinner, and my only desire is to spend a few

more years in the service of my Lord; and receive the end of my faith, the

salvation of my soul, by free grace!

The famine of last monsoon proved particularly distressing to all

the inhabitants in the neighbourhood, and a feeling of great insecurity

prevailed on account of robbers breaking into the houses of some of

the wealthy people.

Many of our Christians suffered considerably,

yet their most pressing wants were graciously supplied by our graci-

ous Lord; blessed be His name!—No adults were baptized during

the year, but some catechumens were admitted and are under instruction.

One of our present catechumens is a brick-layer who was known for years

to Br. Miiller as a most wicked neighbour. Having married a woman of

another caste, he was excommunicated and became a Moplah. A year ago he

had a very severe attack of srﬁallpox, and when in the greatest danger found

himself forsaken by his wife and old companions in iniquity. This led him

to reflect, and when so far recovered as to go about again, he paid a visit to

Br. Miiller, and begged to be instructed by him. For some time he was sup-

ported by his relatives, who were glad to see him break with the Moplahs and

join us, and now he is again able to support himself by his own labor.—

Another catechumen is a poor widow with four boys from four to eight years

of age, who after many struggles was drawn to us by her love to a daughter,

baptized some time before.

After the death of her husband she made great

exertions to withdraw her daughter from our influence.

When this failed,

she applied to a sorcerer and sold all she had to gain him for her purpose.

He promised that her daughter would be restored to her in a fortnight.

When the day came and she applied to him for her child she was told by

the impostor that his charms had proved ineffectual, because he could not

apply them without being seen by others.

Upon this the poor mother took

arsenic, but repenting of her folly took some antidote to counteract the

effects.

At last she made up her mind to live with her daughter, and ap-

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plied for Christian instruction.

Though she showed but little longing after

the salvation of her soul, we could not turn her away.

Whenever time permitted, the missionaries and catechists went

out to proclaim the good tidings of salvation to the gentiles of the

In December Br. Diez visited with two of his cate-

neighbourhood.

chists the festival of Kilur, but was so much interrupted by the

incessant noise and tumult of the people, that he was at last obliged

to retire.

Though the brethren cannot speak of great results vouch-

safed to their labors, yet we know that the Word of God is a leaven

working unseen but nevertheless accomplishing the Lord’s own plea-

sure though unknown to us.

Eternity will bring to light many an

instance of the blessings derived from the sound of the Gospel or from

the distribution of Bibles and tracts, though scarcely any one had

ever been aware of them. The following is a pleasing instance Qf the

blessing attending the gift of a Bible.

Some years ago Br. Miiller received a letter from a Rajah in the vicinity

asking for some interesting English story book, to learn English from.

Br. Miiller sent him a fine English Bible, and asked permission to pay him

a visit.

The gift was gratefully acknowledged, and the permission given,

but whenever Br. Miiller desired to avail himself of it, the Rajah sent an

excuse.

The Bible however was not given in vain, for it fell into the hands of

his nephew and apparent successor.

Last year this youth fell sick, and had

the book with him day and night. Before his death he called his friends round

his bed and addressed them in these words, “in this book said he I have found

peace and comfort; take good care of it; it is more precious than silver and

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gold; let houses, gardens, and goods perish rather than this book!”

were his last words, after which he expired. Since then the Rajah takes better

care of the book. Oh, that he had a mind to read it, and open his heart to re-

ceive its teachings!

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Rev. J. M. Fritz (1839). Messrs. J. Bosshard and J. Lavffer (1856).

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Esau David, J. Heber, Christian Hoar, Joseph Salma, Samuel Subaya,

Lesuadion Vedamuttu, Hiskiah Matu, Daniel Doar, Aaron Kunyu.

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On the 20th September last it plleased the Lord to bereave this

station of the motherly services of sister Fritz by gathering her to

her rest.

For nearly twelve years she had faithfully divided with

bher husband the many trials and cares of a young native church.

The women and girls of the congregation, many of whom had grown

up in the boarding school, were up to the time of her death the spe-

cial object of her prayers and labors of love; and in many cases she

proved the means of raising the domestic life of our converts from

heathen wretchedness to Christian cheerfulness.

By her humble and

consistent walk, full of love and joy in the Lord, as well as by her

unfeigned kindness and untiring readiness to serve her fellowmen, she

endeared herself to every one who came in contact with her. Though

the day of her burial was a sorrowful one, yet the sight of Mahomme-

dans and Heathens joining our Christian converts in following her

remains to their last resting-place, bore a cheering witness to the

high esteem in which she was held by all classes; and as we know

that such happy results are to be traced to no other source than the

free grace of Jesus which brought forth such abundant fruit in her it is

pleasing to think that many were thus led unwillingly to honor in her

our triune God and His work of grace.

Oh, that they would learn

to honor him for his own name’s sake and manifest his grace in their

daily walk.

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Mrs. Fritz was the daughter of Mr. Koebele of Strassburg, where she was

born the 20th April 1820.

When old enough to join a class of candidates for

confirmation, she had the privilege of being instructed in the way of salvation

by the Rev. Mr. Haerter, a sincere and devoted servant of the Lord, whose

faithful exhortations left a deep impression upon her heart, and led her to turn

Mr. Haerter having become aware of

to the Lord, and embrace his free love.

the great desirableness of female assistants to attend upon the sick and poor

and young in his extensive parish, he formed an association for that purpose,

and Miss Koebele was one of the first, who constrained by her love to Jesus,

placed her services at the disposal of her pastor. Every Sunday she used to

visit some poor and sick women in order to pray and read the Word of God

with them.

In 1842 Mr. Haerter established an institution for deaconesses,

to which Miss Koebele joined herself. All these labors of love however she

considered mérely as the means of preparing herself to serve the Lord among

the heathen, to whom she felt a peculiar attraction, though at the time she had

no prospects of ever seeing the desire of her heart accomplished. In 1842 she

wrote in her diary, “I commit my future days into thy hands, Oh my faithful

If I can

Saviour.

Teach me to serve thee, to deny myself, and follow thee.

do any thing for thee, grant me the grace to devote my whole life to thee. Per-

haps thou wilt permit me to serve thee among the heathen, though as yet I see

no opening to do so.

Do thou take entire possession of me.

Bring me up as

thy child. Make me faithful in the work which thou hast now committed to

my hands.

Behold I am thy handmaid, keep me faithful by thy grace!”—As

she possessed peculiar gifts for teaching the young, she was led to devote her-

self more exclusively to education, and with gratitude she referred in her diary

to a public examination which she was in consequence obliged to pass, and the

results of which were most satisfactory. She wrote on that day— “He that is

mighty, hath done great things for me.

Holy is his name.

I had committed

all my learning to him, and trusting in him I went to be examined, asking him

to do as he thought right. Indeed, he has been as good as his word, that no one

who puts his trust in him shall be ashamed. Now I devote myself anew to thee,

my Saviour, desiring to be thine only in spirit, soul, and body. Lord Jesus,

take thou care of me; intercede for me; grant that my whole life be sanctified

to thee. Keep me in thy fellowship, and whatsoever there is still in me savour-

ing of this world, let it be consumed by the fire of thy love!”—A short time be-

fore departing this life to be with Christ, her mother expressed a desire that she

should return to her father's house. She accordingly left Mr. Haerter's institu-

tion, committing her ways once more to the friend of her soul, and placing her-

self at his disposal. Her desire to serve him in the mission continued unabated.

An offer opening to her the prospect of laboring in Africa was not approved of

at first by her father, and when at last he gave his consent, it was too late. She

wrote then,—¢“Lord, thy way is holy! I commit every thing to thee. Guide me

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entirely according to thy good pleasure. Though my future days are dark and

and hidden from my sight, they are light before thee. I am ready to serve thee

wherever it pleases thee, whether at home, or abroad among the heathen. Still

I should prefer the latter; but I desire to do thy will only; reveal it to me!"—

Her anxiety to be set apart for the mission increased from day to day. In the

week after Pantecost 1844 she and her sister made it a special subject of united

prayer, and but three days later she was asked whether she felt inclined to

serve the Lord in India as the partner of Br. Fritz at Calicut. She replied that

she was ready to accept this call if it was the Lord’s will, which she asked him

to show her by the decision of her father.

The latter giving his cheerful con-

sent, she was at once prepared to bid farewell to her father’s house, and follow

the Lord to the country to which he had called her.

On the 20th November

1845 she was married at Mangalore to Br. Fritz, and on the 5th December

reached Calicut, the new sphere of her prayers and labors, when she wrote in

her diary, “hitherto the Lord has helped me. To him be glory, praise, and ho-

nor for all his lovingkindness and grace, of which I am altogether unworthy.

O Lord, make me a blessing to others, and give me grace to lead some souls

from among the heathen to thee the good Shepherd. Oh my Jesus, deliver me

from all that is of self, and grant that rivers of living water may flow from me.

Lord, I have nothin

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thou hast every thing; give me whatsoever I need to

serve thee aright.

Grant me thy anointing to instruet me in all things. Make

me faithful in the least and faithful to the last. Amen.”—The Lord has indeed

heard her prayers.

For nearly twelve years she proved a great blessing to her

family, as well as to the female members of the Calicut congregation, and to

the girls of her boarding school, which she opened with five children as soon

as she was able to speak a few words in Malayalam.

At the time of her death

there were forty-eight girls in this school.

Of the eight children, to which she

gave birth, three preceeded her to her everlasting home. A prayerful mind and

faithful intercession for every one committed to her charge or dear to her heart,

humility and kindness, joyfulness and peace, great conscientiousness and faith-

fulness in her work, such were the peculiar features, which were imprinted up-

on her character by the regenerating power of the Spirit of God.—On the 2d.

August 1857 she was confined with twins, one of whom died while the other

survived.

In her illness she derived much comfort from the words of the pro-

phet Isaiah, “He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he

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increaseth strength.

She appeared to be in a fair way of recovery, when vari-

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ous new symptoms gave evidence of the great exhaustion of her system.

withstanding the means applied by Doctors Cleveland and Crocker, to whom

our special gratitude is due for the great kindness and perseverance with which

they attended her, she gradually sank from day to day. But the hour of her

departure arrived very suddenly and unexpectedly. She was however well pre-

pared and in the last hours of her life gave expression to ber faith in the

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words, “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.” Her last prayer

was the beginning of a German hymn running thus, “Jesus, give victory, thou

prince of the living!”—Her bereaved husband adds, “The Lord fulfilled her

prayer. In him she has overcome; and in him our victory is also sure, for he

is Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever! Amen.”

In this season of affliction our brethren felt much comforted by a

devoted friend of our departed sister being found willing to step into

her place in taking charge of the boarding school, and becoming the

faithful adviser of the women of the congregation.

In the boarding

school fifty girls are at present brought up in the nurture and admo-

nition of the Lord. To several of them the peaceful death of Mrs.

Fritz proved a great blessing by drawing them nearer to Jesus. In

February last six of them were baptized.

In November a new missionary, Br. Convert, arrived from home

to prepare himself at the side of Br. Fritz for his future ministry.

May he soon prove fit to relieve the latter of a part of his heavy burden.

On different occasions souls were added to the church. On the

30th August schoolmaster Canara, now David, whose conversion was

related in our last report, was baptized together with another promis-

ing young man, whose father has since likewise embraced the Gospel

of Christ.

In November three men and four women, simple country-

folks, were received into the church by baptism.

Though not poss-

essed of extensive knowledge, they are sincere and able to give

account of the faith that is in them.

Another convert, a young

Tamil-man, called Sabapaty, who was baptized at the beginning of

last year, grieved the brethren much by his subsequent defection.

Sabapaty, who had come to Calicut from Madras, was well acquainted with

the Word of God, and at his own urgent request received baptism in January

1857, together with a little son. His wife being still deficient in the knowledge

of the truth and ignorant of the ornament of the inner man, while the outward

adorning occupied all her thoughts, she was subjected to a longer trial before

she was admitted to baptism. In the meantime her husband undertook a jour-

ney to Madras on his own affairs, where his father and friends assaulted him

most violently on account of his conversion though without effect. But alas,

Satan employed other means to bring about his fall. A woman, with whom he

had lived at Madras in former days, ensnared and followed him to Calicut.

When spoken to about his great sin, he dismissed her and \fms reunited to his

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wife. Still both appear to have heen deficient in sincerity. The good seed

could not grow for the many thorns in their hearts.

They fell away and for-

sopk us to return to their former ways of sin and death.

The spiritual life of most of our converts is still very weak, and

our urgent request continues to be that the Lord may produce a more

decided change in their-hearts by his quickening word which they

regularly hear in public-meetings, and read together in their daily

family prayers, and may he pour out upon them the spirit of prayer

and supplication. Of several families it is evident, that they are

under the influence of the regenerating grace of God. We are afraid

however to speak much of these things, as we so easily deceive our-

selves.

It is sufficient that his own are known to him who seeth not

as man seeth, but looketh upon the heart.—At this station also the

famine of last monsoon was severely felt.

For several years the produce of rice had been belowi the average; and last

monsoon setting in before a sufficient supply had been imported, the scarcity

became excessive, the more so as in consequence of the many laborers employ-

ed on the railroad, the consumption of food was greatly increased. Still the

Lord did not suffer our people to want the needful. On the contrary, to our

great satisfaction some more families were enabled last year to settle themselves

altogether independent of the missionaries as far as their sccular affairs are

concerned; and we rejoice to see them thrive better than such as are supplied

with labor in our workshops and on our farms.

Still we cannot spare these,

for the present, as they prove in most cases the fittest means of effecting that

independence which appears so desirable.

Our carpenters’ shop under the management of Br. Lauffer gave

work to seven of our converts, five of whom were apprentices.

There was no lack of customers for the furniture manufactured by

them.

Still Br. Lauffer labored under great difficulties, as a sufficient

number of able hands and an adequate supply of seasoned woods

could not be procured. These unfavorable cireumstances will pro-

bably last as long as the railroad absorbs the best laborers and gives

a different direction to the trade in wood.— Our six looms proved

more profitable.

They gave occupation to ten members of the con~

gregation.

Codacul, the most important outstation of Calicut, about thirty

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miles farther south, became at the beginning of last year a source of

great anxiety. Through the goodness of our Lord it was brought to

light, that Catechist Paul had abused his influential position at

this place for the satisfaction of his own lusts.

In accordance with

1 Cor. v, 11 he was dismissed and excommunicated, and the leaven

of wickedness purged out.

Still the offence given-to Christians and

heathen was very great.

The poor man showed at first a rebellious

spirit against the mission, but has latterly been more submissive.

May he yet find place for repentance.—The presence of a missionary

on the spot being urgently required, a mission house was erected

by Br. Bosshard, who since October last has resided in the midst of

our Christian village at Codacul, inhabited at present by 186 souls.

He is assisted by two Catechists in the double duty of looking after

the Christians and taking advantage of the many laborers employed

on the railroad to preach he Gospel to them.

At Coilandy, another outstation of Calicut, about twenty miles

farther north, another Christian village is springing up. Here also

the work of the Lord has made some progress.

In March last eight

adults and six children were added to the church by baptism. May

all of them grow in life and in the knowledge of the author and

finisher of their faith.

The children of our converts regularly attend school. At Coilan-

dy especially there is a promising parochial school with upwards of

thirty children in it.

The Vernacular schools, in which the Word of

God occupies the first place as much as in our Christian schools, con-

tinue to be well attended, the school kept by the father of the new

convert David not excepted. The latter having formerly been a pupil

and subsequently his father’s assistant in the school, it naturally suffer-

ed for a time in consequence of his conversion, but soon regained its

old standing and it is now prospering.

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IV. NILAGIRIS.

Rev. F. Metz (1843

Rev. C. Mewrike (1845) and

Mrs. Merike (1854).

Rev. F. Kittel (1853).

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After many years of anxious expectation our brethren in this mis-

sion have of late been permitted to see the first gleams of the breaking

day of grace for the Badagas, and as we trust, the Hill tribes in gene-

ral

Since 1846 the gospel had been uninterruptedly preached to

them without any visible fruit.

During the last year however the

first convert from among them, a man of good report among the hea-

then, and for years impressed with the truth, found grace after long

delay to come forward with the determination of suffering the loss of

wife and children, of neighbours and friends, of house and goods, of

good name and property, in order to win Christ.

On the 31st Janu-

ary last he was baptized into the death of Christ, and at his own

request called Abraham, in the steps of whose faith he was resolved

to walk. Thus the first Badaga was added to our small Kaity church,

hitherto consisting exclusively of Christians from the low country.

On the forth April a Badaga youth, a former pupil of one of our

schools, likewise received baptism.—Abraham’s wife, who at first was

bitterly opposed to him, became at last reconciled to his conversion,

and now they both, together with their children, attend divine service

at Kaity and have family prayer in their own house, notwithstanding

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the hostility with which they are still treated by their neighbours.

A breach has thus been effected in the enemy’s stronghold, and some

more of its inmates appear to revolve in their mind the necessity of

escaping from the wrath to come by throwing themselves into the

arms of Jesus.

May they soon find strength to seek freedom in him

who makes free indeed.

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Halaya, now Abraham, is an inhabitant and one of the headmen of Tshgo-

torre, a Badaga village four miles to the south of Kaity. This place had been

frequently visited by our brethren since the establishment of our Nilagiri mis-

sion; and ten years ago it was selected as a suitable spot for a school.

When

however the heathen schoolmaster, upon being found to exercise an evil influ-

ence on the people, was replaced by a Christian, the school was deserted and

had to be closed. Still some had learned to read Tamil, and at times came to

Kaity to ask for books. Halaya, one of those few men, against whom his ene-

mies were never able to bring forward an evil report even in the days of hottest

persecution, was for many years employed as maistry in the Hoolikul coffee

plantation.

Here it was that many years ago some kind words addressed to

him by a young gentleman first directed his attention to the truth. From the

time that our brethren became personally acquainted with him, he showed a

marked interest in their message of peace, while an independent character,

superior powers of understanding, and a remarkable evenness of disposition

distinguished him from others.

Although long ago freed from any confidence

in idol worship and heathen practices, the fear of losing caste and being banish-

ed from family and relations, kept him from an open profession of his faith.

Baptism was the great stumbling-block in his way, which he did not see how

to get over.

He used to say, that he believed that Jesus was his Lord and

Saviour. Still he found no rest; he felt the necessity of confessing Him. In

order to prepare a way for himself, he asked the missionaries again to open a

school at Tshogatorre, promising a house for the purpose. He privately added,

that his object was to see his people made familiar with the gospel, and thus

to become prepared for a united adoption of Christianity. The school was

opened and began to prosper. Some months later he requested that a catechist

might be stationed at his village, and a prayer house erected there. So he

went on for some time, seeking means of winning Christ without suffering the

loss of all things, But the Lord became too strong for him. On the 21st June

1857 he attended divine service at Kaity when Br. Meerike preached from the

text of the lost sheep (Luke xv, 3—7). Wishing to apply these words to him in

particular, Br. Mcerike called him aside after the sermon, asking him, how long

he still meant to be one of the lost sheep, like the rest of the Badagas. His

answer was, “I have been a lost sheep, but now I am found! hitherto I thought

I might believe and be saved without being baptized; but now I see that I was

wrong and I am here to ask for baptism.” Br. Merike upon farther examina-

tion could no longer doubt his sincerity. He prepared him for the struggles

that awaited him, and arrangements were made that he should come every day

to Kaity during the ensuing week for special instruction. On the second day

he brought two others who seemed inclined to brave the storm with him. One

of them gave up his linga, the distinction of his caste, while the other hesitated

and preferred to wait one day longer. By the doublemindedness of the latter

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the alarm was taken.

Their intention was rumoured abroad, and the whole

village was stirred up. Their wives threatened to hang themselves or swallow

opium, a common practise of Badaga women when in degpair. Even Halaya

had no strength to withstand, and gave way under the pretext that it was his

duty to wait till his wife and children would join him.—Once more the brethren

had to possess their souls in patience for eight long months, during which they

together with many fellow-helpers to the truth, continued to pray for the man.

Br. Meerike visited him occasionally and was always gladly received. Even

heathens proved the means of cheering the brethren in these days of trial.

Thus one said to Br. Meerike, “you missionaries are like one who fills a pitcher

with water. During the first years of your preaching, only a fourth part was

filled. Some years more, and it was half full. Subsequently three fourths was

filled, and now it is on the peint of being full up to the brim, and of running

over.”—Another observed with reference to a remark on Luke 111, 17, “when

Halaya and his companions desired to be baptized, a wind came to divide the

chaff from the wheat; but the wind was not strong enough; a stronger wind

will soon arise, and then the chaff be separated from the wheat.”—In the mean

while the good shepherd continued to follow his frightened sheep. In January

last Halaya sent word without any previous intimation, that he would come

This time he had

next Sunday to be baptized. He kept his word, and came.

counted the cost, and the Lord gave him strength to stand firm. For one

week more he received instruction.

On Saturday he arrived later than usual

$0 that the brethren had some misgivings and entreated the Lord to help him

through all obstacles.

At last he came and explained the delay saying, “my

people did all they could, using tears and threatenings, to prevent me from

returning to Kaity; but by the power of God 1 have torn myself away from

them, and will no more see my house, until I have been joined to the

church of God. On Sunday he professed a good profession before many

witnesses, and his baptism into the death of Christ was a cause of general

joy and thanksgiving.

Abraham’s trials however were far from being at an end. His wife and

neighbours would not again admit him into his house. Wishing to over-

come evil with good, he lived for several months, forsaken by all his dearest

friends, on the coffee plantation on which he is employed. He was regu-

larly visited every week by Br. Meerike, and on Sundays he attended divine

service at Kaity. A week after his baptism Br. Meerike accompanied him

to his village to see how he would be received. All the people retired to

their houses as soon as they saw them.

When Abraham begged to see his

children, the mother said to them, “he is mo longer your father. He has

Your father is dead. You

thrown you away. Do not go near the outcast.

Abraham silently went to

are orphans.

Have nothing to do with him.”

his work.—His wife however was much distressed, and refused to labor any

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more on,account of the shame her hushband had heaped upon her. One day

Br, Meerike visited her, but as soon as he alluded to her husband, she

brandished a hatchet like a maniac saying, “when a young girl, he fetched

Seven children I have born to him. But let

me from my father’s house.

him not suppose that they shall ever be called Abraham’s children. I would

rather kill them than suffer them to follow him, the outecast.

He has no

love to me and his children, else he would not have thrown us away.

He

But the sins

said that wanting pardon of his sins, he had gone to Kaity.

he committed by doing so, are far greater than those for which he sought

forgiveness.”—She no longer permitted her two boys to attend the mission

school in the village, saying—%by him who is now lost for us, you may see to

what learning leads. My children are orphans and need no learning.”—After

some time however she became more resigned, and feeling the difficulty of pro-

viding for her children, entertained a desire of seeing her husband again but

was afraid of openly*expressing it.

Some weeks later Abraham paid her a vi-

sit when for the first time since his conversion she refrained from abusing him,

though she still spoke to him as a stranger. At last she invited him to return,

and since then she prays with him, and accompanies him to Kaity to attend

divine service on Sundays. By God’s grace she has become a lamb of the fold.

Their neighbours in consequence left the houses adjacent to theirs, and the

encmies use all manner of intrigues to annoy Abraham and his family. The

Lord however, who has protected them so far, will continue to be their rock

and fortress, their deliverer and their God in the midst of their enemies.

Throughout the last year the brethren continued to visit the dif-

ferent villages of the Badagas and other hill tribes with the gospel of

Christ.

Up to the baptism of Abraham they were received as in for-

mer years, some listening to them with attention, others receiving their

message with indifference or objections.

Since this event however, a

marked change has taken place.

Many who formerly appeared to be

impressed with the truth, went back, and when reminded of their pro-~

mise to become Christians as soon as one from among them was con-

verted, they turn aside with horror.

Br. Metz was often told that his

preaching was the cause of the great drought which prevailed on the

hills during the last years.

One day a respectable man interrupted Br. Metz by remarking that through

his new doctrine their gods had lost much of the respect and reverence in

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which they were formerly held and this he said was the cause of the great

drought and of all their misfortunes.

Others innocently remarked, “we have

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not visited our temples for these last three years and yet no rain has fallen,

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how is this?” Br. Metz replied, “worship with the lips avails nothing; give your

hearts to the Lord! Just at this time he was interrupted by a furious tumult,

caused by a body of people dragging a dead calf along with them and accusing

a Toda boy of having killed it by witcheraft.

Br. Metz protected the boy, and

when their anger was appeased, said to them, “No wonder, that all your streams

are dried up! Except you be born from above, you cannot be saved! In your

present state you would® turn heaven into a hell”.

When approaching some

Badagas, whose headman was asleep close by, Br. Metz was asked, whether the

latter would not go to heaven as he was so pious as to pray on his knees twice

a day. - He replied, that the man still was afraid of confessing Christ, and

therefore that all his praying could not save him unless he accept pardon of

his sins in the blood of Christ.

Having afterwards an apportunity of speak-

ing privately with this man, he asked him when he would be prepared to de-

clare himself for Christ. He answered, “How shall my sons find wives, and my

daughters husbands if I do so”.

Though he felt the forcg of Br. Metz's warn-

ing, not to love sons and daughters more than Christ, still he went away, de-

termined as he said to wait till another had made a beginnig. But since this

has been done, he keeps altogether aloof.—Br. Metz one day visited a Kurumba

village.

Their prayer consists in placing their hands on the nape of the neck

and erying like calves. They are so dull that the plainest truths had to be

repeated five and six times, before they could be brought to understand them

even a little. Still they were taught, that God had made them, and his Son had

shed his blood to cleanse them from their sins.

When hearing of this visit to

the Kurumbas, who are generally dreaded as great sorcerers, the Badagas felt

much annoyed, and one of their headmen besought our missionary to expel the

Kurumbas from their neighbourhood, alleging that he daily bowed his knees

before the book.—This was a copy of the New Testament, which his son had

received some years ago in one of our mission schools; and when it was explain-

ed to him, that God will have that all men should be saved without distinction

of persons, he went away dissatisfied.— While the Badagas almost despaired for

want of rain, the Kotas rejoiced at their calamity and faired sumptuously to

their hearts’ content on the cattle of the Badagas, which died in large numbers

from want of fodder.

Such is the wretched effect of heathenism among the

hill tribes.

Oh Lord, have mercy upon them!

Another most important step has been gained in this mission by

Hitherto it was

the establishment of schools among the Badagas.

found nearly impossible to collect boys without offering them some

pecuniary reward. During last year however our brethren succeeded

in establishing four Canarese schools.

They are kept by former pu-

pils of the mission, who though heathens, themselves do not work

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against the Word of God. Feeling moreover the necessity of a uni-

form system of school education among a tribe like the Badagas, our

brethren applied for the transfer to the mission, on the grant-in-aid

principle, of four Vernacular Government schools recently established

on the hills.

Their request having been granted, they now possess

eight schools, and Br. Kittel devotes his time exclusively to visiting

them. The attendance is still very small, each numbering on an ave-

rage only eight pupils. This however is not surprizing, as many boys

have work at home and others find employment on coffee plantations.

The late conversions also tended to draw away some few from the

schools.

Still we trust that this beginning may soon excite a desire

for learning among the Badagas, and it is hoped, that ere long these

schools will be established on a firmer basis.

Tamil teachers and

Tamil books having been introduced in those erected by Government,

they are retained for the present, though the language of the people

is a dialect of Canarese.—At Kaity there is moreover a school for

Christian children under a Christian schoolmaster, attended by four-

teen pupils, including boys and girls.

They are examined every Sa-

turday by Br. Mcrike.

Their progress, especially in the knowledge

of the Word of God has been satisfactory.

The Lord be praised for the distinguished blessings with which

this, hitherto sterile mission has been visited during the past year.

May it prove to be but the forerunner of many more years of future

blessings, when representatives from among all the hill tribes shall

become united in the love of Jesus!

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V. COORG.

Rev. H. Megling (1836) and Mrs. Megling (1844).

Excrisg ScmooL.

Rev. Ch. Richter, Headmaster. C’hﬁ;sz‘ian Kamsika.

Catechists and Sc}xoolxnasters.

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This mission consists now of three different settlements, Mercara

the capital of Coorg, with the English Mission School, Almanda, about

twenty miles farther South, where the Mission premises have been

erected, and Mukkaty, about seven miles to the north-east of Alman-

da, at which place a coffee plantation has been commenced with a

considerable number of Holaya families, who, as stated in last report,

had joined the mission in December 1856.

The relations of the Coorg Mission to our Home Committee con-

tinuing in the same condition of suspense in which they have been for

years, Br. Moegling has formed the resolution of visiting Europe in

order to effect a satisfactory arrangement in the affairs of his mission.

In the meanwhile we reprint at his request the principal portions of

an account of his work during the past year, which has been publish-

ed in the Madras Christian Herald.

The new congregation at Mukkaty are just now (January 1858) engaged in

gathering in their first crop, which is as good as could be expected for a new

crop raised on waste lands.

This harvest will not be sufficient, to support the

people for any great length of time, but their landlord has made arrangements

for giving them work whenever they are not engaged in their households or

farms.

Thus neither they nor I are burdened with any care.

Only one rule

is attended to, that he who wants to eat, must work. This is as it ought to be.

One family has again with-drawn from us. There were three brothers, of

whom one was so earnest in his desire to join the Christian church, and so

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energetic, as to prevail on his two reluctant brothers to follow him in coming

to the mission.

Lawrence was the man’s name, he was taken ill towards the

He lived but ten

end of the monsoon.

On his earnest desire I baptized him.

days after, and was then taken away. From the time of his death his two

brothers became more and more uneasy, and at last openly declared, that they

I told them that I deeply regretted

wished to join their heathen friends again.

their defection, but had no mind to persuade them to remain with us if they

had no faith in Christ.

They replied, that they knew I meant well and was

kind to them, but ¥the Word of God”, they said, “does not enter our minds”.

Their landlord having lent them a small sum of money, they returned it, and

took their leave. I have been told since that the elder brother is much addie-

ted to bhang, and could not give it up, and therefore withdrew from under our

control,

May the Lord have mercy on the poor men.

Their brother has I

trust found refuge with Christ, who is the life and the resurrection; but the two

surviving brothers have fallen back into hopeless darkness.—I am far more sur-

prized at the steadiness of all the rest of our company, than at the defection of

this one house.

The health of the new settlement has been remarkably good. Our heathen

neighbours expected, I might perhaps say—hoped that great mortality would

ensue at Mukhaty. The waste farm served for many years as grazing ground

to the whole neighbourhood, and the people calculated on recovering it soon

again, for if many of our men had died, as they expected, they felt sure that the

rest would run away. Our settlers were told that the devils of the place would

kill them for abandoning their old religion and intruding on the domains of

some of the chiefs of the devils. But the good hand of God has been upon the

congregation, and they begin to feel, that there is power on the side of the

Lord. Disease has heen kept away, and—not a little to their wonder,—all the

children born at Mukkaty since May last (seven in number) have been boys.

Heathens would consider this fact a most auspicious omen.

We may well see

in this increase a token of the Lord’s goodness towards the people, who now

call themselves by the name of Christ.

On the 6th December I baptized ten children, who had been born within

the last fifteen months, my wife and myself being acknowledged as sponsors

for their christian education, in case their parents failed in their duty or died.

I am afraid of hastening baptisms.

The whole company would be gladly

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baptized any day. But I fear that it would not be for the good of the poor

people, if baptism were lightly administered.—On the 4th December six couples

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preceded both the wedding and the baptism. The newly married people agre-

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ed to set the example of discontinuing the use of ornaments, and I hope that

the barbarous custom of adorning with silver and gold the human body, the

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erc long cease from among the congregation.—At the same time we rejoice in

observing a marked improvement in the cleanliness and neatness of our people’s

dress. Much, however, remains to be done in this respect.

The Mukkaty settlers meet morning and evening for prayer in their rudely

built church, and after their meals at noon, the Catechist Stephanas instructs

them in the elements of Christian knowledge. They know the Lord’s prayer

and the creed. In Old Testament History they have got as far as the history

of Jacob, and have had the Gospels read and explained to them. Once a week,

if possible, I preach at Mukkaty. When I am prevented from visiting it on Sun-

days, I send a written sermon which Stephanas reads to the congregation in

the Coorg dialect. -As often as it can be done, my wife accompanies me to

Mukkaty. On our wedding day, we gave the whole congregation a dinner, and

coffee, and they cheerfully acknowledged that such a feast was preferable in

every way to their former feastings, which were often wound up with quarrels,

and succeeded by headaches and other complaints.

On Christmas day our

friends at Mercara gave the congregation a dinner, which was a source of

great joy at Mukkaty. Our people felt themselves honored by the friendly

remembrance of the great gentlemen and ladies at the capital, and gave hearty

thanks.

Thus in spite of the distance between Almanda and Mukkaty, we

are becoming more and more familiar with our new friends, and hope that in

due time our friendship will merge into true Christian fellowship.

The English School at Mercara is prospering.

Since the holidays in

October and November, which were succeeded in December by the great

Coorg festival of the Huttare, the festival of the firstfruits,—the attendance

has been less numerous and regular; but the school is fast recovering its

former tome.

The number of scholars is rising towards one hundred. One

third of them are now Coorgs, lads of the principal families.

They make

fair progress, but are slower than the better class of scholars in the schools

on the coast.

They are especially fond of their drawing lessons, and of the

instruction which Mr. Richter gives them in natural science.

All opposition

on the part of the leading men among the Coorgs has disappeared, and we

trust that the school will in a few years tell effectually upon the minds of

the Coorgs.

Contributions have fallen off, but in times like the present we cannot

blame our good friends for losing sight of such a small mission.

If any

one, on reading these lines, blames himself, the remedy is easy. Notwith-

standing the retrospect on the events of the past year furnishes abun-

dant cause for gratitude

and praise—not of man surely, but of the Lord,

who in spite of our unprofitableness, continues to carry on His work of

grace.

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Before concluding the present account of our Indian missions we

deem it right to give expression to our heart-felt gratitude for the con-

tinued assistance we have derived during the past year from the pra-

yers and gifts of love of so many Christian friends and lovers of Jesus

1 India.

The day of His appearing will reveal how much the bles-

sings of last year have been due to their exertions. As to their dona-

tions they amounted to Rs. 10,842, exclusive of Rs. 3,232 yielded by

several endowment funds, and Rs. 2,874 contributed towards the

maintenance of several school establishments, besides Rs. 1,667 receiv-

ed in the form of grants-in-aid, and Rs. 783 collected from our scho-

lars in the way of fees and fines.

Thus about the fifth part of our

expenditure has been raised in India.—Through the sanctifying grace

of Him who has set us apart for His service in this country, we rejoice

in this co-operation for the welfare of its inhabitants, and consider it a

high privilege to be spent for a people whose only claim upon us con-

sists in their ignorance of those unsearchable riches of the love of God

to which all our happiness is due. We therefore confidently look for-

ward to the future support of such of our English friends as have at

heart the weal of a country committed by the Lord to their sway, and

who by the events of last year consider themselves called upon to

heap coals of fire on the heads of their enemies, not by a false forbear-

ance, but by furnishing them with the bread and water of life, and

thus bringing them to feel remorse like a fire burning within when

they see no relief there good for each. We were much cheered of late

by reading the following words of a devoted {riend, who for years had

labored in his various iufluential appointments to promote the tempo-

ral welfare of the people under his care. “Late events”, he said, “have

convinced me more than ever, that the Gospel alone can really bene-

fit the land. I hope that just laws and physical improvements may

make the road plain in some degree by showing the effects of Christi-

an policy; but it is from the mission work alone that any lasting be-

nefit can be derived; and when did Christianity ever spread without

tumults and convulsions.

God grant that what has been suffered,

may not be in vain, that we may go forwards and not backwards, and

that all our individual shortcoming

s hitherto may be forgiven us”.—

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We add with the words of Holy Seripture, that if there be any conso-

lation in Christ, any comfort of love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any

bowels of mercies; let this mind be in us which was in Christ Jesus,

who when seeing the multitudes, was moved with compassion on them,

because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no

shepherd,—and said to his disciples, pray the Lord, to send labour-

ers into his harvest.

Thus for we have prayed with regard to India,

Thy kingdom come!-—And now when he has visited us with his judg-

ments, to prepare his way and remove out of it that which obstructed

him so0 as to make straight in this desert a high-way for himself; when

he has come to exalt the valleys and make low the mountains: and

hills, to make straight the crooked and the rough places plain; that

his glory may be revealed and all flesh see it together: would: it be

right.if we were at such a time to allow our hands to hang down and

give up in despair? Is it not rather a time when he calls us to streng-

then the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees, so as to pray and

labor as much as lies in our power that his will-be done in India as

well as it is done in heaven!

Mission to China.

The reports which the late Dr. Gutzlaff was in the habit of send-

ing to Geermany of his labors for the evangelization of China replete

with the most chieering accounts of the happy results attending his

journeys and those of his native assistants became the means of awake-

ning a great interest for the Chinese among German Christians, and

since the conclusion of the English war with China in 1842, which

appeared to. throw open: the doors of that benighted country for the

entrance of the Gospel, considerable contributions: were received by

the Basel and other continental missionary societies for the purpose of

establishing a-mission there. At the same time Dr. Gutzlaff repeated-

ly applied for missionaries, who were prepared to travel through:the

length and the breadth of the provinces of this vast country, and to

preach the Gospel, as well as to superintend and direct the labors of

a considerable number of assistants he had collected. ~After long and

e

mature consideration the committee of the Basel society could not help

seeing in these circumstances a call from the Lord, and in 1846 two

brethren, Hamberg, and R. Lechler, were set apart to go forth to:Chi-

na and there commence a mission.

They were charged toleave edu-

cational and literary operations as much as possible to other societies,

and for the beginning at last to devote themselves.exclusively to itine-

With

rating as soon as they had sufficiently mastered the language.

great zeal they entered upon the work, and though beset with many

difficulties, their studies and labors were richly blessed. They found

access to the people, especially in'the Sinon district, ‘to the north of

the island of Hongkong.

In 1852 Br. Winnes was sent to their as-

sistanee.

In 1853 a regular station was established at Pukak in the

Sinon distriet, about twenty-five miles north of Hongkong.

In 1854

this mission was deeply afflicted by the loss of several of its laborers.

On ‘the 27th April Br. Lechler had the grief of seeing his partner

taken from his side by dysentery within little more than a month after

his marriage.

On the 13th May Br. Hamberg, the most gifted and

experienced of our missionaries in China was carried off by the same

disease.

His loss was the more painful, as he was uncommonly well

versed in the language of the people and eminently blessed in his

work, upwards of a hundred Chinese having been led by him to put

their faith in Christ crucified. His widow and both her children were

likewise so dangerously ill that they were compelled to leave the

country. On the veyage home, Mrs. Hamberg’s eldest child was call-

ed to its rest, and subsequently she herself with her only surviving

child soon followed her eldest child to the grave.

The work of our brethren in China however continued to prosper.

At the beginning of 1855 the church under their charge numbered

175 baptized Chinese.

Of these 19 lived at Pukak, the head quarters

of the missionaries, 87 at Lilong, an outstation about-three miles far-

ther north, 31 on three other outstations in the neighbourhood, and

38 in more distant parts of the province and on Hongkong. At the

beginning of 1856 they amounted to 180, and a number of doubtful

Christians who lived scattered over the provinee in every loose con-

nection with our brethren were no longer taken into account.

In the

15%

— 100 —

chapels of Pukak and Lilong divine service was regularly held by our

brethren.

At both places they had schools attended by the sons of

their converts.

English was introduced and proved an important

means of enlarging the mind of the pupils hitherto confined within the

narrow bands of Chinese self-sufficiency. Even a girl’s school was

opened at Lilong, this was a great step when we consider the aversion

the Chinese have to educating females.

Notwithstanding the difficul-

ties our brethren had to contend with chiefly from the obstenacy of

the Chinese and the great poverty of most of their converts, they saw

the result of their labors in the Christian walk and consistent practices

observed by many of their people.

The relation in which they stood

to the heathen neighbours around was also improving. = Though still

excluded from the interior of Pukak, the aid they had it in their pow-

er to afford to many of the inhabitants especially in days of sickness, did

not fail to excite a kinder feeling towards them. At other places in the

vicinity they were well received, and a fifth outstation was erected in

connection with Pukak.

About that time our missionaries saw another most promising door

opened to them. One of their most devoted native assistants, Tshong-

hin, a native of Tshonglok, about 150 miles to the north-east of Pu-

kak, undertook in August 1855 a third voyage to carry the gospel to

his countrymen. With a bag well stocked with books, such as Serip-

ture parts, Bible Stories, Milne’s sermons, catechisms, he set out, and

after a journey of eighteen days reached a village of Tshonglok, where

his sister lived with her husband. Here he made a stay of three

days, visiting most families to speak to them of the salvation of their

souls and distribute books.

To his great joy his sister and her hus-

band removed all idols from their house, and the whole family consis-

ting of seven souls, listened attentively to him. From this place he

turned his steps to his native village, where he was much grieved by

finding his mother had died. He found two native Christians, former-

ly baptized by Br. Hamberg, residing their faithful to their profession,

in the midst of their heathen neighbours.

Both being stone-cutters,

they had received no education whatever; still they had learnt by

heart the most important portions of a Christian catechism, and took

-~ 101 —

advantage of any opportunity to discuss religious subjects with their

friends. They felt much refreshed by Tshonghin’s visit.—At Tsham-

hang, another village of Tshonglok, the catechist met with a most en-

couraging reception.

Here two other converts, Tshisy and his son

Tsingy, baptized by Br. Hamberg at Pukak some years ago, resided

with their family, consisting altogether of nine souls.

Both possess

some education, and Tsingy had attended the Pukak mission school

for a whole year.

The whole family had renounced idol-worship and

were in the habit of holding daily family prayers, which were regular-

ly conducted by their father Tshisy since his return from Pukak. On

Sundays a number of Chinese used to assemble, to whom Tshisy would

read and briefly explain portions of Holy Scripture, concluding with

prayer. Catechist Tshonghin devoted himself especially to these peo-

ple, and in December returned to Pukak with the message that many

were anxious to receive baptism and have a missionary residing among

them, and that the headmen of the village had promised not to hinder

the establishment of a mission at the place, though they were unable

to guarantee its security.

From Tshonghin’s reports we extract some farther accounts of

persons he had ocecasion to speak to on his journey. Tshausy had

heard the Gospel-of Christ, and convinced of its truth, removed his

household idols, and no longer took part in the worship of his ances-

tors.

His wife, three children, and a young brother consented to fol-

low his example, while his father declared, that he did not wish death

to separate him from his ancestors but preferred to rest by their side,

adding at the same time, that he would not interfere with his children

if they thought they had found a new and better way. Tshausy and

his family were instructed by Tshonghin in the rudiments of Christian

faith. He and his wife determined to give their daughters in marriage

to such only as believed in the true God.—Tshungmu is a physician,

and well practised in the Chinese manner of inoculating small pox,

which is done by blowing into the nose of the children a powder pre-

pared from the crusts of the dried-up pustules.

On becoming ac-

quainted with the Gospél, he cast away his idols, and when practising

inoculation never permitted the people to worship Quanquim, the tute-

— 102 —

lar goddess of children, but' exhorted them to trust in the true God.

When attending the sick, he seized the occasion to speak to them of

the Christian faith. The catechist received frequent applications: for

books, which had been recommended by this physician.—Tshongwong-

ky, a Chinese graduate, and his brother, both relations of Tshonghin

acknowledged the insufficiency of the system of Confucius especially

concerning the state of the soul after death. 'When the catechist told

them that every one who did not believe in Jesus Christ, was in bon-

dage, they were deeply moved; but hearing of the only way of salva-

tion, they felt so afraid of the many difficulties with which it seemed

Still the old

beset, that they preferred the worship of Confucius.

doctor erected in his house an alter to the true God, as he said, to

show him respect by burning incense and performing various ceremo-

nies.

Another doctor, about eighty years of age, showed no inelina-

tion whatever to abstain from worshipping idols and ancestors, yet

acecepted a paper with the ten commandments printed on it, which he

pasted to the wall in his room, placing an incense urn under it, in

order to worship, as be said, the God called Jehovah. At Tshonghin’s

remonstrances he removed the urn.

Such are a few instances of the manner, in which ‘the gospel of

Christ has hitherto been received in China.

Notwithstanding the

great opposition encountered our missionaries were enabled to advanece

further and further into the stronghold of the enemy, when the present

war with’ China subjected them to such severe trials as to threaten the

very excllence of the mission and make them think that all their pre-

vious prayers and labors were lost.

At the outbreak of the war, the

governor of Canton offered a reward for the head of every European

brought to him.

Br. Lechler having at the time some affairs to at-

tend to on Hongkong, Br. Winnes was left alone at Pukak surround-

ed by enemies.

These, anxious to secure the offered prize, made him

a prisoner together with Br. Lobstein, a Rhenish missionary, who had

just arrived only in time to join Winnes in his flight to Hongkong.

Lobstein at once informed the Rev. Mr. Irwin of their situation by

despatching two converts to Hongkong. Théy reached the place in

safety, and Mri Irwin together with Br. Lechler called immediately on

— 105 —

the governor, who with the greatest readiness at once took the neces-

sary measures for the deliverance of our brethren. The same evening—

it was on Saturday the 8th November 1856,—a steamer with eighty

soldiers: was: sent off to the continent, and the troops were ordered

On

upon landing to push forward to Pukak, guided by Br. Lechler.

Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock they reached the mission house.—In

the meantime Winnes had desired the headmen of Pukak to negotiate

A thousand ounces of

with his captors for the payment of a ransom.

silver being asked, but refused, the enemies stormed the house, break-

ing the doors with forece, and assaulted the missionaries with their

swords and spears.

Lobstein managed to escape and hide himself in

a thicket, until he was discovered by a confidential servant, who fur-

nishing: him: with: a Chinese dress, helped him on to the coast.

After

many adventures: and escapes he reached Hongkong in safety.—

Br. Winnes was now alone in the same room with his enemies, who

began to ransack the house and rob whatever they could lay their

hands upon, clothes, watch, furniture, in short every thing except the

books, which they left untouched, at last the headmen concluded an

arrangement with the robbers for 240 dollars, which Winnes promis-

ed to pay on condition that he was set at liberty. They on the other

hand aggeed to take him halfway to Hongkong, if he would prevent

any punishment being inflicted upon them or upon Pukak. The head-

men promised moreover on this condition to take care of the remain-

ing property of the mission.

These affairs were so far settled, when

the British troops together with Br. Lechler arrived. Though the offi-

cers were much: opposed to this agreement, our brethren preferred to

pay the ransom in order to make good the promise given by Winnes,

and ensure greater safety for their converts, who together with the

mission: premises would otherwise have become the object of revenge.

On Monday morning at 4 o’clock Hongkong was reached again. Since

then our brethren have resided on that island looking forward with

anxiety to the time when they will be permitted to return to their

flock. In the meanwhile they labored among the thousands of Chinese

around them, assisting other missionaries in their schools, visiting the

prisons, and preaching the Gospel wherever an opportunity offers.

— 104 —

An intimate intercourse with their converts is kept up by such as

come to visit them, and by a regular correspondence.

The word of

God is not bound, though his messengers have been banished. As by

the Chinese revolution, so also by the present war, this mission has

arrived at a crisis, the result of which human sagacity is unable to

predict, while faith knows for certain that it is one of the throes,

through which God effects the regeneration of China, and leads

its inhabitants from death to life.

Missions to Bengal and Assam.

At the same time that the Basel Committee resolved to send

missionaries to China, an arrangement was entered into, proposed b};

an old and experienced missionary, brought up in the Basel Seminary

the late Dr. Heaberlin, for the establishment of a mission in Bengal.

Dr. Hazberlin having succeeded in forming an association of Christian

Friends for its support, the brethren Bion, Merk and Bost were sent

out in 1846 to join him, and were succeeded in 1847 by the brethren

Supper, Hesselmeyer, J. Meyer, Lehmann, and G. C. Dzuble.

Not-

withstanding many trials of faith, the Gospel was preached by several

of the brethren with great fervent and devotion, and a smal] church

gathered in the neighbourhood of Dacea. New stations were oceupied,

and Assam was taken up as a fresh field of operation. DBut the mis-

sion was not so steadily supported by Christian friends on the spot,

It became more and more involved in

as it had been anticipated.

pecuniary difficulties, increased by a financial crisis under which our

Home Committee labored at the time.

In 1849 Dr. Heaeberlin died.

The brethren Bion and Supper joining moreover the Baptish Mission-

ary Society, the mission was broken up. The services of the brethren

Merk, Bost, and Meyer were transferred to the Church Mission.

‘While both the latter have since retired from the

mission

field,

Br. Merk found a new sphere of labor at Kangra, one of the Church

Mission’s Himalaya stations. DBr. Hesselmeyer being maintained by

a missionary association in Assam, continues to preach the Gospel at

Tezpur and its vicinity. Br. Lehmann joined his brethren on the

— 305 —

Western Coast, where he is now the headmaster of the English Mis-

sion School at Cannanore.

Br. Deauble subsequently followed the

example of the brethren Bion and Suppe?, and joined the Baptists.

In 1853 he finished his course in faith at Nowgong in Assam.—In

this manner the Lord disposed of this mission, which like a lottery

had been cast into his lap.

Though it did not meet with his sanction

as such, it was a means of increasing the number of laborers in India,

and calling some sinners to repentance.

Blessed be his holy name

even for this most instructive failure.

The Home Affairs of the Basel Society.

In order to complete the sketch which it has been our object to

lay before our readers in the present Report we must not forget to

make mention of some of the most importaut changes which have taken

place at home since the formation of the society, and of the support

our work has met with on the European continent.

In December 1838 the Rev. Chr. Blumhardt, the principal man-

ager of the affairs of the Society for upwards of twenty-two years,

departed this life. A pattern of wisdom and caution, he appeared to

have been especially prepared by the Lord for the difficult task of

conducting the first German missionary institution of this century

through a generation careless of religion, opposed to vital godliness,

and scornful of every undertaking originated by the so called super-

stitious, bigoted, and narrow-minded pietists. Under his fostering

care the society gained ground in public esteem and confidence.

Missions were successively commenced under his direction in the

provinces of the Caucasus, in Western Afriea, and in India; and though

it became necessary to discontinue the first, and the African mission

was apparently lying in its last struggle at the time of his death, one

single missionary being left on the field, while twelve of his formor

pupils had laid down their lives in its establishment, and the Indian

mission was still in its infancy, (only Mangalore and Dharwar being

at the time occupied,) yet the foundation was laid for more extended

action, and Mr. Blumhardt left the society prepared for the contemp-

14

lation of enterprises, which it would have appeared adventurous so

much as even to dream of during an earlier period of the mission’s

His discernment of character, and his tact in managing

existence.

people, seldom failed. Ever busy in removing‘from afar difficulties

and offences, unnoticed by others; ever watchful in seizing events

favorable to the advancement of the cause of the Mission, patient and

even tempered to an extroardinary degree, firm in his own resolves

and principles, but sensitively cautious of offending or provoking

others, he did his work with the harmlessness of a dove and the wis-

dom of a serpent.

In 1839 he was succeeded by the Rev. W. Hoffmann, who distin-

guished above many by boldness of faith and largeness of views,

carried the bark of our mission out of the safe harbour of small and

cautious beginnings to the high seas whither large ships alone are

wont to venture.

When in 1849 after nearly eleven years of inde-

fatigable labor he was forced by bad health to retire from his post,

he left our West African mission re-established on a new foundation,

and extended to two stations.

Ten new stations had been occupied

on the Western coast of India, and new missions commenced to China

and Bengal.

The seminary at Basel had reccived a most important

addition by the establishment of a preparatory institution for the

probation of such young men as apply every year for admission into

the mission college. His exertions were especially blessed in awaken-

ing a more general interest in the mission cause.

A society for

female education in heathen countries was formed at Basel under his

direction, to labor hand in hand with the missionary society. Colper-

teurs with appeals reminding Evangelical Christians of their duty of

co-operating for the conversion of the gentiles, with maps representing

in strong colours the present religious state in different quarters of

the world, were sent forth in every direction.

New auxiliery societies

were called into existence, and missionary anniversaries became more

frequent throughout Protestant South Germany and Switzerland.

Contributions considerably increased in consequence.

‘While in 1841

they amounted to about 3900 pounds only in 1845 they reached the sum

of 10722 pounds, and though a reflux set in since the prevalence of distress

— 107 —

in South Germany on account of the revolution and famine, yet the

annual receipts continued on an average to amount to 9800 pounds.

This period of expansion was followed by a system of consolida-

tion under the direction of our firm and energetic principal, the Rev.

J. Josenhans, to whose care the affairs of our mission were entrusted

on Dr. Hoffmann’s retirement in 1849.

Since then the missions in

Africa and China have cast deeper root and commenced to bear fruit

while the Bengal mission was dissolved. Through Mr. Josenhans’

visitation of our Indian stations from October 1851 to May 1852 a

new and more comprehensive system of administration and manage-

ment was introduced, and the way prepared for the establishment of

several new settlements in connection with the fields already occupied.

At Basel a third institution was erected, providing the children of our

missionaries with a suitable home, from which they attend the school

establishments of the town, and thus at the same time are brought in

contact with other children. A new and more regular source of con-

tributions was opened by the formation of half-penny associations,

consisting of members who agree to pay every week a half-penny

towards the funds of the society. This new sceme was so well receiv-

ed, that in 1856 it had already yielded 5400 pounds.

The labors which devolved on the Committee, at their weekly

meetings, and particularly on the Principal, so rapidly increased in the

course of time, that special sub-committees were formed for the

management of the finances of the Society, the Industrial Department

in connection with our missions, the Children’s Home, and the half-

penny collections, were made over te the management of the Prineipal,

who is allowed several assistants to help him such as an editorial

Secretary and several Travelling Agents; these latter are generally

missionaries, who have been forced by sickness to abandon their work

abroad and return to Europe. These all assist Mr. Josenhans in sustaining

and extending the interest for the mission cause on the European

continent, while in the management of the two institutions for the

education of missionaries he is supported by six resident teachers,

besides several assistant teachers from the town.

14 %

— 108 —

Upwards of three hindsed: fidsioneries have gone forth from

these institutions since their establishment.

About ninty of them

have been called to their rest; sixty-six continue in the service of

the Basel Society, while sixty-one are employed by other societies,

and upwards of fifty labor among the Germans in South Russia and

North America.

accounts seventy-four

According to- the last

young men are now under training in both institutions.

Every

year fifty and more applications for admission are received. The

candidates are desired to furnish a short memoir of their former

The committee select

life, together with the necessary testimonials.

such as they believe to be converted and fit for mission-work to the

number of fifteen and more. Two years in the preparatory institution,

and four in the theological Seminary is the period fixed for their

education, which however under certain circumstances is often con-

siderably abridged. — The Children’s Home contains at present

twenty-two sons and eight daughters of missionaries.

The auxiliary societies and their anniversaries are visited as regular-

ly as possible by delegates from Basel, while the Basel anniversaries

form on a reduced scale a counterpart to those in London in the

month of May. They are generally held in the week, in which June

closes and July begins.

On the preceeding Sunday sermons are

preached in all the churches of the town bearing on the advancement

of the Liord’s kingdom upon earth.

On Monday the Protestant Union

of Switzerland has its anniversary, and a conference i held on the

sﬁbject of the distribution of the Secriptures. Tuesday is set apart

for the anniversaries of the Friends of Israel Union formed in 1821,

and the Basel Bible Society, established in 1804.

Wednesday and

Thursday are devoted to foreign missions.

On Wednesday fore-

noon the students of the seminary are examined, and the association

for female education in heathen countries have their public meeting.

In the afternoon the first public meeting of the Missionary Society

is held, when the annual report is read, followed by several addresses.

Thursday morning is occupied with a conference for the discussion of

mission subjects, while the second public meeting of the society takes

place in the afternoon, in which after some more addrssses the newly

— 109 —

appointed missionaries are solemnly set apart by prayer and lay-

ing on of hands.

On Friday the friends of the Gospel meet at

Beuggen, nine miles farther east, where in 1820 an asylum for disti-

tute children and a training institution for pious schoolmasters was

established.

The anniversary of this highly blessed seminary, a

forerunner and representative of the inner mission work, befittingly

concludes the annual series of the Basel anniversaries, which for many

years past have become a gathering point for living Christians in

Switzerland and South Germany as well as Western France, while

visitors from North Germany and even from England, Sweden, and

Russia are met there, and it may not be out of place, if we seize this

opportunity of drawing the attention of our Indian friends to these

annual seasons of refreshing, which have proved so useful in reviving

and sustaining among continental Christians the consciousness of the

communion of Saints.

For the purpose of advocating the cause of missions in general,

and of diffusing authentic knowledge of the proceedings of the Basel

mission in particular, annual Reports are published in German and

French, a Missionary Magazine and the Evangelical Heathen Messen-

ger are edited every month in German, while a French periodical,

“la Voix des Missions,” appears every three months. A Basel mission

Atlas has been lately issued, and Missionary Tracts as well as Tllus-

trations of Missionary Scenes have been prepared in both languages

to stir up and nourish a deep rooted sympathy among all classes of

Protestant Christians for the work in Heathen countries, and many,

who were afar off, have thus been brought nigh and in reading of

others learnt to care for the salvation of their own souls.

We conclude with a few words about the present financial position

of our society:.

We acknowledge with humble thankfulness the good-

ness of our Lord, who has so abundantly provided for all our wants

during the past year.

When in 1852 it was scarcely expected that

the receipts of our Society would ever exceed the sum of 10000 pounds,

f

and at that time a debt of 2000 pounds pressed heavely on our Society,

and in 1844 a deficit of upwards of 1000 pounds greatly increased the

difficulty, the receipts in 1855 amounted to 18,200 pounds, and in 1856

— 110 —

to 23,340 pounds, Thisincrease was due especially to the blessing which

the Lord had laid upon the half-penny collections, and the munificent

present of a friend in Basel of 100000 francs (3773 pounds) as well as to

the increased support which our work met with in India.

Thus our

unbelief was put to shame.

Sufficient means were placed in our hands

not only to cover former deficiencies, but also to provide for consider-

able extraordinary charges which had become requisite owing to

many vacancies in the ranks of our missionaries calling for an un-

usually large number of new laborers, and the necessity for purchas-

ing new premises for our three mission institutions at Basel, those

hitherto occupied having been rendered unappropriate owing to the

establishment of a central railroad station in the immediate vicinity. —

So far the Lord has helped us and we are constrained to acknowledge

in these figures a message addressed to every one connected with our

Ex-

mission by the Lord himself whose the silver and the gold is.

cept He build the house, we labor in vain that build it.

Itis vain for

us to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrow.

Our

help cometh from the Lord, to whom all power is given in heaven

and in earth, and who is with us alway even unto the end of the

world.

It is He, who desires us to go forward and increase our

exertions for the advancement of his kingdom in proportion to the

means with which he has entrusted us.

The present is not a time to

weary in well doing, so much the more as we see His day approa-

ching.

If ever, now is the time when he desires us to consider

one another, to provoke unto love and to good works, and to

pray and labor in vital fellowship with the Spirit and the Bride

for the coming of Him who as distinetly says to us as fo his

servants of old, “Surely, I come quickly.”

Amen. Even so come,

Lord Jesus!

CENSUS OF THE MISSIONS

OF THE

BASEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Mission-

I aries.

Scnoors

CONGREGATIONS

ToTALS

Boarding

Vernacular

Schools

Schools

NAMES

OF

MISSION STATIONS.

Catechumens

(Boys and Girls)

belonging to the Church

A

Established in

Brethren

Sisters

Catechists & Schoolmasters

Schoolmistresses

Heathen Schoolmasters

Preparandi

Boys

Girls

Christian Day Scholars

English Scholars

Boys

Girls

Total

Communicants

Non-Communicants

Children

Total

Catechumens

Members of the Church and

Schoolmasters & Scholars not

Grand Total

INDIA

Tuere CANARA STATION

1. Mangalore

®ecvrcecoceeec00000000 0

1834

10

ot

0f 68

h4

150

75] 30

388

253

21

207

481

34

515

260

775

2. Mulky

©80 000608400200 00600000000080

1843

20

70

64

108

169

177

177

3. Udapy

©ec0000c c020c0000000000000

1852

OO

27

27

52

i3

54

119

13

132

152

|

e et e | e e

Total

16

1§L

%

—

=

50| 68j101

150

75( 80| 485

369| 36

64

769

55

824

260

1084

Et\') S © N

EO‘.OOUI

|

romsescn. | “Escnener | acveme

s | 4enonse.

B e b pe——

1I

SouTHERN MAHRATTHA STATIONS

Dharwar

©ccsoboctereobesses0cee s

1837

180

189

15

19

37

40

184

224

Hubly

©vc0sccvv00000C09RC00B000 00

1839

220] 15

242

14

17

33

238

274

Bettigherry

@eccoesecenv0vcesc00see

1841

214

241

10

29

39

41

218

59

Malasamudra

1841

29

20

38

59

64

O QO b =

Guledagudda

1851

— DD = N =

64

_‘%

g

—_—— ) ——— ———

;2)(;

(§)

g

g

13

20

21

42

§

44

44

Total

n;ili

§

kil

24

2

614| 15

714

79

§

15

%

e | s | oy e

=

2

e | SS—"

124 210

225

640

865

III. MArABAR STATIONS

1. Cannanore

1841

54| 65(115

320

554

199| 38| 1b4

391

20

411

500

911

2. Bellichemy .. =0 ... o o 1839

43

0

9154

80

294

76

4

87

3

170

241

3. Chombala

1849

167

411

0 45

75

120

61

3

60

124

15

139

77

216

4. Calicut

Geveo0bo0c 0098000000000 0 0

1842

§

— e —

;8)))

50| 31

140

—— e |

%

221

1551 47

134

336

38

374

145

519

—

Total

‘ii

%

15

s

43 104 150 269

615

0(1189

4911 92| 435 1018

76 1094

963{2057

IV. Nivaeirr Starion: Kaity

0000000

1846

3

g

0

0] 14

64

78

4

139

29

0

29

72) 101

V. Coora StATION

®oe 0000009000000

1853

3§§

Ol 291 90

0] 119

31 12

19

34

120] 154

92| 246

B e | sy S (S ——

Total of Indian Stations

42

16{ 62

40 19

117/194|333[509|1368| 4512585

948[151] 961 2060

266,2326|2027|4353

s

somcaames

WESTERN AFRICA.

I

AxRRrA STATIONS

1. Christiansborg

11845

DO

&,

45

55

59

20

79

)

85

114

2 Abokoby . ....o.oi i, snns 1854

DO

e e

NS

10

15

SIS

i)

15

35

36

77

18

95

160

II. AxuariM STATIONS

1. Abud

see0c00c0000000000000000

14

po

1847

16

16

19

0

i)

11

30

2. Akropong

®o “000000000000000sps s

1844

5

@2 (==

14

11} 18

59

0

96

60

:

28

92

8| 100

54

154

III. Axm Stariox: Gyadam

1854

3

(=

2

0

2

0

[CENELS PRGNS R,

Total of African Stations

15

10

10

14

11} 28{129

0] 182} 170

cuamemonia | s

10

89

269 26| 295| 105

400

s | osarmm | Svozmm—

CHINA

1. Pukak Station

seceocseccecc00000e 0

1853

0] 24

241 114

86] 150 21 171

0

171

2. Tshonglok Outstation

1856

._é.

—_—

0

0

2

100 108

0] 108

—_—

Total of Chinese Stations

—_§

.—g)

0] 24

24] 120

38| 158)121) 279

0279

Grand Total

2

Emmmas | oo | Sem—T | e,

o

26

:)

4§

331

28

V4

221486(509 1368 451279111238]161{1088/2487/413/12900[2132]5032

|

Lo

Expenditure of the Mission.

DURING THE YEAR 18561857,

o

Rs

As

Ps.

Expenditure of 30 Brethren, 14 Sisters

23,277

15

Journies, including 2 home passages

11,022

Moonshees

595

14

Catechists

5,428

10

Postage

954

Libraries

326

15

Buildings and Repairs

17,204

13

Catechists Institution at Mangalore

351

Boys Institutions

3,400

Girls’ Institutions

6,251

English Schools

12,243

11

Yernacular Schools

3,902

Church Expenses

4,461

Taxes

341

11

Sy B O a3 N3 P W N W N O

2

2399

1

~

Printing Establishments

Agricultural Outlay

3,485

11

Interest

120

Sundries

1,064

Total Rs. 97,031

Sl O O N

E

S8 DT

Mangalore, 31st October, 1857

G. PFLEIDERER.

{

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS,

FOR THE MISSION.

Received from November 1856 to 1857.

MANGAILORE.

Rs

ACENOWLEDGED BY BR. PrLEIDERER.

G. Wallace Esq.

50

Mr. Chapman, Nasik

50

oo P

co @

Remitted to Messrs. Parry & Co.

R. W, Hunter Esq. C. S.

Madras.

Tannah

50

Rs

A. P.

Lieut. Col. Phayre,

Bombay

50

H. T. Church Esq.

Singapore

40 0 O

H. B. Boswell Esq.

C. S. Tannah

o O O

Remitted to Messrs. Lyon Bro's & Co.

Capt. Willoughby,

J. Bosanquet Esq.

Poona

30

<

Bombay 100 0 0

Rev. G. Candy,

25

Collected by Rev. C. W

Isenberg,

Bombay

Bombay.

J. Campbell Esq.

25

Genl. Lester

50

Rev. C. C. Menge

30

W. W. Peyton Esq.

15

G. C. Bombay

20

Dr. Leith

200

§

A. Bosanquet Esq. thro’

Rev. C. W. Isenberg

20

50

J. Ko M.

20

COID & oD

Rev. G. Candy

H. L. Anderson Esq.

The Right Honorable

@S

20

<

Lord Elphinstone

100

dJ. F. Molesworth Esq.

Poonah

200

D. J. Kennelly Esq..

20

100

Dr. H. Miller

20

H. Hebbert Esq. C. 8.

Dr. Mead

20

J. M. Harrison Esq.

20

Poonah

100

A. Taylor Esq. Tannah

A. Bosanquet Esq. C. S.

Rev. A. White,

Ahmedabad

100

Bombay

15

Dr. Craig, Aden

15

C. E. F. Tytler Esq.

Maj. Mylne, Bombay

i

SO0 SCOOO

C. 8. Ahmednugur

100

J. D. Faithfull Esq.

Lieut. M. A. Sweny,

10

I. N. Bombay

100

Bombay

A Friend

50

(;)

W. Blowers Esq.

10

Messrs. A. H. Huschke

J. F. Remington Esq.

10

10

& Co.

50

S

‘W. Campbell Esq.

10

OO oo

SO OO0 SO0 [ e i (=] SO oo o

Hon'’ble A. Malet Esq.

R. J. Young Esq.

C. 8.

50

Rev. C. F. Schwarz,

J. Hunter Esq.

50

Jooneer

10

50

SO O (= [oelilerd

SO

10

o O

(=]

J. H. for R. Brown Esq

Mr. Graham, Nasik

— 113 —

Rs

g

)

Rs. A, P,

F. Hutchinson Esq.

Rev. A. Stern, thro’

Bombay

10

Rev. A. F. Lacroix 10 6 10

Rev. Dr. Fraser

10

Mangalore Native Congre-

A Triend, Bombay

14 3 2

gation

W. H. Payne Esq.

HOOBLY.

E. L. J,

A. Fouley Esg.

ACKNOWLEDGED BY Br. MiiLLER.

Lieut. Finch

20..0. 0O

T. E. Darke Esq.

G. Stanger Esq.

B

Native Congregation

180 0

G. H. Wright Esq.

§

SO ODO OO O OO

OO0 O DD

Mr. Dickinson,

MALASAMUDRA.

Jooneer

()

=

.

Mr. Sanderson,

AcRNOWLEDGED BY Br. LEONBERGER.

Native Congregation

312 0

Dsharungaum

Rev. Narayan Sheshadri

:

<

SO

BETTIGHERRY.

R. N. Latimer Esq.

Nasik

0

" AcknowrLEDGED BY Br. WilrTa.

(e ie]

Rev. J. Buuter, Jooneer

Native Congregation

5. 2

ReEcErveDd 1N MANGALORE

GULEDGUDDA.

AckyowLEDGED BY Br. Kins.

Sub. F. N. Maltby Esq.

Sept. 1856—Aug. 1857

600

e

Maj. J. G. Balmain

100 O

W. Lavie Esq.

Capt. Scott

25 0

Nov. 1856-—0ct. 1857

120

Don. W. Fisher Esq. C. 8

150

DHARWAR.

200

A. Hall Esq. C. S.

SO O

O DS

ACKNOWLEDGED BY Br. KAUFMANN,

J. D. Robinson Esq.

C. S

50

Sub. Mr. C. Courpalais,

E. D. Binny Esq. C. 8.

50

oo

<D

13 months

26

Don. G. A. Laughton Esq.

15

Maj. C. W. Hodson,

Col. A. Maclean.

16th M. N. I

100

Maj. G. Carr 16th

»

200

M. Haig Esq.

30

CoDO

(§)

Lieut. W. Gompertz ,,

50

Arthur W. Jones Esq.

dito. thro. Mr. Haller

22

Bo. C. 8. 100

J. Melville Esq. Bo. C. 8.

25

J. R. Kindersley Esq.

120

e e SR ke

Mzr. Jnkes

A Wellwisher

50

15

§

OO

Brigr. P. Thomson

00

C. M. E. Glasford Esq.

M. D. Meppen Esq.

25

for Vern. Schools

5

!

Dr. J. Brett

81

J. B. Pemberton Esq.

5

o QO

in monthly contbr,

210

Stewart S. J. Gordon Esq.

Dr. H. Gundert

200

CoOoooOCOC oD

SO OO OCOO S

Bo. C. S.

50

E

[

J. Bosinger Esq.

T. Ogilvy Esq. Bo. C. S.

S

2

for the Mission

50

Proceeds of Photography 45

%

for Vern. Schools

50

Dr. Sperschneider, Trivandrum

thro. Col. R. Faunce, 2d Regt. 5

0

E. Mahaffy Esq. M. D.

20

Rev. T. Kiibler, Madras

5 0

Native Congregation

61

é

QIO O

S. Miiller Esq.

75 11

KAITY.

J. Mc'Intyre Esq.

50 0

SN OQ

Rev. Mr. Morris, for thé

AckyowrLEperp By Br. MarIkE

Girls School

10

0

Mission Box

g 1o 7

Mr. J. Ball

5

0

[eo e

Col. Beaumont

20 0 O

15

T

b

— 11

Rs

g

il

Rs

i

Col. Woodfall

40

T. Machell Esq.

15

Jackatallah Brethren

20

Mr. W. Graham

20

10

For marrying a Couple

Pr. P. H. West

35

Dr. Maitland

46

Native Congregation

16

o oo P

P R

Messrs. . & H. Groves

30

F. Orme Esq.

150

CANNANORE.

E. B. Thomas Esq.

25

OO ®@

do. for Schools

5

ACKNOWLEDGED BY Br. HEBICH.

Lieut. Haig

28

Capt. Hoare

25

Remitted to Messrs. Arbuthnet & Co.

Maj. Minchin

100

Madras.

Miss Minchin

12

20

ROt o

Hon'ble W. Elliot Esgq.

100

Capt. Falconexr

20

0

0

o

Mr. W. Scott

>

C. F. Chamier Esq.

Kaity Christians:

fort

—_—o 000D WO

woococoomoococoocooa I

Lieut. P. P. O’Connell,

Nov.—June 1857.

CALICUT.

8 months 25 Rs. 200

AcrnowLEDGED BY Br Fritz.

Dr. E. W. Eyre

36

T. J. Knox Esq. Girls Ins-

H. D. €ook, Esq. to Sept.

90

titution 100

6

Capt. Crowther

€. F. Shubrick Esq.

100

DD

Capt. Barnes

5

Thro’ him from W. Dowdes-

€. J. M. Dixon Esq.

100

well Esg.

15

G. Glasson Esq.

100

Dr. Short

10

W. Goodwyn Esq.

60

50

13

F. H, Goldic Esq.

Capt., Haultaim

H. Stokes Esq. for 1857

300

DO RD

L I e RN 4 o e 1S

W. Holloway Esq.

20

From a Friend, thro.

J. Hodges Esq.

15

Rev. A. H. Alcock 30

T. Onslow Esq.

30

cCoooLIDP O

PO D

]

W. Robinson Esq.

€. W. Bird Esq.

10

)

for Schools 100

Thro' him from Mr. Holdens. 3

»

for the Mission 100

o P

»

Mryr. Gordons 3

E. B. Thomas Esq.

5

(e oReo]

Maj. F. 8.

Gabb

25

g

E. C. G. Thomas Esq.

40

o o0 © <

SO0 @ X S R @

Nov. 1856—Aug. 1857. 200

H. Newill Esq.

A Native Christian

’

Thre’ him from

" €. G. Master Esq

20

Rev. Dr. Schmid

»

R. W. Barlow Esq

15

Mrs. Schmid

”

H. Tulloch Esq.

15

D. Schmid Esq.

A Friend

12

Native Congregation

N W O

POoOOLDSD

OO

50

Lord Harris:

CHOMBALA.

€ol. Lawrence:

50

AcrNowLEDGED BY Br. MiiLLER

Dr. Goodall

10

Native Congregation

11 10

Capt. Tripe

20

Capt. Bruce

TELLICHERRY.

Capt. Puckle

OO 2O OO

]

20

o

O 0oL L@

i

AcrNowrLEDGED BY BR. IRION.

Dz Cleghorm:

G

J. Hodges Esq.

20 0

By Rev. A. F. Lacroix, Calcutta.

V

Mr. J. H. Schmid

12 .0

D

Maj. Genl. J. Parsons

50 0. @

— 115 —

Re.s A. Po

Rs

AP

By Lyon, Brother’s and Co. Bombay

By Maj. J. E. Halliday, Bangalore

0

Dr. H. Goodall, Mhow

15

0

25

0

Capt. A. J. Bruce

Capt. P. Francis, Coim-

batore

50

Dr. H. Cleghorn

50

E. B. Bruce Esq

5

‘W. H. Lawson Esq. Cochin 10

0

Maj. H. D. Sheppard

10

Lieut. W. Gompertz 16th

Lieut. J. W. Orr

5

M.N. I

50

50

0

Mzrs. Puckle

10

C. Reade Esq. Cuddalore

Mrs. Whitlock

5

Brig. Lawrence, Trichino-

Capt. Kennedy

5

poly 50

0

Col. F. A. Grant

20

Dr. A. Goodall, Bangalore

20

0

20

OO OO OO0 G

COOOLODOOQO

20

0

§

Maj. J. E. Halliday

H. Cowie Esq. Calcutta

By 8. N. Ward Esq. Ootacamund

By T. N. Chase Esq. Masulipatam

Capt. P. Francis

50 0

J. J.C

10 0

50 0

M. C.C

100 O

J. A. Boswell Esq

50 O

S. N. Ward Esq,

100 O

SO

T. N. Chase Esq

F. H. Crozier Esq. Nellore. 50 0

COOL

By G. A. Harris Esq. Chittoor

From Mr. Whiteside and

By Dr. W. Hilbers, Hoonsoor

5

himself 13 0 O

D. Maty

F. H. Crozier Esq. Nellore 20 0 0

W. Taylor

By Surgeon T. White, Secunderabad

W. Karr

Lieut. H. B. Smith 2d E

R. Blafild

2

ESL 100 0 D

J. Stevens

1

Hilbers

25

CTOLOOO

SO ODOOO

Surgeon T. White

100 0 O

R. D. Parker Esq. Madura 50 0 O

Maj. H. J. Brockman, Bangalore

Capt. C. E. Taylor 35 N. J. Sircy.

Mrs. Nelson

0

Mzr. James

10

0

Mzis. Taylor

15

1

Capt. Taylor

15

0

Lieut. J. S. Brock

10

0

H. M. 8. Graeme Esq

12

Col. Begbie

10

0

5

Maj. H. J. Brockman

50

0

SO DO L

Schoolmaster Whittle

Apothecary Stimpson

2

COoOOoCOC

CooOQ

(E

By Garrison Surgeon W. G. David-

By Col. R. N. Faunce, Trevandrum

son, Trichinopoly.

24

Maj. Phillott

15 0

J. A. Brown Esq

Dr. Davidson

20 0

oD

J. R. A. White Esq

10

Dr. J. Sperschneider

10

Mzr. A. Green

12

%:

By G. A. Harris Esq. Chittoor

SO DOO

SO0

Mr. W. S. Whiteside

3 0

Dr. A. N. Magrath, Madras 200

30 0

‘W. Harper Esq

By Mrs. Anderson

G. A. Harris Esq

10 O

SOD

Capt. Gerrard

10

Lieut. Hamilton

5

[ e)

O

By Capt. A. J. Bruce, Toomkoor

Maj. Hervey

40

By Genl. J. A. Bell, Rangoon

12

W. J. Addis Esq

20

Maj. Burton

%

%

G. C

20

Lieut. Moor

5

W. Charlesworth

R. Beatty Esq

10

From a Friend

Lieut. J. R. Mackenzie

50

10

COCOODOO

CLCOOSOL

Lieut. T. Moxon

5

SO OD

COLCOOP

0

W. Lacey

2

15

— 116 —

Rs

AP

Rs

Lieut. F. A. Foster

1577 0 0

PALGHAUT.

Capt. W. T. K. Rolston, for the Girls

School at Chiracal

200,./0

G. L. Mozris Esq.

35

2bi 0 0

Dr. J. B. Stevens

10

Capt. R. Ranken Kamptee

Capt. J. Keating

Lieut. M. W. Carr, Samul-

Col. W. G. Yarde

12

cottah 20 0 0

Dr. J. R. Theobalds

505 050

Capt. T. Crafton

Capt. F. M. Haultain

50

Native Congregrations at Cannanore,

Mryrs. Ritchin

Col, Clemons

15

Chiracal, Taliparambu, and

Chovva

1315

[

J. Hodges Esq.

Apothecary J. Murray

Capt. H. Rigg

S0 000 OO O

DO

Sircy

12

T. J. Knox Esq. through

15

Messrs. Arbuthnot & Co.

60

Capt. J. Keating

170

o O

oo

Maj. A. G. Young

45

E. B. Thomas Esq.

Dr. Maxwell

10

Native Qongreg

ation at

Cannanore Church

211

OO0 O

Palghaut

4

10

-3

O OO O

A

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Bxtra Donations for Chevva.

From the Ist Nov, IS36 to the 9th Oct. 1837,

Genl. J. Bell, Burmah

200

<

AcCKNOWLEDGED BY Br. HEBICH

Mrs. Sandeman by Maj.

50

80

A Thankoffering

A. G. Young

Dr. W. Hilbers, Hoonsoor 100

:‘1

Capt. R. 8. Dobbie

100

Two Friends

49

Capt. A. W. M. Kerr

25

J. A. C. Boswell Esq.

30

Lieut. J. N. Wilson

25

5

Mrs. Hamilton, Coonoor

Lieut. F. G. Hodgson

20

%}

DOOOOOD

Brig. P. Thomson

100

Lieut. P. A. Carnegy

Maj. G. Carr

100

%

DO DO OOCO

From the French Rocks

By Capt. Selby, thro. Br.

Brethren

1i9

<o

F. M. Fritz

36 13

From Friends at Palhully

Maj. A. G. Young

w370

thro. F. A. Groves Esq. 118

Lieut. W. Gompertz

100 O

(o=l e len]

85

14

o O

?apt. R. 8. Dobbie

Donations and Subscriptions for Schools.

65

J. D. Robinson Esq.

Einglish School at Mangalore.

E. D. Binny Esq.

20

Government Grants in aid 636

J. Brett Esq. M. D.

13

%

H. S. Thomas Esq.

Sub. F. N. Maltby Esq.

325

18

F. Anderson Esq.

130

J. G. Thompson Esq.

W. Lavie Esq.

130

J. R. Kindersley Esq

20

Dr. Jowett

G. A. Harris Esq.

Lieut. M’Gregor

Lo areoll o i oo v e (v

SO0 O

E

'W. Fisher Esq.

70

W. Molle Esq.

86

S DD OROD

DO 00 DO

— 117 —

Rsi A P

Rs

F. Anderson Esq.

32

Donations for the English School

60

Building.

D. Mayne Esq.

J. R. Kindersley Esq

20

D. Mayne Esq.

100

J. G. Thompson Esq.

J. D. Robinson Esq.

50

W. Fisher Esq.

14

J. R. Kindersley Esq.

20

20

E. D. Binny Esq.

J. G. Thompson Esq.

Maj. C. W. Hodson

60

H. 8. Thomas Esq.

15

Maj. G. Carr

10

Lieut. Goddard

15

Dr. J. Brett

12

J. Brett Esq. M. D.

100

OO OO

SO OO O

Lieut. W. Gompertz

10

Maj. C. W. Hodson, 16th M.

G. A. Harris Esq.

N. 1. 100

Lieut. S. Galbraith

DOoOODO DO DN P

coocoococoocoocon.d

Lieut. W. Gompertz

b

100

Lieut. M’Gregor

10

Emglish School at Tellicherry.

Mr. J. Ball

10

Government Grants in aid 893 13

1

[y

H. A K

200

H. Frere Esq.

100

English School Boys

16

SCoOoOoOoOo

DD Oith D

R. Chatfield Esq.

80

T. Clarke Esq.

60

Vernacular Schools at Mangalore.

W. Robinson Esq.

90

Government Grants in aid

-

712

240

E. C. G. Thomas Esq.

F. Anderson Esq.

32

E. Brennen Esq.

36

J. R. Kindersley Esq.

72

Dr. West

19

J. G. Thompson Esq.

50

M. Hoossein, Sudr Ameen

D. Mayne Esq.

40

Messrs. J. F. Pereira

24

Dr. J. Brett

12

Mr. W. Graham

36

G. Harris Esq.

L)

J. 8. Laport

12

H."A, K.

18

SCOOODOO WO

OO C OO O

S. de Rosario

12

J. Pereia

12

Bralumin Girls School at Mangalore.

J. H. Schmid

Government Grants in aid 66 0 0

§

Ramen Menon

OO ODODODOOLOLOODOO

SO0 OOOoOOOCDOOED

Additional Donatiens

forthe Mission received since Nevember 1857.

Dr. Leith, Bombay

100

Mangalore.

Rev. M. Hormusdjee

5

Mzr. Jenning, Bandmaster

5

J. Bosinger Esq.

45

Native Christians, Surat

8

200

A Friend XV.

100

SO O O

oo O O

F. N. Malthy Esq.

Dr. J. Brett

80

OO

OO0 O

Dharwazr.

W. Lavie Esq. to

Messrs. Arbuthnot & Co.

20

Mr. Chr. Courpaliais

10

300

A Friend XV.

Lieut. J. Goddard Engr.

wr. Ph. Boell, Bandmaster

120

35th M. N. L.

5

Dr. Chimmo, Moulmein

14

ek

ok

A Friend

30

J. R. Kindersley Esq.

120

SWOOD

SO0

Cannanore.

By Rev. C. W. Isenberg, Bombay.

Maj. W. G. Arrow, Nag-

Dr. Mc’Farlane Secun-

pore

B0 0.0

derabad 264

— 118 —

Rs

b

"

Rs. A, P,

G. A. Harris Esq. Chit-

Mzs. Goodwyn for

toor 30 0 0

Girls school

60

9.8 ©

Mrs. Bean

Mr. Whiteside

By Mes

srs. Arbuthnot & Co. Madras.

Mrs. Schmid

Lieut. P. O’Connell Esq.

200

D. Schmid Esq.

Hon'ble W. Elliot Esq.

100

W. H. Lawson Esq.

44

100

E. B. Thomas Esq.

30

Maj. Genl. Budd

Col. D. H. Stevenson

50

E. B. Thomas Esq. by

C. F. Chamier Esq.

.25

Mr. Laurent of Beypore

J. B. Elton Esg.

50

Dr. Cleghorn

10

300

Soooo00

SO0 OO O

C. J. M. Dixon Esq.

H. Stokes Esq.

45

J. Marden Esq. thro. Lieut.

E. C. G. Thomas Esq.

30

O’Connell

12

<o

<>

Mrs. Cook

W. H. Stanes Esq.

Lieut. A. R. Fitzgibbon,

70

Tellicherry.

16

Capt. Bean

Mrs. Maxwell of Orchardton, Scotland,

Dr. Crocker

thro’ H. Frere Esq.

25 0 O

Vedamuttoo Alia

12

oo LOLLCOD OO0

CoOoLOLOODOLLO@ SO O L

Mrys. F. Miiller from friends

Nilagiries.

in Wiirttemberg, for the

46

Boys School 5 0 0

Dr. Maitland

Capt. Hoare

10

Calicut.

Col. Beamont

30

Col. Clemons

25

W. Robinson Esqg.

200 0 O

Miss Clemons

SCOOCDOD

POOOOO0QO

ditto

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