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Christ-Sarasin, Esq., Senator, Rev. Dr. A. Ostertag. President. Rev. F. Gess. Rev. E. Burckhardt, Secretary. Rev. J. R. Respinger. Rev. J. Josenhans, Corresponding Ch. Sarasin-Sauvain, Esq., Sena- tor. Secretary and Principal. C. . Spittler, Esq. G. Courvoisier-Lowndes, Esq. Rev. A. Sarasin. Rev. C. Peter. Rev. W. Le Grand. U. Zellweger, Esq. The Committee meet at the Mission House on Wednesday evenings or oftener, if required. Financial Sub-Commitiee. A. Christ-Sarasin, Esq., Senator, Ch. Sarasin-Sauvain, Esq,, Senator President. G. Courvoisier-Lowndes, Esq. Rev. E. Burckhardt, Secretary. Th. Linder-Courvoisier, Esq. C. F. Spittler, Esq. Th. Braun, Esq., Accountant. Rev. J. Josenhans, Corresponding Secretary. Industrial Sub-Committee. Rev. J. Josenhans. Th. Braun, Esq, Ch. Sarasin-Sauvain, Esq., Senator Sub-Committee for the Education of Missionaries’ children. Rev. W. Le Grand, President. Rev. A. Sarasin. Courvoisier Vonder Miihll, Esq., Rev . Dr. A. Ostertag. Treasurer. Rev . J. Josenhans. Rev. G. Meuret, Secretary and Rev Mr. Cramer. Director of the Children’s Martin Schmerber, Esq. Home. Sub-Committee for the Halfpenny collections. Ch. Sarasin-Sauvain, Esq., Sena- Mr. Witzig. tor, President. J. Von der Miihll-Ryhiner,Esq. Courvoisier von der Miihll, Esq., F. Sieber-Heusler, Esq. Treasurer. Martin Schmerber, Esq. H. Burckhardt-Jselin, Esq. Th. Braun, Esq. Dr. Balmer-Rink. 1* oAl INSTITUTIONS. COLLEGE AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL. Resident Masters. Rev . J. Josenhans, Principal. | Rev. Th. Weitbrecht. Rev . F. Gess. Mr. J. Kolb, Headmaster of the Rev .6, Peter. Preparatory School. . A. Schauffler. Mr. Ziegler, Assistant. Rev Assistant Masters. Dr. Mosley. Mr. Hoff. English Teachers, t Dr. Staehelin, Medical Instructor Dr. _Hauschild, Music Master. STUBENTS. College Division. School Divi- l sion Class | Class | Class | Class | Total Native Country. Class | Class I IT IIL 18% 'VT VI 29 From Wiirtemberg 14 Switzerland Baden France Sweden India Hesse-Cassel Oldenburg Hamburg Prussia Austria Hungary Greece Russia .90 6 © OO0 MR b Ut Africa o0 O © © OO - @ Fi o Sl el o) o) |- i) (&) (@hies D) (=) @) \O) i (o [S=Y e S N B I ot P o i s ) DRt %i 1 Total } j)%;)) RS Fleoocoenopolione o, ‘14]10517 13‘69 10 o, CENSUS OF THE MISSIONS. JANUARY 1859. Missiona-| ries. SCHOLARS Native Christians ToTALSs Boarding Parochial Vernacular Schools Schools Schools NAMES OF MISSION STATIONS. Catechumeni YS belonging to the Church Native Schoolmistresses Total Communicants Non-Communicants Children Catechumeni Members of the Church and Schoolmasters & Scholars not Grand Total Established in Brethren | Sisters | Catechists & Schoolmasters Heathen Schoolmasters Preparandi Boys Girls Girls English Scholars Boys Girls Total INDIA. I Tue CANARA STATIONS, | sevseeses et eresassee 68| 42 149 60 27 362 306 215 526 47 573 232 805 1. Mangalore 1834 11 2. Mulky 1843 Z 46 0] 39 20 0 105 133 170 309 54 363 369 3. Udapy ere0vees cecsvvesssccsooe e 1852 Aoy (e R e £, e Total 16 14 (} 5 46 68f 81 99 149 . | . | om——— || s—a 60| 27| 467| 439 11 385 8350101 936 238 1174 s | e | S— —— et | oo II. Tae SourHE MAHRATTHA STATIONS i . Dharwar eccescsaesrsessscncanssne 1837 195 200 26 46 46 199 245 . Hubly 1839 2 180 189 19 37 1! 48 183 231 essesssecssvesssec e 1841 130 155 o % ® 28 37 37 133 170 . Bettigherry 3 . Malasamudra 1841 2 g 39 40 60 11 7 Tt lgf . Guledagudda 1851 § (% ((Ej g tqwomw g 0 g 103 23 23 48 49 93 142 - 22 Total : | comrim | wmmmmon | somsami | csemn | ssmm—w——" 5 % 1 % 24 2 15 595 677 81 — 0 W O 136 228 23 251 608 859 . | r— | — | o—" | o—— | cc— | ———— | cotm— | csm—— || ar——— | . | s———— | mec— || o— || —— w—— III TaeE MALABAR STATIONS. Cannanore essserssesssssesaroacs 1841 160 384| 27 623 243| 40 139 422 14 436 574 1010 1839 178 110 348 78 101 182 185 290 475 Wellveherty of oot oo oo 65 Chombala ®sessoessscssoacsesvas e 1849 71 24 58 114 70 65 139 10 149 214 Calicut 1842 5 0 150 208 164| 45 166 375 47 422 154 576 Ot OO DO = Palghaut 1858 % b ped ek QO DD % O N0t é (.%): g 0 0 52 (0 % 52 11 0 11 52 63 Sghes | | et — Total (L) |8} WO NDOO et (S4) 5 96 35| 50| 390 702| 32|1345 562| 92 475 1129 ;4 1203 1135 2338 B B e e L [ | e B e | P e Bl ] 18% sereasces 1846 Him 103 0} 113 10 22 2 109 131 NinAeirr Srarion: Kaity 18 J 3 ;’ ‘\ 72 3 24 74 2147 COORG STATIONS ool ciaeic s 1[\') QO' 2 —_ | AL ?) 21 10 0| o 104 8 33 110} 1o Sl Totals of India Missions 4 221 D 37 , ]G {21 611 1028 2247 21644719 188]164| 87 emra | e | meeo—r— 1460|_59|2706/1099|120 - = SN SU——— o 30812555 WESTERN AFRICA. AKKRA STATIONS. g 1. Christiansborg ®secsss o sscsese e 1845 O 2 20 27 55 99 41 140 140 140 2. Abokoby %%eese s e s ss0noseassesenea 1854 N 0 SIS 8 10 50 9% 97 ()il 9 II. ADANGME STATION. 1. Odumase t° 400080 s s s s s 000 ssse 1856 12 20 16 23 III. AxuAriM STATIONS. 1. Abude cscesseseevcosesoevsossnene 1847 2 14 13 18 19 11 30 20 2. Akropong @eicssses0escsssesosons 1843 ) 14 21 60 56| 18 101 0| 101 10 111 IV. Agm Srarron: Gyadam cress e 1854 2 (.Ej i E e 1l o L] [y A el —_— e Totals of Africa Missions 17 12| 12 2 11 34 48| 36| 30 § LB 225k 1) 123 367 1| 368 37 405 N e e | oromas | aneenon | cammm—" woamonirin || e | | csacominss | ceemmm am CHINA.# 1. Pukak 80+ sssesescessessscsessen 0 0 36 150 21 171 o) 171 1853 24| 114 2. Tshonglok Gecessscssssssevecasea s 1856 0 _g 4 s Eaal SR e RO S 0 | o 0 0 0 | 2 DaL 6 0 2 A L it 8;;100 e Al 108 0| 108 Totals of China Missions. v | mcemazme | cssn. | SoEmres | sarmaacrasioa i) § *Z (E) 0 1‘ Emmone | romreneee | comrmer | vommmase | s—| —— | o————— | e | <racm— | | amo— | co— § 24/ 12 0 38 158 121 279 0} 279 Grand Total: | 647 75 37| i‘ 27|155|256(224117| 611/1460| 59|2889,1444|139|1189 ‘zzzzj430113202 2201 540:”3“ * Copied from the Returns of last year's Report. +E xclusive of six brethren at Home, for the benefit of their health. Dire Tuts (o Chil Rex Re Re Re Re The 123 10 11 e Children’s Home. Director Rev. G. Meuret Tutor. Mr. W. Eellon Governess Miss C. Scholz Children, Boys 22 Girls 8 el Total 30 Travelling agents. Rev. C. Peter, Travelling Secretary. Rev. Dr. F. Zaremba,Russia. Rev. J. Huber, (late of Calicut, India,) Switzerland. Rev. F. Miiller, (late of Tellicherry, India,) Wiirtemberg and Baden Rev. H. Albrecht, (late of Dharwar,India,) Hessen and Nassau. Names of Missionaries. The letter (m.) after the name indicates, that the Missionary is married, the'letter (w) that he is a widower. The names of Lay-Brethren are marked by an asterisk. Date of | | active Name. Birth. Native coun- Station. try. Ser vice. [ ey . Missionaries employ- ed in India. S. Hebich. 1834 Cannanore, 19 April 1803 | Wiirttemberg Dr. H. Moegling m 29 May 1811 do 1856 Coorg. Dr. H. Gundert m 4 Febr. 1814 do 1838 At Home. J Miiller m 15 Jan. 1813 do 1839 Hubly. . J. M. Fritz w 5 June 1815 France. 1839 Calicut. . J. J. Ammann m 6 July 1816 Switzerland. 1839 Mulky. 1841 . Ch. Irion 6 July 1812 Wiirttemberg Tellicherry . A. Biihrer 29 Jan. 1815 Switzerland 1842 Mangalore. Cannanore. ;% . Ch. Miiller m 2 Fan. 1819 Wiirttemberg 1842 10. J. B. Metz 29 June 1819 do 1843 Nilagiris. 11. G. Wiirth 18 Sept. 1820 do 1845 Bettigherry e Date of Native coun- active jf b Name. Birth. try. ser- Station. vice. 12. J. G. Kies 25 Febr. 1821 | do SN 1845 Guledagudda. 13. Ch. Moerike 10 Febr.1822 | do & 1845 Nilagiris. 14. B. Deggeller 27 April 1822 Switzerland 1846 At Home. 15. G. W. Hoch do 1846 6 May 1821 Mangalore. 16. F. Lehmann g:.: 20 Ocl:. 1823 Bavaria 1848 Cannanore. 6 Jan. 1822 1849 Malasamudra. 17.#J. Leonbergcr. m Wiirttemberg 18.% J. Haller m 15 Febr. 1825 do 1851 Mangalore. 20 March 1825 19. H. Kaundinya w. Canara, India 1851 Mangalore. 20. E. A. Diexz m 25 Dec. 1826 Wiirttemberg 1851 Chombala. 21. ¥ G. Plebst 16 Aug. 1823 do 1851 Mangalore. 22. O. Kaufmann m. 19 Oct. 1828 Baden 1853 Dharwar. 23. F. Kittel 7 April 1832 Hannover 1853 Coorg. 24. * G, Pfleiderer 28 Sept. 1829 Wiirttemberg 1854 Mangalore. 25. F. Sauvain m 26 Dec. 1829 Switzerland 1854 Coorg. 26. G. L. Richter m. 4 May 1829 Baden 1855 Coorg. 27.Ch. Aldinger m 4 Jan. 1826 Wiirttemberg 1855 Tellicherry. 28. J. Strobel m 19. Febr. 1832 Frankfort 1856 Palghaut. 29. W. Herre m 27 Sept.1831 Wiirttemberg 1856 Tellicherry. 30. *J. Lauffer 4 Jan. 1834 do 1856 Calicut. ) 31.* J. Bosshard 27 Dec. 1827 Switzerland. 1856 Codacal, Calicut. 32. *J. Hunziker 1831 do 1856 10 May Mangalore. 33. C. G. Hanhart 25 May 1831 do 1857 Chombala. 34. P. A. Convert 1832 17 Sept. do 1857 Calicut. 35. W. Roth 21 Febr 1828 In;aden 1857 Bettigherry. 36. J.Fr. A. Maenner 22 July 1828 Wiirttemberg 1857 Udapy. 37. Ch. J. Wiirtele 21 Nov. 1833 do 1857 Nilagiris. 38. J. Huber 28 Febr 1834 Switzerland 1857 Hubly. 39.. 2@ R R Hahn 17 Febr 1833 Wiirttemberg 1857 Malasamudra. 40. *8. G. Schoch 13 Dec. 1835 Switzerland 1857 Mangalore. 41. H. Hauff m 1825 1857 | 8 Sept. Wiirttemberg Mangalore 42. H. A. Finckh 30 Nov 1831 do 1857 Mangalore 43. J. G. Burckhardt 20 Nov. 1829 do 1858 Tellicherry. 44.*C, Ch Schlunk m. g1 Jan. 1831 Prussia 1858 Cannanore. 4 Dec. 1832 1858 45. J. J. Briegel Wiirttemberg Udapy. 46. J. Mack 18 May 1836 Baden 1858 Mangalore. 47. J.F. Traub | 30 July 1834 Wiirttemberg 1859 Udapy. 48. R. Hartmann |1 April 1831 Switzerland 1859 Mulky. e Rl e Date of active Birth. Native Coun- Station. Name. try. ser- vice II. Missionaries employ- ed in Africa. .J. G. Widmann m. 30 Jan. 1814 Wiirttemberg 1842 Akropong. Abude. . J. Ch. Dieterle m. 20 July 1816 do 1846 s & J. Mohr. m 22 June 1814 do 1846 At Home. . J. Stanger w 24 June 1820 do 1846 At Home. . C. W. Locher m 13 June 1819 Switzerland 1849 Christiansborg . J. Zimmermann m 2 March 1825 Wiirttemberg 1849 Christiansbhorg . S. Siiss 6 Jan. 1822 Baden 1850 Gyadam. . J. A. Mader m 18 Jan. 1826 Wiirttemberg 1851 Akropong. O 0 a3 O O b W N = .J. G. Christaller m 19 Nov. 1827 do 1852 At Home. 10.* H. L. Rottmannm 26 May 1832 Holstein 1854 Christiansborg 11. J. Heck 1832 1856 Abokoby. 4 May Wiirttemberg &2 * H. Schall 31 Deec. 1825 Wiirttemberg 1856 Christiansborg 13. *J. Haas m 22 March 1832 Switzerland 1856 £ Akropong. 14 ¥ M. Ried 1 March 1833 Baden. 1856 Abokoby. 15 *J. Kromer 5 Febr. 1837 1857 Wiirttemberg Gyadam. 16 * H. 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To meet the wishes of many of our English friends, our last re- port contained a retrospect of the history of the Basel Missionary So- ciety, and gave a short account also of its Western Africa and China Missions. Our esteemed Committee have now gone a step farther and directed us to publish henceforth, instead of our former ¥German Evangelical Missionary report” an annual English report of the Bas- el Missionary Society, in which, however, the account of the Western India Mission is to take prominence, for the information of our Indi- an Friends and Contributors, and for the use of the Committee in Europe and elsewhere. Thus our nineteenth report is the commence- ment of anew series of a more general and, we trust, more interesting character. The history of the Basel Society during thé past year bears the character of rapid progress and unusual exertion, but is marked also by more than ordinary trials. The Indian Mission has been reinforced by six Brethren,— Burkhardt, Schlunk, Briegel, Mack, Traub, Hartmann,—and four Sis- ters, the Misses Lang, Braeuninger, and Jaeger,—now married to the Brethren Herre, Aldinger, and Strobel,—and Miss Daeuble. Besi- des these, Br. and Sr. Biihrer were permitted to returnwith invigor- ated health to their former station at Mangalore, and Br. Moegling returned in January to his station in Coorg, now adopted by our Committee. To the strength of the Western Africa Mission were added Br and Sr. Locher, returning from home with renewed health, and two e Sisters, Schweickhardt and Scholl, engaged to the Brethren Laissle and Haas. The Brethren Hornberger and Haupt were sent to the V) same part of the world in connection with the Bremen Missionary Society. Two ordained Brethren were sentto Western North America, and seven Brethren were transferred from Basel to the theological se- minary of the German Evangelical Synod at Marthaville, Missouri- Thus twenty Brethren and seven Sisters have left Basel during the past year to increase the number of Evangelists in various parts of the world. On the other hand we have had to mourn the loss of five of the younger members of the Western India Missions. In September last sister Deggeller, a few months after the birth of a son, whom the bereaved father has since taken home to Switzerland, was suddenly called from amongst us. The deaths of four Brethren followed in rapid succession. Br. Hausser of Mulky, who had arrived in 1856, died in the same month of September. Br. Keuler of Mangalore, who had also come out in 1856, followed in October. Br. Camerer of Udapy, in India since 1855, died in November; and Br. Handrich of Dharwar, a fellow passenger in 1856'f Br. Hausser and Sr. Deggeller, was called to his rest in March last. The Western Africa Mission lost two Brethren, Hoenger who had joined in 1857, and Baum who had arrived in 1855. We mention here also the deaths of Mr. Winkler, formerly a student of the Basel College, and afterwards inthe service of the Church Missionary Society in Tinnevelly, and of Mrs. Lehner, widow of Br. Lehner, for many «years member of our Western Indian Mission, and latterly when his health forbade his return, Missionary to the Jews at Darmstadt in connexion with the Kirk of Scotland, Four Brethren and one Sister have returned home from foreign stations: Br. and Sr. Christaller from Western Africa, Br. Lechler from China, Br. Deggeller from India, and Br. Gundert, who left by the last Bombay steamer in April. = g The enlargement of the Missionary Establishment at Basel has become a necessity. The extension of protestant Missions in the world requireé a proportionate increase in the number of Evangelical Missionaries. Two Evangelical Societies in the Netherlands have applied to Basel for agents to be employed in the Dutch colonies in the east. A Society at the Cape of Good Hope has made a similar application with a view to establish a new Mission in the South-east of Africa. The committee, having been unable for several years to send their regular contingent of Brethren to the Islington College of the Church Missionary Society, their old and faithful ally, have been forced most reluctantly to return refusals to the applications of the above societies. The Basel Missions to India, China, and Western Africa, in which latter country the Bremen Missionary Society have associated themselves with us in a community of plans and operations, require a constant and increasing supply of laborers. The demand of Missionaries, Evangelists, and Pastors for the hosts of German emi- grants who fill the United States, and spread farther and farther to There is no lack of the westward, becomes more and more urgent. applicants for admission into the Basel Missionary Institution from all parts of Germany and #witzerland. The number of young men, who offered themselves to the Committee in the past year amounted to fifty-five, and a large number of them appeared to be men of the right stamp, whom the Committee might have received with full con- fidence, had there been room for them in the Mission-House. After long and mature consideration the Committee came to the conclusion, though rather reluctantly, to quit the old home of the Mission within the walls of the city, where their space was insufficient for the con- templated enlargements, to purchase a larger piece of ground without the walls, and to erect a new Mission-House, spacious enough to con- tain under one roof both the School and the College Divisions, and a ) RS separate building for the Missionary Children’s Home on the same premises,—so0 as to facilitate the constant supervision of the whole es- - 1 -~ tablishment by the Principal and the members of the Committee. The former Children’s Home has been purchased by the great Swiss Rail- W way Company at a liberal price. The sale of the old Mission-House, after the completion of the new great building, will realize a consi- derable sum, and the rich Friend who had given the Mission four thousand pounds (100000 franes) two years ago, when he heard of the new plans of the Committee, gave them a farther donation to the same amount, and on his death, which occurred during the last.year, left them a legacy of eight thousand pounds, and another of the same sum to be paid after the decease of his widow. Thus the hands of the Committee have been strengthened by anextraordinary and provi- dential help, when their wants at home and abroad required an extra- ordinary supply of the silver and gold, which are still at the command of the Lord. For the despatch and immediate suppoft of the large number of Missionaries who were, as above stated, sent out to differ- ent parts ofthe world during the past year, together with the erec- tion of the new Mission House and Children’s Home, must have far exceeded the ordinary resources of the Society., The Committee will in future be enabled constantly to train in the two Divisions of the Missionary Institution, from ninety to one hundred Brethren. They have to fear no lack of suitable candidates, and may annually send out from fifteen to twenty young men in their own service and in connexion with associate Evangelical Missionary Societies, German and English, irrespective of men from Tiibi;lgen and other German Universities, of whom they have alwayshad a small supply, and whose numbers, it is hoped, will increase as the churches of Germany learn to comprehend their sacred duties and privileges in regard to the evangelization of the world. The course of study in the lower and higher Departments of the Missionary Institution comprises the usual routine of primary instruc- tion, the German, English, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, (three years have lately been accorded to the study of the English e language instead of two formerly,) and a course of Biblical and Pra- ctical Theology, in which the Seriptures hold the chief and central position, and into which the exposition of modern and unscriptural systems enters only as far as is necessary for their intelligent compre- hension and refutation.* It is unnecessary especially to mention, that History and Geography, profane and sacred, Mathematics, Musie ete- are carefully taught with a view to qualifythe Basel Brethren for taking an active part in the educational labors of those foreign Missions, in whose services they may be ecalled to spend their lives. Almost all the Brethren at Basel are of German or Swiss descent. Some of them are the sons of Basel Missionaries, or of men who have themselves gone through the Basel College. One Hindu and one It is Western Africa Brother are at present among the students. hoped, that in time to come, Chinese, African, and Hindu students will mingle in greater proportion with their German Brethren in the Basel Institution, upon which the good hand of God has been, we are almost tempted to say, visibly extended from its first establish- ment in 1816. The Children’s Home, established in 1855, has, as may’be supposed, gradually increased in the number of inmates. During the last year the boys and girls have been separated. A married clergyman resides #These have always been the principles of the Basel Missionary Institution. Had it been otherwise, the Church Missionary Society, whose soundness of theological principles no one has ever suspected, would not have availed them- selves so largely of the aid of men drawn from the Basel college, among whom we may mention the names of living and departed Brethren, such as Gobat, the Bishop of Jerusalem; Dr. Pfander, formerly in the North of India, now in Turkey; Weithrecht of Burdwan; Leupoldt, formerly of Benares, now of Luck- now; Isenberg, formerly in Abyssinia, now in Bombay. Had the principles of the Basel College changed, the majority of their friends and supporters in Switzerland and Southern Germany, who are the salt of the earthin those parts, would have been alienated from the ‘Society. But the cogtra.ry, we are happy to say, is the fact. 3 - T with the boys, and exercises the duties of the father of this large fa- mily. He has twenty-two boys under his immediate charge. The Y younger ones receive their instruction at iome; from the eighth year they attend the public Grammar School. The girls, eight in number, live in separate lodgings under the direct care of an unmarried lady, who has devoted herself to the service of the Mission. In the new Children’s Home the two sections are to oceupy different parts of the same building. The Committee have for several years employed travelling agents. Three Brethren from the Western India Mission, Br. Huber, Br. F. Miiller, and Br. Albrecht, are constantly engaged with considerable success in strengthening, deepening, and widening the interest takenin the Basel Mission and Missions in general throughout Switzerland and the Alsace, Wiirttemberg and Baden, Frankfort and Hesse. Br. Haas, an old missionary of the Basel Society, formerly engaged in the Shusha Mission, now a clergyman of Wiirttemberg, paid during the last year a long, interesting, and successful visit, with the kind sanc- tion of the present Czar, to the Baltic provinces of the Russian Em- pire. Br. Felician Zaremba, also one of the oldest Basel men, mem- ber of a noble Polish family, in by-gone days of his youth employed in the diplomatic service of Alexander I, after his conversion a deser- ter (subsequently pardoned, how:ver, by the pious Czar,) tothe Mission- ary service of Christ, has, after the lapse of forty years, obtained leave from Alexander II. to revisit the countries of his earlier labors, whither the Basel Committee have sent him with the commission’to re- new and strengthen the bonds of brotherly love, which have of old united the religious part of the German colonists in the Southern provinces of Russia and in the Caucasus, with the ancient centre of Christian fellowship at Basel. He has visited Petersburgh, has tra- velled along the Volga, crossed the Caucasus, returned to the Crimea, visited Odessa, and is now sojourning in Bessarabia, whence he is shortly expected to return to his Basel head-quarters. BT e Western India Hission A short résumé of the most prominent events and changes of the past year may best serve to introduce the reports of the different sta- tions The past twelve months have been a season of steady progress The Lord has shown us that ¢His grace is suf- amidst many trials ficient, and His strength is made perfect in weekness.” The Mission-fleld has been enlarged in some directions In Ma- labar, Palghaut has been raised from the rank of an out-station to A fifth that of a station, and a Missionary appointed to reside there District has been added to the Mission by the adoption of Coorg where Br. Moegling had been engaged single handed since 1853 In most districts the congregations have gained in numbers and According to the last census we trust, in grace and strength also the number of converts amounted to 2060 of whom 948 were com- municants. The present census shows nearly 2300 converts under our charg with upwar ds of 1100 communicants.* The increase has heen greatest in Malabar, (111 baptized, and 71 communicants,) and in Canara, (66 baptized, and 70 communicants). Especially we have to praise the Lord for the rich blessing vouchsafed of late to our Coorg Mission, where on Palm-Sunday forty-two souls were baptized, of whom twenty-four partook of the Lord’s supper with the Brethren on Easterday,—The South-Mahrattha country was more than any other of our districts exposed to dangers from the mufiny Some of our Brethren were by special providences kept from harm during the ab- ortive revolt of Bhimaraya in the vicinity of Bettigherry and Malasamu- dra Yet even in this District some souls were added to the church In Hubly our Brethren had the privilege of receiving a small num- ber of young men, who in former years had attended a Vernacular school of theirs On the Nilagiris the terror, caused by the first #*The general Report having been drawn up some time after the dates ounts. of station Reports, some discrepancies have arisen between the two ace * BhE 0 an breach of the enemy’s strong hold, has notyetsubsided. The Badaga church consists still of the two men, who were baptized last ] year. Though backslidings and relapses on the part of some of our converts, and of such too as really “had tasted the good word of God” now and then deeply grieved our hearts, yet on the whole we have to acknowledge to the honour of the Lord, that His Word and Spirit have not proved ineffectual. In the Tulu congregations in Canara the spirit of discontent and mistrust, by which so many had been led as- tray, has entirely disappeared. In all our districts the new Christian communities build themselves up on the foundation of the Word of God. Public as well as family worship is more regularly attended to. The exercise of church-discipline in several stations has become less frequent. Our converts learn more and more to work with their own hands, and to walk honestly toward them that are without. Some congregations have commenced to relieve us altogether of the support of poor and infirm members, and here and there a convert has it in his power to offer assistance to inquirers, deserted for the Gospel’s sake by their former friends. Though we greatly feel the want of a more decided manifestation of divine life in our converts, and an- xiously long for an outpouring ofthe Spirit of God upon them and our- selves, yet we are not left without evidence that the Lord has his work of grace in many; and while we heartily desire to see more life in our people, we count it a privilege to believe in the unseen efficacy of Christ’s labors in sinner’s hearts. Two new Christian settlements, one at Chovva, near Cannamnore, formed of Pulleyas, and the other at Anandapura in Coorg, of Kembatte Holeyas, give fair promise of be- coming living proofs of the power of that Grace, which still delights in choosing the foolish and weak things of the world, and the things which are not. Increasing attention has be en paid to the education of the chil- dren Qf our converts. Seven b oarding-schools,” three for boys and e four for girls, continue to be a blessing to many. In all our Tulu stations and outstations in Canara parochial schools under Christian schoolmasters are now m&ﬁ?&med and attended by all Christian children, girls as well as boys from the-sixth to the fourteenth year. A schooling fee of one anna per mensem for every child has been introduced and is willingly paid by most parents The same system more or less prevails in all other districts In some stations old eon- verts also exert themselves to make up for their lack of education in youth, in order to be able to read the word of God The number of parochial schools, including those in connexion with boarding-schools amounts at present to nineteen They are attended by 285 boys and 275 girls Two Preparandi Schools at Mangalore and Tellicherry with six- teen pupils, are prospering The great difficulty of procuring a suffi- ciently large number of qualified young men for these schools, has led our committee to devise arrangements for receiving such younger pupils as, when leaving the parochial schools, give promise eventu- ally to qualify themselves for Catechists and Schoolmasters Five Anglo-Vernacular Schools, attended by about 600 pupils, and thirty-five Vernacular schools with 1460 boys and 59 girls, are another important branch of labor In Canara, the Southern Tahrattha Country, and Coorg, the number of pupils has somewhat ab- ated. The schools in Malabar are better {requented than ever, and on the Nilagiris the desire after some education is gaining ground among the Badagas. The Industrial Establishments, directed and maintained by a se- parate Sub-committee at Basel, for the purpose of raising an indus- trious class of Christians, and furnishing adequate employment for all such of our converts as have no other means to support them- selves, are exceedingly useful Four stations possess now weaving- shops, in which nearly fifty looms are at work, and about one hundred converts earn their bread, most of whom have no fixed wages, but L99 . are paid for work furnished to the establishments. Some have been assis- ted in setting up independently, among whom a few have succeeded so well as to give employment to a number oftheir fellow-Christians. The presses at Mangalore and Tellicherry employ some thirty converts, while several compositors and printers trained in our Man-~ galore establishment, have of late been received into the service of Government. Carpenters, bookbinders, smiths and others work at their various trades, and a busy scene is presented at our stations on work-days, with which the quiet of Sundays most pleasingly contrasts. Thus we are enabled to enforce the Apostolic maxim, that «if any will not work, neither shall he eat”, and have the satisfaction of seeing individuals who seek to fill their bellies in idleness, depart from us after short trials. Though in most cases lay-brethren have relieved the ordained Missionaries of the superintendence of industrial undertakings, yet the time and strength of the latter is necessarily in a great measure absorbed by the care of growing congregations and school- establish- ments. Nor can it be otherwise as long as the commission to teach converts all things which the Lord has commanded us, is carried out. To our great regret the preaching of the gospel to the heathen has in consequence somewhat suffered of late. Our Committee have felt the necessity of relieving some Brethren altogether from station-work and setting them free for itineracy. Br. Ammann was the first thus selected. During the past year he undertook several journeys, es- pecially along the coast of Canara, and met with encouraging recep- tion at Honore and in its neighbourhood. In consequence of the death of several Brethren, however, the principal charge of the con- L) gregations at Mulky and Udapy has again devolved upon him. Br. Hebich also is one, whom our Committee would fain see devoted exclu- sively to preaching. In obedience to an especial call he has after a com- parative rest of two years, set outagain on a long preaching tour, though he has notyet succeeded in severing his connection with Canna- é = ge. nore o completely, as to give himself entirely to the work for which the Lord has specially prepared him, and in which he has been so richly blessed already. To our great joy our younger Brethren also have of late commenced diligently to engage in itinerant preaching. The Southern Mahrattha Country, Canara, and Malabar, including the Waindd, have been visited in different directions with the Gospel, while our Brethren on the Nilagiris have with unabated preservance continued their tours all over the hills. The people ’evel‘y—where seem of late to have grown more opposed to the word of God, and now and then an objection to our preaching the Gospel or jcheir listening to it is raised on the ground of the Queen’s Proclamation. $till more marked the hatred has become, with which the name of Jesus is receiv- ed by many who do not otherwise object to discussions on religious subjects. While an increase of labor naturally would suggest the necessity of a proportionate increase of devoted and experienced laborers, the Lord’s thoughts in this respect have proved very different from ours, Since the commencement of our Western India Mission in 1834, the mortality amonz our European laborers has never been as great as during the past year. Of sixty-six European' Urethren engaged for a shorter or lonzer period in this Mission from 1834 to the middle of 1858, only four have: died at their stations. During the past year, yea within six months, we have had to mourn the loss of four Brethren and one Sister, all of them young laborers full of vigor and zeal. Four belonged to the Canara, and one to the South-Mahrattha Mission. They had been in India from two to four years only. Thouzh they fell sick in different places, all of them were carried away by one dis- ease, a typhoid fever. We have had more sickness too, among our laborers,* and the health of several of the older Brethren is so far #We seize this opportunity to express our special thanks to all Medical Men and other Friends, who have again so disinterestedly assisted our sick Brethren and Sisters during the past year. o undermined, that their return to Europe for a season must not be delayed. Br. Deggeller left in September last. Br. Gundert also, who has re- ) joined us after the dissolution of his connection with Government as Deputy Inspector of Schools in Canara and Malabar, has been forced to visit Germany. Sr, Gundert and daughter have remained at Calicut, to devote themselves to the care of the Girls School and the female part of the congregation. Some removals have been rendered necessary by the adoption of Coorg. Br. Kittel of Kaity has been directed to join Br. Moeg- ling, and Br. Wiirtele has gone from Udapy to supply the vacancy on the Nilagiris. Br. and Sr. Sauvain also, who had become unfit for Mission-work on the coast, have been sent to Coorg. Br. Schoch’s services have been transferred from Mangalore to Tellicherry to take charge of the weaving establishment. After the many bereavements of the past year the arrival at Man- galore of our old and tried fellow-laborers, Br. and $r. Biihrer with twobBréthren for Malabar and two for Canara, has proved e a doubly welcome reinforcement. Two more new Brethren for Canara arrived in February last from Basel. At present our whole Missionary Agency amounts to forty-six. Brethren and twenty-three Sisters. Of the former, however, sixteen have not yet completed two years in the country. Fifteen Brethren and six Sisters are stationed in Canara, eight Brethren and five sisters inthe Southern Mahrattha Country, sixteen Brethren and eight Sisters in Malabar, three Brethren and one Sister on the Nilagiris, and three Brethren and two Sisters in Coorg. A General Conference was held at Mangalore from the 24th to the 26th of January by deputies from the different districts of our Western India Mission. Br. Moegling, who had just returned from Europe, appeared in it, to our joy, as representative of Coorg. The first day was dedicated to a review of the work of the last years. The second and third days were chiefly taken up by a careful recon- s e sideration of our industrial and agricultural system, in compliance V4 with a special request of our Committee at Basel. L CANARA, MANGALORE. Rev. A. Biilrer (1842)% and Mrs. Biikrer (1846). Rev. W. Hoch (1846) and Mrs. Hoch (1851). Rev. H. A. Kaundinya (1851). Rev. H. Hauff and Mrs. Hauff' (1857). Rev. A. H. Finckh (1857). Rev. J. Mack (1858). INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT. Messrs. J. Haller (1851). Q. Plebst (1851). G. Pfleiderer (1854). J. Hunziker (1856). Schoolmistresses. Misses M. Will; and L. Daeuble (1858). Catechists and Schoolmasters. Vi George Kolb, Jacob Kamsika, Daniel Aaron, Leonhard Shiri, Samuel and T.ceophilus Ammann, Samuel Kirody. Communicants ©6900000000006800000°s009800000 000 306; last year 253. Non Communicants 0060600000090 000000056060064¢ 000 5 - - 21 - - Children........ ©96068000°0600000000660008200080600 215 207 Catechumens $9°900000000000080°280008060000080480 47 34 ®90000acov 000 11 1 Preparandi School, pupils 1 Girls Boarding School, - c.ccccvieieeniinas 68 68 Christian day-scholars 90009003 :008006000009%06000 51 54 1 FEnglish School pupils 113 150 2 Vernacular Boys’ Schools, s0s06 ocecsocevo 60 75 27 30 2 Vernacular Girls’ Schools, The Lord has supported the Missionaries at this station amidst great weakness. During the greater part of the year the Brethren Biihrer and Hoch were absent, the former in Europe and the latter on *)The figures after the names of Missionaries show the date of their first leaving Europe. 4 ioan the Nilagiris. Br Deggeller’s health moroever was so much reduced, that he could give but litfle assistance, and his return home became necessary. 'The principal charge of the congregation devolved upon Br. Kaundinya, who had at the same time to attend to the Preparandi Class and to a variety of literary labors. The newly arrived Brethren Hauff and Finckh gave as much assistance as their limited knowledge of the language permitted. In April 1858 Br. Plebst also was com- pelled by the state of his health to visit the Nilagiris.—In the mon- soon Sr. Deggeller was taken ill, and died on the 13th September. Br. Hausser at Mulky was seized by the same typhoid fever. On the 24th September he was carried to Mangalore to be under the eyes of a medical man. On the 29th he expired. Br. Keuler, much weakened by over-exertion in the English School, had a shivering fit at Br. Hausser’s burial. A fortnight later, on the 12th October, he also was taken from us.—Br. Hunziker who, in the absemce of Br. Plebst, had sole charge of the Printing office, was attacked by the same fever. For some time his recovery was very doubtful. But the Lord had mercy upon us and spared him. Mrs. Lydia Deggeller was a daughter of the Rev. J. Lang, formerly a Mi-~ ssionary of the Basel Society to the Tartars at Carass, North of the Caucasus. Upon the breaking up of that Mission he returned to his native country, Schaff- hausen in Switzerland, and was appointed pastor of Beggingen. Mrs. Deg- geller enjoyed the blessing of being brought up by pious parents. These being poor, some friends placed her in the excellent Moravian seminary for girls at Montmirail. Afterwards she was employed as governess in the late Missionary Children’s Home of Dr. Ostertag at Basel. Having been engaged to Br. Deggeller, she embarked in May 1856 for India in the company of the Brethren Hausser, Handrich, and Strobel, and arrived at Mangalore on the 18th October. Married to Br. Deggeller, she spent some happy months on her 1 new station at Mulky, when Br. Deggeller was eompelled to quit itin search of health, and a most trying time commenced for our departed Sister. She aceompanied her invalid hushand. Her trials, which were many and great, led her more and more into the secret of living faith in Jesus. Hence she derived strength not only to carry her own cross, but also indefatigably to serve others and bear their burden. Though the state of her husband’s health was such as to render his return to Europe necessary, she was grieved at the thought of leaving India without having done anything for her Lord, as she reckoned; and even when preparing for the voyage, she still eherished the hope that her hus- S S band might recover. On the 12th May 1858 she gave birth to & son, who be- came a new source of joy to her. In August, however, she fell sick, and after a few weeks of intense suffering, during which she set her heart with in- oreasing steadfastness upon her home above, she was delivered out of all her troubles by the good hand of God, on the 13th September. Br. Godfrey Hausser was born in Wiirttemberg, the 7th May 1829. Hav- ing been hrought at an early age to the knowledge of Christ, Br. Hausser off- ered himself to the Basel Missionary Society. When his course of studies in the mission college was finished in 1856, he was ordained and appointed to the Tulu Mission in Canara. On the 18th October he landed at Mangalore. His first station was Udapy. An accident, the bite of a mad dog, sorely in- terrupted him in his study of the language. By the Lord’s blessing on the means employed, the danger passed away. At the beginning of 1858 he was directed to take charge of the Mulky congregation, and the orphan boys school. Gifted-with uncommon energy, and of a peculiarly practical turn of mind, he devoted himself with unabating vigor to his duties, and incessantly thought of means to advance and secure the welfare of his school and congregation. On the 18th September, when already ill, he wrote to our Committee, “The Lord has stretched me on a bed of sickness in order to humble me and show me the utterly corrupted state of my heart. My illness apparently has been produced by the cares and exertions of the past monthsj yet in reality it is the Lord’s doing. The Lord himself has spoken to me!” The danger rapidly increased. On the 20th, while the Congregation was assembled in the church, and interceded for their pastor, he was seized with the agonies of death, but revived to the surprise of every one. On the 24th the Brethren ventured to take him to Mangalore. ‘While they still entertained some hope of his recovery, he himself felt sure, that the hour of his departure was at hand. Once more he had a hard struggle with a conscience oppressed by alively sense of sin, until he obtained the assurance that his sins were blotted out by the blood of the Lamb. In the night from the 27th to the 28th all his struggles ended in a peaceful death. Br. Frederic Keuler, another Wiirttembergian, was born on the $th Febru- ary 1834. He received an excellent training for the office of schoolmaster, and had already been in temporary charge of a school in his native country, when he felt himself called to serve the Lord in the mission. Affer a residence of several years in the Basel Mission-College he was ordained in 1856, and sent to Mangalore to assist Br. Hoch in the English school. When in November 1857 the latter was obliged by the state of his health to leave his work for a sea- son, Br. Keuler exerted himself to the utmost, to maintain the school in a flou- rishing condition. In August he held a satisfactory public examination. From this time, however, he commenced to ail and while he had formerly been par- A ticularly cheerful and lively, he became pensive and silent. At Br. Hausser's Purial he was taken seriously ill, and being secized with a fit of deafness, he 4% S g8 was almost entirely cut off from intercourse with the Brethren. Yet repeated- ly he gave them assurance thathehad peace, and was ready to die. For some time Wb his case did not appear dangerous; but on the 12th October the fever increased. He dozed almost constantly. Atseven in theevening it became evident that he was dying,and without a visible struggle his soul fled from its earthly tabernacle. In November Br. and Sr. Hoch returned from the Nilagiris, and on the 24th December Br. and Sr. Biihrer arrived from Europe with in- vigorated health, accompanied by Br. Mack, Now a more adequate division of labor became practicable. Br. Biibrer, assisted by Br. Hauff, took charge of the Tulu congregation, the latter retaining the direction of the Girls’ Boarding School. Sr. Biihrer took special charge of the female members of the church. Br. Hoch, assisted by Br. Mack, was enabled to attend again more exclusively to the various Mission schools in the town, and Br. Kaundinya, partially relieved also of his lessons in the Preparandi School by Br. Finckh, obtained more time for his literary engagements. The various weekly services,—three in Tula, two in English, one for the Tamil Christians, and one in Canarese,— were divided among the Brethren. Bazar preaching every Fri- day evening, was resumed by the Brethren Kaundinya and Hoch. The coNarEGATION has again increased in number, notwithstanding the defection of several excommunicated members, some of whom have been enticed into the Romish chureh, others into an English church set up at Cannanore by the Rev. Th, Rhenius. Several more of our converts were called to their rest. Among the newly baptized adults we specially mention a demon-priest from This man, when once Urva, a village in the neighbourhood of Mangalore. his conscience was awakened to a sense of his sins, had no rest until he re- moved from his house every vestige of his former worship, and resolved on be- coming Christian. Yet many a struggle he had to undergo before all fear was overcome. After a while a disease of the heart returned with increased force, when he was taken to Mangalore. He had a great desire to be baptized, his heart and mind resting on hrist. Before the day appointed for his baptism his strength gave way. He was baptized, however, to his great comfort, a few hours before his death. Another ofthe departed couverts there was Jonathan, a young man descended from the despised Billavers (Toddy-drawers,) who with great steadincss and diligence had passed through the different classes of the English School, and subsequently was appointed to a Record-keepership in one of the sub- ordinate Cutcherries, inwhich situation he gained the confidence of his superiors. S TR During the past year he served Br. Hauff as interpreter, when addressing the inmates of the poor-house. With great diligence he attended in hisleisure hours to the education of his younger brothers. One of them, a pupil of the Preparandi Class, who had attended on Br. Hausscr during the last days of his life, was seized with the same fever, but recovered. Jonathan was likewise attacked, and died, leaving a young widow and an orphan behind. Though for along time selfrighteousness stood much in his way, he was brought at last to a true knowledge of himself and sought peace in Jesus. Much must not be said in praise of the poor- native congrezation. Yet the Lord has taken them in his charge, and the last year has shown that they do not need the supervision of Missionaries as much as we had previously thought. Christian principle and conduect are pro- gressing. The gospel is a regenerating power in their hearts and houses. Now and then the excommunication of a member becomes necessary, yet latterly no more as often as in former times. The wo- men also are becoming more industrious, and contribute their share to the support of their families. Tue PrePARANDI ScHOOL is under the direction of the Brethren Kaundinya and Finckh. The number of pupils has been reduced from eleven to eight, several having proved unfit or unwilling to be trained for mission service Canarese is the medium of instruction, The lessons are at present as follows: Cursory reading of the Old and New Testaments, Repetition from memory of Bible Stories, English language, Universal History, Arithmetic, Writing exercises and Sing- ing a° On Saturdays they have to furnish written answers on questions relating to subjects of the week’s lessons, TaE ¢irLs BoArpING scHooL under the care of Br. and Sr. Hauff and Miss Will, has of late received most seasonable assistance by the arrival of Miss Daeuble. There are at present 68 boarders. Many of them are children of converts; a great portion, however, are orphans. Want of truthfulness, gratitude, and attachment to their teachers is still grievously felf. Yet a great difference between them aud heathen girls is discernible. The conscience exercises its influence, and they b A cannot shut their hearts altogether to the truth. The school has been graciously preserved from sickness during the past year. Tae Paroonian Boys’ Scroor is prospering. A public examination in December last showed creditable progress.—Trar ExcLisa Axp VERNA= A CULAR ScHOOLS Were under the management of Br. Keuler up to his death. His loss was mourned by many of the pupils. Br. Hoch, upon his re- turn from the Nilagiris, took again charge of these schools, and in Dec- ember he received another assistant, Br. Mack.—In the beginning of May 1858 the new building raised for the English School, was occupied, each Class now has a separate hall. Of late the plan of lessons has been more closely accommodated to that laid down by the Director of Pu- blic Instruction, and Canarese generally introduced into the lower class- es as the medium of instruction. In all classes Bible teaching, however, occupies a prominent position. T}ie sohool’is opened with prayer and the reading of the Word of God, and closed with prayer.— Sr. Hoch began regularly to visit the Brahman Girls’ Schools, but was once more kept back by failure of health. Tae Printing Estasrisamext under the direction of the Brethren Plebst and Hunziker, employs at present twenty-eight workmen, viz. twelve compositors, six printers, five type-founders, two engravers, and three writers and servants. Fourteen are apprentices. With the ex- ception of four, all are members of our congregation. During the past year a new edition of the New Testament in Tulu, a Canarese Liturgy for our native Churches, and several schoolbooks have been printed, besides many commissions from Government, previous to the establish- ment of a Government Press. The Canarese Messenger has been con- tinued, and since New Year is published in an enlarged form and with illustrations. The sale is, however, not yet large enough to pay all expenses. In the newly established Government Press several of our Christian apprentices have found employment. WEAVING ESTABLISHMENT. Before the last monsoon Br. Haller visit- ed the different weaving-establishments of our Malabar stations. In June he went to Mercara, where he was married. After the monsoon his time was entirely taken up with the erection of a new spacious weaving hall and a house for the European master, with rooms for stores and apprentices. In the mean while the superintendence of weavers devol- S T ved principally upon Br. Schoch, who has been appointed to Telli- cherry, where the weaving establishment of the Mission is to be placed under his charge. At Mangalore sixty-eight persons find at present occupation in this establishment. With the exception of one or two, all are Christians. Among them there are thirty-three weavers, four dyers, four carpenters; also twenty-five women who earn their bread by winding thread. 252 warps, amounting to 17794 yards, have been woven during the past year, and much more might have been dispo- sed of. Heathen weavers also would find employment, but are kept away by the fear of becoming Christians.—The new weaving-hall was ready by the first week of April last. On the fifth Br. Biihrer pray- ed with the people and addressed them from Col. 3, 17, before they set to work for the first time in the new building. MULKY AND UDAPY. Bev. J. J. Ammann (1839) and Mrs. Ammann (1845). Rev. J- F. A. Maenner (1857). Rev. J. J. Briegel (1858). Rev.J. F, Traub (1859). Rev. R. Hartmann (1859). (atechists and Schoolmaéters. Isaac Sona, Daniel Ammann, Suvartappa Watsa, Albert Puthranna, Paul Karkada, Barnabas, Timothy. Communicants...... Pl g e e 133; last year 116 Non-Communicants 99ces00000 00000088000 - 15 Children © 6000606000000 00480000000.000060000600 170 - 157 - Catechumeni........ Tl e 54 21 1 Boys Boarding School, boarders..... 46 50 evves00000000 59 20. 4 Parochial Schools, pupils The Mission agency at this station has undergone a'total change during the past year. Br. Deggeller having been laid aside by ill halth, and Br, Ammann appointed itinerant missionary for Canara, the Brethren Camerer and Hausser were entrusted with the care of the churches at Udapy and Mulky respectively, while the newly arrived Bre- Loy thren Maenner and Wiirtele were engaged in the study of the native lan- guage. In the Mangalore Report we have stated how Sr. Deggeller Ly and Br. Hausser were cailed to their rest aud Br. Deggeller was forced to return to Europe, On the 9th November Br. Camerer followed his intimate friend, Hausser. He died of the same disease. He also, after a severe struggle, departed rejoicing in the abounding grace of Christ. Br. Wiirtele was seized with the same typhoid fever. He was obliged, after several relapses, to go for a change of air to Mangalore and the Malabar stations. No sooner hadhereturned to Udapy in compa- rative health, then he was ordered by our Committeeto join the Nila- giri Mission instead of Br. Kittel, who was transferred to Coorg. Br. Gustavus Camerer was born at Langenau in Wiirttemberg, the 22d Jan- uary 1831. He received a good education, and on entering the Basel Mission College was soon enabled to join the higher classes. In 1854 he was ordained and sent to India. After a short residence at Mangalore, he joined the newly founded station at Udapy, and shared all its fearful trials during the year 1855 and 1856. In 1857, when entrusted with the charge of this extensive station, he was deeply grieved by the temporary defection of many of the converts. New signs of hostility on the part of heathen neighbours at Udapy during the » past year proved another source of anxiety to his sensitive mind. With great devotedness he attended Br. Hausser during his last days, and Br. Wiirtele in his prolonged sickness. From the time of Br. Hausser’s death he was impress- ed with the idea that his earthly course also was rapidly drawingto a close. On Sunday the 24th October, when his people had assembled at ehurch, he felt very ill, but forced himself to conduect the service. During the first prayer he fainted, and the fever broke out with great force. Dr. Ross from Mangalore had the great kinduness to hasten to Udapy, and to attend to Br. Camerer with unremitting care up to his end. Our Brother visibly sank from day to day. He grew so weak that he was unable to comprehend the most simple matters. The name of Jesus, the Lamb of God, however and Bible passages, when slow- ly repeated, afforded him much comfort. On the 8th November he sustained a most severe struggle. All his sins were arrayed against him. For a conside- rable time he was unable to grasp the assurance of the Gospel, that all his sins were forgiven in Jesus. At last, however, his agony was turned into praise. And when once more attacked by the accuser of his soul, he replied, “No, I do not yield. God does not reject me for the sake of my sins, The Lamb of God Satan is a liar. Jesus is faithful and true.” From this does not forsake me. time he had peace. The next day, at one o’clock P. M. he fell asleep. e BE. o In May 1858 Sr. Ammann returned from the Nilagiris to Mulkey with renewed health, and devoted herself to the charge of the female members of the congregation, while Br. Ammann finished the Tulu translation of the New Testament. In August they removed to Udapy, and Br. Ammann set out on a missionary tour from which, however, The chief management he was recalled by the death of Br. Hausser. of the station now devolved again upon him. He was assisted by Br. Maenner. Our Committee, however, upon hearing of our heavy loss, took immediate steps to send reinforcements. The Brethren Traub and Hartmann were set apart and despatched overland; and Br. Briegel who had arrived at Mangalore in December last, was directed to re- move to Udapy. At present Br. and Sr. Ammann, together with Bu- Hartmann, reside at Mulky, and the Brethren Maenner, Briegel, and Traub dwell together at Udapy. A family at Mulky, four adults at Udapy, and a number of boys from the orphanage, were baptized. Several backsliders found grace to return and repent, and were received again. On the other hand we deeply regret that Obadiah (Narasimha) the Brahman convert mentioned in last year’s report, has left us from reasons altogether unknown, and not been heard of since. At Udapy a considerable number of souls are under preparation for baptism, and at Mulky also there are some catechumeni. The refractory spirit which some time ago prevailed at Mulky and at the Uchilla outstation, has been over- come and succeeded by sincere attachment and ready obedience. Many are still very defective in knowledge, and generally more hunger and thirst after the Word of life, greater spirituality, and real zeal for the Lord and his cause appear very desirable. Still the Lord has his work in them. In public assemblies as well as when visited in their houses they give evidence that they are no longer heathen, but desire to learn Christ And if now and then a soul, of which we had almost despaired, is still enabled by grace to depart in peace, trusting in Jesus, we feel encouraged to look more to the author and finisher of our faith, than to the many failings of our poor native brethren. ) A Most converts of this station earn their bread by agriczilture. They are in general very poor, and only by straining all their energies 5 R — sl Y support themselves. It is not to be wondered, therefore, that many of them are deeply in debt; and now and then distressing cases are brought to light, which sorely tax our anxiety to help them. The OrrpuAN Bovs-Scmoorn at Mulky as well as the different ParocuianL Scmoons at Kadike, Uchilla, Gudde and Udapy, have proved a real blessing Many of the children are well acquainted with all the leading events of Bible history, and have stored up in their memories a considerable number of Bible passages and hymns. Other branches of knowledge are cultivated as far as the abilities of our schoolmasters permit. Out of schoolhours the boys of the orphanage are employed on a farm attached to the institution, and though now and then the labor is hard, they cheerfully submit to it. On the 13th March ten boys could be admitted to the Lord’s table after careful preparation. All of them appeared deeply impressed with the res- ponsibility they took upon themselves, and really desirous of living unto the Lord. Since then six of them have been apprenticed at Mangalore to various trades, one wishing to become an engraver, four compositors, and one bookbinder. ItTineracy. Several heathen festivals in the vicinity were taken advantage of to invite the assembled crowds to seek peace with Jesus. Br. Ammann undertoock preaching tours as often as circumstances permitted. We subjoin a few extracts from his journals without, how- ever, mentioning places and dates. At K. I visited the bazar, and met some Concan Brahmans. One of them replied to a remark of mine, “I cannot see that I am a sinner”. But as soon as I showed and explained to them the pictures of the Heart-book, they could not help admitting that such beastly lusts were not foreign to their hearts. When, however, I told them of Jesus in whom we are washed and sanctified, they in- terrupted me with the words,—“If you will die for us and rise again, we will believe.” I continued my way and in the vicinity of a temple spoke to the people of the worship of God in the spirit and in truth, and of Jesus, in whom alone we are saved. Many followed me to the bangalow and asked for books. At C.a blind Brahman pretended that all his sins were gone because he could no longer see. Nor would he admit that he was worshiping strange gods instead of the one God. When being told of what God had done for him in Jesus, he replied, “If Jesus be God, let him give me sight!” At B.a young man ac- quainted with the truth, told me of his brother’s pilgrimage, which he had un- LR b dertaken in obedience to a vow; adding, “on account of the people we must submit to such things.” At Ka. I had repeatedly occasion to converse with gsome Brahmans, who told me that they and some friends of their’s contemplated ’1 becoming Christians, and felt grieved not to have a servant of Christ living in their neighborhood. One day a Brahman widow resting by the way-side, asked one of my native companions about the way of salvation, and about that Jesus whom we preached, and listened for nearly an hour to his explanations. At another place I was received with uncommon hostility and abuse even by At B. such as on former occasions had shown some interest in our message. a Brahman cheered me with the reply, “Indeed, sin is our reproach, and right- eousness becomes us. I will therefore listen again when you return to this place. At K. a Brahman paid great attention to my words. The next day he visited me and said, “Last night I had the impression that your gospel is true, and that I ought to accept it. When you again visit us, I wish to learn more of it”. At different places I could observe that the preaching of the gospel made a strong impression. Many assented to the truth; some even expressed a desire to turn to Christ; but strength to break through all hindrances was wanting. A youth who formerly had attended a school of ours, told me that he frequently read to the inmates of his father’s house from our Bible stories. A sick Concan Brahman repeated whole passages from our tracts, which he had learned by heart, and assured mg, that he often conversed with friends of his about the gospel. He added that one day he had been to Honore in order to speak to a padre, but there was no padre there. On farther inquiry I found, that these men, though touched by the gospel, were still too much attached to their old ways to believe simply in Jesus. Another Brahman expressed a de- sire to leave home and property for Christ’s sake, when his grandmother implor- ed him in great anguish ofheart not to forsake her, and prevailed. Two others ob- served that all their religious ceremonies were raeant for Jesus alone. At another place a man had left word with a shopkeeper close by the road, to call him when the padre arrived. He listened attentively to my address and then, turning to the by-standers, declared that all these words were true, but expressed his fear lest their wives should forsake them if they believed. In many places the name of Jesus has become familiar to the people, though few like it. A Brahman, afraid of being polluted by hearing it pronounced, repeated as an antidote the name of Rama. Another asked me to listen to him, he would prove the truth of his shastras, “but of Jesus I must not hear”, he said. 5% a8 Il. SOUTHERN MAKRATTHA COUNTRY. DHARWAR. ] Rev. 0. Kaufmann (\1 853) and Mrs, Kovfmonn (1858). Schoolmaster John Banmawasi. Commumnicanis ©00 090600020 000000800e00006000800 18; last year 15 Non-Communicants 809000000000 6000080000050600 80 OB APl s i nsins i sisissiis e bt 26 19 Catechument ©0000000000000000¢0 0000800600000 0008d Christian day scholars - - 3 Vernacular Schools, scholars.......o...... . 195 180 The Brethren Kauffmann and Handrich enjoyed good health during the greater part of the year, and attended to their work with- out interruption. The latter, however, on his return in March last from a preaching tour was seized with a typhoid fever, and departed this life on the 25th of March. Br. J. Handrich, a Bavarian, born the 18th August 1830, was appointed A to Dharwar, and sailed to India in company of the Brethren Hausser and Strobel and Sr. Deggeller in 1856. With great energy he threw himself into the study of Canarese. As soon as he could speak, he set out to preach the word, reproving and exhorting all who would listen to him. On hearing of the death of two of his fellow-passengers, Sr. Deggeller and Br. Hausser, he had a presentiment of the near approach of his own end. Towards the close of February he set out on his last preaching tour. When packing up his things, he observed,“How pleasant will it be to set out on our last journey, for then we may go without packing.” During this tour he encountered uncommon opposition, but he boldly declared to all his adversaries, that their idols were but dust, and that all of them must vanish before the glory of Christ as the mist before the sun. After a fortnight he was obliged to return home. With regard to the results of his preaching he remarked that formerly he had thought a missionary to be a castaway, if he could not show forth some fruit of his ministry; but now he derived comfort from the assurance, that the Lord required no more of his servants than that with faith and patience they should bear witness of his grace towards sinners, even without seeing any fruit. If we do this, he said, we may rest in peace. —On the 16th March he fell sick, yet next day he once more visited the town. On the 20th, though very weak, he took a short walk with Br. Huber of Hubly, who had come over to attend on L him. His heart was then full of a certain assurance of everlasting life in Jesus; he exclaimed, O how good is Jesus! Upon his word we can depend.”” A few days later he called Br. Huber early in the morning to tell him that now he was convinced he should die, because all his strength was gone. The next day he repeated nearly the same words to the Brethren, and continued,% This is my last hour I have to spend with you. Willingly I would pray the Lord not to take me away in the midst of my days, but I know it is in vain.” His sins then gave him great trouble, and for some time he almost despaired of salvation. At last, however, he fully realized the words of the hymn— Jesus, thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress; Midst flaming worlds in these array’d With joy shall I lift up my head. With a gladsome heart he added, O what joy! soon I shall be permitted to rejoin my beloved fellow-passengers, and see my dear Lord. Then I will say to him, Oh beloved Jesus, w9, wo!” (come, come!) From this time ap to his death his mind wandered, but even in his delirious moments his words bespoke joyful faith. At one time he asked,“ Are all assembled? Can we begin?” and in a short address he gave expression to his firm hope, concluding with the words, “He that believeth on the som, sinneth not. He that committeth sin is of the devil, and doth not know him. And if any mah sin, we have an advocate with the Father, and he is the propitiation for our sins. If any man have him, he hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life, and though he was dead, he presses forward though death and grave into life for his sake.” On Friday night at eleven his spirit fled, while the brethren engaged in prayer around his bed. On Saturday his mortal remains were committed to the ground in the mission compound. His intimate friend, Br. Huber, also ailing at present, and particularly needing the prayers of our friends, says in conclusion of his account of this death-bed, “We are confident that as our departed brother has borne the image of the earthy man, so he shall bear the image of the heavenly, when the Lord descends from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise. With these words we comfort one another.” We thank God for having kept our converts from falling away, while we greatly regret to see them so earthly-minded. Most of them are Tamulians, who are ratherirregular in attending religious services, and still more so in sending their children to school. Our native as- sistant also has given us so much dissatisfaction, that we could no longer entrust him with the office of catechist. No adults have been baptized. One of the catechumeni mentioned inthe last report hasrun — 38 — away. Two others showed so little hunger after the word of God, that we felt compelled to exclude them. One of our Canarese converts | /] has been gathered to the church above. We subjoin a sketch of his life. He was born in 1816 at Jacob Uttangy’s heathen name was Channappa. Uttangy in the Bellary district. His father was the headman of his village and in easy circumstances; but being a spendthrift, he died greatly in debt. Chan- nappa succeeded him in his office, and was highly respected on account of his Still he was a slave to sin. His spiritual guide or guru, Siddha- good sense. lingappa, had procured some Christian books from Bellary. Convinced by these, he confided to his most intimate disciples, (Channappa was one of them,) About the same time Chan- that Lingaism was false, and Christianity true. nappa’s sister was married to a friend of his, a servant of Mr. Reade’s at Sircy, His brother-in-law now and then united with where he had heard the gospel. At last the former was baptized by Br. Layer at the guru in prayer to Jesus. Dharwar, and the latter laid on his death-bed. With great compunction of heart he confessed to Channappa, that he had sinned by not living in aec- cordance with his knowledge of the truth, and exhorted him forthwith to renounce heathenism. He strictly interdicted all heathenish ceremonies at his burial, and died full of sorrow. Channappa was prevented by his wife from at once following his guru’s counsel. Her mother, however, advised her to go with her husband, and in 1851 they left their home by night, and went Jacob / to Dharwar, where they were baptized on Whitsunday of that year. (this became his Christian name,) was fully convinced of the truth. He re- mained, however, self righteous and discontented, though he had great love for the word of God. Whenever possible, he attended divine worship, and listened with great eagerness. He was also very fond of singing Canarese hymns in his house with his children. Slowly he grew in knowledge of the Lord and in faith and love towards him. Encouraged by the reception he had met with on a former occasion, he visited his native village in June 1857 to arrange his affairs, and allowed his relations to send him his meals. One day he was suddenly taken ill immediately after dinner. He returned to Dhar- warsick, and since then pined away, suffering most intensely at times. At first he was very rescrved, but the spirit of God gradually opened his heart. Casting off his own righteousness, he now learned to rejoice in the righteousness of Christ, and often acknowledged himself a sinner who had found grace and life in the blood of Jesus. He readily forgave all his offenders, even those whom he justly suspscted of having caused his death. His heart was more and more wean- ed from worldly cares, while his love of the word of God increased. Even when no more able to walk, he continued to come to church with the assistance of friends. The daily visits and prayers of the missionaries proved to him c e 6 constant source of delight. Up to his end he retained entire consciousness. On the last day he sent for the missionaries to pray over him and to commend his body and soul to Jesus. His whole bearing manifested that he had peace with God, and longed tohe with the Lord. At last his hour came and his spi- rit was released. The missionaries have continued to offer the gospel to young and old, in schools and bazars, at Dharwar and in the neighborhood, yet apparently with very little effect. Many boys who attended mission- schools in former years, live as if they had never heard the truth. At Dharwar, especially, the gospel encounters great hostility; elsewhere it 1s better received. The message of peace is frequently rejected with excuses like the following: “Your way is good for you; the religion we have inherited from our fathers is what we want, for it teaches us to obtain pardon for sins such as destroying Or—%“You have no business here. animal life unwittingly”. It is sin indeed, that you come to our holiest festivals, (it was the time of the Holi,) to speak to us of Jesus.” “If you will speak to us of God, we will listen; but we won’t hear of your Jesus Christ, who has been hanged”.—%Let no one tell us, that our gods cannot save us; they receive us up into heaven as well as yours”.— “As there are high and low people in Narendra, so youhave your Jesus, and we our Shiva’. “As One replied in answer to an address from John 3, 14. 15, the Israclites recovered by looking on that serpent, so we aresaved by looking on our linga, or on our gods”.—More encouraging remarks, however, are now and then made. At G. a place which had suffered much from opression by the late Zemindar, a follower of the rebel Bhimardya, Br. Kaufmann was asked,— “Will not all the country be united now under one master, as you are all united under your one Christ? What a happy time, if all Zemindars and native princes were deprived of their power!”—At H. Br. Kaufmann met a man well acquaint- ed with the New Testament who told him that on Sundays he always prayed to our Lord, while on work-days he worshipped their gods to please his neigh- bors. At N. Br. Kaufmann saw some interesting Pariahs. Their headman heard the gospel for the first time some thirty years ago from the Rev. J. Mit- chell of Poonah, who then gave him some seripture-portions in Mahratthi, He is convinced that the Bible teaches the truth, but afraid of breaking with, heathenism. A neighbor of his separated from his brother, in order to be no longer obliged to worship idols. e N HUBLY. Rev. J. Miiller (1839) and Mrs. Miiller (1844). \p Rev. J. Huber (1858). Catechists: Paul Nagappa. Christian Chinnappa. Commumnicants, LY ....... ...... oo oe TR 18; 14 last year Non Communiconts........ evseccs0000 0 - - 2 Children.....o .. S e ¢ 19 17 Clatcchiment.. cie oo aissin: SR e 14 Christion day-scholars sev00000e8 co0ssecsesee 9 4 Vernacular boys’ schools, scholars....... 180 220, The Brethren at this station have been much encouraged by a comparatively large accession of converts to their little flock. Lingap- pa, one of the Catechumeni, mentioned in the last report, has been Seven men and two baptized. Two more are waiting for baptism. women have been received as Catechumeni. Long ago a school had been kept up for several years at Unakallu, a village on the road to Dharwar. It was subsequently discontinued, yet some ofits pupils used to be visited by the missionaries. Lingappa, now Jonathan, was one of them. His conversion encouraged his brother Mahadéva, and four young farmers (A, B, C and D,) who formerly used to assemble at his house for prayer and reading of the word of God, to leave every thing behind and follow his example. Mahadéva, long attached to the truth, was at first prevented by the fear of losing his wife. At last, unable to resist any longer, he forsook every thing and joined his brother. His wife, expecting her confinement, returned to her parents and afterwards took refuge with a sister at a place some twenty-five miles distant. For some time she seem- ed inclined to return to her husband, but when asked by her friends, how she could live with Christians who, like Holeyas, fed on carcases, she shudd- ered and changed her mind. Jonathan and Mahadéva, both weavers, do well. They work on their own account, purchasing European yarn from A has still a mother to provide for who our Mangalore establishment. urged him hard, not to forsake her. But he would not yield. His wife fol- lowed him not so much, however, for the gospel’s sake as from attachment to him. B has a wife and two children and lived in prosperous circum- stances with his brother-in-law. His relations, aware of his purpose, en- treated him not to mar his worldly prospects. His wife declared, “If he ere but walks according to the way of the world, I will follow him anywh Ci0, never will I accompany him to the mission-house”s He, however, had grace S to forsake all, and to choose Christ. C is an eldest son and his father in poor health. He, too, had to forsa <e father, brothers anda wife.Dis the son of wealthy parents. Every thing was prepared for his wedding, when his three friends made up their minds, a fortnight after Jonath 1 an’s baptism, to renounce heat I renism and become Christians. He could not but join them. He had a hard struggle with his relatives, but grace was given him to stand firm. All four have hee n assisted to farm land which th ey cultivate together. They are diligent and walk according to the gospel. Another man from the same village, advanced in age, who for some time had wished to Jjoin the mission in order to spend his few rema ining days in Christian fellowship, was received. The husband of a woman, admitted as a Catechumen a year 280, put an end to his wanderings by joining her. He was reeeived on trial; and though a drunkard in former d ays, he appears to have mended his ways and supports himself and his wife by the labor of his own hands. A 1 poor woman also, grown old in sin, t ys 1e mother-in-law of one of the con- verts, asked so earnestly to he accepted, that she could not b Ji e turned away. She said, “I have lef t my sins and former ways on the other side of the river, (which forms the boundary between Old-and New- Hubly,) and cast myself at the feet of the Lord”, Some other inquirers left the mission again after a short trial. One of them was also from Jon athan’s village, Finding himself disappointed in his expec tations after a month’s trial, he went back. A couple, coming from a distance of so me hundred miles, were satisfied by the experience of a single week, that they could not find here what they desired. Of the conver ts in connexion with this station it may be said, that they lead a quiet and peaceable life, and that the spirit of the Lord works in their hearts. One excommunicated member has been read- mitted. Every one eats his own bread. The Sunday services are attended n ot only by the congregation, but by some heathen also, Goldsmith J. who when joining us seve n years ago, had not wherewith to clothe his family, works now with his s ons and some laborers in his own house and on his own account, Weaver A. al 80 does well with his European loom though he derives very little assistance from his wife. Carpenter N., and gold- smith 8. are able to support themselves by their trades. alone requires some help on account of his 1 Coppersmith Th. arge family. The VErRNACULAR GirLs ScHOOL was so badl y attended, that it was stopped. The ParoocHI: AL ScHooL i3 conducted by Catechist Christian, and the Vg by. Catechist Paul. RNACULAR Boys’ Scmoons are regul arly visited In the evenings both go out to pre ach, though they return many a time with the de spouding question, “Who hath 6 4 believed our report?” Br. Huber has devoted himself to the parochi- 12 al school as much as his health, which at times was very precarious, and his other avocations permitted. The contemplated English School has not been opened. Though Hubly is renowned for its trade and wealth and has upwards of 50,000 inhabitants, the desire after edu- Besides the mission-schools there are two Go- cation is very low. vernment and fourteen private schools, (seven Canarese and seven Hindustani.) The whole number of scholars, however, does not ex- ceed five hundred. Br. Miller visited in November several villages in the vicinity. The gospel hasin these places become a subject familiar to many, occasioning much inquiry, though little hunger after its blessings is manifested. Br. Huber accompanied Br. Handrich in October on a missionary excursion, andin February and March he made a journey to th: south of Hubly. We add a few extracts from his diary: At H. being tired I inadvertently sat down on astone, when some cried, “Do not sit there, that is our god; you defile him!? Others, however, rejoined, “Don’t say such foolish things; it is but a stone. Foolish boys only call a stone god; as soon as they get some sense, they know that Paraméshvara (Shiva)alone is God”. I found attentive hearers at this place. They seemed pleased with what they were told of God manifested in Jesus. One observed, however, “If we could se e him, we would believe; how can we believe in what we do not see?”’ Another replied to him, “In this body corrupted by sin it is impossible; only after death, when we obtai n a refined body, we shall be able to see him.” An aged man who had listened most attentively, bought some books to have them read to him. At Ka. a man showed me some of ourbooks in which he was well versed. He said, that he was convinced of the vanity of idols, and tried to live according to our books. When asked, why he did not confess Christ, he replied that the difficulties for a single individual were too great, At Ka. I met with great opposition. but that he worshipped Jesus in secret. When I arrived,, they plainly told me, that they did not want me. Nor Still I re- would they allow any one to hold my pony for a few moments. mained, and found now and then opportunities to address many. Enemies however were always at hand. The Brahm < ans attributed the origin. of sin to God, and the Mahommedans shut their ears whenever Jesus was men- tioned. At T. theheadman ofthe village sent all people away, as soon as he found out that I was a padre. At A. I was asked to give a description of bl & our worship instead of assailing theirs. At B. I was repeatedly sent away, Some pilgrims, whom I had spoken to, visit- yet always again listened to. = 48 = ed me next morning to hear more of these things. One of them, an aged man, said at last, “Look, we are an ungodly people. We understand your words, and know that they are true. Yet when we return to our homes, the good word is lost again, and we continue to walk in our former ways., It is very hard for an individual to break with the life and manners of all others.” At N. I had a conversation with the Guru of a large convent. He maintained ) that there could be but one God, and that is was blasphemy to say that thers was another beside him. When I added, however, that this one God must be holy, and pointed to new pictures on the wall, representing idols in conjunction with obscenities referring to the mutinies, he refused to listen any longer. At Sh. the name of Ghrist is well known, but is generally an ohject of abuse. BETTIGHERRY. Bev. G. Wiirth (1845) and Mrs. Wiirth (1853), Bev. W. Roth (1857). Schoolmistress: Mary Chittawadige. Communicants #®°08000800900090B000°8 0080 ®00 00000 14; last year 10 Non-Communicants P800 900 p0sc0s00000000000 000 Children A A AA KA SULERR AR B I B R A IR T A0 T R o ) 28 29 Girls’ Boarding School, boarders.. 24 22 Christian day scholars 4 Vernacular schools, scholars ®cso0 sevcooe ° 130 214 “Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very sm all remnant, we should have been as 8odom and like unto Gomorrah.” With these words the Brethren at this station have introduced their last report. Several members of their little church have fallen into grievous sins, and have been excommunicated. The rest have more or less gained by these judgments. They have learned to watch and pray. One adult has been baptized. He is a man of independent me ans, and promises to prove his faith by his daily walk. One of the fallen was the late Catechist, a who at first ran well. young man of much promise In course of time, however, he grew proud y presumpt-~ uous and averse to warnings. At last, alas! he fell into adultery. When his sinful life was brought to light, he was immediately dismissed ' the service of the mission, and sent away. He lived from that time with his heathen bro- ther in the village, deeply mourning his fall. His brother advised him to 6% Al cast away his book (the New Testament,) and renounce his new belief. His neighbors also, now and then took occasion of his fall to show the insuffi- W ciency of the gospel to save sinners. He remained stedfast. His ‘usual re- ply was that he could not renounce the gospel even if he were forced to beg. “Par from disannulling the truth of the gospel,” he said, “my deep fall serves to confirm it.” He earnestly desires to be accepted again. Two other male adults were sent away for the same reason. The wife of one of them, with her mother and child, continued with us, being afraid of the temptations to which they would have been exposed in the village. There is hope that her hus- band may after some time be readmitted. The other man appears to be twice dead. While Br. Wiirth was so deeply grieved by the fall of his Cate- chist, an old pupil of his, the Lord afflicted him also by sickness in his own family. e had to take his partner to Hubly and Dharwar for a change, and at the latter place to bury the earthly remains of a child. But even in these afflictions the good hand of the Lord was discernible; for during the time that Sr. Wiirth was at Dharwar in comparative safety, Gadag, the head-quarters of the district, close to Bettigherry, was deeply agitated by the news, that Bhimardya, a Brah- man of great influence, well versed in the infidel literature of England, was but about fifteen miles off with four hundred followers, and in- tended to march upon the place. Our brethiren had to prepare them- selves for the worst. The mission-premises would, no doubt, have proved one of the first objects of attack. The native officials also were so irresolute, that they could not be trusted. The danger, how- ever, was averted by the seasonable arrival of Mr. Thomas with thirty sowars. The Lord be humbly praised for this deliverance. Tae Girrs’ BoArpinG scHOOL has been removed to a new house expressly built for the purpose. Health and good order have been All the work in house and kitchen much promoted by the change. is done by the girls under the direction of their excellent native tutor- €S8 The bigger girls have charge of their younger playmates. From On the se- nine to one they attend school. After dinner they sew. cond Sunday in Advent some were admitted tothe Liord’s table. Soon after, the first girl of this school was married to the schoolmaster of Malasamudra. Ho oy e THE VERNACULAR SCHOOLS have given some trouble. The boys One schoolmaster had to be dis- were rather irregular in attendance Another left on his own accord. Still missed for his immoral life. All the more advanced boys are well there was much to encourage. acquainted with Biblical history and the way of salvation. In a night- school, visited by young men, the stories of the New Testament have been explained. Many listened with attention, and could not withhold their assent. Their own religion, however, has still too powerful a hold on their minds to allow them to break with it easily The gospel has been preached again repeatedly at Bettigherry, Gadag, in the vicinity, and on journeys. Br. Wiirth has made some preaching tours. In December and January he travelled on foot to Mangalore to attend the Gteneral Conference and seized this opportu- nity to proclaim the gospel. In February Br. Roth accompanied Cate- chist Christian of Malasamudra on an execursion Here and there a soul is found impressed with the truth Many also agree thatidol- worship cannot last; but they are unable to see how Christianity will ever be made to prevail without force They think, that God ought to do every thing, remove the idols as well as force men into the new way. When exhorted to repent, they now and then reply, “Is God indeed displeased with us? Do we not enjoy greater peace and pros- perity than ever before?” At Bettigherry many are 1nclmcd to listen to the gospel, but do not ven- ture farther. A young man, however, has given up the worship of idols, and notwithstanding the abuse and regularly prays in his house to Christ, threatenings he meets with on the part of his wife who, when seeing him pray, frequently asks him, “Where is your God? No one can see him. Why did you read the books of these foreigners? They are fit for people of their own stamp only. Tell me w hich book of ours you want, and I will procure it for After the deat of his own mother in earliest youth he had been you adopted and brought up by another woman, who assails him now in a si- milar strain, “Has the true God, of whom you talk, come down from heaven, and rocked and nursed you? How can God require of a man that he should forsake father and mother? By and by we shall see you likewise turned Don’t talk to me of these Christians who eat meat out by the missionaries and drink brandy A Rajah at some distance sent one day to Bettigherry for books. Br. The Rajah’s only an- Wiirth seized the opportunity to pay him a visit ——»46-—— xziety, however, was to be well thought of by Government. He said, “The English Government is my God. I know of nothing higher than that.” L] ] Extracts from Br. Rotl’'s journal: At M. there live many persons with whom our Brethren have been acquainted for years. We had now and then attentive hearers, but at every turn were interrupted by hostile Brahmans. Such of the people as appeared well inclined on former occasions, gave way to fear, and kept aloof. Two men, after listening with attention, went away asking, “Where is the devil? Why did not God annihilate him long ago?” Some old. friends visited us by night, but thought it very hard, that they should forsake all for Christ. At H. we visited an aged man of the Kala- gnana sect. He lost his sight of late. In former years he had studied the New Testament with much diligence to compare Christ and Channabasawa. In his intercourse with missionaries he now and then showed great interest in the gospel. This time, however, the conclusion of a long conversation with the Catechist was, that God and he were one. He admitted that he had no peace, nor pardon of sins. But he would not consent, that salva- tion was to be had in Jesus alone. A weaver complaining of his difficul- ty in supporting a large family, was advised tolook to God for help, when he replied, “Who is my God? I am my God.”—Such is heathen blindness. Ed MALASAMUDRA. Br. J. Leonberger (1849) and Sr. Leonberger (1 854). Br. F. Hahn (1857). Catechist. Christion Suchy. Schoolmaster Lot Géry. Communiconts.. ...eeeee.. Sl e 17;. last year 20 Non-Communicants 9©0800000000000000000500000000 Childnen s v, . ----------------------- 40 38 Catechumens. . ..o..e.. . oooooooooooooooooooooooo ° 11 Orphan-boys school, boarders ©c00scecsccovcee 23 24 Christion day-scholars...... ... . @ececoscane o0 At this station also our Brethren have been visited with mueh sick= ness. Sr. Leonberger was much reduced in strength by repeated attacks of fever, and had to spend some time atHubly and Dharwar for her iy recovery. While on this account Br. Leonberger was absent with his family, his station was exposed to great danger by the threatened attack of Bhifmardya. Br. Hahn prepared with his own and a few heathen people to defend themselves from the roof of the mission-house. The Lord be thanked that the peril passed without putting their pre- Towards the end of the year Br. Hahn fell sick parations to the test. of fever, and in January last his life was despaired of. But the Lord had mercy and spared him. He visited afterwards Guledagud- da for a change of air. The congregation has been a source of much grief. Two members were expelled and four - excommunicated on account of fornication and drunkenness. The rest also, with a few exceptions, have given trouble by their wordly-mindedness. The Catechist and his wife were No adults have been baptized. a great help in these trying days. Three Wodda-families, amounting to nineteen souls, arrived in Sep- tember last from the south, and asked for admission. They belong to a most degraded race of vagabonds and thieves. Their ignorance Still they of Canarese is a great bar to our usefulness among them. were received on trial. Two of these families, however, have left again. He was 8. one of the dismissed members, was baptized two years ago. then a widower, about forty years of age. Some time before his connection with us he had entered into an engagement with a young heathen girl. When the time for the wedding was at hand, she flatly refused to join the congregation and be married to him. Her father proposed to force her into obedience. The missionaries, of course, objected, much however against the wishes of S., whereupon he ran away, lived in sin, and at last marri- ed the girl. She forsook him soon after, and now he is in great distress, knowing that in all this he has resisted the spirit: of God. May the Lord have mercy upon him. Two boys have been withdrawn from the orphan-school, and one has been admitted. Now and then children from one to two years of age were offered, butcould not be received, being too young. Seven of the children are less than five years old, and required a great D) |\ deal of care. They are looked after by an old Christian woman, as- The children are trained to house-and sisted by the bigger boys. a4 garden-work, in order to support themselves as far as possible. They attend school from nine to twelve, and from two to four. When at L work, they are superintended by Paul, a man of upwards of for ty years, who bears a good character, and is well acquainted with agriet tture. Several preaching tours have been made by Br. Leonberger. He finds the soil in his neighborhood peculiarly hard. Still he rejoices in meeting now and then with more hopeful signs. One day Br. Leonberger was visited by a Jangama, anold schoolfellow of the Catechist. He had come from a distance of upwards of fifty miles to obtain some books. %At first, said he, “I used to read writings of the Lingaites. Dissatisfied with them, I joined a few friends who studied the Vé- dédnta. Still dissatisfied I betook myself with some twenty comp anions to the reading of the sentences of Manappa, which treat of the renunciation of the world. We are better pleased with these. Still they afford us no explanation of the begining and end, of the creation and man’s final destiny. Some time ago I heard you enlarge on these subjects and explain them from your books. The same things we met with in one of your tracts. I have been delegated to learn more on these subjects and procure your books. We have long been persuaded of the falsehood of the system of idolatry and caste. Nor have we ever found in any of our books whereon to rest our souls. Show us that your books lead to peace and happiness, and we will study them.” When asked, whether in their nightly meetings they did not smoke bhang and drink brandy, he was honest enough to admit the charge saying, “We are as sheep without ashepherd.” He received several Scripture portions, and was in- vited to return soon. Extracts from Br. Leonberger’s journal: At D. the people were more anxi- ous to dispute than to hear. Both Brahmans and Lingaites tried to show that their own way was best for them, By the shepherds only I was well received and invited to visit them again. At T. the people were so much troubled by the prevailing drought, that they had little mind to listen to the gospel. At Ch. there is a young man, who has for years studied the New Testament. He came to ask me the meaning of many passages, especially in the Reve- lation. He appears, however, still enslaved by some sin. At M. anumber of people were impressed with the “truth some time ago. But many of them, especially the weavers, have gone to sleep again. The goldsmiths give more promise. They seem anxious to learn the Word of God. oA GULEDAGUDDA. Rev. G. Kies (1845) cmdr Mrs. Kies (1853). Catechist Solomon Bhaskar. Communicants 9000000602000 9000000000000600000040 23; last year 20 Non-Communicants ®v000000°0000000900000000° 00 1 Children #0090 00000000020000000000000006000000 23 21 Catechumeni ¥*°000000500089°00°0000000s%000009 2 Christian day-scholars ©°° 0000090000000 0000080 00 13 13 One Vernacular school, boys 90 0 Three adults have been added to the church of this station during the past year. Two of them were the two catechumeni alluded to in our last Report, whose connexion witha worthless relative had long proved a hindrance to them. From the time of their emancipation from his influence, their hearts gradually opened to the truth, and their walk was such as to justify their baptism. The third new con- vert was Abraham, a Madiga (Pariah) upwards of fifty years of age. He received the gospel with such singleness of heart that, like Simeon of old, he joyfully blessed the Lord for having been permitted to see His salvation, Nor hashis joy been taken from him since his baptism. The heathen took great offence, when they found that out-casts like him, were admitted into our church. Our converts, however, hesita- ted not a moment fo give him the right hand of fellowship. He was received into their houses and admitted to their meals long before his baptism, notwithstanding the threatenings of their heathen neighbors. A younger brother of his is also determined to join the people of Christ. The hope of persuading his wife keeps him back, but he is pretty re- gular in attending our services vn Sundays. Abraham is a native of Kadinhally, a village on the Malapahari (Malpﬁr— ba) river, about three miles from Guledagudda. During a famine some years ago, a Roman Catholic lived a short time among them, and attracted some notice by his religion. Abraham or, as he was then called, Beilappa and some of his neighbours resolved on becoming Christians, and repeatedly vi- sited Br. Kies for the purpose. Persecution intimidated them, and they yielded to the entreaties of their wives. Still a longing after something bett- er remained in some hearts. Beilappa had been one of the most upright 7 e B0 among them. Under severe domestic aflictions his determination to break with the kingdom of darkness ripened. During his course of preparation he gave such evidence of a childlike faith, that Br. Kies could not help prais- ing the Liord of Leaven and earth, because he had hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes. The Christian converts live together in a new quarter on the east= end of the town. The mission-house and the neat houses of our peo- ple form a regular street. Here cleanliness and quiet prevail, contrast- ing most agreeably with the noise and filthiness of the towu. The walk of most converts has been satisfactory, and even those, whose spiritual life is still very weak, have been graciously kept from relap- Some are ses into heathenish sins. Every one eats his own bread. in prosperous circumstances, and able to assist others. Not long ago two of them placed a donation of Rs. 100 in Br. Kies’ hands as a token of gratitude for the divine protection and blessing on their busi- ness during the past year.—On Sundays Br. Kies has preached a series of discourses on the Life and Doctrine of Christ, and explained the Epistle of James. His evening lectures on week-days on the Revelation have been continued, and prayer meetings on Saturday evenings, and monthly missionary meetings have been introduced. Scroorns. The parochial school has been conducted by Catechist Solomon. He employs his eveningsin preaching to the heathen. A boy of fourteen years, who has just left school, is anxious to serve the Lord in the mission. Being too young, he learns in the mean time the weaver’s trade in obedience to his father. A Vernacular school has been opened, and is attended by about one hundred boys who pay a fee of three pie per mensem. They are learning the first rudiments. At Sirur, in the neighborhood, a respectable farmer has offered his as- sistance to the amount of about twenty Rupees towards building a school, provided it be erected close by his own house to give him, as he says, opportunity to make himself better acquainted with the Chris- tian religion. Jourxeys. From the 21st March to the 3d June of last year Br. Kies was absent from his station to attend the South India Missionary Conferen’ce at Ootacamund. On his way he visited the mission-stations e at Hubly, Mangalore, Calicut, Kaity, Mysore, Bangalore, and Bellary Br. Handrich of Dharwar took his place in the meanwhile.* In De- cember Br. Kies, accompanied by Catechist Christian of Malasamudra, visited some districts to the east of Gilledagudda. He was deeply grieved to find that Véddntism in its most presumptuous garb had made fearful progress in these parts, misleading numbers of men, tired with idolatry, and longing for better things, into the mazes of a philo- Oh for sophy, opposed as much to common sense as to the gospel. messengers of peace, baptized with fire and the spirit of God, and able to direct these poor Pantheists to the cross of Christ! CANNANORE, WITH CHIRACAL AND CHOVVA. Rev. 8. Hebich (1834.) Rev. Ch. Miiller (1842) and Mrs. Miller (1842). Br. C. Schlunk (1858). Excrisa ScrooL. Rev. F. Lehmann (1848), headmaster. Teachers: Messrs. Pires, Viegas, and Beck. Catechists. ZLimothy Parayil, Joseph Jacobi, George O’ Brien, Daniel Nathanael, Sebastian Furtado, Diego Fernandez, Charles Stécking, Abraham Mulil, Israel Aaron, Abraham Dshatayappen. Communicants (exclusive of FEuropeans)... 243; last year 220 Non-Communicants $9ev0ecs 00 00000 0coc es0se 40 - - 21 Children ©° 695000009 0000c08°0060006 1005000008 ee 139 - 174 Catechument 95000006002 95090083003090000500 000 14 - 5 1 Girls Boarding School, boarders 46 - 54 160 - 115 English School, scholars. ... oassirississ 5 Vernacular Schools,|boys 384 - 356 33 - 29 . fginlsids w0 Ty i *PBr. Handrich on his way to Gﬁledﬁgud;l;spent a night at Nargunda, a few weecks bofore Mr. Manson, the Political Agent, was murdered by the Rajah. The latter, being probably not yet sufficiently prepared for hisintended revolt, and wishing to give proof of his apparent loyalty, directed his officials to pay every attention to the stranger. % s The Home Committee having resolved upon making Palghaut an In independent station, Br. Strobel was directed to remove thither. P May 1858 he left Cannanore, where he had served his missionary apprenticeship. Br. and Sr. Sauvain, unable to attend any longer to the charge of the Girls’ Boarding School at Chiracal, retired in Septem- ber to Tellicherry for a change, and have since removed to Coorg according to instructions from the Committee. In consequence of these changes, the care of the Cannanore station and out-stations pressed After a visit to heavily upon the Brethren Hebich aud Ch. Miiller. Mangalore in April 1858, Br. Hebich, entirely taken up with the care of the several cogregations connected with Cannanore, was unable to leave the station up to January last, while Br. Miiller’s time was engrossed with the new settlement at Chovva and the superintendence of work- shops and Vernacular schools. Br. Hebich had four weekly services in English and two in the native language, besides weekly services at Chiracal on Thursdays, and at Chovva on Saturdays. He expounded in these services Isaiah xpvii—uwvi, the Acts of the Apostles, and Romans 1—v. A second Sunday service in Malayalam was held by Br. Miiller.—In January last Br. Schlunk, a trained merchant, arrived fl ) to relieve the Brethren of all secular affairs in connexion with their congregations, and Br. Ilebich visited Mangalore to attend the General Conference. In February and March Br. Hebich was, the first time for sixteen years, prevented from visiting the heathen festivals of Pa- yawur and Taliparambu, partly by an attack of illness, partly also by the counsel of friends, who thought it inadvisable for him to venture just then among excited masses, who fancied themselves countenanced in their hostility against the gospel by the Queen’s Proclamation. In April, our dear Brother was so far recovered, that he could set out again on a long preaching tour to the Nilagiris and other important stations. May the Lord continue by his instrumentality to stir up sinners from false peace, and lead them to accept free grace. Br. Han- hart was summoned from Chombala to assist Br. Miiller in the mean while. The native congregation has increased in number, adults as well as children having been baptized. Nor was evidence wanting that many converts were growing in grace, while of others it must be ac- Lo knowledged with shame, that they are plants not planted by the hea- venly Father. The 26th September 1858 was a day of great joy. Five men, as many wo- men, and one child were baptized, and a Romish woman with her son was ad- mitted into the church. Br. Hebich preached from John III, 16. We give a short account of the conversion of some of these people.—J. a weaver from Edakadu, twenty-eight years of age, was induced by great poverty to seek re- lief at the mission-house. He was accepted on trial and set to work. At the same time he was instructed in the Word of God. The fear lest he had come merely for temporal help, wasput to shame. Real singleness of heart, peace- ableness, a good knowledge of the Word of God, diligence, and sincerity re- commended him for baptism. 8. a weaver from Chiracal, thirty years of age, lived formerly at Taliparambu where he became acquainted with the Catechists. Sickness and misery prepared him for the consolation of the Word of God. He came to Cannanore, was received, and taken care of. After his recovery he supported himself by the labor of his own hands, and became obedient to the gospel.—J. a stone-cutter and wood-sawyer from Chiracal, thirty-two years of age, was attracted by a younger brother, who had been baptized a year ago. He possesses good sense and is an excellent workman. Though he finds it now and then hard to prove himself in all things a humble follower of Jesus, yet he appears anxious to be one of His people. In 1853 a youth of sixteen years informed Br. Ch. Miiller, then at Chombala, of his determination to become Christian. His father was a Tier in easy circumstances. All efforts on the part of his relations to reclaim him, proved futile. Even after his baptism their intrigues and persecutions continued. Cunning and witcheraft were employed. One day his mother gave him a charmed loaf of bread which had cost her forty Rupees. But it was all in vain. The young man was sent to Mangalore where he learned weaving. His diligence and humble Christian walk endear- ed him to the missionaries. At the beginning of 1858 he returned to Canna- nore, and was entrusted with the management of the weavers workshop. He paid a visit to his mother and grandmother, with whom he had kept up a coxr- respondence, urging upon them the necessity of receiving the gospel. They yielded at last to his entreaties. A few months later he had the joy of fetching his grandmother, sixty-nine years of age, to Cannanore. After some more delay his mother also followed. His sister, who in consequence of these con- versions had been deserted by her husband, could no longer stay hehind with her child of seven months. All four were baptized on the same day.—Two others, who then received baptism, have since fallen away again. One of them was a Nair of Chombala, twenty-one years of age, who frequently visit- ed the mission-house there, yet not to hear the gospel. Three years ago he ran away from his family to Mangalore and asked for admission. He was received on trial and taught to weave. When his app;‘enticeship was comple- S e ted he returned to Cannanore, and there recommended himself by his peaceable walk. Soon after his baptism, however, he ran away.—The other was like- ] wise a Nair, from the vicinity of Palghaut, who as peon at Taliparambu be- came acquainted with the Catechists, and heard the gospel. By the hostility of his fellow-peons he was forced to throw up his situation. He came to Can- nanore, and after many struggles appeared to give himself up to the Lord, But since his baptism he has left the mission again nnd turned a bitter ene- my The Lord have mercy upon these two backsliders! The houses at Tahy have been pulled down and the premises sold- A Christian village has been established at Chovva, instead. It has a substantial chapel, which was used the first time for divine service on the 23d March, and upwards of twenty dwellings for our poor Pullya converts, who pay a small rent and have to keep their houses in repair. Three wells have been sunk, and fifteen hundred cocoa- nut-trees planted. The arable land has been sown with rice and gram Br. Miiller who of late had to devote much time and strength to this settlement, looks back upon the work with sincere gratitude to the Lord. May each of the dwellings and all their inmates become tem- ples of the living God, that it may be said of this place, Yea, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my Lord!”—There are many dear souls among these people who sincerely wish to walk before the Lord and save their souls. They have their own elders who prove most useful assistants to the mission- aries. Two of them, both simple coolies, visited in July last their re- lations and friends to preach the gospel to them. By some they were well received. Some promised to remember their invitation. Others abused them and drove them away under bitter threatenings. The 19th March was another day of blessing for Cannanore. The new cha- whitewashed stone-building, with round pillars pel at Chovva, a spacious along the verandahs and a tiled roof was inaugurated. Many were assembled in their holiday dress. After the service had been opened with the singing of a hymn, and with a prayer, Br. Hebich read the 118th Psalm, and reminded the Chovva converts of the days of sorrow and distress three years ago, when they took refuge at Cannanore, and of the goodness ofthe Lord who since had helped them to a new settlement where they could lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.% This is the Lord’s doing and it is marvellous in our eyes.”—After another prayer Br. Miiller spoke according to W e fs. 11, ¢ and 3 of the mountain of the Lords house, to which many people Three Ca- shall go up to be taught the ways of God and to walk in his paths. techists then addressed successively the assembly from II Cor. XIII, 11, Psalm XCIIL 3 and4, and Is. LXVI, 1 and 2. Br. Hanhart concluded witha few words from Psalm CXXVII, 1. The worksuors established in connexion with the Mission have of late been placed under the management of Br. Schlunk. A shop in which books, stationary, cloth and sugar are sold, affords oceupation to two converts. Ten looms in a new hall, built for the purpose, supply twenty persons with the means of earning an honest livelihood. Four carpenters with two apprentices, six bricklayers, and some stone-cutt- ers support themselves by their trades. Four cartmen and a smith work on their own account and do well. The latter has two apprenti- ces The last year was a sad time for the GIRLS’ BOARDING SCHOOL at Chiracal. The schoolmaster had to be dismissed in consequence of his immoral life, and many sins were brought t& light. In Septem- ber Br. and Sr. Sauvain left, and the Catechists Joseph and Sebastian The Lord had to be entrusted with the management of the school. be praised, that of late an improved spirit prevails amcng the girls. Thirteen of them have been married, and three were claimed by their parents. Four have been admitted. The ENGLISH SCHoOL, which some time ago had as many as 168 pupils, has of late somewhat fallen off especially through the influence of a rival school. On the 30th March another school-year closed with a public examination, when 119 pupils attended. They were examined in Bible History, Reading, Geography, Grammar, Arithme- tic, History of England, and Geometry. Sixteen prizes were distri- buted. Though the school is well deserving of the support of English friends, scarcely any subscriptions have been received of late towards its maintenance, the expenses of the establishment being defrayed from the general mission-fund and the fees received form the pupils.— The VERNACULAR SCHOOLS in most cases continue to be well attended, and are in as good condition as can be expected of schools under the management of untrained heathen schoolmasters. From want of com- petent Christian schoolmasters no separate PARocHIAL ScrooLs have ey as yet been established. The children, if not received into a boarding- school, attend either the English or vernacular schools. Some of 114 the girls at Cannanore are taught by Mrs. Miiller. Br Hebich concludes with giving expression to his joyful hope of eternal life. Looking on the Lord Jesus, he says, every one rejoices. And Jesus assures us, ¥ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand!” Amen. Halleluyah! TELLICHERRY. Rev. Ch. Irion (1841) and Mrs. Irion (1844). Rev. Ch. Aldinger (1855) and Mrs. Aldinger (1858). Rev. W. Herre. (1856). and Mrs. Herre (1858). Rev. J. G. Burckhardt (1858). Dr.S. G. Schoch. (1857). Catechists and Schoolmasters. Mattai Kunyen, Mattw Peter, Gabriel Piratshen, Hsra Arundshelam. b Gideon Panankawu. English Teachers. Messrs, Graham, Monteiro, van Spall, Venturad Cruz. Commumicants Se0000e cosrescecveccsesesecsn s 78; last year 76 Non Commumnicants ®ecessccesersnrecsecenseco Children 90 9 ° 8500 cu0000 0000000000000 s c0000 s 00t 101 87 Catechumens Preparandsi 2 e0sccseccorece cc0vc0Cceroses e Orphan Boys’ School, boarders.... 52 43 secss00c0esesscessro o 178 - 154 Linglish School, scholars 2 Vernacular boys’ schools, scholars....... 110 - - 80 The Brethren at this station were much embarrassed during thepast year by their inability to attend to their manifold duties, especially as the healths of Br. and Sr. Irion were very precarious. The Brethren Irion and Aldinger divided among themselves the lessons of the Pre- parandi-Class. The former was at the same time the pastor of the N B native church, and the latter had the charge of the Orphan Boys’ School and the Vernacular Schools. Br. Herre's time was entirely taken up by the English School. Nor ‘have their embarrassments eeased in spite of reinforcements lately received. Br. Burckhardt has been sent to Tellicherry ‘to relieve the Brethren of the charge of the Preparan- di Class, but for ‘the present is still engaged in ‘the study of Mala- yalam. The Brethren Aldinger and Herre have been married, and ‘Br. Schoeh has been directed to proceed to'this:station as manager: of -all On'the -other "handBr. and the weaving establishments of Malabar. Sr. Irion have been forced by ill health to visit the Nilagiris. The NATIVE CONGREGATION has been sifted. A year.ago it became necessary to dismiss a native assistant, who under the cloak of piety served the flesh. Two more members of the church had to be sent away for the same reason. The effects of their sins upon the congreg- ation as well as upon the heathen neighbors were not easily effaced, though we rejoice to see that the latter judge the converts much more strictly than themselves, and consider many a thing sinful if committed by a Christian, which they see no harm in if done by a heathen. With the exception of an adult and several boys of the orphanage, only chil- dren of Christian parents have been baptized. A mother, . seventy years of age, has departed rich in peace and joy. As to the tempor- al concerns of our converts, they had to labor hard in order to support themselves and their families, provisions continuing uncommonly dear. Some Still they contributed about eighteen Rupees to the mission. few, unable to work, were relieved by being admitted in the poor- house. The 1NpUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT, consisting in-a lithographic press and workshops for bookbinders and weavers, has afforded employ- ment to about twenty persons, and has had commissions enough to cover all current expenses, though the salaries of the workmen have been raised on account of therise of prices. Theprincipal works issu~ ed from the lithographic press for Mission purposes were two tracts, the Glory of Christ, and the true Cross, respectively of forty and fifty three pages, an Arithmetic, and a Second Catechism. 8 i 0d The PrEPARANDI ScHOOL prospered to the great joy of allinterested in the institution. On the first October the lessons of the first year were broughtto a close. None of the pupils have been dis- missed. Of each it may be testified, thatthe Lord had commenced a good work in him, and thathe had more or less increased not only in know- ledge, but also in grace. Each has stroven by obedi ence, diligence, and steadiness to give joy to his teachers. The hours from nine to one and from three to five were devoted to lessons in Bible History, Exposi- tion of the Scriptures, Geography, Arithmetic, and Singing. Malay- alam is the medium of instruection. Besides the daily morning and evening services, they meet twice a week for prayer, and on one eve- ning they used to accompany Br. Irion to the bazar, where often an auditory of some hundred persons gathered to hear the missionaries’ address, not a few attending regularly on these occa sions. In conse- quence of Br. Irions absence, the charge of the school has devolved upon Br. Aldinger, until Br. Burckhardt will be able to relieve him. In the mean while the latter gives the pupils an English lesson every day. Bazar preaching has been discontinued for the present. The OrPHANAGE has been graciously preserved from much sickness. One boy has died of small-pox. A better spirit appears to prevail If one of them falls sick, among the orphans thanin former years. the others pray for him. In their school-lessons they have been di- ligent , and made good progress especially in the knowledge of God’s Word. Out of school-hours they sew, make ropes and tapes, work in the garden, or prepare fire-wood. Several have been admitted to the Lords table, before they left School to be apprenticed to a trade. TaE ExcrisH Scroon has had an increas ed attendance, though the monthly school-fee has been raised in the two upper classes from four to 6 and 8 annas. Onan average 132 pup ils have been present, 178 being on the roll viz. 16 Protestants, 21 Romists, 8 Mahomme- dans, 133 Hindoos. On the 25th March a public examination was held. With great gratification we acknowledge the liberal gift of Rs. 1500, presented by Kakhasroo Darashaw Esq., a wealthy Parsee merchant, towards the erection of a spacious school-house, in honour to Her Majesty’s assumption ofthe Government of India. SoEge The VerxacuLAR Scmoons have been well attended in spite of the introdu:tion of a school-fee. Some objected at first to it, and thought it hard that they should pay for studying Christian books. A A boy who was evidently impressed with few only, however, left. the truth, died of small-pox. On his sick-bed he promised to consid- er the demands of the gospel better when he should be well again. But alas! he died. The Lord has indeed thoughts of peace towards this people. He speaks to them by sickness, scarcity, and rumours of war, to guide their feet into the way of peace. But they do not move to seek a Saviour. CHOMBALA. Rev. E. Diez (1851) aad Mrs. Diez (1856). Rev. C. G'. Hanhart (1857). Catechists and Schoolmasters. Paul Tshandren, Timothy Kotshen, Aaron Tshatappen, Thomas Mander Schoolmistresses. Magdalene Kirackayil, Llisabeth Sundaren. Commumnicants $0°6006000009000000000000 20000000 705 last year 61 Non-Communicants 96000900000 00090000000000000 - - 3 Children 65 - 60 Catechumenst © 906000080 120000009°°000000000800°000 10 15 cecsvscsvvcse 27 18 Parochial Boys' school, scholars Parochial Girls’ school, do 24 27 2 Vernacular schools, do 63 75 Br. Diez, who had succeeded Br. Ch. Miiller in 1857 as pastor of the native church at this place, met with considerable difficulties in gaining the confidence of the converts in the same measure as his pre- decessor had possessed it. Being very poor and deeply in debt, they are much dependent on the advice of the missionary, and in a time of scarcity like the past year, their strenuous exertions would have been unavailing without the aid of the Mission. Some earn their bread by 8% o Bh fishing; others prepare arrow-root; or cocoanut-oil, or do cooly-work. Their gains are very small. Nordis their spiritual state very encouraging. Especially’among the women advanced in age there is a great lack of real life. Now and then excommunications have become necessary in consequence” of sad relapses: into heathenish sins, on account of which the name: of God was blasphemed: among. the Gentiles, and the opposition.against the gospel gained strength: Still the Lord has his people among them. Family prayers-are regularly attended in all houses, if not in:the. mornings in consequence of early engagements, yet in the evenings. The men meet by turns in their houses for unit- ed prayer. Three adults and ten children have been baptized. Four converts have died; two have removed to other stations. ScHoOOLS. The parochial schools were not as regularly attended as might have been desirable.. Br. Hanhart gave lessons to the boys in Bible History and Arithmetic. In the Vernacular school at Mahe the scripture lessons were for a time objected to, and hostility ran so high that the school-house was much damaged, and the visiting missionary had to gather the scholars under a cocoanut-tree. VERNACULAR PREACHING. Catechists as well as missionaries ex- | erted themselves to make the gospel known near and far. The peo- ple were visited in their detached paramboos with the offer of salva- tion in Christ. In September and October Br. Diez made a preaching tour through the Wynaud. In the neighborhood of Chombala the gospel was received with great opposition. The people are evidently Thus Br. Hanhart had for some time afraid of its quickening power. great difficulty in procuring a moonshee, because two native school- masters in the service of the mission had been converted gome time ago His first moonshee wished the missionary to read some shastra with him instead of the Bible Stories, and when Br. Hanhart did not consent, he resigned lest he should be exposed any longer to the dan- ger of ‘becoming Christian. Since the proclamation of Her Majesty’s Government the people are even less accessible, so that one of the Catechists not! long observed, “Now we have to dig out the stumps.” A Nair seolded his people for: listening, saying that the preaching of the:gospel had been forbidden by the Queen. The Nairs in general Sl TR prove here the staunchest champions of idol-worship. In more dis- tant places missionaries and catechists were better received, vet little inclination was shown to accept the invitation of grace. Some of the slave-caste, when they were visited, were so shy, that they would have run away, if they had not been prevented. When they were advised to procure teachers for: their children, they replied, “Who will teach us, if the Nairs are opposed to it?” A-fisherman excused himself by saying that a barren cocoanut-tree in the midst of fertile ones had just cause to complain of God who had not predis- posed it ‘to bear fruit. A Tier refused to believe, because a plant growing on 2’ dunghill must needs wither if pulled out and transplanted. Alluding to recent relapses among the Christians he said, “No one eats rice upon which dust and dirt have fallen.” —Another replied, that it was no concern of the missionary’s if they went to hell, as he would not help them: out of it. An old woman thought that since she had so great hardships upon earth and the missionary was so well off, it was but just that he should be sent to hell and she received into heaven. A Nair said, that the Europeans were the adversaries of the poor natives, because the latter had to bathe whenever they came in contact with the former. Another replied, ¥“We have no time to think of God or to pray; we have to gain our bread.” A third observed, “I am obliged to work hard for the support of my family; this is sufficient equivalent for my sins.” A fourth remarked, “The padre’s words are true; but if we follow him, he sends us away again for any little sin.” A fifth promised to become Christian, when he had no longer need to work., A sixth asked, whether he would gain a lawsuit by offering a small piece of money to our God. A seventh maintained that God had instituted idols, and that Christians must needs have impure hearts, because they feed on cow’s flesh, while the Nair’s heart is pure. Aneighth stated thatevery thing comes from God, therefore sin also; and that it was foolishness for a man not to die in the same caste in which he was born. A ninth endeavoured to prove that he was god, because the five elements, earth, water, fire, air, and aether were to be found in him as well as in God, and that man could change any thing into god by his will. A youth was asked, what God he worshipped. He turned round, and pointing to a boy near him, said: “When dead I shall be his god!” A Police-Ameen excused himself, that religion would not do for him, as it was impossible to attend to the duties of a public office without sin- ning. He said, “Government servants have no time for the Bible. It is true, our shastras are of no use; but then we possess the knowledge of Brahma in order to he saved.” Another hearer thought, that Vishnu was quite powerful enough to help him to heaven. The missionary alluded to the crimes attribu- ted to him. He replied, “What matters this? He andhis like have the privilege e %o do such things.” A Tahasildar, many years ago moonshee of the Brethren at Mangalore, stated as his opinion, that indeed every man ought to serve God with all his heart and put his confidence in him. “But,” he went on, the Euro- peans are the chief sinners. It is they who live in adultery, lie, and deceive; and the natives have learned such sins from them. It would be well, if a Brah- man were to travel about and preach to the Europeans not to do such things, but to worship their Creator. We have no objection to live according to the Bible as far as it does not interfere with eur customs. But Christ is not wanted. He has ascended into heaven in the same manner as Tuka Rama of Pan- darapura was taken up into heaven two hundred and fifty years ago for the sake of his piety. You say that Christ has sent you to preach the gospel many centuries ago. But a few years that some Germans have arrived in this country, and now at last one has also come to these parts I” Some Paniers (slaves) were asked whether they should not worship God. Instantly they cast them- selves in the dust and stretched their hands towards the Missionary. When they were told that God was in heaven, they looked up to heaven. They were quite overwhelmed with fear at the sight of a European, so much so that their hearts throbbed visibly. Now and then, however, the missionaries met with more interesting hearers. At T. there live two men with their mother, both of whom have been impressed with the truth, and read the Word of God and pray together; but yielding to the impetuosities oftheir mother and wives, they do not declare themselves. One of them was attimes moved to tears,but at present scarcely pays any attention when exhorted to give himself up to the TLord. The other evidently loves the Word of God. A boy from the Wodagery school urged the missionary to visit his father. He was attentively listened to by the whole family, and the father concluded with asking, “What raust I do, poor sinner ?” g CALICUT. WITH CODACAL AND COILANDY. Rev. J. M. Fritz (1839). Br.J. Bosshard (1856). Br. J. Lauffer (1856). Rev. P. A. Convert (1857). Catechists and Schoolmasters. Lsaw David, Jacob Heber, Christian Hoar, Samuel Subaya, Iesuadian Vedamutiu, John Peter, Aaron Kunyu, Cornelius Hutten, Abraham Kidawu. Schoolmistress. Anna Subaya, Commumnicants 164; last year 155 Non-Communicants 45 - - 47 Children ssesevan © €0 505 0000000000000 000500sa00 166 - 134 Catechument 190000000 co0 0000 P Uoe 0000800 EO N D e 47 38 Girls’ Boarding School, boarders 50 50 Christian day-scholars 42 31 3 Vernacular Schools, scholars ©s0°800000c0s e 150 140 Amidst much that was encouraging, the past year was rich in hum- bling and dejecting occurrences. We praise the Lord that several souls have again been added to the church, especially at Codacal, the flourishing outstation in the south, where a christian colony of up- wards of two hundred souls is growing upunder Br. Bosshard’s care. On the other hand we have been deeply grieved by relapses and de- fections of converts, and for many others we cannot but tremble, see- ing that they are so deficient in divine life. Oh, that the Lord would visit us with a season of spiritual awakening, and stir up the con- gregation as well as the surrounding heathen and Mahommedans. A Catechist forsook the mission and persuaded others to follow him. At Codacal also some converts were brought to fall by the influence of two Nairs who had been received as catechumeni. They had asked for admission on the pretense of a desire to know the Saviour. They appeared to be sincere, and gave at first little cause for complaint. But in sceret they retained their old sinful ways and perverted others to join them, affording the heathen another occasion to deny that the gospel possessed power to save sinners. Some time ago another Nair asked to be admitted. The missionary had little inclination - Being a pot- to grant his request. At last he yielded, and set him to work. ter, he had a small hut and a wheel assigned to him. For some timehe was dili- gent and behaved well. Subsequently he fell in sins, and it became necessary to exclude him from Christian fellowship. The Lord also added his own chastise- ments. The man fell sick of fever, and was bitten by a serpent. All these judgments brought him nearer, not yet, however, with an entire heart. He wanted also to marry, and began to save money for the purpose, burying it in his hut. One day, when returning to his house, he found his secret discov- ered and his treasure gone. Now his heart broke, and soon afterwards he was baptized. A year ago, while Br. Bosshard was still engaged in building the misson-house at Codacal, a destitute couple withseven children arrived and requested to be received. They said, “We do not know what advantage we shall derive from your religion; still we wish to listen and do whatever you tell us. The father proved ere long a quiet, pensive man, who kept his family in excellent order. After some time he fell -sick, and though recovering, his strength was gradually consumed by repeated relapses. Daring his sickness he continued to take great delight in the word of God, and showed considera- ble aptitude to understand and retain it. He used to say, “Oh how sweet is Now I dono long- this message of a Saviour to a wretched sinnerlike myself. er fear death, for Jesus has taken away its sting. Death has now become On another occasion he observed, It has my entrance into his kingdom.” pleased the Lord to give me a little relief. I can breathe with greater ease. P I am not worthy of such goodness. By my sins I have deserved much hard- er punishment than this sickness. When he was worse again, he said that he was ready to die, but had one desire on his mind. “I belicve in Jesus,” he said, “what hinders my baptism?” His request was granted. After his baptism he was full of gratitude, and though much exhausted he could not help testifying He has departed in peace. that he had felt the presence of the Lord. All the converts gain their own bread, although sparingly in many cases. Nine, chiefly boys, work in the carpenters’ shop under Br. Lauffer’s direction. Two more have finished their apprenticeship and returned to their stations. Eleven converts were occupied in the wea- vers'shop. Yome had obtained remunerative occupation on roads and especially on the rail-road, yet in several cases with loss to their souls. The temptations to drunkenness and adultery, to which they saw themselves exposed, proved too strong, and they had to be excommunicated. In every family, in which the father or mother is able to read, family worship has been introduced. Tun Girus Boarpine Schoor has been under the charge of Sr. Their united labor of love has not been Gundert and her daughter. L in valn. Still there is here also great need of a revival Durmg leisure hours the girls work in the garden. A ParocHIAL scHOOL for boys under a Christian School master has been established at Calicut. Br. Convert has commenced to teach Bible History and English in one of the VernacunAr ScmooLs, at- tended by upwards of sixty scholars, in spite of a higher school-fee which was demanded in consequence The boys have made good progress Many of them are better versed in our Bible Stories, than in their mythological fables In the Codacal school also a little Eng- lish i1s taugcht ItTixeracy. The multifarious duties connected with the station, and the precarious state of his health, prevented Br. Fritz from devoting much time to Vernacular preaching. Still he undertook journeys to the Wynaud, where the want of a resident missionary is becoming more and more urgent, and to Palghaut In January last he vi- sited Mangalore to attend the general Conference Of late his health has been such as to force him to visit the Nilagiris. Br. Convert, besides assisting Br. Fritzin the pastoral care of the Calicut Congregation, made several preaching tours partly in company of Catechist Esau. The Codacal outstation being situated in the viecinity of one Of tila most renowned temvles of Malabar and near the residence of the Zemindar, Br Bosshard and his native assistant have peculiar opportunities to preach the gospel. Many pilgrims arrive almost daily to bathe in a river close by. Many Brahmans live in the neighbourhood patronised by the Zemindar Still idol- worship 1S on the wane Not a few are convinced of the futility of serving gods unable to take care of themselves, and show little inclination to stand forward as their champions The name of Jesus is no more unknown. Now and then the Brethren are assured by their hearers, that they have heard of their religion, and read their books, and liked their words. But alas! they continue dead in tres- passes and sins, and we anxiously wait for the spirit of the L01dto quicken them. While Br. Bosshard was engaged in building the Codacal mission-house, he had many visitors, to whom the gospel was preached, and tracts were given 9 e ‘A Nair appeared touched by the truth and received a New Testament. After His ‘answer gome time he was asked, whether he had understoed the book. i was, “Not every thing; please, pay me a visit!” Br. Bosshard did so the very next day. Houge and fields showed that the man was in good ecircumstances. The book, which evidently had been little used, was brought, and along with #t a parcel of law-papers, which the Nair began to read. To his great disappoint- ment the missionary refused to listen, nor had the man mind to pay attention to the word of salvatiomn. His mother, a blind woman of minety-six years, was much more interested in the opportunity she had at her advanced age of touching awhite man, than in the gospel of peace. The owner of amother rich farm felt greatly relieved when he discovered that the strange visitor had no other object in view than to speak to him of Christ. He listened attentively, and even offered the missionary a place in his house, if at some future time he wished to stay a few days with him and visit his neighbours. Br. Convert was told on one of his journeys, that the Sahibs would do the people a much greater service, if instead of preaching the gospel to them, they would command the rice-merchants to dispose of their stores, Now and then, however, he was well received, and repeatedly hearers invited him to their houses in order that their families also might have an opportunity of hearing him. A youug Nair was deeply touched with the truth and declared that in time he would become Christian. In the house of two brothers it was most in- teresting to hear one of them repeat to the other what had been said by the missionary. . PALGHATUT. Rev. J. Strobel (1856) and Mirs. Strobel (1858). English Schoolmasters Mr. Ch. Rehling. Catechist: Paul Iitiraritshan. Commumzcants V600000 c00s0s00000 0T eocsen0e 4 ChildPeni, civisissiis ianessvasnur S : Iinglish School, Scholars..e...... gecgode o 52 On the 16th May 1858 Br. Strobel arrived in this populous town, surrounded by a most fertile and well-inhabited district. Looking to the Lord for direction and help, he took up the work entrusted to his hands. With the exception of a Tamil family, all the converts of for- mer years had.left the place again in connexion with the regiments to Lee which they belonged. On the 23d May Br. Strobel ﬁreached for the first time to his little flock, and on the 30th he celebrated with them the Lord’s Supper and baptized two children. About the same time he opened an English School, and sought out frequented market-places for preaching stations, when it pleased the Lord to lay him aside by sickness. A short stay at Coimbatore under medical treatment was blessed to him for his speedy recovery. Returned to his station, he was permitted to resume his labors. Through the good providence of God he obtained a newly converted youth for his assistant in the English School, which began to prosper. The number of boys increased, and good progress was made. Catechist O’Brien, who for years had la- boured at this station with great faithfulness, was recalled to Cannanore, and Catechist Paul sent in his stead to be Br. Strobel’s native assistant. In February Br. Strobel visited Cannanore to be united tohis bride, who had arrived from Germany. Thus with theblessing of the Lord a complete staff of labourers has been secured, and different means of propagating the Gospel have been initiated. The watchmen stand on the wall and anxiously wait for the break of day. May the morning soon dawn over the Palghaut valley, and many awake to arige and walk in its light. IV.NILAGIRIS. KAJTY., Rev. F. Metz (1843). Rev. C. Mearike(1845) and Mrs. Merike (1854). Rev. Ch. J. Wiirtele(1857). Schoolmaster Martin. Communsicants 4909039600000 00000000000000000009000 9; last year N0 COBIIICIIRTS i Ssvs s niss s vosnssias on ey 3 - - - - Children 9000000999000 00000000909009000000°000¢°4000 10 19 Christian day-scholars 9900009000200 009°°09 800000 10 - - 14 Iright Vernacular Schools, scholars 80 = - 64 30 - - Four Night-Schools, scholars By the baptism of the two first Badagas at the beginning of 1858 the work of the Brethren at Kaity has assumed an entirely different g% i G ch‘arac‘ter. Their aim has become perfectly intelligible to the people, and their appeals are now received in a more direct and personal sense. | 4 The Lord has indeed commencedto purge the floor and to divide the wheat from the chaff. The people have found that the position of good natured indifference to the gospel and its messengers, in which they have hitherto pleased themselves, is untenable. The missionaries are now generally shunned as destroyers of caste, while such as have felt the power of the gospel are restrained and anxiously guarded by their Their difficulties have increased tenfold. Still a door has neighbors. been opened to the Brethren. Br. Mcerike has of late concentrated his labors especially to the Southern district, whence the first con- verts have come, and which more than any other has been imbued with the leaven of the gospel. Though feeling more and more the decay of his strength, Br. Metz has.continued his excursions all over the hills, and has been much encouraged by the first two baptisms to hope for better days at no great distance. His attention has been directed in a greater measure than formerly, to the tribes of Todas, Kotas, and Kurumbers also, with whom he has succeeded to establish a more familiar intercourse. Br. Kittel, since April last in Coorg, was 1 almost exclusively occupied with the schools, which the Brethren, after many unsuceessful attempts, had established or received charge of from Government on the grant-in-aid principle. Though the baptisms of the first Badagas for some time seriously endangered these schools, they have weathered the storm and been consolidated, with the excep- tion of one which, however, has been replaced by others newly esta- blished. They are now attended by about eighty boys, twenty-four of whom are able to read. A desire after education is gradually Now and then the missionaries are spreading among the Badagas. Tamulians asked by headmen to open schools in their villages also. from the low-country have formerly been preferred by the people as schoolmasters, though Badaga youths trained by the Brethren to teach Canargse, proved on the whole more competent. Jut now they com- mence to ask for such schoolmasters of their own accord. Another i important means of usefulness are four night-schools, attended by ngn-uP men, even headmen among their number, who after having Seokge finished their day’s work spend their evenings in learning to read and write. Thus ere long one great obstacle to mission-work on the Nila- giris, the total absence of a reading population, may be removed. All these schools are regularly visited by the Brethren, especially by Br. Kittel, who moreover on Mondays used to give special lessons to the schoolmasters. Br. Wiirtele, who arrived at Kaity on the 29th March, is at present studying the language in order to enter upon Br, Kittel’s work as soon as possible. An attempt to establish a school among the tribe of the Kotas has been defeated by the jealousy of the Badagas. The Brethren were again witnesses of many heart-rending scenes occasioned by the utter helplessness of id ol-worship. The poor people enslaved by their old customs, tremble at any departure from them lest they should incur the wrath ofthe gods. And even where better feelings have gained ground,the hold oftheir old superstition on their minds continues in almost unabated strength, One Before he arrived the man day Br. Metz was called to visit a sick Badaga. died, and his father’s distress was so great that he hanged himself and was saved with difficulty. At a burial many Badagas neglected their customary dances round the corpse in order to listen to the missionary, when a head man pulled them away by force and pressed them into the service of their old customs. The Badagas suffered again much from want of rain last year. But they had no ears to understand the meaning of such continued judgments. They would say, “ Are we not like monkeys? Do we not take every stone, every tree, every European for a god, and yet we have no rain. It is strange!” Or, “Though we have forsaken our old gods and commenced to believe in Christ, there is no rain!” Or, “8ince the Enropeans have preached Christ to us and interfered with our old customs, a curse has fallen upon us, and rain fails!” Or, “we believed in Christ. This is the source of all our distress. We have omitted to sacrifice buffaloes. Since then ourbuffaloes and calves died,and rain and fertile years have ceased!” A Badaga of nearly a hundred years, far from feeling fear of death, considered his prolonged life a great hardship. “0 Shiva”, he would say, “why am I not permitted to die? What have I done, that I must live so long?” When a Missionary told him that the Lord had kept him in order to make him acquainted with his salvation in Christ, and offered to have him carried to Kaity and instructed in the truth, he objected saying, This isim- possible. Behold all these great aud little ones. The curses of every one of them would fall upon me, and how could I then appear before Shiva?” Still now and then instances occur of Badagas showing greater fear of the God of the Bible, than of their own gods. Thus it happened some time ago that a feast in honor of an idol would not take place, because two headmen refused to have any thing to do with it. Gl Br. Metz has found many opportunities to speak to the Todas of the one thing needful, as they used to admit him to their gatherings. He spent some time amog them, and passed a night in company of five of them in one of their vy little huts, ten feet long by eight feet broad. Hetold them the history of Joseph and of‘the Exodus, to which they listened with great interest, until they fell asleep. One day a Toda happened to kneel before a small temple of theirs and offer a handful of dry- grass. When Br. Metz took occasion by this to show the Todas the vanity of their worship, they readily admitted that dry grass was no fit means to obtain divine favour. “Still,” they added, “such was the custom of our fathers, from which we must not depart.” The Kotas were formerly more hostile to the gospel than all other hill-tribes; and because Br. Metz had advised the Badagas no more to give offerings to a Kota-idol, they would have nothing to say to him. Of late, however, he succeeded in effecting a reconciliation by procuring a few iron tools for them, when he could again speak to them of the happiness of the children of God in Christ Jesus. The two Badaga converts have proved a most beneficial accession to the small native church at Kaity, in accordance with the word of The Parochial the Lord; ¥The last shall be first, and the first last”. School at Kaity has prospered. Weekly examinations, held by one of the Brethren, have proved most useful in stimulating the zeal of both, the schoolmaster and the children. Divine Service on Sundays ] was attended by heathen Badagas also, with whom the Brethrenused to converse afterwards on the truths contained intheir discourses. Abra- ham, the Badaga convert, is a most useful assistant on sueh occasions. Now and then he exhibits to his former friends the Basel Illustrations of Missionary Scenes, previously explained to him by the Brethren. This is an excellent way of showing to these poor people the bless- ings of the gospel, and the curse of idolatry. May the Lord soon manifest his glory and power on these mountains by new victories among the Badagas and other hill-tribes. o= ¥ = V. COORG MERCARA, ALMANDA, ANANDAPURA. Rev. Dr. H. Moegling (1836) and Mrs. Moegling (1844). Rev. F. Kittel (1853). Rev. G Richter (1855) and Mrs. Richter (1 858). Catechists and Schoolmasters. Christian Kamsika. Stephanas Somaya. Communicants 2990800000222 006000000000 000000000°0 39; last year 3 Non-Communicants. 2 - - 12 CRitirens i S s hassg S e 50 - - 19 Catechument 56 - - 120 - Parochial school, scholars 0005000000000 00008080 31 - 29 English School, scholars 72 - - 90 In April 1858 Br. Moegling left Coorg in order to bring the af- fairs of the Coorg Mission to some satisfactory settlement by a per- sonal conference with friends in Europe. The Coorg Mission had completed its fifth year. Three Coorg families had formed the begin- ning of the new church: Stephanas of Almanda and his family had been baptized in 1853; Hannah of the Mannanichanda house, a Coorg widow, and her son Samuel, then thirteen years of age, had been re- ceived in 1854. Thomas of the Biddendara family, and his wife Do- rothea, had joined us in 1855. In the beginning of 1856 a large number of Holeyas, 180 souls, had applied for instruction, and the formation of a Christian community had commenced on a waste farm between Virarajendrapet and Siddhapura, which Br. Kaundinya of Mangalore had rented from Government for the purpose of assisting the Coorg Mission. For five years a small number of Christian Friends had liberally supported the new mission, the adoption of which our esteemed Committee at Basel had, for various reasons, con~ tinued to decline. They had, indeed, most kindly offered to give as- sistance to Br. Moegling personally. But especially since the recent enlargement of the work, and the decrease of the usual contributions in ‘consequence of the mutiny, it was considered necessary, that some Society should be found willing to charge themselves with the perma- nent care of the Mission, lest the death of the Missionary, whose health Litme. - was precarious, shouid put its existence into jeopardy. Negotiations had been entered into with the Madras Corresponding Committee of Y the Church Missionary Society and the Parent Committee in London who, it was hoped, would adopt the Coorg Mission in the event of a final refusal being given by the Committee at Bagsel. The English School at Mercara, liberally supported by Government, flourished un- der its Headmaster, Br. Richter, who had joined the Coorg Mission in April 1856. The new congregation at Mukkaty was left in the charge of the intelligent and trusty Stephanas of Almanda. Br. Moegling’s family remained at Mercara. The good Bishop of Madras, large-heart- ed and liberal as usual, promised to contribute hundred Rupees per mensem, and thus removed at once every care for the support of the The kindness of the Hono- Mission during Br. Moegling’s absence. rable W. Elliot, and the brotherly zeal of Br. Kaundinya furnished the means for the journey. Br. Moegling left Bombay by the first steamer in May, On his arrival at Trieste he wrote to Basel and enquired, if there was any hope of the Committee reconsidering their last adverse resolution. He received an unfavorable answer. His first concern, however, after his return to Germany was to seek the reestablishment of his health, if it pleased God, at Kissingen, where he had recovered from chronic dysen- tery in 1846. The rest of a month, and the use of the waters and baths were again blessed to his recovery. From Kissingen he went to London with a cordial recommendation from the Basel Committee to that of the Church Missionary Society. Having arrived at the very commencement of the yearly recess of the Salisbury Square Commit- tee, he had to wait a month for their reassembling. This season he had the happiness of spending under the hospitable roof of our old loving friend H. Stokes Esq at Leepark-Blackheath. For some time little doubt was entertained as to the favorable result of the application made in behalf of the Coorg Mission. Many of the members of the Committee were disposed to adopt Coorg notwithstanding some diffi- culties which were in the way. Br. Moegling was requested by the Secretaries to attend some meetings of Auxiliary Associations of the Church Missionary Society in London and the neighbourhood, and every- o) N e where met with t et aes st reception. At the first general meeting after the rec eSS txl“ C g question was taken up with such a degree at Ni 4 2 X r. Venn, the venerable of sympathy, th Secretary, at the close of & nw tae PL minary discus DL on said to Br. Mo 511}* “I am afraid, Dr Moegling, that you will consi r th 1 1. vo a triumph Aw ] later tion was finally considered, t’xu Committee decided on when the ques grantine a most libes ral contribution of fi ve-thous Rupees to the, Coorg 1 Wission from their pe ial In nhLm Fund, and on waiting for the farther development of the work, before they formed a final resolution. a Br. Moegling received the large gift with hea wty thankfulness, (< nd having failed to secure the permanent support of either of the two So- cieties, to whom he had intended to apply, resolved on returning to Coor accompanied by some faithful colleague, whom he hoped to find at the University of Tiibing en or among the younger clergy of his native count ity Wiirttemberg. The funds immediately ne ssary, had been supplied by the ] bamh‘ry of the Church Missionary Society, and Br. Moe ng felt as 1, that He who had hitherto provided, would pLOVldO also in future for a Mission commenced in His nan On his ey | ol way from London to Wiirttember 8t e went to Bas Ui, having reported to the Committee the answer he had received to his application backed by their letter of recommendation, and acquainted them with his reso- lution to return to India forthwith. He was so cordially received, that he felt at liberty to ask the Committee, since he had failed tn his ef- forts of obtaining the permanent support of an established Society, to let him accept their former off f oiving O contributions to him per sonally for literary labours carried on i connexion with their Cana- rese Missions. These contributions would suffice for the support of the future colleague, aud the Friends in India would not, it was con- ial ay ly sitt m’ced At a con- fidently hoped, forsake a Mission so pecul fidential interview with the J ‘ e majority of the Comm he received the assurance, that such a request would be cheerfully acceded to. Be- fore, however, h e ad v (.,\4.\ dressed a v paper to this effect to the Committee, he was urg ed once more to ask for th doption of the Coorg Mission, and assured that, after his personal interviews with the members of the Committee, they might yet come to a favorable decision, since it was 10 2% il e evident that there was no insuperable difficulty in the way of union. On the 20th October the Basel Committee adopted the Coorg Mission. h| ] Thus ended a trial of nearly six years. Br. Moegling was well pleased to exchange the responsibilities of asolitary independent mis~ sionary for the duties of a member of a Society, subject to a faithful and beloved Committee. His immediate return to India was agreed upon. If a suitable colleague was found in Wiirttemberg, the Com- mittee would send him out; if not, they would, as soon as practicable, send one of the Cana Ire (v} se Brethren to the assistance of the Coorg Mission, The liberal grant of the Chureh Missionary Society would suffice to pay Br. Moegling’s journey to Europe and back to India, For the new and relieve the Coorg Mission from all its liabilities. station, now called Anandapura, a Christian village lining the high- road which leads from Virarajendrapet to Siddhapura, two thousand Rupees were voted on acecount of the missien-house, and five hundred % Rupees on account of the new church. Br. Moegling’s efforts to obtain a colleague in Wiirttemberg were unsuccessful, for he had only a few e weeks at his disposal. He returned to Coorg in January alone, but was joined on the 15th April by Br. Kittel from Kaity, whom the Committee have appointed to Anandapura. He has been in India five years, and by his knowledge of the Canarese language and his mis- Thus sionary experiencc is enabled to enter at once upon the work. the disdppointment in November last has become an evident gain to the Coorg Mission. We have been led blindfolded as it were, but all in the right way. The Lord doeth all things welk All parties concerned, the Coorg missionaries, the Committee at Basel, the kind and liberal Friends of Salisbury Square, and our excellent neighbor, the good Bishop of Madras, are well pleased with the present settle- ment of the Mission. Br. Kittel eame just in time to assist in baptizing the first com- pany of converts, nine families consisting of forty-two souls, on the 17th April. Sixteen of them are children, the rest adults. They have been on trial and under instruction for two years and upwards, and have been chosen for the first baptism with the consent of the whole On Easter Sunday the new church celebrated the congregation. - e 15 Lord’s Supper togsther. The foundation has now been laid. May the great master-builder soon raise for himself a large living temple in these wilds, and glorify his name in the sight of the heathen. Coorg is now fairly provided with the appliances of the gospel. By the accession of Br. Kittel we shall have it in our power after the monsoon, to preach with tolerable regularity on the weekly fair-days at Mercara and Virarajendrap at Ty the principle market-towns of the country, and to visit the chief places of pilgrimage, to which the Coorgs annually resort, Soobrahmanya, Talakaveri and Kurchi. A good English School at Marcara affords ths msans of sound educa- tion to a goodly number of young Coorgs, and offers the knowledge of the Secriptures to all who attend. A good Vernacular School will, it is hoped, be established at Virarajendrapet after the rains. The congregation school at Anandapura enlightens and raises the poor Holeya children, some of whom may in time become valuable assist- ants in the work of themission among their large tribe (about 15000 souls) who, as the poor of the country, have a peculiar claim on the gospel (Matth. XI, 5.) At Anandapura a hristian = vil- centre lage with a mission-house and a church opposite” in the will give the character of life, order, aud comfort to a former wild- erness. Thousands of cattle pass the place weekly. Crowds of people stream week after week from the Mysore to the great mart of Vira- rajendrapet. They wonder at our deings. In due time they shall hear the word of Christ at the neighboring halting places, and spread the fame of the Christian town which has arisen in the forest. May the Lord bless the beginning made in his name! An account of the contributions received by the Coorg Mission during the last two years, will be found in the following pages. We trust that our Friends will not now think it unnecessary to support the Coorg Mission after its adoption by the DBasel Society. There might be some show of reason for a decrease of liberality, if a rich Society had stepped in. As for the i3asel Society, it is poor, ever has been and ever will be poor in money, and our esteemed Com- mittee have been encouraged in taking charge of Coorg partly by the reflection, that this Mission has during six years of its isolation met 10% s UG with sympathy and sup pport in India, d by the hop hat the old Friends of the Coorg i sion will not desert it on QUL apny ount Ol Ib union W O il a B a;z%a nv’\ CiCL We would t th ore LT fore b with its natural parent, th 4 our good and liberal friends and Tt 3 re e VWlO&. nestly, 1 [ to with- A draw their help from the Coon M: I"C“ LOOL (0] P L aty ar Ui 1t has b e e 1 prospered thus far by the goodness of the Lord. Western Africa Kission. The Gold Coast of Upper Guinea is the field which the providence of God ha wssigned to the Basel B [issionary Society in Western Africa Their nearest neighbors are the missionaries 'of the American Epis- copdl Board on the Ivory Coast tothe west, t se of the Bremen So- the ciety on the Slave Coast to the east, anc Wesleyan missionaries x:j. xet n have gone out from scattered over tho parts. Since 182 1000 Basel to this coast; but many a valuabl o L0 1ie was s yacrifi 100U ib fore e a firm footing could b obtained TﬂO ].( i/bt jl eport has spoken of the long | and trying time of preparation, which only a few years ago was suc- ceeded by the establishment of small native churches. Ti past year i 1118 numoer or con- also was a season of progress, slow, but steady. 2 AT verts has risen from 295 to 368, e 25 o v hom are communicants, 4a more than la tyear Four dictri D have more or less been brough o under the mn fluence of the gospel, the GA or Akra district on the coast 00V A A 5 with stations at Christiansborg and Abokol DYy the Ada L1 21 o distriet where ¢ a door to the Krobo negroes h been opened, th A quapim or Otshi district in the mour Apeas 1uch ins which ris Se ab af some dis nee from the coast, and where stations at Abude and Akropong have been erected, and the Akim di rict on the north-west, in which Gya m has been There 1is reason to hop moreov that th mission occupied q ere long may find acces; D to th Akuambu nsgroes on the north-east as the first conve t from among t vas baptized last y Cde car On all oro Vi v sides the number of inquirers is on the in ase; and although the pro- Oe mising outstation at Odumase among the Krobo negr v as des- troyed in Oct ober last in consequence of a war with the E 1gl* h Govern- ment, in which the Kings of that tribe involved themselv s, yet the e But Word of God is not bound. Peace has been restored since. eto new outbreaks of host ii 1i1 ties in other parts are not unlikely, as the whole yulation of the Gold Coast and the adjacent inland districts By 8 1'*1(106 one party siding with the English, and the other being hos- tile to tl Moreover the power of darkness latterly puts forth its worst features with greater boldness then ever, and summons up all its forces to keep the votaries of fetishism subject to bondage through ar of death. No wonder that in st usx e h thick darkness the small native churches And bright appear as bright spots in spite of their many failings spots they are,for Christ is their light! Nor can it be deunied that the Word of God exercises , powerful influence over the country round about Successful ef fforts, moreover, have been made hand in hand with the regenerating influence of t he oo 188w b spel, to introduce useful trades and an improved system of agriculture among a race proverbially ad- 7 . dicted to laz A8 ss and improvidence. It has been the practice of the Basel Soci cco T ding to the precedent of the Moravian Brethren, T 1 hC to supply a African stations with lay-missionaries who strive to train the native converts to industrious habits; and to teach them how to employ in the service of God and men the energies with which they have been endowed, and the still undeveloped We%lth of their, country W hops have been set up t Christian org, Abokoby, ‘L Abude, and Akropong, in whicl vood- sawyers, car L 1ve nte uo s, joiners, 7OV Ci coopers, shingle-makers, bricklay s, black-smiths, locksm 1’(110, shoe- i makers, and ailors are trained, and a _\ though it is not to be expected that negr will soon be able to di 8 D ense with Europe n Q ) upervision and instruction in their #1 /-ny ali s, yet their progress nuhnrto has been 11a 1couraging, and th ssistance has been of incaleu ALy wble value in a country, where no tra en are procurable, and where constant ex-~ Nor is the posure to the sun is almost certain death to Tmopean.:. adoption of an improved system of agriculture of less importance. Whilst tho native Q 'J{‘,“) oY TOW Y 41 lLA. as little trouble QA aq possible their most necessary len 100 provisions, and to save labour, se t every year an piece of ground and give up the rest to the inroads of the bush to become hot beds of vers and haunts of all sorts of noxious animals and vermin: regular o plantations of greater or smaller extent have been laid out at Akropong, Abude, Abokoby, and Gyadam, to train an improved class of farmers. 10 Thess attempts have proved that under proper management the pro- duce of the land may be increased tenfold, and that many resources for home-consumption as well as export have as yet been scarcely touched upon. With similar intentions a factory has been established at Christiansborg, with prospects of advantageboth to the mission and the people. In Africa the changes occasioned by sickness and death have always been great among missionaries, nor has the past year formed an excep- tion. The death of Br. Steinhauser on the 13th September 1857 was recorded in last report. Since then two more Brethren, both of the Akim Mission, have been called to their rest, Br. Hoenger on the 18th May 1858, and Br. Baum on the 14th August. Upon Br. Steinhauser’s departure Br. Zimmermann removed from Akropong to Christiansborg, but his health has been so precarious of late, that his return to Europe can no longer be delayed. Br. Haas of Akropong has been directed to join the Akim Mission. Failing health has obliged Br. Christaller to AN leave Africa with his family. In order to supply the vacancies thus occasioned, and to provide for the necessary augmentation of laborers in proportion to the in- crease of work, considerable reinforcements have been received. Br. Stiss, who had left the mission according to the last Report, has return- ed to his former station at Gtyadam in Akim, and the scheme of carry- ing on this mission without pecuniary aid from Europe has been drop- ped as impracticable. Before the close of 1857 Br. Lang landed at Christiansborg, a lay-brother who had been sent out to manage the Akropong plantation. He was accompanied by Sisters Riidi and Furr- er, appointed to the Girls Boarding Schools at Christiansborg and Abude. Immediately upon hearing of the death of Br. Steinhauser, the Committee despatched the Brethren Auer and Aldinger to Africa, the former to assist the Brethren of the Preparandi School at Akro- pong, the latter to strengthen the hands of the missionaries at Abokoby. They reached Christiansborg on the 21st January 1858. On the 8th October Sisters Schweickhardt and Stoll, engaged to Br. Laissle of — 79 S Abokoby, and Br. Haas of Gyadam, arrived. On the 17th November Br. and Sr. Locher returned with reestablished health to their former station at Christiansborg. Thus at the close of 1858 seventeen Breth- ren and twelve Sisters were engaged in this mission, one Brother and three Sisters more than at the close of 1857. Further assistance has been promised. Br. Stanger, who laboured in Africa from 1846 to 1854, and on the 29th August 1857 had the grief to lose his wife, the faithful partner of his labors and trials in Africa, bid farewell to the Committee at Basel on the eve of his depar- ture for Christiansborg, the 16th February last. Br. and Sr. Mohr also fcel so much strengthened according to the last reports, that they . hope soon to return to Akropong, where Br. Mohr has Iaboured from 1846 to 1855. Br, Schrenk has been set apart to accompany him and to reinforce the agency of the mission factory at Christiansborg. With the arrivals of October and November last, three negro youths returned to their native country. They had been taken to Europe to be trained for missionaries or for mechanics, but the scheme failed in consequence of their inability to stand the European climate. A fourth young African, however, continues in the Preparatory Mission Sehool at Basel. On the 6th January 1858 the Brethren of the GADistrict held with their flocks the first Missionary Meeting at Christiansborg. Gov. ra- or Pine and Commandant Freeman had the kindness to attend and to address the assembly. Eight pounds were collected, besides seven- teen pounds contributed by the converts of all African stations during the previous year. This joyous festival was followed by a similar one at Akropong on the 17th January. The King with many hea- thens were present and contributed to the collections, which amounted to upwards of three pounds. At both ocecasions the Brethren felt the presence of the Lord, and were much refreshed. In August 1858 the deputies from the different districts were as- sembled at Akropong for a General Conference. They discussed a collection of regulations for the Basel Mission Churches, previously drawn up in India and at Basel, and set seven pupils of the Preparandi Bchool apart for employment in the mission. i We now proceed shortly to sketch the history of each station during the past year. Q’i s, Akra or Gid Disiri The Akra District, in which the G4 language is spoken, extends along the Gold-Coast for about twenty miles on both sides of Christiansborg, the residence of the English Governor, and nearly as far inland to the foot of the Aquapim mountains. Christiansborg on the Coast, and Abo- koby, about sixteen miles farther inland, arethe principal mission-sta= tions. At L4 and Tashy, two towns on the coast, two and six miles leg to the east of Christiansborg, and at Damfa, five m L1000 to the north- east of Abokoby, outstations have been formed. In the Akra country, which for many years has been under a Christ- ian Government, formerly under that of Denmark, and latterly under Lape D ULd v ) e over al 1 I 8 that of England, Chr ity is visibly extending its influes 1 ¢ 1 classes of the population, producing great c i 1ay »s in the manners 0 customs of the people. Conversions of whc JLC Yo | (cfi umilies have occome Ul ' more frequent. The negro king of Osu (Ussu) close to wristiansborg, since a long time a nominal Christian, baptized while the Danes were still in possession of the colony,, is a decided enemy of fetishism, and (oA V) ne a powerful party formed from among the younger gencration esp ially supports him in his efforts. Fetishes and fetish-priests are publicly derided. Theirinfluence is rapidly on the wane, and the hostility of their champions is proportionately fierce. They threaten converts with the loss of goods and of life. They throw all possible difficulties in the way of such as wish to attend mission-schools. They prepare for a desper- ate struggle to recover the ground lost. But the Lord of hosts is with us. He will be exalted among the heathen. By the exertions of Br. Zimmermann and thelate Br. Steinhauser considerable progress has been made in providing a Christian literature for the GA converts. In addition to the four Gospels, a Primer, Dr. Barth’s Bible Stories, and a History of the Passion of Christ, previously ;‘ published in G4, a Catechism with a collection o Scripture passages, T we the Book of Genesis, the Prophet Daniel, the Hipist les of John and Jude, — 81 — and the Revelation have been printed; and a Reader, in which the use of the Roman characters according to thesystem prepared by Profess- or Lepsius has been adopted, translations of the Acts, the Epistle to the Romans, the Prophet Isaiah, and a Grammar and Vocabulary for the study of the G4 language are ready for publication. The Scrip- ture portions have been printed at the expense of the British and Foreign Bible Society, which with their wonted liberality has come forward to assist the missonaries in furnishing the G& people with the Holy Scriptures in their own language. BRI e CHRISTIANSBORG axp OSU wite OUTSTATIONS ar LA axo TASHY. CoMMENCED IN 1845. Rev. C. W. Locher (1850) and Mrs. Locher. Rev. J. Zimmermann (1 850) and Mrs. Zimmermann. Mrs. Steinhauser (1857). INDUSTRIAL BEPARTMENT. Br. H. L. Rottmann (1854). Br. Schall (1856). Br. Lindenmeyer (1857). Schoolmistresses. Miss W. Maurer (1857). Miss K. Ridi (1857). Wilhelmine Wulff. Catechists and Schoolmasters. Thom. Jul. Svaniker, William Cleland, Theod. Wulf. Commumicants 9 9° 0806699 9800000000 000800000000 99; last year 59 20 Children scecsen e 0860004200060 00000°8800000000800 41 Girls’ Boarding School, boarders ssessssn 21 10 45 Day-scholars 099000080000 000000000 8000080020000 The greater part of Ussuor Osu, the native town outside the Fort of Christiansborg, is still in ruins in consequence of the bombardment of the place in September 1854. The inhabitants have dwindled down to about four hundred. The Government has availed itself mean- while of the opportunity for laying out broad and straight streets, and 1 e 08 L to introduce regulations promoting the health and safety of the place. il The mission has succeeded in procuring several forsaken buildings for 9l their extensive establishments. A great difficulty is the want of water during a considerable portion of the year, when the missionaries are obliged to buy their drinking water. It has been stated in the last Report that the mission at this place sustained a heavy loss in September 1857 by the death of Br. Stein- hauser, a most able and devoted missionary, richly blessed by the Lord, and greatly beloved by his fellow-labourers and all the converts. % Br. Zimmermann was directed to remove from Akropong to his for- mer station in order to fill up the vacancy and take charge of the na- tive church. Repeated attacks of sickness, one of which occurred not long ago, had so undermined the strength of this Brother during a residence of nine years in Africa, that the Committee at home urged 1 upon him of late the necessity to visit Germany. In November last Br. and Sr. Locher returned from Europe with invigorated health. At the desire of the Committee Br. Locher procured at Teneriffa four donkeys for missionaries engaged in travelling. As the gad-fly of these parts appears to be as destructive to horses as the tsetse of Dr. Livingston’s description, to which it bears a great resemblance, it is to be hoped that the donkeys will be less liable to die, and thus prove of great service in diminishing the hardships, to which the mission- aries are exposed on their journeys. The ConerrEgAaTION has had a considerable increase. Amongst the younger converts especially there is a healthy and promising tone; and though the older members give frequent cause for complaints by their lukewarmness and indifference, yet there are such also among them as imitate their younger brethren in availing themselves more diligently of the means of grace. The Scripture portions iranslated and printed in G4, have proved a beneficial stimulant, Many learn to read in their advanced age to make use of these books. hey begin also to take a more lively interest in the propagation of the gospel than formerly, and contribute more liberally to the mission-funds. The Girns' BoarpinG Scmoon has been removed. to a separate The house and put under the charge of Sisters Maurer and Riidi. PR 0 number of boarders has increased to twenty-seven. The other schools also or are thriving, especially since more books have been prepared for them. or The Mission Facrtory, a mercantile establishment commenced I\ by the mission in imitation of similar undertakings on various Mora- 8 vian Stations, and conducted by the Brethren Rottmann and Schall, Not only have the stations been |~ has prospered beyond expectation. materially assisted, but also honesty and faithfulness in trade have been considerably promoted by it in these parts and the profits have been large enough torender the concern almost self-supporting, the ex- L- penses of the European agents included. Br. Lindenmeyer, though frequently interrupted by attacks of fever, has continued to train carpen- b ters in his workshop, in order to furnish the station with christian work- men able to relieve the missionaries of all the exposure and exertion attendant upon keeping their dwellings in repair. Both establishments are held in high esteem by the people. They gladly avail themselves ? of this opportunity to exchange their gold-dust against European goods. LA is a town two miles to the east on the sea, with about three thousand inhabitants belonging to a rude, vigorous race, rivalling There is in this town the most renowned with the negroes of Osu. fetish of the G4 country, Lakna by name, and embodied in an old drum. The people ageribe to him great power over the rain, and though they make light of other fetishes, they are filled with fear when their own Lakna is attacked. The gospel is regularly preached here, and received with marked attention. Some time ago the DBrethren Zimmermann and Rottmann were passing by night through the town on their return from Tashy to Christiansborg, when they were detain- ed by some young men, anxious to hear more of the gospel; and though it was nine o’clock, an interesting discussion ensued, during which they evinced a real earnestnesss to know the truth. They ex- pressed the fear that by forsaking Lakna they would deprive them- selves of his mediation in times of drought. But when they were told of the power of prayer, they appeared completely satisfied. Sev- eral converts have come from this place, though only one continues 11% e to live here. His right arm having been bitten off by a shark, he learned to write with his left hand, and is now Br. Rottmann’s agent. At Tasmy, a town as large as La, four miles farther to the east, Christianity has made considerable progress. Most of the converts employed on the plantations at Abokoby and Damfa, are natives of this place, where they retain their houses, though like many of their countrymen, they are absent for the greater part of the year. The gospel is willingly listened to in this town, and a considerable portion of the population is favorable to it. Of late a number of inquirers, among them an elder of the town with his numerous family, has asked for baptism. A Catechist has been stationed here. The Lord ap- pears to have a great people in this town. May they have grace to break through the bonds of darkness, and become children ofthe light. ABOCOBY, wite D AMF A, CoMMENCED IN 1854, ‘Rev. J. Heck (1856). Br. M. Ried (1856.) Br. H. Lazissle (1857) and Sr. Laissle. Rev. C. F. Aldinger (1857). Native Assistants. Charles Reindorf, Adolphus Briandt, Godfrey Alema, Paul Fleisher, Isaac Akwete. Communzcants ©900600000000000000000600060000860003 5 35 47; last year Non-Communicants....o.oeeeeevnnns SRRSO 0 - - Children ©©0060000°00°06006000500600060600009008000609006ed0 50 - - 36 Catechumens 9000600090000 00000000600060008000 600 18 Boys' Boarding School, Boarders 20 - Day-scholars ©©600000006000°680000000°206606000890000s00 10 - - 15 Abocoby, about sixteen miles inland from Christiansborg, where the Danes had some fifty years ago an important factory with shady U avenues, orange-gardens, and extensive coffee-plantations, has been selected after the destruction of Osu in 1854 as a suitable place for a M e Christian settlement. Since then the bush has been cleared; the place has been levelled and intersected by good roads; substantial mission- ! houses have been erected with roofs imported from Bremen; a wells sixteen feet square and about ninety feet deep, has been sunk through { a hard metallic soil. Instead of the scanty liquid of fowl puddles the mission has now a never failing supply of healthy water, and the na- tives have been shown that they might derive much greater benefits by digging for water than by digging for gold, and that the goblins ) which they fancy to rule in the depth of the earth, are not tobe feared. The well was commenced in December 1857. To a depth of fifteen feet the workmen had to force their way through an exceedingly hard soil very rich in iron ore. Afterwards the work became easier. Br. Lindenmeyer of Christiansborg prepared two windlasses to assist the laborers in raising the soil, when the natives came from near and far to admire, first in mouth, these astounding contrivances of the white man. After nine months of incessant work, at the depth of eighty-two feet, the joyful cry was raised that water had been found. It was the 20th August 1858. A bottle was immediately filled and despatched to Christiansborg as a visible proof of the final success of this undertaking, and sincere thanks to the Lord filled all hearts for this blessing. Since then the well has been deepened still more, and there is now no longer any want of water. The same Lord who has given his children water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert in this literal sense, will not with-hold from them a still richer supply of the water of life, and teach the people to draw water with joy out of the wells of salvation. The station was commenced by the late Br. Steinhauser, who in March 1857 was succeeded by Br. Heck in the pastorate, and by Br. Ried in the management of secular affairs. Afterwards Br. Laissle, a lay-brother, a carpenter by trade, formerly stationed at Christiansborg, joined this mission to direct building affairs. In January 1858 Br. On Heck’s hands were strengthened by the arrival of Br. Aldinger. the 21st October Br. Laissle was married to Sr. Schweickhardt. The Brethren were repeatedly visited with sickness. On the 2d Septem- ber Br. Heck had a most severe attack of fever. The converts held prayer meetings by day and night to ask the Lord for the life of their beloved pastor. They were heard. Still the Brother’s removal to Chris- tianshorg for a season, and a sea-voyage have become necessary for -his entire restoration. - fu L Here also a considerable number of souls has been added to the g\ ehurch. Among them there was a fetish-priest who, pursued by ! dreadful visions, found no rest until he east himself repentant at the feet of Jesus. Many of the converts give joy by their uprightness and steadiness. They exercise Christian discipline among themselves with great firmness. Though still tender plants, they are a prayerful people and grow in grace. The example of Andrew Asong, who in December 1857 fell asleep in Jesus, was especially blessed to his brethren. He had commenced to run well the race that was set before him, when he was brought to fall. He had grace, however, earnestly to repent and rise again. His bodily strength being broken from that time, he sin- cerely thanked the Lord for his mereciful chastisements. His last words were, I have seen the glorious crown of Christ; He has assured me of the pardon of all my sins; there is nothing left now te separate me from my Savieur.” A Bovs’ Boarping ScHooL has been set up at this place, and Paul Fleisher, one of the negro youths, who had returned from Basel during the past year from failing health, has been entrusted with its manage- ment. In one of his letters he wrote to the Committee, “If those to whom Africa is a foreign country, are so anxious for her welfare, how much more should natives have it at heart. May the Lord give us grace not to grow weary in proclaiming to our redeemed brethren the word of salvation. The Pray, be not discouraged by heavy trials. seed will bring forth fruit in due time. Continue! Amen.” The influence of the station on the surrounding villages, which are regularly visited by the missionaries, has become considerable. Many appear inclined to receive the gospel in spite of the persecutions, to which they would certainly expose themselves. At pamra, five miles to the north-east, several Christian families live, by whom a chapel has been erected. Two Catechists are stationed here, and a school has been opened. In the evenings and on Sundays the school is attended by adults as well as by children. Many inquir- ers went back when they saw that two influential Christians of Damfa were excommunicated on account of their inconsistent walk. The e G o gospel is however again listened to, and though the power of darkness ¥ is great indeed, it must finally give way to the light 16 d h [} II. ADANGNE BISTRICT. I ODUMARBSE. Native Assistants. 6 Thomas Kwatei, Christian Obobi. Communicants ©9° 0000000000000 8000000900°00 0800009 7; last gear 2. The Adangme District, which has of late been visited by the mis- sionaries in different directions, extends in a triangular shape between the sea on the south, the G4 and Otshi Districts on the west, and the Volta river on the north-east. The northern vertex of the triangle is occupied by the Krobo negroes, who are acquainted with Gé aswell as with the Adangme dialect. They were hitherto ruled by two Kings. R Bt Both had their capitals on the Krobo mountain, an extensive mass of rocks, traversed by a few fertile valleys. These cities were scattered in different groups over the rocks. They contained many superior negro-houses, and a few substantial buildings of stone for the Kings, and were divided into six quarters with eight-hundred soldiers in each. They formed the centres of hundreds of villages and country-houses, where many inhabitants of the capitals generally lived, visiting the towns once every week. Thus Odonko Asu, one of the Kings, resided usually at Odumase, a village with about five-hundred inhabitants, situated in a large palm-grove. Oloko Patu was the name of the cher Krobo king. In the last Report the favorable reception, the gospel has met with at Odumase, especially on the part of king Odonko Asu, has been spo- ken of. Two young men of great promise, one of them a son of the King, were baptized. Two able Catechists were stationed there. A chapel was erected with the assistance of the converts. The King with his remaining sons regularly attended divine service. Young and old visited the school by night as well as by day to study the Christian b S o n books published in Gﬁ. Their zeal was most refreshing. Severai by youths gave promise to become eventually most useful native assistants. i Many inquirers waited only for the example of the king, to declare them- selves for Christ. Thus a hopeful field, ripe for the harvest, appeared to lie open before the missionaries, when a storm arose, and for a time at least put an end to their hopes. War between the English Govern- ment and the other Krobo king having broken out, Odonko Asu incur- red the resentment of the British troops by some treacherous dealings, ¥ and Odumase was entirely destroyed. One of the converts lost his life. All the mission property, a bell and some books excepted, was plun- aJ dered, and the small native church was scattered. In consideration of t his otherwise friendly and faithful disposition towards the English, Odonko Asu has not been deprived of his throne like his colleague, t and thus there is hope, that the mission may once more take root in ¢ these parts. As Oloko Patu pertinaciously réfused to pay the poll-tax demanded by the English Government, an army under the leadership of Mr. Freeman, formerly a Wesleyan missionary, and of late Civil Commandant of the Eastern districts, was sent off to reduce the refractory chief tosubmission. Odonko Asu offered to assist the English, and was furnished with military stores. But instead of attacking Oloko Patu, he employed the ammunition in chastising another neigh- bor, who had been faithful to the British. In consequence Odumase and all the surrounding villages were attacked and destroyed, when Odonko Asu gave himself up to Government. The British force then turned against the capital of Oloko Patu on the Krobo mountain. On the 18th September the fire opened, and a detachment was directed to storm. When near the houses of the city, their ammunition failed, and they were forced to retire. The negro troops were so alarmed by this repulse, that they returned to their homes, and Free- man with one hundred English soldiers was obliged to remove his camp and wait for fresh stores. The assault was then resumed: Oloko Patu was taken Oloko Patu was de- prisoner, and the British flag planted on the Krobo hill. prived of his throne and sentenced to pay with his chiefs forty-five thousand Odonko Asu with his followers heads of cowries (about six-thousand pounds). was mulcted thirty thousand heads of cowries. As all negroes in the neighborhood, able to bear arms, were summoned to join the English force, many converts were among them. Catechist Reindorf of Abokoby, one of their number, assembled his negro brethren, whenever prac- ticable, for morning and evening prayer, and held divine service every Sunday LogR L tal in the camp. The Abokoby converts made a good impression upon the troops by their exemplary behaviour, while those from Christiansborg gave now and 15, then occasion for censure. n- ed 16 If. AQUAPIN or OTSHI DISTRICT. I I- From their high situation on a range of mountains rising at a dis- S tance of about twenty miles from the coast, the Aquapim stations are o by far cooler and healthier than those on the coast. They are Abude H_ and Akropong, respectively about thirty and forty miles distant from of the coast. h The Aquapim negroes, secluded by their mountains from closer con- £ tact with European civilisation, are a ruder and more barbarous race 1l than the population of the coast. Subject to a feeble chief, who neither has the power to control them, nor possesses the wisdom to strengthen his 16 hands by a frank acknowledgment of British superiority, they are left y without restraint to the influence of their passions. Heathenish vices, % such as necromancy, witcheraft, fornication, murder, human sacrifices, have awfully prevailed of late. There is, however, a better party who, despairing of finding in their own religion a check against these out- bursts of a corrupted heart, have turned to the missionaries to hear of a surer way of salvation. There is scarcely a place of any importance iel in these parts, where the gospel has not been preached during the past year. The Otshi-language, which is spoken by the Aquapim negroes, has, like the G4, been reduced to writing by the missionaries. In addi- tion to previous publications a Hymnbook and a collection of Serip- ture Passages have been preparsd, and translations of the Four Gos- pels and the Acts have been transmitted to the British and foreign Bible Society, at whose expense they are printed. e PRl 12 =g ABUDE. a CoMMENCED 1N 1847, AND REOCCUPIED IN 1857. il d Rev. J Ch. Dieterle (1846) and Mrs. Dieterle. Miss A. Furrer th Natwe assistant: Alex. Worthy Clerk. h Communzcanis . R I I T I I A S S 13; last year 14 al Children 00000000069 0000000600006s0 s00000000000 0o s - v Catechumens % 90000000 aresosd0 o000 0000 0800 Ghirls’ Boarding school, boarders . 17 i o Day-scholars......iuiiiies. : .................... 14 - 16 j ABupz is a long stretched negro-town, of which it can be said in truthlthat Satan has his seat in it. No where the fetish-priests are more { numerous, or possess greater authority. No where the people are more hard-hearted and cruel. Family-ties are scarcely respected. Hospi- tality is so little thought of, that travellers have the greatest difficulty \l in procuring shelter for a few hours. Now and then the missionary re- ceives from the people replies such as, ¥We are beasts and must first learn wisdom”. We give a few instances of the atrocities prevailing here. One evening a convert overheard the parents of a new-born child discuss with their relatives the necessity of putting it to death because it had six fin- gers at each hand. The missionary, informed of their intention, directed the man to return with the catechist to the place, and to deliver the poor victim from the hands of its cruel parents. They hastened to the house. As it was dark, they demanded a light and inquired after the child, but were coolly told in reply, that all was over. While the catechist endeavored to show them their great sin, he heard a feeble cry. Immediately he sent his companion for a light, and in the mean time searched for the child. When light had been brought it was found half-drowned in a tub. They carried it away in spite of the pro- tests of the parents who insisted upon its death. The poor boy recovered and did well under the care of the missionary. When the mother was requested to become his nurse, the father angrily replied, “A thing which has been thrown away is not taken up again.” The chief of Abude with all grown-up men able to carry arms, had to join the British army against the Krobo king. While they were in the field, the women in the town incessantly sung and screeched to frighten away the enemy, as they said. They poured out water accompanied with many enchantments, to quench the fire to which they thought their husbands and sons exposed. A certain round fruit was collected and dyed black so as to look like a cannon- B ball, and thrown away as it were against the hostile force. When however a man able to carry arms, made his appearance in the town, they attacked him, abusing and beating him most inveterately. Much worse still was the con- duct of the warriors upon their return. Br. Dieterle said of them in a letter of the 5th November, “To day the chief returned with his people. Two miles from here they commenced their cruel rites with butchering a Krobo prisoner. When arrived, they encamped near the mission-house outside the town, to kill another victim. I entreated the chief for his life, but in vain. Scarcely returned home, I heard their shoutings at the poor man’s sufferings. The sons and daughters of the most influential families inflicted incisions on him. At last the head and limbs were cut off to be carried about in procession under hideous songs and the beating of drums.. The body was thrown in the bush. The scalp and the muscles of the arms and legs were torn off to be dried and fastened to a large drum as ornaments., Also the heart was dried to be eaten by the headmen at some future opportunity. The mission-premises are above the town near the bush. A stone wall surrounds them, including besides the mission-house, a thatched church and a Christian village. Br. Dieterle, who resides here with his family, was frequently unwell. On the 6th July 1858 he had the privilege of baptizing a promising youth. The converts proved diligent and faithful. Their comparatively large contributions to the mission show that they have the conversion of their countrymen really atheart. There are many inquirers in the town, who attend divine service on Sundays and in the week also. As many as a hundred have been Present at times. While the men of the town were in the field, their wives and mothers put on male dress in obedience to an old custom to take the places of their absent husbands and sons. Thus it happened that such of them as were connected with inquirers, thought it their duty to attend divine service also, although they had never been in the custom of doing so on their own account. In April 1858 the Girrs’ Boarpixe Scmoon of the Otshi District was removed from Akropong to this place to be under the charge of Sisters Dieterle and Furrer. The number of girls has increased from five to seventeen. Their ages vary from seven to fifteen. Most of the girls are slow in learning, and like manual work in house and garden much better than their school-lessons. Six of them are under instruc- tion for baptism. Others are already baptized, and some are still heathen. An Evexing ScrHooL is attended by about fifteen grown-up men. 12% - 0P e ARKROPONG, ()( wirta OUTSTATIONS st MAMFE axp DATE. if OccuriEDp 1IN 1843. I Rev. J. G. Widmann (1842) and Mrs. Widmann. Rev. J. A. Mader (1851) and Mrs. Mader. Br. J. Lang (1857). Rev. J.G. Auer (1857)- Native Assistants. I Paul Staudt, John Rochester, Philipp Kwabi, Isaac Ostertag. e Communicants....... DS b 60; last year 60 Non-Communicants ..... se6escs 'K sédesesvodad 14 - Children....v..ous S e el 27 28 Cdtechumeni..ol i viis 9. S S et 43 Preparandi School, Pupils ®0c600co0edseed s 24 14 6 14 11 Boys' boarding School .......... . Day-Scholars...,...ceoeeives v v erines 49 29 ::J Akropong is an extensive town, the residence of the king of the Aquapim negroes. The mission settlement is close by, separated from it by a hedge and a pathway. Besides the mission houses and a Christian village of upwards of thirty dwellings, an extensive coffee- plantation and gardens richly stocked with orange and mango trees belong to the premises. Latterly the cultivation of rice has been in- troduced. The management of this estate requires the constant su- pervision of a European, the negroes being too lazy and faithless to be left to themselves. The pains taken with them in this respect are however richly repaid by the great benefit accruing to the converts from seeing the vast superiority of European tillage over their own improvident and slothful customs. A carpenter’s shop also has been set up on the station with great advantage to the people as well as to the mission. Br. Haas, who of late had charge of all these secular concerns, received towards the end of 1857 a most welcome assistant by the arrival of Br. Lang. In April 1858 Br. Haas undertook a journey to the coast to supply the long-felt want of a stock of cattle and goats for the mission-farm. The hardships of his journey through the Adangme district, produced a severe fever which stretched him on a tedious sickbed. Since then he has been directed by the Home s lommittee to proceed to Gyadam and fill up the vacancy loft by the death of Br. Hoenger. Towards the end of the year he was united in marriage to Sr. Stoll who had landed at Christiansborg in October last. We add a few extracts from Br. Haas’s account of his journey. f 7), At Ningo on the coast Br. Haas met with poor George Thompson, a negro who in 1828, when a boy of eight years, had been taken to Basel by the late Br. Sessing. He received a careful education, and in 1842 he returned to his native country as assistant missionary. Subsequently he fell into drunkenness and fornication, and was dismissed. Br. Haas urged the ne- cessity of repentance upon the poor man who, alas, is still an enchained slave of sin. He was deeply moved, and entreated for the prayers of all friends of the Basel Mission. Of the negroes at Ningo Br. Haas says, that they are a most barbarous race, almost as bloodthirsty as hyenas and leo- pards of their country. There exists a secret association of fetish priests in that town for destroying any persons who may fall under their resentment. There wooden They are forced to join them in an excursion to the open sea. nails are driven into their temples, and the bodies thrown into the water. 6 Their property is then taken possession of by the priests in the name of the fetish. Now and then it happens that aged people, accused of witcheraft, are burned alive in this town. From Ningo Br. Haas turned to the Shai mountains. Under an African sun and amidst incessant hardships he had to force his way through swamps and high grass. Exhaustion, unhealthy air, want of proper One day he sank down in a swoon food, and sleepless nights produced fever. and was carried by his black guides to the shade of a tree, until he recovered, refreshed by a draught of fresh water they providentially discovered.In ascend- ing the Shai mountains his path led over rocks three and more feet high. On the top he was well received by the natives. Great was his gratitude when he reached his home at Akropong. But then the fever so long repressed by the excitement of the journey, broke out with increased force, and for several weeks his recovery was doubtfal. The Lord, however, blessed the means em- ployed and the careful attendance of the Brethren. The Native CourcH was under the special care of Br. and Sr. ‘Widmann. The latter, however, was frequently interrupted in her duties by failure of health. Although the converts, according to the rveport of the missionaries, share with the church of Corinth many of its sins and failings, but not its spiritual gifts, yet there was not one among them, whom the Brethren had reason fo consider as a noxious weed. They regularly attend divine service, and many of them de- light in the Word of God. They hold prayer meetings among them- o selves, and correct and exhort each other. With their pastors and teachers they keep up a confidential intercourse; and in the advance- 1‘0}: un ment of the kingdom of God they take an active interest. Five adults have died fully conscious of their own sinfulness and guilt, but also wh sincerely trusting in the salvation of Christ. On the 2d May 1858 it Br. Widmann had the privilege to baptize the first convert from the an da Akwambu negroes. He is an upright and zealous man of about Sl thirty years of age, Pedro Nkamu of name. On the 30th May some Pl more souls were added to the church by baptism. fo The Akwambu negroes live north of the Volta river. Nkamu left his coun- v try some years ago, and settled at Akropong, where he supported himself by working on the plantation and preparing coral ornaments for the negroes. ft i Here he heard the word of God preached in the streets, and his intercourse with He now Wl the converts assisted him in increasing the knowledge thus obtained. attended church, and earnestly begged for baptism. In the evenings and on I Sundays he went to school to learn reading and writing. Since his conversion he is greatly concerned for the salvation of his distant brother, whom he desires to join him and become Christian likewise. Thus an entrance has been pre- pared to another negro-tribe, which as yet has scarcely heard of the gospel. Among the adults baptized on the 30th May there were two workmen of the ) carpenter’s shop, who in spite of the abuse encountered from their former play- mates and friends, stood forward for the Lord and his sanctifying truth. A boy of five years, whose parents had been previously received into the church, was likewise of the number. His maternal uncle was so enraged in consequence, that he wanted to nullify the baptism by a fetish ceremony, in order, as he said, to avert farther misfortune. He threatened to kill his sister, if she should venture to revisit his house; and there was reason to fear that he intended to poison the boy. The father, however, was not deterred. Our hoy is in the hands of God, he said, even if he should be poisoned. The uncle’s persecu- tions were interrupted by his absence from the place, though his enmity con- tinues unabated especially as another sister and a brother of his have become catechumeni in spite of his protesfations. Thirteen persons were under preparation for baptism, people of various stamp, freemen and bondmen, young and old. There is also a great stir in the villages about Akropong, and upwards of fifty per- sons have applied for baptism. Their motives being still doubtful, they have been subjected to a longer trial before being admitted as catecllgmeni._ On the other hand awful night still hqvers over Ak- — 9 J E e nd ropong, where all kinds of atrocities are committed day by day with (6~ unblushing effrontery. It All cases of sickness or death are ascribed by the negroes to witcheraft lao which they charge upon any person against whom they have a grievance. Thus ‘»58' it happened some time ago that the child of a fetish priest died. He accused he an aged woman by whom he had been rejected as a suiter for the hand of her ut daughter. He cursed her and all her family in the name of his fetish who, he 16 said, would soon kill them. To make his threatenings true he, no doubt, em- ployed poison, in the use of which he was peculiarly expert. e was notorious for having destroyed many by this means, his own father among the rest. i The woman fell sick, and soon after her daughter Ja began to ail. No one ¥ ventured to give them assistance, because they were under the curse of the fetish. Br. Widmann offered his protection to Ja, and admitting her to the 5 th mission compound, he cut off all the amulets she used to wear, notsparing one which she considered of peculiar efficacy, and of which she said that its loss i would cause her instant death. Under the care of the missionary she began to 0 recover. But the priest did not give up his vietim so easily. He found means 3 to visit her and repeat the curse. Frightened to death, she suddenly got worse, and was taken back to the town and once more covered with amulets. About this time her mother died and the pi‘iest took possession of all the property, while poor Ja was carried to the corpse to lament over it, From this moment her sickness assumed a new character, and fearfully gained ground. One mor- ning, when she felt a little better, she requested the missionaryto baptize her from an impression that the rite would ensure her recovery. But when worse again she retracted her request. The Brethren continued to direct her to Jesus as the only refuge from the power of darkness. Br. Widmann i even visited the priest to intercede for her. The man was evidently startled at the missionary’s denunciation of his crime, but far from relenting, he quarrelled with his friends that they had not taken better care to keep his proceedings secret. - The poor woman died at last and her body was carried about in a basket to ascertain the originator of her death. The fetish and many individu- als were successively named. A rapid motion of the corpse towards a tree after a name was considered to indicate the guilty person. In this case the name was kept secret.—Cases of poisoning are of constant occurrence. They often ensue from most trifling disputes, to prove the truth of the divine declaration, that whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. On the 5th October the comet of 1858 was seen the first time at Akropong. The negroes considered the smoke, as they called the tail, to be of evil pur- port because it appeared to descend upon their country. They said, “It is a fetish which has absorbed all the evil ejected by the Krobo negroes, and now prepares to pour it out over us.” Whenever the comet appeared, they e seized their guns and drums, in the hope that their shooting and drumming would reconcile the fetish and avert all mischief. Scaoors. The boys-school numbered of late twenty-five scholars, and the girls-school twenty-four. The infants-school was attended by about twenty Christian and thirty heathen children. In Evenings and Sunday Schools adults have learned to read and write. In the Boys Boarding School fourteen children have been brought up. From both outstations, at Mamfe and Date, urgent requests for schools have been received. The PreEpAraNDI Scuoor under Br. Mader’s direction, in which youths of all the dialects represented in our Western Africa Mission are united, has been deprived of the assistance of the Brethren Zimmermann and Christaller, because the services of the former were required at i Christiansborg, and the health of the latter had becomeso impaired as ) Br. Auer has been sent to to render his return to Europe advisable. Br. Mader’s assistance, and arrived on the 28th January 1858. Nine students have left the school and received their appointments to differ- ent stations. Twenty-two new pupils have been newly admitted. Br. § Mader says of his pupils, It cannot be denied that now and then they manifest a love of ease, an aversion to toil, a wasteful tendency, a But whilst thoughtlessness, which speak very little in their favor. these failings are inherent in young people in general, and in negroes more particularly, we perceive in our pupils at the same time a tender- P P et ] et ness of conscience, a willingness to be corrected, a spirit of prayer, an openness of heart, a spiritual earnestness, which must convince us that they have received divine life and that they grow in spirit and in { grace.” Lo ing iV, AKIM DISTRICT. 15 GYADAM, ‘WITII 75 KYEBI OUTSTATION. by CoMMENCED IN 1853. nd 7S Rev. 8, Siiss (1850). Br. and Sr. Haas (1856). th Br, J. Kromer (1857). on Llommuainydomiss siun s Srosdidn el aati o Bl 3; last year 2 Non-Communicants ®ec0000080serse000 ovesses000se0a - 0 ¢h Catechument 0 (Y The Akim Country extends on thé north-west of the Aquapim moun- tains. In 1853 Br. Siiss selected this district for his future field of la- at bor, intending to support himself without pecuniary assistance - from a5 Europe, and settled at Gyadam, one of the capitals. The Home-Com- 0 mittee so far sanctioned this experiment as to procure him some assist- 16 ants, who volonteered to share his labors and hardships. One of them, Br. David Baum, joined him in 1856. In the last Report we shortly i sketched the difficulties our Brethren had to encounter, and the first y victories they were permitted to gain. 'We mentioned then also, that Br. Stiss had left Gyadam to settle in the Krobo Country, giving up b his connection with the Society, and that the Brethren Hoenger and 3 Kromer had been sent out to strengthen Br. Baum’s hands. Since Br. Baum who had then many important changes have taken place. stood his ground so firmly in most perplexing circumstances, was be- trayed into grievous errors which rendered his position untenable. Br. Siiss repented of his rash step and returned to his former allegiance and to his post. The experience of four years had sufficiently proved that under present circumstances the scheme of a self-supporting mis- sion was not feasible, and the station was adopted by the Home Com- mittee on the same footing as all others.’ On the 19th April 1858 Br. Hoenger was taken ill with jaundice, and a month later, on the 18th May he departed this life in peace. The Brethren Kromer and Baum made his coffin. The next day his burial took place under a great con- course of people. Br. Siiss addressed them from the text, $There re- maineth a rest to the people of God”. At the place where this grain 13 g L of seed was committed to the earth to be raised in incorruption, glory, and power, by the Lord at his coming, the three Brethren sang a Ger- man Hymn, and Br. Siiss concluded with a prayer in the native lan- ch guage. The people were deeply impressed with the solemnity of the scene, and there is no doubt that Br. Hoenger’s death spoke power- o fully to them, and, we trust, not without lasting effect. In July Br. H ch Baum left the station to embark at Christiansborg according to the di- rections received from home. Scarcely arrived at the latter place, he 501 was attacked with dysentery. On the 1st August he once more partook W of the Lord’s Supper in the native church. On the 14th he fell asleep in Jesus in whom he had found peace. Upon the news of Br. Hoenger’s death the Committee instructed Br. Haas of Akropong to take the place of the departed Brother at Gyadam. it o Instead of the temporary huts between the town and the river which had been erected in the beginning for their accommodation, the mission- i aries have succeeded in acquiring healthier premiseson the top of a hill above the town, sufficiently raised over the plains, which in many 5 parts still covered with bush and swamp, are at times exceedingly hot and feverish. A substantial mission-house and several negro-cottages have been built on this new site. In the plaiﬁ the Brethren have made a most successful attempt to grow tobacco and other inland and foreign productions. f The last Report stated that several negroes were under instruc- t These have been baptized since. Br. Siiss writes tion for baptism. of them, that the spirit of Giod has his work in their hearts, although they might run more vigorously the race they have entered upon. Six moreinquirers have applied for baptism and areunder preparation. The missionaries have obtained access to Kyebi also, another capi- tal of the Akim country. The king of Kyebi has two sons in the Preparandi school at Akropong. The occupation of the place by a cate- ehist has been resclved upon. Thus here also the work of the Lord is steadily advancing. Tribe after tribe of Ham’s benighted descendants is brought under the regenerating influence of the gospel. Ll g 0ry, China Mission. for- an Ry the last Chinese war our missionaries were separated from the the churches they had been the instruments of collecting on the mainland, er chiefly in the Sinon District on the peninsula opposite the island of Br. Hongkong. They had 158 converts and 121 inquirers under their - charge. Pukak and Lilong, two inland towns close by each other, he some twenty miles from the coast, were their head-quarters, when the 0k war broke out and forced them to retire to the British territory. They )ep managed, however, to keep up an almost uninterrupted intercourse 1§ with their flocks by letters as well as by native assistants and other 106 converts who paid them visits. Thus Tshongkong, one of their school- masters employed at Mahom, twelve miles west of Pukak, was repeat- ch edly summoned to Honglong to give accounts of his school and preach- - ing excursions in the neighborhood. The converts at Lilong and Pukak had a hard stand. Some of them went baek, others wavered; yet the 1y majority remained firm, and the missionaries felt much encouraged by of the observation in this time of adversity, that there was a healthy stock in their young Chinese church, giving fair promise for the future. & The converts regularly met every Sunday for divine service, which d was conducted by Thaitsham, another native assistant, entrusted with the charge of the church and school at Lilong during the absence of the missionaries. For some time Thaitsham conducted also Br. Winnes’s ) school. But though competent to manage an ordinary school, he was deficient in scholarship to carry on a school of a higher grade, and to engage the attention of a class of youths, knowing almost as much as himself, The Brethren resolved therefore upon the removal of the school to Hongkong. Br. Winnes was much grieved to find upon the 17 arrival of his pupils that in the mean while they had forgotten many a good lesson, and were no longer as attached and open-hearted as before. The first days, they spent at Victoria, were full of distractions. They had long desired to visit Kontailu (Victoria), and now as they had their wish granted, they scarcely tired of the wonderful sights. The splendid houses, the mighty steamers, the well-equipped soldiers, the powerful cannons, all came successively in for their share in the 13* — 100 — admiration of these youths and a Chinese teacher, who had accompanied enj an them. Since then they had again their regular lessons in the Scriptures, Hi in English, and in Chinese, and their progress in every respect has the been satisfactory. of BII Besides providing for their absent flocks, the missionaries made Lo use of all such opportunities as offered themselves to advance the J0 cause of the Lord in Hongkong. Br. Lechler, the senior missionary, who had arrived in China in 1847, visited the p¥isons and villages of el Hongkong to preach the gospel, whenevér the precarious staté of his il health permitted, and went on with his assistants in preparing a Dic- b tionary of the Hakka Dialect, commenced a niimber of years ‘ago by his late fellow-laborer, Br. Hamberg. He found especially access to Ll 0 the Hakka people in Hongkong, some of whom regularly met on Sun- ] days for divine service. Eight men and four women applied for bap- fl tism. They appeared to be sincere inquirers, and possessed a fair knowledge of the gospel, but being still deficient in spiritual life, Br. Lechler subjected them to a longer trial, and employed their hours of instruction for exciting in them a real anxiety after communion with t God, showing them that it was obtained only by the new birth of water and of spirit, and not, as they expected, by the simple rite of baptism. On the 23d May 1858 Br. Lechler was forced by the state of his health toleave the scene of his labors and return to Europe for a season, where he is at present diligently engaged in advocating the interests He now of the country of his adoption by lectures and publications. and then receives letters from his Chinese friends, from which we sub- join a few specimens. Tseuasang, a carpenter, one of the catechumeni alluded to, who together with his wife, children, mother, brother, and sister-in-law, is candidate for‘ba;p— tism, wrote as follows; “Unawares a few months have passed away since we have seen your honoured face. Thank God, the God of love has been your help and brought you safely to your home. Since you have gone on board- ship; I and my family, great and small, have constantly thought of you, and should have been glad to know whether you were spared from sickness. How thankful are we for the rich grace of Almighty God, that he has brought you home in safety. Your disciple, the sinful man, lives still with his family at Thaiphincan. We rejoice to say that all of us, mother ‘and brother included, nied enjoy good health. Be not therefore in anxiety on our account. In the morning and evening we fall down before the living and true triune God and pray to e, hag Him. Mr, Winnes now instructs us and examines the heart of each, whether there is a real work of the grace of God in it. Believing in the precious blood of Jesus Christ, we desire to receive Holy Baptism for the remission of our e sins and the salvation of our souls. May Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, give us everlasting life. Worshipping looks up to Him the your disciple Tseuasang”. Ly, The following letter is from a Catechist in the service of the mission whe 3 0f temporarily was employed in the hospital of Dr. Goeking, a medical missionary hla in connexion with a Berlin society. As Tshinkan, the writer, had previouslj Jie- been a Chinese physician, and is a truly converted man, his services proved most effectual and beneficial. by He says in his letter, “Since you have left us, I constantly thought of you, knowing you on the deep waters, and being ignorant 10 of the state of your health. Our bodies are now separated by a vast distance, In= but as to our hearts, I feel as if you stood before me; and I pray daily for you \p- that God may show you a path of peace to return to us in China. Then we it will again unitedly proclaim God’s Word. I am confident that you also ask Br for us whatever is good for our welfare. I am still occupied in the hospital; and am anxious to do my duty, as I should be afraid to be negligent in it. It of is true, the work in the hospital is very unclean. But I know, that our Lord, 1t the cleanest of the clean, willingly came to us, the unclean, and died for us. i How much more should we, unclean ones, submit to unclean work. The Lord it said, that not that which goeth into the mouth defileth man, but that which cometh from within, out of the heart. May the Holy Spirit enlighten me to 118 know my heart thoroughly, so that all its uncleanness be brought to light, and 1, the bitter root of darkness be found out. I wish to be clean, but I cannot be st SO I wish to escape from evil, but it clings to me. This gives me a deep OW knowledge of my own weakness. Oh, if I had not the merits of the blood of b= my Lord to trust in, how could I escape the righteous wrath of God! My only hope is that I ask for the spirit of my Lord, that it may rule my own spirit and communicate to it the power to rule my members and to make them submit to 161 the law of God and walk according to it. Such is my heart’s sincere desire. At present the patients have decreased, because Dr. Goeking himself is sick. e Some patients have recovered and been dismissed. They have shown signs of iy vepentence, but we cannot know what fruit it will bring forth. Of my own fa- mily in the interior I know nothing, nor do I know as yet what our heavenly id Father intends to do with them. I have heard from my brother who has gone to California. W He has safely arrived there etc. etc.” 1!} Br. Winnes, since 1852 in the country, is now the only Basel i missionary in China. While at Hongkong his time was fully occupi- Id, ~7-102—; ed with his school, and with preaching excursions to the villages, besides the study of Chinese. Upon Br. Lechler’s departure for Europe, he took charge also of his Hakka congregation and catechumeni. On Sundays he held Divine Service and a Catechisation in Hakka in a chapel at the west-end of the town, and in the evening he visited the villages to invite men to the marriage supper of the Lamb. On Wed- nesdays he assembled the Catechumeni for instruction, and went in the evening to preach in the Chinese Quarter or in some near village. In a June, July, and August he had much anxiety in consequence of the sickness and death of several converts under his charge, cholera and typhus fever prevailing then in the island. Under the 20th July he t informed the Home Committee of the new English treaty with China, by which the empire in its length and breadth has been thrown open, ?mnd of 'his intention to return to his station at Pukak as soon as the country was sufficiently pacified. His Hakka converts rejoiced sincere- ly at the new victories gained by the English. They believe that a free and unimpeded course has been secured for the gospel, and that the heathen will be prevented by the fear of the English from perse- cuting the Christians as in former days. The Committee have recently: instructed Br. Winnes to procure suitable premises at Hongkong as a permanent basis for future opera- tions in the interior. They are also resolved upon reinforcing the mission as soon as possible with one or more Brethren. May they soon meet with able men, specially prepared by the Lord for this field, now, as it would appear, ripe for the harvest. g — 103 — 1des e On na the CONCLUSION. o he In "We conclude with a few words conCerning the fin- the ances of the Society. The last accounts that have reached nd us, refer to the financial year 1857. According to these he the Expenditure of the General Fund 13, amounted to ©0000000 0000000000000 0000000 francs 555,642 — 96 1, and the Receipts to b 497,660 — 53 e vecconcecesesco0cscoe leaving a Deficit of francs 57,982 —43 This Deficit was covered by the surplus of the pre- af ceding year. The Expenditure consisted of the following items: To Mission College at Basel francs 43,445 — 68 Preparatory School at Basel.... » 17,700 — 43 Home-Agency ” 68.170 513 Western Africa Mission » 112,760 — 55 Western India Mission % , 263,775—40 » China Mission 09000000 0000000000000000°9 ” 15,921 — 58 » Outfit and Travelling Expenses of Brethren sent to North America ,, 3,359 — 61 New Mission House at Basel.. » 30,000 — 0 ®00000000000000000600000000000000 509 — 68 Sundries » Total francs 555,642 — 96 The Contributions to the General Mission Fund am- ounted during the same period to francs 467,943-74, including francs 160,218-02, raised by halfpenny-collec- — 104 — tions. all These Contributions have come from the follow- ing countries: It I From Switzerland ®0esec000000 000000 RS francs 177,689 — 17 9000000000000000000006 » 122,550 — 71 Wiirttemberg I Baden 36,498 — 82 Bavaria 900800900000 00000000000000s0 f 12,735 — 38 fi ¥ 8 3 3 Hanover, Saxony, and minor German States 22,150 — 96 Prussia a0 2000000000300000050000000°00000 4,499 — 87 Austria $000°90000000000000¢00000000000 e g CI¢ France on 14,650 — 18 10 Holland & Belgium 968 — 69 Deamivnk. ... it 926 — 49 al B Sweden 3,894 — 25 Russia 0€0000000%,,9c000 %%, co0ccco® 20,248 — 70 Cr A Great Britain toecscecgeosocaccees 351 — 25 India 36,974 — 43 qu 408 — 80 {he Africa North-America cescsscotooecsso 7,770 — 40 by ev0sesc0s0000000 a N BRI B BN S N e BT e B T ) Other Countries ” 3,825 — 50 Total francs 467,943 — 74 th ne The Reserve Fund of the Society has had an Income S0t of francs 3,114-10, so as'to amount to francs 86,257-57. il The Fund for the Education of Missionary Children ) has had an Income of francs 30,898-89, and an Expen- S diture of francs 24,149-99, including the passage of sev- 01 This fund is still eral children and building expenses. Je in. debt to the amount of francs 26,000, i The Fund for the Support of Disabled Missionaries by -~ 105 — 0w and Missionary widows has had an Income of francs 14, 445-21, and an expenditure of franes 1, 242-14 Its Capital has risenby this balance to franes 94, 344-59 17 ) The Fund for the Support of Industrial establish- ments has had an Income of francs 3225-52. and an A 38 Expenditure of francs 5402-38, causing a deficit of francs 2176-86 Such was the financial position of the Society a year 96 §1 ago Since then its necessities have considerably in- 14 creased. Extraordinary chargeshave become necessary 18 on account of a new Mission house at Basel, the adop- 69 tion of the Coorg Mission, and the outfit and passage of an uncommonly large number of missionary laborers £) 2 But the enlarocement of the work has caused also an in- crease of regular expenditure It 15 the Lord’s work 10 2 As such it must grow and expand. Of us nothing is re- quired but faith and faithfulness During the past year the Lord has provided for all the wants of the mission 80 1) by a large contribution and legacy from a liberal Friend at Basel, as stated in the Introduction This aid was 7 the more welcome at a time when rumours of an immi- nent continental war began to impair our European re- me sources, and when the contributions from India had con- \ siderably fallen off. The Indian Receipts amounted du- el ring the past year to Rs. 9358-12. Although a large gl sum. during a time of great troubles, when urgent calls il on the 11beral1ty of Indian Christians were multiplied, ill yet it 1s considerably less than the amount received in prevmus years. Peace havino been restored to India 169 by the mercy of God, and war having broken out on 14 — 106 — the Continent of Kurope, and the countries, from which the chief support of the Basel Mission is drawn, having armed, the home resources of the mission are likely to fall low. We are confident that our Indian Friends will in such a season remember their former zeal and We seek not our liberality, to which we now appeal. Exp own We are, (why should wenot say so freely?) doing Jou the work of the Protestants of Great Britain. To you, Mo dear Friends, to your nation and government God has (lat entrusted this immense country. If it were not for the Fng command of Christ to His true disciples “Preach ye the Ver POD Gospel to every creature”; what on earth could induce German Christians to labor at a great expenditure of Lib Bu lives and money in this British field? We therefore feel, Ho that we have a peculiar claim on our Indian Friends and Brethren, whenever the strength of our Society is Cat Bo paralysed, not by a failure of missionary zeal in our na- (i tive land, but by political commotions which impair the Chy prosperity of thousands, and reduce to absolute want Ta thousands of our poor Grerman Brethren who belong to We have Pr the most zealous supporters of our Mission. A It is not the never been charged with extravagance. St means for living comfortably, but for carrying on our work, which we beg our wealthier English Brethren to afford us this year more liberally than in former times. Surely all those will respond to our appeal, who love the appearing of the Lord and remember that, be- fore He comes, the Gospel of His kingdom must be preach- ed in all the world. ich Expenditure of thelndia Mission. 0o to DURING THE YEAR 1857—1858. 108 .5 0 o nd ur Rs As Ps Expenditure of 39 Brethren, 15 Sisters 30,922 15 g Journies 9,536 10 1, Moonshees 977 145 Catechists 5,228 15 lie English Schools 10,314 13 he Vernacular Schools 10 4,337 ce Postage 1,224 11 of Libraries 304 12 l, Building and Repairs 17,099 s House furnitures 1763 12 1§ Catechist Institutions 1,284 11 Boys’ Institutions 14 é 3,197 Girls’ Institutions 6,107 11 0 Church Expences 2,684 12 10 1t Taxes 369 0 Printing Establishments 1,400 0 ¢ Agricultural Outlays 5,536 11 16 Sundries 1,398 I Total Rs. 103,739 (é) 10 0 E. & O. E. 0 Mangalore, 31st October, 1858 G. PFLEIDERER. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS, FOR THE INDIiA MISSION. Received from November 1857 to 1858. Contributions of the Native Rs Congregations at Dr. Campbell 10 o P e Rs > =3 10 H. B. Boswell Esq. Mangalore. — C. S. Tannah. 30 Udapy. Mulky. F. Hutchinson Esq. 10 Dharwar, A. C. Gumpert Esq. 50 Hubly. 2 John Campbell Esq. 20 Bettigherry. R. M. Dlwraith Esq. 10 Guledgudd. R. Wallace Esq. 10 Malasamudra. ! oy R. Willis Esq. 25 Cannanore. 25 el hgeeOloh Rev. Narrayan Sheshadri. Tellicherry. 17 Col. Jameson 25 Calicut. 72 bk e € R. F. Young Esq. 10 Palghaut. D Dr. C. C. Mead 25 Tchombala. 10 W. Blowers Esq. 10 i Kaity. SOOI ONOO WM O W S OO WO ODODWDOD - OWN F. D. Faithfull Esq. 10 R. Knight Esq. 10 DONATIONS. J. Fleming Esq. 50 MANGALORE Capt. Annesley 10 James F. Hare Esq. 10 ACENOWLEDGED BY Br. PFLEIDERER. Major Mylne 10 Capt. Ficld 6th. N. L. 20 OO0 OO A DO C oD (= Ll e e i e Wl el i o (o) feoo oo e e ool (o i o bfers i o i ) Collected by C. W. Isenberg, Bombay. Major W, G. Arrow, By Rev. G. L. Fenton, Poonah. 50 Mzx. Charles B. Ker 20 Nagpore, Mrs. M. A. C. Webbe 5 A Friend xv 100 Capt. H. J. Willoughly 25 Dr. Leith 100 (é g) Rev. Hosmudjee Rev. G. L. Fenton Major Candy Pestonjee, Surat. 5 10 SOLOO OO DD 8 Surat Native Christians. =) Received at Mangalore. H. Bosanquet Esq. thro’ Mr. Jennings, Rev. F. Cousens 50 Bandmaster. Capt. Pengelly I. N. 10 J. Boesinger Esq. 45 (=) @@ G. Cowie Esq, 20 10 F. N. Maltby Esq. E. Heycock Esq. 13 months. 650 H. C. Brodbeck Esq. 10 D, J. Brett: 80 Jo V. W. Lavie Esq. 20 Dr. Seitz 10 550 COOO OO ; Henry Scott Esq. 10 Lt. J. Goddard Engrs. Mrs. Scott Dr. Chimmo, Rangoen. 64 13 10 s 10 S OO D gg) J. R. Kindersley Esq. 20 0 @ vS AR Rs AR A Friend xv 120. 80. 200 Stewart 8. J. Gordon Esq. Dr. Cleghorn to Bo. €./ S: 50 Br. Hauff 50 i Brethren of 74th. 16 Capt. J. B. Speid Highlanders 24 2nd. I. Hyd. Cont. 100 Mr. Ch. Courpalais R. D. Parker Esq. Capt. J. Falconer Madura. 50 74th. Highlanders 3. 30 20 0 () G. A. Ballard Esq. C. S. HOOBLY. A. F. Elliot Esq. M. D. H. C. Mutlah 10 Acknowledged hy Br. Miiller. Th. Sterling Esq. 25 0 Chr. Ade Esq. J. Evans Esq. Lt. M. A. Sweeny 80 GULEDGUDD. F. B. Elton Esq. Nellore 50 S. H. Hooper Esq. 20 Acknowledged by Br. Kies. 25 % (eli(emlilan )l oo)i(cs) (cn)ieen) Col. Malcolm S. M. J. H. 50 0 0 F. H. Crozier Esq. 0 Major Beacheraft CANNANORE. Hoshungabad. 10 el Capt. Prichard Acknowledged by Br. Hebich. 0 A Friend 0 § (= (=) ) ) AL Dr. M'farlane, Capt. W. C. Stileman Secunderabad. 232 12 15th B NG L. 10 = G. A, Harris Esq. Capt. Verschoyle = Chittoor. 10 0 H. M. 66th 9 0 Mzr. Whiteside Esq. ? Lt. Ready Dr. M’farlane, J. H. M. Barnett Esq. Secunderabad. 31 10 Mr. G. May G. A. Harris Esq. Mr. J. Ball Chittoor. 200 0 (W)} SOt L OV () Loy f () (=) E. D. Binny Esq. 2 Major Charles Burton Mr. G. May proceed of their last Mis- for the English School. 10 (=) SO OO sionary meeting. 183 6 Acknowledged by Br. Hoch By Capt. Taylor, Rajahmundry. on the Nilagiris. 5 Brethren of 74th. J. W. Rinidbell Esq. 10 J. Copleston Esq. 10 a9 Highlanders. 20 DY D A. Burn Esq. 3] Mrs. Lawson and Bennet A. Friend 9 ” DHARWAR. 10 A. Povail Esq. Acknowledged by Br. Kaufmann Capt. C. Taylor 100 o000 o000 e Mzr. Ph. Boell, By Rev. P.J. Roys h. M 5 Dr. Scott Penang ton Seery (13 5 Bandmaster Hurryhar A Friend G. A, Harris Esq. 55 Col. A. Maclean 35 (o) e § Chittoor Th. Ogilvy Esq. Whiteside Esq. 15 (=) () o Bo. @, S, 100 Col. J. H. R. Congdon 25 12 F. D. Melvill Esq. 2nd. Regt. N. 1. 'W. 8. Price Esq. 10 Major General Parson thro’ Dr. G. Peacocke 10 Rev. E. F. Lacroix 10 Calcutta. 100 Capt. Paget Royal Arty. 30 John. A. C. Boswell Esq. R. E. H. Light Esq. 50 John. H, White Esq. 10 coOoo o000 % Coimbatore. Rev AP Y vl A Thro- Messrs. Arbuthnot & Co Dr. H. Gundert 300 (< Lt. P. O'Connel Engrs 200 (= (=) for the Girls’ school The Hon’ble FA R e S S ) Mrs. Goodwyn 60 W. Elliot Esq 100 Mrs. Bean 5 Major General Budd 100 o] 53 Col. D. H. Stevenson 50 Mrs. Cook 0 Bl 6 Mrs. Robinson’s nurse 5 C. F. Chamier Esq 25 G. J. Glasson Esq 200 J. B. Elton Esq 50 Mrs. Scudder 115) H. Stokes Esq 300 SO0 OO0 > R ool s o () 50 = e Mrs. Hodges J. Marden Esq Mrs. Bean for one girl 2 thro’ L. O’Connell 144 A Friend do 36 S DO O DS SIS DS DO DI Dr. E. W. Eyre 36 for Vernacular Schools T. J. Knox Esq 100 General R. Budd 100 W. Robinson Esq 110 E. C. G. Thomas Esq 80 G. A. Harris Esq 100 20 J. H. Goldie Esq 50 P. Grant Esq H. Newill Esq 100 Capt. P. Francis 180 (e Hem) feoo) QS NS Lt. P. O’Connell Engrs 200 DO DO DD SO D O@ & i for Colportage (=) TELLICHERR Miss Philipps AcRNOWLEDGED BY Br: IRION PALGHAUT Mrs. Maxwell of Orcharton, A cKNOWLEDGED BY Br. Huenicu Scotland thro’ H. Frere Esq. 25 (=) J. J. Tomlinson Esq 5 o Mrs. Tomlinson from Wiirttemberg thro’ : Mrs. Miiller. 5 Miss Tomlinson § J. Hodges. Esq 30 0 Mr. Martin 4 0 S DOD Towarps Tnr Excrisa ScHoOL ACKNOWLEDGED BY BR. STROBEL Mrs. Schmid 3 50 F. Smith Esq 15 0 C. Dixon Esq W. Robinson Esq. Towards Mzrs. Maxwell of Orcharton 50 (e} o) ) ) iamiam (ol (el () 100 the house purchase CALICUT for the English School 25 AckNOWLEDGED BY Br. FrIiTZ A. D. Ross Esq for the Mission W. Child Esq 50 J. Anderson Esq 25 W. Robinson Esq 250 Lt. Farrer 5 E. B. Thomas Esq 30 15 W. Stanes Esq 30 J. Hodges Esq Japt. Bean 56 Native contributions 23 50 [eem ) {emyien fiam e SIS @ DS W. Robinson Esq 400 SwooOoOOP OO D Capt. P. Francis C. G. Thomas Esq KAITY for Kodakal 40 J. Hodges Esq 50 ACENOWLEDGED BY Br. M@RIKE Rey J. Lechler 10 A Brother at Jackattallah 5 Lt. J. Fitzeibbon 70 Mz Minchin for Schools 5 W. H. Lawson Esq 44 Dy. Maitland 46 Mrs. Schmid Capt. Hoare 10 Lt. Col. Beaumont 30 D. Schmid Esq C. F. M. Dixon Esq Col. Clemons 25 Dr. Cleghorn 10 Miss Clemons 5 Crocker e OO O OO O D SO0 L0 e S Capt. Taylor (filen e d o) (o) (esjilen) CEPOCOOCOOO [ Rs AL B Rs = S. H. Boswell Esq 20 Mrs. Coffin Dr. Scott, Penang 15 10 = 20 Capt. Babington S = W. Stanes Esq. General Dawker 35 Mrs. Fitzgerald 20 Capt. Dobbie 19 Mzrs. Phillott 15 Mrs. G. Clarke Col. Faber 35 Dr. Maitland 23 Mrs. Dawson Mrs. Mc'pin F. Orne Esq. 120 Mrs. Mackay g cocomooo P DI DR & Lord Harris 100 @O D D DI (el leal o) (e lan) i en il anli{as) (o) Subseriptions for Schools. 4 Iinglish school at Mangalore. H. S. Thomas Esq. Capt. A. N. Taylor. I. N. 12 () (e) () W. Fisher Esq. 144 F. Anderson Esq. 88 English school at Tellicherry. 20 20 W. Lawie Esq. R. Chatfield Esq. F. N. Maltby Esq. 300 H. Frere Esq. 100 J. R. Kindersley Esq 36 W. Robinson Esq. 120 J. G. Thompson Esq. 64 P. Grant Esq. 20 45 E. C. G. Thomas Esq. 115 dJ. D. Robinson Esq. e 36 E. D. Binny Esq. 55 E. Brennen Esq. Dr. J. Brett Dr. West Lieut. J. Goddard Principal Sudr Ameen S oS e e Dr. Rogers Messrs. F. G. Pereira 28 Messrs. W. Graham 36 Col. Stuart 16th Regt H. S. Thomas Esq. ” J. S. Laport 12 Capt. A. N. Taylor. I. N. 1 § (el cemid o) Ha Tl coianial e il amtil el (el cmyil o) e de=) DO OO DD DD ” L. De Rosario 12 » J. Pereira 12 Canarese Schools at Mangalor o ° by WD DO DD DD D OIS CODOODOODDDR®D OO 72 Ramoony Vakeel W. Fisher Esq. Emnglish School at Palghaut. J. G. Thompson Esq. 110 J. R. Kindersley Esg. 36 W. Child Esq. 4 months. 28 ) Dr. J. Brett J. Anderson Esq. 4 months. 20 SO Dr. Rogers IEnglish school at Cannanore. H. A. K. 18 Dr. Campbell 10 Capt. Haullain 45 H. 8. Thomas Esq. 4 OO0 OOOOPP@ DO OO® W. Robinson Esq. 133 12 Z H. D. Cook Esq. 140 Capt. A. N. Taylor. L. N. E. Thomas Esq. 180 Brahman Girls' School at Mangalore. Capt. C. Taylor 20 ‘W. Fisher Esq. 24 0 Capt. Jones 40 J. R. Kindersley Esq. 18 P. Grant Esq. 18 66 G. A. Harris Esq. DI D DO IO COOOODOOOO J. G. Thompson Esq. Pr, J. Brett 6 COLLECTED ACCORDING TO SUBSCRIPTION Dr. Rogers 1 Major C. W. Hodson 35 BoOX FrROM Nov. 1857 To Oct. 1858. Lieut. W. Gompertz 12 ih.00. 40 Lieut. J. Goddard 4 Brig. Thompson Brig. Fitzgerald 15 00 } Col. Stuart. 16 Reg. N. L 4 SO o OO O OO DD DD Col. Lucas 8 0.0 Rs. A RE. AL 12 Dr. Rae Asst. Comm. F. Lancaster. 16 0 0 1 Dept. Postmaster Apothy. J. Tyrrell. 0 0 M’ Cracken Capt. Taylor : Government Grants in aid. Ensign Harris 39 Maxearore English School. 636 Conductor Flanagan Conductor Baker Canarese ” 72 S 15 Brahman Girls’ § Mzr. F. D. Ramos. 20 Schools. 36 Cashkeeper P. Ooney 14 840 SO Sub Conductor Ruding. 11 \Tellicherry English School, 14 Nilagiris Vernacular Comm. Manager J. Lades. = Schools. 240 Mz, I, Pereira. 28 (cri(e) () (e=ieieolea i o) coocoo0O0000O L Contributions to tge Coorg Mission. Dec Capt. Halliday 20 from April 1857 to April 1859. Liord Bishop of Madras 100 ACRNOWLEDGED BY BrR. MOEGLING 1858 Mrs. Walsh S o< (e (e ) April. Regiment at Mercara. 21 o/Jan. Regiment, Mercara. May. Lord Harris 300 Nov. Dec. 21 40 H. Stokes Esq. 200 Regiment, Mercara. 12 June. W. Reade Esq. 50 SIS T. Marden Esq. Regiment, Mercara. 18 Genl. Budd 50 W. Burrell Esq. 20 O‘FCb Major Brockman 20 50 0l A Friend 50 W. Hilbers Esq. 110 Lt. P. O’ Connell 50 0l F. & E. Groves Esq. E. W. Eyre. 20 J. R. Kindersley Esq. 100 Capt. P. M. Francis 50 Regiment, Mercara. 11 50 0{March. D. W. Hilbers 100 July. Lt. Haig. Lord Bishop of Madras 10 Lt. P. O’Connell 10 Regiment, Mercara 14 oo oo eSS oo Major Brockman 13 Aug Monthly Missionary April Regiment, Mercara. 12 Meeting of Hydrabad H. Frere Esq. 100 S QOIS D DRI N DI OO0 PDOOOO DO OO friends. 271 0[May Mrs. Maxwell, Scott- Lt. Smith 100 land thro’ H. Frere 25 = (=) Regiment, Mercara. 12 Monthly Missionary Sept. G. Thomas Esq. 50 meeting of Hydrabad 50 friends 190 () S Chase Esq. W. Elliot Esq. 200 Mrs. F. Lascelles J. Boswell Esq. (Wales) 25 A friend in Burmah. 25 Regiment, Mercara, 14 June. 10 Regiment, Mercara. Regiment, Mercara. Lt. P. O'Connell 50 H. Stokes Esq. 200 Oct F. N. Malthy Esq. 100 A Friend 50 R. D. Parker Esq. July. Regiment, Mercara. 25 Nov 20 20 VDD SO S ODO O DO Capt. Halliday F. Groves Esq. E. B. Thomas Esq. Friends in England, S. Dobbie Esq. 50 OIOIOI® @ SOOI @ISO IONCY o) om) s oo ilem) (e et eal () (o) Tem) (o) iem) thro’ H. Groves Esq 130 (=) Regiment, Mercara. Aug. Friends in England, 2 months. 22 S 0 thro’ H. Groves Esq 100 o 6 [ o} AL P.:1859 Rs AP 0 |Jan. 200 Hewitson Esq. II. Stokes Esq. & friends in England, Monthly Missionary Aug. Sept. Oct. 230 meeting of Hyderabad E. Groves Esq. 25 friends 243 10 Regiment, Mercara. Mercara Regiment D. Carstairs Esq. 50 from Sept. 58 to Sept. Capt. Halliday 20 March 1859 130 A Friend at Cannanore. 15 Loxrd Bishop of C. F. Chamier Esq. 25 Madras 1st May 1858 0 50 Capt. A.D. Taylor I. N. to 1st January 1859 900 0 Nov F. Groves Esq. 20 OIDLDICID D SIS oo SO0 DO g 1858 Church Mis- Mrs. Maxwell thro’ sionary Society 2500 H. Frere Esq. 70 (=) 0 S S N 1 e Additional lionations towards the Mission received since November 1858. ) Mangalore; Br. Pfleiderer. Major J. Halliday 3 months 9 0 0 ReEmiTTED By MAJor J. Harnripay, RemiTTED BY T. Coase Esq. ELLORE. BANGALORE. J. J. Cotton Esq. 15 10 Major J. Halliday 20 W. Knox Esq. ;g) Major Brockman 20 Col. Lawrence 15 (=l Capt. Tripe 10 SIS (e Henfites) Major W. Boulderson 29th N L. 10 Capt. Clark Kennedy M. C. Chase Esq. 10 DA ASG, 10 20 § Mrs. C. Nelson T. Chase Esq.- Lt. 8. Simpson 10 RecrIiveEDp BY Br. WiirTH BETTIGHERR?. R. H. James Esq. t. 1. Moxon J. D. Inverarity Esq. Revenue Commission 100 0 0 Rev. J. Garret 10 W. Page Esq. RECEIVED IN MANGALORE. Capt. Puckle 20 100 > () 50 J. G. Thompson Esq. Major Dobbs (annually) Lt. and Adjt. S. Galbraith Capt. Bruce 20 16th Regt. 50 ) =) Apothecary Havier 20 Lt. M. A. Sweeny I. N. Mr. W. Walker 30 Mzr. B. Lacey thro’ Capt. Taylor Mr. W. Hutson Capt. A. D. Taylor 30 F. N. Maltby Esq. Oct. 50 Mzr. A. Tomlinson W. Fisher Esq. 100 Mr. E. A. Steele g SISO O OO .0 OO OICIOIC S 0e 00 ee eSS 28 — N DD OIS SO O D J. Boesinger Esq. Recervep sy Br. Kies GUurLeEDGUDD. C. F. Copleston Esq. Shantappa and Nizaganappa Rajamundry. 25 two native manufacturers Dr. D. Campbell 16th Reg. 50 F. N. Maltby Esq. Nov. 50 of the Guledgudd Congre- 14 gation 100 0 Lt. W. Ready H. M. 66th T. Chase Esq. 80 REMITTED BY MAJOR J. HALLIDAY. Mr. W. Stokes, Basel. 25 Capt. Puckle, 3 months 9 0 F. N. Maltby Esq. Dec. 50 SO OO D S o000 ® 7 Rs. A. .| Rs. A B, 100 0 0 J. J. Tomlinson Esq. 10. 0 +0 Capt. A.D. Taylor I N. Lt. W. Gompertz 16th Reg. 40 0 0 RevitTeED BY REV. F. LAcroIx CALCUTTA. CorreEcTED BY REV. G. DEIMLER BomBay. Rev. F. Schneider. Agra. 10 0. 0 Nasik thro’ Rev. W. 8. Price RECEIVED IN MANGALORE. R. W. Graham Esgq. 20 (=) 0| Surat thro’ Rev. Hormusdjee, Lt. M'Gregor Madras H. Hebbert Esq. Arty. Sabuan 100 C.8 100 J. Bosinger Esq. 15 9 E. P. Robertson Esq. 30 Major J. Halliday 3 months 9 (c) o) (el o) (co¥em) (o feo) Rev. R. Montgomery 10 Capt. Puckle R. Young Esq. 10 F. N. Maltby Esq. 100 Jan. Feb. March. 150 Bombay Lord Elphinstone e Dr, H. Miller 10 DuARWAR Br. KAUFMANN, Commodore Wellesley 20 My, Winnald 10 Brethren of the 74th 10 Highlanders Soldiers A Friend 21 Lt. Col. R. Woosnam 10 a0 OO0 QO (o oW w2 i o e ) o J wem <o) meeting Jooneer thro’ Rev. C. F. Schwarz. Capt. J. Falconer 74th H Rev. C. IF. Schwarz 12 Mission 32 Schools 8 40 Rev. J. Bunter 2 - 12 o) < Mz. Dickinson 9 Mr. Ch. Courpalais Tanna R.W. Hunter Esq. 50 E. J. Webb Esq. 10 20th N. L. 58 A. Taylor Esq. Major E. W. Baynes 10 Nagpore Major W. G. Arrow 50 Dr. Neilson 6 Baroda Major Shaw 50 OO DO O SIS eee S A Friend thro’ Capt. Govan 3 0 (= Major Patey H. M. 56th 10 Mr. Neuberg RECEIVED BY REV. C. W. ISENBERG Capt. French R. A. 15 BomBAy, iz Dr. E. Mahaffy R. H. Pinhey Esq. 50 SISO OIS DI SO R DO OO D. J. Kennelly Esq. I. N. 1) £ Capt. Day a9 0 Nrnaciris Br. Moerike. 10:. 0 Mryrs. Anderson 33 H. L. Anderson Esq. C. 8. 12 & Rev. Hormusdjee 5 0 Mrs. Phillott Friends 50 10 S oS P D Mr. Hall Capt. R. Dobbie 5 Remirtep BY F. A. Groves Esq. Mrs. Coombes SERINGAPATAM. 40 PUALG. 20 Dr. Sanderson Dr. Cleghorn 15 E. K. Groves Esq. 5 Miss Mister 25 D. Carstair Esq. 10 50 Capt. Fitzgerald ) J. W. Cherry Esq. (3] ~ é (=} (e (e emri () Mrs. Barclay 10 Mrs. Fitzgerald Dr. Maitland RECEIVED BY BRr. STROBEL PALGHAUT. Dy, Scott for Mangalore 180 0 Dr. ‘)9 RO ISIOIE O IO/ I SHOIOR OO OO OO W. Robinson Esq. 1859 150 0 Scott for Kaity oD FINIS Go P INDEX. 3 0 Page Committee and Sub-Committees of the 0 Basel Evangelical Missionary Society eees oo cessvses Basel Mission Institutions Agents of the Society eccevcnvse Tt o= (@) Census of the Missions,... Cessvoen Publications of the Society........ scescces 0¢) Report ccoosee cosesses ------ 13 0 Western India Mission secswees esoseven secsscos 19 I. Canara 0 woo: oo esssae 25 Mangalore. ...... Udapy-Mulky ccceses secece 31 3 II. Southern Mahrattha Country Dharwar 36 Hoobly ...... 40 Bettigherry ------ 43 1} Malasamudra sceveven ceasecns ------ 46 0 Guledagudda. ossenscn ve0Tee e 49 ITIT. Malabar. Cannanore ©oeseses 51 3 Tellicherry . .. sosevr00 ssdevscs 56 Chombala csessssne secevess 59 Calicut essevove esejssece 63 Palghaut weoposacse esecsvoce 66 IV. Nilagiris: Kaity DR R oec0000n 67 V. Coorg seco00veq R R LN scesvess 1 1 Western Africa Mission sesseaoe veses ey 76 I. Akra or G4 District Tecece e 80 81 Christiansborg and Osu Abokoby °° 000090 [EERTR R g8000050 3 84 II II. Adangme District: Odumase 87 I Aquapim or Otshy District 89 Abude 90 92 Akropong esescene 97 IV. Akim Dis”cric’c: Gyadam.... China Mission s000000s 99 b Conclusion soscsvec 103 Expenditure of the India Mission. 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T i CoxaTind e o e - L i B 2% e e a el M - S e e Jemie e et HIH ot - = .H o i b I e 5 g ek ot e R et =5 2 el s ok £ P Bead 5 e SR 2 ot et T a e 2y e o s Lt P S o " b ) e . “ LHs rixt s v, = e 5 . i e % A R e T W e e ARy i s it 22 52 e L o 2 Ry A, e o e o5 i o P 7 s oG S 2 S e S, S b 4 N ) e oA e SR o~ 2 Ly 5 2 g P35 £ e 2 e B i Py s L W, ety et 1S 50 % o e Al & A 2 e g ] e 5 258 S s s s Eigaity o o oo o A oy = %, S = T = o A i £15H5N (s i e i 52 T e o iy ianks S S s Recd e o ks gy S 2 28 7 75 v, % i 7 .4.,. P A i i o, & i s e S ) o ot e FK G 5 Zo Y i o T bhe o Ry o o % = ] . REPORY = OF THE o VierFarbSelector Standard* - Euroskala Offset BASEL EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY = = O Balance © SOCIETY. =L Focus ; FORTY-THIRD YEAR. |2 1858. =) NINETEENTH REPORT OF THE GERMAN EVANGELICAL MISSION IN SOUTH WESTERN INDIA. = é MANGALORE: PRINTED BY G.PLEBST, GERMAN MISSION PRESS. 1859, @ Copyright 4/1999 YxyMaster GmbH www.yxymaster.com