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European Missionaries

of the Basel German Evangelical Mission

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In India.

Corrected up to the 1st May 1378.

[The letter (m.) after the names signifies: “married”, and the letter (w.): “widower’

The names of unordained Brethren are marked by an asterisk.

e

Hative

Hame

Gounfry

, %mtién

Date of ac-

tive Serpice

1839

. 4. M. Fritz (m.)

Germany

] Cannanore

. J. A. Biihrer (m.)

Switzerland

1842

Kotagherry

1851

. H.A.Kaundinya (m.)

India

Anandapur

. K. A. E. Diez (m.)

Germany

1851

Cannanore

. G. Pfleiderer (m.)*

do

1853

Mangalore

. J. Lauffer (m.)

do

1856

Cannanore

. L. G. Hanhart (m.)

Switzerland

1857

Palghaut

Germany

1857

Mangalore

. J.Fr. A, Ménner (m.)

O O 3 O U B W N

. W. Roth (m.)

do

1857

Guledgud

=

do

1858

Hubly

J. Mack (m.)

R. Hartmann (m.)

Switzerland

1859

Karkal

1860

Guledgud

J. J. Thumm (m.)

Germany

Th. F.Schauffler (m.)

do

1860

Calicut

India

1860

W. Stokes (m.)

Kaity

J. Fr. Miller (m.)

Germany

1861

Mangalore

> o @ o

do

1862

Fr. Ziegler (m.)

Bettigerry

17

. J. B. Graeter (m.)

do

1863

Mangalore

do

do

18

. S. Gundert (m.)

| 1863

1*

e

Hative

Hame

Station

Gounfry

Bate of ac-

tipe Service

19

1864

Th. Digel (m.)*

Germany

Mangalore

20

S. Walter (m.)

Switzerland

1866

Chombala

21

1867

Calicut

Th. Elsisser (m.)*

Germany

22

C. Linder (m.)

do

1868

Chombala

23

do

1869

W. Schmolck (m.)*

Tellicherry

24

G. Ritter (m.)

do

1869

Udapy

25

H. Daimelhuber (m.)

do

1870

Mulky

26

J. A. Brasche (m.)

do

1870

Udapy

27

W. Sikemeier (m.)

Holland

1870

Mangalore

28

'W.P.Schonthal (m.)*

Germany

1870

Cannanore

29

N. Hitbner (m.)

do

1870

Bettigerry

30

Switzerland

1871

Kundapur

J. Hafner (m.)

31

B, Ot (m)

Germany

1871

Udapy

32

do

1871

Honore

W. Niibling

33

J. Welsch (m.)

do

1871

Dharwar

34

do

1871

G. Hirner (m.)*

Mangalore

35

C. Hiittinger (m.)*

do

1871

do

36

A. Burkhardt*

Switzerland

1872

do. (Bettigerry)

37

G. A. Ziegler (m.)

Germany

1872

Udapy

38

J. Hermelink (m.)

do

1872

Mulky

39

G. Wagner

do

1872

Codacal

40

A. Dobler (m.)*

Surinam

1872

Calicut

41

J. F. Veil (m.)

Germany

1872

Mercara

42

R. Hauri (m.)*

Switzerland

1873

Mangalore

43

E. Harlin (m.)

Germany

1873

do

44

J. Layer (m.)

do

1873

Kaity (Hubly)

45

C. Feuchter™

do

1873

Calicut

46

J. 8. K. Ostermeier*

do

1873

do

47

Switzerland

1874

G. Grossmann (m.)

Guledgud (Kaity)

48

R. Schenkel

Germany

1874

Hubly

(e

Hame

Hative

Station

Loyntry

afe of ac-

|

=29}

ive Service

|

49

C

Pfleiderer (m.)*

Germany

1874

Calicut

50

. J. Baumann (m.)*

Switzerland

1874

Mangalore

51

3 Yeilr

Germany

1875

Mercara

52

. W. Litze

do

1875

Guledgud

53

do

1875

Honore

. L. Gengnagel (m.)

54

. &. Liebendorfer

do

1875

Tellicherry

55

do

1876

do

J. Frohnmeyer (m.)

56

A. Ruhland

do

1876

Palghaut

57

C. G. Eble

do

1876

Anandapur

58

M. Hoch

Switzerland

1876

Dharwar

59

E. G. Halbrock™

1876

Cannanore

Germany

60

G. Benner*

do

1877

Calicut

61

do

1878

H. Altenmiiller*

Mangalore

Single Ladies.

[

62

Mrs. Schoeh

Switzerland

1863

Calicut

63

1866

Mrs. Weigele

Germany

Guledgud

64

Miss Kocherhans

| Switzerland

1876

Calicut

At Home.

65

Chr. Miuller (m.)

| Germany

1842

late of Tellicherry

66

J. F. Metz

do

1843

do

Kaity

67

F. Kittel (m.)

do

1853

do

Mercara

68

do

1858

do

J. J. Brigel (m.)

Mangalore

69

J. Knobloch (m.)

do

1865

do

Calicut

70

do

1866

do

Mercara

J. Miller (m.)*

7@

Th. Walz (m.)

do

1866

do

Mangalore

2

Fr. Matthissen*

Russia

1867

do

Calicut

3

W. Hasenwandel (m.) | Germany

1812

do

Bettigerry

B. On the Western Coast of Africa.”

(GOLD COAST.)

Hative

Hame

Stafion

Gounfry

Adafe of ac-

ine Service

et

4

J. Chr. Dieterle (m.) | Germany

1846

Aburi

do

1851

5

J. A. Mader (m.)

Akropong

76

H. L. Rottmann (m.)*

do

1854

Akra

11

D.Eisenschmid (m.)?

do

861

Akropong

78

D. Asante (m.)

Africa

1862

Kyebi

79

C. Schonfeld (m.)

Germany

1863

Odumase

80

Ph. H. Bohner (m.)

do

1863

Abokobi

81

J. Weiss (m.)

' Switzerland

1865

do

82

' Germany

1866

Ada

J. Binder (m.)*

83

G. J. Lodholz (m.)®

do

1867

Aburi

84

do

1870

Christiansborg

J. G. Fritz (m.)

85

A. Langhorst (m.)

do

1872

Ada

86

|

do

1873

J. M. Miiller (m.)

Akropong

817

Th. Essler (m.)

|

do

1873

do

1874

Akra

88

Dieterle™®

Africa

89

Bender®

1874

do

’! Germany

1875

90

Petave

l*t)

' Switzerland

Akropong

91

Mohr

| Africa

1875

Begoro

92

Werner

1 Germany

1875

Abetifi

93

Weigle™*

India

1875

Ada

94

HoHEBBQH

A. Ehmer

1875

Christiansborg

95

J. Weimer *

Germany

do

1875

Abotifi

96

G. Glatzle *

do

1875

Begoro

I I‘a;ken from the List of Ist January 1876.

2) Mrs. Eisenschmid died in 1877.

3

Went Home in 1877.

4) Died in 1877.

% :

Hame

Hlative

Station

Counfry

Tate of ac-

five Service

97

. M. Seeger*

Germany

1876

Christiansborg

98

26 Buek”

do

1876

do

99

. C. H. Krauss*!)

do

1876

do

100

Ph. Buss*

do

1876

Abetifi

101

M. Sautter

do

1876

Akropong

102

A. Dannenberg™?

do

1876

Ada

103

W. L. Wernle*

do

1876

Christiansborg

Gone to Africa in 1876

and 1877.

104

G. L. Schmid

Germany

1876

Aburi

105

R. Furrer

Switzerland

1876

Odumase

106

J. Fr. Buch

Germany

1876

Christiansborg

107

J. Bischoff

Switzerland

1876

do

108

J. Jordi*

do

1877

Akropong

109

BE. Preiswerk®

do

1877

Akra

110

E. R. P. Biittner*

1877

Ada

Germany

At Home,

111

J. Mohr (m.)*

Germany

1846

late of Aburi

112

J.G. Christaller(m.)

do

1852

do

Akropong

113

M. Klaiber (m.)

do

1859

do

Christiansb.

114

J. Ch. Fetzer (m.)*

do

1863

do

do

115,

Switzerland

1864

do

Abetifi

Fr.Ramseyer (m.)%

116

J. Miller (m.)*%)

Germany

1865

do

Akropong

117

J. Kithne*

do

1866

do

Kumase

118

Chr. J. Buhl (m.)*3)

do

1869

do

Christiansb.

119

do

1869

do

Odumase

J. Kopp (m.)?

120

P. Steiner?

do

1872

do

Christiansb.

1) Died in 1877.

3) Returned to Africa in 1877.

2) Went Home in 1877.

4) Mrs. Miiller died in 1877,

C.

In China.

Hafive

=

Flame

/23

Sfafion

Country

Date of ac-

Sep—p

124

R.C.F.Lechler(m.)

Germany

1846

Hongkong

122

do

1864

Lilong

Ph. Ch. Piton (m.)"

123

J. Lorcher (m.)

do

1865

Hongkong

124

China

1869

Min-siu-Chin (m.)

Chongchong

125

G.A.Gussmann (m.)

Germany

1869

Nyenhangly

126

Kong-Fat-lin-Ayun

(m.)

China

r8el

do

127

Germany

1872

Lilong

Ch. G. Reusch (m.)

128

R. Ott

Switzerland

1873

Chongchong

129

M. Schaub

do

1874

Lilong

Gone to China in 1877.

130

P. Kammerer

Germany

1877

Lilong

131

D. Schaible

|

do

1877

Nyenhangly

132

G. Morgenroth

do

1877

Lilong

133

do

H. Ziegler

Switzerland [ 1877

At Home.

134

|

H. Bender (m.)

i Germany

| 1862

| late of Chongchong

1) Went Home in 1877.

Coast of India,

Benstis gf the Basel German Huangelical Mission an the Western

ist JANUARY 1878

Agents of the Mission,

Schools.

Under the care of the Hission.

Buropean

Native Agents.

Parochial

Heathen

Present Church Members.

Mission-

Higher Schools

Boarding

Vernacular

aries.

Scheols.

Schools.

Schools.

NAMES

OF

MISSION STATIONS.

Christian

Schoolmasters

instruction

during 1877

1st January 1877

Number of Church Members

Established in the year

Brethren

Sisters

Native Pastors

Catechists & Evangelists

Christian Schoolmasters

Schoolmistresses

Non-Christian

Number of Schools

Seminary

Training Schools

Preparandi Schools

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

Anglo-Vernacular Schools

Boys

Girls

Total of children under

Number of Converts baptised

Communicants

Non-Communicants

Children

Total

Catechumens

1. Canara.

Mangalore

1834

[y

e

131

126

p—t

295

1107

598

29

468

1095

37

Mulky .

1845

(o}

68

37

166

769

378

367

754

39

1854

[or]

40

30

158

961

486

11

449

946

81

Udapy.

Karkal

1872

49

31

28

65

1876

12

Kundapur

Honore

1845

82

26

41

70

Mercara

1870

19

22

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.

1853

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1837

Dharwar .

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188

61

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69

113

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1839

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168

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1841

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281

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222

513

217

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1839

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407

334

172

162

336

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76

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242

124

114

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Calicut

1842

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61

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376

725

381

17

300

698

15

Codacal

1857

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142

120

263

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158

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V. Nilgherre

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Kaity .

1846

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67

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Kotagherry.

1867

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78

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49

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Rotal: .

63

50

66

5

23

28

62

19

11

47

266

271|528 |386

465 |566

95

2654

5904

3070

165

2802

6037

1874

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Total of 1st Januwary 1877 .

63| 41

6

62

53

19

30

60 | 22

59

156

184

506 (350

567 [516

80

2450

z

5

5609

3042

166

696

5904

299

Decrease during 1877 .

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12

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Increase

0110

87

22

36

50

15

204

g

295

28

106

133 {1075

_ditto.

*There are about

20 orphans in Anandapur.

But they were not yet entered in the Census.

dreport,

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13

also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,

and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not re-

v

turned unto me, saith the Lord. And also I have withholden

the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the

harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not

to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece

whereupon it rained not withered. So two or three cities wandered

unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have

ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

I have smitten you with

blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and

your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm de-

voured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt:

your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away

your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up

unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the

Lord.

I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom

and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the

burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.”

“And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name

2

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10

of the Lord shall be delivered: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem

ghall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant

whom the Lord shall call.”

These two words significantly ex-

press the character of the past year for South-India and for

the work which our Mission has carried on: thousands and

tens of thousands, yea millions taken away by the awful visita-

0

tions of the Lord, yet very few traces of turning to God in

)

truth and reality, some, however, turning their eyes to the

a

cities of refuge established in their midst, seeking not only

i

food for their starving bodies but an abiding resting-place for

a1

their weary souls as well.

Some fifteen or eighteen hundred

di

have sought refuge with us, of whom about twelve hundred

by

remained to be more fully instructed in the way of the Lord

di

and become members of His church. Some two hundred to

¢h

three hundred children have been plucked out of the ravages

119

of hunger, and are now led in the way of peace and righteous-

D

ness. But the task has been a very heavy one for our brethren,

£X

standing in the midst of those scenes between the living and

Ga

the dead. There are few amongst them who do not feel the

injurious effects it has had on their health. And one of them,

ha

who had to bear the chief brunt of the battle, has died the

sh

death of a hero, spending and being spent in the service of

of

Christ and the poor suffering brethren.—Whilst thus one part

of our Mission-field will always look on the year 1877 as one

i

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of the chief epochs from which a new period is to start, the work

10

in other parts has gone on in a more quiet way, the progress

€0y

being even below the common average of success; and that

ofh

part where the work used to be most progressing, has almost

come to a standstill, and even shown some signs of a retro-

Ch

18

grade movement.

hag

fry

L

1|

ol

0t

. INCREASE OF THE CONGREGATIONS.

ox:

for

This year shows the unusual fact that the number

nd

fa

of baptisms of heathens (291) is greater than the increase

of the congregations (133), whilst in other years the excess of

n

births over deaths increases the congregations quite apart of

the

access from without.

But this year we have 310 deaths

ly

against 249 births and a loss of 97 from excommunication

for

and removal.

The greatest mortality was in the famine

red

districts, where our congregations lost four times as many

red

But in stations of other

by death as they gained by births.

ord

districts also, Mulky, Udapy, Anandapur, Cannanore, Telli-

to

cherry, Chombala and Kaity, the mortality was in excess of the

ges

natural increase.

Mangalore, Mulky, Udapy, Anandapur,

JU§

Dharwar, Hubly, Calicut and Palghaut have to chronicle more

61,

excommunications than re-admissions of the excluded. In the

and

case of Udapy this is owing to relapsing into heathenism.

thé

For several years the Tulu stations, Mulky and Udapy,

e,

had each year a goodly number of baptisms; but this year

the

shows a considerable decrease, notwithstanding the number

eOf

of Catechumens with which the year was begun.

Mulky, how-

part

ever, shows 6 baptisms, and some families have joined the

0ne

Christians during the course of the year, and are still under

ork

instruction.

In connection with Udapy some heathens have

(G

come over, but only one was ready for baptism; and on the

that

other hand a number of losses must be reported of baptized

08t

Christians and of Catechumens who have returned to heathen-

of10-

ism. The fire that seemed to be spreading more and more

has come to a standstill.

Will it die out altogether? We

trust the Lord may not only revive it but let it burn in a

purer flame than before.

My. Ritter of Udapy writes:

2%

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Out of the great number of Catechumens only one has been

A small

baptized.

The majority have returned to heathenism.

part have remained steadfast. Others joined us; but many of them,

though showing much courage and promising firmness in the begin-

ing, very soon yielded to the pressure that bore on them.

Of such

new accessions we have one family in Perala, and two in Malapu.

But after so many disappointments we scarcely dare to rejoice over

f

such new-comers.

Next year will show whether they remain faith-

P

ful

May the merciful God strengthen them!

{f

I

- Thus the same distress which in one part of the country

impelled the people to join us, has been the cause of their

at

leaving us in another part.

S

Our Mission in Karkal, also in the Tulu country, has

had some baptisms this year, and has got a footing in a new

1l

(C

(its fourth) village, so that the flame promises not to die out.

From Tellicherry some more progress has been made in

4

Ancharkandy, and a house has been procured, so that now a

B

Catechist resides there.

In Calicut some persons have been

1

baptized. There were many more enquirers, but the majority

have left again, as they were not bent on spiritual things.

N

)

In Kotagherry two heathens were baptized and two Roman

Catholics admitted to the congregration.

\’ii

Thus each station shows at least some converts, with the

0

0

exception of Mercara and the newly formed station at Kundapur.

But the chief increase of the year is in South Mahratta about

0

which we report in another para.

There remain now in South Mahratta 1104 and in other

i

districts 270 persons for future instruction and trial.

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13

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all

II. PROGRESS OF THE MISSION IN THE

)m,

11

FAMINE DISTRICTS.

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The most prominent feature of this year has been the

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terrible famine, consequences of which have been felt in all

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parts of our Mission, whilst several of our stations were in

the midst of its ravages and one in the very worst part of it.

In the Kaladgi Collectorate, in which our Mission-Station

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Guledgud is situated, the deaths of last year are calculated

at 83,500, and in that particular taluk at 12,000; so that it is

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supposed that this taluk, Badami, was the most severely

visited of all India.

Also in the Dharwar collectorate which

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contains three of our stations, Dharwar, Hubly and Betti-

gerry, many thousands died.

And in the Coorg country in

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which are two of our stations, Mercara and Anandapur, the

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starving people crowded in from Mysore and died by hundreds.

The other part of our Mission, North and South Canara,

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Malabar, and the Nilagiris, though not quite directly affected,

suffered indirectly by the excessive rise of the price of all

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victuals, and by the influx of starving people from the

neighbouring districts, as also by the partial failure of the

the

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Crops.

The Mission itself could not but be influenced in

many ways by this fearful calamity.

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As soon as the first forebodings of the coming famine

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appeared, our Mission made preparations to meet the calamity.

Measures were taken towards the end of 1876 to receive as

many as 200 orphans; for the members of our congregations

relief-works were planned and provisions of rice sent to he

sold at cost price. Appeals for help were sent to Europe, and

collections made in Germany and Switzerland with pretty

good success. These enabled the Missionaries to begin relief-

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works for Christians.

To heathens alms were given, but the

numbers of begging people steadily increased till they came

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by fifties and hundreds, so that the alms had to be restricted

to the old and sick.

In Guledgud A4r. Weigele had in the

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first months charge of the distribution of the charities of the

Municipality and from 1st December 1876 to April 1877 some

200 people, blind, lame, maimed, and old, daily collected in his

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compound to receive their dole of grain.

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Some men, who for many years had known the Gospel and

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had intended to forsake Hinduism, came now and joined our

Church. They had now and then to overcome strong opposi-

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tion, and were forsaken or expelled by their families.

As they

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were without the means of livelihood, many of them had to

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take part in the relief-works and to perform cooly work at

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lower than the usual rates, although they had perhaps never

before done such work.

In Guledgud, Kardanhalli, Mushta-

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gery, Shagoti, Hubly and Dharwar such conversions took place

in the first months of last year. Some, however, joined the Chris-

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tians without being in any way influenced by the distress.

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was observed in many places that the resistance against the

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preaching of the Gospel had disappeared almost entirely, and

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that people listened much more attentively than formerly; yet

the pride, and opposition against the Gospel had always been

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so strong among the Canarese people, that still it seemed

unlikely that any one would be willing to join the Christians,

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even to save his life, excepting perhaps, some villages where

the populace was more prepared for the Gospel.

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But as the distress grew more and more severe and hund-

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reds had already died, other people of those villages in

far

which the Gospel had been preached for many years, and con-

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versions had occasionally taken place, came to the Mission-

aries, asking them to be admitted to the relief-works and

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expressing their willingness to forsake Hinduism and embrace

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Christianity. Some of them were relatives of former converts,

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whom not long before they had very much opposed but who

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were now very happy to be thus united again to their relatives;

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others were old acquaintances of the Christians.

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Relief-works for the members of the congregations, recep-

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tion of children into Orphanages and distribution of alms to

the needy and helpless—these had till then been the three ways

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of assisting the people.

But now the Missionaries were by

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circumstances compelled to enlarge their circle. Many hundreds,

even thousands, thronged the compounds and would not be

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put off with alms, but came again and again, asking to be

admitted to the regular relief-works and expressing their

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willingness to give up idolatry and accept Christianity. Their

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idols, some said, had been of no use to them in this calamity,

they would now follow the God of the Christians.

What was

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to be done? In ordinary times a man offering in the same way

would be set to work, and his willingness to do a day’s work

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for a day’s wages would be considered presumptive evidence

of his sincerity, till further instruction and trial furnished

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means of testing him still more.

Could the people be refused

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now that it was evident that they very much needed help and

yet

must starve without it? And as all could not possibly be re-

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lieved, was it not right, yea a duty, to receive as many as

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possible of those who protested that they were willing to be-

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come Christians? Of course it was clear that their coming now

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in the time of great distress did not prove that after the dis-

tress was over, they would still cling to Christianity. But

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that was no reason why their lives should not be preserved as

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far as our means reached. The question of baptism must any-

how be postponed till a course of instruction has not only

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shown to them what Christianity is, but also to us whether

they will embrace it with their hearts.

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Funds received from other sources (Mansion Fund, Bombay

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‘Anna Fund’ etc.) we would use for general relief, and we

should have been happy to have had more for this purpose. Yet

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our first duty seemed to be to bring safely through the famine

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a selected number of those who begged for full admission as

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adherents.

And the funds received through our Home Com-

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mittee for the use of our own people, must first be used for

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those that had taken refuge with us, although some of it went

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also for occasional relief of other people.- We had the more

reason to limit the extent of regular systematic relief, as the

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numbers seeking admittance into the circle of our own people

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were much greater than we were ever able to receive and pro-

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vide for.

In fact they were more, than we, knowing the general

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character of the Canarese people, should ever have dared to

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expect. The extent also of the relief-works became much larger

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than we ever intended; but on the other hand the sums flow-

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ing for relief purposes through our Home Committee from

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Germany and Switzerland likewise exceeded anything that we

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ever dared to hope for.

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The people who joined us in this manner were employed

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in relief-works.

Only people, from sickness or debility unable

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to work, or those whom we were obliged to refuse admittance,

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were supported with alms.

Sickness was indeed very rife,

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partly cholera and smallpox, partly famine-diarrheea.

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numbers died: in Guledgud 80, in Bettigerry 50, in Hubly

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Some of them asked for baptism before they died;

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and when the request appeared to be earnest, they received

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Of course, work could not be got out of the sick people.

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But those in good health, even if they were much weakened

by starvation, were set to work and received wages of 3 As. per

day for a male and 2 As. per day for a female.

Some were not

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at all accustomed to manual labour, and would formerly have

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considered it a great dishonour to do such work, yet now they

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did it willingly. Weavers, goldsmiths, even priests, had to carry

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earth and stone.

Others, indeed, were less willing, and in

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cases where the supervision could not be carried out carefully,

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they would try to shirk work. But altogether a fair amount

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of work has been carried out: wells, tanks, channels, houses,

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and chapels, walls round compounds etc. remain as the results

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of the labour of these poor people.

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In the admission to the circle of those for whom we thus

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undertook to provide, as much care was employed as circum-

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stances permitted, to get only good people.

In Guledgud the

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distress was greatest, and the greatest numbers were admitted.

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But they were all of the town itself or of neighbouring vil-

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lages, especially of Mushtagery and Kardanhalli where Chris-

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tians had lived, and the Missionaries paid visits for many

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years, and great hopes of numerous conversions had been

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entertained for many years.

Such people were personally

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known either to the Missionaries or the Catechists or at least

to the Native Christians of these villages, and careful enquiries

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were made about their general character, and only those were

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received about whom very good reports were heard.

Only a

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small part of all those that asked for admittance could be

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received, and we wished to select the best. The people crowded

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the compound; if a door in the bungalow was opened to admit

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one, a crowd would press in with him, and it was very difficult

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to send away the rest.

They would sit in the compound for

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hours and come again day after day. With more means many

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more could have been received and, we must add, kept alive.

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Some weeks after these accessions had begun in Guledgud,

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supplicants appeared also in the other stations, but at first

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only people that had come from a distance.

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pressed their willingness to be guided by the Missionaries in

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everything. Their distress was now and then very great, and

they would prostrate themselves before the Missionaries, em-

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brace their feet, and beg hard not to be sent away. But it

was clear that only a selection could be made, and the Mis-

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sionaries, assisted by the Catechists, tried to pick out the most

the

hopeful characters.

Many of them disappeared afterwards

or had to be sent away for disorderly conduct; but as the

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famine increased more and more, people living in the station

itself begged for admittance, and were of course preferred to

the more floating population.

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The numbers increased rapidly, till Guledgud had about

700, Bettigerry 500, Hubly 400, and Dharwar 50 employed in

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relief-works.

But in August the funds at disposal were

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nearly exhausted, and the brethren became afraid that they

would be exhausted before the famine was over, and they

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would be left helpless with all the people on their hands, es-

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pecially as there was much reason to fear that the famine

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was not yet coming to an end, but might last through another

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year.

Therefore some stations reduced their expenses by

sending away some of the people.

The brethren of other

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stations could not make up their minds to take such a step,

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but were nevertheless obliged to refuse admittance to any

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new-comers.

This was sometimes very hard indeed, as

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the people begged so pressingly to be received, and some of

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them seemed very hopeful subjects.

Myr. Grossmann writes

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of a couple in Mushtagery that asked for admittance.

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were known as quiet well behaved people who, till then, had

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always been in good circumstances, and possessed a house

and fields of their own.

The brethren would have liked very

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much to receive them, but they dared no longer increase their

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numbers.

Some time afterwards they were bitterly grieved

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on hearing that both the man and his wife had died from

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starvation

Yet concerning those people whom they really

had admitted, their faith was tried indeed, but never put to

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shame

The funds seemed to run short, but they never quite

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failed: not one man had to be sent away for actual want of

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money; and when the worst part of the famine was over and

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the people were sent back to their respectlve villages, there

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remained still a sum for future use

Alonoside the admittance of these men to relief-works,

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a number of children were gathered into Orphan Schools

In the first months of the famine, people, even if they were

out

begging, would not give up their children to us but preferred

to let them starve

It even happened afterwards in two or

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three cases, that parents who had brought us their children

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and had been very thankful to see at least their children

in good hands, were so much importuned by their caste-

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fellows that they came to demand them back again; and as

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we insisted that they must refund part at least of the expenses

incurred on their behalf, the caste gave them the neces-

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sary amount of money. But there their charity ended. And

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we were grieved to hear afterwards from the parents that

in some cases their children had died from hunger

But after

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a while some learned to appreciate the refuge offered to their

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children. and their numbers steadily increased, as one told

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another of the house where their children would be cared

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Some indeed offered their children for sale, but were, of

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course. refused and told that love to their children ought

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to make them feel happy, if they saw them provided for

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* 1 then some alms were given to the parents whose children we had taken

in charge, just as alms were given to thousands more, it is really strange

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how that could be twisted to signify a purchase, as was done in a certain

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quarter

Only a malicious mind, and one not practically engaged in helping

The wonder is rather that such insinuations

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the starving could so pervert facts

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Sometimes we were cheated by people who had stolen

a child and brought it to work on our compassion, or by

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an elder girl stealing a young child, and bringing it as her

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sister, to get herself admitted.

Such children had to be

given up again as soon as they were claimed. But altogether

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we did not lose many in this way. More were taken away

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by death, as the poor creatures had now and then suffered

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grievously from want of food for many days before they came

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to us. Bettigerry haslost 9, Guledgud 7, Hubly 3, and Dharwar

none by death, which after all is less than was to be expected

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when at times there were in one school 40 children laid up

with illness.

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The most careful nursing was sometimes of

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no avail to overcome the ravages which bitter hunger and

the. use of unfit nourishment (as grass, leaves, etc.) had already

effected in the small bodies.

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It was really pitiable to look on

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the poor emaciated beings whose ravenous hunger impelled

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them to chew and eat raw grain without waiting for its

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being cooked, and whose hunger could not be satisfied at first

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without endangering their lives.

And oh! how happy they

are now, and how joyfully they answer to the question whether

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they enjoy their meals! A description, however, of the measures

taken to lay the first foundations of cleanliness, might be

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too much for the fastidious reader; but the practical helper

had to begin with this as soon as the first meal was over.

And now you would not recognize the famine children with

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their clean bodies and clothes, their merry talk and their joyful

songs, although traces of past sufferings still linger in their

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faces. As a matter of course no time is lost in leading them

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to the good Shepherd who «shall gather the lambs with His

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arm, and carry them in His bosom.”

Baptism, however, in the

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case of children of 8 years and upwards, is only given after

some instruction, and when a desire is expressed.

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where there is reason to think that they might be claimed

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afterwards, baptism is deferred, especially in the case of girls

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who have passed through an act of marriage.

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These children were distributed between the two old

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Orphanages in Bettigerry and Hubly which now have 50 girls

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and 76 boys, and new Orphanages were opened in Guledgud

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with 75 boys and in Dharwar with 50 girls. A number of

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children have been given over to Christian families.

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In Anandapur also, in the Coorg country, some 30 or 40

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children have been taken in, but many of them were already

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too far gone and died soon.

It is hoped that 26 more may

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be given over to us by the Mysore Government.

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All the people that had taken refuge with us were regu-

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larly instructed in the Gospel and some of them made very

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fair progress. This was especially the case with those who

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had come in the very beginning of the famine and had been

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longing for many years to be Christians.

But also of the

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rest many opened their minds to the Word of God, although

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their great ignorance made it difficult for them to learn any

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thing. Only those who have had personal experience, by en-

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deavouring to instruct such people, can form an adequate

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idea of the utter absence of any intelligent knowledge about

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Divine things, of the entire dullness of understanding, the

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almost total inability to think and feel about spiritual things

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or about any subject higher than cattle, food, earth, money,

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etc

It would at times seem almost an impossibility to open

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up the obtuse minds for higher thoughts and aspirations.

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Only their greatest and most painstaking care, coupled with

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an inexhaustible store of patience, can succeed in laying a

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foundation of spiritual understanding in minds which till

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then have been without any thing of this kind; and it is

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scarcely possible that in Christian (at least in Protestant)

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countries such all-pervading ignorance should be found, as

with the agricultural classes in this country. Excepting the

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small number of those who, as heathens, have already tried

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to speculate and converse about matters of religion, the mass

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of the people are the very opposite of those philosophers,

they are imagined by European idealists to be.

Yet if these

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people are ever to be lifted from their low position, the ne-

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cessary labour of patience and love must be undertaken.

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And this is emphatically the Missionary’s task, who, therefore,

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must not reject such subjects as hopeless.

We thank God, if

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the people themselves become willing to enter into such a

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course of instruction.

And the labour is not in vain.

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observe how gradually light breaks in upon the darkness, how

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the face, the intellect and the heart more and more reflect

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the light put hefore them, is rich reward for all the trouble.—

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Of the majority of those whom we have now under instruction

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we can say that they are willing to learn.

But they them-

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selves complain that what they have learned will not remain

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in their memory. With some indeed the carnal mind is the

preponderating element, and they must by and by be sent

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away, unless the Word of God succeeds in changing them.

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Others have already been admitted to baptism.

Some have

left on their own account as soon as they saw their way to a

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means of livelihood.

Others are waiting and begging for

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baptism; but, it seems, they must first be more instructed

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in the way of life, and it must first become more evident

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whether they cling to Christ only as long as they expect to

be fed thereby.

Many have stood this test, as they continue

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to attend services on Sundays and instruction on week days,

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even after every assistance has been discontinued and they

have fallen into sore distress.

Others have become wavering

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when the help ceased, although the need had not yet ceased.

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But most of them are ever open to a word of admonition and

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encouragement, and we have good hopes that in progress of

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time by dint of careful instruction, faithful guidance, spiri-

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tual preaching and unwavering prayer a number of churches

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may be formed, able to honour God by their lives, to carry

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further on the sound of the Gospel, and to wipe out any slur

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that may have been cast on them on account of the outward

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circumstances of their conversion.

Besides this, we shall

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especially cast an eye on the young members of the families,

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taking care that they are from their childhood instructed in

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the Lord’s ways and never become a prey to that spiritual

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callousness in which their forefathers have lived for centuries.

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And it is proposed also to influence the young men to collect

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in night-schools to learn the arts of reading and writing, which

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do so much to dispel darkness. A selection will also be made

of talented boys who are to be instructed still further, so as

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to be able to become teachers of others in schools and cha-

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pels and in carrying the Gospel to the heathen.

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When the relief-works were discontinued and the people

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were told to look out themselves for their own livelihood, we

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asked ourselves whether all of them would remain steadfast.

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Some had disappeared before this period, but the ceasing of

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assistance did not make any difference.- The people continued

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to attend Divine service and classes of instruction, expressing

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their desire after baptism.

In one case in Guledgud a number

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of them did not attend even on Sundays, pleading that poverty

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made it impossible for them; but when we, considering this

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as a sign that they would not become Christians, prepared to

strike their names off the list, they strongly objected and

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they

promised to manage to come for Sunday service and week-

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day-instruction, protesting that they never would forget the

help they had received.

In other cases also they themselves

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admonish those that are remiss in attending services, that they

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should not forget the great help received. Only very few of

them have been baptized, and in Guledgud, where the numbers

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were greatest, none at all (except two dying men), as it was

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considered safer to wait till there was less danger of their

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being influenced by worldly motives.

After careful instruc-

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tion, however, some were baptized in Dharwar, Hubly and

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Bettigerry, but there also chiefly those who were known to

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have been very much inclined towards Christianity for many

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years.

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In Dharwar AMr. Welsch writes of a young man who came

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quite independent of the famine, and before it had begun,

and of a second man, who had with his wife been reflecting

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for many years on asking for baptism, but who was helped

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by the famine to ripen his intention and come to a final

decision.

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The former, a deaf youth of 25 years, of the name of Bhimapfa,

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(now Peter) was born in Seidapur, near Dharwar, in a wealthy

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family; but his father died in 1865, and soon afterwards the boy lost

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his hearing in consequence of small-pox.

He became poor and was

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obliged to work as a servant in Hubly. ‘‘There I made,” he himself

relates his story, “the acquaintance of the Catechist Christian, and

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received from him a Mahratti traect.

Although I had almost for-

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gotten how to read, yet the contents attracted me so much that I read

and re-read the tract, and afterwards asked for other books.

At last

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the Catechist gave me a book on the Miracles of Christ which I read

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with very great interest, and which brought me to believe in Christ.

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I learned by heart several Bible passages and drew much comfort from

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them, especially from the word: ‘Come unto me all ye that labour

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and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest’.

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could mot be without a Bible.

A year afterwards I returned to

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Dharwar, and as my mother and relatives did their best to hinder

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my reading the Bible, I looked out for a place where I could read

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without molestation, and found it in the house of Catechist Lot.

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regular reading of God’s Word and the conversations with the Cate-

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chist steadily increased my faith in the living God, and the Spirit of

God showed me one truth after another.

Knowing that there is no

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salvation but through Christ, and feeling in my own experience that

the Gospel is a power unto salvation to every one that believeth, I

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could no longer remain a heathen. Inthe beginning of January 1877

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I left my mother’s house, though not without a severe struggle, and

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went to the Mission-house to ask for baptism. My mother came and

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tried by all means to take me back to her house, and it was very

“hard for me to resist.

After this she returned with our relatives,

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who, when all words had proved useless, tried to take me away by

force, but were baffled in their plans by the Missionary.

The Lord

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gave me strength to remain steadfast in all these trials, and I now

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found time to read the Word of God in peace and to quench my thirst

after the water of life.

The Lord Jesus showed mercy on me, as he

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once had shown on the Syro-Phenician woman, forgave me my sins

and gave peace to my heart. His name be praised! When I received

baptism on the 28th January I felt the nearness of the Spirit of God

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and was richly blessed.

May He who has sought and found me,

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draw also my mother and brothers to Him, and may He keep me in

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His grace till I shall see Him face to face.”

We find it especially wonderful that God has found ways and

self

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means to kindle the flame of His love in this poor man, whose inter-

course with the outer world is so much impeded by his deafness.

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The second man, Balappa (born in 1839), had in his childhood

attended a Mission School in Bettigerry and carried away with him

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good seed which sprang up after many years. He afterwards settled

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in Ugurugola as a goldsmith and married a wife, with whom he

lived a very happy life.

Her death crushed him entirely, he felt

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his sinfulness and sought for help in the Hindu Shastras which he

studied with great zeal.

His father feared he would become a

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Sanyési and therefore married him again as quickly as possible in

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1864.

In 1869 the Missionaries came to Ugurugola and, he says,

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“T listened to their preaching and found what I had been always

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seeking. Their words were like balm to my heart.”

He together

with some friends had frequent intercourse with them, and was con-

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vinced of the truth.

“I made,” he says, “an agreement with a

friend to buy a whole Bible.

He gave the money (Rs. 2), and I

bought the Bible (a big quarto) from Mr. Ziegler in Hubly and

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joyfully carried it on my shoulders to my village.

My friend died

and I remained in sole possession of the Bible, which I read again

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and again till I found peace of mind.”

For several years he was

known to the Missionaries as one who was near the kingdom of God,

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but he could not find strength to overcome the obstacles.

He was

also burdened with debts and was afraid that his creditors would

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ruin him if he became a Christian.

Thus he was in an unsettled

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condition for years, together with his wife who was of one mind

with him.

“We knew the truth but lacked the courage to live

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up to it; but still less could we serve unrighteousness and falsehood.

‘We suffered much in this condition.”

‘When the famine came and

to

the

he was in distress, he at length found courage to break through his

bonds.

In March 1877 he went to Dharwar with his wife, broke

an

8al

caste and asked for baptism which he received on the 20th May 1877.

He is now employed as a Schoolmaster, and we have reason to hope

il

that he will prove a faithful Christian.

my

li\w

Besides these three persons, five more have been baptized

b

after careful instruction.

i

Some of those employed on relief-

works have left again, but 37 remain after the relief-works

a8

th

have ceased, and are under instruction for baptism. Thus a

af

congregation is gathering in this place which for many years

e

seemed so sterile. And besides this the Orphanage has brought

Wa

new life to the station.

Hy

In Hubly also we find some whose conversion has no

\ii

connexion at all with the famine.

Amongst the rest there

let

are some very hopeful characters, who were selected for

hig

baptism, whilst the remaining 131 were reserved for further

the

instruction, so that there will be time to test their sincerity.

i

27

Pl

her

Baptisms took place on three different occasions in the course

CON:

of the year.

Myr. Mack writes:

ha

q

Appu, a young Tamil man of about 26 years, had been our

servant from the first days after our return from Europe in 1876, first

and

fied

on the journey, then in our house.

We learned more and more to

100D

appreciate him; in his work he was skilful, painstaking and orderly,

and in his behaviour he was quiet, modest, and sober.

He was also

was

intelligent and had acquired a degree of knowledge which is rarely

fod,

found in servants.

He spoke and read several languages.

But

Was

we had to regret that he was not only a heathen, but also lived in

yuld

tled

concubinage.

‘We tried to win him to Christ, inviting him to attend

our services and speaking privately with him.

Our endeavours,

jind

especially those of Mr. Liitze and Mr. Schenkel, were not in vain.

Jive

ood

He occasionally attended Divine Service; he sent one of his children

to out boarding school, and showed more and more inclination to hear

and

Some attacks of fever caused him to think on death

his

the Gospel.

and eternity; his conscience was roused, and he began to long after

oke

salvation.

This continued to work in him, and one day he came to

17,

me saying he was firmly resolved to become a Christian. I expressed

10p6

my joy at his resolution, but told him that in this case he could not

live on in concubinage.

He replied that he was well aware of that,

but that the woman was also willing to become a Christian and to be

zed

united to him in Christian marriage.

They were joyfully received

lief

as Catechumens and instructed in the elements of Christianity.

On

ks

the 28th January I administered baptism to them, and in the week

Their three children

§ &

afterwards married them as a Christian couple.

pals

were also baptized.

But Jesudasa (this is now his Christian name)

ght

was not to be without suffering for Christ’s sake.

His relatives near

Hubly were very angry with him, and his father, a butler in Bellary,

who till then had been very affectionate towards him, wrote an angry

10

letter, saying that he considered him dead and was about to perform

61

his funeral ceremonies, would no longer be his father, and lamented

for

the loss of his son.

Jesudasa bore all this with meekness, and he and

ther

his wife, Elizabeth, have hitherto walked as becomes Christians, and

ity

4%

=

we had occasion to see how they opened their hearts to the Spirit of

ask

hie

God, when He reproved them for their shortcomings and false steps.

In January 1876 a man from Unakallu, Shivardya, came with

Goc

his nephew Linga, and said that he had, for some time, intended to

101

become a Christian, but had always delayed.

But now he was about

a0

to take the step, only he must first settle a law-suit, and he now

car

s

begged me to take charge of his money, and to write a letter in his

favour to the Gauda of his village.

This looked suspicious enough,

he

as natives frequently try to get the Missionary’s help in their law-

‘toi

suits.

But the appearance of the man made such a good impression,

il

and the Christians to whom he referred me, spoke of him in such

terms, that I resolved to comply with his request.

The law-suit

it

was after some months decided in Shivardya’s favour.

In the mean-

heg

time he now and then came to our services, and had many conver-

st

sations on Christianity with us, in which he spoke very strongly

tho

against idolatry.

Yet he did not come to a decision; his visits gradu-

1

ally grew rarer, he took his money away, and I saw nothing more

the

of him for some time.

I thought I had been deceived. But he came

Jul

again and asked me for the second time to keep his money for him.

wh

I refused and said, he had deceived me.

He protested that he had not

m

deceived me and was still willing to become a Christian, and was only

waiting till his nephew was willing to become a Christian with him,

Wa

But Ilet him go, without taking charge of his money.

In January

1877 he came again, saying that he could not find peace unless

gu

the

he became a Christian, and had come with his nephew to break caste,

renounce idolatry and join the Christians.

He was admitted to the

1t

1o

number of Catechumens.

Now I was willing to take care of his

can

money and valuables (Rs. 50), the boy was sent to the boarding

school, and the man rented the house of a Christian, saying he poss-

for

bap

essed no fields of his own and intended to work here as a cooly, as

long as the course of instruction lasted.

In the instruetion which he

hiy

aly

received from the Catechist and the Missionary he was very attentive

and appeared to be ready to be baptized with a number of others. But

or

before the day arrived, he was attacked with cholera on the 5th

1y

the

July, and seemed to be dying. He pxtepared himself for eternity and

29

it of

asked urgently to be baptized before his death, so that Mr. Roth saw

s

he could not be refused this last request and baptized him. But by

with

God’s help he recovered again and lives now as a steady Christian,

i

orking for his livelihood

‘When the country was threatened with

bou

a continuance of the famine, he went down to Karwar and brought a

now

cartload of grain, but in the meantime the rains set in, and he realized

his

less than he had given for the grain

But he will not allow this to

igh,

be called a loss, because the kindness of God in giving gracious rains

aw

to the land is of much more value than the money he had spent

101,

mn vain

juch

Many people who had been driven by famine to seck work

Sif

with us, offering at the same time to give up idolatry, were from the

s

beginning taken into a course of regular instruction, the Catechists

ver

instructing those that were quite ignorant and Mr. Roth instructing

gly

those who had some knowledge of the Gospel

From this latter

i

number we made after some time another selection, and instructed

1016

the selected ones for a further period and baptized them on the 15th

ame

July

It was a festival day in the midst of the terrors of the famine

1m

when these 18 persons stood round the table, confessed their faith

106

in Jesus Christ and were baptized in His name

nly

One of them is Hucha, with his son Gurusiddha

He formerly

il

was a merchant in Hubly, but did not prosper, and removed to Nila-

a1y

gunda, where he set up a shop. For many years he had understood

o8

the folly of idolatry, had himself given it up and spoken a,gamst

ste,

it to others

He sought refuge in Vedantism, but his mind found

he

no more satisfaction there than in Polytheism

‘When the famine

his

came, his source of livelihood dried up, and he came to Hubly to ask

ing

for work and for admittance to the number of Catechumens

In

)8

baptism I called him Gnéna, and his son Gideon

‘We employed

45

him as overseer in the relief-works

Heis a very zealous Christian

he

always carrying some books with him, either to read for himself

V6

or for others

Sometimes, especially on Sundays

he gathers a

But

number of those who have newly joined us around him, reading

jth

the Word of God with them. He has learned a number of hymns

nd

L

30

m

for his own use and for reciting to others.

His son is studying

in the boarding school.

n

Channa Vira, a Lingait-priest from Nilagunda, is about 30 years

of age.

e

Although a priest, he was extremely ignorant, being not even

able to read or write.

Hucha became acquainted with him, showed

OV

him the vanity of idolatry and told him so much of the Christian

religion as he himself knew at that time.

The truth made a power-

We

all

ful impression on his mind, and he resolved to become a Christian

together with Hucha.

‘We set him to work with those who had come

on account of the famine, and he willingly submitted to work together

ab

H

with those who formerly had done him homage as a priest and had

drunk the water in which he had washed his feet.

In baptism his

(Ck

name was changed into Nicodemus, and till now he has brought no

shame on his Christian name.

He also tries to make up for former

j

neglect by studying to read and write.

Govinda (now Isaac) about 36 years ofage, with his two boys, came

)

from Kalapur, where he formerly served as peon (valekara). The famine

{l

drove him, like so many others, from his village to wander about

for food. He lost his wife, and at last arrived half starved in Hubly

Il

18

with his two boys, came to the Mission-house and throwing himself

on the ground asked for help.

‘We took his boys to the boarding

school and set him to cooly work where he gave satisfaction.

We

therefore were willing to keep him on, and he asked to be admitted

§

as a candidate for baptism.

His behaviour gave full satisfaction,

but his intellect stood very low, so that he made very little pro-

il

gress in learning the Gospel truth.

Yet he gradually acquired so

I

much knowledge that the presbytery decided to admit him to

§

baptism.

Lakshmi (Rebecca) with her two boys, had for many years known

the Christians. 'When her husband died and the famine pressed hard

1t

upon her, she made up her mind to join the Christians. As she bore a

good character with the people of our congregation, she was admit-

ted, set to relief-works and instructed.

She was very attentive to

the Word of God, and when she asked for baptism she was admitted.

i

Isaac desired to marry her, and a week after baptism they were

31

e

ying

married.- But, we are sorry to say, that peace does not always reign

in the new household.

6ars

Six boys of the boarding school who were instructed by Mr.

even

Schenkel, and three very young orphan children, who had been given

ywed

over to us by parents or relatives, were baptized.

stian

Some months afterwards the people remaining under instruction

Wer-

were so far advanced that another selection could be made, and

stian

another baptism of 18 persons took place on the Tth October.

Ome

Amongst them was another Lingait-priest, the brother of the

thet

above, who also had been won to Christianity by Hucha (Nicodemus).

had

He, as well as his brother, is generally respected for his consistent

1 s

Christian walk.

it 10

Some more baptisms of heathen children and adults took place

rmer

within the year on other days.

If all or, even, the greater part remain steadfast and

Ame

by further instruction are more deeply grounded in religion,

mine

the Hubly congregation will have had a considerable increase.

hout

The Orphanage also, after having been for years nearly empty,

ubly

is now quite full and more than full; in 1875 the number of

pself

fing

boys was 16, and 20 in 1876, but these have now increased

10 7T,

The English School had to be closed, but a Training

We

zi[ted

School of 10 pupils has taken its place.

3f.1011!

In Bettigerry some few, (12) of the new comers have been

admitted to baptism, whilst 290, are being subjected to a

pI‘O'

d 50

longer test.

A part of them (60) are of that interesting village

1 10

Shagoti in which scarcely a year passes without new baptisms,

although at each new conversion the opposition is as great as

071

it was in the beginning. Several families of which only one

hard

or a few members had been Christians, have now been re-united

ore &

by the conversion of the other members, and the joy of the

it~

good simple-minded people is very great.

We hear of one

e 10

family of 12 members who had for a long time inclined towards

tted

Christianity and who now in seven successive times have come

were

32

ot el o

over one after the other under struggles that were renewed

this

each time.

Yet one year finished in this case what without

cam

The Christian

the famine would perhaps have taken ten years.

Wei

portion of the village has now become very strong.—The

by ¢

v

Orphanage also is now full of girls, whilst it never could be

yea

filled before.

The rooms in which till now the congregations

§t10

used to come together have now become quite out-grown, so

Suc

that new chapels are building in Bettigerry and in Shagoti.

(hy

will

But many more people have joined in Guledgud and the

sing

villages of the neighbourhood. The beginning was made by

several sincere men in Mushtagery and Kardanhalli, who

Tt

stro

would no longer delay their long-cherished wish of professing

Christ, but had to pass through several struggles from the

Wwho

violent opposition of their families, and were forced to forsake

the

But in

Gul

their wives, children, or brothers for Christ’s sake.

several cases these followed them after a few months, and

(ul

are now very happy to be re-united. They were followed by

Case

many others who sought refuge with the Missionary; but all

of them are inhabitants of Guledgud and the villages near it,

not

which have been for many years under the influence of the

the

There are especially two villages in which either

Gospel.

dug

two-thirds or one-fourth of the whole population are now

14y

under instruction and promise to become Christians when the

alyg

famine is over. Altogether there are 650 such connected with

Kal

Guledgud, and a newly opened Orphanage contains 77 boys,

fOrn

so that the Mission there has entered on quite a new stage.

may

Till now the converts have been only few and far between,

stil]

although amongst the first converts there were some shining

ohty

Christian characters.

But this result has not been realised

for

without a price.

The distress was appalling and the mere

The

§0 o

remembrance of all the ghastly scenes makes one tremble.

Reo

Missionaries there could not and would not spare themselves in

0

ill §

33

eved

this fearful calamity.

For some months Mr. Gengnagel

thout

came to their help, but at another part of the year Af7.

stian

Weigele was quite alone, his strength already broken down

_The

by all the exciting scenes and crushing labours of the past

1 be

year.

Yet he would not shrink from the duties that were so

00

strongly appealing to him, and the consequence was that he

1, §0

succumbed, was seized with fever and died, as a good soldier of

ot1

Christ in his armour.

We trust that his noble life and death

] the

will not be lost but may be the secret cause of a particular bles-

sing on the work he valued so highly, that he “loved not his life

o by

who

unto the death’”.

Feeling the great necessity of bringing a

$Si0g

strong spiritual influence to bear on these masses of people

1 the

whom after all famine has caused to seek refuge with us,

three Missionaries and three Catechists have now been sent to

sake

Guledgud and the several villages.

Chapels are building in

it 1

and

Guledgud, Mushtagery and, we trust, it soon will be the

case in Kardanhalli also.

d Iy

it all

But it becomes more and more clear that the famine has

18 1t1

not yet passed away. The harvest having failed in many places,

{ the

the last resources of the people having been entirely exhausted

ither

during the famine, and trade having by no means revived,

10w

many people are sorely pressed for their daily bread, and those

In the

Il the

also that have joined us have to suffer great privations.

yith

Kaladgi District Government has even, if we are rightly in-

b(]ys',

formed, opened the relief-works again, and many of our people

tage

may be obliged to take refuge there.

Especially Guledgud is

still in great distress, and many people do not know where to

el

25D

ning

obtain their livelihood. Our relief-works were discontinued

for some months.

Jised

But it was evident that the people suffered

so severely that it would be cruelty to leave them without help.

mere

The

Regular relief-works have not been begun again by us, but

in several ways we still try to assist them in finding a livelihood.

08 11

S

18]

9

4

Was

We are happy to say that the relief-funds sent from Germany

are not yet quite exhausted, else many of our people would

the ¢

still be exposed to great suffering.

and

sand

The sums collected by our Home Committee in Germany

and Switzerland for relief purposes amounted to Rs. 64,512.

the

Most of this sum was spent on relief-works for the people that

that

Ting

had joined us, but part of it has also been expended on giving

alms to such as could not or would not be taken over entirely.

el

The alms for this latter class were supplemented by grants

take

from the Madras Relief Committee (Rs. 5,000) and from the

pur

Bombay Anna Fund.

TeSU

The expenses for the 200 or 300 orphans did not however fall

upe

be 1

on the relief-fund, but were borne by the General Mission Funds,

some grants being also given by Government, and some sub-

that

seriptions by friends in India.

If we add to this that the Mis-

orph

sion was obliged to give famine allowances to all the agents

in the famine districts, and that the regular contributions for

not

Mission purposes went down very much in consequence of the

the

extraordinary collections, it will be evident that our Mission

0 i

funds were taxed very severely by the famine, so that we

and

foresee that the closing of the accounts must reveal a serious

Waty

deficit.

scep

An appeal was made to our Society to take over some

ik

thousands of famine orphans who it was supposed would remain

the

on the hands of Government, after the famine was over;

grie

and there were virtually negotiations between the Mysore

Wit}

Government and our Society about the orphans in Coorg.

Gog

But our Home Committee, acknowledging on the one hand the

huy

duty and expressing their willingness to take charge of

e ¢

orphans, could not on the other hand risk the heavy pecuniary

San

responsibilities, and were of opinion that Government were

th‘ei

bound to bear the greater part of the expenses.

As there

Ty

35

maLy

was at the same time a disagreement about the treatment of

vould

the children, the negotiations between the Mysore Government

and our Society had to be broken off. About the many thou-

many

sands of orphans that must have remained under the care of

519

the Madras Government we cannot get any information, so

that

that negotiations have never progressed .beyond the first preli-

iving

minary steps.

What has become of all those orphans?—Thus

rely.

we limited ourselves to the 200 or 300 orphans which we have

rants

taken in Dharwar, Hubly, Bettigerry, Guledgud, and in Ananda-

) the

pur in Coorg. We know that some of our friends lament this

result, and we share their grief. But we have not yet given

rfall

up every hope that eventually the number of our orphans may

be increased.—Whilst we are going through press, we hear

mds,

sub-

that the Mysore Government has after all sent a number of

orphans (about 26) to our Mission in Anandapur.

Mis-

The hand of God has been heavy on the land, and we are

ents

s for

not afraid of calling it the Lord’s hand.

If we are to believe

the

the words of the prophets of old, we cannot doubt that it

51011

is “the Lord, the Lord of hosts, who doth take away the stay

e

and the staff, the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of

1008

water,” and He does this for the sins of the people.

Modern

scepticism scorns the idea, but we are sure of it, although we

But when

(1e

must perhaps be careful in assigning special reasons.

pail

the name of God is dishonoured daily by idolatry and many

el

grievous sins, when the call to repentance and to reconciliation

with God has been rejected persistently, we cannot wonder if

501

g,

God sends his heavy judgments and takes away the people by

the

hundreds and thousands, yea by millions, though there should

be smitten along with the guilty “more than six score thou-

)Of

A1)

sand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and

their left hand, and also much cattle.”

Yea we have been re-

je1e

616

minded of the word: “For all this His anger is not turned

5*

— e

36

away, but His hand is stretched out still.”

Even now the

f0 s

earth does not bring forth its fruit, and after much had been

frue

taken away by drought, another part was ruined by excess

the |

of rain, and now another of the avenging hosts of the Lord is

and

threatening its inroad, great swarms of locusts having made

|

their appearance, as we hear from Bettigerry, and other places.

num

Has the mind of the people been broken by these judg-

(od,

ments? Partly yes, but not as generally as we might have ex-

star

pected. It is generally known that many have made the famine

the |

only the means of enriching themselves, and that even the few

gres

pies doled out to the starving have partly been snatched away

0no

from them by their overseers; but many have felt the hand

agre

of the Lord. Our brethren have observed that the famine has

that

made the people all over the stricken country much more will-

that

ing to listen to the Gospel, so that resistance and cavilling

had

have disappeared almost entirely. The faith in idols has been

disa]

shaken very much, and many of them have been sold to pro-

S0 h

cure bread for daily use.

In a limited sense there has been

dela

«deliverance in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and in the rem-

beeﬁ

nant whom the Lord shall call,” but many would never

fory

have been willing to turn to that side, and would rather

and

starve than accept their living from the Lord, yet many more

satls

would have been willing, than we were able to take over.

Ong

As it has been doubted in the public papers whether there is

till

any gratitude felt or expressed by the people for the help they

Wer

have received, and statements to this effect have even been

Wick

ridiculed, we feel a great pleasure in stating positively that

0 t

we have met with many clear proofs of warm gratitude, and

did

under circumstances when the disinterestedness of the expres-

We would advise scoffers to dedicate

degi

sion was beyond doubt.

Ouy

themselves for a couple of months to serve and help those

Con

poor people in a self-sacrificing manner, and they will be sure

all

37

-

v the

to see, what as yet they have not been enabled to discover:

een

true gmtitudé on the side of their poor friends, especially if

X0088

the help is rendered not in a godless spirit but in reliance on

ord 1

and for the service of God.

made

When we so unexpectedly see ourselves in charge of such

laces,

numbers, we feel ourselves bound to give the honour of it to

Judg-

God, by looking beyond the natural causes of drought and

76 €X-

starvation and acknowledging that they were the means in

\mine

the Lord’s hand of carrying out His purposes.

The slow pro-

¢ fow

gress of Mission-work in South Mahratta had begun to weigh

on our minds as a heavy burden, and the brethren there had

avay

hand

agreed amongst themselves to make it a special object of prayer

¢ has

that God might turn the hearts of the people, little thinking

yills

that would imply such fearful visitations.

Some hopeful signs

illing

had appeared at times, but had frequently been followed by

Teen

disappointments, and the character of the population seemed

) ro-

so hard that even the few who promised to become Christians

heen

delayed year after year.

Even the congregations that had

rem

been gathered gave much cause for anxiety. There had in

peyer

former years been a number of Christians of sterling character,

and by their influence the congregations also had offered a

ather

1016

satisfactory aspect.

But by God’s mysterious dispensations

over.

one after another of these pillars had been removed by death,

areis

till excepting the one congregation in Shagoti, all the rest

they

were without decided strong Christian characters, and the

wicked elements began to come to the surface, sothat the aspect

een

that

of the congregation was very grievous.

Even the Orphanages

did not succeed in finding that number of children which was

’ 3nd

desirable.

Now, of a sudden, matters change, people crowd

pres-

icate

our compounds with a desire to become Christians, making as

condition only what common humanity compels us to do; and

those

gure

all this two years after special prayer had been agreed upon.

38

dist

Would it not be sinful if we refused to connect the two things

and clung only to the outward view? There are a number of

ot

enal

excellent men amongst these new comers; but of the rest we

fo t

know that spiritual aspirations must yet be planted. But we

are confident that the Lord will crown with success the strong

giff

Tas

efforts which are now being made to plant spiritual life in

these people, if His servants will continue to do the work in

WET

the same prayerful spirit and dependence on the Lord, in which

alm

hee

they have first waited on Him, beseeching His help when no

hopeful signs were visible.

And the fact that one of them

nal

fore

has spent himself even to laying down of his life for the holy

Her

cause, makes us very hopeful that the blessing of the Lord

will not be withheld from the faithful labour which has hegun

hea

whi

and is carried on in right earnest.

heay

gt

[II. CONGREGATIONS.

e

T

The number of our Christians amounts now to 6037.

Our

the

chief stations have increased to 20, and the other places in

which Christians or Catechumens live, number 94.

Chiefly in the South Mahratta country a number of chapels

and

hag

are building, as the old rooms are no longer sufficient for the

increased number of worshippers. Thus Guledgud, Bettigerry,

age

of

Mushtagery, Kardanhalli, Shagoti, each is to get a new place

Cou

of worship.

In Tellicherry the chapel that had for some

s

years been in construction has now been finished and was

£

dedicated to the service of God in June 1877.

sha

All our congregations have suffered very much under the

general calamity, and many had very great difficulties to bring

Even in the stations on

their families through the famine.

heg

the coast which were not within the circle of the famine, the

of

e

39

hings

distress was very great in many families, so that we could

or of

not but give them some assistance, and were happy to be

st we

enabled to dedicate some of the relief-money from Germany

1t we

to this purpose.

Several stations also received part of the

rong

gifts from the Madras Relief Committee, which in some cases

was used to help Native Christians in distress.

But there

e 1

rk

were also cases of Native Christians helping others either by

rhich

alms or by taking them into their houses.

The mortality has

1 10

been exceptionally great. Want of food may have predisposed

many to sickness, but it was chiefly cholera, smallpox, and

them

holy

fever which carried them off. From Padur near Mulky 77

Hermelink writes how the Christians there astonished the

Lord

heathens round about by the self-sacrificing and fearless help

egul

which they rendered to those afflicted with cholera, so that

heathens have thereby been even induced to join the congre-

gation.

There have, we are sorry to say, occurred several cases of

grievous sing, and in Calicut the cause of Christ has suffered

much in consequence of scandals that excited the attention of

Our

the whole population.

11

Some years ago a grown up heathen girl became a Christian,

and we think even now that she was sincere at that time, when she

Lpela

had to pass through severe struggles.

But shortly after her marri-

the

age she fell into bad ways and at last it was discovered that two sons

11T,

of an old, good-natured, but weak Catechist had adulterous inter-

Jace

course with her.

The Police were called in, and one of the boys

ilg

was condemned to six months’ imprisonment.

The woman became

Was

even worse after that, and the name of Christ has been brought to

shame before Hindus and Mahomedans.

the

But on the other hand the Missionaries in Calicut have

ring

been refreshed by being present at death-beds where the grace

y 01

the

of }Grod triumphed over death and sin.

o

The Native Pastor Sebastian Furtado writes about his

congregation in Utchila:

If,

The condition of the Utchila congregation is a mixture of good

and bad elements.

The complaints that the Christians were irregular

Tl

in sending their children to school, reached even our Home Com-

as Ca

mitee in Basel, and they sent an order that the congregation should be

end ¢

.

admonished to amend in this respect.

I communicated this order to

witho

the congregation, and some days later called it together, andinquired

1n S

after the reasons why the chapel, the school and the prayer-meetings

I

in private houses were not valued and attended better and why the

collections were so small.

I read the passages of our church-rule

vising

which refer to these points.

They promised that the attendance at

yet t

them

church and school should improve, and they have begun to keep

their promise.

Men and women not only attend the foremoon but

an 4

also the afternoon services, and also the prayer-meetings are fre-

the

quented very regularly.

The attendance at school also and the

and

collections in Church have improved.

The latter is two or three

0nsf

times as much as it was formerly.

and

work

Members of the Mangalore congregation, especially youths,

ings

who find the supervision too irksome and desire after greater

of {]

liberty for the flesh, frequently leave the place and look out

the g

for a livelihood in the plantations of Coorg, or in Madras, or

Fup,

especially in Bombay.

And we would warn our friends in

For

Bombay of such wandering Mangalore Christians: they are

amir

usually the scum of the congregation, frequently excommuni-

cated.

0n t}

Worthy Mangalore Christians travelling to Bombay

ey

will, in by far the most cases, be able to show their cre-

ghay

dentials.

lige,

fan

hea,b

Wag

ag

41

b his

1V. EVANGELISTS, CATECHISTS AND DEACONS.

good

oular

Three students of the Catechist Seminary were ordained

(om-

as Catechists, and a fourth one, who had nearly reached the

ald be

end of his course, was admitted to the number of Catechists

der fo

without examination, as his services were needed very much

juired

in South Mahratta.

etings

In those parts Catechists were required to help in super-

) the

hrule

vising, guiding, and instructing the multitude of new-comers;

106 af

yet their number was very limited, there being only five of

them in the

whole district.

As a rule our Catechists have

keep

il bllt

an aversion

to going to another district, especially where

the climate

is very

different from their native climate,

o fre-

the

and if they

are sent, they frequently lose their health in

three

consequence

of the comparatively great change in climate

and food.

But now it was clear that the exigencies of the

work must override these minor considerations and misgiv-

uths,

ings in young men who have dedicated themselves to the service

afer

of the Lord Jesus.

We therefore picked out four to go up

c ot

the ghauts and enter on the work there.

One was Manuel

5, 0

Furlado, who had been in active work for one year, two others,

s 1m

Fared Soens and Nahasson Vira, had just passed their ex-

are

amination and were on the threshold of solemnly entering

il

on their new work, when their joy was damped by the announce-

ubay

ment that they should proceed to the country above the

(1o

ghauts, the country of fever and famine, of jola instead of

rice, of bread instead of fish, and so far removed from their

families.

What would become of their wives and babies, whose

health was not of the best?

Another, Christian Karkada,

was selected from the eldest class of the Seminary, and he

was younger than the rest, and unmarried.

But then his

6

e

42

; '

very youth and his father’s grief seemed to stand in the way.

to joi

But encouragement from the Word of God, and the cheering

Lord’

words of older friends helped them to overcome their doubts and

take ¢

fears, and when they sailed from Mangalore in a Patimar together

parde

with their families, accompanied by Mr. Fritz and Mr. Plerderer,

thoug

a touch of higher joy and confidence could be discovered not-

1f see

withstanding the grief of parting that still remained. After

oty

reaching South Mahratta they were distributed to different

i

stations, one to Guledgud, two to Bettigerry, and one to Hubly,

116CES

and directly set to work, visiting the adherents in their houses,

sent |

teaching in schools, preaching tothe heathen, etc. But the young-

thanl

est of them, whom we had considered to be the safest, as he

dogire

was young, strong, and single, had many and severe attacks

with

of fever, that made us several times despair of his life.

4 Wa;

But God heard our prayers and restored his health, at least

it

so far that we could bring him back to his native country,

(osp

Mangalore, where he arrived four months after leaving it, very

weak and greatly reduced.

But the rest are doing good

4 g

work there, and fare much better than they had anticipated,

this |

so that their anxious fears more and more give way to inte-

rest and joy in their important work.

Of the movement of the Six Years’ People” in the Southern

Malayalam speaking districts we had till now only heard as of a

strange phenomenon at a distance, which excited some inte-

five

rest amongst the Malayalees of our Mission.

But last year it

unde

happened that one of the class of untrained Native helpers

of our Mission in Palghaut was influenced so much by it

Our

1} 1

that he began to despise the Missionaries, as blind leaders of

the

the blind. Having made fruitless endeavours to convince the

50

lo

Missionary of the importance of the prophecies about the com-

alg

ing of Christ, he suddenly disappeared without telling anybody

about his intentions, forsaking even his family.

He had gone

of

his ]

el SR

43

¢ Vay.

to join the enthusiasts of the South who are waiting for the

eering

Lord’s coming. But after a few months he found out his mis-

ts and

take and came back, sobered down very much and asking the

gether

pardon of the Missionaries he had formerly despised. We

derer,

thought it right to re-admit him to his former position, as

4 not-

it seemed that his error had not sprung from an essentially bad

After

motive.

forent

The number of Catechists is now 66, but we still feel the

Tubly,

necessity for more, as requests for Native helpers are being

0US6S,

sent in from several stations. Speaking generally, we must be

oung-

thankful to have such a band of helpers, although we should

28 he

desire to see them more filled with power from on high, and

tacks

with more of independent and enduring zeal; a desire and

; life.

a want which, however, we feel no less concerning ourselves,

Jeast

as it is these qualities which would enable us, to spread the

iy,

Gospel with more power and efficacy.

Of Native Deacons or Pastors, we have the same number

ety

good

as last year, viz. six, but we hope to be able to increase it

ated,

this year.

Infe-

Y. ORITUARY,

thern

sofd

This year only one of our large circle of European and Na-

inte

tive workers has been removed by death; but this happened

oy 1t

under circumstances which were on the one side very painful.

[pers

Our dear brother was taken away from the midst of an extreme-

hy 1t

ly important work for which he was especially fitted, and

IS of

the full dedication of himself to which was apparently the

o the

sole cause of his untimely death.

The case of his widow

00N~

also is a particularly sad one, as she has within a period

body

of 7 years for the second time lost a husband in the midst of

gone

his labours in South Mahratta, and as a sister of hers died in

6*

44

T

=

On the

active

the very same month as a Missionary’s wife in Africa.

other side the manner of his self-forgetting zeal for the Lord

of th

and love towards the poor starving people has shown such a

ook

had f

noble example of following in the chief Shepherd’s steps, who

of tir

laid down his life for the sheep, that we cannot but reckon it

60-7!

amongst the ¢offerings and sacrifices to God for a sweet-smel-

M (

ling savour” which in many important epochs of the develop-

helpe

ment of God’s kingdom are the condition and the guarantee of

al

ms

Success.

Thus it is that this death has produced a very deep

super

impression in our whole circle.

n Gy

Christian Weigele was born on the 8th October 1845 in Schlierbach

0§

in Wiirttemberg of pious parents, who “brought him up in the nurture

and

and admonition of the Lord”. Inhis youth he had the benefit of a classi-

i

100

cal education, partly at Kornthal which for so many has been the

fl

e 1

means of finding the Lord, and where a good number have received

but

their first impulse to a Missionary life.

There his mind was drawn

We ¢

towards Christ, and he also formed the resolution to serve the Lord

often

in the Mission.

From 1863 to 1867 he studied in the Mission College

Wil

in Basel and sailed for India in 1867, where he passed two yearsin

diffic

Hubly and was stationed in Guledgud in 1870.

For 8 years he la-

of ¥

boured in this place in the most painstaking and faithful way.

Un-

fo hi

ostentatious solidity was the chief feature of his sterling character,

take

and the sympathy of all classes of Natives after his death showed

than

clearly what a deep and lasting impression he had produced on the

then

populace round about.

Occasionally he had the joy of seeing some

bein

fruits of hislabours in individual conversions and in signs of the deep-

affi

ening impression in favour of Christianity amongst the people of

Wor}

Guledgud and the villages round about, but the chief burden of his

Wou]

experience was that the Canarese people proved a very hard field

th

16 |

for the Missionary.

In 1874 he married Mrs. Krauss, whose first

W0y

husband also had died as a Missionary in South Mahratta, whilst her

but

father, Mr. Layer, had worked in the very same field of labour.

alrg

Thus the time of the great famine drew near, and Guledgud was

tha

in the very centre of it.

Mr. Weigele from the beginning took an

Fiye

45

A

On the

active part in every thing that was done to alleviate the sufferings

Lo

q

of the people.

At the request of the Collector of the District he

uch a

took a leading part in the relief-committee formed in Guledgud, and

had for some months the distribution of the alms.

‘When, in course

s, who

kon 1t

of time, as many as 800 people came to join the Christians, and

smel-

60-70 orphans were gathered, the chief part of the work fell on him.

Mr. Grossmann, Catechist Salomo and, for some months, Mr. Gengnagel

velop-

helped him; but even then the work of conversing with, and giving

tee of

alms to the multitudes of distressed, of selecting some for, and

deep

superintending regular work, of carrying on instruction and services

in Guledgud, Kardanhalli and Mushtagery was very excessive, and

orhach

to stand in the midst of all the misery was harrowing to the feelings

|

lrgure

and the nerves.

He had always enjoyed good health, and was of a

On

classi-

strong constitution ; but now he repeatedly suffered from fever.

en the

the 13th September he wrote: “ We are, by God’s grace, pretty well;

We see clearly that

ceived

but we feel that we are getting much weaker.

drawn

we could not support such crushing work for any length of time.

I

» Lord

often feel so exhausted, that I have to make great efforts to do my

writing in the night-time, which I could formerly do without any

Mkﬁ

arsin

difficulty. My dear wife also is very tired.”

But he felt this increase

It was an inward necessity

he la-

of work mot simply as a burden.

to him from which he could not and would not free himself, to

Un

And he

aclely

take his full share in the efforts to help a nation in distress.

thanked God that he had brought so many people, wavering ftill

oved

then, under the influence of the Gospel, and that new ground was

)i the

s0me

being broken in Guledgud, though it were through such heart-rending

afflictions.

In November Mr. Weigele was left alone with the entire

deep-

work of the station on his shoulders, from which his conseientiousness

le of

would not allow him to drop or neglect any important portion.

On

of s

the 6th December he wrote to the Home Committee: “The work is

feld

now excessive, I intended to-day to give you particulars about it,

first

but last night I had fever and my work has thereby fallen into

t het

arrears.

We have now much fever in Guledgud and of a deadly

character.

Strong people are cut down by it in two or three days.

] a8

The fever

L 40

Five of our Christians have died within one week.

S

46

relief

hindering the people from doing work does much to increase the dis-

tress.””

He himself sank under this fever before this letter had ar-

hut ]

rived.

Mrs. Weigele writes: “He had much work to do on that 6th

calry

peapl

December, and when he came in for a late dinner, he told me he must

work on till two o’clock in the morning. As he was so very tired, I

Lord

W

begged him to let me write for him, but scarcely had he begun to

dictate to me, when the fever set in and it lasted the whole night.

the L

Next morning he said, he could not go to Kardanhalli to instruct the

me &

the (

enquirers there, but he nevertheless worked the whole day. A week

before this I had tried to dissuade him from having two services in

fell 4

in Ch

Guledgud and one in Kardanhalli (3 miles distant), saying he could

not go on like this, it was too much for his strength, but he replied:

(hris

‘I shall work on as long as I am able to work, and then I will stop,’

and v

and after this he really held the three services on that Sunday. Thus

myg

I knew he would not listen to advice to spare himself.

10w

0n i

“Having worked on like this on Friday and Saturday, he was

much tired when he rose on Sunday the 9th December.

Before the

nto ¢

service he went to see several sick people.

After this he preached

the T

a very earnest sermon on Luke. xxi., 25-36.

It sounded like a fare-

has ¢

1

well sermon (which it afterwards proved to be) when he pressed it

on the conscience of every one that he should wateh and pray and

him

be ready for the Lord’s coming, as none could know when He would

Hing

1

come for him. ‘Many had died already, several were sick unto death,

and who,” exclaimed he, ‘will be the next to follow?’

‘When the

Tipe

service was over he quickly went to his room, and when I came, I

leaye

found him lying on his bed with his gown still on.

‘I could scarcely

the

stand, and must first rest before I can change my dress’ he replied

gave

in a cheerful kindly tone to my anxious enquiries about his health.

(|

Soon the fever set in again, and he spoke about dying, suggesting,

Sevey

however, that he was not yet ripe for heaven.

But the Lord’s esti-

the ¢

mation was different. The fever went on increasing from day to day.

During all these days he was full of peace, and rested in God’s will.

shon

He would have wished to remain with us, and to work on with his

a dig

people.

It had been a great joy to him that of the people, who

ang

had come during the famine, none had left, when in October the

the

el

47

he dis

relief-works had been stopped and the people sent to their villages,

ad ar

but that they now desired to be baptized; and he had hoped to

2t 6th

carry on the instruction so far as to be able to baptize about 150

But the

16 must

people in Guledgud and Kardanhalli on Christmas-day.

ived, [

Lord willed it otherwise.

gun {0

“Sunday the 16th December he told me that I must find peace in

the Lord, and that he would tell the Lord to strengthen and comfort

night,

1t the

me after his departure.

After this, in the night, he turned towards

the Catechist and said in Canarese: ‘Salomonappa, when I am dead,

| week

068 10

tell the newly come people from me, they must be firmly grounded

in Christ’s Church and become true children of God, and tell the

could

Christians that they must grow and become strong in faith and love

plied:

stop,

and walk in all Christian virtues as examples to the others; for it is

Thus

my greatest desire to see all of them in heaven where I am going

now

Later

Tell them this and give to all of them my greetings.’

on in the night we prayed together, committing ourselves entirely

6 Was

1 the

into the hands of Jesus, and he blessed the children and me. ‘When

the Lord calls,” he said, ‘I must go, and I am willing to go, for He

ached

, fare

has taken away all my sins.’

sod if

“On Monday many Christians begged hard to be allowed to see

him once more, and some of them were admitted.

Some of the ;‘ich

rand

Hindus also came to see him.,

yould

“On Tuesday the Doctor of Kaladgi came to see the patient.

Ieaih:

the

Impelled by love and compassion he had come, although he had no

leave to be absent from Kaladgi for the night, so that he had to ride

me, 1

He

the whole way (24 miles) and back again on the same day.

chely

gave some directions, but did not hide from us the great danger.

aplied

“Thursday morning, the 21st December, convulsions set in, he

several times called out: ‘Oh Jesus! or ‘Oh God!” and at 3 o’clock in

fing,

the morning his spirit departed to be with Christ.”

st

On the same day his funeral took place. But notwithstanding the

day

shortness of the time, people came from all sides, many even from

ill

a distance of 15 miles to see the beloved teacher's face once more,

] hIS

and many wept bitterly.

The grief was very great not only amongst

who

the Christians but amongst the heathen inhabitants of the whole

- the

48

e

town.

From the rich brahmin down to the poor of Guledgud they

came to the Mission-house, so that about 6,000 persons must have

come for a farewell look, and it was clear how much they had loved

him

Several of them gave utterance to the impression that he had

sacrificed his life for the sufferers of Guledgud.

We cannot issue this Report without, as a sign of respect

4 3

and gratitude, mentioning the departure to a better land of a

prea

are ¢

man who, though never having seen India, yet did very much

to further the cause of our Mission in this and in other coun-

Fsta

tries. Adolf Ohrist-Sarasin Esq., President of the Committee to the

V

Basel Mission, departed this life on the 18th October 18717.

tures

He was born on the 31st January 1807 in Basel.

For many

M’S.

years he was one of the governing councillors of the Canton of Basel,

Joine

and it was not till 1875, towards the end of his life, that his firm

years

adherence to the cause of Christ made him obnoxious to the steadily

after

increasing anti-christian party, and was the cause of his being su-

perseded by other men, more to the taste of the modern heathen.

ther

He was a deep-rooted and warm-hearted Christian, with a noble

commanding character, a powerful mind, stored with knowledge in

Gamg

sick-

many branches of human learning, at home in questions of state and

But

church polity, in matters of mercantile and manufacturing business,

in divinity and in law, and with a natural gift for organisation and

leave

ruling.

and

From 1840 he was a member, and from 1854 President of the

work

Committee of the Basel Mission, and as such dedicated very much

His death was

of his time and strength to the cause of Missions.

h&ve

felt as a great loss by the Mission, and by the many who valued

old |

him so very highly.

§6c0;

The Basel Mission has now gained an able President again,

Tety,

in the person of Rev. J. Riggenbach, ».D., Professor of Theology

out

in the University of DBasel.

COmyg

0

18 th

49

d they

b have

| Toved

VI. STAFF OF EUROPEAN MISSIONARIES.

he had

The number of Missionaries is 63 as last year, of whom

espect

45 are ordained and in charge of congregations, schools and

dofa

preaching to the heathen, whilst 18 are unordained and as such

much

are either in charge of Schools, of Industrial or of Mercantile

Establishments.

coun-

to the

We have already mentioned in our last report the depar-

77,

tures of Mr. and Mrs. Kittel in April and Mr. Matthissen with

In November Mr. Knobloch

many

Mrs. Knoblock in May 1877.

Basel,

joined his wife in Switzerland.

He had been in India for 12

g fim

years.

In December AZr. and Mrs. Hasenwandel went home

eadily

after b years’ work.

1g Sl

In April 1878 another party leaves for Europe. Amongst

e,

them is one of our old veterans, Ar. Chr. Miiller who first

noble

came out in 1842, and has for 36 years (excepting two years’

ge in

sick-leave spent at home) been active in the Malabar Mission,

o and

e

But now his health is so much impaired that he is obliged to

leave India, together with his wife.

Myr. and Mrs. F. Miller

p and

and Mr. and Mrs. Walz are going home on leave after 12 years’

work.

f the

much

But we have had corresponding reinforcements, and they

| WS

have been, we are happy to say, out of the ranks of our

alued

old brethren: AZr. and Mrs. F. Ziegler have come out for the

second time and are stationed in Bettigerry; Mr. Schawufler

il

returned to his former station Calicut, but was obliged to come

out without his wife; Ar. Fr. Miiller, Myr. Thumm also have

logf

come out for the second time, the one to Mangalore, the other

to Guledgud, whilst with Ars, Miiller and Mys. Thumm this

18 the first arrival in India.

Sl

50

in for

Two new brethren have come out: M». Benner for the Car-

idolat

pentering Establishment in Calicut, and Mr. Alfenmailler for

the Mercantile Establishment in Mangalore.

Miss Buhrer

In

clean

(who came out in 1876) was married to 4. Frohnmeyer, Miss

Christen to My. Hauri, Miss Faul to Mr. Schonthal, Miss

reguls

Hochstetter to Mr. Gengnagel, Miss Mider to My. Dobler,

and |

prost

Miss Oetli to Myr. Hiittinger, Miss Pfister to My. Grossmann,

ere

Miss Pfund to Mr. Baumann, Miss Werner to Mr. Veil,

Miss Wobus to Mr. Stkemerer.

follow

and t]

Trying though they are to the health of adults, as a

him ty

rule our stations on the Western Coast prove very favourable

years

to the life of young children, and as far back as 1868 none of

rant §

the numerous children of our Missionary families had died;

who §

but this year three of them have had to lament the death of

God 2

beloved children.

heen |

The death of one of our brethren is related in another

YOWSs

Willin

Chapter, where we also have had occasion to mention the sym-

pathetic efforts of Dr. Greany in Kaladgi, in the patient’s

mean{

salvat

behalf, for which we would express our particular gratitude.

We further express our warmest thanks for their medical

assistance to Dr. Mc Allum in Cannanore and Dr. Price in

Ootacamund.

Preag

have

lages

Speal

VII. PREACHING TO THE HEATHEN.

of t

In the South Mahratta country the second part of the

10y

year brought such an excess of work to the stations and to

Cagt

the very doors of the Missionaries that going out to other

Iy}

places to preach was out of the question, and even the regular

dec;

preaching in the bazaars was no longer attended to. But in

Tak;

the beginning of the year several tours were made, and it

Somg

appears that the Gospel found much more willing hearers than

oy

51

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16 Car-

in former years.

Mr. Welsch relates a touching story of the

ler for

idolatrous piety of an apparently sincere Hindu:

Diihrer

In Nigadi (Penkinakatte) we passed some days in the small but

: 11;72.55‘

A man of the shepherd-caste came

clean temple of Hanumanta.

Miss

regularly each morning and evening, brought some oil, cocoanuts

Dobler,

and plantains, lighted the lamp, laid the fruits before the idol,

man,

prostrated himself on the ground, and said his prayers.

We soon

were convinced that he was in earnest.

Ve,

By and by we drew the

following narrative from him: “Some years ago I was nearly dying

a8 4

and therefore vowed to the god Hanuman to sacrifice to him and adore

him twice a day if he would make me well.

I recovered, and for four

urable

years I have kept my vow conscientiously.”

Does not such an igno-

ane of

rant simple-minded heathen put to shame many professing Christians

died;

who so quickly forget their vows? We preached to him the true living

ath of

God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose grace alone it had

been that had restored him to life, and admonished him to pay his

vows to this God and to give himself up to Him,

He listened

jother

) 5yl

willingly. And from that day his visits to the temple were no longer

fent's

meant for prostrating before the idol, but for learning the way of

salvation through Jesus Christ.

itude.

dical

Honore, Kundapur, Mercara, Kaity and Kotagherry have

jo6 10

preaching as their chief work. The Missionaries in Honore

have bestowed their chief care on a limited number of vil-

lages, especially Bailur, Murdeshwara, Kergi.

Some people

speak much of coming over to the Christians, and the hopes

of the Missionaries have at times been very great; but till

|f the

now only one youth of Bailur has taken the step and broken

caste.

He is now baptized.

The Missionaries have spent

nd t0

much time in these villages, trying to bring the people to a

ofher

decision.

At other times they have gone out to new villages,

ygulﬁzr

making it the rule to stop long enough at each place to get

f 10

some footing there, as transitory visits only excite & momentary

od b

wonder for sight-seers and are forgotten as quickly as they

hat

T

52

have come.

The great concourse of people from far distan-

ces on the annual festival in Gokarna always offers welcome

opportunity for preaching. Ar. Hafner in Kundapur (Basa-

0

rur) and the Catechist there preach every Saturday on the

close

market-day in Kundapur, every Friday in Basarur, and find

Orph

many attentive listeners, and some signs to show that their

pens?

preaching produces impression.

The very fact that the

a ool

building of the Mission-house was brought to an end, and that

Calic

it has since been inhabited, without any accident happening,

The

has produced an impression, because the site had always been

we h

considered as haunted by demons.

Several heathen festivals,

OS]

each lasting some days, have been visited in Saikaranarayana,

Gove

Kollur, Baindur, Basarur, and a number of festivals of one

scho

day’s duration in Tallur, Sankur, Ullur, Hattiangadi.

But

1 3

altogether the work in this new station consists exclusively in

&id |

the first breaking of the ground.

teacl

Myr. Verl in Mercara has had access to several Coorg

fom

houses.

The Missionaries in Kaity made preaching tours

shoy

to Woderu, Tuneri and to some plantations.

rety

The heathen festivals in Malabar and Canara have again

Opel

been visited for preaching, very much in the same manner

part

and in the same places as shown in former Reports.

(0ng

About the opposition-preacher of whom we spoke last year,

galr

My. Hanhart of Palghaut tells us that he has now given up

his direct and open opposition; but he continues to visit the

our

itg

places where the Missionaries preach, preaching at a distance

Whig

from them, and instigating other people to interrupt our ser-

§0m

mons.

He shows a great deal of perseverance, but is more

Tt

cautious and cunning than before.

The sad wonder is that

the people are so open to his influence, although they have

Pe

Juky

by this time found out many of his lies and know much about

his bad life.

g

b3

distan-

VIII. SCHOOL WORK.

velcome

(Basa-

Of our Anglo-Vernacular Schools the one in Hubly has been

on the

closed in consequence of the famine, but the increase of the

nd find

Orphanage and the new Training School in Hubly have com-

it therr

pensated the loss.

The school in Calicut has passed through

at the

a crisis in consequence of a rival school which was begun in

nd that

Calicut, but which seems to have been only of short duration.

pening,

The numbers of our school have gone down from 196 to 145, but

s heen

we hope they will soon rise again.

The Tellicherry school is

stivals,

prospering, and numbers 225 pupils.

The withdrawal of the

fyana,

Government grant proved to be no loss, as the increase in

of one

school-fees made up for it; and it seems that the pupils think

But

it rather a recommendation that the drilling for the grant-in-

ely in

aid examinations does not disturb the regular progress of

teaching. The Dharwar school has felt the influence of the

Coorg

famine, but is still continued with 52 pupils, and Palghaut

fours

shows the same number 45 as last year.—Mr. F. Muiller

returned from Europe in December 1877 for the purpose of

again

opening an Anglo-Vernacular School in Mangalore.

It was

annel

partly the necessity to protect our Christian youth from the

consequences of the “neutral” schools, partly the desire to re-

e,

gain that influence which we had formerly exercised through

en up

our English School in Mangalore, but gradually lost after

it the

its closing, which induced our Mission to re-open the school

There was

tance

which in former years had been so flourishing.

I sel‘.

some fierce opposition against our re-appearing on this ground.

more

Yet, with God’s help, we were enabled to open the school in

February 1878 with 116 pupils, and hope to carry it on for

fhat

have

many years.

ybout

The Elementary Schools for heatheanoys in Dharwar, Canna-

nore, Calicut, Palghaut have increased in numbers, while

ey

54

those in Kaity, Tellicherry, Hubly, Bettigerry, and Guledgud

Th

have decreased. This decrease is chiefly owing to the famine,

had to

and we hope, next year the schools will be filled again.

carrie

For Hindu Girls there are schools in Mangalore, Calicut

Kotag

and Palghaut, whilst a number of heathen girls attend schools

school

filled

for boys or for Christian girls.

of e

Elementary Schools for Christian Children are carried on in

most of the stations and out-stations.

Only in a few cases

Th

Durin

are they united with schools for heathen boys.

d 00N

The Boarding Schools or Orphanages have all of them felt

hers ¢

the hard times in several ways.

The prices of all articles

and ir

of food had risen so much that it was either difficult or impos-

sible to remain within the limits of the fixed allowances.

Vany

marks

Sickness prevailed, and death entered several of the schools.

Many children had also to be taken in in consequence of the

the wt

menf

famine,

Those in South Mahratta have increased their num-

bers from 53 to 239, who are distributed between Dharwar,

I\

f&miﬂq

Hubly, Bettigerry and Guledgud. But those received were

Were

many more, as of the orphans, put into families, many have

died from the consequences of former privations.

In Ananda-

10 of}

45 oy

pur also orphans have been gathered, of whom about 20 re-

main.

But the Udapy Orphanage also had on account of the

0ng g

famine to take in 22 more boys, so that at one time there

fering

were 68 boys in the school.

The boys in Udapy suffered

by Rg

much from sickness, 40 of the boys were laid up with dysentery,

by th

and two boys died of it, and in November cholera made its

88 thy

I\

appearance; one boy was quite well on the evening of the 28th,

to )

and next morning he was dead. Next day was quiet, but on

that

the 1st December a second boy was seized and died after

7 hours.

The boys were all sent away for two weeks, but

Sthog

after their return a third boy was attacked, was sent home,

|

and died in his father’s house at Koppala.

Calic

55

—

ledgud

The Kaity Orphanage was also visited with cholera and

aine,

had to send away all the children for a time, after 6 had been

carried away by the disease.

Another died after arriving in

Calicut

Kotagherry. Two famine orphans found ' their way to the

schools

school.

The matron had to be dismissed, and her place was

filled up by a married couple, who also have the advantage

of being by birth Badagas.

onn

[ (ASES

The Tellicherry Orphanage has now completed its 25th year.

During this period 423 boys have passed through the school, and

a considerable number of them can be found as worthy mem-

m felf

rticles

bers of our churches, as Catechists, Schoolmasters, Presbyters

and in different callings as artisans or in Government offices.

[mpos-

Many names indeed are found in the lists, with saddening re-

10ES,

hools.

marks added; but altogether the school has been a blessing to

the whole District, and the past experiences give much encourage-

of the

i

ment to continued and joyful work.

The Mulky Boarding School has also felt the burden of the

WL,

famine and has suffered much from sickness, by which 3 girls

were

were cut off. The number of old girls, so frequently a burden

have

in other girls’ schools, does not offer much difficulty here, as

anda-

45 out of the 61 are below 12 years of age, and there is only

)() 16«

one above fifteen.

Those above 12 years continued their of-

of the

fering by giving up one meal every Friday, and collected there-

there

by Rs. 12-5-8 for the Mission.

Two heathen girls were brought

fored

by their parents, and three more came of their own account,

1tery,

as there was nobody to take care of them.

o 1ts

The Schools for girls in Chombala and Calicut have reason

98th,

to praise the Lord that He has kept them from the diseases

g 0n

that were raging on all sides around them.

The Infants’ School in Mangalore and the Industrial Schools for

after

) but

school-children are carried on in the old way. The Sunday Schools

in Mangalore, Honore, Bettigerry and its out-station Shagoti,

016y

Calicut (one in the town and one connected with the Tiling

56

Establishment) and Codacal collect 281 pupils on Sundays;

there are however only 13 heathens included in the number.

The Middle School in Tellicherry (preparing youths for the

Th

Catechist Seminary and the Training School) has been taken

Commi

charge of by Mr. Frohnmeyer.

Four pupils have been sent

nued |

to the Catechist Seminary in Mangalore and 5 to the Training

having

School in Tellicherry, and the school contains now 24 pupils.

preser

The Middle School in Udapy has 23 pupils. Four were sent to

the Seminary in Mangalore and two to the Training School in

Qelegs

A

Udapy. Geometry and Algebra were introduced some years

hegun

ago, and now Botany and Astronomy, of course only in the

mflyer

popular elements, have been added to the curriculum: all

consu]

these subjects being taught in Canarese.

A

Training Classes for Schoolmasters are carried on in Telli-

a Can

cherry and in Udapy, the one having 8, the other 3 pupils.

Ploug

The Catechist Seminary in Mangalore is under the charge

T

of Mr. Graeter and Mr. Gundert, assisted by the Catechist

Comp

Christanuja. My. Graceter, however, was for the greater part of

the year absent on account of bad health, when A77. IWalz for

anecd

five months took the greater part of his lessons.

In the begin-

hulay

ning of the year an epidemic of small-pox obliged us to send

the pupils to their respective homes, so that only in May the

g

‘]

regular lessons began.

Of the 23 pupils we had the grief

to dismiss four, as they were involved in those carnal sins

by 4

T

which, as the cursed inheritance of heathenism, now and then

But we had also the joy of dedicating

n (3

crop up in our schools.

four of the pupils to the service of the Lord, having ground

0ng ¢

(]

for the hope that they will prove themselves faithful work-

men, and will endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ

by 1

(v. p 41},

Two more pupils were admitted in the course of

by

the year (besides the six admitted in May 1877), and we hope

to receive seven more in May 1878.

Bogk

Presy

57

ndays;

umber,

IX. LFTERERY WORE.

for the

| taken

The revision of the Malayilam New Testament by the

Committee of Revision (mentioned last year) has been conti-

0 8606

Myr. Chr. Miiller

nued as far as the Epistles of St. John.

raining

having left for Europe, his place in the Commission is at

upils.

present filled by A4r. Duez.

He and Mr. Frilz are now the

sent to

hool 10

delegates of our Mission.

A revision of the Tulu New Testament has also been

Jears

begun, care being taken that all Tulu Missionaries have some

i the

influence on the work and that Native Missionaries alsQ are

m: all

consulted.

A tract “Practical Advice against a far spread Disease,”

Telli

a Canarese adaptation from Spurgeon’s «To the Idle” in John

pils.

Ploughman’s Talk: By A4r. Walz.

charge

Twelve Handbills in Canarese, in illustration of the Ten

techist

Commandments, interspersed with Hindu proverbs and true

part of

anecdotes, by Mr. Walz.

ol for

«A First Book of Canarese Poetry,” with notes and voca-

hegin-

bulary, by Mr. Kittel.

o send

«A Letter to Children” in Malay&lam, by Ar. Walter.

) the

«Randall, a Story stranger than Fiction,” a narrative tract,

) grief

by Mr. Dres.

] sins

The Christian Monthly Paper «Kraistasabhapatra’” Vol. X.

] then

in Canarese was continued by Mr. Walz, and the Malaydlam

cating

one “Keralopakari” Vol. IV. by Mr. Chr. Miiller.

;

sound

Christian Almanacs have again been published in Canarese

\\’Ol’k‘

by Mr. Walz and in Malayilam by My. Chr. Miiller.

(rist

Of the Canarese Commentary, translated from the German

186 of

by Dr. Migling, the Prophetical Books, and of the Poetical

Books Job have been finished, whilst the Psalms are in the

press,

The Printing Press

Teache

aboy

under the care of Messrs. Stkemerer and Hirner

The Cana-

rese Bible has been finished and is now a nice handy little

volume sold at Rup. 1, so that the story on page 26 of two

Keral

men clubbing together to buy a whole Bible, and one carry-

Malay

Aceou;

ing it home on his shoulders need not repeat itself again

The Malayalam Bible is still in the press

Stealir

A Te

LIST OF BOOKS

Randa

Printed during the year 1877

The M

His

a) Canarese

Edition

Size

Copies

Pages

Tot. Pages

Fist

Canarese Bible (finished)

I

80

2000

1154

2308000

byl

Arithmetical Exercises for

Secong

Lower Grade Schools

I. R, 162

1000

16

16000

Epist)

Grammatical Primer

I

16°

1000

30

30000

Almap

Handbills No

&)

-

I

80

48000

192000

Spelli

Good Words

IiE: O. 16°

3000

108

324000

Bssen

Practical Advice against a far

(ira

spread Disease

122

3000

20

60000

Holy 1

Kavyamanjari (A First Book

1

16°

5000

60

300000

Anglo

of Poetry)

LG

Manual of Cattle-Breeding

L. C.16°

2000

64

128000

Short Account of the Madras

Presidency

i1l RB.16°

3000

94

282000

Pay

I's

Liturgy of the Church of the

b \R

il

B. E. Mission Society

1I

80

200

172

34400

Nady

Almanac for 1878

80

6500

80

520000

B\ll‘ne

Kraistasabhapatra, vol. X

80

500

148

74000

Ing;

The Law Recorder, vol. I.1-9

80

300

108

32400

Canarese Commentary to the

Buryg

Old Testament continued

I

80

1000

88

88000

(T

Anglo-Canarese Primer, by

L. Garthwaite

80

3000

64

192000

Burpg

by

)

o

Edition:

Size:

Copies

Pages: Tot. Pages:

Teacher’s Hand-Book to the

above .

(Cang-

I

80

500

64

32000

y little

b) Malaydlam

of two

80

450

192

Kéralépakari, vol. IV.

86400

caty-

Malayalam First Book

VL Bote®

10000

64

640000

again,

Account of Malabar

|

16°

5000

15

75000

Stealing the Mangoes

1I

32°

5000

22

110000

A Letter to Children .

32°

5000

20

100000

Randall—Story

32°

5000

20

100000

The Malayalam Country, its

II

12°

3000

80

240000

History and Geography

, Pages:

First Course of Translation,

1I

80

5000

08000

by L. Garthwaite

72

360000

Second Book of Lessons

11T

80

5000

143

715000

16000

Epistle to Timothy I.—Hebrews

I

12°

1500

53

79500

50000

Almanac for 1878

80

4500

80

360000

92000

Spelling and Reading Book XIII

80

4000

40

160000

24000

Essentials of Malayalam

Grammar .

I, R.16°

10000

32

320000

80

5000

120

600000

50000

Holy Bible, commenced .

Anglo-Malayalam Primer, by

0000

L. Garthwaite.

I

80

5000

64

320000

8000

c) English.

I

700

20

Paul’s Prayers

16°

14000

39000

37th Report of the B. E. Mission

80

1200

96

115200

Madras Third Reader

10000

80

800000

4400

Burnell, Elements of South-

0000

Indian Paleography, comed. II.

40

500

24

12000

14000

d) English and Sanskrit.

9400

Burnell Arsheyabréhmana

(Introduection) .

80

120

52

6240

5000

Burnell, Samhitopanishad-

brahmana .

80

120

68

8160

9000

8*

e

60

The Book and Tract Depository

under the care of Ar. Sikemerer and Mr. Burkhardt.

In

Th

April 1878 AMr. Burkhardt was stationed in Bettigerry, and

(anna

0one 01

My. Krapf came from Europe to take his place in the

Depository.

count

i

STATEMENT OF TRACTS AND BOOKS

Eatab

sold from the 1st July 1876 to June 1877.

Mr, |

under

Copies

for Rupees:

Bibles, New Testaments and Bible Portions

839

252

blishs

Religious Books and Tracts, (including

ment

18,000 Handbills).

79614

5043

School-books & Works on General Literature 27638

14828

parts

In

Maps, Pictures, Picture-books, -sheets, ete.

1915

2341

110006

22464

good,

that

Total 1875-716 89426

19173

Increase 1876-77 Copies 20580 Rupees

3291

b?en

o el

N. B. In this increase the Tracts and Religious Books are re-

Custo

presented with Copies 16550 and Rs. 1149,

Who y

Several traces of the beneficial efforts of the Bibles and

Ning

Tracts distributed by this agency can be found on pages 24-26.

Our best thanks are due to the Committee of the London

of o

Religious Tract Society for a grant of 160 reams of print-

0gp

§00n

ing paper.

Twenty-two Depdts in our stations and out-stations are

from

supplied from the Depository, and twelve Colporteurs are

Ihere

employed. Five Colporteurs, paid by the Madras Auxiliary

Bible Society, have worked under the supervision of our

Prog

Missionaries.

0f g

(e

e

61

X. INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTSY.

d, T

The centres of our Industrial Establishments are Mangalore,

1y, and

Cannanore, and Calicut.

As a rule each Establishment has

i the

one or two European Superintendents of its own, which ac-

counts for the long list of names in these Stations.

Mangalore has a Weaving, a Tiling, and a Mechanical

Establishment, superintended respectively by AMr. Digel,

My. Baumann and Mr. Hittinger.

(The Book Depository

under My, Sikemeier and Mr. Burkhardt, the Printing Esta-

r Rupees:

252

blishment under AMr. Hirmer, and the Mercantile Establish-

ment under Mz, Pfleiderer and Hauri are mentioned in other

5043

parts of the Report.)

14828

In the Weaving Establishment the sale has been very

2341

good, orders coming in from great distances in such numbers

that it is difficult to carry them out.

Arrangements have

19173

been made for having the stuff made up into various sorts

- 3201

of clothing, under supervision, partly for the convenience of

are 16

customers, partly to give occupation to poor Christian women

who would not be able to do the work independently. Eighty-

nine persons find work in the Establishment.

s and

The Tiling Establishment has felt the famine in a decrease

406,

of orders, as Government and private persons are not disposed

ondon

to spend large sums in building. But the temporary depression

priut-

soon gave place to a new and increased demand, more, however,

from Natives than from the Public Works Department.

And

ng M

there is work for 81 persons, 35 of whom are Native Christ-

15 A1e

ians. The preparatory experiments and arrangements have

mhm

progressed so far that it is hoped to add the manufacture

of our

of glazed pottery as a new branch to that of tiles, bricks,

draining tubes, etc.

The Mechanical Establishment steadily approaches its defi-

e e,

62

ner

nite settlement after some years in which it seemed difficult

to find or create a demand large enough to make the Esta-

Wearn

blishment self-supporting. Now not only the Public Works

Establi

“Missio

Department sends orders, but also Natives begin to order

different articles for agricultural purposes.

Especially the

July 1

drought of last year has caused a demand for pumps and other

Pflesd

implements for watering. Twenty-two persons find employment.

cal

1f we add the Printing and Mercantile Establishments and

In

the Book Depository, there is a staff of 8 (or 9) Europeans

and, ¢

attached to these Establishments in Mangalore and 250

branch

T

persons find work in them.

en,

In Cannanore Mr. Schinthal and Mr. Halbrock are in

taken

charge of the Weaving Establishment to which a general

haved

Shop is attached, and Branch-Establishments in Tellicherry

Th

and Chombala are counected, giving work to 185 persons

\\:’hich |

(139 in Cannanore, the rest in Tellicherry and Chombala).

f1leg

On the 12th August J/7. Fritz arranged a day of thanks-

hegin

giving in remembrance of the beginning of the Establishment

taste,

25 years ago, when the whole congregation came together to

their ¢

give praise to the Lord for the help He had rendered through

hodeg ;

this whole period, and looked back to the first beginnings,

Al

when four weavers who had joined the Christians were the whole

enee g

number of workmen, and the old common native looms the

tO&C:

only instruments, whilst now the Establishment has reached

then

so great an extent and works to such perfection. Two of

hood

the Native weavers also spoke, showing what blessed effect the

b)’ 801

Establishment had on the families of the Native Christians,

ey

and admonishing to thankfulness, so that a good influence

JUNTY

from the Christians may go out to the heathen.

Sardy

In Calicut we have a Weaving Establishment, a Carpenter’s

fOl’me]

Shop and Tiling Works.

The latter are under the charge of

or l‘eg

My. Feuchter, and the Carpenter’s Shop under that of 42, Ben-

hawing

lffcult

ner.

Mr. C. FPflesderer has not only the management of the

¢ Fsta

Weaving Establishment, but the general supervision of the three

Works

Establishments, which are united in his hand under the firm,

order

“Mission Industrial Establishments, Calicut”, so that since the 1st

lly the

July 1877 the sale of all the manufactures goes through 177.

1 other

Prlerderer. The Weaving Establishment has a Branch in Coda-

yment.

cal. All three together give work to 170 persons.

ts and

In the Carpenter’s Shop the sale has increased this year,

0peans

and, as now M. Benner has come out expressly for this

1 250

branch, there is hope to make the Work-Shop still more effici-

ent

The apprentices are collected in a home, where care is

re 1

taken to supervise and bring them up as decent, well-be-

haved men.

eneral

The Tiling Works have also felt the pressure of the times

herry

UM

which prevents people from building and therefore from buying

tiles.

The sale has nevertheless been a fair one.

3)

Natives also

begin to buy our tiles, or to order from us tiles after their

anks-

ment

taste.

Considering the tenacity with which Natives cling to

er o

their old ways, this fact must be called a great success and

bodes good for the future.

ough

1ing51

All these Establishments together have had a great influ-

WhO]e

ence on our congregations, raising many families from poverty

g the

to a comfortable position which, though not, indeed, allowing

ched

them to make a great display, guarantees them a decent liveli-

0 of

hood as a return for faithful labour, and enables them to lay

by something against sickness and death, and to give an ele-

{ the

1418,

mentary education to their children.

Many also who formerly

¢nce

possessed nothing have now their own houses with patches of

garden, and are established in habits of industry, whilst they

fer's

formerly were mnot accustomed to anything like steadiness

e of

or regularity in work.

It is, however, a consequence of their

having been raised only latterly to a higher social position,

Bint-

64

that many are not satisfied with having their children trained

in the same profession to which they themselves owe their

comfort, but think they must lift them still higher, so that

not unfrequently a tumble-down is the natural result. For

this and other reasons we are very happy to see that in seve-

|

ral congregations the agricultural element is increasing, and

we do not encourage field-labourers in giving up their inherit-

ed occupation to turn to other pursuits.

Gradually the

Some

Af

number of such country-congregations is increasing.

of them cultivate lands belonging to the Mission, but others,

of all

we are happy to say, are quite independent in matters of

ammong

livelihood.

There remain, however, cases enough in which

of ow

Industrial Establishments must step in to keep the people

“Make

from distress or from a roving unorderly life.

the n¢

Mercantile Establishments.

got a

We w

These are in Mangalore, Mercara, and Calicut with a Branch

glorig

in Vythery, and one is connected with the Weaving Establish-

ment in Cannanore.

18 al

on the

It seems to be a great success, they write from Calicut, in a

1n thy

country like India, where lying and cheating is so much the common

rule, that everybody, even the heathen, acknowledge that in the

0 per

he 1y

Mission Shop mobody need be afraid of being cheated, sothat you

may even send a little boy without fearing that his simplicity

Who |

This is a practical sermon to

would be used for unfair profit.

As

the people.

Coagt

My. G. Pfleiderer, who is at the head of the Mangalore Shop,

havog

is al

<o the Treasurer of the Mission, and Agent of all Mission

given

property in India.

line

All these Industrial and Mercantile Establishments (Printing

tirgly

Press included) have a staff of 15 (or 16) Europeans, and give

Abet;

work to about 635 persons, which especially in this year of

famine has been a great help, although the people employed

0ng §

have still felt much of the distress of the year.

trpo

ﬂlere

65

tratned

¢ their

50 that

t, For

THE OPERATIONS OF

1 seve-

g, and

OUR SOCIETY IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

mherit-

ly the

Africa.

q

v

0me

Africa is the Continent which now attracts the attention

others,

of all Christendom, and, in a particular degree, of those

fers of

amongst the Christians who take to heart the last command

| which

of our exalted Lord and Saviour: «Teach all nations” (or:

people

“Make all nations my disciples”).

From the east and from

the north great Missionary expeditions have started and have

got a firm footing in the heart of the benighted Continent.

We wish them Godspeed and our hearts rejoice at the new

Branch

glorious prospects that are opening for Africa. But our Society

ablish-

1s called upon to hold the fort, it has been enabled to build

on the Western Coast, more and more subjecting the tribes

t, 08

ommon

in that part to the dominion of Christ, and from time to time

to penetrate farther towards the centre of Africa, though it

in the

af o

be in small steps, and in a manner to be overlooked by those

pplicity

who mind only startling effects.

mon 10

As early as 1828 our Society began to work on the Gold

Coast in Western Africa; and although death made fearful

; ShOP;

havoc amongst the first Missionaries there, the fort was never

[issi0D

given up, but gradually extended till seven provinces with

nine stations and 23 out-stations were drawn within the

rillﬁﬂg

circle of operations.

The latest acquisition is the station

dgive

Abetifi in the Ashante country about 150 miles inland.

This

aar f

one station excepted, the 6 other provinces have all been in-

P]o)'ed

corporated with the English Colony which was established

there in 1874 in consequence of the Ashante war, and are

9

66

e

now under direct English rule.

But Abetifi is in the inde-

t0 Jis (

pendent district of Okwao, which till lately was part of the

leave ]

Some d

great Ashante country, but has now shaken off all allegiance

again {

to the king of Kumase.

In the course of years congregations have been gathered

the Na

in nearly all of the 32 places so that by the census of 1st

Einglis

the M1

January 1877 (the latest at hand) there were 3355 Christians,

23 School-masters, 12 School-mistresses, 33 Catechists and

On

5 Native Pastors.

The Missionaries are 30.

About 50 schools

entran

instruct boys and girls in the elementary lessons, and prepare

countr

a number of them for the work of School-masters or Catechists.

buildiz

Industrial Establishments are in work, and the Mercantile

progres

operations, which are in connection with the Mission, are of

dertak

a greater extent than the corresponding ones in India, so much

Ra};zsq

so that a river-steamer has been sent out from Germany to

arg h

navigate the lower course of the Volta, up to that part which

Proceg

ab one

by rapids is made impracti(iable for anything but small boats.

The progress of Mission-work proper, in gathering in souls

Seems

to the Church of Christ, is going on in a gradually increasing

M, B

Abetif

ratio. The baptisms of heathens were 426 in 1876, of which

!

69 were in Christiansborg, 85 in Akropong, and 127 in Abokobi.

Bet

The Gospel seems more and more to influence the whole coun-

to g il

try. In several places fetish-priests have been converted, or

great ¢

owners of fetishes are expressing their desire to throw the

Came )

whole of them into the fire.

Inferpy

Signs of a more general inclination towards Christianity

the intg

became, in 1877, visible chiefly in the province of Akem,

which contains our stations Kyebi and Begoro.

But it seems

fetish. :

that it was this very fact which was also discovered by the

tange

king of Akem who always has had a secret hatred to Christian-

0 y

ity. Now he thought he must interfere to prevent its further

the p]a‘

spread. He summoned the Native Missionary, David Asante

Yeache

67

e

e inde-

to his Council, abused him in the most violent way, and bid him

of the

leave the country, else he would have him expelled by force.

egiance

Some days later the king came to the Mission-house, and began

again to abuse .4sanfe, whilst his attendants beat the wife of

athered

the Native Pastor Dafe in a most merciless manner.

But the

of st

English Governor in Christiansborg interposed and protected

the Missionary.

1stians,

tg and

On the 28th January 1877 the Missionaries first made their

schools

entrance in Abetifi in the province of Okwao in the Ashante

repare

country.

Since then they have begun to erect the necessary

ehists.

buildings, and, notwithstanding many hindrances, the work has

cantile

progressed satisfactorily. A very great blow to the new un-

are of

dertaking was the illness of A/rs. Ramseyer which forced A/r.

But now we

y much

Ramseyer to proceed to Europe with his wife.

are happy to report that both have returned from Europe, and

any 0

yhich

proceeded to their field of labour in Ashante where both had

There

hoats.

at one time been captives of the king of Kumase.

seems no hindrance now to the beginning of direct Mission work.

) souls

My. Buss, a carpenter who was sent to build the houses in

easIng

which

Abetifi, relates the following incident:

Jokob:

Between Kyebi and Abetifi we (Mr. Miiller and Mr. Buss) came

to a village called Asiakwa, and sat down under a big tree.

A

) coul-

great crowd gathered round us, and at last the king with his couneil

0 11 0r

came also, and trembling begged us to listen to him.

i the

Through his

interpreter he had the whole matter put before us in English, he and

his council standing before us in a bent posture: Close to the village,

ity

the interpreter explained, there was a big tree, inhabited by a great

Akem:

fetish. They had now determined to erect a certain building, but the

50608

tree was standing in their way, and they dared not fell the tree be-

)y the

cause of the fetish, who would kill all of them, if they touched it.

Mr. Miiller asked them to show the tree and all thronged towards

stial

ther

the place to see what the white man was about to do.

‘We soon

st nlt

reached the gigantic tree, and Mr. Mijller demanded an axe, and went

9%

sy

68

towérds the tree.

All the people stood back and the greatest silence

a Midd

As another axe was not at hand, I took a bill and we

(atechn

prevailed.

both began to cut the big tree all round.

When the people saw

yout

hs

that the fetish did not do us any harm they gave expression to their

among

great joy, for they had at first expected that we should both be killed.

N0W i

After they had become somewhat quiet again, Mr. Miiller delivered

cartyil

a speech in which he told the king and his people that they had now

11l tha

a clear proof of what fetishes were; as there was none in this

countr

tree, so there was none at all; they must give up their faith in those

Th

lying doctrines and turn to the true God and to Jesus Christ alone;

last tw

then they would be sure to be helped; for He alone and no fetish could

give help.

They assured us that the time would come when they

The

all would become Christians, and tried in all possible ways to shew

and s

were b

us how thankful they were to us for having driven the fetish from

out of the tree.

ab ad

COllgl‘q

The deadly climate of the Gold Coast has asserted itself

from ¢

more than usual in the year under review.

Many cases of

Increg

severe sickness have occurred, Mr. Petavel, Mr. Krauss, Mr.

Th

Wernle, Mrs. Eisenschmid, Mrs. Miller have all died within

heathe

the year 1877, and several others have been obliged to return

0 he

to Germany to recruit their health.

throy

088 an

In

China.

the pe¢

Since 1846 the Basel Mission has carried on Mission-work

8poke-

in the south-west of China.

The beginning was first made

the G‘Q

in Lilong in the province of Canton, and Hongkong, which is

We ma

have g

an English possession.

But since 1864 they have extended

their work to the interior where two stations Chongchong and

ing ty

W

Nyenhangly were begun at a distance of about 150 miles from

the coast. Congregations have been gathered in all these sta-

tiap fi

tions ; Boarding Schools, Day Schools, a Catechist Seminary and

Was

69

S e

t silence

a Middle School, preparing for the Seminary, are carried on.

and we

Catechists have been trained to the number of 21, and several

ple saw

youths have been sent to the Mission College in Basel, from

fo their

among whom two have been ordained in Germany and are

e killed,

now working in China as Missionaries, whilst three others are

elivered

carrying on their studies in Basel; one of them, however, is so

1ad now

ill that there is not much hope of his ever seeing his native

1 il

country again.

n those

alon

The two stations, Lilong and Nyenhangly, have for the

last two years been the chief centres of interest and success.

h eonld

The Missionaries in Lilong baptized 71 heathens in 1876

on they

0 shew

and some more in the first months of 1877.

Some of these

were baptized in Lilong itself, but the majority in villages

at a distance of 6 to 36 miles.

In 8 villages small Christian

congregations have been gathered, and new enquirers come

11

from time to time, so that the congregations are steadily

3 0l

14,

increasing.

The Missionaries of Nyenhangly baptized as many as 191

ithin

heathens in 1876, and the movement towards Christianity seems

return

to be still spreading, and numbers of people in many villages

throw away their idols, come to Nyenhangly from great distan-

ces and earnestly ask for teachers of the Gospel.

In his tours through the villages round about, Mr. Ayun found

the people even more friendly than in former years, and he frequently

n.WOlA

spoke till late in the night to numerous heathens and enquirers about

the Gospel.

As new places in which we have found an open door

we mention especially Moilim and Lyusa, in which places 150 people

have given up idolatry and joined us, and there are many more will-

ing to follow them.

This has been the case since August 1876.

We had not, at that time, Catechists enough to follow up the

movement energetically.

But the people themselves asked a Chris-

tian from Lukfung to teach them the Gospel, which he did as well as he

was able.

Afterwards Chong Hinpak, one of the church-elders of

Lol

70

Chongchong visited Moilim for one month, and afterwards another

(latecht

and fou

church-elder Nyim ngipak, the octogenarian son of the centenarian

Hokshin, went there for two months, to instruct the people in the

(hrist,

The ol

Gospel.

Only in 1877 were we able to station a Catechist in Moilim,

and in time we hope to find one for Liyusa also.-—From another district

latry &

about 7 miles S. E. from here, from 30 to 40 people have begun re-

- Th

(Choith

gularly to attend our Sunday Services, and some of them have put

away their idols.

much,

that w

My. Ayur himself writes on the 15th September 1877:

Divine

For some time the Gospel has become a pearl that is sought after.

On

In former years we had to carry it from village to village, offering it

miles §

to the people, and were frequently met with scorn.

Now we not only

who ok

heen

meet with the willing consent of many as soon as we begin to speak

of the Gospel, but it frequently happens that people come from a

Were n

distance of 40 or 50 miles, either to enquire about the Gospel or to

them {]

invite us to come to their villages where, they tell us, numbers of

Al

enquiring people are waiting for us.

a isty

On the 20th August 3 men came from Choitung, about 45 miles

fo heay

east from here, telling us that in their village 30 or 40 people were

look g

desirous to become Christians and asking us to pay a visit there. On

When |

further enquiries we learned that they had at first intended to join the

istrig

But

Roman Catholics, of whom some were in their neighbourhood.

they soon found that their life was no better than that of the heathen,

T

They then heard of the Gospel and therefore came here to ask us to

and o

come to them, offering to pay the travelling expenses.

‘We therefore

his h(

sent two Catechists.

On the first evening after their arrival 40

COﬂgm

people came together and willingly listened to the Gospel on that day

Miss

as well as during the whole time of their stay.

They removed all

idols and other heathenish objects from their houses and began to

keep the Sunday.

There are many more there, who think about

becoming Christians.

One of them, a peasant, 86 years of age, became dangerously ill,

and as he formerly had heard from the Roman Catholics that by

being baptized he would go to heaven after death, he entreated the

71

e

nother

Catechists to baptize him.

They first instructed him for some days,

narian

and found that he was longing after God’s grace and believing in

i the

Christ, so that they baptized him as the first fruit of Choithung.

Loilim,

The old man now began to press his family to entirely forsake ido-

listrict

latry and to become disciples of Jesus.

un re-

- The Catechists returned full of joy with all they had seen in

e put

Choithung; but the people there regretted their departure very

much, and we are sorry that all our Catechists have so much work

that we can spare none for these people who are so longing after

T

Divine truth.

after,

On the 2nd September two men came from Lam‘ﬁhung, about 45

miles south of Nyenhangly, saying that there were 20 people there

ing it

fonly

who observed the Sunday, although no Christian preacher had ever

been there.

speak

They entreated us to come and teach them, but we

om &

were not able to do more than give them Christian books and promise

them that we would at another time send the Catechist of Moilim.

0o

18 of

Altogether the field seems to be white for the harvest.

From

a distance of even 45 miles they come on Sundays and week-days

to hear the Gospel, and our only grief is, that we cannot afford to

miles

ere

look after them more carefully.

We therefore long for the time

On

when the Lord will send us a greater number of labourers for our

nthe

distriet.

But

These appeals have not been lost on our Home Committee,

fen.

and as one of the old Missionaries was obliged to go home for

s fo

his health, four new brethren were sent out in 1877.

The

ofore

| 40

congregations in the 4 stations now number 1497, and the

; d&j’

Missionaries 12, including the two Chinese Missionaries.

all

pto

hout

rll

by

the

72

Conclusion.

3

fof

®

Praise be to God for all His kindness towards us

and for His help in this year of suffering and distress.

His is the kingdom, and His we wish to be this our

e e

small part of work for His kingdom. May He safely

Stati

al

guide us through all difficulties and show us the right

Out-St;

T —

And we wish also to thank those

way in everything.

L Mangal

of our friends who have assisted us by their gifts, their

Out-St

prayers and their sympathy.

We beg them still not to

Bolma,

shara, [

forget us, seeing that a new burden has fallen on us in

Kasurgode,

the eouise of tast year.

May God bring them and us,

and the nation in whose midst we live, to His glorious

kingdom.

Amen.

—— SO

Se—

A Nilky

Out-§

Kadik

Suu, 3,

duhidri, ]

Kolighy, '

latur,

5 el

Yoty

lar, peyy

Kﬂdetur.

73

Siafions of the Basel German Goangelical Rlission Dociety

s s

IN SOUTH-WESTERN

INDIA

eSS,

A. CANARA DISTRICT

S our

Stations

Native Agents

safely

/

Missionaries

and

Deacons, Catechists

Pages

Out-Stations

and Evangelists

ate of ac-

on which

right

ive Service

the Station

is mentioned

those

I. Mangalore

Mr. G. Pfleiderer

Christanuja Watsa

1866

et

40

186

41

42

thetr

Out-Stations

Rev. J. Fr. A. Ménner

Charles Gojar

Bolma,

Ravane-

Rev. F. Miller

Benjamin Ponon

18

72

49

50

10t {0

shwara,

Hosadurga,

Rev. B. Graeter

Daniel Ammanna

1856

53

54

Kasargode.

Rev. S. Gundert

55

56

in

Mr. Th. Digel

58-61.

ld‘ U5,

Rev. W. Sikemeier

61. 64

Mr. G. Hirner

£I0US

Mr. C. Hiittinger

(Mr. A. Burkhardt)

Mr. R. Hauri

Rev. E. Hirlin

Mr. J. Baumann

Mr. H. Altenmiiller

(Mr. J. Krapf)

2. Mulky

Rev. H. Daimelhuber

Rev. Seb. Furtado

1 86A6

1. 39:

Ouit-Stations

Rev. J. Hermelink

Rev. Daniel Aaron

1872

40. 55.

Abraham Hery

1867

Kadike,

Ulya;

Santur, Alankara, Pa-

Mark Salis

1867

dubidri, Kanankara,

Kolichur; Kutyar, Ka-

Jeremia Sonna

1874

Johann Ph. Salins

1863

latur, Tuledu, Irnda-

di;

Utchila,

Mullur,

Yermala; Padur, Mal-

lar, Perur; Munderu,

Kodetur.

10

74

Stations

Native Agents

Stat

and

Missionaries

Deacons, Catechists

4l

Out-Stations

and Evangelists

Pages

on which

OuteSt

Date of ac-

tiveService

the Station

s

3. Udapy

Rev. G. Ritter

Rev. Diego Fernandez

1872

o

ot

= lis mentioned

10, Hubl

Out-Stations

Rev. J. A. Brasche

Eliezer Paul

1866

56.

(ut-S

Nidambur, Beilur,

Rev. P. Ott

Unaka

Samuel Andreya

1867

Korangradi, Malapu,

Rev. G. A:Ziegler

Daniel Andreya

1867

T

Udyavara;

Shirva,

Bolle,

Kattingeri,

Gabriel Almanda

1871

11, et

Israel Eliezer

(ne

Ninjur,

Kudigrama,

1871

Palli, Kavadur; Gudde,

Bethuel Soans

1873

Out-

Cap, Mundodi; Hattu-

Shagoti

Josias Aarons

1873

padi,

Koppala;

Ma-

12, Gule

dambail, Kurkal, Ka-

Nathan Suchitta

1874

(near

lanja; Kalyanapur, Up-

Benjamin Ananda

1877

Out-

pur, Bolmar, Tottam,

Budin:

4. Karkal

Rev. R. Hartmann

Obed Sumitra

1874

12

vali, Ni

Out-Stations

13, farde

Sanur, Mudar, Nan-

denhali

dolige, Hekkateka.

Nagarhal,

Israel Aaron

12

51

Padinaky

. Kundapur (Basarur) | Rev. J. Hafner

1856

Mulluy,

52

Nushtager

Madikatt

6. Honore

Rev. W. Niibling

Jacob Kamsika

185

50

51

ge”’}', K:

Out-Station

Rev. L. Gengnagel

Samuel Bunyan

1869

55

Hanemap,

Karwar.

Henry Robert

1870

e

12

19.

7. Mercara

Rey. J K. Veil

M. J. Veil

50

51

52

64.

13, Cay

Oute

8. Anandapur (near | Rev. H. A. Kaundinya| Joseph Bhagyan

1873

il

13

Clowa, 17

Ammatti, Coorg) | Rev. C. G. Eble

21

34

Chiraka].

Out-Station

Attolimani.

35

B. SOUTHERN MAHRATTA DISTRICT

I

Out

9. Dharwar

Rev. J. Welsch

Lot Hery

1868

11.

Anchy

Rev. M. Hoch

13-38.

ol. 53,

54

75

Native Agents

Stations

and

Missionaries

Deacons, Catechists

Pages

Out-Stations

and Evangelists

on which

the Station

is mentioned

1

i

Date of ac-

tive Service

11; 54

)

L%:

e

10. Hubly

Rev. J. Mack

Christian Chinnappa

36

Out-Stations

Rev. J. Layer

13-38.

53. 54,

Unakallu, Hebsur.

Rev. R. Schenkel

13-38.

11, Bettigerry

Rev. F. Ziegler

Paul Badappa

1858

(near Gadag)

Rev. N. Hiibner

Manuel Furtado

1876

49. 54.

Out-Stations

(Mr. A. Burkhardt)

Nahasson Vira

1877

55

Shagoti, Mulgunda,

13-38.

12, Guledgud

Rev. W. Roth

Solomon Bhaskar

1858

(near Bagalcot)

Solomon Devada

1874

44-48.

Rev. J. J. Thumm

Qut-Stations

Rev. W. Liitze

Jared Soans

1877

49. 50,

Budinakatti, Par-

54

vati,

Nandikeshwa-

(Rev. G. Grossmann)

12

ra, Kardenhalli, Kor-

Mrs. Weigele

denhalli, Ladagundi,

Nagarhal,

Asangi,

Padinakatti,

Allur,

12, 81,

Mullur,

Budihalli,

52

Mushtagery, Halhurki,

Kabbal-

Madikatti,

50, 81

gerry, Karadegudda,

Hanemaragara.

99,

19, 19,

C. MALABAR DISTRICT

50, L.

11

50

13. Cannanore

Rev. J. M. Fritz

Rev. Abraham Mulil

1876

2. b

Out-Stations

Rev. K. A. E. Diez

Charles Stocking

1851

53

61

Chowa, Taliparambu,

Rev. J. Lauffer

Abraham Chatayappen

1855

62

64

11, 13

Chirakal.

Mr. W. P. Schonthal

1861

o, 3

Jacob Chammanchery

Mr. E. G. Halbrock

Cornelius Hutten

1867

30

Joseph Taddai

1871

1863

Jocob Kumaren

Abraham Arangaden

1870

Rev. Paul Chandren

141

12

14, Tellicherry

Mr. W. Schmolck

1867

Out-Station

Rev. E. Liebendorfer

Gabriel Pirachen

1850

38

49

Ancharkandy

Rev. J. Frohnmeyer

Paul Sneham

1861

50.

53.

1

54,

55.

13-30

Stephan Chandren

1867

Joseph Mandody

1872

56

62.

51

it

4

10%

76

Native Agents

Stations

and

Missionaries

Deacons, Catechists

Out-Stations

Pages

and Evangelists

ive Service

on which

the Station

Date of ac-

is mentioned

15. Chombala

Rev. S. Walter

Matthai Kunyan

11. 55

Out-Stations

Rev. C. W. Linder

Jacob Heber

62

Muverattu, Kandap-

Ezra Arunajalam

penkundu.

John Puthenvidu

1870

16. Calicut

Rev. Th. F. Schauffler

Rev. Joseph Jacobi

1868

11

12

Out-Stations

Mr. Th. Elsisser

39

49

Pergor

Elatoor, Coilandy,

Paul Chittayagam

1850

Mr. A. Dobler

William Davis

1861

50

53

Journ

Beypore, Vythery.

Mr. C. Feuchter

Mgt

Jona Padiath

1868

54

55

Mr. J.S. K. Ostermeier

Timotheus Parakandy

1869

61

63

Deaco

Mr. C. Pfleiderer

Isaac Laban

1871

64

Mr. G. Benner

Chrysost Parambattuk.

1870

Postay

Librar

Mrs. Schoch

Joseph Mirandez

1872

Chure]

Miss Kocherhans

Medic

17, Codacal

Rev. A. Wagner

Mattu Peter

1850

56

63,

Out-Stations

Sehoo

David Teikandy

1866

Parapery, Malapu

Antony Veliattingara

1871

Orphg

ram, Ponnany.

Catec]

18, Palghaut

Rev. L. G. Hanhart

T. Cochan Wengalan

1850

11

42,

Out-Stations

Rev. A. Ruhland

Build

Johanan Peter

1859

52

53.

Purch

Kannani, Panayur

Tobias Chembankodan

1867

54

Attikodu,

Kinanur,

Taxeg

Wadakanchery,

Ka-

Johanan Zechariah

1868

Gabriel Hermon

Indug

ruvapara,

Angatipu-

1873

ram

Nathanael Arankaden

1877

Prini

Abel Kattuparamben

1863

Pum;

Adn

D. NILGIRY DISTRICT

Rev. W. Stokes

Silas Shanta

11

51

19. Kaity

1874

Out-Station

(Rev. J. Layer)

52

54

Nerkamby.

55

12

51

20. Kotagherry

Rev. J. A. Biihrer

Jacob Kanaka

1868

|

e

SN

tive Servic

$ 0

Expenditure of the ARhssion

43111, 95

49, 62

During the year 1877

))

70

N N N N N\

Rs

As

22

8| 11, 12

Personal Expenditure

72,125

0,89 49

23,635

—

1150, 53

Journeys and Home-passages

8 | 54, 05

Munshis

1,241

19,920

0|61, 63

Deacons, Catechists and Evangelists

1|64

Postages

1,165

10

Libraries

453

15

Church Expenses

603

14

Medical Expenses

472

15

0! 56, 63

14,801

14

Schools, English and Vernacular

Orphanages, Boys and Girls

24,044

9,558

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Buildings, Repairs and Rents

16,352

:;

Purchases and Off Payments

1,009

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1,849

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1,000

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5,183

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Furniture

2,242

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2,634

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Rs. As. P.

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AT MANGALORE.

F. Graham Esq.

J. Neuberg Esq.

100 =0

W

1271 14

LW

H. 8. Thomas Esq.

Genl. G. W. Walker

400

0

Through the Rev. Th. Walz

& By

Major Q. S. A. Jamieson 250

J. W. Best Esq.

120

AR

W. H. Clift Esq., Hassan 100

Col. R. 8. Couchman

60

V. 8

Brig. Genl. O’Connell

100

Col. W. Rowlandson

25

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Dr. H. Gundert, Calw

50

Col.- Ch., M. Hailes

30

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Mrs. Knott, Bangalore

Major Q. S. A. Jamieson

20

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through Mr. Eppinger

5

Mrs. Warlow

10

S SIS Of ©EC

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H. Sewell Esq.

AT HONORE & KARWAR.

AW

‘W. H. Price Esq., Harbour

R. A. Macdonald Esq.

100

Supdt., Kurrachee

5

0

0

. Spens Esq.

25

Sir Bj

10

Thro’ the Rev. G. Deimler, Bombay.

. Winter Esq.

LD

T. Bosanquet Esq., Chikodi,

Monteath Esq.

LV

Belgaum

300

Ingle Esq.

0. $

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10

S OO S S

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10

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E. Miller Esq.

Mrs. A. G. Allan

10

Bendg

10

Ch. Grondona Esq.

Rev. Dr. Mackee

24

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John Vitters Esq.

Major H. G. Puckle

33

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Rev. G. Richter

22

25

Rw

H. Conder Esq.

C. Soobiah Esq.

10

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James Kingsmill Esq

10

AT DHARWAR.

C. Kapp Esq.

10

P. Fachivi Esq.

10

J. Richey Esq.

20

Capt,

Chr. Mac’Donald Esq

10

Col. Hogg

10

Capt,

10

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J. Brandenburg Esq.

Dr. C. A. Sylvester

22

‘W. Scott Esq.

H. W. Scott Esq.

22

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20

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Mr. W. Rainford

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W. Sandwith Esq

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Mr. J. Rose

10

10

Col. White

A. M. Don Esq.

23

G. Robertson Esq

10

Col. Walton

16

Capt. A. BE. Ward

10

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M

10

50

Thompson Esq

General G. Selby

M

Brookes Esq.

10

General F. W. Kempster

K

Laxton Esq.

11

Mrs. Fair

W. Jukes Esq.

Brig. Genl. Caddell

21

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J. Willame Esq.

Dr. D. C. Mc.Allum

15

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Mr. John Gee

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W. Lewis Esq.

10

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AT TELLICHERRY.

Brunnell Esq.

AR

A. Reid Esq.

120

W. Shearer Esq.

D. Buick Esq.

65

30

C. Anding Esq.

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A. Gover Esq.

Capt. C. Browne

2

R. Philipps Esq., Coonoor 50

W. Rix Esq.

Miss King, Bangalore

10

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A. Wiltshire Esq.

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W. Logan Esq.

240

165

AT HUBLY

H. Wigram Esq.

Rev. R. W. Wace

30

Sir Richard Temp_le

50

P. D. Conceicao Esq.

F. P. Fiddian Esq.

20

20

A. W. Campbell Esq.

W. 8. Gantz Esq.

W. C. Darling Esq.

55

0. Sh—Esq.

(= Ve g — T

Stephen Stephens Esq.

A. F. Schlunk Esq.

30

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G. Henke Esq.

40

E. W. Hazelgood Esq.

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Fendall L. Charles Esq.

22

for Poor Fund

0. Eckelmann Esq.

Messrs. Frank & Co. Madras 242

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R. W. Candy Esq.

50

Capt. Gaitskell

(C e S

H. B. Winterbotham Esq.

1

AT CANNANORE.

Capt. Fair

4

N. N. Salmon BEsq.

49

Capt. W. F. Mc.Laughlin

J. R. Malcolm Esq.

(G il B (=) 1O)

12

T. F. Brosey Esq.

J. EB:

W. Prager Esq.

Major J. Gabbet

48

T. P. Bittleston Esq.

Capt. G. C. Bayley

12

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Mrs., J. Arriss

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Mr. W. Clarke

28

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Mrs. Hayne

20

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Mrs. Rundall

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Mrs. G

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T. C. Elsworthy Esq.

12

M. W.

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J. Grimes Esq.

12

A. 8. Cowdell Esq.

12

G. Higgins Esq.

Mang:

W. E. Gay Esq.

L. Garthwaite Esq.

25

F. Bell Esq.

Mr

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W. H. Stables Esq.

Mulky

J. J. Tomlinson Esq.

10

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Sir William Robinson

100

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50

G. Armstrong Esq.

Capt. &. R. Hodgson

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E. C. Johnson Esq.

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Mrs. G. Dawson

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Mrs. Schmid

Madras

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W. E. Schmidt Esq.

5

W. Mullaly Esq.

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J. Davidson Esq.

Dha‘zw

Alex. Allen Esq.

25

F. S. Mullaly Esq.

Mrs. Darling

H\lbly |

Mr. W. Seager

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Lord Bishop of Madras

P. Staunton Esq.

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Major B. Hobart

i’

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Mrs. Sinclair, for Schools 10

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Major J. Morant, R. E.

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Ada

Mr. H. Wallace

Mr. D’Cruz.

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H. Rogers Esq.

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Mr. M. Hill

C. E. P. Vernede Esq.

Wor

Mr. F. Antony

Mrs. Taylor

22

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Mrs. Webster

W. Deane Esq.

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25

45

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Donations from Members of the Congregations

and other Native Friends.

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Sundry Gifts from the

Mr. Th. Pearl

3

Congregation

Mulky: Rev. Daniel Aarons 3

Chombala: Peter Varid

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Mr. Joshua Matthew

10

Collections

§

Boys’ School Pie do. do. 3

Calicut: Mr. O. Pothan

32

Boys’ New Year’s Singing 3

Mr. Silvanayagam

Moses

A Woman

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Mrs. Elizabeth Muttu

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Mr. Philipp Anthony

24

Negro Box

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Codacal: Mr. Francis,

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Dharwar: Congregation

3

Overseer, Mallapuram

Hubly: Mr. Ch. Chinnappa 2

Mr. Joseph Charley

O OO O O RO B

OO0 O OO e ks ot &

Bettigerry: Mr. Gnanappa 9

Palghaut: Congregation

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Out-Stations

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Mr. George Therian

Mr. Paul Badawa

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Kotagherry: Post Master

”

Sal. Devada

10

Thomas

Girls of the Orphanage

Simson, servant

Adam

Catech. J. Kanaka

Juvenile Association

Lot <= Y1 2B ST =)

IS 0 D LD

Daniel Carpenter

1.

10

Cannanore: Workmen and

Mr. Samuel, Schoolmaster 20

Mr. Pragasam, writer

1

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‘Women of the Weaving

Establishment

61

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§

é

0

0

183

82

Subscriptions and Donations for Schools.

MANGA

Rs. As. P

R Asy P

Dharwar:

i Bettigerry:

Bombay Anna Fund 100

Bombay Anna Fund

100 0

23

MULKY

50 0

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Friends—Europe

W. H. Scott Esq.

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Guledgud: G. Jenkins Esq. 30

Young Ladies’ Association,

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Basel

72 15

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Mrs. Ferguson, Nellampore 20

OO OO

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ANANT

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Anandapur Orphan Asylum.

Mr. F. Baker

N

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HUBLY

”

G. A. Dunster

Mr. J. Hunt

10

”

W. Turner

Mr. Church

e e e S W B A il <

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Through the Rev. B. Graeter.

Capt. Nangle

10

GULED

For the famine:

50

iih Onsl.ow .Esq..

Congregation of Zion Chapel

20

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(=) e B =)

CANNA

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Donations for the Sickhouse at Mangalore

Acknowledged by the Rev. F. Hirlin.

Col. R. S. Couchman

80

(=]

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CHOM

J. P. Davidson Esq.

Dr. R. Dempster

21

Major C. J. Moore

CALIOY

J. W. Best Esq.

20

Mr

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20

Major P. Warlow

Through Mrs. Pfleiderer

Mr. L. Joshua

12

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i1

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Wynne Esq.

W. H. Comyn Esq.

10

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Morgan Esq.

N DO DD W

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Major Q. S. A. Jamieson

Leggatt Esq.

Lt. Col. W. Rowlandson

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PAL oy

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Grants in Aid.

Rs

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MANGALORE

Brahmin Girls’ School

As, P,

Parochial Girls’ School

362

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118

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150

MULKY

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Boys’ School

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240

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172

Boys’ Boarding School

Gudde Parochial School

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Kattupadi Parochial School

1%

Parochial School

72

ANANDAPUR

DHARWAR

Anglo-Vernacular School

196

Vernacular School

49

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299

HUBLY

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01ld Hubly School

120

00

Boys’ Parochial School

35

216

Orphanage and Destitute Children

Parochial Girls’ School

43

BETTIGERRY

Boys’ School

82

Girls’ School

47

GULEDGUD

Vernacular School

114

0

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Girls’ School

52

0

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83

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CANNANORE

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50

Chowa School

84

204

TELLICHERRY

Orphanage

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74

School in the Fisher Village

55

Parochial Town School

2

CHOMBALA

Girls’ Orphanage

220

0

0

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963

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11

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PALGHAUT

103

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129

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NILGHERRIES

For all our Hill Schools

320

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& s e e e s e 0 e e ool Bie er®aD © Q.0 O DVO O G @ OO Ol QIO

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14k

84

Fur

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Contributions of the Congregations (“Church Tax”).

Rs. As. P.

Rs. As. P.

LV

232

0

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Mangalore

Bettigherry

30 11

Mulky

34

Shagoty

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Cannanore

38

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Tellicherry

60

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Chombala

37

Rev

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136

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59

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Gudde

22

Codacal

34

Shirva

21

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Kattupadi

18

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Kinnanur

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of the 34th Regiment at Mangalore in the Mission Boarding Schools.

Rey

Re. As: P

H. 8. TI;omas Esq., c. s.

72

0

Col. R. 8. Couchman

9

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Dr. R. Dempster

12

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Major Q. A. 8. Jamieson, 84th C. L. I. .

85

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Further Donations towards the erection of a Chapel at Tellicherry.

Rs. As. P

RS As P

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J. W. Reid Esq.

50

0

Th. Elsédsser Esq.

10

0

20

Rev. G. Hanhart

1

F. F. Bagshawe Esq

9

N. N.

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Mr. Rairrachan

Job Mestry

Catech. Gabriel Pirachen

10

Micha Ayen and his wife

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10

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Rev. 8. Walter

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17

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Acknowledged by the Rev. E. Diez.

0

0

0

0

Rs. As

Rs. As. P.

14

Major J. Gabbet

15

Private J. Asprey

Capt. Mc.Langhlin

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;

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Dr. D. C. Mc’Allum

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Mr. J. Gee

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Brethren of H. M’s. 48th

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Expenses

14

10015.

Rev. G. Wagner, Codacal, begs to acknowledge with thanks from

H. M. Winterbotham Esq., Rs. 100 towards mats and benches

for the Codacal Church and Rs. 100 towards the expenses of

levelling paddy fields.

PINLS

INDEX

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Page

European Missionaries of the Basel German Evangelical

Mission

Report.

Increase of the Congregatlons

11

II

Progress of the Mission in the Famine Dlstrlcts

13

IIT

Congregations

38

IV

41

Evangelists, Catechists and Deacons

Obituary

43

VI

49

Staff of European M1ss1onar1es

VII

Preaching to the Heathen

50

VIII

School Work

53

IX

Literary Work

57

58

The Printing Press

The Book and Tract Depos1t01y

60

61

X

Industrial Establishments

Mercantile Establishments

64

65

The Operations of our Society in other Countries

Africa

65

68

China

Conelusion

72

Stations of the Basel Germa,n Evangehcal Mlssmnary Soclety

in South-Western India (giving at the same time an

index to the pages where the several Stations are men-

73

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