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of the Basel German Evangelical Mission.

Corrected up to the 1st April 1880.

[The letter (m.)r after the names signifies: “married”. The names of unordahed

Brethren are marked by an asterisk.]

Date of

Native

Active

Station

Name

Country

Service

. J. A. Bithrer (m.)

Switzerland

1842

Kotargiri

India

1851

Anandapur

. H.A.Kaundinya (m.)

. E.Diez (m.)

Germany

1851

Cannanore

do

1856

do

. J. Lauffer (m.)

. W. Roth (m.)

do

1857

Guledgud

do

1857

Mangalore

. J.F.A.Ménner (m.)

1 O O i W DN =

. L. G. Hanhart (m.)

Switzerland

1857

Cannanore

o

1858

Hubly

. J. Mack (m.)

Germany

©

. R. Hartmann (m.)

Switzerland

1859

Karkal

=

1860

. J.J. Thumm (m.)

Germany

Bettigerry

11

. 'W. Stokes (m.)

India

1860

Kaity

1861

ro

J. F. Miller (m.)

Germany

Mangalore

o

¥. Ziegler (m.)

do

1862

Dharwar

=

do

1863

J. B. Griter (m.)

Mangalore

=

S. Gundert (m.)

do

1863

do.

=

do

el

1865

Calicut

J. Knobloch (m.)

s

o

S. Walter (m.)

Switzerland

1865

Chombala

F. Matthissen *

Russia

1867

Calicut

%

=

G. Ritter (m.)

Germany

1869

Udapy

do

1869

do

=

J. A. Brasche (m.)

o

'W. Sikemeier (m.)

Holland

1870

Mangalore

1870

Cannanore

v

W.P.Schénthal (m.)*

Germany

o

. J. Hafner (m.)

Switzerland

1871

Kundapur

1

Date of

Name

Native

Active

Country

Station

Service

24. P. Ott (m.)

Germany

1871

Mulky

do

181

Honore

25. W. Niibling

26. G. Hirner (m.) *

do

1871

Mangalore

do

27. J. Welsch (m.)

1871

Guledgud

28. C. Hiittinger (m.)*

do

1871

Mangalore

29

do

W. Hasenwandel(m.)

1871

Dharwar

30

A. Burkhardt *

Switzerland

1872

Bettigerry

31

G. Wagner (m.)

Germany

1872

Codacal

32

J. Hermelink (m.)

do

1872

Mulky

33

G. A. Ziegler (m.)

do

1872

Udapy

34

J. F. Veil (m.)

do

1872

Mercara

35

R. Hauri (m.)*

Switzerland

1873

Mangalore

36

C. Feuchter *

Germany

1873

Calicut

37

E. Hérlin (m.)

do

1873

Mangalore

38

J. Layer (m.)

do

1873

Kaity

39

J. Ostermeyer (m.)*

do

1873

Calicut

40

G. Grossmann (m.)

Switzerland

1874

Hubly

41

J. Baumann (m.)*

do

1874

Mangalore

42

C. Pfleiderer (m.)*

Germany

1874

do

43

R. Schenkel (m.)

do

1874

Hubly

44

J. Veil ®

do

1875

Mercara

:

45

W. Liitze

do

1875

Guledgud

46

L. Gengnagel (m.)

do

1875

Honore

47

E. Liebendorfer (m.)

do

1875

Tellicherry

48

do

1876

do

J. Frohnmeyer (m.)

49

A, Ruhland (m.)

do

1876

Palghaut

50

do

1876

C. G. Eble (m.)

Anandapur

51

M. Hoch

Switzerland

1876

Mangalore

52

E. G. Halbroek *

1876

Calicut

Germany

B R et P S A PN AR B AT R S

53

G. Benner*

do

1877

do

54

H. Altenmiiller *

do

1878

Mangalore

Date of

Name

Native

Active

Station

Country

Service

55

J. Krapf*

Switzerland

1878

Mangalore

56

J. G. Kiihnle

1878

Calicut

Germany

57

C. D. Warth

do

1878

Guledgud

58

do

1878

J. Knausenberger

Hubly

59

M. Mieg

do

1878

Kaity

60

E. Richter *

do

1878

Mangalore

61

J. Weismann, *

do

1879

Cannanore

do

1879

Karkal

62

Chr. Keppler

63

J. J. Jauns

do

1879

Palghaut

do

1879

Calicut

64

Jul. Fieg *

65

Mrs. M. Weigele

do

e

1866

’ Bettigerry

At Home.

late of Cannanore

66

J. M. Fritz (m.)

| Germany

1839

67

G. Pfleiderer (m.)*

do

1853

do

Mangalore

do

Mercara

68

F. Kittel (m.)

do

1853

69

Th. Schauffler (m.)

do

1860

do

Cannanore

do

70

Th. Digel (m.)*

do

1864

Mangalore

71

J. Miiller (m.)*

do

1866

do

Mercara

2

Th. Walz (m.)

do

1866

do

Mangalore

73

Th. Elsdsser (m.)*

do

1867

do

Calicut

4

C. Linder (m.)

do

1868

do

Chombala

5

W. Schmolck (m.)

do

1869

do

Tellicherry

76

H. Daimelhuber (m.)z

do

1869

do

Mulky

[ar

.. N. Hiibner (m.)

do.”

1870

do

Bettigerry

R N NN N N /N /N N /i e N

Stations & Agents of the Basel German Ev.

(Corrected up to

A, CANARL

Stations

and

European Dlissicnaries

Native Pastors

Out-Stations

1. Mangalore

@

Pastoral

Out-Stations:

Rev. A. Minner

Rev. E. Hirlin

Bockapatna, Bolma ;

j’

Jeppu;

b

Educational

Rava-

Hosadurga,

Rev

. F. Miiller, 4nglo-Vern. Sch.

1

N

Kasergod,

Rev. B. Griter

neshwara

‘

Nileshwara.

Rev

. S. Gundert

Calech. Sem.

Rev

. M. Hoch

Industrial

Rev. W. Sikemeier

Frinting

Mr. G. Hirner

and Publi-

Mz

. J. Krapf

shing Dep.

Mr

. H. Altenmiiller, Weav. Est.

Mr

. J. Baumann, 7%/ Works

Mz

. Ch. Hiittinger, Mech. Works

Mercantile

Mzr. C. Pfleiderer, Gen. Treasurer

Mr. R. Hauri

( Mere. M. Br.

Mz. E. Richter

\

'

|

3

|

2. Mulky

Rev. P. Ott, Congr. and Orph.

Rev. Sebast. Furtado,

Out-Stations :

Uchila

Rev. J. Hermelink, Ouz-Stations.

?

Ulya, Kadike;

Santur;

flutyar, Kalatur, Tuledu;|

Uchila, Ermala, Mullur;

E;

Padur,

Perur,

Mallar;

Munderuy, Kodetur.

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Mission Society in South~Western India.

1st April 1880)

COORG.

Catechists

Christian

Christian

Heathen

Schoolmasters

Schoolmistresses

Schoolmasters

Engaged in Fyst.

Anglo-Vern. Sch.

Farock. GIs’. Sch.

Anglo-Vern. Sch.;

& Evang. Work:

David Bunyan

Hanna Lachlin

B. Venk. Rao, r. A.

Israel Aaron

Manuel Karkada

Brahm. Gis’. Sch.

M. Rangappa

Samuel Andrea

Th. Subba Rao

Faroch. Bs’

Sc/:

Julia Michael

Saty. Venkatarao

M. Subba Rao

Samuel Sona

Veronica Lachlin

J. Bhagyan, Feppu

A. Manjunatha

Joshua Joshua

Charlotte Minez

G. Hermon, Rav.

FParoch. GIs’. Sch

Engaged

Infants’ School:

Albert Vartika

Georgina Palana

in Educ. Work:

Lydia Mitra

Chr. Watsa, Ca. S.

Nireshvalya Sch

G. Alman., 4.7. S.

Barnabas Kodot

Girls’ Work- Sch.

Gers. Soans

”

Appia Kundera

Margaret Soen

Mark Salis, Maulky

A. Putranna, O7p/

Leéna Jerem.,Orps4

(l)

Abr. Heri, Kutyar

J. Karat, Zar.Sck

Debora Tanye,

Isr. Elieser, Sanz.

J. Mabenna, Saz#

N. Suchitta, Zzdur

P. Bangera, Auly

J. Vedam., Mund.

D. Bangera, Fad.

G. Somapria, Uc/

J.S. Amanna, Aazd

Stations

and

European Missionaries

Native Pastors

Out-Stations

3. Udapy

Rev. G. Ritter, Congr.& Out-Stats.| Rev. D. Aaron, Udapy

Out-Stations :

Nidambur,

Beilur,

Rev. A. Brasche, Preparandi School | Rev.D.Fernan., Gud.

Korangradi, Malapu,

Rev. A. Ziegler, Orph. & 1. Seminary | Rev. Ch. Gojar, Skir.

Perala,

Badegottu,

Kapettu, Udyavara;

Bolle, Kattin-

geri, Ninjur,

Kudigrama,

Shirwa l

Palli, Suda;

Gudde, Kap, Mandedi;

Kattupadi, Koppala ;

Madambeil, Kurkal,Ka-

lanje;

Halyanapur,

Uppur,

Bolmar, Tottam.

4. Karkal

Rev. R. Hartmann, Congr. & lin.

Out-Stations :

Rev. Chr. Keppler, Vernac. Stud.

Sanur, Mudar, Nan-

dolige, Hekkatka.

5. Kundapur

Rev. J. Hafner, Ziz.

6. Honore

Rev. L. Niibling

Rev. J. Kamsika, Aar.

1 Congr

Out-Station :

Rev. W. Gengnagel j & ltin

Harwar.

7. Mercara

Rev. J. F. Veil, Congr. & ltin

Mr. J. Veil, Merc. M. Br.

8. Anandapur

Rev. H. A. Kaundinya, Cong»

(Addr. Ammatti,

Rev. Chr, Eble, Zin.

Coorg)

Pt L

B, SOUTH

]

9. Dharwar

Rev. F. Ziegler, Congr. & Schools

Out-Station :

Rev. W. Hasenwandel, ,

”

Jodhalli.

.

Christian

Heathen

Catechists

Christian

Schoolmasters

Schoolmistresses

Schoolmasters

By

D. Andrea, Aaly

B. Joshua, O7ph.

d.

Jos. Aaron, Aa#?

L. Suchitta,

»n

B. Ananda, Mad

Mark Ananda, ,

|

Educational:

D. Karkada, Gud.

{

E. I{ar;.t, Frep. S,

J. Sundara, Siir.

|

@©. Karkada, .

A. Amanna, Aa??.

:r

Geo. Peter,

”

}.

Benj.Ponon, Orpk.

Obed Sumitra,

Fv. work

Beth. Soans, /Zin.

z

i

Sam. Bunyan, /#7.

Alb. Bangera, .,

Jac. Upranna,

Cooly-Mission

Salins,

I Lewis §

{

|

|

|

Faroch. S

|

|

MAHRATTA

1

Jeremia Sonna,

S. Lokare, 4.7. S.

M. Muchaganna,

Ann. Joisi, 4.7. S»

/l

Orph-| R. Menasinakai, ,|

Ev. work | B, Harubal., Orph.

}

D. Uttengi, Z.V.S.

Annachari Pete, ,|

Rudraya Rottim., |

Vern. S‘

2

10

e

Stations

and

European Missionaries

Native Pastors

i

Out-Stations

10. Hubly

Rev. J. Mack, oz sick-leave, Nilag.

1_5

Out-Stations :

Rev. G. Grossmann, Congr. & Itin.

Unakallu, Hebsur

Rev. R. Schenkel, Orpranage

Rev. J. Knausenberger, 7eack. Sem.

11. Bettigerry

Rev. J. J. Thumm, Congr. & Sch.

(4ddr. Gadag)

Mr. A. Burkhardt, Seczlar affairs

3

Out-Station

Mrs. M. Weigele, Orphanage

Shagoti.

12. Guledgud

Rev. W. Roth, Congr. & Aurdenk

(Addr. Kaladgi)

Rev. J. Welsch, Orphanage etc.

_‘.\5

Out-Stations:

Halkurgi ;

Rev

- W. Liitze, o7 sick-leave, Nilag

Kordenhallii,

Rev

. Ch. Dav. Warth, Mushtigeri

Harden- | Layadagundi,

halli

Nagarahalli,

Asangi, Padi-

nakatte ;

Mushtigeri.

E

AC. MALA-

13. Cannanore

Rev. E. Diez, 17fanaizloddy

| Rev. Abr. Mulil,

Out-Stations:

Taliparambn

Rev. G.Hanhart, Cann.Congr.& ltin. |

Chovva;

Rev. J. Lauffer, Chovwa Congr. -,

’

Chiracal;

Mzr. W. P. Schonthal \ Weawv. Est. 6\’

Taliparambu ;

Manantoddy.

Mr. J. Weismann

) Merc. Msss.

|

i

|

%:;

i

14. Tellicherry 1 Rev. E. Liebendorfer, Brep. Sch. etc. I Rev. P. Chandren

Out-Station :

Anjercandy.

Rev. J. Frohnmeyer, 4. V. Sck. ete. :

—t 3 oo

11

Christian

Christian

Heathen

;E

Catechists

Schoolmasters

Schoolmasters

Schoolmistresses

1

|

Solomo Bhasker,

D. Punita, 7'. Sem.

Paranjoti Banna,

Gurusidh. Halaya,

FEo.Workelc

Dev.Shubha OrpZ.

Parock. GIs’. Sch.

Heath. V. Sch.

Adav. Munavalli,

Lot Heri, ,

”

Ananda Banna, ,

Heath. V. Sch.

A.Muchaganna, ,

Paul Bad., Z. V. S.

Bapanni Kapadi,

Jar. Soans, Congr

Heath. Vern. Sch

Nahas. Vira, Siag

Sal. Jaliki, Orp/.

Am. Shilabhadra,

Shag.

|

Sal. Devada,Xard

I.Nirmanika,Orp/

Buddh. Kadivala,

Adiviap. Mulgund,

Faroch. GIs’. Sch

Heath. Vern. Sck.

M. Furtado, Gul.

Steph. Sagari, ,

D. Mushtaganna,

Heath. Vern. Sch

S. Renikagauda,

Mushtigeri

A. Havala, Aurd.

b

BAR

[

| C. Stocking, Cong. | S.Elias, Perock. S

P. Kunyambuttu,

{

FParoch. Sch

i

, J. Chammen., /%7

Tit. Doar, Chovva

E

|

C. Hutten, Clovva

D. Gomer,

{

M. Peitel, Heatk.

| P. Sneham

Chir.

Heath. Vern. Sch

{

|

Vern. Sch

x J. Taddai

|

& Itin

§

Ch. Hermon, /¢in

|

‘ A. Kattupar., /Zin

{

J. Kumaren, Man

|

; G- Pirachen, Cong

M. Itirarit., Orp/k

| Hanna Hor,

Kelen, Frep. Sch.

|

A. Jatayappen,

Sil. Hanoch,

”

Furoch. G. Sch.

Chatappen, OrpZ

i

Any.

D.Ram.N., 4.7.§

g

J. Chandr., 4.V.S

Educational:

Simon Nathan, .

K. Ram. N.,

”

S. Chand., Prep. S.

|

J.Vedamuttu, V. S

Kunya. Nayer, ,

Krishnen

”

”

T. Parakandi, ,,

P. Jesudasen,, o

B. Georg, Anjerc

Bapu Guruckel, ,,

J. Mantodi, OrpZ.

AR TS,

2

12

Stations

and

European Missionaries

Native Pastors

Out-Stations

156. Chombala

(Addr. Mahe)

Rev. S. Walter, 7.

Rev. Joseph Jacobi

Out-Stations ;

Kandappankundu ;

Muverattu ; Mahe.

18. Calicut

| a. Pastoral

Out-Stations :

Rev. J. Knobloch ]Congr., Orph

elte.

Coilandy ;

I

Rev. G. Kiihnle [

Beypore, Vythery.

' 5. Educational

Mr. F. Matthison, 4. V. Sck. et

| e Industrial

|

Mr. C. Feuchter, 7%/e Works

Mr. G. Benner, Cerpenter Shop

. d. Mercantile

Mr. J. Ostermeyer

Weav. Est.

Mz. E. Halbrock

)

and

Mz. J. Fieg

|

Mere. Miss.

17. Codacal

(Addr. Railw. St.

Rev. G. Wagner, Congr. etc.

Tiroor)

Out-Stations:

Paraperi; Malapuram,

Ponnani.

18. Palghaut

Rev. A. Ruhland, Congr.et.

Out-Stations :

Rev. J. Jaus, Vern. Stud.

Kannani, Kinanur;

Panayur-Attickodu;

Haruvapara ;

Wadackenchery.

\j

D. NLL A

19. Kaity (4ddr. | Rev. W. Stokes, Congr.& ltin.

%

Ootacamund)

Rev

. J. Layer, Orphanage

Out-Station:

Nerkambe.

Rev. M. Mieg, Zin.

20. Kotargiri

Rev

. A. Biihrer, Congr. et.

J(

|

13

Christian

Christian

Heathen

Catechists

Schoolmasters

Schoolmistresses

Schoolmasters

Jacob Heber, /7.

P. Hermon, O»pk. | F. Jackson, Orpk

Tim. Kochen, ,

C. Appayen,

”

Han. Spadikam, ,

Peter Arnon, Male

J. Puthen., Muver.

P. Chittayagam,

G. Vergeese, B. A., | B.Kuttackal,07p%. | K. Nayanar, F.A.,

Ev.work etc.

A. V. Sch.

A. V. Seh,

| Eliza Aruckanden, |

W. Dayvis,

”

I. Mackaden, .

Heath. Girls’ S. | W. K. Menon, ,

”

B K Keneupp. &

Is. Laban,

‘Fh. Puttenv., .,

D. Mamre, Coél. S.

J. Mirandez, ,

K. Shangaren, ,

T. Padiat, Par. S. ;

”

Jona Padiat, /#7.

M. Kuttikan, ,,

M. R. Nayer,

E. Arunajalam,

O. Verky, O»pr.

K. C. Krishnen ,

Coilv. & ltin.

Sim. Sandhi, ,,

R.Paniker, Vers..S.

P. Kannen,

»

‘Chr. P, Kavil, ,

J. Valiavalappen,

Vern. Sch.

Th. Shangaren,

Mary Salisbury,

M. Peter, Orpl.

Furoch. Sch.

D. Teikandi, Z#7.

Orpr

A. Velliatingara,

Ev. work

T. Zachar., 4.V.S. | Liza Putteckara,

Subramanya, Pilla,

J. Zacharias,

Heath. Givis' S

A Vo Sehs

Congr.& Itin

A. Vasist., Far. S.

A. Arangad., ,

”

Dav. Padiat,

T. Chemb., Wad

Jos. Nyar.,Aann.S

P. Devadatten, ,

Asnat, Wadack. ,

J. Mantodi, Zu.

P. Kallari, . ,

N. Arukan., Azr.

CIR1

/A

Silas Shanta, /Z

I. Nerkambe, NVer.

Nandi, Karter: S.

Sal. Soenna, Orp/.

Jac. Kanaka, /Zin

Statistical Summary of the Basel German Evangelical Mission

Table I. Agency.

Europvean

Missionaries

Native Agents

Mission Districts

Mast

Total

Total

%

Ord. Miss

Lay Brethr

Ord. Pastors

Catechists

Chr. Sch

Chr. Sch. Mistr

Heath. Sch. Mas

I. Canara—~Coorg

Mangalore (establ. 1834

>

@

7

21

Mulky

2]

1845

]

Udapy

”»

1854

:15

S g O

H

5

Karkal

1872

Kundapur

P

1876

g

Honore

”n

184

Mercara

1870)

Lo ST Y o > B 1

g.

Anandapur

E;

n

DD = DO = DD W D -3

DO DD e DO W O

l

§

1853)

Ti. South Mahratta

10

o

Dharwar (establ. 1837

10

Hubly

(

”

1839

SR

9

11

6

Bettigerry (

»

1841

%

12

Guledgud (

”

1851)

W DO B W

o O He

=4 DD DN N

() SRS U - (O

i RS

Ii¥, Malabar

13

Cannanore (establ. 1841

14

14

Tellicherry

E

”

1839

L5

Chombala

”

1849

16

Calicut

n

1842

6 |

27

I

L7

Codacal

1857

5

18

D = DD DD W W

Y

Palghaut

%

»

1858

%

OO p QO DD W W

lr(%:

S = O D 3 W

- e QO DD

14

it

IV. Nilagiri

4

e

1

19

Kaity

(establ. 1846)

20

Kotargiri (

n

1867)

il

—

1

—

—

|

&

e | memcco S cEmne— s

~

20

Total. ..

]

21 | 34198

50;19‘; 69

8[60‘6

|

S

15

e

)i

on the South-Western Coast of India, 1st January 1880.

Table II. Pastoral Department.

Heathens

Church Members

Mission Districts

baptized in

1st January 1880

|

[—

E

il

Stations

Total

Total

%

ommunicants

1

I

Out-Stations

Church Members

1st January 1879

;3

Children

(

J

Non-Commts

Children

Catechumens

|

|

|

===

L.Canara—Coorg

B e ) el

I. Mangalore

7

1142

9

683

16

500

1199

28

14

745

14

23

335

11

873

719

50

2. Mulky

3. Udapy

991

37

23

60

514

31

460

1005

60

4. Karkal

47

28

49

11

|

7

I

5. Kundapur

7§77

6. Honore

7

5

|

26

36

64

12

7. Mercara

34

31

44

-:i;

8. Anandapur

184

58

19

84

161

%

II. S. Mahratta

%

9. Dharwar

131

13

64

103

167

21

269

26

32

154

oo

147

303

17

10. Hubly

I1. Bettigerry

274

43

85

78

162

187

352

48

é

12, Guledgud

W = DN

383

12

21

165

w W

Syt S

166

334

62

E

ITI. Blalabar

Il

13,

Cannanore

576

13

15

309

256

597

4

)

14.

Tellicherry

387

12

I8

195

2

211

412

15

Chombala

254

21

28

1438

5

127

1o

49

15

§

R

16.

Calicut

1T

28

16

44

407

329

o

)

41

j

1

17,

Codacal

248

132

127

263

10

1.8;

Palghaut

Tt W W e

157

3

6

77

i

69

151

11

4

i

IV. Néilagiri

75

s

40

19. Kaity

|

29

71

15

20. Kotargiri

108

—

1

53

124

S

71’

Total .

6805

349

35

156

220 1291

%

7051 (421

3823?

16_

e

Statist. Summary ete.

Table III. Educational

Christian Schools

Training Institutions || Boardg. Schools

Day-Schools

|

Mission Districts

o

e il

Number of Schools

Cat. Seminary

Teachers’ Sem

Prep. Schools

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

I. Canara—Cooryg

145

159

Mangalore

Mulky

63

25

Udapy

ey -3

31 y

65

46

33

Karkal

Kundapur

Honore

Mercara

%é

Anandapur

10

1. South Mahratta

9. Dharwar

63

i

10. Hubly

13

I11. Bettigerry

W W Qo

10

14

12. Guledgud

(b4

64

15

19

| I1rr. Malabar

|

I3

Cannanore

53

39

14

Tellicherry

10

19

o

36

34

I

Chombala

éf

41

18

12

16

Calicut

66

67

54

L7

Codacal

19

21

24

18

Palghaut

%

e

41

iV,

Nilagiri

e

25

16

19

Kaity

20

. Kotargiri .

28

2

5

300

323

(4]

51

453

Total .

68

)

17

te,

1st January 1880.

al

Department,

Heathen Schools

Total under Instruction

Is |

Christians

Heathens

Anglo-Vern. Schools || Vernacular Schools

|

Grand Total

é

Christians

Heathens

Christians

Heathens

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

39

22

173

17

il

152

302

71

182

707

2

e

61

it

83

i1

5

160

33

183

33

13

179

23

58

70

64

128

204

13

101

90

13

101

204

14

16

33

26

84

33

143

47

74

14

52

19

145

61

40

Tl

156

39

34

20

146

16

47

139

29

194

10

379

10

17

45

gt

47

167

71

91

120

246

16

b

473

26

24

14

64

24

(43

31

7

iy

116

13

156

31

12

45

12

78

5

7

5

48

-3

05

926

730

453

1331

163

3150

—

18

Statist. Summary ete.

Table IV. Contributions

General

Church- and

Mission Districts

Mission-fund

School-fund

I. Canara—Coorg

Rs

As

Rs

As

!

Mangalore (683 Communicants

41

8

245

14

16

140

Z

2

Mulky

(335

22

10

174

Udapy

(514

Karkal

( 28

”

11

12

3

Kundapur

7

”»

Honore

2

15

e

24

Mercara

”

10

54

10

48

29

11

g

Anandapur

(g

;

Z

N

S N N A N N N e

IT. South Mahrattia

Dharwar

15

22

14

64 Communicants)

10

Hubly

154

”»

24

66

11

51

65

TeT

Bettigerry

162

”

12

147

12

77

W N O

Guledgud

(E

165

I1I. Malabar

I3

Cannanore (309 Communicants

1l

139

12

14

Tellicherry (195

”

9‘2

73

Chombala

16

60

13

:

D

143

”

16

Calicut

40

7

b

54

10

190

L7

Codacal

I

2

n

18

11

63

11

35

138

18

Palghaut

E:

:

7

IV. Nilagiri

19

Kaity

( 29 Communicants)

3

14

18

2

0

13

4

35

—

20

Kotargiri

{53

”

)

Total. . .

494

10

1333

10

3

'—

Statistical tables like the above, intended to show the progress towards Self-

§

€]

support, are worthless, if the sums computed are not strictly what they pretend

We have endea-

to be: “Contributions by Native Christians” and by them alone.

ap

voured carefully to exclude whatever could not dona fide be placed in this

e

category, ¢.g7. also the offerings of the Missionaries and their families at the

kit

19

Jt

1st January 1880.

of Native Christians.

Local

Poor-Fund

Mission-fund

Total

Miscellaneous g

i

Rs

As

Rs

As

Rs

As

Rs

As

189

==

107

10

391

24

21

206

27

g

33

S

18

275

10

15

[=Y

6

J

:)

97

17

10

90

19

O M= o Ot WD D O

10

14

21

129

11

—)i-nwbﬁkl

10

12

2

21

12

10

23

19

15

17

19

152

I

11

33

- ot o

50

11

11

188

™ v QD e

48

15

14

18

316

6

25

3

40

155

27

12

29

15

Z

149

9

)

150

14

51

13

24

5

10

471

6

19

10

22

21

144

10

16

] O O DO O

QL = W 00 &3 Ot

10

81

d

4

28

10

21

8

e

LT,

o

02

11

64

I3

7

42

ajg

8

270

12

[

33

13

Services ete., by no means an inconsiderable proportion in a Mission with such

I

nd

an. exceptionally numerous staff of Europeans as ours.

There are but three

e

Stations in whose accounts no deductions were made for receipts of this latter

19

kind, viz. Mangalore, Bettigerry and Guledgud.

he

5‘1‘

Tt

i

B

16

to

br

(¢

I

lJ

¥

it

i.

0u

Fs

Y S

of}

;f’ N reviewing the experiences of the past twelvemonth we

mbly and gratefully acknowledge the goodness and lov-

% %111

-kindness of God.

It is of the Lord’s mercies, that we

Wl

q‘? g

il

are not consumed; because His compassions fail not, but are

Cr

new every morning. DBoth by judgment and mercy He maketh

His way known upon earth, His saving health among all

nations.

The huge wave of His indignation rolling over India

a1

in 1877-78, the Famine with its appalling loss of life, with

Ba

its untold woe and desolation, is a thing of the past, and

an

though its dire effects will make themselves felt in many a

0u;

way for years to come, He has once more “caused His face

the

to shine upon us”, and so the earth again «“yields her increase,

il

and God, even our own God, hath blessed us’.

Well may the

of

nations be glad and sing for joy, and all the ends of the earth

Sor

fear Him! (Ps. nxvi.)

il

Of striking events, of accessions on a larger scale, such as

enf

occurred some years back among the Tulu people, and of late

hig

among the famine-stricken of South Mahratta, we have none to

8]

record. Pleasant as the calm may appear after the storm,

of

both alike have their own advantages and disadvantages.

the

e

21

The heavy burden of incessant care and toil in connexion

with the famine will not be easily forgotten by those of our

Brethren to whose lot it had fallen to witness those heart-

rending scenes at their very doors, as it were, while theirs

too was the joy and consolation of seeing so many stray sheep

brought into the fold, 7. ¢. under the sanctifying influences of

God’s word and Christian communion.

In the calm that hath

ensued, we have not enjoyed the comfort of seeing fruit of

our labours to the same extent, though the harvest in the

Famine-Districts has been followed by a fair gleaning, and

other Stations too have met with encouraging success.

Suffice

it, however, that we have been permitted to pursue our work

16

of making known the glorious Gospel of Salvation in Christ.

His word shall not return to Him void. The precious seed

)V

will spring up in God’s own time.

In this sense too, yea

e

mostly so, we believe that the earth will yet ¢yield her in-

16

crease, and God, even our own God, will bless us.”

th

To mark the principal change in the past year’s history,

]

I

a name which has been most intimately connected with our

th

Basel Mission for a period of fully thirty years, a name dear

and venerable to all of our band and well known too among

nd

our Anglo-Indian friends of the olden time, is no longer at

the head of our Society.

The Rev. F. Fosenhans who in 1849

16

succeeded the late Rev. Dr. W. Hoffmann bhoth as Principal

s,

JIV

of the Basel Mission College and leading Secretary of the

Society, and thus for well-nigh a generation devoted all his

th

energies and talents to the furtherance of the great work

a8

entrusted to his hands, felt in June 1879 compelled to resign

his post on account of advanced age.

Organization and con-

e

10

solidation may be said to have been the characteristic features

of his period of administration, and in order to inaugurate

il?

the intended changes in the constitution of the Mission,

;eS.

e e

2

()

od

Mr. Fosenhans was in 1851-52 deputed to a general visita-

tion of our Indian Stations.

How far the operations of our

Society in this country were extended within these three

decades, may be best judged from a glance at the subjoined

numbers:

1849: 10 Stats., 23 ord. & 3 Lay-Missionaries,

24 Catechists, 996 N. Chr.

1879: 20

”

48

”

20

”

8 N. Pasts., 61

”

6805

”

”

(8

sig]

It is not for us to expatiate in eulogies on our revered

hon

the

friend and father: the Master himself will own and honour

16y

His faithful servant on His great day.

May we but have

1es|

grace, with the same thorough-hearted, untiring zeal and self-

denying love to ¢“spend and be spent” in Christ’s service.

£re

0ccy

And may God abundantly bless and strengthen the hands of

Wit]

his worthy successor, Rev, O. Schott.

Like his three predeces-

sors Blumhardl (1816-38), Hoffmann (-1849), and Fosenhans,

oy

hey

Myr. Schott belongs to the clergy of Wiirttemberg,

the

sho

blessed little kingdom, where ever since the revival of the

Slye

Mission-spirit in the beginning of this century the Mission-

cause has been striking deeper roots than in any other part

are

ster

of our German Fatherland.

timg

‘With a population of less than 1,800,000 souls, about one-third

i

188

of whom are Roman Catholics, the contingent of Protestant Mis-

fop

sionaries furnished by Wirttemberg within the last sixty years and

han

sent out by our Basel Society alone, either in their own or in foreign

€0

14

service, amounts to no less than 329, while other 42 young Swabians

These numbers

gy

are still being trained in the Basel Mission College.

Whey

represent about 50 °/o of the total number of Missionaries. emanat-

Cony

ing from Basel.

Besides, a not inconsiderable number of candidates

for Mission work have joined other Societies (especially the Crishona

lagt

Mission) :

als

the

oge

23

if}

our

|

NUMERICAL INCREASE AND

166

PRESENT STRENGTH OF THE CONGREGATIONS.

ned

Compared with the number of heathens baptized in 1878

Chr

(807), the accessions of the year under review (349) at first

sight may not appear very encouraging. Bearing in mind,

however, that fully 809/, of those baptized in 1878 belong to

red

our

the Famine-Districts (South Mahratta and Coorg), while the

new-comers in Canara and Malabar numbered but 69 and 61

PALS

respectively, we have every reason to be thankful for the more

ol

106,

even success during the past year on the three main fields

occupied by our Mission: Canara with 89, South Mahratta

g of

with 144, and Malabar with 113 accessions.

In the latter

065

province, especially, the ingathering of 113 souls from the

s,

heathen within one year is quite an unprecedented success, as

the

shown by the numbers of annual baptisms from 1871 succes-

the

sively: 20, 28, 26, 45, 49, 36, 58, 61.

In fact, indications

on-

are not wanting that after so many years of comparative

art

sterility the tide is setting in at last, and that after the gracious

times of visitation vouchsafed to the Tulu- and S. Mahratta,

Missions, Malabar may now have its turn.

May it please God

hird

Mis

to realize these our hopes and cheer our hearts by an abundant

harvest.

What His servants of old have laboured and suffer-

and

ed and prayed in behalf of Malabar, what the glowing, priestly

eigl

jans

heart of a Hebich was beating for, both while living and dying,

hets

when, in his very last moments, far away from the beloved

Lnﬂf‘

country, with fleeting breath and eyes brightening up for the

afeS

last time, he exclaimed: «Ah, Malabar!”—it cannot be a lost

ond

cause, it must end triumphantly. A Pentecostal shower, and

“the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad; and the

desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.”

e

24

Although, in addition to the above number of 349 new-

2

E

comers, the Church was augmented by 253 births within the

Christian community, the actual increase amounts but to 246,

owing, partly, to an excessive mortality in the Famine-Districts,

especially Anandapur, Guledgud and Hubly, in which three

Stations together the deaths (77) exceeded the births (21) by

56, while in the remaining 17 Stations the births (232) exceed-

ed the deaths (172) by 60. Altogether then 249 deaths against

258 births.

The main cause, however, of the above apparent

discrepancy is the grievous fact, that a considerable number

(98) of excommunications or spontaneous relapses into heathen-

ism took place, especially at Mulky (29), Udapy (27), and

Guledgud (15), on which more hereafter. Besides deaths and

desertions, the adduced falling off of numbersis, to some extent,

ha

accounted for by changes of residence, since a not inconsider-

able number of Christians at Guledgud, mostly weavers, left

an

us for distant regions, where to follow them is out of the ques-

tion, actuated chiefly by the desire of finding better and ampler

means of subsistence and, perhaps, also by a wish to disenthral

themselves from the self-imposed yoke of Christian control

and discipline, of which at least some had grown weary.

Altogether our congregations now comprise

DA

it

3572 Communicants

156 Non-Communicants

1y

\{ Total 7051, whereof

|

3323 Children

)

o

3252 (=46 /) pertain to Canara— Coorg,

ot

92448 (= 359)

%9

,, Malabar,

99

,, south Mahratta,

be

1156 (=169/)

the

and

195 (= 3%)

29

., Nilagiri.

Ranking our twenty Stations according to their numerical

e

strength, we find:

HpI

25

16

2 Stations above 1000

Mangalore, Udapy

1199

1005

the

Cahcut, Mulky, Cannanore

46,

o))

between 500 and 800

50

(19

597

10ts

Telhcherry,

Bettigerry,

hree

412

352

99

97

300

29

500

Guledgud, Hubly

334

303

L

el

hombala,

Codacal

Dharwar

st

275

263

167

99

100

300

Anandapur, Pa,lcrh aut

Kouargul

rent

2

§

161

151

124

nber

1Ka1ty, Honore, Karkal,

bhet

64

49

5)

99

below 100

Kundapur

and

; Mercara,

11

and

fen

May the Lord bless and strengthen each of them, and

hasten the time. when ¢a little one shall become a thousand

der

Jett

and a small one a strong nation!”

queb

npler

thral

II

ACCESSIONS FROM HEATHENISM

mol

We first glance at that part of our field, which for the

past two years has enlisted our special sympathies by its

wide-spread calamity and distress as

vell as by its large

number of inquirers, South Mahratta

Our two last Reports contain so much detailed informa-

tion on our “Famine-policy” and the checkered experiences

both successes and failures, we have met with, that we may

be pardoned for refraining from enlarging on the subject at

the same length

It is again with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow, that

we have to record happy harvest-days along with sore dis-

teHC“‘1

appointments

Of the 416 Catechumens left on the rolls by

4

26

el

h

the 1st January 1879, viz.

12 at Dharwar,

31

,, Hubly,

121

,, Dettigerry,

and 252

,, Guledgud,

the two first mentioned Stations in the course of the year

were permitted to see each its full number admitted to baptism,

Mu

and even slightly in excess: Dharwar 13, Hubly 32 (including

five at Unakallu).

The Brethren at Bettigerry too had the

left

privilege of seeing their hopes, if not fully, yet fairly realized,

mot

The

masmuch as baptism was administered to no less than 78

persons (including 15 at Shagoti), while other 48 remain on the

rela

roll for further instruction.

Different is the case, as regards

whe

and

Guledgud. Its rapid growth in 187 5, as intimated by various

scattered remarks in our last two Reports, had not throughout

hall

em

that element of sound innate strength and stability in itself,

which could have passed unscathed through the process of

62 |

sifting, so closely following the gathering.

If this remark

thay

off 5

holds good of the new Guledgud congregation itself, much

more s0 of the mongrel mass of nominal adherents under

the 1

instruction.

And indeed, if we ponder all the adverse cir-

cumstances prevailing through the greater part of the year, as:

give

continued alarming failure of crops by dearth, locusts and rats,

wel

continued high prices of provisions, continued diseases and

ency

the

high rate of mortality, continued general pauperization and

excessive difficulty of earning their bread, while on the other

he&r

hand the running short of funds compelled us more and

hreg

an(

more to curtail and, at length, to discontinue the support

given in shape of relief-works, we feel surprised, not that the

h&Ve

numbers were reduced at all, but rather that the falling off

thag

did not assume much larger dimensions.

As it ds, the

Guledgud congregation, with its Out-stations, lost:

27

SIS

by excommunications or relapses into heathenism 15

99

the surplus of deaths (28) over births (7)

21

)

o)

b

2

emigrations* (52) over

immigrations (18)

34

70

21

less: number of persons baptized

gar

showing a decrease of

S0,

?g souls

Much more disheartening looks the case of the 252 Calechumens

ling

left on our hands at the beginning of the year: 74 on the

the

el

mother-station, 72 at Kardenhalli, and 106 at Mushtigeri.

Their ranks were thinned by death (32), emigration (63),

T8

relapses (55) and dismissals (19) to the amount of 169,

the

nds

whereas but 21 of these adherents were considered fit for,

and made recipients of baptism (18 at Guledgud, 3 at Karden-

J0us

halli, none at Mushtigeri).

Hence the number of those

out

remaining under instruction for 1880 has dwindled down to

gelf,

62 (Guledgud 18, Kardenhalli 21, Mushtigeri 23), and no less

)

than eight of the recently occupied villages had to be struck

ark

off again from the list of Out-stations connected with Guledgud,

uch

the inquirers having disappeared to a man.

1(\@’

Gloomy as these results may appear, we could under

(o1}

It would be

given circumstances hardly expect it otherwise.

a8

well, if by the above countipg up of adverse, impeding influ-

ats,

ences (continued scarcity etc.) the matter had been exhausted;

and

the main cause remains yet to be told: grievous hardness of

and

heart.

God’s judgments have swept over the length and

ther

breadth of the country, spreading ruin and desolation near

and

and far, and yet, what is the result? True, “Lord, in trouble

;pOI’t

have they visited Thee, they poured out a prayer, when Thy

the

g off

chastening was upon them”, and: ‘“when Thy judgments are

* Among them are some that left for Dharwar, Hubly and Bettigerry, who,

the

of course, by no means are to be considered as loss.

44‘

28

in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteous-

one

ness”.

And in consonance with this testimony of old our

168U

itinerating Brethren in South Mahratta joyfully bear record

CON

of having met with crowds of anxious hearers listening atten-

Rep

tively for hours, in marked contrast with the disheartening

i

indifference so bitterly complained of in former years.

In the

quic

same Chapter, however, we hear also of a contrary experience:

our

“Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn

1O

righteousness”, and: “Lord, when Thy hand is lifted up, they

of g

will not see! but they shall see” etc.

Strange to say, on a

1neg

good many of just those people with whom we have been in

brol

close contact since the beginning of the famine, yea who were

U

rescued from starvation by the sympathy and help extended

ficeg

to them for a period of more than two years, no lasting im-

fo 1

pression seems to have been made, no real contrition and

Our

heart-felt gratitude seems to be seen, such as would lead them

and

to seek and serve the Giver himself, after having enjoyed His

Br. Roth writes:

hawy

bountiful gifts.

I

Blow upon blow the holy chastening hand of God falls on this

theiy

proud generation, sunk in carnality; yet of true repentance and turn-

all

ing unto God very little is to be seen.

The starving five hundred

too of Guledgud, received and fed for two years by Christian bene-

1mogt

Whey

volence and instructed in the truth of life, have brought forth no new

fruit.

B

It grieves us to see their sloth and indifference in’ attending

Divine Service, their apathy for spiritual things, their wild and dis-

hag

solute habits.

With a number of them, living in concubinage, we

0they

had to sever our connexion altogether.

To the majority of them the

h&d]

L'

Word of God has not become yet a lamp unto the feet nor a light

(evis

unto the path.

aftep

To be frank, however, we will go a step further and say:

the ¢

let the material be ever so unpromising, if we can only work

Proyg

away at it with the all-powerful Word of God, even an almost

time,

hopeless material may yield and be changed into a hopeful

oy,

e

29

0118

one.

We cannot help thinking that at Guledgud too other

our

results might have been attained, if only that one essential

cord

condition had been more satisfactorily fulfilled (vide our last

161

Report, page 25).

To some extent, at least, the fault of the

ning

comparative failure lies at our own door: we have not been

the

quick enough to strike the iron while it was hot.

Not as if

NCe;

our Brethren on the spot had not done all that was in their

Garn

power, to bring Christian influences to bear on those crowds

they

of applicants.

They have been straining their every nerve,

&

incessantly labouring on day and night, till—man after man

I

broke down: one dear Brother nobly laid down his life in the

ere

unsparing, self-forgetting service of love, others also sacri-

nqed

ficed health and strength, clinging to their posts till they had

1

to submit to higher orders (vide our Reports for 1877 and 78).

and

Our native helpers too have, with hardly any exception, nobly

hem

and manly responded to our calls to work in dreaded fever-

His

haunts, where they had to suffer much severer hardships than

is usually the case, and though shattered in health, tried

this

their best to prove equal to the emergency.

Yet, in spite of

=

all these individual efforts, there was sometimes for months a

dred

most deplorable want of hands, and that at the very time

enge

when we ought to have brought all our forces into play to

) 18w

grapple with the unchecked, rank spirit of heathenism in those

ding

hundreds professing willingness to embrace Christianity. The

| dis-

other S. Mahratta Stations, each with its increased demands,

) 1O

Plans were

had just enough to do to keep themselves afloat.

nthe

devised to send help from the coast and elsewhere, but plan

light

after plan collapsed, and much precious time was lost before

the desired help could be secured.

Even when it arrived, it

sy

proved utterly inadequate to the crying wants of the great

otk

time.

Whether it was that the whole conjuncture was un-

most

toward to an extreme degree, or that our machinery proved

pefui

30

ase

too unwieldy,—whatever it was, the fact remains that we did

The

not quite succeed in pushing in all the necessary agencies at

the opportune moment, and the consequence was, that, though

g

[us

the poor people appreciated the help afforded to their bodies

Lord

we failed in moulding their minds and infusing a new life-

man

spirit into them, at least, as far as concerns the majority of

Alth

inquirers

We owe it to truth to state these facts, and hope

upor

the lesson has not been lost upon us

he«

To relieve the somewhat dark picture, we subjoin a report

seep!

on Mushtigeri from ZAB7. Liize* than whom none was more

Joing

intimately acquainted with

nd suffered greater hardships in

his ¢

behalf of those people

It certainly shows that to one, who

he

threw his whole heart into the work and personally shared all

It |

their joys and sorrows, things at Mushtigeri by no means

a4t

presented the dreary aspect as when looked at from some

he |

he |

distance

And it seems a thousand pities, that Br. Lutze

cont

could not continue devoting himself to the spiritual improve-

even

ment of that place, his broken health having compelled him

by ¢

to retire from the scene of his labours, first to Dharwar and

atte

subsequently to the Nilagiri Hills

heir

The task of instructing and guiding the inquirers was a hard

Sieky

one

People who all their lifelong have been under the influence

Suck

of a demoralizing religion and whose understanding is so much

and

darkened, require much time and instruction to imbibe even the first

menf

prineiples

Yet I had the joy of seeing several of them advance

hilg

in knowledge and earnestness

There are some among them, whom

18 the

I mention the two

I could fully trust and who never deceived me

app

names Shantappa and Nidhanappa.

Especially the former won my

Sever

full satisfaction by his demeanour during hours of instruction and

They

in the Services as well as in his daily life and while at work.

He 18

a very peaceable man and in earnest about the salvation of his soul,

i

s

Sllﬁ'el

* We have, in fairness, to add that his upmt is not of quxte a recent

Courg

date, but comprises a period ending with December 1878

g §

51

) id

as evinced by his whole manner, both in days of health and sickness.

3 ab

The thought of this one man is enough to fill my soul with joy and

ough

gratitude towards God; and all the hardships I had to bear at

Mushtigeri, vanish before this joy as mist before the sun.

May the

(1es,

life

Lord keep this dear man unto life eternal! I may mention another

man, Devapriya, who along with some trouble also gave me much joy.

ty of

Although he broke caste as early as 1874 and several times entered

ope,

upon a course of instruction with the late Br. Weigele, he had not

the courage to be baptized, but went on, a sincere but wavering

epow

sceptic like Thomas of old.

But when in 1877 great numbers

1nore

Joined us, his courage revived and he again took to learning, though

his capacities are not great.

Pressed about the Lord’s Prayer,

s i

who

the Ten Commandments etc., he would say: “They are in my heart,

qall

but I am not able to repeat them correctly.” In November 1878, at

6aNs

a time when many others proved refractory (vide last Report p. 39),

S016

he longed after baptism and received it.

These three men are of

Lt

the shepherd caste which is somewhat higher and on the whole

contains much better characters than the caste of hunters.

But

107e-

even amongst these latter there are several who became dear to me

| him

by their sincerity, industry, comscientiousness, and regularity in

and

attending the Services, and who never asked alms from me, though

their wages were low and they were now and then laid up with

sickness and unable to earn their bread.

Of course, I would in

hard

[ence

such times not leave them without help, but they never asked for it,

puch

and were very thankful even for the smallest gift.

I will only

mention the names of Satyappa and Hannah, whose sincerity and

[ ﬁI’St

yance

childlike confidence were often an encouragement to-me.

Hannah

who

is the grandmother of the boy Joshua who, beloved of all, died a

happy death in the Orphanage at Guledgud.

I could mention

0 10

on 10f

several other names of satisfactory Christians amongst these people.

1 aud

There are also several heathens well inclined towards the Gospel.

fe it

I have good hopes for Mushtigeri and shall never regret having

g SOuli

suffered so much in behalf of it.

It fills me with joy, hope and

courage, to think of Mushtigeri.

Its wretched condition, especially

| 0Bt

the spiritnally wretched condition of the people has now and then

e

32

SR,

made me melt into tears.

But the greater the misery, the clearer

and

also a Missionary’s duty to sympathize with their forlorn state and

yeal

off 0

to come to their aid; and nothing answers the purpose better than

living entirely in their midst.

I had my hours of doubts, but the

128!

adm

Lord helped me to overcome them.

the

Since drawing up the above statement of Guledgud

affairs, we have received a letter from Br. Ziegler at Dharwar,

all |

apt to throw light on the situation and to guide us in forming

subs

an impartial opinion on the merits of the case.

e |

Br. Z., while comparing the Famine-accessions on the several

Py

. Mahratta Stations, especially calls attention to the one important

thot

point, that it was just the largeness of numbers and the magnitude

of the task set before us at Guledgud, which from the very outset

144

‘While the latter

Whi

turned the scales in favor of the other Stations.

could fully attend to the wants, both material and spiritual, of the

11131)

comparatively small numbers that sought refuge with them, and

amo

consequently were permitted to see more lasting results of their

geng

labour, the Guledgud Brethren found themselves in the unfavorable

Mal

position of having to provide for large crowds thronging and pressing

noth

them on all sides, sufficiently to look after which was a sheer impos-

the |

sibility to them, almost single-handed and reduced by death and

ot

disease as they were,—not to speak of the great disadvantage, that

a large proportion of their inquirers lived scattered in villages up to

the |

18 miles’ distance and by no means easy to reach.

Another con-

!

siderable disparity is that the Guledgud Christians, asa rule, are much

poorer than the rest, partly because the soil in those regions is

Stat

decidedly inferior, consequently farming is much rougher work,

9)

much more liable to failure, want and penury, and in hard times

affords fewer opportunities for common day-labourers to find

10y

employ, partly because a large number of our people are weavers,

of

whose thrift altogether depends on the ups and downs of trade.

Stata

Let trade and commerce be brisk, and they have enough and to spare,

while in times of depression they simply starve. Hence the terrible

distress which our Guledgud people, both peasants and weavers,

famil;

SalEY

and especially the new-comers, had to face for the last two, three

and

years.—All these causes sufficiently account for the present falling

than

off of numbers at Guledgud and Out-stations, so that there is no

1t the

reason whatever to suppose that less discretion was used in the

admission of inquirers at Guledgud than at other places, or as though

the accessions at Guledgud were inferior to the rest.

deud

War

This should be conclusive. As every-where, here too after

ming

all but “a remnant shall be saved, a holy seed shall be the

substance thereof”.

With all those blemishes and failures

we yet have abundant cause to thank God for having been

veral

privileged, within these three years to receive very nearly one

Jifdll

itude

thousand souls into the Church (1877: 205; 1878: 627; 1879:

yugses

144), although deaths etc. reduced the actual increase to 742.

alter

While on the 1st January 1877 the total number of Church-

}f he

members in S, Mahratta was 414, it now amounts to 1156,

and

among them 603 children

It is especially on this rising

their

generation, our fond looks and hopes are resting for the South

rahle

Mahratta Church of the future.

Even if we had gained

xbnlﬂg

nothing else but these hundreds of children, brought up in

mp

N0S

the nurture and admonition of the Lord, it were a prize well

p and

worth, aye infinitely surpassing all the sacrifices imposed by

. that

the Famine.

up 10

Of the 90 baptisms in Canara-Coorg, which we have to chro-

| on

nicle for the past year, fully two-thirds fall on the single

\ mUCh

Station Udapy (60), the remainder on Mulky (23), Mangalore

onn b}

york

(5), Homore (1, at Karwar) and Anandapur (1).

Our last Report contained ¢‘a sketch of the up and down

fimes

) fud

movements at Udapy and its Out-stations,” in continuation

7!

of which we give the following extracts from ZB7. Ruitler’s

statements:

rade

cpﬂfp

e

On the 12th January we baptized 23 persons, consisting of a

e1llb

family from Perala, a hamlet 6 miles N. K. of Udapy, another

PAl ers

»

¥

>

e

family from Kapetu (a mile W. of Udapy), and several other adults and

shee

children from Udapy itself, including some inmates of the Orphanage.

injur

Their conduct and growth have so far been satisfactory.—In August

At K

a young man from Badegottu, and in November the youth Deramma

§68-§

from Kutyar, whose case we mentioned in oar last Report (p. 14-15)

120

and who has since been studying in the Preparandi School at Udapy,

o

were baptized along with some heathen children.—The number of

Some

Catechumens, both here and on the Out-stations, is rather small just

with

now, only 60, a considerable falling off from former years.

So our

New-comers we had but

Kaly

prospects for 1880 are not very bright.

we b

few, and some of them very soon fell back into heathenism.

Thus

stage

it happened at Udyavara, where a new family had joined us in con-

Hons

sequence of the death of their eldest son.

At first they impressed

knoy

us most favorably; presently, however, the woman commenced re-

Some

membering the fleshpots of Egypt, and hath now for months been

after

striving to change her husband’s mind.

She has not succeeded yet,

gy

but it is by no means sure whether he will remain steadfast.

The

from

heathens too seem to evince much less interest towards the cause of

tank

Christianity than they did some years back.

Though all this may

that

change rapidly, we contemplate the facts alluded to with deep con-

4006

cern and self-humiliation, craving for an outpouring of the Holy

§ix ]

Spirit; for where the Spirit operates, there arises an enquiring and

there

seeking after salvation.——A prosperous new year scemed to have

a8

broken for Shirwa, where two families of the potter-caste joined us.

Soon, however, not these alone but also several other adherents

1angx

Wou]

backslided, influenced by their Brahmin meighbours.

Neverthe-

gran

less we have at Shirwa still got 22 Catechumens, part of whom we

D

o, was the

hope to baptize shortly.

Painful, though not surprisin

relapse of a family which had been baptized fully eight years ago,

Stat;

of whose double-mindedness, however, we had become aware long

Cidgy

since.—Gudde, with its 206 souls our largest Out-station and, like

it)

Shirwa, a Native Pastorate, had the joy of seeing three families, one

mag

of which had come over at the commencement of the new year, the

glan

two others previously, added to the Church, altogether 21 souls.

tl‘ials

Two other families, we are sorry to say, went back, and that from

Oug ]

SRR

35

sand

But one of them has already experienced, that they

sheer spite.

1age,

injured but themselves, and so they are about to return unto us.—

ngust

At Kattupadi, two miles North of Gudde, and Koppala, close by the

Mma

sea-shore, several families of enquirers were under instruction, and

L15)

12 of them were baptized in August.

Two other families, as became

lapy,

more and more obvious, had sought admission only on account of

ot of

some land-dispute; so it was not a matter of surprise to see them

| just

withdraw by the close of the year.—Neither at Madambeil nor at

0 ot

Kalyanapur, the former our youngest, the latter our oldest Out-station,

d but

we had accessions this year.

Madambeil being yet in its earliest

Thus

stage, we need not be disheartened by seeing some of the imperfec-

] C0n-

tions of infancy; the Lord certainly has His work there, and He will

ossed

know how to carry it on.—At Kalyanapur as early as 25 years ago

q 16-

some people professed a desire to embrace Christianity, but soon

heen

after returned to Hinduism.

When in 1869 the Tulu movement

d ),"et7

originated, many in the vicinity of Kalyanapur too seemed to awake

The

from their

slumber:

quite a number of families swelled the

ase of

Presently, however, almost all relapsed, so

ranks of inquirers.

18)

that on each of those places which had witnessed the principal

About

) 001~

accessions, after all but a single family remained steadfast.

Holy

six years ago again some conversions took place.

Since that time

5 and

there has been no further yearning for the truth, and even of such

Jave

as were baptized ten years ago, some have become dull and

d 08

languid, and their light burns buf dimly.

Some new accessions

orents

would tend to revive the old Christians also.

May the Lord soon

orthe-

grant us such times of refreshing!

m ¥

It is now just a quarter of a century, since the Udapy

g he

Station was founded, and it strikes us as a remarkable coin-

g 840

cidence that with this very year of Jubilee (if we may so call

g Jon

it) the summit has been reached of the first thousand being

} 111\0

made up.

It may not be out of place to cast here a short

) one

glance at the early history of Udapy. Through what fiery

1, the

smll&

trials had this Station to pass in its earlier years! Tumultu-

ous resistance and showers of stones on the undaunted heralds

- from

5

ob

)

il

of the Gospel (Sept. 1855); the Mission-house set on fire

bed

had

shortly after it had been completed (Dec. 1855) ; a few months

later the new Church too, which had served as a temporary

10

abode to the Brethren, burnt down (March 1856), a new Tulu

400

translation of the New Testament, just finished, completely

destroyed, the enemies openly triumphing over their successes

Jang

and menacing the Mulky Station too! Yea, above all, Satan

hea

himself triumphant at having foiled and disgraced the Mission

(11

in a far more terribie and effectual way than by fire and

persecution! Again, in 1859, three young and promising Tulu

and

Missionaries within six weeks mysteriously removed by death,

186

in the very prime of life one after the other called to their

toll,

rest! And yet, in spite of all these discomfitures and losses,

ed

a firm footing established in this stronghold of Satan, one

ann

breach after the other made in his fortress, and Christ in many

Pagf

a way revealing Himself as ruling even now in the midst of

¢hil

His enemies! John saw, how a crown was given to him, and

his

“He went forth conquering and to conquer,”—and we who

sine

in our part are permitted to witness the fulfilment of this

tll {

glorious vision in such tangible triumphs of the Gospel, should

inde

still dishonor Him by our little faith, when at times we see

eat

and

more of defeats than of victories? May ours be “the patience

and the faith of the saints!”

Was

evey

About the accessions at Mulky ZB7. Ot writes:

hac]

Padur proved again the most fruitful of our Out-stations, as in

fam;

1878. On the 1st January we were gladdened by the application for

rest

baptism on the part of a family, the first fruits of the new year, and

fan;

hopes were entertained that many more would follow in the course

fo }

of the year.

These expectations were realized at least so far that

Alay

towards the close of the year this family along with four others, to-

gether 19 persons, could be admitted to baptism, while 20 more are

Whe;

gy,

waiting for instruction.

Baptism had, besides, been administered in

dEal

March to three persons, and here at Mulky to a heathen on his death-

litf]q

(S

-3

firg

bed, who had sadly neglected the ample time and opportunities, he

nths

had in days of health, and only in the face of death became truly de-

rary

sirous after salvation. We hope, the Lord in His great mercy has

Tolu

accepted the poor man.

etely

These 23 baptisms, however, were more than counterba-

68805

lanced by the exceptionally large number of relapses into

atan

heathenism (29), mostly falling on Santur (15) and Kutyar

531011

(11).

It is a particularly sad story we have to tell of Santur.

and

Tulu

It saw its first fruits as early as 1855, when the present Elder

and Schoolmaster Josias was baptized.

The progress was slow up to

eath,

1867, when we find 13 Church-members and 8 Catechumens on the

therr

roll. In1868and 69 a prayer-room and Catechist’s house were erect-

5508,

ed. From the beginning of the Tulu movement (1869) it had a steady

(ne

annual increase, so that the Church, raised to the rank of a Native

Pastorate in 1872, by the end of 1875 numbered 46 adults and 51

ALy

st of

children.

In the same year the small Chapel was set on fire, and

this event proved the very turning-point in the history of Santur:

and

since that time its numbers have been on the wane from year to year,

who

ths

till they have now reached the low point of 34 (total). Some families,

indeed, have moved to other places, and others have been lost by

ould

death, but the larger part relapsed into heathenism, both at Santur

560

and in some villages affiliated to it. At Alankara, where in 1875 there

ence

was a little congregation of 27 souls, we have at present none what-

ever: two families have gone to other places, and the third has

backslided.

The house at Kolichur also relapsed, asthe head of the

a5 10

family, a sincere Christian, died of cholera some time ago, and the

rest had no strength nor stay left to them.

Similarly the Christian

n for

and

family at Kanankara, having lost its head by death, preferred to move

ourse

to Mulky.

Thus we have lost our footing in these three villages

Alankara, Kolichur and Kanankara, and likewise in Irndadi (Kutyar),

that

{0

where an entire family relapsed.

Most grievous is the case of a

man, Peter, once a demon-priest, who had readily suffered a great

p 410

deal in order to win Christ and for years had been a real pillar to the

ol iD

palh

little Church at Santur, respected by Christians and heathens alike.

-

38

S LS

thei

In consequence of unfortunate dissensions in 1876 he resigned his

tery,

eldership, and since that time has been falling deeper and deeper

into sin and vice, so that at last he has had to be excommunicated.

prise

elder

Oh the depth of Satan’s cunning and power, the deceitfulness of man’s

heart! May God in His mercy look upon all these backsliders and

seem

1

give them grace to repent! We as

k our friends to join us in fervent

the

greaf

prayers for the restoration and extension of Christ’s kingdom in

fo he

those parts.

adul

Our Native Pastor at Karwar, Rev. ¥. Kamsika, baptized

€xan

one young man.

Another youth from Mysore, of the shepherd-

seed

caste, is under instruction.

the ¢

Turning to Malabar, we are rejoiced to find an increase of

Selec

113 souls baptized (78 adults and 35 children), each of the

distry

six Stations coming in for its share, larger or smaller: Calicut

thirt5

44, Chombala 28, Tellicherry 18, Cannanore 15, Palghaut 6,

and Codacal 2.

stirri

To commence with Calicut, we select the following from

and {

:

Br. Knoblock’s report :

784)

Applications for baptism we had plenty throughout the year ; once

yet

they came up to 76. Manifold experiences, however, have taught us

hymy

not to be in a hurry in administering the rite. For it is not that they

Presg

have merely to acquire some knowledge of the truth, they must also

fami])

learn to walk in accordance with this knowledge, and to secure both

of P(

ends, a longer time of residence in the midst of, and fellowship with,

Vears

Christians are indispensable.

Another advantage accruing from an

losiné

extended term of probation is that it acts as a safeguard against im-

the ]

position: unworthy, dishonest characters are unmasked or abscond

l'en()m

in time.

Thus, with the single exception of one young man, the

man,

whole party of probationers recently admitted to baptism, had spent

Dosit;

more than a year in our midst.

In order to have their proficiency

3.150 ﬁv

in Christian knowledge tested, we arranged a special evening-service

Ry

in Chureh, so as to have not the Presbytery only, but the congrega-

auq of

tion at large as witnesses.

After I had explained the cause of this

At

unusual gathering, and exhorted the candidates boldly to confess

pOX, i

Pty =

39

d his

their new faith, Catechist William Dauvis, in the name of the Presby-

oeper

tery, conducted the examination by a series of questions which com-

prised all the essential parts of Christian doctrine.

The Missionaries,

cated.

man's

elders and the whole congregation listened most attentively, and all

5 and

seemed gratified by the quick and correct answers given by most of

the party.

Most amusing was it to see a little boy of 9 years, who

oryent

o 11

greatly distinguished himself by his smart answers; he never seemed

to be at a loss what to say, and now and then had even to help some

adult.

Br. Matthissen concluded by addressing them on the noble

tised

1760

example of the Greeks in the temple at Jerusalem, who desired to

herd

see Jesus, and admonished the candidates ever to press forward towards

the mark for the prize of their high calling. The Presbytery then

156 0

selected 36 persons as fit for baptism, while five others, to their great

f the

distress, had to be put back for further instruction, along with some

al

jeut

thirty or forty other Catechumens.

it 0

The 21st September was the day fixed for the solemn, heart-

stirring ceremony, a day of joy such as mnever before fell to my lot,

from

and to all of us, white and black, a day fraught with holy impulses

zeaiously to work on for the Master’s great cause and to pray for

yet larger successes.

once

After the sermon on Eph. iv. 17-24 and a

hymn sung by the girls of the Boarding School, the above 36

ht U8

presented themselves for baptism in the following groups:—first a

%:

the

of als0

family of five: father, mother and three children, from the vicinity

of Ponnany.

This man might well have joined wus fully 20

o hoth

years ago, when his then wife and child became Christians.

But

) Wi

fh,

losing this golden opportunity he continued a heathen, until of late

om 4l

the Lord gave him another warning, whereupon he resolved to

gt 0t

renounce heathenism.

He gives us the impression of a sincere

hqcoﬂd

man

As regards secular matters, he had to sacrifice a better

g, b

ho

position for the hard labour in our Tile Works.—The second group,

| qpeﬂt

also five, is a Tier family from the South which had settled here some

oiency

12 years back.

The father, not an illiterate man, had by disease

arv100

and other trials become reduced to the utmost, when, to add to his

glega

affliction, the report reached him of his wife having died of small-

of ths

pox, while visiting her own relations.

Omne day, when he staggered

onfes?

40

Dl

past the Mission compound, accompanied by his emaciated and well-

Was

thre

nigh starved children, a heathen passing by advised him to hand the

poor children over to our Orphanage, and the father himself followed

ady:

and joined us.

One day they were startled to see the wife and

atte

e

mother, thought dead long ago, suddenly turning up.

The poor

woman was nearly driven mad by pain, when she discovered her

hles

children in the midst of our Orphanage and her husband amidst the

s

Christian community.

She wept and sobbed and seemed quite over-

whelmed by the evil that had befallen her.

‘When she, however,

Br

learned in what a wretched condition they had all been and how

pec

happy and well off the children now were, she changed her mind

Hin

and remained with us.

The man found employ in the Tile Works;

lop

and his wife too, though of a higher connexion, took to the same

occupation.

They have since conducted themselves satisfactorily,

b.efc

and are now in possession of a little house of their own.—A third

him

family of four persons, of the very lowest caste, joined us three

years ago.

Born and bred vagabonds and beggars, as these Gypsy-

Wer

like Nayadis are, it is an exceedingly difficult task to train them to

five

regularity and industry.

Even after having apparently settled at

me |

a place, no sooner does the old spirit of vagrancy revive in them,

tigt

than they are off, in spite of all the attractions of their present abode.

thre

Our Abraham and Sarah, however, have stood the test; they live

£ong

in their own cottage, and have repeatedly declared a life of steady

prey

work to be far preferable to the old habits of begging and stealing.—

shag

Another group of six persons followed: two mothers each with a

d&y

child, and two old women.

The latter, though deficient in know-

the

ledge, were truly longing after communion with the Lord, while the

she;

two mothers, in addition to that desire, through the whole term of

they

instruction, have cheered us by their attention and quick apprehension

Just

of the truth as well as by evincing an earnest mind to walk in the

gl

newness of life.—After these a young woman, three girls of the

pa

Orphanage and the little daughter of another new-comer received

USe

baptism, followed by another party of four boys and three girls

ingh

between seven and fourteen years.

The sight of these little ones,

the

with their child-like simplicity and yet manifest desire after baptism,

fat

——————

41

ell-

was a particularly pleasing one.—The last group was formed by

| the

three youths and an elderly man; the latter, a potter, had by his

wed

advanced age and frequent ailings now and then been prevented from

and

attending the preparatory instruction.

The three young men alike

were deeply impressed with and earnestly longing after the full

poor

| her

blessing of baptism as the washing of regeneration.——Singing and

b the

prayer concluded the solemn Service.

OYe1-

On the career of one of these young converts, Supriyen,

pyer,

Br. Kiihnle supplies us with the subjoined sketch. It is of

how

peculiar interest, now and then to look deeper into genuine

mind

Hindu thought and life, and especially into the more deve-

orks;

loped forms of devotion in staunch Hinduism, and the case

3ame

before us affords us such an insight.

We let the young man

iy,

third

himself tell his story.

Ernad Taiook. We

chree

My father was a well-to-do Tiyan at

were 13 children; 5 brothers and 4 sisters are still alive.

When

jh

10

five years old, I got very ill, which induced my parents to dedicate

me to Subramanya (the God of war).

From my recovery up to my

od 8t

hem,

eighth year I had to wear a sign and pledge of that vow, viz. for

jode.

three years neither comb nor razor were allowed to touch my head,

consecrated to Deity; the hair got a monthly dressing with an unguent

g live

eady

prepared of cowdung, and was allowed wildly to hang down in long

shaggy locks, sticking together and bothering me very much.

One

(e

day, when I declared that I could no longer stand this nuisance and

ith @

threatened to help myself, twelve priests of our caste appeared and

(Now-

sheared my head with much ceremony.

The sacred trophy was

o the

[ of

then in my stead sent to Palany by a band of pilgrims, who were

just on their way to that famous temple of Subramanya (in the Dindi-

nsion

On return they presented me with small pot of

gul range of hills).

n the

“panchamrtam”, a mixture of milk, curds, ghee, honey, and sugar,

{ he

used for bathing idols.—Up to my fourteenth year an able Guru

cived

instructed me in Hindu lore, both prose and poetry.

I also attended

girlS

the Government School at Mancheri, to pick up some English.

My

0188y

father having died some years back, my mother urged me to under-

ptiﬁﬂ]z

6

42

LA Y L,

take a pilgrimage to the celebrated shrine of Palany, as she con-

I eo

sidered me still bound to fulfil the vow of my infancy.

Reluctantly

§eve

I at last yielded and had myself initiated by a priest.

This eourse

quer

of consecration lasted no less than a whole year.

I had to live

the'

separated from my family, in a place interdicted to others, so that I

mm

could not take part in any joy or sorrow of my people.

I had, of

Chri

course, also to cook my own meals and to abstain from flesh-meat and

thou

fish

During the last six months a most rigid fasting was enforced

drea

on me: at the beginning one meal a day, gradually reduced to one

how

With a

meal in two days, and finally to one meal every third day.

hous

feeble and emaciated body and nerves strangely excited, I looked

Bng

forward to the approaching pilgrimage.

On the eve of our departure

all my fellow-pilgrims from the neighbouring villages assembled

taki

in our house, and while we indulged in a sumptuous feast after the

fo

long fast, some priests arrayed me with the orange-dyed pilgrim’s

JLES

garb and a red head-dress, in addition to which they presented me

7

aust

with a “kavadi,

¢. e. a richly adorned pole with a miniature temple

in t}

which served as receptacle for the offerings of sweetmeats ete.

Stre:

rendered to Subramanya.

Mustering about thirty, we started on

that

the following morning, marching on for days and weeks and beg-

ter

ging our food in all the villages through which we passed. - Not that

days

our conversation and demeanour were such as would become real

day

pilgrims: every one of us pleased his own humours as best he could,

on |

and only when approaching a larger village, we kept together,

oy

anfurling our blue and white indented colours and shouting our

Palc

“Harihara’ (N. pr.=Vishnu and Shiva united). Arriving at Palany,

Vil

we stopped at the river, placed our kdvadis in a file, and, standing

breast-deep in the water, had our long hair shorn off by barbers.

Bathed and newly dressed we paid our homage to the god, deliver-

pllg

e

ing our offerings at the temple.—On the market-place I saw a great

Ofte

crowd gathered around one man, went mnearer, and thus for the

first time in my life heard the Word of God preached by a Catechist.

mig|

tamy

It did not then create any deep impression in me; on the contrary,

I sided with the scoffers.

The Catechist’s only rejoinder to our

Somg

this

mocking was an earnest exhortation which put me to shame, so that

Dart

43

o

I was then struck with

I commenced to listen more attentively.

antly

several things which caused me seriously to reflect, and the conse-

ourse

quence was that I returned from my pilgrimage with doubts as to

live

From that time there arose

the efficacy of the vow just fulfilled.

hat I

in me a desire to hear more on the Christian religion and to read

4, of

Christian books.

I did not venture, though, to utter these secret

tand

thoughts of mine, partly because I felt ashamed, partly because I

orced

dreaded the anger of my uncle, a bigotted Hindoo.

I managed,

0 006

however, now and then to read something on Christianity in the

itha

house of the Schoolmaster, a Syrian Christian, who taught me

oked

English, and I even secretly procured some tracts.

rture

My first pilgrimage to Palany imposed on me the duty of under-

ibled

taking a second one after the lapse of three years, and in deference

i ﬂ]e

to the wishes of my relatives I made up my mind, a second time to

rin's

pass through the ordeal of initiation.

But the fasting and other

1 me

austerities, I had to endure, were now much more rigorous, so that

»mple

in the latter part of the appointed twelve months not only my bodily

efe

strength was utterly gone, but also my nerves so much overstrained

d on

that I became deranged in my mind.

How I passed through those

heg

terrible last three months, in which, as I subsequently learned, for

that

days and weeks I was allowed no other food but six peppercorns a

real

day (?), how I set out for the second pilgrimage and what happened

I have but a dark recollection of

ould,

on the way, I do not know.

moments of consciousness, when I found myself in the midst of

ther,

l

our

Palany pilgrims, in whose company I struggled on through several

Jany

villages and towns.

ding

It was not until a month after the completion of this second

hers:

pilgrimage, that God restored my mind. At that time I felt an intense

iyer-

desire to know the truth, and hoped to find the same in Christianity.

Often in those days I prayed to God to lead me to a place where I

;reat

the

might learn more of Him.

At last this yearning in my heart be-

came so strong, that I resolved to leave my uncle and mother, and

Jist:

91Ty

somewhere or other to join a Christian community.

‘What brought

i

this plan in me to full maturity, was the continued urging on the

that

part of my relations to make preparations for a third pilgrimage.

S Ty

44

With perfect dismay I thought of my previous sufferings, and making

On ¢!

my escape some night in July 1878, bent my steps towards Calicut,

pett

where, I was told, there was a Christian Church.

For some weeks

Pond

I rambled about, wretched and restless, not venturing to unburden

a (h

myself to any one, until the Lord had pity on me and led me to an

and

Assistant Master in the Provineial School, a Christian, who gave me

higo

some employment and showed me much kindness. When he perceived

Orde

how much I longed after knowledge of the truth, he sent me to

they

Mr. Schauffler, who admitted me for instruction.

God has shown

Imen

me great mercy; His name be praised !—The relations of the young

ours

Sery

man repeatedly came to draw him away, but he had grace to remain

steadfast, and according to latest news continues to give every

0008

satisfaction by a consistent walk.

and

(lath

The Brethren at Chombala also met with most encouraging

success. Both the «“door of utterance” (or rather «door of

threg

18 m¢

the Word” Col. rv. 8) and the “door of faith” (Act. xv. 27)

Victo

have been thrown open before them by Him “who shutteth and

no man openeth, and who openeth and no man shutteth.” By

the former, the opening of the “door of the Word,” St. Paul

But

Sam¢

evidently meant the removal of obstacles, either external or

internal, impeding the f7ee proclamation of the Gospel (comp.

Open

alse 1 Cor, xvi. 9. and 2 Cor, m. 12), while the latter, the

Wit

opening of the «“door of faith”, refers to the work of grace

in the kearts of the hearers (Acts. xvi. 14),

In both ways the

o b

Lord hath glorified Himself at Mahe, the Out-station of

him,

Chombala.

Our last Report stated, that the French Govern-

SPOk |

ment at Mahe had ever been opposed to religious liberty, but

and

that a petition had in 1878 been forwarded to the Supreme

ang |

Inty

Government in Paris, asking for permission to conduct public

Services at Mahe.

Br. Walter now writes:

asleg

helie

The Lord has heard our prayers, praised be His name! Many

Comf

a time had the anxious question weighed on my mind: what will

theny

become of this promising field of labour, if we meet with a refusal?

bury

e

45

king

On the 9th July, however, after a long time of suspense and repeated

licut,

petitions, we received an official letter from the French Governor at

reeks

Pondicherry, authorizing us to public preaching and the erection: of

rden

a Chapel.

‘What a joy this was for our little congregation at Mahe,

0 a1

and how we thanked our God for this gracious answer!

To the

(Bl

bigotted Roman Catholics it was a heavy blow, when this Government

oived

Order was officially made known in the town.

Headed by the priest,

né £0

they had tried their best to frustrate our plans and had even com-

hown

menced to triumph when the answer was delayed so long. To avail

0ung

ourselves at once of the permission granted, we held our first publie

main

Service on the 13th July, a suitable room having been rented for the

ocecasion.

Beside our little congregation, a great many heathens

A

and Mahommedans attended the Service, whereas not a single Roman

Catholic was present, all having been intimidated by the priest who

ging

threatened them with excommunication.

Thank God, a beginning

or 01

is made.

And may His work there be carried on from victory to

2

victory !

and

Thus much about the entrance granted to the messengers.

»B‘

But what is still much more cheering, is the fact, that at the

Paul

same time, yea even beforehand, so many hearts had been

] ot

opened for the reception of the message itself. Br. Walfer

]

writes:

the

On Palm-Sunday e\;ening (6th April) I baptized a heathen at Mahe

1140

ol

10

on his sick-bed, and after this there came a remarkable change over

him, as evinced during the fortnight’s respite given him: he hardly

p Of

spoke about any thing else but spiritual matters, exhorted his wife

fern

and children and the heathens that called on him, to come to Jesus

put

and be saved by Him.

It made a deep impression on all that came

peme

into contact with him.

On the evening of the 22nd April he fell

il 10

bl

asleep, without any fear of death, “safe in the arms of Jesus”, we

believe.

Before expiring he once more cheerfully confessed his faith,

comforted his weeping wife and children, and solemnly admonished

Many

them as well as the numerous heathens gathered around his bed, to

:

g will

turn unto Christ without further delay. On the 24th April we buried

usal?

46

it ity

(hrig

him on our “Glod’s acre”” at Chombala. Beside our own people many

heathens from Mahe attended.

The sermon and the whole of the

such

Tecel

funeral Service, so thoroughly differing from what they saw among

ever

the Roman Catholics, impressed them so deeply, that when I visited

Mahe two days after, some 15 persons (five others were already

appe

under instruction) applied to me for baptism; among them the head

T

of the Mukkuver family (fishermen) baptized last year,—a sincere

Nicodemus-soul.

four

Shortly after they issued a joint-letter to their

our

caste-fellows (Mukkuvers), stating that, as they intended to become

of 0

Christians, they had broken caste and should no longer be expected

to participate in any heathenish ceremony, but that nevertheless they

A

desired to maintain friendly relations with their former associates.

ofal

On the part of the heathen our Catechumens were subjected to

had i

asal

no molestations whatever. Not so with the Romanists. They had

special designs on the old head of the family, Isaac, and made every

Comp|

possible effort to allure him by their offers and promises, but in vain.

chigt :

the ¢

Without any disturbance the preparatory instruction, twice or thrice

a week, could be proceeded with, conducted in the upper story of a

over |

house belonging to one of the new-comers.

It was a blessed, refre-

of &

shing season to all of us; last year’s converts also, especially the two

cours

venerable old women, regularly joined in the instruction. They all

souls,

listened most attentively, and I had sufficient proofs to satisfy myself

Unifeg

that they daily read their Bibles and therefore easily grasped the

haptis

main tenets of Christianity.

This and the happy assurance, I had,

morg|

that they were no ‘“Rice-Christians”, in no way prompted by out-

very

ward distress to renounce heathenism, caused me particularly to

ther

rejoice over the dear souls, and made it easy for us, after the com-

Siong;

pletion of the preparatory instruction to determine as to baptism

Some

itself.

ESpecy

Pentecost morn broke. At a very early hour our friends, twenty

Coulq

in number, all clad in festive robes, arrived at Chombala, accompani-

haye |

ed by our Mahe Christians.

Their ranks were swelled by seven

deSira

other Catechumens of the mother-station. It was a truly gladdening

Ing f

and elevating sight, to see these 18 adults and 9 children, forming

Ongy

a semi-circle round the Communion-table, received into the Church of

tinyg

e

47

Christ by baptism,—a realization of Pentecostal joys and blessings

many

of the

such as to fill our hearts with thanks and praise.

May they all

receive grace, stedfastly to ‘“‘continue in the apostles’ doctrine” and

imong

rsited

ever to be deeper grounded in the fellowship of the Lord so as to

ready

appear once before His throne, a reward for the travail of His soul!

head

Tellicherry registers 18 baptisms of heathens, including

neere

four at Anjercandy.

This latter place has special claims on

their

our sympathy as a spot hallowed by the labours and prayers

po0ME

of Hebich and other old Malabar Missionaries.

yected

5 they

As early as February 1839, several months before the starting

of a Malabar Mission had even been seriously thought of, Anjercandy

ates.

ed o

had its first visit from one of our Brethren, having been received by him

7 had

as a kind of legacy from the late Mr. Rhenius at Tinnevelly, who, in

compliance with the wish of a philanthropic planter, had sent a Cate-

very

Talll,

chist there for instructing the children of the slaves and preaching

the Gospel to the adults, and had even expressed the hope of coming

thrice

over himself for the first baptism.

In his stead the spiritual charge

rofﬂ,

refre-

of Anjercandy devolved on our Tellicherry Brethren, who in the

course of the next ten years gathered a congregation of about fifty

LR

souls.

In 1849 Anjercandy was detached from Tellicherry and

e}' all

united with Cannanore, and the work prospered from year to year;

u}'Self

baptisms of 43 (1850) and 53 (1851) at a time happened and the

q the

moral improvement of this down-trodden slave-caste, once on the

hada

very lowest rung of the social ladder, was undeniable.

But with

e

their intelligence enlarged, their conscience sharpened, and the Mis-

1y {0

sionary’s and Catechist’s influence ever increasing, there arose

com

some disagreable consequences in their relations to the proprietors,

,ptism

especially after the death of the old gentleman in January 1855.

It

could hardly be expected, that the planter and the Missionary could

oy

have the same views as to the Christian education that was most

1paﬂi‘

desirable.

Unpleasant jarrings ensued, a mutual distrust and feel-

gpven

ing of discontent spread, and matters were brought to a crisis by the

enig

owner’s dismissing the Catechist and desiring Br. Hebick to discon-

ming

tinue his visits. This deplorable rupture (Dec. 1856) which, perhaps,

ol of

48

e

with a larger measure of dispassionate calmness and forbearance on

our part might have been warded off for some time, but was render-

Ao

had

ed complete by the resolution taken by the greater part of the con-

gregation, immediately to leave Anjercandy, led to the settlement at

ledg

Chovva, where the emigrants, no fewer than 177, had huts and lands

fo e

allotted to them for the cultivation of cocoanuts ete.

Tejol

Rare visits excepted, Anjercandy was lost sight of for well-nigh

as

twenty years.

In our Report for 1875 the name crops up again for

od b

the first time: “remmants of a former congregation” had been found,

nsed

nine persons baptized, and though we had not been able yet to place

ava,

rush

a Catechist among them, they were looked after by the Tellicherry-

Brethren. Eight more baptisms happened in 1877 and a Catechist

decl:

was stationed there.

By the close of 1878 the congregation num-

with

In addi-

0nce

bered 28, at present 39 souls (including 20 children).

tion to a Catechist’s house built in 1878, we possess now our own

ofa

School- and Prayer-room.

What is especially noteworthy, is the

that

cheering fact that even heathen landowners, when called upon to

famy

support us in our efforts to gain a footing at Anjercandy, nobly res-

peap

heat

ponded by aiding. us with liberal subseriptions and supplies of

timber ete.

also

Br. Liebendorfer now writes: The new Chapel was consecfated

on Kasterday, in connexion with the baptism of four persons, and

New

Of th

largely attended by heathens and Mahommedans.

In the afternoon

heap

we celebrated a kind of Missionary festival, myself and four Native

than

Christians from Tellicherry and Chovva being the speakers.

Among

ihey

the latter there was Jesaia, an elder of Chovva, who gave us a stirr-

only

ing account of the origin and growth of the first Anjercandy Congre-

the ]

gation and the time of their first love.

He felt almost, he said, as

e

Israel of old did, when, returning from the captivity, they wept at the

sight of the small Congregation and the new temple.

Of the first

geny

generation he happened to be the only representative among the

being

crowd assembled in this new Chapel, though quite a number of their

A hq

sons were surrounding him.

Would that they all alike, fathers and

kuye

sons, became living stones in the great spiritual temple, the Church

1)0)'}1‘

of Christ!

the |

Sl

49

1Ce on

We entered upon the new year with eight candidates for baptism.

ender-

At my last visit at Anjercandy I called, among others, on a man who

¢ CON-

had heard the Gospel many times and who has also a very fair know-

16nf at

ledge of the truth. We earnestly admonished and pressed him, rot

1 lands

to put off baptism any longer, otherwise it might prove too late. He

rejoined that he had secretly renounced idol-worship long ago and

[l-nigh

was praying to none else but the true God.

“How is it then,”’ I ask-

ain for

ed him, “that you have still got this stone here (in front of the house,

used for setting up a light at night in worship of manes and to drive

found,

) place

away demons)? Will you allow me to knock it down?’’ Presently he

hetry-

rushed to my side, assisted me in the work of demolition, and further

declared that he was now firmly resolved to receive baptism along

fechist

] 101

with his mother and his two boys (he is a widower), requesting me at

As this man is

- addi-

once to commence with the preparatory instruction.

of a somewhat higher caste and rather independent position, I trust,

it 0wl

is the

that others too will be influenced by his example.

Also another

pon {0

family, of the low Wattuver caste (hunters), to which our Anjercandy

people mostly belong, applied for baptism.

There are a number of

lj' res.

lies of

heathen houses around, where Scripture-portions are met with and

also are read.

‘With some I can converse as with Christians; some

of them are not at all at a loss to quote passages from the Old or

orated

New Testament.

3, and

The only thing they lack, is the moral courage to

bear the reproach of Christ, because they love the praise of men more

o000

than the praise of God.

To be enabled to break through these bonds,

Natire

Among

they must first be brought to a deeper sense of sin and perdition ; then

only will they hail a Saviour.

And this, after all, is not man’s work,

g stirt

the Lord alone can effect it, and He will do so in His own time.

)0 1 gre.

aid, o8

So much the more reason to rejoice whenever we meet with

of the

genuine cases of deep conviction and desire after salvation

o first

being wrought by the Spirit of God. Br. Licbendorfer relates

ng Hle

a hopeful case of this latter kind, a young man of the Muk-

i their

kuver caste at Tellicherry, about 20 years of age, who in his

s a0l

boyhood had for several years attended the Mission-School in

red

the Fisher-village, and on a Sunday evening in June came to

{

50

the Missionaries, expressing his earnest desire to become a

solafs

Christian.

in o

grief

The whole appearance of the youth impressed me favorably, and

he w

the examination to which I subjected him as to his motives etec.,

So I received him with

ing o

satisfied me that he was in good earnest.

19 101

joy. Presently also he had an opportunity of having the sincerity of

ahsor

his faith both tested and proved.

No sooner had the news of his

vice,

step reached his relations, than his mother, sister and many more

ouf a

appeared on Monday morning, to win him over with all their powers

in an

of persuasion.

It was a heart-rending scene: the youth’s mother

and |

and sister prostrate on the floor, clasping his knees, tearing their

and i

hair, beating the breast, weeping and wailing, and the mother ever

CarT

erying: “Oh my darling, my darling, forsake me not!” Whatever we

spoke to assuage the afflicted woman, it was of no avail; she would

bya

ed, a

not be comforted.

And thus she continued imploring not merely for

leaiy

an hour or two; no, all day long she would not for a moment with-

draw from her son.

Though the affecting sight ever kept his eyes

the

Preve

suffused with tears, he remained firm, again and again declaring that

happ'

it was but pardon of his sins, he wanted, and this alone could make

him disregard a mother’s grief.

cours

On the second day the attack was renewed by a large number of

acqus

June)

relations who from early dawn, now singly, now in a body, with

had ]

smiles and frowns, promises and threats of all kinds tried their ut-

n the

most to dissuade him, but were ever and anon met with the firm reply:

ey

I want pardon of my sins and therefore must remain here.

The well-

0n th

known old trick too of representing an aged uncle of his suddenly

faith

being at the last gasp, whom once more to see was undeniably his

perse

duty, was resorted to; they solemnly pledged their honour to bring

him back within two days.

He had, of course, full permission to go,

but again firmly refused.

Seeing at last, that all their efforts were

tha+

in vain, some of the women rose, and taking earth from the ground

SC]]()(

flung it at him, invoked the most terrible curses on his head and ran

~the

down the hill.

Another victory was won.

g,

On the morning of the third day at first none except the discon-

Wd}

51

Gt

e &

solate mother came.

Without uttering a word, she quietly sat down

in front of her son’s room and incessantly gazed upon him in mute

grief and with eyes swimming in tears, as though she asked, whether

,and

he was for ever lost to her.

I would fain have given her some last-

efc.,

ing comfort for her bereaved heart, believing, as I do, that she too

Wi

th

is not far from the kingdom of God ; but at the time she was too much

ity of

absorbed by other thoughts.

At noon the young man attended Ser-

of his

vice.

‘When on his way home in the company of our Christians, with-

more

OWerS

out any misgivings, all at once three strong men who had been lying

in ambush for him (one of them a notorious sorcerer), pounced on him

other

and in spite of all his resistance lifted him up on their shoulders,

their

and in the face of all our people, paralyzed as they seemed to stand,

ever

carried him off at their utmost speed.

Dashing off towards the gate

er We

by a short cut, I was just in time to intercept them; a short scuffle ensu-

would

ed, and the end was that the three kidnappers took to their heels,

Iy for

leaving the contested prey in my possession.

Great was the joy of

with

the dear fellow, though his whole body trembled with emotion.

To

6768

prevent further disturbances, I informed the Police of what had

o

hat

During the

happened, and for the rest we remained unmolested.

make

course of instruction he showed a rare zeal to make himself thoroughly

acquainted with the Seriptures.

On the day after his baptism (29th

June) our neophyte, Samuel, returned to the house of his mother who

er of

with

had promised to admit him, though a Christian.

While he thus lives

in the midst of his kinsmen and conjointly with them pursues his for-

1T ut

mer craft, he has to bear a great deal of worrying and ill-treatment

ropl

‘“ell

on their part, but up to this time (February 1880) has remained

faithful, and strives to overcome their resistance by meekness and

den

[

i hb

persevering intercession in behalf of them.

bring

Another interesting case that happened at Tellicherry, is

{0

80y

that of Vélu, a worthy old fencing-master, astrologer and

ere

schoolmaster (Panikar caste), who with his wife, three sons,

gound

—the eldest 20 and the youngest 10, a married daughter, her

ld 1an

husband (Krishnen) and two grand-children, had found his

way to Tellicherry from a place 8. E. of Calicut, and now

96010

-

¥

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52

S L

Br

asked the Brethren to receive himself and family into the

Church.

pres

It was a strange way, by which these folks were led to the fold

them

of Christ.

whol

Their eldest daughter, married to the above Krishnen,

had one day disappeared without leaving the least trace.

All en-

Were

How

quiries in the neighbourhood remained unsuccessful.

At last it was

draw

reported that she had been discovered in the Nunnery at Calicut.

How she got there, is a mystery unsolved to this day.

The mother,

are |

the

though well aware that she would lose her caste, if she went to

Calicut, unhesitatingly undertook the journey in the company of her

awe

son-in-law.

Arriving there, she found her daughter laid up with

brea

small-pox, in an already hopeless state.

After her death the rest

sely

of the family started for Calicut, as the mother’s return would any-

Hus!

how have involved loss of caste to all of them.

Nor would Krishnen

seed

leave them in their distress; a second time he became a devoted

sy

son-in-law to them by marrying their second daughter.

‘While

a

thus staying at Calicut, the Roman Catholic priest endeavoured to

with

draw them over to his church.

But the more the old, simple-

ey

hearted Velu and his wife saw of the vain pomp and ceremonies of

aboy

Roman worship, the more disgusted they felt.

At this very

a (g

juncture, when they were sadly at a loss what to do, a heathen,

strange to say, had to step in, to show them the right way.

Their

steny

landlord, himself a stranger yet, told them that there was still

6 of

another Christian community at Calicut, and drawing a comparison,

I

as well as he could, between the Romanists and Protestants, strongly

the

advised them to join the latter body.

Acting upon this disinterested

Non

advice, they at once set out for Tellicherry, in order to get clear

of the dreaded priest.

Thus they came, told their tale and asked

latj

fron

to be received “in Gtod’s mame”.—Though it obviously was not a

desire after salvation that had actuated them to seek refuge with us,

and

the Brethren were much pleased with the artless, open-hearted

the’

manner of the old couple and felt confident enough to admit them,

had

which proved the less difficult, as they entirely lived by their

il 8y

own handiwork and not a single time asked for any assistance,

I

even when for several days they had scarcely anything to eat.

ang

the

Br. Licbendirfer at once commenced the instruction with them, and

presently had the joy to perceive, what a mighty change came over

fold

them, when truth flashed on the minds.

Unpretending as their

e,

whole appearance had been, it soon became manifest, that theirs

I en-

were really hearts well prepared for the reception of God’s Word.

| Was

How adorable these manifold and marvellous ways of the Father’s

drawing souls to the Son! Though *past finding out” in general, we

licut,

ther,

are sometimes privileged to trace them in some measure, and even

nf to

the little that peeps out now and then, fills our hearts with

' her

awe and wonder.

The loss of the child, the loss of caste, the

with

breaking off of the former connexions, events so common in them-

selves, served here just as the ploughshare wherewith the Great

rest

any

Husbandman turned the hard-trodden soil, and lo, how well did the

After a six months’ course of

hnen

seed spring up and bring forth fruit.

instruction Br. L. baptized the whole family on the 28th September,

oted

Thile

a day of heart-felt joy and thanks-givings on their part as well as

with the whole congregation, whose entire love and confidence the

d 10

new-comers had gained and still possess.

One of the sons is now

aple

os of

about to enter into the Preparandi-School, and will some day become

a Catechist, we trust.

very

fen,

Cannanore, our Military Station and as such noted for its

heir

sterility, records fifteen baptisms of heathens (6 at Cannanore,

still

6 at Chovva,

(o]

9

at Manantoddy), certainly an advance, if we

1501,

remember that the aggregate number of its baptisms within

‘ng]y

the six years 1873-78 reached only the same number 15.

sted

None, however, of the six converts of the mother-station are

Joa!

natives of Cannanore; of the five young men, of ages ranging

gked

from 20 to 32, one came from Tellicherry, two from Calicut

of &

and two from Palghaut (Chittur). They are all employed in

1 U8,

the Weaving Establishment. The sixth, a destitute orphan girl,

tted

had been found at Manantoddy.—Chovva had not seen any

3erﬂ;

new accessions for the last ten years.

The six persons

;heit‘

1C6;

recently baptized came partly from the vicinity of Chovva

and Cannanore, viz. a woman of the Carpenter caste with her

ol

ARl

4

niece, and a young Tiyan who is now to be admitted to the

dissua

Preparandi-School ; partly from Calicut: a Tiyan with his wife

(latecl

stand

and child who, weary of their Sanyasi rambles (as religious

mendicants), have now settled down to a life of honest labour.

inme

At Cannanore, Tellicherry and Manantoddy a number of

unpre

this f:

Roman Catholics have been received into Church-communion,

since

after due instruction.

At the latter place our little congre-

by na

gation, as yet in the charge of a Catechist, numbers 27 souls,

he pr

and though we do by no means see our way clear yet for the

permanent occupation of Manantoddy which we had in contem-

A

them

plation for some time back, it will, as a temporary measure,

shortly be made the residence of one of our Brethren.

The

have

results of a few years’ trial, it is hoped, will then enable us

16me

of G

to come to a satisfactory conclusion as to the expediency of

Meanwhile

an 1

raising Manantoddy to the rank of a Station,

an opportunity will be afforded to our friends of the English

they

Sury

community in N. E. Wynaud, to give us practical proofs of

their interest in this new undertaking of ours, calculated to

benefit White and Black, Christians and non-Christians alike.

With very rare exceptions, we cannot as yet boast of having

met with that hearty sympathy and co-operation on their part,

which we might have expected in response to our appeal.

{

About an interesting case of a genuine conversion that

$hal

occurred at Panayur, an Out-station of Palghaut, we are not

lnto

in the position to give more than a few brief notes.

Joun

mth

In June last, Br. Ruhland writes, a man of the Panikar caste

(vide p. 51), with his wife and two children, was baptized at Panayur.

]

He had been contemplating this step for the last 10to 15 years; but

that

now that he was determined to cast in his lot with the disciples of

vy

Christ, nothing could shake him in his resolution.

The Brahmin

a8

opposition preacher (vide our two, three last Reports) bestirred

ey

himself to a personal visit at Panayur, and did all he could to

fop

5

5

ok

0 the

dissuade our friend; but all his attempts failed. A pond close by the

3 wife

Catechist’s house, with a projecting stone for the Missionary to

gious

stand on, offered excellent facilities for the scriptural mode of

hour,

immersion, witnessed by a crowd of heathens.

By their humble,

er of

unpretending manners and their diligent searching -of the Scriptures

this family continues to give us much joy.

Karuppen, now Paul, has

Imion,

ngLe-

since been employed as a Schoolmaster.

Though quiet and reserved

by nature, he fearlessly bears testimony to the truth; the other day

souls,

he preached in the very face of the above-mentioned Brahmin.

¢ the

ntem

And so we take leave of our new converts, commending

them as well as the four hundred Catechumens with whom we

ASULE,

have entered upon a new year, to the loving and prayerful

The

le us

remembrance of our friends, and, above all, to the grace

of God who is able to build them up, and to give them

y of

an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. May

;while

they all become burning and

shining lights amidst the

glish

surrounding darkness, a cloud of devoted witnesses for Christ!

fs of

ed to

alike

I ‘MORAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE OF OUR

YIng

NATIVE CHRISTIANS.

patt,

“Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye

So those servants went out

that

shall find, bid to the marriage.

into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they

g 106

Jound, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished

with guests.”

Matt. xxm. 9.

caste

The experience of eighteen centuries has amply proved,

|a§'|ll',

that no branch of the visible Church of Christ, and be its name

hut

ever s0 high, has got or ever will get beyond this mixed state:

os of

“as many as they found, both bad and good”.

And we won-

hmin

der, if any Mission could find language more true and terse

tirred

for briefly characterizing its constituent elements.

In the

[

56

e

course of the past year too, on more than one sad occasion,

ane,

of ds

the sorrowful question has been heard in our midst: «Sir,

Not

didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then

hath 1t tares?” and the answer received:

“The enemy hath

Jedg

done <this’’.

More than once we have been cut to the quick

Chur

by startling revelations of vice and iniquity, such as to heap

ity

leare

infamy on our cause, and apt te remind us of a more imme-

diate presence of the ‘“roaring lion” that seeketh whom he

cony

may devour.

In a number of our Churches there have been

(Ept

flagrant outbreaks of carnality in almost all the different

mad

forms specified in the long list Gal. v. 19-21, not excluding

out

“idolatry, witchcraft””, nor even “murders”!

ally

real

A woman at Shirwa (Udapy), driven to despair by the hard-

ligh

hearted, malicious conduct of her father-in-law and brother-in-law,

whose ill-will, she alleged in Court, she had incurred by resisting

Wha

their sinister designs on her honour, threw her three children into

ver]

|

a well and jumped in herself.

Though far advanced in pregnancy,

Chu

she escaped unhurt, while life was extinct in the little ones before

penf

help came.

She was sentenced to transportation for life.*

May

we |

God have mercy on the poor, broken-hearted mother, and mercy also

.

on those who will have to appear before a higher than human

tribunal!

only

Another very sad case occurred at Mercara.

A married woman

thaft

who, when at Mangalore, had been excommunicated on account of

K

adultery, committed suicide by drowning herself in a well. Whether

pres

it was a premeditated act, to which she was prompted by the excess

who

of sorrow over the loss of her only child, or rather an act of tempo-

the

rary insanity—she suffered from a severe attack of fever at the

]

time-—, we must leave undecided.

tel‘y7

Painful and deeply humiliating as these and so many other

Was

cases were, by which dishonour has been brought on the name

of Christ, we will, instead of giving up the cause as a hopeless

Jugt \

3 L

\The High Court’s approval is still pending.

High

tenee

()]

-3

\Si0n,

one, rather thank God for bringing to light the hidden things

“Sir,

of darkness and making manifest the counsels of the hearts.*

then

Not to speak of the corruption prevailing in even acknow-

hath

ledged centres of religious life at home, the earliest apostolic

(uick

Church itself exhibits manifold instances of the same depra-

heap

vity of human nature.

Where sin has been long indulged, it

mme

leaves its withering, desolating effects on the soul long after

m he

conversion.

And we would take comfort from St. Paul’s view

heen

(Eph. v. 13), that all secret sins, when reproved, are not only

erent

made manifest by the light, but that all which is thus brought

ding

out of its concealment and permits itself to be reproved, actu-

ally «is light” 7.e. has in some measure ceased to belong to the

realm of darkness and commenced to partake of the nature of

hard-

light.

Full exposure to the light then is the only remedy for

-Jav,

whatever has fallen a prey to darkness.

We have seen this

sting

1 1nto

verified in many a case, when a truly spiritual exercise of

Church-discipline has had the effect of leading sinners to re-

Iy

afore

pentance and a new life, so that we need not despond, though

May

we have ever and anon to fight with the old leaven.

als0

And, thank God, it is not with such doubtful characters

man

only, that the “wedding is furnished”; no, we rejoice to know

that we have also a good many real, worthy guests, whom the

mall

King will find arrayed in the “wedding garment”, though at

ot of

present they belong to «His hidden ones”.

About one of them

nther

who entered into his rest in the course of the year, we give

(655

the following extract from Br». Hirner’'s report:

mpo-

- the

Moses Shiri, the Foreman of our Press and member of the Presby-

tery, who fell asleep in the peace of God on the 13th January 1879,

was a man who by his humility and godliness had become a pattern

»ther

bl

# With reference to the Shirwa case (p. 56) we are happy to state that,

{ﬂme

just while we are going to Press with this form, the news reaches us, that the

Jess

High Court, in consideration of extenuating circumstances, has reduced the sen-

tence passed by the Sessions Court to one of three years’ rigorous imprisonment.

8

o

to many of the congregation at large, as well as to his subordinates

1nean

in the Printing Establishment.

His memory will remain blessed

similg

with all that were acquainted with him.

As for me, I have lost in

view,

him not a labourer only, but a friend with whom I was knit together

imper

in true affection and who was so much at one with me, that I could

Were |

place implicit confidence in him, which he knew to appreciate,

But a

without misusing it a single time.

A striking proof of his grati-

fair p

tude for all the benefits received from the Mission, he gave us some

plous

years back, when the Inspector of Govt. Presses on an inspection-

tour, after having visited our Mission Press, tried to secure his

ed in

valuable services for the Govt. Press of Mangalore, and to this end

live a

rich ¢

offered him first Rs. 50 and at last Rs. 80 a month, while from us

he was drawing but Rs. 27 at the time (subsequently raised to

under

B

Rs. 42, in acknowledgment of his fidelity). During the three days’

Just &

respite given him for comnsidering the matter, he was strongly

In

advised by many to seize this splendid opportunity of bettering

their ¢

himself.

But he was not to be shaken.

The sense of gratitude,

have

he declared, which tied him to our Mission, was too strong to allow

his e

him to entertain any thoughts of a change for money’s sake, and so he

e

declined,—to the profound surprise of a certain Govt. official, who

[att

but two days previously had assured his brother-official of his sublime

Pencil,

contempt for all Native Christians, as there was “no good in them’’!

Wherey

With what right carpers of this type—and their name is

He the

Legion—expect from Native Christians a higher spirituality

Secong

than their own, we are at a loss to perceive.

It has been

Dantet

justly remarked that ¢the real earnest Christians of our In-

Joyfu]

hig hg

dian Missions have no need to shrink from comparison with

the real earnest Christians in a similar station in life and

He the

similarly circumstanced in life in England or in any other

and |

part of the world;—that they appear in general more teach-

With()\

Petey

able, more considerate of the feelings of others and more res-

a]ld de

pectful to superiors, more uniformly temperate, more patient

Ser\"iee

and gentle, more trustful in providence, better church-goers,

Whilg,

yet free from religious bigotry, and in proportion to their

A heg

99

e

linates

means more liberal than Christians in England, holding a

lessed

similar position in the social scale.”

We fully endorse this

lost n

Not that we are blind to the

view, as it is -borne out by facts.

gether

imperfections and stains of Native Christians, or as though we

onld

were ignorant of the existence of much chaff among the wheat.

eciate,

But at the same time we rejoice to know that we have got a

grati-

fair proportion, too, of “the quiet in the land”, z.e. those truly

3 Some

19

pious souls, who, disengaged from the world and firmly ground-

aetion-

re his

ed in the Scriptures, in their outwardly humble positions often

is end

live a life of distress and affliction, while inwardly they are

om 1S

rich towards God and have found a lasting shelter and rest

under the cross of Christ.

We cannot refrain from giving

sed fo

just an instance of this class of people, mentioned by B7. Roth:

days’

pongly

In contrast with the grievous indifference for the salvation of

fering

their souls, shown by so many of our old and young Christians, I

iitUde»

have been truly refreshed by the zeal of our deaf Peter (about

allow

his eonversion and baptism at Dharwar vide our Report for 1877,

50 he

page 24).

The other day he came to me with a question which

, wiho

I at the moment did not fully grasp.

I gave him a paper and

plime

pencil, and he wrote: “When will the Lord’s Supper be celebrated?”

!

whereupon I showed him a certain Sunday in the Canarese Almanac.

He then asked me for the Canarese Bible, and turning up the forty-

e 15

ality

second Psalm, pointed with his finger to the 1st verse: “As the hart

AR

niof

h my soul after thee, O God!”

he

1l

panteth after the water brooks, so pa

Joyfully surprised by this effusion of his God-loving soul, I seized

I In

his hand, and tears of joy appeared both in his eyes and mine.

with

He then showed me some other passages, referring to the Holy Supper,

)all

i

and I was struck with wonder, how familiar he was with his Bible.

of

her

Without any instruction, by mere reading in the Scriptures, our deaf

each

Peter has become such an affectionate, heavenly-minded disciple

and devoted servant.

Though completely deaf, he never misses a

p 168

Service; being shown the text, he reads and meditates on it all the

menf

1061

while. How the saving power of God has manifested itself in this man,

{heir

a heathen but two years ago, his bodily ears shut for ever, while the

Sk

60

LR

spiritual ones have been opened! Peter is a sure pledge unto us,

that the Lord has His sheep among the Canarese people too, who,

|

as a race, have as yet evinced so little susceptibility for the Gospel.

As to the question of self-support, the list of contributions

on pp. 18-19 will convey an idea of what our congregations

oceut

are aiming at.

We cannot boast, that the whole of these

three thousand and odd Rupees was contributed spontaneously,

Repo

left,

cheerfully and without any pressure from outside, nor that

Br

all our Christians give according to their means.

Had they

heen

more fully recognized their duty of becoming entirely seli-

her

supporting Churches according to the New Testament pattern,

hasts

their subscriptions would flow forth in quite a different style,

)

in spite of the undeniable poverty under which many of them,

ay

especially in the rural Churches, do suffer.

On the other

hand it is to be admitted, that there is still a good deal of

lat,

priva,te\charity, remaining unnoticed in statistical computations,

field

as ¢. g. ten families at Calicut have taken charge each of an

orphan or otherwise destitute child, for whose support they

Kep

Br

receive no compensation from public funds.

But the more

whil

we have in times past made the mistake of fostering a spirit

wele

of dependence in our young Churches by helping them in

La y

their temporal affairs, the more earnestly have we now to

inculcate on them the duty of giving, not only for the support

fimg

SChl

of their poor, but also for the support of their own Pastors,

Teachers etc.

We hope and pray, that our Native Brethren

will recognize more and more the vast importance of the

I

Dret

subject.

And if the sight of the above list of contributions,

Sta

the first attempt of the kind in our Reports, should tend to

quicken their sympathies and kindle in them a wholesome

Hop

spirit of emulation, such as St. Paul wished to see aroused

ploy

between the Churches of Achaia and Macedonia (2 Cor. x. 2),

lahy

we should be all the more happy for it.

ado

hap

61

nko us

0, Who

IV. CHANGES IN THE STAFF OF EUROPEAN

ospel

LABOURERS.

utions

About a number of departures as well as arrivals which

ations

occurred in spring 1879, particulars were given in our last

these

A few weeks after the first home-bound party had

Report.

ously,

left, Malabar had the misfortune of losing the services of

r that

Br. Schawffler. When returning to India in 1877, he had

d they

been obliged to leave his wife in Germany on account of

r self-

her precarious health, and now himself had reluctantly to

ttern,

We have not given

hasten home, owing to alarming news.

style,

up yet the hope of seeing our dear Brother and Sister some

them,

day back in India.

other

The reinforcements by which we were cheered in October

eal of

last, ave: Br. and Sr. Hasenwandel, returning to their former

Hons,

field of labour, South Mahratta (Dharwar), the Brethren

of an

Keppler and Fawus for Karkal and Palghaut respectively, and

they

Br. Fieg, to join the Mercantile Establishment at Calicut,

more

while the Brethren Schenkel and Ostermeyer received most

spﬂﬁ

welcome helpmeets in the persons of Miss Friz and Miss

1

Layer respectively.—iss Kocherhans too, who for some

o 10

time had assisted in the management of the Girls’ Boarding

School at Calicut, was married to Br. Ruhlond.

[pp()l‘t

sfors,

Thus our number at the beginning of the new year came

thred

up to 69, viz. fifty ordained Missionaries and nineteen Lay-

f the

brethren.

As to their various spheres of labour, the list of

H0ns,

Stations and Agents, pp. 6-12, will give every desirable informa-

yd 0

tion.

The rather anomalous position of our Mission in em-

15016

ploying such an exceptionally large number of European

gused

labourers for pastoral work, which, according to the practice

5 J)

adopted by most other Missions, might with advantage be

handed over to worthy indigenous Pastors, has of late been

62

L e

Judg

occupying theAatt‘ention both of our Home-Board and of our-

selves.

We have every reason to believe, that new and more

LeWa

al

$0

decisive steps in this direction will shortly be taken, in order

Hi

]

to set a larger number of Missionaries free for a more direct

and energetic pursuit of Itinerancy.

pecti

DEC

oour

While we are penning this (8th March), another large

The

party of nine adults and some fifteen children are embarking

our

for Germany, headed by our venerable veteran and Senior,

Br

Br. Fritz, late of Cannanore, who landed in India as early

rend

as June 1840 and thus had the privilege of seeing fully forty

the 4

years’ service in the country, with but a single home-furlough’s

pause (1860-62).

We thank the Lord of the Harvest for the

to

|

rich mercies and blessings vouchsafed to our dear Brother

and through him to the Church of Malabar and our whole

f B

Indian Mission, and heartily wish him and his partner, who has

\,J

Huy

uninterruptedly spent the last eighteen years at his side,

a long and happy enjoyment of the well-earned rest at home

and

Can

and at last an abundant entrance into the everlasting Kingdom

for ¢

above.—Not less keenly and universally felt is the severe

loss sustained by the departure of our dear B». and Sr.

Iatts

of

DAeiderer of Mangalore, who after 26 years’ faithful service

e

leave us for good, though there is some comfort in the thought

that Br. Pfleiderer’'s ripe experience and counsel will not be

and

Bl

lost to the Mission in the new sphere of usefulness, into which

he is to enter at Basel.

The gap arising by his departure

S)’m]

will be filled up by his cousin, Br. C. Ffleiderer, hitherto in

ahoy

the]

charge of our Industrial Establishments at Calicut, on whom

the duties of the General Agency of our Indian Mission now

Ong

devolve.

Sr. Schock, too, who landed at Cannanore in 1863,

A

the

and since the lamented death of her husband (vide our Report

for 1876) was in charge of the Calicut Orphanage, bids fare-

G0

well to India for ever.

The «Father of the fatherless and

to

e

63

our

Judge of the widows” be a sun and shield and exceeding great

more

reward to her and hers!—Complete failure of health compels

el

also Br. and Sr. Schmolck of Tellicherry, and Br. and Sr.

irec

Iitbner of Bettigerry, after eleven and ten years’ service res-

pectively, to return to Germany. Both couples had in the

course of the year to mourn the loss each of a beloved child.

arge

The Lord grant them a full recovery and speedy return to

king

our shores!—The above party will shortly be followed by

1101

P

7

37

and S7. Linder of Chombala, as S». L.’s frequent ailings

a1y

render her longer stay in the country unadvisable.

We hope,

forty

the change will be conducive to restoration of health.

1o’

Other parties had for a shorter or longer period to repair

» the

to the Nilagiri Hills in quest of health, as 5. and S». Mack

il

ig

of Hubly, Br. Litze of Guledgud, Br. Nu#bling of Honore,

hole

Sr. Linder of Chombala, S». Knoblock of Calicut, Br. and Sr.

has

Haure of Mangalore, Br. and Sr. Walter of Chombala, B7.

Sl

le,

and Sr. Hermelink of Mulky, while Br. and Sr. Diez of

016

Cannanore went to Bangalore for a change.

Others, too, had

dom

for a season to give up their work, especially in South Mah-

yere

ratta, where the intermittent fever continues to be a source

S

of suffering and distress for white and black alike. We de-

V106

sire to tender our heart-felt thanks to our kind medical friends

ght

and advisers,

especially Dr. Williams at Mangalore, Dr.

he

Bell at Dharwar, and Dr. Price at Ootacamund, for all their

hieh

sympathetic and gratuitous effortsin behalf of our patients. But,

t i)

o

above all, we thank our Lord for having so graciously spared

0 11

the lives of all our Brethren and Sisters, while in the same year

0m

one deep,

sore wound after another was inflicted on our

10w

African Mission. Many the members, one the body. And so all

363

and

the members truly suffer

with the suffering ones,

pOLt

rejoice with the honoured ones.

May it but all alike redound

416

to the praise and honour of our one glorious Head and King!

ﬁﬂd

64

offers

V. STAFF OF NATIVE AGENTS

chis

Who

Of the 64* Catechists and Evangelists, in our service on the

from

1st January 1879, we lost two by death, three others had to

are 1|

be pensioned on account of advanced age and debility, while

saitl

a sixth one, refractory in a question of change of place, com-

therr

pelled us to sever our connexion with him. On the other hand

we had the joy of seeing five young men, after the completion

testir

of a four years’ course of study in the Seminary, installed as

our

Catechists, and two others, though not trained in the same

pleas

regular channel, but otherwise qualified for evangelistic work

Thus their ranks have been

tual

admitted as Assistant Catechists

augmented but by one, while the number of Native Pastors

Lord

chare

has remained stationary (8)

Under these circumstances it

V6t 0

vas impossible to increase the number of Native helpers in

South Mahratta: all that we could do, was to send one from

the Coast to make up for the loss sustained by the death of

I ff

While in his case it was

e n

Christian Chinnappa, late of Hubly

the Senior Catechist of the District, whom death carried off

chis

(13th May 1879), after 21 years’ faithful service Christian

anny

Palanna who succumbed to a malignant fever (22nd March

10rg

gty

1879) at Attolimani, Coorg, was the youngest in service among

all the Catechists in Canara; he had, in fact, left the Seminary

C0m)

but ten months previously. Short, as his career was, he had

with

dn g

by his meekness, love and earnestness endeared himself very

much to all around him, Christians and heathens alike, and

))h

promised to become a very useful helper

His unexpected

Cang

death hastened the abandonment of Attolimani as an Out-

llst

station, since our Christians there had made up their minds

By

to settle at Anandapur, whele the greater fertility of the soil

2

Sl

=

L el

SR

s

* One of them, %t the tnne encraoved in other work and staying in a foreign

0y Pr

District, was inadvertently omitted in the Census per 1st January 1879,

4 dl\(

65

—_———

offers them better chances.—Malabar, too, lost its Senior Cate-

chist, Matthar Kunyen, late of Chombala (f 11th Dec. 1879),

on the

who departed this life only seven months after he had retired

from active work, after 36 years’ faithful service.

«Blessed

had to

are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth: Yea,

while

com

saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and

their works do follow them.”

hand

The several Station-reports bear an almost unanimous

letion

testimony to the great and valuable assistance rendered by

led a8

§ame

our Native helpers.

There may be a few hirelings and men-

pleasers among them, but by far the majority are truly spiri-

work,

tual men whose devotion to and zeal in the service of the

e heen

astors

Lord are unquestionable, and who in the steady, faithful dis-

charge of their duties wili have their praise, if not of men,

ogs 1t

yet of God.

o1 1

from

To ensure continued mental culture and self-improvement

th of

in the main branches of Biblical and Theological knowledge,

we make it a point to have monthly gatherings of the Cate-

if as

ol oft

chists of each Station for Scripture-exposition, as well as

annual Conferences of all the Catechists of a District for a

jstian

more comprehensive course of training. The principal sub-

March

jects for discussion and enquiry being some months previously

mong

communicated to them, they are expected to be conversant

Inary

with them or to write essays on one or two of the subjects.

¢ had

An annual Catechists’ meeting of this description, attended by

f very

22 helpers of the Canara District and conducted partly in

, and

Canarese, partly in Tulu, was held at Mangalore in September

ectEd

last, and to some of our readers the following extracts from

, Ot

Br. Hock's report may not be without interest:

20th September (Saturday).

Br. Hartmann opened the meeting

-

L

;

by prayer and an address on 1 Tim. 1v. 12-16, and then entered into

foreigh

a discussion on the subject: “What is the best and most effectual

9

LT

66

way to transform the still more or less heathenish views of our Native

inthe

Christians about God, Sin, Virtue (punya), and Redemption, so as to

Moz

render them conformable to God’s Word ?”’ The point in question was

menti

not, by way of definition and on the basis of Hindu Philosophical systems

(hur

to elicit the difference between the heathenish and Christian views

850y

on those vital subjects, but rather from the daily life and conversation

selves

of the people to pick up practical points, apt to illustrate those

well {

different notions and to demonstrate what characterizes them as

g b

heathenish. As the best remedy against this leaven of heathenish

views, close attention to and occupation with Biblical History was re-

commended.—In the afternoon two of the helpers had to conduct

Catechetical Services, while on Sunday two others had to preach in

Church at the usual hours of Service.

Besic

On Monday Br. Graeter discoursed on some N.T. passages of a

gage

complicated nature, which in our Canarese Version read not only

whic

clumsily, but are positively unintelligible without a fair knowledge of

avall

the Greek Original, viz: Rom. 1. 1-17; 11 23-26; Eph. 1. 4-6; mI

14-19; 1v. 11-16, 20-24.

The Catechists had been directed, closely

(o

f

to examine (in Greek, if practicable) and analyze those passages and

mat

to render their sense in plain, simple Canarese, eventually to attempt

a new version from the Greek.

With praiseworthy energy a num-

an g

Telli

ber of them had set to solving the problem, and to this end consulted

all the Bible Versions within their reach: English, Malayalam, Tamil,

T

Telugu and even Bengali.

Br. Graeter himself had prepared a new

fwo ¢

translation of the passages in question, printed copies whereof were

given to them along with an abstract of the principles by which he had

been guided in translating.

The discussion on the subject made it

quite evident, that those passages in their awkward Canarese trans-

lation, which frequently results in a complete inversion of the natural

order of thoughts as given in the Original, cannot be rendered in-

telligible even to a Catechist well versed in Canarese Grammar, ex-

\

cept after copious resolving and recasting of sentences, whereas a

TheS\

common Bible-reader is simply driven to his wit’s ends by the abso-

Sevey

lutely bewildering intricacy of construction.

Dieee

On Tuesday morning Exegesis of Eph. mr. 14-21 by myself, and

daily

s

67_

Native

in the afternoon Bazaar-preéehing by two Catechists.—On Wednesday

0 as {0

morning we held a critical dissertation on the merits of the above-

01l Was

mentioned two Catechizations and the four Sermons delivered both in

jstems

Church and in the Bazaar.

In the afternoon Br. Graeter read an

Views

The Catechists them-

essay on “the Receiving of the Holy Spirit.”

sation

selves had written papers on this subject, which, on the whole, spoke

those

well for their diligence.— Br. Minner on Thursday closed the meet-

e a3

ing by an address on John xv. 1-6, and prayer.

henish

Our Educational Staff consists of 65 Chr. Schoolmasters,

7as re-

21

Schoolmistresses,

onduct

292

and 34 Heathen Sch.masters.

ach

Besides, ten of our Catechists are well-nigh exclusively en-

gaged in School-work, mostly in our Training Institutions, for

sof 8

t only

which peculiar task no other able teachers have as yet been

available.

dge of

6’ 1L

For our Schoolmasters, too, we have obligatory annual

Josely

To

Conferences, combining examination and instruction.

os and

match the above sketch of a Catechists’ meeting, we subjoin

ompb

an abridged account of a similar Teachers’ meeting, held at

num-

Tellicherry, 13th to 18th October, by Br. Schmolck.

aulted

The following topics had been previously assigned to them for

Iamih

anev

two essays, No. 1 being compulsory, Nos. 2-D optional:

yere

1)

Deateronomy, its form, contents and drift.

2)

How can a teacher preserve to himself a lasting joy in

16 h&d

lade 1t

his vocation?

3)

The origin of clouds, rain and dew.

frans-

4)

The S. W. Monsoon and the N. E, Monsoon in Malabar.

gfandl

The cause of tides.

od -

9)

Some of the papers were really satisfactory, others rather poor.

r, 65

These Biblical, Pedagogical and Physical subjects were then handled

’éas o

ahs0-

severally and minutely, and, moreover, some of the most difficult

pieces in our Mal. Anthology read and explained. Singing, too, was

daily practised.

14‘7 ﬂnd

Ox

68

till af

o Jes

VI

EVANGELISTIC EFFORTS; ITINERANCY.

all ler

Ido:

We dare not think of attempting anything like a compre-

Teturn

hensive statement of what has been done in this line; even

a short abstract of what the several Stations did for the pro-

X

On o

clamation of the Gospel among the heathen, would carry us

too far.

asked

Suffice it to say that more or less on all our Stations,

both by Missionaries and Catechists, the message of salvation

they,

Wher

has been steadily and perseveringly preached in houses, streets,

abous

bazaars, weekly markets and festivals, though for systematic

Weh

Itineracy, in its strict semse, comparatively but few of us

erowd

have been set apart, and the charge of congregations and

mass

Schools does not allow more than occasional tours to more

the

distant regions.

Especially in the case of South Mahratta it

He sy

is much to be regretted that, owing to the numerical and

si\'ely

physical weakness of the staff of labourers, during the past

conely

year but little could be done for the evangelization of the

hefor

country at large, a regret felt only the more keenly when we

begin

hear, what a reception B7». Z/umm and his Assistants met

t0 grg

with on a preaching-tour in April last.

Br. Thumm writes:

and g

all g

On the Tth

We were at the great Gajendragada Festival.

XOSW

April, at 2 p. u., when for a second time we approached the scene

Were

of the festivities, the people at once thronged on us in dense crowds.

that ;

Catechist Jared commenced by addressing them on John 1. 3, and

had g

the whole multitude listened attentively. The voice of the second

preacher, Catechist Nahasson, being too weak to make himself heard

Werg

by such a large assembly, I soon relieved him and spoke on the

ing it

Prodigal Son, till breath failed me.

The heat was awful, and the

in the

crowd pressing on us so closely, deprived us of all air.

I therefore

tried to retire for a while, in order to get some rest in the shadow

dayg

e o

of a mango tree; but upwards of one hundred people were again at

my heels and surrounded me.

Us fo

At my request they waited quietly,

knock

69

S

till after a short repose I resumed my work, inviting them to come

to Jesus who alone was able to give them rest and peace.

They

all lent a willing ear.

‘Whether it entered deeper into the hearts,

I do not know, but trust in the promise that His word shall not

mpLe-

return to Him void.

, 6en

¢ pro-

Meanwhile the two Catechists had met with quite the same fate.

AT

On coming back to them, I saw how fatigued they looked, and

asked them whether they also had continued to speak.

“Yes”, said

tions,

vation

they, “the people pulled us by the hand, and compelled us to preach’.

‘When the day declined and the heat abated, we took our starnd on a wall

treets,

about eight feet high, with a large open space spreading all around.

matic

We had not to wait long for hearers: instantly the whole place was

of us

erowded, there being nothing to be seen for some distance but one

s and

mass of heads.

Catechist Nahasson commenced with a discourse on

more

the words: “If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.”

. 1t

He summoned up all his strength this time and spoke most impres-

I followed by preaching on Acts 1v. 12, and Catechist Jared

| and

sively.

concluded with an address on a Hindu Proverb.

The multitude

) past

f the

before us, certainly no fewer than six to eight hundred men, from

beginning to end listened with manifest attention, and never seemed

e e

to grow weary of it, while we, on our part, were simply exhausted

g met

and unable for any further exertion, as we had been speaking with

ites:

all our might so as to be understood by the remotest hearers.

o Tt

No sooner had we withdrawn to where our cart stopped, than we

were again surrounded by the good folks.

I told them, however,

50606

ro\VdS-

that it was impossible for us to go on speaking.

Besides, night

had set in long ago.—It was the first time that these two Catechists,

3, and

low-countrymen as they are, attended a festival in these parts; they

second

‘heard

were quite amazed at what they had seen, especially when compar-

ing it with the opposition they had on similar occasions encountered

il the

nd the

in their own country.

As to myself, though I have also in former

days met with much encouragement, it was quite a new thing to

efor®

me to see, how eagerly the people sought and, as it were, compelled

hado¥

us to speak to them.

And thus we returned to our quarters, fairly

il af

knocked up and worn out, but with hearts full of joy and praise.

‘uietl}'y

70

e

4 T

It is chiefly at Honore and Kundapur where our Brethren,

Brahn

released from all other work as they are, can itinerate to their

Intere

hearts’ content.

At both places it is emphatically still sow-

husy

ing-time.

In some villages near Honore, as Karike, Hirigutti,

surpri

Mavinakuri etc. some deeper impression seems, indeed, to have

Whisp:

been made on the minds, and the people now and then among

We e

themselves discuss the question of embracing Christianity.

Furop

But, remarks Br. Nibling, it is hard to say, how near to or how

have

educa

far from the Kingdom of God even the best among those hopeful hearers

still are.

wisdo

Not a single family in North Canara having, as a family, re-

nounced heathenism within these last ten to fifteen years, it is a most

Tan &

difficult task for even those among them that have a full knowledge of

glad,

the trath, to break through the fetters of caste and kindred.

Now it

N

is the wife, now some other relation that ties the hands.

‘Wherever

d Sma

a few men have in some measure apprehended the truth, they think

day, I

that, instead of boldly venturing the great step for themselves, they

Was ]

must bide their time till others be won over to join them.

This is

infryg

the great drawback, the source of so much mischief.

Not in vain

a sho

hath our Lord said: Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all

thre

that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.”

Even

Pain

Br. Gengnagel lately met with many encouragements on

knock

a twenty days’ journey to Siddhapur, Sircy and Banavasi,

when he sold for no less than Rupees 106 Scripture portions,

very

Tracts, and Schoolbooks, though neither Catechist nor Colpor-

i

teur were with him.

ldry,

Tally

On Friday evening I reached Sirey, a erowded town, 'Where one

Spent

can find hearers on the Bazaar all day long.

The people are

talkative and fond of making friends with you, though also rather

zogy]

rude at times.

The Mahommedans, too, do not let you wait long for

a fy

I visited

them; they seemed ever on the alert and ready to strike.

A

the Schoolmaster who received me very kindly.

With his permis-

diﬁi(‘k

sion I examined the School and gave the boys some good advice;

alitf)

whereupon they, though at first shy, gained confidence and purchased

he iy

7d

e S

then,

a number of books.

On Monday évening I was invited to a rich

) their

Brahmin and had a long conversation with him; not a fruitless

intercourse, 1 trust.

On Tuesday, the weekly market-day, I was

| sop-

busy at my book-stall from 9 a.m. to 6 ». M.

Some boys looked

igutt,

0 have

surprised at the big books (Canarese Bibles etc.) before me, and

whispered to one another: “These are the Europeans’ Shastras; if

Mong

we read them, they drive us mad”.

Said I, smiling: “l1f we

1y

Kuropeans have run mad by reading the Bible, how is it that we

ot how

have got brains emough left to rule this country, to legislate and

61615

educate you ete.? Just the contrary, whatever we have got of true

wisdom, we owe to this Book”.

The boys commenced laughing and

1il:{, 16-

g most

ran away.

In the evening I had a large audience, but was rather

ge of

glad, when night set in, being weary from the long day’s work.

Now it

Next morning very early I started for Banavasi, 15 miles 8. E.,

erever

a small town with a very handsome Shiva temple.

It being market-

y think

day, I at once went to the Bazaar, spread my books before me, and

, they

was presently surrounded by a large crowd, who stared at the

This 18

intruder with looks bespeaking both surprise and displeasure.

After

0 VAl

a short while, however, the people became more friendly, and within

three hours I sold all my remaining Bibles and New Testaments.

ot all

Even the day after some more came and asked for the “big Book.”

Fain would I have stayed a few days longer, but was too much

1fs 0n

knocked up for visiting houses;

besides, my stock of books had

la.‘{ﬂﬁi,

very nearly run out.

["t'].OI]S,

Br. Hafner of Kundapur visited the festivals at Sankara-

olpot-

narayana, Gangoli, Kollur, Saukur, Hattiangadi, Hemmadi,

Tallur, Basrur, Kundapur, Kalavara, Miradu and Kotéshvara,

1o 006

spent some time at Gangoli and Kota, and carried on the

lo 416

regular Bazaar- and market preaching at Basrur and Kundapur,

pathes

as far as his frequent absence from the Station would admit.

At Kota, a fisher-village near Kundapur, I experienced how

yisited

hel’miS'

diffident and reserved Hindus are towards strangers, till they became

a little acquainted with Christianity.

Not even the lowest Cooly eould

dvice;

be induced to supply us with water from one of the neighbouring

ased

72

e

wells. Nor would we have been able to-get drinkable water, had nbt

Miss1c

this 1

a Mahommedan kindly permitted us to use his well, a thing quite out

of the question with the Hindu landlords at Kota.

One day, when a

Coorg

number of women and children came to see my wife, and she

those

wanted to show them Bible pictures, they would not even look at

As

them, much less receive them.

with 1

The market-preaching at Kundapur has become a real labour of

fime '

patience, since it has been divested of the charm of novelty.

It

the (

sounds hardly credible, and yet it is a fact that we often find it

difficult to get hold even of a few quiet, attentive hearers among the

of g

0n &

thousands who gather on those occasions.

May God send a hunger

into the land, not for bread, but for the Word of Life!

Rupe

In our last Report we mentioned that a Cooly-Mission was

with

to be organized at Mercara, and funds were being collected

good

105 ¢

for the purpose.

In spite of all our efforts, we have, owing

to the present scarcity of native helpers (vide p. 64), not

Still

succeeded yet in securing the services of an able Catechist for

(Vi

this post, while the one stationed at Mercara was nearly all

the time laid up with fever or taken up with nursing his wife

tion |

since

and children, similarly afflicted. Z7. Ver/, however, not to be

the |

deterred by the dismal aspect of things, in October last under-

took himself to start the new Mission by visiting, single-

to be

handed as he was, a number of Coffee-Estates.

A second and

Lem;

(IR

a third tour followed in November and December, Br. Vel

being still unaided by a Catechist.

The number of Coolies

on the different Estates (twenty-three as yet, with twelve more

pOSing

to follow) varied from sixty to three hundred, and on the

Jou gf

whole they listened well to the addresses.

Br. Verl is under

Jear}

much obligation to his kind friends, the Planters, who not

‘d() S

With

only liberally raised a subscription amounting to some Rs. 600,

but also in other ways encouraged him by their personal

sympathy and moral support, though, of course, it is left to

the option of the Coolies, to attend the meeting on the

Madg

73

1ad not

Missionary’s visit. May it please God, to bless and prosper

e out

this new branch of our work to the spiritual welfare of all

when a

Coorg, and of Mysore, the home of by far the majority of

1l she

those Coolies.

look at

As to the Coorgs themselveé, our Brethren constantly meet

with much kindness, courtesy and hospitality, but at the same

hour of

time with a decided aversion to Christ and the preaching of

fy, I

the Cross.

We have been much cheered by the benevolence

find it

of a noble Coorg in Beppunddu, who quite of his own accord,

g the

hunger

on a lovely hill in his own coffee-garden, and at a cost of

Rupees 300, built for our use a snug Travellers’ Bungalow,

The

with three little rooms, supplied with all necessaries.

m s

good man has much knowledge of the truth, but unfortunately

llected

not enough yet to enable him to forsake all and follow Christ.

owing

Still, he will not miss his reward in some shape or other

L), 008

it for

(Matthew x. 40-42).

From Palghaat we hear that the influence of the “opposi-

tly al

tion preacher” (vide p. 54) is decidedly on the wane, especially

18 mife

since a certain fact in connexion with his married life evinced

10 he

the looseness of his morals.

Nor does he pretend any longer

nnder-

to be an incarnation of Shiva.

Nay, this enemy of the Cross,

single-

remarks B7. Ruhland, has been made an instrument to

d and

cause truth-loving souls to search the Scriptures.

. Vﬂ.[

At the Kalpatti festival, where the Patter had been busy in op-

(oolies

o 1018

posing us, a man condescendingly said to us: “I will not argue with

you at present; but from this day I shall study your Veda, and next

0l the

year by this time you will have to answer me!” “Very good,” said I,

undel‘

“do so by all means!” Let them but search for themselves, even

ho 10t

with wrong intentions: many a Saul has thus become a Paul.

S 6001

A similar story reaches us from Bettigerry:

sondl

A young Brahmin, says Br. Thumm, has for some time back

Jft 10

made it his business to counteract our labours; viz. he ransacks the

ol the

10

Lot e

74

Bible, to light on contradictions or at least subtle questions, in order

(hns

to prove the fallacy of the Secriptures.

Moreover, he endeavours to

quam

get hold of well-inclined, enquiring souls with a view to disaffecting

at |

their minds.

With some, indeed, he has been successful.

We

cenfr

hope, however, his Bible-studies may result in bringing him round

to the confession of old: “Thou art stronger than I, and hast

regul

r7

villay

prevailed!” (Jer. xx.

{

)

times

LBr. Walter, on a preaching tour in the N. E. of Chombala,

avall

revisited the Rajah of Menapuram, whose favorable inclina-

sem}

tion towards the Gospel we mentioned in several of our

The

Reports (e.o. 1875).

He says:

gath

Not with the Rajah only, but with many others also, both high

Whil

and low, we found the same kind reception as in former years, being

fune;

welcomed by them as old friends.

When calling on the Rajah,

wait

Iread and explained to him 1 Cor. 1., and dwelt especially on the

thirtieth verse.

whol

From beginning to end he listened most attentively

and then praised the glory of the Gospel.

Notwithstanding all this,

at K

I fear, Christ’s word: how hardly shall they that have riches, enter

by t

into the kingdom of God! does apply to his case.

who

In a similar strain Br. Knobloch writes from Calicut :

M&y

fo th

We are driving towards a momentous crisis for or against truth.

of Ii

On the one hand we see people more and more siding with the preacher

and assenting to his word, while others become more and more deter-

A

mined antagonists.

Nevertheless we are at a loss to say, which of

follg

the two parties is nearer to the Kingdom of God.

‘We have here a

0pin

number of well-inclined people who know the truth and yield assent

to all that we say; but whenever we press them, once to show their

colours by making public profession of Christianity, they veer about

K'ngl

and one excuse follows another.

ashay

And thus these mealy-mouthed

““almost-Christians’ year after year remain in the same state of

a8 ¢

Meu

indecision, while there is hope left for determined, honest opponents.

ing {

The Brethren on the Nilagiris have continued plying their

S0on

wearisome task of inviting the Badagas to the Kingdom of

the |

. 75

S b

order

Christ, visiting them in their villages either from the head-

urs o

|

quarters at Kaity and Kotargiri, or from the temporary abodes

eting

at Woderu, Tuneri and Manchuri, in which three places,

We

centrally situated, we have got huts to enable the Missionary

round

These

regularly to work the whole of the intermediate tracts.

| Dast

village-audiences being, as a rule, exceedingly small (some-

times not more than half a dozen people), the Brethren

1bala,

avail themselves of every opportunity to address larger as-

clna-

semblies, such as gather at funerals and other festivities.

[ our

The past year witnessed quite an extraordinary funeral

gathering, such as occurs but once within three decades.

high

While the Todas celebrate a second funeral rite (“dry

heing

funeral”) a year after the death of their kinsmen, the Badagas

ajah

wait on, till they can solemnize the joint-obsequies for a

n the

whole generation, as it were.

Such a «“Manaméle” happened

tively

at Kaity in March 1879, lasting eight days and attended

| £his,

by thousands and thousands of Badagas and other tribes,

enfer

who flocked together from the remotest corners of the Hills.

May thé Word of a living Saviour, that was daily preached

to those crowds commemorating their dead, prove a savour

ruth

of life unto life to many of them!

acher

As to the prospects of the Badaga Mission, we quote the

Jeter-

oh of

following from a report of our aged Br. Buhrer, as the

opinion of one who may be considered a competent judge:

16 &

g5

A harvest is maturing.

Many draw nearer and nearer to the

fheit

Kingdom of God; many have got tired of idol-worship and feel

bout

ashamed of it; many want to give up ancient ceremonies and customs,

thed

as e. g. dancing at funerals, showing the first-born to the idol ete.

g of

There are some who joyfully lend an ear to the Gospel and are will-

A Badaga youth of 20 years wishes

enfs:

ing to embrace Christianity.

soon to become a disciple of Christ by baptism.

May the Lord of

hei

the Harvest soon grant us a realization of our hopes!

1R

B0

76

the ¢l

VII

331

EDUCATIONAL WORK.

ceding

We now possess 68 Schools with a total of 3150 Scholars,

that

the highest number ever reached, and exceeding by several

specis

hundreds that of the year before (2887). They are divided

Static

between our four Districts in the following proportions:

which

1078 in Canara—Coorg (=34 per cent)

sInce

696 ,, South Mahratta (=22

29

In 18

1298 ,, Malabar

(=41

27

with

7e .- Nilagiri

-

29

T

Of these 3150 Scholars

catio

almo

1656 (=53 p. c.) are Christians, viz. 926 Boys and 730 Girls

1494 (=47 ,, ) ,, Heathens

99

1331

99

99

163

o))

the o

893 Girls

havin

Total 2257 Boys

oong]

Classifying them according to #%¢ various kinds of Schools,

we find:

pelle

liin]

1004 (=32p.c.) in

Parochial Day-Schools,

623 (=20 LB ) ER)

Boarding Schools,

comn

Nore

g (— s .. )

Training Institutions,

Scho

753 (=24 99 ) 99

Heathen Vernacular Schools,

entiy

678 (=21

17) X}

Anglo-Vernacular Schools.

Whigl

The present advance in numbers refers chiefly to Heathen

Schg

Vernacular Scholars (753 against 524 in 1878) and Anglo-

Ingti

Vernacular Scholars (670 against 608), and pre-eminently results

attry

from the unexpectedly rapid progress of Schools at Mangalore.

and

Both the Anglo-Vernacular School, established in 1878, and

to 4(

its feeder, the Canarese School, opened in February last, had

0wy

under God’s blessing and the energetic management of 5.

[

Miiller and his zealous assistants a remarkably prosperous

Year

year, with numbers swelling from month to month, till towards

frop

r

{

7

the close of the year they presented the respectable total of

331 Scholars, against 121 in 1878, while in 1877 and pre-

ceding years some twenty to thirty Brahmin Girls were all

olas,

It s

that we possessed in the line of Heathen Schools.

weral

special matter of joy and gratitude, to see this central

vided

Station of our Mission redeemed from the inglorious position

she occupied

which, from an educational point of view,

since the woful abolition of her time-honoured English School

in 1867, and once more taking the lead of our other Stations

with quite a little army of 707 Scholars.

Threatening clouds have since risen, though, by a compli-

Two rival schools were started

cation of circumstances.

almost simultaneously (Jan.-Febr. 1880), one by the Jesuits,

(rirls

the other by the Municipality. The Government College, too,

bl

@irls

having by the opening of the Jesuit-School been deprived of a

considerable contingent of Roman Catholic boys, was com-

jools,

pelled to recruit itself from other Schools, and ours among the

number.

Thus a drain towards several directions at once

commenced, and at one time things looked dismal enough.

Moreover, in order to fill the empty forms of the Normal

School, it was announced, that Schoolfees were henceforth

entirely remitted to Boys attending that School, a measure

which could have but resulted in drawing away our Canarese

Scholars and thus undermining the very foundation of our

A

Institution, if the latter had not possessed superior powers of

nglo-

attraction in other regards.

In spite of all this competition

sults

and a natural falling off of numbers to some extent (some 30

AN

to 40 as yet), we fully mean to go on and hope to hold our

| and

own by God’s grace.

had

Br

The Anglo-Vernacular School at Calicut, too, has seen a

year of uncommon prosperity: not only did the numbers rise

70US

ards

from 204 to 275 (the Vernacular feeder in both cases included),

78

but the School was raised to the rank of a High School by the

at Ka

opening of a new fifth Class, to which in the course of the

starte

year a sixth or Matriculation Class is to be added.

had tc

tics of

As regards our other Anglo-Vernacular Schools (at Dhar-

war, Tellicherry and Palghaut) and Heathen Vernacular Schools

Famin

18061y

(at Dharwar, Hubly, Bettigerry, Guledgud, Cannanore, Telli-

14 ay

cherry, Palghaut and Kaity) we cannot now enter into details.

As to their importance, we fully agree with Br. Ziegler of

ing 1

1877

Dharwar, when he remarks:

save ,t

While some look down upon this kind of Schoolwork as lying

fried,

quite on the periphery of Missionary labour, we hold just the contrary,

asserting that the brethren in charge of Heathen Schools pursue the

five i

most direet Mission work.

and T

They are dealing with people, whose

hearts, if any can at all, can be best impressed with the truth.

And

they -

from

so we will work on undauntedly and believingly, resting assured,

that though ours be mostly sowing work, a time will come, when

made

the fields will become white to harvest.

lately

after

Education being compulsory in our Mission, Parochial Day-

Schools are carried on in all our Stations as well as in the

there

larger Out-stations, with the exception of a few places where

The g

the congregations are too small yet, viz. Karkal, Kundapur,

Girly

Which

Honore and Mercara, while at Kotargiri the children attend

a Private School maintained by a Christian friend.

Reading,

grant

Writing, Arithmetic, Singing and, above all, Bible instruction

for t}

benef

are imparted in these Schools, attended by 551 boys and 453

girls.

Among them there is a sprinkling of 164 heathen

ndey

children who find no objection to the thorough Christian

Pathy

character of these Schools.

Sion

hupg,

Of Boarding Schools we possessed twelve in the past year, viz.

five for Boys: at Udapy, Hubly, Guledgud, Tellicherry and Coda-

Engl,

cal; five for Girls: at Mulky, Dharwar, Bettigerry, Chombala

Seasoy

oyt

and Calicut; and two, in a transition stage, for both sexes:

19

B

¥

hy the

at Kaity and Anandapur.

The Orphanage at the latter place,

of the

started but three years ago in consequence of the IFamine,

had to be abolished of late.

A glance at the following statis-

Dhar-

tics of Anandapur will reveal something of the horrors of the

{;S

chools

Famine.

Of the 128 destitute children, mostly of Mysore,

Telli

received in 1877 (29), 1878 (88), and 1879 (11), some nineteen

ran away or were reclaimed by their relations, and of the remain-

etails.

ing 109 no fewer than 102 died within these three years! (7 in

oler of

Whatever could be done to

1877, 67 in 1878, and 28 in 1879).

save their lives by loving care, medical treatment etc., was

s lying

tried, but to no avail.

The seven survivors (two boys, and

nerary,

five girls) have now been removed to our Orphanages at Mulky

sue the

and Udapy; but with several of them it is still doubtful, if

whose

And

they will recover.—At Kaity also some 21 Famine-Orphans

from Devala had been admitted. Four of them died, two

ssured,

made their escape, and the remaining fifteen children have

i yhen

lately been received into the Church by baptism (March 1880),

after several months’ instruction by Br. Lilze.

Altogether

1] Dag-

there are now 25 boys and 16 girls in the Kaity Orphanage.

in the

The girls, however, will be shortly transferred to the new

where

Girls’ Boarding School at Kotargiri, towards the erection of

daput,

which the Madras Government have come to our aid with a

aftend

grant of Rs. 1,000. We beg to express our heart-felt thanks

ading,

for this munificent donation.—Also to our noble friends and

otion

benefactors, Mr. and Mrs. Elphinstorn at Dharwar, we are

453

under deep and special obligation for®their continued sym-

pathel

pathy and generous aid rendered to our South Mahratta Mis-

istian

sion in so many ways and on S0 many occasions.

The

hundreds of yards of flannel too, most kindly provided from

Wy ViZ'

England to clothe our numerous Orphans during the cold

Coder

season, will not be forgotten by Him, whose is the word

mbal&

about “the least of these my brethren!”

SeX@S:

80

el

The object of our Training Institutions is to supply the

the m(

Mission with able Catechists and Schoolmasters.

Both in

the us

common receive their preparatory education in what we term

Rema

«“Middle Schools” or Preparandi-Schools, one at Tellicherry, the

of pup

arefar

other at Udapy, from whence the majority proceed to the

Catechist Seminary at Mangalore, to be further trained for the

thems

& T

Ministry of the Word, while such as fix upon the Educational

propor

line, enter into the Teachers’ Seminary, to be both theoretically

the p

and practically instructed in the art of teaching. Seminaries

and

of the latter kind we have at Tellicherry and Udapy, with

them

ten and four students respectively, and in 1878 a third one

Prose

was opened at Hubly, which at present numbers eight pupils

tang]

and imparts an education approaching the standard of and,

of our

to some extent, supplying the want of a Middle School for the

i

South Mahratta Stations.

The number of pupils in the Pre-

stead

parandi-School at Tellicherry, in 57. Froknmeyer’s charge, has

of late been reduced to nineteen, as the Principal had the

finis}

enfey

sorrow to be obliged to dismiss no fewer than eight boys, who

had, in various ways, given evidence of their unfitness for the

and

work of evangelists.

Since these harsh measures were re-

nity

Three

1168,

sorted to, a better spirit has prevailed in the School.

pupils of the eldest class were in 1879 admitted to the Cate-

tion,

deal

chist Seminary at Mangalore, while the Udapy Preparandi-School,

10w

under the charge of Br. Brasche, was able to send a whole

class of eight men to Mangalore, and still numbers thirty-one

conf

Ing

pupils.

They have, on the whole, given much satisfaction

a to

this year.

Frequently they accompany the Missionaries to

idol-festivals and other opportunities for preaching the Gospel,

Boy,

Cony

though their own work there is not preaching, but to assist

in singing, and in selling books; now and then also one has

(not

10

to read out a longer Scripture-passage.

Tnty

1180)

The very appearance of our pupils on such occasions, writes

Br. Brasche, is a sermon refuting many an argument and stopping

0.1

81

ly the

the mouth of many an adversary who otherwise might say: “ What’s

th I

the use of all your preaching ? no one will believe you or join you'’ etc.

s term

Remarks of thisnature altogether cease in the face of such a number

7, the

of pupils who, though mostly coming from the lower strata of society,

o the

arefar advanced beyond the rest in education, as admitted by the latter

themselves.

or the

Besides, they are well aware, that where there is such

a number of pupils preparing for evangelistic work, they must have a

tional

proportionally large congregation in their rear to fall back upon. And

ically

the poorer this congregation is, as regards display of outward wealth

DAIIES

and might, only the more must the secret power of that love strike

ith

them with wonder, which is able to unite so many hearts in the

d one

prosecution of the one great work carried on before their eyes, and a

pupils

tangible fruit of which they see standing before them in the persons

' and,

of our native companions.

or the

The Catechist Seminary at Mangalore hashad a year of quiet,

o Pre-

steady progress. Respecting two of the six young men who had

, has

finished their four years’ course in spring 1879, doubts were

q the

entertained as to their fitness for the work of Catechists,

, Vo

and we deemed it advisable to wait and give them an opportu-

o1 the

nity of first approving themselves in other spheres of useful-

0 l’e-

ness. The other four youths were admitted to the examina-

[hree

tion, and along with them a fifth who had in 1876 been

(late-

dealt with in strict accordance with the principle stated just

chool,

now and whose subsequent change of mind has inspired us with

rhole

confidence.

Thus five young men were installed as Catechists.

706

In their stead eleven new pupils arrived in May, making up

ction

a total of twenty-eight, the highest number ever reached.

s 10

Fourteen of them are Malayalees, eleven from the Tulu

DSPEL

Country, two from South Mahratta and one from the Nilagiris

gssist

(not a Badaga, though).

The lessons given this year were:

» a8

Introduction to the Scriptures, Dogmatics, Symbolics (compa-

rison of the various Christian Churches), Exegesis of the

qrifes

O. T. from the Canarese, of the N. T. from the Greek text,

1%

11

82

S 2

Homiletical and Catechetical exercises, Bazaar-preaching,

8

Greek, English, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Canarese and Singing.

(usto

Quite a number of preaching tours, varying in length from a

Iy th

few days up to two months, were made with the pupils, to the

The

North as far as Dharwar, Southwards as far as Taliparambu.—

Lopak

Manifold and onerous duties in connection with the Secretary-

Jaco

ship* of the Mission having frequently deprived the Seminary

Serie

of Br. Graeler's services, the assistance of a third Kuropean

Fata

teacher seemed to be called for, and arrived, in May last, in

the person of ZBr. Hoclk, late of Guledgud.

Re

frans

VIIL LITERARY DEPARTMENT.

The first revision of the Malayalam N. Testament, published

unde

by the Madras Auxiliary Bible Society, has been completed;

ros|

The Brethren

conte

the second revision has advanced up to Acts.

Iiritz, Diez, and Waller were the delegates of our Mission.

disps

to f

In the stead of Z7. F7itz who has left for Europe, B7. Krnobloch

catio

has been appointed.

The Tulu New Testament is undergoing a revision by a

finds

Committee of Missionaries.

1oy

(o

Of the Canarese Commentary, by Rev. Dr. H. Migling,

the Psalms have been finished in MS. and are now being

printed.

Christian Almanacs have

been published, in Canarese

edited by Rev. A. Minner, in Malayalam by Rev. E. Diez

Our Christian Periodicals have been continued, the Cana-

Map

rese “Kreista Sabhapatra” edited by Rev. 4. Minner and

My. Christanuja Walsa, the Malayalam <Keéralopakari” by

The

Shoy

Rev. E. Dz?z.

e i

OnT

"])’7 Gracter represé;tédmélééﬂ om Mlssmn -011 theV ‘South-lniciia;\ Vli\‘IVivss‘iém

Ingty

Conference at Bangalore, accompanied by Br. Froknmeyer.

Tngt

DAL

ching

Several New Tracts have been published in Malayalam:

ging,

Customs of the Ancestors, by Rev. ¥. Knoblock; Indebtedness,

0m &

by the same; The two Friends, in metre, by a native Munshi ;

0 the

The Life of Rew. Facodb Ramavarma (reprinted from Keéra-

b, —

lopakari), bydDr. H.-Gunderts Daily Scripture Adviser, by

tary-

Facob Chammenchery.—Handbills 11 and 12 of the Decalogue

nary

Series, the whole translated from the Canarese by .Aér.

pean

Fatayapperr and edited by Rev. E. Dies.

t, 10

A Malayalam Poetical Anthology has been compiled by

Rev. E. Drez, who also edited English-Malayalam Dialogues,

translated from the English-Canarese Original.

The Printing Press,

under the care of Br. Stkemerer and Br. Hirner, had a most

shed

prosperous year.

Few can guess what difficulties we have to

ted;

contend with, as regards the regular supply of paper and

hren

dispatch of books, this port being altogether shut up for four

100,

to five months in the year, with none but Postal communi-

5[01’/&

cation left.

That in spite of this serious drawback our Press

finds so much work to do all the year round, is both a testi-

y &

mony to the excellent quality of our printing and a mark of

God’s blessing.

ne

fo )

LIET OF ‘BOOKS

ing

Printed during the year 1879,

£se

I. Canarese.

i

nd

Edition: Size: Copies: Pages: Tot. Pages:

2

Map of the Madras Presidency

I. 28/34'

400

800

nd

The true Incarnation.

I

12°

3000

23

69000

12°

by

Short Bible Stories

v

4000

96

384000

On Pilgrimages

1I

16

3000

9

237000

sigm

Instructive Parables

I

16°

3000

68

204000

Instructive Stories

1I

16°

2000

64

128000

1l

84

First Book of Lessons.

VII

32°

10000

66

660000

Life of Jesusin 32 Col. Pictures

1200

34

40800

I. Roy.32°

Elementary Geography

I

16°

6000

135

810000

Engl

Qutlines of Canarese Grammar

1

16°

15000

48

720000

Almanac for 1880, 26th year

80

5500

88

484000

Bum

Sabhapatra,78/79 (Monthly) 12th year

80

500

118

59000

Canarese Commentary .

1. Roy. 82

1000

92

92000

Do

Flower Leaflets and Cards .

1

3400

3400

Rep

1. Malayalam.

600

2

1200

Map of the Madras Presidency

I. 28/34/

Customs of the Ancestors

1

167

3000

16

48000

The two Friends

I

16°

3000

16

48000

with

The Second Book of Lessons

IV.

16°

10000

123

1230000

and

Malay. Old Testament, (finished) I.

80

5000

468

2340000

Anthology, I. & II. Standard

16°

2000

12

240000

Do

IIT

do

16°

2000

15

30000

con

Do

IV,

do

16°

2000

39

78000

Do

I-IV.

do

16°

1000

66

66000

Indebtedness

§

16°

3000

48

144000

|

The Rich Man’s Feast ..

1I

i

3000

12

36000

Life of Rev. Jacob Ramavarma

I

12°

1000

29

29000

Dis

Daily Scripture Adviser

I.A’oy. 52

2000

128

256000

Pothan’s Element. Geography .

I

1.6°

2000

48

96000

Do

Poetical Anthology

1I

16°

4000

383

152000

0f

Almanac for 1880.

I

80

3500

86

301000

Life of Jesus in 32 Col. Pictures

1300

34

44200

L. Roy.32°

Kéralopakari, (Monthly) 6th year

80

450

200

90000

Handbills No. 5-12

80

24000

e

96000

T

Flower Leaflets and Cards.

I

2160

k.

2160

Cog

JIE: Tl

Hymns for Children

11

12°

1000

68

68000

Short Bible Stories

111

127

1500

96

144000

Py

Hymns

III

12>

1000

144

144000

85

60000

V. English.

40800

10000

Engl.-Malayal. Dialogues

I

127

1500

133

199500

12°

5000

228

1140000

20000

”

Canarese Second Book . VII.

34000

”

”

Dialogues.

II

16°

1000

139

139000

9000

Burnell, Riktantravyakaranam,

2000

(1s¢ part finished)

I

o

100

144

14400

Do

16°

60

40

2400

3400

Legend of Talavakara I

Report of the Basel G. Ev. Mission I.

80

1200

90

108000

1200

The Book and Tract Depository,

8000

8000

with 22 Branch-Depots has been carried on by Br. Stkemerer

0000

and Br. Krapf.

0000

The Sales from 1st July 1878 to 30th June 1879

0000

consisted of:

0000

3000

Bibles and New Testaments

637 Copies

Religious Books and Tracts

49891

29

5000

000

School-books and Genl. Literature 44332

bl

94860

,,for Rs. 18086-6-1

3000

000

Distributed gratuitously:

10800

000

Handbills of 4 pages 8°

000

Total 105660

000

Of the above tracts and books, 1o Colportenrs sold:

000

Bibles and Religious Tracts

16348 Cops. for Rs. 953- 9-7.

200

School-books, etc.

3838

29

"y

92

926-11-5.

000

The Expenditure under all headings of Colportage amounted to

000

Rs. 1482- 8-10

160

Cost of establishment, and agency of

sale on all the Depots

395414

et el

___'.

2

Total expenditure

Rs. 5437- 7-0

00

13156-12-1

)00

Printing, Binding and purchase of new books

Total outlay

Rs

18594- 3-1

)00

b(’)

quen

In June last a new branch of the Depository in Mangalore

has been established, viz. a Public Circulating Library, contain-

to fr

TIEW

ing a choice collection of more than

1600 Volumes in all

branches of knowledge and literature, and accessible to Sub-

e

scribers of 4 and of 8 Annas a month, while such as pay higher

firs

hono

rates (R. 1 and Rs. 2. resp. a month), are entitled to the

Newspapers and Periodicals also (some 25 circulating)

as i

The encouraging fact that from the outset we had an aver-

upon

(i

age number of sixty to seventy Native Subscribers (besides

a few KEuropeans), gives us some reason to think that the

and

4 (17

Library has been recognized as a great advantage by the

mg

educated community of Mangalore, and will maintain its

ground as a free and self-supporting, though pelhdps not a

Ao

1EW

remunerating, Institution.

have

clall

IX

W §

INDUSTRIAL AND MERCANTILE

Vide

ENTERPRISES

10

Lat-

As the result of many years’ efforts in this duectlon we

NOW pOSSess :

and

3 Weaving Establishments: at Mangalore, Cannanore (with

Miss

are

Branches at Tellicherry and Chombala) and Calicut

(with a Branch at Codacal)

Fup

2 Tile Works

hig

at Mangalore (Jeppu) and Calicut

1 Carpenter’s Shop

- Cilicnt

zaty

Mechanical Workshop

, Mangalore

tow;

Mercantile Factories

,» Mangalore (with a Branch at

Oneg

Cannanore), Mercara, and Calicut (with a Branch at Vythery)

are

The names of European Superintendents and Assistants

Ity

are found in the general list of Stations and Agents pp. 6-12

The object of these industrial pursuits, as we have fre-

Dlege

alore

quently stated in our Reports, is both directly and indirectly

fain-

to further and strengthen the Mission cause.

Keeping in

1 all

view this main point, subserviency to Missionary purposes,

Sub-

we may briefly distinguish between three contiguous objects:

igher

first, a philanthropic one, t.e. to provide employment and

the

honorable means of subsistence to many, Christians as well

as probationers, who otherwise would hardly know what to live

aver-

upon.

Second, a pedagogical object: to train our Native

Christians to habits of regularity and steady, honest labour,

sides

and thereby to raise them both socially and morally.

Third,

- the

the

a ctoilizing object: to benefit the- country at large by creat-

ing a class of Christian artisans, mechanics, tradesmen etc. —

1 1t

A fourth, which we may term a fizancial object, 7. e. to find out

0f 4

new sources of revenue for the Mission, may in course of time

have become associated with the other leading scopes, espe-

cially in the case of our Mercantile Factories.

What fault

we should be found with for such an intention,—always pro-

vided that the highest and truest interests of the Mission are

in no way allowed to suffer by it—, we should like to hear.

Let it but be once for all understood, that these Industrial*

We

and Mercantile Establishments, though closely allied with the

Mission, stand under the control of a separate Home-Board,

pith

are conducted by funds independent of the General Mission

cub

Fund, and managed by Lay-brethren expressly sent out for

this purpose, and the objections raised against this “seculari-

i,

zation of the Mission,” “misappropriation of Mission-funds

towards purposes foreign to true Mission-Work” etc. are at

once silenced. We may add, that most of these Establishments

at

are flourishing and self-supporting.

Some of them yield a fair

7)

return, too,

nts

12

*W;th tﬁe single éxception ot'the Mechanical Workshop, for which, in its

present initial stage, some special arrangement was required.

¢

88

The number of Natives earning their bread in these Esta-

Wor

blishments, both in high and low capacities, is as follows:

Christians:

lon-Christians »

Total :

187¢

Weav. Establ., Mangalore 46 men, 50 women

3 men

99 persons

10EN

Do

Cannanore

67

78

149

a 16

»

»

”

”»

(and 2 branches)

ed

Do

Calicut (1 ,,

) 39

»

82

»

»

127

»

41

8

58

»

107

»

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Tile Works, Mangalore

”

»

Do

Calicut

37

»

15

”

33

»

85

”

flow

20

Carpenter’s Shop do.

”

»

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Tapi

Mech. Works, Mangalore 22

”

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b2

29

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Wit

49

Printing & Publ. Dep. do.

43

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furr

315

233

124

672

This

Three Mere. Factories

32

»

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41

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Total 347

233

133

713

56

i

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A particularly pleasing feature in these Workshops (es-

16)

pecially the Tile Works at Mangalore and Calicut) is that

they

from time to time a number of heathens employed there apply

are

for baptism, while on the other hand a good service is render-

de

ed by them in helping us to test the sincerity of new-comers.

Thus Br. Knoblock writes from Calicut:

dur

Juibh

Especially for our Catechumens’ sake we are most thankful to

foof

have got our Tile Works.

Last year it would have been simply

impossible to receive so many new people, penniless as they came,

St

the

had it not been for this expedient.

And as it is really stiff work

they have to do there, it is a capital way of trying their motives.

By

Idlers and impostors will not stand it long, while others soon feel

a1

at home and are thankful for the opportunity afforded them of

al

gaining their livelihood.

put

The weavers and spoolers of Cannanore and Chovva have

an

set a noble, cheering example of gratitude and liberality by

special free-will-offerings towards the General Mission Fund,

amounting to Rs. 81. 13. 8.

i

i

Bsta

To convey an idea of the amount of labour done in these

Workshops, we subjoin a few numbers, referring to the year

al

1878/79.

On the 167 looms of our three Weav. Establish-

15018

ments 164,450 yards of different fabrics were woven and found

b

a ready sale all over India.—The two Tile Works manufactur-

)

ed 743,000 grooved tiles, 19,000 ridge tiles, 2750 socket-pipes

(each 21’ long), together with a lot of various kinds of bricks,

flowerpots etc.

The demand for these tiles has of late been so

rapidly increasing, that the production could not keep pace

with it.—The Carpenter’s Shop turned out about 300 pieces of

furniture, constructed two roofs and undertook sundry repairs,

This Workshop, however, is labouring under great disadvanta-

ges, having to compete with skilful Native Carpenters who can

sell their articles at much cheaper rates.

For, being Natives,

they can content themselves with smaller profits; nor have

(68

they invested a large capital in their business and consequently

that

are saved paying interest which, in our case, absorbs a good

iy

deal of the return.

der-

The Mechanic Workshop, after several years of difficulty,

1615,

during which it had to feel its way and encounter a great

many obstacles, may now be considered to have gained a firm

1l fo

footing, with every prospect of success.

Besides repairing

mplj

sundry Machines etc., and supplying various implements to

A6,

otk

the P. W. Department, the Police, the Coffee-planters etec.,

Br. Hittinger, our Engineer, has succeeded in constructing

76,

foel

a new kind of iron waterlift which has found favour both here

He also undertook to

n of

and in other Districts (Madura etc.).

put up for Government an iron girder bridge at Feringapett,

and received a contract for a similar, larger bridge.

AL

by

lHd:

12

——

90

Conclusion.

Thus another year’s work with all its trials, blemishes and

successes, has passed before our eyes.

Whatever there has

been in it of weakness and sin, shortcomings and failures,

we take upon ourselves, humbling ourselves to the dust in

the sight of Him who searcheth the heart and trieth the reins,

even to give every man according to his ways.

Whatever good

there has been in our labour, whatever fruit has been gathered

Perse

unto eternal life, it is all His, our gracious Lord’s, whose strength

He hath chosen us to be

Jourr

is made perfect in our weakness.

Mung

His builders (1Cor. m.), His watchmen (Ez. m).

But we

Deagc

humbly confess: «“Except the Lord build the house, they labour

Posta

in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watch-

Librg

man waketh but in vain.

It is vain for us to rise up early,

Spect

to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows.”

His alone then

being both the kingdom and the power, His alone too be the glory,

Medi

Schoc

for ever and ever!

Orpl

We desire to express our heart-felt thanks to our dear

friends who by their sympathy and liberality have cheered us

Categ

and supported the work of our hands.

May all who have

Build

Purel

thus served the Lord with their substance, more and more

find their rich reward in the intrinsic blessedness of giving

Taxe

itself (Acts xx. 85), as well as in the happy experience of

Pub)

Fupy

being honoured by Him whom they honoured. And may we all

realize that on earth there is no higher honour, no sweeter privi-

Admy

lege, than to be “workers together with Him” in making known

the name that is above every name, at which yet every knee

shall bow and which every tongue shall confess, the sweet and

blessed name of our glorious Lord and King Jesus Christ.

Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give

Even so, come, Lord

every man according as his work shall be.

Jesus! Amen.

—

N

N

5 and

6 hag

ures

Expenditure of the Mission

15t

During the year 1879

1E10§

e e N N

good

hered

Rs.

Personal Expenditure of the Missionaries

82,705

ength

Journeys and Home-passages

20,606

0 be

Munshis

1254

(:;

it we

Deacons, Catechists and ]Lvangehsts

20,793

5

ahour

atcl

Postages

1,196

5

Libraries

410

ol

Special Reliefs

290

then

741

7oLy

Medical Expenses .

Schools, English and Vernaculal

18,024

Orphanages, Boys’ and Girls’

24,447

dear

Catechist- and Preparandi-Schools

9,802

o] U8

Buildings, Repairs and Rents

19,037

have

Purchases of Land

3,500

(@) fopn D1 (SEhRe 11 S0g ol (o)

106

Taxes and Agricultural Outlays

1,817

7108

Publishing and Colportage Department

8.273

el

Furnitures

2,066

() 31

|

Administration

2,666

el

1T}

Total Rs

217,634

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ol oD R e Ss s iR s S ) o K e e

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12

Major

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1.D.6

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS

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b e L s o S

Capt,

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Rs.

As. P

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AT MANGALORE

Through the Rev. A. Maenner.

Mr.

H. 8. Thomas Esq.

75

1

Col. A. B. Marsack

60

8t M

15

Brig. Genl. H. O, Connell 100

Major H. Smalley

for

General G. S. Dobbie

54

J. E. E. A. Boyd Esq.

60

Dr. R. Dempster

5

J. W. Best Esq.

30

Rev. Dr. H. Gundert, Calw 50

DL @S QY

Zé(z

W. H. Glenny Esq.

70

Jos, |

J. Grimes Esq.

10

15

Collected by F. Neuberg Esq. Bombay

Major Q. S. A. Jamieson

Capt

10

(=)

Mrs. Dempster

C. Banks Esq.

W. 8

H. Conder Esq.

25

Rev. G. Richter, Mercara

25

10

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S e @ OO IO O OO D

Henry W. Graham Esq.

W. Arnot Esq.

W.1

D, Macpherson Esq.

s

AT HONORE AND KARWAR

V.1

C. Macdonald Esq.

10

R. A. Macdonald Esq.

115

W. 1

John Fachiri BEsq.

2.

W

5

A. Spense Esq.

60

F. Rowland Esq.

H. W. Scott Esq.

N

W. Blackhall Esq.

20

s

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N. Macpherson Esq.

T. R. Thomson Esq.

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T. Graham Esq.

W. H. Lister Esq.

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Col. R. W. Robson’

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W. Park Esq.

Col. H. G. Puckle

20

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Macdonald Esq.

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8

Major Davis

Rev. Alfred Fennell

27

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Major Strettle

J.D. Gordon Esq. Chief Com-

Lieut. A. W. Fair

24

L. M. W.

12

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missoner of Mysore & Coorg 25

E. Marsden Esq.

12

Lieut. Lewis

E. Meynell Esq.

24

Mr. W. Rainford

24

Mr. Rees

12

W. Wright Bsq.

J.Green Esq.

12

Mr. W. Forster

W. F. Simpson Esq.

5

Capt. Mac’Laughlin

30

4

Mrs. J. Gee

Capt. W. F. Hodges

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Mr. G. Bertram

10

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Mr. B. D’Souza

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for Catechist

40

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1i

10

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AT ANANDAPUR

Brethren of H. M. 48th Regt. 75

Capt. Mac’Laughlin

2

14

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25

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Jos. Hunt Esq.

Mrs. Fair

8

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AT DHARWAR

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25

W. Reid Esq.

15

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20

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S. Price Esq.

W. Reid Esq., in Basel

50

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W

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100

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180

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M. G. Palliser Esq.

V. A. Brodie Esq.

22

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C. E. Anding Esq.

10

J. C. Winscum Esq.

6

00

11

22

W. Jukes Esq.

G. Madden Esq.

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K. Laseton Esq.

10

G. Henke Esq.

45

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A. W. Hughes Esq

Mrs. S. Gantz

55

100

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Th. Bosanquet Esq

‘W. C. Darling Esq

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O. Eckelmann Esq.

48

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George Robertson Esq.

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W. Henke Esq.

G. Brunnell Esq.

G. Mac’Watters Esq.

50

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J. W. Richard Esq.

10

Dr. Roberts

0 0

AT CANNANORE

W. F. M.

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12

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94

Rs.

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Children of a Sunday School

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Governor of Madras

20

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E. W. Hammnett Esq.

10

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Frank W. Groves Esq.

40

Mr, W

W. G. Underwood Esq., Mal-

Mis,

C. Master Esq.

100

lapuram

Lady Chamberlain

30

Mis

Capt. T. C. 0. Powlett

2

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Mr. Carmichael

D. Co

AT PALGHAUT

A Friend

Mrs. Mascurine

E. J. Sewell Esq.

20

W. E.

H. D. Robinson Esq.

19

Mrs. J. Tomlinson

J. F.

5

10

50

Mrs. G. S. Dupen

12

Thomas Stanes Esq.

Mr. S. Anthony

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General E. Dance

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Mr

Mr. M. Hill

Mr

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Mr. Ariss

Mulky

F. W. Groves Esq.

11

Miss Walsch

Mrs. Jones

Th. Onslow Esq.

70

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Some Friends

Robert D. Short Esq

Ta

C. E. P. Vernede Esq.

Mr. S. Honeywell

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10

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Miss E', Gehrich

10

Miss Geller

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Mrs. Grey

20

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Mr. F. Anthony

Mrs. Hayne

20

Major Hobart

50

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Mrs. Fowlis

10

J. G. Clarkson Esq.

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Mrs. Schmidt

D; C. 6.

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Capt. Lawrence

Hong

10

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Major Morant, r. E.

Re

Mrs. Gordon

20

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Mrs. Bird

Mrs. Strange

12

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Mrs. Fletcher

2

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Major T. M. Martin

J. U.

Jo

A. Griffin Esq.

1155

Rev. W. Organe

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Mrs. Mc’Liesh

Miss Cockburn

20

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J. Hodges Esq.

Ch. W. Ogden Esq.

10

Py

Rev. H. Pope

10

Curzon Estate

20

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5

20

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15

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Alf. Woodhouse Esq.

10

W. Macenzie Esq.

Mr. J. Robert

010

R. Ryall Esq.

10

Mrs. Johnston

0.0

E. G. Windle Esq.

Mrs. J. Jeremiah

§

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Mr. W. Allens

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AT OOTACAMUND

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Mrs. David Cockburn,

Mission box

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J. Hodges Esq. and Rev.

00

D. Cockburn Esq.

10 01 0

J. M. Fritz

76

20

00

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00

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Donations from Members of the Congregations and

00

other Native Friends

00

00

Mangalore:

Anandapur:

00

Miss Flora Hunter

30

Mr. Samuel Anthony

24

00

Mr. Lucas Joshua

@®

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Mr. David Kore

24

00

Mr. Thomas Pearl

(=}

Dharwar: Solome Utengi

00

|

Mulky: two Members of

Ratnappa Kadale

00

the Congregation

1

Manuel Furtado

00

Orphanage Mission Box 0

Balappa Harubalawadi

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Fasting Box of the Girls 14

Maria Banawasi

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Udapy: Shirwa Congrega-

tion

3

|

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0 0

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Middle School, Pie Collec. 8

|

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Rev. Titus Costa, Karwar 10

(=)

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denhalli

Two Members of the

6

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Collection at the Conse-

Karwar Congregation

Mercara: Amruta

cration of the Church 39

0

Jacob Hans

Cannanore: Workmen and

i)

John Mulil

Women of the Weaving

il

Micha Shettyen

Establishment

81

13

Manuel Devadatta

Chombala: Nathanael

0

Paul Devadatta

Jonathan

0

Samuel Pengal

Mattatia

0

Jona Clisten

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Calicut: P.O.Pothan Esq. 40. 0

From the Out-stations

5

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Mr.Henry Sundran

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Codacal: Mr Paul Paulus

0

oo o

Kotargiri:

W.H

Mr. Franeis,

D

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Mr. Samuel Schoolmaster 11

0

12

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Col. A,

Mallapuram

Carpenter Daniel

7

Joseph Cheretu

03

I. Kanaka, Catechist

1

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LW

Palghaut:

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(== am g (om0 o

1. Grin

From the Congregation

S

Subscriptions and Donations for Schools, Orphanages

My, L.

W, Ar

and Famine Orphans

ANANDAPUR

1

HUBLY

Majl’ll‘ :

Mr. Shoor

J. Elphinston Esq.

180

100

Mr. Essex

Rev. Le’Mare, Belgaum

BETTIGERRY

[

(

DHARWAR

{Capt. Hay, Dharwar

10

D

Ackn

J. Elphinston Esq. for the four

|

Legacy left by Mr. Smith,

Rey, A

Orphanages, S. Mahr. 1200

thro’ Rev. Macpherson 200

The B,

Th. Bosanquet Esq

200

Rev. Le’Mare, Belgaum

125

g BTG SO

Don

T. C. Symonds Esq

190

CALICUT

Col. &

90

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J. Winscum Esq.

25

H. Jay

Capt. Hay

7

9

&

25

F. H. Aitken Esq.

P Ma

J. W. Charles Esq

30

W, Morgan Esq.

5

30

F, Dey

A. C. Young Esq.

Mrs.

Ferguson,

from

J. Seo

H. G. Palliser Esq

29

Nellampoor

20

\V, SC[

‘W. 8. Price Esq.

20

KAITY

16

Mrs. Gordon

5

W. H. Horsley Esq

Capt. Ward

10

R. Stanes Esq.

30

D¢

W. Sandwith Esq.

10

Rev. C. H. Deane

A Friend

10

lch

Mr. Ramaswamy

A Dunn Esq.

4

Mr. Lewis

10

Young Ladies at Basel

71

Pt

A. 8. Cowdell Esq.

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Government Grantfor Girls 165

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492

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For Eduéaéing Protesi;;ﬁt ‘Children

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of the 34th Regiment at Mangalore in the Mission Boarding Schoo!s

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Through the Rev. W. Sikemeier.

| Major Q. S. A. Jamieson

15

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36

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Major . Smalley

20507 0

J. Moss Esq.

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Donations for the Sickhouse at Mangalore

:j

3

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Rs

b

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Rs

As.

J. Ball Esq.

®

6

0

W. H. Comyn Esq.

80

Mr. Thomas Pearl

(6}

Col. A. B. Marsack

24

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8

0

0

Major H. Smalley

15

0

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15

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B RO O (DT

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12

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J. Grimes Esq.

H. Bradley Esq.

J. BE. E. A. Boyd Esq.

1

Mr. W. Caroll

Mr. L. Joshua

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10

W. Arnot Esq.

Mrs. Dempster

(e Sl (o) 0 e)

Major A. S. A. Jamieson

6

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Subscriptions towards the Mercara Cooly Mission Fund

Acknowledged by the Rev. F. Veil.

| T. Russel Esq.

30

Rev., Alf. Fennell

16

100 0 0 | C. B. Speechly Esq.

The Executors of the late

R. H. Morris Esq.

10

100

0

Donald Stewart Esq.

A. D. Campbell Esq.

10

Col. G. H. Thomson

50

0

Th. Craig Esq.

10

H. Jameson Esq.

20

W. Doyle Esq.

10

F. Mangles Esq.

100

W. Prater Esq.

10

S ol oie O©EON O

F. Deedes Esq.

20

0

C. H. Woodfall Esq.

J. Scobie Hsq.

10

(=]

A. Mc'Innes Esq.

&

9

)

& o o b o Ci0 o S

‘W. Scobie Esq.

50

0

Donations and Subscriptions

toward the Manantoddy Fund

|

Acknowledged by Rev. Messers Diez

J. Sperschneider Esq. m. . 27

-1

6

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Rev. J. Lauffer

100

and Lauffer.

6

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The Lord Bishop of Madras 100

0

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b2

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99

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10

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Mrs. Stable

12

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Mrs. Tomlinson

10

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Dr. 8. T. Walker Barrow

10

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&

Collection

at a Service

i

Surgeon, A. M. M. D.

Manantoddy, by Rev. Diez 6

(¢ o]

0

4 11

An Officer of H. Ms. 48th Regt.

5!

F. W. Groves Esq. Adderlay

Cannanore

120

12

Mrs. Fair

0

Estate, Coonoor

20

10

Rev. Hiibner

25

Major H. Smalley

Qchoo!s

Mrs. Gordon, Nilagiris

5

W. C.Darling Esq., Calicut 25

0

Ok I COL

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A Friend

§

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W. Mullay Esq. the Droog,

Subscriptions paid by Mrs.

70 0

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50

0

0

|

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20

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