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 The fortieth report of the Basel German Evangelical missionary society in South-Western India for 1879, 40 . e ) o o % o 2 B 3 35 v i . - ¥ 5 L 5 it s oo S e s . o e R — P s e 5 N12<524391237 021 W —_— D ik bl i e . i ol et it i il e s B i il o I w&i sttt iy BB B . ST S0 S SN ST AP RO L) WU BRI R LN Y63 THE FORTIETH REPORT 0 H Basel German Evangelical 3 MISSIUNARINY o 00! SOUTH-WESTERN INDIA FOR 1879 s e . PRINTED AT THE BASEL MISSION PRESS MANGALORE 1380 PR == 2 T/ P~ ] AS B & ol £y, 7 s JQ,( CRESCe AL N o7 o )N o 2 S ) =) & S :% {2\ ;:1\ %3O 0! aay S =5 S Ssrud LB s il R European Missionaries 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. - 7 S 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 - ¥ { 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 » €ac Tile Works, Mangalore ” » Do Calicut 37 » 15 ” 33 » 85 ” flow 20 Carpenter’s Shop do. ” » ” ” Tapi Mech. Works, Mangalore 22 ” » b2 29 ” Wit 49 Printing & Publ. Dep. do. 43 ” ” » b furr 315 233 124 672 This Three Mere. Factories 32 » » ” 41 » g6 Total 347 233 133 713 56 i i 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 ot o oo Ot ol oD R e Ss s iR s S ) o K e e 0% knee E. & O. E alld M ore, 3I1st December 187q 0176 (g \//}//a(/éd ord 12 Major Rev, 4 1.D.6 SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS IS E Ma TOWARDS THE MISSION FUND B Mo W. W Received during the year 18%79. 1. Gre . B, b e L s o S Capt, Rs As. P Rs. As. P M, G 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 @S @ DS NI OO 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 X ¢ N. Macpherson Esq. T. R. Thomson Esq. (B T. Graham Esq. W. H. Lister Esq. oo N. Jordine Esq. W ot Ot ()8 =T e e = i ) SO O @ V., W. Simpson Esq. K1 Tt ou Ot AT MERCARA Ay sl ot Col. H. G. Thomson 36 Th N Do for Catechist 36 ot Ot Col. R. W. Robson’ 6 . Mac’Donald Esq. W. Park Esq. Col. H. G. Puckle 20 (e, 24 . C. Gilder Esq. Rev. G&. Richter 0.1 :E]:z Macdonald Esq. : Do for Catechist 36 1,3 C. Soobiah Esq. 24 ot S D Ot Ot o>t Mr. A. Brockmann 24 C. P. Cooper Esq. Gep W. P. Partridge Esq (4 0 0 e o © O © 0 IO e O DS O ©NeNe S @O D @@ O @O GO @I I IO OGS DI ; B. J. Dickinson Esq. 22 SHe @IS DIONO OO @ISO NN IS OO O May 93 Rs B Rs. £ b w2 2 Major H. M. 8. Magrath 8 Major Davis Rev. Alfred Fennell 27 Col. Gadsdon 10 Do for Catechist 27 e o o (=) Major Strettle J.D. Gordon Esq. Chief Com- Lieut. A. W. Fair 24 L. M. W. 12 N 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 As, P Mr. G. Bertram 10 Col. White Mr. B. D’Souza 10 & oo o ocEe o ® o0 @ 00 0 C @ D Col. Walton S S e O OO0 D OIS & oisicis oo ool oo o 00 St. Mark’s Offertory, Mercara, 00 for Catechist 40 For Lighting of the Chapel: 1i 10 00 AT ANANDAPUR Brethren of H. M. 48th Regt. 75 Capt. Mac’Laughlin 2 14 00 25 00 Jos. Hunt Esq. Mrs. Fair 8 2 == 00 AT DHARWAR AT TELLICHERRY 00 Capt. Hay 25 W. Reid Esq. 15 w 20 00 S. Price Esq. W. Reid Esq., in Basel 50 00 W . Sandwith Esq. 15 100 A. Gover Esq. 00 W . H. Horsley Esq 12 Miss King, Bangalore 10 (ot (e (=T e (= O = S = f e} W 10 . H. Scott Esq. W . Robertson Esq. 10 AT CALICUT 00 C. Wiltshire Hsq. ‘W. Logan Esq. 100 090 INE NE B, 10 180 H. Wigram ¥sq. 00 M. G. Palliser Esq. V. A. Brodie Esq. 22 0.0 C. E. Anding Esq. 10 J. C. Winscum Esq. 6 00 11 22 W. Jukes Esq. G. Madden Esq. 00 K. Laseton Esq. 10 G. Henke Esq. 45 » A. W. Hughes Esq Mrs. S. Gantz 55 100 S 'c OOl eIC OIS O DNC O DI SIS RO OO OOl O OO OO 20 00 Th. Bosanquet Esq ‘W. C. Darling Esq Rev. J. Sharp 217 00 AT HUBLY O. Eckelmann Esq. 48 00 George Robertson Esq. 10 [<=] 10 0 0 5 [<=) (o] W. Henke Esq. G. Brunnell Esq. G. Mac’Watters Esq. 50 ) 0 J. W. Richard Esq. 10 Dr. Roberts 0 0 AT CANNANORE W. F. M. 2 S o e O S OO o D OO OIS [l e il wnly Gl ) (e ot U el om ey (oo i (e i) o 0 Gteneral Burton 30 S A. 8. Cowdell Esq., Ootaca- ) 0 Major Curtois 14 (=) mund 12 ) 0 94 Rs. As I) Rs As Children of a Sunday School His Grace the Duke of W. Le conducted by Miss H, Buckingham and Chandos, W. s Winscum (13 Governor of Madras 20 R Ryf E. W. Hammnett Esq. 10 L G AT CODACAL 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 =) 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 w General E. Dance Mang Alex. Allan Esq. 0o Mis G. Grime Esq. w ot T. C. Elseworthy Esq. il © O e oo e O (=)l (=) e Aespiien)s e (=) H. Wallace Esq. Mr Mr. M. Hill Mr AT KAITY Mr. Ariss Mulky F. W. Groves Esq. 11 Miss Walsch Mrs. Jones Th. Onslow Esq. 70 Ory Some Friends Robert D. Short Esq Ta C. E. P. Vernede Esq. Mr. S. Honeywell D DD DD Ot = Ot AHL S, 10 Udap Miss E', Gehrich 10 Miss Geller 2 i = Mrs. Grey 20 Sor Miss Breeks 50 Mr. F. Anthony Mrs. Hayne 20 Major Hobart 50 i Mrs. Fowlis 10 J. G. Clarkson Esq. O Mrs. Schmidt D; C. 6. Bo M. 5. Capt. Lawrence Hong 10 A Friend Major Morant, r. E. Re Mrs. Gordon 20 Mrs. M. § S S O OLHEIIQUHS OIS OO ©FOLO IS IS OO OSSO oS IS S Sh e 909 000 e Do e oo o oo o0 oo o000 oo Ty The Lord Bishop of Madras 50 AT KOTARGIRI Mrs. Bird Mrs. Strange 12 Meroz Mrs. Fletcher 2 J. B Ja Major T. M. Martin J. U. Jo A. Griffin Esq. 1155 Rev. W. Organe Ni Mrs. Mc’Liesh Miss Cockburn 20 ¥ J. Hodges Esq. Ch. W. Ogden Esq. 10 Py Rev. H. Pope 10 Curzon Estate 20 Sa Mrs. Schmidt 5 20 James Hill Esq. Io H. B. Grigg Esq. 10 OOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOK’;O e oo @ o @ e @ ol B e e o O o0 e e & w Kodanad Estate 30 CLI® O QSIS ONG SO QL O OO O S Y 95 As P, Rs. As Rs. As 15 - W. Leane Esq. 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 § ey (ot Wil 00 Mr. W. Allens g S oiie e ey AT OOTACAMUND 00 Mrs. David Cockburn, Mission box 27 Collection in Zion’s Chapel through 00 J. Hodges Esq. and Rev. 00 D. Cockburn Esq. 10 01 0 J. M. Fritz 76 20 00 e D = S 00 00 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 @® S 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 00 Fasting Box of the Girls 14 Maria Banawasi g (NS TS Hio ol o) i o e S O © o o O 00 Udapy: Shirwa Congrega- tion 3 | Hubly : Members of the 00 Congregation 9 Some Members of the Gudde 0 0 | Mr. Pakrappa Mudratti 20 ) Congregation 2 ,; Bettigerry: Orphanage Girls 9 Middle School, Pie Collec. 8 | Orphanage Boys’ Pie Coll. 2 | From a Hindu 0 X O O M= O QIO ) 0 Boys’ New Year’s Singing 6 S W N g ’ Guledgud : ) 0 Honore: Catech. Salomon Devada 4 {0 Rev. Titus Costa, Karwar 10 (=) (=) From the Out-station Kar- ) 0 denhalli Two Members of the 6 ) 0 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 Ef];g; N. N. 7 OO o Samuel Hoar 0 0 oy e=piile s (o ol ety (DI s T =) (<) =) O IO TO RO IODNO O O O Women of theWeav.Establ. 2 é 6 (g 96 Rs As Rs. As Calicut: P.O.Pothan Esq. 40. 0 From the Out-stations 5 Acknon Mr.Henry Sundran Kaity : Carpenter Daniel Codacal: Mr Paul Paulus 0 oo o Kotargiri: W.H Mr. Franeis, D P W., Mr. Samuel Schoolmaster 11 0 12 () Col. A, Mallapuram Carpenter Daniel 7 Joseph Cheretu 03 I. Kanaka, Catechist 1 Major ] LW Palghaut: Isaac Abraham (== 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 L. Reid Esq. 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. Collee Government Grantfor Girls 165 SIS Ol IO Il @O @10 @ISO QEPIeLS Qe o © eSO O O IS OO OO IONO (o) Ko=) piles) Blan B (e il em i o) O © O O O O Coonoor Day School Friends in England, thro’ Madras Famine Fund Dy, § Major Q. S. A, Jamieson 17 0 0 Committee 492 11 Sur N [ R, 5 e A 0f For Eduéaéing Protesi;;fit ‘Children Car of the 34th Regiment at Mangalore in the Mission Boarding Schoo!s Mg, Re, Through the Rev. W. Sikemeier. | Major Q. S. A. Jamieson 15 () Col. A. B. Marsack 36 00 Mrs. Dempster [ g 0 W.¢ Major . Smalley 20507 0 J. Moss Esq. 1270, O Wy p\ (o 97 S Donations for the Sickhouse at Mangalore :j 3 Acknowledged by the Rev. E. Hirlin. Rs b wm Rs As. J. Ball Esq. ® 6 0 W. H. Comyn Esq. 80 Mr. Thomas Pearl (6} Col. A. B. Marsack 24 AL ME 8 0 0 Major H. Smalley 15 0 St H. J HL ok 0 J. W. Best Esq. 15 EE) For N’s. Children B RO O (DT §P 12 % J. Grimes Esq. H. Bradley Esq. J. BE. E. A. Boyd Esq. 1 Mr. W. Caroll Mr. L. Joshua i W B A 10 W. Arnot Esq. Mrs. Dempster (e Sl (o) 0 e) Major A. S. A. Jamieson 6 é (3 H R %’ () ::):) 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 S et Rev. J. Lauffer 100 and Lauffer. 6 -~ The Lord Bishop of Madras 100 0 Collected by Rev. Diez b2 2 99 Lauffer 10 o W Mrs. Stable 12 ? g Mrs. Tomlinson 10 () ik () ) ;(j Dr. 8. T. Walker Barrow 10 0 & 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 )00 A Friend § é L W. Mullay Esq. the Droog, Subscriptions paid by Mrs. 70 0 Coonoor 50 0 0 | Lafrenaire 20 0 13 98 Rs b~ w 1) As i Proceeds from Tracts J. W. Taylor Esq. (=) o W Rev. M. Hoch 10 100 (o) Mrs. M. Drury, Bombay Mangalo Two Friends 132 C. J. Puddicombe, Mulky Uchil Mrs. Alpin Manantoddy 30 Mrs. Hodgson [ i Mund Capt. Puddicombe, Manant. 25 Santu A Child T Mr. E. Lafrenaire, p. p. w (@1 Kauty: Capt. Mc’Laughlin 20 Mr. Robert Richmond Padur o O B.O O OO gg Brethren of H. M. 48th Regt. 30 Mrs. Alpin Udapy Collection at the Engl. Rev. J. M. Fritz Gudd Shiry Service by Rev. Lauffer 4 = w A Friend Katty =) A Planter = Mr. L. J. Ruffy, Staff Sergt. 20 Kaly Conventry A. Woodhaus Soldiers’ Meeting QO = SO W VOt Nada PhilmoreGarden, London 61 7 A Planter [24 QD IIDNO PO M WS S C O WO DD o 0 > *De Sergeant Pirim Towards the erection of a School and Chapel room at Anjercandy the following Donations were MANG: ~ MULK Received by Rev. IV .Schmolck, Tellicherry| Rev. C. Linder, Chombala 0 0 Murdoch Brown Esq. Rev. C. Miiller, Heidenheim 20 UDAP Anjercandy 25 E. H. Aitken Esq. Bombay 25 Mr. Kallat Ramuni, Anjr. 10 Mr. Arthur Menzel, Tellich. 0 ANAN Rev. 8. Walter, Chombala o Mr. Hanoch 0 HUBL, 2 E. Halbrock Esq. 10 Mrs. Knott, Bangalore 10 OL T 0 O S © (()Z) BETT W. Schoenthal Esq. 10 SO o oL (er)eg(cm R (o) e Bl o) J. L. Weismann Esq. Codacal Congregation, by Cannanore J < GULE Rev. G. Wagner 4 (e=] Friends in Bern 45 11 ) Mr. Samuel Joshua, Codacal 2 N. N. & H. H. Tellicherry 36 CANN Collection at Anjercandy, by Mr. Nathan Simeon 2 (e 1 com 5 (o ¢ 30 12 Mr. Brown Esq. Rev. Layer, Wilhelmsdorf 9 i We have further thankfully to acknow- TELL Rev.P.Chandren, Tellicherry 5 ledge receipt of the following Mr. Jehuda Chandren 1 2RO O O Lk Materials for the erection of the Chapel, CHO) Proceeds of the old Material most liberally given by CAL 8 at Anjercandy M. Brown Esq. at Anjercandy Cat. Gabriel Pirachen, 4 large complete doors, Tellicherry 1 small Hvang. Jesaya Mantody 2 99 8 complete'windows, Cop: Wadakencherry Nettoor- and Tellicherry 8 wooden pillars for the Verandah, PAL Congregation All Timber for the roof. NILA g9 As. P Contributions * of the Congregations (“Church Tax”) 00 Rs As I) Rs A 8 00 Mangalore 201 14 Kundapur 2 Mulky 44 <7} Honore 0 Uchila 20 Karwar 8 Munderu Mercara 41 0 Santur 14 Anandapur Kutyar 14 Dharwar 15 Padur 15 Hubly 38 65 Unakallu % Udapy Gudde 25 Bettigerry 25 Shirwa 24 Shagoti 15 0 Kattupadi 147 Guledgud 33 12 Calyanapur [y Kardenhalli $)0 10 Madambeil O M0 =3 W k=t O O = DN ® ?g); Mushtigeri 13 ccocoonocoocoocoocmocool™ Karkal 3 + 0 # Details of Malabar Funds not received yet Grants-in-Aid udy b w2 MANGALORE Brahmin Girls School 46 Parochial Schools 147 86 0 MULKY Girls’ Boarding School - Padur Parochial School 10 S g 1 U ARV Boys’ Boarding School 100 Parochial School 20 § 0 ANANDAPUR Parochial School 120 HUBLY Boys’ Boarding School 113 b 0 Heath. Vernac. School 120 82 0 BETTIGERRY Girls’ Boarding School Parochial School 43 GULEDGU Parochial School I9 0 Heath Vernac. School 57 CANNANORE Parochial School 50 W OO OwWO OO0 ~=O0ONO0 I 0 Chovva Parochial School 88 Heath. Vernac School ) 0 29 TELLICHERRY Orphanage 120 Parochial Town School 31 Hot Vernac. School in the Fisher Vlllage 54 CHOMBALA Girls’ Orphanage 245 ) fl, CALICU Anglo-Vernacular bchool 1100 Girls’ Orphanage for 1878 312 00 Lot Ol Do i » 1579 508 Heath. Girls’ School , 1878 Pudiangadi Vernac. School for 1878 47 CODACAL Parochial School 37 Paraperi School . 10 L] PALGHAUT Wadakenchery Vernac. School 22 ), NILAGIRIS For all our Hill Schools 240 OWwWwnNOOOoH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG’\OOOMd ~ 13% INDE Page List of European Missionaries 3 »” » Stations and Agents 6 I Agency 14 Statistical , II Pastoral Department 15 II1 Educational Department 16 Summary % 1y Contributions of Native Christians 18 20 Report I Numerical Increase and present Strength of the Congregations 3 II Accessions from Heathenism 5 ITI Moral and Religious Life of our Natlve Chnstlans ) IV Changes in the Staff of European Labourers 61 Staff of Native Agents 64 VI 68 Evangelistic Efforts; Itinerancy VII Educational Work 76 VIII Literary Department 82 IX Industrial and Mercantile Enterprlses 86 Conclusion 90 Expenditure of the Mlssmn in 18 (9 91 Subseriptions and Donations 92 B v e g D SRy . S e e = ifi\%}zfi - o - —_— e (i = M M i W H ! WM k- M w\u - | i M i | i g | w | W W m | NSRS s i - e S = - = i s ik o v i e e 4 [ e L7 P 8 Bl W S ot o S N W i S8 or .. i :. ¥ i iy 1 9 i G ‘&’Ql & o e 4 * 4 BN o f Ve & 3. 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