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Corrected up to the 1st April 1894.

[The letter (m) afterthe namessignifies “married”, and the letter (w) ‘“widower”

The names of unordained Missionaries are marked with an asterisk.]

Date of

Name

Native

Active

Station

Country

Service

Ch. A. E. Diez (w)

Germany

1851

Kasaragod

do.

Calicut

J. Lauffer (m)

1856

W. Stokes (m)

India

1860

Kaity (Coonoor)

F. Ziegler (m)

Germany

1862

Dharwar

Th. Digel (m)

do.

1864

Mulky

M. Th. Walz (m)

do.

1866

Mangalore

F. Matthissen (m)

Russia

1867

Kaity (Coonoor)

G. Ritter (m)

Germany

1869

Udipi

Holland

1870

W. Sikemeier (m)

Kotageri

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W.P.Schonthal (m)*

Germany

1870

Cannanore

]

P. Ott (m)

do

1871

Mangalore

W. Niibling (m)

do

1871

Honavar

G. Hirner (m)*

do

1871

Mangalore

J. Hermelink (m)

do

1872

do.

J. Ostermeyer (m)

do

1873

Cannanore

do

1873

Codacal

C. Feuchter (m)*

J. Baumann (m)*

Switzerland

1874

Palghat

R. Schenkel (m)

Germany

1874

Merecara

W. Liitze (m)

do

1875

ST maoom®o

do

Kaity

L. Gengnagel (m)

1875

Basrur-Kundapur

E.Liebendérfer, m.n.(m)

do

1875

Calicut

L.J. Frohnmeyer (m)

do

1876

Tellicherry

do

1876

Honavar

g

C. G. Eblen (m)

M. Hoch (m)

Switzerland

1876

Mangalore

&

G. Benner (m)*

Germany

1.8 ¢

Calicut

H. Altenmiiller (m)*

do

1878

Mangalore

do

J. G. Kiihnle (m)

1878

Palghat

C. D. Warth (m)

do

1878

Hubli

Co e

I. Weismann (m)

do

1879

Chombala

S

do

1880

=

C. W. Dilger (m)

Tellicherry

K. Ernst (m)

do

1881

Udipi

1*

ST

Native

Date of

Name

Active

Station

Country

Service

32. J. Fischer (m)

Geermany

1881

Anandapur

“do.

1882

33. ¥. Eisfelder (m)

Guledgudd

34, B. Liithi (m)

Switzerland

1884

Bettigeri-Gadag

35.

Ch. Hole (m)

Germany

1884

Vaniyankulam

36.

D. Berli (m)

Switzerland

1885

Bijapur

do.

37.

G. Peter (m)

1885

Chombala

38.

J. Gotz (m)

Germany

1886

Udipi

39.

F. Huber (m)*

Switzerland

1886

Mangalore

40.

do.

1886

do.

A. Glattfelder (m)*

41.

J. Sieber (m)*

do.

1887

Merecara

42.

Th. Lutz (m)

do.

1887

Guledgudd

43.

Paul Buchli (m)*

do.

1887

Mangalore

44,

F. Rehm (m)

Germany

1888

Tellicherry

45.

R. Bosshardt

Switzerland

1888

Codacal

46.

'W. Bader (m)

Germany

1888

Tellicherry

47,

do

1883

H. Riseh (m)

Bettigeri-Gadag

48.

Fr. Volz (m)*

do

1888

Calicut

49.

G. Kehrer *

do

1888

do.

50

G. Wieland (m)

do

1889

Kaity

51

do

W. Weischedel (m)*

1889

Mangalore

52

J. Bucher (m)

do

1890

do.

53

H. Bretschneider *

do

1890

Udipi (Malpe)

54

G. Sautter *

do

1890

Mangalore

55

Th. Uber (m)

do

1890

Palghat

56

S. Stamm *

Switzerland

1891

Dharwar

O. Singer

Germany

1891

Udipi

58

Ph. Stier

do.

Hubli

1891

59

W. Jung *

do.

1891

Mangalore

60

F. Boas *

do.

1891

Palghat

61

H. Kessler *

Switzerland

1891

Mangalore

ae

62

M. Breidenbach -

Germany

1892

Karkala

63

Ph. Weidner

do.

1892

Vaniyankulam

64

Tr. Lutz

Switzerland

1892

Basrur-Kundapur

65

1892

Dharwar

G. Engel

Germany

66

J. Biachle

do.

1893

Karkala

67

K. Mayer

do.

1893

Bettigeri-Gadag

68

do.

1893

Cannanore

F. Nagel

69

A. Metz

do.

1893

Hubli

70

E. Hiller

Australia

1894

Calicut

Native

Date of

Name

Active

Station

i

Country

Service

Single Ladies.

71. Miss M. Kaundinya

India

1890

Mangalore

72

. Miss Th. Diez

do

1892

Kasaragod

73

. Miss H. Strolin

Geermany

1893

Mangalore

At Home.

74

1853

late of Mercara

. F. Kittel (m)

Germany

75

. R. Hartmann (w)

Switzerland

1859

do.

Karkala

76

. S. Walter (m)

do.

1865

do.Vaniyankulam

7

. F. A. Brasche (m)

Germany

1869

do

Udipi

Dharwar

78

. G. Grossmann (m)

Switzerland

1874

do

79

. J. B. Veil (m)*

Germany

1875

do

Mereara

80

. A. Rubland (m)

do

1876

do

Cannanore

81

do

1879

do

. Chr. Keppler (m)

Mulky

82

. J. J. Jaus (m)

do

1879

do

Codacal

83

. F. Stierlen (m)*

do

1880

do

Mangalore

84

. W. H. Knittel (m)

do

1882

do

Hubli

85

do

1883

do

. K. Schaal (m)

Tellicherry

86

. M. Schaible (m)

do

1883

do

Mulky

87

. J. Waidelich (m)

do

1883

do

Hubli

88

do

1885

do

. Th. Strobel (m)

Calicuty

89

. 0. Bode (w)

do

1886

do

Anandapur

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of the Basel German Evangelical Mission in South-Western India.

1st JANUARY 1894.

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Native Church

European

Native Agents

New

Mission-

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1884

i

12

137

i

33

65

1168

15

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20

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11

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10

25

372

362

743

15

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1854

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52

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1876

61

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1842

14

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1857

12

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79

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530

29

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204

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177

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118

27

174

110

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11406

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178

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415

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71

56

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116

24

164

55

112

252

444

235

17

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22

538

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2

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292

247

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Abstract showing the Confributions of the Churches towards

their Church Expenses, the Mission and the Poor.

Sunday

Collections

Donations

Special

Offerings

and

Special

Collections

Church

towards

towards the

Donations

Collections for

for the Mala-

tations

Total

Tax

Church

Mission-work

towards the

bar Widow

Orphanages

Expenses

Poor-funds

Fund

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A

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178

4

168

12

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18

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32

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122

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13

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122

14

10

14

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24

10

216

130

109

14

46

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.

96

15

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.

285

12

95

69

10

58

15

532

.

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166

15

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62

14

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Chombala-Mahé

120

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109 M N H 10 W O A

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116

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92

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0

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93

389

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30

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in this abstract.

Table of Schools of the Basel German Evangelical Mission.

1st JANUARY 1894.

@

Schools for

Yernacular

Yernacular

Mission Agents

Boarding

Anglo-

Sunday

Christian

Schools for

Yernacular

Schools and

Non-

Schools

Training

Orphanages

Schools

Christians

Schools

Schools

NAMES'

OF

10

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149

163

413

154

153

45

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161

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Mangalore

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2.

0

.

174

53

113

18

30

451

Mulky

3.

Udipi .

.

.

11

o

(=]

184

99

20

43

486

30

14

Karkala

.

°

74

16

90

17

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6.

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35

518

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10. Dharwar

e

.

.

.

.

38

81

209

344

1. Hubli .

.

.

.

.

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44

16

100

160

30

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45

38

16

128

248

67

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21

11

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69

65

253

187

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16.

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96

149

26

633

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.

.

107

18

23

147

11

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419

291

7.

Chombala (Mahé)

18.

Calicut

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.

46

79

307

33

176

89

730

95

11

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Codacal (Edacu

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@

66

59

21

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327

70

20.

Vaniyankulam (Ottapalam)

52

82

149

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306

28

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Palghat

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274

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164

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V. Nilgiris.

22,

.

.

.

52

13

358

20

23

499

98

Kaity

Kotageri .

0

.

=

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12

38

132

186

23.

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29

12

90

17

490

20

23

685

98

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1124

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.

136

67

261

218

1020

693

2976

526

1110

7185

468

v § v

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Total of 1stJanuary 1893 .

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130

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Cy § v

57

277

235

924

620

2722

1201

1037

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°

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12

Detailed Table of Stations, Out-Stations

and Agents, 1st January 1894.

Stations

Native Agents:—

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists

Out-Stations

and Headmasters

1. Mangalore

Pastoral

a. Engaged in Pastoral and

Out-Stations -

Rev. P. Ott, zz charge of

Evangelistic Work

station,

Chairman of

Rev. Sebastian Furtado,

Ullal

District Committee

Jeppu

FPastor, Feppu

Rev. Samuel Andrea,

Bokapatna, Urva,

Evangelistic

Kudroli

Rev.

Th. Wialz,

lown,

ZFastor, Balmatha

Rev. Jared Soens,

Bolma

District

Inspector

of

Pastor, Bokapatna

Bantwal

Sclhools

Puttur

Educational

Cat. Mark Salis, Mangalore

”

Gabriel Bangera, ,

Rev. M. Hoch,

Theolog.

Pres., Genl. Com.

Semi-

”

Henry Roberts,

n

Ev. Bethuel Soens, Puttur

Rev. J. Hermelink

}

nary

Cat. Joseph Sunita,

k)

Rev. J. Bucher, Higl :

School

”

G. Premaya, Bolma

”

M. Jeremiah, Bantwal

Miss M. Kaundinya,

Brakmin Girls’ School

»

Christananda Salis,

Ublal

Miss H. Strolin, studying

the language, dest. for

Girls Training School

b. Educational Work

Mercantile

Cat. Chr. Watsa,

Theolog.

Sems-

Mr. H. Altenmiiller, Gezns.

Manager

”

Ch. Mabenna

}

nary

Agent & Treasurer

”

P. Buchli, M. M.-Br.

B. Ponon

”

”

H. Kessler,

”

”

”

S. B. Soens

High

School

Industrial

Mr. S. Aiman, B.A,,

Headmaster

%

Mr

G. Hirner, Press

”

F. Huber, Book Depoz.

”

G. Sautter, Weav. Est.

”

W. Weischedel,

Mechanical Works

W. Jung,

Kudroli Tile-Works

Glattfelder,

Feppr Tile-Works

13

Stations

Native Agents:—

and

Eudropean Agents

Pastors, Catechists

Out-Stations

and Headmasters

2. Mulky

Rev. Th. Digel, 7722 charge of Rev.. Diego Fernandez,

Out-Stations.

station and Orphanage

Lastor, Mulky

Karnad

Cat. William Heri, 2%7.

Hadike, Ulya

Rev. M. Schaible, sc/ools

Santur

n

Abraham Heri, Santur

and itin.

Uchila, Yermal,

k2

Obed Sumitra, Fadur

Mullur

»

J. Aarons, Mundern

Padur, Perur, Kalatur,

ki

Aaron Furtado, Auedike

Karandadi

Hutyar, Kalatur

»

J. Vedamuttu, Autyar

Munderu, Kodetur

B. Ananda, Uckila

3. Udipi

Rev. G. Ritter, iz charge of | Rev. Daniel Aaron, izn.

Out-Stations .

station and out-stations

”

Charles Gojar,

Nidambur, Bailur,

Fastor, Malapn

Kapettu,

Kadekar,

Rev. K. Ernst, Freparatory

Kuttipadi, Amalpadi

”

Immanuel Furtado,

School and Training School

Fastor, Gudde

Parkala,

Badegottu,

Perala,

Parika,

Cat. Timothy Ammanna,

Kilenja, Shepura

Rev. J. Gotz, owuz-stations

Udipi Church

Malapu, Urdubittalu

and itinerancy

Udyavara, Bolja

Winf. Micha,

Lrepara-

Gudde, Kap, Mandodi

Rev. O. Singer, Orphanage

Fr. Jatanna,

Paul Shiri,

Lory

Shirva,

Kattingeri,

Scthools

Suda,

Pallj,

Mr. H. Bretschneider,

S. Jatanna,

Ninjur,

Bolle,

Kudigrama

Tile-Works, Malapu

N. Vira, Madambail

Kattupadi,

Koppala,

”

Ebenezer Clare, Farkala

ossar

Madambail,

Kurkal,

G. Bangera, Aattupadi

Kalanja, Bijantla,

Marane

Sam. Karat, Kalyanapur

Kalyanapur,

Uppur,

Joshua Soens, Skirva

Bolmar, Amunje

N. Suchitta, Udyavara

4, Karkala

Rev. R. Hartmann, 77z charge | Cat. Joseph Kairanna,

of station, itin.

N. Crurch and itin.

Out-Stations :

- Attur, Mudar,

Rev. M. Breidenbach, 4zn.

Nandolige,Hekkadka,

»

Joseph Bhagyan, 4.

Mudabedra

Rev. J. Bichle,

learning Tulu

Evang. Eliezer Karat

5. Basrur

Rev. L. Gengnagel,

Cat. Immanuel Soens,

Out-Stations :

in charge of station, itir.

N, Church, Basrur, itin.

Hundapur,

Kailkeri,

Rev. Tr. Lutz,

studying

n

Daniel Andrea,

Barkur

Canarese

Kundapur Church, itin.

n

T.Furtado,Barkur,itin.

Assist Cat. Ch. Manjaru,

Kailkeri, itin.

N

14

Stations

Native-Agents : —

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists

Out-Stations

and Headmasters

6. Honavar

Rev. W. Niibling, Zzc/karge | Ev. Samuel Bunyan

Out-Station .

of station, itin. | Cat. Jacob Upranna, #tin.

Rev. Ch. Eblen, iZz.

Anilgoda, Karwar

» D.Santvana, Azrwar, itin.

7. Kasaragod

Rev. E. Diez, iz charge of | Cat. Gottlieb Mabenna,

Out-Stations :

station, itin.

N. Church, and School

Natha. Kundara, itn.

Ravaneshvara,

Miss Theodora Diez

Jesudasa Melottu, zZ7.

Hosadurga,

Israel Eliezer,

Bekal, Kumbla,

Bela, Chittari, Ban-

Manjeshvara School

»

W. Fernandez,

garamanjesh., Hosa-

Kumbla School

betta-Manjeshvara

n

Lewis Fernandez,

Bela School

» Gerson Soens, Hosadurga

N. Church and School

8. Mercara

Rev. R. Schenkel, iz ciarge

Cat. Gabriel Almanda, 7#7%.

”

Satyanatha Sumanta,

Oul-Station -

of station, itin.

i2in.

Fraserpet

Mr. J. Sieber, M. M.-Br.

Cat

Samuel Furtado,

9. Anandapur

Rev. J. Fischer, iz charge

N. Church and itin.

of station, itin.

Asst. Cat. Lewis Salins,

Cooly Mission

10. Dharwar

Rev. F. Ziegler, in charge

Rev. Salomon Devada,

Pastor, N. Church, Schools

of station, High School,

Chatrman of Distr. Com.,

Asst. Cat. R. Hittalamane

Secretary 2o Genl. Com.

Rev. G. Grossmann, MNaZive

Mr. Alex. Jaganadhan, B. A.

Church, Orphanage, itin.

Headmaster, High School

Rev. G. Engel, studying

Canarese, High School

W

Mr. S. Stamm, studying Can.

11. Hubli

Rev. Ch. D. Warth, 7z

Cat. John Prabhakar,

Oui-Stations .

charge of station, itin.

N. Church

Rev. W. Knittel, N. Church

”

Jeremiah Sonna, #Zn.

Unakallu, Hebsur

and Unakalln

Rev. Ph. Stier, szudying

Benjamin Salins,

Unakallu

Canarese, Schools, itin.

Rev. Aug. Metz.,

studying

Canarese

15

Stations

Native Agents:—

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists,

Out-Stations

and Headmaster:

12. Bettigeri-

Rev. B. Liithi, 7z charge

Rev. Salomon Bhaskar,

of station, Seminary, fre-

Fastor N. Church

Gadag

Cat. David Subbrao

Out-Stations

paratory Sch., Orphanage,

rep

Distr. Insp. of Schoods

Solomo Bangera

Schood

Shagoti,

Rev. H. Risch, Siagoti, itin

William Amos

}

Malasamudra

Franklin Aiman, 77z.

Rev. K. Mayer,

studying

Canarese

g

Henry Kodot, Skagoi

Asst. Cat. M. Suvarna, itin

Rev. F. Eisfelder, 7% charge

Cat. Israel Dalabhanjana,

13. .Guledgudd

N. Church, itin

Out-Stations

of station and some outst

Daniel Patti, Aerdenialic

Parvati, Padinakatte

Rev

Theodor Lutz, 7z

Stephen Sagari, itn

Murudi, Kardenhaili,

charge of out-stations, itin

Stephen Mathapati,

Kotanhalli,

Lada

Mushtigere

gundi, Nagarhalli,

Asst. Cat. Daniel Nayaka,

Mullur, Asangi

Halkurk:

n

”

Herman Challa,

Halkurki, Adugallu

Mushtigeri

tlin

Cat. Jos. Dalabhanjana, 7z

14. Bijapur

Rev. D. Berli, iz charge of

Asst. Cat. Obed Gundi, 77

station, tlin

”

Satyarthi Basutkar,

28em

15. Cannanore

Rev

J. Ostermeyer,

Rev. Stephen Chandren

Out-Stations

in charoe of

stalion,

Fastor, Chowa

Schools, Secubar Agent

Cat

Tim. Parakandi, V. Cz.

Chowa, Chirakal

”

P. Sneham, Chowa, stir.

Rev. F. Nagel

studying

Taliparambu,

Malayalam

”

Philip Mackadan,

Ramentalli

Chivakal, itin

Mr. W Schonthal, Weaving

Isaac Amattil,

ilin.

Fstablishmernt

Asst Cat. Elias Nambi,

Taliparambu, i%in

Rev. Cornelius Hutten,

16. Tellicherry

Rev. J. Frohnmeyer

Dharmapatianam, ilin

Out-Stations

in charge of station, Theol

Cat. Stephan Kallat, Neztur

Seminary,

Chairman of

N. Church & T'r. School

b

Nettur, Anjarkandy,

District Committee

Kuttuparambu

Peter Arnon, Christian

Rev

W. Dilger,

Theodoo

High School

Semin.,

Trainine School

Lazar Kallat, Tellicherry

District Insp. of Schools

N. Church and Schools

Rev. ¥, Rehm, Christian

”

Anthony Valiatingara,

High School

Anjarkandy, itin

Asst. Cat. J. Murkottan, 7zin

Rev. W. Bader, Zellicherry

Mr. Jos. Mulil, B. A

Head-

Church, Farsi Hioh School

master, Chr. High Sch

», F.K.Raman,B.A., Head-

master, Farsi High Sck

16

Stations

Native Agents :—

and

Pastors, Catechists,

Out-Stations

European Agent?s

and Headmasters

Out

17. Chombala—

Rev

2P

Imm. Weismann,

Cat. Gabriel Pirachan, 7.

Mahe

in charge of station,

Oul

b2

Abel Kuttuparambu,

Out-Stations :

Orphanage, Schools

Chomb. N. Church

Wadac

Mahé, Kandappen-

»

Tobias Chembenkodan,

kundu, Wadagara,

Rev. G. Peter, Schools, itin.

Mahé Church

Muverattu, Peram-

para, Tolpatti,

N

Joseph Taddai, iz7.

Payoli, Meladi,

k2

Henry Menzel, Z¢in.

Karakadu

18. Calicut

Rev. J. Lauffer,

in charge

Rev. Jonas Padiath, ZFzszor

N. Church

Oui-Stations .

of station, Schools

Ev. Nath. Arukandan,

Coilandy, Pudiangadi,

Rev. E. Liebendorfer, M. D.

itin., Middle Malabar

Collam, Korapura

Medical Mission

2

Cat. Paul Chittayagam, izz.

”

OHI

Rev. Th. Strobel, High Sch.

Ashamayan Tumaran,

(o

N. Church of Tile-

Mr. G. Benner, 7%le-Works

Works, itin.

il

A

”

G. Kehrer, M. M.-Br.

”

Samuel Ambattu, 7#7.

T

o o Hr i Nolzg I/Veafw'ng Est.

n

Joseph Mandodi, Coilzn.

Na

Church, itin.

Gl

n

S. Chattottu, Coéld., itin.

Nellak

Ajur,

Mur.i G. Zacharias, B.As,

Headmaszer, High Sck.

Kaien‘,

Manig

Horay

19. Codacal

Rev. J. J. Jaus, in charge

Cat. C. Arunachalam

Out-Stations .

of station and Faraperi

»

Isaac Laban, 7zn.

LN

Esra Arunachalam,

T

Paraperi, Ponani,

Orphanage

n

Pallat, Malapuram,

Fonani, itin.

Rev. Rud. Bosshardt,

”

Noah Edapalan, Zara.

Kilku“

Mancheri, Tritala,

Schools and itin.

N. Church

—

Andadoth

Mr. C. Feuchter, 7%/~ Works

o+ wXs. Chowalur, Fzll., 2277

B K

Charangat, Nilampur,

»

Abr. Para, Ponani, itin.

Kuttipuram

Ot

»

Devasahayam Mandodi,

Faraperi, itin.

K"%

K

”

Daniel Thomas, 7Zn.

Jaky

K

20. Vaniyan-

Rev. C. Hole, in charge of | Cat. Abra. Arungadan, iZz.

kulam

station, itin.

)

BEI’ga

George Peter, itin.

Hor 4

Out-Stations :

»

Abia Edapalan,

Rev. Ph. Weidner,

Angadipuram,

Angadipuram, itn.

§

Malattur, Shoranur,

, Luke Napalli, ZZn.

Panamanna, Lackadi,

studying {l[akzyalczm

”

Devaprian Amengara,

Ottapalam, Tirikatiri

itin.

-3

s

Stations

Native Agents:—

—

and

Earopean Agents

Pastors, Catechists

sts,

Out-Stations

and Xeadmasters

18

S

21. Palghat

Rev. J. G. Kiihnle, 77 charge Eva. John Zacharias, 7tin.

n, i

in South Malabar

Oult-Stations .

of station ard schools

mbu,

Cat. Charles Hermon,

Rev. Th. Uber, studying

Charch

Wadackencherry,

N. Church

Panayvur

Malayalam

nkodan,

J. Amengaran, Melpar.

Mr. Jakob Baumann,

N. Church

f Churcth

Zibe-Works

Salomo Makadan,

i, i

»

n

Fr. Boas,

n

LPanayur, itin.

it

»n

Noah Benjamin,

Wadackencherry

]

”

Paul Selvam, z#n.

, Putor

2

Zacharias Pilakadu,

' Church

Wadackencherry

an,

Malabar

22. Kaity

Rev. W. Liitze, iz charge | Cat. Isaiah Shanta,

am, it

Out-Stations .

of

station,

Training

N. Church, Schools, itin.

maran,

Coonoor,

School, Orphanage, itin.

n

Salathiel Soens,

of Tt

Hulikal,

Chogatore,

e

T, it

Avalanche,

Schools, itin.

. G Wislamd, 4

y, it

Tuneri, Kerehada,

Naduvattam,

”

K. Satyanathan, Zuiikal

i, Coilan

Rev. ¥. Matthissen, Coonoor,

Glenmorgan,

and Cooly Mission

r[/;, lﬁll.

literary work

Nellakotta,

Paikara,

.

”

John Philip,

Lrneri,

pil it

Ajur, Achinakallu,

Rev

William Stokes,

and itin.

B Ay

Kateri, Adhikarhatti,

Coonoor, itin.

Manihatti, Hosahatti,

Asst, Cat. Isaiah Konga,

Wg/z Seh

—

Horanhalli, Kulla-

Aerehada, itin.

kambe, Kolimale,

n

fith

Tummanhatti,

alaty

Kallhatti,

) it

Kilkunde, Yedekadu

’ Furt-

Rev

W. Sikemeier,

, Charch

23. Kotageri

Rev. Jacob Kanaka,

pi, i

Lastor, Native Church,

Ouit-Stations :

in charge of station, and

oy

Schools, ttin.

Kodanad, Konakore,

Orphanage, itin.

Mandf)fi"

Kukalthore,

ety i

Asst. Cat. Christian Ajja,

Jakanare, Denad,

i

Kanerimukh,

Fakanare, and itin.

/

/i

Bergani, Gundhada,

"

Joseph Hiria,

fan, #

h

i

Horasole, Kerbetta

N. Church, and itin.

;’/,”/l,

——

iy i

h

7 \./\, (R s

AR AN

ngal’ﬂ«y

i

ow

——

@HE general character of our work in the year under

cyreview has, in one part of the field, been one of cheering

]

® progress, in another part one of slower advance, whereas

in others seemingly no headway whatsoever has been made.

While in Malabar and on the Nilgiris the number of

baptized Christians has increased by about 10 or 11 per cent,

the increase in Canara and Coorg has been only 12 per cent,

and that in Southern Mahratta almost nil, no accession from

the heathen having been reported. As in a field during the

season of sowing, and for some time after, no growth is

perceptible, and even in the blade there may be times of little

seeming progress, so it is with the mission-field. We know,

e

however, that our sowing season will be certainly followed by

one of harvest, and are therefore not discouraged by a

temporary stand-still.

Yet we feel that it is our duty to

examine ourselves, to search our faith, our zeal, our love,

our fervency in prayer, as well as our ways and means with

the view of becoming richer in grace, stronger in faith, more

zealous, more fervent in love, more childlike and withal more

o

importunate in our prayers, while we continue to learn by

experience and to improve our methods as much as we can.

As customary we first give an abstract of the work done

by our Society in other parts of the globe, in China, on the

Gold Coast, and in the German territory of the Cameroons in

e

Western Africa, grouping it together with that done in India.

The figures are those of the 1st January 1893.

19

Ap Abstract of the Work of the Basel Mission in India,

Africa and China.

Number

Number of Pupils

of Workers

taught in Schools

in 1892

Europeéns

ment

Number

in 1892

Christian

Natives

Total Number

Year of Commence-

Number of Stations

g

:%2

of Native Christians

of Communicants

Heathen baptized

Boys

Girls

Total

Number of Outstations

Mission-

India

1834

&

—

ot

71

56

384

10868

5699

~

07

5349

1429

6778

China

1847

&

37

18

19

91

3631

2184

153

792

150

942

Gold Coast

1828

10

133

39

24

184

11261

4654

994

2198

1057

3255

Cameroon

1886

40

1l

2

44

675

620

300

1213

244

1457

Total. .

51

369| 139

101

703

26435(13157

1854

9552

2880

12432

General Report.

1.

Agents.

A. European Agents.

(See the Tabular Views on pp. 3 to 7.)

-

4

Deaths.

We have to mourn the loss by death of Mys.

Hartmann, an old and faithful worker and the helpmate of

her husband in all branches of his work; she died at Karkala

on the 13th February.

Departures. Mr. Bode of Anandapur, Mr. and Mrs. Stierlen

and Mr. and Mrs. Elsaesser of Mangalore, Mr. and Mps.

Brasche of Udipi, Mr. and Mrs. Walter of Vaniyankulam,

Mr. and Mys. Keppler of Mulky, and Mr. Briuning of Canna-

3*

20

A

nore proceeded to Europe, chiefly fof the benefit of their

health, while My. and Mrs. Elsaesser and Mr. Briuning have

left us for good.

Arrivals.

On the other hand we had the pleasure of wel-

AR

coming back to India with recruited health, My. and Mrs.

Ernst, who took Mr. Brasche’s work at Udipi, Mr. and Mrs.

Fischer, now stationed at Anandapur, Mr. and Mrs. Hirner,

who have taken up their old work at the press, and Mr.

Bawmann, who having found a new helpmate at home, is su-

perintending the recently established Tile-Works at Palghat.

As new arrivals we have welcomed Miss Strolin, who is to

take part in the educational work at Mangalore, and Messrs.

Mayer, Nagel, Metz and Bichle, now stationed at Bettigeri-

Miss

Gadag, Cannanore, Hubli and Karkala respectively.

Lircher, now Mys. Uber, Miss Zimmerli, now Mrs. Bosshardt,

and Miss Ellen Stokes, the daughter of our veteran Mr. Stokes

at Coonoor, recently married to Mr. Bretschueider at Malapu-

Udipi, have also reinforced our working staff. Mr. Matthissen

has suffered a good deal from ill-health, and being unable to

return to the coast, will remain at Coonoor, engaged in liter-

ary work. Mr. Stokes was appointed to take up the cooly-

mission on the coffee and tea plantations to the east of Kaity

station.

Both are attached to Kaity station, but live at

Coonoor. Myr. Niibling is now stationed at Honavar and Mr.

Hole has taken up the work of Mr. Walter at Vaniyankulam.

The health of our missionaries has on the whole been

better than in the previous year, though several families have

had to recruit their health on the Nilgiris or the Kudure-

mukh. Myr. Risch at Bettigeri has been ill with dysentery and

ague more or less the whole year.

Mr. and Mys. Lutz at

Guledgudd and Mr. and Mys. Liithi at Bettigeri-Gadag have

suffered the loss of dear children;.the latter buried two little

boys in the course of nine months.

21

S L

As in former years the medical gentlemen of the different

stations most: kindly attended to our sick, and we would es-

pecially tender our®grateful acknowledgments of the kind

services of Dr. W. B. Bannerman, Civil Surgeon, and Mr. E.

Peter, pensioned Dresser, at Mangalore, Mr. A. F. Matthias,

Apothecary at Kasaragod,

Myr. B. Colago, Apothecary at

Kasaragod and Mangalore, Dr. McCalman at Dharwar, Dr.

Cardoz at Hubli, Assistant Civil

Surgeon Mr. Hakim at

Gadag,

Surgeon Lieut.

Col. Peters at Bijapur, Surgeon

Major A. O’Hara and Surgeon Captain A. A. Pechell at

Cannanore, Dr. Soltau at Ootacamund, and. Mr. E. W. Chester,

Apothecary, Kotageri, who lent their medical assistance most

willingly and devotedly and often gratuitously to the mission-

aries, the native workers and Christians of the respective

stations. We are also most grateful for the gratuitous ad-

li

mission and attendance which several of our church-members,

young and old, found in St. Bartholomew’s hospital in

Ootacamund and in the hospitals founded by Government

here and there.

B. Native Agency.

1

The number of our Native Pastors is 13, the same as

last year.

Myr. Salomon Bhaskar at Bettigeri was to a great

extent prevented by jll-health from discharging his duties;

the others, however, were enabled to do their work of minister-

ing to the churches or preaching to the heathen regularly,

faithfully and conscientiously.

Five

2. Evangelists, Catechists and Assistant Catechists.

new catechists passed their examinations and were dedicated

to the Lord’s work during the course of the year.

Four of

them, Daniel Santvana, Joseph Sunita, Salathiel Barnabas Soens,

and Daniel Amengara completed their four years’ course of study

in the theological seminaries at Mangalore and Tellicherry,

e

22

and the fifth, Salathiel Isdow Soens, who had already worked

for several years as a schoolmaster and assistant catechist

on the Nilgiris, prepared himself privately for his examina-

tion.

Besides these, two assistant catechists, Moses Suvarna

and Hermon Challa, after three and four years’ preparation

respectively in the seminary at DBettigeri-Gadag and after

passing their examination, were added to the number of

workers.

On the other hand we are sorry to have to report

the dismissal of two catechists, who proved unworthy of their

sacred calling, while two others were pensioned on account of

old age. The total number on 1st January last was 118, viz:

5 evangelists, 100 catechists and 13 assistant catechists.

The

evangelists are entirely set aside for evangelistic work, which

they do in a more independent way; many of the catechists

are doing school-work, or have charge of churches; while those

that are engaged in evangelistic work, as a rule, accompany

the missionaries or evangelists, though sometimes they also

have to go itinerating independently.

The monthly classes of

instruction by one of the missionaries of each station, and the

yearly classes by the chairman of the District Committee, who

1s assisted by a few other missionaries, were held regularly

with a few exceptions. As regards the efficiency of our agents,

we are glad to place on record testimonies, like the following:

“The sermons of catechist N. N. are of.the best I have heard

from native preachers.

His pastoral work among the church

members is blessed by the Lord, and his family life is a light

and salt for his fellow-workers and the church.

He is likewise

a good preacher to the heathen and neglects no occasion to

preach to them.

His catechisations also are not inferior to

his sermons.

One feels that his natural gifts are sanctified

by a thorough conversion.”

We think that the above testi-

mony may be given to not a few others.

Some are, however,

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much hampered in their work among Christians and heathen

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by their indebtedness, while others are in danger of falling

into the snares of covetousness. - Some do what they are told

to do, but lack spontaneity, while others again find it difficult

to live in peace with their fellow-labourers.

We pray for a

rich outpouring of the Spirit of God on our mission-agents as

well as on our churches.

3. Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses.

We are glad again

to note an increase of ten in the number of Christian school-

masters.

The number of Christian schoolmistresses has, how-

ever, been reduced by five, and the number of non-christian

schoolmasters by two.

Yearly classes for the improvement of

masters and mistresses of primary schools were held at Kaity

and Tellicherry by Messrs. Liitze and Dilger respectively; at

Kaity on the Nilgiri hills monthly training classes are held

regularly besides.

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4, Colporteurs.

The number of colporteurs was 14, in-

cluding some paid by the Bible Societies, two more than in

the year before.

Some are very zealous and speak a word

for their Lord wherever they can.

5. Bible-women.

A few months ago the writer of this had

a talk with a high native official, who strongly urged the

necessity of instructing the female half of the Hindu commu-

nity, if we desired to bring about a religious change in the

country. He said it was the women, the mothers, aunts, sisters

and wives that ruled the families, and that many a reformer

who had been talking very big in assemblies and writing in

the 'newspapers had to give in to his women-folk and to act

contrary to the very principles he had been advocating in

public.

It is the Bible-women that are silently working at

this gigantic task of raising the females of this country, and

even if all the Bible-women in India did not bring about the

direct conversion of a single female, but only succeeded in

overcoming prejudice and disseminating sound Christian truth,

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their work would not be in vain.

We are sorry therefore that

the number of our Bible-women is not larger, though it has

been raised from 24 to 27, two of whom have begun work at

Udipi, that stronghold of Krishna-worship. We are grateful

to the British and Foreign Bible Society in London for having

supplied us with the necessary funds.

Before we proceed, we think it our duty to treat here

of a subject which is closely connected with the welfare of our

native agents and our churches on the whole; we are referring

to the Christian Family Provident Funds

Provident Funds.

in Southern India.

These funds were insti-

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tuted by Native Christians in Madras.

«Christian Patriot”,

a Madras weekly paper, invited the

Native Christians to join them and encouraged the formation

of other similar funds.

The principle is that at the death

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of any of the members of a fund all the other members

pay a certain contribution, say one rupee, or eight annas

each, on behalf of the widow and orphans of the deceased.

The object of these funds is undoubtedly excellent, and we

are convinced that the founders were actuated by none but

the best motives of Christian love and fellowship.

The funds

were originally intended for such families as were able

without difficulty to pay the contribution imposed by the

rules of membership on the occurrence of each death, but by

degrees poor people also have become members, who &re not

in a position to meet the obligations involved.

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About seven years ago the Native Christians connected

with the Basel Mission in Malabar founded a similar fund

called «the Malabar Christian Family Provident Fund” and

one.or two years later the ««Canara Christian Family Provident

Fund” was established, the former numbering about 800, the

latter about 500 members.

The rules and regulations of

these two funds are nearly the same, with only this difference

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that the Malabar fund admits Roman Catholic Christians as

well, while the Canara Fund is only for Evangelical Christians.

Dissensions among the leading members of the Canara fund,

which very nearly brought about its dissolution, led to the

establishment of a third fund, called the «“Cosmopolitan Pro-

vident Fund” for non-Christians, though Christians also are

members.

The number of members in 1893 was 906.

This

last mentioned association is registered as a regular share-

The members of the officiating

company by Government.

committee by rule get one-sixth of the contributions. Though

the object of these associations is no doubt an excellent one,

it cannot be denied that they have very serious drawbacks.

1

In the first place there is something of the element of

chance in them. There is the possibility of a member dying

after having paid a few rupees only, when his family gets a

‘\

large sum of money, while others, who have to pay consider-

able sums year by year get at last a much smaller sum ‘phan

the aggregate of their payments amounts to.

2

Many poor people, unable to pay from their regular

income, are obliged to get into debt in order to pay their

contributions, otherwise they forfeit every claim to the fund.

3

The hope of getting a large sum of money at the

death of an old father or a mother has in many cases the

effect of making the family wish for that death, so that an

old and sick member of the family, instead of meeting with

care and sympathy, is forced to see in the eyes of his children

or other members of his househo](.i a greedy desire for his

death.

4. The comparatively large sum thus suddenly obtained

proves often not a blessing but a curse to the family, causing

dissensions or inducing them to live extravagantly.

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Some of our catechists have been tempted to neglect

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their work in order to act as agents of the fund.

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It niay be useful to mention here the experience of a

missionary regarding the effects of one of those funds.

Z)[ r. Weismann writes :—

“In connection with the above mentioned death, we have had

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experiences, which have corroborated our opinion, that the Malabar

Christian Provident Fund is not a source of bless-

The Malabar

ing but of harm to our churches.

The often re-

Christian Provident

Fund.

peated contributions which the members of this

fund have to pay at the death of other members,

and which people who are scarcely able to support themselves and

their families are unable to pay out of their income, are a cause of

the yearly growing indebtedness of our Christians, we won’t say

the only cause, but one of the chief causes.

Debts are made in

order to pay contributions due, the missionaries are entreated for

the sake of God and Christ to help an insolvent member who has

been threatened with expulsion from membership; but in most cases

people in their difficulty have recourse to the Mahomedan money-

lender, who at the rate of 24 per cent, or against the promise of the

whole produce of the debtor’s compound or garden being made over

to the creditor, continues to render assistance till he, the money-

lender, becomes the chief heir of the ‘blessing’ to be expected at

the death of a dear family-member.

Nor is it unfrequent that

money is borrowed, goods and vietuals are bought on credit in the

hope, that an old father or mother, a sickly wife or sister may die

ere long, and the dying person himself is living on what his death

is expected to bring into his family, whereas the money-lender

laughs in his sleeve at the thought of the usurious interest which

this ‘convenient institution’ of the Malabar Christians is procuring

for him. What a shame for a Christian who, when hard pressed by

debt, is almost forced to long for the speedy death of a relation!

And when death comes and after death a heap of rupees, the

proverb ‘Lightly come lightly go’ proves only too true.

In all the

cases which have come to our knowledge up to this day, in which

money had been paid out of the fund to our Christians, debts had

first to be pé,id off. The remainder was by some put on interest

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never to be seen again, others began to live in a better style than

hitherto, and after two or three years the last pice had disappeared.

Blind 8., for instance, at the death of his wife last year received

Rs. 668, from the M. C. P. F. At the receipt of the money, he had

first to pay off a debt of Rs. 175, and only Rs. 200 are said to be

left to him now.

The widow of N. N. received Rs. 685 towards

the close of 1893.

She had to clear Rs. 300 debts; two sons took

away another Rs. 300 and now after a fortnight she has only

Rs. 62 left.

In both cases the missionary wearied himself with

giving advice how the money ought to be usefully employed; he

entreated, threatened, called the presbytery to his assistance, but

the trouble he took for the welfare of the blind man and for the

widow and her babes, brought him mnothing but enmity and

animosity.

One of the sons of the widow sent him a letter full of

scorn and mockery, intimating that he, the son, fully acknowledged

the duty of the missionary to assist his parents while they were

in distress; but that now, after his mother had got money, the mis-

sionary’s advice was not needed at all, and the mother was threaten-

ed, that if she refused to give the money to him (the son), she.should

never cross his threshold again.”

These drawbacks, though most detrimental to the moral

and spiritual character and welfare of our Christians, are

however not the only ones.

We are afraid that sooner or

later financial ruin may be the result, because a sound found-

ation, hased on extensive statistics and careful calculations is

wanting, and we would advise the managing committee to try

to place them on a sure and proper financial basis.

2. The Work Done.

Beginning with those branches which belong to our

mission in India as a whole, we first mention

I

The Theological Seminaries at Mangalore and Tellicherry.

The Mangalore Seminary (established 1863). The session began

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in May 1892 with 28 students. Of this number one had to be

dismissed, three were examined in March 1893, and after

having passed their examination with credit, one in the second,

and two in the third class, were consecrated for their work on

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March 31st and stationed at Karwar, Puttur and Mangalore

respectively.

With them Samuel Subbarao, a born Brahman, a

young man from South-Arcot, who had been brought to the

Lord by the instrumentality of Mrs. Reade at Panruthi, and

educated in our seminary, was also consecrated and sent back

to South-Arcot.

To the remaining 24, seven new ones were

added in May 1893, so that at the end of 1893, there were

thirty-one students in the school.

It is interesting to note,

that of these 31 students no less than 12 were born heathen,

and about seven of their number are sheaves of the harvest

brought in during the famine of 1877.

The subjects taught

in the institution were the following:—Dogmatics, Exegesis of

parts of the Old and New Testament, Introduction into the

0ld Testament, Homiletics, Hinduism, Greek, Sanskrit, English,

Canarese, Singing, Preaching and Catechising.

The Seminary at Tellicherry (established 1890). The session

began in January 1893 with 8 students, whose number was

increased by the admission of two-students (one matriculate)

from the Christian High School.

One student, after having

completed his studies and passed his examination, was conse-

crated as a Catechist, while two others left the institution in

the course of the year, one on account of ill-health, the other

of his own accord. At the close of the year 9 students re-

mained in the institution.

The subjects are about the same

as those taught in the Mangalore Seminary. Besides weekly

preaching in the bazaar, the students made two preaching

tours for the purpose of being initiated into their future work.

The spirit of the students is a good one; there are a few who

are seriously inclined and who exercise a good influence on

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the rest. On Sunday afternoous the students have a private

prayer meeting; they have also begun to contribute from their

pocket money their mite to the mission box.

II

The Literary Department has its centre in Mangalore.

The Mangalore printing press prints chiefly in Canarese,

Malayalam, Tulu and English, occasionally in Sanskrit,

Telugu, Tamil, Konkani and German.

From the Mangalore Book and Tract Depository the 32

branch-depots draw their books and tracts.

The central

Depository as well as the branch-depots were managed by

My. Stamm, and towards the close of the year by Mr. F.

Huber.

The manager is also the publisher of the concern.

The work of revising the Canarese and Malayalam versions

of the Bible has been carried on.

The Canarese Committee

had two sessions, from April 8th to May 27th at Ootacamund,

and from October 12th to November 13th at Bellary, finishing

the gospel of St. John and Romans I to VIIL.

The Malayalam Committee in one session from 15th t0,29th

November completed the epistles to the Ephesians, Philippians,

Colossians, Thessalonians I and II and I. Timothy.

The Printing Press was managed by Mr. Huber and since

Z

November last by Mr. Hirner, who returned from furlough

in October last.

It employed 50 people, of whom 47 are

members of our Mangalore church. Besides printing a num-

ber of school-books, tracts and Bible-portions, it finished the

printing of the revised version of the Tulu New Testament

and of Kittel’s large Kannada-English Dictionary, a work

of 1752 closely printed pages and of immense industry

and erudition.

The Press had been engaged five years in

printing it.

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LIST OF BOOKS AND TRACTS

Printed from 1st November 1892 to 31st October 1893.

1

Il

Canarese,

Edition.

Size

Copies. Pages. Tot. Pages.

Sabhapatra Vol. xxv. to xxvi.

80

600

192

115200

Who is Your Saviour ?

16°

2000

47

94000

Twelve Letters

ViI

16°

5000

75

375000

Examination of Hinduism

III

128

&

2500

88

220000

The Way of Wisdom

XIII.

30°

5000

30

150000

The Twice Born

II

16°

3000

40

120000

The True Guru

16°

2000

23

46000

The Gospel of St. Matthew, (revised Trans.)

16°

3000

124

372000

The Gospel of St. Johu,

”

”

16°

15000

99

1485000

The First Reader, Part I.

XIX

128

30000

48

1440000

Do

do

IT.

Iv

1128

20000

1840000

A Calechism of Canarese Grammar

XIII.

122

5000

60

300000

Kavyapunja .

16°

4000

88

352000

The

I. Standard Arithmetic

16°

1000

11

11000

Do

II

do

do

16°

1000

15

15000

Do

100

do.

do

16°

1000

28

28000

Do

TV

do

do.

16°

1000

52

52000

Kanarese Geography, III. Standard

‘]i;

16°

3000

28

84000

Do.

Third Book (Bombay Govt.)

Iv.

b

25000

132

3300000

!

The Story of India for the IV, Standard

I.

1oL

2000

50

100000

An Elementary History of India

i

122

2000

74

148000

Colenso’s Arithmetic, III. Part

II

192

1200

33

39600

Apswers to III. and IV. Standard Arithmetic I.

16°

500

3500

First Book of Agriculture

I

1122

2000

15

304000

A Dialogue on some of the Hindu Systems

of Religion

II

16°

3000

52

156000

Canarese Almanac for 1894

80

7000

64

448000

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11, Malayalam..

Edition, Size.

Copies

Pages. Tot,

Pages.

80

Keralopakari Vol. xx.

500

192

96000

1128

Morning and Evening Prayers

2000

29

58000

The Last Strand of the Rope

II

399

5000

15

75000

Stealing the Myangoes

III

32°

5000

16

80000

The Rich Man’s Feast

Iv

328

5000

15

75000

90

The Way of Righteousaess

Iv

2000

24

48000

Life of the Rev. Jacob Ramavarma

II

16°

1000

28

28000

Instruction in Divine Truth

II

32°

3000

20

60000

Ramabai Sarasvat

II

328

3000

20

60000

The Birth of Christ

v

398

3000

16

48000

The Incarnation of Christ

VII

328

2000

24

48000

The Good Shepherd

v

399

5000

12

60000

Epistles of James and John

32°

5000

46

230000

Daniel

308

5000

100

500000

Jonah

38

5000

14

70000

Malayalam ?salms

16°

5000

288

1440000

The First Reader, Part 1.

XIX

122

30000

48

1440000

”

»

”

I

125

20000

104

2080000

The Fourth Reader, ,,

I

1I

80

2000

189

378000

”

»

»

II

1I

80

2000

208

416000

Geography, IIT. Standard

16°

3000

32

96000

Third Reader

.

111

122

8000

111

888000

A First Book of Agriculture

16°

1000

147

147000

Almanac for 1894

80

2000

16000

ITL.

Tulu.

The New Testament

16°

4000

735

294,0000

IV.

Anglo-Vernacular and English.

Anglo-Malayalam

II

Reader

VI

16°

5000

232

1160000

”

Canarese

I

v

16°

3000

225

675000

»

»

Malayalam IV

v

16°

3000

93

879000

P

The Fifty-Third Report of the B, G. E. M.

80

1100

94

103400

3000 1802

5406000

Kittels Kannada-English Dictionary (cont.) I. Ry. 8°

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SALE OF BOOKS AND TRACTS

during the Twelvemonth

from 1st July 1892 to 30th June 1893.

1. Our Own Publications.

Rs

b

w

)

Qo

29,974 Copies of Canarese Religious Books

1,277

92,325

Tulu

9

9

19

frmd

21,496

Malayalam

b

b

811

Canarese School-Books

25,705

”

5,475

15,685

”

Malayalam

9

2,057

6,718

»

Books in other Languages

618

DD O ERD e O

28,730

Canarese Government Books

4,202

N

N

41.885

b

Malayalam

»

bl

6,174

172,518 Copies.

Total Rs. 20,695

o o~ oo

Wil o

/ 3

2. Other Publications.

261

1,375 Copies of Bibles and Bible Portions

1,838

»

, Bangalore Tracts and Books

39

15

11

12,000

»

, Sundry Engl. & Vern. Books 10,448

5

11

13

187,731 Copies.

Total Rs. 31,444

We would here gratefully acknowledge the grants of paper

by which The Religious Tract Society in London have greatly

assisted us in our work of publishing tracts.

N RN N N N AT /AN

NE

We now proceed to review the work done in the different

districts of our own mission-field. For statistics, we would

refer our readers to the tables at the beginning of this report.

Those, who are particularly interested in one or other of our

various stations or branches of work will readily find it by

reference to the index at the end.

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I. South- and North-Canara.

Area 7813 square miles, Population (in 1881) 1,381,354;

Seven Stations; languages in which the Mission-work is carried on

Tulu and Canarese.

A. The Native Church.

Numbers.

The churches in these districts

number 73

baptized members more than last year, owing partly to the

baptism of 42 adults and 14 children from among the heathen

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and partly to the excess of births over deaths.

Udipi, though

it had the largest number of baptisms, namely 44, had also the

greatest loss by excommunication and backsliding, for no less

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than 69 souls left the church of their own accord, or had to

be entirely excommunicated chiefly at the out-stations Malapu,

If we inquire into the causes of

Gudde and Kalyanapur.

these sad occurrences, we generally find either that the back-

sliders were prompted by worldly motives in coming to us,

but finding that their expectations were not realized, they left

us

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or they fell into sin and would not submit to discipline.

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The latter sort are often taken in hand by the good Shepherd

himself, who follows the lost ones, sometimes with his judg-

I

ments, till they humble themselves before him and. are glad

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to return to his flock.

My. Schaible of Mulky in his report mentions some of the

worldly motives which often induce people to seek admission

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into the church:—

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“A certain family had a sick child; if the missionary was able

Another man had

to ecure the child, they would become Christians.

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relatives among the Christians and would like to join them, but he

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mortgaged his lands ten years ago; if the missionary would lend

him Rs. 200 to pay the debt, he would come.

A certain young

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man, 2 Roman Catholie, has had a quarrel with his priest, who re-

fuses to marry him unless he pays his church-dues, amounting to

upwards of Rs/ 80.

The young man grows so violent, that the

priest turns him 6‘gt of his home. Is not that cause enough to

change one’s refigion ?

He is told, however, that we do not consider

it a sufficient cause.—Another Roman Catholic asked for admission

because he had lost one of his eyes and was sick and the Roman

Catholics did not take care of such as he.”

Christian Life.

Outwardly the life of the majority of our

Christians has not been an easy one,.

Though there was less

sickness than last year, provisions, especially rice, were dear

in all our Indian mission-fields.

No doubt the exchange

value of the rupee has something to do with the high prices

now prevailing which show no tendency to become as low as

they formerly were.

The result is the more trying for poor

people as wages have not risen in proportion.

Spiritual life is not as flourishing as we would wish it to

be

more

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we would wish more love for the word of God,

eagerness to hear and to read it, more truthfulness and

honesty in people’s dealing with one another or with non-

Christians, more purity of heart and life, less of party spirit.

Still we are glad to say, that in most of our small churches

there are a number of true Christians, who love the word of

God, and strive to rule their life by its precepts.

It is cheer-

ing also that persevering efforts to bring lazy church-members

under the influence of the word of God are often crowned

with success. As an instance we insert part of the report of

Myr. Schaible of Mulky:—

“I was particularly rejoiced” he writes, “to see how the word of

(tod met with a good reception in the class pre-

A Confirmation

paratory for confirmation. I had to gather lads of

Class.

17 to 21 years, who had neglected school and could

not read. Some tried to evade the class, but I declared to the parents

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that they would be placed under church-discipline if their sons did

not come to the class, and the lads were apprised, that I should not

receive them into the church if they were unable to read.

This

firmness had the desired effect.

At first, it is true, I had great

difficulty to get them to attend regularly.

I rejoiced the more in

December when I finished the instruction, to observe, that the be-

haviour of the youths had entirely changed.

They took pains to

learn their catechism, attended the instruction with lively interest,

and their answers would show that they understood what they had

heard and committed to memory.”

We pray for an outpouring of the spirit of sanctification

on our churches.

Education.

The education of children is one of the sore

points with many of our Christians. Some look only to the

mission for the education of their children, and are of opinion

that the mission should establish schools where their children

|

should be clothed and fed, and taught up to the highest

standards.

Some think, that even college-education should be

provided for them by the mission; meanwhile they neglect to

lay the foundation of a good education at home by training

their children to habits of truthfulness, industry, modesty and

piety. But we are glad to say, that there are families, whose

home-education is most exemplary.

As regards the part which the mission seeks to take in

educational work, it is our desire to give a sound elémentary

|

education to each one of our Christian boys and girls, enabling

f

them to read the word of God in their mother-tongue, to dis-

charge their secular duties with intelligence, and to become

intelligent members of the Church of Christ. Therefore primary

f

schools are established in all our stations and out-stations,

where there is a sufficient number of children.

At the same

f

time we do our best to impress on the minds of the parents

their duty towards their children by asking them to pay a

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small school-fee.

For the benefit of those who are gifted for a

higher education we have boarding schools and orphanages for

boys and girls with middle school classes at Udipi and Mulky, a

preparatory school (of the middle school standard) and a

Teachers’ Training School at Udipi. The Anglo-Vernacular

ap

High School at Mangalore and the 16 non-Christian Elementary

Schools are largely attended by Christians also. But itis pro-

bable, that ere long it will become necessary to establish a

Christian high school in these districts also, as has already

been done in Malabar.

Industrial and Mercantile Establishments.

There i1s an idea

prevalent among many English residents in this country that

the Basel Mission is a rich mission, its industrial establish-

ments yielding a large income, which goes far to meet the

expenses of the mission.

But it should never be forgotten

that these establishments were originally founded, and are

still kept up, in the first place for the benefit of the Native

Christians themselves, providing work for those who have lost

their livelihood by becoming Christians. It is true that the

Lord has blessed our endeavours and that the mission derives

part of its income from these establishments, but the whole

income from our

industrial and mercantile establishments

would not be sufficient to meet even the cost of the different

schools and other educational establishments in our several

mission-fields.

The Mercantile Mission-Branch at Mangalore, the Printing

Press and Book concern, the Weaving Establishment at

Mangalore with a branch at Mulky, the Mechanical Establish-

ment at Mangalore, the Tile-Works at Jeppu and Kudroli (both

near Mangalore) and at Malapu (or Malpe) near Udipi, employ

altogether about 370 Christian men and boys, and 180

By daily prayer held in the

Christian women and girls.

establishments, with reading of the word of God, by judicious

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discipline and training, the superintendents endeavour to

gradually raise the standard of Christian life and morals of

these people and at the same time to influence the non-

Christians employed, of whom there are a considerable number.

B. » Evangelisation.

In a variety of ways the gospel has been preached to the

heathen during the year past, in the bazaars of the larger

towns, on market-day gatherings, at fairs and idol-festivals,

in the villages and homesteads of the people and in visiting from

it

house to house; the Bible-women, either alone or accompanied

by some of the missionary ladies, visited their non-Christian

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sisters to tell them the old story of the love of God tosinful men

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and women.

In numerous schools the work of leavening with

the word of God the mind of the young people of high and

low castes has been regularly going on, while Bible-portions,

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books and tracts have been sold from the depots and by col-

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porteurs in great numbers.

More than 4000* days have been

devoted by missionaries, evangelists and catechists to itiner-

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ancy. On one occasion the students of the theological semi-

ts

nary at Mangalore made a preaching tour to North Canara

where at the idol-fair of Koteshvar near Basrur about 50

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adresses were given.

As experiences in the work of evange-

lisation we give the reports of different preachers.

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stationed at Puttur,

east of

Evangelist Bethuel Soens,

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Mangalore, testifies to a growing acquaintance of the people

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to listen to 1t than before.

with the word of God at many places, and greater willingngss

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* These figurs have been obtained by adding up the number of days which

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each missionary, evangelist and catechist, as well as the pupils of the catechist

sehool spent in itinerant preaching.

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My. Ritter of Udipi reports:—

““At the time of the installation of a new Swami (high-priest) in

Udipi we had for a whole week a very good opportunity to preach

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the gospel to the people gathered together for the purpose.

had a special booth erected for our accommodation and could preach

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without any disturbance, while the boys of the Middle School at-

tracted crowds of listeners by their singing.”

Rev. Daniel Aarons of Udipi reports:—

“I could give numberless instances that the word of God

takes effect on the masses, but I will mention

Effect of

Preaching.

only one: By hearing the word of God again

and again the life of the heathen has become

gradually more like that of Christians, and they respect such as lead

a moral life.

Once on a Sunday I met a Christian woman selling

fruit.

Two heathen women who saw her reproved her, telling her

At K.

that it was not right for a Christian to trade on Sunday.

there is a Roman Catholic who diligently reads the word of God,

comparing the Roman Catholic doctrines with it.

Often when I am

occupied with preaching to non-Christians in his neighbourhood he

will come and assist me.”

Mr. Gengnagel of Basrur reports of a visit to Kollur at

the foot of the Ghauts in March 1893 :—-

“To my astonishment I found a Brahman devotee or jogee who

A Matricﬁlate

had passed the matriculation examination and had

had a high appointment in Government service.

Jogee.

‘When I asked him why he had become a devotee

travelling from place to place, he said, he wished to free himself

from corruptibility and to rise to a higher standard of wisdom.

I showed him from seripture and the sayings of pious Hindus, that

the wisdom he desired was only to be found in Christ and that he

could only attain his desire by humbling himself and by accepting

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the grace of Christ.

I invited him to become a Christian and to

preach the gospel to his countrymen.

He answered smiling: ‘I

could preach of Jesus very well and there is no hindrance for me

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to come to your divine services, but it is impossible for me to believe

in a Son of God who is said to have died for our sins.

I am trying

to seek rest for my soul in my own fashion, but that is no reason,

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why we should not remain friends

.

Assistant Catechist Christananda Manjarw writes :—

“I was by birth a Brahman priest.

After becoming a Christian

I thought that those who in former times used to consult me on

religious matters would now also be willing to accept the Christian

‘When formerly I taught them lies instead of

religion from me.

truth, they would firmly believe every thing I told them and would

pay plenty of money for it; therefore I hoped that now when I told

them the truth they would accept it and become Christians.

But in

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this I have been mistaken.

The people now look

Caste preferred

to truth.

on me and my brother as outcasts, and when we

tell them the way of salvation ever so affection-

ately they only think that we want to make outcasts of them also.

As much as they used to honor us before, they now abuse us, not

always openly, but among themselves. But I am not ashamed of the

gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every

one that believeth. Therefore I patiently bear their invectives and

preach to my countrymen the gospel of Christ as the Lord gives me

strength.

The people have heard a good deal, and cannot now

gainsay what we preach. But some say:—*‘It is all true what you

say, but if we cannot believe it and act up to it, it is of no use

listening to it.” Others think if the Christian religion did not require

giving up caste, there would be no objection in believing it.

But as

it stands it is best that each keep his own religion though it be

inferior.”

Myr. Nibling of Honavar has been much cheered by the

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willingness of the younger members of the Haviga Brahmans

in North Canara, as well as by his experiences in the village

of Karki near Honavar.

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‘At first all were listless and dead”, he writes, “but after some

time, 'several of the young people not only began to listen attentively

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but to invi>te me to come again, and would also come to the mission-

house to see me.

As far as I can judge, some of them are not far

from the kingdom of God.”

Catechist Jesudasa Melattu in Kasaragod writes:—

“The ordinary people in the interior think of Christians as of a

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rascally kind of people, living in crowds together

‘What People

think of

in caverns in the dense jungle. They believe them

to be great magicians, who by means of different

Missionaries.

kinds of powders, enchant the people, and who

when they meet anybody, throw some decoy powder upon them,

whereby their victims become absolutely without a will of their

own, following the ‘ Pdadre’ mechanically as a dog does his master.

Having succeeded so far he confines them in some dark room, with-

out food or drink, so as to break them thoroughly in and convert

them into his tools.

One of our Catechists, for instance, was asked

by the people how long he was shut up by the “Pddre’ (missionary)

till he became submissive and tame! People, however, who have

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had some intercourse with Christians and have had opportunities to

hear the gospel preached at heathen festivals and on other occasions

are of quite a different opinion, though equally unfavourable to us.

They think that among all the learned men on earth the ‘Pddres’

are the most learned and celebrated.

The Guru of these ‘Pddres’

is believed to have promised to all governments of the earth on his

word of honor, that to unite all people into one caste shall be his

sole and highest aim.

The governments do not only agree to pay

the ‘Pddres’ handsomely, but give them a reward for every person

they succeed in drawing over to Christianity.

This, of course, makes

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them anxious to win the people either by means of books or by

public preaching ; and they use every exertion in carrying out their

evil purpose.

Therefore every one should avoid coming into contact

with them and on no account listen to their preaching or enter into

conversation with them.

““The third class contains active opponents to Christis:mity, e.g.the

polemic writer Mathakhanda Shastri and his disciples, who have

compiled polemic pamphlets against Christianity in Malayalam and

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distribute them everywhere. "Whenever they see us, they mock us,

saying: ‘Jehovah parishuddhan (J. is holy), Jehovah parishuddhan,

Jesus parishuddhan.’

Some of these mockers commit their polemic

writings to memory in order to be able to recite them fluently so as

to impart their unbelief more readily.

They say, for instance, ‘the

Bible is full of contradictions, at one place it says that God abides

in the light, at another he is said to abide in darkness.

But the

“Pddres’ are foolish enough to believe all sorts of contradictions and

false doctrines, which they try to impart to silly people in order to

cheat them out of their caste.

It is therefore no wonder, that they

have made themselves detestable in places where they have been

for any length of time.

Besides that they are absolutely ignored by

Government, reason enough for us to oppose them and to try to get

rid of them.’

“There are, however, a few who have formed correct ideas and

think fairly about us, but these are mostly cowards, fearing to commit

themselves.

Therefore they remain neutral, giving our enemies no

cause to be displeased with them and at the same time remaining

friendly with us.”

Work among the female part of the population. Bible-women.

At Mangalore Mr. Walz has a weekly class of Bible-women

to prepare them. for their work, and Mrs. Walz accompanies

them on their visits in the town.

The higher castes rather

dislike their coming, but in the houses of the lower classes

they are generally welcome.

The newly appointed Bible-

women at Udipi used to be accompanied by Mrs. Ernst who

gives some interesting accounts of the various kinds of re-

ception they met with:—

“One day a Brahman received us in front of his home with

‘We are

the question: “What is your desire?’

How Bible-women

Christians’, we said, ‘and we are come to tell the

are received.

women some

stories from the word of God.’

‘What women?’ he asked, ‘Brahman women? ‘Any women’, we

said, ‘we don’t make any difference’.

‘Please go to the next house’.

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At the next house the reception was similar, and so again and again.

At the house of a toddy-drawer, the brother of one of our catechumens

in the neighbourhood of Malpe, a low footstool was offered to us for

a seat.

The people talked with us till we turned our conversation to

spiritual things, when the woman suddenly rose and began to pound

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rice with great activity.

When I asked her to come out she gave no

answer, and her son who was listening was told by his father to go

about his business.

There we were.

‘We wish to tell you a few

words about the life to come’ I said, ‘for you know very well, that

death will not pass you by. But you are shutting your ears and will

not hear, therefore it is your own fault, if you find heaven closed to

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you

Then the woman came out and said, ‘May I offer you a cocoa-

nut to drink?’ I declined, and we went to the next house.

The son

of the house however followed us and listened very attentively to our

message, for which he was scolded when he got home.”

But the Bible-women are not always treated like that.

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The next house Mrs. Ernst and the Bible-women proceeded to

was the house of a Konkani Brahman.

“We found”, the report

proceeds, ‘“‘the mistress of the house at home.

When we asked per-

mission to come, she wanted to know what our business was.

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said, ‘We want to say a few words to the wgmen’.

‘Of what kind

are those words?’ she asked, eyeing us suspiciouly, ‘Well’, we said,

‘we are all mortal men and may be called away by God any day,

therefore we want to speak to you about heaver and the future life.’

‘Do let the people have their say’, a little girl of about 12 years

urged her mother, ‘their words are good, I was listening to them

over there’.

‘Well, you may speak’, her mother answered rather

reluctantly.

‘May we sit down®’ I asked.

As she would say

neither yes nor no, I came to her assistance by saying ‘We don’t

want to sit in front of your house, there is room for us under the

tree’.

‘With these words I sat down, and we told her the parable

of the great supper. When we had finished, the master of the house

appeared.

“Why are you sitting in the sun? he asked kindly,

‘come to the house, I know you well.

Why did you not invite them

to the house?’ he asked his wife in Konkani, who replied, ‘I did not

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know who they were, did I?’

As we had finished our mission,

we were kindly dismissed by the gentleman and invited to come

again.

“In another quarter, we were passing by a house where the last

time we had been treated rather slightingly, when we heard a woman

call to her grandmother, ‘Granny, granny, they are coming’.

The

grandmother followed on our heels to the mext house, where last

time we had been treated and listened to in a very friendly way.

This time the mistress of the house was absent, and we asked a young

woman if we might tell her some story.

She hesitated, when the

old woman said to her, ‘Say yes, otherwise they will go away’ and

Soon other women

drew the young woman to a seat beside herself.

also gathered round us, and some of them listened with interest to

the parable of the prodigal son.”

At Basrur there are no Bible-women, but Mrs. Gengnagel

visits the women in their houses, accompanied by the wife of

her servant.

Since the people, when sick, are accustomed to

go to her for assistance and to get medicine from her, she is

welcomed in many houses.

She reports:—

“The attention of the women varies much.

Some always say

“Yes, but what can we do?’

Others try to defend their religion.

A

farmer’s wife, when I represented to her the uselessness of her idols

and of the Tulasi shrub said:—¢‘Oh, the shrub is

A bigoted Tulasi

worshipper.

my God.

I need it very much.

I worship it

daily.

I place myself before it, join my hands

and say:—‘Give me a blessing and happiness to-day, let my house-

hold prosper, protect my children and forgive my sins.’

Many a

time when I had lost my key, I would say to the shrub:—‘Show me

No, no, I shan’t

the thief,” and lo, I always found the key again.

allow any harm to be done to my Tulasi shrub.

‘While my house

Of the missionaries the

stands, no other religion shall come in.’

women believe, that Government gives them money as much as they

want, and that they have plenty of it.

They have no need to work,

they lie about idle the whole day.”

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For non-Christians our mission

Evangelisation by Schoeols.

is supporting 22 primary schools and 3 anglo-vernacular

schools—one of them a high school—in these districts, besides

which many non-Christian children attend our parochial

schools, so that the whole number of non-Christian children

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that receive Christian training in our schools in these districts

is 1322 boys and 298 girls.

We cannot boast of any con-

versions among our pupils, but if we were to inquire into the

ways and means by which the adults who are received into

the church in the course of a year, were led to Christ, we

should find that in many cases the first impression had been

received in a Christian school.

We give a few extracts from

reports received.

My. Bucher, superintendent of the Anglo-Vernacular High

School at Mangalore, writes: —

“The matriculation examination of last year was uncommonly

difficult; of 28 candidates sent up, four only passed, that is 14 per

cent, whereas the average of the whole presidency was only 9 per

cent.

The school has been enlarged, and there is now plenty of

room, and also a spacious gymnasium.

The school is nearly self-

supporting.

In consequence of the new code it is now easier to work

together in harmony with other schools.—As the masters of the

school did not like to be behind other schools in the matter of prize-

distribution, they ccllected a considerable sum of money for the

purpose.”

Regarding the effect of the Bible-lessons, Mr. Bucher

writes :—

“One .boy who would continually contradict Bible teaching and

sometimes would use improper expressions regarding Christianity,

had to be reproved and left the school.—Another, belonging to the

highest form, has the courage to confess his faith in Christ openly,

and is trying to convince others also.

There are others, who now

and then assure me that they read the word of God at home.”

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- Miss Maria Koundinya, superintendent of the Brahman

Girls’ School, reports:—

“ At the beginning of the year we ’had 59 girls; 23 left, 26 were

admitted, so we close with 62.

The attendance

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Brahman

Girls’ School.

has been better than last year, so also have the

results of the examination.

Of 48 girls examined

45 passed. The girls are mostly sharp, intelligent and loving ; they

learn diligently, if the teacher understands how to rouse them. The

little ones are always ready to ask for a holiday on the occasion of

a feast-day, whereas the big girls often object to have holidays and

prefer coming to school.

The fourth class especially has been very

good.

Most of them took pains in their studies and neglected as

few lessons as possible, in order to be able to pass the primary

examination before the board.

But though the girls are willing to

learn, it is often the parents that object. ‘Whatis the use’ they say,

‘of paying so much for a girl? she will never get an appointment.’

Others wish that their girls should chiefly learn English.—The

word of God is not without making its impression. One day, during

respite, one of the girls came to my room to report that certain beg-

gars were asking alms.

‘Is it true’, she asked, ‘that beggars will

go to heaven ?’

And on my answering her, she said with a mysteri-

ous air, but with a happy face: ‘Myself and L. believe in the Lord

Jesus, we pray to Him every day, but we won’t let any body

know itf.”

Mr. Schaible reports of the Anglo-Vernacular School at

Mulky : —

““A number of heathen children have a creditable knowledge of

Bible-history, though others are rather confused.

The parochial

schools are partly heathen, the number of non-Christians being

greater than that of the Christians.

Fees are difficult to ecollect.

Still I am very glad that we have these schools.

It is always a

pleasure for me, when I am in those out-stations, to converse with

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the children on some-part of Bible-history or some other religious

subject.”’

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Mr. Gengnagel of Basrur reports: —

“Gradaally the fear of the people to send their children to our

schools is disappearing, and attendance is getting more regular.—

The toddy-drawers, however, are still afraid to send their children,

thinking that by some stratagem or other we are going to carry

them off and make them Christians.—At Kailkeri we opened a

school in May last.

But as yet it is very scantily attended ; the fear

of some secret spell that might be practised on the children by the

missionaries is still great.”

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~ II. Coorg.

‘Area 2000 square miles, Population 178,302

Two Stations.

Languages Canarese and Kodaga (Coorg),

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a dialect of Canarese.

A. The Native Church.

Nine adult persons have been admitted into the church

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by baptism, two at Mercara and seven at Anandapur, but

owing to a considerable number of people leaving the district,

¢

especially Mercara, the total number is somewhat less than

last year.

My. Schenkel at Mercara can report that the attendance

of divine service is creditable and that family-prayer is held

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at least once a day in each house.

The parochial school is

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scantily attended, owing to the want of an efficient master.

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of Anandapur Mr. Fischer writes:—

“The greatest obstacle to the growth of the church in spiritual

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life, as well as in number, is the propensity of the people to licen-

fa

tiousness.

But the weapon of the word of God is used against this

enemy, and not without effect.

Tt is at the bedside of the sick and

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dying, that we are sometimes permitted to see its effect. The month

of April was a time of much sickness among our

A Deathbed.

people, inflammation of the lungs and ague being

prevalent.

It was during this time of distress

that I was summoned to the sickbed of a young woman whose quiet

and modest behaviour had always impressed me.

During the

previous night she had suddenly been attacked by a burning fever

with violent cough and convulsions, which nearly suffocated her.

On the morning she went to her mother’s house and said to her:

‘Mother, up to this time I have been your daughter, but now I am

Some time afterwards she

going to be the Saviour’s daughter’.

wanted sp'iribual assistance and sent for me. 'When I arrived, she

sat up, looked at me, and said: ‘Alas, I am in great anguish and

distress, greater than I can express.

To my question as to the

cause of her distress, whether it was her illness or something else,

she replied: ‘Yes, also my illness, but especially my sins! Last

night I thought I should die.’

It was a great joy to me to find a

soul whose distress was caused not so much by her illness, but by

her sins.

When I comforted her with the gracious invitation of our

Saviour, ‘Come unto' me ete.’, she said, ‘I have already been calling

on the Lord; but will he hear and accept me ?’

‘Yes’, I said, ‘he

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will ; he loved you also, he died for you and bought you for his own

child and is now calling to you:—‘Though your sins be as scarlet,

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they shall be as white as snow.’

‘Yes’, she said, ‘I now

believe that the Lord loves me’.

Next day, when I went to see

her, her mind was more quiet and peaceful.

She could believe

that the blood of Christ cleansed her from all her sins.

On the

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third day I was summoned three times; she had hard struggles

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to go through and always felt relieved by my prayer.

She had

no doubts now and could leave every thing in the hands of Jesus,

even her only son.

‘The world’ she said, ‘cannot hold me now

when I am going to the Lord.’

‘When I entered her house the

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third time she had already completed her pilgrimage.

She had

fallen asleep in peace.”

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B. Evangelisation.

Myr. Schenkel writes from Mercara: —

“Qur means of evangelisation are houde-to-house visiting, preach-

ing in the bazaars, and selling tracts and Bible-portions. The cooly

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mission in its original shape has come to a stand-still, owing to the

almost hostile attitude of the planters.

Preaching in the bazaars is

rather discouraging; while the consumption of liquors is increasing,

religious indifference is also growing apace.

One million quarts of

country liquor are consumed yearly in qurg.”

The number of days devoted to itinerancy by Mr. Schenkel

and his two

native assistants was 313.

Mr.

Flischer at

Anandapur and his two native assistants together devoted

295 days to itinerancy; besides that, they pretty regularly

preached to the people gathered on market days at Virara-

jendrapet, Siddhapur, Ammatti, Gonikoppa and Ponampet,

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and to the coolies on coffee plantations.

My. Fischer reports:—

“On the whole we meet with little inquiry after truth, and still

less hunger and thirst after righteousness.

‘The money which I

possess’, a rich Coorg said with a sneer, ‘is of more value to me, than

all the fine promises of your books.’—Siddhapur, Ammatti, Virara-

jendrapet, Gonikoppa and Ponampet are small villages where little

can be done on ordinary days. But on market days multitudes of people

There is

flock together there, and we get a numerous attendance.

no opposition; most of our audiences belong to the lower classes

who know neither the Bible nor their own religious books.

But I

am convinced that the Lord will not withbold his blessing from this

kind of work.”

The Cooly Mission is sowing in hope even more than other

mission-work. We preach to the coolies near their houses

mostly in the evenings after their return from work. During

the working season these people come from different parts of

the country to the coffee-plantations, returning to their houses

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after some time.

It is therefore impossible to gather them

into churches. But this shall not deter us from pfeaching’

the gospel to them.

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III. Southern Mahratta Country.

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Dharwar and Bijapur Collectorates.

of

Area 10,271 square miles, Population 1,847,653.

Five Stations.

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This district, though called Southern Mahratta, because

it once formed part of the Mahratta kingdom of the Peishwas,

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is essentially Canarese, more than 814 per cent of the inhabi-

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tants speaking the Canarese language.

Mission work is there-

fore almost exclusively carried on in this language.

The

Canarese people live closely together in compact villages and

towns, sometimes of considerable size.

Their character and

disposition are more independent than that of the people on

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the coast, and as a rule they cling tenaciously to the customs

and religion of their ancestors.

Therefore the gospel is

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making very slow progress in these districts.

Though preaching in the bazaars aund the villages, teaching

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in schools, selling of books and tracts has been carried on

as elsewhere, there has not been a single baptism during the

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past year.

A. The Native Church

118

therefore shows almost no increase in numbers.

Two of the

stations, Dharwar and Bettigeri, even show a considerable fall-

ing off, partly on account of a number of people leaving the

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station, and partly on account of secession to the S.P.G.

In

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Dharwar we have had to witness the painful spectacle of a

missionary of the S. P. G. consecrating a place of worship in

of

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the very compoﬁnd of the Basel Mission, on a piece of ground

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which the Basel Mission had sold at a reduced price to per-

sons belonging to their community on condition that they

should not sell it to any body else, which place of worship is

intended for people who had already been gathered from the

heathen by the Basel Mission.

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The attendance at divine service at Hubli and Bijapur,

is good whereas at Dharwar, Bettigeri and Guledgudd most of

the women are accustomed to absent themselves from the

Sunday morning service; at some of the out-stations of

Guledgudd also, especially Murudi, Halkurki and Mushtigeri,

the attendance is often very scanty.

We are pleased to see,

however, that in a goodly number of families the word of God

is held dear and is the ruling power of family-life.—As re-

gards the morals of the people, we have continually to fight

against the old habits of licentiousness, quarrelling, using foul

language, drinking, smoking hemp and the like, but now and

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then we are privileged to find souls, who, though filling a

humble station, lead truly Christian lives.

Such a one was Devamitra, the cook of the boys’ orphanage.

For a very moderate pay he has been doing the

Faithful in a

very little.

cooking of the orphanage faithfully and conscien-

tiously, and though he was ailing for the last few

years, he would get up long before dawn every morning to prepare

jowaree cakes for the boys.

He had had no schooling; but during

his Jeisure hours he learned to read, and could read his Bible and

hymn-book, of which he was very fond.—When a special collection

was made last year to assist our home committee in paying their

debt, he gave a whole month’s salary. A chill he got on a holiday

excursion to Badami with the orphanage boys, brought on typhoid

fever, and feeling that death was approaching, he prepared himself

for it.

Having no family, he left the greater part of his property

to the mission in his will.

It will be difficult to find a successor

for him, who with the same peaceful spirit combines an equal

amount of ﬁdelity and conscientiousness.

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With a few very creditable exceptions the

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education in the families leaves room for much improvement.

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Nor is the education offered in our schools always duly

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appreciated.

The villagers in our out-stations Kardenhalli

and Mushtigeri especially are very backward in sending their

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children to school and in paying school-fees.

We hope that

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by patience and firmness combined we shall gradually ac-

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custom the parents to take more interest in the education of

their children.

We have two orphanages, one for boys and

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one for girls, in this district, in which however not only

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orphans, but also other destitute children; or children who

cannot get proper education at home, are admitted.

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are besides five day-schools for children of Christians, and

those that have ability may continue their studies in the pre-

paratory school (Middle School) at Bettigeri-Gadag, where

they get both board and education, or in the High school at

Dharwar.

In the preparatory school at Bettigeri with which

a training-class for schoolmasters is connected, boys are

prepared either for the Theological Seminary at Mangalore

or for the training class.

A seminary where young men who

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are desirous of entering the Lord’s service at a riper age with-

out having had a thorough education before-hand, are trained

for assistant catechists, is likewise combined with this prepar-

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atory school at Bettigeri.

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B. Evangelisation.

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The missionaries ar.1d their native assistants have alto-

gether spent 1875 days in itinerancy; besides that, preaching

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in the bazaars in the towns of Dharwar, Hubli, Gadag, Bettigeri,

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Guledgudd and Bijapur, or *house-to-house visiting has been

regularly carried on.

We give a few extracts that have

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reached us about this branch of our work.

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Mr. Warth writes:—

“One day we were permitted ‘to preach in a Lingait convent,

before a Lingait priest who reads the Bible, and about 60 of his

disciples.

These people listened with great eagerness and devotion,

so that we almost fancied we were in a church.”’

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My. Knittel reports :—

“There are many readers of the Bible here and there in the

country, individuals or whole communities.

The word of God,

which is spirit and power and life, is certainly doing its secret work

in the hearts of the heathen, and when the time of the Lord arrives

there will be a joifful harvest. One of those inquirers is a certain

Svami in a Lingait math.

He rejects idolatry and pantheism and

reads the Bible left to him by his predecessor, who

Guru who reads

A Lingait

is now after his death worshipped as a god.

He

the Bible.

is in possession of a pamphlet also left him by his

predecessor in which the deceased states his

claim to be considered as the true Christ.

The old Svami is very

fond of the Bible, which he knows pretty well and highly venerates.”

My. Risch of Bettigeri writes:—

“I was most pleased this year with the work in the large, rich

towns and villages north of Bettigeri, where I had never been before.

1 was afraid I should find proud and hard hearts and much op-

position in those places.

These have not been quite absent, but

compared with the good reception we met with in most places, the

unpleasant incidents are scarcely worth mentioning. The well-to-do

farmers differ from the people in the poor villages south of Bettigeri

where I travelled last year, being much more independent and

intelligent.

But just for that reason the work among them is on

the whole more satisfactory, because the preaching is better under-

stood.

A venerable, rich and esteemed village-accountant at D.,

who followed us one morning to four different places of preaching

in his village, and again and agafn listened seriously and eagerly

to the same message, is only one of many instances which are a

pledge that in those well-to-do villages also the lamb of God, the

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Lion of the tribe of Judah shall in his own time ‘divide the spoil with

the strong

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Catechist Henry Kodot of Shagoti reports s

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«“In our village most of the heathen eonfess that Christianity is

the true religion. Several read the word of God and pray every day.

Others have learned the Lord’s prayer and say it at their meals or

before going to sleep.

But they lack courage to confess Christ

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openly.

A short time ago I was talking to a Hindu.

He said they

had a prophecy that after five years all the world would have only

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one religion and that, no doubt, would be the Christian religion, then

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he also would become a Christian.”

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nd

My. Lutz of Guledgudd reports:—

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In the course of the past year we were able to visit about 120

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places to preach the gospel to the inhabitants.

In many of them no

his

Qur dis-

preacher of the gospel had entered for the last 10 years.

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triet numbers about 530 towns and villages.

In about 200 of these

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we have been itinerating since 1887, the remainder have not been

touched by direct missionary labour for at least 8 years. No wonder

therefore that we cannot speak of any conversions.”

My. Berli of Bijapur writes:—

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“Travelling in the district is always a pleasure to me.

Though

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as yet we have none or few conversions, our work is not in vain;

there is scarcely a village in our distriet in which some of our tracts

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are not found, and these are doing their work silently.

‘When the

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time of grace for the Southern Mahratta country arrives, we shall

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see that the long season of sowing has not been in vain.”

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Bible-women.

We have as yet only five Bible-women, one

on

at Dharwar, two at Bettigeri and two at Guledgudd. At Bijapur

or

Mrs. Berli visits the houses of Mahomedans and heathen in

D,

the neighbourhood to speak to the women and to tell them

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Bible-stories.

She was almost everywhere kindly received,

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though she found that the women took little interest in the

word of God.

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At Dharwar Mrs. Ziegler occasionally accompanies the

Bible-woman on her visits.

She reports of their experience

at those visits :—

““One day when we came to a house which we now and then visit,

and where we are always welcome, we asked one of the women

whether she remembered what we had told her last time.

‘I really

do not know’, she replied, ‘if it be advisable to remember any-

thing you tell us, or if it would be better not to listen to you at all.

For when I listen to what you say, my heart is disquieted, and there

is something like a conflict within me. I do not dare any more to act

as I used to act, and if I want to do anything which is not right, my

heart says to me, ‘You must not do it, it is not right, the Bible-

woman has told you so.

If T had not listened to you, there would

be no conflict, and I should be in peace.’—Another day as we were

explaining the ten commandments to the women gathered at the

same house, one of them, a nice, intelligent woman, said to the

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other women:—¢‘According to the law of God we should no more

tell any lies, but should tell the truth. This evening I was to return

a small sum of money which I had borrowed. But when I entered

the house and found that the Bible-woman is here, I thought, ‘Now

the Bible-woman is here, I cannot pay back the money to-day,

but I can say, I could not pay it sooner, because I had it not.’

However after what you have been telling us just now, I must not

say so, because I indeed have got the mouney, but I shall tell the

person who lent me the money that I had no time to-day as the

Bible-womar had come.’

Cases like this of an awakened con-

science are, however, not frequent, it is more common that the women

say, ‘It is impossible to live as the Bible tells us to live.

Evangelisation by schools.

In six primary schools and one

high school, chiefly intended for non-Christians, partly also in

the parochial schools established for Christian children, the

word of God in the Old and New Testaments has been told,

read and explained, and appropriate Bible texts have been

Thus the

committed to memory by 659 non-Christian boys.

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good seed has been sown into the hearts of the young and is

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sure to bring forth fruit in due season.

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IV. Malabar.

| Area 4,765 square miles, Population 2,365,035.

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Seven Stations. Language Malayalam.

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Last year we had the privilege of reporting considerable

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progress in the mission-work in Malabar.

We are thankful

that the progress has continued and the accession of comn-

verts from among the heathen has been even greater during

the year under report than the year before.

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A. The ﬁative Church

shows an increase of 429 baptized members, 201 adults and

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145 children having been received by baptism from among

the heathen. Of the seven centres of work in Malabar, Codacal

has had the greatest number of converts, altogether 159.

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Most of the converts belong to the Tiyer or toddy-drawer

caste, a few are Cherumers; there are also a few Nairs

(land-owners). We give some extracts from the reports of

Myr. Jaus and Mr. Bosshardt to show the various ways in

which the converts had been led to the Lord:—

“A toddy-drawer thought of becoming a Christian, but he would

first see the Christians in their daily life; he therefore came to

Satisfied with what he saw

Codacal to stay there for some time.

and heard, he came for good.

“ Parangoten came to us with five children, including a baby,

feeling sure that his wife would soon follow him and her children.

She followed him indeed, not to stay, but to take away her children.

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—_—

Two of them she took and stayed away for months.

Messengers

who were sent to inquire brought back the news, that she was still

as hard as ever and would never become a Christian, the less since

her parents and other relatives were against it. But the spirit of God

changed her heart and she came. She and her husband were a year

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and a half under instruetion.

Then came a time of trials.

One

child died unbaptized; a second one after baptism.

Her husband

got smallpox twice.

He recovered from the first attack, but

after the second he too died.

She was left a widow with 3 children.

“ Kunyamma joined us together with her father, though her

husband took away her only child by force.

Some time afterwa,rds

her husband with the child also joined us, but he died of smallpox,

and she was baptized together with her little daughter.

“When another Parangoten (now Nicodemus) joined us, his wife

and a son would not follow him. At last his wife was decided by

a dream, a voice saying to her distinetly: ‘Go the way which you

(ﬁ‘

have been told to go’, and she joifled her husband. But the son

was kept back by bad company. His father asked for our special

intercession on his behalf, believing that our prayers would be

heard.

He was not disappointed.

The son was present at the

baptism of a number of converts in December 1891, which so moved

him, that he cut off his hairlock and joined the Christians.

“diappan, a Cherumer of Palat, had to suffer a good deal of per-

secution when he became a Christian, some high caste people even

beat him.

But he remained firm.

After his baptism he stayed at

his village and is now trying to lead others to Christ.

‘At the beginning of the year under report Mr. Gopalen Menon,

a matricalate master of our Anglo-vernacular school at Ponani, in

a letter to Mr. Bosshardt expressed his firm resolve to become a

Christian, because after carefully comparing Hinduism and Christian-

ity he had been convinced of the truth of the latter.

He had been

of this conviction for several months, but the thought of his friends

and his property had kept him back. At last he felt that it was his

duty to forsake everything, even his dearly loved wife, for the sake

of God and religion.

‘When on the 21st January he carried out

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his intention, there was great excitement at Ponani, and he had for

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some time to retire to Paraperi near Codacal.

Endeavours were also

made to ruin our Anglo-vernacular school at Ponani and to establish

another, but they came to nought, since the necessary funds were not

forthcoming. Meanwhile the new convert was carefully studying

the scriptures and preparing himself for baptism, which took place on

Easter Sunday.

Gopalan (now James Victor) returned to Ponani,

where after a hard and painful struggle with his friends and relatives

he settled again, though without his wife, and is now, as before, a

master in our Anglo-vernacular school.

May the Lord keep him

and all the other new converts on the narrow way they have entereq,

till they reach the glorious prize

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The Codacal station was much tried by sickness during

the year past.

Smallpox and measles especially were very

rife and carried off a good number; some were attacked even

two or three times by smallpox.

Several cases of carnal sins

have come to light, and the worst is that the chief sinners

were Christians of long standing, who instead of repenting

rebelled against church-discipline.

The Codacal centre with its out-stations has now the largest

number of Christians in Malabar, numbering 1068 baptised

church-members (including children), while Calicut, hitherto

the largest station in Malabar, has only 1058.

Calicut, however, has also had a good harvest.

We have

the pleasure of giving an extract from the report of Mr. Jonas

Padiath, the native pastor :—

“By the grace of God the external growth of the church during

the past year has been the most blessed of all; the namber of the

church-members having now risen to exactly 1000 (excluding the

out-stations), 68 souls have been admitted from among the heathen.

Though most of these came for their daily bread, yet baptismal

instruction has worked a great blessing in their hearts, whereas on

the other hand it cannot be concealed that the devil also had his

work in them, so that a number of those, who had been under in-

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struction became backsliders, and others had to be dismissed on ac-

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count of ill-behaviour immediately before the time appointed for

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their baptism.

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“In October last the Lord granted us the pleasu‘re of baptising

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a family of eight souls. The head of this family was led to the Lord

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by his son Chandukutti, who was baptised a year or two ago, and is

a teacher in the parochial boys’ school at Calicut.

The father, who

at first showed aversion to Christianity, on a visit to his son came

into contact with the word of God and its ministers, and had oppor-

f

tunity to hear a good deal of it. By and by the seed which had been

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sown in his heart, while still a boy in the school at Putiangadi, began

to spring up.

Though resolved to become a Christian, he found it

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very difficult to carry out his intention, his relatives and caste people,

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among whom he was a person of note, and especially his wife, plac-

ing many obstacles in his way.

At last his son, accompanied by

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Evangelist Nathanael Arukanden, in the middle of the night fetched

him and his wife and children in two carriages to Calicut.

His wife

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during the first days after the flight felt very unhappy.

‘Why did

I leave my friends and relations to live in the midst of strangers ¥’

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she would wail.

But gradually fear and grief began to depart, and

She

she learned to understand and to praise the ways of the Lord.

said to the Evangelist:—‘That I who had formally declared that I

would never become a Christian, and beat myself in the presence

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of my son—that I should have got up at once when on that memo-

rable night my husband called me, saying, ‘Get up, let us go’, and

should have gone down the stairs, I can consider as nothing else but

the doings of God.

Now I am rejoicing greatly. 'Who would have

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thought that it is such a good thing to be a Christian?’

During

baptismal instruction, when the instructor one day had explained

the account of Abraham’s going out from his own country and kindred,

Both husband and

she said: ‘That is just as it was with ourselves.’

wife were eagerly longing for their baptism, and chose for themselves

the names 4braham and Sarak.

A short time before their baptism

their eldest son Chundukutti (Lazar) had the joy of bringing home

his wife Unnichira, who had so long been retained in the midst of

heathenism.

When he joined the Christians he sent her to her

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But she was

family, hoping that she would by and by follow him.

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not inclined to do so, and even if she had been,bshe was so strietly

watched, that she would have found it impossible, and when he went

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to her parents’ house to fetch her, he was not even permitted to speak

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to her, and he and his companion Evangelist Nathanael Arukanden

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were loaded with abuses.

But Lazar did not

An answer

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cease to pray to God on her account, till He

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to Prayer.

Lazar’s

opened the way in a wonderful manner.

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father-in-law had been brought to court by his landlord for criminal

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trespass.

In his action the plaintiff had fraudulently pleaded that

a

defendant had vacated his house long ago.

To prove that he had

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always lived in the house the defendant cited Nathanael Arukanden

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as a witness.

On his evidence the court decided in favour of the

defendant.

The fact that the Christian Evangelist who had been

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shortly before so shamefully abused by him, the defendant, now gave

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testimony in his favour, touched his heart so much that he said to his

son-in-law, ‘I shall gladly let my child go among such people as that

manis’. Therefore when Lazar and Arukanden went oue day to fetch

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the young wife from the midst of their weeping relatives, he was not

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at home,

The Lord made also the young wife willing to follow her

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husband.

After joining him, she gladly and eagerly listened to

baptismal instruction and joyfully confessed her faith in public.

She received the name Martha.

Their little girl of four years of

age, whom her grandmother had kept back, was also returned to

them some time afterwards, and was baptised with her mother on

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the 24th December.

Thus the Lord had heard Lazar’s prayers and

given him his heart’s desire.

“As regards the pastoral care of church-members, the work

which the Lord is carrying on by His spirit in the hearts is generally

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not visible to human eye.

But at the approach of death it becomes

apparent that the Lord is with His people and manifesting himself to

their hearts.

An old member of the church, who had formerly been

a worker in church and in school, but had to be

Saved by Grace.

dismissed, came to Calicut a few days before his

death in order to die there.

He was well pre-

pared.

His only trust was the sacrifice of his Saviour Jesus Christ.

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He confessed his faith in Him and his readiness to go to Him, and

breathed his last under the- prayers of the catechist.

If, however,

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we look at the spiritual state of the Calicut church in general, there

seems to be a kind of coldness and indifference overspreading it.

The desire after the word of God seems to be on the deecline.

The

afternoon services especially are very scantily attended; prayer-

meetings have declined, and family-prayer also is neglected by some.

The consequences are disunion and disputes in the families, blunt-

ing of the moral sense in many. Even quarrelling and brawling

among different parties, especially among the young, are not un-

frequent.

‘We long for an outpouring of the spirit of God on our

people.”

The Cannanore church has had the privilege of receiving 50

souls from among the heathen by baptism.

We take the

following extracts from M7. Ostermeyer’s report respecting

them :—

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““Jacob, one of their number, was a sawyer, born at Anjarkandy.

In his 18th year he resolved to become a Christian, but was prevent-

ed by his brother and mother.

Some chronic disease drove him

away from his home, and he became a pilgrim, wandering about in

the country for a whole year; but finding no rest for his soul, he

came to me.

His wife, who at first was opposed to his becoming

a Christian, became afterwards a help to him in learning Bible

history and receiving Christian instruetion.

‘““Another candidate for baptism was Kannen, who had been a

devil-dancer for eight years.

“Narayonan Nair, son of a land-owner, had often taken part in

disputations with the preachers of the gospel at heathen festivals,

but at last received an impression that after all the Christian

religion might be the true one. Smallpox helped him to come to a

decision, and he came to the missionary with the intention of becom-

ing a Christian. His relations dragged him back, but he escaped and

came again.

Though the son of a land-owner, he did not refuse to

do the work of a day-labourer during the time of his instruction

and probation.

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nd

¢« Another young man of the Nair caste was suffering from much

er,

sickness, but his intention to become a Christian was so true apd

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earnest that he could not be refused.

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¢ Jesumati, a girl of a well-to-do Tiyer family, was seduced while

he

working in a coffee factory, but was brought back to the way of

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truth and purity by our Bible-women and our Colporteur.”

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Myr. Ostermeyer continues:—

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“It was a great joy for us to see how actively the church-

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members took part in the support of the candidates

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Missioﬁary Zeal

for baptism; nearly Rs. 167 were collected for

in the Church.

this purpose.

Without the generous assistance

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of our English friends, however, we should still have been unable to

raise the money necessary.

It would not have been strange if the

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church-members had been a little envious, or at least ill at ease at

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the great number of converts, seeing that most of them threatened

to become their competitors in the struggle for maintenance.

But

there appeared nothing of the kind.

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“When one day I informed our Christians in a missionary meeting

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that it was very difficult for me to find work for so many new-comers,

the next day or so several families expressed their willingness each

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to employ one of the candidates for baptism in their houses.

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“On the occasion of the baptism of 32 heathen on the 12th

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November I invited the Chowa Christians also to be present, giving

notice of a kind of mission anniversary on a small scale.

One of

the speakers afterwards protested against calling the day an anni-

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versary on a small scale.

A day on which 32 heathen were baptis-

ed was well worthy to be called a great feast-day.—The members

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of the congregation evidenced their joy and interest on this oceasion

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by hospitably entertaining the guests and by a generous contribution.

“ Migsionary zeal shows itself also in the joy and e‘agerness with

which new candidates are brought for baptism.

Of the 118 of the

past year at least three-fourths had been brought in by our church

members, who often expressed their willingness to receive them into

their houses in order to influence them still further.”

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The church at Tellicherry consists of two divisions, one in

the town, the other at Nettur.

Mr. Frohnmeyer, who has

charge of Nettur, writes:—

‘““We have been privileged to receive fourteen souls into the

church by baptism; one of them is the wife of Johanan Nair who had

been baptized last year (see Report of 1892,p.55). Of her own motion

A TR ey A P e~ S o il T

she declared her willingness to come to him. Another schoolmaster

also was baptized. Of those that had been under instruetion, five left

us again,

one of them, a lad of 16 or 18 years, very unwillingly,

but his father used every means to take him away. At first he tried

the most shameful lies, telling the boy, that his mother was danger-

ously ill, and the like.

‘When these lies were seen through by the

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son, he carried him away by force.

But the son escaped from his

father and appeared again at the mission-house.

The father then

threatened to go to law, and as the son could not prove that he had

reached his 18th year, we had to advise him to return with his father.

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“QOutwardly the past year was better than the year before ; there

was less sickness also.

As regards the spiritual state, encoiraging

signs are not wanting; church-dues and missionary contributions

have been paid, though we would wish more spontaneity; the means

of grace are attended to.

In private conversation which we have

with those who wish to come to the Lord’s Supper, we oceasionally

perceive that our work is not in vain.

One day in a very gentle

manner I pointed out some moral defects to a certain church-member;

he answered me very rudely, but returned two hours afterwards to

ask my forgiveness and to confess that I had been quite right.”

My. Bader, who is in charge of the church in the town of

Tellicherry, reports:—

“The work in the poor-house is rather discouraging; the old

women and spinsters lodging there show an

Poor in Means

and Poor in the

astonishing cleverness in bickering and exciting

quarrels, and though they are reconciled again

Spirit.

and again, they as often fall to quarrelling again.

Despite these discouraging incidents, the Lord did not leave me

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without comfort, and in connection with the very same poor-house.

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Last year a man died in the poor-house, whose childlike faith in Christ

His first impressions he had received through

gave me real joy.

one of our Christians and through Mr. Fritz; but he afterwards took

he

to drinking, and would have become a regular drunkard if the Lord

ad

had not interposed. He was earning his livelihood as a eart-driver.

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One day the pole of his cart struck him so violently on the chest

or

that he received some internal injury which made him unfit for work.

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He came to the poor-house, but his wife earned enough for both so

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that he had not to be supported by the church. While he lived at the

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poor-house, the Lord drew him to Himself, and he became a devout

man and a man of prayer.

On the eve of his death, after the Lord’s

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Supper had been administered to him, he said: ‘Now I am ready,

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now the Lord may take me.

I know that there is nothing good in

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me, I see nothing but sin. But I trust entirely in the merey of God.

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Just as a poor dove takes refuge with its owner from storm and

rain, so I take refuge with my Creator; will he drive me away?’

In this faith he died.

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“As regards willingness of our church-members to give something

15

to the Lord’s cause, it has struck me, that those who are independent

15

of the mission are the ones who are most inclined to practise

charity, give their church-dues most willingly, and are most

grateful for the spiritual gifts they receive through the mission.”

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My. Weismann of Chombala reports:—

“We ought to begin our report with praise and thanksgivings

Whence are we

this year especially, for we have been privileged

to buy bread that

to receive 33 souls out of the heathen into the

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these may eat?

church of Christ, and to send 9 more to other

stations, while 10 persons are still under preparation. This is a

fair harvest for our small station, and it is gratifying to observe

that in our neighbourhood there are more families who seriously

intend to confess their faith in Christ openly and to ask for

baptism.

A short while ago two Nairs and one toddy-drawer

came to me one night, declared they could no longer serve idols,

and asked for admission.

Two other men I surprised on the sea-

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shore reading the Gospel of St. Luke.

They declared to me, ‘This

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book is the truth; we also shall join you, we cannot do otherwise.’

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Others are only waiting for this or that relation, who has promised

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to join them in becoming Christians.

‘We ought to be heartily re-

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joiced at seeing such fruits of our labours, and yet neither the mis-

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sionary mnor the church-members

seem to rejoice, because the

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‘How shall I find work for the new-

missionary asks himself:

comers ?

How shall I be able to support them even with great pe-

cuniary sacrifices ?’

And the church-members, who are depending

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on their earnings in our weaving establishment which has only 18

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looms, look at the new-comers as intruders whose employment will

lessen their own already scanty earnings.

What shall we do? More

looms eannot be obtained; other means of gaining a livelihood are

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nowhere to be found; for it is in vain for Christians to look for

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employment on the paddy-fields or in the compounds of the Nairs.

Nothing remains to us, but to declare to the applicants for baptism

from the heathen that we are willing to instruet them in the Chris-

d|

tian religion, but are unable to support them.”—We wonder whether

St. Paul could have done more.

Mr. Weismann continues :—

“Under these circumstances we are especially glad of the con-

version of Koran (now Abraham) at Melady, who was baptized

last year, and has this year been followed by his wife and child.

He is the only Christian as yet at Melady who with his family is

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cultivating his paddy-field and has no thought of asking pecuniary

assistance. The conversion of his wife is a miracle in our eyes.”

We narrate the fact in the words of Mr. Peter :—

“During the rainy season it was my task to lend a helping

‘hand to the old backslider 4., who after having

A miracle

of Grace.

long ago returned to his caste was mow penitent

and wanted to come back to Christ.

His wife,

however, did her utmost to prevent this.

She would sometimes let

us stand for hours under the burning midday sun in the hot sand

before her house without permitting.us to take shelter under the roof

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of her verandah, and when at last her husband came home and

invited us to sit down on the verandah, she became furious, cursed

o

us, threateped to hang herself before our eyes, and then to ecut her

throat with a big sharp billhook; and when we had wrested that

5

out of her hands, she beat herself with a piece of wood and with

10

cocoanuts in the most frantic manner, and with foaming mouth bif

her husband.

Sometimes she would rush upon us with a paddy-

pestle and endanger our very lives.

But we kept the field, so that

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at last she left her husband’s house, not however before she had

8

smashed his best kitchen vessels and cut a mat into pieces with a

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billhook.

After a month’s separation she eame back penitent and

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with a contrite heart, and an entire change took place in her.

She

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now eagerly drank in the word of God, keeping her house and her

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son clean and in order, and on the day of baptism she and her

12 years old son with her confessed their faith in Christ fearlessly.”

Regarding the spiritual state of the Chombala church

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Mr. Weismann writes :—

“Not one of the church-members that were last year helping in

After a hard

the Sunday schools has become tired of his work.

day’s work the Sunday school teachers come to the house of

Mr. Peter for the preparatory class, and on Sundays they walk a

d

distance of two, three miles to the Sunday school even during the

pouring rain of the monsoon.

They have persisted in spite of the

1§

mockeries and ridieule they have had to bear on account of their

work with the little ones, or the trouble which rude Nair lads some-

bl

times give them in the school.

By house-to-house visiting, I con-

vinced myself that daily family prayer also takes place in the homes

of our Christians, I found a well-used Bible in each house in which

people were able to read, and the elders of the church have begun

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once or twice a week to visit the houses of those who are unable to

Nor

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read in order to pray with the members of the household.

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have they neglected visiting the sick to comfort them and to pray

of

with them. Though prices have been very high and many a family

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sorely afflicted by cares for their daily bread, nobody murmured

of

when the church-dues and school-fees had to be paid, and our

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people were always ready to give when collections for repairs, for

of

the widow fund, for the poor-fund or the mission were made. Divine

services and other means of grace have been well attended. On

i

the other hand we cannot but mention some very grave defeects.

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Quarrelling and brawling are only too frequent,and we are often

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grieved to see the deep rooted enmity and spite which separate some

of

families.

A few ill-chosen words, a rebuke given to the naughty

gl

child of a neighbour, and especially a complaint made to the mission-

th

ary, however true it may be, are often sufficient to separate friends

and relatives for years.

The missionary himself was now and then

treated very rudely when he tried to give adviee to people who were

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unwilling to take it.”

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The station Vaniyankulam had to mourn for the departure

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on furlough in "March 1893 of Mr. and Mrs. Walter after

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having been labouring there since 1887. Mr. and Mys. Hole

have now taken charge of this work.

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The native church numbers 13 less than last year, though

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4 souls have been admitted by baptism.

The cause is, that

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the number of those who left the station was greater by 18

th

than the number of those that came from other places.

My.

Hole writes:—

“If we were able to find work for our Christians, the church would

grow, but as it is, many have to go elsewhere to get their livelihood.

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When our people were called upon to give their mite to assist our

1

Society in clearing off their debt, a Catechist gave Rs. 5, others Rs. 3

each, a day-labourer who earns 8 Annas a day gave 8 Annas, another

a poor fellow, offered even one Rupee.

When

“A woman gave us trouble by her thievish propensities.

neither rebuke nor kind entreaties could move her to confess her sin,

i

the Lord found other means; her new-born babe fell ill.

When the

illness became alarming, the missionary was called, who united with

the other people, entreating tbe Lord for the child.

After prayer

the woman came and confessed her sin with tears and asked for-

:

giveness.”

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for

At Palghat the chief event of the yéar was the building

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of the new Tile-Works where those may now find work, who

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after joinipg the Christian church have no means of support.

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Thus a long felt want has been supplied, and consequently

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the number of church-members has increased by 55. Seventeen

mé

of these have been admitted from among the heathen. We are

bty

glad to give some extracts from Mr. Kiihnle’s report about

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the new-comers :—

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% According to our experience”, he says, it is not sufficient that

16

the people have acquired a rudimentary knowledge of the Christian

religion, such as the Apostles’ creed, the ten Commandments and the

Lord’s prayer, it is only after they have shown by their lives that

16

they are serious in their desire to become Christians, that we under-

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take to baptize them.

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“A glance at the 17 newly baptized Christians, at the wonder-

ful ways the Lord led them before their conversion, as well as his

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work in their hearts before and after baptism, fills our hearts with

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joy and gratitude, and gives us courage to continue our work with

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those still under instruction.

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“Ahy one who has seen our old Kandan, his three adult sons, and

their two little sisters, must have been convineced

Found at Last.’

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that these people are sincere in their desire fo

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become Christians.

We will let him tell the story of his own life.

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‘T lived in Kotai, 7 or 8 miles from Palghat, had a fine com-

pound, some paddy-fields, which were my property, and other land,

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which I had on lease.

Three sons grew up around me without

being obliged to work with the hoe.

We had frequent intercourse

with the Christian schoolmaster Joshua Narakaden, who used to talk

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to us about Christianity, taught one of my sons reading and writing,

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I became convineced of the

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and altogether was ‘very kind to us.

truth of Christianity, and my sons were fond of listening to the

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words of the teacher, but there was no eonversion.

In consequence

of bad harvests and other misfortunes I first lost the leasehold

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lands, after that I had to mortgage my own lands, in short, our

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circumstances declined so much that I was ashamed to remain at

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Kotai any longer

That was the time when I ought to have become

a Christian, but I didn’t

I made another effort and took some lands

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on lease at Perumba

But fortune would not smile on me

By two

scanty harvests I lost everything. A few pieces of furniture, a

sh

plough, a yoke, a hoe and a few other trifles are my whole property

!

Now I am come to ask if you will receive me if I come with my

children

My three sons have not worked hard as yet; but now

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they are ready to work with hoe and spade, only not at Perumba or

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Kotai; that would be too great a disgrace for them

Here they

The old man made

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will do anything that will be required of them

a very favourable impression on me

I told him that we were

o

ready to receive him with his family, but that we could not support

them

If, however, his sons were faithful and industrious, they

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should not want work and good wages

But the chief thing was

that they turned to the living God and became true Christians

In

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October 1892 the hale old man with his children entered the

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Melparambu house

It was a pleasure to see the sons busily engaged

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in digging the ground at the Tile-Works

During baptismal

instruetion it was delightful to observe the attention of the new-

comers

The first few days the old man would repeat every

sentence of the instruction with a loud voice, and his answers

showed much intelligence

He asked for a small house and a little

::;

plot of ground in order to have something to do while his sons were

working in the Tile-Works, being too old to work as a cooly himself

When he got it, he cultivated and prepared his small plot of ground

so carefully and made it look so pretty, that everybody was pleased

with it.—After about a year’s instruction he was told that he would

be admitted to baptism. When he heard it, he could scarcely utter a

word for joy. His new name is Adbrakam, and he is truly a man of

faith and blessed of the Lord.

“I would also mention poor blind Elizabeth

She is a girl of

22 years of age

Grown up among the heathen, she was seduced

to a life of sin and in consequence of that lost her eye-sight a few

years ago

After several years passed in misery, she came to

Palghat, found her way to us and entreated to be admitted

Her

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admission was a difficult task, as we had to support her, but how

(me

could we send her back to heathenism. We admitted her and have

nds

not repented it.

After a short time she acquired quite a stock of

two

knowledge and has learned the Bible-stories almost by heart.—Now

k,a.

she is a happy Christian and is trying to make herself useful by

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pounding rice and in other ways.”

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Myr. Boas, who came to Palghat for the purpose of

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erecting the Tile-Works, reports about a young man of the

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toddy-drawer caste, who came in August last in order to

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join the Christians:—

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«His name”, he says, “was Chamie. He had often before listened

to the preaching of the gospel. Two days after his arrival, some of

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his male relatives, who live near our compound, came in order to

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I read to them Matth. XXVIII, 18 to 20

yas

persuade him to return.

and said to them : ‘I cannot go against the order of God; if Chamie

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he

wishes to go away again of his own accord, I shall not prevent him,

but I am not going to send him away.’

I said the same to Chamie,

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reminding him at the same time, that the salvation of his soul

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He answered: ‘I have come to be saved,

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depended on his decision.

and shall remain here!’

Two days afterwards his relatives came,

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When they saw that persuasion and

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accompanied by his mother.

even tears were of no avail in changing his mind, his mother at last

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recommended him to my special protection.”

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Chamie was afterwards baptized and received the name

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Timothy. His mother now and then comes to see him, but

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has no desire now to turn him away from Christianity.

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Another convert is Krishnan Menon, son of Rama Menon,

Nayer, of Athatantara house in the neighbourhood of Alava-

of

kodu. We give an extract of Mr. Kiihule's report respecting

Him:—

of

“Being a sickly child who was often prevented by sickness, sore

)

eyes, and other ailments from studying, Krishnan took to gymnasties

and entered a company of gymnasties and

A Strait Gate.

of

musicians, with whom he travelled about the

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country, taking part in their theatrical exhibitions. After some

time, however, his parents sent him to school again. Though the

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students were more inclined to indulge in various youthful tricks

and pranks than to study, he succeeded in passing his examination

he

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as a primary schoolmaster and got an appointment as Malayalam

teacher at Putiangadi.

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While working there he heard Mr. Wagner

preach and was so much impressed with what he heard, that

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he introduced himself to the preacher, and on his invitation ac-

companied him to Codaecal.

What he heard and saw there, among

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other things, saying grace before meals, made a deep impression on

his mind, and from that day an inward struggle began which lasted

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for many years.

His conviction of the truth of Christianity became

stronger and sironger, especially during the year 1881, while he

was working in Madras and had the privilege of enjoying the fellow-

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ship of the Madras Christians.

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At last, in 1893, an acquaintance of

his, the overseer of the Palghat Tile-Works, urged him so strongly to

come to a decision, that he resolved to give up everything in order

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to gain Christ.

After having received baptismal instruetion for a

time from Mr. Kiihnle he went to his home in July 1893 in order

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to let his wife, who was still living with her parents, share his happi-

ness.

But his relations got hold of him, abused him, declared

him insane, tied his hands and feet, and had his whole body

shaved, washed, anointed and got him, as they thought, purified by

‘5

mantras.—By the advice of the family Brahman, the thousand-vessel-

bath was tried on him. In immense copper-vessels, on the fire of the

sacred milkwood, water was heated, and four people were engaged

in pouring it over his head.

The weather was very cold, and after

40 or 50 potfuls had been poured down on him, he began to feel a

kind of torpidity and begged the people to desist; but they

went quietly on till he was quite stiff, when at last his wife drove

them away. . By this bath he became so ill with fever, that he

After he

lost all his strength and lay very ill for several days.

had got a little better, he was to be purified by the five produets

of the cow (milk, curds, ghee, urine and dung), and he was to be

sent on a pilgrimage to sacred places and temples, such as Ramesh-

vara, Gokarna, ete.

But before that, all the misery and disgrace

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he would bring on himself and his family by his turning Christian

the

were painted to him once more in the most dreadful colours. He

Icks

was reminded of the fate of many of his acquaintances who had

become Christians and had now to drag out their existence as outcasts,

tion

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in mean situations, as servants of the missionaries, whereas they

jner

might have lived among their own people in comfort and general

esteem. How could he be so blind to his own advantages? But

that

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when he answered, that he was seeking the highest honour and

ong

good—eternal bliss by faith in Christ, they grew angry and left

him, inducing his brothers to persuade him to remounce all claims

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to the family property, which in his weakness he did.— With many

Ji

tears and bitter, grief he took leave of his wife and returned to

Palghat, where he was carefully tended and nursed in a Christian

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family and further instructed in the faith.

After an attempt to

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fetch his wife, who had sent him word that she was willing to join

him, had proved a failure, he was baptized on the 19th November

to

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with 13 other candidates for baptism and received the name Albert.

For a long time he could get no news of his wife, and he began to

despair of her conversion, especially when he heard that she was to

o1

be married to another man.

But when the wedding day came and

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the whole family had assembled for the grand wedding-feast, she

hid herself in the garden.

After a long search she was found and

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by

dragged from her hiding-place; but she declared, that she would

rather die than marry another man while her lawful husband lived.

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Being afraid that she might commit suicide, her tormentors desisted

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od

from their plan and separated.

Some time afterwards, on the 4th

January last, she succeeded in escaping and joining her husband, to

or

whom she had been sp faithful.

We would especially solicit the

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prayers of our friends in their behalf that the Lord would help them

to walk steadfastly in the narrow way whereon they have entered.”

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Regarding the progress of Christian life in the church

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Myr. Kiihnle writes:—

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“That we are not working in vain we can plainly see when we

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stand at the side of the beds of the sick and dying.

‘When one is

permitted to see, as I have been, how a Christian woman, though in

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the greatest pain, is comforting her loved ones, and dying tells them

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to turn to their Saviour, or how a mother, though with burning tears,

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commits her darling to the Saviour and is comforted by the hope of

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beholding him again: the spirit that would complain, ‘I have

laboured in vain and have spent my strength for nought’ must be

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silenced.”

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Christian Schools.

We have already mentioned the Theo-

logical Seminary at Nettur, Tellicherry. Besides that, there

are the Christian High'School with a boarding house, a Training

School for Christian Schoolmasters at Nettur, a Girls’ Orphanage

and boarding school with secondary classes. at Chombala,

and nine Parochial schools for boys and girls at Cannanore,

B e g e e IR 1 S R e W 1 e W —

Chowa, Chombala (combined with the orphanage), Calicut

(one for boys and one for girls), Codacal, Paraperi (combined

with the boy’s orphanage), Palat near Codacal, and Palghat.

The school at Cannanore and the Calicut girls’ school are

middle schools, the rest primary. The Anglo-vernacular schools

for non-Christians, which will be mentioned further on, are also

attended by Christian children; altogether 111 Christian boys

and 65 girls attend middle or high schools, 413 boys and 332

girls primary schools.

Of the Christian High School at Nettur, Tellicherry, Mr.

Rehm writes :—

“It has been our anxious desire to implant religion in the hearts

of the pupils.

Every opportunity has been improved to show them

that God created man for eternal bliss, and that he is willing to

bring man to it through His beloved Son.

In the lessons, the morn-

ing and evening prayers, and the public services, they have often

been told in an impressive manner that they have a Saviour and that

they may approach him with every request.

Of 17 boys sent up for

the Lower Secondary Examination, 14 passed in the compulsory

subjects, and 5 of these also in the optional subjects, so that 14 boys

could be promoted to the 4th form, a result which the Government

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Inspector called excellent. 1n December 1893 five boys went up for

IS,

the matriculation test, and three of them passed.

These results

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show that the doubts about the feasibility of our plan of instruction

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which is eonsiderably larger than that of non-Christian schools, have

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been without foundation.

We have been charged with cramming

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our boys, but we know, that they have much time for recreation and

exercise; nor have any complaints of too many lessons been heard

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from the boys themselves.

Of the pupils of the 3rd form who in

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December 1892 passed the lower secondary, three entered the

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training school.

At the end of the year the number of boys in the

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high-school department was 18, in the middle school 40 boys and

3,

4 girls, in the primary department 69, 41 of whom are boarders.

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Six boys left us in the course of the year. The majority of the pupils

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are from Tellicherry, but there was a fair proportion from other

o]

Malabar stations (Cannanore 15, Chombala 8, Calicut 16, Codacal 1,

Palghat 3, Kotageri 2).—The health of the boys has been improved

by tiling the floor, instead of having it of earth smeared with cow-

dung. The boarding fees due by the relations have all been paid.

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Regarding the Girls’ Orphanage at Chombala Mr. Weismann

reports :—

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“The character of the orphanage has considerably changed

during the last year and a half.

Formerly it was a school for the

orphans or half orphans of the Christians of our different stations;

but now, in consequence of the many conversions, it has become a

place for the education of the children of catechumens or newly

baptized widows or widowers, on_}y 30 of our children being born

Christians.

“To train 50 or 60 semi-savages to cleanliness, order and truth-

fulness is no easy task, not to mention other things ; many of the new-

comers need to be taught, that the vermin found in their hair and

clothes are mot indispensable companions given by God to mankind

for their pilgrimage on earth.

With many of these children lying

and stealing are the most conspicuous accomplishments hitherto

acquired during their short life.

This is not at all astonishing; for

they have been among heathen and rarely of the better families.

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The teachers too have no end of trouble with these uncultivated

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minds who are not accustomed to think.

Yet the hard and seem-

hi

ingly hopeless task which Mrs. Weismann set herself of teaching

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six of these grown up girls to read, of whom the schoolmistresses

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had despaired, has after all been accomplished. They have not only

learned to read, but have learned the catechism, and are very proud

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of the knowledge which they have acquired.

In April last some

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thoughtless or unserupulous relations sent us a girl infected with the

measles who again infected some 40 or 50 of our girls.

Sore eyes

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and influenza too gave us a deal of trouble.

Yet no child has died,

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and none has had a dangerous desease.”

The training class which had been arranged by Mr.

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Weismann received instruction from himself and the head-

master of the school.

Mrs. Weismann writes : —

““Among those that have been baptized there is a young woman

17 years of age and her little niece 3 years old, a dear little child

whose parents had both died of cholera.

Her aunt had compassion

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on the child and took her into her house, at which her heartless

husband was so displeased that he began to illtreat his wife Chira

and her little niece so cruelly that the young woman could no longer

bear it and took refuge in the house of some relations.

But there

also she soon became a burden on account of the child which had to

be fed, and soon abuses followed which drove her almost to despair.

Then Chira remembered that there are Christians; she had seen

some, and what she had heard of them convinced her that mercy

which is unknown among the heathen is to be found there.

So she

came to us and found compassionate hearts, and we trust she has

also found Him who said, ‘Him that cometh to me I will in no wise

cast out.’

“ Ammuni is a little girl of 7 years, not yet baptized.

Her father

died several years ago on the Nilgiris.

Last year her mother

also died.

The child found refuge in a heathen

One of the waifs

of India.

family, but getting not enough to eat she would

wander about begging, especially on market days

and fairs.

One day, when she had been at one of the market-

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ted

;ia,y gatherings on the Nilg;ris, she followed 'a coster-monger and

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his wife who were returning to Palghat.

When she had arrived

Without knowing a soul, the poor

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there she was told to clear out.

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child found herself in a strange town; ho one to take compassion on

nly

her or to offer her shelter or food. She wandered about and ecame at

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last to the mission compound where she lay down under a tree to pass

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the night.

When she awoke in the morning she felt the pangs of

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hunger and hoped to find a kind soul who would give her something

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to eaf.

Thus she was found by the missionary lady.

She was

o,

asked where she had come from, and a few hours later the poor

orphan had found reception and loving care in the house of a

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Christian and afterwards in our orphanage.

Seldom will a ehild be

found to be as grateful for any kindness shown as she is.

Joy and

gratitude will light up her face like sunshine as often as she sees

any of the persons who have been kind to her.”

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We and the girls are much obliged to Mr. Itkari, the

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Christian munsiff, who twice gave them a treat, which they

will long remember.

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Industrial Establishments.

The Weaving Establishments at

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Cannanore and Calicut with their branches at Chombala,

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Tellicherrry and Codacal, as well as the Tile-Works at Calicut,

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Codacal and, recently, Palghat, are a great help to our

churches in Malabar by giving work to such as cannot find

it anywhere else, and by training them to habits of industry,

order and thrift, also as places of proving doubtful applicants

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for baptism. We give a few extracts from the reports that

have reached us.

Myr. Schimthal of Cannanore writes:—

“Hitherto has the Lord helped us.

Is it not an evidence of His

great merey, that not only the old workmen have found their daily

bread in the establishments, but that something remained over for

new-comers applying for work, though more than half the applicants

had to be refused.—Sinee 1881 food prices have gradually risen

10%

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from 30 to 80 per cent. Then our people could buy 10 seers of r.ice

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for the rupee, now they get only 6; a cocoanut which cost 3 pies

2!

costs now 8 or 9; we thought it therefore necessary to raise the

wages also. But on account of the low exchange value of the rapee

and the higher prices for yarn we could not raise them as much as

we desired.

“We lost four weavers by death.

One of them, Jesuman, died

of typhoid fever.

He died in faith in his Saviour.

He had two

brothers, who were still going to sechool and ‘whom he supported

almost entirely. "What a joy it was to him when his brothers were

received into the chureh.

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For they as well as himself had been

born and had grown up as heathen Hindus. Jesuman attended divine

i

service faithfully and was also regular in attendance at the morning

prayers in the factory.

Our employés have been faithful helpers.

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The interest they take in the establishment is very helpful to the

superintendent.

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“The education of our workmen for their heavenly as well as for

their earthly calling has been our anxious desire, and we have found

remains to be done.”

that many a word spoken has been willingly received. ~But much

Mr. Volz of Calicut reports a considerable extension of

the factory building under his charge, so that now all the

workmen, who formerly had to work in different localities, can

be together in the same building, thus greatly facilitating

their superintendence.

“There are many defects” he writes,

“and patience is tried many a time, but still the work is

the Lord’s.”

B. Evangelisation.

Preaching in the bazaars and fairs, itinerant preaching

with house-to-house visiting, work among the women, evan-

gelisation by schools and by the medical mission have been

vigorously carried on during the past year also. The hopes

and disappointments of the workers, their trials and joys

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can best be learned from the reports, of which we give some

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extracts.

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Rev. Cornelius Hutten writes about the state of those who

have heard the preaching of the word for a long time:—

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«A Vakil of the Nair caste residing near the temple of

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Taliparambu is ever ready to listen to the gospel with joy, to do all

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in his power to please the preacher and to

Almost

liberally buy books and tracts for his children.—

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a Christian.

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He has a high opinion of the utility of the preach-

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ing work. He openly vows that this is the best means of teaching

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the ignorant section of the people good manners and godliness.

But if we ask him why he does not set an example to others by de-

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claring his faith openly and becoming a Christian, he has only one

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Is not that the most im-

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reply, ‘I am in my heart a Christian.

portant thing 2’ ”’

My. Peter writes:—

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“Tn the first part of the year we were itinerating in the Cottayam

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Taluk. I could well trace the effects of 50 years’ labour among the

heathen in Darmadam.

The old sinners there

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They would not.

enumerate with reverence the names of all the

missionaries who were working in their time at

Tellicherry.

'With fullest approval they speak of Christianity, so

But

that we might think that they will come to baptism to-morrow.

4

alas, one of them, who had received an English Bible from Mr.

)

Reinhardt as a prize for proficiency in biblical knowledge, is now a

drunkard with a glowing nose and blunted intellect, another has

become rich and full without becoming a Christian and is not over

much pleased that his boy is fond of the Christian religion. Others

will not break through the trammels of caste-rules and heathen

customs, from which after all they hope to derive some mystic power.

Of all of them the words are true: ‘they would not’; thus all their

fine speeches are only mockery.

“At Melur, one of the centres of idolatory, the unbridled wanton-

A visit

ness of the Nair lads was the most remarkable feature.

78

»

at Treprangattan might have even proved fatal to me, if not at

the last moment God had sent a hand which turned aside the

bough of a tree with which a rabble of Mopla lads after the most

few

obscene abuses and gestures came to kill me. During the last three

001

months we travelled through the Waynaad.

I visited the bungalows

of

of most of the coffee plantations, where I was hospitably entertained

ha

by the planters and their families. They propounded many a religious

doubt and query, and liberally gave their gifts for our mission.

1s

i

“A number of Native Christian families also were visited ; an old

s

man Abbai, servant of a Christian family, was baptized, and lastly

we preached at the large fair of Kirur.”

ill

€

" Mr. N. Arukandan reports of a Visit he paid to the three

W

U8

palaces of the descendants of the old kings of the country in

the Beypoor district : —

&

“They are descendants of the Kshatriyas ; their family and coun-

Before

sellors belong to the Nambutiri caste. To the ‘great

Governors and

‘king’ I was introduced by an acquaintance, a

(C

Kings.

Nambutiri.

Another ‘king’ who had come from

Trevandrum and who had heard the word of God in his youth said,

fo

after a long conversation we had had together:—‘Christ is the best

teacher, the doctrine of Christ is the best, the Christian doctrines

a

are not despicable but are worthy of veneration.

Though till now

i

our conversation has only been pastime, don’t take offence, but conti-

g

nue telling us words of blessing.” = Also in the other two palaces we

0

delivered our message, but the hearers were not prepared to obey

0

the mandate of the Most High.

In reviewing the

White already

to harvest.

occurrences of last year’s preaching tours I must

say that they give us nothing but cause of rejoic-

ing.

The field of Malabar is white already to harvest.

The strug-

gles of those that labour are not in vain, for it is on behalf of truth

that they struggle. The old customary questions are rarely asked

now

Many inquire after Christian experiences.

Many read the

word of God and are not afraid of openly expressing their eonvictions

regarding it.”

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SR

My. Bossiacwdt of G‘oda‘cal reports :—

b at

the

«From March 15th to 28th we were working about Achipara. A

n0st

few men of the washerman easte promised to come to Codacal to be-

ree

come Christians.

Open hostility was only offered to us in the house

lows

of a Brahman, where we were driven out of the courtyard before we

ined

had been able to say anything.

10U

« At Katankulam, south-east from Codacal, we worked from May

1st to 23rd among the many Brahmans and Nairs of the neighbour-

hood. Many of them had heard the word of God before, received

old

us joyfully, and gladly listened to our message.

A Nair, whom we

stly

met and who had heard the gospel as far back as the time of Hebick,

eagerly asked us about the most important parts of the gospel.

Iee

‘While we were talking with him ‘there came another Nair who asked

us to ecome to his home.

‘When we followed him he brought a

gl

gospel and said :—Look here, out of this book I read every day.’

“At another place we were treated in a different manner.

1i

A Brahman abused us, and a Shastri began a dispute about the Bible,

b

maintaining, in spite of all we said to the contrary, that Jesus had

committed suicide.

As we were preaching in the bazaar of Tanur,

om

a great number of‘Moplas gathered around us and listened quietly

id

for about an hour.

Then some began to mock and to throw stones,

g

when an old Mussulman rose and shouted :—‘Friends, don’t mock

65

and offend these men.

Years ago, similar men came and preached

We mocked them, but they had scarcely

)W

the message of Christ.

fl

gone a quarter of an hour, when our bazaar began to burn and was

ve

consumed to the last house!

The mocking stopped at once, and we

could again deliver our message.

e

In the house

i

“At Dalakotatur many are ready to turn to Christ.

56

where we had put up, the mistress of the house is a God-fearing

woman ; she encouraged her family to become Christians, and, as far

At C. two families

4

as we could see, most of them are ready.

promised to become Christians, likewise two men, whom we met on

d

the way. At a certain house a woman, when she heard that her son

0

was going to become a Christian, exclaimed exeitedly, ‘Then I shall

kill myself! but if you will take myself and my sister also, we shall

15

19

°

gladly become Christians

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—_—

I

Mry. Hole of Vaniyankulam writes:—

et

“The work of evangelisation in these parts is chiefly performed

by

by house-to-house preaching, which during the rainy season is

hay

carried on from the station itself and in the hot season from different

centres.

Chr

are

“The weekly fair at Vaniyankulam, and other fairs at Ottapalam,

Cherupalcherry, Angadipuram ete., and several heathen festivals

are

Sel

have been visited. The reéeption is on the whole good, unkind or

hostile treatment is exceptional. At the weekly fair in Vaniyankulam

Ao

opposition preachers used to stand up now and then, quite‘ a new

(o

phenomenon for us. Some hostile Hindus, as we hear, employ them

i

and give them their salary. For a#ime, however, the salary was not

paid regularly, when they stayed away.

Recently they have made

a new start.”’

Bible-women.

al

Mrs. Frohwmeyer of Tellicherry writes:—

il

“On account of sickness and absence from home I was, duaring

for

the greater part of the year, unable to accompany the Bible-women

an

on their visits to the women, towards the end of the year, however,

I could do it again.

Our Bible-women have been working on

faithfully and lovingly during the year past.

When I accompany

1t

them I always get the impression that they are cheerfully welcomed

8a

as faithful friends of the house even by higher caste people.”

I\

Evangelisation by Schools.

Malabar has always been in

advance of other districts in this branch of mission work.

Though at present many earnest Christians and friends of

I

the cause are of opinion that schools for non-Christians, higher

grade schools especially, are scarcely to be numbered among

evangelising agencies, experience shows, that many converts,

0

chiefly those who have studied the subject and have been

brought to Christ by their conviction of the superiority of the

Christian religion, received their first impressions in some

mission school or other.

It was only a few days ago that in

a conversation we had with a native pastor, who is not engaged

i::

81

e e

in school-work, he gave us a number of instances of young

men, himself one of the number, who were brought to Christ

med

1 18

by the instruction they received in mission schools, and who

rent

have up to this day been faithful adherents and workers in

Christ’s cause. “Those”, he said ¢“who disparage mission schools

are sadly mistaken.”

1572 non-Christian boys and 138 girls

am,

Tals

are receiving Christian instruction in 8 Anglo-Vernacular

L or

Schools at Tellicherry (Parsi High School), Mahé (Franco-

lam

Anglo-Vernacular

School),

Payoli, Calicut (High School),

16T

Coilandy, Ponani, Vaniyankulam and Palghat, and in sev*epteen

16

primary schools for boys and two for girls.

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Myr. Bader reports of the Parsi High School at Tellicherry:—

ade

“Quar school has had a better year than the last.

240 names

are on the rolls.

The Bible-lessons have been given in Malayalam.

The standards II. to IV. read Bible-stories prepared for the purposes

g

forms I. to VI. read Genesis, the Gospels of St. Luke, Matthew, Mark,

and John respectively; besides that, they have committed to memory

o1

ery

a considerable number of appropriate Bible-texts.

on

“Tn formsV.and VI.I had on the whole attentive listeners, so that

it often was real pleasure to me to expound to them the way of

1y

o

salvation and to introduce them to the word of God.

The form

IV, the most numerous one, at first gave me a great deal of

trouble.

But gradually a different spirit came

1l

The power

of the Gospel.

upon the pupils, and most of them began to take

a lively interest in the subject. IKspecially in the

of

last lessons, when I spoke of the sufferings of Christ, even those

L

pupils who had formerly been inattentive and indifferent were all

5

attention; there was no more of that staring into vacancy, no more

/)

of that tendency to dismiss the subject of divine truth, no more of

that obstinate and contradictory spirit which shuts the ear purposely

against truth because it is inconvenient: the pupils were captivated

by the beauty of Him on the cross, who gave His life-blood for us;

there was a secret, but yet perceptible trembling of souls at the

holiness and justice of God manifested in the death of t‘ng just one,

»

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Sl

a spontaneous surrender of hearts to Him who said, ‘i, if T be lifted

up from the earth will draw all men unto me.’

May the erucified

1681

Saviour preserve those impressions and grant an abundant harvest

guls

from the seed sown often in tears.”

pe.te

In the primary school at the Fishermen’s village, Telli-

mid

cherry, the attendance is rather irregular, but unavoidably

Joh

s0; yet the school is not without fruit.

alr

In the girls’ school for Konkani girls in the town of

loy

Tellicherry the difficulties of language are great, but still the

school gives us a great deal of joy.

of

e

Of the Mahé Franco-Anglo-Vernacular School My. Weismmn

1§

reports :—

“This school has 54 pupils in four classes, carried on in three

1§

languages.

The new educational rules of the French government

caused us much anxiety and misgivings as to whether it would be

per

possible to carry on our school under the new rules.

But the

list

Director of Public Instruction assured me that we: should have

nothing to fear; the French government had no cause to be dissatis-

it

fied with us.”

10;

Of the Calicut High School Mr. Stmbel,\grites:——

“The attendance has risen from 275 to 300 the finances too are

chy

in a good state, the school being nearly self-supporting. The be-

Te

haviour of the boys has not always been satisfactory, in the 2nd

aly

form especially there was a deplorable want of attention to the Bible

lessons.

sh

But there are noteworthy exceptions.

headmaster is a great help to us.”

The Christian

10

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Mr. Lauffer of Calicut reports:—

cl

“In the Chalapuram Girls’ School Bible-stories and Bible-texts

are learned with pleasure.

1g

“The Korapuram boys’ school ,hvas rather suffered by the want

Wi

of a good master, the present one is however takipg pains to raise

its standagd.

(

et

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lifted

“In the Coilandy Victoria Jubilee Anglo-Vernacular School the

cified

results of the examination have been unsatisfactory, owing to irre-

1768}

gularity of attendance, change of masters, partly also to their incom-

petency

In Bible-subjects the results of the examination were

middling in the historical parts, less so in the doctrinal portion of

el

John and the Aects

But the pupils are fond of the Bible-lessons

lably

Of the Anglo-Vernacular School at Ponani, Codacal, we have

already reported that one of its masters has become a fol-

n of

lower of Christ

In consequence of this event the existence

| the

of the school was for a time put in jeopardy; but the excite-

ment has since subsided, and the school is prospermg There

i

is only one non-Christian master employed in that school now.

Of the schools round the centre of Vaniyankulam Mr. Hole

hree

reports:—

nent

«“The pupils are fond of the Bible-lessons

It is a joy to me to

dbe

perceive the pleasure and attention with which the divine truths are

the

listened to

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My. Uber of Palghat feels the want of a Christian head-

s

master for his Anglo-vernacular school; the present one, a

non-Christian, though not hostile, is religiously indifferent

Sunday Schools

Of the Sunday schools for non-Christian

are

children which had been opened last year at Cannanore,

he

Tellicherry and Chombala, those at Cannanore and Chombala

nd

are still prospering. The eight Sunday schools at Chombala

ibl

show a creditable increase of attendance

Altogether 203

140

on-Christian boys and 24 girls were on the rolls at the

end of the year

The Sunday schools intended for Christian

children numbered 209 boys and 223 girls on Dec. 31st last

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Medical Mission

Our readers will be pleased to have a

report of our medical missionary, the Rev. E. Liebendorfer, u.D.,

who writes:—

anb

“Medical Evangelists:—In Calicut, Joseph Manamparamby ; at

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Codacal, Jonas Isaiah

-

s

.

“In praise of oﬁr Lord we are able to say that our work has been

hoo

progressing favourably.

Through the kind assistance of many of

whe

our friends in Calicut we had the pleasure, in June last, of opening

!

a new branch hospital at Codacal near Tirur.

Here the work of

)

evangelisation had been greatly blessed by the Lord, so that several

hundred of converts from the neighbourhood were baptized during

har

the year.

The nearest hospitals being seven miles away, it was

801

very desirable to do something for the people in and around that

th

station.

Nearly 6000 patients have been treated there in the

W

course of six months, which clearly shows that the hospital has

1

It is in

been very useful both to Christians and to non-Christians.

los

charge of a dresser and is visited by myself at least once every

month.

the

“In Calicat we have had the largest number of patients since

fh

the commencement of our work, 7. e. 142 in-patients (with aec-

commodation for 10 to 12 patients) and above 22,000 consultations.

Six persons died during the jyear.

One little dropsical girl of

11 years, without any relations in this world, anxiously desired to

be baptized on her approaching death, as without this sign the Lord

Jesus would neither recognise her, nor receive her into his eternal

glory.

Nearly all the other deaths were due to snake-bites, of

which we had about 36 cases in the course of the year.

The great

majority of them, I am glad to say, recovered, partly because strych-

nine injections proved in several cases an effective remedy.

The

fatal cases were brought to the hospital in a comatose condition,

{

sometimes more than 12 hours after the accident had happened,

§

when it was beyond human skill to save their lives.

The people

imagine that after a fatal snake-bite life simply hides itself in a

certain corner of the brain, and refusing to believe in death, take

the corpse away to the astrologer or sorcerer, who performs certain

mantrams, to restore life, but of course in vain.

“In October last our Calicut hospital had the honor of a visit from

His Excellency Lord Wenlock during his tour through Malabar;

H. E. seemed greatly interested in our work and spent some time

going round the wards and asking several questions to the patients.

It was very pleasing to see that the people living in the neighbour-

.+ 8b

o

been

hood of the hospital voluntarily decorated it on the oceasion. Some-

ny of

what later H. H. the Zamorin of Calicut gave the in-patients a treat

eping

in honor of his crossing the Kallai river, which was very much

k of

appreciated by them, and they remembered H. H. in their prayers.

veral

“Many have been the patients that have passed through our

uring

hands; some have gone home to take up their former employments,

Vas

some, I am glad to say, have decided to remain with us, setting

that

their faces towards the light, and all of them have been told thes

| the

wonderful tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

May our efforts be not

has

in vain, but tend to glorify God in the hearts of His sick and help-

810

less creatures, whom He has put in our way, that we may show

Very

them the spirit of the love which He has given us.

“We gladly seize this opportunity to thank all our friends for

ince

the kind support and assistance they have given us last year.”

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V. The Nilgis.

mal

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Area 957 square miles, Population 99,801

reat

Two Stations.

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The

Canarese and Badaga are the languages chiefly used by

jon,

the missionaries and catechists.

Tamil is taught in the

schools.

1ed,

)p]e

A. The Native Church.

na

ke

The past year has béen one of great trials both to our

Al

Christians and to the missionaries on these hills.

The oppo-

sition and hostility of the Badagas repeatedly broke out

o,

into violence and persecution, especially near Kaity; several

Ly

of our Christians have had to suffer loss of property and even

ne

of wife and children, others have been severely beaten and

1t}

ur

otherwise ill-treated; but praise be to God, with one or two

86 -

exceptions, they have stood the fiery trial and have come out

bAl

We think we cannot do better

ou

stronger in faith and love.

than give copious extracts from the reports of the missionaries.

enf

deb

Mr. Liitze of Kaity writes:—

law

the

“On the 12th February five persons were received into the

church by baptism, an old woman, a married young man with his

Jabe, and two lads of about 17 and 15 years.

The conversion of

He

the young man and of the younger of the two lads were attended

T

with great trials.

Madya, the grandson of our

of

Through much

venerable Assistant Catechist Isaiah, was about

Tribulation.

15 years of age.

He had been educated in our

hin

sehool, and his grandfather was very anxious that this boy, of whom he

ay

was very fond, should not follow the bad example of his father Kalla,

0

who is a violent enemy of Christ and the Christians.

He did his

ot

best to instruet and encourage him, and when the boy declared his

it

willingness to become a Christian, his grandfather accompanied him

he

to Kaity and rescued him, when at night the boy’s father broke into

Ch

the room of the boarding school, where Madya and his grandfather

afg

had put up.

Hoping that Kalla would gradually come round

ha

and permit his son to follow his heart’s desire, the grandfather

retired with him to anether village some ten miles off. But mean-

pr

while, Kalla broke into his father’s house and took possession of it,

af

driving out his step-mother with her young children; he did the

same to his brother Daniel in his absence, so that the two Christian

families had to seek refuge at Shantur, a Christian hamlet near Kaity-

When Daniel asked the help of the police, the police took Kalla’s

de

side, who declared that the house was his own and refused to allow

af

Daniel to remove the lock which Kalla had put to his house.

Kalla

g

brought a suit for kidnapping against his father in the Mamletdar’s

court at Wellington.

When Isaiah returned from Hulikal he was

a!

He

summoned to Wellington to defend himself against this charge.

0

was acquitted, but had to give up his grandson Madya to his father.

€0

For the time Madya had to go home with his father.

But after a

h

short while he returned to Kaity, declaring that he would become

i

a Ohristian and would not go back to the heathen. When his father

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3 0t

saw that neither drugs mnor sorcery, neither. force mor persuasion

would detain his son from becoming a Christian, he yielded to the

etter

T16s.

entreaties of Isaiah,

on condition that the latter should pay the

debt of Rs. 40 which Kalla had incurred on account of the

lawsuit. Isaiah paid the sum, and Madya was baptized and received

the name Immanuel.

the

h his

«Still greater were the difficulties of Mada, a nephew of Isaiah.

on of

He had a wife and a little child of one month.

The wife had pro-

nded

mised to join him. But on his return from church

Tender Mercies

our

the first Sunday, he found the door of his house

of the Badagas.

locked, and his wife did not dare to open it for

hout

| our

him

Next day his father-in-law came, and took her and her child

1 he

away to Adhikarhatti.

His whole house was pillaged, and property

lla,

to the value of several hundred rupees was taken away; even his

| his

potato field was dug up by his father-in-law.

Shorily afterwards

Mada’s wife returned and was about to fulfil the promise she had made

bis

him

her husband before his conversion that she also would become a

Christian.

But next day her brother took her away by force, and

nfo

ther

after a few days she was sold to another husband.

Only the little

babe was left to Mada.

and

“The bereaved husband then tried to get back his wife and his

her

31

property by the help of the law, and Mr. Liitze himself was present

at the original process in the Cutcherry of the Mahomedan Police

{1f,

the

Inspector at Coomnoor.

But the Inspector treated

Justice of

the Christian witnesses with marked rudeness

1an

a Police Court.

Their

and would not listen to their evidence.

ity

45

depositions were sometimes taken down contrary to what was

affirmed, in spite of Mr. Liitze’s protest, while the witnesses of the

oW

Mada’s wife was

lla

opposite party were fally heard and recorded.

constantly surrounded by heathen Badagas, and when her husband

1R

85

asked her whether she had left him of her own free will or by

compulsion, whether she would return to him and her child, she

He

could only reply as she was told by the Badagas who surrounded

6L

her

From the end of February to the end of May the decision was

&

delayed.

Meanwhile Mada was baptized and received the name

i

Mark.

16!

At last the police declared that the defendant had commit-

Lt

88

ted no unlawful action; and the case was dismissed. Poor Mark was

dist

dow

deeply grieved by the loss of his wife and his property; chiefly on

account of his little babe, which was pining away.

The tempter

per

Sore temptatiou.

approached him and tried to shake his faith.

Heathen neighbours and relations promised him

da‘y

101§

their assistance to get back his wife and property, on condition that

e

he returned to caste; Kalla especially pledged himself to that end.

Jas

Mark hesitated and wavered; but, in spite of the exhortations and

cautions of the brethren, he could not resist the temptations long.

He stayed away from divine service, and when Kalla carried off

ha

Wi

Mark’s wife by foree from the neighbouring village and brought her

back to him, when most of the plundered property also came back,

he gave way.

0

Though he promised the missionary to return after

some time, he was re-admitted into caste.

Will he ever get free

e

again ?”

|

About the beginning of 1893, several young men of Kere-

0

hada, a mile and a half south-west of Kaity, came repeatedly

th

to My. Liitze, mostly at night, to express

e

Seed fallen on

)

Stony Ground.

their willingness to become Christians.

They

were Kalla (the above mentioned son of

J

Isaiah), Karcha, the son, and Konga, the nephew of the head-

i

il

man of the village. They broke caste and openly spoke

against idolatry and heathenism. Everything seemed to pro-

i

mise well; still Mr. Liitze could not help feeling some mis-

givings about the matter.

After some time Karcha and Konga

asked him to lend them some money to clear off their debts,

which prevented their joining the Christians.

My. Liitze had

his suspicions, but Joseph, Kalla’s cousin, said it would be

wrong to hinder the victory of the gospel; he borrowed the

money himself and lent it to the young men, getting a bond

from them for the same.

Then the three young men came

g

to the mission-house at Kaity and openly joined the Christians.

It was on Thursday before Easter the 30th of March. The

news spread like wild fire, and from the villages round to a

89

e

: was

distance of 15 miles people were flocking into Kaity, sitting

y on

down inside and outside the mission-compound and trying to

For ten

pter

persuade the three young men to return to caste.

aith

days the entreaties and tears of their female, and the pro-

him

mises and entreaties of their male relations continued, and re-

that

end

peated endeavours were made to carry them off by force. At

last the young men could stand it no longer.

On the 7th

and

Karcha and Konga stole away, and four days

ong

Because they

afterwards Kalle followed them. By the in-

! off

had no root they

withered away.

trigues of the headman they were after a month

her

ack,

re-admitted into caste, and Kalla even suc-

ceeded in enticing back his son Madya (Immanuel). The poor

fter

free

boy is now a drunkard and totally ruined.

«It is better to

be ruined body and soul than to be a Christian,” that is the

opinion held and expressed by many of the heathen.

But

16

the heathen Badagas, especially the headman of the village,

dly

were not satisfied with these successes.

He induced the back-

888

sliders to deny the receipt of the money lent to them by

hey

of

Joseph and to force him to return the bonds.

Joseph was

threatened by them with a cudgelling and with death if he

ad

did not return the bonds.

Moved by fear he at last returned

ke

10

them. But his tormentors were not satisfied; they refused

acceptance of the bonds.

Twice Kalla lay

18

The Last state

worse than the

in wait for good-natured Joseph near the

I

First.

door of the latter, dragged him to a safe

ts,

place and beat him mercilessly, and Karcha

ad

lodged a complaint against Joseph, accusing him of frau-

he

he

dulently eliciting a‘bond from him without paying him

the money. He brought false witnesses, who swore to the

nd

Twice the matter was in court,

truth of the complaint.

16

where Mpy. Liitze and Isaiah had to appear as witnesses.

15

But the case was decided in favour of Joseph.—Cheerfully

he

Joseph and Isaiah returned that day from Coenoor to Kere-

12

90

—

hada

On the way they found Z%fus of Chogatorre and invited

villa

him to spend the night with them

So the three men wended

kan

the way home, followed at a small distance by Isaiak’

fron

daughter and his brother-in-law

Just after they had crossed

plec

a deep nullah with banks 25 feet high, Karcha, armed with

Jon

a cudgel, rushed from behind a rock and knocked the three

Chr

men down

Kalla, Konga and Mark also came forth from

for

their hiding place, while the headman of the village with his

of

servants was seen standing at a little distance encouraging

Wi

the assailants

But as Isaial’s daughter and his brother-in-

the

law called for help, they had to retire

Joseph and Titus were

an

so injured, that they were unable to work for a whole month

for

Isaiah’s arm had to be bandaged

When the assault was

S1C

inquired into by the police, the assailants turned round and

fi

brought a complaint against their victims, whom they represent-

b

ed to have been the aggressors, and sued for Rs. 2000 damages

ha\

This time, however, they were convicted and punished. Daniel

f0

also, the brother of Kalla, who had so greatly rejoiced at his

ha

brother’s joining the Christians, had to suffer from Kalla's

f

spite

He drove him, his sick wife and his children out of

W

their own house and locked it

After they had got it back

(

he reaped Damniel’s barley crop and filled his veranda with

the straw

A few days afterwards the house partially burned

f

down

In consequence of this, Daniel’s wife’s illness was so

h

aggravated that she died after long suffering

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If the trials which the Christians at Kerehada had to

undergo were hard, those of the two Christian families at

Chogatorre, near Nerkambe, south-east of Kaity, were equally

Hated for

heavy. The two families of Titus and of

|

Christ’s sake

Benjamin, uncle and nephew, live together in

a Joint house at Chogatorre, some 30 or 40

paces behind the row of Badaga houses, and situated on their

own land. Lakshma, a rich and influential inhabitant of the

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e

mited

village, instigated by some apostate members of the Ner-

nded

kambe church, set himself to drive the two families away

iah

from their land and house.

He began by seizing upon a

yssed

piece of ground belonging to an orphan, a minor, and ad-

Wi

th

joining that of the Christians, and fenced it, so that the

hree

Christians were prevented from leaving their house, though

from

for many years they had had the right of way on the edge

) his

of that property, and that right had been confirmed before

gig

witnesses by the father of the orphan before his death. As

I-10:

the Christians were thus prevented from coming to church

ere

and even from going to the nullah to fetch water, they were

nth

for a time in great distress, which was aggravated by the

Was

sickness of Benjamin and by a malignant kind of chicken-pox

from which the children suffered.

Nobody dared to assist

and

ent

them by bringing them water, not even at night, for Lakshma.

8.

had set a watch, and as most of the villagers were indebted

el

to him, they were’ all afraid of him. If God in His mercy

s

had not had compassion on the poor sufferers and had sent a

I

s

few heavy showers at an unusual season, their sufferings

of

would have become unbearable. My. Liitze applied to the

ok,

Collector, who came himself to the spot; but even the Collector

ith

was defied by Lakshma, and he could only advise the Christians

1ed

to go to the Civil court in order to get redress. That remedy

however was too expensive for them, and they knew besides

§0

that nobody would dare to give evidence in their favour.

to

When Mr. Liitze and another missionary, one day in May,

wanted to visit the two hardly bestead families in order to

)

comfort them and to pray with them, they could only do so

by breaking through‘the fence L. had made, for which they

il

were afterwards summoned before the Magistrate to defend

1)

themselves against the charge of criminal trespass and

assault! Though by the help of the Native Magistrate a

11

16

way has been opened for the Christians by which they can

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Lms

The b

get away from their houses now, they are still in trouble

especially about their water-supply

The old mother of 7%tus

and |

when fetching water one day, was thrown to the ground and

whick

illtreated by L.’s wife, and the children of the Christians were

givin,

shot at, the ball however glanced from a rock and fell harm-

fo ve

less in their midst

Only recertly Lakshma sent a message

to the Christians, threatening that within two months he would

X0l

Join

force them to leave their house and property

The object of

app

these persecutors is to drive the Christians away from their

har

villages and to prevent their being a light to their countrymen and

we |

thus preparing the way to the gospel.

fami

My. Sikemeier of Kotageri reports.-—

A

“On the 23rd July the Badaga family to whose conversion we

alluded in last year’s report, was received into the church by baptism.

Ser

Two or three weeks afterwards the wife was removed from the

an

church militant to the church triumphant

She was buried in a

4g

decent Christian fashion which made a great impression on the

attending heathen Badagas, whose custom is to drive away the

0n

bitterness of death with the help of dancing and drinking brandy

Many of them said the day after, it would be well if they had a

similar way of burying instead of dancing and music

A few weeks

later, on the 1st September, a Badaga youth of Avena, the village

of the deceased, joined the Christians

His

Conversions

at Kotageri

parents, who have been impressed with the truth

Je

of Christianity for years

did not show much

W

resistance

but this roused the wrath of the relatives, who now,

O

Joined by his parents, came day after day to importune the lad and

I

to induce him to return to Hinduism

Four days afterwards they

b

succeeded, and he asked our permission to return

Our grief at this

fi

defection was not over when, on the 4th, another young man from a

§)

neighbouring village joined us

He had to undergo the same trials

but remained firm

When on the 10th his relatives had again,

though in vain, tried to induce him to return, and had departed, the

first mentioned young man also returned to remain with us for good

93

R

ouble,

rI."he best part of the thing was that his father himself brought him

It was just time to go to church, to

Titus,

and permitted him to remain.

d and

which the father also accompanied us.

What a day of thanks-

Were

giving! The two young men are now diligently engaged in learning

to read and getting baptismal instruction.

harm-

«These conversions caused much excitement in our station. The

AN

rould

excitement is always highest at the time of the convert’s openly

joining the Christians, and is sometimes so great that the Badagas

ot of

appear to be intent on demolishing the mission-house; at times we

their

0 il

have to oppose a tumultuous crowd, as when, a short time ago,

we had to rescue a boy of eleven years who belonged to a converted

family, from the furious mob that was carrying him away.

“A wedding lately celebrated between the son of our presbyter

and the daughter of the matron of our girls’ orphanage also de-

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tism,

serves mention, because it has helped to break down caste prejudices

the

among our Christians, the bridegroom being a Baqaga and his bride

a girl from the coast.”

n 4

the

Whitsunday was a day of rejoicing for our Christians

the

on these hills.

As many as were able to come even from

ndy

distant Kotageri gathered at Kaity for a

q

A Mission

mission aniversary.

In the morning Salathiel

Anniversary.

ks

Soens was consecrated as a Catechist by

age

Rev. My. Hoch, and in the afternoon Messrs. Liitze, Sikemeter,

fis

Jacob Kanake and Isaiah Konga, Messrs. Lewis and Rice,

uth

who had come from Ootacamund, and Mr. Frohwmeyer from

uch

Coonoor gave addresses.

It was cheering for the native

0y

ind

brethren of Kaity and the neighbourhood, who were just then

harassed by the persecutions of their heathen countrymen, to

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his

find that there is a communion of saints, and that many

) &

sympathised with them in their troubles.

s

Christian Schools.

The education of the children of our

10y

Christian community has hitherto been provided for by the

he

d

boys’ orphanage’ and training school at Kaity, the girls’

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S e

&

orphanage at Kotageri, both combined with day-schools, and

]

a primary school at Hulikal; those children that wanted a

higher education, and those especially who were desirous of

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becoming catechists, had no choice, but to go to Tellicherry

full

or Mangalore.

As it was found that a lengthened stay on

the coast was not without danger for the young hill-men, it

was resolved with the consent of the home-committee to

establish a Catechist Seminary on a small scale at Kaity.

ha ¢

asto

The approval has been given and this seminary will be opened

during 1894,

CaI1

cast

The Orphanage at Kaity, on the 31st December last, had

33 inmates, including 4 normal students and 4 non-Christians,

adn

besides 13 Christian and 25 non-Christian day-scholars. Of

of ¢

the

five candidates four passed the upper primary examination;

2 normal ‘students passed the 5th standard examination; 3

e

a

the written teaehers’ test and 3 the practical test.

On the

a

first Tuesday of every month, all the schoolmasters gather at

bro

Kaity for a monthly class of instruction under Mpr. Liitze.

hes

A similar yearly gathering took place in July 3rd to Sth.

vel

In a similar way the-catechists have their monthly and yearly

lik

meetings for the purpose of keeping up and continuing their

the

studies.

3

(;

The Girls’ Orphanage at Kotageri, on the 3lst December last,

numbered 17 girls and 3 little boys, of whom 5 girls and

0n

3 boys are too small as yet to go to school; besides these,

42 day-scholars attend the school.

tig

Five girls were confirmed

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and received into the church as full members.

Among the

01

new-comers are 4 children of a new convert, from 2 to 10

years old. Their father very reluctantly committed his chil-

10

dren to the orphanage, but after the death of his wife had no

other choice, and when he saw that his children were happy

i

and thriving in the orphanage, he became reconciled to the

I

1nevitable,

.

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Chemmaeso

, and

ted &

Mrs. Sikemeier reports:—

*

us of

“A heathen Kota brought us a girl, Rangi, clothed in rags and

herry

full of itch. She is the child of a beggar, and after her mother’s

1y 0

death was left by her father to beg her bread at

A lost one

en, it

rescued.

the doors of the Kotas.

When I asked the Kota,

08 {0

why he did not take the child into his own house,

A1ty

he said, he could not do it, as she was of too low a caste.

I was

astonished to hear that there can be a caste still lower than the

ened

carrion-eating Kotas.

The girl belonged to the Telugu cobbler-

We

had

caste, and not even the scavengers would have taken her in.

admitted her in the name of God.

The doubts we had on account

141,

of the other girls, especially those of Badaga extraction, who think

0f

themselves so much higher than the rest, soon disappeared when

100,

we saw how readily they took to her, set water to warm for a bath,

i

and helped to cleanse her body of the. foul ulcers with which she

the

was covered.

When she had bathed and was cleanly dressed they

ab

brought her in triumph to the mission-house.

The girl was almost

li7

beside herself with joy.

Though about 10 or 12 years old, she is

gt

very backward in body and mind.

She now goes to school and is

The fact

ly

like the rest busy in fetching water and gathering wood.

el

that the girls of the proud Badagas gladly received this wretched

beggar-girl from the lowest caste and have up to

Caste prejudices

this time taken loving care of her, shows the in-

st

overcome.

fluence which the education in our orphanage has

nd

‘on the future of our church.

I may be permitted here to men-

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tion another feature of the character of our girls.

At the time

ed

when a collection was being made to pay off the debt of this Society,

he

our girls would not be behind-hand.

They willingly undertook the

10

job of renewing the floor of the bathroom in the mission-house,

il

which a workman had offered to do for Rs. 4 and the money

In order

00

thus earned was given towards the payment of the debt.

to be able to lay their mite into the mission-box on missionary

il

meetings, they gather cowdung on the neighbouring pasture grounds

he

during their play-h-ours.

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“There is no lack of work in our orphanage.

The girls rise at

cout

half past five in the morning. After a short

sick

A Week in the

Girl’ Orphanage.

prayer in private, they clean and tidy their sleep-

fron

ing room and the whole house, and on Saturdays

the

also the church.

Then they go to fetch water, which must be

0on

After

brought from a considerable distance down in the valley.

that, they assemble for morning prayer with their matron, and then

have breakfast.

oof

Their breakfast consists of a raghee dumpling

with spiced sauce.

On Sundays only they have coffee with home-

1y

made raghee bread.

Coffee on these hills is a very common bever-

age with the natives several times a day, so that having it once a

an

week is no luxury.

It lessens the Sunday work.

After breakfast

jul

the little ones go to gather sticks in the mission-compound, while

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the elder girls have to pound and clean their daily supply of

il

raghee and rice.

The school-hours are from 91 A.m. to 3 rp.m.

with an interval from 12 to 124 for lunch, consisting of a kind of

rice and raghee gruel alternately.

Twice a week, on Tuesdays and

Thursdays, the girls come to the mission-house for needle-work ; the

al

difficulty of gathering the necessary wood for cooking and bathing

]

purposes making it impossible for them to come oftener.

The big-

th

ger girls, with the assistance of smaller ones, alternately cook their

food and repair their clothing once a week; they also learn to iron

th

our own children’s clothes.

Their chief meal is at 7 in the evening,

th

and consists of rice with well-spiced vegetables, once a week with

(g

dried fish, and on Sundays with meat. After meals Mr. Sikemeier

{

leads them in evening prayers.

Saturday is bathing day.

“On Sundays they go to the service.

There is a Canarese and

a Tamil service at 11 A. ., and catechisation at 2 ».m.

Between or

after the services they learn hymns and Bible-texts, or play. In

the evening we like to take a walk with them, whenever it is pos-

sible.

Then they make hill and dale ring with their cheerful

1

songs.”

B. Evangelisation.

Altogether 730 days have been spent in itinerancy by the

missionaries and catechists at Kaity and Coonoor, without

97

B n

ise at

At Kotageri

counting the visits to the neighbouring villages.

short

sickness has prevented both the missienary and the pastor

leep-

from giving as much time as usual to this work, while during

rdays

the last quarter of the year the excitement caused by the

st be

conversions was an obstacle.

After

then

My. Stokes at Coonoor regularly visits twenty-seven tea and

coffee estates round about Coonoor; and with the help of

pling

0me-

My. Sathyanathan of Hulikal preaches to the coolies.

ever-

Catechist John Philip was stationed at Tuneri last year,

106 &

and is working the extensive Todanad and the cooly mission

kfast

in the western part of the Nilgiris, while the Kaity miss-

vhile

ionaries and catechists work in the villages about Kaity and

of

itinerate as far as the Wynaad.

P M

d of

My. Liitze of Kaity reports:—

and

“On many estates in the east and west parts of the Nilgiris

the

and in the Wynaad we meet with a friendly reception, and are per-

ling

‘mitted to preach; some planters offer hospitality or assist us with

big

their donations.

The owner of the Pillur estate wishes that some-

hair

thing be domne for the coolies on his two plantations.

Three times

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a month the gospel is preached to the coolies on his plantations, and

ng,

the owner has promised Rs. 15 per month towards the salary of a

ith

catechist.

We are grateful for the opportunity as well as for all

i

the assistance given us.

“The looseness of the marriage-ties is a great hindrance to

nd

progress on these hills.

I know a middle-aged Badaga, who has

or

his seventh wife; only one of the other six died,

In

Marriage Laws

the rest are married elsewhere, who knows how

0§

of the Badagas.

often? Badaga women who have not come much

fil

into' contact with Christianity, freely express their disgust at the

miserable condition of Christian women, who are bound to one

husband only!

This kind of feeling is especially prevalent in the

I

Todanad, where in the whole large distriet it would be difficult to

Yet

ub

find a single woman, who has lived with only one husband.

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98

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the women are fond of listening to the gospel; it touches some

Jook

kindred cords in their hearts in spite of all the rubbish that eovers

them.

It is on this rock, that Mark’s faith suffered shipwreck and

lis

Abraham of Tuneri, who was baptized a year and a half ago, has

Bad

not got back his wife and children up to this day.

nig]

“Many young people especially have been touched by the truth

but it is so difficult to prove, that they are of the required age

ill

(18 years), and several who had joined us had to be given over to

the police, who gave them back to their relations

Some have lost

courage by this painful experience, or they have been engulfed in

Others

s

the swamp of sin and vice and thus estranged from truth.

long for the time when they will be permitted by law to act

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independently.”

Wi

Ih

Bible-women

Mys. Liitze writes:—

W

for

““We cannot report much of the work of our Bible-women

They quietly go their way with the Bible in their hands into one or

the other of the Badaga villages

They are known everywhere

Ch

and they are greeted in Badaga fashion

‘Are you come? Are you

fre

well ?

Are all your people well?

Come, sit down

‘With these

On

words a grass mat is spread on the small verandah where we sit

down

Other women whom we happen to see are invited to come,

Mis

and then a Bible-story is read and explained to them

But we are

obliged to speak very loud, for generally grinding raghee or pounding

hey

rice is going on in the room inside

The women listen however and

(ay

will now and then ask a question or give an answer while going on

Sp(

with their work

Others sit quiet, generally with a baby on their

3]

arm, and listen with pleasure

They have this and that to say

fo

One day, for instance, as we were speaking of the love to God and

the love to our neighbour, the wife of an idol priest said, *With you

W

there is some meaning in being God’s messengers; you bring good

Wé

tidings, you show kindness to us without asking anything in ex-

oy

change, you give us medicine and plaster for our wounds, and you

fo

assist us whenever you can

But our priests only want money and

T

don’t bring us anything

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e

some

“A woman of the neighbourhood, who formerly would not even

OYers

look at us, much less hear anything of God, said:—*‘I am fond of

k and

listening.

But in my house there is Masti Hette (an idol of the

, has

Badagas), and when I come to listen to you, she comes to me at

night and reproaches me for having done so.’

ruth,

“At Hullhada we used to go and see an old man who' had been

| age

ill several months.

So long as he could drag himself along, he

rer §0

A Poor

would always come when he saw the Bible-women

e lost

and myself, sit down near us and listen to us, and

Man indeed.

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sometimes he would pour out his sad and comfort-

less heart.

He had four grown up sons, all of them drunkards;

thers

) ack

none cared for him, but all were anxiously waiting for his death.

With weak faith he took hold of Jesus and would say :—‘I believe,

I believe.’

One day people told us that he was dead.

His sons,

who had cared so little for him while alive, got up an expensive

funeral on his account.

nel

“] am often struck with the contrast in the manner in which our

¢ or

here

Christian women are treated by their husbands, compared with the

ol

treatment which heathen wives receive at the hands of their husbands.

One day we visited a young woman, very sick and miserable.

hese

s it

Her mother was with her and complained that

Misery of Badaga

e,

Women.

she, who had work enough in her own house,

should be obliged to come over to the house of

are

din

her son-in-law to help.

‘Alas’, she said, ‘my son-in-law does not

care in the least for his wife; he goes to work, it is true, but he

and

it

spends almost all his earnings in drink and will scarcely bring home

heir

a little rice for the patient, nor will he do anything to get medicine

for her.

‘Why should he do it?

What matter if she die ? he will

N

and

get another wife the day after’.

Such is the state of the Badaga

women.

In contrast, Sarah, the wife of our Daniel in Kerehada,

w

was ill for many months.

Her husband would nurse her carefully,

o0

()¢

loving and untired, and do what he could to get medical assistance

for her.

It was of no avail, however, her end was approaching.

o

Then it was Daniel’s chief concern, that she should be well prepared.

nd

He would speak to her about death, read the word of God to her

18*

CelAnal s e

100

and pray with her

When, ‘at his request, Mr. Liitze administered

the Lord’s Supper to her on a Sunday afternoon, he lovingly held up

her head, while she took the Lord’s Supper for the last time on

earth

I could not but rejoice at the element of love in Christianity

so wanting in heathenism

Ka

“Our Badaga Girls’ School and Sunday School have been quietly

of

progressing during the past year and have given me much pleasure

N

Schools for non-Christians

These schools of which we have

a8

now 24 round the two centres of our work on the Hills,

Br

th

Kaity and Kotageri, are a most important means of evange-

lisation; 477 non-Christian boys and 19 girls, mostly Badagas

G2

with a sprinkling of Kotas and others, receive the elements

1

f Christian truth in them

{h

1

My. Liitze writes regarding them:—

(U

“The children are very fond of coming to -our schools, and there

have been cases of boys who, though at first forbidden by their

b

parents to attend one of our schools, at last prevailed or them to

There is a boy who walks two miles or more

&

give their permission

every day to come to our Hulikal school

His father, who is an

But somehow

enemy to Christianity, forbade bis son to go to school

or other the boy got him round, and the father told him he might go,

‘but’, he said, ‘take care not to pay any attention to the Bible-lesson

2

and when the boy, as children do, began at home to speak of the

Bible stories which had greatly attracted his attention, his father

!

threatened to give him a thrashing if he mentioned those things

again

One evening, however, the little boy is so full of what he

{

has heard in school, that his father finds, he cannot prevent him

from being impressed by the Bible truths, nor from talking about

them

But he at least does mnot choose to be inconvenienced by

them, so when the little son again begins to talk of what he has

heard in scheol, his father stops his two ears shoutmg in a rage:—

‘I won’t hear it, I won’t hear it’. ”’

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Obituary,

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1

On the 1st February 1893 the Rev. Hermann Anandarao

Kaundinya, late of Ana‘ndapur in Coorg, a pensioned missionary

jefly

of the Basel Mission, breathed his last at Kaity on the

16

bl

Nilgiris.

Born at Mangalore on the 20th March 1825,

ave

as the son of a well-to-do pleader of the caste of Sarasvat

ills

Brahmans, he received his first impressions of Christianity in

There he

196

the Anglo-vernacular mission school in Mangalore.

came one morning in 1843 to Mr. Migling, with a message from

035,

onts

My. Anderson, the judge.

Myr. Mogling, who was very busy at

the time, gave him a newly arrived English Almanac to read,

in which Anandarao read the story of a Grecian king who, in

[

order to maintain his law, had one eye of his son and one of

his own plucked out.

The story was given in illustration of

it

God’s plan of salvation for mankind. Awandarao was struck

| f0

and shed tears.

016

He came back to Mr. Migling, asking him

what story that was. Mr. Migling looked at him and saw he

an

0w

had come to open his heart to him.

He called him in, ex-

§%

plained the story and pointed out to him the way of salvation,

o,

as the only way in which the holy God could remain just,

the

and yet justify sinners.

Anandarao was much moved; he shed

hor

tears, and when Myr. Migling told him of the riches of the

188

mercy of Christ, who accepts all sinners and forgives all their

he

sins, he laughed.

The missionary saw that those tears and

Jiil

that laugh were of the right sort and asked him to confess his

i

sins before the Lord.

He hesitated, but at last opened his

by

35

heart, and then the victory was gained. The two prayed to-

gether, and Mr. Migling gave thanks to God for the manifesta-

tion of His grace through the spirit of Christ in the newly

born brother.

«“Are you prepared”, he asked him, «for the

troubles which the open confession of Christ will bring upon

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102 _

18

you?” He said «“No, but God will help me.” On the 6th January

1844 he was baptized with two other young Brahmans who

wh

had before been inclined to become Christians, but had been

hay

kept back by Anandarao.

By his conversion Awnandarao was

In

separated from his family; his affianced wife was kept away

ha

[

from him for eight years, but Mr. Mbﬁing was as a father

and brother to him.

The three Brahman lads seemed to be

il

the first fruits only of a rich harvest, to gather which Anandarao

th

was to assist.

The home committee at

Basel would have

P

preferred to have him educated in India as a preacher of the

€l

00

gospel in his own land, but Mr. Mogling’s plan was different;

he took his ‘son’ to Basel in winter 1845-46, where Anandarao,

e

now ‘Hermann’® spent five years in the mission college.

After

P

having received ordination in 1851, he returned to India, and

became My. Mogling’s assistant at the theological seminary

in Mangalore.

His wife Lakshmi at last joined him, but

|

Z

would not hear of becoming a Christian, and up to her very

end, which took place after 18 months, remained a devout

worshipper of Rama.

In December 1860 Mr. Kamadinya married Miss Maria

%

Reinhardt, a native of Germany, who now with eight surviv-

ing children is mourning his loss.

At Mangalore his work

was at the theological seminary and the Anglo-vernacular

school, the Mangalore native church, as well as preaching

to the heathen in town and in the district.

As his inti-

mate acquaintance with several languages of his

native

country, such as Konkani (his native language), Kanarese,

Tulu, Hindustani and Sanskrit, as well as with English,

German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew seemed to particularly fit

him for literary work, he was much occupied with this branch

of mission-work. He translated into Canarese, or composed in

that language a considerable number of school-books and

tracts, which are still in extensive use in our mission.

In

103

e

uary

1853 Mr. Mogling began a mission in the province of Coorg,

who

where gradually a number of families of the slave caste were

een

baptized. He found it necessary to settle these poor people

Was

in a separate village and to find work for them. Myr. Kaundinya

way

had inherited some ‘property from his father, and resolved to

ther

buy a piece of waste land and jungle, on which in 1857 about

) be

20 Christian families settled down, Mr. Kaundinya becoming

100

their landlord. That was the origin of our station Ananda-

Ave

pur

Myr. Koundinya remained at Mangalore till 1869, chiefly

the

engaged in itinerancy, but his own estate in Coorg, where a

n;

coffee plantation had been begun, which, after a prosperous

W,

beginning, became a heavy burden to him, required his

fer

presence. He was transferred to Anandapur in 1869 as pastor

nd

of the native church and itinerant missionary, superintending

at the same time his estate.

In 1881 he was pensioned,

1)

ut

though remaining in connection with the Basel Missionary

Iy

Society and working for them.

In 1891 he was appointed as

a member of the Canarese Bible Revision Committee, to which

uf

he has been of great value by extensive linguistic attainments.

(I

It was while he was occupied with the revision of the Gospel

of St. John, that his last illness, pneumonia, attacked him at

k

Kaity on the Nilgiris, where he and Mrs. Kaundinya had

He died in peace, commending his

1

repaired for a change.

widow and children into the hands of their Father in heaven.

Iy

One of his daughters is engaged in the Master’s service in

India. Though the abundant harvest which Mr. Mogling and

others expected, when he was permitted to gather this first

And then

fruit, is not come yet, we know that it will come.

2

both, they that sowed and they that reap, will rejoice together.

2

On the 13th February 1893 Maria, the wife of the

Rev. R. Hartmann, was called to her last rest at Karkala in

South Canara.

Born at Grabs, in the Canton St. Gallen,

Switzerland, as the daughter of the minister of the place, she

e

1044

hra

grew up in a large and happy family circle where both

father and mother considered and treated their children as

ot

die

treasures entrusted to them by their heavenly Father.

In

1865 she was united in wedlock with the Rev. R. Hartmann,

who, since 1859, had been working among the Tulu population

lak

of South Canara and had been in charge of a large boys’

ho

orphanage. She was a real helpmate for him in every respect

Ay

and a loving mother to the boys.

Later on she had to

18

undergo the hardships and privations of life on a new station,

th

when her husband had to found the station Karkala in the

thy

interior of South Canara in 1872.

After a previous stay at

an

home for two years and a half, both husband and wife had

i

again to recruit their health in Switzerland in 1886.

It

W

was a hard trial for her mother’s heart, when in 1889 she

a«

had to leave her eight children to come out to India for the

[ ]

third time, but she bravely followed her husband, who was

appointed to work in the district east of Mangalore, at Puttur

and the neighbourhood, and not bound by home duties now,

she would regularly accompany him on his preaching tours.

\%

But her Lord knew that it was time to fetch her home.

On the

5th February 1893 she was attacked by an illness which soon

exhausted her strength, though Dr. Bannerman and Apothecary

Colaco did their utmost to save her life.

But she knew that

she was going home, and she had a great desire to depart

and to be with Christ.

When her husband asked her, «“Are

you not afraid?” she looked at him, and answered in a sur-

prised and rather offended tone «What, afraid?”

When she

was asked for a message to her children, she gave as her last

bequest, ““Let them love their Saviour and follow me.”

She

had so fully cast all her care on the Lord, that no anxious

concern about those she left behind troubled her.

«Let me

go, only let me go to Jesus”, she would repeat again and again.

“Thus” Mr. Hartmann says, “my invaluable helpmate in all

105

hoth

branches of my work, our faithful and loving wife and

1 4§

mother went home rejoicing.” It was a painful death she

In

died, and yet blessed are those that die like her.

i,

3

On the 30th November 1893 Mr. Theodor Elsaesser,

tion

late of Mangalore, died in the Mission-house, Basel.

He was

oys’

born at Boblingen, in Wiirttemberg, Germany, on the 18th

pect

April 1844 and entered active mission-service in October

1867 as a worker in the mercantile and industrial branch of

!‘ to

jon,

the mission, where he was employed first at Mangalore and

the

then from 1870-85 at Calicut, with an interval of about a year

ab

and a half spent on furlough in Germany, In 1871 he married

1ad

In 1885 he

Miss Weitbrecht of Schorndorf in Wiirttemberg.

I

was transferred to Mangalore and succeeded Mr. C. Pfleiderer

:he

as general agent and treasurer of our Indian mission in 1885.

he

As such he was much liked on account of his gentle disposi-

as

tion and his faithfulness; but in 1888 he had to leave his

w

work again in order to recruit his health in Germany. Though

he came out a third time in the beginning of 1891, Mrs.

'S

Elsaesser following him in the autumn of the same year, it

16

was only for a short time.

He soon found that neither his

)l

own health nor that of his wife could stand the Indian climate

y

any longer and left India for good in spring 1893.

Desirous,

i

however, to serve the Lord in his mission work at home,

he accepted a call of the home committee to become an assis-

tant of the home agent and treasurer of the Mission at Basel.

On the 15th November he repaired to Basel, while his family

remained in Germany intending to follow him in spring. But

on the 28th a fit of apoplexy prostrated him and soon de-

prived him of consciousness, so that Mrs. Elsaesser, who was

summoned from Schorndorf in Germany, though coming in time

to be with him for a few hours, could talk with him no more.

He peacefully fell asleep on the 30th November aged 49 years.

o e e (B2 (U o S SB an

14

Conclusion.

Bringing this report to a close we would tender

our hearty thanks to all our friends and supporters.

@. |

May He who moved their hearts to assist us with their

Th

contributions, their sympathy and their prayers, be

Himself their exceeding great reward.—Thanks be to

]

Him for using us, poor sinful mortals, as instruments

Th

Mr

in the extension of His kingdom.

N

N

Ti

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(l;};

Subscriptions and Donations

TOWARDS THE MISSION-FUND

Received during the year 1893.

¢ All sums received on or-after the Ist January 1894 will be acknow-

ledged in the Report for 1894.

As

MANGALORE.

Rs

G. A. Kittredge Esq.

b 0

der

Through Rev. P. Ott.

Rev. J. Deimler

5

Rs

As

Messrs. Warden & Co.

25

o c oMl

W. B. B.

38

IS,

G. C. B. W.

7

HONAVAR—KARWAR.

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Through Rev. M. Hoch.

5

C. Hudson Esq.

A thanks-offering for much

J. Davidson Esq.

10

be

help received from and for

happy days spent in the

Dr. J. A. Howell

Mission

50

{0

H. Ingle Esq.

E. H. Moscardi Esq.

Through the Station Cashier.

?Z

(=3 (=) (=) = i o'

SO OO OO

nfs

Mrs. Ward, Karachi,

-

E. Jones Esq.

5

“Thanks-offering”

MERCARA.

N. N.

19

For the General Fund.

N. N.

28

Mrs. G. F. Meiklejohn

Through Messrs. Warden & Co., Bombay

Rev. A. Fennell

20

Conder Esq.

20

(=)

Rev. G. Richter

12

10

Cotton Esq.

E. A. Fennell Esq.

H. G.

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W. Wright Esq.

12

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12

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G. Haller Esq.

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Mrs. G. F. Meiklejohn

(=)

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A. E.

12

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E. A. Fennell Esq.

Mec. K

W. Wright Esq.

12

(=)

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M. Drennan Esq.

QEpPp IR QU QO

Marcks Esq.

ANANDAPUR.

H. A. Geyer Esq.

Mrs. Grant

12

Mrs. Chisholm

25

G H. T

A G

J. 8. Gerrard Esq.

10

20

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108

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5

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Fo

J. Logan Esq.

Mrs. Collett

(=)

H. D. 0. Ward Esq.

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Messrs. Arbuthnot & Co.

D. A. Finlayson Esq.

BIJAPUR.

J. D. Bell Esq.

F. Goldsmith Esq.

10

AW

T.J

Walter Ward Esq.

J. Monteath Esq.

10

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Lt. Col. Peters

25

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Mr. Anderson of Dehra-Dun

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W. L. Cameron Esq.

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10

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18

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25

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Mr. Jukes

12

Mr

W. F. Macfarlane Esq.

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12

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60

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245

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I. H. Gusynne Esq.

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18

T. G. B.

10

12

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T. J. Ferguson Esq.

Col. B. Swintan Skinner

13

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R. Darling Esq.

12

Col. K. F. Stevenson

10

W. V. Baker Esq.

10

D. Hooper Esq.

10

Dr. Carruthers

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10

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140

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50

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50

H. Simon Esq.

50

Mrs. A. H. Anthony

W. Rhodes James Esq.

Mrs. Breeks

50

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Mrs. Addis

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F. Pegg Esq.

40

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2

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30

12

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29

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25

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Rs. As

Mrs. W. E. Boggs

Rev. |

Pillur Estate (Hunter Esq.) 125

Rev.

Rev. James Gillings

T. Stanes Esq.

60

Mr. D

E. F. H. Wiele Esq.

Mrs. C. E. Hayne

36

Mrs. L. Parkinson

33

M. T

R. W. James Esq.

Mr. J

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24

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24

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22

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50

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Native Friends.

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MANGALORE.

MULKY.

Messrs. L. Joshua & Sons

60

(=)

Rev. D. Fernandez

Mr. Thomas Pearl

Mr. Mose of Padur

6

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Mr. Daniel Souza

12

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Mr. Hiskia Aiman

6

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N. N.

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Pie Collection from 1891 to

Pie Collection of the Kundapur

1893 by B. & T. D.

47 15 11

congregation

1

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12

Mr. Amos Samadhanam

50

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boxes

13

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Mrs. Hebsiba Arunachalam

BETTIGERI.

Coolies of the Tile-Work

14

Anonymous

Pie Collection

§

13

BIJAPUR.

PALGHAT.

Mr. Devapriya Shubha

Th. Mathai Esq., Sub Asst.

Inspector of Schools

10

CANNANORE.

Salvanayagam Esq., Sub. Asst.

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Inspector of Schools

10

and Spoolers

69

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Mr. Thomas, Sub. Registrar 4

Pie Collection

16

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Pie Collection pro. 1892 & 93 6

TELLICHERRY.

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By the Weavers on Nettoor 17

Mrs. Krishnan

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14

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55

0

0

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6

0

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N. N.

W. C. Holmes Esq.

Dr. W. B. B.

38

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40

at Mangalore.

00

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165

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6

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14

India

250

0

0

|

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towards the Medical Mission.

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Subscriptions and Donations

40

Received during the year 1891 -

Towards Calicut Hospital pro 1893.

40

1892 towards the Calicut

Mrs. W. V. Baker

10

§ 0

Hospital Building from

M. Cowdell Esq.

10

§ 0

English and Native friends 7563 12

10

Mrs. W. Dumergue

00

Received during the year 1893

”

T. Ferguson

10

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00

towards Codacal Branch

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Wellis

20

0

00

Gilkison

60

Hospital Building.

»

H. Bradley Esq.

50

Liadies of the Doreas

25

R. S. Benson Esq.

50

Mrs. A. W. Macrae

SO RSO O D

0

25

And valuable materials for

A Brown Esq.

C. Barton Wright Esq.

2

Bandages etc.

W. Morison Esq.

Address Committee of Native

8

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A. Knapp Esq.

Christians

;z

0

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Mr. Varghese’s little daughter 5

0

A.W. M

100

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10

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received at Cannanore.

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Towards Malabar Widows Fund

| Mrs. Tyrell

0

|

N:NC

0

H. H. the Rajah of Chiracal 10

2

Mr. Jonas Padiath

12

0

Towanrds the Local Mission Fund.

0

N: N.

20

Towards the schooling of poor

children.

Mrs. H.

6

9

0

2

Surgeon Major A. J. O’ Hara 2

0

Mr. Jacob Mandody

(514

Ll

114_

Contributions from the Congregations (“Church Dues”).

Rs. As. P

Rs

AR P

Mangalore

659

9

Guledgudd

96

15 11

122

1

12

Mulky

Bijapur

Udipi

2385

14

Cannanore

285

12

Aar

Karkala

15

Tellicherry

166

15

37

Adri

Basrur-Kundapur

Chombala

120

Am

Honavar-Karwar

18

Calicut

2‘58

Ana

Kasaragod

40

14

Codacal

195

Ang

Mercara

49

8

Vaniyankulam

30

Anandapur

ol

10

62

10

A

Palghat

Dharwar

52

14

Kaity

73

N

Hubli

122

Kotageri

55

14

f oo JaE o S s L oo B & KR! s VSN = BN B o S )

Bii

130

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Bad

Beitigeri

Bas

Ba

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& O

E

Bes

B

Bil

|

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Bil

Bil

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Bo

Treasurer.

Bo

Bo

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As. P

INDEX

5 11

00

120

Page

Page

15

Aarons,

Rev.

Daniel

38 | Day-schools

51.

94

Africa, Western

18. 19 | Dharwar

21

49. 51. 53.

54

§ 0

Amengara, ‘Daniel

21 | Dilger, Rev. C. W

§ 0

Anandapur

20. 46. 101 | Elementory Schools

| Elsaesser, late Mr. Th. & \'Irs

§ 8

Anglo-Vernacular Schools 36. 44. 45.

6 0

72

81. 82. 83. 101

19. 20. 105

Arukanden, Evangelist- Nathanael

Ernst, Rev. K. & Mrs

20. 41

04

10 0

58. 59

78

Evangelists

21

§ 0

Assistant Catechists

21

51

Fisher, Rev. J. (& Mrs

20.) 46

48

Baichle, Rev. J

20

Franco-Anglo-Vernacular School 81

82

40

62

63

Bader, Rev. W

Fritz, late Rev. J. M

Basrur

38. 43

46

Frohnmeyer, Rev. 8. J. 62

95. Mrs

80

Baumann, Mr. J. & Mrs

38

Mrs. 43

46

=23

CGrengnagel, Rev. L

Berli, Rev. D. & Mrs

DO

Girls’ Schools

45

72. 82. 100

Bettigeri-Gadag

20. 21

29

49.51

Gold Coast

1'8: 19

53

Guledgudd

20. 50. 53

Bible Revision Committees

29

103

Hartmann, late Mrs. 19. 103

.

Bible Societies

23

Rev

R. 103. 104

Bible-women

3. 24

37

41. 42

Henry Kodot

Catechist

53

43. 53

61

80

98

High Schools, 28. 36. 44. 54. 72. 81

;

49

50

53

20

29

Bijapur

Hirner, Mr. G. & Mrs

Boarding Schools

72

86

Hoch, Rev

M

93

Boas, Mr. F

69

Hole, Rev. Ch. 20. & Mrs

66

80

83

1

39

Bode, Rev. O

19

Honavar

20

Book and Tract Depository

9

36

37

Huber, Mr. F

29

Bosshardt, Rev

é

5

56

79

Hubli

20. 21

81

Brasche, Rev. F. A

19

20

Hutten, Rev. Cornelius

0

Briuning, Mr. F

19

20

TIndustrial and Mercantile Establish-

ments

36

75. 105

British and Foreign Bible Society

24

Bucher, Rev

J

44

Isaiah, Jonas, Medical Evangelist

83

Calicut 57. 59. 75. 76. 81. 82

84. 105

Isaiah Shanta, Assistant Catechist

Cameroons

1819

86. 89

90

Cannanore 19. 20

21560, 72.773..75. 83

Jaus, Rev. J. J

55

Canara 18

North & South-

24. 25

40

Jesudasa Melattu, Catechist

33.-46. South- 101

103

104

Kaity

20. 23. 86. 88. 93. 94. 96

Catechists

&~

21

28

94

97. 100. 101. 103

Challa, Catechist Hermon

22

Kanaka, Rev. Jacob

93

China

19

alyanapur

33

Chombala

63. 65

72

-

(

3

75

83

Karkala

19

20

Chowa

61

72

Karwar

28

Christananda Manjaru, Assistant

Kasaragod

21

40

45

Catechist

39

Kaundinya, Miss Maria

Codacal 55

57. 70

72. 78..75. 83

84

Kaundinya, late Rev. H. A. 101

23

317

(Mrs

102. 103)

Colporteurs

Cooly Mission

48

9

Keppler, Rev. Chr. & Mrs

19

Coorg

18

46 —49

101

Knittel, Rev. W. H

59

‘s

116

i A A

Page

Page

93

32

Konga, Isaiah, Assist. Catechist

Religious Tract Society

Kotageri

21. 73. 92. 94. 100

Rice, Rev. E. P. (of Bangalore Bible

Kiihnle, Rev. J. G.

6. 69,70, 71

Society)

93

82

Tiauffer, Rev. J.

Risch, Rev. H.

20

52

Lewis, Rev. Mr. (of B. B. Society)

93

Ritter, Rev. G.

38

83

Salomon Bhaskar, Rev.

21

Liebendorfer, m. ., Rev. E.

Literary Department

29

Samuel Subrao, Catechist

28

Lorcher, Miss (Mrs. Uber)

20

Santvana, Catechist Daniel

21

20

Liithi, Rev. B. & Mrs.

s

Satyanathan, Catechist K.

97

Lutz, Rev. Th. & Mrs.

0. 53

Schaible, Rev. M.

33. 34.

45

Schenkel, Rev. R.

46

48

Liitze, Rev. W. 23. 86. 87. 88. 89.

BA

93. 94. 97. (Mrs. 98.) 100

Schonthal, Mr. W. P.

75

Malabar

18. 24. 25. 55—85

Schoolmasters

23

51

72

Malappu— Udipi

20. 83. 36

Schoolmistresses

23

Manamparambu, Joseph, Medical

Schools 23. 28. 85. 37. 44

51. 54.

83

72. 80. 82.

83. 93. 100

Evangelist

Mangalore 19. 20. 21. 27. 36. 37.

Seminaries, Theological 21.

27.51.72.

41. 44. 101. 102. 108. 104, 105

Catechist-

94

20

Matthissen, Rev. F.

Sikemeier, Rev. W.

92. 93. Mrs. 95

Mayer, Rev. K.

20

Soens, Catechist Salatiel Barnabas

21

Medical Mission

83

Soens, Catechist Salatiel Isaac

22. 93

Mercantile Mission-Branch

36

Soens, Evangelist Bethuel

37

lercara

46

Southern Mahratta

18. 49-54

20

29

Metz, Rev. A

-

Stamm, Mr. S

Middle Schools

36. 51. 72.

3

Stierlen, Mr. F. and Mrs.

19

101. 102.

103

Stokes, Miss Ellen (Mrs. Bret-,

Mogling, late Rev. H

Mulky

19. 33. 34. 36.

45

schneider)

20

Nagel, Rev. F

20

Stokes, Rev. W.

20

97

67

82

Narakaden, Schoolmaster Joshua

Strobel, Rev. Th

Native Pastors

21

80

Str6lin, Miss H

20

Sunday Schools

83

Nilgiris

18. 20. 22. 23. 75. 85.

100. 101. 103

Sunita, Joseph

21

Niibling, Rev. W.

20. 39

Suvarna, Catechist Moses

2

90

Orphanages 86. 51. 72, 73. 93. 94.

MTeachers’ Training Schools 86. 44. 72

96. 104

Tellicherry 21. 23. 27. 62. 72. 73.

60

61

75. 80. 81.

82

83

Ostermeyer, Rev. J

=

Padiath, Rev. Jonas

|

Tile-works

20

36. 67.

68.

69

Palghat

2067, 72, (3. 5.

81

83

Training Classes

23.

51

74

44, 46, 54.

58

72

83

Parochial Schools

Uber, Rev. Th.

Peter, Rev. G.

64.

65

i

Udipi

19. 20.

24. 33.

36.

38.

41

Poor-house

62

63

Vaniyankulam

19.

20. 66.

81

83

80.

Pfleiderer, Mr. C

105

Volz, Mr. F.

76

Philip, Catechist John

97

Wagner, Rev. G

36

51

19

20

65

Preparatory Schools

Walter, Rev. S. & Mrs.

Primary Schools

23. 94

Walz, Rev. Th. & Mrs.

41

29. 36

Warth, Rev. C. D.

52

Printing Press

36.

Puttur

104

Weaving Establishments

71’

Reade, Mrs.

28

Weismann, Rev. I. 26. 63. 64. 65.

& Mrs. 74.

82

Rehm, Rev. F

e

Reinhardt, late Rev. L. Ph

4

i

Zimmerli, Miss (Mrs. Bosshardt)

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