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The fifty-fifth report of the Basel German Evangelical mission in South-Western India for the year 1894, 55 e - 34 i o i€ i ¥ A %23 ¥ s a8 A 2o 5 ! o Lol Ae Rt H&ﬂ A 58 L # e " s Pk 2 A hi¢ o & 4 B 3%, 4-?,35% B 3 i 1 3% 394 53 &b Dac 1% P e LS N12<524391112 021 WU ... e Crrst uchbiirgere §Popiert wUbrn ger e T T et o S R N 7 o o N D s U e SO o S W e i 0 N e N e S e 0 N s T, Page THE: ible 2. 52 00 .PIFTAY-PIPTH REPORT —— OF THE ! 2l B A e R e N NN NG NG K / / 9 { R AR 34 i6 48 ; i«}' (0 :\ BASEL GER \ )1 MAN EVANGELICAL MISSION e 992 v XL N S i ley ned . 100 pe NN A ) 94 95 e & SOUTI’I-'WES'[‘ERN 'I\N‘DIA 9 03 7z 21 BOR: SHE YEAR -4 2 920 ), 97 1894 \') 20 h1i] \:) ) 00 00 (0] 1 83 41 hil o 10 D] ; MANGALORE 41 o S I s & \)1 PRINTED AT THE BASEL MISSION I:’RESS (] 1895 £ 20 THE FIFIY-FIFTTH REPORT OF THE BASEL GERMAN EVANGELICAL MISSION IN SOUTH-WESTERN INDIA FOR THE YEAR 1894 _——.ar_gf:—.. O — —N’::—'_— R MANGALORE PRINTED AT THE BASEL MISSION PRESS 1895 of [Th % 10 1l 12 13 14 19 16 17 18 19 20 929 LYY % % 2 2 % % il European Missionaries of the Basel German Evangelical Mission. Corrected up to the Ist April 1895. [The letter (m) afterthenamessignifies “married”, and the letter (w) “widower” The names of unordained Missionaries are marked with an asterisk.] Native Date of Active Station Name Country Service Ch. A. E. Diez (w) Germany 1851 Kasaragod do. J. Lauffer (m) 1856 Chombala 'W. Stokes (m) India 1860 Kaity (Coonoor) F. Ziegler (m) Germany 1862 Dharwar do 1864 Th. Digel (m) Mulky J. Knobloch (m) do 1865 Calicut M. Th. Walz (m) do 1866 Mangalore do 1869 do. G. Ritter (m) O W =1 OO O = U 1O == F. A. Brasche (m) do 1869 Udipi 10. W. Sikemeier (m) Holla'nd 1870 Kotageri 11 W. P.Schonthal (m)* Germany 1870 Cannanore 12 do. Honavar 'W. Niibling (m) kST 1 13 G. Hirner (m)* do. 1871 Mangalore 14 J. Hermelink (m) do. 1872 do. 15 do. 1873 Calicut C. Feuchter (m)* 16 J. Baumann (m)* Switzerland 1874 Palghat 17 R. Schenkel (m) Germany 1874 Merecara 18 J. B. Veil (m)* do 1875 Mangalore 19 do L. Gengnagel (m) 1875 Basrur-Coondapoor 20 E.Liebendorfer, m.n.(m) do 1875 Calicut 21 L .J. Frohnmeyer (m) do 1876 Tellicherry (Nettur) 22 do 1876 C. G. Eblen (m) Udipi 23 M. Hoch (m) Switzerland 1876 Mangalore 24 H. Altenmiiller (m)* Germany 1878 do. 25 do 1878 Palghat J. G. Kithnle (m) 26 C. D. Warth (m) do 1878 Hubli 27 I. Weismann (m) do 1879 Chombala 28 Chr. Keppler (m) do 1879 Udipi 29 do 1880 . C. W. Dilger (m) Tellicherry 30 . K. Ernst (m) do. 1881 Kaity 31 . J. Fischer (m) do 1881 Anandapur 1* Name Native Date of Station Country Active | Service 32 . F. Eisfelder (m) Germany 1882 Guledgudd [} 33 Ch. Hole (m) do. 1834 Vaniyankulam 34 Switzerland 1885 13 D. Berli (m) Bijapur 35 J. Waidelich (m) Germany 1885 Bettigeri-Gadag T4 36 0. Bode (m) do. 1886 Dharwar (k] 37 J. Gotz (m) do. 1886 Udipi 38 F. Huber (m)* Switzerland 1886 Mangalore 39 A. Glattfelder (m)* do. 1886 do. 40 J. Sieber (m)* do. 1887 Mercara 41 do. 1887 Hubli Th. Lutz (m) 16 42 Paul Buchli (m)* do. 1887 Mangalore 43 F. Rehm (m) Germany 1888 Tellicherry (i 44 Switzerland 1888 Codacal R. Bosshardt (m) 45 'W. Bader (m) Germany 1888 Cannanore 46 H. Risch (m) do 1888 Bettigeri-Gadag 47 Fr. Volz (m)* do 1888 Calicut 48 G. Kehrer (m) * do 1888 do. 18 49 G. Wieland (m) do 1889 Kaity 19 50 W. Weischedel (m)* do 1889 Mangalore 80 51 do 1890 do. J. Bucher (m) 81 52 H.Bretschneider (m)* do 1890 Udipi (Malpe) §2 53 G. Sautter (m)* do 1890 Mangalore 83 54 do 1890 8 Th. Uber (m) Tellicherry 55 S. Stamm (m)* Switzerland 1891 Mangalore 8} 56 O. Singer Germany 1891 Hubli §it 57 Ph. Stier (m) do 1891 Guledgudd 58 do 1891 W. Jung (m)* Mangalore 59 F. Boas * do 1891 Codacal 60 H. Kessler * Switzerland 1891 Calicut 61 1892 Karkul M. Breidenbach (m) Germany i; 62 Ph. Weidner do. 1892 Codacal 63 Tr. Lutz Switzerland 1892 Bijapur ; 64 Biéchle 1893 Mulky 65 Germany §; . Mayer do. 1893 Bettigeri-Gadag 66 . Nagel do. 1893 Cannanore 67 . Metz do. 1893 Basrur-Coondapoor 68 Australia 1894 Calicut . Hiller 69 . Eckelmann (m)* Germany 1894 Codacal 70 ToHEHEPEHRS Borel do. 1894 Karkul Native Date of Active Station Name. Country Service 71 Ch. Fritz Germany 1894 Mercara - | 72 P. Sengle do. 1894 Cannanore 3 Ch. Gebhardt do. 1894 Mangalore i 4 T. Reusch do. 1895 Dharwar 5 Joh. Knobloch * do. 1895 Calicut. Single Ladies. 76 Miss Th, Diez India 1892 'Kasaragod 7 Miss H. Strélin 1893 Germany | Mangalore At Home. g 8 1853 late of Mercara F. Kittel (m) Germany 79 R. Hartmann (w) Switzerland 1859 do. Karkul 80 S. Walter (m) do. 1865 do.Vaniyankulam 81 P. Ott (m) Germany 181 do Mangalore 82 do. 1873 do Cannanore J. Ostermeyer (m) 83 G. Grossmann (m) Switzerland 1874 do Dharwar 84 W. Liitze (m) Germany 1875 do Kaity 85 do 1876 do Cannanore A. Ruhland (m) 86 G. Benner (m)* do 1877 do Calicut 87 J. J. Jaus (m) do 1879 do Codacal 88 F. Stierlen (m)* do 1880 do Mangalore 89 1882 W. H. Knittel (m) do do Hubli 90 K. Schaal (m) do 1883 do Tellicherry 91 M. Schaible (m) do 1883 do Mulky 92 Switzerland 1884 do B. Liithi (m) . Bettigeri-Gadag 93 G. Peter (m) do. 1885 do Chombala 94 Th. Strobel (m) Germany 1885 do Calicut I r Tabular View of Stations, Agents and Churches of the Basel German Evangelical Mission in South-Western India. Ist JANUARY 1895. = mES W:’-‘Lgents of the Mission Native Church Enfopean Native Agents New Mission- Present Church-Members aries Converts NAMES OF MISSION STATIONS UeIISIIYD S9889I)SIW-[00YOS UBISIIYD-UON SI9)8LW-]00TOF Jeok oy} UI poysI[qeIsy DERQEER e 8109STQ S10388 J 9ATIB N 818170038 ) B SISI[0SUBAT sanojrodiop UQWLO A\ -9T1qIg SJ9)SBUW~[00YOS UBIISIIY]) 7681 Sumnp syjee(q F68T Surinp sylig ;;?: weIPIIY() SIUBITUNW WO S1ULIIUNW WO )-UON UIPIIYD Sg SUWLIN Y9318 . 1. Canara. ° Mangalore 1834 16 = 15 i = 53 76 1256 14 854 2124 51 Mulky 1845 [\ ] @ 10 12 25 378 363 747 13 . 1854 5 10 14 Udipi 23 9 860 19 903 1782 82 . Karkul 1872 51 46 97 . 1876 2 Basrur-Coond apoo; 51 68 122 Honavar 1845 § 28 23 51 L > SR a o B~ R ¥ o AN T ot ° Kasaragod 1886 S ™ 10 O r OT M=o OO OO O el § et HHOMNMONAO ™ 61 62 124 __i ,_z_ Al L) 30 © D~ 49 ~t 6 46 o AN MNMOOO I |3 o W Mm=w O M =l | 2 27 o 2685 § 2319 5047 148 SEL Coora- o o > R 1 30 |\ Ly 49| a4 6 | 46| =22 38 | 93 |204 | | P> 685 43 2319 )O—l7| 148 11. Coorg . . . 1870 5 31 2 8. Mercara . 1853 12 : 108 52 ‘ ; 9. Anandapur (Ammattl) Al B ;5 5 g_ jg 15 E— 165 83 I1I. Southern Mahratta. . . 1837 12 74 113 194 10, Dharwar . . 21 184 160 3 II. Hubli . . . 1839 19 27 284 217 506 12. Bettigeri- Gadag 1841 36 ;%: 256 295 568 . 1851 18 Io- Guledgudd 1 32 % . . 1885 G\l—*lcﬂ) [~ B m R~ BN B o % == r: = B =) % 3 14 Bijapur é 4 pAaAal 2 Nej 2 15 5 94 5 813 % 802 1652 7 x| [ 10 1V. Malabar 14 370 860 12 Cannanore . 1841 7 28 34 107 476 15 . . 1839 16 ikl (9] 14 283 245 529 16 Tellicherry . 1849 2 16 14 = % 164 259 427 /o Chombala (Mahé) 16 34 48 40 14 684 11 417 1167 18 Calicut . . 1842 =9 -3 14 19 33 39 27 636 D4 1172 2{": I9 Codacal(Cdacukun Stahl) 1857 %.‘. 48 35 83 0. 1886 Vaniyankulam (Ott%palam) 148 9 2 . . . 1858 (=P (=) C\’DOOOO[C\O N MO PXLANO. - 3 8 31 19 174 Palghat i j ;:%1 comwtob-ﬁ*b-’g 5 [} o 53 119 169 167 68 246 39 2058 456 2;29; V. Nilgiris. 112 3 2 . 1846 (e} (=) 14 138 253 Kaity ’i Kotageri . 1867 ‘i o\o1c> cicltio 01v4 - =0l O mlc> o o : : 10 76 13 105 194 3 i _A ) X 2 24 214 16 217 447 1l —-—7- = %] ;—z | 125 4 29 i I~ = = 107 2 7 9 227 o 634 1196 257 Total. . . 63 o | 142 |5479 1T 5 3 11406 334 Total of 1st January 1894 . 60 118 D= ~ 5 110 : 261 |16 5 5991 e S i PO e S IS | S ST P e e[ e P . x::*d-(mwoo—-cﬂlg wﬁﬂim xﬁllﬁ[o 34 74 35 Decrease during 1894 . 1 B lo o o\c> —Ho o oiox O O ol<< o ﬂi - :I ﬁl of m (O) 2 YH‘O z Z 75 351 24 (j) 557 Increase ditlo o| o 1 ~ Abstract showing the Contributions of the Churches towards their Church Expenses, the Mission and the Poor in 1894. s s Collections Collections Special Sunday and Special Collections Special Collections and Collections Church Donations Collections for the Collections Stations towards Donations for Bible Total Tax towards the for Malabar for local Church towards the Widow- Societies Mission- Poor-funds Orphanages Purposes Expenses work fund Rs As B Rs As (=% Rs As Rs As. P Rs. As Rs As =¥ As. P. Rs As. RSJ As 8 476 203 1:37% ) 262 22 1 75 1176 4y Mangalore . Jeppu 109 33 < & 19 12 11 54 16 =1 237 w N 21 (ot (R o 31 14 39 15 ey 10 Bockapatna 105 | e 208 | | G v O Total. . . 690 264 189 10 356 16 31 5 1622 132 44 ; 31 10 50 12 10 12 10 283 — N 0 Mulky FAS Udipi 240 210 I 5 181 1 v 76 12 648 Karkul . 15 i 14 6 40 5 2 2 S 75 L o] i | Basrur-Coondapoor . 39 16 7 6 g 16 12 1145 2 10 85 Honavar-Karwar . 17 jij 10 E);) 14 - 53 o) 36 13 14 12 13 b 14 24 147 i i[{asaragod - 43 13 < Mercara . . 52 % 30 Z b B =) @ O SN O 54 12 - & u>‘ Rl IO gy S eSS 18 13 © O O o O ®© o 1 o o} S 164 SO X N N O N NI O IO ESH e P o O 97 13 11 (o o ol on wwe e 4’)/ ol o] 25/ Al oy s| 7| o] s = - Lo e ]| == ‘ == 200 o, by g o o Mercar; 52 O 30 2 O 1 4 O 24 6 14T 12 o\ o| 54| 2 54 2 O 18 13 5 LA O O 164 — 97 13 o=y — 1 | 13 . 49 25 Anandapur 13 sapd 200 i 2 51 i 38 10 14 10 Dharwar . . 58 12 S O A E 254 13 Hubli . . . 116 53 z 29 34 o R 498 5 1641 46 ) 15 14 S © &N © Bettigeri-Gadag 142 129 16 222 10 135 27 % E;G) 29 Guledgudd e . 29 12 14 12 7 Bijapura - 9 846 z;; o et TR YR~ = T o N =) 9722) 11 61 10 15 Cannanore . 390 97 N 382 . 195 fr) 80 10 613) 13 43 15 Tellicherry, Nettur o 209 13 ” Town . . 76 99 14 19 437 10 = e & o B oo o O 48 9T 13 121 Chombala-Mahé . 0 155 e 1122 == 2 30 600:? o 145| 15| 59 259 ~ Calicut with Coilandy 9] 70 12 12 35 114 5 ?()3 11 14 Codacal . . . . 341 55 5 10 104 417 :5 14 14 25 1 Vaniyankulam 15| 299 64 10 ((:)11) 22 Palghat . . . 105 26 68 S 18 13 285 10 =i 42 13 49 55 13 2 Kaity . . 98| — OO * ™ O ™ ™= O O = N == H H O D 4 B O v e O e ESN O M O ORI O % o O W . eIrOo T O Sl o Olonen O O 11 § 177 10 . . 59 if: % 25 T B A e XU~ P el ] () - © 53 e O O el ST © ¢ v el G856 22 Kotageri 12 5 185 145 7‘ 6 8820I (o} 1318 1 15@}15]- AR 8 e e e e 17% 7 oW Vg it g O 51‘ 5 } q 10 Total. . fesnl A 3815\ 21 15621 1‘ el IR o P e i 1) Including a legate of Rs. 119-6-6. 2) Including Rs. 81-2-10 from the weavers’ mission box. the students of the Theological 4-8 from the students of the Christian High School, Rs. 6-8-5 from 3) Including Rs. Seminary and Rs. 99-18-2 from the weavers’ mission box. Table of Schools of the Basel German Evangelical Mission. Ist JANUARY 1890, s Schools for Schools for Christians Non-Christians Schools for Sunday Mission Agents High and Boarding High and Primary Schools Middle Schools and Primary NAMES Schools Middie . Training Schools Schools Orphanages Schools OF Colleges b S9LIBUI MISSION STATIONS 1830, 10 S uorjonajsuy epun syrdng jo S[00Y0g JO Ioquin N skog S[I1H sfog S[11H woeg [eo1Sojoay], skog S1A1Y § 810070Q juRIuUT skog STI1LH § E ST00T[0G JO "ON spidng jo oy 1. Canara. I. Mangalore 14 (e} (o] o 161 138 56 7 363 147 1077 2. Mulky . > 182 49 13 311 Udipi . 10 ~H 106 17 131 39 31 14 Karkul . . . 14 é Basrur-Coondapoor 96 21 117 0 Honavar . . 49 53 g Kasaragod . g s D | SO e oo I | oo OCcCOOoO o § A0 © O O OO OO OO oW 373 did 1 489 0 | g % I il 414 N MO OO O OO |H < SNoo oo oo ¢ ~f C O HO O O O | [N o 106 62 5 g 306 = i) 17 7 Ll -+ 894 314 0 NOOOF‘OOiC“: 35 R R e Al Coorg- | o o i £y / e ) o =i = -1 ol ()] (e} I 32 e o S 3 AL X Q 1 44) 24 % > £ 3 \ 106 | {;_\ 526 06 <5 177 14 894 14 2 :) :2 11. Coorg. (= (=] < 32 o 44 8. Mercara - . . . (= (=} (=} 10 1) (=) (=) (= 29 . (=) < (=} 9. Anandapur (Ammatti) § § § [==) =} 14 24 (=] (=} 32 o 111. Southern Mahratia. 36 44 246 72 3176 1o. Dharwar a . . . . 48 97 165 35 18 Fublt - . . ° . . 16 48 17 13 141 242 102 12. . . Bettigeri-Gadag. 17 12 56 85 46 . 132 Guledgudd 71 73 ° . S, M 14. Bijapur C.\lv-41o': mm:ocov—‘} S O MmO D 941 Aié 219 Yo (.:iz SR © O | oV S OO OO O 16 (o) o) el S el i =) 48 44 88 % 246 (IR =R = =] 437 1V. Malabar. 161 11 6 86 66 20 80 13 285 15, Cannanore . . . . . 50 42 21 15 214 232 122 721 178 16. Tellicherry . N . . 5 101 20 19 1L o O O 127 16 409 178 Chombala (Mahé) a 175 . 26 58 44 213 314 62 788 45 | 13 Calicut 3 . 8 %)) Gl 62 62 104 36 500 167 Codacal (Edacu hm; St.fztn. T 19. 73 157 14 20. & Vaniyankulam (Ottapalam 27 57 206 30 325 21. . ° . . ; © 1D © b= OO O N 10 ;i)é oty Palghat | 2 % 770 ~ © = SO OO0 OO | SO FOOOO | H ((g)l) 40 85 101 357 239 167 858 \ i - O mxnl— 1000 240 3185 V. Nilgiris. o 14 40 33 13 15 433 21 100 Kaity B . . 19 [ 18 34 0 114 177 28 Kotageri . . . d A e 20 40 18 67 18 1'5 (=i =l () 547 21 753 100 27 [ IR | R rue 279 225 1652 640 242 1296 25 2910 583 7527 2 1224 Total. . ° 136 24 138 693 228 1110 13 526 7185 2 % 1124 . 136 23 g 261 218 1020 2976 Total of 1st January 1894 . 0 66 (=) B B S| O 0 S Decrease during 1894 12 57 342 ditto. - . . . 3 18 32 14 186 ad. R s Increase g < ol w|= i‘ ol o] e rae e Eaid 2 Rem. The schools for Non-Christians are often frequented by a few Christians also, and Christian 'schools by ‘Non-bhristians, 12 Detailed Table of Stations, Out-Stations Or and Agents, lst January 1895. 2.1 Stations Native Agents:— and Ka Out-Stations : European Agents Pastors, Catechists and Headmasters Hadik Santr 1. Mangalore a Pastoral a. Engaged in Pastoral and Tehil Evangelistic Work Out-Stations . Rev. P. Ott, in charge of Pady Bendur, Ullal, station, Chairman 9 Rev. Sebastian Furtado, District Committee Jeppu, Lastor, Feppu Futy S Evangelistic Rev Samuel Andrea, Mun Bockapatna, Urva, Kudroli, Rev. Thy Walz; lown Fastor, Balmatha eV Jared Soens, Bolma, (3 Educatioﬁal Fastor, Bockapatna Bantwal, Rev. M. Hoch, Theolog. Cat Puttur, Sulya Pres., Genl. Com. Semi- Henry Roberts, Mang alore Ka} Rev. J. Hermelink | nary Ku Mark Salis, n Rev. J. Bucher, High ” Gabriel Bangera, , Par School Ev. Bethuel Soens, Puttur Miss M. Kaundinya, Cat. Joseph Sunita, » Sh Brahmin Girls School Ma Miss H. Str6lin, dest. for ” G. Premaya, Bolma (i Girls’ Training School, on ” M. Jeremias, Bantwal [ sick leave » Christananda Salis, ! Ullal Mercantile I Mr. H. Altenmiiller, Gezs. b. Educational Work Agent & Treasurer ” P. Buchli, M. M.-Br. Cat. Chr. Watsa, Theolog. Manager Semi- Industrial ” Ch Mabenna } nary Mr. J. Veil, M. M.-Br. 5 B. Ponon, 9 G. Hirner, Press s B, Tathanna, High ” S. Stamm, n 5. B: Shiri, School 7 ¥. Huber, Book Depi. %o B. Soens; ” G. Sautter, Weav. Est. ” ‘W. Weischedel, Mechanical Works ” W. Jung, Kudroli Tile-Works » A. Glattfelder, Feppu Uile-Works ” Ch. Gebhardt, " 13 Stations Native Agents:— 15 and Pastors, Catechists European Agents Out-Stations and Headmasters ¥ 2. Mulky Rev. Th. Digel, iz c/’zarge of | Rev. Diego Fernandez, Oui-Stations. Lastor, Mulky station and Orphanage S Karnad, Cat. William Heri, ZZn. Kadike, Ulya, Rev. Otto Singer, sckools ” Abraham Heri, Santur Santur and itin. Obed Sumitra, Padur | and Uchila, Yermal, Mullur, ” S. Sumitra, ” Padur, Perrur, Kalatnr, Karandadi, » J. Aarons, Munderu lo, Aaron Furtado, Kadike Kutyar, Kalatur, ” iy » J. Vedamuttu, Kutyar Munderu, Kodetur ”» B. Ananda, Uciila natho Rev. G. Ritter, iz ckarge of | Rev. Daniel Aaron, izin. balid 3. Udipi Out-Stations - station and out-siations, ” Charles Gojar, Nidambur, Bailur, appointed for Mangadore | Lastor, Mailpe tlore Kapettu, Kadekar, Immanuel Furtado, Kuttipadi, Amalpadi n Pl Rev. A. Brasche, Zrepara- Fastor, Gudde Parkala, Badegottu, " Perala, Parika, Zory School, Orphanage Cat. Timothy Ammanna, Kilenja, Udipi Church e and Training Schoold Shepura, ? Malpe, Urdubittalu, Winf. Micha,| prepar. Rev. Ch. Keppler, station St. Jatanna, | Schools 4 Udyavara, Bolja, Gudde, Kap, Mandodi, and oul-stations N. Vira, Madambail fual Shirva, Palli, Ninjur, n Ebenezer Clare, Farkala Bolle, Kudigrama, Rev. J. Gotz, out-stations s Hattupadi, Koppala, ” G. Bangera, Aattupadi >0ssar, and ilinerancy - Sam. Karat, Aalyanapur Madambail, Kurkal, Kalanja, Bijantla, Mr. H. Bretschneider, ” Joshua Soens, Skirva Marane, ”» N. Suchitta, Udyavara Tile-Works, Malpe 1oy Kalyanapur, Uppur, kr (t} Bolmar, Amunja M. Dschayanta, Shepura 1y 4, Karkul Rev. M. Breidenbach, zn Cat. Joseph Kairanna, N. Church and itin Out-Stations - charge of station, itin. Attur, Mudar, Rev. J. Bichle, stud. Tulu ” Joseph Bhagyan, idin. h Nandolige,Hekkadka, 0l Mudabedra » » Rev. P. Borel, Evang. Eliezer Karat, #/iz. 5. Basrur Rev. L. Gengnagel, station and | Cat. Immanuel Soens, Out-Stations . in charge of N. Church, Basrur, (tin. out-stations, i4.v. Coondapoor, Kailkeri, ” Daniel Andrea, Barkur Rev. Tr. Lutz, studying Coondapoor Church,itin ” T.Furtado,Barkur,itin. Canarese, itin. Assist Cat. Ch. Manjaru, “ Kailkeri, itin. 14 Stations Native-Agents : — and European Agents Pastors, Catechists Out-Stations 0 Ny and Headmasters 12 6. Honavar Rev. W. Niibling, #ncharge | Cat. Jacob Upranna, i. Out-Stations : of station, itin. Ev. S. Bunyan, Azrwar, iZin. Anilgoda, Mudakane, Rev. Ch. Eblen, it. ” Harwar D. Santvana, 2l " Shag Ms 7. Kasaragod Rev. B Diez; in charge ofi Cat. Gottlieb Mabenna, Out-Stations : station, itin. N. Church, and Schools » Nath. Kundara, iZn. Ravaneshvara, Hosadurga, Miss Theodora Diez, Giris’ ” Jesudasa Melottu, 72/7. School ” Israel Eliezer, Bekal, Kumbla, 13 Bela, Bangaramanje- Manjeshvara School ” ‘W. Fernandez, shvara, Hosabetta- Kumbla School Manjeshvara Pary Lewis Fernandez, Ny Beda School ” K Gerson Soens, Hosadurga gu N. Church and School bl Tk 8. Mercara Rev. R. Schenkel, 772 charge | Cat. Gabriel Almanda, 7#7. Nugt Out-Station : of stalion, itin. n Satyanatha Sumanta, Fraserpet Mr. J. Sieber, /7. M.-Br. i¢in . 14 % Nathan Shatanada, Rev. Ch. Fritz, stud. Canar, school and itin. Cat Samuel Furtado, 9. Anandapur Rev. J. Fischer, 7n charge N. Church and itin. 15 of station, itin. Asst. Cat. Lewis Salins, Cooly Mission (hoy 10. Dharwar Ty Riey, H. Zieéler, ir charge | Rev. Salomon Devada, of station, Orplanage, Lastor, N. Church, Schools R: High School, Chairman Cat. Devadana Katapur, i#7. of Distr. Com., Secretary to Genl. Com. Asst. Cat. R. Hittalamane Rev. O. Bode, Native Mr. Alex. Jaganadhan, B. A., Church, itin. 18 Headmaster, High School Rev. J.. Waidelich, itin., appointed for DBettigeri- X%l{r Gadag K 1. Hubli Rev. Ch. D. Warth, 7z @at. Jeremiah Sonna, Out-Stations - charge of siation, itin. N. Church Riev. G. Th. LEutz, 2z, ” Daniel Patti, Z#7n. Unakallu, Hebsur Rev. ‘Aug. Metz, studying ” Channa Halli, k) Canarese Benjamin Salins, Unakallu Church 15 Stations Native Agents:— Catechists, sts and European Aggnts Pastors, Qut-Stations and Headmasters ' 12. Bettigeri- D EAthe i e Rev. Salomon Bhaskar, i, Pastor N. Church Gadag of station, Seminary, Fre- 7, ilin, paratory Sch., Orphanage, Cat. David Subbrao Out-Stations - Distr. Insp. of Schools » Salomo Bangera D Scloold Shagoti, Rev. H. Risch, Skagoti, itin. ” St. Mathapati | Malasamudra » William Amos, 227, Rev. K. Mayer, studying , Franklin Aiman, , ky Canarese ¢chools ” H. Kodot, Skag. Church 2 Bh. Alada, Second. Schood ilin, i, Asst. Cat. Isr. Aralikatte Rev. F. Eisfelder, in charge Cat. Israel Dalabhanjana, School 13. Guledgudd N. Church, itin. Out-Stations - of station and some outst. » Joh. Prabhakar, izx. Sehool. Parvati, Padinakatte, Rev. Ph. Stier, Mushtigeri and itin. » St. Sagari, Aazkinalaldii Murudi, Hatkinahaili, Sehool Kotanhalli, Lada- Cat. Jos. Dalabhanjana, gundi, Nagarhalli, < Mushtigers burgs Mullur, Asangi, — Sehoot Asst. Cat. D.Nayaka, 7#7. Halkurki, Adugallu, " n H. Challa, Halk. Mushtigeri } i/iﬂt ta, Cat. Solomon Jogula, ZZ7. 14. Bijapur Rev. D. Berli, iz charge of i station, and itin. Asst. Cat. Obed Gundi, Zz7. ) n » Sat. Basutkar, 7Z77. il B ” - M. Suvarna, SeZ. 15. Cannanore Rev. [J. Ostermeyer, Rev. S. Chandran, .Pas!. Cr. it €at Tim. Parakandi, V. €7. Out-Stations : in charge of station, schoolds » P.Sneham, Chowa, itin. I’)‘,\‘l'ml Chowa, Chirakal, Mr. W. P. Schonthal, Weav- », Ph. Mackadan, Ctkir.i¢in. B Taliparambu, ing Establishment o Isaac Amathil = 2/, Ramentalli Mr. O. Eckelmann, Secziar Asst. Cat. Elias Nambi, ools Agent Taliparambu, itin. Rev. V. Nagel, i#in. ” ” Ebenezer Bethel, i N. Church, Cannanore Rev. P. Sengle? stud. Mal. e 16. Tellicherry Rev. J. Frohnmeyer, Rev. Cornelius Hutten, B, A1y Out-Stations . in charge of station, Theol. Drharmapattanam, ilin. oo} Seminary, Chairman of Cat. Stephan Kallat, Neztur Nettur, Anjarkandy, District Commaittee N. Church & Tv. School Kuttuparambu Rev. W Dilger, Theodog. n Peter Arnon, Christiar High School Semin., Training School, District Insp. of Schools ” Lazar Kallat, Feldickerry N. Church and Schools m‘/E Rev. F. Rehm, Christian Anthony Valiatingara, High School ” Anjarkandy, itin. Rev. W. Bader, Zellicherry Asst. Cat. J. Murkottan, iZz. Church, Farsi High School Mr. Jos. Mulil, B. A., Head- master, Chr. High Sch. T 16 Stations Native Agents:— and European Agents Pastors, Catechists, Out-Stations and Headmasters Ot 17. Chombala- Rev Imm. Weismann, Cat. Gabriel Pirachan, 47. Mahe in charge of station, ”» Henry Menzel, 0 Out-Stations - Orphanage, schools Chomb. N. Church adag Mahé, Kandappen- ” Tobias Chembenkodan, Rev. G. Peter, schools, itin. Maké Church kundu, Wadagara, Muverattu, Peram- Joseph Taddai, para, Tolpatti, Wadagara, itin. Payoli, Meladi, Karakadu ”n Samuel Ambattu, Muverattn, itin. 18. Calicut Rev. Jonas Padiath, Zzstor, Rev. J. Lauffer, in charge Out-Stations - of station, schools N. Church Ev. Ashamayan Tumaran, Coilandy, Pudiangadi, Rev. E. Liebendorfer, . D.. itin. Central Malabar Collam, Korapura Medical Mission Cat. {Xbel Kuttuparambu, 22 Mr. Fr. Volz, Weaving Est. ilinerancy ”» G. Kehrer, M. M.-Br. ” C. Arunachalam, 0 ” H. Kessler, ” ” Pudiarakal. Rev. E. Hiller, High Sch. ” Jos. Mandodi, Coilandy, Huli itin. Tuner Assist. Cat. A. Pawamani, Nellg Hospital, itin. Mr. Gt Zacharias, Bir., Kate Headmaster, High Sch. Nani Hoy 19. Codacal Rev. R. Bossﬁardt, in charge Rev. Nath. Arukandan, Oui-Stations . of station and Faraperi Fastor, N. Church ! Paraperi, Ponani, Orplanage Noah Edapalan, Zzrap. Pallat, Malapuram, N. Church Kilk Mr. C. Feuchter, Z%/e-Works ”n Manjeri, Tritala, Isaac Laban, Cod.itin. Kuttipuram, Rev. Ph. Weidner, studying n Daniel \Thomas, , ” Chaawghat, Malayad., schools and itin. ” Ezra Arunachalam, Nilampur, LFonani, itin. 23 Andatodu, ” Devaprian Amengara, Tschittatakara, Lonani, itin. Kog Tschalasheri, ” Is. Chowalur, Manjeri Ia ” Devasahayam Mandodi, Chittatakara By 20. Vaniyan- Rev. C. Hole, ir charge of Cat. Abra. Arungadan, 7. Ho kulam 9 George Peter, itin. ~ Out-Stations : station, Sc/zoo{y, itin. ” Abia Edapalan, Angadipuram, Malattur, Shoranur, Angadipuram, itin. Panamanna, » Luke Napalli, Angadip. Ottapalam, Tirikatiri | 11 Stations Native Agents:— L;sts, and European Agents Pastors, Catechists IS Qut-Stations and Headmasters ), ifith 21. Palghat Rev. J. G. Kihnle, 77z ckarge Ev. John Zacharias, 7#7. in South Malabar Out-Stations. of station and schools Church Wadackencherry, Rev. Th. Uber, Sctools Cat. Charles Hermon, I 0dan, N. Church Panayur Mr. Jakob Baum~ann, Tibe-Works %) J. Amengaran, Melpar. N. Church 0, i, ki Fr Boas ” ” " Salomo Makadan, Lanayur, itin. /! " Noah Benjamin, W adackencherry Bustor, k2 Paul Selvam, 7¢/n. Paulg. C;Z:ff,"} - b2 Zacharias Pilakaden,, Wadackencherry nb 22. Kaity Rev. W. 1itze,' in charge Cat. Isaiah Shanta, Lrancy Out-Stations of station, Training N. Church, Schools, itin. Coonoor, School, Orphanage, itin., prakal. ” Salathiel Is. Soens, Hulikal, Chogatore, going on furiough Schools, itin. Avalanche, Rev. Ch. Ernst, Zaking My. Tuneri, Kerehada, » Lemuel Soens, i4. Liitze’s place 1y Nellakotta, Paikara, Achinakallu, » K. Satyanathan, Huiikal Kateri, Adhikarhatti, Rev. G. Wieland, i#7. and Cooly Mission Manihatti, Hosahatti, n John Philip, TLuners, Horanhalli, Kulla- William Stokes, i | Rev. Coonoor, itin. and i¢in. kambe, Kilar, 'I‘ummanhattl:? Asst, Cat. Isaiah Konga, Kallhatti, Kerehada, itin. e Kilkunde, Yedekadu L 23. Kotageri Rev. W. Sikemeier, Rev. Jacob Kanaka, " Oui-Stations . in charge of station,and Fastor, Native Church, Kodanad, Konakore, Orphanage, itin. Sc/zqo!y, itin. Jakanare, Denad, Asst. Cat. Christian Ajja, d Kanerimukh, nd0 Fakanare, and itin. Bergani, Gundhada, Horasole, Kerbetta fl — S the oth and thos cor @HE wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and > whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. John 111, v. 8 This saying of our Lord proves as true in the mission- field as it does in Christian countries. For years we have been accustomed to see a large ingathering of harvest at Udipi and other stations in South-Canara, whereas now there is very little fruit to be reaped there. During the last three Ind years our hearts have been gladdened by the tidings of. large Chi numbers of converts at Codacal in the South of Malabar, but Gol now there are only a few catechumens, and during the year Cay under report the number of converts at that station was considerably smaller than in the past. At Palghat, the south- ernmost station of our Indian mission, on the other hand the number of conversions increased threefold as compared with On the 1893 and exceeded those of any previous year. Nilgiris also, there was last year an unprecedented number of converts from the heathen. On the whole Malabar and the Nilgiris appear to be at present, the most promising sections of our mission-field. The Southern Mahratta country still remains barren. We believe, however, that prevailing prayer for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on those provinces which now seem more or less barren, and patient continuance in the work of faithful seed-sowing, will in time cause “the desert f to rejoice and blossom as the rose.” f kg S SRR N We preface the report of our Indian mission work with the following abstract of the work done by our Society in other parts of the globe, viz.: in China, on the Gold Coast, and in the Cameroons in Western Africa. The figures are those of the 1st January 1894, and are contrasted with the corresponding figures of our Indian Mission. the An Abstract of the Work of the Basel Mission in India, and Africa and China. the SEgTmEmsoas e = = | | ”;Numrl;er : of Workers Number of Pupils taught in Schools 5100 Europeans in 1898 have ment Number in 1893 b oab Natives Total Number Year of Commence- | Number of Stations | é Christian of Communicants Heathen baptized Boys Girls § here Number of Outstatlons‘ Mission- é of Native Christians e India 1834 & fary [or) 75 60 396 11406 5991 426 5622 1563 7185 rge China 1847 13 40 22 20 106 3817 2296 291 848 197 1045 but Gold Coast| 1828 10 {187 41 25 194 12074 5198 999| 2227 1161 3¢ 388 gal Cameroons| 1886 5 55 13 44 912 789 265 1260 237 1497 Was Total. . 51 {398 151 107 740 128209[14274 1981 9957|3158 13115 ma X £ ith the ith the i 10f REPO =) the 1! Ons Agents. till A. European Agents. )‘61 ich (See the Tabular Views on pp. 3 to 7 and on pp. 12 to 17.) Deaths. he Mr. Matthissen, late of. Calicut, who for the last o1 few years lived at Coonoor and was engaged in literary work for the Lord, was called to rest on July 23rd at Coonoor. 3* Jaalan 20 Departures. Mr. and Mrs. Jaus of Codacal, Zl[a"p. and Mrs. 1] had Strobel of Calicut, Mr. and Mrs. Schaible of Mulky, Mr. and Mrs. Grossmann of Dharwar, and Mr. and Mrs. Kwittel of heir Hubli left us early in the year 1894 to proceed to Eurape to Tra The veteran Mr. Hartmann left India il recruit their health. for good, as did also Mr. and Mrs. Benner in December last, fo the state of Mrs. Benner’s health forbidding their further My mu stay in India. Mr. Engel, late of Dharwar, left our Mission to join the Methodist Episcopal Mission at Poona. In the he course of the new year Messrs. Ostermeyer, Ott, Peter, Liitze the 2 and Liithi with their families will also go to Europe on furlough. Arrivals. To compensate for these losses our hands have been strengthened by the arrival of Myr. K. Hiller, who came fo from Australia in January 1894 and is now in charge of the kin Calicut High School. Five couples who after recruiting their wit health in Europe have also returned to India for a second or 0 third season of labour, viz: Myr. Eckelmann, who with Mrs. Py FEckelmann had been in India before, though not in Mission- Ap employ, and who has now taken charge of the secular agency Dh of the Malabar district from Mr. Ostermeyer; Mr. and Mrs. A Brasche who returned to their work at the Udipi schools; Mr. I@/ and Mrs. Keppler who have taken charge of the Udipi church a vice Mr. Ritter transferred to Mangalore in the place of M. 8§ Ott; Mr. Veil now the mercantile manager of our factories Iey at Mangalore and Mrs. Veil; Mr. and Mrs. Waidelich at present 48 at Dharwar but appointed for Bettigeri-Gadag and Mr. and Mrs. Bode now at Dharwar. Besides this our working staff has been increased by the young brethren Borel, Fritz, Gebhardt and Sengle, and by five young ladies:— Miss Naab, now Mrs. by Kehrer; Miss Bader, now Mrs. Stier; Miss Lauffer, now Mrs. lﬂtl Sautter; Miss Luger, now Mrs. Jung; Miss Weber, now Mrs. Th Breidenbach; while Miss Kaundinya, who since 1890 had been a8y in charge of the Brahman Girls’ School at Mangalore, was married Ca 21 M, to Mr. Stamm. We are sérry to say that Miss Strolin, who and had begun the diligent study of the language in the hope of fol of being soon able to make herself useful in the newly opened pe to Training School for Schoolmistresses at Mangalore, was laid India aside by illness and had at last to proceed to the Nilgiris ast to recruit her health. Mrs. Bucher, Myrs. Benner, and Mrs. rther Matthissen were also incapacitated by ill-health from taking much part in active mission-work. Mr. Risch’s health failing, 55100 1 the he and his wife had to spend the greater part of the year on Liitze the Nilgiris; and the death of their two darling children within a few months of each other was a sore affliction. ough. We take this opportunity to tender our heartfelt thAanks have came to the medical gentlemen of the various stations who have the kindly attended our sick; we would especially acknowledge | et with gratitude the kind services of Surgeon Major Dr. A. 0r O’ Hara, Assistant Surgeon Mr. C. P. Ganapati, and Mr. R d 1 Peter, pensioned dresser, at Mangalore; Mr. A. F. Matthias, s100- Apothecary at Kasaragod; Surgeon Major Dr. McCalman at G| Dharwar; Dr. Cardoz at Hubli; Surgeon Major Dr. A. A. Pechell and Assistant Surgeon Mr. Verghese at Cannanore, My. V. V. M. M. Verghese, Apothecary at Wadagara; Surgeon Major Dr. Lancaster ureh at Coonoor and Dr. Soltaw at Ootacamund, whose medical I assistance was most willingly and devotedly given, often without remuneration, to the Missionaries and their native assistants ories oselt as well as to the Christians at their respective stations. and B. Native Agency. taft 1 The nﬁmber of our Native Pastors has been increased artt g by one. On the 4th February Evangelist Nathanael Arukandan, late of Calicut, was ordained as a Pastor of the Codacal church. 5. The President of the District Committee Rev. L. J. Frohumeyer, 1ss assisted by Rev. J. Jaus of Codacal and Rev. J. Padiath of [een Mr. Arukandan was born aried Calicut, administered the ordination. 22 R Ara among the heathen as the second son of Putten Purayil Manden, now Amdrew, in the year 1846. KEducated as an orthodox Cat Hindu, he yet soon came into contact with Christianity, several 8 ol of his relations being Christians. Though he despised the che are Christians, the Lord found him in 1866, and he was baptized. Some time afterwards he expressed a desire to continue his i, studies in the Middle School at Tellicherry and was admitted. 0r Subsequently he was promoted to the Theological Seminary at Ma Mangalore and in 1877 was appointed to be a Catechist. Since as a0 then he has served as a Catechist. and latterly as an Evangelist at several places, until called to the pastorate of the church 15 at Codacal. May he always be a faithful steward of the ma mysteries of God. 1€e 2. Evangelists, Catechists and Assistant Catechists. In place lah of Mr. Nathanael Arukandan, Mr. Ashamayan Tumaran has been appointed as an Evangelist for Central Malabar. Of the Ch number of Catechists in active service two were called away of by the Lord of the vineyard, viz.: Paul Chittayagam at Calicut Th and Abraham Para at Ponani, both of whom died in January I 1894. The Assistant Catechist Joseph Hiria at Kotageri, after It having served the mission for more than ten years as a Teacher als and Assistant Catechist, resigned the mission-service in order to Teg manage his ancestral estate. We rejoice, however, to say that these losses have been made up by the appointment of eight young men who finished their studies in the Theological Seminary 84 at Mangalore. After passing their examination they have been pa set apart as Catechists. Their names are Medad Jayana now at Udipi, Nathanael Satyananda now at Mercara, Samuel Sumitrp 10 now at Padur, Samuel Soans now at Hosadurga, Solomon Jogula nf sent to Bijapur, Devadana Katapur now at Dharwar, Bhagya- I\ vanta, Alada now at Bettigeri-Gadag, Channa Halli now at a( Hubli. DBesides them FEbenezer Bethel, hitherto Colporteur, was an appointed‘ as an Assistant Catechist to Cannanore; Israel aq S et 1o, 23 e Aralekatti to Hubli after a four years’ course in the Assistant odox Catechists’ Semiﬁary at Bettigeri; and Abraham Pawani, after era a shorter preparation at Nettur Seminary, to Calicut. It is a the cheering fact that no fewer than five of the above number zed are the outcome of the harvest brought in during the famine his time of 1877, either orphans who were entrusted to our mission, fed or the sons of families who joined us at that dreadful time. y af May they and their companions be privileged to bring in many Ince a sheaf. The total number on the 1st January last was 125, st against 118 last year, viz 5 Evangelists, 105 Catechists, and rch 15 Assistant Catechists. Large as the number seems, it is still the inadequate to the needs of the large mission-field, and prayer needs still to be made to the Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers into His harvest. ace has 3. Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses. The number of the Christian Schoolmistresses has remained stationary while that ray of the Christian Schoolmasters has been reduced by four. oub The yearly classes for improvement were held at Kaity by ALy Mr. Liitze, at Tellicherry by Mr. Dilger, and at Bettigeri by tor Myr. Liithi. At Kaity and Kotageri monthly training classes her also are held regularly by Mr. Liitze and Mr. J. Kanaka t0 respectively. 1ab 4, Colporteurs. The number of Colporteurs was 14, the oht same as the year before, 4 are Bible Colporteurs and are 11y paid by the Bible Societies. 6l ow 5. Bible Women. We are sure our readers will be glad fiy to peruse the reports of several Missionary Ladies who super- intendend and take part in the work of the Bible Women. o These latter number 29, two more only than last year, one i additional Bible Woman having been appointed at Calicut al and one at Dharwar. We are greatly indebted to the British as ol and Foreign Bible Society for enabling us to employ these 5, ) 4 wait Bible Women by granting us a considerable sum of money towards their support. mon 0r 0 Last year we drew the attention of our readers to certain defects in the organization of the Christian Provident Funds. of § We were pleased to note that the matter was taken up and dis- pay cussed by others and that there is some hope of improvements thei being made. We would now point to a certain custom pre- naft valent among our Assistants and Christians, which is also calcu- lated to lower their moral standard and to work Witl Kuri. harm. We refer to the custom of the <«kur:s”’. con Ano This custom seems to be chiefly prevalent in Malabar, and we by have been furnished with particulars about it by a Malabar 181 Missionary, Mr. Schonthal, the superintendent of the large and f0 9 flourishing weaving factory at Cannanore and its branches. Jun Myr. Schonthal writes:— of f “Nothing but quarrelling and discord are the outcome of hay the kuri. It is a national evil which must be fought against hSh in Christian communities. The saying, “He who begins a kuy kuri begins a quarrel” has passed into a proverb, and indi- the cates the extent to which the evil has grown. deh “A kuri is a kind of raffle or lottery. Any person who 1s No in want of a sum of money, say Rs. 75, persnades a number Ui of persons, 10, 20 or 30 as the case may be, to agree to a monthly payment of, say Rs. 21 each. If the number of members be 30 and each monthly payment Rs. 2%, the whole monthly collection amounts to Rs 1D, The first collection 1is Iy paid to the Kkuri-motban, . e. the organiser. The receiver of P each subsequent collection is decided by lot. The monthly il payments continue till each of the consecutive members has Wo received Rs. 75. hig «It often happens that persons who get the allotment are N not in need of it, while otherg who urgently need it have_ to at 25 oney wait for months for it; then the person who is in need of the money borrows from the other who can spare it at 25 per cent rtain or other usurious rate of interest. «One or several of the members may fall ill, or some member 1nds. of their family falls ill and they are unable to continue their | dis- pents payments, after perhaps having already received and spent their allotment, mutual recrimination and quarrelling are the pre- natural consequence. Or perhaps those who get the money alcu- without having immediate need of it, become extravagant and work contract habits of life which are beyond their usual means. Wi Another frequent source of quarrels are verbal assignments d we by which any member of the kuri to whom another member abar and is indebted for his instalment, assigns the money due to him to a third party. John, for instance, has borrowed Rs. 10 from 6s James and promised to pay him by the 31st of July; instead of fulfilling his engagement, he says to James ‘1 say Jack, 1 e of have promised to pay your Rs. 10 by the 31st July. Now ainst listen—George so and so owes me Rs. 8 subscription for a ns & kuri; please get the Rs. 8 from him, the rest I shall pay by the 31st of July.’ But James who knows that George is a bad indl- debtor does not like this assignment and the result is aquarrel. — ho 18 Not only lying and deceit, but enmity between families lasting nber sometimes for years, are engendered by these ‘kuris’.” to 4 2. The Native Church. r of hole Our feelings when looking on the church, or rather the number of large and small churches that it has been our n iS or Of privilege to gather in the course of sixty years since our ithly mission first entered the field may best be expressed in the words of Mr. Ostermeyer of Cannanore which he prefixed to s has his yearly report:—«Hitherto hath the Lord helped us”. Our sense of gratitude for divine help may well be thus expressed a1 76 tO at the close of a year in which we 'have been privileged to 4 S Al A 26 celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the eof Cannanore church, and to rejoice over all that the Lord has shoy done for this church in Cannanore and its affiliated church and at Chowa. “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. At ‘this adm place where 50 years ago there were only a few scattered Boc sheep, there is now by the grace of God a parish church the which, including the affiliated church of Chowa, numbers as Jar many as 960 souls. The Lord be praised.” Numbers. Our native church of the five provinces of our Cal mission-field, Canara, Coorg, Malabar, the Nilgiris and the Southern Mahratta, shows a total ‘of 11,963 baptized members with 6,342 communicants, that is, 557 baptized members or a( il ¢ 351 communicants more than in 1893. The increase is partly Chr due to excess of births over deaths (138 souls), but chiefly to and baptisms from among the heathen or admissions from the it Roman Catholic and Syrian churches. The baptisms of new pla converts numbered 318, viz.: 227 adults and 91 children. In fo Canara there were 40, in Coorg 7, in Southern Mahratta 6, in the Malabar 235, and on the Nilgiris 30 baptisms from among fo] the heathen. of | A. New Admissions. Bu he Various but always wonderful are the ways by which those is, Bir who have been received into the church by baptism have been led to Christ. We give a few extracts from the reports re- H]é ha ceived, arranging them in the order of the different provinces, and beginning with 10 il CANARA. il Of Mangalore Mr. Ott reports:—There is an increase of 10 foy 119 souls in the Mangalore church, 45 having been admitted 60 from the heathen and the Roman Catholics. There have been ey -53 deaths, some of them very sudden. The newly admitted W 27 Lt the people at Bolma and Bocképatna are poor people, but they | hag showed such a desire for communion with the Christian church urch and its Head as to make it impossible for us to deny them this admittance. On December thirty souls were admitted to the fered Bockapatna Church. The case of one of these, who came about urch the eleventh hour of his life deserves mention. The Pastor § a8 Jared Soens writes about him: «This man, T%mma by name, had been for some years at work in the Mechanical Workshop of our Mission where he our Called about the eleventh received his first impressions of Christianity from the and hour. daily prayers. He at times felt a desire to become hers § Or a Christian, but was deterred by his relatives. When at last he fell ill and had a presentiment that he was going to die, he sent for a 1ty Christian young man who had formerly been his fellow-workman yto and informed him of his desire to become a Christian. The young the man informed Mr. Jung, who went to see Timma and at his desire new placed him in the house of a Christian acquaintance who undertook In to nurse him. I saw him every day and began to instruct him in Ll the Christian truth, of which he knew very little. ‘When I spoke if4 to him of the love of God, of His mercy to us as shown in Christ, of the atoning sacrifice of Christ, he listened attentively and joyfully. But when I spoke to him of sin and judgment and showed him that he was a sinner and under the wrath of God, as every natural man is, he got angry, and said, he did not want that, and he would not 056 stay here any longer. He got up and was about to go away, trembl- el ing and with tottering steps, when I said to him, “You are free to go, Ie having been brought here at your own request, but I advise you not £8, to be in a hurry and to sit down again’. Then he said: ‘Just those sins which you mentioned Ihave committed; who has told you about me ?* and he got angry again. Ispoke kindly to him and succeeded in pacifying him. When I had left him, he reproached his landlord of for having informed against him. But they tried as much as they ed could to quiet him. I prayed for the man as the Spirit of God was evidently working and Satan trying to hinder. Next morning I el went again, when Timma received me by asking my forgiveness for ol 4+ 9 o 8 having been angry. ‘Yes, it is true’ he said, ‘I am a sinner and two ¢ worthy of hell. it a wid But you have told me, that God loves sinners and that Jesus Christ died for them. Is it not so? I have now come to more Him’, I rejoiced over the miracle of grace performed in this man. (aste 10 an For two days more I instructed him; then he asked for baptism before Sunday, ‘because’ said he ‘on Sunday I shall die’. ‘When on praye Friday and Saturday his relatives came to see him he said to them :— the p ‘Why are you come? I am with Jesus, don’t fear for me ; Jesus is ] my refuge.” On Sunday morning I was sent for. Timma was dying and had lost the use of his tongue. He only groaned, ‘Jesu my of fa refuge, Jesu my refuge’. He was baptized at once and two hours hoys afterwards he died.” from The list of catechumens shows 52 names; they will, we the ¢ hope, be baptized next year. whic Mr. Singer of Mulky reports of a family that was indeg driven into the fold of Christ by fear of demons. “Barly one morning” he writes, “not long ago the old Christian widow Hanna was seen hastening to the mission-station at Padur. It must have been something important that induced her to leave her cottage so early and to come to the Missionary. Almost breath- less she arrives and tells her story. That same morning at day- COI\]} break her neighbour had knocked at her door and told her with had streaming eyes that she could no longer bear the fear of the bhitas. 1eay There was her son lying sick at home and all she did to pacify the for bhitas, was of no avail, her son was growing worse and worse. She whil had long observed that in Hanna's house there was peace and no the fear of bhitas, and she had now made up her mind to come to the 0ne Christians with her whole house to serve the God of the Christians they in order to get peace and to have her son made well again. Shortly aft afterwards the grown up son of the house arrives and corroborates ang her story. He is encouraged in the belief, that God Almighty hears prayer and can save his brother if it be His will. Mr. Singer, ac- companied by his eatechist, went to the house in question, which was about two miles distant. fror The inmates.were an old widow aged Whe about 65 years with a face in which grief had left visible traces, old R 29 o and two grown up sons, one married to a girl-wife, the other a widower, 15 and a widowed daughter and the sick son aged -about 20 and looking These folks belong to the me to more like a skeleton than a living man 5 MaN caste of the Halepaikaru, Canarese speaking people who settled here, in ancient times, as colonies of soldiers. After a short address and aptism 160 01 prayer the paraphernalia of bhuta- worship were destroyed and then B0l i— the people were visibly relieved and said—‘Now we belong to you’.’ SUS Myr. Sieber at Mercara reports:— dyn “On the Sunday after Whitsunday a Brahmin family consisting 31 My of father and mother, a son of 18 years, a daughter of 13 and two hours boys of 6 and 9 years respectively were baptized They live 6 miles from the village of Sampaji The boys are to go to the Udipi school L we the girl, Delorak by name, is to remain in Mercara. May this family which seems to have been put out of caste before joining us have indeed found salvation in Christ ns. [st1an MALABAR adurs Of Cannanore My Ostermeyer reports :— Jeave «As regards baptisms from among the heathen, the past year eath We compared with the preceding one was a year of retrogression day had indeed a considerable number of inquirers, 63 altogether, but with nearly half of them left us again, not a few, because we had no work fitas for them We could baptize only 21 souls including 4 children, the while 12 are still under instruction Of these 21, 14 belonged to She 1) bd were weavers, 2 fishermen, and the Tier or toddy-drawer caste, d 10 One of one each of the Warrior, Washermen and Hunter castes. ) the them, persuaded by her sister, went over to the Roman Catholics soon 1005 afterwards ; the rest have remained firm in spite of many trials il and have given us cause to rejoice over them ates Myr. Frohwmeyer of Nettur near Tellicherry reports:— oal$ ao “We had the privilege of admitting into the church 16 souls There was first a Nayer lad from Trichur, as from among the heathen who was sent to the Orphanage at Paraperi; then in September an ged old woman, who had come with her daughter and a grandson, but 065 - 30 —_ Lot L became dropsical and was baptized before the course of instruction she was completed. She died soon after her baptism. Her daughter and thing grandson were baptized with several others on the 16th December. shor Among the latter was an Eunike with 4 children, the daughter of an old lone woman, a member of our church, further Johanna, a young tow! woman of the highest caste in Malabar. She had been married to A walif a Nambutiri Brahman, who had been fond of her and yeat had treated her well. indeed. But one day in a fit of mental ea derangement she ran into the bush without an hous umbrella., When she came to her senses, she knew that she could For not return to her hoase; for with the Nambutiris it is a sufficient desi cause for a woman to be excommunicated, if she leaves her house hap without an umbrella, or exchanges a word with another man. At Was first she hid herself in the jungles, but hunger forced her to come orpl forth. She was found by a Mapla who took her home and promised to care for her. Cho After she had lived with him for some years, he 84yi one day told her to prepare for a journey. Cooking-vessels, rice day and other victuals were put into a boat and they started. After a rather long voyage in parts unknown to her, he landed on an island of y and commanded her to leave the boat taking the cooking utensils with her. He took her to the interior of the island and told her to prepare some rice and to call him when it was ready. The rice was wit] cooked but when she went to call him he was nowhere to be founb, A§ and the boat was gone. His purpose was only to get rid of her. After wandering about for a few days she was found by some toddy- drawers, who brought her to us, in the hope that we would be able fati to make something of her. At first we did not know what to do a1 with the silent young creature. As she was suffering from a He cutaneous disease, we sent her to the hospital, but she ran away. 108 The disease proved to be common eczema, and she was gradually a@ cured. But it was remarkable that her mind seemed to have an( remained unpolluted all the time. Before baptism and after it also lgy her conduct was exemplary. She has never spoken anything mean 111]{ or vulgar, she is peaceful and quiet, and works diligently in the St weaving factory. When the Christian women quarrel she will tell ady Wi them bluntly ‘It is ngt right’, and when they spoil cotton yarn, 31 e uction she will say ‘It is not thus you should deal with your master’s o1 and things’. In baptismal instruction her answers were thoughtful, mber, short and decisive.” of an Of the people admitted into the church of Tellicherry young town, Mr. Bader reports:— ied fo «At Christmas we had the pleasure of baptizing a lad of 17 1 and years of age. He is a native of Wadagara and belonged to the ental weavers’ caste. His first impressions were received in a Christian if an house where he is employed as a servant but treated like a son. could For eight months he was instructed by myself, and his zeal and icient He is able to read. The desire to learn were very gratifying. house baptism of some other candidates had to be postponed. One family At was sent to Calicut, because they could not find work here. A little come orphan girl of about ten years was sent to the Orphanage at mised Chombala, and will soon be baptized there. Two lads, who came 8, ‘he saying they wanted to become Christians, left us again after a few 1ice days, they had evidently expected something different.” ter 4 At Chombala too there has been a number of conversions Jand of which Mr. Weismann writes:— sils oIl i “Though we had many trials during the past year we were not without comfort. In the beginning of the year a young man came to 7as us, who had written six months before, “Where shall anb A Seeker after I find truth’? I have looked for it in the Vedas and her Truth. Shastras of my own religion, sought it by fasting and ddy v The letter had been fatiguing pilgrimages, but have not found it.’ able odo answered and the young man invited to come and see the missionary. He came, but was so timid and troubled in his mind, that we did mé not wonder when he declared he could not remain. But he came oy again and implored us: ‘Please teach me the way that leads to God ally and to the forgiveuness of sin.’ He was followed by a family from our YAL 31€0 neighbourhood, then by other candidates for baptism, but it was impossible for us to give them work; we had to send them on to other pall stations, where work was to be had. Of the 23 persons, whom we the admitted into our church by baptism, 18 are from our neighbourhood. fell With the exception of a good-natured, industrious, but fickle Ay e 32 coachman from Mahé, they all cheered us by the lnely interest haptiz they took in the baptismal instruction. hospi I am sorry to say that the heathen, stirred up by the many con- A versions, have become very hostile, and their hostility has for the pishe first time shown itself in deeds of violence taka In June, Mata, a young woman of 20 years joined us There was the usual row, but she open remained firm Her mother and sister continued their visits and helie Mata used to converse with them most amicably, praying and en- My couraging them to follow her and become Christians like her. One by o day, about two months afterwards, while her sister seized both her hands, as if caressing her, some men who had been hidden in the 9y Rescued shrubbery of the neighbouring garden rushed upon (om Mata, who became speechless from terror, lifted her up and began to carry her away Attracted by a loud ery from oine after Mrs. Weismann 1 started from my study, and was just in time to med seize them. No servant was near, I had not breath enough to shout After ten minutes, which seemed an age Mr. Peter, who had heard hop the noise without knowing what it was, came to the rescue, with a appe few coolies who were working in his compound Then the heathen plac men ran away and Mata escaped and took shelter in the mission hei house She would have been lost, if Mr. Weismann had not stopped the robbers; for scarcely 100 paces away from the house there stood ot about 20 other men ready to carry the young woman away. Mata is uny now baptized and rejoices us by her contented and upright conduct.” ang 0ng Calicut has had a rich harvest of 54 souls, the majority of whom were baptized on the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Of ang these Mr. Lauffer writes:— at “Our candidates for baptism, as far as they were baptized on | the 2nd Sunday of Advent, 41 in number, differed from those of Sey former years in this particular that they were all more or less edu- cated, and that they are not outsiders, but inhabitants or neighbours fu of Calicut It was a fine sight to see all these people sit before the One of them assembled congregation, ready to receive baptism of was the adopted son of our dbraham Pavanna ; several who had been Tef 33 (=S e SRR Nerest ba‘ptized in the course of the year were inmates of the Mission- hospital and the Lepers’ asylum. 1y con- At Codacal Station, the number of inquirers has dimi- or the nished, but new prospects have opened in the south, at Chitta- young takara and Chalasheri, where two new out-stations have been ot she opened in the midst of Syrians and Roman Catholics. We ts and believe that the extracts which we give from the reports of nd en- My. Bosshardt and Mr. Frohnmeyer will be read with pleasure , One by our readers. th her in the “Last year 64 souls were baptized from among the heathen and upon 29 were admitted from the Roman Catholic and Syrian chorches. Compared with the preceding years the number of heathen that d her from joined us is considerably smaller and of those that came, several, me {0 after having been with us for some time either went to the Mahom- medans or returned to their caste. These people had come with the shout, bope of gaining a livelihood without doing much work. Being dis- heard yith & appointed in this expectation they became dissatisfied and went to places where they have more license to follow the evil desires of athen their-heart. 188108 “Of the out-stations on our list in 1893 and 1892 Andatodu does opped stood not now appear because the Christian family that lived there proved unworthy. In its stead there are two new out-stations Chittatakar it 38 ek ’.‘,‘ and Chalasheri, 27 and 21 miles respectively distant from Codacal one to the south and the other south-east. ouity “On Sunday the 20th May, 13 Roman Catholics of Chittatakara 01 and 5 Syrian Christians of Chalasheri were received into our church at Codacal. The beginning of the movement at Chittatakara dates nine years back, when one of our Missionaries, accompanied by d o se of several Catechists on a preaching tour to the large fair at Guruvayur was hospitably entertained in the house of one Lon- odu An Enemy turned into appen, a rich and influential man of the town. When ours a Friend. ) the the Missionary asked permission to preach in front of his host’s house, Lonappen, who was a bigoted Roman Catholie, hen refused it. The Missionary asked whether he would have any heen 5 34 e el 118 objection to pray with him. With the intention of seeing how heretics pray and to find weapons against them in their prayer, Ab Lonappen consented. But after that prayer Lonappen’s opposition Evan ceased; he permitted the Missionary and his party to preach, and Chris thus he became acquainted with their doctrines. About the same time he had occasion to read some books which & Roman Catholic he for viear, who had put up in his house, had with him and which he preac} hm used in the instruction of young candidates for the priesthood. The spiriy casuistic doctrines, the secrets of the confessional and other things that he found in those books so disgusted him, that he began to long Writte for something better. At that time his recovery from an attack of e\ang smallpox so moved him with gratitude to God, that he vowed to see h live for truth only. He cast away his images of saints and bought and ¢ himse more than 100 New Testaments and other Bible-portions, which he distributed among his friends and neighbours, showing them the Chrs in the errors of the Roman Catholic church, and preaching the Gospel to them. then Some of them also grew fond of the secriptures. But this brought down the curse of excommunication on Zhomuni, one of their of th addre members. After that Lonappen also renounced his connection with the Romish church and asked for admission into our church, which, W! on the matter having been duly inquired into, was granted to him of po and to several others, and a Catechist was stationed at the town. Chy “From the Syrian village Chalasheri petitions to begin the work towr of evangelisation in their midst had reached us several years ago. villa Xal In the month of May Mr. Frohnmeyer, the chairman of the distriet, Mr. Bosshardt of Codacal and two Catechists went to the place to With' see what could be done. ‘When they arrived there they found that Swepi of the original petitioners some were dead, some were gone back grigy and proved hostile, but the family of one Cheru received us gladly, 1oy saying that for some years they had been praying to the Lord for 1€am1 our coming. The result of the visit was that five persons joined our ang - church.” of foit, My. Bosshardt further reports: () “On the 18th June I went again to this village, accompanied by Sant Mr. Eckelmann; we were joyfully received by those who had joined alsy L sEa 35 us Among those who came to meet us, there was a blind man, ¢ how rayer, named Varid, .who had lived as a heathen in the A blind neighbourhood of Chalasheri and a few years ago 0sition Evangelist. had joined the Syrian church. On his becoming a 1, and Samme Christian and finding his Lord and Saviour, he was so happy that he forgot his affliction and began to wander from village to village ytholic ch he preaching the Gospel and living on the alms which were given to him. The But feeling dissatisfied with his scanty knowledge and the spiritual food which the Syrians could offer him, he had a letter things 0 long written to us a few years ago asking us to begin the work of It was a great joy to this blind man to 1k of evangelisation at Chalasheri. see his desire realized; he remained with us the whole afternoon, ed 10 ought and at evening he fetched a copy of the New Testament, placed himself near the fish-market where numerous Syrians and Non- oh he 0 the Christians had gathered, opened his book and shouted: ‘We read ;pel 0 in the Gospel of St. John v ¢h. 1 to 16 the following account’, and then he narrated almost word for word the account of the healing f his theit of the sick man at the pool Bethesda, on which he gave an address. ) with “The view of these old Christian towns and villages in the midst Vhich) 0 him of powerful heathenism is apt to stir strange feelings in our mind; on one hand we wonder at and admire the great 1 Christian towns and things that were done here of old. What a time of w'ork villages in a0 missionary spirit must that time have been when Malabar. such great Christian towns and flourishing villages Sifieta with hundreds of churches arose, what a powerful revival must have 08 {0 swept through the land! On the other hand we are pained and | that grieved at the spiritual death of the churches. Superstition, secret pack idolatry, drunkenness, eating of opium are prevalent vices as I have [adly: learned from the best sources. These evils have degraded them g for and debased the character of the people. They are painfully aware g our of their state, and think of deliverance, but cannot find a way to it. “As yet we are in want of a place of worship, a proper and sub- stantial building for the school we have taken under our charge and d by also of a burial place”. Jiﬂed T 36 For the comparatively new station Vaniyankulam Easter- Never, day 1894 was a day of joy, five souls from among .the and int heathen being received into the church of Christ on that day. ‘N Four of them belong to one family, the parents, son and wonder daughter from Vaniyankulam, the fifth is a young man from Calicut. Wond Wa From Palghat Mr. Uber writes:;—' “On the 14th October, 31 adults and 16 children, altogether 47 diseret people were received into the charch by baptism; 6 Roman Catholics pose b was f also joined the church. The building had been A Day of tastefully decorated by the members and a choir Rejoicing. The T sang a hymn in parts, which had been specially of a § written for the occasion by a native-member of the church, and after a suitable address the candidates were received into the Church of foal m Christ. A repast had been provided by the members of the Palghat shorta church for all the guests, that had come from distant places, and for he woy the newly baptized by the Missionaries. Inthe afternoon the church- ingly members gathered again for a Missionary anniversary, at which admitt various addresses were given to the numerous congregation. It was she {; a day of rejoicing to the whole station.” Deople 0ng g Myr. Kiihnle reports in his yearly report:— “The fifty people received from among the heathen during the ahsol tende past year are beginners in every respect. But they have learned a hag il good deal during baptismal instraction; they have often gratified almog my heart, and their desire for baptism has made me thankful. gress, ‘When they came to see me on the early morning of the day of their Soon baptism and I saw their eyes light up with pleasure, still more, when they stood before the baptismal font and confessed their faith ing { hundl- with evident seriousness and devotion, answered the solemn Writg, questions and promised faithfulness to the Lord, a joy and delight thrilled my heart such as I had scarcely ever known before. I knew alop | Pos that the Lord was in our midst and was doing great things. Bat if now after baptism various weaknesses and sins, small and great, are ang ¢ Work observed in some of them, should we uncharitably cast them off ? the 1) s Faster Never, with the help of God. We will educate them for heaven, the and intercede for them with a prayerful heart. at day tg on and “Many things might be told of their life in heathenism and the 1 from wonderful ways which God led them. We might tell how God for two long years preserved and strengthened the faith Wonderful of a youth, whose mother would on no account per- Ways. mit his baptism before he had attained the age of discretion as fixed by law, and tried to dissuade him from this pur- ther 47 atholies pose by many prayers and entreaties, till at last the desire of his heart d heen was fulfilled. We might tell of a widow with three children who . choir suddenly one morning stood before the missionhouse The Taming and asked for admittance. By her own account she pecially of a Shrew. d after had led a bad life. It was easily seen that no spiri- areh of tual motives had brought her there. Her son, about 20 years of age, alghit short and stout, made a better impression, and inspired the hope that and for he would turn out well. The two young children looked so implor- ingly into my face, that I ecould not send them away. They were shurch- whieh admitted as inquirers. But soon the widow proved troublesome; It was she did not recognise any difference between her own and other people’s property and was fonder of eating than of working. No one cared to live with her, and at last we sent her away. But she absolately refused to go. Well, we decided to try again; she at- ng the tended baptismal instruction, though it could be seen daily that she m]ed [ had not the least interest. ¢’Tis all in vain’ the Missionary was told ratiﬁed almost every day. Her son on the contrary was making rapid pro- ankful gress. He was learning diligenily and successfully, so that he was 1 their soon able to teach his hard-hearted mother in the evenings, repeat- - 0re ing to her the Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Creed I falth hundreds of times. He even took the trouble to learn to read and to write. Despite all this the widow with her children is seen standing golemd Jolight among the candidates of baptism on the 14th October. ‘How is that [ kne possible ¥’ you ask. The Lord himself by the ministry of much pain and sickness softened her heart and opened it for His word and the But if 3t7 ard work of the Holy Spirit. The Lord did it and we could not refuse m off? the blessing of holy baptism to her and her children. 38 Seen e ;; “About the life of our Z'obias, formerly Welu, before his baptism, RUIG a little book might be written. Welu was a demon-dancer, a man Juds whom he himself and his countrymen believed, that he was pos- Tiid A Devotee of sessed of the goddess Kali. For years he had served the goddess with body and soul. Taller by a head wall KAli turned than other people he made a deep impression on the Hol into a Disciple. people, by his dances and oracles especially. From Som all the country round about, people would flock to him and revere Jear him almost as much as if he had been Kali herself. The star of Sam his fortune shone brightly for several years, and he and his family fared sumptuously every day. But his star began to grow dim, set at last and never rose again. ‘Kali has left Welu’ was said in his hap village, the rumour spread to the neighbourhood, and his trade and income were gone. ‘What could be done? His wife and his three year children must live. He tries again and again to recover his lost fame, but in vain. About that time he hears the story of Jesus the An 4 Saviour of sinners, of His love to lost souls. He hearsﬁ what Jesus He heard the has done for all mankind, consequently for Welu also. may that he himself who was a servant of sin and of the devil, might become a servant of God if he desisted from his evil practices, repented and 01 turned to God. This message sinks deep into his heart. He cannot sem| get rid of it.—At last he sets out with wife and children, comes to Kots Palghat, is admitted to baptismal instruction, and gets a dwelling and suitable work in the Tile-works. This family has since been an Werg ornament among the candidates for baptism. Both husband and shoy wife being able to read and write, learning was not difficult for them. Bng} ing Welu would read diligently, and it was gratifying to see him and his of b wife grow in knowledge. Soon everyone esteemed and loved them. givip They were baptized, his wife received the name Jael*, his daughter, by g 12 years of age, Caroline, the son, 7 years old, Devamitran, and the they little girl Ruth.” Whig Jemi; *In this connection we desire to enter a protest against the custom pre- We i vailing in some of our churches of ransacking the Bible, or the German and Nati English Dictionaries in order to find names for the new converts. We do not Mogt find that the Apostles of our Lord changed the names of their converts. We that find that even the names of Roman and Greek gods, such as Hermes, Apolle he \h 39 e To the hill-stations, Kaity and Kotageri, we may with some modifications apply the words written of the church of St M VD Judea, Galilee and Samaria after the conversion of Paul, Acts ..... : LAl WAl x, 31: “Then had the churches rest, and were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost were multiplied.” After the fierce persecution m some of them had to suffer for a time in 1892 and 1893, last year was a time of comparative rest and peace and at the JHi same time of outward growth. B n At Kotageri 12 people were received into the church by i baptism. My. Sikemeier writes: — (8 mt “The three young men, whose conversion we mentioned in last year’s report, were baptized on the 28th January 1894 at the Two of them, with Nilgiri Mission-anniversary. [ W AE Anniversary. two other Christian young men, were admitted into il i the Kaity School from which those that are sufficiently advanced IAE{. may soon enter the newly opened Seminary for Catechists. i In the The Mission-anniversary was a cheerful gathering. AL morning 200 Christians from both Kotageri and Kaity were as- i sembled in the church besides a few English Lady-residents from il Kotageri. Before the service began, there was a prayer-meeting, walling were retained. Why should we preter;rd to be wiser than the Apostles? Why g L should we assist in denationalizing our Christians by giving them Hebrew, il 1'.‘1'[. English and German names? Why should we be guilty of lowering in the o minds of our people the estimation they have or ought to have of the holy rite gl L of baptism by giving them cause to believe that baptism is only a ceremony of giving or changing names? Why should we demean ourselves and our converts ] L0 by giving our Christians names of persons whose society we should shun if il g ‘]l’{ﬂ' they were alive now, such as Thamar, Bathseba ? Why introduce foreign names il which to their bearers can have no meaning at all, such as Asuba, Kerenhapuch, Jemima, Methusala, Carolina, Abiathar, Abigail, or Samson, Michal, Absalom, We know that after this custom has been introduced by the Missionaries, the )] i Native Christians of some parts have now taken it up and sometimes select the T o most singular names for themselves or their children. But we are convinced (L] 10 that the custom can be and ought to be opposed by all right-minded persons T be they Missionaries or natives. il 40 e presided over by the Pastor. The service was conducted, and life baptism administered by myself and at the afternoon meeting add- Kl Miss resses were given by the Missionaries and Catechists alternating ‘with hymns and songs, sung by the congregation and the choirs. s | “On July 28th a Badaga family of 7 persons were baptized, the whose eldest son had already been received into the church on the Stof 28th January. They had been wavering at first and at one time then were ready to return into caste, but afterwards they became firmer cam and after having received instruction for several months, they were wer baptized. witt “In September the mother and 4 brothers and sisters of two of (an, our young men joined us, several years after those young men had he | come to Christ:” . Kai Was Into the Kaity church 18 persons, ]4 adults and 4 children Wit were admitted by baptism. We are sure it is with the deepest 568 interest that our readers will peruse Myr. Liitze’s report of hea two of the conversions as they most graphically describe on to us the struggles which Badagas have to go through in bro becoming Christians on the one hand, and the power of aly the Word of God on the other. he; My. Liitze writes :— Wt (o “Strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for many, I say unto off you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able ; Luke xiii, 24. The ba; old moonshee Kackamalle of Kaity was one whose thy Saved at last. striving lasted for many years, and it was only just 10, before the shutting of the gate, that he succeeded in 18 entering. How many Missionaries, working on the Nilgiris, or fa staying there for a change, have known and loved the meek little W man with his honest face. How many Missionaries and Missionary fa Ladies were assisted by him in learning the Badaga language, or ha Canarese and Tamil, while he on his part received something from hi them which fascinated him in a strange way and would not let him i alone, viz.: the message of salvation. It was in a school opened by W Mr. Casamajor, a pensioned judge, who passed the last years of his €x 41 . and life at this place and became the founder of our Nilgiri Mission, add Eackamalla received the first impression of the truth, and ander the ting Missionaries Mo"ri?ce, Biihrer, Metz, and Wenger he not only increased 0118, his store of worldly knowledge, but grew also in the knowledge of While serving the later missionaries Gundert, Hesse, ied, the trath. | the Stokes, Koehler, Layer and others as a moonshee, and accompanying fime them on preaching tours, the call to take hold of salvation in Christ came to him again and again with increasing power. Many prayers rmer Were were offered to the throne of graee on his behalf or together His brother, when with him, but family ties held him fast. vo of dangerously ill, took refuge in the missionhouse in order to had be baptized before his death and to die as a Christian. But the Kaity Badagas carried him away by force. Under no circamstances was he to die as a Christian. In 1877 Kackmalla’s wife died, and Jren with her the obstacle which had been in his way up to that time pest seemed to be removed, and it was hoped that he would break with b of heathenism. But he delayed, and his relations put another fetter ribe on him by marrying him to the widow of his deceased brother who 1 brought several children into his house in addition to those he of already had. They were so many new ties that held him fast to heathenism. But the desire after salvation could not be suppressed within him. Every evening he would read the Bible and pray to God with a loud voice generally in the presence of his children; nto often he would come to divine service on Sundays and from the The baptism of new converts he was rarely absent. Again and again the gracious call of God reached him, warning him not to delay and 1086 not to neglect the salvation of his soul. So especially in December jus’s iin 1887 when his third son Konga, a pupil of our school and his father’s pet, then about 14 years old, wished to become a Christian. 0f ftle We thought this would be welcome news to the father and would ary facilitate his own conversion; the more so as a few weeks before he had come to my room asking me to join him in prayer and to give 0r om him a blessing. How great was our surprise and how painful our il disappointment when Kackamalla, on being informed that his son was with me and wished to become a Christian, came in great by excitement, burst into tears and lamentations, prostrated himself at it} 6 e 42 his son’s feet, embraced his knees, and in a voice choked with sobs the and tears implored him to return with him to his home and to post- any pone becoming a Christian till the whole family would also become me Christians ; they would all come together and not separately. After Y10 some hours the father’s tears and prayers shook his son’s resolution fo1 and induced him to postpone his conversion. The outcome was, el that after a time, he became an adversary of Christ and a stumb- fo | ling-block to his father. Years passed. Kackamalla remained the the same, he was fond of hearing and reading the Word of God and as ole: fully convinced of its truth as he was satisfied that sooner or later hac he would become a Christian, though it might be on his deathbed- to About a year ago he fell ill with dropsy and was declining rapidly. Cus I went to see him; but as he could not see me I sent him as a Th message the parable, Luke xiii, 6—9, promising that the verses sta 8 and 9 should be my prayer for him. He recovered and after a ol few days he came to see me and to tell me that the parable of the o fig-tree and my message had deeply affected him and that he would sel not die as a heathen. Still he delayed; he was afraid of losing his Ma children. His wife, who is known to be an obstinate woman, had ang dhreatened to throw herself into the tank together with her younger Cay children if he should become a Christian; and he feared she would hel carry out her threat. Wa “He had one more warning from the Lord. In January 1894 the two Badaga youths of Kaity-village came and expressed their desire Pyl to become Christians. Both had been impressed by the Word of God in our school. Tet One was Andy, Kackamalla’s step-son and nephew, 0n the other Naré, the son of a Badaga who is himself an inquirer; the hig latter therefore raised no serious objections, and was only forced into brc opposition to his son’s wishes by his wife and her relations, violent Pl people who had come together from different villages for the purpose. Nor did Kackamalla oppose the intention of his nephew ; but his wife, her brother and other relations were very violent, and we had great the il difficulty in protecting the youths from violence in our school. It €0y was alleged that the lads were not yet old enough to act for them- selves and I was threatened that the police would be brought upon fry ho me, if I did not send them away from the mission-compound. I said al il $0bs the two lads were perfectly free to leave the mission-compound at Dost- any moment, but the Master in whose service I was had not taught come me to drive them away, and I was bound to protect them against After violence while they were here. Nor had the police any lawfal right ution ‘Whether the lads to interfere as they were above 14 years of age. was, were 18 years old and free to act by themselves or not, would have umb- to be decided by the magistrate; but only the lawful protectors of ] the the lads, their fathers, had any right to interfere. I told Kackamalla 1 48 clearly that only he, the lawful protector of Andy and nobody else lafer had a claim on him. But seeing the dilemma he was in, he declared hed: to the astonishment of everybody and quite contrary to Badaga idly. custom, that not he, but his wife’s brother had a claim on Andy. a8 Then the relations went to the police. On a Saturday the Head Con- erses stable with two policemen came and asked me to deliver the lads or & up to him. As he had no warrant to show he was told that the lads f the would not be delivered to him but that they were free to go by them- ould selves. He sent a message to the Inspector of Police at Coonoor, a g his Mahommedan, who on Sunday evening drove up in a coach and pair had and tried to make me believe that I was liable to be prosecuted, be- nger cause I could not prove that the lads were above 16. He would not ould believe my objection, that the boys being above 14 no prosecation was possible, and took the lads away to Coonoor. But when he placed 894 them before the District Surgeon, the Surgeon told him, that he, the Naré oite Police Inspector, did not know the law and sent him away. (od returned to us a few weeks afterwards and was baptized with others hiew, on June 10th. Andy was kept away and his fate seems to be that of Whether Kackamalla had any hand in these : the his brother Konga. nto proceedings is doubtful; he denied it, but several Badagas said the plent proceedings had his sanction. “Here was then a new disappointment. Was the long struggle in 056 ¢ Wifea the mind of Kackamalla for the entrance into the kingdom of God to end thus? Was all the intercession for him and the struggle in ;reat It communion with him, who was so far advanced in the knowledge of ot truth and in his desire after salvation, to be of no avail? Was it 1ol possible that he after all was to remain outside as one of the fearful said and unbelieving of whom we read Rev. xxi, 87 His health was 6* 4 R declining; we did what we could for his relief, but his people did VIO sfal not come for medicine as often as before All of a sudden we heard liid] the rumour that his relatives had taken him to Coimbatore and placed him into the hospital After he had been there a forinicht. I was bay hie surprised one day by receiving a letter from my brother-in-law wh Dr. Licbendoerfer at Calicut, informing me that Kackamalla, on the evening of the 3rd April had driven up to the Mission-hospital at Ab Calicut and asked for admittance. his He was recognized and at once admitted. He had high fever and sat down on his bed with these anl words: ‘\Tever mind now though I die here, if T am only saved, tio all is well. do “He sent us word, that while he was in the hospital at Coimbatore of his relations and caste people had notwithstanding the great P distance from Kaity, so often come to trouble him, that he longzed to fi be far away and resolved to seek admittance to the Mission hospital an at Calicut, of which he knew His son-in-law agreed to his request Jilt and seeing him so well cared for, left Calicut for Kaity ‘When he JUt returned, the news that Kackamalla was in the Mission-hospital at n Calicut and would become a Christian, spread like wild fire through he the Kaity valley and even to villages ten and twelve miles distant to In the Kaity village several Badagas, his third son Konga among hi them, at once prepared to set out for Calicut the next day, to fetch him back and to prevent his turning a Christian When they arrived fi at the Mission-hospital. however, on the 7th they were satisfied that D Kackamalla was too weak to be taken back, and returned the next day. After their departure my brother and sister told him the joyful news from a letter of mine, that his second son Jogi, who was ill like his father, had come into our compound to become a Christian E Jogi had long entertained the desire to become a Christian and had come to tell us of it a few days before the arrival of the news that his father had gone to Calicut His young wife had pitilessly left her sick husband and returned to her parents The old man was greatly pleased with this piece of good news and began seriously to prepare himself for baptism Meanwhile the daily persecution of his sick son by his heathen relatives were in progress and Jogi’s § younger brother Konga was prominent among the persecutors He SR EE 45 ) id wrote letters to Jogi and myself threatening us with legal action. The eard state of health however of both the father and his son Jog: gave little hope of reéovery, so baptism was hastened. The father was aced Was baptizad by Mr. Lauffer at Calicut on the 11th May and on the 13th law he partook of the Lord’s Supper with the whole congregation for the which purpose he was led by two men to the neighbouring church. 1 at About the same time Jogi also urgently begged to be baptized, seeing He also was led to the church e his earthly life was so uncertain. 1656 and on Whitsunday the 13th May received baptism under deep emo- ved, tion and a hearty, childlike faith. He was afterwards by his own desire taken to the hospital at Ootacamund. Neither his own state 0re of health nor that of his father at Calicut showed any signs of im- The Lord hastened to take both, father and son, 164 provement. from this world of grief and strife to the realms of joy and peace; 1 to ital and both of them were transferred to their eternal home on the same 65t night, the night of the 25/26th May, the father in the Mission-hos- pital at Calicut, the son in the hospital at Ootacamund. Both died he ab in peace. The father had been joyfully looking forward to his going home and when he could no longer speak, again and again pointed gh to heaven; the son had been seen praying on his knees shortly before nf his death. g “Jogi’s dead body was carried by the elder students of our school ¢h from Ootacamund, accompanied with singing of hymns, to Kaity and od placed in the earth as the first seed-corn from the heathen Kaity village. Kackamalla had evinced a great desire to see his children ; before his death and sent a message to Kaity requesting his son Konga to come and see him. 'When the Hospital Assistant asked (0 him the reason why he longed so much to see Konga he said, he d repented having restrained him from becoming a Christian some years ago, would ask his pardon and encourage him now to /S come to the Lord together with his younger brothers and sisters. Kackamalla confessed also that he had done wrong in preventing his step-son and nephew from becoming a Christian, but he knew that the Lord had graciously forgiven him all. Konga, his eldest brother Nanda, Kackamalla’s son-in-law, and brother-in-law, and old Isaiah hastened to Calicut on the evening of the arrival of the 46 e telegram, but found him dead and could only attend his funeral. bloo God be praised for having permitted Kackamalla to succeed in enter- nfo ing the strait gate after years of struggle and despite of so many poir obstacles!” He N6 B. Disappointments. W 0] Though it is very gratifying to see that so many come to by ¢ Christ, and that the desire to join the Christian church is not only found in the low castes, where at times the wish to better Wil one’s secular condition prompts that desire, but also in the higher castes and among those whose circumstances are such hap chay as to preclude any suspicion of that kind, yet our experi- our ences have not been without the alloy of many disappoint- ments. gav To Myr. Weismann of Chombala, for instance, writes:— said hod “The most painfal of our disappointments was that which was caused by Chattu Nayer, the educated young man mentioned above, his A Backslider. who after having tested all the religious systems of hah whi his nation—he had been Vishnuite, Shivaite, Sanyasi and Pantheist—had sought truth, forgiveness of sins and salvation wel in Christ. He had matriculated from the Calicut Mission School, had he attended the Bible-lessons there; but held that the Christians pre- of ¢ tended only to be in possession of the true religion. After his con- version he received two or three hours’ daily instruction from me. of ; He was thirsting for knowledge and the greater part of the Bible was read with him. I enjoyed the exercise, for the young man would Wit} follow me with uncommon interest and would often exclaim : ‘What hig divine wisdom!” especially when in the Epistles he found an answer hut to inquiries for which in the shastras he had looked in vain. But the there was one rock on which his new faith might suffer ship-wreck ; the he could not but see, how many Christians acted contrary to the 1g la commandments of Christ. That caused him much grief. ‘How’ he ang would say, ‘how can children of God act like that; are they not Wy afraid of dishonouring Him, who has saved them by shedding His My A 47 ral blood? In baptism he chose the name Thomas He was admitted for. into the Training School at Nettur, and two months afterwards ap- any pointed as an Assistant Master in the Middle School at Vaniyankulam He wrote me a letter full of gratitude and informed me of the joyful news that Mr. Hole had judged him worthy to teach the precious Word of God. A few weeks afterwards we were painfully surprised 10 by the news that Z%omas had disappeared n0f Regarding his disappearance Mr. Hole of Vaniyankulam writes :— for the “Thomas came here in July last, a few months after having been ek baptized at Chombala, furnished with good testimonials as to his character and abilities as a teacher Judging by appearances in eIl our personal intercourse with him, and from the biblical lessons he it gave in school, he had become a Christian from mature conviction To our utter astonishment on the morning of August 20th it was said that Thomas had disappeared without saying a word to any- body or leaving behind him anything in writing Inquiries about as his whereabouts were made but without avail. It is however pro- 76, bable that the dangerous leaven of Vedantism (Indian Pantheism) 5 of which he had formerly imbibed, combined with the influence of his 1481 We are sure well-to-do relations was the cause of his defection. on he could not thus have relapsed without great struggle and qualms jad of conscience 14 il A disappointment of a different kind My. Weismann writes ¢l 25 follows:— 16 “We also lost a noble Hmdu lady of rank who had joined us ble As soon as we heard of the ald with her three boys and three girls high rank of her relatives we began to fear for her and her children, ha but we took courage on learning that her elder brother, the head of yer Juk the family, who by right of succession prevailing in Malabar, had Her the only lawful claim on the children, approved of her step 'k relatives came I want salvation for my soul he The lady who said and here I can find it’, was ridiculed, scorned and cursed and we he At last the elder brother to whom were threatened with a lawsuit 108 Mr. Weismann had written arrived He confirmed the statements is 48 of his sister, but declared: ‘I cannot ecarry it through; I have to WO) hear my powerful relations, they would ruin me.’ We had the grief ass of seeing the noble woman with her lovely children go away again. Bet Our only comfort was, that she went away in tears saying: ‘We shall come again yet.’ A few days ago I had a letter from the brother of the lady informing me that he and his family intended to Gior join our community at Will he have courage enough at the ma; decisive moment ?”’ fol " C. Temporal condition of our Church-members. ste} In the Southern Mahratta country and on the Nilgiris atte most of our Christians carry on their trade or cultivate their lands independently of the Mission, many of the Christians belonging to the centres Udipi and Mulky, Kasaragod, Ananda- lity pur, Calicut, Codacal, Palghat are also farmers; whereas in int the towns Mangalore, Cannanore, Tellicherry and Calicut s and at Codacal, Chombala and Palghat the majority of the tim church-members are dependent for their maintenance on als the work they find in the weaving-factories, tile-works etec. conj Rs established by the Mission. We may therefore safely say that with few exceptions all our Christians who are willing and ng able to work can earn their livelihood. Many are poor, very poor indeed, but some, by intelligence, industry and thrift, have attained a certain independence. gy We give a few extracts of reports to illustrate these statements. I8 g Ukl Of Guledgudd Mr. Eisfelder reports:— the “Most of our people in the town of Guledgudd are weavers, those theg in the out-stations are farmers, they earn their own living but often tig} a very poor living at best.” arg Pastor Salomon Bhaskar at Bettigeri reports:— Proy 0r “Most of our people, even widows, earn their own living generally amg by weaving, two or three families only are farmers or day-labourers. g Of the weavers eight or ten families have their own looms, the rest e 49 st e vé {0 work in the employ of others. Only in cases of illness they require gtief assistance.— At Shagoti and Malasamudra, out-stations belonging to gain, Bettigeri the Christians are mostly farmers, a few are day-labourers.” ‘We My. Kessler reports from Mangalore:— 1 the od to “In Mangalore much satisfaction has been felt that Mr. Rama Rao, Government Pleader, a member of our church, was elected chair- t the man of the Municipal Council. The dire calamities, predicted to befall him for becoming a Christian, viz.: that he would lose his property and the regard of everybody and would live to repent the 8 step, have not only been averted but prosperity and success have attended him instead.” giris their Of the Cannanore church Mr. Ostermeyer writes:— Hians “For the Christians the year was a time of unprecedented morta- nda- lity ; above b per cent (26) of the church-members were cut off mostly 5 1 in the prime of life, and there was no epidemic disease raging among licu us It was a time of visitation of the Lord Himself, followed by a " the time of rifting, which not only led to several excommunications but also to remewing of spiritual life, thereby causing us joy and en- ol gfe couragement. We would here gratefully mention the donation of that Rs. 10-2-4 for the benefit of the Malabar Widow Fund by His Highness the Rajah of Chirakal.” and Mr. Frohnmeyer of Tellicherry writes:— very “As regards the temporal condition of our church, we would ift mention that all the members earn their own living, and that there 08 is scarcely one who needs assistance while in health. Still, it is a matter for regret that most, if not all, of our weavers are indebted to the heathen from whom they buy their provisions. They regard these debts in the light of mere business transactions and perfectly ;hose right, yet this indebtedness is a mischievous evil, because the debtors often are the slaves of their creditors: they are forced to buy all their provisions at a disadvantage and to accept goods of inferior quality or insufficient measure at high prices. We have a few families among those who are better situated, as well as among the poor, who pally rers: gradually learn to arrange their temporal concerns in a manner becoming to Christians.” rest -1 50 Pastor Jonas Padiath of Calicut writes: — an “The temporal condition of our church-members gives us cause for Po thankfulness. Twenty-five years ago not a single family had their fof own house; all the Christians of that time were here as strangers and had been converted in this town. But now there are no less than 65 Christian heads of families who live in their own houses, and some possess two or three houses which they let to other Christians, so that altogether 79 houses are in the possession of our church- am members. Eighteen of these have also their own compounds. For i eve thus prospering our people both in their spiritual and temporal con- cerns, we desire to praise the mercy and faithfulness of our God.” the sluy From the report of the Pastor of the Codacal church Rev. Nathanael Arukandan we give the following extract:— WOy “Regarding the temporal condition of the church-members we have ra he ¢ to be grateful for the great help afforded to them by the Tile-factory and the branch of the Weaving-factory. For the married women we We should wish a different kind of employment by which they would not pict be kept away the whole day from their household duties. ‘We would suggest the making of fibres and ropes from the cakum of the cocoa- o nut-shell, a work which is already practised by many women in this duyg country and gives them more leisure and liberty. It is a great latte drawback that many of our people are indebted to the Mapla shop- keepers, who extort interest at the rate of one Anna per week on the every Rupee borrowed. This amounts to 325 per cent per annum. for | fing Ill-treatment and dishonour are at times offered by their creditors to our people, especially to women. Some time ago it happened one Suffy morning that a Mapla struck a Christian widow on her way to liveg work at the factory, causing her to fall to the ground. He took ang ; away her upper garment, because she owed him four Annas. The coug Mapla was afterwards summoned before a Magistrate and fined 20 L] amOh Rs. for his assault.” 6,345 “We gratefully acknowledge the charitable gifts of éeveral Christian and other friends on behalf of our poor Christians. Canty Chlde Messrs. Schlunk at Marakattakunna and the gentlemen and con- Oﬁenc tractors in their employ, the brethren at Manjeri, several officers Aol istan e, 51 and private soldiers of the regiment at Malapuram, the brethren at for Ponani and other stations and several Hmdu friends gave according 161L to their ability.” and N han D. Spiritual State of the Churches and = 218, There are not a few readers of missionary reports, both among Europeans and Indians, who dislike to hear anythin rch For disparaging in respect of Indian churches We should how- bol: ever be found false witnesses if we disguised the fact, that 49 there are cases of backsliding, of lukewarmness, of spiritual slumber and even of death in our churches To deny this Mh would be to deprive our churches of the help and intercessory 476 prayer of other Christians or Christian churches which may be enlisted by an honest statement of the facts as they exist. fory 176 We shall therefore as usual try to present both sides of the picture. 108 To mention the worst features first we mourn over 8 yuld 00% people, who were either excommunicated: from the church fhis during the past year, or left it of their own accord. These reat latter cases are most frequent in the Tulu churches, and in hop the out-stations of Guledgudd, where there is little difficulty ; 00 for those that are dissatisfied with the Christian church to um find re-admittance into their former caste But. there 15 a s §0 sufficiently large number of those, who by their unchristian 0né lives gave offence to the church as well as to Non-Christians, v {0 took and in spite of repeated admonition, warning and discipline could not be brought to repentance Then there are at present, The 20 among the 11,963 baptized members of the church, besides 6,342 communicants and 5,479 children, 142 non-communi- cants, that is, men or women who have been temporarily ex- oral A1 cluded from full membership on account of some grievous oD offence against the Word of God and the rules of the church cers or long continued objectionable behaviour and refractoriness 7% 52 There is a great number, however, of such as keep aloof from heathen vices, lead unobjectionable Christian lives, and are a stie light in the surrounding darkness. They use the means of hele grace, attend divine service and private prayer-meetings, have family-prayer in their houses, contribute to the church- thir of ¢ expenses, the poor, and the Mission cheerfully and regularly. dan At the side of the bed of the sick and dying especially, the reality of the Christian faith and hope of such becomes mani- pre fest. Others are less diligent in their duties and require a the good deal of admonition. It is to be regretted that a party- 800 spirit is found in not a few churches, which often hinders the hea blessing of the Lord, and is a source of great annoyance and grief to church-members and their Pastors. In many of the 1mer for : churches the Native Presbyters or Elders are a great help to the Péstor. A few extracts will serve to illustmte these hell general remarks. byt alee Myr. Digel writes from Mulky:— his of b “'I;hough we Missionaries are terﬁpted to sigh and complain that of b we labour in vain and spend our strength for nought, we are privileged again and again to witness that the Word of God has its Two Deathbeds. effects even on the hearts of the Tulu-people. There is the case of N. N. His house is not of thay the best, and the minds of its inmates hanker too much after the ‘When however his wife was on her deathbed, ing things of this world. she accused herself of having committed many grievous sins, but Was truly repented. She placed her hope on Jesus Christ only, and putting her faith on Him as her Saviour she fell asleep in peace.— The Here in Mulky there was a girl, aged 17 years, of feeble health but able to do easy work. She was laid on a long and tedious bed of You sickness. But she bore the severest pain with marvellous patience. When her end approached, her face was radiant; her joyful longing tear for Jesus Christ sweetened the pain of death. There was real com- Conf fort in her death.” ot Dl 53 e e [om My. Ritter reports of some of the out-stations of Udipi:— 6 a “The members of the Shirwa church love the House of God and aOf stick to the custom of passing their sabbath in it They feel that they JAYE belong to one another and are also willing, if necessary, to do some- reh thing for the church They took part, for instance, in the renovation of the Catechist house But some of the church-members are in 1y the danger of being deceived by covetousness “At Ambady poverty, both in temporal and spiritual matters is the ant prevailing feature In two cases Christians, when sick, sought for 16 & the help of the demons instead of the living God ; but there are also iy good Christians among them even among the poor, who detest the heathen abominations and love the Word of God and “At Madambeil the Catechist has succeeded in giving the church- the members an interest in their church and of creating a desire to work for it D t0 They were the first who collected the money for a church- bell Here also, we are sorry to say, the help of demons was sought hese by the relatives of a sick person But when the sick young man, already on the point of death, heard of the matter, he summoned all his remaining strength to protest against it ave strong testimony of his faith in Christ and prayed aloud for the salvation of the souls that of his own relatives and the people of his village 419 516 Of Anandapur in Coorg Mr. Fischer writes :— ople “Small as this church is, numbering only 170 souls, no fewer of of than 19 persons died during the past two years, most of them were the in the prime of life, between the ages of 20 and 50 1bed “A young man who had looked forward hopefully into the future pub was suddenly seized by a fatal disease which disappointed all his and hopes Hard as it seemed to him at the beginning 0 The Deathbed of this time of suffering, to reconcile himself to God’ of a 1 bu young Man ways, he at last joyfully submitted to the will of God . of and longed to be transferred from this valley of o100 tears to the realms of bliss With a sad hearj, yet full of hope he confessed : |0'm0 ‘Few and evil have the days of my life been and have L not attained unto the days of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage, but I have obtained mercy.’ 54 St “A few weeks ago the oldest member of our church died at the Wea fore An old Man age of 63 years. He had been for many years an elder of our church; but a few years ago he resigned also dying. - because he found he could no longer do the work. of 0 He was of a quiet and peaceful disposition, with a cheerful and attractive face. In his office as an Elder he was always a help fo the Missionary and showed a good example to others.—As in health e} so during his sickness, he was grateful for every word of love and ecomfort. sy He had received grace and peace from the Lord and was grig fearlessly looking forward to the future. Only with respect to his last grown-up children he wished he had done more in the way of exhortation and advice. ‘Alas,” he complained, ‘I ought to exhort disp ont my children earnestly to walk in the fear of the Lord, but I cannot speak for weakness.’ He died without any struggle, quietly and in afte 0n peace; and we comforted ourselves with the assurance that a child afte of God had fallen asleep in the Lord, and was now at rest in the arms of his Father until the day of his blissful resurrection.” S6Y¢ My. Ostermeyer of Cannanore writes:— hou “The division of our church into districts allotted to the different onl Presbyters has proved useful. They superintend the weekly prayer- an( meetings in their respective districts watch over the young during OOI]i Quarrels and their leisure hours, visit the sick, assist the poor. alto brawls are .generally settled by the Presbyter with the help of a We colleague, before they come to the knowledge of the Minister. are not in lack of men, who are willing to do the work of the Lord Frib Ing among Christians and Non-Christians of their station. But we are all in need of a richer measure of the spirit of God. May the Lord pour it upon us all abundantly!” o My. Bader of Tellicherry writes of the church in the town it of Tellicherry:— thir “The attendance at divine service was good throughout; especial- tau ly so at the Lord’s Supper The church-dues were paid regularly, heg About and in most cases, as far as I could observe, willingly. they Rs. 10 were contributed on an average by each family. Of grievous the sins that came to light we had only one case; but there is still much Sue 55 e b the weakness. The disposition to envy, hatred and strife between dif- [§ an ferent families is hard to be eradicated. But to our gratification we gned also had striking proofs Qf the work of the Holy Spirit in the hearts Tork. of our members.”’ and And of the church at Nettur near Tellicherry Mr. Frohn- Ip fo meyer reports:— galth “Concerning the spiritual state of our church we are sorry fto and say that we had to excommunicate several individuals on account of | Was grievous sins, and that some of the women that joined the church o his last year, have given a good deal of trouble by their quarrelsome ) of disposition; but there are redeeming features also; divine service is chott on the whole pretty well attended in the mornings, but less so in the ot afternoons. As the women could not come to the week-day service nd in on Wednesday morning, a Bible-class was begun for them in the child afternoon, whichis very well attended. ) the “The young men have formed a Y. M. C. A., and we have also several flourishing Sunday-schools on the Nettur-hill and the neigh- bourhood, which under the superintendence of Mr. Eekm are carried on by our Christian Schoolmasters and the pupils of the Theological orent and Training Colleges. There is likewise some improvement in the ayer- ring contributions to the church, the mission and the poor which amount altogether to Rs. 591-11-8. and of 4 “The Native Elders have been a great help in collecting the con- tributions, they also make house-to-house visits; some conduct even- We . ing-prayer in houses where there is no one able to read.” Lord ) are Pastor John Padiath reports of the Calicut church:— Lod “The attendance at divine service on Sunday mornings has im- proved, but the attendance at the catechisations in the afternoons is often very scanty, and the number of those who really hunger and qn thirst after the Word of God is very small. That is no doubt the Several who had oial- cause of so much quarrelling and disobedience. become an offence to the church, had to be excommunicated. But atlfy there are those also, whose life and death are such as to strengthen pout the faith and courage of those engaged in the service of the church. y0us Such a one was dear brother David Wachalan, who closed his pilgri- ﬂﬂGh - e 56 mage on July 31st 1894, He was the son of a Nayer and was born Word in Travancore. When Rama Nayer was still a young man a desire day to see foreign countries caused him secretly to leave his home and Word to wander to the North. that On his way back he heard the Gospel and the desire to become a Christian awoke in his heart. At Codacal Verse he was admitted as a candidate for baptism and baptized. After- week wards he found work in the Weaving-factories at Cannanore and chapt (4 Mangalore and in 1868 he was made head-man of the Calicut factory, and | and 1874 even Presbyter. After a short time, however, he resigned his Presbytership because his conscience accused him on account of and 2 secret sins. ‘Want of wateh- He confessed and found forgiveness. and | fulness and prayer occasioned a second fall. But the Lord had paid mercy on him and brought the lost sheep back a second time. for ¢ From that time he followed his Lord faithfully, fought against sin chu and was diligent in attending divine service. When he was not detained by sickness he would attend every service, and rarely was he absent from the Lord’s Supper. Naturally of a hasty temper, he | was however always ready to confess and to ask forgivgness where he had offended. ‘When at last consumption prevented him from of th leaving his house the Word of God and its promises were his educ; comfort; and holding fast at all times to the assurance that his sins listig had been forgiven him, he had not to struggle much against doubts. iS an It was apparent to every visitor that the assurance, that the Lord lifp had saved him, was the cause of his cheerfulness. ‘When shortly idle before his death Non-Christian friends came to see him, he testified the { in their presence that by faith in the sacrifice of Christ he had Seho complete forgiveness of his sins, and was quite ready and longing to igng go to his Redeemer who had so dearly loved him; and he encourag- ed them to be baptized and thus to become partakers in the atone- of {f ment of Christ. Soon afterwards he fell asleep in the peace of his will Saviour.” to b( esta) Catechist KWZ»Satyanathan, who is in charge of the Huli- the | kal, out-station near Kaity, writes:— -Call; “I have been much cheered to see, that many of our church- fort members are keeping close to the Lord, and meditating ‘upon His Drec 57 LR born ‘Word together with their families, and having prayers véry regularly dosire day and night. It is not only the desire which they show for the e and Word of God and prayer that is the cause of my joy, but the fact | and that old and young daily sacrificed some hours to learn by heart dacal verses from the Book of the Psalms, which they recite to me once a After- week in the afternoon service. In this way they have learnt many ) and chapters and show an earnest desire to continue the same. cfory, “Sunday services are regularly attended both in the mornings igned and afternoons by those that are living at a distance even of two int of and a half miles from the station. To those that are scattered here ateh and there at a distance of five and seven miles, regular visits were | had paid by me and prayer-meetings conducted in their houses, whereas time, for the Holy Communion service they are required to attend the church.” st sin : § 00 WA 3. Education. 1, he We purpose under this head to treat of education asone here from of the agencies for building up the church; in short of the education of our Christian youth. Education as an evange- his listic agency will be treated of farther on. Convinced that it 510 ubts. is an essential duty of every church, a condition of its very life-and progress to “feed the lambs” and knowing, that it is Lord ortly idle to expect that this duty can be properly attended to in ified the family, we do the utmost in our power to establish Primary had Schools in all our churches so that even the poorest and most e t0 ignorant may be brought up in the nurture and admonition u-ag, of the Lord and may receive that amount of education that b0ne- will enable them to read and understand the Word of God and f bis to become intelligent members of their church. We have also established Secondary Schools and Seminaries or Colleges for Jul the higher education and training of Mission-agents who are _called to take part in the great commission of our Lord to go forth and teach all nations. For this we have the ancient But we 1@' fis precedent of the church at Alexandria and others. 8 58 e differ are unable to agree with those, who hold that it is the duty of the Missionary Societies in Europe and America to educate SChO! of m indiscriminately all their Christian converts, even those who do not intend to enter Mission-service, up to the highest a8 W standards of collegiate education. thoge have Our Christian schools may thus be classified under the three heads: Primary Schools, Secondary Schools including Prin Training Schools, and Theological Seminaries or Colleges. e & cone 1) Primary Schools. and | The list of our Primary Schools for Christians shows one school more than last year, that at the Syrian village of Chala- illa; sheri a new out-station of Codacal, lately given into our charge. wher The total number of children in our schools shows an increase by o of 46 (including 14 infants) over last year. The grade of these child schools varies considerably in the different localities; in remote such villages it is sometimes not possible to have more than two usefy or three standards, whereas in town-schools 4 or 5 standards still- are taught and one or two secondary classes are generally Seem added. Thesubjects taughtare those of the standards prescribed vants by the Government Educational Department, besides Bible- scho history and Bible-reading, committing to memory of Bible-texts, arg ¢ the catechism and hymns. The hymns the children are to Rs taught to sing, are either translations of German or English grati hymns or original productions sung to German or English thop tunes. In some districts, especially in the Southern Mahratta We | country they begin the study of English after having passed at unde least four Vernacular standards; in the Madras Presidency lag | the managers of schools are forced under the Government system Such to begin English in the very first standard, so that very young Secy] children (at least those that afterwards intend to frequent Asy Anglo-Vernacular Schools) are forced to master not only the org three R’s in their mother-tongue, but in two or even three the 5 59 S e S different languages. Such forinstance is the case in our Primary ufy ncate Schools in the District of Mangalore, where the mother-tongue of most of our Christian children is Tulu, a dialect differing who as. widely from Canarese as Dutch does from German. In ghest those schools three languages, Tulu, Canarese and English have to be taught even in the first and second standards of r the Primary Schools. Though we entirely disapprove of this system, ding we are obliged to conform to it, because schools that do not conform to the rules are not acknowledged by Government, and their pupils are not admitted to Government Examinations. 5 0ne The attendance in these schools is not always good in remote hala villages and hamlets of the agricultural districts especially, where the value of a Christian education is not yet appreciated 186, 1ease by our Christians, and where the help of even the smaller In these children is important in rendering help to the family. mote such cases to send a child to school (even a girl) who might be ) two usefully employed in tending a goat or a cow or looking after the Jards still younger children of the family, and to pay for its education seems a clear loss to many of the villagers instead of an ad- nally ;'ibed vantage. Besides day-schools we have a number of boarding Bible schools or orphanages, into which children of church-members are admitted on payment of a boarding fee varying from Rs. 2 tQXtS’ ) a16 to Rs.24 per annum, while destitute children are admitted 1gli$h gratis. In these orphanages the teaching is generally more thorough and rises to a higher standard than in day-schools. 1gli8h ratta We have not found that the policy of placing our schools ed ab under the Government Grant-in-aid system as soon as possible, has been prejudicial to the religious instruction imparted in Jency such schools; for where the children are more advanced in stel oung secular subjects they are also better up in religious knowledge. As a matter of course the spiritual condition of a school, its 1u€ﬂt moral tone and religious character depend almost entirely on f the {hree the spiritual and religious state of its master. The present 8* 60 s policy of the Educational Department in the Madras Presi- On § dency of insisting upon English being taught in the lowest daily have standards even of primary schools, will, we fear, operate against the development of such. In the Bombay Presidency, broa hete however, no native child is permitted to begin with English 1810 before it has had at least four years’ schooling in his mother- he ¢ tongue.‘ Infant Schools. We must not forget to mention that at Mangalore, Udipi, pare Cannanore, Nettur-Tellicherry, Calicut and at the Tile-works Boax of Pudiarakal, Codacal and Paraperi, Infant Schools according of £ Sou to the Kindergarten-system have been established. Some of them have been in progress for years, some have been recently opened. These prove very useful at places where many mothers 14th are obliged by sheer necessity to work in the field or to seek m1se employment in factories, leaving their little children at home. §C Lo As an instance of the way in which these Infant Schools are Tetu] generally managed we give the history of one of them. mar st ud Mr. Gitz of Udipi writes:— ¢hilg “On the 3rd July 1893 Mrs. Gétz opened an Infant school. b A Christian girl of good character was her assistant. The verandah t i of the mission-house served as school-room, a few kerosene oil boxes lu] divided into halves and joined together formed a sand-box or table a§ ) at which a party of little children played with sand, while another ol eal party played with building-blocks. A swing fastened to the lintel of €x f a door gave occupation to a third party, a fourth were shown Bible- pictures and listened to Bible-stories which the girl told them. . Christmas brought toy wheel-barrows to the boys and dolls to the girls and gave them great delight. After play from 7t09. 30 a. M., pnisy and a walk or run in the open air, they have a few short lessons, the‘ singing, Bible-stories, learning Bible-texts, object lessons or gymna- EXay a0 stics etc., each lesson lasting not more than a quarter of an hour. ¢ 61 B Dres- On the first da.y%\23 children came; the number increased almost owest daily and after 6 months it was 46. Then it became necessary to erate have a separate building. A structure, 34 feet long and 32 feet broad was erected under the trees of the mission-compound where ency, glish there is room enough for the children to run about and to play, and is now the happy home of the little ones for a considerable part of ther- the day.” Bdarding Schools and Orphanaées. The present numbers being comparatively small, and many parents too poor to pay fully for the boarding of their children, Jdipi, rorks Boarding Schools and Orphanages are united. There are two rdip § of these institutions, one for girls, in each of the provinces Southern Mahratta, Malabar and on the Nilgiris. 16 The boys educated in the orphanages, after reaching their ent J >£hers 14th year, either return to their parents, or if they show pro- mise of fitness for mission service, are promoted to a higher sock school or apprenticed to some trade. The girls that do not J0Me6 y are return to their parents either stay in the Orphanage till they marry or go to service, or are sent to a secondary school to study for a teachership. In each of the Orphanages the children have to do the household-work themselves; the girls do their own cooking and washing, and are taught needle-work hool. by the Missionary Lady and the matron or schoolmistress. At ndab Mulky the girls do a great deal of agricultural work, such hoxes table as planting, reaping, manuring the paddy-fields, threshing and cleaning the paddy and rice and the like. We now give a few other tel of extracts from the reports of the managers. 3ible- My. Sikemeier of Kotageri on the Nilgiris writes:— then: the “In February the combined Orphanage and Parochial School, com- prising all standards from the infant to the sixth standard, closed 5.0 My 19008 the year very successfully. Of 49 pupils only five failed in the examination. The majority passed in the first class, and we received mné- a grant of Rs. 340.” houf. 62 then Mrs. Sikemeier writes:— the | “Three of our girls left, one to be married, one to go to service neck and one to return #o her parents. In their stead 9 girls, 6 Badaga Trai and 3 Tamil, joined the Orphanage. Two of these are young women Chri 4 who were admitted in order to be protected from annoyance and per- secution.—The life in the Orphanage has proceeded in the usual 0f 4 manner, as described in our last report; Rangi, the beggar girl, who hoys and Joined us last year has developed well ; she goes to school regu]aﬂy, ds careful to do her allotted piece of work faithfully, and is always 0f 4 cheerful. Bada God willing she will be baptized in the course of the new year. At Christmas each of the small and middle-aged girls received of ] to their great delight a doll, given by some kind friends of the Or- proos phanage. In their evening leisure hours they make dresses for 1 their dolls, and on Sundays they regularly play with them and save nug| little bits of »dghi bread for their dinner.—The life-in the Orphanage It 55 appears at first rather strict to newly admitted girls; but after a Gonvy short time they get accustomed to it and become helpful in encour- aging other new-comers. Thus it was with Sarah, who, when her the | family were about to relapse into heathenism refused to follow them, ing ; so that they thou-ght better of it. After a time of strict probation and ] they were baptized and are now doing well. The four girls of the are { widower David, who was baptized last year and who is not quite for seftled yet, have similarly had a good influence upon their father. When the elder brother of the same was about to join the Roman .and s Catholics, because the Roman priest had made him great promises his two daughters declared that they would never follow their parents even if they should have to earn their bread as coolies, and by their Year firmness they prevailed on their parents to give up their intention. c()me] Thus our Orphanage is not an unimportant factor in the building up Clrig of the Badaga church. May the Lord farther vouchsafe His blessing on our work.”’ hai; he&“ The combined Orphanage, and Boys’ and Girls’ Day School at the 8 Kaity has proved a good nursery for young Badaga Christians liff, and an excellent institution for educating the Christian youth labou: of the station and out-stations for Christ, and of preparing gy 63 e therxi for His service as Schoolmasters and Catechists. For the latter purpose a Teachers’ Training School has been con- BIvie nected with it for some years, and last year a Catechists’ laga The school is attended by 41 Omen Training Class was attached. Christian and 21 Non-Christian boys and 8 Christian girls. d per- usual Of this number all the girls, 11 Non-Christian and 6 Christian , who boys are day-scholars, the rest ave boarders. 1% Chl:istian and 16 Non-Christian boys attend the secondary classes. llaﬂ‘H Iays Of the usefulness of this school as a means of bringing young ¢ NEW Badagas to Christ, Mr. Liitze’s report on the conversion eived of the old munshee Kackamalla (see page 40-46) is ample g Or- proof. g for The Boys’ Orphanage at Paraperi, near Codacal station, | gave numbers 85 boarders and 31 day scholars, 18 boys and 13 girls. nage It is most useful in bringing up the children of the many new ter 4 converts of the last three years in the fear and knowledge of jcoul= n het the Lord. These boys are a very bappy lot. What with learn- ing and playing, singing and working, gymnastic exercises them, and youthful games they really enjoy life. The youngest boys ation )f the are gathered in an infant school under a matron who cares for their bodily welfare and teaches them simple games, songs quite ther. and some easy lessons. — oman Of the Chombala Orphanage Mr. Weismann reports:— 1568 rénts “As we had anticipated the orphanage gave us more trouble last theit year than in former years because it took a long time for the new- gtion: comers, in great part children of catechumens or newly baptized Christians, to get accustomed to the cleanliness, truthfulness and g 0P sing habits of industry which the orphanage required of them. Of the heavy work devolving upon the school-master and school-mistresses, the superintendent also and his wife had their due share. But the ol ab difficulties led us to pray the more, and the fruits of prayer -and Hans labour combined have not been wanting. The Educational Depart- outh ment was satisfied with the work done, and of 95 pupils 90 passed il 64 their examinations. The evening prayers have always been very dear to me, and often did the joy which the orphans showed at listening to the Word of God, compensate me for bitter and painful two occurrences during the day. Once during eveni?g prayer I saw how a little girl, 7 years old, who was always attentive and answered bake mille many a question which even older girls could not answer, shook another girl that was beginning to doze with both her hands and Selve said into her ear :—¢What have you got your ears for if you doze even curn during the reading of the Word of God?’ 0n th “Dauring the time of trouble and sickness at the beginning of the veral of her year the hand of God protected the orphanage and its many inmates. Thouagh in the mission-house to which the orphanage is attached, two or to servants fell ill with smallpox, the orphanage was spared. The gon Lord has done great things for us. have “In June last 4 girls who had passed their teacher’s certificates’ the | examination, were admitted into the training division of the orphan- Fron age They were instructed by myself and Catechist Henry Menzel in gils Biblical knowledge, Bible-history, Geography of the Bible, and the and method of explaining Bible-texts and hymns and had to practise Wed; to give lessons on the subjects learned. of her Mrs. Weismann gave her whole strength to the education of the g g orphans; for some months Mrs. Peter assisted her by giving the e y girls of the fourth standard instruction in needle work.” elc, ¢ The Girls’ Orphanage at Mulky, which contained 62 boarders Heg | on the first January last, and is besides attended by 16 boy IOmp and 18 girl day-scholars, has already been mentioned as a geney a agp place where the girls, besides receiving a good primary education and being taught cooking and needle work, are initiated into Whick the agricultural occupations of the female population of these Jackgd Whi rural districts, the cultivation of rice especially. This is the good more necessary as most of them in after-life are likely to become the wives of farmers. Snf - War(s The Girls’ Orphanage at Dharwar, on the 1lst January last C0lleg had 44 girls on the list, 14 day scholars (6 boys and 8 girls) by also attended its school. OCcup 65 | VELY od at My. Ziegler, the superintendent, writes:— ainful “Our girls have Very little time for idleness. Early in the morning, two or three hours before day-break, the girls whose turn it is to [ sav wered bake bread have to get up to bake about 80 cakes of jowaree (great shook millet) bread for which the flour has to be ground by the girls them- s and selves the day before, and to prepare the accompanying vegetable B evel curry. Before sunrise the rest of the girls get up from their beds on the ground, roll them up and take them to the stand on the back of the verandah and make their toilet. Then some go to draw water, mates others to clean the house, to furbish the cooking and eating vessels or to prepare their lessons for the day. A little before seven the d, two The gong sounds for morning prayer and school. At 10 o’clock they have their first meal consisting of jowaree bread and curry; only cates ) the little ones, may be, get half a cake each before school-hours. On three days of the week the phan From 11 to 1 there is school again. girls are taught needle-work by one or two of the Missionary Ladies pzelin and two schoolmistresses from 2 to 4 in the afternoons. 1d the On Monday, ‘Wednesday and Saturday afternoons and the evening hours of the actise other week-days, the household work has to be done, such as grind- ing and cleaning jowaree or pulses, husking and pounding rice, draw- of the ing water, bathing, washing their clothes, cooking the evening meal, g the ete. ete. At about six they take their second meal consisting of rice and pepper sauce. Then, may be, they get half an hour for a rders romp on the play-ground. At T o’clock there is evening prayer, 6 hoy generally conducted by myself or in my absence by the assistant as & mafron. On Christmas-eve we had our usual Christmas treat at 10D which our girls were made most happy by presents of sarees, woollen ] 1nto jackets for the cold season, picture books, dolls, sweetmeats, etc. these which we were enabled to give them by the kind help of several good English Ladies resident at Dharwar and by one or two boxes s the e]y £0 sent for the purpose by kind friends at home. A few days after- wards the elder girls were rejoiced by the present of a small collection of Christian songs and hymns with native tunes composed | l%t by Catechist Joseph Dalabhanjana and suitable for singing at their guls) occupation of pounding rice, grinding corn and the like.” s 66 The Boys’ Orphanage at Bettigeri-Gadag numbers 48 boarders hope 2 Chy and 31 day-scholars (including 13 girls), 14 boys attend the secondary class. This school under the superintendence of and £ heing My. Liithi is the principal feeder of the Preparatory and Training Schools of the Southern Mahratta country and there- maste giftec fore the chief nursery of our Native Christian agents. oonfic The Boys’ Orphanage at Udipi, with its secondary classes;, the e is a most useful feeder of the Preparatory School, the Train- [ ing School and the Theological College. Since a Parochial were Day-school is connected with the Orphanage it is attended by super no fewer than 162 boys and 41 girls. of s the f colat; 2) Secondary or Anglo-Vernacular Schools. these Besides the secondary classes attached to several of our in Fo orphanages and primary schools, as already mentioned, we Bxan have three separate Secondary Schools, viz.: the Christian High the 1 School at Nettur, Tellicherry, the Preparatory School at Udipi, and the Preparatory School at Bettigeri-Gadag. The main tions, object of these schools is to educate missionary agents, but they of thy ingl] are open also to other boys whose parents are willing to pay (4 the boarding fees. The first of the three has the High School Praye standard, the other two educate up to the Lower Secondary thejp (the fifth Anglo-Vernacular standard of the Bombay Presi— o 80 dency). ha\’e Christian High School at Nettur-Tellicherry. We give an extract from the report of Mr. Rehm, the superintendent:— able “The nnmber of boys at the beginning of the year in the High of eff and Middle School department was 65, of whom 12 left or were of t} dismissed in the course of the year. In the Darty “In the Primary department there were 56 attendants. course of the year we were obliged temporarily to appoint a Non- Pupi Scho Christian teacher as we could not get a qualified Christian, but we tiOﬁg 67 ot rders hope soon to be able again to place a Christian in his stead; for in d the a Christian school all the masters should be united in the same mind 1ce of and the same spirit.—At the close of the year Catechist Peter Arnon r and being appointed Evangelist for North-Malabar resigned his post as master and steward of the school. there- We highly valued him as a gifted teacher and a faithful and honest steward who had won the confidence and respect of the students and boarders, and set them a3568, the example of a hard-working, well-behaved and high-minded man. 110 “The students were mostly willing to be corrected; but there ychial were some bad characters who tried the ‘patience of masters and ed by superintendent to the utmost. Five had to be dismissed on account of serious offences against morality; 7 left of their own accord. Of the five pupils of the sixth form that were sent up for the Matri- culation Examination in December 1893, three passed. Two of these entered the Theological Seminary and one the Training College f UL in February 1894. 10 pupils were sent up for the Lower Secondary ], we Examination of whom five passed. In the Primary Examination all the 14 pupils presented passed. High “Besides the usual subjects required in the Government examina- mail tions, Bible-history has been studied in all the classes, the Doctrines of the Christian religion in the higher standard, Singing is taught they in all classes. Greek, Sanskrit and Drawing in forms III. to VI. ) DAY “The missionary meeting on Sundays from 12 to 1 p. M. and the chool prayer meeting on Saturday evening which the students began of dary their own accord have continued. The students have also contribut- pesl ed some money for the mission. The school-fees and boarding fees have been paid regularly.” e 4l The Udipi Preparatory School. This school, which under the )b~ able management of M. Brasche had reached a high degree of efficiency, had up to a recent date maintained itsindependence igh were of the rules and regulations of the Madras Educational De- partment, but as it was not acknowledged by Government, its pupils, though as well or better educated than those of other the Non schools, were not permitted to appear for Government examina- it W tions; the candidates for teacherships, it turned out, were not 9% 68 o acknowledged and could not get a certificate. It was finally 1894 considered wiser to conform to the Government requirements and to seek for acknowledgment by Government as a Lower (bot! Secondary School. It 1s the chief feeder of the Mangalore the Theological Seminary. subj The Preparatory School at Bettigeri is gradually rising to the standard of the Udipi school and g6sis annually sends some of its pupils to the Theological Seminary tics) at Mangalore. the 3) Training Schools. also tour A small Training School is attached to each of the above of o1 mentioned secondary schools and to the Kaity school, and there are newly opened training schools or classes for female fure teachers at Mangalore and Chombala. The attendance of each %y, of these schools may be seen in the Table of Schools, pp. 10& 11. '1‘68411 Ing 4) Theological Seminaries. of The Mangalore Seminary (established 1863) began its session the in May 1893 with 31 students. One of these, however, though Livi “Bel living in the Seminary, still attends the Mangalore High School. Of the remaining 30, one died of typhoid fever and nine passed togg their examination in March 1894, three in the second and six in the third class, so that 20 remained, to which number four £xar new students were added in May 1894. The passed students, two 0ng with one exception were consecrated for their work as catechists in the ensuing months. The one excepted is continuing his Ass studies to prepare for some higher teachership. The subjects taught in the institution last year were: KExegesis of selected Psalms and the Epistle to the Ephesians, Introduction to the New Testament, Ethics, Homiletics, Preaching and Catechising, hof] besides Hinduism, Greek, Sanskrit, English, Canarese and the Music. The students take part in the preaching in the obe Mangalore bazaars, and in November 1893 made a fortnight’s Pel preaching-tour to the North. any 69 mmia nally The Senrinary at Tellicherry (established 1890). In January ments 1894 the session began with 9 students. Two new students Jower (both having passed Matriculation) could be admitted from the Christian High School. In addition to the theological alore ol 18 subjects taught during the whole course of instruction (Exe- and gesis of the Old and New Testaments, Homiletics and Cateche- inary tics) in the year under report, Apologetics and Introduction to the New Testament had to be taken. As in the previous year also this year weekly preaching in the bazaar and preaching hove tours in the district helped to improve the practical training of our students. None of them had to be sent away prema- and male turely and none left us. On the whole we are thankful to each say, that the young men, now undergoing training, seem to realize their position and to feel the sacredness of their call- &1, ing. As far as man can see the spirit of the stadents is one of healthiness, and it gave us great satisfaction to see, that all the pupils tried their best to influence each other for the good. 65101 Living amongst them, we were often reminded of Ps. 133, 1, ough hool. “«Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” el At the end of the year two of the students passed their ] 51 four examinations and were consecrated as Catechists together with two former converts, who had joined the institution for about onts, one year only in order to qualify themselves for the posts of hists r hIS Assistant Catechists, jects 4. Evangelisatioh. ected Though a eonsiderable portion of the time of our agents, the iiﬁgt both Kuropean and Indian, is taken up in pastoral work, and there are few who do not find time in one way or other to obey the last command of our divine Master, “Preach the Gos- the pel to every creature,” that is to do the work of evangelisation ;ht"s among Non-Christians. Preaching in the bazaars of towns e 70 and villages, at fétir, and idol festivals, at the roll-call of the coolies in plantations and the like, house-to-house visiting, visiting the zenanas by Missionary Ladies and Bible Women, Ji are continually going on from the numerous centres of our 4 Mission. Not less important is the evangelisation of the Frida educated classes by means of higher and lower schools. The singin work done by the Bible Women and by evangelising schools is Missic till treated under separate heads, we therefore deal here with furn, itinerating and other preaching work. The days devoted to itinerary work by Kuropean and Indian workers, we find, fow d made number in the Southern Mahratta country 9054, in Canara and i tried Coorg 3389 29 and in Malabar 3410 days.* go0d It is more difficult to give a proper summary of the various i experiences which the different preachers have had during the be s year in their work, the impressions received, the signs observed ‘Rat of readiness or otherwise on the part of the people to receive Tmbgg & Chy the Gospel. But speaking generally we may say that the field fallen in Malabar seems to be riper for harvest than in any other part of our mission territory. In Canara there isa good deal of indif- heeor ference and even opposition to the Gospel, while in the Southern hushy hedge Mahratta country there is a readiness to hear the Gospel, but hep very little or no real desire to become open disciples of Christ. his i In large towns not a little hostility is occasionally experienced. be is The Coorgs as yet seem entirely indifferent to the Gospel- he ] message, but the Badagas on the Nilgiris are waking up to the hig b consciousness that the Gospel has a personal interest for them, the g and that they have to decide either in its favour or against ] it We illustrate these general remarks with a few extracts Ing from the reports of the preachers, beginning with the most « northern part of our mission field. soil, that | * These figures, exclude work in Karkul, Kasaragod, Tellicherry, Calicut, fouyg Vaniyankulam and the Nilgiris of which we have no details. Wty 1 of the siting, The Southern Mahratta Country. omen, Myr. Warth of Hubli reports:— f our “Preaching in the bazaar has tal;en place on Tuesdays and We commence with of the Fridays, generally under my own supervision. The singing an appropriate hymn, then one of the Catechists or the 0ls 1§ Missionary gives an address; another hymn is then sung and so on 2 yith till all the preachers, two, three or sometimes four have had their turn. Discussion is, as a rule, only permitted at the close. ‘We had ted t0 few disturbances. Only now and then, when the Word of God has find, made an impression, it happens that a Brahman or other person rand tried to weaken or to destroy the impression. ‘We always have a good number of listeners. arious “How difficult it still is for a Hindu to become a Christian may g the be seen from the following incident: A certain weaver of the served ‘Rather an village Ilkall in the Bijapur distriect came to Hubli Imbecile than some time ago and told me that he had been here VALY a Christian!’ last year in order to become a Christian, He had 0 ﬂeld fallen ill and returned home to fetch his wife that she also might r part become a Christian with him. But the woman had caused her dif husband to be bound hand and foot and thrown into a prickly pear uthern hedge by his brothers. ‘When all this was of no avail she asked el, but her mother to administer a poisonous drug to her husband, by which (hrist. Medicine is of no use to him now, and his mind became deranged. enced: he is dragging on a miserable existence as a beggar. If spoken to }ospel- he always pronounces the name of Jesus. If a tract is given into his hands, he reads a few words properly, but soon begins to repeat o the the name of Jesus. How sad !77 : theﬂls Myr. Lutz of Hubli writes of his impressions on a preach- 1gaiﬂ5t ghradts ing tour:— -s hard , 108t “Tadas with 2500 inhabitants, our first halting place, i soil. Deceit, theft, and even murder are prevalent. No wonder that few hearts long for the Gospel. The inhabitants of the sur- rounding villages are more accessible. I recall the sight of an old Lallcut matron I met on that tour. Timidly standing apart, she had listened 72 e to our words. They seemed a message to her, for of J after Truth. Thirsting though the little boy at her side could hardly have bwic He will learn to read been able to read, she bought a tract for him. of § it she said. We accompanied her to her hut, where she got a copper pic from some corner to pay the tract. On the way she asked anxiously: ‘Is it true that we shall see our lost ones again? ¢Why mother,’ Nii Irejoined, ‘have you lost your children? ‘Yes, yes,” she said with a sigh ‘all are gone, except this little grandson.’ I then began to speak somewhat more fully of the resurrection, and assured her hay that parents and children would see one another again, that I myself 18, hec was sure of meeting my lost babes there, and that every one who believes in Christ will after death live for ever, and when I described to her the glory of the heavenly Jerusalem the tears fell from her eyes vill an ¢ on her wrinkled hands and with a longing such as only a mother’s heart can feel, she exclaimed again and again: ‘Indeed, is it true? of ¢ is it really true?® Oh if I could only see my children once more!” 10§ af My. Berlé of Bijapur reports:— nan “Each preaching tour convinces me the more fully that we do not 10 ¢ work in vain; though it may often seem so. I firmly believe that for this district also there will come a harvest which will be the richer, the longer it is delayed. “In December last we visited the village K. in which there are olag tlin some inquirers. During the four days I stayed there, they came as often as their work permitted. We read to them, explained the of ] Not far portion read and talked about religious matters. In See from Christ. (g the evening we preached in the village. There were many listeners, both men and women. On one occasion as we ha\’n preached in an open square of the village, a woman who had been listening to three addresses said, ‘It would be a good thing if you always remained here to teach us.’ In the evenings, after meals, Whe those enquirers would come again to the rest-house. Three of their 1 g number would sing from memory Christian hymns with Hindu tunes, We accompanied by three musical instruments. They also sang hymns ])eol composed by one of their number. On the first evening tears of joy faki welled up in my eyes, as I heard them thus publicly sing the praise Ha; 73 T e SR of Jesus. On Sunday we 1, for My assistants also were greatly pleased. have twice had divine service, and in the evening I showed them views yread of the life of Christ by means of my magic lantern, explaining the opper pictures minutely to the great number of men and women present.” usly Proceeding to Canara we give an extract from M. ther, | with Niibling’s report at Honavar:— Al fo “Though many Shudras listen to the Gospel and assent to it, they have not moral courage enough to become Christians. Their excuse 1 her IV If is, ‘As our village so we; if the greater number of people woald become Christians, we also would.’ ) Who “« Among the Haviga Brahmans the work is hopeful. In the ribed eyes villages of Karki, Madaguni, Hegadi, Teppa the Lord has given us an open door. In these villages we are not only welcomed by many thet's of the people, bat they invite us to come again. Though they have frue’ ol not yet come to a decision, I am' confident that the Word of God is at work in many hearts. Among the young people in the above named villages the conviction is spreading that their gods are of no avail, and that Christianity is the truth.” |o not , that ha My. Eblen of Honavar writes: — 8 the “In the neighbourhood of Murdeshwar there is among most classes of the population a good deal of fear of us and of disin- 410 clination to the Gospel. Yet in two smaller colonies a certain class 1e 88 of low caste people listen very attentively, and it was gratifying to i he see how young and old of both sexes sit and listen to the Word of In God, so that the saying of Christ was literally fulfilled: ‘the poor were 79 . have the Gospe]‘preached to them 5 W6 Evangelist Samuel Bunyan of Karwar writes:— heen f you “While we were preaching in the village Madalli an astrologer, who possesses a book written in Mahratti against Christianity, came 10159 to argue with us. He said, ‘If you could walk on the sea like Jesus, their we would believe you.—Unable to defend their own religion these 1nes; people buy books written by infidel Europeans and dispute with us jous When we were at 0y taking their arguments from those books. f Hanalli near Gokarna, a few Shudra lads, who had learned a little 1186 10 LR 74 English but knew nothing of their own religion, except devil worship, ;mly talked of Mrs. Besant as one who had become an adherent to Indian recel theosophy and a defender of the Hindu religion. They also talked 455010 of the Americans who listened to the addresses of the Hindu roof Vivékananda and acknowledged Hinduism to be true and beautiful. Searc_ After we had spoken to some men and women in a house of the our village Mirjan the mistress of the house, a widow, said: ‘There is Relig no truth in our religion; our gods are lies; it is useless to give meat- India Hind offerings to the dead: but still, it is impossible for us to forsake our own religion though we are inclined to do so’. A Brahman confessed Ame that the Christian religion was true; he wished that everybody turne would become Christian, then he also would become one.” with Mr. Gengnagel of Basrur-Coondapoor writes of a preaching tour, tfo a district north-east of Basrur in the Western Ghats:— hens “On the 14th November we went to Hosangadi, a village at the leave foot of the Gthats, halfin ruins and situated in a malarious locality. with The people, many of whom were suffering from ague, did not wish to pose hear much of our preaching. But I was astonished when a sick boy prec; of about 15 years of age told me that three years ago I had question- POss; ed them in their school about the examination which we all have to undergo before the judgment seat of God; he still remembered fold well everything I had said. In the travellers’ bungalow I found a forty native official of the Survey Department. He was born in the Tamil 16ad country and had heard much of Christianity in the mission school. The He said many of his countrymen had given up the belief in their hefoy false gods. There was only one almighty God in whom he believed. The more education spread, the more Christianity would spread. I replied that faith in the one true God was only like the letter A of the alphabet ; the letters B and C, 7. e. knowledge of his own sinful- days ness and faith in Christ had to follow.” attey Myr. Walz of Mangalore writes:— Cont aftg, “On the 19th September I went to Bantwal to examine a school. for | Next morning before school hours I went to the bazaar to endeavour to sow the good seed by word of mouth and selling tracts. I sold king ang T 75 ship, bnly three tracts of 1 Pie each. Nor was my message favourably 1dian received. Though a considerable number of persons, young and old, lked assembled arround me, as soon as I took a seat under the projecting [indu roof of a shop, their ears and hearts seemed closed and barred. fiful, Scarcely had I begun to speak when a young man, a former pupil of { the our Mangalore High School, asked me, if I had heard of the Religious Congress in Chicago, and if I knew that Vivekaswami of 10 18 neats India had proved the incomparable greatness and excellence of the ur Hindu religion and had defeated the Christian religion and won all ssed America over to Hinduism, that everybody had turned to him and body turned their back on Christianity ? Christianity was now done away with and dared not show its face.” - Catechist Nathanael Kundera of Kasaragod reports:— hing tern “When we go to a new district, people receive us with appre- hension and fear; many breathe more freely when we prepare to t the leave. Butothers get confidence, and after having become acquainted with us they pay more attention to our message and feel well dis- lity. shto posed toward us. Some will sigh and say: ‘Your words are really precious, but to leave caste and to stand alone and helpless is im- c boy tion- possible’. ve {0 “ At Mulki I met an old woman of the Toddy-drawers’ caste. She told me she had had five sons, four of whom had died by adverse ored nd 8 fortune. ‘One of them’, she said ‘was an excellent man who could read and write. One day he brought a padri-book from Kasaragod. i The more he read in it, the better and wiser he became; three days ool before his death he told us that he was going to die V) ° thei yvod. My. Fischer of Anandapur in Coorg writes:— road. “Evangelisation is of a peculiar kind here. On the weekly market Aof days at Siddapur, Virarajendrapet and Gonikoppa, a fair number aful- attend our preaching. People listen to the Word of God without any contradiction, sometimes express their assent, but thatis all. Desire after the Word of God, inclination to serve the only true God, longing And yet the Gospel must have some hool: for salvation, there is none. kind of attraction for the people, otherwise they would stay away your To the question addressed sold and not come again and again 10* 76 el to a certain Coorg of some consequence, why he did not become a aceer the ¥ Christian, he replied: ‘As a Coorg I am respected and honoured everywhere, but as a Christian I should be despised by all, even by s go Englishmen. Another Coorg a well-meaning man in his own esti- comy mation said :—‘Your intention in preaching the Gospel to us is good, stren but you yourself have barred the progress of your work by admitting Lona low caste people into your church’.” Vel From Malabar and the Nilgiris we can give only a few 100 extracts. aboul upon Mr. Bosshardt writes from Codgeal :— the “On a visit to Chittatakara, the new out-station, in July last we WE 8 accompanied Velayuthan, a lad of 18 years, to the house of his hea- 40108 then parents. This youth had joined us at the beginning of June of ha and had lived since that time in our Orphanage strate A Man’s Foes shall be they at Paraperi (near Codacal) in order to learn to Next read and write. of his own Soon after his joining us his father Pardg Household. came and endeavoured to take him back. But the Strate lad stood firm and the father had to return without firg him, In the middle of July his mother came and told her son with many tears that his father was dangerously ill and wished to see I him once more before his death. This message melted the heart of 4 Velayuthan, and wishing to see his father, he was permitted to ac- and ( company us on our tour. How glad he was in the anticipation of 1294, seeing his parents and brothers and sisters again his eager face Iarge clearly indicated. We heard no sound as we entered the compound, Categ] the door of the house was ajar and Velayuthan’s father, who was 1‘08011( lying on a mat behind the door, was heard groaning as if with great pain. mans, His son rushed into the house, stooped down upon his father Cheg, and asked him how he was. All of a sudden the seemingly dying Uost]y v man jomped up, clasped his son in his arms and dragged him into (Mah an inner room trying to fasten the door, raising at the same time Ti“ag‘( such a howl that I felt quite stunned. ‘When Lonappen tried to Who 4 prevent the door being shut, the father brandishing his long knife deligh wounded his arm and forced him to let the door go. The howling They ceased for a few seconds and a voice was heard sereaming in piercing g, -, - =1 accents. ‘Don’t kill him, don’t kill him’. ‘We shuddered and feared me & oured the worst. But a few moments afterwards there was a shout: ‘He en by is gone’, and the lad was seen running like a chased deer across the 1 et compounds, followed by his enemies, his mortal fright giving him good, strength to leap the hedges. In a few minutes he had reached We learned afterwards ‘that itting Lonappen’s house and was safe. Velayuthan's father, when he had his son in his power inside the room, had uttered some threats which made the lad fear that he was ) fow about to be killed. Filled with apprehension he inwardly called upon the Lord for help, when suddenly he saw an opening below The father who now feared the wall-plate, and escaped thereby. ast e we should bring an action against him, made two deep gashes g hea- across his chest with his knife, ran to the magistrate and accused us [ Juoe of having broken into his house and wounded him. But the magi- strate asked some trustworthy witnesses, and rejected the complaint. anage i 10 Next day the mother and brother of Velayuthan came to ask our father pardon and told us that his father, after his return from the magi- strate, had kindled a fire, taken his idols and thrown them into the at the 900 . ithout fire with the words: “You did not help me, you may burn n with My. Weidner of Paraperi reports:— to 9ee oart of “The number of days devoted to itinerating work by Missionaries and Catechists during the year past in the aggregate amounts to 0 ac- One of these was the 1294. About 20 fairs have been visited. ion of i face large fair at Guruvayur, to which not only myself and most of our Catechists, but also Mr. Hole of Vaniyankulam with his Catechists pound; resorted. Two or three opposition preachers, joined by some Brah- 0 was mans, one day made a row and tried to drive us away, but were gred checked by the police.—When itinerating from house to house, we father mostly find willing and often intelligent hearers. But where Maplas dying (Mahommedans) are prevalent, our work is most difficult. In some m int0 villages in the neighbourhood of Codacal they have the lower castes, o fime who are indebted to them, entirely under their control, and they ied 10 delight in disturbing us and in hindering others from listening to us. g kllife They are ignorant of even the tenets of their own religion.—The 10wﬁﬂg numerous conversions to Christianity during the: rt?cent- years have ierCing 78 i e produced in many of the inhabitants far and near the convietion that {0 b cony Christianity will ultimately prevail.” bigh Myr. Hole of Vaniyankulam reports:— of “When preaching on market days in the early part of the year they we encountered an opposition preacher. But he soon staid away, famil and we did our work without opposition. It seems that the people [( who had appointed him, were tired of paying him. After he had fodd appeared for the last time as an opponent he called on our Catechist TWher Mr. G. Peter, took a cup of tea at his house and said to him: ‘Do as fa not be angry at my preaching, I do it only for pastime’.” doze In our report for 1892 p. 61 we gave an account of a AR Farmer Kora certain farmer Kora in Kailath district who have again. was desirous of becoming a Christian. We but are sorry to say, that he died of small-pox before he was able hack to carry out his purpose. Catechist Peter, however, who knows Sakes are the brother-in-law of the deceased, now reports, that when Kora was lying ill he asked his brother-in-law to read to him A that some portion of the Gospel and to pray with him to the Lord Jesus. It appears from this account that Kora died in faith Gons in the Lord Jesus, and we believe that He who said: “Him ( that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” has accepted him. Celye [ From the report of My. Kiihnle of Palghat we extract the following : — seare “The work of evangelisation has been carried on by our Evangelist f0 g Jou and Catechists; towards the end of the year only I succeeded in getting away from station work and making a preaching tour with Bada the Catechists. Though itinerary work is more difficult and trying Reljg all th in this district than on the coast on account of the great heat during the hot months and malarious fever prevailing in some tracts after ( the first rains, it is also more encouraging. Excepting the proud faith Brahmans (Pattars) the Gospel-message is kindly received by all K classes of the population. The Nayers (Sudras of Malabar) are rich Werg and well-to-do, but not hostile like the Pattars. They receive us Lay politely, often kindly. In many houses of Nayers Bible portions-are ¢0olig 79 et n that to be found, and occasionally the New Testament. They read and converse much about Christianity, and expressions dropped by highly respected Nayers show that they are convinced of the truth of Christianity. If we ask them why they still remain heathen, 0 year they are embarrassed and answer—‘We are fettered by the ties of amay, family.’—Alas! to forsake all and lose everything is very hard. people “Up to now most of our converts have come from the Ilavar or o had toddy-drawer caste. In their houses we find a corner to put up oot when on tour. ‘Here in the town and scattered about in the country Do as far as the northern and southern Palghat mountains, there are dozens of families, which I could name and which for the past 10 or of 8 20 years have year by year resolved to become Christians. They - who have sometimes asked Missionaries or Catechists to their assistance, We but when the time of decision arrives they lose courage and turn back. Many a Missionary has walked miles and miles for their able 10WS sakes over muddy paddy-fields or through thick jungle, but where when are they? Still in heathenism.—Are any of our readers ready earnestly and perseveringly to intercede for these changeable Ilavars ) fim that the Lord may send His Spirit into their hearts to make true and Lord consistent Christians of them ?”’ faith Of the way in which the Gospel-message is sometimes re- ‘Him ceived by the Badagas Mr. Stokes of Coonoor writes:— him “ At the village of Kodamale, my assistant Isaiah and myself had ; the scarcely begun to deliver our message when a Badaga angrily said to us: ‘Look here, you, you have no business in our village; if ;eﬁst you come again, you may get a thrashing’. In another village a d in Badaga asked whether it had not been decided in the Parliament of with Religions in Chicago thatthe Hindu religion was the first in rank of 7ilg all the religions in the world g Of the Cooly-mission in the neighbourhood of Coonoor our after faithful Catechist Karl Sathyanathan writes:— oud “Though there was no conversion among the coolies last year, we ’r ﬂ“ were not in any way discouraged from preaching the Gospel as usual. yich I am glad to say that the desire to hear the Gospel among the p U5 coolies is increasing, and some of them listen to the Word attentively 210 R 80 and converse about Christianity among themselves, Some hear us ‘] for the sake of their masters, but such do not come near us when we go in the evening after their work is done. Others are almost pathy for th ready to take up the cross, but obstacles such as caste prejudice on the one hand and timidity on the other stand in their way and keep them back. But the seed has fallen on good ground and it will bring forth fruit in due time, I am sure, and signs of this are not wanting. supel “Almost all the planters were very kind in allowing us to preach the ) to their coolies, some in the mornings at 7 a.m. at the roll call, and D01 some in the evenings after work was over. In this way I have peopl De0) preached during the last year at 42 plantations, 36 Badaga villages and 3 Todamands. to thy Rev. W. Stokes accompanied me occasionally. al Some of these places were visited by me every fortnight, some once 10 a month, others 8 times a year, and others every three months, I ave €ng . have preached in all these places to 5777 individuals. Mr. Risch, who was at Coonoor for some months owing to ill-health, preached I (4 at all these places and even extended his tour as far as the Kundas, whither I accompanied him. Work Shandy preaching, and preaching to other hill tribes was carried on as usual. Some of the planters Iy are really feeling their responsibility towards the souls of their Usug] miserable and ignorant coolies, and remember them in their prayers. A young planter who lately started to read the Bible and expound [ the truth to his coolies wrote me as follows: *With best wishes for hugh; 1895 and hoping you will gain many true converts to Christianity New this year ete.’ nary “A lady in the latter part of the past year, earnestly requested and | us from home to preach the Gospel twice a month to her coolies on Chri; Hill Grove Kstate, and with much pleasure subscribed Rs. 10 per month towards this Mission. I am glad to see our work increasing assig foung and the way thus opened to preach the glorious Gospel. Though alwa-‘ the Cooly-mission indeed sustained a great loss by the death of our beloved saintiy Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson and Mrs. C. E. Hayne, yet Wh T8 of the Lord has sent other help and other friends to His Mission, and €nfe) Mr. M. Hayne has kindly promised to continue the monthly sub- seription that was given by the late Mrs. Hayne. saig 8leg 81 S SR ar us when “In conclusion I would t};ank all the planters for their kind sym- |most pathy and support. May God bless them, who so liberally subscribed ice on for the mission-work among the coolies.” | keep 5. Work among Women. will 16 105 On p. 23 we have already mentioned that 29 Bible Women, superintended and often accompanied by one or the other of reach the Missionary Ladies, are doing the unostentatious but most |, and important work of carrying the Gospel into the homes of the have people, and of making its glorious truths and promises known lages to the women, who by the social customs of their country are nally, ) 0108 almost prohibited from hearing them in any other way. We give a few extracts from the reports of Ladies or Missionaries 5, | engaged in this kind of work. Risch, ched From Mangalore it is reported :— “The Mangalore Bible Women were weekly prepared for their ndas, work by Mr. Walz and accompanied on their visits by Mrs. Walz. g 0 nters In many houses they were gladly received, but high caste women usually stand aloof.” their Mrs. Ernst of Udipi writes:— Q‘OI‘S. ;ound “Last year, under the guidance and superintendence of my husband, we read or narrated selected portions from the Old and 5 for 401ty New Testaments in the houses we visited. This year we began to narrate the life of Christ, commencing with the history of Zacharias ested and Elisabeth, and earnestly invited our hearers to believe in Jesus g5 00 Christ. It was .with some diffidence, yet with prayer for divine assistance, that we spoke of the miraculous birth of Christ. We ) pel' asing found to our joy that the account of the incarnation of Christ was \0\18']1 always well received, except in one house.—The master of a certain ‘What think house, a patel, had called together no fewer than 11 f our After some time a Mahommedan 1 vl ye of Christ? female relatives. entered and stood sullenly in a corner. When we had finished he , z;nd aﬂb said: ‘Their story is half true and half false; Jesus Christ is a ‘False?’ great prophet, it is true, but he is not the son of God.’ 11 —_— 82 rejoined the landlord, taking the New Testament from my hands of Oh ‘Aha’ said the Mahommedan ‘every word written here is true.’ and | mocking, ‘the expenses for your idols are growing too heavy for you, had therefore you begin to listen to the Padris, do you not #’ make “One day Susanra the Bible Woman was called to comfort a graci' certain Brahman widow who had been ill-treated by a bed The Bible Woman as a her son and was so grieved that she refused food for for b Peacemaker. Susanna found the widow in such a several days. durin pitiable state that she was moved to tears; she persuaded the widow heal to pardon her son and to take food again. The son, who was busy ally with some repairs inside the house, stepped out and asked sharply: appoi “What do you want here? ‘I am come’ Susanna replied, ‘to see But this time I have found Disa your mother, as I have done before. I her in a very sad state, which has so grieved me that I should like know, to speak a few words to you. In our shastras it is written: Posse ‘Honour thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee time and thou mayest live long on the earth’. Believe me, God is just, time, an avenger of all evil deeds, and no one may hope to escape His 4 punishment. Therefore you had better be reconciled to your for th mother.’ ‘When the Bible Woman had gone, the son went to his mother and said: ‘Mother, the words of the PAdri-woman have Ay op pierced me, pardon me.’—Mrs. Ritter who devotes herself a good Clogeg deal to the sick, giving them medicine ete., is of great help to us Nor does she herself havig and opens many a door to the Word of God. the b neglect any opportunity to speak to the heathen of the one thing heaw needful.”’ that My. Ostermeyer of Cannanore writes:— Visits, “The Bible Women here and at Chowa have ~quietly continued but g their work. They have read the Bible to many hundreds of their contyy heathen sisters and sold some hundreds of Scripture-portions besides Mg a few copies of the Bible and the New Testament.” aftory f()l' h( Mrs. Frohmmeyer of Tellicherry reports:— Was 4 “It is with heartfelt thanks to the Lord that I take up my pen to Wag Causes for report on the work of the Bible Women, having re- to fro Rejoicing. cently heard the joyful news, that Mathawi, the niece & g 83 S hands of Christian, of whom I had written in 'my last report, has asked for nedan and received holy baptism by Mr. Bader. Mathawi, now Shanti, I you, had occasionally said to the Bible Women, when the Lord should make her ill she would certainly ask for baptism. And the Lord did fort & graciously condescend to her weakness and shyness and laid her on a bed of severe illness. od by Then it was that she found courage to ask od for for baptism.—Another cause for rejoicing is this, that I was able nch a during the past year to do my work among the female portion of the yidow heathen population much more regularly than before; I was gener- busy ally accompanied by two of the Bible Women. We had our dis- ply: appointments, it is true. There was a Brahman family which we 0 866 thought very near to Christianity, but which has Disappoint- found ments. gone back again. Several women, whom I have ] like known for years, continue to remain half-way, for ‘they have great ittens possessions.’ Another very painful disappointment was, that a short thee time ago an open door has been closed again to us for an undefinite time. justy ) HiS “It wasin July last tﬁat, accompanied by two Bible Women, I went }’0111’ for the first time to the house of a certain young Nayer lady. She is pretty well educated and received us very kindly, 0 his An open door have and the comfort and extreme cleanliness of the sur- closed again. gaod roundings as well as her cheerful, intelligent be- haviour endeared her to me. To my astonishment, at my next visit fo U8 erself the young lady was quite changed. She was silent, moody, as if a thing heavy load was on her, and I could only gather from many inquiries that she was not quite well and that her husband did not like my visits. We began to talk to her about some passage of the Scripture, but as she seemed to be in a state of feverish expectation, looking nned continually towards the entrance, as if expecting her husband every fheir moment, we took leave, promising to come again another time. Soon 5ides afterwards I had a letter from her, in which she asked my pardon for her behaviour and entreated me to come again. I went. She was again her own self and followed my words with great attention. ‘Was it strange that I again cherished the hope of being permitted to frequent her house without an obstacle? But one day she sent me Ig re- a message, requesting me to cease visiting her for the present as her niece 1% e 84 Lord mother-in-law had come to her; and Ilearned from the Bible Woman hym; that they had been very badly received by the old woman, who is hold, an enemy to Christianity. Since then this house has been closed objec to us. The «I am thankful, however, to be able to add, that we have found role entrance to a few new families. There is one Tiyer family whom I often yet f visit. The value of the biblical instruction received in Mission Schools Tmore is clearly demonstrated in this case. The faces of the two girls who had attended the Mission School, when they found Tier The use of out that I was speaking of the Saviour, were lit inmaf Mission Schools. up with gladness, and their eyes beamed when I Worg took out a book of Bible-pictures to examine them a liftle. They alon : rarely failed to answer a question and even the adults seemed pleased to with them. It is usually the case that in houses where the children gethe attend Mission Schools the way is opened for our work, and people Parig often approvingly remark, he goes to the Mission School.” the Mys. Liebendeer writes from Calicut:— 10V | Bible “During the past year Martha Vachalam, our experienced Bible ot Woman, in company with her younger companion T/amar, read and . explained the precious words of the Bible to a good many women. Besides that, they paid regular visits in 15 heathen schools, and were during Their sale of Congeg always gladly welcomed by masters and children. Bibles and Bible-portions was not large, numbering 2 Bibles, 3 New they | Testaments and 335 other portions of the Bible. Work, “It is rarely that our Bible Women meet with unkindness or a re- for th buff; in general they are welcomed everywhere and notably so in femalg a number of houses of distinguished Nayers where I introduced them, having made the acquaintance of the ladies by visiting the Shoys sick with my husband. In one of these houses several educated buteg | Educated ladies dwell together. These have been visited for numbe Hindu Ladies. years, and for some time they have at their own With desire received instruction once a week about the way of salvation. It is gratifying to see how much knowledge of the Bible they have t&ught 014 g, already acquired, and how eager they are to make progress. They read the Word of God every day and have committed to memory the Datient 85 P o Lord’s Prayer, the Ten Commandments, the Creed and a number of oman hymns. Tt is remarkable that the male members of the house- vho 18 hold, some of whom are in high appointments, do not raise any closed objection but seem to approve of the visits of the Bible Women.— The uneducated Brahman ladies of the Nambutiri caste are as a found rule the most timid and shy of all those among whom we work; [often yet four of them have lately bought Bible-portions and solicited chools more frequent visits.—Some Tiyer (toddy-drawer) women have heen 5 who taught to read. In a certain house of that caste we Tier Women. fomnd had permission to read the Bible regularly to the ore lit inmates. To our joy they have now made up their mind to obey the vhen 1 Word of God and to become Christians. Another man who has for They a long time known and loved the Word of God asked the Bible Women Jeased to influence his wife towards making her willing to be baptized to- yildren gether with him, A Pariah-teacher desired greatly to have a Bible, but had not the means to buy one. I presented him people Pariahs and the Bible. with a copy, for which he was very grateful. He now reads it frequently, and has repeatedly been seen with the Bible under his arm going to his relations and caste people to read | Bible it to them. o and “These are some incidents of the work of the Bible Women, who yomen: during the burning heat of the day or sometimes in the pouring rain d were conscientiously go their rounds, and report to me once a week what sale of they have done and experienced. We join together in prayer and g New study of God’s Word in order that they may be strengthened in their work. In 1892 Maria Hermon was appointed as a Bible Woman oL a1 for the hospital. In the morning she devotes herself chiefly to the §0 in }r female patients that are waiting in the hall for medical treatment, odoved shows and explains Bible-pictures, reads tracts to them and distri- In the afternoon, when the iﬂg the butes printed leaflets to all comers. number of outside patients is smaller, she occupies herself more uoated She has fod for with the sick women and children lying in the hospital. i 0% already instructed several of them in reading and writing, has h'a,tiOllv taught them Bible-texts, prayers and ﬁymns and the history of the 0Old and New Testaments. v bat? Where necessary she also nurses the They patients and most of them are very fond of her. A little girl U., 01y the ol G 86 eleven years old, who had been sick in the hospital for months and surel had finally asked for baptism and a new name, in order ‘that Jesus sent | might know her and receive her into heaven’, chose the name of her mole beloved teacher, in whose arms she at last fell asleep in peace. It is a pity Maria has not the time to comply with the request of many (hris of the patients to see them in their homes and to give them further this instruction there. [ But Martha and Thamar do it in her stead and are equally welcome. Not a few of the people admitted into our Opp church during the last few years, have come from families who had 07¢) become acquainted with the Word of God in this way,—Our work is Solor sowing in weakness, but the Lord in His mercy has already blessed and it visibly, and we thank Him with all our heart for it.” Come This Myrs. Liitze of Kaity on the Nilgiris reports:— stong “Several women, who in years past heard the truth from our anytk Bible Women and turned tc Christ, are living good Christian lives 180 4 and rejoice in their new faith. From a certain village a young wo- hour, man came to Kaity desiring to become a Christian. of g A young Badaga- She stayed in Kaity for about 2 months. During woman come to ives Christ. this time Solome (one of the Bible Women) went oulg alone to her village, as the other one was ill. them, On her arrival she was invited by certain other women to their ver- the Dl andab. She sat down there and had just begun to read a Scripture- and g portion, when about 6 men surrounded her and told her to be off at anyy once or they would beat her. As she was alone and knew how vio- Whery lent and wicked those men were, she went quietly away. They were in such a rage that they threatened to fine the women heavily tome, | who had invited the Bible Woman to their verandah. The young Jellin; woman mentioned above was afterwards enticed away by her re- Shou latives, by telling her that her father was very ill. She was then confined in a tiny little room and was not allowed to go to any of Ch For some time she was in a precarious state of health. her people. Cop But her father said: ‘Rather let her die than become a Christian.’ Bady After some months she managed to run away early one morning and came to Kaity with the one desire to become a Christian. Her Sa\“io ang fi father and her relatives were very angry. She said her father would 87 o ERRANT 15 and surely kill her if he could. In order to get her out of the way, we Jesus sent her to our Girls’ Boarding School at Kotageri where she is un- of her molested. ¢ It “The Badagas are afraid that more of their women may become many Christians, and in consequence there has been greater opposition nrther this year than before. d and “One day we went to Kekkalli. On our arrival many women {0 our Opposition were standing about, but none asked us, as usual, to 10 had overcome. take a seat; we talked a little to them and then otk 18 Solome began to read a Scripture-portion, when suddenly the women They saw a man Jessed and children ran away as fast as they could. come up running with a stick in his hand, flourishing it furiously. This man was dreadfully angry. *“Go away’, he shouted ‘read to the stones if you like, but not to our women’. It was impossible to say m OuE anything for some time. The women screamed and shouted, the man Jives ran about as if possessed by a demon. After about a quarter of an hour, I tried to talk to this ring-leader and some others, but it was g WO- istian, of no avail. At last I told them that if they would willingly let their )uring wives listen to God’s message brought to them by His children they went would be blessed, but otherwise God’s blessing would not rest on gs il them. This seemed to bring them to reason. The men quietly left the place, and we were able to read and speak to some of the women, I ver- and since that time there has been no opposition in that village, nor ptm‘e- Q{f at anywhere else ; on the contrary, the Bible Women are welcome every- where. ‘When they go to a village, many call out: ‘Come sister, v io- They come, sit down here’ and are quite familiar with them. oavily “On the last day of the year I accompanied the Bible Women to Jellinalli. As we were passing by another village an elderly woman young op 1€ shouted to us to stop. ‘We did so; she came up, saluted us kindly and began to pour out her sorrowful heart. She : then Christ the is a Badaga woman who formerly used to contra- Comforter of But dict us and would not listen to our message. ‘eﬂhh: Badaga-womqn. now she meekly listened to the words of our f1al Saviour ‘Come unto me all ye ete.’, and said: ‘Yes, I pray to Him gand Her and tell Him my grief’. “When we arrived at Jellinalli, we were kindly welcomed and W0 U}d S A 88 invited to be seated and several women gladly listened to our read- mitt ing and explanation of the Word of God. A woman from a distant from village was especially attentive and asked at the close: ‘Where will and our children go when they die? Is it true that they will be born f1an again as erows, oxen, dogs or some other animals ?’ We told them with that was not true, but that the Lord Jesus when on earth said: ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for ficle 00D of such is the kingdom of God’. ‘Oh’ she said, ‘I had ten children who are all dead; do you think God has taken them to Himself?’ pup The woman listened eagerly to all we were able to tell her of the aly plans of God for our salvation. An entirely new prospect had ally dawned upon her, and a ray of hope entered her distressed heart. clog She went with us from house to house, and drank in the glad Chr tidings.” fanf In some places, where there are no Bible Women, the Mis- fiel sionary Ladies visit the Non-Christian women at their homes, The door has at times to be opened by gifts of medicine or §ve other ministrations of love. May the Lord bless all these n t labours to those who work and to those in whose behalf they our are undertaken! LEg) 10 ¢ 6. Evangelisation by means of Schools. g We have a High School at Dharwar, Mangalore, Tellicherry Mis and Calicut, and eleven Middle or Secondary Schools chiefly intended for Non-Christians, including two for girls. There of 1s, however, a considerable number of Non-Christian boys and 1eg girls that attend Parochial or other Christian Schools, raising the total number of Non-Christian children attending our schools to 4279 boys and 535 girls. Of this number 1192 boys 1ep and 13 girls attend Secondary Schools and 3087 boys and 522 girls Primary Schools. Wy i All these pupils, besides tuition in secular subjects, receive (en instruction in the Christian religion. In Primary Schools ing Bible-history is taught, Bible-texts are explained and com- of 89 el read- mitted to memory. In Secondary Schools selected bortions istant from the Old and New Testaments are read and explained, ¢ will and partly memorised and occasionally the evidences of Chris- horn Moreover, the day’s work is always opened them tianity are taught. with prayer in all these schools. Though for want of a suf- sald; ficient number of Christian schoolmasters we still employ a t for considerable number of Non-Christians—frequently former Idren pupils of our Mission Schools—the Bible-lessons are of course self?’ f the always given by Christian masters, and it is our aim gradu- had ally to replace the Non-Christian teachers by Christians. To 1041t close all schools for which we have not a sufficient number of glad Christian masters, as some would counsel, would often be tantamount to losing our footing entirely and abandoning the Mis field to Non-Christian or Anti-Christian schools. )mes, If asked, what is the use of these schools? we would an- 16 Or swer, they are just so many means of sowing the Gospel-seed these in the hearts of the young and thus obeying the command of they our Lord to preach the Gospel unto all nations. As to the results, we leave that to the Lord who will give the increase in due time. We can, however, point to dozens, perhaps hun- Is. dreds of converts who received their first impression in a Mission School. | er[.}; The following extracts from reports of the superintendents efly of some of these schools may not be uninteresting to our Lere and readers: 508 My. Ziegler, superintendent of the Dharwar High School, out reports :— boy$ “Qur school has, under its able and zealous Christian headmaster, and Mr. A. Jaganadhan, B. A.,now established its position in the town and district of Dharwar as a school of considerable efficiency. The per- centage of pupils that scored a success in the last University exam- 6176 inations was above the average of the Presidency, ¢.e. 30 p. c. (6 out 0018 f{lls of 20) in the University School Final Examination (Upper Secondary 12 oot SR 90 of the Madras Presidency) ‘and 611 p.c. (8 out of 13) in the Matri- be culation. but “In the Bible-lessons of the school as well as when preaching in it Sinc the bazaar, we get the impression that Hinduism, at least in this part of the country, has dropped from the stage of indifference to the stage Sirg of self-defence. finis The Hindus see that their religion is beginning to be endangered by Christianity, and they defend their position most plac stubbornly. Even when we do not directly attack their religion, a {hou Oth thing which we do only exceptionally, they seize every opportunity for controversy. In spite of this fact and of the seeming fruitlessness as | £st of our work, I always feel happy to have so many opportunities to recommend Christ and His Gospel to numbers ofboys and young men.” The My. Bucher, superintendent of the Mangalore High School, agai writes; 10 9 “English has been made compulsory from the 1st year and the Way Lw: Vernacular is an optional language. The authorities have prescribed English even for the Infant Standard. fos Not only in the High School othe classes but even in the classes of the Middle Schools all the text- sick books, except the Vernacular reading books, are in English, and the subjects, whether Geography, Arithmetic, or History are to be fo 1 Tece taught to the children by means of a foreign language which they but very imperfectly understand. There can of course be no thorough understanding of the subject, and recourse must be had to cramming. Results of Examination in the Primary division 6 of 17=35" fﬁfﬁ. Lower Secondary 6 of 22=27°/ 1ng Matriculation 6 of 17=35%, a3t “In the Preparatory or Bazaar School, which has 148 boys, the results of the examination were very good; all the children present- ed having passed.” at ¢ Mrs. Ritter reports of the Brahman Girls’ School at Udipi: — beg;‘ “Since my arrival here I have often been grieved to see the insp female part of the populatien of this idolatrous town is so very un- to ¢ accessible. This is the chief reason why twelve years ago a school ey for Brahman girls was established. This school is still a feeble light in the surrounding night of heathenism. At times it seems to Tel e 91 [afri be near extinetion. Not only its effectiveness as a missionary agency, but its educational value is limited, and yet we must not undervalue it There are always some hopeful pupils. I give an instance: g in s part Since the establishment of the school the daughters of a poor Saraswat Brahman have been constant pupils. Five of them have sfage finished their course and as married women settled in different ng fo most places; the sixth and seventh are now in the school and the eighth, though not more than five years of age has already begun to attend. on, & ity Other pupils also after leaving school keep up a connection with us Sness as long as possible. Those who have settled in distant parts oc- casionally come to see me when they visit their parents or relations. 05 £ 161 " They bring their children and are glad to listen to the Bible-stories At first the Tulu Brahmans stood entirely aloof and we had :h001, again. no acccess to them; when I happened to meet their women on the way they would look at me suspiciously and give me a wide berth. 1 the I was greatly pleased therefore when the first girl of that caste came ihed to school. She remained only a short time; but afterwards some shool others came, and by giving medicinal aid and assisting in cases of toxt sickness, I got access to several homes. They have as yet no desire 1 the to hear the Gospel. But their feeling of gratitude for assistance o he received, tends to diminish their opposition.” ," hu Mr. Gengnagel of Basrur-Coondapoor writes:— yugh “«When I arrived at Basrur we had no schools. Under many ing. difficulties we opened a school in Basrur, which is now in a flourish- The school at Coondapoor progresses slowly as well ing condition. as that at Keilkeri under many difficulties. It is sowing in hope.” Myr. Diez writes from Kasaragod:— the ent “«The fruit of regular religious instruction in the schools are not at once apparent, but the silent influence of the Word of God as it begins to dawn on the darkenmed minds of the children, and as it i inspires love of truth and fear of sin and the feeling that God is near the to each of us, does not return void, and we see-that progress is it being made.” hoo! My. Bader, the superintendent of the Parsi High School at eble Tellicherry, writes:— 5 £0 12% e 92 “We are sorry to say that one of our Christian masters, Micka Kont Mackadan, was obliged by ill-health to accept employment in the Registrar’s office and has left us. Though not a very successful spler whic teacher, he is a true Christian and had gained the respect, confidence (hris and love of his pupils and his colleagues, and has thus been an orna- eXan ment in the school. We were not able at once to appoint another they Christian in his place, but have secured the services of a Syrian Evangelical Christian, who, we hope, will begin work in the course of ca of the new year. i qu are y “The results of the Government examinations, compared with those of other schools of the Presidency, were good. the v the ¢ “The Bible-lessons have given me much encouragement. There young are, it is true, always some boys who attend the Bible-lessons with indifference or even dislike, but on the whole I may say that I never found it difficult to attract the attention and to secure the interest of NettL: my pupils in the grand truths of Seripture. In each class there are 1 some who might pass for Christians. They have so taken hold of legre Christian ideas, and regard the Bible as the source of truth, that 4 200 they never contradict, but always take the side of the Missionary fotehe and stand up for the truth of Seripture when others raise objections. ({4 “Several of these dear pupils are very nice boys, who have open w0 of hearts for the truth, and have got as far as the threshold of Chris- 28 the tianity ; but they are so dependent on their parents and guardians 4 200 that they dare not come out definitely. Later on they will leave Dattay school, come under different influence and will be lost sight of. ang I This reflection has sometimes been very painful to me; but I have the ) now learned to take comfort in the thought, that though I lose sight Port of them the Saviour does not, but will cause the word implanted in their hearts to work on and to bear fruit in His own time. EXistp “The Girls’ School has given much joy to myself and Mrs. Bader 0 who takes much pains with it. We have been able to add a fourth H[ standard and the prejudice that married girls cannot attend school Missig has been broken through. The Government grant was more than a it hyg third higher than we expected, and the school is now publicly ac- alteng knowledged as an Upper Primary School. The girls are lively and Badag heay sharp. But for the language difficulty, their mother-tongue being king], Micha n the Konkani and the school language Malayalam, we might gain splendid results. "Even as it is, this school is inferior to none, assful idence which is in great measure the fruit of the faithful labour of the two Christian schoolmistresses. It has always been a pleasure to me to | 0Ind- examine the girls in Bible-stories and Bible-texts. How eagerly nother they commit them to memory! I believe that this school is a means Syrian of carrying the name of Jesus into a portion of the population which course is quite inaccessible to preaching. Gradually caste prejudices also are wearing away. I was astonished to see that on Christmas-eve | with the whole of the 60 girls with their relatives, came to our service in There the church. The light of the Christmas-tree lit up the happy faces of young and old.” g with My. Dilger writes about the Pariah School at Manayat near never vest of Nettur-Tellicherry : — 16 are “The work in this newly opened school is in a specially high old of degree sowing in hope. All the children, 43 in number, including The master , that a good number of girls, belong to the infant standard. fetches them every day from all sides. jonary ctions: “The master has found it very difficult to teach them a dozen or 6 0PeN two of Bible-texts, and the Bible-stories present still greater difficulties, as they cannot be committed to memory word by word. There was (his- 1dians a good deal of opposition to this school. The Tiyers of Dharma- Jeave pattanam would interdict these poor children even the use of bridges and roads. And the Nayers frightened them with the fable, that bt of, [ bave the Missionary would one day put them all on board a ship and trans- port them to Europe.—The consequence was, that for a time the very ) sight existence of the school was endangered.” ?]allted Of the Chombala Schools Mr. Peter reports:— Bader «Badagara (or Wadagara) is the flower in the wreath of our fourth Mission Schools. In spite of several unfavourable changes of masters schOOI it has retained its reputation which has secured it an increasing than & attendance. I am greatly encouraged in giving Bible-lessons in the oly 8 Badagara-school, for in all the classes there is evinced a desire to Iy ol hear the trath, and in many a young heart the love of Christ has peing kindled a flame which gives light and warmth. Alas, that after P 94 ] the third year these young hearts are withdrawn from such influences. » l “In the Muverattu School the results of the Bible-lesson are On a there unsatisfactory, though the master was not wanting in willingness. “The Karakadu School is a charity school in the fall sense of the and 1 word. The poor children whose parents with difficulty earn their heads livelihood with the spade or fishing-net, come to school very irregu- Some larly. In the Bible-lesson the second and third standards do better conrs than the first, where the children are taught in parrot fashion. ”’ sing diffioy Of the Franco-Anglo-Vernacular School at Mahé Mr. Weismann reports : — Sac he D “It had 66 pupils at the end of the year. French is compulsory charg in all classes. It is hard work for the children of the first standard, who, when just beginning to learn to read and to write in their mate lahou mother-tongue, are obliged to learn a foreign language at the same time. [ In the middle of October our school was examined by the French Educational Inspector, and he confirmed what we already 18P0t much knew, that our school is keeping step with the Gtovernment School though we have three languages instead of two (French, English Tesulf and Malayalam).” Nor and y Of the Palghat Anglo-Vernacular School M. Uber reports: — fexts, “The results of the examination were satisfactory, 57 p. c. of the Clrge boys presented to the Middle Sehool Examination having passed, cultie while in the Government College only 33 p. c. and in the Native High School only 81 p. e. passed in the same examination. The Govern- ClaSS: Conye ment grant however. was very small, though not through any fault Taste of ours. The demands of the Educational department are being increased from year to year, and at the same time its pecuniary inty . Wang assistance diminished or entirely withdrawn, which is certainly dis- couraging. As regards the results of the Bible-classes, we find that the Y the diligence and attention of our boys to seriptural lessons is greater IOSS) | 4 Coyy in the lower than in the higher classes. Yet most of our older boys are convinced of the vanity of their idols and of the uselessness of A outward ceremonies. But a cheerful faith in Christ, strong enough Who to break through all hindrances, is very rare.” folly 95 S e such Mr. Kiihnle of Palghat reports:— “The school at Panayur suffered very much during the last year. N are On account of the conversion of two families in the neighbourhood Tness, there was a commotion among the people. They debated against of the and in favour of Christianity and the outcome was, that several their heads of families ceased to send their children to school. But after some time they thought better of it, and it is to be hoped that in the Tegu- hetter course of the year the school will recover and will again be a bles- N The Christian master Paul Kalarikal is in a sing to all around. difficult position in the midst of the heathen population. When there i is a conversion people throw the blame on him. It is fortunate that he has a good many friends who take his side. His blameless lsory character and his peaceful and happy domestic life are highly esti- Jard, mated by the heathen, and we hope that God will further bless the their labours of this man. same “With respect to the school at Wadackencherry we are glad to i the report considerable progress. The master, Mose Heber, has taken eady much pains. The number of boys has more than doubled and the shool result of the examination was splendid. Only one boy failed to pass. glish Nor have biblical subjects been neglected. I examined the school and was much pleased with the results in Bible-history and Bible- S/ texts. The latter were recited by almost all the pupils with ac- ‘f the curacy. The school at Mélparambu is labouring under diffi- SSde culties. There is a great number of children, chiefly in the lowest class; some of the pupils in this standard are the children of new igh (g converts and of Non-Christians and are 10 and 12 years old. Cur fault master Joshua Nyarakanden spares no trouble to bring the school ¢ing into a better condition. - I often see him in the early morning The death of ity wandering from house to house to gather his flock. dis the young Christian and teacher Albert Mattatil has been a great thab loss, we are glad however that in Phoebe Jacobi we have secured ater a competent mistress in his stead.” hoy® About the Village Schools of the Kaity centre, Mr. Wieland, o9 Of who took charge of them on the Ist April 1894, writes as ugh follows :— 96 e “The majority of our masters give the Bible-lessons in the right teach spirit, which is proved by the ready and correct answers given at neph an examination. It is the rule that in schools where secular studies 1ise are taught well, the Bible-lessons also are well known.—That our that Kaity Training School has been enlarged and made a Lower Secondary highf school is a necessary and well-timed measure, which was very much W welcomed by the people. For our schools that have an Upper by 2 Primary or 4th standard we need teachers who have passed the lads, Lower Secondary Grade and are otherwise trained in method and Wher school-management. Our Kaity Training School is now in a give position to meet fhis want. histo “It is a very gratifying sign of progress that some schools are also schog sfrue attended by girls. Both, the girls themselves and their parents have had to encounter the mockeries of the other villagers, but we hope that some of the parents at least will overcome the old prejudices and leave their girls in school. If once a beginning is made, the new custom will spread and blessing will result. I think I may a fey smal safely say that our hill-schools are generally liked, and I have never heard an objection to the Bible-lesson taught in them. To our be g Hulikal school certain boys come from a village 3 miles distant the though there was a school opened by a Brahman in their own village, prog: and they have to pass through a jungle where occasionally wild ani- arg | mals may be seen to prowl.” insig Porfy My. Wieland gives very interesting accounts of each of the then sixteen schools; but space permits us to give only a few:— ¢hilg “The Kateri school is one of our best. In December 9 boys went up for the Primary Examination, and all passed in the first class. Order and discipline are well maintained and the head-master Benjamin is an able and faithful man who does his work in the right e iIIIp(] spirit. Stea “Hosahatti has 40 pupils; almost too many for the teacher done Ephraim, but he works well and the Government Inspector pro- nounced his school an excellent one. b}e “Hulikal with 30 boys. The former master thought the place of The a writer in a plantation with 20 or 25 Rs. salary preferable to his intex 9% Tight teachership for Rs 12 only and left us. The present one, Joshua, a en af nephew of Cat. K. Satyanathan, took his place. He has already udies raised the standard of the school, and it is especially praiseworthy b our that he refused two other appointments where he was offered much ndaty higher pay. much “At Achinakallu and Yedekadu there are night schools, attended Upper by 21 and 16 lads or young men respectively. It is not easy for the d the lads, after working during day-time on coffee plantations or else- where, to sit at night behind their books. In fact, most of them d.and ma give up learning as soon as they know a little of the three R s. Bible- history is also taught in the night schools, and therefore these 6 4150 schools, in which we have young people of a maturer age under in- struction, are of great importance.” have hope Of the Badaga Girls’ School at Kaity Mrs. Liitze reports:— 1dices “The Badaga Girls’ School suffered somewhat by the conversion of , the may a few young men of Kaity, so that-the attendance at times was very small. Just now we are in want of a school-house, but we hope to never o our be able to get one again. (The former house had been rented from the Badagas). The girls are very much attached to us and are istant progressing. They understand what we tell them, and their hearts lage, are open to the truth. The work among them, though seemingly ] anie insignificant, is not in vain. The Sunday School gives us fine op- portunities to speak to them heart to heart, and to reveal Jesus to f the them. They are convinced that they themselves are among the children whom Jesus loves, and they wish to go to heaven to Him.” went My. Sikemeier of Kotageri‘reports RS olass. “ An important branch of our work is the schools,and the most ]3Stef important of these is that in the station which is growing slowly but pight steadily, numbering now 63 pupils. All the three masters have done good work. acher “Speaking of the village schools, that of Jakanare suffered much pl‘O by conversions of some of its pupils, and it has not yet recovered. 300 of The schools are under the supervision of the Pastor, who also super- o bis Ainte‘nds the monthly class of masters.” 13 98 of may 7. Medical Mission. from | 3] Dr. Liebendorfer of Calicut writes:— very “To the medical institutions, which have been under our care, in-pat we had the pleasure of adding another one in the course of last year. (astes It is the Leper Asylum, which hitherto has been under the care of for ¢h the Municipality, but which, owing to want of funds, they were ob- amony liged to give/up. Convinced, however, that such an asylum is a great he wa want for the many lepers in Malabar, who would otherwise be com- a Chy pelled to wander about in the streets, I came forward and offered home to take charge of it, although I did not know where the money for the maintenance of such a large establishment was to come from. taking illness The building itself, situated on the north-beach of Calicut, was in a of uni state of disrepair, necessitating the outlay of a couple of hundred hospit Rupees. In the name of our good Lord, however, on the 23rd of knew May, I took charge of the asylum with 23 inmates, a number which would has been kept up nearly all the time, the accommodation being and g limited to 24 in-patients. 'With the assistance of several good friends declay in India and especially in Edinburgh we were, thank God, not only in oy able to maintain the asylum, but also to procure new furnishings, lets, y which were much needed, such as bedding, clothing, and to complete the necessary repairs. After the first year of our superintendence, thega Spreag I am glad to say, that the inmates are very comfortably lodged. that o Our hearty thanks for this are due especially to Mr. Bailey, the think Secretary of the Society for Lepers in India. Through the kindness Ladig of the “Society for Illeminated Wall-Texts”’ in London, and the generosity of certain Ladies in Calicut, we were enabled to adorn the R Lepep otherwise bare walls with Biblical texts and pictures. A Catechist appre in charge of the asylum conducts Reading- and Bible Classes, in order Qr to relieve the dreary monotony of the daily life of the in patients, ‘\SW and to raise their thoughts to something higher. This, added to the necessary sanitary improvements, has already produced good re- thls 1 Chrig sults both with respect to the moral condition and the bodily health of the inmates. Tegop We are trying to get an additional piece of land in Su ltat front of the Asylum, for garden purposes, in the hope that any kiﬁnd by ke 99 e of manual labour will also tend to divert the thoughts of the patients from idleness and mischief. “In our Calicut Hospital the work has been carried on with the very valuable assistance of our Dresser Joseph M. We had 135 cate, in-patients and about 24,500 consultations with out-patients of all year, castes and creeds, a task, which sometimes proved rather too heavy are of for the few hands in the hospital. Five of the in-patients died, re 0D among whom was a Badaga moonshee from the Nilgiris. Sick as great he was, he came down from the hills with the purpose of becoming ) 0 a Christian and of getting forgiveness of his sins. By remaining at fered home with his family, he was afraid, he might be prevented from ey for taking this step. His desire was gratified, and after a prolonged from. illness he died in peace and joy, and with the sure and certain hope §ina of union with Jesus for ever. Another man, a Nayer, came to the ndred hospital, sick in body and soul, after leading a most sinful life. He 1d of knew Jesus to be the friend of sinners, and was convinced, that He ghich would certainly not reject him, a repentant sinner. He was baptized heing and soon afterwards died in peace. There were several others, who jends declared their willingness to follow Christ, and who were baptized only in course of time. We had ocecasion to distribute hundreds of leaf- 110 o hd] 03 lets, which were generally well received and read on the spot. By lplete these means a certain amount of knowledge of the Gospel has been encey spread amongét the people far and wide, and we are convinced Joed that our labour is not in vain, though we sometimes are tempted to the think so. This hospital also has, through the kindness of certain 1n8ss Ladies, been provided with a few oil-paintings of religious subjects. | § he H. H. the Zamorin gave the in-patients of this hospital and of the nt he Leper Asylum a treat in honor of his birthday, which was greatly )(}hls appreciated by the sick folk. rdet “The branch-hospital in Codacal was faithfully carried on by our eniss Assistant Jonas F., and was once a month visited by myself. That 3d fo this institution continues to remain popular with both Hindus and dre Christians, is proved by the great number of out-patients, who have i hot resorted to it for help and advice. There were above 13,000 con- d 10 sultations by out-patients, and 44 in-patients, some Qf whom had to be kept in the hospital for two months and more. kmd 13 10 el 7 “If through our efforts the name of our Lord Jesus Christ is glori- ] [} fied in the hearts and homes of some of our many patients, we are satisfied. May the Lord bless all our kind friends, who have whose somet strengthened our hands and encouraged us in our work and labour of love.” scorn sation fo ea 8. The Literary Department in wh of our work 16ad | has its centre in Mangalore, where the Printing Press prints ] [ in Canarese, Malayalam, Tulu and English and occasionally in Sanskrit, Tamil, Konkani, Mahratti and German. A ven From the Mangalore Book and Tract Depository 32 branch- lously depots draw their books and tracts. The central Depository many was managed and the branch-depdts were superintended by 4 My, Huber, who is also the publisher of the concern. and b The work of revising the Canarese and Malayalam versions also of the Bible has been carried on. The Canarese Revision and Committee held no general session during the last year, several little of its members having gone on furlough; but two of the re- Tosta, Seote] maining members met in May last in Mysore city and prepared a tentative translation of the Gospel of St. Mark. The Mala- Mady, Slicces yalam Revision Committee had no session during the past year. Two Periodicals, the Sabhapatra edited by Mr. Risch and T Mr. Christanuja in Canarese, and the Kéralopakari edited in Malayalam by Mr. Hole, supply the educated members of our A churches with wholesome reading. Fourteen Colporteurs, four of whom are Bible Colporteurs (g and paid by the Madras Auxiliary Bible Society, the remainder being in the employ of the Basel Mission, carry Bibles, New Testa- ments, Bible-portions, tracts and books in English and the Vernaculars far and wide, and sow the good seed broadcast Sabhap over the country. As a rule religious books and tracts are sold, Selecte(‘ The Te though at low prices; they are very ’rarely given away gratis. A (g 101 e My, Huber writes:— glori- e are “46,105 copies of books and traActs have been sold by Colporteurs ) have whose experiences are varied. Sometimes they are kindly received, labour sometimes with indifference. They are occasionally sent away with scorn and abuse. Not unfrequently they are able to have a conver- sation about the contents of a tract. Some of the people buy tracts to tear them up in the face of the Colporteurs to show the contempt in which they hold the Christian religion, others again buy tracts to read them and to ponder over their contents.” prints My. Ostermeyer of Cannanore reports:— jonally “Tract Colporteur Obed Sneham was taken home by the Lord after a very short illness. He carried his knapsack of books most zea- ranch- lously for many years through the country and disposed of a good ository many fracts, He died in peace. led by “His successor Timothy Punna was soon initiated into the work, and has achieved good results in the line of selling tracts. We are also much pleased with the two Bible Colporteurs, Joseph Perigamana a151008 In eyisIon and Jesuman Niti, who vie with each other in selling Bibles. little more than 3 months they sold as many as 6 Bibles, 17 New sorendl Testaments and 961 Bible-portions. Their salary is paid by the e 1¢- Seotch Bible Society, which to our great joy stepped in just when the epared Vala Madras Auxiliary, from want of means, had refused to nomin_ate a sucecessor for Ebenezer Bethel.” f yeal. (h and The Printingv Press was managed by Mr. Hirner. ited 10 A list of the Books and Tracts printed is given below. of our LIST OF BOOKS AND TRACTS rteurs Printed from 1st Novenéber 1893 to 31st October 18?4. ginder I Canarese. Testr Edition, Size Copies. Pages Tot, Pages. 80 600 192 115200 ad the Sabhapatra Vol. xxvi. to xxvii. Selected Scripture Texts for Non-Chr. Sch. II. 122 3000 42 126000 )adcast The Teaching of the Gospel 111 ” 3000 24 72000 A Collection of Canarese Lyrics IIT1 ” 3000 68 204000 gratl 102 A Brief Account of'the Life of the Lo rd Edition. Size. Copies.. Pages. .Tot. Pages. Notes Jesus Christ I 12 2000 66 132000 An B Hinduism and Christianity III ” 2000 84 168000 Canar The Married Life: I. the Wedding 111 ” 3000 54 162000 The Family Instructor. ” 2000 116 232000 Instructive Stories for Children, Series No. 1. V. 162 4000 62 248000 Keral Blessed are the Peacemakers: a Story , 2. III. ” 3000 40 120000 Short What is your Religion ? IX 4000 46 184000 Soript The Power of Conscience, 13 Stories No. 6. I ”» 2000 40 80000 The True Friend in Need The 6 I ” 3000 48 144000 How Joseph the Shepherd Boy became. a Praye The T Prime-minister-Series No. 7. II ”» 2000 48 96000 The § The Universe an Exhibition of God’s The T Power and Glory 1000 56 56000 The § Christmas Carol III1 ” 3000 44 132000 The Lingaitism examined v 3000 48 144000 The Heart Book VIII. 3000 80 The T ” 240000 Two ( Blindness cured 131 32° 5000 16 80000 A (e The Story of an Actor and a I;rincess Iv ” 5000 24 120000 The Conqueror of Death II AMa ” 5000 24 120000 S A Wonderful Trial. ” 3000 24 72000 A Man born blind inl 5000 20 100000 The I Subjects for Consideration, revised ed. ” 4000 16 64000 The Gospel of Matthew, B. A. B. 8. rev. ed. 129 20000 120 2400000 Geogy Akba The Epistle to the Romans ch. i-viii. h) n ” 10000 32 320000 The Book of Genesis to Exodus xx. Alug 16° 10000 242 2420000 Liturgical Services, revised ed. 12° 1000 71 71000 A Hand Book of Sketches of Sermons . 16° 250 426 106500 Canarese Primer L by Iv 12° 3500 36 126000 Third Reader IV ” 3000 160 480000 1500 Canarese Proverbs ” 1000 130 130000 Nudigattu, or a Manual of Sch. Grammar II. » 4000 212 848000 Select Easy Lessons on Health » 2000 42 84000 fo Kanarese First Book (Bombay Govt.) VII » 100000 36 3600000 » Fourth Book n ” 15000 232 3480000 Geography for Standard III. II 1.6° 5000 28 140000 A fyy Description of Coorg " 3000 74 222000 The The | I. Standard Arithmetic II ” 4000 16 64000 ¥ II ” ” I 3500 20 70000 ¥ 111 » ” II n 2500 32 800000 ARy Fﬁll Notes on Canarese Third .Rea;der' 700 26 18200 y ” ” 300 32 9600 Ly IV. Stauc?ard : The il 103 Pages Edition, Size Copies Pages Tot. Pages 2000 20 40000 Notes on Canarese First Reader Pt. II I 16° 80 750 117 87750 32000 An Elementary Sanskrit Grammar in Can. II 168000 Canarese Almanac for 1895 ” 1000 64 448000 62000 IL. Malayalam. 232000 248000 80 500 192 96000 Keralopakari Vol. xxI 20000 Short Bible Stories 1v 1:22 4000 116 464000 216000 184000 Scripture Sentences, New revised ed ” 3000 72 80000 1500 150 225000 The Gospel of John, Sanskrit & Malayal ” 144000 16° 200 177 35400 Prayer in Hinduism and Christianity 112000 The Best Choice 1I 2000 56 96000 III 2000 60 20000 The Sufferings of Christ The True Light . 1I 3000 28 84000 56000 The Story of Dhirasirastran 11 32° 3000 32 96000 4000 40 160000 32000 The Art of dying Happy » 144000 The Folly of Atheism II ” 3000 20 60000 84000 240000 Two Converts from Islam II n 3000 28 16° 5000 116 580000 80000 A Geography of the Madras Pres. P I A Malayalam Anthology for the use of 120000 60000 20000 Schools, I. & II. Standard with Notes VII ” 5000 12 IV VI 3000 39 117000 72000 » ? » b The First Reader XX 30000 66 1980000 100000 160000 64000 Geography for Standard ITI . II ” 5000 32 I 80 1000 268 268000 400000 Akbar, an Indian historical Romance Almanac for 1895 ki 2000 9 0 4 184000 390000 490000 III. Tulu., 71000 II 32° 1000 28 28000 106500 A bad Mind changed 126000 IV. Mahratti. 480000 130000 Selected Scripture Texts in Mahratti I 12° 1000 40 40000 45000 for Non-Christian Schools 84000 500000 V. Badaga. 40000 A Song about the Daughter of Zion I 12° 1000 34 34000 140000 I 16° 500 78 39000 The Heart Book 992000 54000 VI Anglo-Vernacular and English 10000 A First English Reader, Anglo-Malayalam VI 162 10000 100 1060000 800000 3000 142 426000 Anglo-Canarese Translation Series Bk. III. II 12° 5200 80 1100 116 127600 9600 The 54th Report of the B. G. E. Mission 104 —_— SALE OF BOOKS AND TRACTS from Ist July 1893 to 30th June 1894. 1. OQur Own Publications. Rs. b> o] I 26,867 Copies of Canarese Religious Books 1,195 been 1,746 ” ” Tulu ” U 69 blish 22,380 ” 847 Malayalam ” ) Man, 30,782 ” » Canarese School-books‘ 6,449 ment 13,965 ” » Malayalam n ” 2,233 Kud; 31,045 » » Books in other languages 509 Ulip 32,849 ” ” Canarese Government Books 4,760 Pk ed with 37,569 N » Malayalam ” ” 5,662 Wea 197,203 Copies. PO =N O RO = O @B o B W wopeW the | Totai Rs. 21,726 10t | .2. Other Publications. Miggi 1,492 Copies of Bibles and Bible Portions 336 e p¢ 407 ” , Dangalore Tracts and Books 39 14 with 8,000 9 |0 e ) Chig G Sundry Engl. & Vern. Books 5,790 207,102 Copies. Total Rs. 27,892 10 10 of gy thege aip We tender our hearty thanks tov the Religious Tract Society in London for the generous help they have given us towards But ¢ the cost of printing gnd publishing our tracts. Whic} oaly N o S s W e e e N trai Proye They 1 ﬁn Wigh W g 105 9. Industrial and Mercantile Establishments Besides the Printing Press at Mangalore which has already been mentioned under a different head., our Mission has esta- blished in Canara and Coorg the Weaving Establishment at Mangalore with a branch at Mulky, the Mechanical Establish ment on Balmatha, Mangalore, the Tile Works at Jeppu and Kudroli, both near Mangalore, and at Malapu (or Malpe) near Udipi In Malabar the Weaving Establishment at Cannanore with branches at Chowa, Chombala-Mahé and Tellicherry, the e 7 NI B o o I N At S0P AT ey st e Sy i SRR T MR — o 8 g | P | Sl e Do < K=} o0 <o = Weaving Establishment at Calicut with a branch at Codacal, v oo the Tile Works at Calicut, Codacal and Palvhat and last, but not least., the three mercantile concerns of the Mercantile It should Mission-Branch at Mangalore, Mercara and Calicut be remembered that these factories were originally established with the view of providing those converts, who by becoming Christians lost their means of subsistence, with an honest way 5 (E of earning their daily bread. This end has been reached and these factories have from a temporal point of view become the main stay of several of our churches in Canara and Malabar poiety But they are doing a much greater work. The principles upon ards which they are managed being Christian and their aim not only to give work and food to workmen but to educate and train them in habits of honesty, industry and frugality, they prove to be most important helps to the Pastors of the churches They are also very useful as a means of testing new-comers, to find out whether they are vagabonds or people who honestly wish to earn their own living. We give a few extracts from the reports that have reached us p— 14 106 e Myr. Hirner, the Superintendent of the Mang'a,loré Printing man Press, writes:— throt datic “ Among our workmen there are always some who receive bene- fits without any spirit of gratitude. Thefts are at times committed fime in the Printing Office probably by one or several of the hands. Three of our men were dismissed.—On the other hand I must ing| work acknowledge, that most of the hands are obedient, willing and industrious and at times even surpass my expectations.” for v My. Weischedel, the Superintendent of the Mechanical Work- whie town shop, reports:— fo ge “Iron and brass work, including casting, carpentry, joinery and turning work are executed in our workshop. Our chief jobs were an iron bridge in the Kasaragod taluka, the enlargement of the Weaving Factory on Balmatha and some twisting machines. We the . have been so successful that all our hands have been employed the ork whole year, and several jobs had to be rejected for want of hands.— One of our old workmen, Bartholomew, foreman in casting-work, was Chrif removed by death. In him we have lost a very good workman, pray both as regards casting and other iron work; in building bridges ever especially he did good service.” My. Schinthal, the Superintendent of the Cannanore Weaving 15 1 Establishment, writes:— stia “Our Weaving Factory is intended for the maintenance of our i poor; therefore the superintendent is not always able to adjust the {0 t number of his hands to the requirements of the factory. He is ex- dley pected to provide work for the church-members of 4 different places, Cannanore, Chowa, Tellicherry and Chombala, and besides to find room for the catechumens. Sometimes people stand waiting for hours to ask if they cannot find employment. Others say: ‘If the sahib had some mercy, he would find room for such a helpless creature as myself.’ Or the Missionary in charge of a station writes: ‘If you could find room for this faithful and industrious catechumen, I should feel highly obliged.’ “On October 20th we had the pleasure of taking His Excellency the Governor of Madras over our factory and of showing him our 107” 1511g manufactures. ‘We have had orders for household-linen from him through his Military Secretary and (probably through his recommen- hene- dation) from the Secretary to the Viceroy himself from Calcutta. itted “By means of our savings-bank, we have been able in course of time to assist no fewer than 36 heads of families in building or buy- ands, must ing houses of their own. Bat there is still a great number of our and workmen, who year after year live in lodgings belonging to Maplas for which they have to pay in rent 15 to 25 p. c. of their income, and Jork- which are situated in the worst and most unhealthy quarters of the town. It is our intention to assist these people as much as possible to get better dwellings.” gl Were Mr. Boas of Palghat writes of the Palghat Tile Works:— f the “On the 10th vaember 1893 Mr.and Mrs. Baumann arrived on We the station. Soon afterwards the cholera broke out among our d the workmen and carried off about 30 Non-Christians but only one Christian. Is.— Vas “On January the 29th the Tile Works were opened with singing, man; prayer and several addresses. The building of the works has how- ever gone on for the whole year 1894.” idges Mr. Kiihwnle, the head of the station and Pa8tor of the church, ving is most thankful to have some employment now for poor Chri- stians and to be able to show those inquirers, who come to f our him without any means, how they can get their livelihood and { the to teach them practically that the kingdom of God is not § ex- idleness, but is consistent with honest labour. 08, find N D e m XF T g for f the 2fur6 2 [ ! Jency 1 Our 14% Was ( posit desire DB!TUARY. M Ry Nett gxten 1. Paul ,Chittayagam. At the beginning of the year 1894 Paul Chittayagam, Catechist, entered the rest of the people of and ¢ 0ut 4 .God, prepared by 5 or 6 months’ illness. He was born in the village Iringalikuta in Cochin. When about 18 years old he at dif Catec left his house, went to the north, and came to Cannanore to Mr. Hebich, who instructed and baptized him together with Mala several others. work After some time he returned to his house and his people. Finding no rest there he went to Cochin, and be- the Previ came an assistant to pastor Lazeron (of Jewish extraction) firgt who belonged to the Church of Scotland, and some time after- wards to the English Chaplain Mr. Redly. But the desire of the cause being reunited with the church in which he had been baptized did not leave him. In 1858 he returned to Mr. Hebich and in and mark the following year was appointed by him as a Catechist. He worked for many years at Palghat, Codacal, Coilandy and 0r gf Calicut. and With his fellow-workers he always lived in peace and harmony. Some years ago he was attacked by a disease in his feet, which at last brought on his death. Rev. Mr. 3 His f Jonas Padiath, Pastor of the Calicut church, to whom we are indebted for this sketch, testifies to the blessing he enjoyed in Phys Werg his intercourse with him during the time of his illness, in reading and discussing the Word of God and praying with a8 him. My Into the joy which they talked about, hoped for and prayed for in those times of spiritual communion, our brother fll was permitted to enter on the 2nd of January 1894. Blessed the ¢ be the Lord for His unspeakable gift. thous 2 he b( Abraham Para was born in Calicut on the 11th May 1852. His parents FEzra and Rachel were the converts and in g S00n helpers of the late Rev. J. M. Fritz, the founder of the Calicut church. Abraham received his early education in the Mission 4 Py to th Anglo-Vernacular School at Calicut, but after confirmation hegy 109 AR was obliged to discontinue his studies and volunteer as a com- positor in the Printing Press there. He there testified his desire to do mission work and entered the Middle School at Nettur in 1872. After completing his studies, which as usual. extended over a course of four years in the Middle School 1894 and of four years in the Seminary at Mangalore, he passed ple of in the out as a Catechist in 1880. Abraham served for thirteen years 1 be at different stations of North Malabar, chiefly as an itinerant Catechist, and in March 1893 he was transferred to South o6 to mith Malabar and posted to Ponani. Here after having faithfully worked for 10 months, on the 15th January 1894, he died from ¢ and 1 be the after-effects of cholera, which he had contracted a week previously while attending and nursing his son who was the ction) 100 i first to be attacked. The medical man who was called in at aft the last moment, pronounced heart disease to be the immediate it of cause of his death. He was of a calm and quiet disposition tized and of a contemplative turn of mind, and his death was re- nd 1n markably calm and unattended by the least symptoms of pain He - and or struggle. He has left behipd an invalid wife and a son and, daughter. peace 589,80 3 Paul Chandren was born on July 15th 1809 at Chombala. Wi His former name was Mannen. He was the son of an honest ¢ 816 physician of the fishermen’s caste. Mannen and his elder brother ed 1 were to become physicians and his father caused them to learn S, 1 But as much Sanskrit as was necessary for the profession. yith Mannen became so fond of Sanskrit that he continued its study and till he was able to read and to understand the shastras in other the original and by help of his excellent memory he learned ogsed thousands of Sanskrit verses by heart, which afterwards, when he became a preacher of the Gospel to the heathen, stood him ) By in good stead. As an able Sanskrit scholar and physician he , and soon was highly respected by his countrymen, and became finally )l jcub a priest of the Sakti Puja, and in this quality was also called 155108 to the houses of high caste people. ‘But he wasnot happy; his He was already married when he 1&10“ heart was without peace. 110 L resolved on a pilgrimage to seek the peace he did not have. mad faith In secret he fled from his wife and child, but was met on the way by an acquaintance who had just returned from a pilgri- post mage. When the latter recognized Mannen, he said to him: “You are a fool, you will meet with plenty of hardships, but theq 500 will not find what you seek.” Mannen returned and soon found rest unto his soul in Him who has said ‘Come unto me all for 1 ye that labour and are heavy laden.’ A cousin of Mannen's 500§ the one day brought him a New Testament which he had got from a friend at Cannanore. Mannen was taken with the book fath Feh but did not understand many things in it, lhe felt the need of somebody to instruct him; so he started for Nettur atte to get information from the Missionaries there. mox In Dr. Gundert’s study Manmnen, who had come to learn, began to Just dispute, when Dr. Gundert kindly but seriously said: “«This vessel is already full, and can receive nothing more.” These words entered his heart like an arrow; he reflected for a Ind few minutes and then said: “«Oh yes, if emptied of its con- Was tents it may.” And so it was; Mannen was emptied in Bol: order to be filled. For some weeks he attended the services W at Nettur from Chombala and at one of those visits he hut asked for baptism which was granted to him. t0 g A fort- night afterwards he also brought his wife and children for baptism. kng His wife had resisted the invitations of her heathen relatives Sch to leave her apostate husband, had stood by him in spite of { §00; of ridicule and scorn, and had opened her ear and heart to the new and glorious things that poured from his lips; his the§ God was her God. Mannen, now Paul, quickly acquired such of § a knowledge of the Scripture that he could himself witness for helI Christ. His relatives were his first concern. He prayed to 1 God for their conversion and did not cease to work with them hip till his work bore fruit. They came at first singly, then in A8l families, and soon he had the pleasure of seeing a Christian ult; community settle round his own compound. Paul had become Sty a QCatechist at Chombala, an insignificant mission station. of he Until 1872 he yvorked in Chombala, then he wag ordained and ol S e '111 made Pastor of the Church at Nettur, to which he ministered have, ) the faithfully. At last when an old man of 80 he resigned his lgri post and was pensioned. him; During the last years of his life he suffered much from rheumatism, but he never complained. He had lost a promising , bt ound son who died in 1865 in Switzerland where he was preparing for the missionary work in the College at Basel. Two other 6 all 'S sons, one a Pastor of the Basel Mission at Chowa near Cannanore, the other a Government officer, had the privilege to close their from book father’s eyes when he breathed his last at Chombala on February 2nd 1894. OChristians from every station of Malabar the thur attended his burial. His faithful wife Lydia followed him 9 months afterwards at the ripe age of 76. The memory of the D n t0 just is blessed. This hese 4. Onthe 2nd July 1894 Rev. J.»I(amsika, one of our veteran Indian helpers, was called by the Lord to his eternal rest. He L& con- was born in 1818, one of the nine children of a Brahman at Bolar, near Mangalore. ~ As a school-boy Mukundarao (that d 1 1068 was his former name) acquired only a smattering of English; but from his 14th year, after the death of his father, he began s be to study seriously. Just at that time Rev. S. Hebich, the well- ight known pioneer of the Basel Mission in India, opened a Mission 191, 1768 School at Mangalore. Mukundarao joined that school in spite of the opposition of his relations. Two other Brahman youths .p1te b 10 soon after followed his example. The Scripture-lessons which they daily received, ere long convinced them of their sins and s of their need of a Saviour. Mukundarao at last could not 1ch help opening his mind to Dr. Mogling and took great delight for in conversing with this Missionary and in discussing with | t0 him on religious points. This greatly helped him in laying 61l aside his deep rooted prejudices against Christianity and | il ultimately accepting Christ as his Saviour. After many 1D struggles he made up his minds to make a public confession me of his faith. Having earnestly prayed with Dr. Madgling 00, he and the two other Brahman youths openly confessed nd e 112 their Saviour and joined the Church. Throughout a career Jeft miu of over 52 years he always looked upon that day as one of the most blessed of his life. When his brother heard of the as a fireg event he came to the mission-house with a large crowd, seized M. and would have carried him away, had not Mr. Weigle ey hehi and some men, sent by the good Collector Mr. Blair, prevented b Soon after this, on the day of Epiphany in 1844 M. fully eter) with his two friends was baptized and received the name Jacob. He was up to his death very grateful for his baptism. Lorg But his brother thought of revenge. . He caused a pig to the be killed and had it thrown into the sacred tank of the mids the Mahommedan mosque. The next morning the rumour was cir- culated that the Missionaries were the authors of this sacrilege. am) The Mahommedans rose up in great fury and assembled to §0n | attack the Missionaries. But the Collector called military aid, dispersed the mob and explained to the leaders that such a J sacrilege could never have been committed by the Missionaries. 0t Kamsika was soon employed in different kinds of mission-work. burg He was first teacher in the Mission School and then mana- good ger of the lithographic press. But when Rev. J. Josenhans, the. fion Home Secretary of the Mission, visited Mangalore, he thought ing, it more advisible to employ him in preaching the Gospel, and the | he was sent to Malasamudra, a small Mission-station in the ang Dharwar District, where the Basel Mission had a large sugar likey plantatation and mill, to preach the Gospel to the coolies em- Were ployed there. From Malasamudra he was transferred to Dharwar the | and after two years’ hard work there, he was sent to Mangalore. Mgt Here he was a teacher in the English School and afterwards §pen a Catechist, and had ample opportunity to prove to his Brah- he W man friends and relations that the life of a Christian is a stug; happy life. the | In 1869 he was ordered to Karwar to open a Mission-station Seey there. Beforelong a number of conversions from the shoemaking fung class took place and during the famine he worked successfully tiop among those who came to Karwar from the Ghats. But owing tim{g to the difficulty of obtaining 2 livelihood at Karwar they soon ang 113 Gl o A1 el left this town again, and the Karwar church was so reduced e of in numbers that it was thought advisable to give up Karwar | the as a separate mission-station. Though in 1881 Kamsika re- eized tired from active mission-work he, up to the very last, took a Jeigle deep interest in the few members of his flock- that were left behind. nted In 1892 his dearly beloved wife, who always cheer- L fully shared all his sorrows and troubles, -was called to her eternal rest. Name This heavy loss greatly told on his health. The fism Lord, however, was pleased to keep him long enough to celebrate o to the jubilee of his conversion on the 6th January 1894 in the ' the midst of the Karwar congregation, who joyfully took part in § O the solemnity. A . few months afterwards he was called away by his blessed Saviour while lege | staying with his eldest o 10 son at Satara. y ald, ich & 5 Francis Matthissen was born in St. Petersburg in Russia on the 11th August 1839. He passed his youth at St. Peters- aL168 work burg and Reval, where he frequented the higher schools with good results. Having entered the Department of Administra- nand 5, the tion he became manager of a domain, and could, humanly speak- 0ug ht ing, look forward to a splendid career. But in his 23rd year and the Lord delivered him from his state of alienation from God, His aims and ambition nt he and gave him the adoption of a son. Sl ool likewise changed. Having been told that the Basel Mission g el were looking out for a young man in his line of business for the secular agency in Malabar, he heard the call of his new LAl After al 0re Master and applied for the place in January 1867. spending a few months’ probation in the Mission-house at Basel qards Bral he was accepted and in September sent to Calicut. There he studied the language and was initiated into his labours by 15 & the Rev. C. Schauffler for two years, and then he was appointed Secular Agent of Malabar. For 16 years he carried on these o 100 akiD functions almost without interruption, with great circumspec- tion and faithfulness, though under great difficulties and con- b fully oWIng tinual bodily weakness. Having received a liberal education, Y SOOn \and being always ready to step into the breach, his services 15 et 11477 were in request in various branches of the work besides his 001 de regular office, now in the mercantile branch, now in a school. After a 15 months’ stay in Europe he took entire charge of the Calicut High School in the year 1879.— In 1881 he was t0 ordained and took charge of the Tellicherry Anglo-Vernacular I8 School and the small church of Tellicherry town. Here he 0n 0r felt the necessity of a helpmate whom he found in Miss Hanna Fritz, the daughter of the late Mr. Fritz of Calicut. She chs has most affectionately shared his joys and his griefs, as well st as his work for the last 12 years. In 1885 he took charge P of the Calicut High School again, and then of the large church chi of that town. But his strength visibly declined, and he was ful obliged to seek reparation of it at home. Not finding it there, pIo he returned to Calicut in 1889 to relieve his friend Mr. Knob- loch. A cough, which he had brought from home, betrayed that his lungs were affected, but he began to work with his accustomed zeal and the church-members welcomed him with their former love and confidence. After a few months, how- ever, he was so reduced in strength that he had to recruit his health in Bangalore. Again he returned to Calicut and be- sides his other work took part’'in the revision of the Mala- yalam New Testameut, till in 1892 he was forced to leave the station and to go to Coonoor on the Nilgiris. He still hoped to return to his work, but God had different plans. He was to live there in retirement, to work at an English- Malayalam School Dictionary and to learn that His grace was sufficient for him. If anybody, Brother Matthissen was con- vinced that even a Missionary has his own faults which cause him many bitter hours. But he fought manfully against them and his struggle was not in vain. Those who knew him intimately, loved and esteemed him as ‘a true friend. On the 15th June Mr. Matthissen’s old complaint obliged him to call in the Doctor, upon whose advice he went to Kotageri for a change. Though once he appeared to be near his death he recovered and returned in July seemingly stronger. But after two days he entirely broke down. His 115 AU S s cough and difficulty of breathhing increased while his strength 0ol decreased, he would sometimes fall asleep during meals. 0 On the 22nd July a circle of friends assembled at his house was to celebrate the Lord’s Supper, when he knelt down with the ila rest for prayer and stood up to sing the hymns. But ) he on the morning of the 23rd he was unable to stand up i or to dress; he would not eat nor go to bed, but sat on a he chair with his head resting on his arm. For 14 hours his well struggle lasted and at about 10 P. M. he expired under the al e prayers and the blessings of the brethren. He has left no te} 1rCl children. Mys. Matthissen, though deeply grieved, is thank- 25 ful that his struggle is over. Several tracts wrﬁten by him 1016 prove his love to the people of Malabar. (i 0 aved his \\]Hl [10W bl )13 1 be [ala eMe \ll I laus | s z Wwas o1 calIse »alD‘t 1 I )hoed 0 of ¢ pedl 1l ]Gb His 2143} 3 Py o ) Conclusion. Having now reviewed all the different branches | (ol of our Mission work, we cannot but feel and acknow- le ledge our own shortcomings and failures, but at the Mrs, We same time we desire to praise the great mercy of our B, Ande Balan L God, who has enabled us to carry on His work for F&H Rev. K another year and has made many hearts, both in India Triest M. Vi and at home, willing to assist us with their sympathy-, Tmpe Througy their prayers and their money. May He, whose WOI‘k\ His Bx it is, reward them according to the riches of His grace, Hono G0 and make us all still more willing and qualified to help Bon| 1, (o G Cottl in extending His kingdom upon earth. Aleg, ] Geo, g D. ¥, ( AB A B LA AN GH! I W & Rev, § Ny J. Dy Ly Subscriptions and Donations TOWARDS THE MISSION FUND Received during the year 1894, A G s Sl & & anches g« All sums received on or af:ter the 1st January 1895 will be achnow- know- ledged 'in the Report for 1895. Rs. As MANGALORE. at the Rs. As. B H. Ingle Esq. D. Howell Esq. Mrs. Ward, Karachi. 10 10. .0 G. Betham Esq. of our F. Anderson Esq., Credit- Balance 015 KASARAGOD. N. N. 24 Some friends in Schramberg, ik for F. & H. in India 40 Wiirttemberg towards the Rev. Keppler from N. N. in Kasaragod Girls’ School India Trieste 7 through Miss F. Diez 42 Mr. Veil from a passenger in 16 MERCARA. pathy"7 Imperator from Trieste For the General Fund. Through Messrs. Warden & Co., Bombay otk Rev. A. Fennell 20 His Excellency the Right Rev. G. Richter 12 Honorable Lord Harris g 10 W. Wright Esq. 12 G. ¢. I. E. (Governor of W. A. Deedes Esq. 10 Bombay) 10 ) help H. Conder Esq. 20 C. W. Moss Esq. 10 T. C. Rice Esq. (o=) (oYl cwf o J Yl ) SO OO O G. Cotton Esq. Alex. J. Agabeg Esq. 10 For the Cooly Mission. Geo. K. H. ot . 3. Gl W. Wright Esq. 12 E Sp ANANDAPUR. A. B A. B For the Cooly Mission. . M. Dreunan Esq. Duncan Esq. Mc Tipping Esq. 12 Evans Esq. c G. R. Moore Esq. 12 %N 15[; C 0. ) W. V. Vloten Esq. 10 Rev. J. D eixﬁler [ B &1 S S ) S T S L B>, B S (e e el esiifen) (oo o), (el i) (o)) dayileolil=) S OIS SIS IC© O OISO IO IS R. Wright Esq. BASRUR. H. R. Craig Esq. 20 R. Hamilton Esq. N N 10 W. Ward Esq. HONAVAR—KARWAR Mrs. L. A. Tipping Mrs. F. W. Gerrard 10 (=) 20 J. Davidson Esq. W. Mann Esq. E. H. Moscardi Esq. 8 J. Logan Esq. 12 C OO OO OO CO OO O (=i el f )il e=p ol e ey (e il ol =) i ) 118 n > m ) DHARWAR. Rs. As. P‘ Mrs. Thom psoﬁ (feneral Mrs. Crowe iy (. Davig i Mrs. Begbie Mrs. Duggan 7 Mrs. Flanagan Col. Cox J. L. Johnston Esq. 65 s Donaldson Rose Esq. == (ol, Sim Mr. W. Jukes 12 R. Darling Esgq. AAW T. B. Maclaran Esq. D. V. Morrison Esq. Major R J. Fairlie Muir Esq. 50 C. R. Rose Esq. A, G, Cs Mr. Nailer 12 AN Ty Capt. Hamilton G.B.B. J. Partridge Esq. 10 Fitz Gerald Esq. Mrs. Jod Mr. Reynolds 24 Oakley Esq. Miss J. | 24 Mr. Thorley . Bvullivant Esq. M. A Mrs, Wa Mrs. Waller 5 ZHQ N Rev. A, H. C. Wingate Esq. 25 N N O W = DO D OO =1 0 © = 1D DN SO WO O OOCLOCOLOS (== i e i e Y e B e B o B = o Y o B = Y e T ) 32 P, Thon Mrs. Wright PALGHAT (e, Sal M. A W, 1 Mr. G. Wood 22 (Sl I R e B o i e i e B e B o B o Y oo i e i o i ) SOOI IO IC © @ DIOIOTS © 0 '® Mrs. Tomlinson 10 W.L5§ 12 AB For the Girls’ Orphanage Mrs. Dupin LEF Mr. Barrow Rev. W. W. Baillie Mrs. Sheaves Mrs, W M. L. Cameron Esq. 24 (== e B o B o i o} 1.D. D A Friend QOO O@ Mis, Aq T. B. Fry Esq. KAITY. Rev. P. S. Grove LR H J. L. Johnston Esq. 65 200 () (o] Mr, Lon 50 Mrs. Breeks, London J. Fairlie Muir Esq. A, F. 100 (=) T, Baga J. Partridge Esq. 10 His Lordship the Bishop of Miss Cloy Mr. Reynolds Madras Mis, g 50 N Mrs. Wright 32 A grateful Planter 50 15, Atk Mrs. Waller T. Stanes Esq. 50 Mis, Py H. C. Wingate Esq. 25 By Mr. G. Wood 14 R. W. James Esq. 50 D9 OO0 OaAOODOO O SOOI O QISIOHS (& O O A. N. Groves Esq. 50 SO Co @ S NCIO D ANy, Collection at the Union Hall, A g HUBLI. Dr. Cardoz 10 > [e=] Ooty 41 = Mz, 10 (= Collection in Mr. Stanes’ \ITS Pa H. R. Weir Esq. School-room, Coonoor 30 (==} NN 0 Geneg] A. 8. Cowdell Esq. 25 (=) M]‘S W BIJAPUR. H. S: 25 () . <=l o) \II‘:, T “Prosp.” Contribution to F. Goldsmith Esq. B.8. 3y J. Monteath Esq. 10 the Salary of the Catechist 24 Nes, 3o R. 8. Wingate Esq. 30 John Liebenrood Esq. 22 A Friend J. B. 15 Mrs, CANNANORE. Ii: K. 13 Nisy Shy W. Gardener Esq. A. Johnston Esq. 10 N. N. G B, 10 18, Kg 10 Rev, N N. (===l ) D. Hooper Esq. 10 Capt. T. L. Begbie 10 TELLICHERRY. Miss E. R. Newing R. Tatham Esg. 10 Mrs. G. Hamnet W. Badcock Esq. Col. Alexander Mrs. Wedderburn CALICUT. i Dr. Soltau Mrs. T. J. Ferguson 10 Lt. A. H. D. Riach Mrs. A. W. Macral 18 ‘ H. W. Leishman Esq Mrs. W. V. Baker 12 | Mrs. Morley IS B> B> B S, B 5, S5 > St = 1) cooccoco00CcOoCcobOo WO o o o B oo i o R e B o S - B Rl = o i o Y o 3 oo ) 119 . A »n z > w General J. A. Tillard Miss Barclay C. Davies Esq. Miss Scott Col. Cox Mrs. Philip Smith g J.D. B. Col. Simpson g A. AW, Miss C. Bojjee 0 Major Reynolds Rev. Shaw Mrs. Nash A. G. Cardew Esq. €. B. B. M. A. S. R T e Mrs. Joder J. Coleman Esq. { Miss J. Smith- E. A M. 0 Mrs. Walsh Miss Sinclair Rev. A. W. Atkinson M. H. .?jz % 0 D. M. P. Thompson Esq. Geo. Salmon Esq. Mr. C. S. M. James D bt bk ek ek el e el el e ek el ek ped h OO OO oo 000 @O doocoecocococcecococo oV 0 W. E. Schmidt Esq. A. B. For the Cooly Mission. L. E. F. 0 0 Mrs. Walker Pilloor Estate (Hunter Esq.) 140 T. Stanes Esq. 55 J. D. Dinwiddie Esq. R. W. James Esq. 33 STy e T eI, e L S Mrs. Addis Hill Grove Estate 30 E. F. H. Wiele Esq. Mrs. M. Hayne 27 Mr. London Miss Mulpas 24 E— 0 T. Eagan Esq. 1] A. N. Groves Esq. 22 Miss Cowdell P. Beaver Esq. 12 Mrs. E. Reed Mrs. C. E. Hayne 0 Mrs. Atkinson J. G. Clarkson Esq. (== o)l com Bl o com Y oMl o o ) SO0 OO0 OO0 O Mrs. Penn § IC DD RO RO DD QO QO QO W W W Wk OtOToTO Ot ot Ot Wt ( KOTAGERI. A. M. Jones Esq. % 0 A. G. Mrs. A. G. Hutchins 25 Mrs. Flanagan Miss Cockburn 50 100 Mrs. Parkinson N DD PO MO F. Groves Esq. General Sharpe [\ Miss Norfor 0 Mrs. W. G. MclIvor [\ Mrs. Griffith 0 Mrs. E. G. Hill 20 0 Mrs. T. Seager 0 B. 8. Johnstone Esq. s F. Hill Esq. 15 IO O O SO0 LoD Mrs. Morison 0 Towards the Out-station Denad. M. h. Mrs. Mc Leish James Stanes Esq. 50 E Miss Sherman 25 Th. Stanes Esq. Mrs. Kenrick Miss M. Cockburn® 10 0 0 Rev. G. N. Thomson e s S = W e S oo me oo coO O o@D roooeoe o oo e ®c D OO OO OO OO 00O OO DO DORDOOODOORDOOOO O DG D Mayandi, brickmaker 0 @O O O SO OO 0 i) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 { U ] 0 0 120 S Donations from Members of the,Congregaﬁons and other Native Friends. Xnonymt MANGALORE. DHARWAR. Rs As Rs & Mr. J. ) Messrs. L. Joshua & Sons 6 Mr. Timothy Malhar Mr. Thomas Pearl Mr. Adaviappa specto Z (== ) Mr. A Mr. Hiskia Aiman Mrs. Bhagyavanti Ullagadde e o Asst, ] Mr. Nelson Pearl A grateful pupil of the High School Mis, Ab Mr. J. Soens, Bombay A friend S. P. Madras HUBLI. N. N. Mangalore N N Mr. Channavira % jir. £, S; A. A g Mr. Andanappe ALt Job, W E 5 Others (including 2 Mission- Mr, Jes, boxes) 10 Jeppoo Prayei-meeting 10 O WO OO OW®We OO o c oo oo s ooy Mr. e, BETTIGERI. Nr, Sha Towards Bells for out-stations Mr. Bastian D’ Souza for Legacy of late cook M, Ben Devamitra 119 M, Eph Madikerigudde 50 Rahelavva Mr, Jak B. B. Association for Bolma 25 (=== Mr. Christian M!‘. Sam Mr. Dav. Subrao S Qoo™ S oo™ Mr, Par MULKY Mr, Aay Rev. Diego Fernandez GULEDGUDD. Mr. Jeg Mr. Joseph Vedamuttu Late cook Devamitra,Bettigeri 1 M, 4, ) Mr. Obed Sumitra Mr. Jsrael Dalabhanjana 1 (=R Mr. K. Shrinivasa Row I BIJAPUR. M, Tiy Mr. Subba Row 1 M. § ( N. N. Mr. Devapria Arvattige Orphanage-girls O Ot = DD DO DT g g M, Jog CANNANORE. Mr. gy UDIPL. Mission-box of the weavers & Mr, Jop J. S. spoolers 81 10 M, A, Liza Sneham 1 S. Sh. thanks-offering Mr. Luke Thyil 2 0 W. E. J. 8. ;;f (=) oy el e (coRK RN ) o) TELLICHERRY. KARKUL. Mr. Pilo Mr. Christian Menzel Mr. Joseph Keiranna Pupils BASRUR. Mrs. K. Chowey § § § Thanks-offering of a child R, Beng From a heathen yout'h in on passing the examination M, 7, Basrur 10 From the Basrur, Coondapoor CHOMBALA. Mg, Keilkeri & Barkur Christians 6 20 2 Mg, Chombala congregation Rey, 1, HONAVAR. Orphans Mg, i\ Mr. Paul Shiri = CALICUT. bapg, Mr. Samuel Bunyan Mrs. Martha Chittayagam s KASARAGOD. Mr. S. Amos 50 Eggs of his own hen —free-will CODACAL. 0 0 offering of a boy Mrs. C. Chambankodu _121 el Rs el VANIYANKULAM. Chr. Ananda s v 3 S As Mr. Mr. Aaron Dawar 0 2 0 A\nonymous 2 0.0 KOTAGERI. PALGHAT. 5 AS & HE Do 0 Mr. J. Matthai, Sub. Asst. In- Mr. Daniel Bella spector of Schools 10 Mr. A. Selvanayagam Sub. Mr . Joseph Belli g W D Bt A T S e < Mr V. Gnanapragasam Asst. Inspector of Schools 10 Mr . M. S. Gnanapragasam Mrs. Abraham 6 (=) () 0 A friend of the Mission 1 DO D) S Mr Samuel Malli Mr . John H. Bella KAITY Rev. J. Kanaka 0 Mr. C. Sathyanathan Mr . Christian Ajja § Mr Joh. Philipp Mr . Benjamin Mr Jes. Shanta Mr . Simon Bala O OO WO LM HOO G w®WPDO O WO OO WO O 0000 OO DD § 10 Mr Jes. Konga Mr . Zacharias Mr Shantappen Mr PIE COLLECTION Benjamin 66 Mr Ephraim Mangalore Mr Jakob Kanaka Mulky 12 Mr Samuel Joshua [=e Udipi 34 13 13 1t T Mr Paranjoti Honavar & Karwar — e O Mr Aaron Bommanna Kasaragod Mr Jesudasan Mercara 10 31 12 Mr A. Joseph Bettigeri Mr R. P. Barnabas Cannanore 36 Mr Titus Aaron Tellicherry 11 52 11 Mr 8. Gnanasigamany Chombala Mr Jesuadian Calicut Mr Kaleb 14 Vaniyankulam 3 Mr John Ponambalam Palghat Mr Abraham David S e oo 000 0 e s HE B RIS IO W 00 Hs 0D 0D 0D 0 D D W W W O © O O OO OO OO0 O0OODO Kaity 16 OO WWODRH OO D W 2 10 0.0 N 7 AN N TN AN N E 00 Donations towards the Medical Mission. ; § CALICUT. 10 D. W. Morison Esq. ?é : R. Benson Esq. 70 E. W. Smither Esq. 10 Mrs 24 J. A. Dalziel Esq. 15 0 . T. Ferguson 15 S O OO (==l B P =] Mrs . Gilkison 60 E. Oakley.Esq. Mrs . W. Dumergue 10 From the Ladies Bazaar, towards Rev . Lucas (<o P oSl i o ) (<= o= P o P B =) pictures for the Hospitals 25 ot 0 Mrs . A. W. Macrae, for N. N. bandages 0] N N. 5 E 0 2 5 SO o Q SO OO W. V. Baker Esq. | Perqo Mooppen Esq. e o e e N el e e 30 00 122 Subscriptions and Donations towards the'Sickhouse and Poor-Fund at Mangalore. Achinak: Africa, W Rs As P Alada, 0 50 ~ W. C. Holmes Esq. Mr. N. Pearl o] 8 Ambady G. Power Esq. 10 f Mr. B. D. Souza D) 0 Anandap Messrs. L. Joshua & Sons | From the Missionaries 86 12 An g]g.\'e Mr. Thomas Pearl OOOO> § | Other friends 10 9 11 Anglo-Vi Arglekaty Arukand E & O. E. Assistant Badaga ( Bader, N Bader} R Mangalorve, 9th March 1895. Basrur-( Benner, | Berli, Re Gt oMollenmiiller : Bethel, B € 5 Bettiger; Treasurer Bhaskar, Bible Col Bible Re Bible So¢ Bible W Bijapur Boarding o~ Boag, My Bode, Re Bore], B¢ Bosshayg Brahmgy Brasce, Britis} Buche p Bughe | Bungay, alicy Comepgy, Barg, Canara: : Cangy abechist hangpg ling Chittyy, 110]11])&]: titigy 0dagg] Colpagt O0ly COOHDGr INDEX =L Page | Page Achinakallu 97 | Coorg 70. 75 64, 89 Africa, Western 19 Dharwar 5, As P Alada, Cat. Bh 22 Diez Rev. E. 91 53 Digel, Rev. Th. 52 5 8 0 Ambady 93 000 Anandapur 53, 75 Dilger, Rev. W. 23 Anglo-Vernacular Schools 66 —68 Eblen, Rev. C. G. 73 612 0 94 20 ] 911 Anglo-Vernac. School, Palghat Eckelmann, Mr. O. and Mrs. Aralekatti, Asst. Cat. J. 23 Education 57 Arukandan, Rev. N. 21, 90 Eisfelder, Rev. F 48 20 Agsistant Catechists 22 Engel, Rev. G. Badaga Girls’ School, Kaity 97 Ernst, Mrs. 81 20 22 Bader, Miss (Mrs. Stier) Evangelists 75 Bader, Rev. W, 31 54 91 Fischer, Rev. J. 53. Basrur-Coondapoor 74 g 94 21 Franco-Anglo-Vernac. School, Mz‘mhé 20 Benner, Mr. G. and Mrs. 20 Fritz, Rev. Ch. Berli, Rev. D. 72 Frohnmeyer, Rev. J. L. 21. 29. 38, 49 Bethel, Ebenezer, Asst. Cat. 22 Frohnmeyer, Mrs. 82 20 Bettigeri-Gadag 48 66 Gebhardt, Mr. Ch. Bhaskar, Rev. S. 48 Gengnagel, Rev. L 4 91 (surer 23 Goldcoast 19 Bible Colporteurs 60 Bible Revision Committee 100 Gotz, Rev. J. Bible Societies 23 Grossmann, Rev. G. and Mrs. 20 28. 81—88 48 Bible Women Guledgudd Bijapur 72 Halli, Cat. Channa 22 61 Hartmann, Rev. R. 20 Boarding Schools 89 Boas, Mr. F 107 High Sohool, Dharwar Bode, Rev. O. and Mrs. 20 High School, Mangalore 90 20 Hiller, Rev. E. 20 Borel, Rev. P 22 Bosshardt, Rev. R 33 Hiria, Cat. J. Brahman Girls’ School, Udipi 90 Hirner, Mr. G. ~ 101. 106 20 67 Brasche, Rev. A. and Mrs. Hole, Rev. Ch. 47, 78, 100 British and Foreign Bible Society 23 Honavar 73 Bucher Rev. J. Hosahatti 96 21 100. 101 Bucher, Mrs. Huber, Mr, F. Bunyan, Evang. Samuel 73 Hubli 71 Calicut 32. 50. 55. 84 Hulikal 56. 96 Cameroons 19 Industrial and Mercaqtile Canara, North 70. 73 Establishments 105 18. 26. 70. 74 Infant Schools 60 Canara, South Cannanore 29. 49. 54. 82, 101 Jakanare Catechists 22 Jaus, Rev. J. and Mrs. 20 21 109 D] Chandren, late Rev. P. Jayana Cat. M. China 19 Jogula, Cat. S. 22 22. 108 Kaity 89. 40. 62. 86. 95. 97 Chittayagam, late Cat. P. 111 Chombala 31, 46. 63. 93 Kamsika, late Rev. J Christian High School, Nettur 66 Kanaka, Rev. J 23 Codacal 18. 83. 50 63. 76 Karakadu 94 Colporteurs 23 Karwar 73 Cooly Mission 79 Kasaragod =1 ot 91 79 22 Coonoor Katapur, Cat. D. 124 Page Page Kateri 96 Primary Schools 58 20 106 Kaundinya, Miss (Mrs. Stamm) Printing Press Maugalore Keppler, Rev. Ch. and Mrs. 20 Rehm, Rev. 66 Kessler, Mr. H 49 Religious TLaet Society, London 104 20 Knittel, Rev. W. H. and Mrs RlSCh Rev. 21. 100 Kotageri 82..61.: 97 Ritter, Rev G 53 Kiihnle, Rev. J. G 96, W8 295 107 82 90 Ritter, Mrs Kundera, Cat 95 Satyananda, Cat. N. 22 Tauffer, Miss (Mrs bautter) 20 Satyanathan, Cat. K 56 79 98 20 [ Leper Asylum Schaible, Rev. M. and Mrs Lauffer, Rev. J. 32 Schonthal, Mr. W 24. 106 Liebendorfer, Rev. Dr. 98 School Evangelisation 88 — 97 Liebendorfer, Mrs 84 Schoolmasters 23 List of Books and Tracts 101--104 Schoolmistresses 28 100 Literary Department Secondary Schools 66—68 Luger, Miss (Mrs. Jung) 20 Sengle Rev 20 Liithi, Rev. B 20. 23 Shirwa 53 Lutz, Rev. Th Tt Sieber Mr J 29 Liitze, Rev. W 20. 23.:40. 97 Sikemeier, Rev. W 39. 61. 97 Liitze, Mrs 86 62 Sikemeier, Mrs Madambeil 3 Singer, Rev. O. 28 Madras Aux. Bible Society 100 Soans Cat. S 22 Malabar 18 70 76 Soens, Rev. J 21 Mangalore 2 6. 49. 74. 81. 90. 106 Southern Mahratta 18. 70. 711 —173 Matthissen, late Rev F.and Mrs. 19. 21 W 79 Stokes, Rev 113 Strobel, Rev. Th. and Mrs 20 Mechanical Establishment, Mang 106 Strolin, Miss H 21 Medical Mission 98 Sumitra, Cat. S 22 Mélparambu 95 Tellicherry 31. 54 91 Sl Mercara 29 Tellicherry-Nettur 29. 49.55.66.82. 93 Mulky 28. 52 64 Theol. Seminary, Mangalore 68 Muverattu 94 Theol. Seminary, Tellicherry 69 20 Training Schools Naab, Miss (Mrs. Kehrer) 68 Native Church 25 Tumaran, Cat. A 22 Native Pastors 21 Uber, Rev. Th 36 94 New Admissions 26 Udipi 18. 58. 60. 66 67 90 Nilgiris 18. 70 76 Vaniyankulam 36 47 78 Niibling, Rev. W 73 Veil Mr J. and Mrs 20 Orphanages 1—66 ‘Wadackencherry 95 Ostermeyer Rev. J. 20. 29. 49 54. 8 Waidelich Rev J. and Mrs 20 101 Walz Rev. Th. and Mrs 74. 81 Ott Rev P 20. 26 Warth, Rev [Bjs D) il Padiath. Rey J 2 50. 55 Watsa, Cat. Chr 100 ,— Palghat 18. 36. (8 ..94. 95 Weber, Miss (Mrs. Breidenbach) 20 Palghat Tile Works 107 Weaving Establishment, Cannanore 106 Para, late Cat. A 2. 108 Weidner, Rev. Ph e Paraperi 76y Weischedel, M1 W 106 Pariah School, Manayat 93 Weismann, Rev 31. 46. 47 63. 94 Parsi High Sehool, Tellicherry 91 Weismann, Mrs 64 Pawani, Asst. Cat. A 23 Wieland, Rev 95. 96 Peter, Rev. G 20 93 Work among Women 81—88 Preparatory School, Bettigeri 68 Yedekadu 97 . Preparatory School, Udipi 67 | Ziegler, Rev F 65. 89 = i X e & = o fs Y o 2 &, P s 8 e ! o oo 62 o 2 . i 2 08 T i e 2 SR e e -~ e ot e o 2 i T S35 5 A o > & % 5 (> - ‘a £ i & b e % 4 Sy e & o B % * EX b i PE) A £ & 3 £ S ¥ % o ’X & b 3 5 A e e 3 ot i *7‘. b % £ EU o N s & e e ¥ S &y | 4 ¢ 2 7 * ¥, o i 5 e h0 X * ;N.%m. id 5 & c o 2% 3 e i el Z o £t iy 3, i fo ‘ o £ 75 e 3 L B o 5% o & %5 S ads e e i Lt &y b v W £ 2 = Sy <t G o S A e H 24 b A & & 3o oo & iy & = 4 3 L 3 s o 2 oty L & et £t X 5 B 5 R o o o b 5 o 2, s 3 54 6% 2 §ee) ey 4 o i < % by Y e - i 2 & 4 . 23 o & 8 < ) 'y pcs % s e ks T s 4 _: THE = s AT FIFTY-FIFTTH REPORT o VierFarbSelector Standard * - Euroskala Offset i’-’ b OF TLIE % © BASEL GERMAN EVANGELICAL MISSION o § ; IN SOUTH-WESTERN INDIA FOR THE YEAR T m— 1 é 1894 10 —_— T e 7 ol 6 5 ; = MANGALORE 4 PRINTED AT THE BASEL MISSION PRESS 1895 3 2 1 \& Copyright 4/1999 YxyMaster GmbH www.yxymaster.com