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[The letter (m) after the namessignifies “married”, and the letter (w)

“widower

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

Native

Date of

Name

Country

Service

Active

Station

Ch. A. E. Diez (w)

Germany

1851

Kasaragod

J. Lauffer (m)

do

1856

Chombala

India

1860

Kaity (Coonoor)

W. Stokes (m)

1864

Mulki

Th. Digel (m)

Germany

J. Knobloch (m)

do

1865

Calicut

G. Ritter (m)

do

1869

Mangalore

do

1869

F. A. Brasche (m)

Udipi

W. P.Schonthal (m)*

do

1870

Cannanore

G. Hirner (m)*

do

1871

Mangalore

do

1872

do

J. Hermelink (m)

1874

G. Grossmann (m)

Switzerland

Kotageri

J. Baumann (m)*

do

1874

Palghat

R. Schenkel (m)

Germany

1874

Mercara

do

1875

J. B. Veil (m)*

Mangalore

L. Gengnagel (m)

do

1875

Basrur-Coondapoor

C. G. Eblen (m)

do

1876

Udipi

Switzerland

1876

Mangalore

M. Hoch (m)

1878

do

H. Altenmiiller (m)*

Germany

J. G. Kiihnle (m)

do

1878

Palghat

T e T N e R B RN R O

C. D. Warth (m)

do

1878

Hubli

do

1879

Calicut

J. J. Jaus (m)

1. Weismann (m)

do

1879

Chombala

e

Chr. Keppler (m)

do

1879

Udipi

do

1880

Tellicherry (Nettur)

C. W. Dilger (m)

1880

=

K. Stierlen (m)*

do

Mangalore

K. Ernst (m)

do

1881

Kaity

e

J. Fischer (m)

do

1881

Anandapur

&

do

1882

F. Eisfelder (m)

Guledgudd

K. Schaal (m)

do

1883

Palghat

J. Waidelich (m)

do

1885

Bettigeri-Gadag

do

1886

Dharwar

0. Bode (m)

| Karkal

e

J. Gotz (m)

do

1886

1%

Native

Date of

Name

Country

Service

Active

Station

33

. A. Glattfelder (m)*

Switzerland

1886

Mangalore

34

do.

1887

Mercara

. J. Sieber (m)*

35

Paul Buchli (m)*

do.

1887

Mangalore

12}

36

F. Rehm (m)

Germany

1888

Tellicherry (Nettur)

7,)

37

Switzerland

1888

Codacal

R. Bosshardt (m)

|

14}

38

'W. Bader (m)

Germany

1888

Cannanore

39

H. Risch (m)

do

1888

Bettigeri-Gadag

40

do

1888

Calicut

Fr. Volz (m)*

41

G. Kehrer (m)*

do

1888

do.

7.8

42

G. Wieland (m)

do

1889

Kaity

16,6

43

do

1889

Mangalore

1.6

W. Weischedel (m)*

44

J. Bucher (m)

do

1890

do.

18 F

45

H.Bretschneider (m)*

do

1890

Udipi (Malpe)

19 A

46

G. Sautter (m)*

do

1890

Mangalore

80, B

do

1890

47

Th. Uber (m)

Tellicherry

48

S. Stamm (m)*

Switzerland

1891

Mangalore

49

O. Singer (m)

Germany

1891

Honavar

do

)

50

Ph. Stier (m)

1891

Bijapur

51

W. Jung (m)*

do

1891

Mangalore

82.R

52

F. Boas *

do

1891

Codacal

8.7

53

H. Kessler *

Switzerland

1891

Calicut

Sf. i

54

M. Breidenbach (m) | Germany

1892

Udipi

8.V

55

Ph. Weidner (m)

do.

1892

Kasaragod

9,

36

Tr. Lutz

Switzerland

1892

Hubli

5(]

57

J. Bichle

| Germany

1893

Mulki

88,

58

K

. Mayer

do.

1893

Guledgudd

89,

59

do.

1893

90, 5

. Nagel

Vaniyankulam

60

. Metz

do.

1893

Hubli

Q1L

61

. Hiller

Australia

1894

Calicut

2y

62

:I:;]A:

1894

Codacal

9%.x

. Bekelmann (m)*

Germany

1894

63

P

. Borel

do

Karkal

9,3

64

Ch. Fritz

do

1894

Merecara

9.0

65

P. Sengle

do

1894

Tellicherry (Nettur)

96@

1894

66

Ch. Gebhardt*

do

Palghat

LR

67

Tr. Reusch

do

1895

Dharwar

%.D

68

Joh. Knobloeh *

do

1895

Calicut

9.5

1895

do.

69

'W.Stokes, u.5. ¢.m. ep.*| India

109 i\

70

Joh. Fahrenberger

Germany

1895

Cannanore

14

Rob. Schilling

Switzerland

1895

Codacal

AR SRR

| Date of |

Name

Native

Active

Station

I

Country

; Service

Single Ladies.

72

Miss H. Strolin

Germany

1893

Mangalore

Neftur)

73

Miss M. Krauss

do.

1895

do.

4

Miss M. Hanhart

Switzerland

1895

Calicut

Ua,

Expected in April 1896.

75

Switzerland

1865

Walter (m)

Vaniyankulam

76

Benner (m)*

Germany

1877

Guledgudd

7

Fischer

do

1896

Mulki

78

Heinecken

do

1896

Dharwar

79

. Schosser

do

1896

Udipi

80

%R

. Biichner

do

1896

Bettigeri

At Homé.

81

}?

Kittel (m)

Germany

1853

late of Merecara

82

. Hartmann (w)

Switzerland

1859

do

Karkal

83

F

Ziegler (m)

Germany

1862

do

Dharwar

84

M

. Th. Walz (m)

do.

1866

do

Mangalore

85

W. Sikemeier (m)

Holland

1870

do

Kotageri

86

1871

do

Honavar

'W. Niibling (m)

Germany

87

J. Ostermeyer (m)

do

1873

do

Cannanore

88

W. Liitze (m)

do

1875

do

Kaity

89

do

1875

do

Calicut

E. Liebendorfer, M.D.(m)

90

A. Ruhland (m)

do

1876

do

Cannanore

A

91

L. J. Frohnmeyer (m)

do

1876

do

Tellicherry

92

do

1882

do

Hubli

W. H. Knittel (m)

93

M. Schaible (m)

do

1883

do

Mulki

94

B. Liithi (m)

Switzerland

1884

do

. Bettigeri Gadag

95

1884

do

Vaniyankulam

Ch. Hole (m)

Germany

96

G. Peter (m)

Switzerland

1885

do

Chombala

97

Th. Strobel (m)

Germany

1885

do

Calicut

98

. D. Berli (m)

Switzerland

1885

do

Bijapur

99

. F. Huber (m)*

do.

1886

do

Mangalore

100

. Th. Lutz (m)

do.

1887

do

Hubli

b

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Tabular View of Stations, Agents and Churches

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

1st JANUARY 1896.

Agents of the Mission

Native Church

European

Native Agents

New

Mission-

Present Church-Members

aries

l

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NAMES

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1. Canara.

. Mangalore

1834

i

18

47

74

1334

12

896

2242

34

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1845

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10

20

28

A

399

5

354

758

13

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1854

5

i

28

65

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25

878

1804

48

.

1872

44

41

85

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1876

2

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.

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0

0

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175

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16

172

11

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.

.

.

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1837

74

10

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Hubli

.

.

.

.

.

1839

10

195

157

358

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i

22

283

232

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12,

.

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1851

23

209

288

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30

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.

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.

.

1841

15

37

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370

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40

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Cannanore

.

1839

18

16

13

9

282

248

536

6

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.

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1849

14

198

252

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1842

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1886

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Abstract showing the Contributions of the Churches towards

their Church Expenses, the Mission and the Poor

in 1896

St

Sunday

Offerings

Donations

Special

and

Offerings

Collections

Special

Regular

Offerings &

and

and special

Collections

Church

Donations

Donations

Collections

for the

Collections

Donations

for Bible

Total

Stations

Contribu-

towards

towards the

for

Malabar

for local

towards the

Widow-

Societies

tions

Church

Mission-

Orphanages

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work

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fund

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As

P,

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13

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163

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47

45

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38

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421

256

— 10

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332

2

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12

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(=}

110

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14

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218

73

9

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Tellicherry, Nettur

68

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445

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Chombala-Mahé

.

163

38

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47

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165

247

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440

80

7

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43

2

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—

481

(SR em) o e 1 G

89

182

100

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Palghat .

0

B

122

30

S

26

7

9

13

15

i

297

58

15

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[0} seih = g e =l |

50

22

14

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Kaity

.

.

.

100

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3

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2

5

217

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Kotagerl . .

70

85

0

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12'

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Table of Schools of the Basel German Evangelical Mission.

st JANUARY

1895,

Schools for

Schools for Christians

Non-Christians

Schools for

Sunday

Mission Agents

High and

Boarding

High and

Primary

Primary

Schools

NAMES

Middle

Schools and

Middle

Schools

Schools

Training

Schools

Schools

Orphanages

OF

Colleges

MISSION STATIONS

10

1830,

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|

1. Canara.

.

16

-

I. Mangalore

31

162

136

47

186

406

149

1141

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2. Mulki

.

.

6

141

41

243

(=)

. Udipi

.

.

10

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199

110

36

26

485

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.

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116

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408

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186

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19

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41

.

.

(=)

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7. Mercara

(=]

(o)

16

11

(=]

33

.

[

o

(=)

(=]

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e h

=]

§

(e

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(<=

(=)

(=}

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23

28

19

~H

T4

1I1. Southern Mahrattia

.

.

289

68

416

9.

Dharwar

e

.

.

.

58

31

100

189

50

10.

Hubli .

B

.

.

.

.

45

17

107

237

31

II.

Bettigeri-Gadag

.

33

28

TH

138

62

£2.

Guledgudd

122

126

I3

Bijapur

.

%

(g

21

gl)

22

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B

o TRENE Sy

e

c:av-xv—r-coo‘

ST

14

1128

148

%

O DIDODO O

(== e e B e S B o B M=)

%

SooocoC|Co

46

<t

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143

83

:é;

289

495

1V. Malabar.

279

214

.

.

18

-

85

69

36

59

15,

Cannanore

.

102

.

.

60

54

33

160

301

122

752

16

Tellicherry

.

[op)

24

28

122

145

25

453

30

17

Chombala (Mahé

.

11

T’;

i1

[~

102

57

50

228

360

70

846

131

18

Calicut

3

14

@

156

79

7l

48

449

118

I9.

Codacal (Edaculam St

-atn )

66

82

158

12

20.

Vaniyankulam (Ottap alam)

65

13

44

324

45

21.

Palghat

.

°

.

%

S Sl

BUERL g

P

3261

i

o G G v OF v vt vt et

652

%

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oo ® ool

111

~H

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a0

SO0 O0O0COQO|Q

»

SO WO OO QO |D

421

266

157

689

1100

267

V. Nilgures.

634

199

.

.

.

22

o

12

21

3

508

39

22,

Kaity

.

.

9

(=}

-

20

29

132

YT

23

Kotageri .

§

(g)

640

39

831

@O‘@

199

31

on

32

20

50

11

%

619

7836

071

Total. .

.

139

14

188

232

224

114

684

240

1164

3184 |

i

EE;

24

138

= o

- O | | CY e

279

225

1052

640

242

296

25

2910

58

7527

29

1224

Total of 1st January 189

136

Bl

st

0

0

158

.

.

1

10

SCo (S jo @

34

iy

Decrease during 1895

94

44

274

36

309

0

Increase

ditto.

-

.

.

.

0

0

50

0|

0|

1

i

Rem. The schools for Non-Christians are often frequented by a few Christians also, and Christian schools by Non-Christians.

A i

12

i ik

Detailed Table of Stations, Out-Stations

and Agents, Ist January 1896.

=

2

B e

T

o=

o

2]

Stations

szrxti;ew Aéents P—

and

European Agents

Out-Stations

Pastors, Catechists

K:

and Headmasters

fadil

Sant

1. Mangalore

a. Pastoral

a. Engaged in Pastoral

and

Tchil

Balmaitha,

Rev. G. Ritter, iz charge

Evangelistic Work

Madikerigudde,

of station,

Chairman of

Rev

Nireshwalya, Bendur,

the Distvict Committee

Sebastian Furtado,

Padm

Lastor, Feppu

Jeppu,

Rev

Samuel Andrea,

Tty

Bockapatna, Urva,

(=l

Educational

LFastor, Balmatha

Mg

Kudroli,

Rev

Rev. M. Hoch,

Theolog. |

Jared Soens,

Out-Stations .

Secr. Genl. Com.

Semi-

Fastor, Bockapatna

3.1

Bolma,

Rev. J. Hermelink

}

nary

Cat

Mark Salis,

Ullal,

Rev. J. Bucher, Higlh

Madikerigudde

Kap

School

Benjamin Ananda,

Kat

Bantwal,

Miss

H. Strolin,

Girls’

itinerancy

Park

Puttar, vSulya.

”

Gabriel Bangera, itin.

Training School

Miss M. Krauss,

E

v

Bethuel Soens, Puztur

Shey

Brakmin Girls School

Cat. William Fernandez, ,

Nl

”

iy

G. Premaya, ZBolma

(ind

Mercantile

”

Lewis Fernandez,

Bantwal

Shil}‘;

Mr. H. Altenmiiller, Gezn/.

”

Christananda Salis,

Agent & Treasurer

Ullal

I{att!

Mg

n

P. Buchli, M. M.-Br,

b. Educational Work

Industrial

Half

Cat. Chr. Watsa,

Theolog.

J’Wazmger

Semi-

Mr. J. Veil, M. M.-Br.

”n

G. Hirner, Fress

n

Ch. Mabenna

}

nary

S. Stamm,

”

S Karat,

F. Huber, Book Depot.

F. Jathanna,

High

N

”

G. Sautter, Weav. Est.

”

School

P Shinn

F. Stierlen,

”

”

”

S. B. Soens,

5

”

W. Weischedel,

”

Solomon Bangera,

Mechanical Works

Bolur School

(i

”

W. Jung,

Kudroli Tile-Works

A. Glattfelder,

Feppu 1ile-Works

13

e e

Statioxis

Native Agents:—

N

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists

Out-Stations

and Headmasters

ey

2. Mulki

Rev. Th. Digel, 7z charge 0f1 Rev. Diego Fernandez,

Out-Stations.

station and Orphanage

Fastor, Muik:

Karnad,

Cat. Aaron Furtado, 7Z7.

Kadike, Ulya,

Rev. J. Bichle, ouz-stations,

n

E. Karat, Uc/ila

Santur, Bolettu,

schools and itin.

Balegundi,

”

Abraham Heri, Santur

and

Uchila, Yermal,

Obed Sumitra, Fadur

Mullur,

Padur, Perrur, Kalatur,

J. Aarons, Munderu

),

Karandadi,

”

Joseph Sunita, Aaedike

eppte

Madumbu,

Kutyar, Kalatur,

J. Vedamuttu, Autyar

athe

Munderu, Kodetur

‘Rev. A. Brasche, ZFrepara-

Rev. Daniel Aaron, 7Zn.

aint

3. Udipi

Oui-Stations.

tory

School,

Orphanage

n

Charles Gojar,

Nidambur, Bailur,

and Training School, Dist.

Pastor, Malpe

udde

Kapettu,

Kadekar,

Kuttipadi, Amalpadi,

Insp. of Schools

”

Immanuel Furtado,

Madambail

)

Parkala,

Badegottu,

ey

Perala,

Parika,

Rev. Ch. Keppler,

station

Cat. Joseph Kairanna,

Kilenja,

it

and out-=siations

Udip: Church

Shepura,

Winf. Micha

i

Malpe, Urdubittalu,

”

Lrepar.

Rev. Ch. Eblen, 7Zn. and

|

Schools

Iy 9

Udyavara, Bolja,

out-stations

St. Jatanna

Gudde, Kap, Mandodi,

N. Vira, Gudde

i

Shirva, Palli, Ninjur,

n

Ebenezer Clare, Farkala

Bolle, Kudigrama,

Rev. M. Breidenbach,

,’::mi

out-stations and itinerancy

G. Bangera, Aattupadi

Hattupadi,

Koppala,

Possar, Ambadi,

”

M. Jayanta, Aalyanapur

Madambail,

Kurkal,

Mr. H. Bretschneider,

sk

Kalanja, Bijantla,

Joshua Soens, Siirva

Tibe-Works, Malpe

Marane,

N. Suchitta, Udyavara

Halyanapur,

Uppur,

olmar, Amunja

0

T. Ammanna, Skepura

;lo.y-

it

4, Karksal

o

Rev. J. Gotz, in charge of | Cat. Samuel Sumitra,

N. Church and itin.

1y

Out-Stations .

station, itin.

Attur, Mudar,

Rev. P. Borel, stud. Tulu

”

Joseph Bhagyan, #%#n.

Nandolige,Hekkadka,

Mudabedra

‘yk

00l

5. Basrur

Evang. Tim. Furtado, éz/zn.

| Rev. L. Gengnagel,

Out-Stations .

in charge of station and Cat. Immanuel Soens,

N. Church, Basvur, itin.

Coondapoor, Kailkeri,

out-stations, itirn.

oot

Barkur

"

Daniel Andrea,

Rev. A. Metz, studying

Coondapoor Church,itin.

Canarese, itin.

n

W. Heri, Barkur, itin.

Assist. Cat. Ch. Manjaru,

Kailker:, itin.

14

§

Stations

Native-Agents:—

and

Pastors, Catechists

Out

Out-Stations

European Agents j

and Headmasters

6. Kasaragod

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

19. G

N. Church and Schools

Ouit-Stations -

station, itin.

Ot

Nathan Kundara, 7#7.

Ravaneshvara,

b

Jesudasa Melottu, ZZ7.

Parvati

Hosadurga,

Rev. Ph. Weidner, zZn.

Muradiy

Israel Eliezer,

Kota

Bekal, Kumbla,

Manjeshvara School

Bela, Bangaramanje-

‘W. Amos Kundars,

Mull

guad

shvara,

Hosabetta-

Kumbla School

Halkurk

Manjeshvara

Mathias Jeremias, 7Z7.

Ravaneshvara N. Ch.

Mushiig

N

Gerson Soens, Hosadurga

8.3

N. Church and School

George Fernandez,

Hosadurga, itin.

7 . Mercara

Rev. R. Schenkel, % charge

Cat. Gabriel Almanda, 7Z7.

Oui-Station .

of station, itin.

2

Paul Soens, 7Z7.

14 ¢

»

Nathanael Shatananda,

Fraserpet

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

school and itin.

Rev. Ch. Fritz, stud. Canar.

Asst. Cat. Lewis Salins,

Cobporteur

8. Anandapur

Rev. J. Fischer, 7z charge

Cat. Samuel Furtado,

15, (

N. Church and itin.

of station, itin.

”

Satyanatha Sumanta,

(O

Cooly Mission

Chowa

Tal

9. Dharwar

Rev. O. Bode, % charge of

Cat. D. Subrao, N. Churck

Rar

station, Native Ch., itin.

»

Devadana Katapur, /#7.

Asst. Cat. R. Hittalamane

Rev, &Lr. Rensch,’ Fio/

Schoold, stud. Canarese

Mr. Alex. Jaganadhan, B.A.,

Headmaster, High School

—

10. Hubli

18,1

Rev. Ch. D. Warth, 77

Rev. S. Devada, V. Church

Out-Stations :

charge of station, ilin.

Cat. Daniel Patti,

itln.

]

itin.

”

Zach. Kanaka,

”

Yoy

ev. Th. Lutz,

Unakallu, Hebsur

Rev

.. Otto Singer; ',

”

Solomon Ramthal ,,

Ky

”

Benjamin Salins,

Rev

by Ltz

k2

Unakallu Church

Asst. Cat. I. Aralikatte, 727.

11. Bettigeri-

Rev

. J- Waidelich, 77z ciarge

Cat. St. Mathapati, V. Cz-.

of station, itin.

». JJor. Sona, Frep. Sechool

Gadag

itin.

Oui-Stations :

Rev. H. Risch, Seminary,

”

Channa Halli,

LPreparatory Sch., Orphan-

”

Devaputra Hebbali, ,

Shagoti,

”

Bh. Alada,

”

Malasamudra

age, Distr. Insp. of Schools,

Stagoti

Asst. Cat. Mose Suvarna,

Shagoti Church

»

Dana Gouda, 7¢n.

15

B

Stations

Native Agents:—

8

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists,

Out-Stations

and Headmasters

12. Guledgudd

Rey. K. Eisfelder, in charge

Cat. Israel Dalabhanjana,

N. Church, itin.

fools

Out-Stations -

of station and some ouZ-st.

itin,

Chairman of the District

» Joh. Prabhakar, iZin.

ihin.

Parvati, Padinakatte,

Commiittee

Murudi, Katkinahalili,

» St. Sagari, Aetkinahalli

Lada-

Halkurk:i

ehool

Kotanhalli,

Rev

K. Mayer,

Cat. Jos. Dalabhanjana,

gundi, Nagarhalli,

and itin.

Mushtigers

Mullur, Asangi,

;u,/wol

Halkurki, Adugallu,

Asst. Cat. D.Nayaka, 7#.

”

”

H. Challa, Halk.

ilin,

Mushtigeri

Ch

ilin.

13. Bijapur

Rev. D. Berli, iz charge of

Cat. Solomon Jogula,

urgs

station and ilinerancy

”

D. Jesudasa,

”

thoo)

(going on furiough)

Asst. Cat. Obed Gundi,

”

B

it

Rev. Ph. Stier, Zeking

n

» Sat. Basutkar,

”

Mr. Berli's place

it

14. Honavar

Rev. W. Niibling, 2% charge

Cat. Jacob Upranna,

itin

nda,

Out-Stations .

of station, itin.

"

D. Santvana,

”

i

Anilgodu,

Ev. S. Bunyan, Azrwar,

”

Harwar

Cat. Franklin Aiman, ,

”

;Izzzr

—

Rev

‘W. Bader,

Rev. St. Chandran, Pasz. Cr

15. Cannanore

i

in charge of

station,

Cat. Tim. Parakandi, V. C%

Out-Stations .

schools

» P.Sneham, Chowa, itin.

4,

fsi0m

Chowa, Chirakal,

Mr. W. P. Schonthal, Weav-

» Ph.Mackadan, 7'alip.itin

—

Taliparambu,

» Isaac Amattil, Z#n.

Ramentalli

ing [Establishment

Asst. Cat. Elias Nambi,

reh

i

Rev. T. Fahrenberger,

Chivakal, ttin.

studying Mal.

”

”

Ebenezer Bethel,

ne

Cannanore, tiin.

o Ay

s

Rev. W. Dilger,

in charge | Cat. Stephan Kallat, Neztur

—

16. Tellicherry

Out-Stations -

of station, Theolog. Semin.,

N. Church & Tr. Schood

z’mi

Training School, District

”

Henry Roberts, Christ.

1

Nettur, Anjarkandy,

Insp. of Schools

High School

Kuttuparambu

»

Peter Arnon, 7%eodogical

Rev. P. Sengle, 7/eological

Seminary, studying Mal.

Seminary

”

Lazar Kallat, Zedlicherry

uﬂ/%

Rev. F. Rehm, Christian

N. Church and Schools

it

High School

»

Anthony Valiatingara,

b

Rev. Th. Uber, ZFarsi High

Anjarkandy, itin.

ool

School

”

Alphai Kallan, #7n.

fit

Asst. Cat. J. Murkottan,

Dharmatam, itin,

Mr. Jos. Mulil, B. A., Head-

master, Chr. High Sch.

v‘rc}l

it

16

Stations

and

Native Agents:—

i

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists,

Out-Stations

and Headmasters

Out-E'

R

17. Chombala-

Rev.

Imm.

Weismann,

Cat. Gabriel Pirachan, 7#7.

Mahe

in

2. Pa

charge of

statzion,

”»

Henry Menzel,

Out-Stations .

Chomb. N. Church

(ut-S

Orphanage, Schools

Mahé, Kandappen-

7

Tobias Chembenkodan,

Olay

Rev. J. Lauffer, i#n.

Mahé Church and Schools

kundu, Wadagara,

Nely

Muverattu, Peram-

”

Joseph Taddai,

Tadacker

para, Tolpatti,

Wadagara, itin.

Payoli, Meladi,

”

Samuel Ambattu,

Karakadu

Muveratiu, itin.

Asst. Cat. P. Karunagaran,

Lerampara, itin,

18. Calicut

Rev. J.Knobloch, 7z ciarge

Rev. Jonas Padiath, Paszor,

of station, schools, PFres.

N. Church

Out-Stations .

Genl. Com., Chairman of

Ev. Ashamayan Tumaran,

—

Coilandy, Pudiangadi,

the Distr. Committee

itin. Central Malabar

Rev. J. J. Jaus, Coilandy

2. K

Collam, Korapura

Cat. Abel Kuttuparambu,

and itin.

LPudiarakal.

Qut:

Rev. E. Hiller,

High Sch.

”

N. Edapalan, izinerancy

Coonon,

Mr. J. Knobloch,. Stzd. Mai.

”

Tulal,

Mr. W. Stokes, M. B.,

Jos. Mandodi, Coilandy

Medical Mission

N. Church and itin.

Chog

Ay

Mr. Fr. Volz, Weaving Est.

n

S. Mackaden,

n

”

G. Kehrer, Z7le-Works

n

Tuer,

B. Ponon, High School

Nell

and M. M.-~Br.

Asst. Cat. A. Pawamani,

Ach

”

H. Kessler,

”

Hospitad, itin.

Kateri,,

Miss M. Hanhart,

zWea”,z'caZ

Mg, G. Zacharias, B.'A.,

Manihg

Mission

Headmaszer, High Sch.

Ho

Kullak,

19. Codacal

Rev. R. Bosshardt, 7z charge

Rev. Nath. Arukandan,

Out-Stations .

Tup

of station, out-stations and

Fastor, N. Church

Daygy

Paraperi, Ponani,

itinerancy

Cat. C. Arunachalan, Zrap.

N. Church

Sailag,

Pallat, Malapuram,

Mr. O. Eckelmann, FParaperi

D

Manjeri, Tritala,

Orphanage and Secular

Isaac Laban, Cod. itin.

—

Daniel Thomas, ,

n

Kuttipuram,

Agent

B K

Chaawghat,

Mr. ¥. Boas, Z%/e-Works

n

Devapriyan Amengara,

Nilampur,

Fonani, itin.

Ot

Rev. R.. Schilling, studying

Kudanad

Andatodu,

Is.Chowalur, Man;.itin.

Chittatakara,

Malayzzlam

”

Devasahayam Mandodi,

J ak thiE

Chittatakara

]

Chalasheri,

»

L. Napalli, Ctala. itin.

Kay

Bergy;

H

20. Vaniyan-

Rev. V. Nagel, iz charge of

Cat. Abra. Arungadan, 7#7.

kulam

§

station, Schools, itin.

»

George Peter,

»

Out-Stations :

”

Abia Edapalan,

Angadipuram,

Angadipuram,

Malattur, Shoranur,

Panamanna,

”

Bethuel Poyayil,

”

Ottapalam, Tirikatiri

17

Stations

Native Agents:—

sts,

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists

IS

Qut-Stations

and Headmasters

1, #fii,

21. Palghat

Rev. J. G. Kihnle, iz ckarge

Ev. John Zacharias, i#7.

in South Malabar

Church

Out-Stations -

of station and sclioods

Cat. Charles Hermon,

nkodan,

Olavakkode,

Rev. K. Schaal, Sckools

N. Church

Sthools

Melparambu,

”

J. Amengaran, Melpar.

]

Wadackencherry,

Mr. Jakob Baumann,

N. Church

ra, i,

Panayur

Zibe- Works

Stephan Chattottu,

|

Panayur, itin.

}:/, i,

2

Ch. Gebhardt, ,,

”

agaral,

”

Noah Benjamin,

Medpar., itin.

g, Ui,

N

»

Paul Selvam, itin. Falg.

Fastot,

2

Zacharias Pilakaden,

Church

aran,

Wadackencherry

lalabor

22. Kaity

Rev. K. Ernst,

in charge

Cat,

Isaiah Shanta,

mbu

Out-Stations .

9%

station,

Training

N. Church, itin.

wrakal.

Coonoor,

School, Ovphanage

peransy

Lemuel Soens, Cas. Sc/.

Hulikal, Nerkambe,

Dilandy

Chogatore,

Rev. G. Wieland,

Elisa Daniel, 77a@inirg

ud i

Avalanche,

schoods and itin.

Schood and Orphanage

1

Tuneri,

Kerehada,

»

K. Satyanathan, Auiikal

Sehook

Nellakotta,

Rev

William Stokes,

Achinakallu,

and Cooly Mission

(maﬂi.

Coonoor, itin.

Kateri, Adhikarhatti,

N

John Philip,

Tunere,

i, it

Manihatti, Hosahatti,

L

and itin.

Horanhalli,

Kullakambe, Kilar,

Asst. Cat. Isaiah Konga,

Tummanhatti,

Aerehada, i2in.

1

Dawani, Manjoor,

C/}WC/L

Sailas, Yedekadu,

Puraf.

Denale

Chureh

1

7

e W

i

23. Kotageri

Rev. W. Sikemeier,

Rev. Jacob Kanaka,

"

4

Out-Stations :

in charge of station and

Fuastor, Native Church,

engal

Kodanad, Konakore,

Orphanage, itin.

Schools, itin.

i

Jakanare, Denad,

”/" ZI/L'Il '

Cat. Henry Kodot, 7#7.

Milidenu,

andoii,

* Kanerimukh,

n

Salathiel Soens,

IlzZ]CW 4

Denad, itin.

Bergani, Gundhada,

A l[ill'

Horasole

Asst. Cat. Chr. Ajja, #Zn.

/

i

it

PR e i o e g

1,

ackn

VAl

ese

deed

of th

REPORT.

—==-0-0-Ca—

work

0the;

“?@ITHERTO hath the Lord helped us.” These words will

and

best express our feelings when we review the events of

4

of th

the past year.

We may truly say: *It is of the Lord’s

pond

mercies, that we are not consumed, because His compassions

fail not, but are new every morning’.

In several respects

the last year, taken as a whole, has been for our Mission a time

of anxiety and sore trial.

In China our Mission has been

seriously endangered by the growing hostility of the pagan

population against the spread of Christianity and Western

civilization; and one of our stations in that country has been

destroyed by a band of robbers.

On our Mission-fields on

the West Coast of Africa frequent cases of sickness and death

among our brethren have been a continuous source of anxiety.

Here in India, we have had also to battle with peculiar diffi-

culties and perplexities.

No small share of sickness, and even

Ingiy

bereavement, has fallen to the lot not only of our Missionary

Ching

Gl

circle, but also of our Churches. In addition to these personal

afflictions, we have been deeply grieved by painful cases of

Calhe[‘(

disorder in some of our congregations, by which the name of

Christ has been dishonoured. Looking back on these and other

§

trials, we would praise the Lord for His preserving, forbearing

and forgiving grace.

Yea, «He is gracious and merciful, slow

to anger, and of great kindness.” But we \have not only to

e

acknowledge the help we have received at His hands in our

various difficulties,

we would also praise Him for the un-

deserved blessings He has so richly poured on our work.

In-

deed we have reason enough to raise an “Ebenezer” in praise

of the Lord, who has hitherto helped us.

As usual, we preface the report of our Indian Mission-

work with an abstract of the work done by our Society in

other parts of the world, viz., in China, on the Gold Coast,

will

and in the Cameroons ip West Africa.

The figures are those

ts of

of the 1st January 1895, and are contrasted with the corres-

ord’s

ponding figures of our Indian Mission.

1008

pects

time

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

heen

Africa and China.

gl

fern

=

Number

heen

Number of Pupils

of Workers

taught in Schools

g Ol

in 1894

Europeans

jeath

ment

Number

in 1894

16ty

Christian

§

Total Number

Heathen baptized

Boys

Year of Commence-

Number of Stations

Mission-

aries

:jj::)

of Native Christians

of Communicants

Girls

g

ift-

Number of Qutstations

-

63

1675

75217

gyen

'India

1834

23

=]

77

402

11963

6342

318[5852

948

224

1172

China . .

1847

13

[ =)

[y

21

17

1T

4071

2504

246

041y

3791

Gold Coast| 1828

10

14

ot

42

26

207

13036

5442

1226|2476

1315

sondl

Cameroons| 1886

5

5

5

17

56

1130

954

285|1212

69

281

6 of

Total. .

51

407

157

!113

782

30

9

&

00

15242

2075

10518

3283(13771

ne Of

other

11105

leW

jy @0

??

2

ot

1.

Agency.

are

A. European Workers.

16§

hee

(See the Tabular Views on pp. 3 to 7 and on pp. 12 o 17.)

fro;

1

Departures.

An unusually great number of changes

ogs

occurred in the year under review.

No less than 22 brothers

we

and sisters were compelled by ill-health to leave for Home

wil

in the course of the year, and 5 couples more followed ‘them

bri

this spring.

tha

In Malabar Mr. and Mrs. Ostermeyer of Cannanore, and

an

My

and Mrys. Peter of Chombala, left early in 1895, Mr.

sho

1o

and Mrs. Hole of Vaniyankulam, Mrs. Feuchter of Calicut,

My. and Mrs. Frohnmeyer of Tellicherry, and Dr. and Mrs.

his

Liebendiorfer of Calicut, embarked for Europe towards the

Sot

end of the year.

ma

" The Nilgiri Mission lost the services of Mr. and Mrs.

hig

Liitze of Kaity, who left early in 1895, accompanied by Mrs.

P

ola,

Matthissen, late of Calicut and Coonoor.

an(

The South Canara District was deprived of My. and Mys.

Ott, and Mr. and Mrs. Walz, both of whom were stationed

am]

0n

at Mangalore; they proceeded to Switzerland in the course

of 1896,

il

The South Mahratta District had to part with Mr. and

Mrs. Liithi of Bettigeri, who left early in 1895, and Mr.

W

and Mrs. Ziegler of Dharwar, who left towards the end of the

thy

year.

Wh|

In the first three months of this year, Mr. and Mrs.

AN

Sikemeier of Kotageri, Mr. and Mrs. Huber of Mangalore,

heg

Myr. and Mpys. Niibling of Honavar, Mr. and Mrs. Berli of

t0<

Bijapur, and Mr. and Mrs. Lutz of Hubli, sailed for Home

8y

to recruit their health.

o

21

Among the brothers and sisters ‘mentioned above there

are several, who, for wide experience gained by a long

residence in this land and their devotion to the work, have

been universally esteemed and loved, and whose removal

from the scene of their labours is keenly felt as a severe

loss to the work.

968

There is something comforting in the hope

1e1s

we are justified to cherish with some of them, that the Lord

ome

will graciously restore their health and, after some time,

e

bring them back into our midst.

But we are grieved to say,

that a good number of these friends have left us for good,

and

and that there is no likelihood of their returning to these

M

shores.

We cannot but mention with great regret the de-

ot

parture of Mr. and Mrs. Ziegler.

Mr. Ziegler arrived in 1862 ;

his first station was Mangalore.

Since his transfer to the

\[is.

the

South Mahratta District in 1867, his name was most inti-

mately connected with the history of this Mission.

Through

his departure our Mission is deprived of one of its most

5.

experienced and devoted labourers.

How much the educated

s,

classes of Dharwar appreciated his abilities as an educationist,

and his efforts in connection with vernacular literature, was

Mis.

amply manifested by the numerous honours conferred on him

ned

on the eve of his departure.

urse

The District of South Canara has also lately sustained a

most painful loss in the death of Mr. P. Ott, late of Mangalore,

and

i

who after labouring for 25 years in the Tulu Mission, departed

this life, on the 23rd of January 1896, in Basel, Switzerland,

[ the

where he was staying on furlough. We, his fellow-workers,

and with us many Christians, to whom the deceased had

s

been a faithful pastor and almost a father, would have wished

o

to see him return to the work, which so sorely needed his

services; but the Lord disposed otherwise.

His Holy Will be

|

ol

done!

(See Obituary.)

=

We have also to record the death of a Missionary in

¢

active service, Mr. C. Feuchter, late of Codacal and Calicut,

at

I

one of our most devoted labourers in the Industrial Depart-

ment.

A true soldier of Christ, he was on the very battle-

Di

field when on the 10th of May 1895 the Master called him.

ad

arl

May the Lord comfort our sisters, bereaved of their

partners, and fill up the breach made in our circle.

Surely,

F

He who buries His workmen, will carry on His work! Indeed

i

we are thankful to say, that the gaps made, have already been

JON

filled up, at least to some extent, by a proportionate number of

late

2

Reinforcements that came out at different times in the

00n

course of the year.

In March 1895 Calicut was cheered by

Tl

189

the arrival of old Mr. Knobloch, who after an absenceof 5 years

spent in deputation work in Germany, in response to an urgent

lats

call of our Home Committee, returned to his former station,

par

1l

to take charge of the congregation, and also of the General

Chairmanship of our Indian Mission. He was, however, ob-

g

liged to leave his wife in Germany on account of her precarious

Ing|

health; so his stay among us will, probably, we are sorry to

the

say, be only of a short duration.

Yet he did not come quite

3]

alone.

Two young Missionaries accompanied him, one of them

iy

Myr. Knobloch’s eldest son, the other M. Reusch, both trained

for

teachers, and appointed for educational work at Calicut and

diff

Dharwar respectively.

Myr. and Mrs. Stokes of Coonoor were

to [

privileged in October last, after many years of separation,

g

to welcome their eldest son, who, on successfully finishing

Ll

his studies at the Medical Mission College in Edinburgh, was

ey

sent out to take charge of the Medical Mission at Calicut as

oy

successor of Dr. E. Liebendorfer.

Among new arrivals, in

any;

October and December 1895 and January 1896, were five

Migg

couples of old Missionaries returning to the Mission-field for a

but

second or third term of service, viz., Mr. and Mrs. Stierlen,

Stl‘en

who resumed their former post at the Weaving Establish-

00}

23

e

11

ment at Mangalore; Mr. and Mrs. Jaus, late of Codacal, now

i,

at Calicut;

My, and Mys. Schaal, for Palghat; Mr. and

i

Mrs. Grossmann, formerly stationed in the South Mahratta

tle

District, now transferred to Kotageri vice Mr. Sikemeier.

In

addition to these, our hands have been strengthened by the

el

arrival of two young Missionaries, Messrs. Schilling and

Fahrenberger, for Malabar, and of three young ladies, viz.

el

Jeed

Miss Krauss to take charge of the Hindu Girls’ School at Manga-

)eeh

lore; Miss Hanhart, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hanhart,

i of

late of Cannanore, who will have her sphere of labour in

the

connection with the Medical Mission at Calicut; and Mdiss

Miss Dora Diez, who came out in

by

Tobler, now Mrs. Singer.

1892, was, on the 3rd January 1896, married to Mr. Weidner,

gars

o

late of Palghat, now transferred to Kasaragod.

Another

§

f100

party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Walter, late of Vaniyankulam,

My. Benner, late of Calicut, and three or four more young

ool

ob

Missionaries, is still expected before the monsoon.

Thus,

including the departures and reinforcements that fall into

r10U8

the new year, we number now 54 ordained Missionaries,

Iy to

23 laymen, and 56 ladies.

This seems at first a very great

qulte

number, but considering the vast districts yet to be conquered

them

for Christ, and the multifarious duties connected with the

Jined

- and

different branches of Mission-work, we rather feel constrained

to exclaim: “The harvest is truly plenteous, but the labourers

were

are few, pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He

af

100

will send forth labourers into His harvest”.

bh

11

3

Sick-list.

A great deal of sickness prevailed amongst

], W a8

our Missionaries and their families on different stations.

Great

b 85

)ls, B

anxiety was caused by the serious illness of our Medical

Missionary, Dr. E. Liebendirfer at Calicut, in May last;

p fire

but the Lord graciously spared his life and wonderfully

| for &

fgl

priélly

strengthened him again, so that he was enabled to remain

on his post until he could be relieved. Mrs. Ernst of Kaity

al

ish

24

was laid up with quite a complication of ailments, so much

res

so that we almost despaired of her life.

Mrs. Weismann and

enc

Myr. Laujfer of Chombala, Mr. Walz of Mangalore, Mrs. Brasche

e

of Udipi, and Mrs. Stier of Guledgudd were ailing for months.

at

My. and Mrs. Fischer of Anadapur were considerably reduced

and

My. Sautter

in strength by repeated attacks of heavy fever.

fell

of Mangalore was, by the delicate state of his health, obliged to

1ng

resort to Dharwar for a change.

My. and Mrs. Bader, Mrs.

of ¢

Schonthal, Mrs. Ziegler, Mr. and Myrs. Hoch, and Miss Strolin

(od

had to spend a number of months on the Nilgiri Hills to

rest

recruit their health.

Trying as these seasons of weakness

and afflictions have been to those concerned as well as to

il‘lju

flmg

their friends and fellow-workers, they have also given opportu-

nities of tasting of the goodness of the Lord and realizing

Var

the power of faithful prayer, and thus proved a source of

sty

spiritual blessing to many.

of 1

We take this opportunity to tender our heartfelt thanks to

ot

our medical advisers and friends, for the kind and gratuitous

help, rendered to the Missionaries, their assistants and members

of our congregations, and we have been requested especially to

mention the following gentlemen: Surgeon Lt.Col.Dr. Lancaster

Pres

of Coonoor, Brgd. Surgeon Lt. Col. C. F. Peter of Bijapur, Dr.Cook

thy

and Dr. Lafrenais of Ootacamund, Surgeon-Major Dr. Davidson

that

of Dharwar, Dr. Cardoz of Hubli, Mr. V. Verghese, L. M. 8.,

OrpW

Apothecary at Badagara, Mr. De Sylva, Apothecary at Palghat,

bt

Mr. Chandrashekhar Mudaliyar, L.M.S.,

Assistant-Surgeon

and

Mangalore, Mr. E. Peter, Pensioned Dresser at Mangalore,

nag

Mr. Matthias, Apothecary Kasaragod, and the Dressers at

Hosadrug and Manjeshvar.

May the Lord, who will not leave

by

unrewarded a cup of cold water, bless also these our bene-

the

factors according to the riches of His grace!

e

4. God’s Preserving Grace.

We cannot conclude this

ang

chapter without mentioning some special proofs of God’s

(op

25—

i

£

uch

preserving grace which some of us had occasion to experi-

an

Mr. Lauffer, of Chombala, on a

ence in the past year.

sehe

preaching tour during the hot season, had one day put up

ths

at the out-station Badagara, when a heavy storm came on

ced

and a flash of lightning struck his room, and, piercing the wall,

ither

fell into the assembled family of the Catechist in the adjoin-

)

ing room. Two of the Catechist’s children were struck, one

s,

of them wounded and the other knocked down senseless.

By

ilin

My. Laujffer, who had been

God’s mercy they were all saved.

5 10

resting on his cot close to the wall struck, escaped from being

1655

injured by having his bed moved to another place, only a short

time before.

5 10

b

Similar incidents are reported from Mulki, Paraperi and

jing

Vaniyankulam.

In Mulki the small tower of the church was

) of

struck by a flash of lightning and slightly damaged. The girls

of the Orphanage, which is adjacent to the church, though

50

greatly terrified, escaped unhurt.

U

hers

Of Paraperi Mr. Eckelmomﬁ reports the following:—

)tO

“In the beginning of the monsoon our Orphanage was graciously

st

preserved from a great danger. Inanight at the end of May a heavy

00

thunderstorm burst; the lightning struck a palm-tree near the well

that was centrally situated between the buildings belonging to the

Json

8

Orphanage. The palm-tree burned up immediately like a huge torch,

hat,

but praise be to God who sent His angel and preserved the children

and the buildings from injury.

Had the store-house of the Orpha-

;€0ﬂ

nage caught fire, we should have lost Rs. 1000 worth of rice.”

016,

at

The Basrur station also had a very trying time.

In Fe-

Ak

bruary, during the absence of Mr. Gengnagel and family on

the Kudremukh sanitarium, not less than thirteen attempts

ene

were made by unknown persons to set fire to the Mission-house

and surrounding houses.

Some of them were successful and

this

o’s

considerable loss was caused ; the Mission-house itself, however,

4

26

i S

was happily saved. The police has not been able as yet to

detect the incendiaries.

our

end

vefe

B. Native Workers.

the.

We are glad to state that the number of our Catechists

(ied

has again been increased. Nine students, having finished their

Hu

course of training at the Theological Seminaries of Tellicherry

due

and Mangalore respectively, were appointed Catechists.

Two

mer

of these belong to Malabar, three to South Canara, and four

Mal

are natives of the South Mahratta District.

Four Assistant-

e

Catechists were also admitted into the service: two of these

had been educated in the Bettigeri Training School, one in the

an

Theological Seminary of Tellicherry, and,—last, not least—

Dis

Poul Karunagara, an aged convert of Perambra.

This latter

had not received a regular training, but felt constrained by

the love of Christ to proclaim the glad tidings of Christ’s

saving grace to his poor and benighted countrymen.

Much

as we are impressed with the paramount importance of a

well-trained ministry, we should like to number among our

fellow-workers a few more of the stamp of this layman, men

who have gone through the school of a thorough conversion

our

from heathenism.

Such men are often better qualified to

of

testify to the miéery of a man without Christ as well as to

the saving power of the Gospel, than one who has had the

Sot

1\

required training.

1t

Thus the number of our Evangelists, Catechists and Assi-

50

stant-Catechists at the end of 1895 would have been increased

als

up to 138, as against 125 in 1894, had we not to record the

6V

removal by death of one of the oldest servants of our Mission,

of

viz. Catechist FEzra Arunachalam, late of Ponani, who, after

an

a service of 40 years, was called to rest on the 20th March

80¢

1895.

(See Obituary.)

laf

OB T e |

27

b f0

On the other hand we are sorry to say, that the ranks of

our Pastors have decreased from 14 in 1894 to 12 at the

end of 1895.

Mr. Salomon Bhaskar, Pastor at Bettigeri, a

veteran among our native fellow-workers, who had been in

the service of our Mission almost since his conversion in 1852,

lists

died on the 25th June 1895. (See Obituary.) Mr. Cornelius

heir

Hutten, Evangelist at Tellicherry, was pensioned. Another re-

Ity

duction has only recently been occasioned through the retire-

T'wo

ment from active service of Mr. Diego Fernandez, Pastor at

four

Mulki, who also can look back on a career of more than 40

A0t~

years spent in the Master’s service.

1086

The following tabular statement will be helpful to form

the

an idea of the distribution of our agents on the different

-

Districts of our Mission.

There are:—

Total 54

ter

In South Canara 7 Pastors,

47 Catechists,

Coorg

—_—

N

”

»

6

Iy

st's

South Mahratta

»

30

»

”

31

Malabar

”

45

»

”

48

uch

fa

On the Nilgiris

RS

%;

”

[

»

10

149

our

12

»

137

”

N

nen

A glance at this tabular statement shows, that some of

jon

our Districts are not yet sufficiently provided with the number

t0

of preachers necessary to carry on the work efficiently. The

{0

South Mahratta District, we are glad to say, has now no more

reason to complain of the scarcity of assistants, from which

the

it had been suffering for the last 10 or 15 years, and which

§8l

so seriously hindered the progress of the work. South Canara

also has not only a sufficient number of Catechists, but can

sed

even supply other Districts with its surplus. But the Districts

the

08,

of Coorg and the Nilgiris urgently require reinforcements,

and in Malabar the present number of native helpers is

ter

scarcely adequate to the exigencies of the work, which has

el

lately so extraordinarily extended.

In response to urgent

4*

9

.

8

deménds for help from the latter three Districts, South Canara

has sent two of its men to Malabar, four to the Nilgiris and

ity

10t

one to Coorg. Besides, some more men belonging to South

Canara have, for a number of years, been employed in

in ]

North Canara and South Mahratta, and also in Coorg. As

are

and

a matter of fact, the transfer of low-country Catechists to

Districts so remote from the coast and different in climate,

follg

as Coorg and the Nilgiris, is connected with peculiar difficulties,

and often self-denial on their part. Yet we are glad to say,

that, as a rule, our native brethren are found willing, for the

Lord’s sake, to proceed also to foreign Districts. May the

Lord fill them all with that true Missionary spirit that counts

it a privilege to suffer, if need he, some personal sacrifice,

in order to win souls for Christ!

It gives us much pleasure to notice that the several Station-

the

Reports bear an almost unanimous testimony to the zeal and

EX 08

devotion, with which our Assistants, on the whole, discharged

their duties as servants of Christ.

)

They have rendered very

B

valuable assistance in the different departments of the work_—

iy

pastoral, evangelistic, and educational-—in which they have

stil]

been employed according to their various gifts. As it has

We

been customary with us for many years, so also this year

hein

annual conventions, assembling all the Catechists of a District,

were arranged at Tellicherry, Mangalore and Hubli respec-

rea

tively. Besides these, weekly or monthly meetings were held

Dot

with the Catechists belonging to each Station, at the respective

head-quarters.

These meetings are a very useful means, not

only to impart instruction in scriptural and theological

knowledge, but also to strengthen and deepen the spiritual

life and foster a spirit of unity and mutual sympathy between

Indian and European fellow-workers.

They are therefore

l\atl

appreciated by all concerned as seasons of spiritual refresh-

ﬂmH

ment and abiding blessings.

Tey

AT N L

29

1AL

We believe, the steady and unostentatious work done by

and

Christian Schoolmasters in the various Mission Schools is

juth

not less important for the building up of the kingdom of God

| 1

in this land than the work of preachers of the Gospel. We

As

are glad to state that our Christian educational staff is slowly

and steadily increasing year by year, as may be seen from the

t0

%6,

following tabular statement:—

s,

Christian

Christfan

Non-Christian

Schoolmasters.

Schoolmistresses.

Schoolmasters.

saj)

1880

70

29

34

the

1885

103

29

66

the

1890

136

5

102

107

1nfs

1894

170

1108

1895

182

2

105

We are still far away from being able to dispense with

100

the services of non-Christian Schoolmasters; their number still

and

exceeds one-third of the total of the male teachers in our

employ.

We are pretty well provided with Christian School-

oed

pery

masters of the Primary and Lower Secondary Grade, but the

k—

number of Christian Matriculates and Graduates trained is

1376

still exceedingly small and quite inadequate for our wants.

has

We feel this to be a great drawback, which earnest efforts are

7’6%1’

being made to remedy.

ek,

As to Colporteurs and Bible-women, we have to refer our

readers to chapter III. and VII. respectively, where some

;pec-

held

particulars about them will be found.

f1ve

106

2. The Native Church.

;ical

A. Numerical Increase.

tual

In reviewing the work of the last year, we find that our

o6l

Native Church has increased by 368 souls.

fore

This 1s 189 less

than in 1894, when we had an increment of 557 Church-

osh

members.

The increase is due partly to excess of births

30

(488) over deaths (272), amounting to 216, partly to baﬁtisms

R

from among the heathen, numbering 209, and also to excess

stren,

of re-admissions to church-membership of excommunicated

Christians (78) over excommunications (68), making 10 in all.

Considering all these items, there ought to have been a

total increase of 435 souls. Unfortunately, however, we have

also to record an unusually high rate of change of residence

of Christians, who either left for other parts of the country

beyond our reach, or even relapsed into heathenism: and this

is the cause of the apparent discrepancy. As a matter of fact,

not all those who leave us for foreign Districts, may, there-

fore, be counted as lost to Christ or the Christian Church; they

are only beyond our control, and may, even abroad, live a

consistent Christian life or join other Christian denominations.

Yet we cannot deny the deplorable fact that many of our

Christians, who go to the Ghauts, Coorg, Mysore or the Wynaad,

in order to find a better livelihood, are seriously endangered

0

in their spiritual and moral state, living, as they very often

ang

do, in out-of-the-way places far away from Christian fellow-

our

ship and without the means of grace.

Under such circum-

Vani

stances it is not surprising, therefore, that many succumb

are

to the temptations besetting them on all sides, and some of

heath

them even relapse into heathenism.

still |

Altogether our Congregations now comprise

tudeg

6567 Communicants

b) th

144 Non-Communicants (under Church-Discipline),

and 5620 Children,

Total

12331 Church-Members,

against 11963 at the end of 1894.

i ¢

Of these

5122 belong to South Canara,

257

9

, Coorg,

addit

1737

many

b

, South Mahratta,

4698

U

, Malabar,

By g

487

»

, the Nilgiri District.

of )

31

.-

Ranking our Stations

according

to their

numerical

180s

XCESS

strength, we find—

1

ated

Station above 2,000, viz., Mangalore with 2242

1all

3

Stations between 1,000 and 2,000, viz., Udipi with

en &

1,804, Calicut with 1,239 and Codacal with 1,176.

()

Stations between 500 and 1,000, viz., Cannanore

have

lence

with 864, Mulki with 758, Guledgudd with 581,

ity

Tellicherry with 536, Bettigeri with 520.

(&}

Stations between 200 and 500, viz., Chombala with

{his

fact,

447, Hubli with 358, Palghat with 364, Kaity with

here-

276, Kotageri with 211.

Stations below 200, viz., Dharwar with 185, Ananda-

they

Ve

pur with 175, Mercara with 112, Kasaragod with

117, Basrur with 116, Karkal with 85, Vaniyan-

1018,

our

kulam with 92, Honavar with 51 and Bijapur with

492 church-members.

aad,

Of the Stations enumerated immediately above Dharwar

;e‘red

often

and Honavar belong to the very oldest places occupied by

our Mission, whilst Karkal, Kasaragod, Bijapur, Basrur, and

JJov

Vaniyankulam are of a more recent date. Thankful as we

eun-

are for these Christian Churclies gathered from among the

b

heathen,

we cannot but realise

the fact, that they are

18 of

still a very small flock, when compared with the vast multi-

tudes of heathens around, who yet appear scarcely touched

by the leaven of the Gospel.

Mﬂe)v

B. Conversions from Heathenism.

This year’s harvest consists of 209 souls (158 adults and

51 children) gathered in by baptism from heathenism. In

addition to these, 349 catechumens are on thelist, out of whom

many will, we believe, be baptized in the course of the year.

By far the greater part of these conversions fall to the district

of Malabar with 130 baptisms and 218 catechumens, whilst

32

her a

S. Canara is represented by 51 baptisms and 103 catechumens,

South Mahratta

”

14

”

”»

onqui

the Nilgiris

14

9

20

”

she b

able t

and Coorg

»

”

»

»

accon

The ingathering is not as large as

last year’s with its

her 1

318 baptisms, and even Malabar, which for the last five

patie

years has so greatly been blessed, shows a falling off in the

days

number of baptisms (130 against 208 in 1894).

In South

I

Canara and South Mahratta, on the other hand, we observe

a slight increase.

Yet we have much reason to be thankful

of My

and |

for what the Lord has given us, and we cannot but rejoice,

i

when we see the different ways by which the Lord God in His

wonderful grace and wisdom prepares souls for the acceptance

ery )

of the Gospel. Almost all the converts, it is true, belong to “the

Joy,

Besid

foolish and weak things of the world”; but far from being

days.

offended thereby, we would rather with the Lord Jesus praise

the Father, that He has been pleased to reveal His mysteries

}

just to the babes.

Yea, as in the Lord Jesus’s time, so now

two

also, the poor have the Gospel preached to them.

10 i

In the following we propose to give some extracts from

the )

different Station-Reports, in order to show who our converts

pal o

are and where they have come from.

4

We begin with the South Mahratta District.

My. Bode of

had !

theip

Dharwar, relates the touching story of the conversion of an

Both

old woman, the mother of Cut. Devadana Katapur.

0n fiy

The latter had been handed over to the Missionaries, when still

Préve

a boy, during the famine that raged in the Deccan about 20 years

him

ago.

He was educated in our schools and, two years ago, appoint-

Stl‘on:

ed Catechist.

But he had not forgotten his good old mother, who

tiH]e,

had, all the while, remained in heathenism.

As soon as he was

ﬂlSo,

enabled to give her some help, he went in search of her and

Me}

persuaded her to live with him at Dharwar.

He began to instruet

Yearg

her in the Christian truth, and great was his joy when she declared

the |

33

S S ey

mens,

her anxiety to also become a Christian.

She was a very attentive

enquirer and showed an intense longing for baptism. For some time

she had been sickly, and on the day of her baptism she was scarcely

able to go to church. But later on she recovered and had the joy to

accompany her son to his wedding at Bettigeri.

Soon afterwards

th 1ts

t five

her illness increased and gave her much pain, but she bore all

patiently, and several times said that she rejoiced to die.

A few

n the

days before Christmas she was released from her sufferings.”

South

Proceeding to South Canara, let us hear what Mr. Digel

)SELTE

nkful

of Mulki reports of some baptisms at the Out-stations of Padur

Joice,

and Kutyar:—

“Fifteen adults and one child were baptized.

They are mostly

n s

very poor and weak people, but as yet they have given us cause for

fance

0 che

joy, and may perhaps turn out better tkan they seem to promise.

Besides, 13 persons receive baptismal instruction.

We live in the

bein

days of small things.”

pxalse

Mangalore, on the other hand, witnessed the baptism of

61165

) 0OW

two educated Hindus, whose conversion may be traced back

to impressions of the truth of the Gospel received by them in

the Mission Town-School of the place. Mr. Bucher, the Princi-

from

pal of this school, speaks thus of them:—

verts

“We were able to receive into the Church two young men, who

bad passed through our school.

Grace had ultimately overturned

il of

their timidity, and led them to the acceptance of the Divine call.

of a0

Both have their employments.

One of them had made up his mind,

on finishing his course in our school, to espouse the cross, but was

il

prevented from taking this step by strong pressare brought to bear on

him by his relatives and friends.

Now, about 12 years later, he felt

years

strong enough to carry out his long cherished intention.

If, at this

ik

time, it had not been for the same intimidating influences, his brother

who

also, who is still a pupil in our school, might have become a

jp W45

y and

member of the Body of Christ. The other young man had for some

years back, abandoned the tenets of Hinduism and launched into

15t ek

the Brahma Samaj to appease his restless heart.

But gradually

ared

5

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At the same time

recent

doubts and despondency began to trouble him.

the Scripture texts, he had once learnt by heart, came back to

ancest

his memory and he felt unable to resist any longer the invitation of

‘0

Christ, the meek and humble friend of sinners.

He attended our

of a B

church regularly for several months, until at last he felt constrained

TeAIS ¢

to 9011fess Christ openly by holy baptism.”

of bee

The m;

Turning to the Nilgiris, we are glad to hear of the conver-

Josepl

sion at Kaity of young Andy, the step-son of old Kackamalla,

would

who in 1894 already wanted to become a Christian, but was

kept away by force, nobody knowing his fate (see Report for

W

1894, page 43).

He has now been won for Christ, and was

years

Of another man

10 say

baptized on the first Sunday in Advent.

My. Ernst of Kaity says:—

Videnc

“The heathen inhabitants of Kaity village had to swallow a very

hut g

bitter pill, and there is no help for it. They must acquiesce in the

Loar,

fact that the owner of a house in their midst is a convert, and that

their |

now a Christian lives in their village. His house is a poor little shanty,

(1

and the convert who mortgaged it, is a poor young man. On the whole,

C0nvey

the affair is very insignificant from a worldly point of view, but that

the I

is the way the Lord builds up His kingdom.

The heathen Badagas

are well aware of the spiritul importance of the poor shanty.”

the 1

Writeg

Kotageri had the pleasure on Whitsunday to witness the

Wl

baptism of 8 heathen.

haVe b‘

“One of these is a Badaga woman, sent here from Kaity to be

qllite 9

instructed and baptized, as she could not with safety stay at home.

for us,

Five other persons belong to a Badaga Brahman family, two members

for agy

of which have already found admission into our Congregation.

of

the {aei

the remaining two, one is an orphan Tamil boy from the plains and

the other a poor girl.”

thesg

Popey

Towards the end of the year seven more heathen, who ex-

pressed their desire to become Christians, were received as

Iy

Condyg

catechumens and are now under baptismal instruction.

Six

kmd!}ec

of these belong to the new Out-station Milidenu, which was

Yoy

v ¥

35

il

SR

18 time

recently opened by our Badaga convert Joseph Hiéria on his

hack to

ancestral property.

tion of

“One of these is Joseph’s youngest sister; five \more are members

led our

of a Badaga family, the head of which is the son of a man, who, thirty

trained

years ago, at the times of Father Metz had joined us with the intention

of becoming a Christian, and afterwards relapsed into heathenism.

The man, pressed hard by his ereditors, found shelter and help with

0nver-

Joseph Hiria, who also offered him one of his houses, as the heathen

malla,

b was

would not suffer him to live in their village.”

ot for

What a remarkable change! The very man who, some twelve

years back, had to flee from his home and forsake everything

nd was

to save his soul, has now been enabled, in the wonderful pro-

I mal

vidence of the Lord, not only to return to his ancestral estate,

but also to found there a Christian village, which, another

¥ ‘rer:!'

in the

Zoar, gives shelter to poor Badaga converts expelled from

their homes for Christ’s sake.

nd that

shanty,

Coming to Malabar, almost every Station had its share of

, whole,

conversions.

But whilst in the last four years Codacal was

yut that

the most favoured Station, we find that this year Calicut heads

adages

the list with 47 baptisms and 58 catechumens.

Mr. Knobloch

)

writes of these:—

s the

“To the 25 catechumens at the beginning of the year 87 more

have been added in the course of the year.

This is for our Station

quite an unprecedented phenomenon.

It was a time of refreshing

for us, when, in the monsoon, week after week enquirers came, asking

f hom:

for admission into our Church. Our joy was greatly increased by

the fact, that 21 of the neophytes are permanent residents of Calicut.

o Of

As a matter of course, not a little toil and care was needed with

0 aud

these conversions, because all of them had come with not the least

property of their own.

They are now all usefully occupied in our

Industrial Establishments.

But we were also sorely grieved by the

who ¢x-

conduct of some converts, who proved insincere and abused the

ved ?}5

kindness shown to them.

Some of them have suddenly disappeared.

S

ch 8

Yea, some of the very people, at whose coming we believed to have

5*

L

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particular cause to rejoice and who had even to go through severe

struggles, disappointed us most.”

ed, a

and v

Mpr. Volz of Calicut relates the story of a convert, who

Whos

had formerly been a Sanyasi and is now employed in our

si0n,

Weaving Establishment.

have

“He is a Nayar by caste and was born in the neighbourhood of

Vaniyankalam, where his father had been a respectable husbandman.

man)

When a boy, he attended a simple village-school, in which also

ing t

Sanskrit was taught.

Later on, he assisted his father in managing

hearg

the family property, but he always felt an intense craving to devote

had ;

himself entirely to the service of his idols, several of which were

Chri

worshipped in his father’s house.

It was, however, only after the

age §

death of his father, that his desire was realized.

He began then

@ e

to read the Shastras and spent much money on religious ceremonies;

0 es

but as he meanwhile neglected his family property,

it came

out §

to pass that, ere long, all his fortune had wasted away.

‘What

hang

to do now? He made up his mind to become a Sanyasi, and,

ition

forsaking his wife and children, began to wander about, visiting all

sight

the famous shrines, until he had crossed the country from South to

But ¢

North as far as Benares.

After about 10 years of pilgrimage, he

conld

returned home, and now, by the grace of God, the time had come for

)

him to find the peace of mind he had been seeking in vain for so

many years.

He became acquainted with the Gospel through the

Place

instrumentality of a Christian teacher, who took him to the Missionary

of ty

at Vaniyankulam. The latter, desiring to help the man to any honest

Chrig

living, recommended him for admission to the Weaving Establish-

“(

ment at Calicut.

It was not an easy thing for the grey-haired and

Inob} (

emaciated man to begin learning a new trade, but as he proved

Whigh

willing, steady and faithful, he soon succeeded in overcoming the

The y

difficalties in his way.

He was baptized on Christmas-Day 1895,

de@la]

and there is now also some hope that his wife and children will

%ain

follow him and become disciples of the Lord Jesus.”

Dakip

Who h

From Chombala 23 baptisms are reported, of which Mr.

ang

Weismann writes:—

of fhe

coe Bl s

317

evere

“Out of a great number of enquirers asking for baptisrﬁ we accept-

ed, as a rule, only those who were known to members of our Church

and whose intentions, we felt justified to believe, were sincere. Many,

who

whose motives were apparently impure, were strictly refused admis-

L our

sion.

We cannot say, that those accepted are perfect saints, but we

have no reason to regret their admission.

ood of

“Among the women baptized there is on old mother who, for

dman,

many years, had gladly received the messengers of the Gospel com-

) also

ing to her house, and had alse taken to heart much of the word

080§

heard.

Long ago she would have liked to become a child of God,

devote

had it not been for her grown-up children, who had an aversion to

| Were

Christianity.

Meanwhile she had grown old and in addition to old

or the

age she also fell sick.

But how could she die without having become

n then

a member of Christ’s Body ?

At any rate she must make haste now

101168,

to escape for her life, and one day when her children had gone

came

out she seizes the opportunity and with her youngest child at her

Wha

hand flees to Chombala, where she arrived in a very miserable con-

, and

dition.

To be true, we were at first not much pleased with her

mO‘ a“

sight ; why should we burden ourselves with an old sickly woman?

But she showed such a genuine longing after salvation, that we

o

th {0

could not refuse her.”

ge, he

My. Nagel of Cannanore reports of a disturbance that took

1 10

180

place in the month of April in connection with the conversion

oh the

of two Tiyer women who had taken refuge in the house of a

i0naly

Christian.

honest

“On a Saturday night their relatives, together with an uproarious

ablish

mob, came running along to the compound, containing the house in

o 00

which the women were, and made an attempt to take them away.

pror ol

The women were asked whether they wanted to go, but they decidedly

declared: No! they were anxious to be saved.

The mob rushed

1899

against the door, smashed it and tried to break into the room, freely

ol WIH

making use of their cudgels against Mr. Nagel and the Christians

who had come to assist him.

At last the police came to the rescue

I Mi

and prevented further mischief.

But unfortunately the younger

of the two women had been forcibly abducted. The Missionaries

=

5

were not willing to file a suit against the housebreakers; but the

aathorities took the matter into their own hands and had them tried

To

and punished.”

fo ¥

the

conf1

Codacal Station had the privilege of enrolling 94 candidates

16Y6]

for baptism.

Of these 19 were baptized and 21 had to be

again dismissed, so that the year closed with 54 catechumens

Il

by

We T

on our rolls. The following wonderful report of M. Bosshardt

of th

gives, as it were, a history of the past year’s conversions on

his Station.

lessp

fo le

“During the year under report we had the privilege of enrolling

€060y

94 candidates for baptism, of which the first family arrived on the

They

2nd January.

Though they were Pariabs, the wife did not seem

they

{

to be much in favor of her husband’s intention.

In order to

dista

induce her to follow him, he took the youngest child on his arm and

his boy of 9 years at the hand and hurried on, till he reached the

old f

bungalow at day-break, after an eight miles’ wearisome journey. The

haug

to ag

distressed mother followed closely at his heels, and with tears in

her eyes begged for her youngest child. Her two brothers also, one

info

of them being blind, eventually dropped in and boldly supported

that

her in her demand.

As the husband strenuously refused to give

chorg

up his children or to return home with them, the brothers were

only |

anxious to make at least sure of their sister, seized her, and

Hare

walked off.

Scarcely had the young mother been a little way off,

ti()n ]

when she was overcome by an irrepressible yearning after her

Violey

darling, that soon defeated all prejudices and obstacles.

She fled

Teso)y

back and humbly declared that she also would become a believer.

Degay

This couple, while under instruction, took great pains in mastering

ety

the lessons and attempted to lifs themselves on a better footing,

Teae)

in which they made a fair progress.

During the year the change

gleaf

was so marked that they could be baptized. Some days later there

Jouth

appeared an aged Tiyen, whose children had embraced Christianity

some years back; and towards the end of the month a Nayar girl,

The

about 15 years old, who had lost her heathen relatives, sought pro-

Slegg

tection and help with her Christian kinsfolk.”

ang |

39

b Ll

; the

“In February arrived a Nayar family consisting of four souls.

fried

To gain their livelihood, they had to take to manual labour

to which they had not been accustomed before, and therefore

the beginning looked very dreary and unpromising. Debts were

contracted with the rice-merchant; the man got disheartened and

lates

reverted to his former associates; his wife and step-son, however,

0 be

mens

left no stone unturned till they had brought him back. Since then

we notice a marked change in the character as well asin the conduct

it

of these people. The wife seemed to possess an inclination to thought-

15 00

lessness which she has been trying to subdue.

She has begun

to learn to read, that she might read the Bible for herself, and

olling

encourages her husband to go to church and hold family prayers.

n the

They have not yet been received into the Church by baptism, as

geem

they ought to continue under instruction for some time more.

Jor 10

“Again in March, two youths came from a place of 25 miles

distanee.

One was parentless and the other the darling of his

n and

old father, who could not long resist the longing after his son.

Ex-

] the

The

hausted and wearied he came with other kinsfolk, whom he had taken

to assist him in persuading the boy, and on seeing the son he burst

als n

into tears, piteously entreating him to come home.

When he saw

0, 000

that his efforts were fruitless, he tried once more to touch the filial

ported

chords in his son by a pathetic and powerful manner:

“You are the

) give

only one to cherish me in my old age. You ought not to be so eruel.

, were

This could not but re-kindle the filial affee-

p, and

Have pity on me,’ ete.

tion; a fierce struggle began in the boy’s heart ; the contest was

3)}' OiYs

violent ; but lo! all at once the youth looked up full of unflinching

or ber

e fled

resolution, execlaiming: ‘Father, I will remain here to save my soul,

because with you I shall lose it.’

Nothing could shake the youth’s

oJiever:

determined resolve and his kinsmen had to return as they came. On

sfering

reaching home they consulted a famous sorcerer and listened with

oting:

great composure of mind to his promises that he would get the

chang?

youth back within a month, which hope proved an illusion; and the

) %hel‘e

sorcerer became a laughing-stock to Christians and Non-Christians.

sfianity

The father made other attempts to get hold of his son, but without

ar

giﬂl

success. The two youths found work in our Weaving Establishment,

;ht pYO'

and led for several months an irreproachable life, when all of a sud-

40

fum

den the countenanee of the orphan youth became downcast, and we

learnt, that, as a heathen, he had been entangled in adultéry and

18tk

sorcery, which devilish praectices began to make their appearance

n

th

again.

He had to be severely reprimanded, which his proud heart

apo

could not suffer, and he sought refuge with a Christian, who led him

ness

to the agent for emigration to Mauritius. Intoxicated with the mania

your

of emigration, he prevailed on his friend to also join him, and despite

also

our remonstrances they both departed.

and

“In February two Tiyer women, who had been deserted by their

fami

husbands, came over along with a Tiyer girl and at the beginning of

This

March a man of the Tiyer caste, who expected his wife would follow

Moh

him also, which she has not yet done.

On the 6th March we had

The

another case.

At midnight a young Nayar couple of respectable

the

family dropped in with the resolution of becoming disciples of

pa

Jesus Christ.

Their relations residing near Codacal, lingered the

decl

next morning about the compound and tried to change their mind.

and

But their entreaties were without avail.

Some days afterwards the

the ¢

father of the young wife appeared also, declaring to take him-

frien

self the yoke of Christ, that he had long ago felt an inward

for

th

compunction, but that the moral courage had failed him to break

affec

through the fetters; now since his daughter had showed him the path,

eci

he could no longer resist. The cherished hope, that his wife with

Was

her four children would follow him, has not yet been realized.

He

Ra

is a skillful potter and started a workshop with his own money,

iy

and though he gave his wife out of his earnings whatever he

At}

could spare, he has not yet secured her consent. According to Nayar

ang

laws this poor man cannot exercise any control over his children.

bOUrr

The young couple show signs of much zeal and devotion in studying

tllmt

the Word of God.

He was a farmer and has a great mind to stick

i

to farming, but for want of suitable fields he had for the present

a 8y

to be employed in the Weaving Establishment.

his {

“On the 20th April there came a smith about 25 years old whose

eOmI

marriage affairs were, however, somewhat doubtful.

At first he

The

acknowledged a certain woman nearly 40 years old as his wife, from

dau g

whom he wants now to be divorced, alleging that she fascinated

I ita

him by witcheraft.

On the 9th May a young man of Tellicherry

Ovep

41

S AR T

d we

turned up, who afterwards sailed for Mauritius, and again on the

rand

18th a man of the Tiyer caste with his wife confessed their faith

ance

in the Lord.

Subsequently during the latter half of May and June

heatt

a poor widow, a washer-woman, was drawn to the Sun of Righteous-

| him

ness; besides a sickly Tiyer, 50 years old, who has to be helped, a

a0

young couple, a relative of whom had been a Christian before, and

spite

also two Tiyer families of Pallat, one of which emigrated to Mauritius

and the other is doing well.

At the beginning of August a third Tiyer

thetr

family was led to accept Christ under extraordinary circumstances.

ng of

This family had some years ago taken a loan of Rs. 50 from a

ollow

Mohammedan, to whom they mortgaged their handsome compound.

¢ had

The creditor had always been exceptionally kind, never asked for

stable

the yearly interest, nor troubled them about repayment of the prin-

os of

cipal; but one day matters entirely changed; he emphatically

] the

declared, that unless they would clear off the principal with interest

mind.

and compound interest, a sum of altogether Rs. 150, he would have

Js the

the estate legally disposed off. The anxiety was great; rich Nayar

friends and other kinsfolk were appealed to for help, but none was

him

pyard

forthcoming.

Idols were invoked, but they remained cold and un-

hreak

affected! Then they thought of the Gospel-invitation, and it was

decided to throw in their lot with the Christians; but one obstacle

path,

) Wlth

was yet to be overcome; the old mother was against it and advised:

‘Rather lose the whole property than go to the Christians.’

The

He

0067

dilemma was great. Why should they unjustly forfeit the property?

or e

At last they resolved to venture the step in spite of the frettings

and protests of the old mother.

The compound has now been

Niyar

|deon.

bought by the Malabar Widow-fund, and the family has an oppor-

tunity of reacquiring their estate by honest work and thrift.

1&)’iﬂg

) Sti(}k

“In September and October we had four candidates for baptism—

a smith, a carpenter, a stone-cutter, and a native medicine-seller with

resent

his family. InDecember we had several candidates—a Tiyer family

comprising 6 members, and a smith with his wife, both of Ponnani.

| whose

The last applicant, before the close of the year, was a Tiyen with his

g5t he

daughter of 11 years, who had heard the Gospel four years ago when

3 from

I stayed in his house on a preaching tour. He was prepared to come

ipated

Distress and bereave-

over then, but his wife was muach against it.

whef[y

6

42_

ment visited the house some months ago.

One day they partook

othe

of raw potatoes which caused the death of his wife and four sons.

en

The man understood this Divine warning and arranged his affairs

the

without further hesitation, took the only child left him, and fled out

noti

of the city of destruction to Immanuel’s Land.”

of

the

Palghat had 85 catechumens in the year under report.

All of these were under ‘preparatory instruction for a longer

or shorter period, but only 17 souls could, after all, counsci-

Par

the

entiously be admitted to baptism. So there are still 47 cate-

of |

chumens left, whilst 19 have disappeared. We take the fol-

lowing from a report of Mr. Kiihnle:—

dea

and

“It is always a painful observation to see some sliding back, who

her

had had a fair beginning and had made a fair progress in the know-

ledge and understanding of God’s Word ; but when after some weeks

dwe

or months, such backsliders reappear, as sorrowing and weeping

1181t

penitents, with the solemn declaration, that they have no peace of

mind and can henceforth not live as heathen, then we receive a

be |

6al)

refreshing from God’s countenance.

pon

‘“Amongst those who could be admitted into the membership of

the Church I have to mention my old friend Cham:i with his family,

g |

sty

who brought with him the night he came to us the materials of his

house and had it rebuilt in the same style on the Melparambu

Iy

hill.

Husband, wife and two of the eldest children found work

4 fo

At first this new

91\1]{

in our Tilery, where they now earn their bread.

kind of work, which requires a steady and continuous appli-

e

cation, appeared to them a little tiresome, but by the patience and

afte

that

indulgence of the Superintendent they have overcome their apathy.

The progress made by them in the catechumenal instruction was

aho,

very satisfactory.

Chami, who knows Tamil and Malayalam to

€Xa)

write and read, quickly committed to memory the Catechism in spite

(0

of his 50 summers.

His intelligent answers and absorbed attention

aga

saly

gave evidence of his earnest meditation, but we did not hurry with

his baptism.

When the day appointed for the holy rite approached

10 g

we could notice an unspeakable joy illuminating his countenance.

It is now his fervent desire and anxious prayer to God to bring his

the

43

iy

In order to effect this he

thook

other relations to the feet of Christ.

§0ns,

went several times to his native village, confessing his belief in

ffairs

the Lord from house to house.

On a recent visit to that place I

d out

noticed a marked change.

The people were aroused and in a state

of earnest enquiry; and many seemed to be quite ready to take

the decisive step soon.

port.

“T have also to mention an old woman, called Paru Amma, of

nger

nsCl-

Panamanna, with her three grown-up sons and two grand-children,

the latter being the children of her eldest son who was the last member

cate

of the family to embrace Christ, after he had lost his wife through

¢ fol

death. It was for us all a touching sight to see mother, children,

and grand-children standing before the altar, ready to surrender

[, Who

themselves to the great Physician.

know-

“A sweetly cherished hope for an old man, named Mayen, who

weeks

dwelt in the forest near Wadakencherry, and whom I occasionally

eping

visited whenever I came to that part, could to my great sorrow not

06 of

be fulfilled.

Not long before his departure out of this world I

76 B

earnestly admonished him that he should hasten on, and not post-

pone his baptism, whereupon he seemed very much moved and asked

hip of

A vehement

me for a word of prayer, which I readily granted.

:'amﬂy,

struggle was going on in him, and he burst out in tears, and on

of bis

my way home I earnestly commended him to God’s grace. Only

pamby

a few weeks afterwards he breathed his last, and while dying he

| otk

exhorted his children, in his moments of consciousness, to live accord-

i new

ing to the Word of God, and ordered not to have his body burnt

appli

after the fashion of his caste-people, but to have it buried like

0 aﬂd

that of the Christians.

A married daughter told me afterwards

;p&th)'-

about her father’s death with tears in her eyes, and added with an

on WS

‘And now, as our father is dead, you will not

examining look:

1am t0

come and see us any more.’

Thereupon I rejoined: ‘I shall come

1 Spie

again and again, and I shall not cease to tell the old story of

tentiod

salvation; you shall have once no excuse and say: ‘We have had

D)

no opportunity to hear the glad tidings in the jungle

.

y yith

»gadhed

Herewith we take leave of our new converts, commending

0a0ce:

them to the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit. May He who

ing bi

6*

44

hath called them unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, make

them perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle them!

of (

saly

C. Moral and Religious Life of our Christians.

of

Our Mission Church numbers now 12331 baptized Christians,

give

who live in 23 Head-stations and 170 Out-stations.

hope

Among

fo b

these there are 67 places, where chapels and school-houses are

hets

erected, ministers of the Gospel stationed, and Sunday worship

regularly held. Can we say, that all these 67 congregations

for

after

scattered among a heathen population, small though they may

be, are as many centres of Christian life and light? Are they

all, as they ought to be, each for its surroundings like a

1

of ]

city that is set on a hill and therefore cannot be hid?

And

one

are all our Christian families as many lights shining in the

world, living blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without

amg

rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation

(Phil. 1. 15)?

alike

We feel, it is not so easy to give a brief

answer to these questions.

If we were to answer in the affir-

for b

With

mative, we should be found false witnesses, deceiving ourselves

and our friends regarding the real state of our Churches.

If

him

we were to answer in the negative, we should deserve to be

help

Comp

blamed for ungratefully shutting our eyes to the genuine work

He [}

of grace thatis undoubtedly going on among our Christians. In-

that

deed no greater mistake could be committed concerning the

In

cept

question before us, than to indulge in generalizations.

i

speaking therefore, as we propose to do now, of the religious

{his \

and moral condition of our Native Church, we desire to

Seang

keep in view both sides of the case, gratefully acknowledging

OOHlp

all that God, through His Holy Spirit, has done and is still

Suffe

doing amongst us, as well as frankly pointing out defects

of i

that have come to light.

Chris

to th

Commencing with South Canara, we first state a general

both

remark made by Mr. Ritter of Mangalore: —

dil\g ]

45

e

nake

“One may observe important differences in the spiritual life

of our Christians.

There are some who are anxious about the

salvation of their souls, striving to be living members of the Body

of Christ, and, in the face of death, joyfully take hold of the for-

giveness of their sins through the blood of Christ, and rejoice in the

Jals,

But there are others who, although they desire

100g

hope of glory.

to be Christians, are wanting in earnestness of purpose, and waver

S 816

between sin and Christ.

And there are also those who only care

ship

for an outward connection with the Church, whilst in fact, they long

tons

after the world and the lusts of the flesh.”

may

As an instance of a Christian earnestly striving to enter

they

in at the strait gate, we communicate the following report

ke 2

of Mr. Jared Soens, Pastor at Bockapatna, about the death of

And

one of his church-members, Obadéiah, whose grandfather was

1 the

among the very first converts of Mangalore:—

thout

“He was mourned by all who knew him, by Christians and pagans

ytion

alike, because of his mild and sweet disposition that made it easy

rief

for him to love and be kind to all.

Though his character was not

affir

without its flaws and blemishes, yet many Christian virtues adorned

olves

him, that encouraged many a down-cast brother.

He was a great

If

help to Mr. Jung, the Superintendent of the Kudroli Tile-Works, in

0 he

commencing a Sunday School at Bolur among the fishermen caste.

qork

He enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-Christians to such a degree,

that he was elected an elder of the Church; but he refused to ac-

, In

cept the call, considering himself unworthy for such a responsible

g the

office.

In the Tile-Works he was employed as fireman, but finding

In

this work injuring his bealth, he gave it up and went to the hills in

gious

soarch of other employment. He caught, however, fever and was

e £0

compelled to return speedily. Consumption, of which he had once been

g

suffering for a long time, developed rapidly and made him soon one

gl

of its vietims.

The news of his decease caused a sensation among

efeCtS

Christians and Non-Christians.

‘When his last remains were carried

to the burial ground, people of all classes stationed themselves on

both sides of the road and expressed their love and sorrow in shed-

soral

ding heart-felt tears.”

46

s

!

There are, thank God, many more like this man who are

from

leading a life hid with Christin God, many who love the House

of God and make use of the means of grace! But there are

H}

also others, who have given us cause for grief by their in-

sough

more

difference and lukewarmness, by drinking habits and quar-

relling, and also by impurity. More painful, however, than

tives,

occasional outbursts of sin and exceedingly hurtful to the

his ba

peace

spiritual life of the Mangalore Church are the deplorable

elap:

disputes in connection with the Canara Christian Provident

nicate

Pund, that, for the last two or three years have disturbed the

for th

peace of the congregation.

Would God, that this obstacle

iy

which withholds from us the Divine blessing and retards the

with

progress of the work of God among the heathen, be removed

heliey

from our midst ere long!

(ateg

In Mulki also the peace of the congregation was disturbed

(hare

by the unruly behaviour of some Christians, who refused to

fllH b\

that ¢

submit to church-discipline and had therefore to be excom-

municated. We are exceedingly sorry to say, that they have

habit

not yet repented.

oy -

also f

Concerning Udipi Mr. Keppler points to the distressing

I

fact, that in the past year 29 persons had to be excommuni-

10 p

cated, whilst only 10 baptisms of pagans had taken place.

Sout}

He says:—

State,

“This observation has not been surprising to us, because there

()f 0y

are in our congregation not a few Christians who care but little for

tiang,

God’s Word and are so ignorant that they are scarcely able to

f

understand the difference between their former and present state.

Justif

by 4

It has grieved us to observe, that this evil is not only of recent

date, but that it seemed to have taken root in our Church for

a number of years.

It is evident from our yearly reports that,

Nere

within the last five years, no less than 245 excommunications

chief

have taken place against only 230 baptisms from among the

heathen.”

1 pl

dugy

el

47

) are

Very painful cases of relapse into heathenism are reported

[ouse

from some Out-stations of Udipi.

“At Kilenja two Christian families, afflicted with sickness,

I 10

0 a:re

Even a Christian of

sought relief by offering to Bhiatas (demons).

more than ten years’ standing, yielded to the entreaties of his rela-

Juar-

than

tives, and joined in this idolatrous ceremony.

Later on he repented

his backsliding, and with tears

tab]

asked for forgiveness.

He died in

) the

peace shortly afterwards.

Bat his family appear to be resolved to

rable

ident

relapse into heathenism. At Gudde ten persons had to be excommu-

nicated; among these two heads of families, who have now relapsed

] the

for the second time.

Some people seem to make very light of back-

facle

sliding and re-admission to the Church. A man re-admitted, suffering

¢ the

with consumption, had a sacrifice offered for his dead wife, whom he

oved

believed to be the cause of his sickness.

‘When taken to task by the

Catechist, he replied, he regretted having returned to the Christian

Church, and he had better go back to paganism, in order to enjoy the

hed

full benefit of his sacrifice.

d t0

The most distressing case, however, is

that of a Christian at Parkal, who, for the last 15 years, was in the

000

habit of accompanying Catechists on preaching tours, and who has

have

now turned a bitter foe to Christianity, seducing other Christians

also to recant.”

ss1ng

Humiliating as these and other occurrences are, we have

yun

no reason, therefore, to give way to despondency.

Our

lace.

South Canara Mission is evidently at present in a critical

state, and the feeling of sorrow at the unsatisfactory condition

there

of our Churches is unanimously shared by all earnest Chris-

Jo for

tians.

We consider this to be rather an encouraging sign,

justifying us to believe that the time will be soon coming when,

state:

by the Lord’s grace, our Churches will be filled with new life.

geent

In Coorg we have two Christian congregations, one at

y for

Mercara, the other at Anandapur,

The first of these consists

thata

chiefly of low-country Christians, many of whom live scattered

tions

the

in plantations all over the country.

Of the congregation at

Anandapur Mr. Fischer says:—

48

et i

depe

“The fact that we have in our Church some earnest Christians,

gives us encouragement faithfully to work on and also to hope for

18 he

forn

those who have not yet advanced so far.

But on the whole, we are

sorry to find that there is much of a dead, nominal Christianity among

less,

us, wanting in spiritual life and vigour.

Some cases of serious sins

ha a3

that

also happened, and for the same reason two candidates for baptism

had to be dismissed.

By the enquiry into these cases we were again

could

vant

deeply impressed with the very filth of sin these poor people had

wallowing in, before they became Christians.

But many as are the

to h

shortcomings of our Church, that which has actually been attained

This

gives us cause to praise the Lord.”

Comn

willi

We proceed now to the South Mahratta District with its five

batig

Head-stations and 16 Out-stations. Among the latter, Mushtigeri,

an out-of-the-way place with a congregation numbering 148

souls, many of whom embraced Christianity during the famine

kingl

in 1877-78, has of late occasioned much anxiety by the

1

indifference of the Christians.

Myr. Stier, who was in charge

for g

of this Qut-station last year, says:—

the T

““The majority of our Christians were, and are still, hunters ; and,

Whﬂs

I think, it would be an easier task to tame a wild ass than to persu-

to th

ade these people to give up hunting.

Assoon as the hunter’s drum

the ¢

is heard, nothing can keep back the inveterate huntsman; he leaves

also

his dying child, his sick wife, and even the dead body of a relative, and

very

Joins the hunting party.

With the same zeal some of our Christians

1ogt

still cleave to idol-worship.

In December last, I had a hard fight

808

with a family, consisting of a mother and three grown-up sons, who

L()I‘d’s

performed idol-worship secretly and publicly in association with the

Sﬂppe

lowest caste-people.

Once the Catechist wrested from them the

Sor

implements for sacrifice, just as they were in the very act of sacrificing,

by th

which created a fearful uproar in the whole village.

I was obliged

Sacy,

to go there at once to protect the Catechist from the vengeance of

aged

the idolaters.

During the enquiry that ensued, I was astonished to

Made

hear how unblushingly they gloried in what they had been doing,

Sterg

and asserted that they would not abandon its practice, as upon it

ViSitat

sl

49

1als,

depended the honour of their family. The fact is that the eldest son

o for

is headman of the village.

They asked with elenched fists the re-

taurn of the sacrificial implements.

As all admonitions proved use-

0 are

mong

less, I returned these things with the declaration that they would

be excommunicated.

§ §I08

They did not like this and began to suggest

that only one of the family might be excommunicated, so that he

,ptism

again

could offer up the sacrifice for them.

This being refused, they

wanted, at least, the sacrificial implements to be returned, so as

¢ hat

o the

to have the idol-worship performed on their behalf by a heathen.

ained

This, of course, could not be granted, and they had at last to be ex-

communicated.

They are now again coming to church and are

willing to give up their idolatrous superstitions; but a time of pro-

g five

bation must decide the sincerity of their intention.”

igerl,

Of another Out-station, belonging to Guledgudd, viz., Kat-

; 148

amine

kinahalli, Mr. Eisfelder reports:—

y the

“The Katkinahalli Church has for some years given me cause

harge

for grief, chiefly because of the very unsatisfactory attendance at

the Holy Communion. On one occasion 8 persons only were present,

whilst the number of communicants is 80. I very often wondered as

i ﬁﬂd3

to the cause of this deplorable state of things, and I have come to

perS\l'

the conclusion, that the fault lies not only with the Christians, but

drom

also with those in charge of the Church. Our native congregations

|eaves

very much resemble little children and, like them, are in need of the

o,00d

most careful handling.

They have to be educated and trained

isians

s0 as to get in the way of regularly attending Divine Service and the

d gt

Lord’s Table.

In our Church we have the custom, before the Lord’s

S yho

Supper is administered, not only to conduct a special Preparation

ith the

Service, but also to have each church-member personally spoken to

e

by the Pastor, before he or she is permitted to partake of the Blessed

ifeing

Sacrament.

I believe that our Christians need be specially encour-

gbliged

aged to avail themselves of this blessed means of grace.

I have

0t of

made it a point, therefore, whenever the Holy Communion is admini-

Jod 0

stered, to devote the preceding week to a pastoral house-to-house

doiﬂg)

visitation and to conversations with our Christians.”

50

e

At Hubli a Young Men’s Christian Association has been

Tence

started, of which Mr. Warth says:—

the ¢

The youths regularly meet in a room given them for the pur-

ences

pose, and spend their evenings in singing hymns and reading the

Suppe

Holy Seriptures.

Every Thursday I conduet a special Bible Class.

Spiri

Although there is still much room for improvement, the very existence

with 1

of this association is a blessing to our congregation.

It is, besides, an

excellent safeguard for our young men, and keeps them from idle-

ness, roaming about, drinking, and similar bad habits.

The members

tion |

are pledged to attend their meetings regularly, and to set a good

Coda

example to other Christians by their regular attendance at Sunday

ago P

and week-day Services.

I have been greatly cheered by the starting

Romg

and growth of this association.”

o3

We desire now to say a few words about our Christian

Stead

Churches on the Nilgiri-Hills.

schog

thig |

As to Kotageri, two new Out-stations were opened at Denad

and Milidenu (pp. 34 & 35).

The congregation consists of

Iy, |

two heterogeneous elements, the Badaga and the Tamil; of

4

these Mr. Sikemeier says:—

our (

becay

“Eleven years ago the Tamil part of our Church was twice as

numerous as the Badaga, but the latter have, within this period,

Slongy

There are now 90

doubled, chiefly owing to baptisms of heathen.

a dists

Badagasto 121 Tamil.

Many of the Tamil Christians in this District

Sneerg

are constantly moving, and therefore out of our reach. For this reason,

the Ie;

only those are entered on our rolls, who have for a number of years

admiy

been under our control and wish to be connected with our Church.

Ratiop

As a rule, they are not regular in attending church; but there has

in app

been a great improvement since the introduection of a Tamil sermon

ceivim

in connection with our Canarese Service on Sunday mornings.”

the y

hugpy

Of Kaity Mr. Erust says:—

1§ 1o

“Quite a number of church-members had to be excommunicated

because of serious sins, in which they had, under the guise of piety,

heart,

h&bits

lived for a long time. The discipline applied was, through God’s grace,

followed by good results.

to iy

In spite of these grievous occur-

[raypy

e

heen

rences our Church has not inconsiderably inereased, chiefly owing to

the conversion of some Roman Catholics and pagans.

The experi-

6 pur-

ences I have made in connection with the celebration of the Lord’s

17 he

Supper, give me the comforting assurance of the existence of real

(lass.

spiritual life in our Church and of the Lord’s abiding presence

sfence

with us.”

68, an

1 1dle-

Turning now to Malabar, we desire first to draw the atten-

mhets

tion of our readers to two new Out-stations in the South of

good

Codacal, viz., Chittatakara and Chalasheri, where two years

ago Protestant congregations were formed in the midst of a

unday

arting

Roman Catholic and Syrian population (see last year’s Report,

Pos 33 141.).

In both of these Out-stations our work has made

istian

steady progress.

Compounds, suitable for burial-grounds,

school-rooms and Catechists’ houses have been purchased, and

Jenad

this has greatly helped to strengthen the infant Churches.

Mr. Bosshardt of Codacal reports:—

sfs of

il; 0t

“The Roman Catholics at Chittatakara contemptuously seoffed at

our Christians, as though they had ventured on a very unsafe ground,

vice 5

because they thought it would be a sheer impossibility for the Mis-

geriod,

sionaries at Codacal to regularly minister to them from so great

a distance.

By frequent visits, however, we tried to prove their

o 90

istrich

sneers groundless and strengthen the confidence of our Christians in

the reality and genuineness of our work.

The Holy Communion was

60800,

administered twice, and attended by all the members of our eongre-

f }'eafs

furch

gation. It was touching to see the devotion and reverence they showed

in approaching the Lord’s Holy Table. We had much joy in re-

o 18

ceiving again some Roman Catholics into our Church—among these

om0l

)

the wives of some of our Christians, who have now rejoined their

husbands.

The Catechist in charge joyfully reports, that our labour

is not in vain among these people.

They have, with full purpose of

joated

heart, renounced drinking, cheating, breach of trust and other evil

habits so prevalent amongst them formerly.

They do their utmost

Piet)"a

graee,

to win their relatives for Christ; and some of them were incessantly

oceur”

praying for the conversion of their wives, until the Lord graciously

7><

i

fulfilled their requests.

Knowing that their words and actions are

Chur

keenly watched by their meighbours, they are on their heed, hold

together in unity of love, and daily read the Scriptures, deriving

had

therefrom strength to walk in the light.

the ¢

“There is a good number of Roman Catholies who sympathise

pain

with our work ; they like to hear us preaching the Gospel and begin

than

The Roman Catholiec books

to mourn over the sins of their priests.

of devotion, until now used for family prayer in the evenings, have

of th

been laid aside in many houses and the Bible is read in their place.

Three families declared, at the end of the year, their intention of

puet

ox,

joining the Protestant Church.

Prais

«In Chalasheri also we had the joy of receiving ten persons,

had

among them a venerable old Syrian priest. The Sunday Services are

that

well attended, and the Christians are very zealous to proclaim the

Two

Gospel truth, to the best of their ability, to Syrians and Hindus.

Was

One of the Christians, a carter by trade, is in the habit of conversing,

sion|

on his journeys, with Mohammedans and Hindus on religious sub-

Musg

jeets.

He exhibits remarkable skill in refuting their objeetions and

after

establishing the truth of the Gospel.

Two other Christians very

Some of the

stan

often accompany the Catechist on his preaching tours.

that

Christians, whose wives and children have not yet come to the

it Wa

knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, are daily praying for their

4 60y

conversion.

We are glad to state that the former hostility of the

the i

Syrian Christians has lately been changed into sympathy with us,

0they

although the rich and influential among them are still opposed to

o nf

the Protestant Chureh.”

Drey

Moy,

It is with much joy and hope that we watch the develop-

e

ment of these young Churches in the South, which, by their

love of the Word of God and zeal for the cause of truth, put

aftey

tiOl’j (

to shame many of our older congregations.

May they abide

a8 o

in their first love and grow in the knowledge of Christ and Him

crucified!

many

How urgently our congregations, and more espe-

thep

cially our young converts, need the intercession and prayers

A

of God’s children, has very forcibly been impressed on our

n g

Ot

Q2

1§ 1e

mind by startling revelations of the works of darkness in the

hold

Church at Codacal, the very Station that, for the last 5 years,

1ving

had the privilege of gathering in a very rich harvest.

It is

the old story of the enemy sowing tares among the wheat, the

athise

painful truth of which we had the grief to realize on more

hegin

than one occasion.

My. Bosshardt of Codacal reports:—

hooks

«Much sickness prevailed among our Christians in the first part

have

of the year.

Within three weeks no less than 19 persons died from

place.

pneumonia.

About the same time a family was laid up with small-

ion of

pox.

Many a fervent prayer was offered at this time of tribulation.

Praise be to the Lord for His glorious help ! By February both diseases

15008,

had disappeared.

It is with great sorrow, however, that I must state

08 a16

that not all those who died had put their entire trust in the Lord.

m the

Two young men, baptized some years ago, thought their sickness

indus.

was due to the evil influence of a Christian, who before his conver-

15ing,

sion had been a sorcerer. They had recourse both to this man and a

5 sub-

Mussalman sorcerer, for whom they sent in the dead ofnight. Shorfly

ps and

after the death of one of these men, a number of Christians of long

g very

standing came tome by night and with fear and trembling declared,

of the

that whilst such uncanny things were going on in our congregation,

to the

it was unsafe to live here, until an enquiry had been made by

a court of law.

r their

It was evident that they too ascribed to witcheraft

of the

the numerous cases of sickness and death quickly following each

ith U8y

other.

‘While these people were still with me, a messenger came

to inform me of the sudden death of a man I had seen a few hours

sed 80

previously, and who, I believed, would soon recover.

By this new

mournful message the Christians, who were present, were quite

yrelop-

terrified, so much so that they at once went to their homes to look

after their dear ones.

This saddening outbreak of pagan supersti-

), el

b, pob

tion obliged me to instruct our Christians on all possible oceasions

I am glad to find that

i abide

as to the sin of sorcery and its evil fruits.

many have thus gained new confidence in the omnipotence of

4 fim

their Heavenly Father and their Saviour.

e5pe

““The most painful event of the year, however, was the appearance

)1'3,)'91'5

on 0UF

in our midst of an agent for emigration to Mauritius, himself a

_54

member of our Church, who by his dazzling description of the

the 1

splendid prospects of emigrants to this distant island, succeeded in

bette:

enticing away 13 candidates for baptism and four young Christians.

of mo

‘We did our best to convince the man of the evil fruits of this trade,

truth

but without suceess.

We warned our Christians against him; yet

tively

many of them believed the tempter rather than their Pastors.

The

sing]

seed of discontent sown by the agent found a fertile soil in the

fo.us

hearts of many of the Christian labourers, employed in our Tile

Works.

An agitation was set on foot, and some of theselabourers

our ;

tried to frighten us by threatening to emigrate to Mauritius. In order

to save these misguided people, Pastor Nathanael Arukanden and

fo 1l

myself attended a meeting convened at midnight at the agent’s,

£9)

Chis

in consequence of which the wife of the agent filed a suit against

the Pastor. Under the impression of these painful experiences, the

to re

Pastor closes his annual report with the words of Psalm exxvi:—

the

“They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy

2.9

.

obser

of thy

In order to give as comprehensive a description of the

condition of our Churches as possible in a report like this,

o th

we

we desire, in conclusion, to add a few remarks of Mr. Knobloch

&Hy 1

on the Calicut Church.

We do so, because we attach special

ety

importance to these utterances, coming, as they do, from a

Wlll {

veteran Missionary, who had ample opportunities, during his

recent stay in Germany, to become well acquainted with the

10 thy

(@

condition of our Churches at home.

He says:—

traip

“What I consider to be the chief defect in the religious life of

EXpen

our Chureh, is—want of stability. New modes for the promotion of

Conty

Christian life are readily and zealously adopted; but the zeal passes

than«

away like a cloud.

Continuous admonition is therefore required.

of th

This is not very surprising amongst people who joined the Church

3 the

of Christ more from worldly motives than from a sincere desire for

o oy

salvation.

Even those who ought to know better and are Christians

Poor (

by birth, require often fresh stimulus of a very forcible nature, to

The Yy

awake them from spiritual lethargy. The moral life of our Christians

should be more in harmony with the example set by Christ.

On

Congjg

Qogt 0

59

o

the

the whole, I am glad to say, that a remarkable change for the

ed n

better can be observed.

Looking back on a missionary experience

ans,

of more than 25 years and comparing then with now, I can say with

rade,

trath that great progress has been made.

There are now compara-

s yet

tively many more individual Christians and families, who with a

The

single heart endeavour to attain the ideal Christian life as presented

1 the

to us in God’s Holy Word.”

- Tile

UTErs

In concluding this chapter, we desire to point out to

our friends the List of the Contributions of our Congregations

order

l and

to their Church Expenses, the Mission and the Poor (pp. 8

ont's,

& 9).

This list proves that we strive to inculcate in our

gainst

Christians the duty of self-support, and that they have begun

s, the

to realize their obligations and responsibilities.

In almost all

g

the Churches a steady increase in the contributions may be

observed every year.

Though we cannot say, that the whole

of these contributions was given ungrudgingly and cheerfully,

f the

or that all our Christians give according to their ability, yet

3 thiia

we believe that on the whole the result is satisfactory, especi-

alloch

ally when considering the poverty of the majority of the con-

pecial

tributors.

The following remark of Mr. Dilger of Tellicherry

00l &

will give a good idea of the actual value of the sums collected

1g hiS

in the different Churches:—

i the

“We may with truth say that great efforts are being made to

train our Christians in the habit of contributing to their Church

Jife of

expenditure.

Tellicherry with its 536 church-members last year

contributed Rs. 664-7 for various objects, averaging little more

fion of

PaSSGS

than a Rupee for each member.

Now if you divide the total sum

of these collections by the number of communiecants, amounting,

quired-

hured

as they do, to 282, the average will be about Rs. 2§ per head. But

not every communicant can afford to give.

Excluding these very

;'n'e fOf

poor ones, the average amount would be Rs. 21 for every donor.

fiStiﬂns

i 10

The great importance lies in the fact that these contributions are

considered by our people as an obligation and given cheerfully by

istials

most of them.”

o

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My. Dilger further says:—

four

“Quite a new feature in the life of our Chureh is the pleasure our

people begin to take in giving rather than in receiving.

This has

lang

been especially shown during the last two years at Christmas time,

cult;

when some of our Christians, at their own expense, gave a treat to

sok

the Sunday School children, dressing a Christmas-tree for them

of

One cannot fail to see a

and presenting them with suitable gifts.

TWie

gradual fulfilment in our midst of the words of Holy Writ : ‘Z%e earth

bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that

the full corn in the ear.”’

zelis

want

hited

work

very

3. Evangelistic Efforts.

their

A. TItinerancy.

ippr

noth

As in former years, the message of salvation has been

faithfully proclaimed to the heathen by our European Mis-

Salys

puri

sionaries and Native Catechists and Evangelists in all our

thei

Districts, in houses, streets, bazaars, weekly markets, fairs and

festivals.

Some of our Stations, less burdened by pastoral

and educational work, have the -opportunity of carrying on

man;

this most important and essentially Missionary work in a

ing |

systematic and special manner.

In other Stations again,

certain Catechists, under the supervision of an experienced

the §

Native Evangelist, are entirely set apart for the purpose of

ltb he

preaching Christ to the heathen.

From several Stations the

by f}

workers report that they were able in the last year to increase

‘If F(

their efforts in this direction, but others seriously deplore that

to iy

lngy

the want of labourers prevented them from doing much that

hiS 9

they would have wished to have done.

In the following we

give a few extracts from reports, illustrative of the work done

then

i

and showing how the messengers of the Gospel were received

0 }

on their preaching tours.

Ja«tl‘ag

57

In the Nilgiris Mr. Wieland of Kaity made a pfeaching

6 our

tour to the Wynaad, a district, which, for the variety of

s has

languages spoken by the inhabitants, affords peculiar diffi-

time,

culties in the way of evangelistic work.

The languages

af £0

spoken are Canarese, Malayalam, Tanmil and Badaga, with all

My,

them

of which, however, our Catechists

are acquainted.

560 &

Wieland reports:—

carth

“In the Nilgiri Wynaad, where we have a large field for evan-

r that

They

gelisation, I was able to admit a Roman Catholic family.

wanted permission to read the Bible and as their priest strietly prohi-

In this Distriet we also

bited them from doing so, they came to us.

work among the Kurumbas, a jungle tribe, who at the beginning were

very shy and afraid to come forward.

Our repeated visits banished

their fear and gradually gained us their confidence. They learn to

appreciate our calls, and now say:

‘Before you came we knew

nothing, but now we are able to understand the nature of sin and

heen

salvation.’

This jungle tribe compels our admiration for their

| Mis-

purity and high standard of morality.

If these people were to give

| out

their allegiance to Christ, the Church would gain considerably.”

5 and

The reception, which the Gospel meets at present from

storal

many Badagas, Mr. Stokes of Coonoor describes in the follow-

ng 00

Ing way:—

m d

4Tt is evident to me that at present we have no longer to do with

ﬂg&ill,

the simple Badagas of former days, but with a generation that is doing

This can be seen

its best to silence the messenger of the Gospel.

pose of

by the objections raised by them.

They would say for instance:

)nS [he

‘If you really wish to be our friends and benefactors, you ought not

0rease

to insist on conversion, nor separate converts from their own kins-

0 that

men, as you did in Todanad, where you alienated an only son from

tht

his aged parents, so that they have now nobody left to look after

them. You should rather follow the example of planters, take to

g

agriculture, open plantations, employ many coolies, and thus become

I done

our benefactors’,

‘When referred to the fact that idol-festivals,

qeired

jatras ete. gave them many opportunities to indulge in immoral

8

58

Sl ddia

S(que

practices, they would name several Europeans notorious for their

licentiousness.

When warning them of the miseries consequent

g

upon the habit of drinking, they reply:

‘The Kuropeans have

proa

Yet, in the midst

T

created and fostered in us a taste for brandy.’

of all this opposition to the Gospel, it was a great comfort to me,

Join

when leaving for home, to hear a man say to me: ‘Please, be sure

ofhe

to come again to our village, and do not mind the opposition of the

229

people

.

heg

Mr. Wieland writes in a similar strain from Kaity:—

the

“On one of our tours we met with two Badagas carrying a worn-

No

out and emaciated man, whom they laid down just in front of us.

Seel

‘We did not lose a single moment, but commenced at once to talk

0

about sickness and how God’s providence leads wus through the

Per

furnace of suffering. - But after having listened for a few minutes, he

sul

interrupted us by saying:

‘I have now enough of your preaching;

M

give me some opium.

I suffer awful tortures, because I have had

no opium for a long time.’

Shocked at such a request, we rebuked

and told him that we had no money for such a pernicious and

fie]

ruinous drug. Our reply did not please haim and angrily he told

of

us to go away as he was not anxious to listen any more.”

wh

Mr. Wieland further reports:—

Per

I

“At the beginning of this year, a man from a neighbouring vil-

b

lage came often with the outspoken and professed object of becoming

the

a Christian.

When I once looked after him with the Catechists, we

found to our surprise two other enquirers with him, who had a fair

for

knowledge of the Scripture, and one especially was well acquainted

oy

with the Word of God.

We had a long talk with them, and at

1§

last one of them raised the question as to who among them ought

to be the first to come forward and publicly own Christ, but,

Iy

sad to say, all three were hesitating and undecided! Then one of

them began to reproach his companion who knew the Bible so well:

0

“You have the greatest responsibility, not only because you are

best acquainted with the Seripture, but also because you once pro-

Wi

mised the venerable Mr. Moerike to become a disciple of Christ and

tin

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heir

squeezed money out of him by your pretensions. Show now that you

uens

sincerely meant what you then said.” The man evidently felt this re-

have

proach very keenly and seemed at a loss to reply, but soon consoled

1idst

himself with the thought, that he would prove his honesty by soon

me,

joining the Church together with his friends.

One waits thus for the

sure

other until the time for repentance is dreamt away!”

the

The Cooly Mission in the neighbourhood of Coonoor has

been carried on by Mr. Stokes and Cat. K. Satyanathan. In

the course of the year 250 visits were paid to 35 plantations.

0rh

*No tangible fruit has as yet resulted from this work, but the

f us,

seed is sown in the hope of a future harvest. We desire here

talk

to tender our heartfelt thanks to all our friends,'who by their

the

personal sympathy and moral support, as well as by their

5, b

subscriptions, have assisted us in carrying on this branch of

ing;

Mission-work.

had

As to Malabar, it was stated in our last Report, that the

aked

and

field seems to be riper for the harvest than in any other part

of our Indian Mission.

fold

We have retained this impression,

when perusing the various and, on the whole, encouraging ex-

periences of the Gospel messengers in all parts of this District.

It is remarkable to see how much the leaven of the Gospel

; vil-

has

permeated the religious and

moral conceptions

of

ning

the Malayalee people, slowly, but surely preparing them

, Vo

for the acceptance of Christianity.

In

illustration of this

’ fair

observation we communicate the following extracts from

nted

reports.

ld ab

ught

Myr. Lauffer of Chombala says, when reporting about Pe-

puty

rambra, where our Assistant-Catechist Paul Karunagaran lives

e of

in the midst of heathen darkness:—

wen /

“When I compare the way in which my message is now received,

410

with the dreadful anger and excitement that prevailed here at the

plO

time of Paul’s conversion, I cannot but eall it a victory of the Gospel !

and

8>|~

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[ o .

It is not human influence, but only the power of God and His

Spirit that could ereate such a change as this.”

He further says:—

“What particularly pleased me, on all my tours, was the obser-

Consi-

PR

vation that, wherever I went, the soil was well prepared.

dering the

attitude of many

Hindus to the Gospel message,

we have reason, in a more or less distant future, to expect conver-

|

sions on a far larger scale than at present.

I was confirmed in this

conviction on my last tour in the Eramale District, which is situated

11 miles eastward from Chombala, and has the appearance of one

vast rice-field, interspersed with inhabited hills.

I lived there with

ao

my assistants for a fortnight in the house of a well-to-do farmer of the

Tiyan-caste, and visited every-house in the neigbhourhood within

Y

two miles’ distance from my head-quarters.

Everywhere I received

the impression, as if the people, in reply to our appeals to aceept

the Gospel, seemed to say:

‘We are ready to come, but who is to

lead the way ?’”’

Fvangelist Ashamayan Twmaran of Calicut, speaking of

the popular ideas about Christianity, says:—

“Some believe that Christianity will in a short time vanquish

Hinduism.

In January we visited the house of a Nayar, and met

there five men, who invited us to sit down and to whom I began to

One of them remarked:

speak about the salvation of their souls.

‘The Christian religion, which you preach, is very good.’

‘Then

why’, I asked, ‘do you not embrace it?’

‘If not we,’ he answered,

‘at least our children will all embrace this religion, and there

Forty or fifty years ago there were scarcely

will be only one caste.

W

any Christians in Calicut, but now there are many, and their number

is increasing. Many changes have taken place among us also. For-

merly no one was permitted to take his meals without first bathing.

Every person, returning from the bazaar or the court, had first to

Now this

wash off his defilement, before he could enter his house.

and similar customs are but rarely observed’.”

61

LRI

A few weeks later I had a talk with a schoolmaster at P. about

=

Christ.

This man knew a few people of that neighbourhood, who

had joined us.

He said:

‘Just those who, while heathen, used to

oppose Christianity most strenuously, have become Christians.”

Of the reception of the Gospel among Mohammedans the

i

same Evangelist writes:—

00

“Mohammedans are, as a rule, fanatie, and, at the same time,

e

very ignorant opponents of the Gospel; but there are, as always,

i

exceptions to the rule.

I once met a very respectable Mapilla, who

it

on reading the first chapter of the Gospel according to St. John,

ne

expressed his surprise at the wonderful truths it contained.

In

WitD

another distriet Mapillas bought many tracts and Seripture portions,

I

such as: “Who is greater:

Christ or Mohamed?’ or ‘The Story of

withiD

Mohamed’ ete.

In the evening they listened quietly to the portions

reIvel

of Seripture read to them.”

Boce)!

From Codacal Mr. Bosshardt writes : —

“In the market-places of Codacal, Malapuram and Mancheri our

best hearers are invariably the Mapillas, whilst the Brahmins are

hostile to the Gospel message and the Nayars completely drowned in

no

The Catechists, when working at Paripuram,

their worldly affairs.

a place eight miles south-west of Codacal, observed a falling

off in the zeal of devil-worship and considerable preparedness for

An educated Brahmin came twice and made a good

10 el

the Gospel.

confession before other hearers, to the effect that he believed Christ

gl it

A

with his whole heart, and that he would soon own him publiely,

although he could not do so at present because of certain obstacles

)]

in his way.

1l

“On a preaéhing tour in the district of Ponani we were received

in some Nayar houses with jeers and taunts, and in others driven

away.

Two Nayar youths followed us for some days from place to

ﬂumh:"

place, ridiculing us and inciting the audience to disturb us by all

means.

pilt

At last our patience was exhausted and one of our Cate-

chists, who was before his conversion a Nayar, recited some appro-

priate shastra passages about Nayars, in consequence of which the

v o

impudent fellows walked off under tremendous outbursts of laughter.”

cid

were

Myr. Kiihnle of Palghat relates of several instances of hea-

then, who, although they have not joined the Church of

Missi

Christ, yet profess to believe in Him and desire to live in

kets |

accordance with His Word. He says:—

JLCH

““At Athikodu there are two sisters, who have been believers of

katte

the Lord Jesus for many years; and we would have liked to see them

ever

of {

in the fold of Christ before they were married to heathen husbands.

Lately when at their village, I met one of the sisters in her father’s

carr

house, and I had an opportunity of talking to her about the all-im-

0 g

portant subject.

In the course of conversation she sorrowfully

of to

avowed her backsliding, and unfaithfulness to the Lord, as she had

offered a sacrifice to the idols.

She had not done so of her own

Téce]

88

free will, but owing to outward pressure on the part of her mo-

i

ther-in-law. She solemnly promised that for the future she would not

yield any more to persuasion or compulsion.

The other sister has

Same

haug

remained faithful and firm, and proved by word and deed her stead-

fast belief in the Lord, though she still remains unbaptized. Her

husband does not prevent or worry her, but joins her in her medi-

W

tations and devotions.

They have cast away the house-idols and

mark

enthroned on their pedestal the Lord God.

are 1

“In the same village we have twins, who at one time were about

A p()\

torenounce heathenism and to embrace Christianity ; and they would

G()d’c

now be followers of Christ, had it not been for the interference of the

T off

elder brother of the family.

The grandfather of these twins was

truth

likewise a secret believer, and anxiously desired to receive baptism

Chis

before his death, which was, however, ruthlessly denied him by his

Serye

son

As infirmity and weakness had already incapacitated him, he

Overy

died with his longing unfulfilled, but leaving ashis legacy, that his

C0mg

children should believe in Jesus Christ.

But after the death of the

thegy

father the son, instead of becoming more accessible to God’s call,

faith

turned more worldly-minded and indifferent to the salvation of his

shoy

soul.

Ever since then, one could unmistakably see the judgment of

o de

God hovering over that house.”

the (

In Coorg, where the seed of the Gospel is being spread all

over the country from Mercara and Anandapur, 692 days

g

“hea-

were altogether spent in preaching to the heathen, both by

h of

Missionaries and Catechists.

From Mercara the weekly mar-

e I

kets held at Suntikoppa, Fraserpet, Ramaswami Kanive, Mada-

pore, Shanivarsante, Kodlipet and Somavarpet, besides Alli-

katte with its neighbourhood, were regularly visited.

Wher-

ors of

them

ever possible, house-to-house visits were made in the vicinity

ands,

of these places, and bazaar-preaching was also regularly

her's

carried on in Mercara.

The regular preaching of the Gospel

[l-im-

in all. these places is connected with no inconsiderable amount

ill

of toil and fatigue, owing to the great distances.

As to the

o had

reception of the Gospel by the people Mr. Schenkel of Mercara

ot

says:—

o

““The attitude of the population to the Gospel has remained the

d 1o

same as it has been for many years: it is that of a decided,

r has

haughty, though not unkind aversion to Christianity.”

tead

And Mr. Fischer writes from Anandapur:—

fler

nedi

“We always meet multitudes of willing hearers at the weekly

markets.

s and

We are not able to show any tangible result; yet proofs

are not wanting to show that our labour is not vain in the Lord.

bou

A poor man, for instance, on hearing the Catechist preaching on

God’s love to sinners, gave him three pies with the remark:

‘This

ould

ft

he

I offer to your God.’

Not a few declare to be convinced of the

145

truth of the Gospel; but they shrink from the moral claims of

Christianity, which appear to them to be too high.

One may ob-

pﬂam

serve in the hearers at times a severe spiritual conflict.

They feel

) hIS

overwhelmed with the truth of the Word heard, but they fail to

),

he

f

Jus

come to a decision.

Alas! would that I had sufficient time to follow

these wavering people into their homes, in order to strengthen their

ft

he

faith and bring them to a decision!

The Distriet of South Coorg

o

Il

)f hlb

should have a Missionary entirely free from all other work and able

to devote his whole time and energy to evangelistic work among

il of

the Coorgs, whose compounds are scattered all over the Distriet.”

As to South Canara, the following rather depressing remarks

| all

are apt to give an idea of the present state of things.

Jays

L

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My. Sebastian Furtado, Pastor at Jeppu, says:—

ll]

“Many heathen know and read the Gospel; but they lack the

Hindg

courage of their conviction.

They are ready to admit the truth of

heing

friend

Christianity, but the inconsistent life of many Christians prevent

them from joining the Church.”

deadl

;

these

Myr. Digel of Mulki writes:—

their

“Our experiences in preaching to the heathen were not of a

diffie

cheerful nature.

Although there are always some willing hearers,

versic

yet, on the whole, the Word preached seems to leave not the least

peapl

impression on the majority of hearers, and there appears to be no

§0 my

longing for salvation in them.

On our house-to-house visits we find

from

that among the heathen none are more indifferent and hardened

Hind,

than apostate Christians, a good number of whom live in the

ahout

neighbourhood of Santur.”

in sy

Avd Mr. Keppler writes from Udipi:—

their

“The Missionaries and Catechists have used every opportunity

palat

to proclaim the Gospel to the heathen on market-days, idol- and

roung

demon-festivals ete.

When all the preachers of the Gospel belong-

hear

them

ing to the Station are assembled on such occasions, they form quite

a little army. But what is the result of all our labour? At present

uneg|

we cannot see much of it; we can observe but very little desire for

It ga

salvation.

When preaching in bazaars, we very often have but

Dette

few hearers, and meet with decided opposition ; though our Catechists

l‘elig“

and Bible-women in their house-to-house visits receive, as a rule,

elemg

a friendly welcome.

The apathy and aversion of the heathen to

EQTOI

the Word of God is most depressing.

In accordance with this sad

[dlayy

state of affairs is the exceedingly small number of conversions in

Ut g

our Station.

Only 13 persons were baptized last year; and at the

a 1ef

end of the year we had 48 catechumens on our rolls.

This is most

fo g

o. when we consider the vastness of our

humiliating and distressin

D7

i th

District and the amount of energy expended.”

fag]]

of Wh

From Basrur, where 530 days were spent in itinerating both

by Missionaries and Catechists and 20 idol-festivals visited,

%

Mr. Gengnagel writes:—

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65

Salinaiio o

“Formerly people used to say, that there were two religions only,

k the

Hinduism and Islam. Now they say, there are three, Christianity

uth of

being recognized as the third one.

But in spite of all external

event

friendship usually shown by the people, we know that we have a

deadly foe not so easily to be overcome, in the system of caste. To

these people it seems a sheer impossibility to accept Christ, as by

It is

their conversion they would lose their means of livelihood.

of 3

difficult to expect of them to have so strong a faith before their con-

ATers,

version, as to cheerfully venture on so serious a step.

Low-caste

y Jeast

people and country-people hesitate at the thought of conversion, not

hemo

so much from doubts regarding the truth of the Christian faith, as

o find

from the fear of losing their caste and daily bread.

With educated

rdened

Hinduas the case is different.

They are, as a rule, not very anxious

in the

about their caste.

As a matter of fact, most of them live no more

in strict accordance with their caste-rules, nor would they, by

their conversion, lose their daily bread.

Yet the Gospel is not

palatable to them.

I have lately had opportunities, on my usual

rtunify

Hu

rounds of visits to a number of educated Hindus at Coondapoor, to

hear some of their objections. One said, that education had enabled

them to deal also with religious questions.

The fact that the

uneducated classes accept Christianity, was not surprising, since

But the

it gave them greater advantages than their own religion,

better educated had learned from the science of comparative

i

religion, that there is no faith in the world not containing some

elements of truth.

As to Christianity, the very fact that many

European Christians were atheists and others embraced Buddhism,

Islam, and Hinduism, was sufficient to prove that Christianity could

I

not contain all elements of truth. Another said: ‘Hinduism needs

a reformer to eliminate from its tenets all non-essentials and raise it

Yet another said: ‘Buddhism

to a standard equal to Christianity.’

is the very best religion imaginable, because human reason can

easily grasp its essentials.

The Bible talks of miracles, the truth

of which it is diffieult to believe’.”

At Honavar Mr. Niibling and his Assistants were exclusively

engaged in sowing the good seed in a barren field, which,

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66

prdae e

as yet, has yielded but little fruit, despite many years’

encour:

patient and faithful labour. From time to time it appears as

the pre

if the time of harvest had at last arrived, but alas! how

of their

often have the workers been disappointed in their very best

In

hopes!

Myr. Niibling reports:—

Distric

the 1o

““Among Sadras, who are scattered all over the District, we

ever |

have never observed a greater readiness for the Word of Life than

in a village near Kerki, where some toddy-drawers gladly received

our N

us

In the years 1877 and 1878 we were very sanguine about four

Hubli

families at R. who seemed, humanly speaking, on the very threshold

for iti

of Christianity.

The most zealous and active enquirer amongst

which,

them, accompanied by his son, went from house to house, and aroused

of wo

and encouraged all those, whom he knew to be favourably ineclined.

by g

Upon my suggestion they held a meeting, in which they discussed

devote

the advisability of embracing Christianity. But two influential men,

Catect

filled with animosity against this proposal, tried to turn the tide in

their favour, and persuaded their landlords, who were Brahmins,

0n l‘eg

to threaten them with the forfeiture of hearth and home.

The end

The

There

was, that three got disheartened and the leader declared, that he did

not venture to come alone.

Soon after that event this man’s family

althoy

became engaged in the sale of toddy. They had to wander throughout

accept

the whole District and accumulated great wealth; but they had no

Hup;

more time for God, no time for listening to God’s Word.

It was only

Opposi

last October that I met the man again and found him greatly

nterg

altered.

He was not only willing to hear, but confessed with tears

of repentance that he and his people ought to have obeyed the Di-

I

vine ecall.

He also said that God had called him three times to the

!

fellowship of His Son. The first time, when a lad of 16 years, he had

Mg,

placed himself with two friends under the protection of the Missionary,

muchii

but had been given back to his father by the interference of the

of heg

Mamlatdar. The second time, 17 years ago, God had drawn him,

&Hd 4]

when he gave me the promise to join the Christian Church; and now

g

he felt once more the promptings of the Spirit within. He made the

illg far

suggestion that a school should be opened in their midst, as he be-

Lam,

lieved that the presence of a Christian schoolmaster would inspire and

P L

67

years’

encourage them to cast in their lot with the disciples of Christ.

For

Cars s

the present the school question must remain in abeyance, as many

1 how

of their caste-people have left for the Ghauts in search of work.”

1y best

In conclusion of this chapter we turn to the South Mahratta

District, where itinerating work could be carried on during

oty We

the last year more systematically and perseveringly than

ever before.

This is due partly to the increased number of

fo than

aceived

our Native Assistants, partly to the fact that Mr. Singer of

ut four

Hubli was, at the beginning of the year, specially set apart

reshold

for itinerancy in the districts of Haveri and Sircy, both of

mongst

which, because of their distance from Hubli and for want

yroused

of workers, were in former years only occasionally visited

clined.

by messengers of the Gospel.

2608 days were altogether

soussed

devoted to itinerating work both by the Missionaries and

al met,

Catechists of the District, and bazaar-preaching was carried

fide in

on regularly two or three times a week in all our Stations.

Jhmins,

o end

The Gospel messengers are, as a rule, everywhere welcomed.

There 1s no lack of willing and attentive hearers in villages,

e did

family

although, on the whole, the population are still reluctant to

ughOUﬁ

accept the Gospel. Bazaar-preaching in towns like Dharwar,

Hubli, Guledgudd, Bijapur meets with much, and often bitter

had 00

s 00ly

opposition.

The following extracts from reports may be

greaﬂ}{

interesting to our readers.

j feas

Myr. Waidelich of Bettigeri reports:—

the Di-

“Of late we made two preaching tours, one to Dambala and

fo the

ho had

Mundargee, and the other to the north-west, where the towns Kota-

muchigi and Neragal are situated.

onatys

We had always a good number

of the

of hearers, but those who were really interested in what we said

) gl

and anxiously sought for salvation, were indeed few.

Some hear,

but without profit, others sit from the very beginning of our preach-

4 nov

o he

ing far away from us and refuse to come nearer despite our appeals.

I am not aware of the reason for this antipathy towards the Gospel.

o be-

o 0l

It cannot be in the attachment and love for their own religion, as it

Q%

68

SR 1SS A

bidiy

struck me more than ever, that these people are convinced of the

unreasonableness of their idol-worship, and do not refrain even from

The se

remat!

making an open confession of it.

As time advances, the disbelief of

the Hindus in their idols and religion is steadily growing.

On the

clusion

one hand this observation gives room for encouragement, on the

lived 4

the de:

other hand one makes the painful experience, that they shut them-

selves up’ against the Word of the Cross.

The Cross is still the

10w th

stumbling-block to the wise.

On this topic they do not like to hear

i

much.

As long as we talk of God, sin, heaven and hell, there is

L}

not great opposition; but as soon as we touch upon the subject of

ence,

salvation and maintain that Jesus Christ crucified is the only hope

0ld mg

of man, we find restlessness and inattention taking the place of quiet

an hoy

attention.

The mere mention of the name of Christ acts sometimes

his heg

like an electrie shoek on the audience.

They may be quietly listen-

8et, we

ing, but as soon as this blessed name passes the lips of the preacher,

Tespect

some begin to mock and laugh, others to dispute and to squabble,

large 9

and others to run away; and the number of those who are desirous

Aftery

to hear more becomes very small.”

fll”y d

in effeg

My. Th. Lutz of Hubli reports :—

ol

“There is no doubt that many people are mentally econvinced

of the truth of Christianity. This can be illustrated by examples.

Pfeach{

offieig] |

In a village near Hebsur some of the people are deeply interested

his

in reading the Word of God. These people received the first incentive

from the so-called ‘Kodacal Tract’, a book written in the 16th or

Seripty

haS beg

17th century by a Hindu, who must have had some contact with

Christianity.

The style of the book is prophetie, its purport is

Compla;

re]igi()]]

to vindicate the claims of this new religion, and its aim to prepare

tTials P

the Hindu mind for the acceptance of the new faith; baptism is

laid down as a sine qua non.

These people are under the spiritual

In

rule of a Lingait priest. They are opposed to idolatry and read daily

the New Testament.

(uirgy,

They do not, however, admit the necessity of

baptism.

When we touched this point, they said, they had yet to

wait for an answer from their Guru.

Some time afterwards, when

Dade g

the Catechist Daniel Patti, who himself was led to Christ through the

Suff ,

Kodacal Tract, visited them, they declared, that baptism was not

quil'erg

e

69

of the

binding; faith was the sole qualification necessary to salvation.

1 from

The secret is that they are unwilling to give up caste. From other

remarks made by them in unguarded moments we came to the con-

lief of

)n the

clusion, that they are the adherents of a certain Lingait priest, who

on the

lived 40 years ago and made the people believe, he would rise from

the dead.

The image of this priest, raised on a throne, forms

them-

ill the

now the chief object of their worship.”

0 hear

Mr. Singer of Hubli writes:—

hete 1

“In May last we were in a village where we had a great audi-

ject of

ence.

When returning home in the evening we were stopped by an

¥ hope

old man, who begged us to aceompany him to his village, about half

f quiet

an hour’s distance, and to preach the same words that had touched

6times

his heart and opened to him a well of comfort.

Though the sun had

Jistene

set, we acquiesced, and on reaching the place, we were offered a

eacher,

respectable seat.

The whole village assembled and the unusually

nabble,

large audience listened with wrapt attention till far into the night.

Jesirous

Afterwards they wanted to prepare for us a supper, which we thank-

fully deeclined.

In some places it is not we who take the initiative

in effecting gatherings, but the villagers themselves.

“The brightest spot in my reminiscences of a three months’

pvinced

preaching tour, however, forms the visit which a high Government

amples

official paid me.

He came to talk to me of those things that filled

anested

his mind, of the one thing needful. By a careful study of the Holy

1(;6[1‘31\'9

Scripture, to which he faithfully devotes a certain time every day, he

has become a believer in the Lord Jesus.

1th or

Though believing, yet he

wt With

complained to me how difficult it was to renounce one’s ancestral

n‘pOft B

religion and to fight against the prejudices of the public and the

trials arising from the ties of kindred.

Is not this man entitled to

Pyepal'e

ptism i

our prayerful intercession?’

spil’itﬂfﬂ

In our last year’s Report mention was made of some en-

a0l

quirers in Konnur, a village belonging to the Bijapur District.

assity 0

f

The spiritual movement among these people appears to have

1 yet tO

made some progress in the last year, although they had to

g, ¥l

suffer a good deal of persecution.

Meanwhile one of the en-

f

quirers has a house built for a Catechist; and Cat. Solomon

as 10

70

el s Bl

on the I

Jogula has been appointed to the place. We believe that the

permanent stay of this man in the village will, under God’s

by force

date 1t

blessipg, help the enquirers to come to a decision before long.

od firm

B. Work among Women.

JiE

Thirty Bible-women, superintended and very often accom-

“Af

panied by one or the other of the Missionary ladies, are en-

had th

gaged in the unostentatious, but important work of bringing

visited,

home to the women the light and comfort of the Gospel which,

years, |

by the social customs of their country, it is next to impossible

timid

for them to hear in any other way. There are now 12 Sta-

Christ,

tions provided with two or more Bible-women, and their work

warning

appears to be more and more appreciated not only in Mission-

Tshall

Sickness

ary circles, but also by the heathen population, and more

her p:

especially by the women, among whom they are labouring.

The various reports not only testify to the kind and friendly

asked f

telatiye

reception the Bible-women meet almost everywhere, but point

Missiop

also to distinct and tangible results in the form of conversions

Bug th

which may be considered as the first-fruits of their labour

her Wit

of love.

The following extracts will, we believe, be read

hut i

with interest.

Visiteq

Mys. Bader of Cannanore mentions an incident which proves

4 gregt

ber ]

that the teaching and distribution of Scriptures by the Bible-

her 5

women are not without fruit.

il

“About five months ago, one of our Bible-women brought two Tiyer

the gl

women who wanted to become Christians.

One of them had been

W()man

well known to the Bible-women for many years and had often eag-

Suffij,

She used to read the

erly listened to the message of the Gospel.

thl’oug

Bible in secret and the Word took deep root in her longing heart. So

havg |

one day she came with another woman, a friend of hers, to a Bible-

the it

woman, both of them being determined to join the Christian faith. As

of the

soon as the rumour got afloat that two women had gone over to the

Chogsg

Christians, their relatives and other caste people organised an attack

e

71

Ll

195 the

on the house of the Bible-woman, to carry the two Tiyer women off

- God's

by force.

They succeeded in getting away one of them; and up to

date it was impossible to get her back; but the other woman remain-

¢ long,

ed firm and is now an eager applicant for baptism.” (p. 37.)

Mrs. Frohmmeyer of Tellicherry writes in a similar strain:—

accon-

“After many years of sowing the good seed, our Bible-women

aLe el-

had the privilege of witnessing one of the women they regularly

ringing

visited, turning to the Lord. She was a fisherwoman, who, for many

which,

years, had been well acquainted with the Gospel, but, being of a

ossible

timid disposition, she always dreaded the idea of openly confessing

Christ.

19 Sta-

One day when I reminded her of the Apostle’s earnest

warning (Heb. III, 7. 8), she said, looking at me with mournful eyes:

r work

‘I shall surely become a Christian as soon as God sends me some

[ission-

sickness.’

And—strange to say—God fulfilled her desire and laid

d mote

her up for some time.

When she thought her end very near, she

ouring:

asked for baptism.

At the first visit of the Missionary, her heathen

riendly

relatives were very angry, and even threatened the life of the

1 pOiIlt

Missionary, so that to her great dismay he was forced to desist.

GO

But the second time he was able to administer holy baptism to

Jabour

her without further disturbance.

She was now fierecely persecuted,

‘Whenever we

he read

but did not revile again, nor avenge herself.

visited her, we received the impression that the Lord had wrought

a great work in her.

She has since unexpectedly recovered from

| proves

her illness, and steadfastly keeps on following in the footprints of

e Blble

her Saviour.

“The more we get familiar with this work, the keener we realize

the almost unsurmountable obstacles lying in the path of a Hindu

o Tiger

woman who is desirous to accept Christianity.

It can scarcely be

had beeﬂ

fon €4”

sufficiently imagined how difficult it is for these poor women to break

through the iron fetters of superstition and idolatry by which they

read fhe

have been bound from their earliest childhood.

They seem to lack

[eaft. so

the necessary energy. Being in most cases little more than the slaves

9 Bib[e'

of their husbands, they have no will of their own, nor any right to

it Y

choose for themselves.

This is the reason why so many regular

o1 10 the

hearers of the Gospel remain stationary for years, giving us every

&

itack

72

-

i e e

uH

hope for the future, gladdening our hearts whenever they hear the

Gospel, but destitute of any moral courage to live up to the light of

came |

hetter

their knowledge of the truth.”

anee o

My. Weismann of Chombala writes:—

womat

“Mr. Lauffer, who was for a few weeks working among the

Inquir

Hindu population of Mahé, was joyfully surprised when finding

ligved

that many were willing to hear the glad tidings.

This must be

but d;

considered as a fruit of the quiet and unassuming work of the Bible-

in or

women,

Bibles and New Testaments are found in many a Hindu

rome

home.

Further, to show that God’s Word often falls on good and

Teyers

well-prepared soil, we may point out the fact that Hinda women not

flogge

seldom ecall for the Bible-woman to pray with them, when they are

1

in affliction.”

[

Mys. Liebendorfer of Calicut reports:—

tion,

“In the beginning of the year a Tiyer girl, 20 years old, to

£ontg

whom the Bible-women had often explained the plan of salvation,

Some

became axious to join the Christian Church, and was taken to the

Chrs

senior Missionary, Some time later another woman, the wife of a

But

bandyman, who had often expressed a desire to become a Christian,

shoy

at last made up her mind and came with her two children.

Her

husband tried at first very hard to persuade her to return, but seeing

Bib]

her unswerving resolve, decided to follow her too.”

0ess

Mys. Kiihnle of Palghat writes:—

“Many of our hearers do not only gladly listen to our message,

but love the Bible-woman also.

‘When a Bible-woman was sick, the

poor caste women looked after her themselves, and the rich sent

their servants to make enquiries and even presented her a costly

18;

native medicine.

When these people heard that somebody died in

M

the Christian village, they were filled with great grief, because they

thought it was the Bible-woman, but great was their joy on seeing

her again in their houses after her recovery.”

Mrs. Gengnagel began to work with two Bible-women at

Basrur in October last.

She writes:—

73

S e

ar the

«Hitherto we have come only into contact with such women who

oht of

came to us for medicine, but now we are able to reach them much

better with the Gospel, and they are greatly amazed at the appear-

ance of the Bible-women. In one house we met a very timid Brahmin

woman, who, being shocked at my ‘terrible’ sun-hat, anxiously

9 the

inquired whether it could not be taken off, and seemed much re-

inding

lieved when it was removed.

She listened evidently with approval,

ust be

but did not speak much. We told her the story of the youth of Nain,

Bible-

in order to show her how good and kind our Lord Jesus was to

Hindu

women; whereupon, she replied, that with them it was quite the

yd and

reverse; their men were very unkind, and often scolded, pushed and

o0 10f

flogged them.

She wondered greatly that it was not so with us.”

6y are

Mrs. Warth of Hubli writes:—

“In this place the Bible-women now and then met with opposi-

tion, because the women of some houses were afraid to come into

ld, to

contact with Christians, fearing lest their houses might be polluted.

ration,

Some of the hearers showed themselves off in finding fault with the

fo the

Christians, others pretended to have no time to listen to the message,

fo of 8

But a good number asked the Bible-women to come again and

showed by tokens of love that they appreciated their work.”

istio,

Her

We seize this opportunity to thank the British and Foreign

speing

Bible Society, in London, for having supplied us with the ne-

cessary funds to carry on this work.

$5.805

4. Educational Work.

)k, the

There are now on our list 139 Schools with a total of

h senf

7836 Pupils.

These are divided between the Districts of our

costly

fied 0

Mission in the following proportions:——

o they

South Canara has 43 Schools with 2542 Pupils,

Coorg

29

92

99

74

79

sopilg

S. Mahratta

9

18

29

29

1128

29

Malabar

b

44

bR

29

3261

2

n ob

831

29

the Nilgiri District 31

%3

29

10

(e

74

Of these 7836 Pupils

2827 are Christians, viz. 1648 Boys and 1179 Girls,

4433

576

]

5002 are Non-Christians, ,,

99

9

Fod S

99

Total 6081

99

bRl

1755

99

t0 ena

ing t0

Classifying them according to the various kinds of Schools,

and 1

we find

gent

a) Schools for Christians (—

We m

6 Infant Schools with

240 Pupils

Chist

35(32) Parochial Primary Day Schools with 1830

1

schoo

8 Boarding Schools with

456

99

villag

6(8) High and Middle Schoolg with

260

7

Chrig

7(8) Training Institutions for Catechists

16280

and Teachers with

51

23

Ohris

Total 62 Schools with

2837*

99

of th

mati

b) Schools for Non-Christians:—

of ()

69 Primary Schools with

able

3803 Pupils

8 High and Middle Schools with

1183

99

Chr

At T

Chri

Total 77 Schools with

4986*

bl

Compared with the status at the end of 1894, we find that,

of

in 1895, eight schools (three for Christians and five for Non-

Ver

Christians) were abolished, and eleven new schools (four for

Christians aud seven for Non-Christians) opened. The in-

tule

gati

crease in the total of pupils amounts to 309, and among

these there are 114 Christians and 195 Non-Christians.

This

and

latter increase is evidently owing not so much to the opening

darz

Sek

of new, than to the greater efficiency of the existing schools.

e

Sty

Cho

*The discrepancy of these figures with those given above for Christian and

Non-Christian pupils respectively, is due to the fact, that schools for Non-

they

Christians are often frequented by Christians (362), and schools for Christians

Chy

by Non-Christians (852).

hej

Aol

75

A. Schools for Christians.

Gitls

1

Parochial Day Schools.

The object of these schools is

1)

to enable, if possible, every Christian child, boy or girl, belong-

ing to our Church, by a plain Christian education, to read

hools,

and understand the Word of God, and to become an intelli-

gent and useful member of society.

With this end in view

we make it a point, wherever there is a sufficient number of

Christian children—even in small congregations—to open a

Pupils

school.

These schools are sometimes, especially in remote

villages, where there are no other schools, attended by Non-

Christians as well.

But, as a rule, we prefer, for obvious

reasons, to educate our Christian children, apart from Non-

Christians, in schools exclusively intended for them. In schools

bl

of this kind the religious instruction can be made more syste-

"

matic and thorough, and better adapted to the requirements

of Christian children. We have also found that an unfavor-

able influence 1is

sometimes exercised

on the

morals of

pils

Christian

children in schools largely attended by Non-

y!

Christians.

hil

As a matter of course, most of our Parochial Schools are

that,

of the Primary Grade, and the education in them is in the

Non-

Vernacular with the exclusion of English. They are, as a

for

rule, attended by both sexes together.

But in larger congre-

3 10

gations separate schools for boys and girls are maintained,

100

and classes opened, in which English is taught.

Lower Secon-

This

dary classes attached to Parochial Schools and Orphanage

=nillg

Schools respectively, are at present conducted on the following

o0ls

Stations: Mangalore, Udipi, Bettigeri, Cannanore, Tellicherry,

Chombala, Calicut, Codacal, Kaity, and Kotageri.

Among

these there are two complete Lower Secondary Schools for

and

Nom:

Christian girls, namely at Mangalore and Calicut, the first

ians

We are

being attended by 31, the second by 22 pupils.

10

L

glad to state, that several of‘ the girls have successfully pass-

Christ

from

ed the Lower Secondary Examination.

It is a pity that some Christians, especially of the agri-

¥f

cultural class, are very indifferent to the education of their

may b

children.

The consequence is that the attendance in some

work

of our schools is far from being satisfactory. This is espe-

0ur 11

cially the case with a few Out-stations of the Tulu District

NEss

and of South Mahratta.

Of Gudde, an Out-station of Udipi,

Chu

My. Keppler says:—

they

“In Gudde we have a good number of heathen pupils, who attend

school very regularly, in spite of the rivers to be erossed and other

obstacles.

Could I but say the same of our Christians !

The diffi-

tight

culties of getting to school seem to them so many reasons for stay-

of Sor

ing away.”

Not ¢

And of Katkinhalli an Out-station of Guledgudd, My.

speak

Hisfelder says:—

have

“I wish I could improve our Parochial School at Katkinahalli,

Whogy

on which we have already spent so much money.

The parents do

schog

i

not care at all about the education of their children, and think

that they cannot get on without their services for watching the

the ¢

fields and cattle.”

fully

Similar complaints are made by other Stations regarding

8610y

Lorg

Christians who have but recently joined our Church., Mr. Kiilule

of Palghat reports about a new school opened at Melparambu,

the ¢

a Christian village chiefly inhabited by new Christians :—

Qeat}

gy

“What shall I say about our school at M. exeept that there is

much room for improvement?

Preg;

The number of pupils has slightly

increased.

They belong to various castes and races, and it is a

diﬁicw

degiy

most difficult task to bring these heterogeneous elements into some

kind of order.

The difficulty is increased by the fact that the

Clent

parents expect to be paid for sending their children to school, and

never think that it is their duty to provide for the means of educat-

I,

ing their children.

Our new Christians have first to be trained in a

g

77

T

Pass-

Christian mode of life and thought before we may expect any help

from them towards the eduecation of their children.”

Unostentatious as the work done in our Parochial Schools

agti-

their

may be, it is, we believe, a very important branch of Mission-

The future of

§0me

work and deserves the most carefu] attention.

espe-

our rising Christian generation, more especially the genuine-

isbrict

ness of their Christian character, and their loyalty to the

Ui,

Church of Christ, depends largely on the kind of education

they receive in these schools.

attend

2

other

Boarding Schools and Orphanages. Of these we have

eight, one for boys and one for girls in each of the Districts

o (iff-

' sty

of South Canara, South Mahratta, Malabar, and the Nilgiris.

Not all the children admitted to these schools are, strictly

speaking, orphans. Some of them, whose parents are still alive,

1

MI ;

have been admitted because of their poverty, and others,

whose parents live in out-of-the-way places with no Christian

mhalli,

school in their neighbourhood, for the sake of their education.

nts 40

The Boys’ Orphanage at Udipi numbered 74 boarders at

| think

the end of the year.

The superintendent, Mr. Brasche, grate-

ng the

fully states, that the boys were graciously preserved from

serious sickness, and he feels bound the more to praise the

eding

Lord for this blessing, because Mrs. Brasche was ailing during

Cihle

the greater part of the year.

Great grief was caused by the

bl

death of a boy, who was struck by a flash of lightning in the

—

midsummer holidays.

The Educational Rules of the Madras

et 18

Presidency, to which the school is subject, render it rather

difficult to lay as much stress on Scripture knowledge as is

lightly

i is &

desirable in a thoroughly Christian school, and to find suffi-

o Some

cient time for agricultural work.

Of the Boys’ Orphanage at Bettigeri the superintendent,

)I, aﬂd

Mr. Risch, says:—

ducatr

“I often wonder at the good conduct of our orphan boys, taken

gdiﬂ@

p L A

78

as a whole.

Our Indian Orphanages are in several respects at a

of I

disadvantage, when compared with similar institutions at Home.

the c

But considering the fact that serious disputes among the boys are

1895

very rare, and that moral offences and other irregularities, if they

Augy

ever occur, are, as a rule, discountenanced by the majority and there-

[

fore quickly suppressed, one can safely say, that our Orphanages

are not inferior to similar institutions in Germany.”

years

join |

and

The Boys’ Orphanage at Paraperi, near Codacal, under the

superintendence of Myr. Eckelmann, numbered at the end of

seho

the year 76 boarders, most of whom have lost either one or

ledge

both parents.

heal]

It is proposed to give in future more attention

to agricultural work and, if possible, to open an Agricultural

its foy

woul¢

School in connection with the Orphanage.

The boys experi-

heard

enced the preserving grace of God in a special way in May

‘Don's

last, when a flash of lightning struck a palm-tree in the neigh-

On ¢}

bourhood of the school (p. 25).

Victor

The Boys’ Orphanage School at Kaity was taken charge of

loved

by Mr. Erust after the departure of My. Liitze.

A new build-

death

child,

ing, affording sufficient accommodation for the greatly in-

creased number of boarders and school-classes, was erected

T

in the beginning of the year; it could just be finished before

throy

the monsoon set in.

Meanwhile the boys had to live in tem-

1ect

porary lodgings, in which it was somewhat difficult to super-

by )

intend them carefully; and this appears to have had a bad

T

effect on their character.

Much anxiety was caused by three

hag ]

Badaga converts, running away, one after the other, from

Geng

the school, for reasons then unknown; they returned, however,

The

after some little time.

The school has been raised to the

Dy

standard of a Lower Secondary School, and three students

of ]

‘.

passed the Lower Secondary Examination, one in all and two

in the compulsory subjects only.

Ver‘

u,‘

1635

Of our Girls’ Orphanage Schools, that at Mulki was gracious-

fo

ly preserved from a great danger in May last, when a flash

St

S ey

79

§'af &

of lightning struck the tower of the chapel, which is close by

Home,

the school.

There were 61 girls on the rolls at the end of

7S are

1895.

Of a girl, Rhoda by name, who died on the 6th

f they

August, Mrs. Digel says:—

there-

“She was a poor orphan and had been in our school for eight

1ages

years.

Being of a very delicate constitution, she was never able to

join her friends in their merry games; yet she was always content

and cheerful.

v the

In spite of her weakness, she was very diligent in

nd of

school and skillful in needle-work ; she had also a very good know-

After her confirmation the state of her

ne or

ledge of Bible stories.

health grew worse, and her illness developed into dropsy with all

ontion

ltural

its fearful agonies.

In her sufferings, which she bore patiently, she

would often exclaim: ‘O Lord Jesu, take me to thee.” Once when she

xpet-

heard some girls say, that she was likely to die soon, she replied:

) May

‘Don’t think, I am afraid; I rejoice to die and be with my Saviour.’

neigh

On the morning of her last day she spoke much of struggle and

She was

vietory, and ere we thought it, she had breathed her last.

loved by all the other girls, who were deeply grieved at her early

ge of

puild-

death. The Lord be praised for what He has done for this poor

child.”

y i

The Girls’ Orphanage at Dharwar sustained a severe loss

ected

jefore

through the departure of Mrs. Ziegler, who had been con-

nected with it for about 16 years.

It is now superintended

fen-

by Mrs. Bode, and numbered 45 girls at the end of the year.

uper-

g had

The @Girls’ Orphanage at Chombala under Mrs. Weismann

three

had 104 girls on its rolls at the end of the year, eighty per

cent of whom have recently been converted from paganism.

from

The school had in November last the honour of a visit from

yevels

Dr. Duncan, the Director of Public Instruction.

The results

o the

of the examination held by the Inspectress of Schools was

;dellts

d two

very satisfactory.

In former years the superintendent had

reason to continually ‘complain of the dislike of many girls

to manual work. Now that the majority of the boarders con-

(J0us

sists of girls born in heathenism, no more difficulty is felt in

fash

80

this respect.

The girls consider it a matter of course, that

T

they should perform the very same kinds of work as are done

preser

by their mothers, and learn how to do them.

hoth

The Girls’ Orphanage at Kotageri had more admissvions this

VeI

year than ever before, chiefly in consequence of some con-

knowl

Was 1

versions.

The number of boarders is now 24 as against 18

in 1895.

The superintendent, Mrs. Sikemeier, says:—

schao

“I was greatly rejoiced, when at Kaity in September last for a

used

change, to meet again a number of my former Orphanage girls.

I

taugl

visited them in their homes, and was glad to see, that they have

Sehoo

retained the habits of order and tidiness, to which they were trained

espec

in our school.

I was greatly charmed with the love and attachment

obligy

they showed me.”

1 th

way

3

In addition to the Lower

Christian Secondary Schools.

18 10

Secondary Classes attached to several of our Orphanages and

hal‘m\

Parochial Schools, we have three special Secondary Schools,

Same

the chief object of which it is, to prepare their students for

Gove

admission to our Theological Seminaries and Teachers’ Train-

thege

ing Schools respectively.

ever,

The Christian High School at Nettur-Tellicherry, under the

Chrig

stude

management of Mr. Rehm, suffered much from unavoidable

changes in the educational staff. Nevertheless the report of

Udipf

the Inspector of Schools is very creditable to the institution.

Natlg

Much of the success is: due to the ability and devotion with

Subje

which the Christian Headmaster, Mr. Joseph Muliyil, B. A.,

SQCOI

and his Assistants, discharged their duties.

Special attention

P

was given by the Principal to the Scripture lessons in the

various classes of the school, and his endeavours appear to

have been crowned with success.

The Director of Public

iI] 0

Six

Instruction paid a visit to the school in November last.

Nem

students were sent up for the Matriculation Examination;

Schg

but unfortunately only one of them passed successfully.

Kait;

R R

81

. that

The Preparatory Schools at Udipi and Bettigeri are at

Hitherto

done

present undergoing a thorough re-organisation.

both of these schools had been conducted independent of Go-

s this

vernment inspection, and their curriculum in which Bible

3 (00~

knowledge and the Vernacular occupiéd a prominent place,

was not in accordance with that prescribed in Government

st 18

schools.

The Vernacular was even in the highest classes

used as the medium of instruction, although English was also

it for &

taught together with all other subjects required in Secondary

s, I

Schools. By the urgent requirements of modern times, and

j have

mained

especially the rapid spread of English education we are

chment

ohliged to re-organise these time-honoured schools, which have

in the past rendered excellent service to the Mission in the

way of preparing Christian youths for the Lord’s service. It

is now intended to bring the curriculum of these schools in

Lower

es and

harmony with that adopted by other public schools of the

same standard, and to prepare the students for the several

ChOQlSv

Government examinations up to Matriculation.

In spite of

ot for

Train-

these proposed changes regarding secular instruction, how-

ever, we desire to keep up without change the thoroughly

Christian character

of these

schools and to provide our

or the

students with a solid foundation of Scripture knowledge.

In

jidable

Udipi ten pupils appeared for the Lower Secondary Exami-

port of

nation ; of these six passed in all, and two in the compulsory

fution.

3 it

subjects only. In January last the first class of an Upper

Secondary School (IV. Form) was opened with 5 Christian

;B' by

pupils.

tontioD

i the

4. Training Schools for Christian Teachers are maintained

pedt 0

in connection with the above-mentioned Secondary Schools at

Pab]ic

Nettur-Tellicherry, Udipi, Bettigeri, and with the Orphanage

A Sis

School at Kaity.

Two of these, viz. those at Nettur and

naﬁOﬂ )

Kaity, are under Government inspection. The institution at

l

11

82

Nettur, which is entitled to train Upper Secondary Grade

M. |

Teachers, had eight students on the rolls; four of these passed

end of

the required examinations and were admitted to the service.

T

The school at Kaity has been raised to the standard of a

el )

Lower Secondary Training Institution. Of Udipi nine students

Opex

passed the Government Examinations and qualified for a

nstite

Normal Certificate. The Training School at Bettigeri, which

four

had hitherto been conducted independent of Government

rathe;

inspection, is being re-organised with a view to prepare the

add s

students for the general and technical Government Exami-

finish

nations.

to the

The Training School for School-mistresses at Mangalore

10 of

had to be closed temporarily in May last for want of quali-

Chure

fied pupils and a competent Head-master.

It has recently

Singi:

been re-opened with five Christians and one Hindu girl,

prea|

two of whom have passed the Lower Secondary Examinations.

slony

Altogether nine Christian School-mistresses have been trained

ek

in this institution since 1898, the year of its foundation.

088810

mory;

5

Theological Seminaries.—The FEvangelists’ Training School

eondy

at Bettigeri was closed at the end of 1895.

This institution

il

had been established in 1881 “as a temporary measure, to

meet the crying want of Native Assistants for South Mahratta?.

(esta

Vices

In the course of the last 15 years some ten Assistant-Cate-

chists have been educated there.

hag 4

But from the beginning it

hayg

was proposed to carry on the school only for so long as there

g

an

would be an urgent need for it, and at any rate to send to the

fr(]m

Mangalore Catechists’ Seminary all South Mahratta students

Mty

Ay

able to pursue the full course of study necessary for a Cate-

yearg

chist. The time has now arrived when South Mahratta is pretty

UOH ]

well provided with Catechists regularly trained at Mangalore,

and there is no more need for the continuance of this institu-

the ,

thag

tion. The last two students, who finished their training under

%tuﬂ)

83

S

Grade

My. Risch, passed their final examination successfully at the

passed

end of 1895, and have since been admitted to the service.

BITICE.

The urgent demands of the Nilgiri District for more train-

occasioned the

| of 9

ed Mission-workers

had, two years

ago,

ndents

opening of a special Badaga Catechists’ School at Kaity. This

for a

institution, which is under the charge of Mr. Ernst, numbers

which

four students, all of whom are Badaga converts.

As they are

nment

rather deficient in several respects, it was found necessary to

re the

add six months more to the first year’s course, in order to

Jxam-

finish the curriculum.

The lessons given were: Introduction

to the Books of the Old Testament, Sacred History, Interpreta-

tion of selected Psalms and the Gospel according to St. Matthew,

igalore

Church History I. Part, Catechetical Exercises, English, and

qua.li-

contly

Singing.

The students are also practically

trained for

| gitl

preaching to the heathen by regularly accompanying the Mis-

sionaries and Catechists, who go to proclaim the Gospel at the

ations.

rained

weekly markets in Coonoor and Ootacamund, at funeral pro-

cessions

and on other occasions.

On Sundays, before the

morning service, the students go to neighbouring villages and

conduct Sunday Schools for the heathen youth.

Shool

uon

The Malayalam Theological Seminary at Nettur-Tellicherry

ot

116

to

(established 1890), lost towards the end of the year, the ser-

"

altd

Lt

vices of Mr. Frohnmeyer, its founder and Principal. M. Dilger

has taken his place; Mr. Sengle and Catechist Peter Arnon

(a

e

no 1t

have been appointed his assistants.

In January the session

i

§

here

began with 9 students, two new men having been admitted

from the Christian

High School.

Four among these are

fol

il

fs

Matriculates, and two of them, having finished their four

1den

(ate

years’ course, successfully passed the Catechists’ Examina-

fty

tion in January 1896, and have since been consecrated for

ple

the Lord’s service.

The Principal deeply regrets the fact,

7@11(}1

b

that the number of young Malayalee Christians, willing to

sttt

under

study for the ministry, is at present so exceedingly small,

11

84

e

and quite inadequate for the exigencies of the work, which

TEpIeS

would require double the present number of yearly admissions.

(anar

For the Canarese Theological Seminary at Mangalore the past

compa

year was a season of sore trials.

The Principal, Mr. Hoch,

Fi

was obliged by ill-health to spend the greater part of the year

aholist

on the Nilgiri Hills.

Meanwhile Mr. Hermelink acted for

Secon

him in addition to his usual share of work, faithfully assisted

Mudak

by his native colleagues, Mr. Christanuja Watsa & Mr. Christian

Mabenna.

specis

Eight students passed the final examination in

O

April 1895. Seven of these have since been appointed Cate-

Boluy

chists, four to South Mahratta, one to the Nilgiris, one to

Schoo

Coorg, and one to South Canara; and one is to stay at school

near |

for some time longer to qualify for the Matriculation Exami-

Kaity

nation. In May 1895, when the school was re-opened for a

in the

new session, three new students were admitted, one of them

belonging to South Canara and two to South Mahratta.

The

S0me }

I\

total number of students reading in the school, was 17 at

the end of the year.

EXist

our T

We commend the students of our Theological Schools to

2 Sy

the converting influence of God’s Spirit and the intercession

of our friends.

childy

May the Lord grant us truly-converted and

which

spiritually-minded men, filled with His Spirit, joyful and

Whicl

devoted in the Master’s service and faithful witnesses of the

girly

glad tidings of salvation!

0

Open;

B. Schools for Non-Christians.

the ]

haye

The great number of these schools, 77 in all, exceeding

the total of schools for Christians by 15, evidently shows the

Work

Chig

great importance, which is, in our Mission, attached to this

theyg

kind of Mission-work as a means of evangelization.

There is,

however, a difference noticeable between our different Mission

Districts. Whilst South Mahratta, including North Canara, is

4 ey

85

which

represented Wit‘h only eight schools of this category, South

$1003.

Canara with Coorg numbers 19 or 20, Malabar 26, and the

) past

comparatively small District of the Nilgiris not less than 24.

Hich,

Five schools, which were on our list in 1894, had to be

jeal

abolished in the course of the year; among these the Lower

d for

Secondary School at Mulki, and the Primary School at

sisted

Mudakame in the Honavar District, deserve to be mentioned

istian

specially.

n 11

On the other hand eight new Schools were opened: at

Cate-

Bolur near Mangalore, at Allikatte in Coorg, a Canarese

né {0

School at Bijapur, a Badaga Girls’ School at Achinakallu,

chool

near Kaity, Primary Boys’ Schools at Sailas and Denale near

i

Kaity, and at Milidenu near Kotageri, and a Night School

for a

in the bazaar of Kotageri.

Of some of these we desire to give

them

some particulars.

The

The Primary School at Bolur, near Mangalore, owes its

T

at

existence to the exertions of Mr. Jung, the superintendent of

our Tile-Works at Kudroli, who two or three years ago, started

a Sunday School for the sorely neglected and backward

ls £

3100

children of the fishermen-caste at Bolur.

This Sunday School,

and

which is still carried on, gave rise to a Primary Day School,

and

which, at the end of the year, was attended by 33 boys and 9

f the

girls belonging to different castes.

Our brethren in Coorg have been greatly cheered by the

opening of a school at Allikatte, 30 miles from Mercara, on

the plantation of E. Richter Esq. This our friend desired to

bave a school established for the children of the coolies

ding

working on his estate, and requested the Missionaries for a

g the

Christian Schoolmaster.

Catechist Nathaniel Shatananda was

s

therefore sent.

My. Richter liberally contributes towards the

expenditure of this school.

{5 iSy

Our work has thus been given

!

a very welcome extension, and as Catechist Nathaniel avails

fy 18

himself of the opportunities offered him by the school, to

86

L Py

make house-to-house visits to the parents of hié pupils, we may

for Ohs

by and by get a firm footing in this desolate region.

grer i

gsteem

The Station Kaity on the Nilgiris succeeded, in spite of

attract

decided opposition from some quarters, to start a school af

nstruc

Denale in the neighbourhood of Nerkambe.

This has enabled

induce

us to recover ground lost some years ago.

The school was

ancest

opened at the urgent request of the inhabitants of some

Christ

neighbouring villages, and had from the beginning an atten-

their |

dance of more than 30 pupils, which promises well for the

the fa;

future.

In a similar way we were requested by the villagers

to thei

of Sailas near Coonoor, to establish a school in their village;

Snegr

and this was done in the last monsoon.

in ou

Concerning our numerous older schools for Non-Christians

0t

we cannot, for want of space, give more than a few notes.

of the

Our Lower Secondary School at Pouani in the South of

the )

Malabar had to overcome serious difficulties, the outcome of

1va)

the conversion of a teacher employed in the school. This man,

sever:

a native of the place and belonging toaninfluential Nayar family,

Suffey

embraced Christianity some years ago and was, on bis baptism,

decid,

sent to our Training School at Nettur, to qualify for a Normal

at lag

Certificate.

In 1895 he resumed his former post at Ponani.

In

But, alas! the return of this man, who before his conversion bad

with

been respected by young and old, gave rise to serious objec-

Object

tions on the part of his former friends and caste-fellows. An

ight

agitation was set on foot and petitions tendered, urgently

They

requiring the removal of the man.

At a meeting of some 60

tlon §

influential Nayars a resolution was adopted, which for its

the }

remarkable observations on the influence of Mission Schools

0

is worth recording. The following is an extract of it:—

g |

“We all know that in Mission Schools Bible lessons are given,

Ingpg

and therefore Mr. James Victor (this is the Christian name of the

Shing

convert) will have a very good opportunity, by his example and in-

of the

fluence to bring his pupils into opposition to Hinduism and win them

Well4

_87

b

for Christianity.

Our boys receive at present no instruction what-

) may

ever in their own religion.

Now when a teacher whom they highly

esteem, speaks to them daily about Christianity, and in such an

ite of

attractive way, that their hearts are touched by his words, such an

0l af

abled

instruction must without doubt greatly influence his pupils, and

induce them, after they have attained their majority, to forsake their

| was

ancestral faith.

Even if they should not immediately become

§01

116

Christians, the seed of antagonism to their own religion sown in

atten

their hearts will sooner or later cause them to dislike or abandon

r the

the faith of their forefathers.

Those boys even who remain true

|agers

to their ancestral religion, will begin to despise their parents and

Il

gt

ok

sneer at Hinduism ; and this will give rise to dissension and quarrel

in our families ete. ete.”

stians

Of course the Missionaries could not, for the very interests

£s

of the Mission, on any account comply with the request of

the petitioners, and the consequence was the opening of a

ath of

) 0

rival school, which was also joined by many pupils and

e of

several Masters of our school.

The latter has considerably

3 A,

Yet we

aml

Iy,

suffered ; the number of pupils sank from 100 to 35.

decided not to give way, trusting that a temporary loss will

P 1510,

at last prove a real gain to the Lord’s cause.

(ormal

)

il

In Chalashery also the opening of a Mission School met

with opposition on the part of the Syrian Christians, who

on b&d

objected to Bible lessons on the ground that their children

ohjec

might thereby be induced to join the Protestant Church.

g, An

tly

They started a school of their own, in which no Bible instruc-

lgen

tion is given.

This proceeding of so-called Christians caused

ome 00

the heathen to also withdraw their children from our school.

for 1

£

I

Our High Schools at Calicut, Tellicherry-Town, Mangalore

Gehoo

and Dharwar have had a prosperous year, and show a slight

increase in attendance. The school at Calicut is in a very flouri-

3 1760

shing condition.

1t was attended by 385 pupils at the end

, :f the

of the year; a good number of these are said to belong to

d

well-to-do and respectable families. The Principal, Mr. Hiller,

n [hem

88

IEEh SR T

selves;

speaks in high terms of the valuable services of his Christian

Head-master, My. G. Zacharias, B.A., who appears to possess

and 80

feache

the respect and confidence of his pupils in a high degree.

The school at Dharwar has safely passed through a serious

30, be

crisis, caused by the departure of its most respected founder

li

and Principal, Mr. Ziegler.

The apprehensions entertained

Sy

Wr

by friends and foes alike, that the attendance would consi-

derably decrease, has proved unfounded, and the school closed

also 4

with 289 pupils, as against 246 in 1894. Mr. Reusch, who

hear

Relioy

has taken charge of the school in succession to Myr. Ziegler,

is ably assisted by the Christian Head-master Mr. 4. Jaga-

grea

nathan, B. A.

The High Schools at Tellicherry-Town and

from

he

Mangalore had both to contend with serious competition; they

had, nevertheless, 228 and 246 students respectively on the

n glo

rolls at the end of the year.

Among the 246 pupils attending

My.

the Mangalore High School there are 54 Christians.

Tell;

Uber of Tellicherry speaks thus of his experiences in Bible-

al

fog

lessons:—

Smg,

“Though we meet with much apathy and even opposition, espe-

at t

cially in the upper classes, it is very encouraging to have almost in

care

every class a few boys who receive the instruction with clese attention

Of @

and try to please their teacher by good answers.

Especially in the

theg

case of the little ones we make this experience.

‘When the Lord’s

are

Prayer was explained, a child said: ‘This is a beautiful prayer;

the

prayers made by men are all imperfect.’

‘Is this prayer without

10 {]

defect whatever?’ said another child.

The teacher replied: ‘Think

about it and tell me to-morrow whether you have found any fault

geng

and

in this prayer.’

The next day all children said: ‘We have found

no fault in it.’

a

Then they asked, ‘May we also offer this prayer ?’

and when the teacher affirmed it, they said, they would hence-

hay,

Another time the

forth do so every morning and evening.

e

children were quite surprised at the story of Jesus sitting in the

Iy

temple, when twelve years old.

When asked for the reason, they

hlt

answered :

“Whenever we go to a feast, we want to amuse our-

sth

e

89

stian

selves; we desire to see the many beautiful things, to hear mausic,

035658

and so on. Why did Jesus not want to do that?’ Before the

teacher could give a reply, 2 child rose and said:

“Yes, we do

gree.

1008

80, because we are no good children, but Jesus was a good child’.”

nnder

My. Bucher, Principal of our High School at Mangalore,

ained

says:—

COnsl-

“«The transitory triumph of Swami Vivekananda made itself felt

dlosed

also amongst our pupils.

In those excited days one could often

, who

hear, that Christianity had suffered a deplorable defeat at the

gl

Religious Congress at Chicago and that Hinduism was making

Jugie

great strides in America.

The pupils brought sometimes extracts

) and

from Hindu Newspapers, which announced in unrestrained terms

the unfathomable learning of the Swami and deseribed his success

- they

n the

in glowing colours.”

nding

Our Hindu Girls’ Schools at Mangalore, Udipi, Kasaragod,

My

Tellicherry, Calicut, Kaity and Achinakallu (near Kaity) are

Bible-

altogether attended by 534 heathen girls. This is a very

small number when compared with the multitudes of girls

at these very Stations, who, by social prejudices and the

, 65

carelessness of their parents, are still deprived of the privilege

nost 10

of even a most elementary education.

We cannot say that

ention

Some of them

inthe

these schools are all in a prosperous state.

are doing well, but others are like tender plants requiring

Lord's

1ayel's

the most careful nursing, lest they die.

A great drawback

cithout

in the way of a sound development of these schools, almost

Think

generally complained of, are the irregularity in attendance,

For the schools

and the early marriages, of Hindu girls.

; fO\lﬂd

at Mangalore and Kasaragod new and spacious buildings

raye! y

have been erected, with the aid of Government.

Attempts

enee-

are also made to open Lower Secondary Classes, but the

10 the

number of girls attending the latter is, as yet, very small.

in the

In spite of these and other difficulties the work done in these

, (e

schools is, on the whole, very encouraging, and the labour of

6 oﬂf'

12

90

e

love spent on these girls is richly rewarded by their gratitude‘

their 1

and attachment to their teachers.

The seed of the Gospel

of som

sown in these tender hearts may very often resemble <the

a (efic

seeds that fell by the wayside”, but we are sure that thero

0 ex]

are also cases, unconscious though we may be of them, where

Teques

0 this

it falls into a good land and brings forth fruit, sometimes, it

may be, many years after the girls have left our schools.

4

ents -

certal

our H

5. Medical Mission.

could

Termif

Our Medical Missionary, Dr. Liebendorfer, the pioneer of

0ne of

this branch of Mission-work, was obliged to apply for leave

child

on account of ill-health.

In the month of May he was so

cleave

seriously ill, that we even despaired of his life, but the

felloy

Lord graciously spared him, surely in answer to the united

prayers of His people.

many

His successor, Dr. Stokes, has

W

l

taken charge of the Hospital.

In Miss M. Hanhart, a

Prong

daughter of an old well-known Missionary of Malabar, the

ers

Medical Mission has received the first Lady-nurse.

she ¢

Dr. Liebendirfer of Calicut reports:—

she

howe

“Last

year

many diseases were prevalent in this town,

with

especially among the poorer classes, of whom a good number suc-

4

cumbed for want of proper food and nursing. It seems, as if we

were subject to a new epidemic almost every year; at one time it

Years

(i

is cholera wlth its fearful death-rate, then small-pox, or dengue fever

as last year.

Agyly

This year we had to combat with a severe and pro-

thesg

longed epidemic of typhoid fever, which was doubtless due to a

great extent to the contaminated drink-water.

Jears

We had nearly

30,000 visits from out-patients, and 145 in-patients were treated

State

itis

in the Hospital.

But, although this number was never been reach-

Prope

ed in previous years, the income was smaller owing to the poverty

S0mg

of almost all the patients, who could not defray even the cost of

Thig

e

91

itude

their medicines.

Had it not been for the timely and generous help

0spel

of some of our English friends, we should have closed the year with

athe

a deficit. We, therefore, avail ourselves of this opportunity not only

there

to express our heart-felt thanks for their esteemed help, but also to

vhere

request them to continue remembering our work among the poor

63, it

in this poverty-stricken town.

)

“In spite of much ingratitade experienced at the hands of pati-

ents we mnotice also other signs, that our work is not in vain.

A

cortain man from the neighbourhood, who had been an in-patient of

our Hospita

1in 1894 and become acqainted with the Divine Truth,

could not help returning this year with the desire for holy baptism.

Terrified at the complete separation from his kindred, he persuaded

er 0f

one of his children to come along with him, but in the first night the

leave

child was carried off by his relations, and thus the father learned to

as 80

cleave the faster unto the Lord and to rejoice more and more in the

t the

followship of his Master. He peacefully closed his days, offering

many fervent prayers for those who were dear to him.

ited

h&a

«A woman of the Tiyer caste could not hear the name of Jesus

i, 8

pronounced without scornfully turning to the other side when pray-

j the

ers began., Gradually her hardened heart began to soften, and

she took part in the prayers without reluctance.

On being cured

she went home, promising to pray in future to Jesus only. Great,

however, was our joy, when some weeks afterwards she returned

with her husband and three children anxious to receive baptism.

fowD,

“Bver since we have taken charge of the Leper Asylum 1%

7 16

if we

years ago, we have treated 55 patients. Of these 24 were either

dismissed or left of their own accord, 10 died, and 21 remain in the

ime if

Asylum at the close of the year.

After due instruction some of

fover

10 deaths in 1.3

these have been received into the Church of Christ.

d pror

, f0 &

years seem rather a high percentage, but considering the fearful

state in which most of them are brought to us, we are thankful that

1eatly

it is not higher. Lepers, who remain a sufficiently long time under

ated

each

proper care and treatment, are gradually getting much better, and

some of them could even be scarcely recognized by outsiders as lepers.

yrerty

This institution suffers also from want of funds; yet we do not feel

st Of

125

il

rally

justified to refuse admission to these poor creatures, and trust, the

Lord, who is rich above all, will also in fature supply us with the

able, 1

lessnes

necessary means to alleviate the lot of the outcast and helpless.

il

“The Branch Hospital at Codacal had to pass through a crisis.

after |

The dresser had to be dismissed, and, until we succeeded in getting

another dresser, Mr. R. Bosshardt, who possesses a fair knowledge

and or

much

of medicine, kindly carried on the work. For various reasons we

were, however, obliged to transfer our faithful and hard-working

aceond

Assistant Joseph to Codacal, and we are sure that through his

e ha

haptis

energy and self-sacrifice this Hospital will again prosper. At this

Hospital we had over 10,000 visits from out-patients and received

0asts

Whom

about 50 in-patients.”

168t o}

Mr. Knobloch of Calicut writes about the medical work as

follows : —

“BEvery morning one can see our good Doector surrounded by

patients, numbering from 50 to 80, all waiting for him to attend to

I\

them. Then he would go from one to another, examining, giving

advice, and preseribing, while his Assistant would clean and dress

i

sores and wounds in the verandah, and the Catechist and a Bible-

at )

woman would bring home to them the glad tidings of the Word

Chon

of God. This work of true love has its effeet upon many patients, and,

N

though gratitude may not be the strongest point in a Malayalee,

Malp

there are always some who show by touching expressions that they

are really grateful.

There are every year several baptisms among

shrue

the in-patients, which is an encouraging sign of the efficacy of

God’s Word.

“About the Leper Asylum to which I am no stranger, inasmuch

ang

as I had spent in former years many blessed hours within its walls,

I have to remark, that its appearance has entirely changed, and

the sandy barrenness of the garden has been transformed into

Qury,

a lovely green spot divided into different tracts, which are allotted

()bJe(;

to, and cultivated by, the patients who are able to move aboat.

Chyy

There seems to be a difference between Christian, Mchammedan,

for

and heathen patients.

The faces of the Christian patients gene-

Sta‘(p

93

1st, the

rally reflect an inward happiness that renders their lot more toler-

ith the

able, whilst the faces of Non-Christians express despair and hope-

less,

lessness.

OrIsis,

“It is surprising to notice that these “poor among the poorest”,

oetting

after having experienced the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit

and on complying with the Doctor’s orders, generally improve so

wledge

0ns we

much that this terrible disease does not progress so rapidly, and that

according to the Doctor’s opinion may even get better.

At present

orking

eh his

we have 21 inmates, of whom 8 are Christians and 3 candidates for

baptism.

Since we took over charge of the Asylum, 25 of these out-

At this

ceived

casts were, according to my calculations, led to their Saviour, of

whom more than half have already been called from misery to the

rest above.”’

ik a8

6.

Industrial Establishments.

od by

end £0

These consist of the following Establishments :—

gifing

dress

Three Weaving Establishments—at Mangalore (witha branch

at Mulki), Cannanore (with two branches at Tellicherry and

Bible-

Word

Chombala), and Calicut (with a branch at Codacal).

) aﬂd,

Six Tile-Works—at Jeppoo and Kudroli (near Mangalore),

yalee,

Malpe (near Udipi), Calicut, Codacal and Palghat; the con-

they

struction of the latter was finished in the year.

mong

One Mechanical Workshop—at Mangalore.

0y of

Three Mercantile Establishments—at Mangalore, Mercara

and Calicut.

much

waﬂS:

All these Establishments have, by God’s blessing, prospered

and

during the year, and more or less accomplished the several

info

objects for which they were started.

To which extent our

atted

Churches are at present dependent on these Establishments

houts

for their temporal welfare, may be seen from the following

dan,

statistics regarding some of them: —

;ene'

i

I

There are employed at Mangalore iﬁ the

the Cl

Printing Press

43 members of our Church,

110

Compo

Weaving Establishment

”

Mechanical

»

51

”»

b

”

and [

works

Mercantile Mission-Branch 10

”

n

fempo

Book Depository

6

»

Kudroli Tile-Works

145

9

religi

»

Jeppoo

7

110

9

b}

uI

Total 475

”

”

"

Weave

that is to say 35 per cent of the total of the Communicants

by acq

Sense (

(1334) of Mangalore.

they h:

The Cannanore Weaving Establishment with branches at

the Ts

Tellicherry and Chombala gives employment to 412 Christi-

their ¢

ans, of whom 295 belong to Cannanore and Chowa ; that makes

hishoy

59 per cent of the total of the Communicants (474) of

Who

Cannanore.

nstal;

Which

In the last year especially, when many converts had to be

Who

provided with some work or other, these Establishments proved

1895,

an exceedingly valuable help. DBut let it not be forgotten, that

0f the

the admission of converts, men and women, advanced in age

and on

Mattay

as many of them are, and their apprenticing in a new trade

is a cause of much additional trouble and care to the super-

1l (&)

attaine

intendents of our Establishments. M. Schinthal of Cannanore,

referring to the admission of 26 apprentices during the year,

V:

remarks ;—

oy

0 thy

“I need mot explain what amount of patience and labour is re-

quired to instraet these people.

Imagine, an enquirer, 25 years of

the I

hag il

age, with fingers stiff and crooked, and unable to count to twenty,

begins to weave and even after 11 years of apprenticeship mistakes

the

38 or 24 threads for 30, and you will understand what blunders

0n

are sometimes committed.

The man might manage the thing

W

better, if his loom were a plough.”

gy

95

Lt ATt

It is one of the objects of these Establishments, to assist

the Christians, whom we employ, to acquire, after some time,

compounds and houses of their own. For this purpose “Saving

and Loan Funds” have been founded in connection with the

The beneficial effects of this institution on the

workshops.

temporal condition of our Christians and their moral and

religious life cannot well be overrated. My. Schonthal writes: —

“I have much joy in stating that a number of our Christian

weavers have again been enabled to improve their temporal condition

by acquiring houses which they may now ecall their own in the fullest

icants

sense of the word.

Some of them have completely repaid the loans

they had some years ago received for this purpose from the funds of

hes ab

the Establishment, and now continue every month to deposit part of

histi-

their earnings into the Savings Fund.

A weaver, who lately got

makes

his house free of debt, has since been able to save Rs. 125.

Another,

) of

who received a loan of Rs. 500, has already repaid Rs. 250 by

instalments.

Another has deposited with me Rs. 461, all of

which he has saved from his earnings.

A weaver of Tellicherry,

i

fo be

who was apprenticed here, has saved nearly Rs. 100 since April

1893.

Lately he asked me for the sum in order to build a house.

pyoved

1, tha

Of the weavers at Tellicherry 14 at least possess houses of their own,

and only two of them owe still part of the parchase-money.

As a

in age

matter of fact, it takes a long time until such changes in the tempo-

trade

ral condition of our Christians are effected, but what we have

super-

attained for the present is more than we ever expected.”

_]a'llol‘e»

Valuable as the services are that have been rendered to

o 764L

our Christian Churches by these Establishments, we have come

to the conviction, that they are no longer sufficient to meet

the requirements of our Churches in their present state.

It

CHE of

has never been our intention, nor do we think it desirable that

went

\l

the majority of our Christians should be entirely dependent

118 akes

on these Mission Establishments for their livelihood.

What

uﬂden

we really want is a goodly number of well-to-do Christian

) T,hlna

artisans and farmers entirely independent of the Mission.

We

et

96

also have sometimes a great difficulty to provide in our Esta-

of thi

blishments for the many Christian boys, who are leaving our

rage

oblige

schools every year after their confirmation and are desirous of

the V

learning a trade.

In spite therefore of our time-honoured

where

Industrial Establishments, the wants and requirements of a

comm

growing Christian Church compel us to face again the old

on Ps

problem and difficulty of Indian Missions, as to the best

read

means of providing suitable employment for our Christians,

and |

so as to enable them to earn their livelihood independent of

me in

the Mission.

As this question is of such vital importance, it

overy

has been taken into consideration by the Malabar Missionaries

poor

at their yearly District Conference.

The proposal has been

fo th

made of establishing an Agricultural School in connection

advis

with the Boys’ Orphanage at Paraperi, and of opening some

Sang|

Industrial Schools in connection with one or the other of our

J Ubib

Establishments, with a view of introducing some new trades

Chon

the

among our Christian community.

06008

Myr. Eckelmann at Paraperi, with the kind aid of Messrs.

Schilunk & Co

at Calicut, has also made a trial with the

introduction of a new branch of industry at Codacal, viz. the

twisting of coir ropes, which, it is hoped, will afford a

valuable home-occupation to a number of Christian women.

et

This would save them the trouble of going daily to the

distant Tile-factory and permit them to give more attention

repr

to their children, than they are able to do at present.

I

hag

We cannot conclude this chapter without recording how the

ang

Weaving Establishment of Cannanore commemorated on the

fin

23rd November 1895, the 25th anniversary of Mr. Schonthal’s

arrival at Cannanore.

Myr. Schinthal reports :—

Con

“On the 21st November 25 years had passed since my first

Wer

arrival here, and on the 23rd my weavers celebrated my jubilee.

8

For a long time I would not give my consent to the commemoration

Of(

i

r Bsta-

of this day. I should have preferred to have spent it qﬁietly and in

Bat I was

ng our

prayer for new strength for a fresh term of labour.

rous of

obliged to yield at last.

At eight o’clock in the morning the bell of

noured

the Weaving Establishment invited us to ecome over to the room

where the working people had already assembled.

Mr

Bader

ts of 4

he old

commenced the proceedings with prayer and some remarks based

on Psalm eiii.

After the singing of some hymns, an address was

16 best

read and delivered to me.

I thanked the people for their kindness

istians,

and gave a short review of the wonderful ways the Lord had led

dent of

me into their midst and kept me among them to this day.

To him

nce, 1t

every success is due, and it is comforting to know that He uses us

ONATIes

poor and sinful men, for the great things He will perform on earth

s been

to the glory of His name.

Mr. Dilger of Tellicherry concluded by

nection

advising the hearers to express their gratitude not only in brilliant

g some

Sanskrit verses, but by their deeds.

It was a simple and pleasant

Jubilee festival attended by over 500 personms.

The weavers of

of our

The foreman of

frades

Chombala and Tellicherry had also come over.

the Weaving Branch at Tellicherry had composed a hymn for the

occasion, which was sung by the operatives.”

Messts.

it the

7. Literary Department.

iz, the

ord 3

A conference of the Malayalam Bible Revision Committee

gomen.

met in November last at Cannanore, when our Mission was

fo the

represented by Mr. Bader and Mr. Dilger, the successor of

tention

My. Frohwmeyer, who is gone home on furlough. The revision

has advanced as far as the First Epistle General of St. Peter,

10 the

and it is believed, that one more conference will suffice to

finish the revision of the Malayalam New Testament.

o 1he

The Canarese Bible Revision Committee held no general

juflul3

conference during the year, as the majority of its members

were in England; but a Sub-Committee consisting of M.

1y first

H. Haigh, of the Wesleyan Mission, Mysore, and Mr. F. Ziegler

jabilée

of our Mission, met in April and May and revised the Gospel

oratiod

13

e

98

according to St. Luke.

My. Ziegler, who from the beginning

In Ma

had taken a great interest in the work, has since been obliged

0

to leave for Germany, and it will be difficult to fill up his

place in the Committee.

Of our two Christian Periodicals, which have uninterruptedly

N

been published fornearly 30 years, the Malayalam “Kéralopakari”

Dr. (

was edited by Mr. Bader of Cannanore and My. Stephen

Chandran, Pastor at Chowa, and the Kanarese “Kreistasabha-

tion

patra” by Mr. Risch of Bettigeri and Cat. Chr. Waisa of

LTS

Mangalore.

It is a pity that the number of subscribers to

both of these publications is still a very limited one.

TEVIS

The following new tracts and books have been published.

In Canarese :—

InT

The Family Instructor, by Cat. Chr. Watsa.

Ui

A Wonderful Trial, by Mr. Walz.

Scrh

A True Friend in Need, by the same.

scho

Women’s Mirror, by the same.

The Sea and its Wonders, by the same.

In3

Two Pills for two Diseases, by the same.

A Garland of Christian Lyrics, by Cat. Joseph Dalabhanjana.

Who is Your Mediator? by Mr. Gengnagel.

trap

Meditations on the Sufferings of Christ, translated from

byl

Tamil, by Cat. Henry Kodoth.

ang

Life of St. Augustine, by Cat. Christian Mabenna.

Sor

The Hindu Doctrine of Transmigration Examined, by

Myr. Berls.

of

The Story of Four Princes, by the same.

brg

Besides this, the Church Catechism, I. Part, has been

revised by a Committee.

dep

hig

99

nning

In Malayalam:—

bliged

Questions about Hinduism, by Mr. Peter.

1p bis

The Five Eggs, by Mr. Bader.

The Life of Dr. Gundert, by Mr. Frohnmeyér.

tedly

Malayalam Proverbs adapted to Christianity, by the late

kit

Dr. Gundert.

phei

Besides this, the Outlines of Christians Doctrine, a transla-

abhd-

o of

tion of the German book of Dr. Kurtz, has been thoroughly

revised for a 2nd edition by Mr. Frohumeyer.

13 t0

The Malayalam Liturgy also has undergone a careful

revision by a Committee and will be published soon.

hed,”

In Tulu:—

The Church Catechisms, I. and II., have been revised by

My. Ritter, who published also a new edition of Selected

Scripture Sentences and Christian Hymns for the use of

schools.

The Tulu Liturgy also is being revised by a Committee.

In Badaga:—

The Heart-book, by Cat. Isaiah Shanta.

(il

Besides this, the Gospel according to St. Mark has been

translated into Badaga for the Madras Auxiliary Bible Society,

by Mr. Jakob Kanaka, Pastor at Kotageri.

rom

Almanacs have,

as

usual, been edited in Malayalam

and Canarese, by Mr. Rehm and Cat. Chr. Watsa respectively.

Some new school-books also have been published and a number

by

of tracts reprinted in new editions.

The Book and Tract Depository at Mangalore, with its 30

branch depots., was superintended by Mr. Huber until his

0l

departure to Germany early in 1896, when Myr. Stamm took

his place.

Eighteen Colporteurs, six of whom are Bible-

18%

100

e SOl

Colporteurs and paid by the Madras and Edinburgh Bible

Societies respectively, have been employed to spread the good

empl

seed broadcast over the country by selling the Bible in

0r S€

whole or in part, religious tracts and school-books.

Evange-

made

lists and Catechists also have with praiseworthy zeal and

yeas

late

enthusiasm availed themselves of every opportunity that

offered on their preaching tours, to dispose of tracts, and

whic

portions of the Bible, these inestimable auxiliaries of the

hare

Word preached.

ae

My. Warth of Hubli reports:—

alwa

the y

“During the twelvemonth from 1st July 1894 to 30th June

1895 more than 7000 books and tracts were sold at Hubli and the

Prin

surrounding districts, among these no less than 6000 religious books

and tracts.

As the number of Bible portions sold has always been

comparatively small, one of our Assistant-Catechists has been ap-

P

pointed to the special duty of selling Bible portions only, and the Na-

tional Bible Society of Scotland has kindly offered to pay his salary.”

- Of the effect of the Word of God Mr. Warth says:—

Sabh

AG

“A certain Lingait, a schoolmaster, had become acquainted with

Nedif

the Word of God in a Lingait math (convent), in which I had been

The

privileged two years ago to speak the Word with great joy.

The

Ch

Won

said schoolmaster was impressed by the truth, and is now an

enquirer, and has entered into correspondence with me.

He was

Narg

The

afterwards transferred to another village.

Some time ago he asked

lat

me for a copy of the “Heart Book”, which he read with a few friends

The

of his village.

It is only a few days ago he asked me for a copy of

A |

By

the New Testament, as there are several people in his village

Ray

wishing to read the Bible together with him.”

It is, however, sometimes not easy to sell tracts.

My. ﬁubeof

Dege

A

of Mangalore reports:—

Hugg

“At an idol festival near Mangalore, which I attended with

B

another Missionary, one of the owners of the temple bought a tract,

K&na

\0 ¥

tore it to pieces before our eyes and spat upon it, to express his

Cana

contempt, and his anger at our presence.”

The

]01

ey

Bilh

Our Printing Office, under the management of Mr. Hirner

good

employs 50 artisans

all of whom, with the exception of six

le

or seven, are members of our Congregation

Every attempt 1s

g

made to enhance the efficiency of our Pres

known for many

an

years to the public for the excellent quality of its work. Of

that

late we have had, however, to contest with peculiar difficulties

and

which are chiefly due to the competition of other presses, that

Yet we

the

have been started during the last 10 or 15 years

are glad to state that, through the blessing of God, we have

always found sufficient ‘work to occupy our workmen all

the year round

We take this opportunity to recommend our

June

Printing Office to the kind attention of our friends.

d the

hooks

heen

LIST OF BOOKS AND TRACTS

0

P

Printed from 1st November 1894 to 31st October 1895

Y

;

IO

Canarese,

a1y,

Edition

Size

Copies

Pages

Tot. Pages

°

80

600

192

115200

Sabhapatra, Vol. xxviii to xxix

A Garland of Canarese Christian Liyrics

I.

125

3000

43

129000

156

312000

] yith

Meditation on the Sufferings of Christ

2000

The Married Life

ITI. Parents and

heen

III

3000

27

81000

Children

"

The

Women’s Mirror

”

3000

72

216000

i al

Naranayaka

II

3000

72

216000

p W&

The Gospel of St. Luke (rev1sed Trans—

lation)

a

5000

136

680000

asked

The Universe

II

16°

3000

64

192000

nendS

An Introduction to the Study of the

Book of Revelation

80

300

55

16500

5

opy of

Kanarese First Book, Bombay Govt

VII

129

100000

36

3600000

llage

”

Ankalipi

»

”

IIT

100000

84

8400000

III

”

15000

126

1890000

Description and History of Karnataka

Hilbe

A Sanitary Primer

161

10000

84

840000

Hunter’s History of the Indian People,

Bombay Government

I11.

80

10000

270

2700000

qith

122

50000

64

3200000

Kanarese Second Book, Bombay Govt

VII.

Notes on Poetry Selections

11T

1000

23

23000

trach

Canarese School Grammar

X

”

6000

148

888000

g il

1500

212

318000

The Moghal Empire, Vol. I

102

Edition

Size

Copies

Pages

Tot. Pages

The Story of India for the 4th Standard

1T

12°

3000

48

144000

Vocabulary of Homonyms and Techm-

cal Words

1169

2000

317

634000

A Guig

Notes on the Prescmbed Lessons of

vers

Second Reader

600

38

22800

Do

with questions on

the Subjects

900

32

28800

Canarese Minor Poetical Anthology

"

3000

64

192000

The 5:

Notes on

do

do

k)

2000

47

94000

The R

of

Tables of Calculation

%

n

4000

48

92000

III

5000

103

515000

A Geography of the Madras Presxdency

Notes on Kavyapunja, revised edition

II

”

2000

84

168000

Who is Your Mediator ?

3000

246000

The Fourth Standard Arithmetic

II

1000

72

72000

Notes on the Canarese Third Reader

II

”

500

28

14000

The Sea, its Wonders and Dangers

»

3000

48

144000

Canarese Poetry I., for First Standard

1000

12

12000

Do

II

do

”

1000

16

16000

36,

Canarese Almanac for 1896

80

6500

64

416000

2,

IL.

Malayalam,

Kéraldpakéari, Vol. xxii

80

400

192

76800

2,

Almopakari, Vol. ii

”

7575

120

929200

33,

Mayurasandesam

500

66

33000

2

Life of Dr. H. Gundert

”

1000

62

62000

Outlines of Christian Doctrine, rev. ed

1000

352

352000

i

.

| T e T B |

122

Malayalam Proverbs

¥

2000

88

176000

&

The Gospel of St. Luke

32°

5000

39

1195000

49

Questions about Hinduism

»

3000

20

60000

)

The Sure Way .

I1I

3000

40

120000

The Five Eggs

”

3000

20

72000

A Malayalam Anthology, I. & II. Std. VIII

16°

6000

12

72000

Do

do

III. Standard

VI

6000

16

96000

Class-Book of Arithmetic

II

2500

72

180000

L

The Malayalam Almanac for 1896

80

2000

72

144000

ITI.

Sanskrit

15

Meghaditu (in Malayalam character)

I

1000

136

136000

218,

1V. Tulu.

~

The First Catechism

1I

12°

1500

28

42000

Second Catechism for Confirmation

IV

1500

28

42000

Selected Scripture Sentences

new ed

”

1500

150

225000

Soci

I too have a House

Iv

32°

3000

21

63000

tOW&

The King’s Son

Iv

3000

28

84000

n

103

]

Pages,

V. Canarese and Hindustéani.

144000

Edition.

Size.

Copies.

Pages.

Tot. Pages.

A Guide to Kannada-Hindustani Con-

334000

i}

8

3000

36

108000

versation

22800

VI

English.

28800

The 55th Report of the B. G. E. M. 8.

80

1400

124

173600

192000

94000

The Report of the Bangalore District

192000

of the London Mission Society

16°

150

38

5700

515000

168000

46000

SALE OF BOOKS AND TRACTS

72000

from 1st July 1894 to 30th June 1895.

14000

144000

1

Our Own Publications.

Rs

As

12000

16000

36,177 Copies of Canarese Religious Books

1,505

{16000

Tulu

98

2,264

”

»

”

»

992 214

”

Malayalam

”

»

892

76800

33,166

”

Canarese School-books

6,151

29200

i

33000

23,853

»

»

Malayalam |,

n

3,274

62000

6,274

»

Books in other Languages

294

14

32000

28,072

”

»

Canarese Government Books 4,158

1]

76000

6,994

95000

49,232

Malayalam

»

»

60000

201,252 CoPIES.

Torar Rs. 23,369

ol g ouo B 3o

20000

72000

2. Other Publications.

72000

1,277 Copies of Bibles and Bible Portions

339

10

96000

180000

481

»

, Bangalore Tracts and Books

40

44000

15,000

»

, Sundry Engl. & Vern. Books 10,098

218,010 CoPIES.

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AN

Conclusion.

In concluding this Report, we desire to tender our

warmest thanks to our friends, who have given us their

1

sympathy and assistance in the great work entrusted

horn

to us.

pate

We believe the record of the past year must

good

have convinced them anew, that the work is the Lord’s in

Cann

spite of the many shortcomings and failures that have

empl

pargy

come to light in the workers and in our Churches. We

heco

feel deeply humiliated by these failings, but “out of the

bgys

him

depths we cry unto the Lord” and beseech Him, to

Were

endue all His servants with a new and rich measure of

B

and

His Holy Spirit, to fill our Churches with new spiritual

Lorg

life, and to grant to the Gentiles repentance unto life.

the

May the time come soon when

lagt

engy

“the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose”,

une;

give

when “it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even

Drey

with joy and singing!” (Isaiah XXXV, 1. 2.)

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the

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the

OBITUARY.

our

heir

1

Catechist Ezra Arunachalam, 2 Tamil man by birth, was

sted

born in a village near Madras in 1830.

Having lost his

parents in his earliest childhood, he was taken care of by a

1ust

good old aunt, a widow, who, some years later, proceeded to

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Cannanore together with her son-in-law, who was in the

1ave

employment of a European officer. Thus the way was pre-

pared for the boy and his brother, who were still heathen, to

We

become acquainted with the Gospel. At Cannanore the unruly

the

boys were made over to the Rev. S. Hebich, and sent by

him to the Mission Orphanage at Tellicherry.

Here they

, 10

were baptized and received a Christian education. In 1852

Tzra was admitted to the Catechists’ Seminary at Mangalore,

¢ of

and in 1856, on completing his studies, consecrated for the

itual

Lord’s service as Catechist.

In this capacity he has served

the Mission for 40 years at different Stations of Malabar, his

lfe.

last appointment being at Ponani, where he was exclusively

engaged in intinerancy. On the 20th March 1895 he quite

ey

unexpectedly departed this life.

My. Bosshardt of Codacal

The day

gives the following particulars about his death.

ey

previous to his death Fera had come over to Codacal and in

his usual cheerfal way reported of his work. On his return

the next morning, when crossing the Chamravattam river, he

suddenly felt a severe pain at his heart, so much so that he

was compelled to sit down in the hot sand and thought, his

last hour had come.

But the Lord saw the distress of His

servant and heard the prayers rising up to Him from the lips

of the dying man. A boy saw the helpless man and ordered

a cart, just passing by on the other side of the river, to take

the Catechist to his home.

On his arrival there FEzra felt

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much better and praised the Lord for His wonderful help.

Half an hour later the pain returned and in a few minutes

fo far

he expired. We have lost in him a sincere and converted

§0me

Christian, ever ready to help others.

mer t

on th

2

On the 25th June 1895 the Rev. Salomon Bhaskar, Pastor

pate’

He was the son

at Bettigeri, passed away to his eternal rest.

whick

of a heathen goldsmith, and was born at Bettigeri in 1836.

hore

When a young man, he was employed as teacher in the Basel

God

b

Mission Girls’ School in the same village. This brought him

maly

into close contact with the Mission, and an ardent desire arose

and |

within him to become a Christian.

On the 9th May 1852 he

hette

took the first decisive step by coming over to the Mission

bungalow and breaking caste.

When this was known there

was a great uproar among the villagers; but he remained

Miss;

steadfast and was baptized with two other converts, on the

Wiirt

I3th -of " June 1852

As he was in every respect a talented

ed o

and earnest young man, he was chosen to become a Catechist

whic}

and received the necessary instruction from the Rev. G. Wiirth.

Our

In August 1856 he was called to Guledgudd, where the Rev.

trave

G. Kies had, through God’s blessing, gathered a flourish-

and

ing Congregation.

During his long stay at Guledgudd,

1886‘

extending over 20 years, he proved a most valuable helper

Careg

in preaching to the heathen and in managing the Congre-

Work

gation, where he knew the history and circumstances of every

member.

He was also” greatly respected by the heathen

lOdgij

houg

and was often asked by them to settle their disputes. After

Topg

the great famine, which was a time of great trouble and

e I

anxiety for the Guledgudd Mission, Salomon Bhaskar was trans-

ferred to Hubli, and as he could not bear the climate, to Betti-

Deoy

by

geri.

In 1883 he was appointed to take sole charge of the

ing

Congregation, and as he discharged his duties with great ability

had

and faithfulness, he was ordained as Pastor in the beginning of

ot

1886. The last ten years of his service are, however, marked by

Unipy

a number of severe trials in connection with his Congregation,

the P

which gave him much grief, and appear to have lessened the

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107

help

zeal he had hitherto taken in his work. His health also began

nutes

to fail, and in 1893 he was obliged to go on sick-leave.

After

erted

some months he resumed his work, and the deeper and war-

mer tone of his sermons showed, that the Lord had laid him

on this bed of sickness, to draw him closer to Himself and pre-

astor

pare him to work again joyfully for Him. In 1893 his illness,

1¢ 500

which was consumption, returned with greater force, but he

1836

bore it patiently and used it for quiet conversation with his

Basel

God, till he finished his course in full peace; after stating

b him

many times that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ was his only

ar0se

and his sure and certain hope and that he wished for nothing

7 he

better than to go home to Him.

lssi0n

there

3. Karl Feuchter, the late Superintendént of the Calicut

Mission Tile-Works, was born at Hall in the kingdom of

ained

n the

Wiirttemberg, on the 25th September 1842.

In 1873 he arriv-

ed on thé Mission-field, to take charge of the Calicut Tilery,

ented

sohis

which was at that time still in its infancy. Before he joined

our ranks, he had seen a good deal of the world, having

iirth

Rev

travelled through North Africa, Spain and other countries,

and had served his «Fatherland” as a soldier in the wars of

jtish-

1866 and 1870. From the very beginning of his Missionary

ndd,

career he devoted himself with rare zeal and industry to the

elpef

work entrusted to him.

In the first two years he had his

pgre-

lodgings in Calicut town, but then he removed to a tiny little

AL

then

house, situated in the compound of the Tilery, and in the

monsoon sometimes only accessible by means of a boat. Here

After

gmd

he lived for the subsequent 15 years in the very midst of his

people, happy and contented with his work, which he was ever

rans-

Bett-

trying to improve and extend, and never wearied in promot-

ing the welfare of his employees. Though the Home-Committee

f the

hility

had sanctioned the erection of a bungalow for him, he could

not make up his mind to have it built.

After 17 years of

ng Of

i1 by

uninterrupted labour in India his health gave way, and, on

the advice of his friends, he decided to go home on furlough.

£00;

] the

He came out again in 1891 married, and was stationed at

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Codacal, where he had to perform the difficult and laborious

map,

task of starting a new Tile Factory. The many trials he had

of th

to undergo in connection with this work, told heavily on his

ful a

mind and health.

In April 1895 he was transferred to Calicut

9

him

the old sphere of his labours, but he felt so exhausted and

at B

fatigued that he was scarcely able to make his rounds through

stud;

the factory. Mvrs. Feuchter noticed on the 9th May a peculiar

the 1

weakness about him, but in spite of that he made his usual

the

round in the morning, and though he obviously felt worse, he

8100

could not desist from making his second round at four o’clock

new

in the afternoon. Assisted by his wife, he slowly moved on,

Har

but his strength failed him, and he had to be carried back

his 1

to his house.

Dr. Liebendorfer was called for, and found

age

his condition so serious that he did not entertain much hope

ofa

for his recovery. The next morning he peacefully fell asleep.

3

Iy

The cause of his death seems to have been heat-apoplexy.

ey

He was a true child of God, humble and unpreétentious,

othe

and living a life hid with Christ in God.

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Olp

4. On the 23rd of January 1896 the Rev. Paul Ott, late

1 |

of Mangalore, died at Basel, Switzerland, where he had gone

he

on furlough in 1895, to recruit his health. He was born at

llag(

Ludwigsburg, in South Germany (Wiirttemberg), on the 1st

port

November 1845, of pious parents, who brought him up «in

thes

the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

As a youth he

also

came to Stuttgart, where he joined the Young Men’s Christian

they

Association.

Here through intercourse with Christian friends

of §

and the instrumentality of godly ministers he began to realize

g

fully the blessed truth of salvation as it is in Christ Jesuys.

afte

At the age of 20, he

offered himself for

Missionary

he

work, and referring to the blessed experience of his ac-

Coy

ceptance by Christ, joyfully confessed:

«] know for certain

He

that the Lord Jesus is mine and I am His.”

His fatherly

)

friend, the Rev. F. Miiller, of Stuttgart, late of Tellicherry,

fivg

who warmly recommended him to the Committee of the Basel

of

Mission, gave him the character of a sincere and godly young

feg

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101§

man, whom the love of Christ constrained to enter the service

0 had

of the Mission. He also pointed to the straightforward, cheer-

n hig

ful and kind disposition of his mind, which particularly fitted

licut,

him for the ministry. He was admitted to the Mission College

and

at Basel in 1865, and, on completing the usual course of

ough

studies, appointed for India in 1871.

He came out just at

liar

the time when a religious movement had commenced amongst

isual

the Tulu population in South Canara.

Numerous coanver-

e, e

sions from among these people necessitated the erection of a

clock

new Station at Karkal.

Myr. Ott was ordered to join with M.

1 on,

Hartmann in opening the new Station, which was to become

hack

his first sphere of labour among the heathen.

On his marri-

ound

age in 1875, he was transferred to Udipi, where he had charge

of a number of Out-stations. In the same year he had also the

hope

leep.

privilege on a Sunday to administer holy baptism to 83

new converts, all of whom belonged to Gudde and some

lexy.

0US,

other Out-stations of Udipi.

He was again transferred in

1879 to Mulki, which with its several Churches and Girls’

Orphanage, afforded him many opportunities for activity

Jate

in various directions.

By his practical skill and ability

gone

he was specially fitted for superintending the Girls’ Orpha-

nage, in the management of which he effected most im-

m ab

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portant and beneficial changes.

His chief object in educating

these orphan girls was to lead them to Christ.

But he desired

p u'm

b he

also to fit them for their future sphere of life by training

them in all kinds of house- and field-work done by the women

stian

onds

of the agricultural class.

In 1884, after a period of 12 years’

unceasing labour he went home on furlough, and returned

alize

fesuS.

after eighteen months to his old post in Mulki.

In 1890,

he was appointed to Mangalore to take charge of the

nary

40

Congregation as the successor of the late Rev. A. Mdnmner.

He was also chosen Chairman of the District Committee, which

rhail

The

gave him additional and not always pleasant duties.

hetly

five years of his stay at Mangalore were for him times full

11y

of severe trials and bitter experiences; yet he would never

3asel

feel discouraged, but joyfully and ungrudgingly went on

oung

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110

Re. §

working for his Master and ministering to the souls under his

charge.

Early in 1895 ill-health compelled him to return

culties

to his native land. He did not recover, as he hoped, the health

(Gospe]

and strength for which he and his friends so earnestly prayed.

[ndiaz

loved

Symptoms of a severe liver disease began to develop. From

Christmas 1895, happily spent in the midst of his children,

g1asm

hem

he was entirely confined to his bed. The Sunday previous to

his death he took the Lord’s Supper and, filled with gratitude

sun

when

for all that the Lord had done for him, peacefully awaited

the call of his Master.

His removal into glory was, humanly

to th

speaking, much too early for his family and for the work

2101 1

which sorely needed his further services.

We have lost in

fo th

him a worker, who for his rich experience and sound judg-

to-hot

ment, for his devotion to the work, his kindness and the sin-

2 sin

cerity of his Christian character was held in high esteem and

Jesug

greatly loved by his fellow-brethren.

words

Was (

hut .

We have, besides, to record the death of three veteran

Missionaries, who many years ago retired from the Mission-

hey

Iiked

field, but are still well remembered by their former pupils

and Church-members, many of whom may be called their

8 foy

the

spiritual children.

Thoy

5

The Rev. Leonhard Gottlieb Hanhart, late of Malabar,

at ]

was born, on the 25th of May 1831, in Diessenhofen, Switzer-

a8 g

land. Having lost his father in his earliest childhood, he was

hogy

brought up by his mother, an earnest and thorough Christian,

City

who taught him to love his heavenly Father and whose

Mg

prayers accompanied him on all his ways.

At the age of 20,

ey

he determined to give up the temporal profession he had

Sun

chosen, and become a messenger of the Gospel to the heathen.

I ;

For this purpose he entered the Mission College at Basel,

ne@

and, after a course of six years’ study, was sent to Malabar,

he

where he landed in 1857, after a dangerous voyage round the

fai

Cape of Good Hope.

His first station was Cannanore, where

The

he worked for a few months together with the well known late

ful]

T 1

ler his

Rev. S. Hebich. As soon as he had mastered the first diffi-

refurn

culties of learning Malayalam, he began to proclaim the

health

Gospel to the heathen. .From the very beginning of his

rayed.

Indian career, preaching to the heathen was the work he

From

loved best, and in doing so he showed extraordinary enthu-

Idren,

siasm and indefatigable zeal.

Aided by wiry constitution

he minded neither discomfort, nor the scorching rays of the

ous £o

titude

sun.

He literally could not do enough, and was disconsolate

raited

when a day passed without his having spoken, or preached,

nanly

to the heathen.

He differed from Missionaries in their opi-

nion that the time had not yet arrived to preach the Gospel

work

ost 10

to the followers of Mohammed in Malabar.

In his house-

to-house visits in the North of Cannanore he did not omit

judg-

g §i-

a single Mappilla lodging without setting forth the claims of

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and quietly bore unfriendly

) and

words.

After 17 years of incessant labour in Malabar, he

was obliged in 1874 with his family to proceed to Kurope,

but soon returned to his old sphere of work.

In 1884

feran

he was again compelled to go home.

He would have much

68100

liked to return once more to his beloved Malabar; yea only

)upﬂs

a few weeks before his death, in his 64th year, he entreated

their

the Home Committee to send him out again to India!

Though his ardent desire could not be granted, he had

&bﬂra

at least the pleasure to see his

eldest daughter go out

as a worker to the Medical Mission at Calicut.

He found,

fzer-

) 1728

however, another sphere for activity in connection with the

City Mission at Colmar, Alsace, as an Evangelist and Town-

fian,

hose

Missionary.

In this capacity he worked for the last 10

years of his life with his usual zeal and devotion. * On

{20,

had

Sunday morning, the 25th August 1895, he left his home

in full health, in order to conduct a Gospel Service in a

hen.

neighbouring town.

He had hardly arrived there, when

35911

he was seized with apoplexy, and in a few moments this

har,

. faithful servant of God entered into the joy of his Lord.

the

The deceased was a humble and unpretending Christian,

here

full of faith and love, and indefatigable in his Master’s

Jate

—

service.

It may well be said of him, that he spent himself for

keenly

Jesus.

Semn:

6

In

The Rev. Benignus Griter, late of Mangalore, was born

Jay ast

in North America, on the -12th May 1838. A few years later

Capart

his father returned with his family to Wiirttemberg, where

energ)

Benignus received a sound Christian education.

Whilst he

specia

studied hard for scholastic profession, God in His mercy vouch-

VATIOn

safed him a new heart and stirred him up to do Mission-

under,

work. In 1859, he applied for, and gained admission into, the

nature

Basel Mission College, where he studied for four years, and in

Was u

every respect proved a truly converted, earnest, painstaking

(onvel

and truthful young man.

During his stay there he enjoyed

haild;

the privilege of the guidance of so genial a Principal as

EITE

the late Myr. Josewhans, and of the teaching of superior

As he

theological tutors, and also came in.contact with spirited,

energetic fellow-students from Germany, Sweden, Armenia,

into,

stude;

India and Africa.

The different, and often novel, theological

views which, to better fit the students for their spiritual

f0 i

treaty

warfare, had to be placed before them, caused him a good

deal {of inner struggle, as he was not satisfied merely to

Nong

epth

know of the existence of certain views, but wished to test

their

soundness

for himself.

Being a truly pious man,

Preac

in Il

God kept him from straying from the truth. Thus these strug-

gles were, through God’s grace, a means to intensify his

0we g

of §ip

deep-rooted reverence for God’s Holy Word, and to create in

him the settled conviction, that the Scripture

G

‘can 1n no

the (,

wise be broken.

16spp

In 1863 Griter was sent to Palghat in Malabar, and

owing to his great teaching abilities, placed in charge of the

Spinit

He had the habit

Mis

Anglo-Vernacular Mission School there.

of taking long evening walks, accompanied by some of his

Ingy

the (

more advanced pupils.

The conversation was always in-

structive, and often referred to the one thing needful.

In the *

1§ th

Wiy

short time of a year a strong attachment sprang up between

teacher and pupils.

No wonder, both felt the separation most

Shrm

lay

e

M3

nself for

keenly, when Grdter was appointed tutor in the Theological

Seminary at Mangalore.

In spite of this sudden transfer, which obliged him to

2 horn

15 later

lay aside the study of the Malayalam language, and to learn

Canarese, he threw himself into the new work with all his

Where

He had now found the work for which he was

hilst he

enérgy.

specially fitted and which more and more brought to light his

vouch-

various gifts.

He was a most painstaking teacher, who

Mission-

understood it well to inspire even phlegmatic and stolid

nto, the

natures with the beauty of the Word of God.

But he

and In

was more, he was a sound educationist, whose aim was the

staking

conversion of his pupils, making this the foundation of the

enjoyed

building up of a truly Christian character; for he knew that

ipal 8§

unconverted preachers are only blind leaders of the blind.

;uperior

As he was a prayerful Pastor, he had a surprising insight

pirited,

into, and a remarkable command over, the hearts of his

menia,

students.

Nearly all felt his magnetic attraction, applied

logical

to him for advice and help, and submitted to his surgical

treatment.

Those who were not of the truth dreaded him.

piritual

3 2000

None like he knew how to stir their hearts to their very

rely

f0

depths, when conducting the morning prayers in his turn or

to fest

preaching in the Seminary or in the Native Church, as well as

g mal,

in private conversation.

Many of our Catechists and Pastors

strug

10§

owe next God to him their being reclaimed from the service

i

hla

of sin, yea their conversion and fitness for the work.

ate 10

Graeter knew fully well what kind of men preachers of

i o

When considering their important

the Gospel ought to be.

responsibilities, he felt deeply humiliated at the scanty

spiritual outfit of himself and the present generation of

I ﬂ:ﬂd

of

the

Missionaries.

He could say:

«Behold the

Divine docu-

habit

ment commanding us: ‘Go ye into all the world and preach

of s

the Gospel to every creature’ (Mark xvr, 15); but, alas! where

5 il

is the power? Why can we not cast out devils in His name?

Jn the

th

Why are we unable to speak with new tongues? Why do we

f

el

shrink back from taking up serpents? Why cannot we also

) mOSt

lay }ha,nds on the sick that they recover?” These and similar

15

L AR

114_

disabilities d;apressed him. God’s grace alone helped him to

In tl

addit

become, for the time, reconciled to these days of small things.

Once, however, when a promising young Missionary at Manga-

the

lore in the prime of life succumbed to typhoid fever, he

(it

blamed himself bitterly, that he had not even made an

good

attempt to heal him by prayer and laying on of hands. All

later

these experiences helped to moderate his claims on his

stirr

fellow-labourers, as well as to bear with the young men

petu

whom he had to train for Mission-work, men mostly weak

(

in body, often effeminate, poorly gifted, weak in spiritual

far f

life, and otherwise deficient. There was much disappointment,

thro

but nevertheless his labour of love and patience bore its fruits.

(e

Although Griter so keenly felt the want of a rich out-

B

pouring of the Holy Ghost, he was a preacher whom. Gad

n 1

owned and blessed, whether he preached in the Native Church,

(104

or caused his stentorian voice to be heard in the bazaar.

reac]

Everywhere his words went home to the hearts.

The Eng-

year

lish congregation at St. Paul’s

Church at Mangalore, to

Inget

whom some Missionaries ministered during the absence of

188;

their own clergymen, had ample opportunity again and again

it se

to testify that his preaching was that of a man, who had

follg

divine authority.

of {}

Mention ought to be made, that Grdter, when younger and

Jung

less burdened with other work, was in the habit of visiting

Jear

educated Hindus in the town, and taking part in a lite-

With

rary debating society. He was in turn visited by promising

Gan

young Brahmins, who sought his spiritual guidance; they read

at )]

with him God’s Word and also prayed with him. Only a few,

some after long hesitation, gave themselves up to the Lord;

bay,

4 03

others, however, to his great mortification, failed in decision

and courage, when they ought to have openly confessed

Wag

Christ.

C0m;

Griter’s ability of guiding and directing others fitted him

Sel

Pl

for the office of Secretary of our Mission, to whom is also

entrusted the compilation of our Annual English Reports. In

the,

hfe 1

1879, he was appointed Chairman of the Local Committee.

115

m to

In the interest of the Seminary, and direct Mission-work, this

ings.

additional burden was much to be regretted, especially during

ngi-

the time of inspection by Principal Schotf in 1880-1881, when

, he

Grater had to act as his translator and adviser.

Miuch of the

g al

good he did in these various capacities may possibly sooner or

Al

later be forgotten, yet a goodly number of excellent and

) his

stirring Church and Missionary Hymns in Canarese will per-

men

petuate his memory to coming generations.

weak

Our deceased friend did not always sail on smooth waters,

itual

far from it.

The exhortation of the Apostle, that <“we must

nent,

through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God”

s

(Acts x1v, 22), was also his experience. When he returned to

ouf

Europe for the sake of the health of both himself and his wife

God

in 1872, he had the grief of burying his partner in Trieste

ureh,

(10th October), where she succumbed to dysentery.

He

7aar.

reached Basel with a little boy two years old. After about two

Fing

years he returned again to his old field with a worthy help-

6, 10

meet, In 1883 a number of sufferings began. On the 25th March

e of

1883 the Theological Seminary was burnt down, in revenge,

Then

jgall

it seems, of Grdater’s opposition to plans of wickedness.

| hﬂad

followed six weeks of anxiety owing to the sickness and death

of three of Grditer’s children (8th May, 16th May and 13th

and

June), who fell victims to a strange typhoidic malady. Two

g

years previous to that they had sent two of their children

lite

with an intimate friend of theirs to another Station.

Who

ising

can describe the utter dismay of the small Missionary colony

at Mangalore, when scarcely after a fortnight a promising

ead

) fGW,

boy, who had suddenly died of lockjaw, was brought a corpse in

a cart by the same friend, and that at a time when Mrs. Grdter

ot

15100

was very sick!

All feared for her life.

It was a great

comfort, that the sorely stricken parents submitted them-

el

selves to God’s unsearchable ways, and in a real Christian

spirit gave their friend and his wife credit to have domne

| Jom

4ls0

their utmost, under the existing circumstances, to save the

life of the child.

In

ittee'

15*

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P

After Grdter had assisted in October 1884 at the 50 years’

fast, 1

Jubilee of the Basel Mission at Mangalore, he had to seek

childre

change for himself and his wife in Europe in 1885.

An opera-

from f

tion undergone in the hope of returning once more to India,

of the

brought, him nigh to death’s door, and, without giving him the

more

desired relief, weakened him so as to force him to retire from

heaver

active Mission service.

He then became a Home Agent of our

Mission. As such he had to enlist the sympathy, prayers and

support of the Home Churches, and to advocate the claims of

T

the Mission on special Missionary festivals. Whenever the wea-

of the

ther permitted, it gave him much pleasure to employ his strong

people

voice in open-air meetings.

He spent eight years in this work

Janua

at Cassel and Heidelberg, when he was forced to take the

the 9

humiliating step of asking for his pension,—a cup which he

Paren

had entreated the Lord might pass from him.

4] Dy

Poor man! Blind for years in one eye, and in danger

youth

of gradually losing the sight of the other also, hampered in

often

his movements by bodily infirmity, and now attacked by the

80 the

dire disease of softening of the brain, which was slowly under-

The

mining his constitution!

The shock of an apoplectic fit

advoc

in January 1894 obliged him to keep at home. He became

the )

daily more helpless; and the more the disease advanced, the

in §¢

more restless he became, walking for hours night after night,

inflyg

lead about by his wife.

When her strength failed, a Dea-

youn

coness, and some time later a male attendant, were called

deci(L

in for help.

Dose

On the 19th of February 1895 he got a second apoplectic

i,

stroke. Evidently the Lord hastened his departure. He could

After

scarcely speak, and when he made an attempt, he was often

they

not understood.

Once he lisped: «Sing songs of praise!” and

He

when his wish was complied with, he enjoyed the singing

foup,

greatly. Another time he attempted to sit up in bed, exclaiming

king

with an effort: «Up, let’s meet the Lord!”

Who is not re-

Stat;

minded of the words of Psalm Lxxir, 26:—«My flesh and my

ties (

heart faileth, but God is the strength of my heart and my

portion for ever.”

Das

When it was evident that he was sinking

his ¢

_117

) years’

fast, in the morning of the 22nd February, Mrs. Grdter. his

fo seek

children and his brother were singing, praying and reading

from the Book of Life.

Opea-

Towards noon, whilst the Church bells

) India,

of the town of Esslingen were ringing, our dying brother once

him the

more opened both his eyes wide, his face beaming with a

e from

heavenly light, and he departed to his Lord and God.

E. D.

of our

s and

pims of

7

The Rev. Christian Miiller, the last among the pioneers

16 Wed-

of the Basel Malayalam Mission, entered into the rest of the

strong

people of God at Heidenheim in Wiirttemberg, on the 25th

January 1896, at the ripe age of 77 years. He was born on

s work

ke the

the 21st January 1819 in the Black Forest, of God-fearing

parents.

His father died in 1832 with the words on his lips:

ich be

From his

«I have a desire to depart and be with Christ”.

youth Miiller had many opportunities to realize the difference

langer

ol 10

often existing between orthodox and real spiritual Christianity,

so that he could judge for himself from the fruits of both.

y the

inder-

The pious circles to which he had access, were warm

advocates of Mission-work.

Among these may be named

o fit

0316

the Moravian Colony at Konigsfeld, and a godly clergyman

in Schwenningen, who through his teaching and piety greatly

1, the

influenced him.

About this time he met there a converted

night,

young man who wished to become a Missionary.

Both

Dea-

called

decided to walk in the ways of the Lord, and with full pur-

pose of heart to serve Him among the heathen.

In 1838

Miiller found admission into the Missionary College at Basel.

Jectic

After four years’ hard study he was sent to India, to streng-

conld

then the Mission in Malabar, which had been begun in 1839.

often

He was stationed at Tellicherry.

During his stay there he

] Md

founded the Mission Station Chombala, which was at first a

pging

kind of horticultural colony. The superintendence of this new

il

Station afforded him ample opportunity to taste all the anxie-

)t re.

ties of an estate-manager, employer, medical adviser, teacher,

1 my

pastor and almoner, but he had also the satisfaction of seeing

| mj

]kiﬂg

his efforts crowned with success. In a,vill his efforts for the

118

Sl e

spiritual and temporal welfare of this infant Church he was

finent

ably supported by his wife.

the

in M

Great were the struggles that had to be undergone by the

first young Christians in order to escape the service of sin; but

gxten

greater still proved the power of Christ revealed in them, so that,

A

in spite of many shortcomings, one was forced to exclaim:

SRl

“Old things are passed away, behold! all things are become

Lord

new!” It was a real treat to converse with these simple

pati

Christians, of whom and of their children many became valu-

his

able agents of the Mission.

with

In 1857 Miiller was transferred to Cannanore, where he

year

experienced a good deal of worry and anxiety on account of

thelr

the Out-station Chowa.

On the 6th of January 1860 his faith-

para

ful partner fell asleep in the Lord. All this affected his health

dom

so much, that he was forced to seek restoration in Germany

take

in 1861.

He returned, in 1862, with his second wife, who

reck

greatly helped him in the superintendence of the Girls’ Orpha-

thou

nage at Cannanore and then, after their transfer to Tellicherry,

mm

of the Boys’ Orphanage there.

This cheerful and experienced

doy

helpmate died on the 2nd August 1870. Miiller's work was

ang

now in Tellicherry-Town, where he had charge of a Congrega-

sing

tion, schools and evangelistic work. To carry on all this work,

dely

he found it necessary to marry again in 1873. After 36 years

is 9

of trying work in India and on account of bodily suffering

Sar

he felt at last the necessity of retiring from the Mission-field

in 1878.

larg

Wor

The Malabar Mission lost in him an humble, unpretending,

and zealous labourer, ready at all seasons to advocate the

Iy

thig

claims of the Gospel. He knew so well how to enter into con-

versation with anybody he might meet by the way, whether

the person was busy or idle, friendly or the opposite. In

Chombala he spent his leisure under the shadow of the trees

on the highway, which was only a short distance from his

bungalow. His proficiency in Malayalam, his knowledge of

native character and ways, combined with good humour and

friendliness, helped to smooth the path. He was an extremely

119

R

10 Was

fluent Malayalam preacher; possibly he spoke too rapidly for

the majority of his hearers.

He also wrote some small books

by the

in Malayalam.

Tu English too, he was an earnest and good

b} but

extempore preacher.

0 that,

After his return home he spent 17 years in retirement,

claim!

seizing every opportunity which offered to witness for his

)ecome

Lord and Master, and advocate the cause of Missions, and

simple

patiently waiting for the coming of Christ.

A year before

valu-

his death he wrote a short sketch of his life, which concludes

with the following words:

«Having now completed my 76th

ore he

year, I have every reason to be ‘like unto men that wait for

ant of

their Lord’.

Therefore I am continually reminded of the

faith-

parable in Matth. xvir, 23. 24, which runs thus: ‘The king-

health

dom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, which would

rmany

take account of his servants, and when he had begun to

, who

reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten

thousand talents’.

Dare I to hide the truth from my

Jiphe-

hertys

mind that I am that servant? In ‘case I should try to fall

ienced

down and worship him, saying: ‘Lord, have patience with me,

\k Was

and I will pay thee all’, would there be forthcoming one

gregd-

single pound to pay down as an instalment of that crushing

york,

debt? I am undone, undone! But praise be to God! There

is an immense and countless fortune, which my Lord and

years

foring

Saviour Jesus Christ has paid into the Heavenly Treasury,

large enough to outweigh my sins, and those of the whole

pfield

world. In this faith I purpose spending the days, which God

may still grant me. May He help me to live and to die in

nd

1085

e the

this faith.”

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(ol

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Subscriptions and Donations

A, Han

M. Ger

Towards the Mission-Fund

James |

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Received during the year 1895.

Mrs, B

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7. Kolb

W. Ma

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ledged in the Report for 1896.

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MERCARA.

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H. Welsh Esq.

25

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Mrs, B

F. Foulkes Esq.

20

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pay of Catechist Nath.

Mr, W

Couchman Esq.

20

Shatananda

50

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10

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Mrs. G. F. Meiklejohn

5

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Rev. A. Fennell

20

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20

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12

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15

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30

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W. Wright Esq.

12

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10

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G. W. Betham Esq.

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Mrs. Betham

Middle School.

Mrs. Duggan

Mr. W. Jukes

12

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50

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J. L. Johnston Esq.

10

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J. Fairlie Muir Esq.

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J. Partridge Esq.

10

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— Praes Esq.

F. Goldsmith Esq.

14

Mr. N. Thorley

18

T.A.H. Eiliot Esq.c.1.E.,1.C.8. 10

Mrs. W. Wright

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5

25

G. W. Betham Esq.

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Mrs. L. Betham

T. Davidson Esq.

20

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M. L. Cameron Esq.

E. H. Moscardi Esq.

10

L. J. Crowe Esq.

H. Ingle Esq.

E. F. M. Davidson Esq.

M. Philips Esq.

Mrs. Duggan

Mr. E. Jones

10

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J. L. Johnston Esq.

70

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W. Wright Esq., Mercara

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Orphanage

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Mr. H.

Mrs. W. V. Baker, Thanks-

Mrs. Macrae

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N. N.

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A. Brown Esq.

Dr. Soldan

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Mrs. H. Winterbotham

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W. Maylor Esq.

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Subscriptions and Donations towards the Sick-house

and Poor-Fund at Mangalore.

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Page.

List of European Missionaries

.

.

Statistical Tables

Table of Stations, Out-stations and Agents

12

Report

Introductory Remarks

.

18

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20

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°

26

2.

The Native Church: 4. Numerical Increase

.

29

B. Conversions from Heathenism

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44

C. Moral and Religious Life of Christians

3.

Evangelistic Efforts: 4. Itinerancy

.

56

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70

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Educational Work

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73

A. Schools for Christians

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84

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Medical Mission

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90

6.

Industrial Establishments

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Literary Department

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