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European Missionaries

of the Basel German Evangelical Mission.

Corrected up to the 1st May 1900.

[The letter (m) after the names signifies “married”, and the letter (w) “widower”.

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

| Date of

Name

Native

] Active

Station

Country

| Service

India

1860

Kaity (Coonoor)

. Stokes (m)

i

Walter (m)

Switzerland

1865

Vaniyankulam®

%

Ritter (m)

Germany

1869

Mulki (8. Canara)

A. Brasche (m)

do.

1869

Udipi

do

1870

Sikemeier (m)

Holland

Merecara (Coorg)

:

-Schonthal (m)*

Germany

1870

Cannanore

:

irner (m)*

do.

1871

Mangalore

do.

1872

do.

Hermelink (m)

Grossmann (m)

Switzerland

1874

Kotageri (Nilgiri)

umann (m)*

do.

1874

Mangalore

%

.

L

1875

itze (m)

Germany

Kaity (Nilgiri)

12

B. Veil (m)*

do

1875

Mereara (Coorg)

13

L. J.Frohnmeyer (m)

do

1876

Tellicherry (Nettur)

14

do

1876

do.

A. Ruhland (m)

15

C. G. Eblen (m)

do

1876

Udipi

16

J. G. Kithnle (m)

do

1878

Palghat (Malabar)

17

do

1878

Mangalore

H. Altenmiiller (m)*

18

Chr. Keppler (m)

do

1879

Udipi

19

J. Jaus (m)

do

1879

Calicut

20

Stierlin (m)*

do

1880

Mangalore

21

do

1880

W. Dilger (m)

Cottayam *

22

Ernst (m)

do

1881

Mangalore

23

Eisfelder (m)

do

1882

Summadi-Guledgudd

24

R OM S

do

1883

Cannanore

Schaal (m)

25

=

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Schaible (m)

do

1883

Mangalore

26

Hole (m)

do

1884

Palghat

27

Switzerland

1885

Hubli

Berli (m)

28

Peter (m)

do

1885

Cannanore

29

Huber (m)*

do

1886

Mangalore

30

Glattfelder (m)*

do

1886

do.

1887

do.

31

SO gOR

Sieber (m)*

do

32. W. Bader (m)

Germany

1888

Codacal (Malabar)

1) Stat. Ottapalam.

2) Engaged in Bible Revision work.

1*

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y

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Date of

‘Name

A.ctive

Station

Country

Service

33. H. Risch (m)

Germany

1888

Honavar (N. Canara)

do

1889

34. G. Wieland (m)

Kaity (Nilgiri)

35.

Ph. Stier (m)

do

1891

Basrur-Kundapur

36.

F. Boas (m)*

do

1891

Codacal, (Malabar)

37.

do

1892

Th. Uber (m)

Chombala, Mahe, ,,

38.

M. Breidenbach (m)

do

1892

Mangalore

39.

Tr. Lutz (m)

Switzerland

1892

Summadi-Guledgudd

40.

1893

J. Bachle (m)

Germany

Mulki (Canara)

41.

K. Mayer (m)

do

1893

Bettigeri-Gadag

42.

A. Metz (m)

do

1893

Bijapur, 8. Mahratta

43.

do

1894

44.

0. Eckelmann (m)*

Codacal (Malabar)

P. Borel (m)

do

1894

Kasaragod (Canara)

45.

Ch. Fritz (m)

do

1894

Apandapur (Coorg)

46.

P. Sengle (m)

do

1894

47,

Tellicherry (Nettur)

Ch. Gebhardt (m)*

do

1894

Palghat

48.

Tr. Reusch (m)

do

1895

Dharwar

49,

Joh. Knobloch *

do

1895

Calicut

50. W.Stokes, m.5., ¢.u. 6p.* India.

1895

do.

51

R. Schilling (m)

Switzerland

1895

Chombala (Malabar)

52

G. Fischer (m)

Germany

1896

Karkal (8. Canara)

53

do

F. Heinecken (m)

1896

Bettigeri-Gadag

54

A. Schosser (m)

do

1896

Puttur (s. Canara)

55

J. Miiller (m)

do

1896

Udipi

56

do

1896

H. Wolpert

Anandapur (Coorg)

57

E. Lithi

Switzerland

1896

Basrur-Kundapur

58

H. Kiihner (m)*

Germany

1896

Calicut

59

Switzerland

1896

Cannanore

H. Eidenbenz (m)*

60

W. Rath

Germany

1896

Hubli

61

L. Weber *

do.

1897

Mangalore

62

Chr. Diirr

do.

18917

63

Kasaragod

G. Renschler

do.

1897

Vaniyankulam

64

K. Bueseh*

do.

1897

Calicut

65

W. Spaich

1898

Puttur (8. Canara)

66

Germany

H. Stokes *

India

1898

Mangalore

67

K. Gross *

Germany

1898

do.

68

M. Stuckert (m)*

Switzerland

1898

do.

69

'W. Heckelmann *

Germany

1898

Calicut

70

Fr. Braun

do.

1898

Dharwar

T

Fr. Singer

do.

1898

Codacal

Name

Native

Date of

Active

Country

Service

Station

72. A. Scheuer

1899

3

A, Beierbach *

Germany

Te]licherry

do

1899

Mangalore

74

J. Pfleiderer

do

1899

do.

75

J. Maue

do

1899

Cannanore

76

L. Fraas *

do

1899

Calicut

7

H. Haffner *

do

1899

Cannanore

78

H. Hofmann *

do

1900

Calicut

Single Ladies.

79

Miss E. Kaundinya

India

1897

Mangalore

80

Miss H. Krauss

Germany

1898

do.

81

Switzerland

1900

Calicut

82

Miss A. Ehrensperger

Sister K. Fritz

Germany

1900

do.

At Home.

83

M- Hoch (m)

Switzerland

1876

late of Mangalore

84

C. D. Warth (w)

1878

do

Hubli

85

Germany

I. Weismann (m)

do.

1878

do

Chombala

86

J. Fischer (m)

do.

1881

do

Anandapur

87

J. Waidelich (m)

do.

1885

do

88

Bettigeri

0. Bode (m)

do.

1886

do

Dharwar

89

Paul Buchli (m)*

Switzerland

1887

do

Mangalore

90

R. Bosshardt (m)

do.

1888

do

Codacal

91

Fr. Volz (m)*

Germany

1888

do

Calicut

92

J. Bucher (m)

do.

1890

do

Mangalore

93

H.Bretschneider (m)*

do.

1890

do

Udipi

94

do.

1891

do

95

. W. Jung (m)*

Mangalore

. 8. Stamm (m)*

Switzerland

1891

do

do.

96

. O. Singer (m)

Germany

1891

do

Honavar

97

. K. Hiller

Australia

1894

do

98

Palghat

. J. Fahrenberger

Germany

1895

do

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Agents of the Mission

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Native Agents

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1834

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1845

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Contribu-

towards the

tions

Church

Mission-

towards the

Expenses

Poor-funds

work

E

Rs

As

P

Rs

As

l)

NS

~J

As

Rs

As

7

320

194

Mangalore

57ﬂ

13

34

10

2

;

Jeppu

157|

46r 1

27|

«Z

Bockapatna

200,

f7)

46

5

21 4

A

44t

_:.

4

Total

932 3

413

243

12

468

Mulki

5

53

%

15

113

67

Udipi-Malpe

14

105

16|

5

141

10

240/

Karkal

32

14

21

13

Basrur-Kundapur

48

2

o S

23

25j‘

Kasaragod

°

65

&

11

43

2

Mercara .

56

73

|

—

S

14

39

12

|

3

Anandapur

33

[}

ot

DD D g O kDl o ot

149

14

g o5 o o

35;

|

Dharwar

34

34

0o

Do

[y

16

12

Hubli

93

i

:i))

55

>

70

15

i

Bettigeri-Gadag .

121;

60

s

<

15

52

Guledgudd

102

35|

—

D

L

38

11

& O W

i)

Bijapur

17

14

By Oe 0 =0 W LD WOy i Oy 0000 00

(ij

11

Honavar-Karwar

28

10

16|

-3

& o

13

2

Q]

Cannanore

653

121

&)

265

128

10

Tellicherry, Nettur

23

66

e

&

()3

11

166

10

Chombala-Mahé

29

56

159

[0 opi(Se)

166

-1

Calicut

772

190

14

RO =D O DD b e el D D N e S O

7

319

=

9

Codacal .

88

10

5

60

o |

Vaniyankulam

45

A

28

i

32

-

{4

Palghat

03

15

50

14

D = O

83

D

79

14

Kaity

146;

67

11

Do

89

58

ok

[ )

Kotageri

(E(ij

45

32

10

35

12

soj

|

29

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1708

4| 1506

9|

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coloo

@

Total in 1898 | 4499] o| 7 3774‘563

6| 1495| 9| 11] 2144| 6| 10

foupaie N

*

of the Churches towards

Mission and the Poor

/1899.

Special

Collections

Special

Special

for the

Collections

Collections

Collections for

for Bible

Total

Malabar

Societies

for local

Orphanages

Widow-

purposes

fund

As

Rs

As

Rs

As

Rs

As

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Rs

As

21

ot

=t

16

3

298

14

1774

10

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303

12

192

~3

331

5

27

IOO

ot

—t

24

10

298

14

2409

4 |

13

12

300

15

12

16

10

1d

532

12

(E

86

@

112

o

14

12

12

22

1t

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243

1.4

10

13

z

226

[3o)

13

g

280

»

13

21

e

14

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271

=

I

24

—

298

@

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219

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54

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—

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10

75

15

15

42

40

1281

10

13

19

12

20

671

21

11

24

16

674

20

35

16

162

1523

12

10

36

5

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812

=

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143

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25

470

28

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510

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258

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L

P

Table of Schools of the Basel

1st JANUARY

Pupils in Schools for Christians

Training and Boarding Schools

Day Schools

STATIONS

Schools

Girls’ Orphanages

Middle and High

School Classes

Number of Schools

Theological Schools

Training Schools

Middle and High

Boys’ Orphanages

Primary Classes

I. South-Canara

14

w0

Mangalore

ND

Mulki

-3

10

10

e

-1

Udipi

Karkal

24

Basrur-Kundapur

11

%

%

OO QO O H

[N T S S

Kasaragod

45

ore © O O OO

69

10

- OO O O O

1007

:

II. Cooryg.

Mercara

©=)

[e=)

5

(==}

:

14

(=]

Anandapur (Am'mat.ti)

S

{()ég);

14

‘%E

(o)

|

II1.

Southern Mahratta.

Dharwar

21

26

10

Hubli

82

II

Bettigeri-Gadag

16

63

12

Guledgudd

63

13

Bijapur

14

Honavar

g

g

1

((3%

28

(oo S {em il em i e ey (o)

37

65

234

%

IV.

Malabar.

202

20

ic

Cannanore

é

16

Tellicherry

[y

5

105

27

10

80

Chombala (

18

Calicut

Mahef:)

235

45

19

Codacal .

301

12

20

Vaniyankulam

21

Palghat

°

%

%

Rl RUYRE, ) (e

%;:

45

{

e

3| Ot QO O & ~3 == Ot

SO @D OO D OO

6

50

E;%

107

888

184

V. Nilgiris.

®

40

Kaity

N W

(SRS

Kotageri

9

0

0

46

20

37

(55)

+

| O Mo

15

86

Grand Total. ..

154

11

12

1501

2

C3)

g

207

228

32

Total of 1st January 1899

157

17

30

163

88 | 263

222

eali L S S RS

German Evangelical Mission.

1900.

Schools for

Total of Pupils under instruction

Non-Christians

Boys

Girls

Total

Schools

School Classes

Non-Christians

Christians

Non-Christians

Infant

Sunday Schools

Primary Classes

Middle and High

Christians

(S}

(5}

[}

»

25

E

592

214

150

1201

]42

617

121

108

7

303

314

199

116

38

667

0

24

10

OgO

(.é

168

122

30

168

635

41

20

533

1‘)

111

676

1386

291

661

1575

467

" 336

3039

(E(zi

152

12

22

0

39

37

78

48

49

100

55

115

34

166

T

217

78

0

42

92

26

160

35

221

34

360

80

220

104

110

34

108

94

248

i

139

14T

42

((é)

39

(%i)

L e

682

115

22

z

765

174

33

1194

(;(é

191

235

30

112

241

110

24

487

58

242

50

844

131

456

191

146

536

112

255

168

40

393

155

22

610

423

281

168

597

144

(o

984

174

44

114

266

313

198

140

1l

662

W

219

59

21

220

28

2178

47

12

342

12

107

234

63

37

246

g

2088

792

83

2431

655

284

4207

114

805

673

81

629

27

41

778

161

182

24

199

317

268

30

855

105

828

64

49

1046

0

191

5011

1202

5602

1409

} 702

9586

193

1330

1873 |

4537 |

1184

1805 |

5184

1364

622

9015

135

1083

2*

P

12

Detailed Table of Stations, Out~Stations,

and Agents, 1st January 1900.

|

e =

e e e o

Stations

Native Agents:—

and

|

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

Out-Stations

|

Christian Headmasters

1

of High Schools

1. Mangalore

a. Pastoral

a. Pastoral and Evangelistie

Balmatha, Madikeri-

Rev. M. Schaible, 77

!

ork

gudde, Nireshwalya,

charge of station, Nati ¢

Rev. S. Andrea, Balmatia

Jeppu, Bockapatna-

Church, Chairman of the

» M. Salis, Peppu

Kudroli, Bolur.

District Committce

n

Obed Sumitra,

Rev. M. Breidenbach, 747.

Bockapatna

Out-Stations -

Rev. W. Spaich, szud.

|

eney

”

J- Soens, Bolma

Bolma, Ullal, Bantwal, ] b.

Educational

Cat. Benjamin Ananda, 7#/.

|

Rev. J. Hermelink, #¢n.

n

Gottlob Maben, 7z7.

and Bible Rewvision.

»

E. Karat, itin.

Rev. K. Ernst, Theol.

Seminary, Bible Revision;

Joshua Soens,

Madikerigudde

Dist. and Gen. [nsp. of

Schools

”

Abraham Heri, Bolma

Rev. J. Bucher, High Schh.

Miss E. Kaundinya,

| b. Educational Work

Brakmin Girls’ School

Miss H. Krauss, Congr.

Cat. Chr. Watsa 1T7?60l(?g.

Girls’ School

Semi-

N

Ch. Maben J

nary

Mercantile

S. Karat

High

Mr. H. Altenmiiller, Gend.

”

Joel Rajiva

}

School

Agent & Treasurer

»

J. Sieber, M. M.-Br.

k2l

L. Fernandez, Bantwal

School

P. Buchli, #. M.-Br.

d

L. Weber, M. M.-Br.

n

Bs Shini

fndustrial

Fr. Jathana

Mr. G. Hirner, Fress

”

F. Huber, Gen. Agent,

o succeed

9

S. Stamm, Book Depit.

F. Stierlin, Weav. Esz.

M

Stuckert, Kwudrodi

Z7de-Works

A

Glattfelder, Feppu

>

Zile-Works

9

K

Gross,

do.

do.

”

H

0

Stokes,

Mechanical Works

A

Beierbach, Press

13

Stations

Native Agents:—

and

|

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

Out-Stations

;}

Christian Headmasters

|

|

of High Schools

=

2. Puttur

Rev. A. Schosser, 2z charge

fvang. G. Bangera,

of the station

Cat. Paul Soens, zzu.

» Joseph Pramodana, 77%.

;

3. Mulki

Rev. G. Ritter, iz charge of

Rev. Charles Gojar, Melk:

Out-Stations:

stalion

and Orphanage,

Congregation

|

Karnad, Hadike,

Congregation

|

Im. Furtado, Zdur

Santur, Uchila, Padur, | Rev. J. Bichle, 7#n.

Cat. J. Vedamuttu, Kutyar

Kutyar, Munderu.

”

Benjamin Salins, Santur

”»

J. Aarons, Mundern

”

T. Jeremia, Uckila

9

G. Premaya, Kadike

n

N. Kundara, 7.

4. Udipi

Rev. J. A. Brasche, Chris¢. | Rev. Nahason Vira, Gudde

Out-Stations :

High School and Oy phanage

Congregation

Parkala, Shepura,

Rev. Ch. Keppler, Cozgreg.

U

Tim. Furtado, Siirvae

Malpe, Udyavara, Gudde,

and out-stations | Cat. Sam. Furtado, Malpe

Shirva-Kattupadi,

Rev. C. G. Eblen, :%n. and

”

Koppala-Ambadi,

out-stations

N. Suchitta, Udyavara

”

Joseph Kairanna, Udipi

Madambail-Kurkal,

Rev. J. Miiller,

Halyanapur-Bolmar.

Y

G. Bangera, Ambadi

ilinerancy and out-stations

Mr. H. Bretschneider,

”

A. Furtado, Madambail

Tile-Works, Malpe

”

Eb. Clare, Farkala, itin.

T. Ammanna, Udipi,etin.

”

M. Jayanta, Kalyanapur,

i¢in.

Amruta Heri, Udipi, itin.

|

9

Raph. Satyavrata Udip:

High School

|

5. Karksl

Rev. G. Fischer, Congrega.

Cat. Daniel Andrea, Kartkal

Out-Stations -

ard itin.

Congregation

Mudar, Nandolige,

Rev. Chr. Diirr, 7#7%.

»

Joseph Bhagyan, #Zn.

Hekkadka.

”

Samuel Sumitra, 7Z7.

)

6. Basrur

Rev. Ph. Stier, Congregation

Evang. Winf. Micha,

Out-Stations -

and itin.

Cat. Immanuel Soens, /Z7.

Hundapur, Kailkeri,

Rev. E. Liithi, iZ7n.

”

Asser. Karat, iZn.

Barkur,

”

Stephen Jathana, Cozng.

and itin.

n

W. Heri, itn.

n

Hezekiel Bangera, 4.

Assist. Cat. Ch. Manjaru,

74i72.

P

14

Stations

Native-Agents:—

Pastors, Catechists and

and

European Agents

Christian Headmasters

Out-Stations

of High Schools

7. Kasaragod

Rev. P. Borel

Congr. and | Evang. Gerson Soen

tliner ancy

Hosadurga

%

Oui-Stations

(Rev. A. Schosser, Futtur)

Cat. Jesudasa Melottu,

Ravaneshvara,

Kasaragod, itin

Hosadurga, Bekal

»

Ariel Sumitra, 74n

Humbla, Bela,

1. Eliezer, Manjeshvara

Bangaramanjeshvara,

Christananda Salis, Azm

Hosabettu-Manjeshvara,

W. Amos Kundara

Nileshvara

"

Hosaduroa

”

Sal. Bangera, Ravan

”

G. Fernandez. Niieshva

”

Eb. Aarons, Hosadurga

”

Isaiah Bangera,

8. Mercara

Rev. W. Sikemeier, Congr

Cat. G. Almanda, Congr

and out-stations

and Schools

Out-Stations

North

Fraserpet, Chembu,

”

N. Shatananda

Rev. W. Rath, Congr. and

Coorg. itinerancy

Sundikoppa

1lirn.

”

S Sumanta, -

"

Me. J..B. Veil, M. W.-Br

Assst. Gat: 'E-Salins, 72

PN

9. Anandapur

Rev. J. Fischer, Congregat

Cat. Daniel Santvana, Cozg

and itin

and itin.

tlin

Rev. H. Wolpert—

”

Im. Jivottama,

”

Joseph Bangera,

2]

10. Dharwar

| Rev

Cat. Israel Dalabhanjana,

O. Bode, Congrega

and ilin

Congregation and itin

Rev

Py

Reusch, Dist

”

Bhagya Alada, izin

Hanoch Adina, Sz. Howme

|

Insp. of Schools, High

”

School- Students’ Home

Asst. Cat. R. Hittalamane

Mr. Alex. Jaganadhan, B.A.,

studying

)Rev I. Pfleiderer,

Canarese

Headmaster, Higlh Schood

11. Hubli

Rev. D. Berli, Congr. étzs.

Rev. S. Devada, Congration

Out-Stations

(ma’ Secular Agent of

Cat. Jos. Dalabhanjana

the District

Unakalln

Unakallu, Hebsur

Rev.

itin

"

Jason Schalla,

iin

K. Mayer

Rev

R.. Biichner

”

”

David Jesudasa,

"

Rev

H. Risch, 2o take charge

”

Devaputra Hebbala, ,

of Homowar | Ass. Catt. Anan. Gunjala, ,

12. Bettigeri-

Rev

J. Waidelich, Congr.,

Cat. Zach. Kanaka, Congr

Channa Halli, ZZn.

Gadag

tnervancy

i‘E

Rev. Fr. Heinecken, Sckools

”

Jacob Davala,

n

Out-Stations

”

Sam. Havala

b

and Shagot:

Shagoti, Malasamudra

»

Joh. Prabhakar, Skagoz

Asst. Cat. M. Suvarna, #Zn

"

”

Da. Gonda, Mala

()]

Native Agents:—

Stations

Pastors, Cate hists, and

and

Huropean Agents

Cnrlstlan Headmastexs of

Out-Stations

High Schools

Rev. F.Eisfelder, Orphanage

Cat. Stephan Sagri, Cong7»

13. Guledgudd

Guledoudd

out-stations, Chaivman of

Out-Stations

the District Committee

"

Shanta Budigi, #Ziz

Kardenhaili,

Rev. Fr. Lutz, Congregation,

”

St. Mathapati, 7Z7

Halkurki,

zin

”

Sol. Jogula, Aard. Cong.

Mushtigeri

Rev. Fr. Braun, sfudying

D. Katapur, Mushtiger:

Asst Cat. Isr. Aralikatte,

Canarese

itinerancy

”

”

H. Challa, Halk

1linerancy

Cat. Ananda Rona

2ln

14. Bijapur

Rev. A. Metz, in charge of

station, tiin

”

Sal. Ramthal, Congr. ,

Asst. Cat. Sat. Basutkar

N

Rev. O. Singer

station and

15. Honavar

Ev. S. Bunyan, Azrwar

Out-Stations

1lm

Cat. Joseph Sunita, iZi7n

Herangadi, Anilgodu,

Harwar,

18. Cannanore

Rev. K. Schaal,Congregation

Rev. Tob. Chembankodan

Out-Stations

ete. Distr. Insp

of Schools

Chowa

Rev

G. Peter

Cat. Ch. Hermon, Congrega

tlinerancy

Cannanore

Chowa, Chirakal

Taliparambu, Payyanur

» J. Maue, studying Mal

”

P. Sneham, 24n. Chira

Mr. W. P. Schonthal

Weaw-

»

Ph. Mackadan, ¢in. 7alip

ing [stablishment

n

W. Fernandez, itinerancy

7}

H. Eidenbenz,

"

»

Fayyanur

"

H. Haffner

Tailory

St. Parakandi, 7zin Cann

”

Asst. Cat. Ebenezer Bethel

itin. Chowa

Rev. L. J. Frohnmeyer

Rev. George Peter, Nettur

17. Tellicherry

Secretary and Chairman

Congreoalion

Out-Stations

of the Mission, in charge of

Samuel Ambattu

2lin

Anjarkandy,

the station,

Theological

Ev

Cat. Ant. Valiatingara, z2:

Kuttuparambu,

Seminary and Tracning

Dharmapattanam,

School

”

Henry Roberts, Christ

High School

Erinyoli.

R

A. Ruhland, Christian

High School

”

Noah Edapalan, 7"%eolog

Rev. Th. Uber, Farsi High

Seminary, Training Sch

School

»

Noah Benjamin, Congre

Telbicherry

Rev. P. Sengle, 7eological

Seminary

”

Deva. Mantodi, z#n

Asst

Cat.

N

Kallarikkal

Rev. A. Scheuer

studying

Malayalam

2lin

Head-

Mr. J. Kurian, B.A

master, Chr. High Sch

=

5

16

Stations

Native Agents:—

and

Pastors, Catechists and

European Azents

Christian Headmasters

Out-Stations

of High Schools

Cat

18. Chombala-

Rev

I. L. Weismann,

Henry Menzel, Congr.

Mahe

”

Johan. Amengara, Makhe

in charge of station

Out-Stations .

and Orphanage

Cyprian Arunachalan,

Muverattu, itin.

Mahé, Badagara,

St. Chattotu, Badagara,

!

Rev

R. Schilling, Sckools

Rluverattu, Perambara,

itin.

Payoli, Harakadu.

and itinerancy

”

Samuel. Mantody,

FPerambara, itin.

Asst. Cat. Elias Nambi, zz7

”

”

P. Karunagaran,

FPerambara, itin.

19. Calicut

Rev. J. J. Jaus, in charge

Rev. Jonas Padiath, Calicus

of station and Schools

Congregation

0ut—Siatians i

Ev. Ashama. Tumaran, 7%7.

Mr.Joh.Knobloch, High Sch.

Cat. B. Ponon, Congregation

Coilandy, Pudiarakal,

Pudiaralkal

|

Pudiangadi,

Dr. W. Stokes,

Markat, Malapuram,

Medical Mission

”»

Paul Selvan, Cal. Congr.

Lawrence Puvattur,

Manjeri.

Mr

H. Kihoer, M. M.-B.

High School

|

»

K. Buesch, Weav. Est.

Sol. Mackaden, Coil. /¢in.

N

‘W. Heckelmann,

Paul Chandran,

»

”

Devap. Amengaran,

Tile-Works

Markat

”»

L. Fraas, study. Mal.

»

Is. Chowalur, Man. itin.

”

Fredric Nambi,

Mabapuram, itin.

Assts Cats

Pavamani,

Medical Mission

n

»

L. Pavamani, 7Z/#.

20. Codacal

Rev

W. Bader, szation,

Rev. St. Kallat, Congr. Cod.

Out-Stations .

Congregation

Cat. Isaac Laban, iZz.

Paraperi, Ponani,

”

Fr. Singer, stud. Mai.

{|

Pallat, Tritala,

”

Isaac Amatil, Feraperi

|

Mr. O. Eckelmann,

Congregation, Orph.

Chittatakara,

Orphanage and Secular

Chalasheri.

”n

Charly Kottavalapil,

Agent of the District

Fallat, itinerancy

Mr. ¥. Boas, 7%= Works

”

Joseph Taddai,

Lonant, itin.

Dan. Edakaden, ,,

"

L. Napalli, Chalasheri

»

Winfred Mantody,

Chittalakara, itin.

-

i

i\

17

i

Stations

Native Agents:_

and

Pastors, Catechists and

European Agents

Out-Stations

Christian Headmasters of

High Schools

21. Vaniyan-

Rev. S. Walter, station, itin

Cat

Abr. Arungadan, 7#7n.

kulam

Chairman of Malasbar

»

Jos. Mantodi

”

Out-Stations

District

Abia Edapalan

Angadipuram

)

Angadipuram,

Rev. G. Renschler, schools

Shoranur, Panamanna,

and studying Malaya

”

Bethuel Poyayil

28D

”»

Jacob Cheeran, izin.

Ottapalam, Tirikatiri

Asst Cat. J. Valiavalappan,

Congr. and Hospital

22. Palghat

Rev. K. Hole, 77z charge

Rev. Tim. Parakandi, Congr.

Out-Stations

of station and schools

Melpa rambu

Olavakkoda,

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Samuel Satyanathan

Sailas, Yedekadu

Denale, Tuneri,

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Rev. Ch. Fritz, Coonoor,

Halhatti, Nellakotta.

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EPORT.

AR A

HE nineteenth century is one that marks an immense

advance in the development of the human race. Along

@ with the great inventions and discoveries of this century

and to a large extent supported by them there has been such

a manifestation of the propagating power of Christianity as

never before witnessed. In the Kingdom of God we are placed

front to front with the unmistakable and remarkable fact

that in the nineteenth century by the activity of many Mis-

sion-societies the Gospel of man’s salvation in Christ has

reached the utmost ends of the earth. The command of our

Lord to go and to teach all nations by means of the Gospel,

the promise that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow;

and the will of God that all men shall be helped and shall

be brought to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ, —

all this we see in our days in an extraordinary manner ap-

proaching its accomplishment. The consideration of this great

fact and of such a powerful witness of history ought to go

far in putting down our little belief and in strengthening our

courage and our faith in God.

The Basel Mission Society greatly needs encouragement

and the strengthening of its faith.

There is something on all

our Mission-fields which gives cause for grave misgivings.

The

In China the political horizon looks rather gloomy.

position of our Missionaries and Native Christians there in

the midst of robbers and revolting mobs can only be compared

In Africa it is death

to that of sheep surrounded by wolves.

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in the form of a murderous climate, which only too often

harasses the Mission-worker there.

In India it is, in some

parts of our Mission, plague and famine that in common with

But

other Mission-societies we have had to suffer under.

quite apart from this, the conditions of life and the sources

of industry for our Native Christians are a cause of great

anxiety to us and the social question is beset with so many

difficulties in our Indian Mission, that, did we not firmly believe

that it is the Lord that rules and shelters His people, that

the issues of our work are His, and that He will accomplish

it, not according to our thoughts and our ways, but according

to His thoughts and His ways, we should scarcely venture to

carry on this heavy burden laid upon us.

In addition to all this, for the last year and more the whole

of our Mission has been greatly encumbered by a large defi-

cit, which seems to have assumed a chronic character.

This

deficit is chiefly due to the extension of our work, especially

in Africa, and it amounts at present, in spite of all endeavours

to get rid of it, to Rs. 150,000.

Since contributors to our

Mission in Germany and Switzerland have taxed themselves

to the utmost of their power the income of our Mission at

home can scarcely be enhanced to any considerable extent

and thus unless God shall show us a way out of this difficulty

our Home-Committee will be finally compelled to decide upon

considerable reductions in our work in order to make both

ends meet,.

We must not however be disheartened and des-

pair in the face of the great task before us: difficulties and

troubles are only sent us to increase our faith and prayer-

ful confidence in One who knows that we are engaged i

doing His work and that we are guided by Him.

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Agency.

A. European Workers.

(Cf. Tables, pages 3-6 and 12-17.)

At the end of 1898 there were 83 Missionaries, 55 Mission-

aries’ wives and 4 single ladies, and at the end of 1899: 85

Missionaries, 60 Missionaries’ wives and 2 single ladies.

During 1899 the following departures took place: Mr.

Diez of Kasaragod, Mr. and Mrs. Hoch of Mangalore, Mr.

Warth of Hubli, Mr. and Mrs. Liithi of Bettigeri, Mr. and

Mys. Bosshardt of Codacal, Mr. and Mrs. Gengnagel of Basrur,

Mr. and Mrs. Jung of Mangalore, Mr. Hiller of Palghat,

Myr. Fahrenberger of Vaniyankulam, Mr. and Mrs. Kessler

of Calicut, and Miss Hanhart of Vaniyankulam.

During the same year the following Missionaries returned

to India: Mr. and Myrs. Altemmiiller to Mangalore, Mr. and

Mrs. Ritter to Mulki, Mr. and Mrs. Risch to Honavar, Mr. and

Mrs. Bader to Codacal, Mr. and Mrs. Hermelink to Mangalore,

and Mr. and Mrs. Sieber to Mangalore.

The following new Missionaries arrived during 1899:

Myr. Pfleiderer for South-Mahratta, Mr. Beierbach for Canara

and Messrs. Scheuer, Mawe, Fraas, and Hofmann for Malabar.

In addition to this six marriages took place in our Mission:

Miss Schwarz was married to Mr. Miiller at Udipi, Mrs.

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Weidner - Diez to Mr. Schosser at Puttur, Miss Pfleiderer to

Mr. Fidenbenz at Canne’more.

These three ladies arrived

from Kurope.

Miss Krauss, who had been in charge of the

Girls’ School at Mangalore, was married to My. Fischer at

Karkal, Miss Stokes, in connexion with the Medical Mission at

Calicut, to Mr. Heinecken at Bettigeri, and Miss Frohnmeyer,

living with her parents at Tellicherry, to Mr. Kiihner at Calicut.

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In last year’s Report we had to tell the sad story of two

Missionary ladies, who, while they were preparing for their

voyage to Europe, were taken away to their heavenly home

(Mrs. Schenkel and Mrs. Baumann). Strange to say, the same

took place again last year at Hubli.

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Mrs. Warth, born at Cannstatt in Wiirttemberg in the year 1857,

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came out to India in 1881 and spent the greater part of her

time at Hubli.

In 1898, when plague was causing awful havock

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amongst the inhabitants of Hubli and the dismal guest entered

even the precincts of the Mission-house Mr. Warth's family was

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graciously preserved by the Lord.

But having for many years

suffered a great deal from malaria the family was permitted to go

home to Europe in the spring of 1899. Of course the mother longed

to see her three children at home, but occasionally dark presenti-

i

ments seemed to visit her heart and to make her doubtful, whether

she would even see her home-land again.

On the 9th of January

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1899 the poor parents lost a lovely boy, 31 years of age, a little

sufferer who shortly before his death said to his father: ¢ Father, it

is enough!”’

Ouly one day before his death the sad news of her

father’s death broke in upon poor Mrs, Warth and after all this on

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the 31st of January the poor lady whilst giving life to a strong little

daughter almost lost her own life.

A few days after septicaemia

developed and although Mrs. Warth on the 26th of February got up

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and even went to church for the christening of her child, in the

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evening she lay down never to rise again.

“It is growing dark

and I cannot see the way before me”, she said, nevertheless she

hoped that God would not take her away from her husband and

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children.

However on the afternoon of the 2nd March she herself

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felt that the end was approaching.

She bore joyful witness of her

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Christian belief amd hope, consoled her husband, blessed her

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children and looked forward to the call of her Saviour.

The words

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of Holy Scriptures and the singing of hymns were a great conso-

lation to her.

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She remained conscious to the last, and at half past

seven in the evening peacefully breathed her last, leaving behind

her her poor husband and, as it seemed, 7 motherless children to

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deplore their sore bereavement.

¢As it seemed’ we had to write,

for there were actually only 6 children left.

On the 26th February,

when the new-born child was christened at Hubli, far away in

Germany another child, a daughter, 10 years of age, had gone

before to meet her mother at the threshold of the golden city.

Having been sick but for 2 days the child died from brain-fever.

Thus our dear brother within three months was deprived of his wife

and two of his children.

In last year’s Report we inserted a communication from

the pen of Mr. Diez, the oldest of our Indian Missionaries,

on the life and death of his son-in-law Mr. Weidner, (page

23 ; cf. also pages 30, 81 and 101).

In spite of the advanced

age of this faithful servant of God nobody would have thought

that the Report of the following year was to contain the necro-

logy of My. Diez himself.

The Rev. Ernst} Diez was born on the 24th December 1826 at

Heilbronn (Wiirttemberg), the son of a chemist and the eldest of

eight children. The father shifting from one place to another finally

settled at St. Johann near Villach in Carinthia.

In Bavaria, where

the little Ernst first went to school, he and his sister (later on

married to Mr. Locher, an African Missionary and a brother of Mrs.

Anderson, in connection with the Free Church of Scotland in Madras)

as “heretics” had to sit separated from the Roman Catholic children

in a corner of the school.

In Austria the boy had to walk three

miles to the school at Villach in wind and rain, but Ernst greatly

enjoyed these walks through a beautiful country, and his eyes were

opened to the beauties of nature.

In the same town the youth

received a thorough training as a merchant and after having been

employed there in an Austrian and Italian firm he came to Stuttgart

and joined a large firm there. - Always anxious to increase his

stock of knowledge he/frequented for several months the polytechnie

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school at Stuttgart.

Enjoying no inward peace he derived much

blessing from the sermons of Gustav Schwab (a German poet of

some renown) and from thence Mr. Diez became & regular reader

of the Bible.

In 1846 he entered the Mission College, and it must

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have been a real pleasuré to instruct a young wan with such a

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thirst for knowledge as Mr. Diez was filled with all his life long.

In 1851 he was sent out to India with the

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Rev. Josenhans,

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Home-Secretary of the Basel Mission, who came out to India on a

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visitation tour.

Mr. Kaundinya was one of the young Missionaries

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who accompanied him. On the 15th October they reached Mangalore.

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Mr. Diez’s first station was Cannanore, where he passed the days of

his apprenticeship under the powerful guidance of the well-known

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Mr. Hebich Great must have been the stimulation and the blessing s

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derived from the personal intercourse with such a man of God as

Mr. Hebich. was. But it was not all pleasure to enjoy this privi-

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lege of personal dealings with an original man, having a dominat-

ing character of the most pronounced kind.

Fortunately for young

Mr. Diez there was Dr. Gundert, avother original of a quite

different kind, at the same station.

Dr. Gundert was the only man

whom Mr. Hebich approached with great caution and to whose

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secret influence he yielded.

With tears in his eyes old Mr. Diez

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used to relate how he now and then, frightened by the lightening

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and the thunder proceeding from the mighty prophet of Cannanore,

took shelter with the kind and learned doctor, who in spite of his

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own profound erudition treated the young missionary as his equal

and with his broad views, hislarge heart and his uncommon sagacity

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managed to keep up the good courage and patience of the young

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missionary as well as to keep the imperious spirit of father Hebich

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within reasonable limits.

As to his studies in Malayalam Mr. Diez

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had the advantage of living with Dr. GQundert, the greatest of

Malayalam scholars, and of having as his Munshi Mr. Abraham

Muliyil, a Native scholar well versed in the Malayalam literature.

After having been an assistant of Mr. Hebich, Mr.Diez was transferred

in 1857 to Chombala to look after the small congregation there. Of

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course a man of his energy was not satisfied with this. Accompanied

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by his Catechists he used to visit the great festivals at Payavur,

Payyoli, Kirur and Taliparambu.

In 1862 Mr. Diez had to take

charge of the station at Palghat on the border of the Malayalam

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and Tamil country.

He founded different out-stations, more or less

flourishing, and was indefatigable as an itinerating Missionary.

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He took special eare of the I[rawars in that part of the distriet, a

caste corresponding to the Shanars in the Tamil country and the

Tiyers of the coast Taluks.

These people somewhat tired of the

oppression of the Nairs and the pretensions of the Brahmans, showed

themselves well disposed towards Christianity.

Still when the

first of them was baptised in 1865 there was a considerable com-

motion and Mr. Diez with all the zeal and enthusiasm, which

formed part of his character, went heart and soul into the matter

and led the combat until even his strong constitution broke down.

Having been in Burope for 18 months he returned in June 1869 to

his former station.

In 1876 he was transferred to Cannanore again

and until November 1880 he carried on his work amongst Christ-

ians and non-Christians with great vigour. In 1880 he was appoint-

ed Malayalam theological teacher at the Catechists’ Seminary,

Mangalore, and for 9 years he was engaged in this importémt work

endearing himself to all his pupils, as he was the very man to inspire

In 1890 he went

youths with a holy enthusiasm for their work.

to Kurope for the second time and in 1891 after his return he took

charge of the Kasaragod station and itinerating work. Nothing

could be more characteristic of this extraordinary servant of God,

than what a pupil of bis writes with reference to this last station

of his life’s journey: “ It was very strange to see an old man of 72

years in his station at Kasaragod, regularly visiting nine out-stations

and nine schools from Manjeshvara till Chandera by land and back-

water.”

In April 1899 he embarked for Europe as an invalid.

In

a letter written from Bombay (29th April 18%9) and addressed

to his fellow-missionaries aiter having given golden words of advice,

he goes on:

“With reference to myself I should like to take first

of all a little rest, after that I hope the Lord will assign to me here

and there some work in His vineyard and will grant unto me the

necessary strength and readiness to do it.”

Having spent 48 years

in India chiefly for the benefit of his Indian children, he wished

above all to give the remaining days of his life to his own children

at home.

But God had willed otherwise.

He settled down at

Cannstatt near Stuttgart with two of his children and was of very

indifferent health all the time.

In September he went to Hamburg

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to stay for some time with his daughter, Mrs. Halbrock. Here how-

the

ever, after a few days he completely broke down, and the doctor at

the

once pronounced his case to be cancer in the stomach and therefore

med

hopeless.

Our dear brother had to die by starvation, and one can

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imagine, how he longed to be with the Lord.

During his last 8

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days he was most of the time unconscious and spoke but very little.

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After a last hard struggle dear Mr. Diez fell asleep on the evening

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of the 22nd October.

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Thus ended a long and eventful life given to the cause of God

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in India. ‘In this short sketch of the life of Mr. Diez we have

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alluded chiefly to his itinerating work, for which he had special

gifts.

As a preacher he will not be forgotten by those who ever

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had the privilege of hearing him, the whole heart and soul of the

man was in everything undertaken by him, and thus what came from

his heart went home to the hearts of his hearers.

A few words as

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to his literary labours will not be out of place.

As regards his

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knowledge of Malayalam he was second to none but Dr. Gundert.

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The colloquial language and the book-language of the Shastras,

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which in Malayalam represent almost two different languages, were

equally familiar to him.

As an old man he managed to make

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himself acquainted with the Canarese language at Mangalore, and

bhe had studied Tamil and Hindustani.

For some years he was the

Editor of a Malayalam Monthly Magazine.

He conduected Dr.

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Gundert’s Malayalam Grammar and his Malayalam-English Diction-

ary through the press, and was a member of the Malayalam Bible

Revision Committee.

Very useful will be found his

“Short

Catechism on the distinctive Teachings of the Evangelical and

Roman Catholic Churches.” Mr. Diez by his intense love for and

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his deep interest in everything belonging to Malabar perhaps

went a little too

far in trying to preserve and even to re-

introduce obsolete Malayalam words (sometimes known only to him

and similar scholars), by which endeavour in some of bhis productions,

his language became rather archaic. It thus came about that there

were those who ventured to speak disparagingly of his Malayalam,

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who, as far as a real knowledge of Malayalam went, were not

“ worthy to stoop down and unloose the latchet of his shoes””.

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In the year 1856 Mr. Diez was married to Miss Elizabeth

Blandford, the eldest child of believing English parents.

After the

death of her father she had become a member of Dr. Gundert's

family. After her marriage to Mr. Diez “she proved a most unselfish,

unpretentious and loving helpmate in house and congregation”’.

She died at Kasaragod on the 3rd of May 1892 of blood poisoning ; a

small boil prematurely opened, as it seems, having been the cause

of her death.

In 1884 the eldest daughter came out to India and

took charge of the Brahmin Girls’ School at Mangalore. She after-

wards married Mr. Halbrock, and it was in her house at Hamburg

that the father died.

A second daughter joined her father at

Kasaragod in 1892 and was married in 1896 to Mr. Weidner,

whose death was reported last year.

Mr. Diez lived long enough

to know that his widowed daughter Mrs. Weidner would become

the wife of his assistant and successor at Kasaragod Mr. Schosser,

who had been like a son to the old and failing man during the last

years of his life in India.

Myr. Diez was a remarkable man.

All who knew him, will

miss him very much.

The freshness of youth never left him to the

end

The originality of his ideas and his true and noble heart

endeared him to everybody, and especially young Missionaries

were quite taken with him, as this fiery youth, with his long grey

beard could sympathise with them in all their struggles, and were

quite fascinated by hearing him tell the story of bygone days. His

friends ‘among the English were many, and by all of them was he

honoured and loved.

One of them writes:

“I knew dear Mr. Diez

well for nearly 30 years, and I may say that I had the greatest

respect and love for him,

He struck me as being an ideal Mission-

ary, — utterly unselfish and given up to the things of God, but with

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a heart full of sympathy for the sorrows and ambitions of others.

His motto, — one, at least, of his mottoes, — seems to have been

Nihil humani a me alienum puto.

One who had an opportunity to know him ian his every-day life

more intimately than most people, writes to say: “It was his undi-

vided thorough devotion to Mission-work that stimulated him to

indefatigable work (the old man, 72 years of age, had to look after

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an out-station, which caused him to be every month for two nights

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in a boat).

Along with that he was prepared to meet death at

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every moment and he kept everything in such a perfect order that

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if he should die to-day, his successor to-morrow would be in a

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position to carry on the work without asking explanation from

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others.

He was always fall of new plans and original thoughts;

‘What

as to his spiritual and mental life he really never grew old.

nd

was characteristic and indeed great in this man of God was his

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childlike dependence on God and his absolute independence from

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any human judgment, as far as his own personality and his work

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were concerned.

In dealing with others, even by far his juniors,

he was full of consideration.

To com-

He was a real gentleman.

pare bimself with others and to look with satisfaction upon his

47 years of service and the like, was a thing perfectly unknown to

him

He was humble.

*Just as I am, without one plea, but that

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Thy blood was shed for me, and that Thou bidd’st me come to Thee,

Oh Lamb of God, I come, I come!’

this was the key-note of his

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life and death.”— With Mr. Diez has gone the last of those Mis-

sionaries who were the connecting links between the present

generation of Mission-labourers and those who laid the foundation

of the work.

There may have been Missionaries far surpassing Mr.

Diez in talent and in the success of their work, we doubt however

whether there have been many surpassing him in faithfulness and

in loyalty to the cause of their Lord and Master, which after all is

the most sterling quality and the crowning virtue in a servant of

God, for ¢ here, moreover, it is required in stewards that a man

be found faithful 7.

We have been asked to express also in public our most

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sincere thanks to some gentlemen of the medical profession

who by their gratuitous help and their professional skill have

been a great consolation to our brethren and to the Christian

community in general. Surgeon Major Corkery at Dharwar,

Dr. A. Beveridge at Mercara, Dr. Hachett-Wilkins at Calicut

Mr. D’Silva at Palghat, and Mr. J. M. Cheriyan, Apothecary,

at Manjeri‘ have especially been mentioned. The Christians

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at Kaity and their Missionaries feel very thankful to the

Medical Officers in charge of the St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,

where our Christians have been treated with much kindness.

In this country with its many diseases and especially at a

Mission-station, where so often bodily ailments are instru-

mental in leading people to a Missionary’s bungalow, a

sympathetic European or native physician is one of the

greatest boons, a Missionary can be blessed with.

B. Native Workers.

At the end of 1899 there are 15 Native Pastors against

18 at the end of 1889 (including the Rev. St. Chandran, who

1s engaged in Bible-revision work there are 16 against 19).

Two of our Native Pastors have died, and one has been

pensioned (Rev. Sebastian Furtado at Jeppu). — As to the

Evangelists and Catechists there were at the end of 1899,

149 against 143 in the year before.

The number of Evangelists remains unchanged; Joshua

Soens had to take up work in a congregation, and Cat. Winfred

Micha took his place.

One of our Catechists in Malabar Abel

Katuparambu had to be pensioned after long and faithful

service.

Three students after having passed their examina-

tion have been admitted as Catechists.

Amongst the Assistant

Catechists one resigned and one died, three new Assistant

Catechists joined the work during the year.

The Rev. Daniel Aaron was born iu 1829 and entered service in

1852.

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He was ordained in 1872 and stationed first at Mulki.

Since 1879 he stayed at Udipi. At first he was in charge of the congre-

gation there, but later on his work lay chiefly amongst non-Christ-

ians.

There was no village and no hamlet in the neighbourhood

of Udipi where he was not acquainted with the people and where

he did not regularly make his ecalls.

The freshness, vitality and

industry of the old man was quite extraordinary. A few years ago

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he would, on preaching tours, keep pace with the youngest of his

colleagues.

His memory up to the end was simply wonderful.

He

lal,

1685,

was something like a wandering chronicle of the past.

The date

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of arrival of some old Missionary, his wedding-day, the maiden name

of his wife, the names and birthdays of the children he would tell

fru

But all this meant more than a

one without the least exertion.

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mere feat of memory, it also showed how deeply he sympathised with

the

the weals and woes of the Missionaries.

He knew a little German

and besides Canarese and Tulu, he read a good deal in Tamil and

English. He was able to work until a few days before his death

and died quite suddenly from apoplexy, having reached the ripe

In a similar manner

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age of 70 years.

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Rev. Nathanael Arukanden, By about 20 years the jumior of Mr.

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Aaron, died on the 27th of June 1899.

He was born in 1846 in

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the mneighbourhood of Calicut.

About the time of his birth the

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family Mackaden, related to him, had embraced Christianity and

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this was looked upon as a great misfortune.

However in his Tth

vear Nathanael was sent to our Mission School at Putiangadi. At

home he was not allowed to read the Scriptures or anything Christ-

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Later on he was handed over to an indigenous schoolmaster,

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who made him pass through the whole scale of educational tortures,

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then in vogue in this country.

When 16 years of age he studied

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at home all the secrets of a native physician and gradually became

initiated into the tricks, by which people bewitched by an evil eye

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and the like can be delivered.

It was due to the beneficial influence

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exercised by his uncle, that Hindusim in its most corrupted forms

could not poison him.

The Christian relations, especially Catechist

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William Davis came now and then to his house, but he felt greatly

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disgusted on seeing them and used to mock at them.

Things

greatly changed when cholera broke out, and within one week 6

persons died in Nathanael’s house.

Catechist Jokannan Peter

came, consoled them, offered prayers, and when the so-called

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medium of Bhagavati appeared he was thrown out with the full

consent of Nathanael and his uncle.

His father’s bodily weakness,

poverty, and other misfortunes were the means by which God

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gradually forced an entrance into his heart.

First the elder

brother went to Oalicut, then the father and finally in 1867,

encouraged by a Hindu scholar, and deeply touched by a sermon

of Mr. Knoblock at Chombala also, Nathanael resisted no longer

and by the help of his elder brother and Cat. William Davis he

made his escape at night with his mother and a younger sister.

After having been tried as to his sincerity by A/r. Schaufler he

was put first into the Weaving Establishment, then he joined the

Preparatory School at Tellicherry and finally the Theological

Seminary at Mangalore.

He experienced the Lord’s helping hand

in all kinds of dangers and temptations, his heart graduoally growing

firm by God’s grace and after a decisive struggle in November 1877

he received the full assurance that his sins were forgiven and that

the Lord had accepted him.

After having served as a Catechist at

different stations he was appointed an Evangelist, and it was itinerating

work for which he was especially gifted. His thorough knowledge of

Hinduism, his intimate acquaintance with the customs and manners

of all the castes of Malabar, his eloquence and his dialectical skill

made him a most valuable worker amongst non-Christians. In

1894 he was ordained, and from February 1894 till May 1898 he

was put in charge of the congregation at Codacal.

As the greater

part of that congregation consisted of new Christians he was con-

sidered to be the most competent man for the difficult task of train-

ing the people there in a Christian mode of life.

In 1898 he had

to go to Cannanore and work in a congregation, which in many

respects was just the opposite of that of Codacal.

His work in

Cannanore was not always pleasant, but he was prepared for this,

and in his work amongst Hindus and Christians in Codacal as well

as in Cannanore he had to bear the ¢ reproach of the Lord”, nor

!

was he uunwilling to do so.

On Saturday the 24th of June 1899

after having prepared his sermon for Sunday he was struck down by

apoplexy.

¢

As long as he was able to speak he tried his best to

console his wife and children, and committed himself, with the fall

assurance of a child of God, into the hands of his Heavenly Father.

Being conscious almost to the last he tried to indicate his feelings

and desires by signs.

On Tuoesday morning about day-break the

SR

31

older

Lord released him, and the glorious morning of eternity broke for

him

887

Tmon

Assistant Catechist Danie/ Nayaka after suffering long and pain-

0nger

fully from heart disease, died on the 4th of May 1899.

He was

18 o

born in 1854 and was employed as an Assistant Catechist in 1884.

ister,

r e

\

As Assistant Catechists our Mission employs men, who

| he

are too old to undergo a regular training in the Theological

it

Seminary, but have given proof that they are converted and

jand

are equipped with a holy zeal and the necessary gifts to

ing

preach the Gospel to their own people.

Most of them are

371

converts from Hinduism; the practical experience they have

hat

had with Hinduism and their intimate knowledge of the ways

a

and thoughts of Hindus make them especially fit for the work

g

of evangelisation. As regular Catechists, born and educated

s of

8IS

within our Christian congregations, sometimes totally alien-

ated from their kinsmen according to the flesh, we consider a

kil

fair admixture of these irregular troops with our working

In

i

army a great advantage.

There is however no insurmountable

i

barrier placed between our Assistant Catechists and the

regular Catechists; if they give satisfaction, they may in

I

course of time be promoted to the rank of ordinary Catechists.

1

In our last Report we mentioned a course of instruction

|

held once a year for all the Pastors and Catechists of a district.

U

A similar course ought to be conducted, as a rule, at every

station monthly for the benefit of our fellow-workers.

Mr.

4

Bader at Codacal gives the following account of the monthly

meetings at his station:—

“Every month a day having been fixed before-hand (usually a

3(;

day towards the end of the month) the Catechists,— some coming

|

from a great distance,— meet at my house.

They had asked me

to take as the subject of our meetings for this year the book of

Revelation.

In the Theological Seminary this book will be taken

up only in connexion with the introduciion to the New Testament

Ty

32

and being the last one, occasionally it won’t be touched at all. After

having given an exposition of the doctrinal contents in general, I

1

began with the exegesis of the book.

We have done now with

5 chapters.

These scriptural exercises will occupy us in the

forenoon ; in the afternoon always some time will be left to take up

all Kinds of practical questions related to our work, and we always

conclude with a prayer-meeting.

I have been glad to notice that

these meetings conduce not only to draw together the hearts of

European and Native workers, but also to bring the Catechists

themselves into a closer relation with each other.”

Here follows the programme of another such meeting at

Kasaragod, where it was conducted by Mr. Borel:

“ Morning 8.30 to 9.15 Meditation on a Seriptural portion, and

prayer. 9.30 to 11 o’clock an essay on the Kingdom of God pre- -

pared by Mr. Borel in Canarese.

It was read and explained by

+h

the author and afterwards a discussion took place, when every

In the after-

body was welcome to put questions on the subject.

noon from 3 to 5 exegesis of Rev. 1, 1 —3 in Tulu by M=

Schosser.

At 5 o’clock the whole assembly went out for bazaar-

preaching, and in the evening at 9 o’clock they met again in the

Mission-house for a cup of tea.

Such gatherings are not only a

great refreshment for Catechists stationed at some solitary place

with not much opportunity of getting spiritual encouragement, but

they are also valuable and animating for the Missionaries.”

In ‘our Mission Christian Schoolmasters have always been

considered as spiritual agents and we have been anxious to

imbue our Schoolmasters with this conviction, the more so as

NE

amongst a good many of them the curious superstition seems

to prevail that a schoolmaster need not be so spiritually-

minded as a Catechist.

Christian

Christian

Non-Christian

Schoolmasters.

Schoolmistresses.

Schoolmasters.

End of

1898

213

61

132

1899

9

)

223

57

138

Cemseiia

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Ater

Although the number of our Christian masters is steadily

al, [

inereasing (1897: 207

1898 : 213; 1899:.223), the number

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of our non-Christian masters is increasing too (1897 : 126;

Wi

1898: 132; 1899: 138), and so we are bound to say that the

bo 1

abnormality of more than half of our Schoolmasters being

[mags

Hindus has on the whole remained unchanged.

The chief

{hat

cause of this most unsatisfactory state of things must be

ts of

hists

found in the fact that the number of schools started by our

Mission for non-Christians is quite out of proportion to the

numerical strength of our congregations.

For the present it

7 af

i1s quite impossible that our congregations should produce the

number of Christian Schoolmasters required for our schools.

and

The number of Christian Masters above the Lower Secondary

pre

Grade is especially small.

Other reasons for this anomaly

| by

are that in Canara and South-Mahratta insufficient arrange-

very

ments have been made up to this for training Schoolmasters

ftor

for the Mission and that not a few of the Schoolmasters taken

I

from our congregations have either proved to be unfit for the

'ﬂaf

work or have preferred more lucrative posts away from their

fhp

district to serving the Mission and their own people.

Still

i b

we hope in course of time to overcome this difficulty and to

09

arrive at a more natural and healthy condition of our edu-

ut

cational work.

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2. Evangelistic Work.

fo

The year 1899, the year called « Vikari”, the last year

M

1)

of the first quarter of the Kali-Yuga is over, and neither the

threatening predictions nor the glad tidings with reference to

J

this ominous year seem to have been fulfilled. People in the

neighbourhood of Udipi expected that all the wicked would

be destroyed, the pious remain, and those remaining form

only one caste and embrace Christianity. But in reading the

reports of our itinerating agents there is nothing to be found

5

34

betokening a desire for salvation, consciousness of sin or

search after truth.

On the whole, in spite af great restless-

ness and grave apprehensions of an approaching day of re-

tribution, the indifference towards real religion seemed to

e

have been greater than ever before.

And where religious

emotion mauifested itself it was in most cases in the form of

mere caricature, being gross superstition.

At Badagara

(Malabar) in the neighbourhood of a hospital a man with his

fever-stricken child might be seen creeping several times to

and fro under the belly of an elephant in the fashion of

popular Hinduism.

After all there is nothing extraordinary

in such experience.

It 1s a matter of fact all over the world

that whilst there is nothing more toilsome and wearying

than the fight of truth against custom, tradition and prejudice;

there is no nonsense of so gross and enormous a nature as

‘1 v

not to find some ready believer; nor will any amount of

education prove a safeguard against this.

Evangelist Winfred

Mz'cha of Basrur writes: —

“ Not long ago a coasting-steamer, out of the ordinary course,

made her appearance in the harbour of Kundapur, and soon the

rumour was afloat that a man-of-war has come and would take

the Hindus over to South-Africa to fight against the Boers.

The

excitement was great enough before this nonsense was hatched by

some imaginative head, but now some people lost their heads al-

together.

All along the coast people began to hide their jewels

and their money, others went even so far as to sell their rice, the

receipt of the last harvest, in order to flee with greater ease in

advance of the troops.

One miser had buried all his treasure

near his house, and planting a young tree on the top of it he hoped

easily to identify the place hereafter.

But unfortunately some

neighbour had supervised the business, and in the following night

he took possession of the treasure.

At the same time to ward

off the awful things to take place (on the 13th November of last

year) as well as the epidemic diseases and other calamities pre-

vailing, even now processions take place every night.”’

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1 0

In South-Mahratta 1t was last year not so much plague

Hless-

but the great dearth that our work had to suffer from.

The

f 16

dearth is only yet in its early stages, but the year 1900

ol 1o

will be known hereafter as the year of great famine.

Only

giows

in some very favourable places was there a first harvest. There

'm of

was a little rain in August, and some hopes were entertained

for a second harvest, but in vain! In September there was

gart

h his

again some rain and then the merchants began to buy up all

es il

the corn they could get.

It was rather painful to see how

m of

the train carried away immense quantities of corn to the

N

‘;

North and this with the prospect of a famine near home.

otld

But in South-Mahratta especially our brethren had to ex-

g

perience the truth of an old prophetical word: «Thou beatest

them, but they do not feel it.”

Whether plague or famine

e;

b

comes upon them, it makes no difference.

What Mr. Bode of

o

Dharwar writes about a rich landlord seems to illustrate the

spiritual attitude of the average population there.

|€fL

The man had built a temple for Hanumanta and a rest-house

gt

for pilgrims going there for worship, all to check the plague and

| fe

to induce the god to pour down rain so sorely needed.

However

fake

he was greatly disappointed by his god.

The

Still he refused to hear the Gospel.

In the spirit of stubborn

by

resignation he said:

“What can we do! If the plague does come

d

to this place and we die, well then, we die and if God refuses to

s

send rain, we cannot do anything either.

If you are able to keep

t‘be

away the plague and procure the necessary rain for our fields, then

1

and not before we shall join you.”

e

)ped

But of course this is only one side of the work. All the

brethren engaged in itinerating work there assure us on the

ome

wht

other hand, that they often return joyfully from their preach-

vard

ing tours and that it not seldom happens that a whole village,

It

people great and small, listen most attentively to the glad

o

tidings.

H¥

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36

—

Two years ago (see Report for 1897, page 33) we heard

i

of a

well-to-do weaver-family

an o the

neighbourhood of

Dharwar, the head of which believed in Christ, but his shy

and timid wife found it difficult to come to a decision.

One

of the unsatisfactory features in reports is the appearance

of very promising persons in whom we take an interest but

afterwards we hear nothing more about them.

We are

fortunate enough to be able to tell our readers what mean-

while has become of the weaver.

Myr. Bode writes; —

“Owing to the plague, which had also broken out in Tegur,

we heard nothing about the family for a long time.

One morning

I entered the house and was very kindly received.

The whole

house looked like that of a man in happy circumstances.

In the

The two brothers

inner room there were some nice large looms.

of the man, who have houses of their own, came also and ex-

I asked the eldest

pressed their joy on account of our coming.

_.’s

brother, whether he had given up the thought of becoming a

Christian.

He said: ‘¢ No, but for the present I cannot venture on

the step.

A few weeks ago God took my wife from me and new

I cannot leave the house.’

I reminded him of his age and that

And whon

the same might take place with him as with his wife.

I told him that very likely the wife had been taken from him in

order to turn his mind more decidedly to whatis in heaven, he

agreed to this, but still he contended that he could not take this

step then.

Evidently the influence of his two brothers had pre-

vailed upon him.

He then promised to see us at the travellers’

bungalow, but did not come.

To my great surprise however he

of a sudden appeared in my study at Dharwar earrying some

plantains in his hand.

He had come to tell me that he was now

prepared to become an open believer in Christ.

‘Whether this

resolution has been carried out or not we shall be able to say next

year.”’

Our readers, I am sure, will also be glad to hear what

became of the widow of that secret Christian, who was over-

taken by death (¢f. Report of 1898, page 31). Mrs. Bode

37

e

heard

frequently looked after her

and was always kindly received.

ot of

The widow handed over to

Mys. Bode the Sunday-collections,

5 8l

which her husband used to

make for the Basel Mission.

She

(ne

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also asked for a prayer-book in Canarese.

It is, however, a

A0

thing almost impossible for a single woman to embrace

b it

Christianity in opposition to all her Hindu relations.

6t

As to Bazaar-preaching the Missionaries at Dharwar did

mea:

not meet last year with such a furious opposition as formerly,

when non-Christian students and other young men behaved

Jegon,

quite franticly. People put questions, but their fanaticism

g

seems to have exhausted itself.

hole

Our brethren have been very

glad to be assisted in their difficult work by a volunteer,

il

e

an old Eurasian, once professing Muhammedanism, then an

thers

[

Evangelist, and now, although pensioned, a zealous labourer

Jost

in God’s vineyard.

In Hubli on account of plague preaching tours in the

;5

district could not be carried out so regularly as before.

new

{hat

Mrs. Mayer, supervising the work of the Bible-women, is glad

to report that during the time of plague the Bible-women met

fhoo

with a good hearing.

It is a good sign, if Hindu women do

iR

e

show something like envy when their houses are passed by.

fs

Mr. Mayer gives a good example of the sophistic manner in

which Hindus approach religious questions.

pfe

s

‘“Going to some house a man says with reference to sin: ¢ Take

e

the case of a man who borrows Rs. 100 promising to pay the

e

money back after a year.

But now he gets sick and in spite

o

of his upright and earnest exertions he is unable to fulfil his

‘Who is

s

promise in time, hence he will turn out to be a liar.

st

responsible for this lie? Is it not God who made this man sick ?’”’

On a preaching tour in the neighboufhood of Bettigeri

t

Mr. Brawn made a very interesting acquaintance.

o

‘“He met an old priest of the Lingaits.

On hearing that a

Padre was on the way he extended both his arms from his bullock-

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38

cart to clasp Mr. Broun’s hands and, on taking faréwell, he

pronounced a most solemn blessing upon him.

A curious priest

of Hinduism indeed! He holds the Bible in veneration like an idol

and carries it with him wherever he goes.

He calls himself a

¢Christian .

To understand this psychological riddle one must

know that all the old Missionaries years ago tried their best to win

the man for Christ.

As a rule people of this kind will scarcely

come to a full knowledge of Christ; mot to live up to the light that

they have received becomes habitual with them, and they seem to

delude themselves into believing that they have succeeded in

serving two masters.”’

Also Mrs. Waidelich is of opinion that people listen very

well.

“In one instance a woman would not permit the Bible-women

to go first into a house in the neighbourhood.

A man whose son

had died of plague received them kindly and bought a Gospel. On

11}‘

the contrary another man found it quite unreasonable that he

should not be allowed to care first of all for his body.

¢ What is

then the use of being on earth?’ he asked.”

My. Lutz, our itinerating Missionary at Guledgudd on a

preaching tour met a Hindu, who for more than 25 years

had been reading the New Testament. When a youth of 25 years

of age Mr. Weigle had given him a copy of the New Testa-

ment.

The name of the Missionary is written on the first

page and the date 20th September 1873.

The man told

Mr. Lutz the story of Lazarus raised from the dead and had

committed John 11, 25. 26 to heart, a word which evidently

had made a great impression upon him.

Al 3

Not very encourag-

ing was the manner in which another one answered his own

question : “What for do you walk about here? You are evident-

ly not paid by the English, nobody believes in the Gospel,

and if somebody joins you, it is not on account of his being

convinced but it is sheer self-interest.” Another one wanted

to see God, a very common demand.

39

|, he

In Bijapur our work chiefly consists in preaching to the

prist

Hindus, the congregation being very small for the present.

1 idd]

My. Berli, now at Hubli, was in charge of this station for about

self 4

10 years, and his work was on the whole that of sowing the

must

good seed.

Although there was not much in the way of

0 Wil

reaping, My. Berli feels confident in saying that the work at

aeely

He

Bijapur is not devoid of hope and good prospects.

t that

writes; —

o 1)

“Taking into consideration that it is scarce]fx 12 years that

0

the work in this district has been taken up by the Basel Missiou,

one can understand that a population consisting chiefly of well-

el

to-do, conservative landlords cannot be as yet sufficiently prepared

to receive the Gospel.

I made some very nice acquaintances

nel

during the last 10 years amongst such, who seek after truth, who

501

also intellectually have arrived at a knowledge of truth, but

0

who feel, — I am sorry to say, — their sins not such a heavy burden

he

and their righteousness not such miserable rags as to long for

188

redemption, forgiveness and purification.

Still there is the grass

and there are the blades, in due time a harvest with its ripe fruits

will come to00.”

) &

me

In Tidgandi Mr. Metz, the successor of Mr. Berli, stayed

for some days in the Dharmashala, and mendicants in groups

’313

f

of 10-15 every day came to lodge there in order to sack the

180

surrounding villages, which besides are laid under heavy

old

contributions to cover the needs of Brahmans and Lingaits.

il

Mr. Metz took the opportunity of directing these professional

beggars to Him, who can give rest to such as really seek for

Iy

1t

The pilgrims used to listen very attentively.

It is really

pleasing to read what Mr. Metz writes with reference to the

il

b

readiness of people to hear the Word of God.

!

“ When we arrived in a village two songsters had reached it

before us and by means of drums they had managed to bring

together the whole population of the village.

When we asked

j

them whether they preferred to listen to the songsters or to hear

40

e

our sermons, they asked us at once to preach, and they really as a

f

body listened to our preaching until we went away.”

My. Singer at Honavar thought it a real pleasure to

preach the Gospel at Belkeri; on the other hand he met with

much opposition at Karwar, especially from the pupils of the

Government High School there and the somewhat educated

i

part of the population, who, it seems, did not make the best

0

use of their education. It was not mere religious opposition,

[

1t was Mr. Singer’s impression, that it had a tinge of politi-

cal and national aversion, a hatred against anything foreign

al

or outlandish, worthy of the Chinese.

But at this place it

I

was that Mr. Singer met with a secret disciple of Christ

which must have cheered him up greatly.

‘“He was a Brahman, who had got a good education and who

astonished me by his extensive reading. He could not find words

&/

high enough to express his great admiration for our Lord Jesus

Christ, whom he praised as the greatest and holiest teacher of

mankind.

He was not only well read in the Secriptures, but one

could not deny that he had studied the Bible in such a manner

that his heart had a share in it.

His room was decorated with

photos and pictures of the different spiritual heroes of ancient and

modern days.

But in front of his bed there was hung up a most

beautiful steel-engraving: ¢Christ on the cross’, of which he said:

‘This is the picture dearest to me’. I have been told that in former

days this Brahman stood in a closer relationship to Christ, that

he looked upon Him as the Saviour and Redeemer of the world.

Now he adores Him as a shining ideal, as the Guru of mankind.

Still a Brahman, who calls the picture of Christ on the cross the

picture dearest to him, a Brahman, who when his eyes open in the

morning and before they close in the evening looks upon Christ

the crucified, is an extraordinary sight indeed, a sight which

entitles us to entertain great hopes for the future of India.”

In the Canara District thp atﬁtude of the Hindus is not so

friendly as it used to be. Of course the Mission is welcome

—

=

————

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asa

to start schools, to dpex) hospitals, to help the poor, all that

is kindly accepted, and some even seem to think that these

16 {0

Mission Societies must needs be immensely rich, and not

yith

knowing how to get rid of their money in Europe and

America, they consider it their daty to distribute it amongst

Il

i

catel

the Hindus.

These Europeans, they think, ought to be very

hest

thankful that

the people in India give them such an

1tio,

opportunity to acquire ¢punyam’ or merit.

But where the

olti-

real object of Mission-work cannot be ignored, the Mission-

Gl

aries frequently learn and that quite of a sudden, that the

polite and mild Hindu at the bottom of his heart entertains

e If

st

a deep-rooted grudge against the ambassador of Christ and

and

His Gospel.

Hinduism besides aims

at a restoration

reformation.

who

In Canara the Bhfitas increase, in spite of

famine, innumerable fowls are sacrificed, the roofs of their

»rds

little temples are tiled (sometimes with Mission-tiles), the

MIb

of

festivals are celebrated with greater pomp.

Whilst in former

one

years our brethren experienced almost no difficulty at all in

et

preaching to the Hindus, since the police at Udipi objected

yilh

to such preaching in the neighbourhood of the temple, ene-

ad

mies of Christianity and mischievous people feel greatly en:

108t

couraged and now try their best to silence the Missionaries

il

and their assistants.

To be sure the trouble-makers are no-

uer

where in the majority, the majority of people also in Canara

hat

1

are such as hear with scarcely any opposition, they will even

agree with what they hear and will say: « What you preach

il

is really true and good”

b}

but they wait for the initiative to

he

be taken by the big, influential and noisy ¢people.

They. are

e

pish

either under the terrorism of caste and of obnoxious social

ith

institutions and customs or so poor and down-trodden that

the mere thought of emancipating themselves from the bane-

ful influence of tradition seems to them to be an absurdity,

50

if not a madness.

Every real conversion in Europe and

1o

6

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42

—_—

Tudia is a miracle. ‘ Nobody can call Christ his Lord without

f

the Holy Spirit.

At Mangalore Mr. Hermelink was anxious to come into

closer touch with the educated Hindus of Mangalore.

We

are apt to forget sometimes those non-Christians in our

immediate neighbourhood whilst travelling to a great distance

in order to visit the whole district.

The Evangelist Gabriel

Bangera is stationed at Puttur, which meanwhile has been

made a chief station.

We give the following extracts from

his interesting report:—

“Where the Keimaralbara and the Netravati meet a grand

bathing takes place in February.

For three weeks the bath is

taken once a week.

People in general are in a great haste. We,

however, always had a small audience.

Some said:

‘We must

bear them, they have come from such a great distance.’

Others

said :

_f\

‘We can really not know whether what we do here is a

meritorious work or mot; is there mot a proverb like this: Either

the festival is a fool or the people going there are fools?’

The

people who made the arrangements for the festival said: ‘There

were never so many people as this year, but never has our income

been so little as this time, and this is your fault, you undermine

the faith of the people.’ — At another festival when, on the last

day, we made our preparations for going away, the temple-

‘When

proprietors themselves asked us to preach once more.

we said: ‘There are but a few people, how can we preach then ?’

they called the people together and invited them to buy our tracts.

We sold a good number of them, and then they asked us again to

preach, which we did with great joy. — At the festival in Kareiya

(near Bantwal) we had a very large audience and were only two

to preach.

For hours a quiet multitude of men and women listened

to our preaching.

Finally we got so hoarse and tired that we

could scarcely talk any more, but as often as we looked upon this

multitude of people we reccived new courage and new strength to

proceed with our work.”— Once staying in the house of a farmer

his wife said:

‘It is

(e

o

curious thing with you, you seem to be of

43

e

ithou

a higher birth.

Whether you are in a valley or on a hill, in a

forest or somewhere else the Bhiitas will not trouble you, they are

0 10t

indeed afraid of you.

Alas! the more we spend in order to get

rid of them or to pacify them, the more they molest us.’

To this

e

we answered: ¢ We believe in the One true God and in Jesus Christ

] ol

Because He is with us we

whom God has sent to save mankind.

tan

need not be afraid; you must do the same!’ To which she rejoined:

il

¢ This will not do for us.

And now the Missionaries have built

been

a bungalow on the very spot, where formerly the Bhitas used to

from

meet in council.

¢ Where have they gone now? Are you really

not afraid at all?’ the people there ask.”

grand

Mrs. Stamm, who accompanies the Bible-women at Man-

th 18

galore, is glad to report, that

We,

“Several families where Bible-women used to call have come

st

out last year and joined the Christian Church.

For

some the

1618

division of joint property is an obstacle to carry out the secret

5 4

desire of their hearts.

If

Then people ought to be seen oftener.

he

we wish to make these women Christians so far as our teaching is

The

concerned this should embrace the whole plan of salvation in a

e

detailed and chronical order.

This is not possible by means of

01

visits few and far between.”

Diné

Jast

Our brethren in Karkal frequently on their preaching

tours meet with Jains, who on the whole are very pleasant

ple

to deal with. Their chief difficulty is one not altogether

en

uncommon : they cannot understand that all endeavours at

Il

(o

self-salvation will not avail.

Mr. Flischer writes: —

10

«If such is the case, that really nothing else is wanted but to

il

believe in Christ Jesus, if no meritorious actions of any kind are

wanted, I shall not care for this Jesus and His salvation.

Suach a

)

religion is too cheap, I dare say.— Another Jain admitted that

ol

e

it is not within the power of man to overcome sin, for, he said,

s

¢ Just as the needle of a compass will turn always to the North so

sin always will attract us to the wrong side.’

And a dying Jain

f0

(1

said again and again: ¢Oh, if after all it should be impossible to

of

deliver ourselves from sin and all our exertions should be in vain!’

6*

s

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The excuses for unbelicf are many. People of higher caste

I

1

sometimes admit the elevating power of the Gospel, and hence

are of opinion that we should carry our message to the low

castes and to the illiterate

But these in return will excuse

themselves by saying that they cannot move before the

gods of the earth”

and other hich

castes have taken the

lead

Characteristic of the speculative nature of some Hindus

18 what one of them said to Mr. Diirr at Karkal :—

“Give me thirty rupees and I shall accompany and help you

in your preaching tour;

I know how to impart wisdom to these

rude people almost better than you yourself.”

What Mr. Fischer writes about a rich farmer again shows

how also outside of our congregations Christ exerts an

influence on the hearts of many people : —

{\

“He has for many years been reading the Bible and I was

told by my Catechists that he is in the habit of praying to Christ

§

Jesus in the evening

When we came to his house some men of

p<

standing were with him and in our presence he called upon them to

defend their faith

He then pointed out the folly of idolatry and

enlarged upon the most important tenets of the Christian belief

One might have thought oneself standing before an experienced

Bible Ohustxan at home who expounds the divine way of sal-

vation.

At Mulki, another station in the midst of the Tulu popu-

lation, Mr. Bichle with his Catechists carries on the work of

evangelisation

Amongst the Tulus the sorcerer and sooth-

Al

sayer 1s still a very great man.

He is an expert in duping

people, who take to it with great simplicity and earnestness.

People strongly believe not only in ¢the medical tree” and

its healing power, the sorcerer must also help them to take

revenge upon their enemies, which is a case altogether dif-

ferent.

Here we deplore not only the waste of money and

the folly of the people, but this kind of superstition sets

e

45

! Caste

loose everything mean and diabolic in man. — Rather amusing

hence

it is, as Mr. Bichle relates, that a Brahman at the last

16 low

Bappanidu festival explained the rain pouring down for two

CXCuse

hours during the procession by the fact that one who was

“the

impure had come into contact with the idol’s car.

To say

n the

the truth, an excommunicated Christian had done the repairs

[indus

of the car.

But the Brahman was somewhat perplexed when

some one found out that in the previous year the same man

My. Bcichle continues: —

b

had done the repairs.

{hese

“In remote hamlets it is, strange to say, that our anfortunate

boots were the cause of much vexation.

Without these boots

some nice people would have shown us much kindness and hospi-

lows

tality. Some kind people really seemed to be exercised in their

§ 4l

minds about it: to enter the house they could not ask us and to

give us a seat outside did not seem to be polite.

My Catechist told

Wés

me that the reception at some houses would not have been half

rish

so rough, but for the boots! — A Brahman was very kind and

p of

polite, but he asked us at once, not to talk about the Shastras

0!

during a conversation on religion, as words might fall from his lips

d

which would pain us.

So better not!

But we could not allow the

olie

Brahman to escape so easily. My head almost touched the roof of the

house, which was tiled with Mission-tiles.

¢ Wherefrom have you

160

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gl

got these tiles?’

I asked. ¢From you,’ he replied. *Why did you

1 con-

buy them from us and not from some other company?’

tinued.

“Well,” he said, ‘your tiles have got a good name.’

opt

‘Now, look here,” I said, ‘just as you approve of our tiles, which

(ol

your forefathers did mot know anything about, so your conscience

ofh

would approve of the Word of God, to acquaint you with which we

ing

have come here, if you would but hear it and give it a fair tria

1'777

f5a

In Basrur both the Missionaries and the Catechists devote

d

almost all their time to evangelisation.

My. Stier experienced

oke

great difficulties out in the district in getting the most primi-

f

tive lodgings.

He considers himself very happy, if he finally

\ll{l

finds a shelter in the veranda of some toddy-drawer.

But

fs

46

———

he felt well compensated for all thé inconveniences and

jld

privations when one of his hosts said to him on his departure:

th

“ You must come back again; during the 5 days you have been

]

with us, we have been happier than we were ever before.”

My. Stier thinks that on the whole the disposition of the people

towards the Gospel is more friendly than it was formerly, and

i

he attributes this to the conversion of Shivarama (¢f. last

m

year’s Report, page 64 f.).

Both of our Missionaries there went beyond the borders of

their

al

district.

With the hearty consent of our Wesleyan

Tn’ Bidur=

for

brethren My. Stier entered the Mysore country.

as

Nagar he was pleased to find the school-books published by

Ramabai introduced and all the walls decorated with well-

chosen moral sentences.

In Kallarkatte the Tahsildar was

extremely kind and being a great friend of music he felt so

1‘\

attached to the German Missionary that the manner in which

they took leave from each other was rather touching. In Sagar

a young man threw cowdung at Mr. Stier, for which the man

felt very sorry afterwards and invited Mpr. Stier to come to

his house.

My. Liithi made a very interesting journey to the eastern

mountains.

At Tirthahalli he made the acquaintance of some very agreeable

Government officials.

One of these gentlemen asked one of the

Catechists, a convert from the Brahmans, whether he really did

find in Christianity something he had sought for in vain in the

ali

Hindu religion.

Another one loved the Bible, and some of them

accompanied the Evangelists for a distance to have a talk with them.

A little boy of about 6 years of age, making a deep salam said

in English to Mr. Liithi:

“Good mornirg brother,”

he was

evidently anxious to transpose the theory of his *first book” into

practice. They finally reached Shringeri (the monastery of Shankara-

charya),

a very holy place.

They asked the high-priest for

lord

and

permission to preach there, which of course he refused, but never-

fure;

theless the little party preached there for three days without

> Deen

being molested in any way.

fore,”

People of high caste will not in general admit a Mission-

people

ary to their houses, but when Mr. Stier in September last

7, aud

made a preaching tour to the east he met with a Brahman,

f Lo

who seemed to form a rare exception to the general rule.

My. Stier writes:—

ers of

“ When my servant went to a Brahman merchant in the

lejan

evening to buy some things for our household, the Brahman asked,

for whom the things were.

Then he

sent me his salam and

idur-

asked us to come to his house.

‘We went there in the morning.

d by

el

He received us with great joy and at once gave us a place for

cooking: not only this, he ordered his wife to give us milk and

Was

any thing we should want.

To our great astonishment the wife

£ 50

After we had talked

of the Brahman did not object to all this.

ich

with him for some time he called his wife, who had listened behind

gl

the door, to come in, and the following conversation took place.

mal

He

‘Did you hear what we talked about?’

She :

‘Yes,’

He:

A

‘ What do you think about it ?’

She :

¢ All is truth that

these

people say.” He: ‘Shall we become Christians? Will you follow,

in case I should embrace Christianity?’ She: “Let both of us

steln

become Christians!’

One thing only seemed to trouble them:

having become Christians, they would not be able to eat meat.

We then told them that the Kingdom of God does not consist in

ee&h\e

f e

eating and drinking, buat in righteousness and peace and joy in the

1 dif

Holy Ghost.

This seemed greatly to relieve them. The wife of the

Brahman then asked, whether amongst Christians also women are

g fhe

fhen

expected to study the ¢Shastras’, to which we replied, that in

the

our congregations all the boys and girls go to school and learn to

read and to write, that also men and women, if not too old, try their

| 5md

i

best to learn to read the Word of God, which amongst Christians is

not considered to be a burden but rather a privilege.

The more

o

we read the Word of God the more we like it.

Talking about sin

(o

i

Before we went to

for

and the propitiation for our sin the sun set.

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—

rest the man asked permission to be present at our evening prayers,

foll

and he and his wife listened most attentively to our prayer. In a

il

very friendly manner he welcomed us in the morning, when we

came to say good-bye.

He bought some tracts and asked us very

10

urgently to come again soon, moreover he promised to read mean-

i}

while the Bible and the tracts very carefully.”

h

Mr. Borel, who succeeded My. Diez at Kasaragod, tells us

i

about an open door at Tekil:—

b

[l

‘““About a 100 years ago the Muhammedans reached there and

began gradually to drive the Nayars out of the place.

Our Cate-

¥

chist Jesudasa Melottu comes from this place.

Having heard the

li

Gospel for the first time at Mangalore he was accepted as a candi-

g

date for baptism, got instruction at Udipi and was baptised there in

0

1885. 1In 1892 he came as a Catechist to Kasaragnd, and of course

bla

N

on preaching tours he now and then turned his steps to his

native-place Tekil.

At the beginning he met with great hatred and

18]

4

especially by his family he was treated as an apostate.

However

th

(0

things changed quite wonderfully.

The head of his family (which

is considered to be the noblest in the place) when dying, appointed

§)

Jesudasan as his suceessor.

Our Mission has established a school

:

there, besides there is also a night-school for adults.

In the house

of Jesudasan the Nayars will gather in the evening and animated

discussions take place even in the dead of night.

A young Nayar

is ready to break caste, and does not hesitate to eat rice with the

Catechist. ”

In Coorg things are pretty much the same as in South-

Mahratta.

1

We do not hear much of opposition, on the

contrary we occasionally hear of people that are very well

a2

disposed towards Christianity, but at the same time nothing

stirs, we wait and wait to see whether the dry bones will move,

but no signs of awakening to life can be perceived. At 9 places

in the district of the itinerating Missionary at Mercara a

market-day is held once a week, and this is the chief opportu-

nity for the Missionary to preach the Gospel. At some of

these places audiences from 100-300 may be addressed. The

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49

prayers,

following communication from

My

Rath

will be found

L Ing

interesting:—

\

then e

“Onee I was at Somavarapet (one of those market-places) and

vy

in the evening I heard a great noise in the neighbourbood of the

d mean

travellers’ bungalow.

When I heard that there was a festival in

honor of some god I took my lantern and went to the place with

tells us

the Catechists.

There were many people standing round a hut

erected with branches, and on my approach they very kindly

made us a salaam and drew back to let me come near. All of them,

ere a1

especially the officiating Brahman, seemed to be ashamed and the

it Cafe

ard fhe

latter feigned to have come there only to have a look at what was

y candl

going on.

When I asked them about their god they pointed to a

stone, covered all over with rather ugly figures and looking very

ther it

f oourse

black and greasy on account of the oil that had been poured on it.

fo bis

Asking them whether this stone ever spoke or on any occasion

rendered help they laughed and excused themselves by saying,

od and

ever

that their ancestors had done the same and why should they not

continue in this way.

which

Whilst I spoke with them on the folly and

sinfulness of this idol-Worship preparations were made to make the

ointel

schoo

god supposed to pervade this stone to take possession of a boy,

who was expected to act then as an oracle.

The so-called musi-

house

cians making an awful noise, the boy was placed opposite the stone

imafel

Two men with torches in their

and had to stare incessantly at it.

Nagar

hands turned round the idol.

After some time the boy began to

ifh e

wrench his limbs and alternately falling down and jumping up or

turning a summersault behaved like a lunatie.

When they

St

informed me, that now the god had taken possession of the boy,

i t]l“

I could not refrain from remarking that it was very unkind of

el

their god to maltreat people in such a manner for the purpose of

thig

taking possession of them.

There was a roar of laughter when I

ﬂ]O\'e;

made this remark.

After the boy had quieted down a little they

asked him whether he would like to have his habitation removed

Jace

to some other locality or whether he was angry at the English

m b

il

Government having built a travellers’ bungalow in his neighbour-

hood, to which questions the boy gave no answer.

This was

ascribed to the god having not yet taken full possession of the

Mhe

T

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boy; all this while the musicians were beating their arums in quite

(u

a frantic manner.

The boy began to foam, wallowed on the ground

ing

and laid about him most fariously.

When I interfered they soothed

P

him and again inquired about the feelings of their god.

The boy

18

(T

P

said :

1

cannot yet give an answer’ and when they insisted on

Jis

his giving an answer, the boy finally said: ¢ All that the Padre said

fo

about me is true.’

fu

The god left the boy again and the proceed-

ings were looked upon as a failure.

The Catechists afterwards

i

told me the boy having gone to a Mission School formerly had felt

p

ashamed to carry on before us all the hocus-pocus and that thus

He

the business came to naught.”

il

T

When My. Rath made a journey to Bhagamandala (the

ful

source of the Kaveri-river) one of the mendicants there

calmly made the following statement: —

W

‘Mady and great are the sins in our days, but small and few

1}

L

are the alms’.

Also there a Vakil gave it as his opinion that the

8¢

Mission cares far too much for the uneducated.

This verdiet is not

1¢

true.

In every Mission great exertion is made to take hold of the

spiritual leaders of the nation, but it is true — and this fact has led

to some misconception —that the Gospel at all times and every-

where has attracted first of all the poor and uneducated, and the

way it has worked upon them forms one of the most convincing

evidences of the Christian faith.

‘To the poor the Gospel is

preached’, but these poor in course of time begin to inherit the

earth.

)

My. Fischer at Anandapur expresses his great joy as to

i

1S 5

Writdg: -

the manner in which people take tg the Word of God. He

1

““Much time we spent amongst the coolies on the -coffee-

plantations near oar station.

Some of these poor coolies bought

even tracts and they asked us to come again soon.

The other day

an overseer sent us two boys and asked us to admit them to our

new Orphanage.

The second way in which we propagate the

Gospel is our preaching at the markets.

There are 5 markets in

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in quie

our neighbourhood, which afford splendid opportunities for preach-

o ground

ing

7 soothed

A Coorg, having listened for a long time, prayed the Lord’s

Prayer before all those present, which shows that the Word of God

The oy

is read in their houses.

In Gossikoppa a man after having silently

isted on

listened to our preaching, gave the last three pies he possessed

re said

towards the Mission-work.

The festivals in the district afford us

rooeel:

further opportunities.

There are some holy places in Coorg, which

arwarls

attract people from far and near.

Here we occasionally meet with

had fil

people who have never heard, that God so loved the world that

at s

He sent His only-begotten son into it.

Having concluded our ser-

mon an old man said:

“Is it really true, what you have told us?

These are precious words. Is the Lord Jesus indeed such a wonder-

i (the

ful Saviour? I never heard anything of Him!

Hhere

In Malabar the work went on without any disturbance

whatever.

Our Evangelists do not experience much in the

| fow

way of opposition.

Now and then it even seemed as if some

the

sections of the Malabar population were tired of their own

g 106

religion.

The Brahma Samaj has made its entrance into

)f the

Calicut, the capital of Malabar, and subscriptions are being

g8 lol

arer-

raised towards a Theistic Prayer-Hall there.

Of course

educated Hindus realize their position.

Hinduism cannot

i e

hold its own against the advance of education and western

neing

thought, permeated by Christian ideas.

It is true there are

?9] ]

I the

curious specimens of people out here in India who can lecture

one day on the progress of civilisation, on freedom of thought

and emancipation from human tradition, and on the next day

5 {0

these very men will pull at the same rope with the illiterate

He

in order to move on an idol-car or they will consult the as-

foe:

trologer about the “ muhfirtam” for their daughter’s marriage;

but such are exceptions.

It is moreover true that a Hindu

uah[

at any time of perplexity on account of his popular religion

if

o

may take refuge in Vedantism, in his old celebrated philosophy;

fhe

but philosophy can nowhere be a compensation for religion

i

and will not satisfy the religious cravings of a man’s heart,

%k

52

Cal R

ftal

as far as they are real. And as the religious mind of a

Hindu naturally shrinks before the vacuum of materialism or

Whe

as s

atheism, some of our educated Hindu friends really look out

14

for some religion which on one hand will be acceptable to the

falkir

spirit of this age and on the other hand not alienate them

1t a0

Approaching the question of religion

from their own people.

)

as our educated Hindus do from the point of intellect and of

Tiolg

opportunity, the Brahma Samaj, Theosophy and the like seem

to serve the purpose very well.

But unfortunately for our

10

friends, living religion is not a thing that can be manufactured.

Tety

But all these Samajas are a mixture of a religion dead long

(an

ago—and the dead can never be vivified—and of Western

Chr

thought and Christian ideas, they are the newest manifestation

Hin

of Indian ecclecticism. As a temporal make-shift they may help

o

on single individuals for some time, but they cau never take

1%

P

the place of a living religion.

Religion will not stand

i

without revelation, at any rate not without belief in revelation.

{u

Even amongst Tiyers the question has been discussed whether

)

the time has not come for a change of religion and whether

f

Christianity or the Brahma Samaj would be preferable.

By

something like a debating society, by discussions and votes

the question of religion can scarcely be settled for a com-

g

munity.

A new religion cannot be introduced like a new

d

fashion of dressing oneself. Still such deliberations are im-

£y

portant as symptoms of the time.

I

My. Peter, the itinerating Missionary at Cannanore, carries

i

5

on the work there with his usual energy and originality.

W

With a Government official he experienced a very sad disap-

pointment.

The gentleman some years ago was very friendly, and

Mr. Peter, even accompanicd by his wife, used to call upon him for

a friendly talk.

Then a nephew fell sick. Mr. Peter, asked by the

uncle, prayed for the young man, who however died.

After that

the official himself was attacked by malaria, he suffered like 2

Sl R

53

dof g

fatalist, and the more hé suffered the more his mind was embittered.

lism or

When Mr. Peter called upon him and tried to encourage him he

ok out

was very unkind, almost rude. ‘‘Leave me alone, ” he said, “if there

is a God, we shall be as well off as you; if there is none, all your

fothe

o then

talking is to no purpose.

I have got a Bible, but [ never read

it and I shall never read it.

If I do not commit any sin, God can

eligio

also not punish me.”

A few weeks afterwards the poor man laid

and 0f

violent hands upon himself.

€ §eell

My. Peter and his Catechist spent their time during the

For our

monsoon, when preaching tours are out of question, in a

cturel,

very useful manner. There is a Vakil in the neighbourhood of

4 long

Cannanore, whose sympathies are with Christianity and the

Jostern

Christians, but in spite of his sceptical attitude towards

station

Hinduism and his utter condemnation of caste, he finds it

help

He founded

possible to remain within the pale of Hinduism.

*take

a school for the low castes and his own son instructs the

dand

children.

My. Peter asked permission to give Bible-lessons

o0

during the rainy season in this school, but as the Municipality

\ether

of Cannanore had taken over the management of the school

hether

No

the Vice-President of this corporation had to be asked.

eBi

objections were raised, and some Hindus in Cannanore have

| voies

become so enlightened and so free from prejudices against

g (0

Christianity, that they think the best thing out-castes could

Rl

do would be to become Christians in a body. Mr. Peter got

10 -

even permission to give Bible-lessons out of the regular school-

hours in the schools within the Municipality, provided the

headmasters of the different schools did not object to it.

In

g 1108

six schools My. Peter and his assistants were most kindly

received by the teachers and pupils, and for two hours a week

s

180

in each school they spent a very pleasant time amongst these

i

[I Al

children.

i

“Moplas who are able to read are very fond of it. Mrs. Schoenthal,

e

| fhat

who aceompanies the Bible-women at Cannanore, had read in a

Mopla-house the story of the feeding of the five thousand.

After

e ®

ST

SR

54

An

that a Bible-woman offered the Gospei of Luke for sale. A Mopla;

boy, about 12 years of age, on hearing that this Gospel contains

I

the story he had heard just now, asked his people to buy it for him.

The women in the house, about 10, laden with ornaments pretended

bl

b

not to have a single pie to buy this

Gospel.

‘When we left the

1l

‘However before we had

house we heard the boy erying inside.

reached the gate of the compound he ran behind us holding

triumphantly half an Anna in his hand and bought the Gospel

from us.

I thought that the women had finally yielded to his

entreaties, but the Bible-woman told me that he had borrowed the

money from a friend, a goldsmith’s son.”

Although the work amongst women is not very often

{

0

accompanied with visible results in the way of conversions to

the Christian church, it is a great thing for the present to

i

see how by the consolations and the elevating thoughts of

4

b

a

the Gospel the bright light of eternity falls on the desolate

path of some of these Indian women.

f0

“This was the happiest day of my life” said the wife of an

00

th

official to Mrs. Schoenthal when she left the house.

Masth. 11, 27

pli

was a great comfort to her, and a few days afterwards she died. Tt

fh

is Christianity which sets people to think as to the purpose of their

h

life, and it is not a little thing, if a poor creature who, either did not

I

trouble her mind at all about things beyond the region of her five

t

senses or had looked upon this world and human life as upon a toy-

i

shop, kept up for the amusement

of gods and demons, begins

to perceive something like God’s fatherly hand, guiding her on her

way and moulding her life.

Thus reports Mrs. Schaal of a Pariah-

5

woman, who said: ‘“What you tell us is true: ¢ God sends sufferings,

misery, trouble and the like in order to rouse us from our indifference

and apathy to salvation.’

I was living in constant quarrel with

all the members of my family. Then I got a boil, so I was confined to

one place and could not move about. During this time of suffering

God spoke to me and showed me how wicked and quarrelsome I was.”’

Highly interesting are the communications of Mr. Samuel

55

SRR

Nopha.

Ambattu, Evangelist for North Malabar, stationed at Tellicherry.

oontatms

From his long report we select only a few portions:—

for him,

On a Hindu-festival near Ancharakandy, as usual, he experienced

etended

some difficulty with the Pattars.

They claim to be Brahmans, but

Joft {he

in Malabar they have become proverbial by characteristics which

we had

cannot be called virtues.

They usually sell Palghat-mats near

holding

the temple of that place.

Gospel

“We addressed them in the most polite manner, but unable to

to his

give reasonable answers they indulged at once in filthy language.

ved the

Of course we could not reply to that, and I only said: ‘To such

abusive language of course you expect to get an answer of the

same kind, but our God did not teach us such language, neither

often

does He tolerate it, so of course we are defeated.’

After they had

s t0

cooled down for some time one of us again began to speak about

the arrogance of the Pattars, and at once they fell in again by

nf o

s of

abusing us in the most shameful manner.

At this moment a rich

late

and noble Nambiyar, who had stood at some distance and listened

to our conversation stepped in and said: ‘I felt greatly disgusted

on hearing these unbecoming, rude words falling from the lips of

of an

those who pretend to be our religious teachers, and I was greatly

l

pleased to see that these Christian preachers did not disgrace

, I

themselves by using similar language.’

Then turning towards us

”their

he said: ‘You ought not to enter upon a discussion with such persons,

d nof

you will only lower your position in doing so.

They do not know

pfire

their own religion and every body knows for what purpose they

[0

are walking about in the country.

I shall show you a more

gl

worthy aim for a discussion.

Do you know Svami Vivekananda?

e

I have got one of his books, and I invite you to fix some hour and

i

then let us have a disputation on his views of the Hindu religion.

llg51

To this I replied: ‘We know that Vivekananda is a great and

e

eloquent expounder of Hindu philosophy and on that field we

gilh

scarcely will be able to withstand him. But let me ask you: Is what

(o

Vivekananda calls his religion really your religion? He is, as far

g

as I know, a great expert in the yoga-philosophy. But we came here

B

to speak on religion and not on philosophy.

You know that there

are two classes of men.

On one side are such as believe in a

w@[

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living, personal, holy God, and they desire to regulate their life

ha

according to the will of this Giod and to live in fellowship with Him.

Bi

And there is another class: for them God is an impersonal

substance, without life and attributes and in order to be absorbed

;

into this Godhead without qualities they will practise yogam, thus

entering into a similar existence. Now to which side do you belong?’

The Nambiyar with great emphasis declared he belonged to the

E

first class, to which I replied: ¢Well, you see that you stand on

our side and not on that of Vivekananda.

And really he admitted

that he shares with us the belief in one, personal and holy God.

However he objected to our belief in a Mediator, called Christ Jesus.

After having spoken at some length on the necessity of such a

Mediator, we invited him not only to read the Gospel, but also to

|

fix a time in order to enter more fully upon the subject.

He

]

promised to hear us preach, but we did not see him anymore; we

I

heard afterwards that on account of a death, that had suddenly

A

B

oceurred in his family, he had to go away.”

hn‘

At Payyanur Mr. Samuel worked together with Mr. Peter of

[

lia

Cannanore, who had his magic lantern with him. It is M.

il

Samuel’s impression that uneducated people who see pictures

the first time cannot appreciate them properly; they will

fa

W

only gradually awake to an understanding of what is going

On the other

4l

on, if these pictures are properly explained.

th

hand he is of opinion that the life of Christ, if only told by

4|

means of words and explanation, frequently produces on the

i

minds of natives the impression of a story invented for some

purpose, whilst by means of pictures it appears to them as

something that actually happened, as a historical fact. He

)

goes on as follows:—

‘At Taliparambu we had to encounter a rival preacher, a

Tiyan, who, as usually is the case, had scarcely anything to say

for the vindication of Hinduism, but preferred to abuse Christi-

anity, of which he did not know mueh and evidently did mnot

understand anything.

He knew how fond of abuse people are,

The

Bible he

and he gave them full satisfaction in this respect.

fomim e

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handled just like the fox deals with the turtle. _To exhibit the

h Him

Bible-knowledge and the logic of this antagonist of Christianity

orsong)

a few examples will suffice.

That God prohibited the first man

bisorbed

from eating of that tree was mere envy, the devil on the other

n, thus

x

hand has done mankind a great service, hence the devil seems

elong!”

to be better than God. God in saying: ‘You will die, if you eat’,

fo the

told them a lie, what the devil said with reference to their dying

and o)

was true.

There were many gods about t

imitted

for God says: ‘Let us ete.’

’he time of creation,

y God

‘“At Kirur an old and noble Nayar listened very earnestly to

b Joss,

the preaching of the Gospel and shed tears when the love of God

siieh 3

was deseribed fo him; the Word of Gtod seems to have come home

alsoto

to his heart.

He had gone before we could take hold of him.

The

fe

Moplas there desired to have a regular disputation between a

¢, We

Mopla and one of us, and a Roman Catholic Head-Constable was

e

Iy

appointed to act as arbiter.

The Mopla took up ecircumecision as

his subject.

He asked, whether we were prepared to act upon the

example Christ has laid down for us, and then, whether Christ

f ol

i

had undergone circumeision, and finally he asked triumphantly : ‘and

why bave you abolished this rite?’ The Christian defender of his

fLes

faith spoke at some length on the meaning of circumeision and

il

wound up by insisting on the circumeision of our hearts.

When

8

i

all the Hindus standing round them took the side of the Catechist,

ofh

the Mopla said: ‘We had better drop this matter, when we shall

il

all have reached the presence of God, we shall see the truth of

i

the matter’.”

§omé

The Bible-women at Tellicherry are under the supervision

o

of Mrs. Frohmmeyer.

We give the following extracts from

e

her reports:—

“Now and then we went to see a very old woman laid ap with

rheumatism.

She would actually put to shame many an old

e, &

0

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Christian as to the way she bore her burden. On entering the old

rotten hut, after some time one will discover in the dark an old

el

bright face, ecrowned with a lot of white hair.

The trembling hand

1 il

awv

makes a salaam. Her memory is rather weak, and one must not get

tired of telling her the old story again and again, that Jesus, the

p o

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Saviour, has died for her sins.

The good old mother with great

SU

Wi

earnestness will repeat every word with a loud voice so as not to let

¥

it escape her memory.

At each visit I found with great joy that

her knowledge of Christian truths had increased a little.

She told

L)

me that she feels sure at any rate of three things:

‘T often asked

God to take away my sins and He has blotted out all of them.

Secondly, He hears my prayers, wherever I am, and thirdly, I have

nothing more to care for earthly things, therefore I do but wait

until God comes and leads me away from here to heaven.’

And

{

sooner than I would have thought the third assurance of her heart

has been realised.

One evening, when I passed the house prepara-

tions for some obsequies were being made and I knew at once that

the old mother had passed away from her dark hut to brighter habit-

ations.

I am sure she will have met with a merciful Judge, who

will not ask more than the feeble woman was able to give. — Our

I

Bible-women find

the

so-called

‘Heart-book ’

(translated and

n

adapted to India by Dr. H. Gundert) a very useful help to lead

S0l

their Hindu-sisters to a better knowledge of sin.

Some will say

a4l

on seeng these pictures, on which man’s sins are symbolised

0

by some well-known animals:

‘Oh that is a good picture, these

o

pictures show the real state of our hearts.’

On the whole Hindu-

for

women like to see pictures; they understand Bible stories much

W

better, if an illustration is given, and they have lots of questions to

of

put as soon as these pictures are shown to them — Why the devil,

(|

why Judas Iscariot have been created, these are questions which

greatly perplex them.

Michal and Julia, two of our Bible-women,

b

often visit also the houses of Moplas and are startled at the curious

ideas prevailing among their women.

That Christ is in heaven and

will come again to judge the quick and the dead, they will not

i

object to, but they will not admit that He died on the ecross.

L

is the devil that has been crucified’, they will say; ‘Isa Nabi went

to heaven without dying.

He was a good man, but you abuse

Him by your stories.

Mary, too, is in heaven, there she sews and

sews day and night in order to make her wedding-dress.

But as

often as she has done with it and shakes it out in order to fold it

np, it tears asunder and she must begin anew.

But finally she will

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i

b great

succeed, then Isa Nabi will appear and Mary and Muhammed, who

o fo Lot

will have risen then from the dead will marry each other.’

People

joy that

who relish this kind of rubbish will find it naturally difficult to

She fol

A

appreciate the plain and chaste truths of the unadulterated Gospel.”

1 aske

3

At Chombala the very extensive and hopeful work of evan-

f them,

gelisation is looked after by Mr. Schilling and the Catechists

, [ hase

of the out-stations.

uf all

As now and then occurs, death snatched

away a man who was continually postponing the decisive step

! A

i heart

which his conscience had urged him long ago to take.

Mr.

)repara-

Schilling writes: —

nce fhot

‘““ Near Muverattu a rich Tiyan was ready to join the Christian

7 habit

Church. Once I spoke with him in presence of a large number of

6, ho

his caste-people, who on their way to some holy place had gathered

—(ur

in his house.

He himself bore evidence that their exertions were

d and

in vain and told them about the resolution he had taken.

But his

The next time he even

) lead

sons opposed, and he gave in for the time.

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asked me to come again on the following day, as he only wanted

olised

to settle some affair first.

When I came on the next day again he

these

was afraid of his sons and now asked me to postpone his baptism

Hindu-

for a fortnight.

Of course I did not like to force the matter in any

s ek

way, but asked the Catechist at Muverattu to look after the man as

often as possible.

Alas, a few days only after my last call he died

s B

) ﬂEVﬂ:

quite of a sudden.”

; “h]eh

At Badagara, 7 miles distant from Chombala, we have

el

bazaar preaching every week.

The Moplas there, as an

onrions

On the

exception to the rule, behave very well indeed.

ol ﬂﬂd

whole the audience there makes the work a real pleasure to

i

our KEvangelists. The same people stand there for 2 or 3 hours

§

i

listening patiently to 3 or 4 addresses and afterwards con-

j el

3bl]59

versations take place with single individuals or groups of

people.

The people seem to be in earnest.

i ol

““The other day one asked, whether RaAman had not really come

But

i

into the world to destroy the wicked.

Another question was,

whether indeed there

is no difference between the water at

ol

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e

Kasi and that of any other river, whether the former would not

e

Another one said

al

wash away our sins

¢ What you say about

Christ is good and reasonable, but we cannot believe that we are

in need of Him ; please tell us

shall we really be lost, if we pray to

God and serve Him, but are not baptised and remain in our houses ?’

but an

Less intelligent are in general the questions of Moplas

old Mopla the other day gave a warning to his mocking co-religion-

ists by saying

*We are not allowed to dishonour Isa Nabi.

He is

a prophet

if we do it, God will punish us.

Some are greatly

astonished to hear that one can be sure that his sins are foreiven

Less agreeable it is, if our hearers call attention to the fact that

the life of our Christians in no way agrees with the doctrines we

promulgate

‘The only difference between them and us,’ they will

say, ‘is that they dress a little better and live on that hill (Chom-

[i

bala).”— In the house of a Kanishen (astrologer) two women heard

I

the Word very gladly, afterwards the Kanishen himself appeared

I

He opposed with great energy, especially the resurrection of Christ

fh

seemed to be a great obstacle in his way

‘*The body of man

il

contains the five elements

these may separate, but they cannot live

again

he said

That sin rules in the heart

that it pollutes the

mind, that in order to purify the heart and to make up for what we

]

have done amiss, our good works, bathing and pilgrimages will not

suffice, that also, not our penitence, but forgiveness of sins alone

g

will set our hearts at rest, all this he readily agreed to

‘When

we had gone he followed us and asked the Catechist whether there

D

really was no way of salvation in which caste would be tolerated

When this was denied

‘he went away sorrowful’ like the rich

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young man in the Gospel. — Another one said

¢Oh sir, what you

say means that I must become a Christian

How can I leave my

I\

caste! And to remain in my caste and become a Christian is impos-

sible too

If something sour is poured into a copper-vessel, poison

will be produced ; it is the same with caste and Christianity

One

should not put the two together!’ This non-Christian seems to

think with better logic and with more cousistency about caste and

Christianity than some Christians of long standing!”

The Bible-women at Chombala devote one day of the

61

e

ould mot

week to the work at Mahé, the remaining days Chombala

ay about

Mys. Weismann reports:-—

and its surroundings are visited.

W ane

“A woman in a rather ecritical state of health showed not

¢ prayho

only a great thirst for God’s Word, but asked her husband also

houses?’

to join the Christian Church along with her.— The Bible-women

but a1

met in a certain house an elderly man and intended to pass by,

religion

but he invited them to remain, a servant was ordered to bring

How

chairs, and he asked the women to explain to him the substance of

and the Lord’s Prayer.

ol

Christianity, the Ten Commandments

forgiven,

When they had done he asked them to come again and talk to

fact it

the women in the house, and he was kind enough to send a little

1ings 1

nephew with them to give them an introduction into the houses

they il

round about.— In another house the master of the house dealt

| (Cho-

rather roughly with them at the beginning, then he looked into a New

0 heard

Testament, which they had offered for sale and on opening the book

Matthew 5 caught his eye.

He read it aloud and turning towards

;\peared.

f (st

the women in the house he said: ¢This is indeed holy teaching and

22

.

f man

everybody, who obeys such holy words, will be happy

not e

Our Evangelist Mr. Ashamayan Tumeran at Calicut made

fes the

a lengthy excursion to the eastern parts of his district last

qhat 1

year.

N\

qill ot

TIn a house the mother was o pleased with what she heard that

g alone

she offered some money to the Catechists when they were on the

Then

point of leaving,

They met with a very kind reception even

p fhee

amongst Muhammedans.

In the Ernad Taluk a Mopla asked

it

them to preach to the women in his house, which is something

he Fjﬂh

strictly prohibjted in general amongst Muhammedans.

af JOU

Cat. Israel Chowalur feels very confident as to the Moplas

e 10

in this district: —

jmpoée

“ Although they are very ignorant and fanatical, we hope by

poisou

means of Malayalam tracts printed in Arabie letters to gain some

(ot

influence over them.

In some respects they are better prepared

ol 10

fe il

for the Gospel truths than Hindus.

Some of them are wretchedly

poor. During the great dearth last year it was a pitiful sight to see

how these poor people by fasting and prayer endeavoured to move

f fe

el ny

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the heart of God so as to send down the longed-for rain.

When

tell

all was in vain women and children ascended a hill and by fasting,

prayer and tearful cries they invoked God for help.

They had

Joi

turned their faces towards the burning sun, and in spite of their

an

terrible thirst they would not touch a drop of water.”—There is

fee

fear of God amongst these Moplas, and differing from Hindus

W(

and Muhammedans in general these poor people do not take refuge

(!

with dull resignation in a fatalistic contemplation of the world’s

government, but they look upon all these severe visitations of

i

God as punishments for their sins.

It is only a pity that with

them sin means chiefly any neglect with reference to their cere-

monial obligations.

Mr. Ashamayan reports further of a rather encouraging

]

experience :—

if

‘“ When travelling in the train I distributed tracts amongst my

3

il

fellow-passengers, and whilst speaking with them I observed a

o

young man, who with a quite uncommon interest followed our

oy

conversation.

When I left the train he asked minutely all about

Il

On the

my whereabouts and promised to call upon me very soon.

Ny

following day he came to tell me that he had made up his mind to

become a Christian.

He was a Nayar coming from Badagara.

I advised him to pray and think over the matter and for some time

0

I did not hear anything about him.

But on one of my last tours he

came now and then to my house and had already parted with his

‘kutumi’.

of

He has now been admitted as a candidate for baptism,

and I trust he will turn out a living witness for Christ Jesus.”

an

a

Mr. Bader of Codacal on a preaching tour found the magic

g

lantern very useful.

i\

The evening would generally be utilised

in exhibiting it, and from 300 to 400 people used to gather

round him for hours.

At Chalasheri he met a Mopla who

followed the sermons delivered in the bazaar with great at-

tention.

The man, we are told, is initiated in Arabic litera-

ture and reads the Bible. He gave the impression of an earnest

seeker after truth.

—

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1, When

In a réport on the work of the Bible-women Mrs. Bader

y fast

g

0!

tells of two women, the mother and aunt of a man who had

They bad

joined us lately; the Bible-women attending to them again

6 of thelr

and again have been instrumental in bringing them to the

There s

feet of Jesus.

This was the more to be wondered at as these

1 Hindus

women had given great trouble when their relative embraced

ke refuge

Christianity.

o worlds

ations of

It is remarkable that Myr. Walter also, the itinerating

hat wib

Missionary at Vaniyankulam, reports about Moplas that they

do not show the sinister and morose looks we have been

elr ool

accustomed to see amongst them.

“A Mopla, who had attended our Bazaar preaching, asked me

ouragig

to come to his house and tell his wife and children also something

of the good teaching.

Everywhere, in the houses, on the streets

and on their fields, we have been surrounded by Moplas—men and

st 1f

arvel 8

women — who desired knowledge, and they always listened quietly

to what we had to tell them, even when we assured them that not

jod o0t

Muhammed but Jesus Christ was the true Prophet and man’s sole

| about

the

Mediator and Redeemer. ”’

Qn

ind £

Amongst Hindus also, under the influence 6f God’s word,

pdagath

a wonderful change sometimes takes place.

Mr.

Walter

e fimé

goes . on:—

ous B8

“ A woman at Vaniyankulam, who in the dust-coloured garment

it 18

of a.pilgrim had made many a pilgrimage to holy places and shrines

Dapnslll«

and who never allowed our Bible-women even to come as near

as to her veranda, has so totally changed in her behaviour that she

now as often as they pass the house, beckons them to come in and

agie

even invites them to read some passage from the Bible.”

fled

gt

Mrs. Walter’s further remarks on the Bible-women’s work

g 10

are indeed very pleasant and encouraging:—

naf il

‘“Stdra-women wait for our Bible-women with eagerness and

And this

Jiten

have always some questions on religion ready for them.

they do although their husbands tell them: ¢ You are not destined to

et

acquire knowledge, else yon would have been born in another con-

e,

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dition of life’.

Chettis, who worship the cruel, blood-thirsty Mari-

the 1

amma, are the most obstinate part of the population.

But even

amongst them our women have succeeded in gaining an entrance.

fion

They used to visit an old, sick Chetti-woman.

She said: I do feel

ther

el

so happy whenever I hear something of Jesus’, and before she died

she exhorted her children to hear the word of God.

The children

11

have been obedient to their mother’s last will.”

0 01

To preach the Gospel at Kalpathi, the place of a Hindu-

enter

Naa

festival at Palghat is not a very attractive business.

A first-

{ount

rate voice and great equanimity are some of the requisites

i 1

for an Evangelist’s preaching to the Pattars there. Even when

hinoy

running through Kerala in small detachments as traders in

Jeen

Palghat mats or to get fed as Brahmans, they are disagreeable

procl

enough, being not only inaccessible to the truth, but on

and

account of their obscene and rude language wholly un-

A

manageable.

One may imagine what a Missionary and his

il

Catechists must be prepared for at a place where the Pattars

feel at home, where they meet in regiments and where

101

the esprit de corps accamulated by the frantic excitement

i

prevailing at a Hindu-festival inspire them.

Myr. Hole makes

j\

the following sad remarks:—

1]

To the Pattars the Gospeli s a bitter medicine’, writes a C@te-

chist in his report.

We occupied a very good elevated place under

a large shady tree, and behind us there was a wall to protect us.

To one of the Brahmans our place was like a thorn in his eye, and

i

he always asserted that within Xalpathi we had no right to oceupy

ho

{0

such a place for our purpose.

Althongh he grew more and more

»

bold and intrusive and placed himself in front of one of our Cate-

chists staring at him in the most provoking manner, we did

not move.

As it was quite impossible to hush up this ¢ Bhuvesh-

vara’, who seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit, we simply had

to keep quiet.

As we could do nothing better, we bore witness by

keeping silence and thus we became a spectacle to all the people

passing by, but to whom we were unable to preach.”

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)

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sty Nari

“But such is the case only at Kalpathi. On a preaching-tour in

Bt even

the neighbourhood of Palghat we have met with a very kind recep-

entrancg,

tion amongst all caste-people.

Even in a village of the Brahmans

Tdofed

there was nothing of the usual mockery and molestation.

All the

o she diod *

men gathered when they saw us coming and we preached on Rom.

) children

1, 18 7. Even women from hidden places near by lent their ears

to our words.

One of the women without the least shyness even

, Hindu

entered upon a conversation with us afterwards.

Amongst the

A fist

Nayars also— whose demeanour as a rule, in those parts of the

country does not compare favourably with that of the Pattars -— we

equisites

did not experience much opposition.

A local magistrate, who

ven il

honoured us with his presence, said when we departed: ‘It has

aers 10

been a pleasure to me to have made your acquaintance.

You are

greeable

proclaiming the true wisdom; alas, the world is immersed in folly

but on

and darkness.’”’

lly un

and Iis

Mr. Hole is of opinion that if we would be satisfied with

Paffas

swelling the numbers of our Christians, we might get Christ-

| where

1ans by hundreds, if not thousands, provided we coald show

them a way to earn their livelihood.

et

Mrs. Hole writes about Tamil-women, who receive instruetion

) ke

in reading. One of them did not venture to pronounce the name

Ramasvami occurring in the Reader asthis is the name of her

§ 0 (afe

mother’s elder brother!

oo il

The misery on the charming Nilgiris is not less than in

ofet

the low country. The people there depend for their liveli-

hood partly on agriculture and partly on employment on the

o 000

coffee-plantations.

In both respects all their expectations

d o

during the last year were entirely blighted.

Mr. Kanoka,

o (it

the Native Pastor at Kotageri, writes:—

we d“]'

“If the year 1900 is to be one like the last year, the people

s

will be utterly undone.”

But the effect of this misery on the

oy bl

people is not different from what we have heard with reference to

1 b

the famine in South-Mahratta.

The Pastor goes on to say: “On

i

the whole I do not find that people are more inclined to receive

9

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66

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1

thé Gospel, which is the bread of life. Their hearts are full and

even overflow with cares and anxieties, and their daily conversation

s

is about the searcity and their distress, which they asecribe to the

allt

aggregation of sin in the Kaliyuga.”

they

he

On the other hand Mr. Liitze at Kaity is of opinion that

the Badagas, especially the women, are not unsusceptible to

(O

iy

the Gospel.

But he thinks that they are in no hurry as to

aw

accepting it.

Questions about the end of the world excited

the hearts of these hill-tribes no less than the hearts of those

10

living in other parts of the world.

They like to hear about

e

the Christian hope and the Christian expectation of the

ik

Lord’s coming.

o

My. Wieland of Kaity, who devotes the whole of his time

o

to itinerating work, was allowed to preach with his Catechists

fll

at a place where a temple-consecration had taken place, and

Ong

Ohr

they even did not object when the Missionary asked permis-

sion to offer a prayer on their behalf.

There

was dead

b

silence in the audience, when the Catechists besought God to

Ul

g

enlighten their minds, so that they might be brought to

We

repentance for all their sins, also for those committed that

sho

day, and that they might be brought to a full knowledge of

s

Jesus Christ as their Saviour.

him

Two of Mr. Wieland’s Catechists (Abraham and Paul) are

Tl\g

new converts from the Badagas.

Abraham in the Tuneri

L

district was severely dealt with by the women there, as they

il

consider it a heinous crime that he as the only son of his

1y

&

parents had left them. e had silently to suffer all this as

there was no hope of making these furious Badaga-women

understand his position.

But to reasonable people he was

1

able to give a satisfactory account of his conversion.

Last year we gave an account of the consecration of a

|

Mission chapel at Nellakottu (Wynaad).

Myr. Wieland writes

on the work there: —

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full and

“In March I was in the house of a Chetti there.

The house

versation

was full of joy and mirth then, as a family-festival had attracted

be to the

all the members of the family.

In spite of the confusion of the day

they gave me a kind hearing. After six months when I drew near

jon that

the house again, I was struck with the silence and gloom hovering

tible to

over the place.

An old man was sitting there and told me that

meanwhile almost all the members of the family had died.

The

J & )

excltel

awful affliction seemed to have benumbed the poor man.

He said :

of those

‘1 entertain no hope and no wish either for this world or the world

to come; whether there is a Shiva or not, whether I shall go to

r ahot

heaven or to hell, it is all the same to me!’

This was rather a hard

of the

case, and the words of consolation seemed to have no effect upon the

poor down-crushed man.

At the same place however I heard to my

s time

great satisfaction, that the people there had allowed a temple to

sohists

fall down in consequence of a sermon formerly preached there. —

One day a Korumba appeared, expressing his desire to become a

e, and

Christian.

He declared that the people in the village, including

;ermis-

y dead

his wife and children, were opposed to it, but he had made up his

mind to leave them, even should it cost him his life.

He wanted

(jod t0

me to take him to Kaity and appeared regularly at divine service.

gt 1

We were somewhat reluctant to take him with us, for fear that

i tht

should he become a backslider, all the Korumbas would be against

e 0

us and not receive us again in their village.

So we prevailed upon

him to stay where he was and get instruction from the Catechist.

The other day he made his appearance again and told us that he

Z’l] ot

Tinet

could not find rest all the night.

Finally we gave in and took him

with us to Kaity.

But the poor fellow had never left home and did

g th(’?f

not know how cold it can be at Kaity and how different food and

i hlb

everything is there from what he was accustomed to.

He got

s 8

homesick and suffered also physically from palpitation of the heart.

oned

Perhaps he was also troubled with some superstitious reminiscences

o T8

Christmas was near and the Korumbas

in vogue amongst his tribe.

say that Christians want for the celebration of this day of joy the

]Of

b

blood of some native.

So when the Christmas vacation commenced

e

we had to send him back with some orphanage-boys from the

Wynaad.

He was almost too weak to walk, however he is all

()3‘

g

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right now, and we rest in the assurance that the Lord will accom-

you

;Ia

plish the work He has begun in the heart of this Korumba. ”’

aive

Mr. Fritz in Coonoor spent most of his time in visiting

Sin

the plantations and carrying on what is called the «Cooly-

fol

Mission”.

He felt greatly encouraged in this work by the

sympathies of some English friends at Coonoor. The following

0 h;

is taken from his report:—

As soon as we had done

saly

“I had preached in P. to the coolies.

a man approached me and looking at me he said joyfally: ‘Yq‘es,

o a

the name of Jesus I am bearing in my heart for some years. I love

(ugs

Him, I pray to Him in secret, because I know that He is the only

Saviour who is able to give moksha.’

At some other plantation

‘&pc

ath

the overseer had a conversation with me and said: ‘Long ago I

gave up my belief in idols; in my inmost heart I am a Christian,

o

and I wish also that my child should get instruction in the Christian

a

religion.

I desire very much to confess Christ by baptism, but up

to this my family-connections are too strong hindrances.’

‘A quite unexpected and most welcome help to our work we

received through the kindness of Ars. H. in London; she kindly

sent a magic lantern for our work amongst the ecoolies.

We are

sure that the beautiful pictures together with the preaching of the

Gospel and earnest prayer will not fail to make an impression upon

the hearts of the coolies.”

As to the work of the Bible-women at Kaity Mrs. Liitze

M

points out some very hopeful cases of women, who seem

She

\;

to have been deeply impressed by the Word of God.

writes:——

e

1

“There is a Badaga-woman who praises the Gospel as her

il

consolation and even goes to other houses to speak about Jesus,

but these poor women are afraid that they will be quite forsaken,

if they should become Christians.

A young woman did not show

any interest in the Bible; now, two of her sons have died, and she

has begun to doubt the truth of her own religion, and at the same

time to pray to Jesus.

She said:

‘I shall at some time meet

{

2

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el

| accom

you in heaven, for I believe in Christ Jesus.” A dying woman said:

‘T am ready for the Lord’s call, I am waiting for Him, who has

given me peace. Why does He keep me longer in this world of

visting

sin?’ About the Word of God she said: ‘It lifted my eyes‘up

“Cooly

to heaven

!777

by the

llowing

My. Grossmann at Kotageri reports that people are willing

to hear, but that there is little in the way of real desire for

salvation and peace.

ad doe

Ta

“Will you pay my debts, if I become a Christian? Must I not

. Llore

do any more work as a cooly, if I join your Church?’ such are the

questions, for which we must be prepared. And when they see

the il

|antafion

a poor convert work with honourable sweat on his face, they mock

g g0 I

at him and ask : * What have you got now by your conversion? Have

you got money so as not to be compelled to work? Have you got

histian,

nisia

a pony from your padri, so that you no longer need to walk ?’

bt o

otk 8

o ndl

3. The! Native Church.

We

n(? Ot [he

(Cf. Table, pages 6-7.)

3101 UPU“

A. Numerical Increase.

As to out-stations, in Coorg 2 out-stations, belonging to

5, L

In

Mercara, have been founded: Suntikoppa and Chemba.

ho el

Malabar the twoimportant out-stations Malapuram and Manjeri,

e

i

belonging to Codacal, have been transferred to Calicut, as they

are more easily accessible from the latter station.

At Palghat

| g5 10

as a new out-station appears Mangara, whilst Tolpatti (con-

o 189

nected with Chombala) has disappeared, as we came by acci-

sk

dent to hear that the 8 Christians living there have -joined

HOB ﬂh"

the congregation of the Church Mission Society at Manantody.

al i

On the Nilgiris Kodanad, belonging to Kotageri is a new

o 49

out-station.

po !

i

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ALl S

70

The following figures show the baptisms of converts from

il

heathenism:

al

Baptisms.

Catechumens.

1898.

1'899.

1898.

1899

chdi 0o

South-Mah ratta

12

12

10

10

Canara

0!

73

100

215

178

Céorg

10

27

3

d

Malabar

371

168

288

199

€]

Nilgiris

13

21

13

13

of

Total i

479

328

530

403

b

Again in Canara and Coorg a very hopeful increase in the

Cf

number of converts will be noticed.

As to Malabar there is

§

of

a falling off of nearly 200 baptisms.

100 out of these have

been foretold last year, as the number of catechumens in 1898

b

went down from 380 to 288, the other 100 (there were 288

(f

be

catechumens in 1898 and only 168 baptisms in 1899) can

easily be accounted for by the fact that at a few stations

of

(especially at Codacal) hardly any baptisms took place, not

o

il

because there were no candidates for baptism, but because

the Missionaries at these stations were not satisfied at all with

the spiritual standard of the Christians admitted to their

congregations during the preceding years, and in order to

raise the whole status of their congregations they resolved to

prolong the time of trial and of instruction for their cate-

chumens.

The outward difficulties connected with the ad-

I

mission of larger numbers of catechumens to our churches

\\c

remained the same as in the last year (¢f. page 59 of last

8

\

year’s Report).

The present strength of our congregationsis 14,641 against

14,156 in 1898, hence a total increase of 485 souls.

It s

sufficiently explained by the baptism of new converts and the

large excess of births over deaths.

The total increase would

have been greater, if there had not been an excess of excom-

P

71

i

fs fron

munications over re-admissions (36) and of depértur‘es over

The excess of departures over arrivals must

arrivals (55).

mens,

be due to the fact that a good many people every year leave

1899

our stations and our Mission (in 1897, 76; 1898, 59; 1899,

ll

55) and join other Missions .or join perhaps no Christian

community at all.

People living outside our Mission-field

178

are not counted in our census, as in many cases we do not

3

even know whether they consider themselves to be members

of our church or not.

Some run away without saying good-

40

bye, and so it is quite impossible to provide them with a

certificate of their church status or to care in any way for their

o0 ¢

spiritual needs.

On the other hand, in spite of the resolutions

there 1

o hare

of the last Decennial Conference held at Bombay, endorsed

by the South-Indian Missionary Conference at Madras of 1900

7 1898

(¢f. its Report, page 73, Resolutions IL. and IIL), there must

o 286

be a considerable number of Missionaries who receive _members

|

|

fations

of other Missions under discipline ¢ without proper reference

to those from whom they come”, as in many cases we know

ce, 00

that our people have joined such and such a Mission, but

hecals

neither they nor their new spiritual guides have ever asked

R

for

certificates.

o ther

rder 0

B. Conversions from Heathenism.

[ed 0

ot

If we speak about “conversions” in a general manner as

referring to the number of adults (229) and children (99) that

he i

have been admitted to our church during the last year, we of

e’

of st

course only mean to say that the grown-up people after

careful instruction extending at least over a period of one

ear, have been baptised.

It has been our impression . that

;JIT&IUJt

i

1§

they had begun to realise to some degree the words: « We

nd the

love, because He first loved us.”

Of course the individuality

of the Missionary has much to do with the matter, and this

W (]llil1

will to some degree influence the character of the whole con-

x‘{CO[ﬂ

72

a i

it

gregation.

Opinions differ greatly as to what the spiritual

conditions are for admitting a candidate for baptism into the

orh

church.

But even where this question theoretically seems

lay

e

to be settled (¢f. our remarks in last year’s Report, pages 60

0]

and 61) the charisma necessary for «“proving the spirits

the

whether they are of God” is very differently distributed

pré

amongst God’s servants.

the

How far the term ‘ conversion” can be applied in its full

and legitimate meaning to our new people will be best seen,

if we give a description of what, in this respect, has happened

of

10f

in the different districts of our Mission.

In South-Mahratta

hy

the famine is not restricted to the fields, the spiritual dearth

fag

is scarcely less than the physical one.

There is the great

consolation that the Gospel,—as we have shown in our

IH [t

I

second chapter, — has taken hold of the people there and the

¢

hope remains that the soil having been for many years culti-

vated so faithfully and the best seed sown in it so plentifully,

(am

in God’s appointed time there may be an abundant harvest

before us, and such of us as have been occupying more fertile

they

fields will be only too glad if for South-Mahratta also the

gy

day should be nigh when we shall have to acknowledge that

the last have become the first.

Meanwhile we may well

he

encourage our brethren there with the word : * Wherefore, my

i

beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abound-

ing in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that

your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

i

At Unakallu, an out-station of Hubli, on the 24th of Sep-

10

tember the baptism of Kalappa took place.

Mr. Mayer

\

gives the following details about this joyful occurrence: —

“For 20 or 25 years he was acquainted with the Gospel ; it was

his caste that made him tarry till so late, although he always

i

maintained that he could not die unbaptised.

Once baptism had

been fixed for the following Sunday, he however wanted ‘to wait

73

spititna]

a little longer’. He met with some accident, and now he was ready

Info the

for baptism.

His son for the last time tried to change his mind the

day before baptism, and when the father remained firm he threat-

y seéms

pages 60

ened him by saying: °¢All right, I shall take the necessary steps

0 SJitls

to prevent him from leaving his house to-morrow.’

However when

the sermon Rom. X, 9. 10 commenced he appeared and in the

tributed

presence of many non-Christians he was baptised.

Kalappa gave

L

the impression of a very happy Christian.”

| 1ts ful

Even when the candidates for baptism are 40 or 60 years

st seen,

of age the question: «« What then shall this child be?” will

appent

Mahnatti

not be out of place, and it is a source of great joy and

1 deart]

thankfulness, if after the lapse of months and years a satis-

f

factory answer to this question can be given.

The trouble

e g1t

v

in a great many cases begins after baptism.

I or

As to K@lappa

Myr. Mayer writes at the end of the year:—

f“:d th

g oull

‘“ Kalappa has given me satisfaction up to this, although I

cannot deny that some of his views still need to be christianised.”

tifally

harvest

|7

From Bijapur we hear that a baptism almost took place

there.

There

1s a melancholic humour about

Mr. Metz's

g fort

ofle

i

Temmark; -

2150

“Our station would have been almost blessed with a baptism.

oo {

A man was put to prison on account of a scaffle.

When released

) el

ore, 1)

he came and asked for ba};tism. Mr. Berli, when transferred,

took him to Hubli, where he was baptised.”

oot

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Nothing very remarkable took placé in Canara last year.

At Bockapatna, belonging to Mangalore, on the 15th October

12 men, 12 women and a child were baptised.

The first, who

0l

g

was baptised into the death of Christ may be called a histo-

0

rical figure,

Dere more than 25 years ago began his

e’

j 1

career in the Mission by turning a wheel in the press, then

;

he was promoted to the post of a domestic servant in a

gp

Mission-house, finally he was in the shop at Mangalore the

g bl

man for everything, and now for the old man the day of

o o

10

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74

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hera

decision, the hour of great mercy, has come.

Together with

ave

him his wife, a daughter and 2 grand-daughters were baptised.

fo be

A sou of his had been baptised years ago and a son-in-law

woule

had been amongst the candidates for baptism, but when

woul

paying a visit to his non-Christian relations he died quite

moth

suddenly in an inexplicable manner.

Pastor Obed delivered

unch

an earnest sermon on John III, 1—12, in which he enlarged

sooth

My. Schaible, the senior

on the necessity of regeneration.

folloy

Missionary of the station, thinks that most of these people

her

embraced Christianity chiefly or only for the sake of getting

Was |

a livelihood.

The difficulty rests especially with single

longe

members of a family, as without a real conversion they will

S

whiel

not really amalgamate with the Christian community. This

is the reason that some, who had apparently shown a burning

Sﬂ‘llg

desire for baptism, shortly afterwards had to be subjected to

and

Quay

church-discipline.

(ron

But thanks be to God there are cases, where there can be

no doubt, that we have to do with a genuine desire for

i1

salvation.

Mr. Schaible has made the following interesting

communication ; —

)

It

““4rase is a youth 20 years of age, a workman at Jeppu. On

I

account of his relatives at Jeppu he came to Balmatha for instruction.

I

Having had a good schooling I intended to take first the Bible-

stories, to read and to explain them, but to my surprise, he knew

them as well as if he had received a Christian education.

It was

the

tn

a real pleasure to instruct this clever boy, who was so well versed

in the Holy Secriptures.

Uiy

He seemed to be extremely happy after

having come to a definite resolution.

However he was not spared

a

fa

a most acute struggle.

The father did not care much for the

matter, but first came some remoter relations, and after a most

&

decided refusal on his side to go with them the mother appeared

1

il

and with this the real fight commenced.

She implored the youth

ar

to come only once more to her house and to spend a night there.

He promised to be always a good and faithful son and to care for

-1

Ot

ther vifh

her and invited her to become a Christian too.

He would almost

have yielded to the entreaty of his mother, innocent as it seemed

baptised

0n--ar

to be, but somebody gave him to understand that very likely there

ub when

would be a snare at the bottom of it, and so he declared that he

would not go there before his baptism but gladly receive his

jed qui

mother at any time at his present lodgings.

As a sign of his

deliverel

unchanged love he let drop some money into her hand, which

enlarged

soothed her greatly.

She was even ready for some time to

16 Senitr

follow her son with two daughters, but the relatives prevented

e peap

her from doing so.

On the 1st of October Arase, now Daniel,

relatives that he was mo

f getiing

was baptised at Jeppu to show the

h singl

longer afraid of them.

After many baptisms, where livelihood

oyl

seems to be the prominent motive, a real conversion of this kind,

it}'. This

which can take place only, if accompanied ’by an energetic moral

struggle, is a double blessing and refreshment.”— Amongst the

buraing

candidates for baptism at Bockapatna there is also an old pensioned

jected fo

who had served in the Sudan under

General

Quarter-master,

Gordon.

o can bt

A number of conversions took place at Udipi: at Ambadi

aite for

a family with 4 children.

Myr. Keppler is of opinion that the

torestilg

converts were really convinced of the truth of Christianity.

It was a peaceful occurrence, which took place without

o

ramour. Not so the conversion of a young man at Kattupadi.

i

My. Keppler writes: —

he Blb‘ie

“The parents and sisters were comparatively manageable, but

; e hnef

the worst of all was a Christian apostate, a man born, baptised,

Jiwd

confirmed and married within the Christian church; he tried his

el qored

utmost to alienate the people and said again and again: ¢Christi-

P

I af[ef

anity is all lies and frauds.’

Finally, the young man being stead-

ot S

fast, his own mother and his own brothers carried away whatso-

il

ever they found in the house, leaving him within the bare walls;

p fo

r b st

not even did they leave him what he wanted for cooking his rice.

aPPeMed

He appeared brave and patient all through.

His wife and child

are willing to follow him.”

o

i

Our readers perhaps will remember Shivarama’s case at

) oA br

{0

R

et

76

a0 ind

Basrur, a conversion which caused a quite extraordinary

commotion (¢f. last year’s Report, pages 64—65).

It was a

il hay

great risk when Matthaeus Jesupriya, as he is called now, on

mising |

nfoenti

Good Friday last year went back from Mangalore to Basrur.

My. Stier writes: —

i b

41 Bast

““ Matthaeus asked me to accompany him from Kundapur, where

I met him first, to Basrur.

Baster-day in the morning we started

aper

by boat and the nearer we came to Basrur the more Matthaeus and

&

the two Catechists, who brought him from Mangalore, tried to

ot iy

persuade me to land somewhere up the river and to enter the town

by by-roads.

But as the Collector had assured me, he would guard

3 g

Matthaeus against any attacks of his enemies, I did not give in to

o ofs

their plan, and we landed at the usual place.

From a great dis-

oned f

tance people had recognised us and there was a large crowd waiting

formed

for us. T took the hand of Matthaeus and invited the people, who

looked silently at us to greet Shivarama, which some of them did in

hopel

desi.

the most cordial

manner.

Nobody molested us, and we went

i

straight on to the chapel, where we, with hearts full of thankful-

ness, took part in the Easter-service.

oy |

In the afternoon a great

Wy

many people, also relatives, came to the Mission-house to have

a look at him.

Later

on I took him to the house of his

T\p%

parents, as I had heard that his elder sister longed to see him.

Many people awaited him there too.

Wh

His father received him very

fog

kindly, and treated him with cocoanut.

It was with some difficulty

140

that I got permission to go inside with him to be present at the

meeting of sister and brother.

What followed there was heart-

his

%

breaking indeed.

The sister embraced the brother and said: *Oh

Cony

brother, how could you do this, you, whom I have brought up and

‘ﬂ&ar

loved like a mother! When you went away it was as if you had

driven a nail into my eye, how could you forsake me so cruelly?

ol

i

Oh, return! swear by your throat, by your life, that you will come

again!’

As she was about to swoon we hastened away and

Matthaeus had to experience on this day, that the words: ¢whoso-

fi

ever loves his father,

or mother, or sister more than me is not

P

he

worthy of me’ may break one’s heart, when the day comes where we

t

have to act up to them.” — ¢« Meanwhile the relations of Matthaeus

77

e

raondiny

are indefatigable in either describing the pecuniary losses he

1 wagg

will have to undergo in consequence of his conversion or in pro-

d oov, 1

mising money in case he should return.

As his uncle, the most

to Bastur,

influential man in the place, is still full of burning hatred there is

little hope for Matthaeus to succeed by opening a shop of his own

at Basrur. Apparently he is growing in spiritual life, Christian

pur, vhet

we starl

experieﬁce and childlike faith.”

thaeus ol

At the eleventh hour that old mother, of whom AMy. Schdal

), fried

at Cannanore relates, was called by Christ:—

r the fom

“ At the beginning of the year she came with her daughter and

ould guard

3 grandchildren to live with a Christian relative.

The latter pray-

giveinh

ed often with her, and it was remarkable to see how soon it bright-

oret O

ened the heart of this woman and how her face began to be trans-

i maiig

formed in reflecting the inward light.

After a few months she fell

apl, 7O

hopelessly sick and peacefully waiting for death she had only one

o i

desire — to be baptised, to which we gladly consented.

After her

i enl

baptism she looked forward to the Lord’s summouns.

¢ Lord JGS{JS,

Hhankful

now I am safe; I do not want anything more!’

she used to say,

I 4 gfem

when refusing food, and soon after she ¢fell asleep’.

o o bt

,“Kunyiramau, & native physician with his family is another

o of b

ripe fruit of last year.

He was really anxious about salvation and,

o 5p0 I

when candidate for baptism, by his unassuming manners, his pro-

] im 781

fessional skill and industry gained the full confidence of the Christ-

o A

ian community at Cannanore.

At Christmas he was baptised with

al

f gt te

his family.

Who would have thought that this strong man, only

s bt

34 years of age, but a fortnight later on would have finished his

gl 0h

course !

After a short disease he died trusting with a childlike

b

! {Llld

heart in what Christ had done for him.

As a Christian he had been

ol bl

only 14 days amongst us, but he was mourned for more than many

0 CIUEH\

an older Christian.

i

il o

About 8 miles to the north of Calicut there is a place Annasheri

oy @

from which two of our Assistant Catechists (4déraham and Lazar

o

Pavamani) came, and last year the family of Lazar’s wife, including

e b

il

her father, was about to come over.

However the father seemed

fhere

to be a rather desperate man. When his daughter followed her

i

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78

a1

husband some years ago, he seized his throat and in front of the

temple of Annasheri he swore that he would never become a Christ-

Jears {

an

On the 19th November the Missionaries went there to settle

him an

Bibl,

the matter then and there, as they were very anxious to keep the

people at the place they had been living in hitherto and not to

{eath 4

transplant them to Calicut, where Mr. Jaus could not find work for

$0 e

enfreat

them. But the father of Lazar’s wife again disappointed them and

Qevote

his wife, of course, bad to follow suit, but his son before Hindus,

Native Christians, and the Missionaries and in the sight of the

abous

father declared that he would not any longer serve the idols, but

I to

the Lord Jesus, whom he had come to know as his Saviour.

Also

Yission.

the sister stood at his side.

The son had informed some friend

T was

that he was going to become a Christian and that his father also

0 hav

knoy

would follow him. On hearing this the father again grew furious, and

in a great rage, a knife in his hand, he entered the house of his

[lo¢

son-in-law (Lazar, the Catechist, who lives now at Annasheri),

Christ

where the new converts stayed and wanted to kill them. The Cate-

and

chist quietly met him and asked him to wait a little and think about

sy,

the consequences of what he was going to do.

The father besides,

g

did not know how to attack his tall, strong-built son, and so he made

mf ol

up his mind to set the house on fire.

He did not succeed in this

]

either.

The Lord preserved those poor people, whose trouble had

tha

been more than enough; but the mother, being in the hands of

|

this savage man, was maltreated as a compensation for the

alm;

frustration of his evil deeds at the Catechist’s house. Still the poor

oo

woman hopes that the Lord will change the mind of her hushand

She y

and thus open also a way to her.

This is also our hope and

Whep

prayer.”’

degrm

“The head butler of a hotel was also baptised on the LOth

tmg

of December. He is on good terms with his family, he asks for

Mg,

no employment in the Mission, and so I am sure that it has been

Y

the desire for salvation that has led him to join us. He was only

hay

a boy 10 years of age when he as a servant of the lowest order

gy

got employment in the hotel.

Even then he used to buy books

she

and tracts from the Catechists and to read them.

Bat he himself

ful)

confesses that in his younger years he lived aceording to the flesh

litg

e

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79

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Two

ont of £he

and indulged in drinking, thus sinking deeper and deeper.

¢ o Christ

vears ago he fell sick, and at this time a young man used to visit

16 to seifle

him and to tell him about Christ and salvation and gave him a

Bible.

0 kegp the

Reading ‘the Bible he felt convinced that sickness and

nd ot fn

death are the fruits of sin and that only Christ could save him.

So he cried from the bottom of his heart:

*Oh Lord Jesus, [

d work for

them oud

entreat Thee most earnestly, save me from this sickness and I shall

devote my life to Thee!’ He recovered but slowly and then looked

6 Hinds

bt of fhe

about for that young man, who had been instrumental in bringing

idols, b

him to Christ.

He went with his first spiritual guide to the

Mission-house.

The butler concludes his biography by saying:

ur, Al

‘I was thankful for getting further instruction, and I am so happy

me frind

ather aly

to have received forgiveness of my sins through Jesus Christ;

I know I have deserved nothing but wrath and punishment; but

rious, atd

I do confess 2ll my sins with a contrite heart, I am sure, that

use of b

Christ has redeemed me through His death, has pardoned my sins

nnasher

Now and then I feel truly

The Caté-

and has delivered me from judgment.

sorry, I tremble at the very thought of my former sins; but I

ok Aotk

hope I shall no more grieve my Lord, for I know on returning to

¢ besiles,

o b mode

my old ways I should be lost’.”

My. Walter at Vaniyankulam writes about a conversion

oo o 15

that took place on a deathbed in the hospital: —

ol b

'

“There was a young woman of the Chetti-caste.

When we

s

|

for fe

admitted her to the hospital she was an earnest devotee of the

bloodthirsty Mariyamma, whose name she bore.

For a long time

| the

she remained deaf to the message of salvation in Christ Jesus and

I hns‘naﬂd

when suffering pain she invoked the help of her gods.

But by

hope 84

degrees the cousolations of the Gospel sank into her heart; she

came to know Christ and began to take refuge in Him.

When

the il‘h

Mrs. Walter was engaged with other patients first, Mariyamma used

)a“r

to be afraid that Mrs. Walter might forget her and go away without

has 1

having prayed with her.

When the dresser had to tell her that

s ol

death was near, she asked for baptism in order that she might, as

ost ol'd6

she said, belong entirely to Jesus.

‘We fulfilled her wish and with

uf o

full consciousness and an intense desire she underwent the holy

: hiﬂlﬁeul

rite.

A fortnight later on she fell asleep in Christ.”

e

g

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e

My. Walter veports on some other woman, who indeed

our t

must have found the precious pearl, otherwise she would not

and

T

have made such great exertions in order to get possession

a1t

The story runs thus: —

ing

as

““ Phoebe, as she is called now, belonged to the Tandan-caste,

dif

and the house she came from (at Cherubulsheri) used to be our

quarters in that district.

bax

Polyandry is in vogue amongst these

people, but Phoebe lived very happily with a single husband.

She

hin

often talked with me about Christianity. As her husband hesitated,

she went alone and came to the Mission-house with her 3 children.

por

Soon her husband appeared to take her and the children back

again, but after a heavy struggle Phoebe remained firm.

The

Vas

husband however succeeded in depriving her of a son, 7 years

oy

old

A piece of her heart went with him, but she did not

Whe

change her mind. For the sake of salvation, Phoebe had to forsake

by

her husband and a son, and with the hard work of her hands she

(f th

was compelled to earn daily b?ead for herself and Sumari, her little

1

daughter.”

futhey

Devapriyan, trained as an Assistant Catechist in 1897 and

o b

f0 ta}

1898 (¢f. last Report, page 100), was stationed at Palghat to

work in the district, from which he had come.

What Mr. Hole

e 1§

reports about Devapriyan’s family is indeed good news:—

Van

and

“1 went with Devapriyan to the house of his mother (about 2

Qegy

miles from here) as I had heard that she, Devapriyan’s younger

e ;

brother, and a little child wanted to join the Christian church.

gla

Devapriyan looks upon this as the answer to many prayers on be-

da}

half of his people.

Kunyambu's face was radiant with joy when

by

he saw us coming. An angel from heaven could not have been

1

received with a more respectful awe than this youth received the

of

first Missionary in his house.

Long before he was baptised he

asked to be called Jokhannes.

Of course the other relatives werte

not at all pleased, and at the beginning he was mocked at, ‘but like

B

his elder brother he has made it his chief point to save his soul, and

so he is not much concerned about what people say regarding the

(a

step he has taken.

He has read much in the Bible, he read also

sh

et

81

ho indeg]

our tracts, and had the further advantage of Devapriyan’s example

would nof

and experience-

There were only two cares which exercised his

ossessin

mind. Some years ago he had met with an accident whilst plough-

ing, and so he cannot walk any distance.

Hence he was concerned

ndan-Gaste

as to how to go to Palghat and how to earn his bread. The first

to be ou

difficulty was easily overcome by my taking the whole family in my

bandy to Palghat.

As to the 2nd question, it was settled to send

ngst thes

and,

him to Cannanore to our new Tailory there.”

hesitatel

Mr. Liitze at Kaity gives an instance of the leavening

3 childr

power of the Gospel: —

dren bt

“In 18927 he writes, “the daughter of a deafand dumb Badaga

i, The

was baptised.

She was then about 19 years of age and the father

n, T e

drove her away and would no more acknowledge her as his daughter.

‘When people intimated to him that the best thing for him would

e did i

1o forsake

be to go the same way as his daughter, he indicated by the gesture

jands she

of throat-cutting, that he would prefer death to becoming a Christ-

ian

After a lapse of some years gradual approachment between

e little

father and daughter took place.

She was not only allowed to come

to his house, formerly so strictly keeping caste, he allowed her

1897 aud

to take meals with him, he observed the Christian Sunday, aud finally

Palotat

he intimated to his kinsmen that he had done with idolatry and

MI H‘fz

wanted to become a Christian.

It was touching to see the devotion

W~

and attention with which he followed the divine service and en-

deavoured to read the words from one’s lips.

The old Zacharias, as

he is called now, lost his little house, and the relations seem to be

o

glad to have got rid of him.

He earns his daily bread as a diligent

day-labourer.

It is a most interesting sight to look at him, when

L JO\' el

by gestures and signs he exerts himself to convince his non-Christ-

ian acquaintances of the perversity of idolatry and the emptiness

qpived e

of their lives.”

1pused b

Here follows something about the conversion of a young

s

Badaga-woman.

My. Liitze writes: —

, bl

d

“On a Sunday morning a young woman with a little child

; SOUL o

came from Tuneri.

Some years ago, before she was married,

anding I

she wanted to become a Christian, but she was not allowed to do

il

11

82

He

SO

Soon after the husband and his relatives followed to take

shoul

her back. Of course we gave her full liberty to do what she liked.

(hr

Whilst the relations were rather harsh and impetuous, her husband

il

treated her very kindly. He looked very sad, talked very nicely

stat

with her and went so far as to ask her what he should do in order

{01

to believe in God and become

a Christian.

The deliberations

in

went on for hours, and when the relatives saw that with but little

and

persuasion the man might also be made a Christian, they tore him

So

away by force, crying at the same time: ‘She has died and youar

{0

child is dead too.’

Twice he wanted to come back again, but

they took hold of him.

Half a year has now passed since that

gl

and on one occasion he has been here to look after his wife and child.

not

We need not say that we earnestly hope husband and wife will

An

be united again.

As his relations have not been able to persuade

a8

him to marry another woman, there is still cause to hope.”

It

Of a very unsatisfactory kind of conversion Mr. Kanaka,

uefh

the Pastor of Kotageri, reports:—

for g

“One Donga Assa (now Abraham), a priest of the goddess

hld;

Mahékali had joined us some 5 years ago with his wife and

the ¢

children.

He was enticed away by some influential Badagas

the

and relapsed into Hinduism.

Now there was a dispute amongst

heen

whether he could be

the Badagas for the last five years,

carg

re-admitted to caste or not.

Donga had to spend much money,

Dag

but finally the fraction siding with him found that all attempts

to admit him into their caste would prove abortive, and so

year

they themselves advised him to rejoin the Christian community,

Sup]

which he did with his wife and four children.”

oy

If a great miracie

does not take place, this Abraham will scarcely turn out to be a

\Qm

N

father of such as believe.”

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1

C. Spiritual iife of the Congregations.

Ig

As to general remarks we may refer to last year’s Report

fh

(page 73 and 74).

Looking at our Mission as a whole we

il

must be on our guard against taking a too pessimistic view

qu

of our congregations, which easily might be the cvase if they

By

s

ol

83

e

ol fo fake

should be judged according to the standard of the ideal

b she [iked,

Christian life.

We must not forget for a moment that there

161 hushand

is life from God manifesting itself at every one of our

very niel

stations.

On the other hand it has never been our custom

do tn order

to indulge in the art of painting in fine colours, to overlook,

eliberatins

in giving account of our work, the shortcomings of the agents

th but Lt

oy fore in

and the blemishes that disfigure the body of our churches.

So we cannot deny that on the whole it is humiliating for us

d and you

to draw a true picture of the spiritual life of our congre-

again,

since fhi

gations.

We feel ourselves compelled to admit that they are

not what Mission-congregations ought to be, when the Sixtieth

o qad ehild

i st 1l

Annual Report is written about them. We feel confident in

0 persuade

asserting that the spiritual welfare of our Christians is not

)

)

lost sight of in our Mission, as far as institutions and the

method of spiritual work are concerned. An individual care

1 Tkt

for souls is earnestly taken.

We are not satisfied with the

o goiles

holding of divine services, prayer meetings, special services for

il il

the children, young men’s associations and Sunday Schools, all

| Badags

the office-bearers of the church — Europeans and Natives — have

fo

been trained in such a manner as to consider it their duty to

) COllld I

care for the spiritual welfare of every single soul. There is the

ach 0¥}

practice in our Mission of holding a conversation four times a

11 afenp®

year in the week before the administration of the Lord’s

0, wl ¥

Supper, with every adult in the congregation.

The Mission-

commﬂﬂm

houses are open to all the members of the congregation, and

i

f i

some of them are really besieged from morning to evening

Ul

ttobe 1

with parishioners who want to see their Pastor.

This looks

indeed very ideal.

But why do the people come? It is always

08

regarded as a remarkable occurrence, if one of them goes to

the house of his Pastor with some spiritual desire.

Bodily

pis B

ailments, debt, advances, some work, letters of recommendation,

ahole ™

i

quarrels,—these are the topics of conversation between the

Pastor and his people all the year round.

There is scarcely

56 IH

i

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e

84

any other Mission Society that takes so much care for the

amon

outward condition of its adherents.

As to those outward

168

conditions themselves we must refer to chapter 5 of this

from

Report.

In -this chapter we have to do with the fact that

Ohi

in spite of this special care for the temporal and eternal

ep

interests of our Christians, the spiritual life is not only very

e

much below the mark, but our people, as a class, do not

er

even exhibit much in the way of ordinary thankfulness or

100

attachment to their benefactors,—virtues not peculiar to

hea

1y

Christianity, but belonging to the sphere of natural morality.

Our people have got so accustomed to so much assistance in

A

outward things that they find nothing extraordinary in it,

O[H‘

they look upon it as a matter of course and think that it

they

0t

is the duty of Missionaries to care for the worldly concerns

of their Christians.

The dangers of such a state of things

il

are obvious.

For such as joined us chiefly for the sake of

but

a livelihood (consciously or unconsciously) the Missionary

the

above all, if not alone, will be the foster-father, loved and

i

honoured as long as he is able to give bread. This must

Age

lead to a neglect of spiritual affairs, which to some are only

1‘6{)1

It is not so

i

instrumental in accomplishing their chief aim.

much the heart by which a large majority of our people is

the

connected with the Mission, with its Head and with its office-

Pag

bearers, but the stomach, and hence sometimes the nasty

fing

and discouraging features in our work that many of our

people as soon as their stomach is disconnected from the

t‘\mi

)

Mission seem to see no reason why they should honour and

M

love their Pastor or obey him in spiritual matters.

Others

1

who owe everything that they are and that they have to the

th

Mission bear a grudge towards the Mission in their heart, to

o

which they give vent secretly or publicly just as their position

00

allow them. One feels tempted now and then to think that

by

there would perhaps be more loyalty and mo(re_attachment

P

s

85

re for the

amongst the Christians of the Basel Mission, if the Mission-

) Outward

aries from the very beginning of the Mission had refrained

5 of ths

from interfering so much with the secular affairs of their

fact tht

Christians.

All this of course is accompanied with another

d et

deplorable feature, characteristic of our churches.

They are

only very

greatly lacking in Missionary spirit and do not exert a

s, o

beneficial influence upon the non-Christian population sur-

ulness

rounding them,

If a Christian congregation does not value

culiar fi

heavenly treasures for its own use, we cannot expect that

morali.

it will exert itself greatly for the promulgation of the Gospel

istance I

amongst those outside of the Christian church. The nearer

ary 1

our Evangelists come to a Mission-station the more unpleasant

ol that i

their work is wont to be.

We do not expect and we should

- 0ncelns

not be justified in expecting that our churches should be a

of things

community of spotless saints; there will always be offence,

but there ought to be less.

One may imagine how under

psike of

these circumstances we long for an outpouring of God’s

issonaty

Joved ol

spirit on our congregations, on the Missionaries, the Native

This

Agents and all the members.

We were most thankful to

1

report last year on some spiritual awakening, which we do

y q16 0]

fain hope to have been the first fruits of a harvest indicating

iyt

the approach of a still gieater and more permanent blessing.

‘f peop1€ 1‘

Passing now through our stations the above remarks will

g ot

find the necessary illustration.

the 111

The want of spiritual life in our congregations is some-

) of o1

times accounted for by the large influx of new Christians

-

attracted by the Industrial Establishments.

But there are

0l il

none in South-Mahratta and still life seems ebbing lowest

: (fher

there.

Dharwar (167 against 158 in 1898) also last year had

me fO Yh

In the Mission-

to pass through the horrors of plague.

peat, !

compound in one house father and mother died, while their

0

I p()\lt[

two children recovered in the plague-hospital.

The Hubli congregation (421 to 355) was very favourably

ol

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86

-

By thi

reported upon by My. Warth. The first visitation of plague

at any rate seemed to have roused our Christians from their

ek £

spiritual lethargy.

My. Berli writes now: —

It

k. %

““I could not say that the divine scourge of plague did exert

a lasting beneficial influence upon our people. They are accustomed

it

to it now.

The weekly prayer-meetings during the plague have

ol suc

not been better attended than usual, nor the Services on Sunday.”

it

Mr. Berli complains also greatly on account of the unwillingness

ol

of the congregation to contribute towards its own expenses, not to

it

speak of the Mission amongst the non-Christians.

He mentions,

{le 58

however, a very commendable exception: one Christian, not belong-

s

ing to the most wealthy members, made a considerable donation

towards charitable purposes. 1t is a great pity that a congregation,

Baly

which evidently the year before had understood God’s language,

I

Mr.

has relapsed so soon again into its old apathy and lethargy.

dgnn

Warth took no care for his own life during the time of plague,

i

he was looked upon as a father by the non-Christian population.

fam]

Just before going to Europe he had to bury his wife and his child

dhilg

in Indian soil, and the news broke upon him that another child

Iaad

had died at home.

When he went to the station to leave for

k)

home, apart from the paid earriers, no member of the congregation

t\\é

appeared to say good-bye.

This needs no commentary!— Plague

1

did not make such great havoe as in 1898,

Then 50 Christians

|

were attacked by plague to which 14 sueccumbed, in 1899 only

th

15 were attacked, 5 of whom died.

861

Not much better sounds what we hear from Bettigeri

(568 to 597). It is a pity that a good many Christians are

(o

so careless as to the reputation of the Christian community,

{hi

3

1

which means carelessness as to the honour of their Lord and

Master.

{

A Bible-woman preferred to lose her employment

to withdrawing a ridiculous case from a court of law.

The

non-Christian judge more than once exhorted both parties to

settle the matter amicably and not to throw away so much

In vain.

The

time and money for such a trifling matter.

judge had to pass judgment, both were mulcted 4 Annas each.

—

87

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1 of plane

By this success the woman of course made herself a laughing-

from thep

stock to the non-Christians in and out of the court.

She has

lost her

employment,

had court-expenses

amounting to

6 did exe

Rs. 25 or 30, and had for 7 or 8 days to sit in the court and to

And still she talks

acoustoned

wait for the decision of her great case.

lague bare

of success and feels triumphant.

Mrs. Waidelich complains

n Sudsy

that the Christians at Bettigeri are deeply absorbed in their

1willingoes

|

earthly and temporal affairs.—In Shagoti, an out-station of

mses, 1ot

Bettigeri, an old Hindu has for many years regularly attended

o TN

the services, even during the week he prays to Jesus and

1ot belong:

reads the Bible. The attendance at church of another Hindu

ble donatin

is also very fair.

ongregatian,

ile Guledgudd station (626

s langugh

My, Eisfelder, in charge of t

against 654), we are thankful to hear, finds a slight

gy, I

| (]f p]ague,

improvement 1n

the out-station

Mushtigeri.

There

18

| populan'ou.

family, which is never absent from the church, and the

children are regular in attending school.

An old man there

i sl

ber el

leads a life of prayer; when he cannot sleep in the night he

On the other hand in

o Lot f

may be heard offering a short prayer.

these out-stations some are suspected of relapsing occasionally

30ngregﬂﬁﬂﬂ

(| —Plage

into sorcery and fortune-telling, if not into real idolatry.

O (hristas

The out-station Halkurki quarrelled with the Catechist, and

1399 ol

these so-called Christians for 6 months did not attend divine

service at all in order to show their displeasure with the

1 Bettigerf

Catechist and Missionary. As to Guledgudd itself Mr. Fisfelder

sfians

thinks that the famine has been unfavourable to the develop-

ool

ment of spiritual

life.

Care,

the absolute want of the

Tord l

necessaries of life weigh down all other thoughts and feelings.

P

pplef?

The little congregation at Bijapur (50 against 40), still in

Ja

the stage of amiable childhood, gives satisfaction, but the

p&[tt

g

small congregation at Honavar (70 against 84) in North-

50 o

Canara has for some time seemed to be past remedy.

Ig

Al

The congregation at Mangalore in Canara (2744 against

88

el

2653) enjoyed the advantage of a rather enthusiastic religious

(19

controversy between the Jesuits and Mr. Bucher.

Whatever

exhib

may be the palpable results of this fight, the minds of our

life

people were turned to spiritual matters, and their attention

(out

was called to the foundations of their most holy faith. What

osi

My. Obed Swmitra, the Pastor of Bockapatna, writes about his

and

congregation will hold true for the whole of our largest

A

the

congregation in India:—

“ At the divine service during the week only the young men

kudy

attend satisfactorily.

Family prayer is condueted in most houses.

kud

l

The young men have a weekly prayer-meeting and different groups

th.at

of families unite for a weekly prayer-meeting, at which they also

have a collection for Mission-work.”

plian

[

It is very gratifying to hear from Mulki (751 against 738)

A

that the split in the congregation, which took place 4 years

(i

ago, 1s almost repaired again.

In 1898 the people, who had

Tite

separated, permitted their wives and children to rejoin and

W]

now in September one of the headmen repented and returned

childr'

to his church. On the evening of that day he invited the

Were

Catechist to his house in order to praise God in prayer.

Qur

Myr. Ritter is justified in remarking that the angels in heaven

for

will have rejoiced over this conclusion of peace.

Star

What we hear about the spiritual life of our Christians at

the

Udipi (1797 against 1810) is not very different from what we

n f

heard last year.

My. Keppler writes:—

“The majority of our Christians are exceedingly indifferent

Thy

towards things Christian or spiritnal. I am sorry to remark about

¥

U

them that they do not love the Word of God and they do not live

1nit.

I say so especially with reference to our younger Christians,

I

born and educated within our congregations.

It is discouraging

indeed to meet again and again with Christians, who have forgotten

all their Bible-stories, their seriptural sentences and hymns once

learned at school.”

tt

Six Christians again relapsed into Hinduism.

The three small stations Karkal (110 against 107), Basrur

bol.

89

—_—

1o religing

(129 against 116), and Kasaragod (171 against 148) do not

Whaterer

exhibit anything characteristic with reference to the spiritual

Inds of o

life of our Christians.

One of our Christians at Kailkeri

Ir attention

(out-station of Basrur) takes up a somewhat exceptional

aith, What

position within our Mission and comes forward with a new

s about s

and genuine argument in favour of the ‘“kuduma”.

His wife,

ur larges

a good Christian woman, possessing a very fair knowledge of

the Bible, wears a ring in her nose and the husband a

young med

kuduma.

When the Missionary exhorts him to cut off his

nost houses

kuduma he will call upon Samson and say that the whole of

erent grous

that man’s misfortune was brought about through his com-

b they alo

pliance on this very point!

The two stations in Coorg, Mercara (142 against 131) and

st 13

The

Anandapur (215 against 202) leave not much to be said.

o 4 s

Christians at Anandapur were in great distress. Mr. Fischer

b o had

writes ;—

1D al

‘““Many of our Christians had only one meal a day.

Their

etumed

children had to go to school with an empty stomach and some

inrted te

were too weak

to learn,

so that we must

feed them first.

i prajet

Our carpenters, who formerly thought that they could only work

in beare!

for one Rupee a day, were ready to work for 4 Annas for fear of

starvation.

I am very glad to say that at this time of privation

the thankofferings from the church have been in excess to those

it

in former years.”’

p Wha

Our congregations in Malabar had a quiet time last year.

indifie

There was no plague, nor epidemics of any other kind. The

patk 8

il &

prices were high, but not so much as to be called famine-

o i it

prices.

If our brethren in South-Mahratta complain that

(e

plague and famine had not the desired effect upon the

st

spiritual life of their congregations, neither can we assert

forgoimﬂ

that «the goodness of God” has led the Christians of Malabar

e

to repentance.

But on the whole the sight of our congre-

i ndﬂiﬁﬂ]'

gations in Malabar is a more pleasant one than that in some

)1 B

12

90

e

other parts of our Mission.

More life is circulating in these

exoitel

congregations.

It is true on one side that a large admixture

people

of new Christians, if they are not real converts, may endanger

0t 00

comm

a charch and may lower its spiritual standard; but it is

Josse

equally true that an expansion of the church is also ac-

companied with many blessings for the life of our churches.

I ack

i

Something is going on in all these congregations, and this

e

is a remedy against spiritual stagnation.

A day of baptism

New

is not only a festival for the whole congregation, it is also

€0

a day which reminds the church powerfully of its responsi-

Mission-church.

bility as a

It is an object-lesson to the

church that

the Gospel indeed is ¢the power of God unto

1l

salvation to

every

one that believeth?”.

Besides, converts

e

always give

work to the church.

In case of genuine con-

Ti|

versions there is really a new power entering into the

tge

organism of the church, which by God’s grace may revive

fn th

Integ

and stimulate also the old, worn out and effete members of the

church.

of 5

It is highly beneficial to a church, if by means of

real conversions the difference between a so-called Christian

n {

born of Christians and a Christian born anew of water and

Qist

the Spirit can be demonstrated ad oculos.

The revival-

bla

sha

meetings of which we were able to inform our readers last

10

year were carried on, where they still exist, more in the way

han

of ordinary Bible-meetings and an unprejudiced observer is

now in a position to say how much in the movement has

Sig

been of the Spirit and how much the mere outcome of

excitement, imitation and the like.

b

(U

The congregation at Cannanore (1123 against 1072) is in

b

charge of Mr. Schaal, who makes the following remarks: —

“As to the education of children I think our people have made

i

a little progress, but I have observed at the same time that parents

It

have no authority or power whatever as soon as their children have

th

left school.” — “The prayer-mectings or revival-meetings were

thy

going on also last year in Cannanore and Chowa, but there is less

1§

o

il

B

10 thege

excitement and ostentation.

One ‘can talk with some of these

\dmigture

people about spiritual things and experiences of inward life and is

endanger

not only understood, but one feels on hearing their questions and

bt 1t |

communications that their belief is now for them a real blessed

also ac

possession.

A reliable token of the sinecerity of their religious life

churches

I acknowledge in their hunger for the Word of God and for com-

munion with Him in prayer.

In this respect the people show great

and ths

energy.

I know one, who during last year read the whole of the

f baptin

New Testament three times, and he did so with a prayerful and

it 15 aly

contemplative mind.”

ES)OLS:

One of the advantages of the religious movement in our

o fo fhe

(rod unto

Malabar congregations we see in the fact that our people

converts

e

have become more conscious of the mixed nature of the

L

ne o

visible church. This heterogeneous mass making up a Christian

Ul

f 4

e

congregation, in spite of all preaching, our people have been

in the habit of looking upon as a community consisting in its

pay 10

el

integrity of <brethren and sisters’ all of whom are ¢children

bers f e

of God’, and it was considered a special beauty, if nothing

| means 0

in the way of what they were pleased to call party-spirit

] Ohrst

J5tial

disturbed this perfect harmony between the white and the

i

fot ol

have

black sheep.

These meetings, we fervently hope,

o 16

il

sharpened in our congregations the power of distinguishing

B

Jos 1

in the church between worldliness or formalism on the one

in the

hand and taking up one’s cross and following Cbrist in

]

ohsele

sincerity and trath on the other.

' hn

el

That there are not only children of God in the Cannanore

0l

congregation will be seen from the report of Mr. Tobias, the

Pastor of Chowa :—

07 B

“The position of many of our Christians towards their Pastor is

10

LS 5

Some of them are greatly wanting in

not as it ought to be.

fase 04

proper respect and deference to him.

With the Pastor, the Cate-

It

In

ot P

chists and elders they would like to associate on equal terms.

s

the education of their children I see some small progress, but there

D)

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Sufficient proof for this is found

ko

is still room for improvement.

fjere !

1o

e

92

among the youths of the congregation, most of whom are petulent

ik

fellows.

But half of their guilt must be put down to the account

{ne

of their parents, as they have neglected to ‘nurture them in the

chastening and admonition of the Lord’ and have failed to set

bl

their children a good example. ”’

pol

The Missionary in charge of the Tellicherry-congregation

of

(607 against 602) reports as follows:—

[ea

“The Catechist, who was instrumental in stirring up the Canna-

q

of

nore-congregation, did not find so good a hearing at this place.

I should have been especially glad, if our Ancharakandy-people had

the

felt attracted and had been raised to a more Christian-like standard

(¢f- last Report, page 85), but the waves of a more active religious

i

life passed over them leaving little or no effect upon them. The

(il

waves in any case did not run very high.

I am glad to say that

(up

amongst some of our born Christians a healthy movement was pro-

duced.

i

Our other Catechists and the Pastor joined the meetings,

and they were advised to avoid every thing in the way of eccentri-

it

of

cities or improprieties.

This they did and it was in a few instances

st

highly necessary.

It was interesting to see how such as desired

101

only some change, some ostentation, and a little opposition to the

ordinary way in which things are conducted in our churches, soon

I

got tired and disappeared.

But there remained a few who, evident-

(x

ly got a blessing, although I am sorry to say, that one of those

i

became later on a backslider again.

Some confessed their sins,

a few obtained liberty from their besetting sin and the people attend-

i

ing these meetings are very regular in going to church. Errors

of doctrine have not come to my notice.

Apart from the Anchara-

Wi

kandy-people there are only a few families, who are worrying their

4"

f

Pastor by continual warfare between husband and wife.

The atten-

dance at divine service has improved and the people are extremely

attentive. ”’

The congregation at Chombala (538 against 540) with the

help of kind friends far and near, has been able to effect the

necessary repairs to the new church, one wall of which had

fallen down during the monsoon in 1898 My. Weismann

S ST R,

93

e pefle

makes the following remarks about the spiritual aspect of

the aceout

the congregation : —

them i the

“ Every Sunday afternoon ‘we have oceasion to see how neces-

ailed to e

sary are the catechisings of our children; they give us an op-

portunity besides of fostering and increasing the weak knowledge

ngregatin

of_our new Christians, who are so apt to forget what they have

learned as eatechumens and who are afterwards unable to follow

the Cann

a sermon.

Long and patient work is necessary until the leaven

this plaee

of superstition and all heathenish thoughts are really driven out of

-people bl

their hearts.”

ke stand

Mr. Jaus in reporting on the congregation at Calicut

ve religon

(1835 against 1678) expresses his satisfaction with the Bible-

them, The

and prayer-meectings, started in 1898. He writes: « Under the

o oyt

superintendence of Mr. Jonas, the Pastor, the study of the

h was I

Bible has been furthered in a most striking manner. Special

o meAtngS

stress is laid upon a thorough acquaintance with the Word

ofecan

of God.”

We may add the pastor’s remark on the same

o ISt

subject: «“In a good many of our people a desire for spiritual

h g Qs

nourishment manifests itself.

Besides the regular family-

olfon fo

arches, S0

prayers they gather in Bible-meetings and read the Word of

God. Even from outside one can see that the people are on

ho, il

the way to recovery.”

] fhelt

Very strange is the story, which Mr. Jonas tells us of a

ople ik

woman re-admitted to the church. He writes:—

o, B8

“ More than 20 years ago one of our Christian women had lived

o At

with a Muhammedan, who had a small trade in medicines. Three of

their children were baptised by a Roman Catholic priest.

But

g a

Thoaft

gradually the conscience of the woman awoke and she became

aware that her life had been a life of sin.

So she asked the

Mubhammedan to let her go with the children and return to the

Basel Mission,

Both of them came to my house and when the

) it B

Muhammedan saw that the woman indeed wanted to leave him,

) efet b

he said: ‘Well then, I shall become a Christian too; I believe

i b

that Jesus Christ is mighty enough to save miserable sinners as we

Wei,,wmw

94

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are

W

I know that my co-religionists will try to kill me, but I am

ready to endure also this.’

The Presbytery at Calicut resolved

{0 00

that until the two were admitted to the church, they must separate.

the

The Muhammedan went first to Vaniyankulam, thence to Cannanore

kind

and earned his bread by selling medicines.

After having received

The

the necessary instruction he was baptised at Cannanore under the

i

name of Joseph.

Meanwhile the woman and the children had been

are

re-admitted to the church at Calicut, and after that the couple were

Hin

married.

The Muhammedans did not trouble the man in the least.”

be

wall

Mr. Bader, in charge of the congregation at Codacal (1321

against 1320), considering the unsatisfactory spiritual condi-

oha

tion of his congregation, which would not permit an increase

gir

nog

to the number of more nominal Christians, and in the absence

fl

~of all possibility of providing for new people as to their secular

Yay

affairs, not only sent away all new-comers, whose motives

g

at first sight could be safely pronounced mere worldly ones,

plea

but also kept back his 51 catechumens for better instruc-

19

tion.—Mr. Bader’s experience with a few of the disciples of a

(i1

3

faith-missionary in the neighbourhood have been by no means

pleasant.

He sums up by saying:—

10

“Everybody will understand that my rejoicing over these so-

i

(

called ‘regenerates’ has dwindled away.

I cannot deny that in

my estimation people who perhaps talk least aboat experiences of

0

God’s grace, but in all earnestness try to fulfil the Ten Command-

01

[

ments do represent a higher standard of spiritual life.”

In 1894 on the same day and in the same manner the two

i

congregations at Chittatakkara and at Chalasheri were founded,

fi

)

the former consisting of former Roman Catholics and the

latter of Syrian Christians.

Whilst Chittatakkara from the

beginning on account of some very obvious reasons (¢f. Report

of 1897, page 78), has been a cause of much disappointment,

the congregation at Chalasheri has always been a source of

joy and corsolation to the Missionaries ad Codacal.

A few

passages from Mr. Bader’s report will be found interesting:—

95

o but Lan

“Thé opposition of the Syrians is in many respects a blessing

0t tesolyed

to our people at Chalasheri.

How carefully do they secrutinise

St Separat,

the walk and behaviour of their former co-religionists!

It is a

) Cannanons

kind of training for our Christians, and they have done very well.

g receisl

They are regular at divine service, are diligent readers of the

y under the

Bible, and family-prayer is held in every house.

Of course they

1 had b

are quite a different set of people from such as directly come from

ouple wer

Hinduism, and in preaching as well as in pastoral work this must

the loast

be taken into consideration.

As to their moral life and Christian

walk they are superior to other congregations and sabmit to the

Jacal (L3

ual conde

chastisement of the Holy Spirit. As to drinking (some were formerly

given to a drinking habit), transgressions of the 7th Commandment,

D 10CIeAe

breaking of the Lord’s Day, in their case we had nothing to

e absence

Of course

fight against.

they have also their weak sides.

it secular

Munificence is nothing mnatural with them (at the same time

s Totives

beggarliness is also not known amongst them), but we have been

idly oo

pleased to see how not only their parsimoniousness and thriftiness

) TG

is subjected to the discipline of God’s Spirit, but occasionally they

can also give with liberal hands.

I brought with me from Germany

iples i

110 meals

a little bell for their chapel, but told them that the Mission could

About 10 or 12 families, with

not well provide them with a belfry.

the exception of one, not wealthy at all, within a few months

p fhese 8

collected about 40 Rupees and a rather massive belfry is undergoing

gy it

construetion.

Oh, how Paulus, the sexton, will welcome the day

arientds 0

f

on which the work shall be completed and the bell suspended.

Cgmﬂ]ﬂﬂd'

For the present every Sunday morning Paulus must climb up a

high mango-tree in front of the chapel, then he pulls up the bell,

or the M

ties it to a branch of the tree, and, standing on another branch,

fuold

rings the bell!”’

ol

Mr. Kallat, the Pastor of Codacal, describes a little fold

fuom

of sincere Christians at Codacal, and says with reference

/

gf. Repoﬁ

to theme

oiﬂt'ﬂlt“ﬂff

“Looking upon this small band of true disciples of Christ one

it

feels greatly consoled and with ever new confidence one takes

j

courage to work on in patience.”

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e

96

et

We pass over this time Vaniyankulam (166 agaiust 135)

and cast a glance at Palghat, the last of our Malabar-stations

(448 against 415).

«It is never too late to mend”, one must

conclude on reading the account of the life and death of

Joseph, who died 78 years of age in January last year. A

958

bad life it had indeed been, without a mitigating feature in

Jan

it

A bad man, a bad husband, a bad father, who came

home only after all his resources, physical and others, had

been exhausted.

S

His poor, faithful wife received him with a

love, which was really touching and nursed him to the last.

Sout

Now at the eleventh hour «“he came to himself”, repented

Coor

Mals

sincerely of his long wicked life and died in the assurance

Nili

that the blood of Jesus Christ is powerful enough to purify

even a heart and life so hopelessly bad to mortal eyes. The

I

knowledge of God’s Word and His salvation through Jesus

Christ, which he had acquired in the earlier part of his life

Al

proved to be a great help to him during his last days. So

hoys

and

far Mr. Hole.—Mr. Timothy, the Pastor of Melparambu,

assures us that the unruly and riotous spirit prevailing in

1898 amongst Christian workmen at our Tile-Works at

Olavakkoda (¢f. last year’s Report page 91) has entirely

disappeared and that after the ringleaders had been dis-

G

missed the work has been going on in harmony and peace.

(hy

Kaity (374 against 346) and Kotageri (268 against 260),

In

our two congregations on the Nilgiris with their pastors found

par

the year 1899 a very trying year.

My. Liitze writes :—

DA

V)

“In their distress and perplexity most of our Christians first

fhe

4

of all call upon their Missionary instead of seeking God, the helper

in all our difficulties.

I feel confident in saying that our Christians

of

are in the habit of offering up prayer, but one and the other in his

4

prayers is wanting in energy and perseverance. "

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al-stations

4. Educational Work

0ng

(Cf. Table, pages 10 and 11.)

1 death ¢

On the 1st of January 1900 we had 154 schools and

b year

9586 pupils against 157 schools and 9015 pupils on the 1st

feat

January 1899

who can

Schools

Pupils

thers, Lud

1898

1899

1898

1899

S.-Mahratta

22

23

121

1194

m wih

0 the l

South-Canara

47

45

2923

3039

2

2

0D

repentl

Coorg

100

Malabar

46

47

3859

4207

ASSrance

Nilgiris

40

37

963

1046

| fo pury

oyes, [l

157

154

9015

9586

u(rb Jdbﬂ‘

The increase in the total number of pupils amounts to

5.

Il

Of these 9586 pupils there are 3282 Christians (1873

%

boys and 1409 girls) and 6304 non-Christians (5602 boys

i

and 702 girls).

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ayal]]ffl

A. Schools for Christians

‘OILD

1

For our Christian children edu-

¢ i

Parochial Day-Schools.

heen

cation 1s compulsory, this means

we insist upon all our

| peace

Christian children attending school until their confirmation

ingt 20

In order to make them value such education we require the

parents to pay for it

Of course in the case of very poor

parents either part or the whole of the fees is defrayed from

S/

[

the poor-fund. This is done on application of the parents so

s 9

as to train them to a sense of responsibility for the education

ho be

of their children

Our brethren in South-Mahratta experience

(st

great difficulty in persuading the Christian parents to send

el 111h

their children to school

In Canara and Malabar no difficulty

prevails, as far as old Christians and somewhat educated con-

verts are concerned, who are rather anxious to get a good

13

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98

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schooling for their children, but with parents who have only

magt

recently joined the congregations, coming from the lower

leatt

strata of Hindu society, we have to fight it out.

And it is a

most important matter.

It may sound paradoxical, but it is

gal

nevertheless true that the conscientiousness or carelessness

lad

of Christian parents in this matter is a sure indication of the

spiritual life pervading the church.

We fully endorse what

0V€l

Mr. Bader writes with reference to his congregational school

Chr

at Codacal : —

sent

“The eyes of our Christians here have not yet been opened to

patt

see the importance of their children’s education.

Many of the

look

fully

parents look wupon schooling as a necessary evil, a burden laid

upon them by the Missionaries — nobody knows wherefore.

This is

fire

the reason that we experience the greatest difficulty in inducing

in by

In order to succeed we have tried

(ame

the children to go to school.

all the available means, some of them were rather drastic, but we

the

cannot say that we have reached our aim.

‘We shall however

the

continue our exertions in the coming year very patiently and most

0 fgl

energetically.

To yield in this matter is something we cannot

think of, for the future of our congregation depends to a large

O

extent upon the education of our children.

We must in the school

The low

h

make up for what in the family has been neglected.

spiritual standard of many of our Christians here has some con-

|

h

nection with the low intellectual level on which they stand.

In the

hey

ossified old people we can scarcely mend this, but. the soft hearts

of children are receptive and capable of development.”’

£x

It is a rule in our Mission that condidates for baptism,

who are still young enough to learn to read, should not be

)

hg}

baptised before they have learned to do so.

In congregations

Uy

1

where large numbers have been admitted the rule has scarcely

Wi

been carried out strictly during the last years, and thus

80

Mr. Bader, finding a good many young men and women in his

1

congregation who could not read, has started & night-school

W

to make up for this deficiency. One of the Christian school-

&l

G

99

0 haye il

masters conducts the business.

Five men in the last year

) the loge

learned to read, }0 men and 6 women are under instruction.

And it iy

Miss Helen Krauss at Mangalore is in charge of the congre-

al, but i

gational Girls’ School there, a very flourishing institution. This

carelessnes

ation of i

lady writes:—

ndorse b

“On the 15th December, the promotion-examination being

over, the school was closed with, what I may eall, a preliminary

lonal sl

Christmas-celebration.

The children recited hymns and secriptural

sentences, some related the Christmas-story.

All were very happy

en gpened

partly in looking forward to Christmas and the vacation, partly in

[y of

looking back on the examination now passed more or less success-

fally.

Such an examination is for our children always an occasion

burden i

ore, This

for earnest prayer, and many an instance of child-like confidence

i indueng

in God has come to my notice.

Once two boys, nine years of age

came to my room to say good-bye.

One said:

¢ When I had to do

o hare il

sic, bup e

the English translation in the examination I prayed God to make

ol howerer

the difficult words easy’— ¢and U, said the other boy, ‘asked God’

to tell me such words as I did not know

2.9

.

ly and mod

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2. Boarding Schools

and

Orphanages.

There are two

to o

Orphanages in each of our districts and one in Coorg too.

n {he bl

In South-Mahratta we have a Girls’ Orphanage at Guledgudd.

, The I

My. Hisfelder is greatly pleased with the school-matron,

¢ gome (0

who, without noise and thunder, has all the children under

i b fle

her control, and with the girls, whose behaviour he calls

soft bt

‘exemplary’.

Mr. Eisfelder writes:—

“The points of culmination for our children are of course the

holidays, which, however this year could not be utilised as usual.

1w

Only in having Baster-holidays they could go home and they had

gregatiani

to pay dearly for this joy even.

All of them were first of all treated

st

with Dr. Haffkin’s serum and in consequence of this they had to

suffer pain for some days.

Still they went away joyfully and

returned not less happily to the nice building of their Orphanage,

ﬂen jﬂ hl‘

with its lovely surroundings, full of berries, a nice place to play hide-

ght'“hofi

and-seek, not to speak of other attractive things.— The time of our

o i

13%

100

P

girls is pretty well occupied.

Washing, baking, cooking, cleaning,

Durin

drawing water and gathering fire-wood, -— all these are occupations

80me

executed by the children themselves.

They also mend their own

lay

clothes; the corn for their bread and the rice they eat they must

had

also grind and beat.— Some months ago a German school-girl sent

the

her allowance for May-day with the direction that a little treat for

seri(

our children should be given with it.

The girl scarcely imagined

the

how great the pleasure would be for the children in our Orphanage.

can

Of course not much could be done with the small gift of a child —

gall

a little rice and peas — but the relish was enhanced infinitely by

gy

the thought that this treat had been prepared by a child in Europe

we

and that the girl in Germany had to pinch herself in her food for it.”

fai

The Boys’ Orphanage for South-Mahratta is at Bettigeri

als

in charge of Mr. Heinecken.

From December 1898 to April

her |

1899 the school was closed on account of the plague.

lget

The @irls’ Orphanage at Mulki belongs to the Canara-district,

|

and Mr. Ritter, its new manager, reports as follows:—

Jears

‘““Some children join the institution in such a condition that the

fime

Orphanage must be called a place of rescue for them. There, for

then

instance, is poor Gulabi, who some months ago, after the death of

i

her father, was sent to us from Malapu in a really wretehed condi-

tion.

ot |

She was only skin and bone; she had lost almost all her

|

hair from fever and was covered all over with itech. Now she is

Yisg

one of the happiest children in the school, always with a smile on

Othe

her face; she has picked up also bodily strength.— Kusa, another

thep

child, was found by our Christians lying somewhere near the road

and brought to the Orphanage.

by

She had scarcely strength enough

‘[\W

to move, worn out as she was.

Nobody cared for her.

She was

ib}

the

about 14 years of age aud evidently did mnot know what was

il

meant by love, her face having rather a gloomy expression. By

0]

degrees she became more cheerful, though her health is poorly even

§

now; still she is on the way to recovery.— On the 15th October

(Ul

Puvamma, 13 years of age, was baptised and is now called Paulina.

th

A year before she joined us with her mother and two other children.

th

The mother, a poor widow, lived with her children at Uchila.

1

101

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ng, deaty

During the monsoon the poor woman fell ill, and her house being

6 0uouatin

somewhat out of the way, she was not properly looked after.

One

d their gy

day a woman from outside informed the Catechist that the widow

at they m

had died.

The Catechist hastened there and was shocked to find

100l-gi] s

the mother and one of the children dead and the other child

tle treat fy

seriously ill.

Puvamma was called from the Orphanage to attend

ely imagie

the burial of her mother and her little sister.

The Catechist,— one

Orphangg:

can understand,— was deeply touched.

A member of the congre-

f a child-

gation said that the prayer offered by the Catechist at the open

infinitely

grave will dwell in his mind for years to come.

But what were

d in By

we to do with the sick child?

To our great joy a childless

food et

family at Munderu offered to adopt not only the sick child but

af Bt

also Puvamma.

After instruction had been given the sister and

98 1o Ayl

her little brother, who feels happy in his new home, were baptised

together.”’

U

The Boys’ Orphanage at Udipi has been now for about 30

ar&district,

ls,_

years under the able management of Mr. Brasche.

During this

time 711 boys have entered the institution, 103 of whom are

on that the

Thore fir

there at present.

My. Brasche writes :—

fo Qe o

‘“ What has become of the remaining 608? Of some we do

hod ok

not know anything, we do not even know whether they are alive

ot ll B

or dead, and that after they have caused much trouble to the

Now shei

Missionaries and shame to the cause of the Lord.

But there are

) suiles

others, who have opened their hearts to God’s merey seeking after

i it

them.

Others went astray, but God has brought them back, often

o

by bitter sufferings; He, I am sure, will find some of those who

g

have not yet repented.

Many of our former pupils have established

B &

their own households long ago; a good many work in our establish-

gl ®

ments, and now send their children to this institution: some in

order to give them the same advantages they themselves received,

g b

i

some in order to get rid of caring for them.

A large number of

0

our former pupils are now employed as Catechists and Teachers and

| pulié

there are useful and faithful servants of God amongst them. — On

bl

the 11th of June Barnabas, the housefather, after a service of

more than 40 years, had to be pensioned.

Leonhard Suchitta has

P

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102

become his successor.

We have every reason to be satisfied with

1

e

some of our boys; one feels that they are placed under the influence

of God’s word.”

Amg

For the first time the Orphanage at Anandapur in Coorg

tell§

appears in our Report.

It was opened with 12 children on

n f

the 5th February with prayer and an address by Mr. Fischer

on John A0 12 17

In the middle of the year there were

feve

already 32 children :

16 Christians 16 boys and 5 girls) and

the

hou

21 non-Christians (9 boys and 12 girls).

Most of these child-

ren come from great misery, and it takes with some of them

the

{ami

much time to break them of the habit of earth-eating. The

and

large fields surrounding the Orphanage afford welcome oppor-

tunities for useful work.

that

Mr. Fischer reports at the end of

ant

the year: —

oot

“The number Iof our children rose to 38, two of whom died,

bmng

leaving 16 boys and 20 girls.

We see the good hand of our God

mothe

in the origin of this school.

As

Missionaries we could not do

ofher,

otherwise than endeavour to ameliorate the most pitiful condition

in which the children were.

It was the famine, which forced us

wth

to do what their parents or other relations had failed to do.

We

frar

hope that this Orphanage will become a blessing to the congregation

and the surrounding non-Christians.”

el

The @Girls’

Orphanage

for Malabar

at Chombala cele-

|

Il

brated the jubilee of its Headmaster, Mr. Peter Hermon.

1”7

11&1

Weismann writes:—

1gy

“ A festival, in which our girls joined with all their hearts, was

e

A

the day on which their beloved Headmaster completed a service

of 25 years as a Schoolmaster.

Mr. Weismann opened the

festivity with a prayer, and afterwards addressed the Headmaster,

the children and the congregation; then the children read an

address and handed over a present from the parochial children;

songs and recitations concluded the whole. — The school was

examined by Miss Arnold, not so severely as formerly, since the

school is under the ‘fixed grant system’.”

103

satisfed i

The Boys’ Orphanage at Paraperi (Codacal) under Mr. Fckel-

the Infoen

manw’s management has secured in the person of Cat. Isaac

Myr. Fckelmann

Amattil a very faithful and able housefather.

ur 1o Gong

tells the tragi-comical story of Jeremiah, a boy who had been

children o1

He writes; -

in the Orphanage only for a few hours.

M. B Il

«The father of Jeremiakh, a Bible-colporteur, died of typhoid-

' there wer

fever, leaving behind a widow and 5 children.

As an exception to

5 girls) al

the rule, there were no debts, on the contrary the father left a

bouse of his own, a pair of bullocks and a few things more.

Still

these chill

the mother, being in poor health, could not do much to maintain the

ome of theo

family.

The best legacy, however, left by this father to his family

ating. Tl

and which at one time or another will prove a blessing to it is this,

Lcome appor-

that he brought up his children in the fear of the Lord.

Well, we

f the end o

wanted to help the mother, and so we offered to take Jeremialh to

our Orphanage.

The matter fell heavy upon her, bat after all she

Yet the attachement between

yhon e

brought the boy to the Orphanage.

i of ot God

mother and son was too great; they could not separate from each

other, and both left the sechool together after a few hours.”

ld ot @

il condi

The Agricultural School, which was formerly connected

ih fred

with the Orphanage at Paraperi, was at the beginning of 1899

il

transferred to Codacal.

We bought 46 acres there, 15 acres

aongrei

Ten lads under the care and guidance of

being waste land.

the former Headmaster of the Orphanage, work on the fields.

gl o

In consequence of the dearth last year the first and second

I

I

L0

harvest were a total failure, and thus the first year on this

new ground represents a difficult and most disappointing

¢ beatts, ®

beginning.

o 8 S

On the Nilgiris we have a Boys’ Orphanage at Kaity and

it

a Girls’ Orphanage at Kotageri.

Of the latter Myr. Grossmann

opeﬂe

b

reporss;: -

o 1ol

“ Amongst the 8 girls admitted last year 6 came from outside

al ol

and after having received the necessary instruction they were

qohotl 7

baptised in December last.

Mari (now Esther) is a very good

i

y’ si[lCE t

child.

When her mother came to see her the other day she

P

R S

104

appeared to be quite reconciled to the steps the daughter had

mimist

taken, and when the daughter, accompanied by a Catechist and a

than ¢

Bible-woman, returned the visit, all the villagers met to hear the

afford

preaching of the Catechist and behaved very well indeed.

Also

Qi

Mable (now Rebecca) seems to be very happy.

She may be looked

wholi

upon as a fruit of the Bible-women’s work.

She came with her

The

grandmother and withstood the threatenings and promises of her

enur

relatives. — In this time of famine and want of employment we

Nett

are asked on all sides to receive children into our Orphanage, but

teact

how can we do so when unfortunately at the same time our Mission

is so much embarrassed on account of want of funds!”

of tl

whic

3

Higher Institutions.

the (

@)

Christian High Schools.

About the Christian High

|

School at Udipi we have nothing to report this year.

We are

that

anxiously looking forward to the time when the first class

gl

from this school will enter the Theological Seminary at

(iove

Mangalore.

In proportion to the number of efficient pupils

up &

joining from the Christian High Schools our Theological

Hhigt

Seminaries and Training Institutions we must consider this

kind of schools a success or otherwise.

Only if this result

0“(

18 achieved, can these costly High Schools be considered to

fo

have a right to exist.

[9¢

the

The Christian High School at Nettur, Tellicherry has not

yet reached safe ground.

We had to report of many chauges

wh

last year, but the tale was but half told, and the year under

Al

review has again not been wanting in change, which in the

A

%

case of a school is neither amusing nor profitable. At the

end of last year we had again to part with our Headmaster

§

(Mr. J. Kurian, s. 1.), and failing up to this to get a Christian

Headmaster we have been forced to appoint a Brahman as

Headmaster of a Christian High School!

We still hope that

f

God will so influence the hearts of some Christian graduates,

that they will count the co-operation in educating Christian

f

105

(aughter 1y

=

ministers and teachers for their own people as more attractive

atechist nd;

than the high salary which other societies or Government can

eb o hear f

afford to offer.

We are glad to say that the school last year

indeed. Ly

at examinations, but the

did not only

decidedly better

may be ookl

whole tenor and spirit of the school had greatly improved.

amg with b

The causes for this wholsome change we do not venture to

omises of b

enumerate, but one cause is very obvious and none living on

nployment

rphanage, i

Nettur-hill could be ignorant of this.

God Himself has taught

teachers and pupils an earnest lesson by callipng away three

16 our Missin

}

of the students.

In the monsoon typhoid fever broke out, to

which two of our boys succumbed; a third one died during

the Christmas holidays.

ristian High

The Students’ Home at Dharwar serves a similar purpose to

ar. Wear

The students board

that of the two Christian High Schools.

o first el

in this house and get there all lessons not provided for in the

ety

Government curriculum.

For the ordinary lessons, leading

piat. pupls

up to the Matriculation Examination, they attend the general

Theologid

High School of our Mission at Dharwar. Mr. Reusch writes:—

ansder f

“It is a pity that last year also the studies were interrupted

his el

on account of plague. — Some of the oldest boys are real Christians;

onsiderel ¥

to them religion is a matter of heart and life and by their good

example they influence the younger ones very favourably.

All

the students attend bazaar-preaching and are useful by their singing

1y s o

which attracts people.”

iy Chge

1.

b) Training Schools for Christian teachers. At present there

ya i

are no properly orgahised training schools of the Mission in

pich o !

South-Mahratta and Canara.

For Malabar there is one at

lo, AW

Nettur-Tellicherry, and for the Nilgiris one at Kaity.

Jeatuis?

The Training School at Nettur had been an Upper Secondary

4 (i

School for some years, but owing to the dearth of candidates

for the upper class it was last year carried on as a Lower

Secondary institution.

Government prescribes only one year

for training. But as in addition to what Government requires

14

g,

106

Ll

for the professional examination, the Mission insists

on

their T

examination in Sacred History, Introduction to the Holy

haaar (

Scriptures, Christian Doctrines, Church History, Memoriter,

preachi

atfentiy

Method of Bible-lessons, Singing and Violin, we train our

What Government

and oce

students for two years at the least.

“01\‘

prescribes as the entrance test (or as general knowledge) for

a training candidate is quite insufficient and on the whole

their qu

Seminar

Primary Teachers and Lower Secondary Teachers of the

fhe que

present day are as teachers inferior to an «Upper Primary

candidate” and ¢ Fourth Grade Master” of twenty years ago.

some (g

To make up for these defects we keep our students for a

bill, an

Brery

longer time at our Normal School.

In August Mr. Stone,

by the

the Inspector of Schools, examined the students and seemed

Dehayi

to be satisfied with the small institution.

aveny

¢) Theological Seminaries.

Owing to a new organisation

exfen

of the Preparatory School at Udipi the Theological Seminary

all th

for Canara at Mangalore had been closed for the last year.

Hont

In one or two years we hope to be able to report its reopen-

b,

Dogy

ing. It is in this respect depending on the Christian High

School at Udipi.

Btk

el

The Malayalam Theological Seminary at Nettur (Tellicherry)

log

in the same manner feeds upon the Christian High School

at Nettur.

One student from the Matriculation class of the

Christian High School has been admitted and one candidate

finished his course.

As mentioned in the last year’s Report

0

Velayudhan Paulus (cf. 1ast Report, pages 66— 68) joined the

&

\

Seminary to be trained as an Assistant Catechist.

We may

mention in this connexion, that on the 2nd December last

year his father (Nicodemus) was consecrated as an Assistant

Catechist and that the same man, who one and half a year

ago came to Nettur in order to win his son back to Hindu-

ism, now with great zeal and joy travels about to preach the

Gospel of Christ. The students of the Seminary as well as

P

107

e

Insis

their Teachers and some Catechists go to the Tellicherry

the Hol

bazaar or to the fisher-village every Wednesday evening for

Memorite

preaching. The fishermen are on the whole very quiet and

traln our

attentive hearers, the Moplas, as usual, are somewhat noisy

T0vernmell

and occasionally troublesome.

wledge)

“QOne evening, when they continually interrupted and wanted

the whale

their questions to be answered we invited them to come to the

Seminary (24 miles distant), where we would be prepared to discuss

1s of e

the questions, they promised to do so, and to our great surprise

t Primayy

some days afterwards a deputation of Moplas appeared on Nettur-

years agn

hill, and a few hours were spent in answering all their questions.

ents 10r ¢

Every year a few Hindu festivals in the neighbourhood are attended

My, Sty

by the Seminary and two preaching tours are made. As to the

nd seemed

behaviour of our students we have little to complain of and with

a very few exceptions, they are diligent.

The course of instruction

extends over 4 years.

The following subjects are taught through

gl

Seminary

all the 4 years: Exegesis of the Old and New Testaments,

Homileties, Catechetics, Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Greek, Sans-

Lash your

krit, Malayalam, English and Music. Besides this in the first year:

its re0pel

Dogmaties and Introduction to the Old Testament; second year:

stian il

Ethics and Introduction to the New Testament; third year: Practi-

cal Theology and Church History, and in the fourth year: Apo-

ellichent]

logetics and Symbolics.”

1gh SCW[

B. Schools for Non-Christians.

ass o

L

Candldﬁ“

Village Schools. We have enlarged in the last year’s Re-

port on the importance of these little schools for the work of

r's Rept

evangelisation. If only in the place of our many non-Christ-

Jomed i

ian schoolmasters sincere Christians could be employed in all

e m

these schools, we dare say their evangelising power would

il

ber I

soon become manifest.

What Mr. Kanaka writes with refer-

Agsisa

Jf )

efh

ence to the schools on the Nilgiris will be likely to hold

true also elsewhere: —

o Hll]du

«The impression made by the Word of God in the tender

In proof of this

2N

hearts of the pupils, cannot be easily erased.

§ ol

14%

108

-

I could point out many a youth, who has lost his faith in his idol-

sifty,

gods and his regard for caste.

Whilst

I was quite surprised to notice

that some Brahman youths, who were educated in a Mission School

humble

1§ Somef

and whom I came across, had no regard whatever for their twice-

born caste and freely associated with Christians.

ey tak

Was this merely

due to western civilisation ?”’

2

To enter into details under this head is out of question.

aceoun

To show how these schools are sometimes almost forced ap-

permis

on us we insert a communication from Mr.

Walter at

Febru

Vaniyankulam (Malabar): —

order

“ There is a flourishing Lower Secondary School at Vaniyankulam

(150 pupils), and now we have just accepted another school at

closedv

i

|

J

Ottapalam, 5 miles from here.

It was a Local Fund school, but on

lessor

account of want of funds the school was abolished.

The leading

W

people of the place asked us to take up the school again, and with

1 ﬁ‘xd‘

the consent of our Committee we have done so, and that the more

1f ¢

readily, as Government most kindly lent us the building of the old

e

Munsit’s Court there. Some repairs are of course necessary, but the

fhey

people at the spot have promised to come to our assistance in this

fea

matter.

Of course they must be diligently reminded of their

he

generous promise, for our good Malayalis are very free and liberal

|

as to their promises, but somewhat weak and hesitating as to the

fr

fulfilment of them.”

?

Friends of Mission-work sometimes find fault with these

(s

schools, because they do not yield much fruit in the way of

conversions to Christianity.

Mr. Wieland writes with refer-

ence to this:— -

Iy

“It seems to be strange that in connection with our schools

0

)\

no conversions have taken place during recent years.

But we

\

need not be discouraged, the less so as some youths have passed

through very severe struggles, they have been on the point of

decision, and some power has kept them back again. I know of

a boy, who asked his master to pray for him, feeling his strength

failing him to take the last decisive step.

He was already

contemplating how he might keep his books and other things in

109

e

i hiy i

safety, and yet, when the struggle commenced, he shrank back.

ed o wfy

Whilst feeling pity with suech, perhaps weak natures, it is our

ssion Seho

humble opinion that a step like that of conversion to Christianity

their tyige

is something so great that people had better consider well before

they take this step.”

this merely

2. High Schools.

The High School at Dharwar, which on

f queston

account of plague had to be closed in October 1898, with

forced 1p

permission of the Collector, was re-opened on the Ist of

Walter o

February, but alas, in July plague appeared again and by

order of the Collector in September the school had to be

niyankln

closed a second time, and was shut up for three months.

v shool

My. Reusch makes the following remarks about the Bible-

bool, but on

lessons in his school:—

e leading

«Just as in the bazaar-preaching, so also in the Bible-lessons

n, and i

There was

I did not meet with so much opposition as formerly.

af the more

not so much trouble in making the boys commit something to

of the

memory or relate a Bible-story.

Even in the higher classes

1y, Uit fle

they will tell the story fluently.

Besides they seem to follow the

qnoe in tS

teaching with interest and perhaps by unconsciously nodding the

4 of fher

Such of my

head they even occasionally indicate their approval.

aod lberd

boys as were present at the bazaar-preaching not only refrained

One of the former

88 fo {te

from doing mischief, but even kept others quiet.

Hindu students who is now a Christian and a Catechist, the other

gith b

e

day before a large multitude bore witness of his belief in Christ.”

he A

\Of

Our communications about the High School at Mangalore

pith 1€t

) 18

have caused a sensation in some quarters, for which we feel

sorry, although we could not help it.

Our report is written

)uf 3(’]]001

not for the public in general, but for the friends of Mission-

But 1

work. We give the continuation of the story about the sacred

thread. Myr. Bucher writes:; —

a7 paSSe

}

) pOlﬂ[ i

“The youth after having handed over the thread asked for a

He cooked for himself for some

rnom i

"

little room to stay and to sleep in.

s et

time, read the Bible in the morning and evening, prayed to Jesus

g ﬂlfﬁﬂd.Y

After a few months Devapachari brought a like-minded friend, and

fing

e

110

the two youths lived peacefully together.

Meanwhile the English

TLies

Report appeared, there was much talk and abuse about the matter,

Iy VeI

and the two youths began to waver a little.

uO

Then there appeared

some articles in the West Coast Spectator with their misapplied

these ¢

eriticism on irreverence ete.

Upon that a relative in high position

Vadnas

sent threatening letters, and Devapachari came to me and com-

Tranin

plained of his difficult position.

Not feeling strong enough to

embrace Christianity, he sent his things to his relatives and left. The

other one remained, being sorry on aceount of his friend’s departure.

|

The school-inspection and the elosing of the school came on, and on

the last school-day the young man ecame and with a heart full of

give,

of oy

grief informed me that a short time before Devapachari had

breathed his last.

He died of .typhoid fever.”

3thon

The English and Canarese lectures in the High School

were well attended also in 1899.

ile

A Muhammedan missionary

the o

Musa, Saheb, with a perseverance worthy of imitation, was

10 88

present at all lectures, English and Canarese.

Not knowing

homg

English he got his refutation of our lectures translated into

{he

His chief

English and distributed amongst the public.

0N

argument is this, that Christians explain the Scriptures

10

wrongly.

Another faithful hearer of our lectures was M.

B

K. Shantappa, a pensioned Inspector of Schools. He belonged

to the Brahma Samaj, but there has always been a strong

desire in him for Christian truths.

He died the other day,

and we shall miss him very much.

Sa

Y0

My. Uber, the Manager of the High School at Tellicherry,

A

remarks on the Bible-lessons in his schoo] : —

A

“ Amongst my pupils there are some who in the Bible-lessons

are perfectly unmoved.

There are others, who hear with an undi-

vided heart.

|

Their eyes brighten up when Jesus in His divine

love is painted before their eyes.

One cannot help hoping that

some of these boys will in course of time decide for Christ.”

The High School at Calicut is doing very well indeed. It

is by far our biggest High School, and what Mr. Knobloch

311

) the By

writes about the results at University and other Examinations

0t he mafly

is very creditable to the school indeed :—

816 aper

¢« Of 23 pupils sent up for Matriculation 12 passed’ and one of

ir misgp

these twelve was the second in Malabar and the fourth in ‘the

high posa

Madras Presidency.

17 boys were sent for the Lower Secondary

e and e

Examination, 10 of whom passed.”

g onough b

and Jeft, T

3. Hindu Girls’ Schools.

s deparue

We have not many schools of this kind, but all of them

6 01, a1d

give us great satisfaction indeed. Miss Kaundinya, in charge

heart full

of our Brahman @irls’ School at Mangalore, writes: —

pachiri bl

“] have made the experience that the girls who joined our

school feel attached to it and leave it only under compulsion.

Not

igh b

all rejoice when the holidays commence.

The big ones will enjoy

mISSIOnay

the change for a few weeks, the little ones, who will only be allowed

afion, TS

to see some relatives in the neighbourhood or spend their days at

o knoving

home monotonously and not interesting at all, count the days until

slated mf

the school will re-open again, and, I am told, that towards the

His ¢k

bcif’

conclusion of the vacation they can be seen daily near the school

)

to see whether it is not yet opened.

The children understand our

Serite

s

Bible-stories not only with a quickness quite astonishing, they

¢ bl

also begin at once to apply them to one another.

‘So you thought

the Missi-amma did not see you, but it is all the same: God

W) Stmﬂ

has seen you’ says the one to the other: ¢‘You do exactly the

other B

v

f

same as Adam and Eve, one putting the blame on the other; do

that

the Missi-amma told us that this is

you not remember

an ugly habit ?

we should never do that, but at once frankly

el

admit our mistakes.’

It may even happen that one confides to

a friend:

pledesst

“I pray every day to the one God and to His Son, who

qo ul

loves us and forgives our sins.” — Often omne feels inclined to ask

oneself: ¢ Will the work done amongst these girls bear any fruit in

Tis di

g f

later life, or will the thorns choke everything ® Happily the Bible-

»plﬂ

)

women take up the work where we leave it.

I know how kindly

they are received in houses, where former pupils of our school are

el I

living.”

il /

112

i Sh

f9 the

In Mys. Frohmwmeyer's report on the work of the Bible-

women at Tellicherry there is the following remark with refer-

0

f0

ence to the Brahman @irls’ School there: —

i

0]

(st

“ What a good influence our Brahman Girls’ School exerts on

that part of Tellicherry ecalled Wadikkal, may be seen from the

may |

following occurrence.

Our Bible-women Julia and Michal came to

safe

the house of one of the boys, who attend that girls’ school. The

Al |

father entered into a discussion with the Bible-women.

As soon

withe

as the boy, who is about 8 years of age, heard his father speak

suby

somewhat disparagingly about Christianity, he placed himself

Nati

before him and said in a protecting manner:

¢Oh, father, you

must not speak so, what these people teach us is true and all the

stru

stories, which we hear at school, are thoroughly true.”

And

be §

i

then he began to tell one of the stories of the Old Testament till

the father appeasingly said: ¢Yes, it is true, times have changed

i

with us.

Since our children attend this school we are net what

lien

we have been.

In the evening these children sit down, learn their

Ve ¢

Scripture-sentences and Bible-stories

and expound them to us

118

fivg)

grown-up peoplg.

ady

e

5.

Industrial Mission, or

al

the outward condition of our Christians.

0]

1. In South-Mahratta in ordinary times the Christians as

1l

to their secular affairs seem to be not so dependant on the

m

Mission as those in other parts of our field, The Native in-

W

dustry there until lately was not in such a hopeless condition.

In South-Mahratta the weaving trade in the native fashion

10

\)

was at home, and even converts, cast off by their families,

f

provided the Mission gave them a lift at the beginning, were

able to live independently of the Mission. Of course in the

last two years in consequence of plague and famine the

misery has been great. They had to be helped from the

relief-fund of the Mission in so much that the Mission

bought their articles, which they could not get rid of, owing

kit

113

the B

to the plague regulations and the famine.

How far this will

C with pel

20 to relieve the people we cannot yet say. But quite apart

from famine and plague, which we hope, will soon leave the

0l exerts g

district, the Christians in South-Mahratta must be shown a

seen from

way to a more prosperous condition.

We do not think i.t,

ichal came

safe and wise to extend our Industrial Mission farther, at

school, T

any rate not in a distriet which has done more than 60 years

0. AS

without it.

A more rational way would be some kind of

father syt

subvention of the Native

industries.

But alas, even the

aced hinsl

Native industries in many branches (for instance in weaving)

father,

struggle for existence aund are dying out gradually. As will

¢ and all i

e ol

be seen from our statistics, an exodus from all our stations

stament

in South-Mahratta took place to Hubli, this means to the

spinning mill there. Soif there should be no Mission establish-

ave change

ro 1ot what

ment in South-Mahratta, it is quite possible that the thing

oo fhe

we should like to avoid (namely the dependence of our Christ-

thom o 18

ians on some establishment) will still come in without the

advantages accompanying a Mission Hstablishment.

What

makes the solution of the social question so very difficult in

all our districts is not only the extraordinary circumstances

jstials

out here in India, but also some unfavourable features in the

nature of our Christians.

There is the superstition with

rigtians &

which many enter the Mission and to which they cling with

ant ot

a perseverence and obstinacy in other respects not natural

Nutvel

with them, namely that the Mission is in duty bound eéither

to feed them entirely or to give them some work which ought

e i

to be easy and becoming to the exalted position of a Christ-

: s

{

ian, and at the same time pay well.

There is secondly an

ﬂinga el

To live from hand to mouth would

fi

utter want of thriftiness.

56 0

i

not be so bad in itself, but it leads to debts, and most of our

gmiﬂe

people live, as if though they would not feel comfortable

frop i

without debts.

The third great defect is that our people

st

lack all energy and ability to adapt themselves to new or

i o

o,

wl 14

Bl o

changed environments.

Of course this is chiefly due to heredi-

valeno

One is

in wis

tary habits, to the custom of professional caste.

really at the end of one’s wits, when a candidate for baptism

I

perhaps 30 or 40 years old, calmly declares either that

ment

he never has been in the habit of doing work all his life

Mi’.

long or that he has only done

such work as is quite

step

Mr. Berl:

inconsistent with the calling of a Christian.

writes what all of us, and those before us have uttered again

Tema

and again :—

tobac

his f

““ We should finally suceceed in persuading our people to part

prope

with the caste-spirit prevailing in the selection of one’s profession

and to adapt themselves to the spirit of this age in looking out for

of i

other well-paying professions.

Washermen and tailors always find

1500

work and good pay, and a good shoemaker at each station would

be sure of his daily bread.”

a8 g

As mentioned above, the congregation at Hubli enjoys the

dO (ht

most favourable position owing to its manufactory. The Pastor

al ¢x

Salomon Devada writes: —

H]

of Ch

“ As to their trade or profession, some are conscientious, others

are not. With the exception of sluggards, time-killers, weak people

ang {

and weavers (Sic/) all earn their daily bread.”

their

10 |

The ingenuity of Mr. Metz at Bijapur is worthy of imi-

land

tation.

Even the plague he managed to turn into a means

18

of giving work and bread to his few Christians.

He reports

nan

on his invention as follows: —

Ko

“To give work to the few people who were not already em-

Wi

ployed by the Mission, I began to fabricate rat-traps.

They are

ikn

i

made of wire and arranged in such a manner that a whole number

0

il

of rats or mice may be caught at once.

When 1 gave them a

trial in two of them the very first night I got 9 rats in each.

of

0l

course I can carry on this industry only as long as there are

t}

customers.”’

Considering the .multitudes of rats in India this new

branch of Mission-industry ought to prosper, but the demand for

mouse-traps, we are sorry to say, will depend so much on the pre-

4

115

R

116 £0 hepe

valence of plague, that philanthropists must feel strong hesitation

e, (ne

in wishing Mr. Metz God-speed with his industry.

for hagin

In Canara the small stations that have no Mission-establish-

either fhy

ments experience great difficulty.

We must call

what

all s It

Mr. Ritter writes about the Catechist at Uchila (Mulki) a

a8 15 quls

step in the right direction:—

Ui, Bl

“For the outward conditions of our Christians it seems to me

remarkable that the Catechist has introduced the cultivation of

tored agi

tobacco, which he had an opportunity of studying at Ravaneshvara,

aple {0 pir

his former station.

The sandy soil at Uchila seems to be the

If carefully doue, it will pay well, and in course

ds pofsin

proper thing for it.

of time may be a substantial help to our Christians at Uchila.”

oking B

s alwags

How difficult sometimes the position of our new Christians

station ol

is only those know who have to deal with the matter.

They

are advised sometimes simply to remain where they are and

do the work, which they have done before.

That would be

ey

an excellent plan, if possible. My. Fischer at Karkal writes:—

The Paste

‘““ Non-Christian landlords lay all kinds of hindrances on the way

of Christian tenants.

The Christian family at Nandolige fell sick

tious, e

and they could not look after their fields.

All their neighbours,

ek pegh

their own brother included, refused to help them, they even wouald

The

not feed the cattle, although the straw was laid ready there.

landlord had strictly prohibited all the labourers' about from

thy o

fo D4

rendering any assistance to the Christians,

The fever-stricken

He rep@ﬂf

man asked again and again that somebody should be sent from

Karkal to plough the fields, for the compound-rent must be paid

whether the fields were cultivated or not.

Notice has besides been

already &

given the family to quit the place next year. — To place the people

| They "k

on a solid foundation, improvements in the way of wells would be

e 1l

necessary. — To the Missionary at such a place for the present no

e thewi

other way is left than to send inquirers to Mangalore or Malpe with

) 6ol

p U

the hope that they will find employment in th

.e Mission Establish-

g there ¥

ments there.”

1

14 hb

Passing over to Malabar there is only one station in this

demaﬂd ‘

district without a Mission Indastry.

Beginning in the north,

i ihe pf '

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send

Cannanore has a big Weaving Establishment with branches

at Tellicherry and Chombala.

Calicut has an equally large

3 18

Weaving

Establishmeut

and Tile-Works at Putiarakkal;

to

Codacal has a branch of the Weaving Establishment at Calicut,

Wou

and Tile—Works, and Palghat possesses the Tile-Works at

Olavakkoda.

arti

Osne would expect that with such an amount

oy

of assistance for the Christians of Malabar they would be in

tha

a flourishing condition.

Of course the Tile-Works give em-

ployment chiefly to coolies, and the wages are those of coolies.

0

They admit almost everybody, and this is the great advantage

n

of these works, but struggling against a keen competition

len

from all sides, the Managers can scarcely give more than

what is necessary for keeping together soul and body.

The

sl

weavers are very well paid.

They had to suffer a little last

L

year; as the Establishment was overstocked, a reduction of

il

working hours became necessary, however they could bear it

theg

very easily.

We have referred in a previous chapter to the

CYe1

proletarian spirit manifesting itself in connection with our

are

0

Establishments, but also the temporal affairs of our people

are not in as healthy a condition as we have every right to

expect them to be.

There are a few well-to-do people here

t

and there, but as exceptions they only confirm our opinion

that the fault lies chiefly with the people themselves.

A good

As

many of them are not so comfortable as they might be.

fr

to new-comers our Establishments being full in most places,

our brethren are very much in the same position, as if there

i

were none, and they seek for help in some other direction.

Only the station at Calicut has been so extremely happy

al

as to secure for all the 60 new Christiaus with the exception

0

of one, a livelihood in its Establishments.

As to agriculture

on a larger scale, our endeavours up to this have not met with

1

any success.

Myr. Walter at Vaniyankulam, who has no

establishment at his station and has often been compelled to

|58

e

b Drandle

send his converts to Palghat or Calicut, made a trial with

qually Lo

a native industry

Fle writes :—

Putiankk

« At the beginning of the year some of our Christians began

a manufacture that

Cali

to weave the light clothes worn by Natives

would not pay in our Hstablishments

The looms and the whole

Je-Works

arrangement, of course, are very primitive

But considering the

| Al -amo

poverty of the people and our own helplessness we should feel very

mould b

thankful, if the undertaking proves to be successful.”

ks give e

My. Timothy, the Pastor at Melparambu (Palghat) men-

e of o

tions a new way by which some people, who cannot be employed

ot advan

in the Tile-Works, try to get on;

he considers

it also an excel-

I

Compeil

lent way to prove the sincerity of inquirers: —

o mote fh

«“We send the people into the woods to gather firewood and

] body. T

sell it

It is hard work, but some of our Christians do it now

o itle

I call it hard work first on account of the excessive heat the people

eduction ¢

must expose themselves to and secondly because the wood is very

ould bear

cheap and the people owing to the great fatigue are able to go only

japte b

every second day

In the rainy season the prices for firewood

o il

are higher, but owing to the swollen rivers they are scarcely able

to reach the forest.”

f our Pl

A trial with coir-matting at Calicut turned out to be a

(&}

i

failure, but 25 women found a refuge in the Tile-Works at

) | eople i

Putiarakkal

our 0P

2

In conclusion we should like to offer

a few extracts

[\'Gb j‘{fﬂ

from the reports of our Industrial Missionaries

Uaht be l

ot

My. Stierlen, Manager of the Weaving Estabhshment at

Mangalore, reports: —

y isi

(et

‘“There have been many cares and disappointments, but after

4]

all we have all reason to praise our merciful Father in heaven

:\me]\ hlp{

Our position was extremely difficult: on the one hand our magazines

he e

were overstocked, on the other hand our Christians were anxious

};

1

) aO‘IICll

to get work

The couatry is flooded with cheap English weaving

pot e

We

which is not so strong as ours, bat looks pretty and is cheap

ho B

had to reduce our prices, but of course ot so far as to beat our

)t

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in thi

competitors.

In these circumstances our weavers hére and at

In

Hindu

Mulki bave sometimes had to wait some days for a new warp.

order to clear out our store-houses we reduced the working-hours

fo me

of our weavers.

On the 24th and 25th July a selling off with a

(hris

reduction of 25 to 30 per cent took place, and, in a rather unwel-

alwa

heen

come manner, our stock was reduced by thieves on the night of

the 22nd May.

After they had cleared out, the police, for the sake

fivel

of their investigations, closed the Establishment for a week and a

a (1

half.

Times have changed.

Some 50 years ago nobody dreamt of

Bstal

robbery in a Mission-house, but since Hindu-temples are not safe,

congt

we mast be prepared for this t0o.”

will |

for so

But these thieves come not only from outside. M-

i

Schonthal, in charge of the Weaving Establishment at Cannanore,

Caliey

writeg: -

sared

“'What pains me often is the insincerity of our young and —

wort

I am sorry to say — sometimes also of our older people.

If one

Sick.

forgets to take his knife with him, or even a Mundu — it evaporates,

Aftey

and nobody has seen it.””—* In order to show how far some of our

people have reached a state of comparative self-dependence I add

Bs

a statement, showing the number of people who have got houses of

As

their own.

The advance has been made from their savings-banks.

ol

It is scarcely necessary to describe how much exertion was neces-

sary to make them persevere in their good resolutions.

In

00!

Cannanore 35 weavers are living in houses of their owny in Chowa

Co

31, in Tellicherry 21, and in Chombala 15.

Amongst these 102

M

the whole amount advanced has been paid by 69; one-half of it

10

by 10, one-third by 8, and one-fourth by 15.

Last year one of

July

our weavers with money saved by himself bought a house and

Ch

compound for Rs. 400 and has besides a deposit of Rs. 454 with us.”

SR, SN

by

My. Kiihner at Calicut, with reference to the present crisis,

makes the following remarks: —

of

¢“ Admissions to our Establishments on a larger scale are at

present impossible, and I think, this interruption should be utilised

%

to transform the converts of the last years who have been baptised

by hundreds into real Christians, so that they may shine as lights

=

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here and

in this world.

In the last months when I heard and saw that

W vap. b

Hindus, who come to join us had to be sent away, it was a consolation

orking-lous

to me to observe that for such, as really were in earnest to embrace

o off i g

Christianity under the influence of spiritual motives, an opening has

ather uael

always been found.

If such as, on accoant of misbehaviour, have

the night

been excluded from their caste, or such, as for the sake of gaining a

for the s

livelihood make up their mind to exchange their Hindu-name for

week ands

a Christian one in this time of depression, find no place in our

dy dreant i

Establishments, I feel assured that it will be only a blessing to the

I am of opinion that it

are ot s

congregation, should they be sent away.

will be a gain to our congregation, if such elements are kept out

for some time.”

itside. M

Myr. Buesch, Manager of the Weaving Establishment . at

£ Canmanorg

Calicut also reports on a diligent weaver, who within 10 years

saved Rs. 100, and has now purchased a house and compound

0ung and-

worth Rs. 350, the rest has been advanced to him from the

ol If one

Sick-Fund, and he agreed to a monthly re-payment of Rs. 4

raprales

After he had done so for a few months he asked us to deduct

soue of 0

Rs. 5, and lately he has begun to pay even Rs. 6 per month.

e Lol

As to business-matters Mr. Buesch experiences the same diffi-

of bt i

rags gk

culties as Mr. Stierlen at Mangalore.

To the Tile-Works at Calicut and Palghat we have alluded

|

|

occasionally.

Myr. Boas, in charge of the Tile-Works at

gHions: I

Codacal, had in 1898 to pass through the same trial as the

1 Chow

f thest i

Manager at Palghat.

The firemen struck and Mr. Boas had

to secure himself against such events by a new staff of fire-

ol i

men.—That God’s Spirit works in the heart of some of our

house Ml )

Christian workmen may be seen from an experience related

il

by Mr. Boas: —

“I had an opportunity to overhear a conversation between two

sl il

of my Christian workmen.

The one, a youth of about 19 years of

age, reproved a married man, because he had made certain state-

glo 8

ments with reference to him. To this the elder one replied: ‘How

e milissf‘

can you expect me to say what is not true? If you do mot behave

3 bl

77

properly, of course, I will tell the trath to Mfr. Boas.’

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6. Medical Mission.

o all

begys

Dr. Stokes bas circulated his report on the Medical Mis-

woul

i

sion amongst his many friends. We give below some egtracts

from this very interesting report: —

1ans

“Although we are thankful to say that no epidemic has broken

tho

out during the past year, still we have to record an increase in the

atten

number of patients, especially among the poorer classes, enabling

are]

however the Medical Mission to fulfil its calling in proclaiming the

wher

‘Good Tidings’ to large numbers.

l

‘““ Among our patients here in Calicut we find many, who in times

dun

of sickness and trouble do not resort to their idols; if they do begin,

hut b

it is soon given up as useless and they come to be treated in the

hospital.

Numbers come with charms tied on the diseased patts,

siffr

and when asked whether they felt no relief when' these were

onde

attached, they smile, clearly showing how greatly their belief in

she h

becon

superstition has suffered. May God in His merey soon open the;

eyes of all such, who are groping in darkness.

heary

“One difficulty we have always experienced is in obtaining

suffe

Men who

she

qualified Hospital Assistants with Christian principles.

are not only of this part of India, but who are also trustworthy

tha

and efficient. But now our Home Board has sanctioned the proposal

b

to send two students through the Medical College in Madras; so we

by

trust a hindrance up to the present will be overcome.

“ We expect a well qualified lady nurse from Germany shortly,

0o

Miss Fritz, who will be a great help in the hospital, though she

1y

will specially take up work among women.

il

“ Looking over the statistics of patients treated last year, there

4

is an increase of tuberculosis and leprosy.

1l

“Calicut Hospital.

The work here in the Calicut Hospital is

progressing very favourably, the majority of the patients being very

poor. Among these there were an unusual number of phthisical

patients.

In one Christian family three deaths ocecurred during

the past year of rapid consumption.

One of these, Wilhelmina by

name, was an in-patient for several months, but while laid aside

121

her patient suffering and simple faith was an example and blessing

Unlike many others, she even

to all she came in contact with.

Medica I

begged to be admitted, making this one of her reasons that she

would hear God’s Word and attend the daily prayers.

S0Me exirh

«One cannot help noticing how sadly indifferent the non-Christ-

To many not even the

ians behave when they are about to die.

10 has bk

thought of passing into a complete unknown state will rouse their

nerease Intl

attention and direct their thoughts to the future.

The relatives

568, ey

are just as callous:

«We are still living, let us eat and drink, and

oclaiming

when it is our fate may we too so die.’

«“ The following is one of many disappointments experienced

, Who n i

during the past year, but we trust the good seed will not be choked

hey o b

but bear fruit in due season.

“QOne of the in-patients was a Hindu woman of the fisher-caste,

treated inf

suffering with a tubercular spine.

This woman really made us all

seased

1’ these Te

wonder at hér patience in suffering, and though often in great pain,

She was anxious to be baptised and

heir bl

she hardly ever complained.

become a follower of Christ.

This desire was begotten through

on opet

hearing in the daily prayers, how much ‘The Man of Sorrows’

in obtaig

suffered for all mankind.

Three days, however, before her death

o ol

she left the hospital to visit a sick sister at home with the result

that her relatives prevented her return.

This was only an excuse

trastmol]

brought forward by the relatives to prevent her returning to be

the g

baptised.

dras; 9%

“There are many native doctors, who with charms and potions,

do infinitely more harm than good in their vain attempts to cure.

any i

Much more could be said about these quacks, but we will only give

though i

one instance of practical cruelty.

« A little Mopla boy in climbing a tree lost his hold and fell,

el e

impaling his thigh on a bamboo spike.

Unfortunately the stake

broke off where it entered the limb, and could not be taken out,

Hospitﬂ] j

so for three mobntl.ls he was placed under native treatment. The

being ¢!

intense sufferings of the little fellow one can hardly imagine.

i phthisic%i

When he was carried into the hospital his leg was really doubled

el i

When asked whether he was afraid of being

op with agony.

i

operated on, he looked up and with tears in his eyes replied: “If

il gl

16

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12‘2_

the Sahib does anything to me, I will bear the pain, but-I have

much

had quite enough of the mative treatment’, which, we may add,

her

uf]

was a series of burns on his arms and legs.

After making an

the e

incision under chloroform, we removed a piece of bamboo, two and

a half inches long, and one inch broad.

When he attempted to

H(

walk about without a stick or support of any kind, the gratitude

Tiyan

of his father was boundless.

tion

“ Dresser Joseph Manaperambu is attached to this hospital,

ho ex

he has been of invaluable help in superintending the domestic

had

fime

arrangements in the hospital, as we have been without the help

of a lady nurse in the past year.

belie

“Leper Asylum.

We regret to state that Government has

reg

rejected the introduction of the ‘Leper Act’, although the Greneral

(hris

heart

Medical Council of Great Britain has passed a resclution that

leprosy is a contagious disease.

s |

“We are very thankful to vecord that a happy contented mind

be,a

pervades the whole establishment.

One of the inmates Martha,

a little leper girl of 13, is an exceptionally bright and happy

aard

creature.

She has progressed so far so as to be able to read,

0 ]

write and relate a great number of Bible stories which she has

imp\

heard repeated in the daily prayers.

“One visitor, a Missionary, had a very interesting talk with

15

Martha.

After relating several stories she told again the miracle

8t

of the ten lepers, the visitor then asked her if she knew the disease

she was suffering from.

Martha was at first silent, she hesitated

1

with the reply, but at last the brave girl overcame her repugnance

Cl

and spoke it out: ‘I too am a leper.’

The Missionary put her some

more searching questions: ¢Does God love you too?’ To this she

|\

responded a bright ¢ Yes’, but to the next question ‘Then why did

He let you be a leper?’ she was quite silenced.

This was but for

a time.

Then she thought of the bright consolation that every

suffering Christian looks forward to, and answered brightly: ¢Oh!

it is only for a time, because in heaven there are no lepers.’

“ A Bible-woman is told off for the Asylum who makes periodi-

cal visits and reads and expounds the Holy Word. They all love

and respeet the Bible-woman and are greatly attached to her so

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123

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in, but Ly

much so that they asked whether a chair may not be bought for

we may gl

[

her

Needless to add, their request was granted.

* making

«“The following is an incident of how a man found healing for

nboo, two

the leprosy of sin.

“One of our patients was a devil-daneer and priest of the

attomptel |

the gmatiud

Tiyan caste.

He had left his family and was in a pitiable condi-

tion when he begged to be received.

Some months passed and

The Bible teachings

this hosptl

he expressed a desire to become a Christian.

the domest

had done their silent good work.

He then took leave for a short

time to visit his family to prevail upon them to join him in his new

o0t the bl

belief, but was unsuccessful.

Within a fortnight he returned,

ement b

regretting he had not persuaded his wife and child to become

Last Christmas he received baptism, the change of

1 he Gonenl

Ch‘ristians.

heart necessitauting a change of countenance.

His eye-sight was

solation {f

also bad, but since getting him a pair of spectacles he has set to

otented il

be, and is indeed a diligent reader of the Bible.

« Those who have not lost the use of their fingers work in a

ates Mok,

and by

garden, the result being a display of gorgeous flowers. Owing

to the maimed condition of many manual labour of any sort is

o to b

impossible.-

ich she b

“Vaniyankulam Hospital.

This little hospital with 12 beds,

The inhabitants

is sitvated in a very densely populated district.

g tal ol

still hold firmly to caste distinctions, especially the Nambudiris.

fhe mike

Except when forced to, they do not even approach the hospital.

the s

Their superstition ties them down to observations of very minute

o b

customs.

So it is a bad omen, if while entering a patient’s house

rep ugﬂaﬂ@

a crow flies across one’s shadow.

Another ridiculous omen is that

it Jgp SO0

if you approach the patient’s house, no one in the house may sneeze,

o fhis

A sneeze must be

but if it does happen, an antidote is offered.

1 10

fil ¥

given in reply, —a feat not always at the command of every one

s bt

just at that exciting moment.

hat 0

“The dresser relates of an instance, when he was called

i

to attend a wealthy Nambudiri.

The man was bleeding from a

)

tt{y:

wound in the chest, and it was nearly two hours before he consented

to have the dresser called.

When the dresser did come he was

;}' al! It

not allowed to touch the wounded man, but had to direct a Brahman

16*

fo bt

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124

2

how the wound was to be dressed.

This process was very

unsatisfactory, so the dresser threatened to leave, unless he was

ma

allowed to do something more definite.

At last the obstinate fellow

T

gave in, but only on condition he was carried down to the tank

el

where he could bathe himself immediately after the pollution.

Opinions differ, but in our estimation the matter of pollution came

of

in'when the man was dipped in the foul water.

“Several times that we have been called to see urgent cases,

Jar

especially serious labour cases, it is a lamentable fact that it is

Tlh

very often too late to be of any use.

Nt

‘“Having no separate accommodation for caste women, is a

T

great want and without this convenience Nambudiri women cannot

il

enjoy the privilege of being under constant medical observation, and

MU

not lose their caste.

We intend appealing to the people themselves,

UL

to subscribe and provide such a building.

lay

““ Nevertheless it is a good sign to notice women take any

advantage of our hospital, last year’s records showing we had a

i

great number of female patients.

il

“We find the work at such an out-station very gratifying and

fo

very different to the work in larger towns.

Charity, when lavished,

is abused.

While here such an institution is greatly appreciated.

An instance will suffice.

~

““A poor patient, who lived 7 miles away, started off at day-

break, limping along the whole way, gave such exclamations of joy

at being allowed to sleep ‘in such a grand bed’, and to receive

such kind treatment and wholesome food!

f;

‘“ Another Hindu man, who went through an operation success-

fully, brought one dozen eggs on the next visit as a token of his

gratitude.

i)

“On the whole the poor are more grateful than those better off.

Unless the rich are asked to pay at once, the fee demanded before-

hand, they are very rarely sensible of any thankfalness.

‘““ Codacal Hospital.

The past year has seen a great improve-

ment in the little hospital here.

Its favourable position close to a

frequented road, and the substantial stone-wall built all round,

make the building conspicuous for miles around.

2

:

Was vy

«“ But with regard to its working we are sorry to report that

59 e g

matters have not been running as smoothly as we should have liked.

nate folloy

For some time past we have had difficulties rising up and

to the tank

terminating in the final dismissal of the dresser in charge.

polluton

This, as may be surmised, brought discredit to the reputation

ttion came

of the establishment.

“The hospital was built chiefly for the use and profit of the

o0t ot

Jarge Christian congregation, which includes the labourers of the

that 1t i

Still in the case of illness the patient is put under

Tile Factory.

native treatment first, failing which we are allowed to try our skill.

me, § 8

That means first recovering

the patient from the effect of his

nen Caumot

numerous burns, then trying to combat the sickness in a body very

When such

vation, 0t

much weakened by delay and inhuman practices.

hemselras,

measures are resorted to by Christians, we are not in a position to

lay a finger on any customs practised by the Hindus.

take any

“ The medical work is left in the hands of the dresser, so the

exercises a striet

e bad @

Missionary in charge of the congregation

supervision, often visiting the hospital and preaching God’s Word

to the sick ones.”

fying

avishe

)plecwed

7. Literary Department.

1

The Canarese Bible Revision Committee had a meeting

.ﬁ; af

s

at Bangalore in September and October, presided over by

p ot

Rev. H. Haigh.

Our Mission was represented by Rev. J

Hermelink, Rev. K. Ernst and Mr. Chr. Watsa. The Acts of

1 sices

the Apostles were read and the Agenda for the Epistle to the

Romans discussed.

The Christian public at large in the

)

Canarese speaking parts of our Mission are under the im-

e

pression that the changes will not only be too radical, but

befir

that some terms proposed by the chief reviser are foreign to

the ear of a Christian and do not convey the meaning of the

impr¥

original. The revision of the New .Testamént will (D. V.) be

Joso "

finished in the current year (1900).

May it prove to be a

| mi]ﬂd:

light for the Canarese people— Christians and non-Christians

9

alike —leading them to a full knowledge of Christ and His

salvation.

The Malayalam Bible Revision Committee, on which the

Basel Mission is represented by Rev. W. Dilger, as the chief

reviser, and Rev.” St. Chandran worked, with a short inter-

ruption during the hot season, for the whole of the year at

Kottayam, and finished the tentative text from Exodus to

ha

I. Samuel.

The tentative text of the Pentateuch has been

il

printed and circulated for remarks.

Besides the revised text

The chief

of the New Testament went through the press.

reviser is happy to say that there is nothing to prevent

the present commitee from arriving at an idiomatic rendering

of the original.

2

The Book & Tract Depository at Mangalore, under the

management of My. S. Stamm, has been doing its quiet but

St

good work.

Tell

Though it is not possible to show direct results

that are obtained by the distribution and selling of tracts, yet

The

AP

we know and believe that the work is not done in vain and

that it will bear fruit in its own God-appointed time. Our

Th

W

two Christian Periodicals, the Canarese « Satyadipike” and

\

the Malayalam ¢ Kéralopakari” have been regularly published,

the former fortnightly and the latter monthly.

We would

however wish both of them a larger number of subscribers.

§

My. Chr. Watsa and Mr. C. Hole have had again the kind-

il

ness to edit the Canarese and Malayalam Almanacs respectively.

Besides reprints and new editions of former tracts, the

)

tfollowing new tracts have been published :—

In Canarese:

Tell the Truth, by Mr. Th. Walz.

The Mystery of Prosperity and Happiness, by the same.

The Resurrection of the Body, by Mr. L. Gengnagel.

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