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ILL 171 31 i] L0 15, Oy 16,7 1.9 18§ W.p ‘)O\I ‘)18 ‘)7K 931} ‘)&(} 0y QBY 781 ‘)9] 30, 3, ) European Missionaries of thhe Basel vG—erman Evangelical Mission- Corrected up to the 1st May 19o0I. [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 . W. Stokes (m) Kaity (Coonoor) . S. Walter (m) Switzerland 1865 Vaniyankulam® . &. Ritter (m) Germany 1869 Mulki (8. Canara) do. 1869 do. . J. A. Brasche (m) Udipi . W. Sikemeier (m) Holland 1870 Mereara (Coorg) . J. Hermelink (m) Germany 1872 Mangalore Switzerland 1874 Kotagiri (Nilgiri) . G. Grossmann (m) . J. Baumann (m)* do. 1874 Mangalore . W. Liitze (m) Germany 1875 Kaity (Nilgiri) ;woo—zcﬁmu;ovmr—n . J. B. Veil (m)* do 1875 Mereara (Coorg) 14, 1876 . L. J.Frohnmeyer (m) do Tellicherry (Nettur) 12 . J. G. Kiihnle (m) do 1878 Palghat 13 . H. Altenmiiller (m)* do 1878 Mangalore 14 do 1878 . C. D. Warth (m) Bettigeri 15 Chr. Keppler (m) do 1879 Udipi 16 J. J. Jaus (m) do 1879 Calicut 17 do 1880 F. Stierlin (m)* Mangalore 18 K. Ernst (m) do 1881 Dharwar 19 F. Eisfelder (m) do 1882 Summadi-Guledgudd do 1883 M. Schaible (m) Mangalore 21 B. Liithi (m) Switzerland 1884 do. 22 K. Hole (m) Germany 1884 Cannanore 23 Switzerland 1885 Hubli 24 D. Berli (m) G. Peter (m) do. 1885 Cannanore 25 J. Gotz (m) Germany 1886 Basrur 26 F. Huber (m)* Switzerland 1886 Mangalore 27 1887 J. Sieber (m)* do. do. 28 W. Bader (m) Germapy 1888 Tellicherry H. Risch (m) do. 1888 Honavar (N. Canara) 30 Switzerland 1888 Codacal R. Bosshardt (m) 31 Ph. Stier (m) Germany 1891 Kaity 1) Stat. Ottapalam. 1* — ge— S R AN Native Date of Name Active Station Country Service 32. F. Boas (m)* Germany 1891 Codacal 33. do 1892 | Th. Uber (m) Chombala 34 M. Breidenbach (m) do 1892 Mangalore | 35 J. Bachle (m) do 1893 Udipi 36 do 1893 % % | K. Mayer (m) Bettigeri 37 A. Metz (m) do 1893 Bijapur 38 E. Hiller (m) Australia 1893 Tellicherry 39 0. Eckelmann (m)* 1894 Codacal Germany 40 P. Borel (m) do 1894 Kasaragod 41 Chr. Fritz (m) do 1894 Anandapur (Coorg) T 42 P. Sengle (m) do 1894 Tellicherry 16, 43 do 1894 (B! Chr. Gebhardt (m)* Palghat 44 Tr. Reusch (m) do 1895 Dharwar 18, 45 Joh. Knobloch * do 1895 Calicut 46 W.Stokes, m. 8., c.m.gp.*| India 1895 do. 47 R. Sechilling (m) Switzerland 1895 Chombala 48 G. Fischer (m) Germany 1896 Karkal (8. Canara) ik 49 A. Schosser (m) do. 1896 Puattur (s. Canara) 1 | 50 0.6 J. Miller (m) do. 1896 Udipi 8L.(. 51 H. Wolpert do. 1896 Anandapur (Coorg) 52 E. Liithy Switzerland 1896 Guledgudd oy 53 1896 Calicut 8.1 H. Kiihner (m)* Germany 8.0 54 H. Eidenbenz (m)* Switzerland 1896 Cannanore 8.7 55 W. Rath (m) Germany 1896 Hubli 56 G. Renschler do 1897 86,1 57 Palghat 81, Chr. Diirr do 1897 Mulki 88, ( 58 K. Buesch* do 1897 Calicut 59 W. Spaich do 1898 Mangalore 89, 60 H. Stokes * India 1898 do. 9.1 fl.¢ 61 M. Stuckert (m)* Switzerland 1898 do. ) 62 Fr. Braun Germany 1898 Dharwar 63 Fr. Singer do 1898 Calicut R 64 . A. Scheuer oL i do 1899 Vaniyankulam % 65 . A. Beierbach * do 1899 Mangalore 66 . J. Pfleiderer do 1899 do. 67 . L. Fraas * do 1899 Calicut 68 . H. Haffner * do 1899 Cannanore 69 . J. Maue do 1899 Codacal 70. H. Hofmann * do 1900 Calicut — Station Date of Name Native Active Station . Country Service il ala 1900 71. P. Simpfendorfer * Germany Mangalore lore 2 . W. Metzler do. 1900 Basrur 3 . E. Vogt do. 1900 Bettigeri e 74 . A. Spring do. 1900 Guledgudd I 611y ) Single Ladies. g0l 5 apur (G . Miss E. Kaundinya India | 1897 Mangalore 76 Miss H. Krauss Germany 1898 do. o1y (&) Miss A. Ehrensperger | Switzerland 1900 Calicut i 78 Sister K. Fritz al | Germany 1900 do. t At Home. ald 79 | (5. ) » W.P.Schonthal (m)* | Germany 1870 late of Cannanore (s (anats) 80 G. Hirner (m)* do. 18%1 do Mangalore 81 C. G. Eblen (m) do. 1876 do 82 Udipi it (g M. Hoeh (m) Switzerland 1876 do Mangalore il 83 I. Weismann (m) Germany 1878 do Chombala 84 C. W. Dilger (m) do 1880 do Tellicherry 85 do 1881 016 J. Fischer (m) do Anandapur 86 K. Schaal (m) do 1883 do Cannanore t 87 J. Waidelich (m) do 1885 do Bettigeri 88 do 1886 do Dharwar 89 0. Bode (m) A. Glattfelder (m)* Switzerland 1886 do Mangalore )16 90 Fr. Volz (m)* Germany 1888 do Calicut 91 G. Wieland (m) do. 1889 do 92 Kaity J. Bucher (m) do. 1890 do Mangalore 93 H.Bretschneider (m)* do. 1890 do Udipi 94 8. Stamm (m)* Switzerland 1891 do 95 Mangalore culal 0. Singer (m) Germany 1891 do Honavar 10 96 Tr. Lutz (m) Switzerland 1892 do Guledgudd 97 W. Heckelmann * Germany 1898 do Calicut 1o IR N S e O (ln Tabular View of Stations, Agents and 190 1st JANUARY Agents of the Mission European Native Agents Mission- aries marev 1900 STATION S AT e Total mumber of Catechists Non-Christian School-masters Church-members on Established in the year Approximate population within a station’s area Out-Stations * Brethren Sisters Native Pastors Evangelists and Colporteurs Bible-Women Chr. School-mistresses Chr. School-masters | 1. South-Canara. . 1834 568000 — ot ey 11 26 18 Mangalore . Mulki 1845 120000 . Udipi 1854 126200 20 2 Kearkal . 1872 17000 Basrur 1876 160000 1886 210300 20 ; Kasaragod . N QU A o N = . Puttur 1900 160000 O WO lww»—»—-uxm _ —_—-— | — | ———— | g O OO O = O OO OO E% OO OO O WMk 48 (=2} 69 28 54 1 1334800 g oo [\ I i e T A I~ 1. Coory. 14 8 Mercara 1870 85000 w0 oo ) 9: Anandapur 1853 88300 =) [SoR i) -3 ‘ (== 3 173300 w ' O}OO II1. S.-Mahratta. | 10, Dharwar 1837 33000 4\ IT. Hubli 1839 530600 12, 1841 290000 Bettigeri T3 Guledgudd 1851 300000 [ 1885 457160 14. Bijapur IC, Honavar 1845 320000 —f— | | — | — | —— W O PO DD k= et % % g % g % :g \O%Ot\:ww 1930760 — <o 13 10 2§ 5 —t -1 I IV. Malabar. 16 Cannanore 1841 320000 12 14 b 17 Tellicherry 1839 196000 18 Chombala 1849 300000 Calicut 1842 340800 21 — I9 | 20 Codacal. 1857 780000 14 21 Vaniyankulam 1886 445500 % P U - S O - 22 (=3 él] Palghat 1858 372000 e e [ pem— R P ig § :;:3%) ;iz % % % 2762300 35 30 20 42 19 83| 29| 68 V. Nilgiris. 23, Kaity 1846 60000 19 11 28 1867 24 Kotagiri 16000 —_— e | — s 2 SRR R E 76000( 27 B e e 5 5 14 4( 35 Grand Total .. 6103860|115| 79 62|20 (136 s oo wsrrean | wrw—en | oo—— g 31(220| 65 (139 Total of 1st January 1900. [112| 84| 62| 15 (147 19 30 (22357 |138 | e T * Those places only, at which agents of the Mission are actually stationed, have been counted. : Lo Churches of the B. G. E. Mission e g 1901. ANTAR e ey e Native Church e Mission Changes during the year under report State of the o ie Ageif Churches on Decrease Increase Total of 1st Jan. 1901 New Converts f | § Total number of 1st January 1900 Church-members on Pj{; Children i; Re-admissions Arrivals from other places Net increase Net decrease Communicants Total number of Church-members Catechumens 2; Excommunications Departures g‘% ﬁl | 2714 70 116 86 110 29 0[1677 2741 90 14} 1 751 62 26 53 13 383 764 67 1797 29 212 71 164 939 1791 104 é g 12 16 71 126 22 ; ) 110 129 59 13 43 85 § 171 10 16 95 187 il ; f 30 OO OO O OO WM WD :;1:2: % 19 13 % 28 43 ) SRR o RN WIS ) [P P s e (e P 13 201 388 35 0}3236 5737 292 |l—l— 570 114 473 26 _%:‘ ) i 17 77 159 142 19 32 0 [ 215 11 16 0 11 15 109 211 28 e b 357 16 (S: 35 0 ?. 20 47 13 186 370 28 /i [ /“ '§‘ 21 97 188 167 26 46 421 12 61 21 66 13 237 434 0\61 568 12 75 21 57 263 60 040 | l 626 20 93 l 19 69 271 617 50 19 16 24 46 033 ?1)) %2)) 21 317 67 0 70 Z;;)) 26 (gz ‘OOOO 90 1902 51 20 300 14 701 11 275 [ ?i?;; 929 1912 %); | _— 7911 1123 23 39 18 20 38 33 [N 648 1168 19 607 17 96 12 16 61 349 585 41 fi 538 74 18 58 22 248 530 10 1835 54 198 42 71 113 22(1073 1813 43 566 1316 31 1; 1315 38 106 15 10 58 83 § 166 41 28 88 16 g 448 % 12 (% 28 O = O OO O (=) 31 2317 417 36 gl 0 e e E, = gl U 6032 151 44 624 99 52(220 404 36(3204 5996 147 /9 /1 g9 374 15 87 14 12 92 27 0| 200 401 20 68 0 42 20 13 0 22 12 0 121 280 12 L AR R S e L T B S as AL SO, | 642 21 129 34 11} 25 114 39 0] 321 681 32 14635 353 | 78 1561 1228 61 0[{7876 14696 504 ? 170| 91536 28 erme— o :)j it 488 403 ; 27(]?» 2 14635 297 |67 | 1403 229| 99|548| 31| 1348 0 7858 14635 —~ it 203 1 i paf S8 T Abstract showing the Contributions of the (O the Mission and in 1900 Collections Sunday and Collections Regular Collections and Church Donations $ Stations Contribu- towards towards the Donations Collee Church towards the Orph tions Expenses Mission- Poor-funds work Rs As Rs As Rs As Rs As. o Rs Mangalore 1028 401, 240| 10 491 13 4] Mulki 116 63 51 75 4 284 11 Udipi-Malpe . 120 15 132 I Rarkal 39 15 41 11 Basrur-Kundapur 41 22 14 Kasaragod o 79 52 10 10 31 Puttur 16 14 (g) 10 ;§ " Mercara . 61 ;;%%l 94/ 35 i;)) 32 10 ; Anandapur 73 37 15 37 Dharwar 80 49 0| 1) Hubli ° . 102 13 46 37| :1[ S S o> S o w o w oo M 100 [y et =R W L e e 4 63 15 § Bettigeri-Gadag ;g 6! E);: Guledgudd 73 34 10 25 4| Bijapur 17 12 ii ]2’ Honavar-Karwar 31 22 13 23| 00 OF Cannanore 630 133 S 39 : 179’ il Tellicherry, Nettur 220 84 10 7 11 S 162 10 Chombala-Mahé 215 74 70 47 Calicut . 705 12 203 123 348 0 Codacal . 582 5 ::Eg 85 32 103 v Vaniyankulam 67 64 12 ik 17 — Palghat . 207 51 14 115 ((6)) 10 158 Kaity 160 79 108 7 11 64 oy . Kotagiri . 114 § OOOONHOQOOOQQQODOOOO!OO@%03 46 11 i:,g 87 15 30 (§§ OHU‘OWOQ%QGWQO Total. . e | et | e f e 5022 15 8| 1886 3] 1274 -1 2301 11| 2< Total in 1899 | 4795 10 1703 4/ 1506 o 4[ 2201 : % § S g f te Churches towards their Church Expenses, Missin and the Poor 1 1900. é e Special Colleetons and Collections Coliections Special Special for the Collections Donations Collections for Malabar for Bible for local Total fowards e Orphanages Societies Widow- purposes Poor-funts fund e Bs Rs As Rs As. Rs As Rs As Rs As IRCR 45 — 210 240 10 2657 11 - (k] 41 10 16 11 391 —_— 182 ¢ 16 15 584 e 10 14 1l [ 10 10 90 12 1 % 10 14 20 218 il S 63 W W o ® b O P© 01 N 10 15 250 ok g 1 () e e e Wop) s (0 0} 7 e ) 170 1021 g1 | l | 00 ] 10 . O o 141 13 é 13 308 100 9 lA' 149 0” 10 152 0 % 19} 46 © QO W = B R = gl 0 88 10 10 15 15 25 [y (=Y 54 1545 11 39? Il H 10 1 573 12 10 184 11 17 443 14 4 20 :;j 35 1574 I 22 115 sl ! 19 10 18 192 (3) 1044 08 0 173 10 gl 18 (::)(f) ((;E}) 116 681 1981 0 29 25 48 516 64\ M ﬂ 15 EZ e =20 OO @ O oS 20 B 00 O D DO Ol A e O OO O S S T ONC U e D THTe o oS 33 10 ;) 350 § 3 ¢ 278 11 108 11 477 15 947 10 12292 15 /li R, PR 2301 i/ 2 58 10 9] 105 311 13 680 15 11563 /: a0t ! =~ N Table of Schools of the Basel ( 1st JANUARY 19 Pupils in Schools for Christians S0 Training and Boarding Schools Day Schools Nor STATIONS E; Schools School Classes Number of Schools Theological Schools Training Schools Middle and High Boys’ Orphanages Girls’ Orphanages Primary Classes Middle and High I. South-Canara Mangalore 17 [uery -3 423 - Mulki o Udipi 10 365 . Karkal 46 Basrur-Kundapur [0 N8 B N S S Kasaragod 10 IOOOHO g(: :(8:(0)) E coo>o 49 R OO OO O W ® 46 98 70 1096 107 [ II. Coorg. oo Mercara 25 < (=) () DO 0 28 22 17 (=) O Anandapur (Am.mat;i) (=} 28 22 42 (=) III. Southern Mahratta 10. Dharwar 32 II. Hubli . 94 12, Bettigeri-Gadag 102 I3 Guledgudd 78 14 Bijapur ] e Honavar g g g 23 306 % O © OO S & 38 % 80 V. Malabar. 16 Cannanore 201 32 bk L7 Tellicherry 125 25 18 Chombala (Mahé) 10 90 I9 Calicut 261 43 20 Codacal . 235 18 21 Vaniyankulam 22 Palghat . ° g g: g i:;(): 49 —_—e— 48 VI OO OO O WO ;g? 50 86 106 961 122 V. Nilgiris. 23 Kaity 26 14 42 38 24 Kotagiri 24 24 15 32 14 42 24 62 21 Grand Total. . 154 § 148 309 | 302 2467 250 Total of 1stJanuary 1900 154 L Y =g o O ot 12 171 293 | 277 2287 322 1/ R he B German Evangelical Mission. ANUARY 1901. e ?hristians Total of Pupils under instruction Schools for fimm e Non-Christians Boys Girls Dy ScheMs ;ﬂr Total Classes é 3 5 : School Classes Non-Christians Infant Schools Sunday Schools Primary ; Primary Classes Middle and High Christians Non-Christians Christians }‘ } | 523 239 § 1205 7 {0 § 211 283 267 ] 75 140 109 @ 332 360 AR 276 226 107 o < JU 644 145 i [ Ne) el IR 67 11 I 193 % 148 193 ) 28 519 y F 26y 659 (g ‘(;))?; 622 1492 248 687 1623 481 387 3178 90 86 1096 | 10 ¥ i I 15 25 [ 0 40 25 SO 67 0 Il 49 40 92 41 biA 75 166 54 236 17 311 20 LECS: 36 101 24 165 112 102 ] 132 88 152 49 289 [ 85 35 104 102 243 50 7| 132 w 176 [ 176 I 51 %;) 40 51 i 1235 182 500 I 590 166 226 765 199 > CU| = i DD O W % 202 40 120 216 116 23 475 50 236 90| [ ] 415 217 149 548 58 92 8417 179 125 | 384 34 5 381 162 24 618 90 1090 180 | 470 316 185 649 165 91 961 ] 240 265 176 132 579 30 154 280 262 79 2717 15 29 341 35 ) (i} 223 73 48 2217 43 345 10 77 4 2474 691 292 4295 90 861 ]1 2196 759 838 i 593 95 555 30 31 711 202 3 Foby 190 70 jt} 127 23 124 41 o 720 118 679 71 33 901 272 [ 61 4998 1918 5544 1482 757 9701 180 1401 i 3l 1181 9461 | 1409 702 9586 193 1330 — 0 5011 s e 1202 1873 5602 i o 12 Detailed Tahle of Stations, Out-stations, and Agents. Out lst Januvary 1201, 1 M Stations Out Native Agents:— far and European Agents Pastors, Catechists and Out-Stations Christian Headmasters Sufu, of High Schools fitya 1. Mangalore a) Pastoral ) Pastoral and Evangelistic Balmatha, Madikeri- Rev. M. Schaible, 77 Wor gudde, Nireshwalya, charge of station, Native Rev. S. Andrea, Balmatha Jeppu, Bockapatna- ” Kudroli, Bolur. Church, Chairman of the Mark Salis, Yeppu Distric? Committee ” Obed Sumitra, Out-Stations . Rev. M. Breidenbach, ZZ7. Bockapatna b 9 Joshua Soens, Bolma, Ullal, Bantwal. b) Educational Ou Madikerigudde i Rev. J. Hermelink, Z%eol. Cat. Abraham Heri, Bolma. i Seminary, Bible Revision, » Benjamin Ananda, #Zn. Slin Dist. Insp. of Schools ” Gottlob Maben, > Yoaul Rev. I. Pfleiderer, High ki E. Karat, > 1" School " » Joel Rajiva, Miss E. Kaundinya, Brakmin Girls’ School | b) Educational Work e L RN Theolog. Miss H. Krauss, Congr Cat. Chr. Watsa, Giris’ School " emi- Ch. Maben, } nary ¢) Mercanﬁle ” S. Karat, High School Mr. H. Altenmiiller, Gezns. Agent & Treasurer o L.Fernandez,l[)’antwal ” F.Huber, Book-Depie. » P. Shiri, | School ” » J. Sieber, M. M.-Br. Fr. Jathana, Congr. Girds’ School d) Industrial Lx (i Mr. G. Hirner, Fress ” Naud A. Beierbach, de. » F. Stierlin, #eav. Esz. ” J. Baumann, Kudroi: LR Zle-Works { ” M. Stuckert, do. fn ”» A. Glattfelder, Feppu Tile-Works P. Simpfendérfer, do. » H. Stokes, Mechanical Works S 4 S 13 Stations Native Agents:— and European Agents Pastors, Catechists and et Out-Stations Christian Headmasters of High Schools 2. Mulki Rev. G. Rittér, Congregation Rev. Charles Gojar, Muiki e S Out-Stations: Orphanage, and Out-sta- Congregation Agents:~ Karnad, Kadike, tions ” Im. Furtado, Padur atechists and Headmasters Santur, Uchila, Padur, Rev. J. Bichle, /n. and Congregation. h Schools Kutyar, Munderu. Out-stations Evang. N. Kundar, i%n. Cat. J. Vedamuttu, Kutyar al Brange | ”» Benjamin Salins, Santur rea, Bolmlh 9 J. Aarons, Munderu ” M. Jeremia, Uckila Sals, Fegpv ” G. Premaya, Kadike Sumitre, Bockapon Udipi Rev. J. A. Brasche, Christ. Rev. Nahason Vira, Gudde Soens, Out-Stations High School and Oy phanage Congregation Parkala, Malpe, Rev. Chr. Eblen, Zin. and ” Tim. Furtado, Skirvae Modiberiudh i Herd, Bl Udyavara, Gudde, Qui-stations Congregation Shirva, Ambadi, in Ananda, i Rev. Chr. Keppler, Corgreg. ” Gabr. Bangera, Udipi Maben, Madambail Kalyanapur. and Qul-stations Congregation } Rev. J. Miiller, Madpe T%le- Cat. Sam. Furtado, Maépe af Works and Out-stations gy » N. Suchitta, Udyavara Ambad: Jos. Kairanna, ” A. Furtado, HMadambaii Forl T 1t I ” Amruta Heri, zZ7. Vatsa, S ” Raph. Satyavrata, High [Zbeny i School Gottl. Bangera, Ambads g B ” Jos. Pramodana, Kalyanapnr . mdez'[ﬁmé!f‘«’f?' | S ” Eb. Clare, Farkala. hand, 4, Karksl Rev i G[’r ]J'] S")I“.’fﬁi G. Tischer, Congreg. Cat. Daniel Andrea, Congr. Out-Stations . and itin. n Joseph Bhagyan, i#zn. Nandolige, Mudar, ” Samuel Sumitra, 7%7. Hekkadka. 5. Basrur Rev. B Liitliy, Congregation Evang. Winf. Micha, 7Z». Out-Stations - and itin. Cat. Asser Karat, iZn. Kundapur, Barkur ” Stephan Jathana, /7. Rev. W. Metzl.er, studying Canarese and Congregation N W. Heri, #tin. ” Hezekiel Bangera, 7z:7. ” Ch. Manjaru, Z¢z, 14 Stations Native-Agents :— and European Agents Pastors, Catechists and Christian Headmasters Out—Stations of High Schools Ou 6. Kasaragod Rev. P. Borel, Congr. and| Evang. Gerson Soens, ##in B Out-Stations : itin.| Cat. Henry Roberts, Congr. (1 Rev. Chr. Diirr, 7. b Jesudasa Melottu, #Zzn. Ravaneshvara, ” Ariel Sumitra, zZn. Hosadurga, Bekal, Kumbla, Manjeshvara, » 1sr.Eliezer, Manjeshvara Nileshvara. , Christananda Salis, Kzmbla ) William Kundara, Hosadurga n G. Fernandez, NVileshva. Sal. Bangera, Ravan. Isaiah Bangera, Hosad. 14 7. Puttur Rev. A. Schosser, Congr. Evang. Immanuel Soens, ézz. and itin. Cat. Paul Soens, %7, Rev. W. Spaich, Znerancy 8. Mercara Rev. W. Sikemeier, Congr. Cat. Gabr. Almanda, 2. b and Qul-stations Nath. Shatananda, 7Z7. Out-Stations - » Fraserpet, Chembu, Mr. J. B. Veil, 4. M.-Br. » Joseph Bangera, » b Sundikeppa. Asst. Cat. Lewis Salins, , 9. Anandapur Rev. Ch. Fritz, C’ongregaz‘. Cat. Daniel Santvana, Cong. I8¢ and Orphanage and itin. » S. Sumanta, n Ou Rev. H. Wolpert— Im. Jivottama, ” (h 10. Dharwar Rev.K.Ernst, Congregation, Cat. Israel Dalabhanjana, Tal'lpm Bible Revision, General Out-Station : Congregation and itin. Inspector of Schools ” Hanoch Adina, S¢. Home Khalghatti. Rev Fr.: Reusch, ok ” Jacob Davala, Bibie School, Students’ Home, Revision, itin, Dist. Insp. of Schools ” Ananda Rhonada, #Zu, Rev.Fr. Braun, 74n., Schools Mr. Alex. Jaganadhan, B. A., Headmaster, High Schook e 11. Hubli ] Rev. D. Berli, Congregation Rev.S.Devada, Hubli Congr- Out-Stations and itin. Cat. Jos. Dalabhanjana, Unakalin Unakallu, Hebsur. Rev. W. Rath, Unatkalin Congr. and itin. ” Jason Schalla, itin. ” Devaputra Hebbala, » Asst.Cat. Ananda Gunjala, 12. Bettigeri- Rev. D. Warth, Congr..mza’ Cat. David Jesudasa, Cong7- Gadag Secular Agent of the District Bettigeri Out-Stations : Rev. K. Mayer, Zinerancy, » Joh. Prabhakar, Cong. S/zagotz’ Orphanage, Out-stations Shagoti, Malasamudra. Rev. E. Vogt, studying Asst. Cat. Hermon Challa, Canarese Itinerancy P s Agentsi~ abechists and Stations Native Agents:— Headmas and European Agents Pastors, Catehists, and h Schools Christian Headmasters of Out-Stations High Schools on Soens Rev. F.Eisfelder, Orphanage Cat. Stephan Sagri, Congr Roberts, Cort 18. Guledgudd Guledondd Out-Stations Out-stations, Chairman of 3 Melottu, # the District Committee ” Shanta Budigi, iZ:z amifra, Kardenhaili, Halkurki, Rev. Tr. Lutz, Congregation » Chemma Halli, ” e, i and ilin ndaSalis, A Mushtigeri, Sol. Jogula, Aardeniall Murudi Rev A. Spring, studying ” D. Katajur, Mushtiger: 1 Kundara, Canarese Hosudy Bhagy. Alada, Halkurk: Asst Cat. Isr. Aralikatte, andez, Nl ztzner(zmy gera, Rovon Bangers, Hul Rev A. Metz, Congregation Cat. Sal. Ramthal, Congr. " 14. Bijapur and itin and itin. anuel Soeas ik Stephan ‘Mathapati, itin OENS, 4 l ,{\ Asst Cat. ¥t. Basutkar ” — 15. Honavar Rev H. Risch, Congregation S. Bunyan, Azrwer Almands, 1 and itin ilin Out-Stations Cat. Joseph Sunita, Qhatanants, Herangadi, Anilgodn, 9 Ebenezer Aarons, ” Bangers, Harwar s Sals; r " Medad Jayanta, ” Rev K. Schaal,Congregation Rev. Tob. Chembankodan Santrans, (% 16. Cannanore 41" »rp Distr. Insp. of Schools Chowa Out-Stations anta, Rev G. Peter, Zinerancy Rev. George Peter, Canna famd, Chowa, Chirakal Cat. Paul Sneham, 7%7~ Taliparambu, Payyanur » J. Maue, studying Mal Ir. W. P.Schonthal, Weav- » Ph.Mackadan, 7'alip. itin Do]abhal. am » W. Fernandez, Fayyanur, ,mtmn il ing Establishment zlin ” H. Eidenbenz, ” » | %dlﬂﬂ, i H St. Parakandi, 7zzn. Cann P H. Haffner, Zailory )2\3131 E‘ Asst Cat. Ebenezer Bethel i i itin. Chowa l Rhoﬂadﬂ. aaanadh“‘ b 17. Tellicherry Rev. L. J. Frohnmeyer, Rev. Charles Hermon, Cozngr Congregation, Theobogical Teblicherry sty i g i Out-Stations Seminary and Training ev. Noah Edapalan, Cong» ldz’ Hl lﬂ aj Anjarkandy, School Chairman and Nettur Kuttuparambu, Secretary of the Mission xlabhﬂﬂlmi’ v Erinjolli Rev Samuel Ambattu, £z Rev A. Ruhland, Christian H Hioh School and other Cat. Henry Menzel, Christ ,Cna]la, 4 Schools High School o Bl Rev. E. Hiller, Farsi High n Ant. Valiatingara, zz/n anda Guldh ” o School and Congregalion Cyprian Arunajalam, esudaﬁaa lin BZ Rev. P. Sengle, ZVeological Asst. Cat N Kalarikal C’ Af Seminary and Editor of \bhakal ”*, “ Keralopakdri 2ltn St Rev A. Scheuer Schools o Chg”& and studying Malayalam i 16 Stations Native Agents:— Sta and Pastors, Catechists and a European Agents Christian Headmasters Ouf-S Out-Stations of High Schools — 18. Chombala- Rev Th. Uber, Congreg.| Cat. Johan. Amengara, 9. Var Mahe and Orphanage Congregation. ” Deva. Mantodi, Makhé OutSt Oui-Stations . Rev. R. Schilling, 7¢n. and ” Alphai Kallat, 7¢n., il Mahé, Badagara, Oul-stations Muveratin Muverattu, Perambara, Shoraner, Payoli, Karakadu. " Stephan Chattotu, /##n. Ol Badagara ” Samuel. Mantody, i#zn. Chombala Asst. Cat. Elias Nambi, iZz. 2. By Rev. J. J. Jaus, Station and | Rey, Stephan Chandran, 19. Calicut Schools Oui Congregation Out-Stations - Mr.Joh.Knobloch, High Sck. n Ashama. Tumaran, Zv. (ly Qoilandy, Pudiarakal, Miss A. Ehrensperger, Cat. B. Ponon, Congregation 1) Pudiangadi, Girls’ School Ty Markat, Malapuram, ” Paul Selvan, do i Dr. W. Stokes, Lawrence Puvattur, Manjeri, Annasheri. ” i Medical Mission Schools Sister K. Fritz, do P ” Abia Edapalan, Coil, Mr. H. Kiihner, #. M.-B. itin. — n K. Buesch, Weav. Est. » Devép. Amengaran, » s Is. Chowalur, Manj., » 3 X Rev. Fr. Singer, TZle-Works Mr. L. Fraas, Weav. Estab. ” Fredric Nambi, Ay Mdadapuram, > Dnongg ” H. Hofmann, M. M.-B. Asst. Cat. A. Pavamani, Nerkan} Medical Mission i ” L. Pavamani, zZn. faje, Hanilg Horaghy 20. Codacal Rev. W. Bader, Congreg.and Rev. St. Kallat, Congreg. B, 1 Out-Stations : Schools Dayay Cat. Isaac Amattil, Orpk. Paraperi, Ponani, Mr. O. Eckelmann, Sailas, Pallat, Tritala, » Isaac Laban, iZn. Degg) Orphanage and Secular lialhattiy Chittatakara, Distyict Agent 5 Winfred Mantody, Chalasheri, Vengalur Fallat, itin. Mr. F. Boas, 7%/e-Works ~— Joseph Taddai, Fonani, itin. %y, Sal. Mackadan, 0ug ie%md Chittalakara Jikana » L. Napalli, Chalasheri !ﬂiﬁe:m, Charly Kattavalapil, by Tritada 17 —_—— 6 Agents- Stations Native Agents:— Cabechists an Pastors, Catechists and 1 Headmagtus and European Agents Christian Headmasters of igh Sehos Out-Stations High Schools , Amengan 21. Vaniyan- Rev. S. Walter Congreg., Cat. Abr. Arungadan, %7 Conarin Schools, Itin., Chairman of kulam » Jos. Mantodi » Mantods Out-Stations the District ” Jacob Cheeran » i Kallat, tn, Rev. G. Renschler, Sctools Angadipuram, ” David Hutten, ” Herits Shoranur, Panamanna, and _rz‘zm’yz no Mald k2 Noah Benjamin i Chattot, Ottapalam, Tirikatiri Angadipuram, » Badugar Bethuel Poyayil, , ” 1, Mantody, / Asst. Cat. J. Valiavalappan, Medical Mission lias Nanb S Rev. Tim. Parakandi 22. Palghat Rev. G. Kiihnle, /znerancy han Chandn R K. Hole, Congoreoation Melparambr Out-Stations Congrigah and Schools Cat. L. Kallat, Conorecation . Tumra, & Olavakkoda, Dan. Edakaden lin Melparambu, on, Congt Mr. Chr. Gebhardt Salathiel Soens, » Wadackencheri, elvan, [ Panayur, Zsbe- Works Zacharias Pilakaden, ,, nce Pavatilt Mangara " Manuel Simon, g Melparambu Asst. Cat. Devapr. Parakal <dapa an, h ,...- 2l Amenﬂamu 23. Kaity Rev W. Liitze, Congreo Cat. I. Shanta, &zity Congr. walr J Out-Stations Orphanage, Training and ” Lemuel Soens, Czz. Sch / Nonb Cat. School » Samuel Satyanathan Coonoor, Hulikal /(l I?W iy Nerkambe, Herehada, Orphanage Achinakallu, Rev A pg\ml !I”ﬂ G. Wieland Out John Philipp, Sczools [fd"‘ (iR Hateri, Adhikarhatti, stations, Schools and itin Mose Kari, 727 Manihatti, Hosahatti, ” Paul Mada, N Pa\amﬂﬂh Horanhalli, Kullakambe, Rev. Ph Stier, Zo swcceed Abr Madia Hulikal Kilar, Tummanhatti, Mr. Wieland Coody Mission “a w,{ﬂ Dawani, Manjoor, K. Satyanathan, ” Sailas, Yedekadu, gma(tll (/7[0 Rev. William Stokes Aast Cat. Isaiah T\onga itin. Denale, Tuneri, ” ” Hans Isaac, Halhatti, Nellakotta. Coodi-Mission, Itinerancy b, Nellakotta, TV ‘ynaad ” » Isaac' Nerkambe, Ia[] Od‘l Pdl]/ 1”' 72172, 24. Kotagiri Rev. G. Grossmann, Congr 1 gddﬂll /! Rev. Jacob Kanaka, Congr., ooty Out-Stations Orphanage and Schools c],ﬂdﬁﬂ' i Hodanad, Honakore, Cat. Henry Kodot 2l Jakanare, Denad ”» Chi Milidenu, Kanerimukh Isaac Bella, » Asst. Cat. Chr. Ajja ” 1, Cho it Bergani, Gundhada, Horasole Kat tavalﬂFI" i / ] work e e OIS L plac —0-0 O3 00— (] _ \ \HE last century is sometimes called “the Mission-Century"’, i a0t \“ébancl so it will be fit before entering upon the report on W* last year’s work to say a few words on what, with the o help of God, our Society has been able to achieve during the aud self last century on the Mission-field. We know that our Mission i1s only a small twig on the large tree of evangelical Mission, othe but together with the other Societies working on the immense 20 a0 ¢} field of foreign Mission we have many reasons to look up in humble thankfulness to onr heavenly Lord and Commander. the ); Of the 4,400,000 Christians on the various Mission-fields only Ty about 40,000 belong to the Basel Mission and the fortieth o, part of all Missionaries belong to our Society. The 56 stations 0 i) and nearly 500 out-stations belonging to our Mission represent (hurel a large amount of care, exertion, time and, in a country like Jlesgn| Africa, valuable human life. Then the great hinderance hoped of foreign languages had to be overcome. In countries b, o without written languages the linguistic difficulty is enormous, heay but even where a literature exists, it will take a long time diffey until the linguistic equipment and the literary apparatus 80 necessary for Mission-work will have been fully acquired. - Our Chl‘ist“ Mission has to some extent accomplished this in China for Igntg Hakka, in India for Canarese, Malayalam and Tulu (on a tellecm modest scale also for Badaga), on the Gold-Coast for Tshi and iflgy Ga, and in Kameroon for Duala. One of the most important g tasks on a new Mission-field is the education of fellow-workers, % fhy taken from the soil on which one works. The Basel Mission Statiy employs now 900 Christian preachers and teachers and more I than 120 female-teachers and Bible-women. Of course the the g crowning success of Mission-work is the foundation of a and j Christian National Church in the respective countries. Our W pr 19 e work in the different countries will be done. when in the place of Mission-work the Church of itself has entered upon a course of aggressive work. We are approximating to this on-Cenur’ fairly well in our Mission ‘on the Gold-Coast Not only on he 2epot account of the highest number of Christians (18,000) and at, wilh congregations (180), here the proportion between Christians ?1 o during 2 and non-Christians is the highest Also in the matter of - onr Misin self-support these African Churches are in advance of our lical Misson ther Churches The Mission in Kameroon (9 stations and e mmers 2,300 Christians), though showing the vigour of youth after o look 0 an existence of 13 years, cannot be expected to have attained Command the last step of development In &Lhina the work showed onfelds very healthy development before the boxer-revolution broke out he forf The number of Christians during the last years increased rapidly, new congregations came into existence, and the old 1o 50 statot ) 100 TepIey Churches gave indications of the awakening of new life The countey present crisis is a test for our Church there, and it is to be - findett hoped that she will not only survive the present struggle Countme but, after the storm has passed over, will powerfully grow and bear abundant fruit 18 enOlIllD* Our Indian Mission shows a very different aspect Though we have almost as many Christians alo o Ul as in Africa (14,696), in proportion to the number of non- i ot Christians their number is but small As to financial achieve- qulle O ments our Indian Churches are behind the African. but in- in O 2 [0 tellectually they will occupy a higher position Besides the Tu [On ] | o Tb 1 i influence of Christianity upon the non-Christian population seems to be far stronger in India than in Africa and China st 1] 4 50 that in fact far more has been accomplished than the Jor0 statistics of the Mission can show sl I In our last Reports we arranged our material according to s i pl the different activities or branches of the work For a change f collf: and in order to show what is done at every station of our Mission dg 0[10 we propose this time to take one station after the other 1 piies 2* <y, 20 Ku I bl oust 1 SOUTH»—«CHHHRH. 1 8 (f Mccngctlore. i We begin with Mangalore, which is by far not only our statl most important station, but also historically the first station logs: of our Mission in India. It was on the 14th October 1834 that Hebich, Greiner and Lehner, our first Missionaries, landed at Calicut and met with a friendly welcome and for many almi hayi years with a ready help from the English officials in those parts. Mr. Nelson, the District Judge of Malabar, recommended Qe s them to Mr. Findlay Anderson, the Sub-Collector at Mangalore. The kind sympathy and the ever ready friendship of the brot thep English officials were characteristic features for the first 1) Balmatha, the hill where our ot} period of our Indian Mission. moth Mission-work in India at present centres and where our firs theg] Christian congregation came into existence, was given to the from Mission by Mr. Blair, the then Collector of Canara. The bulk 18} of the congregation lives on this Balmatha-hill (1563 souls), of } two other large sections of the congregation are connected LJa with Tile-works at Jeppu (510) and Bockapatna (550), and the e rest have settled down in 3 other localities of Mangalore, the lg ¢ total of Church-members being 2,741. The educational work beka since the days of Dr. Migling, who started the first Boarding in of be y School and English School at Mangalore, has developed in a marvellous manner. This is the more remarkable, as there is Whig ayg no place in our Mission, where competition is so keen and However there are 1205 pupils (50m¥ hostile as in Mangalore. I under instruction now. The majority of our Christians there 00 | find employment in our Industrial Establishments (in the out Press 50; Weaving Bstablishment 130, Mechanical Workshop in | 32, Bookshop 8, Mercantile Mission-Branch 13, Tile-works at Whe SELLLEE B 21 Kudroli and J eppu 517); others are engaged as Mission-agents. It is very satisfactory also that more than 80 are employed outside of our Mission in about 30 different professions, chiefly as carpenters, bookbinders and weavers. Before surveying the manifold work carried on at this of oy station we have to say a few words with reference to the fist shain ctober 16 loss of two prominentvmembers of the Mangalore-church: % e, e Rev. Jared Soens, the Pastor of the Bolma congregation, was d for may admitted to the Theological Seminary at Mangalore in 1869, after having been a schoolmaster for a few years. He had previously als in fls declined a call to the ministry, but he ever after felt exercised in sconneate his mind. b Mangiloe When he sought admittance to the Seminary his three brothers had already joined the preparatory institutions to fit dshlp of themselves for service in the Mission, and in order to assist his o fie 8 mother, who was a poor widow, he was allowed to stay with his 1] where 0 mother. However this his first attempt to prosecute the study of are ot theology eame to a premature end. It was only 5 years later on, from 1875-1878, that they were renewed and completed, when he gived fo ” g, Thel rejoined the school as a converted man. His teachers at the end (1363 : :Uﬂl of his course in the Seminary gave him the following certificate : “Jared Soens bas been diligent in his studies, was zealous as a e CONet preacher and always ready to give the proper answer when attacked; i) ! he distinguished himself before others by his manly and courageous il G i behaviour. "’ This testimony holds true also for the time he was ationt f lWO in office as a Catechist and Pastor. On the 15th November 1877 15 B he was consecrated as a Catechist and stationed at Guledgudd, at :velo ped 1 which place (especially at the out-station Kardenhalli) his services et have been greatly appreciated. Repeated attacks of fever however g, 8 0 Leeﬂ w compelled him to leave the place, and he was posted at Bettigeri. (908 M In 1882 he was sent back to his own people, to the Tulu-country, and on the 29th October 1885 he was ordained as Pastor of Uchila, an gstiald [ out-station of Mulki. In1891 he was entrusted with the congregation onts (w i flod in Bockapatna (which is a part of the Mangalore congregation) where he spent the rest of his days in faithful and diligent work. ile i Sl 22 After a few years he fell sick and the work at Bockapatna being Yo beyond his strength, he was transferred to Bolma (1898). But his Tery malignant disease made very rapid progress and in September 1899 of b he saw himself to his great regret compelled to lay down his office 4T and prepare for his last transfer. Exactly one year after that on the 27th September 1900 his sufferings came to an end, and he entered into his rest. e It was at the time, when almost all his colleagues were gathered at Mangalore for the annual course of M instruetion, and it had been his desire to end his course about this time. il Also another wish, which he had expressed frequently during the last time of his life, viz. to fall asleep without a hard struggle, was granted to him. At the beginning of his time of suffering the ot deceased did not find it easy, to be laid aside in the prime of life, but gradually he learned to resign his will to that of his heavenly any Father and to say: ‘“Not my will but Thine be done”, and Mr. Schaible, the Missionary in echarge of the whole congregation, found e I the spiritual administrations to this fellow-worker accompanied with many a blessing and refreshment to himself. In addition to pastoral Al fari and evangelistic work Mr. Soens was also of great use as a member of the committee engaged in Bible-revision work in Tulu. hea Thag Another bereavement sustained by the Mangalore congregation a8 was the death of Mr. T. M. Rama Rao, a well-known counvert from the Ron Sarasvat-Brahmans. At the age of 35 he was baptized with his oy son Benignus on the 14th January 1883 by the late Mr. Graeter, atioy Past who seems to have been greatly instrumental in winning this influential man for Christ. Great hopes were entertained that Gy Mr. Rama Rao would find followers amongst his caste-people at the ) Mangalore. Though disappointed in this respect, we are thankful thay) to say that the convert himself did not disappoint us. Mr. Rama ting Rao proved to be an ornament of the Christian community at Drey Mangalore. Apart from his official position as Government Pleader (p and Crown Prosecutor of the District Court, Mr. Rama Rao was The also for some time the elected Chairman of the Mangalore Rs Municipality, which shows that the confidence he enjoyed was not (P 4.0 restricted to his own community but to the whole population of Coll siuep, 23 LR L Dattn by Mangalore. The poor of the congregation will especially miss him B). Bl very much, and the Mission on many occasions had the advantage ember 800 of his great experience and his mature opinion in legal matters. wa s ol | «“The memory of the just will be blessed.” after that ¢ The changes amongst the Missionaries df this station have end, ant b been the following: — most ol B Mr. and Mrs. Bucher, Mr and Mrs. Stamm, Mr.and Mrs. Buchli, al oours s about Mr., Weber, and Mr. Gross departed for Europe, and Mr. and Mrs. enty Qo Baumann and Mr. Stmpfendorfer arrived from home. and stuggh From Mr. Schaible’s annual report on his large congre- sufferg gation we quote the following remarks: — prime ol “The young men of the congregation cause a good deal of s heared anxiety and worry. They are roaming about at night, and the ‘e”) ad It parents evidently are not capable of exerting a wholesome influence aafin, ol upon them. The habit of sending children, whose parents are still ppinel alive, to the orphanages must be given up, as this practice will go o fo s It is satisfactory to far in alienating children from their parents. g5 6 el hear that in a good many houses family-life is all that it should be. I That class of people who give us the largest amount of trouble are, as a rule, people who have grown up in heathenism, then join the gl Roman Catholic Church and finally our community. The entrance- sorhonté door for such cannot be made narrow enough.-—Points of culmin- ol i ation in the congregational life have been the ordination of two Iy Gro Pastors on the 1st of April (Joshua Soens for Madikeri-Gudde and inning i Gabriel Bangera for Udipi), the confirmation of 69 children and el b the Mission-festival of the district on the 20th September. A public spelk ’ thanksgiving in the harvest-month had been discontinued for a long ar (5% time, but this time it was taken up again and great enthusiasm was et prevailing. An interesting feature was the many gifts in kind guntl] (pigeons, fowls, ducks, goats, rabbits, even benches and chairs). ot 1 The contributions of the congregation during the year amount to o F 4 Rs. 2,657-13-8, but we cannot conceal the fact that in our schedule g (page 8. 9) at all stations under the headings: *Sunday-Collections, oyed 1 u:i Collections and Donations towards Mission-work and Poorfund” a gpul® P 5 - 4 0 considerable part of the sums entered has been contrihuted by Europeans.—The great many European residents at Mangalore Il offer a temptation to large numbers of idle beggars who select this fhe station as a fertile field of operation. It happens that even the sl inmates of our Poor-house, who are provided with what they are in 106 need of, set out on periodical visitation-tours and what they get as the booty will be spent for the throat. Another burden is the continual (rod afflux from other stations, in most cases not the ecream of the respec- o | tive societies.” all Rev. Sam. Andrea of Balmatha reports: — Sup Of his candidates for baptism, that most of them came for the all 1] sake of getting help and that as soon as the relief-work was finished the number of 18 melted down to 2. he In the houses of many of our Christians he met with a spirit of earnest prayer. Rev. M. Salis of Jeppu has 30 persons under instruction for 1§ baptism. One of them was so frightened by sorcery employed by Ca t) his relatives against him, that he forsook wife and child and ran xt away. Our Pastor met him when he was sick and reduced to beggary. On hearing that Christ is mighty 'enough to deliver us 163 from the fear of devils, he joined at once the Tile-works at Jeppu and 0S¢ the class for candidates for baptism. Of course, the relatives, who W had not the slightest objection to his becoming a be e} o gar appeared W at once to prevent his becoming a Christian. He told them that a1 they had given him up to the devil and did not care a bit for him the when he was sick and hungry and on the verge of ruin; so he il would not go with them. Accordingly his funeral ceremonies were the performed. When one of his brothers, frightened with devils, ang followed him, the Roman Catholics interfered, and *“ad majorem dei emy gloriam™ instigated some creditors to sue the two brothers for debts A lor contracted whilst at home. The Mission had to rescue them from their clutches. g 0 Rev. Obed Sumitra of Bockapatna anticipates hard times for L his flock near Kudroli. The Tile-works there for the future can he only give work to the strong and healthy. Hitherto they had been o a refuge to a great many that had been too weak to do any other 2, |89) (D7 ¢ trihuted b work. Mr. Obed is also very far from being pleased with the spirit - Naogale prevailing amongst the younger members of the congregation, but 0 select s the different prayer-meetings in this part of Mangalore give great ab even fle satisfaction to the Pastor. An instance of a would-be-Christian is they ansit ¥ not without pathetic interest. A Hindu in the neighbourhood of they get & the small congregation at Bockapatna is fully acquainted with he continu He seems God’s Word and attends almost regularly divine service. f the regr to be really in earnest about salvation, and when he fell sick, he called for the Pastor and asked for baptism. In spite of his supplications and tears the relatives succeeded in preventing the administration of the rite, promising that no obstacles would be amg for e raised to it after his recovery. The poor man indeed recovered, as el he attends divine service, but he does not say a word about baptism. of may o The Evangelistic Work done in connection with this station struction fr is chiefly carried on by Mr. Breidenbach and his staff of Catechists. We must restrict ourselves to the following employel ¥ hild and 10 extract from his report: — | podueed B ““People used to say: ‘If only all of us would join you, we are o delivr & ready to abandon the service of idols and demons, which is of no use to us’. In the middle classes (craftsmen and peasants) we meet at Jeppy ul Jatves, with a certain desire for spiritual freedom, with real hatred only g where the subsistence of people is closely connected with idclatry and superstition. In some cases where we were refused admittance, 0 then the cause represents almost a triumph of Christianity. They said: awmm * l'l]iﬂ; il i ‘We should like to receive you, but wheresoever you settle down, ot ™ the demons will flee away, and after you have gone, they will return and torment us.’ gith devili: Of course sometimes an artificial politeness is employed in order to frustrate the real object before the ambassa- maorih® dors of Christ. So, a man of a somewhat higher caste makes a o then deep salam before Mr. Breidenbach and says: * Your gracious presence is an ornament to my house.’ After this introduection one who knows the country and its people will be scarcely surprised on LMWM hearing that as soon as ‘the ornament’ began to speak of sin and , it i God’s judgment on sin, the polite Hindu disappeared.—On the oy bt 20th December at Amyambala a scene took place, which reminds pary S R 26 Mr. Breidenbach of what took place centuries ago (724 A.D.) at hild Geismar amongst our heathenish Teatonic forefathers. In a com- (g pound belonging to our Mission at Amyambala there was a big, holy fig-tree, consecrated to the Bhutas in those regions. Every Al year for three days a festival was held there, the most prominent from feature of which was a devil’s-dance. On the 20th December, at oig day-break, Mr. Breidenbach and 2 Catechists, accompanied by a fot small number of Christians from Mangalore and Bolma, began to lay and their axes to this imposing but greatly misused tree (20 ft. in cir- cumference). The people in the neighbourhood wondered at the oy proceedings, but none ventured to come near. After hard work for hong some hours, about midday, the tree burst into two parts by the hous weight of its branches under the halloo of the workmen. Of course with not satisfied with this negative achievement, a little school-house was built on the spot, and the settling down of some Christian fami- Th lies there as tenants, who let shed their light in the surrouinding The darkness, would be most welcome. As a rule, people in the district b il | go to Mangalore after their conversion, and this makes the social (o problem more and more difficult, hence it is good news that a lgie family of converts at Bolma has decided to remain where they are.— A boy in one of the villages near Mangalore said: “As soon as I On 7 Girly am of age, I will become a Christian; Christians are the highest ndg caste as they believe in a living God’.” schoy What Mrs. Hermelink reports on the work of the Bible- 4 women at Mangalore will be found encouraging. With The Bible-women Michal and Emily are allowed to visit the i 126) The children in a Primary School and tell them a Bible-story. 16y attitude of some of the women towards Christianity may be seen g from the following instance. P A Wilgy I N. seems to feel greatly attracted by Christ. Her own people Wy use to say: ‘You better take her with you, she thinks that all is farg wrong with us and that your religion is the only one, where the Spey heart will find what it is longing for.” She herself says: ‘Yes it is Migg true, what our religion contains, cannot give us joy and peace, but dPSPI the stories about Christ and His love towards the poor and the Ouly 27 AD)y children, I like to hear so very much. I should like to become a Ina o Christian, but I cannot go alone, my people must go with me.’ was 4 b Also Salome and Johanna, the two other Bible-women, know of ons, Erey a widow who is very attentive and is only prevented by her son . promings from taking a decisive step. These Bible-women venture even to ocember, & enter the houses of Moslems. In some houses they are not allowed aniod by to talk to the women, in others the men will even call the women began t i and girls in the house and invite them to hear the Word of God. 20t in i Mrs. Hermelink and Mrs. Sieber generally have been received Jored af e very kindly. They mention only one house where the owner of the ard work fr house sent them away without much ceremony, the women of the ars by house however followed to the next house, where all of them met . Of coue with a very friendly reception. school-né The Educational Work of this station is very important. it fink surnouil The Theological Seminary was not in operation last year, but i the dif will be re-opened next year. 11 students attending the os e il Government Training School meanwhile occupied the Theo- pews fhat 4 logical Seminary and received religious instruction there. o ey On Balmatha-hill we have besides a large Lower Secondary s so00 ‘zliI Girls’ School (143 children) in connection with which 6 girls ) the highesi undergo training. Miss Krauss, who is in charge of this school, reports: — o e “One of the 6 girls in the training institution is a Hindu widow with a good Christian knowledge. She and her father search b diligently in the Holy Secriptures; their attitude towards Christianity }d {0 ViSi[ th reminds one of Nicodemus in the Gospel. The children in the usH01] day-school last year began to contribute their mite to a pie- ay be ¥ colleetion for the Mission and succeeded in collecting Rs. 17. 8. When Messrs. Bucher and Ernst left the station, the school took ok [ vl pe' farewell of them in a most solemn manner: there were songs, a i i speech of one of the masters and the presenting of a bouquet. 10, Miss Krauss relates of a little boy, who after the death of his mother g 18 L despaired of his life and lost all interest in his studies. Though i ;ld l]e&ce; ? i only 7 years of age, he desired to go to South Africa and join the{ it 9 army there. Miss Krauss called him to her room and asked him, pup why he wanted to go to Africa. His answer was: ‘My uncle told rs. me that a great many people die there.’ ‘So you wish to die fisite there too?’ the lady asked him. ‘Yes, then I shall see my mother work The consolations of Miss Krauss Amor again’, the poor child replied. had the wanted effect and instead of marching out to Africa he now for th frequently calls upon the kind lady.” CQIII]S of th Apart from this school for girls there is a Congregational very School for boys on Balmatha, an Infant School and Sunday hush School, and in the same manner the Christians living at the Madikeri-Gudde, Jeppu, Bockapatna, Nireshvalya, Bolur and s Bolma are provided with Parochial Day-schools. ot We have two important institutions chiefly for non- i Christians in the town. fold There is the High School under Myr. Pfleiderer’s management. Together with its feeder, a s » Primary School in the bazaar, there are 287 pupils. The hope bad school is exposed to an almost cruel struggle for existence. Not less than three institutions of great remown are to be of ty competed with and even the “parta twueri” is accompanied 106 with great exertions and many disappointments. In the absence of other attractions, which are beyond the reach of the a poor Mission Society, we can hold our ground only by Ong commending ourselves by a superior education and satisfactory Whig results at public examinations. For these purposes a most for ; eficient staff of teachers will be required, which of course we are very anxious to get. Meanwhile we trust that the g energetic Principal of this institution will not feel disheartened, gy alh but make Virgil’s exhortation his maxim: T ne cede malis, i sed contra audentior ito. o Another important institution at Mangalore is the Brahman 2 Girls’ School under the management of Miss Kaundinya. P A third form was added last year, but the second form, through T want of pupils, had to be abolished. In September there were 87 &4 [\ [de) | asked by pupils. Aftery the examination a prize-distribution took place, Iy et Mrs. Murdoch, the Collector’s wife, taking the chair. All the wish fo Gy visitors seemed to be pleased with the singing, recitation, needle- 0 my work, Kindergarten-exercises and other performances of the children. Miss s Amongst the pupils there are also two widows, one of them preparing frica be s for the Lower Secondary Examination. A class for needle-work in connection with this school is still in operation, but the attendance of the young Brahman women, for whom it is intended, is rather gregafind very irregular, as the women migrate between the houses of their and Suudy As to husbands, their parents and the parents of their husbands. s Jivng o the religious instruetion Miss Kaundinya finds the girls often . Bolur il superficial and indifferent; they ' may be excited and even enthusiastic for a while, but such impressions pass away rapidly. v for ok v An encouragement it was, when a girl of the second form joyfully ool 0 told Miss Kaundinya that she detected at the end of her book of seriptural sentences a whole treasure of words in ¢“the Christian s feeder ! r hope”’, and amongst them all those sentences to which Miss Kaundinya s, P or exstet had called the attention of the pupils on the occasion of the death of two girls. The child had begun to commit these sentences to n el b memory on Sundays and was able to recite a good many of them. accompﬂﬂif‘i Amongst the schools for non-Christians outside of Mangalore fs, b the Lower Secondary School at Bantwal is the largest (142 pupils). iy v ! od o | One great difficulty there is the so-called Bantwal-fever by ot which the new Christian Headmaster at once was laid prostrate for some months. o § 08 The first beginnings of our Printing Press on Balmatha go Ch Of s back as far as 1841, although Mr. Plebst introduced a real i press only in 1851, in which year also the lithographic press lishearteuai b at Tellicherry was abolished and the press at Mangalore began ’ il ol to do the whole work for our Mission. During these 60 years 262,000 Bibles and portions of the Scriptures in Canarese, o Bl Malayalam, Tulu, Konkani, and Badaga have been printed. i Tracts in Canarese, Malayalam, Tulu, Kodagu, and English: i thmﬂ?& 9,413230. School-books and other books in Canarese, oo 7 o = o (o] 0 Malayalam, Tulu, Tamil, Sanskrit, Latin, English, and 201 French: 5,110,975. ol The Book-Depot and the Mercantile Mission-Branch are located in the town. For the publications of last year ¢f. the Table at the end of the Report. On the work of the Book-Depot we are much obliged to My. Huber for the following details: — A The Book and Tract Depository at Mangalore has to record a change of managership in the early part of the year. Mr. Stamm’s il bealth broke down, and he had to proceed to Europe to gain new U strength and health. Mr Huber bhaving been relieved by J Mr. Altenmiiller’s return from Europe from his duties as General Agent and Treasurer of the Mission reverted again to the manager- i ship of the Bookshop. The sale and distribution of Tracts and Christian books is consi- dered to be an essential part of Mission-work; in fact they not 1% unfrequently serve as a channel through which friendly connections between preacher and non-Christians are formed, and thus many a good seed is sown. Of new Canarese tracts the following have been printed during A the last year: A Rational Refutation of the Vedanta Philosophy, translated 49, from the English and Hindi by Mr. Chr. Watsa. li The Greatness of the Present Age, by Mr. L. Gengnagel. The Lord’s Supper. Y, The Power of Prayer. Counsels to Young Men, by Mr. Th. Walz. Messrs. Hermelink and Chr. Watsa edited the Canarese Al ; e Fortnightly Paper “Satyadipike’, and Mr. Sengle the Malayalam . B Monthly ¢Kéralopakari” ? Mr. Watsa edited also the Canarese ¢ Almanac and Mr. Hole the Malayalam one. We would especially tender our best thanks to the Religious an Tract Society in London for their invaluable assistance in the form Wo of a yearly grant of 120 reams Double Demy printing paper and 80 e 31 Buglih, o 20 reams cover paper without which our operations could not be carried on so extensively as they at present are. D0-Boanch & SALE OF BOOKS AND TRACTS t yeat from 1st July 1899 to 30th June 1900. 1 Our own Publications. ch oblge Rs As 28,402 Canarese Religious Books 2,173 g8 to ot 2,996 Tulu ) D) 114 1:2 M, Stamo 20,252 10 Malayalam ” » it e b g 924,016 Canarese Schopl 9 5,008 4(%)) - peliored § {og 48 e 36,512 Malayalam ) b 5,584 13,383 4,426 ) he maneg? Miseellaneous Books dnd Maps 402 Canarese Government Books 160 608 hooks 5 t Malayalam » D) 254 g fach e 1 126,571 CoPiES. Torarn Rs. 18,913 % y gonnel il thus mal] 2. Other Publications. Rs. As printed i 2,869 Bibles and Bible Portions 458 11 20 540 Bangalore Tracts and Books i, ol 49,021 Commission Sale Books 9,352 15,000 Sundry English & Vernacular Books 5,085 11 ;nage]. 194,001 CorIES St GrAND Toran Rs. 33,829 13 M| © O = 3" As to our Industrial Institutions at Mangalore there is a o (ot Weaving Establishment on Balmatha-hill (130 Christians of the , Ml Basel Mission and 1 Roman Catholic); on the way to the town i (o we pass the Mechanical Workshop (in which 52 of our people and 5 Hindus are employed). The Tile-Works at Jeppu give o B work to 262 Christians of our Mission, 3 Roman Catholics, o e 80 Hindus and 7 Mohammedans, and the Tile-Works at Kudroli e e 32 ceel g to 255 of our people, 1 Roman Catholic, 183 Hindus and 1 Mohammedan. al il The station had some distinguished visitors during the the last year: His Lordship the new Bishop of Madras whilst at tho v Mangalore took insight into the work of our Society there. (I8 Mr. Hiittinger, sent by the Industrial Commission in Basel to 0o inspect our establishments in Canara and Malabar (he was in Th former years in charge of the Mechanical Workshop in e an Mangalore), spent much of his time at Mangalore. Rev. P. Bichter, well-known in Missionary circles as a journalist and critic, paid a flying visit also to the most important stations 10 of our Mission. {0 e The census of this station shows a small decrease, which da 1s to be explained by the separation of Puttur, the newest b I statiqn in Canara. Ueh 2 Mulki. api of After having been an out-station of Mangalore for some thy years, Mulki became a separate station in 1845, as the Tulu the population in this part of the country betokened a not un- ) common receptivity for the Gospel. Wit Apart from a few people who earn their bread in a small branch of the Mangalore it Weaving Establishment, the Christians at Mulki and the 6 small fogt The first allt out-stations are entirely dependent on agriculture. harvest last year was all that could be desired, but at Mulki Iy L) Shm and nearly all along the West Coast the later monsoon failed However the 0“1( and so the second harvest was rather poor. of liberality of our Mission-friends in Germany and Switzerland i enabled Mr. Ritter not only to carry his people safely through 1001 the time of difficulty, but also by the relief-works started to Jou reclaim some tracts of waste land. &dd( 33 Tindus Whilst-the tenants at Karnad and Uchila do fairly well, those at Kadike earn their livelihood only with the greatest difficulty. Mr. Ritter’s opinion is that, on the whole, many of our Christians uring there —as tenants «of the Mission or of Hindus— get an houest, s Whikt o g though a very scanty, livelihood, others are lacking greatly in energy ciey thee or they live above their means. At Padur the Christians are very i Baselt poor and some have to go to the Mysore hills to earn their bread. : (he sl This is the more to be pitied as their spiritual needs are thus neglected and as they frequently return from thence fever-stricken orkshop lore, B and in beggary. ' li A We are very glad to inform our readers that the schism, 3 Jouma a0t sate to which we had to refer some years back, seems gradually to have come to an end. One of the leaders in the affair has been re-admitted to the Church, as the entreaties of a dying ease, Tl daughter to reconcile himself with the congregation were not the nemel in vain, A cause of joy is the flourishing condition of the school at Uchila (174 pupils, 47 amongst them are non-Christians), but it is a pity that the Christian parents seem not to appreciate the blessing of such a school, at any rate they expect the additional blessing pe 10t 90 that somebody will pay the school-fees and the school-books for g8 the 11 LU them.—On Ascension-day every year the Orphanage at Mulki celebrates its anniversary. Last year a Mission-service was united ] 4 100 with it. All the Christians of the out-stations were invited, and in fon 20 spite of all kinds of misgivings on account of these hard times the , Yangal festival was a real success. al It was a pretty sight to behold almost ke all the Christians of some out-stations marehing in a body and being The e led by the Pastor or Catechist. Some, to lay no burden on the ot 1 shoulders of their brethren at Mulki, brought their rice with them, g0 g others lodged with their relatives, and for the rest the hospitality et % of the Mulki-Christians amply provided. A Missionary from Switzeflﬁﬁ Mangalore and two Pastors from Udipi and Maugalore, the Pastor loci and the Catechist of Kuttyar addressed the audience, and the "e]y thl’mg“f § young men of the congregation as well as the girls of the Orphanage stmted That added {o the interest of this day by decorating the church. 3 p— e 34 B e the decorations were perfect need not be said in the land of 0008 palm-trees. o frp As to the Evangelistic Work at this station, Mr. Bichle logs | and the Evangelist Nathanael Kundar are chiefly engaged in trie, : this department of labour; they are accompanied on preach- house ing tours by the Catechists of the different out-stations. Our Exter Evangelists meet with but little opposition in the neighbour- 1§ 1o hood of Mulki, and Mr. Béchle ascribes this partly to the 1ame medical help rendered by Mrs. Ritter to non-Christians far Do g and near. Doch During the festival at Dharmasthala the tact and energy of the seeu in o Magistrate there, a Roman Catholic, proved to be a great help, and shortly afterwards at Tibar the audience had but to remind a disturber of peace of this excellent Magistrate, and the hero vanished FOH. away. At another festival, where our preachers always experienced P much difficulty, Mr. Béchle overcame the opposition by politely The taugl asking the people to show him a quiet place for preaching. [0 ad good people, taken by surprise, showed him a place and listened for ith 2 hours to the preaching of God’s Word. A student there tried to like 1 defend idolatry, which he compared to the mathematical point, thege which, though no physical point, serves as a means of demonstration. I35 Another hopeful representative of Young India tried to enlighten i Mr. Béchle in the following manner: “Sir, what you said about dearth and famine as being judgments of God, is wrong; it is not They God who sends the rain, but rain is due to the coineidence of keepi: different laws of nature.” When this adorer of nature was asked ale g «“Whence do these laws of nature come?’”’ he was silenced. Lena” We add the following remarks from Mr. Nathanael Kundar’s Wby i report:— g \){ Ty “Brahmans in general do not like to receive us. They will say: ‘ How can you venture to proclaim the Shastras?’ The lower iy castes are kindly disposed, but a real desire for salvation we rarely In g meet with amongst them. In Tokur the Word of God came home them to the hearts of a Brahman and two widows, and they said: ‘Our Eﬂgh's e s diiss ~35 s the land f conscience testifies to us that your words are true and that we would be happy, if we lived in obedience to your precepts. In our Holy Mr. Bt Seriptures we do not find anything to stand upon. But, alas, caste does prevent us from carrying out what we consider to be good and engage i true.’— At Posangadi we met an old Brahman sitting before his o1 prik house and reading with great enthusiasm the story of God Hari. fions, (u Entering upon a eounversation with him, he told us that such reading neighbo is very meritorious. Even the mere pronunciation of the holy artly fo name ‘Hari’ will secure forgiveness of sin. We asked him: rigtans o ‘Do you think that if the sick will ery out for any length of time: Doctor! Doctor! he will recover?’ ¢Forgiveness of sin will be only nergy (1 secured, if the proper medicine is taken, and that medicine is: faith in our Saviour, Christ Jesus’.” oaf hel ul fo remid poro vl The Orphanage for @irls at Mulki had 75 children on the The institution s expeie F roll during the greater part of the year. p by il taught only up to the third Standard, but Mr. Ritter intends aching, I to add a fourth Standard, because he thinks it a pity to end 3l with teaching just when the girls begin to learn with something dhope il like real interest and understanding. It is true, the time of ]F natioal § these girls is pretty well occupied with work outside the school. epansil : It is a pleasant sight to see about 40 girls working on the | fo eﬂli” ft i paddy-fields; or they stand in long rows pounding the rice. ol ﬂld“ They unite the agreeable with the useful; all this is done g i 1y keeping time and singing some hymn or a native lyric. Others 100! oot are engaged in cooking under the superintendence of « Mother 10 i aakru Lena”, whilst Susanna controls the work on the fields. There yod 1s besides the needle-work and washing to be done, and some ) Jols are busy with the manufacture of coir-ropes. Another impedi- ment of better schooling are the two languages of that district. ey “ﬁ Children begin with their own language, Tulu, for one year. e m i In the second year they take Tulu and Canarese, and from o 0t e thereon only Canarese. Still a fourth Standard with a little )d caﬂle il English cannot be called an insurmountable difficulty. — ' ‘3k 36 Gl i We are glad to say that schooling, agriculture and domestic work do not occupy the whole time of our Tulu girls. Also in A addition to the “Kindergarten” every day some time is left for the juvenile play and game. The present Superintendents, Mr. and Mrs. wh Ritter, are even anxious to introduce the festival element into this it large family. The birthday (and if it is unknown, the day of lag baptism) of each child is entered on a list, hung up in the school- room. (i} The child on its birthday will report itself at the Mission- als house and will receive some fruit, a tract and suitable words of congratulation. These girls, poor as they are, have within 3 months contributed R. 1. 4 towards the Mission.— A member of the congre- ! arg gation living at an out-station invited the whole of the Orphanage * to eat the first rice”’. {he For mother Lena and a ecrippled child he even sent a bullock-cart. Now and then the children are allowed a trip ho V to the beach. The famine-child Kusa, one about whom we reported last year (¢f. page 100) was baptised, and Katherine, as the poor girl 18 H (fo was called then, died not long afterwards from dropsy. It was not easy to gain access to the heart of this child. The world had dealt Ter roughly with her, and it took a long time before the habits of cleanli- Stir aho ness, patience and thankfulness began to manifest their first indi- cations. Katherine remained a weak child up to the end, but we dup participate in the hope, with which Mr. Ritter saw her depart life. \'er'l thy We rest assured that our merciful Saviour, who has led this poor lamb to our fold, has taken her from this world, often so eruel, to €0 His father’s house with its many mansions for the weary and down-trodden. anq (iog 3 Udipi. stag Wy This station, like Mulki, had been for some years a kind 3 of out-station, looked after by the brethren at Mangalore and g at Mulki. In 1854 the Mission-house, and in the year after the chapel was built there. It was a difficult begininng, for at by the end of the same year by instigation of one of the eight chy; Swamis of the Udipi-monasteries the Mission-house, and in '[0 1 37 e nd domes March afterwards the chapel were burnt down and My s, Al Amman’s translation of the Tulu New Testament perished in § lf f the flames Udipi with its 8 out-stations (the largest of Mr, and 0t info f i which is Malpe with its Tile-works) is the second station after Mangalore he day It has decreased by 6 souls (1791 against 1797 last year) What has been said about the economical cir- he o i cumstances of Mulki in the year under review will hold true also for Udipi R In years of gearcity our congregation is dependent in seecular fiin § ot the congt matters on the Mission It is besides sad to see how greatly they are wanting in energy and thankfulness. Even in ordinary times phanave ohild b they are quite unwilling to perform their duty, such as paying the school-fees ete lowed 1 boarding-fees for children in the Orphanages What we read about the spiritual life in Udipi and its out-stations o T fe porgt is rather discouraging. The Pastors complain of indifference to God’s Word, want of religious knowledge, neglect of schooling It i i Very pleasing exceptions are the out-stations Kalyanapur and 0 had ¢ Shirva, and of course at every place are a few who are in earnest g Of c]ea l about their Christian life As the Tile-works at Malpe were closed ¢ fist 1 ond, D during the rainy season for 4 months, even there relief-work became very mnecessary The Pastor of this congregation regrets to say p depart ¥ that whilst the confidence of his flock in Mission-funds is unlimited Jod thi confidence in God is rather phenomenal 500 1 Evidently spiritual life is at a low ebb in this congregation y ety and we solicit the prayer of our readers for an outpouring of God’s Spirit upon this station that it may arise from spiritual stagnation and become a shining light and a dispenser of life to the surrounding heathen world. There have been only Lu 3 new converts last year, but 104 persons are undergoing opls & 1103,1016 i instruction for baptism. The Evangelistic Work of this station has been conducted \ yeﬂl 9’ b by Mr. Eblen and his staff, but Mr. Keppler also, who is in g charge of the Udipi-congregation, devotes much of his time f he WJ to itinerancy 156y W 38 Mr. Keppler’s impressions with reference to this work are rather gloomy. He writes: “ We are not Wantmg in opportunities to preach the Gospel at festivals and at market-places ; but it is seldom I that we ean speak to large audiences In most cases there are he only a few who lend an ear for some minuates; it also happens that el {3 people let us stand where we are and do not show the least desire fath for the Gospel.” — Mr. Eblen, on the other hand, reports that in e | the N. E. of the district the Catechists have been kindly received 100 beg and that the people invited them to come agam — Pastor Gabr. Bangera on house-visitations in the nelghbourhood of Udipi met with AW people who said : “ What is the use of becoming a Christian® We had of better remain what we are; but if we are expected to break our mg caste, we must gain heaven or, in other words, earthly advantages | in exchange 8 Hi On the work of the Bible-women Mrs Keppler writes: — 860 e “There is a mother with some daughters, who were for a long time confiding and friendly Some time ago it seemed as if we ng] were not so welecome there as usual nfy One of the daughters however said ‘The hearing of God’s Word is like fresh cool water, which i refreshes one, when poured upon the body Qur Shastras are like muddy and bad water, which will neither refresh nor eclean the A body’.” for The Orphanage for Boys at Udipi and in connection with i the a Day-school for boys and girls is in a flourishing condition proy It is a purely vernacular school up to the fourth Standard afte but there is besides an Anglo-vernacular division for the third $ug and fourth Standard, which works as a feeder for the Christian Ar The High School at the same place The Vernacular School has Wy 160 pupils (77 boarders of the Orphanage, 26 Christian boys 10y 29 Christian girls and 28 non-Christians), the Anglo-vernacular division counts 63 pupils (21 boarders, 17 Christian boys Py 8 Christian girls and 22 non-Christians); hence the whole hey institution has 223 pupils the e St 39_ IS work o Mr. Brasche’s report contains the following remarks: — portnish “ Whilst so many families were exposed to hunger, the children 116 18 selln in the Orphanage had nothing to complain of; the sensible amongst ses there them felt really thankful for their privileges. One of the boys, a happens ; well behaving, quiet and patient child, died of typhoid fever. His e Jeast do father, a workmun in the Kudroli Tile-works, took him home, when ports i I he heard about his condition. On the whole our boys cause almost ndly e too little disturbance, one feels glad to see how one or the other Pastor (e begins to awaken from his dreamy lethargy.” Of course such an dipimet i awakening may also go too far, for Mr. Brasche tells us that one an? Wel of the boys plundered the box for church-offerings in such a cunning to break o0 manner that an expert in thievery would not have done better. An 7 adrangd unbloody public execution made a deep impression on the other pupils.— A very encouraging feature is the friendly disposition of the Hindu population towards the school. Even one of the 8 Swamis sends one of his near relatives to the school. it~ ¢ As most of them join the school in the lower classes and continue their studies through the ot fora High School, they will be exposed for a long time to the Christian med o1 influence of our school.— The boarders in the Orphanage have been hfors hoverd diligent in the school and in the garden belonging to the institution. sater, i irgs The Christian High School at this station, together with that or dhao at Tellicherry, are meant first of all to be preparatory schools for the Theological Seminaries and Training Institutions of the Basel Mission. All the boarders in those schools have gon b promised to serve the Mission either as Catechists or Teachers g i Sl afterwards, and only with this understanding they live and study at the expense of the Mission for 6 and more years. oy fhe i The High School at Udipi is frequented by 123 pupils, 47 of ;he Chtismi § whom are boarders, 16 are Christian day-scholars and 60 are ot ¥ non-Christians. risﬁilﬂ b 0-7el i ] Mr. Brasche, one of our most experienced educationalists and I Principal of this school, lost two of his teachers by death. One of isian i “!“ them, Jesudasa Soens, had taken leave for finishing his studies for ) fhe i the F. A. Examination in Mangalore. His wife died there of . . — 40 R R typhoid fever and only 3 weeks afterwards he followed her by the same disease, leaving a little son, 8 months of age. Another great loss to the school was the death of its able Munshi Lakshminarayana. He was very much attached to the school, so far that when he was fur offered higher pay at a college, he refused and faithfully did his work as long as his bodily strength permitted. S high Such of the students as passed the Matriculation or the Lower Secondary Examination, were sent to Mangalore for 0n training, where they fortunately got the necessary supervision ante Lag and religious instruction in the Theological Seminary, which for some time had been closed. 1 The results at Government examinations have been highly () creditable to the school. Whilst at the Matriculation the Wi average percentage in the Presidency was only 19-20, it was 30 1in this school. Why 6 students did not pass, is an un- becq solvable riddle to the Principal. However last year’s Matri- ofg i culation has baffled the comprehension of a good many teachers and pupils all over the Presidency. (0ms Par; We cannot conclude without expressing our great satisfaction We and joy with regard to the friendly relation of the public to the thes school. An official, who also did not hold back in showing his the sympathy in our conflict with the Police, has been very kind towards the the boarders in the High School; he would give them picnic at some they distance from the school or a feast in the school. No wonder that will on occasion of his transfer to some other place, he was invited to Terg the school for a solemn farewell-taking, when some scenes of “Fhe felly Merchant of Venice” were performed in his honour. This generous official is even prepared, though absent, to give a prize to the ablest Ty i/ Sta boy amongst the pupils.— When the Munshi fell sick, a friend of 1§ i the headmaster took his lessons in Sanskrit without any remuneration. (0} Mr. Brasche offers also his hearty thanks to Mr. K. Krishna le Rao, the Civil Apothecary at Udipi, for the self—denyingvservice 3¢ he has done to the Missionaries, the schools and members of Pot the congregation. ey ‘41 e | her by b 4 Karkala. nother g ’At the very beginning of our Indian Mission in 1834, minatafs when bew Karkala was one of the places which was fixed on as suitable to flly ' be a Mission-station, but it was only in 1872 when the spiritual awakening amongst the Tulu population was at its ation or {i highest and the Franco-German war was over, that this long- contemplated intention was carried out. However, the hopes ngelors entertained for this station have been realised but very slowly. Supetril Last year the number of Church-members rose from 110 to inazy, Wil 126. From WMy. Flischer’s communications on the little heen il congregation we take the following remarks:— culation People are regular in attending the divine services, but the Word does not seem to make a great impression, and one must not 19.?0, i become Weafy to repeat the same truths again and again. A sign 5, 19 a0 1 il of great weakness and a real novelty in a congregation of the Basel yeat's Mission it was that the influential part of the congegration gave teach any {edcli considerable trouble, because Mr. Fischer brought to church two Pariah-children, whom Government had handed over to the Mission. i sl We are glad to say that Mr. Fischer did not yield for a moment to publie ik these manifestations of heathenism.— A very pleasant feature of shonig B the Christians there is their thrift, and this Mr. Fischer ascribes to the education by our former Missionaries. They pay readily what 5 kind fot they owe for Church and school and even beyond that. A woman picnic s oo willingly underwent much trouble and exertion, when little children were given to her care, not minding the scorn of weak-minded s ! (606s i :LT;»; fellow-Christians; she received also the two Pariah-children and This g nursed a sick inquirer until she herself fell sick. Also at this s o 02 abl‘c’fi \ station our Christians had to be helped in these difficalt times by relief-work. A mother with 3 children was helped by making ki 0 ! fib coir-mats, one took a contract for stones and earth, and another learned carpentery, etc.—On the 28th October 8 adults and 0 ]{n’sh’nf 3 children were baptised. One of the converts belonged to the i potter’s caste. He had been expelled from his family, because the pealtd! devil’s-priest asserted that the demons had taken possession of him, 42 i aitls and the relatives despaired of raising the necessary funds to exorcise them A family consisting of 5 brothers, a sister with her Kook 2 children and a mother called for the Missionary and told him, that they want to get rid of the demons When asked how they arrived at this resolution, they said that another daughter had died lately and implored them to do so, saying: “Take me to the Mission-house that I may be immersed there and you all should go 18 I there, then a better time will come for you They followed this func advice and are now amongst the 22 inquirers of this station Jop The little congregation leaves to Mr. Fischer and - his Gos they Catechists much time for Evangelistic Work We give the following extract from his report: — Kei A Hindu mother with her two children went to a festival of mnem Mari Rich Hindus will on sach ocecasions distribute water amongst nunk the thirsty, and when at such a place one of the children asked for i a drink. The mother said ‘““In order to compensate in the sight of Jartof God for all his unjust and cruel deeds, this man ordered this water 0 to to be dlstrlbuted yea, not a drop of this water full of iniquity we Matth shall drmk"’——A wealthy man, who is acquainted with the Word of B4) i God, long ago bought a New Testament in order to read it with his Mattey wife and daughter He waits until God will prepare a way for eeH him, when he will be able to carry out his desire to become a happe Christian I In the course of last year Mr. Fischer succeeded in estab- been { lishing a Girls’ School in the Bazaar of Karkal L] It was a very difficalt undertaking, as nobody was prepared to the £y let a building for this purpose With the help of a kind and enlighten- ln ed Postmaster, whose wife in former years had attended a Mission Tou of school, a first trial was made ‘When the brother of the Postmaster oy came, the room in his house had to be left A rich merchant, who In he almost had been won over for this g00d work was dissuaded again by a narrow-minded lawye: 20 Pe However, finally a room for the girls fb]]OVv was secured, and Mr. Fischer relates of a very clever Hindu-girl who voluntarily acts as a monitor gladly The smallest amongst these Tamily . 43 B l: 1y finds girls know only Konkani, and the little monitor relates to these : 7 [T ' i Konkani childr‘en the Bible stories in their own language. d fold b ked hov 5 Basrur. Jnughta ! ke me fo After a rich spiritual harvest amongst the Tulu people in all shodldy 1875, the station Kundapur-Basrur was founded in 1876, the followed i funds for it having been given by a German lady, and the ation, population being considered to be alive to the blessings of the or and b Gospel. Last year we had 129 Church-members and most of these have come from other stations, this year —the out-station Fo gre b Keilkeri having come to an end —the number of Church- One consolation is a small members dwindled down to 85. o sl number of real conversions that took place at this station. mater anig Not much can be said of the small Congregation, the greater fren asked b, part of which is formed by the families of Mission-agents. People i the i go to church and in all houses devotional exercises take place. red s wie Matthaeus (cf. last year’s Report, page 76 and Report for 1898, page of il Also in outward b e Mo 64) is growing in grace and in Bible-knowledge. matters God’s blessing rests upon him; he has been one of the chief ol i i ' rice-merchants last year and nothing in the way of boycotting happened to him. fo beoné! It is a matter of course that at this station much time has been given by Messrs. Stier and Liithy, the Evangelist Winfred jel et Micha and the Catechists to Evangelistic Work., My, Stier gives the following details from a preaching tour: — 5 prepared 5 In the first house a Brahman says: “Come along, we shall show i gl you other houses; go to the Shudras, we desire neither heaven nor s Y eternal bliss, if our belly is filled, that is exactly what we want.” o P In the second house one says: ““Give me Rs. 100, and Ishall produce ot 20 persons who are prepared to become Christians, and I shall el W follow suit; if we get food without being expected to work, we shall | for fhe w gladly undergo the change.” In the third house the father of the I gl family is frightened by the thought that the Missionary and the { i ong’ =, 44 Al D Catechists are going to read the whole of the New Testament, But 1 which seemed to be a rather big book. The ‘man, with whom Mr. il Stier lodged, first excused himself by saying that he could read only the writ written on a man’s forehead. After having heard something of what is engraved in a man’s heart, he said in conclusion: *¢What ¢ you say is true, but I am fettered, as a single man I cannot change As anything, if only about 10 people would join you, but God did not statior give us the sense for it.” —Mr. Liithy visited all the important Mang Hindu festivals (30 in number) and about 100 villages, even those spar situated on the ghats, also in the Mysore district (Sagar). He once assisted with his staff Catechists of the Wesleyan Mission. Only 10W, at one place he met with a resistance worth mentioning. At agar The Hindu festivals people are almost disappointed and are lacking in enthusiasm, if we fail to appear. Mr. Liithy was especially smal welcome in the houses of the Bilavar (peasants) and even the rela- et ( tives of Matthezeus do not exhibit a spirit of opposition. latt £ ) Evangelist Winfred Micha writes of a man who was pretty A well acquainted with the way of salvation:— ey When invited to act according to his conviction, he said that he el g had spoken several times with his wife, urging her to leave everything and join the Christian Church, but she replied: “Do what you like, n g only not this!” Christian tracts and the Bible he could not read Vatg gk at home, his people on detecting this would expel him. Mr, Micha reminded him of the difficult position of Sivarama (Mattheus), who d()n Kasal went to the houses of neighbours and climbed up trees to satisfy his craving for the Word of God. Shortly afterwards the man paid a Jolite visit to Mr. Micha at Basrur. N Dhay The Educational Work of the station affords a very satis- re\ig‘\ factory aspect. When Sivarama went to Mangalore, quite accidentally also some non-Christians went there. A rumour and hosp that they had converted to Christianity was spread about. he\ This and the fact that the children going to the Mission ang school read Bible stories and Scriptural sentences at home, evep frightened people, and steps were taken to start a rival school. Qg = 45 e New Togo: But it seems that all has come to nothing. Another school With wh b at Kundapur is in a ‘delightful state too. ) could ¢ heand sonel: telusion; “W:: 6 Kaéamgcd. I cannot As long back as 1867, Kasaraged with its present out- hut God dis stations Ravaneshvara and Hosadurga were out-stations of Il the imon Mangalore, but only in 1886 Kasaragod was raised to a lges, ern separate station. Myr. Borel, who is in charge of the station Sogar) B Mission, 0 now, praises the liberality of the Congregation (187 souls mentioutg against 171 in the previous year) in all kinds of contributions. The congregations at Kasaragod and at the out-stations are and are Iui small and yet a characteristic of the station is its wide-spread y was et id even fhe net of schools and its Evangelistic Work. To begin with the 01 latter, Mr. Borel contributes the following: — At Tekkil the Mohammedan Adhikari is a most obstinate and ho s persevering opponent of Mission-work. Two brothers of Catechist Melothen were beaten in our own school by the order of some , be il l one in authority, and the evil-doers not only escaped punishment Jegrerert in court, but the Mission was even accused of having muddled the water. Such treatment we, as Missionaries, can only retaliate by o oould 0 rc making Tekkil an out-station of Kasaragod. At other places we pi I i do not experience much opposition. The educated Hindus at (Moot i Kasaragod are very amiable but, with one exception, they do ot 0 satisffj:‘j politely evade religious controversies. tho ot Mr. Diirr, who at the end of 1899 was deeply impressed at Dharmasthala and Subramanya by the wretchedness of the Hindu religion and by the power it still exerted upon the minds of the poor and uneducated, on a preaching-tour to Mukkura met with unasual ol ¥ hospitality at the house of two brothers Banga and Kariappa. As p B 8 he went from house to house, Kariappa turned up here and there ' “In the I and always with a few witty remarks silenced opponents. othe-\ 1 evening, when people came to see us, he would assist us in a similar ¢ b goes 1 manner. His brother Banga is a venerable old man, who only 4 riVﬂ] ! i m— AR 46 fails to understand why Christ rose from the dead. In the evenings, Alt the whole family joined in the evening prayer, and the good people compris were really touched on hearing that we remembered them before i the God The old mother on such occasions would say: *Indeed, you On the are proper men, we are only half men, but now since you have lived fhinne amongst us like a father, I know things better and feel quite changed Misslo in my mind.’ The good people returned the visit at Kasaragod. a Mag A Brahman, who was living in an out-of-the-way place and, who in the (foven consequently was less under the influence of caste prejudices was bad i very kind to us and asked us: ‘What makes you go out to this solitude? I have not deserved this, what can I do-in return?’ he the w said and treated us with what was in his house. The Brahman a littl women in those parts, even if no man was in the house, did not run station away, they offered us a seat and brought milk and betel-nut.” Was o many ) The Educational Work at this station is rather extensive; there are 10 schools with 659 pupils, 622 of whom belong to e for the Primary department. The Girls’ School at Kasaragod fon g suffers from the competition of two other schools in the same thify locality. The biggest school is the Lower Secondary School miles ¢ at Hosadurga (with about 170 pupils), of which the Inspector farmey, of Schools remarked: «Your Hosadurga school does splendid work.” but 4 ¢ Te ta A very intelligent class of Nairs (Shudras) seems to attend the Xr. 8 Tekkil school. When they joined the school 11 year ago, they y were not able to read a single letter, and now they read fluently Malayalam and Canarese, and also in English they are not behind Heathg, others. The fanatical Adhikari there tries his best to prevent not ligion, Ty, only his co-religionists, but also others from going to our school. b“a\'\ing 7 Puttur. of g e of 4] ‘This our youngest station was for about 10 years an the 3 out-station of Mangalore. Two- Catechists were posted there 10 thi and later on an Evangelist in addition. Puttur is an important about ¢ place, about 25 miles inland the Tulu country. Mgy - 47 A n the by Although originally part of the Mangalore-field, the Puttur station comprises now the largest field of labour in South-Canara, although he gl [ od then bip in the east there are tracts of forest with a very thin population. Tdwd On the other hand, the nearer one comes to the ghats and the thinner the population, the greater is the effort demanded of the you hare i | quit ey Missionary. Puttur is the seat of a Deputy Collector, a Tahsildar, af Kosamgl a Magistrate and other Government officials. The best pieces of land in the immediate neighbourhood of the town are in the hands of lace and, Government, private property is too expensive, and so the Mission prejudis g0 out i had to build the new bungalow 11 miles away from the town, near in retmn’ b the way to Mangalore. Apart from the only drawback, that it is a little too far from the town, the situation of this new Mission The Brohes se, i i station is said to be excellent. On the 6th of May the new building oot was consecrated with great solemnity in the presence of a good many Missionaries, native officials and other friends. or el hom belog ! For the present we can scarcely speak about a congrega- ot Hasang tion at Puttur. The 43 persons mentioned in the census are 5 1o the ok chiefly the families of Mission-agents and servants. About 12 onday S miles distant from Puttur resides the Christian family of a farmer. the Togpee The station has no schools yet and so there remains but a short acceunt of the important work of Evangelisation. We take first a portion from the interesting report of g atel® My. Schosser, who is in charge of the station:— i “What Dr. Uhlhorn in his ‘Conflict between Christianity and eat ) ! y o0l ﬂueni‘z Heathenism’ says about the attitude of the educated towards { el dare 10 religion, seems to hold true also for the parallel classes in modern India. ¢ Without rejecting altogether the popular belief and openly 0! ot our SchO')l' breaking with it, they reserve for themselves the higher knowledge of the educated. They themselves do not believe in the existence of all these gods, but they are of opinion that it is useful and in the interests of conservatism, if the common people still eling 10 7" to this belief.’ Still I met with an educated man, who was anxious pOS ol I about salvation and felt conscience-stricken on account of his i a0 II]JPGr undecidedness. On the tender young shoets of spiritual life in the st 48 Cmme e family mentioned in the Report pro 1898, page 37,' something like mildew seems to have fallen. Our readers are earnestly requested to remember such struggling souls in their prayers.” — Also Mr. Schosser attended the festivals at Dharmasthala and Subramanya and was astonished to behold the display of a great outward Mo splendour at Dharmasthala, after all a poor substitute for what an Aho immortal soul thirsts for. Mr. Schosser’s impression, as received from after 4 house to house visitations, is that in consequence of dearth and frethy other miseries the hearts of many people have become more Nereay susceptible and accessible to the Gospel. Missio EVangelist Imm. Soens, after giving an interesting account of the the &y origin of demon-worship in the Puttur Taluk and of a Hindu festival t0 mg at the Kaveri-Sankramana with its sacrifices offered to the dead, tells about a Gauda-woman (Brahman), who admitted that the 00 I advan only profit realised from her demon-worship consists in having spent all her property to *the Lekkesiri”, The head of a family admits statior likewise that since they have left God and turned to the Bhutas, fhege S0me they sit in the dark and come to ruin through the cunning of the Brahmans. A Mopla, hearing this confession, affirms it and adds Xpey in his simplicity: “Yes, the Brahmans know that very well and in hence the whisper into the ears of the dying: All is illusion, wh y Mohammed is the only true Guru!” foe] Mr. Spaich relates about his experiences amongst the people A in the neighbourhood of Puttur. Some rely entirely on the charg mercifulness of God, who will be satisfied with any honest exertion the () on our side, others in self-salvation, and if this should not avail, one the I)I ; must look forward to a new birth, accompanied with better results. T But Mr. Spaich met also two upright seekers after truth. One of the Ta them would fain follow Christ, but not * without the eamp, bearing s His reproach’’. Yo ng() The station wishes to offer hearty thanks to Mr. E gy Stocking, the Apothecary at Puttur, for the valuable services Gy rendered to the Missionaries there. there fg) fl'ie il 49 e i R, | {hin J | by el II. COORG. - Al I ubramary 8 Mercara. b outiad ¢ or whata About 1853 Dr. Mogling started an English school, which ceived fun after a few years was made over to Government. Later on, Qeatth at brethren of the Mercantile Mission-Branch did business at come ot Mercara, and only as late as 1870 Mercara became a real Mission-station. Times have been hard also in Coorg, but oount ol the high wages paid to workmen there enabled many people ndo fiste to make both ends meet. The poor amongst the Coorgs were o the dail too proud to live on relief-works and preferred to take o that advance from their chieftains. By arrivals from other aving ek | stations the Congregation increased from 142 to 159. 123 of il o .i_’ these live at Mercara, the other 36 at the 3 out-stations and the Bhut: some Kstates, and can only be looked after at a great ing o1 expense of time and money. In ordinary times our Christians it aod il in Coorg easily may earn their livelihood, and this is a reason Iy WE“ Zﬂ‘j i il why all sorts of people—and not always the best kind — feel attracted to go there to try their chance. As to the Mission-Work carried on from this station, it is e characteristic that Mr. Sikemeier tells us that almost all rely O i the Christians of our Mission at Mercara are not natives of ost gt the place. o vl They came from the Talu country, from Canara, Malabar and ic resul!é: i 09 the Tamil country. There was on an average only one convert a year during the last 30 years. Amongst these few there are only w]p, I}e i & one Coorg man and 4 Coorg women, especially girls. The only Coorg man, who is in our congregation there at present, is our Catechist o J Gabriel Almanda. As far as the people of the soil are concerned, ble gt there is no doubt that Coorg is by far the most barren of our Mission- fields. Formerly we were fortunate enough to have two influential friends amongst the Coorgs; both have died now and the son of the 50 second has turned out a bitter enemy. The women amongst them tolon kave no objéction to a Missionary Jady coming to their houses, but be pr Only on a few Estates our they refuse to listen to a religious talk. Jumby Agents are allowed to preach to the coolies; most of the planters alled refuse permission. On the Mercara-bazaar, however, regular street- ty th preaching takes place. tlon y Mr. Veil, who since 1878 manages the Mission-Shop at I 18510 Mercara, has not less than his brethren of the clerus to cope (ificy with unfavourable circumstances within his sphere of work. for {} As they are typical of all our Mercantile Establishments, they ariey may be mentioned here: — 1 L a8 “There is not much money in the little country at present. Cha ‘That Coorg is sinking’, is the opinion of a good many planters po, and others. The competition through the large Madras firms with their branches in Bangalore and other places, the improved means v of traffic, the direct communication between the planters and their )] Il frends agents at the coast and at home, and above all the competition of native-merchants, all this has considerably reduced the number words, of customers, and such as remain are mnot so easily satisfied as and g formerly. The Shop deals not only with articles imported from and A England and Germany and with the productions of our Weaving douby Establishments and Tile-works, but also with tracts and Bible- h&ve ; portions. There is besides opportunity every day to bear witness for ful s the Lord before all the non-Christians who come to the Shop. But Sﬁpal’g also Mr. Veil complains of the great indifference and dullness prevail- Th ing among the Coorgs in spiritual matters. One cannot say that these Coorg-people have heard the glad tidings too often, but there begn | is no knowledge of sin and no desire for salvation. The flourishing i liquor-shops go far to explain the spiritual sterility of this field. “i seem Besides as long as whole families do not join the Christian Chureh, the difficulties for single individuals are almost unsurmountable.” bag | 9 Anandapur. ‘“tbm Anandapur was the first of our Coorg stations. Dr. Magling With | intended to establish with a few of his converts an agricultural 10f 51 ngst ths colony and with the help of his pupil and friend Kaundinya 100eS, i he purchased some land and, in 1856, made settle down a Titates o number of Holeyas, a class of liberated serfs. The place was 6 pluies called Anandapur (city of joy) and in 1858 was taken over lar st © by the Basel Mission Society. From the very beginning the colony had to struggle for existence, and about 1870 the n-dlop if Mission had to buy also part of the property. Another 5 {0 (e difficulty is the unhealthiness of the station. The place chosen of vk for the Mission-house was not well selected and most Mission- ents, g aries there suffer greatly from fever. At the beginning of last year, My. Fischer left for Europe and Myr. Fritz took of prestlh charge of the station. The Congregation (211 souls) is very y plane poor, and also at this station for 6 months the poor had to be frws il saved from starvation by relief-work. ored means Mr. Fritz thinks that his people appreciate the kindness of Mission friends at home, and show themselves thankful not so much by ypeion i words, but by attending church more regularly and being faithful ho munbt afied and diligent at their work. There are associations for young men and young women that are well attended. Of course also very ;orted frn doubtful elements are mixed up with the congregation, most of them " i have gone the wrong way in consequence of idleness. It is a hope- fal sign that in the congregation good and bad elements seem to gt separate more decidedly than formerly. Shop: b The services of Mr. J. Chandram, the Dresser there, have o 80y ¢ ol been highly appreciated, and we thank him for all his kindness. ], bUt thm The work of Evangelisation after the transfer of Mr. Rath ﬂouf:lihmg i seems to have been chiefly in the hands of Catechists, which in so far is a drawback, as Coorgs will not receive so well a a0 Ohﬁfeh’ band of Catechists without a Missionary. lniablef The misery amongst non-Christians was very great indeed. Although they saw that Christians and probationers were provided with work, they did not join us in large numbers, which perhaps is , i not to he regretted. o f IA] 4'?‘ e N 52 Last year we reported the first time about the Orphanage cofe at Anandapur. 16 new children were admitted last year, and and Of there are now 28 boys and 22 girls in the institution, course the experiences are not always encouraging. One fimg oﬁem feels compassion, and admits a poor fellow and after some Al time one comes to know that an adder has been nourished in Jioi one’s bosom. e Mr. Fritz relates about a Brahman boy, 13 years of age, who after having received help revealed himsef to be a crafty thief and an enemy of Christianity. Whatsoever one would say about God and heaven, Satan and hell, he used to answer: “I want to go to bell, I am not afraid of the devil, don’t tell me anything about Jesus!” Tor the sake of others we had finally to send him away. His sister, 9 years of age, is a modest, amiable girl. These children I have been led in very different ways to this place of refuge. There Y b4 Hilig is Ruth, who by a planter and a friend of our Mission had been found on the road lying near her starved mother, her life being been { g th almost extinet. The kind gentleman nourished the child for some Hindy time and then sent her to our Orphanage. Lakshmi, 8 years of age, was brought by her siekly father. He bhad tried for a long time fto SUS(lep heaoy sell her to somebody, but nobody would take her. The father, a widower, was anxious to go back to Bangalore. On hearing that s o at Anandapur the Mission buys children (!), he went to Anandapur. think there Of course he received no money, but the child being tired of wander- ing about, asked to be left with us; the unnatural father joyfully 62 yea’ went away. One day the boys report laconically “a new one’ has ) go] arrived. On going out Mr. Fritz beheld a boy about 11 or 12 years ﬂ]e 00y of age, in rags and rather problematic-looking. He had been a “boy” in the house of a Turk, where he got many a beating, but 1’&gue i little in the way of bread. Consequently he ran off. After having . o LM received a bath, clean clothes, and his hair having been cut, he indeed looked like “a new boy ”. I g COHSQ la The children get schooling every day until half past one. if fho Then the boys are occupied in the Mission-compound with ]\ept 11 53 Cem ey Onghasiy coffee and rice planting, the girls with needle-work, cooking jear, ol and washing. —Stealing and lying are the most common tion, (f offences amongst the children and, of course, it will take some g B, time until such evil habits are rooted out. Let us hope that fher some many an able workman, Teacher and Catechist and many nrished pious mothers will rise from this school and instil life and blessing into the congregation. f age, Wi y thief ml about (o III. SOUTH~-MAHRATTA. ot fo g0 hing oot 10 Dharwar. him v} oo Chly This station is the second child of our MissionA. In 1837 28, Thet 4 Hebich and Mogling commenced the work there, and they have been greatly encouraged ta do so by the generous assistance r ife b and the kind sympathies of English friends and some influential 1d for s Hindus. But soon our brethren had to experience the un- L susceptibility of South-Mahratta to the Gospel, which has g fie! become almost proverbial. Bearing in mind that Dharwar 10 fathe, is only second to Mangalore in age, it is rather painful to g I think of the very very slow growth of this station. In 1850 Aandip there was a little Congregation of 63 Christians and now, after I Waude? ' ol 62 years, there are only 188 Church-members. Mr. Bode had her ) v e ¥ to go home and Mr. Ernst has taken his place as Pastor of the congregation. The station also last year suffered from ol ) \(’,3’ fal e plague and famine. “Lord, in trouble have they visited Thee, peatith &3 they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them,” we are glad to say, has been the experience of our brethren o ol f o O in Dharwar. Our Christians have learned to appreciate the consolations of God’s Word in the days of trial. The observation of the Lord’s Day has improved and the Holy Sacrament is fpi® kept in great honour. The Lord’s Supper being esteemed as a )oﬂﬂd fl e means of grace, some who had been excluded from it, felt it as anl g an almost intolerable punishment. For the first time last Hoer year the congregation had a Mission-festival, and from the in the neighbouring Hubli not less than 100 guests were present. baptis i It was a great refreshment to the Church that in the forenoon We Onef of this day three adults were added to the congregation. from: are exceedingly happy to finish now the story of the weaver fny | at Tegur (¢f. Report for 1897, page 33 and Report for 1899, they. page 36). Myr. Braun, the itinerating Missionary at Dharwar, on h makes the following communicationzm the l ““The resolution of which we reported last year, has been carried [yt out The wife of the weaver died, and in order to loosen the last f tie binding him to his former connections, thieves entered his house S0me and took away his whole possession (about Rs. 700). The man distur looked upon this as an answer to his prayers, for he had asked In a similar b and b God to set him free from cares for earthly goods. spirit he did not take any step to recover money which he had lent itS her to a man of the same village. He managed to escape and went to % My a daughter married at Dharwar. the fy He had nothing but his clothes with him, when he came and said: ‘I desire to go to heaven and \] you can show me the way there.’ Nothing could make him waver inflye from this resolution. Already his father had been inclined towards bdng the Gospel. When he was dying, he laid a tract into the hands of in, ﬁp his son and said: ‘Son, what is written in here is the only truth, Vagab you will find the way to heaven in this.”— And now 50 years old ﬂﬁsera, be has been baptised. His face beamed with joy and peace, when 4 01y he received the name * Vishvdsappa’. How he rejoiced in our Christian services long before his baptism. When he heard about I » b the sufferings of our dear Lord, tears would run down his cheeks. Vi&h; He has got a loom again and earns his bread by his former pro- fession.” ! hag The second candidate for baptism has been in connection with degr, our Mission since the foundation of the station. For abont sixty J 0uni years he has been satisfied with working in the Mission-compound, haVe 55 - feltitg and as to consciousness of sin, he seemed to be absolutely free from it ! 1 However, he awoke at last, and now everybody, even the servants from in the Mission-houses, helped together to prepare the old man for His relatives of course now forsook him To instruet 6 } Gl baptism him was a difficult task, after 2 or J (0} years a pause had to be made ¢ forenn tion, W One feels pity on hearing the old man say: “ What else do you want from me? Look here, I do believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, I do not he wear any longer believe in Krishna, Rama, Ganapati and the like, for for 180 they are no gods and I do not pray to them 80 years old was he Dharn A few weeks afterwards he called for on the day of his baptism the Missionary On his arrival the old man said «“Salam, Sahib and then died 681 Cartlé I go to my Saviour in heaven, n the b With reference to the Evangelistic Work, it seems that at d i hore some stations in South-Mahratta a fakir caused some The uat disturbance He seems to have preached against Christianity, hod 0l and his method consisted in speaking against the Bible and na sii 1ts neroes On superficial people he made some impression e had as Mr. Reusch thinks unbelievers lauched at the Bible and qnd wer the fakir likewise s et On non-Christians plague and famine had not the wholesome heaved 3"d influence as on some Christians bim T Some preferred utter misery to being helped by Christians A widow with 3 children was taken ol o in, first the three children and then the mother ran away o ook ouly h Vagabondage seemed to have become a habit with many of these miserable creatures Some had no objection to relief, but showed () year / a great aversion to relief-work L It will be found interesting. to hear with what result oed 1070 yeard 80 Mr. Braun tried to follow up the work done by God in b the ) Vishvasappa’s case He went to see his relatives and found that the son of Vishvasappa formet ] had been touched in his heart by the Word of God to a certain degree, but is still too timid and anxious to venture anything. The et jon 1 younger brother fails entirely to understand how his brother could pout ¥ have taken such a step To make a greater impression on the oo PDW o 56 family, Vishvasappa was called to assistance. His people were after| s b rather still, but not unkind. But on the following day, the younger brother cursed him in his own house; he was, however, sorry for it fhat afterwards and the other members of the family did not approve of Joer 1t el o They even invited him to stay for a few days with them, which he did and read the Bible with his brother and son, who asked him Our § to teach them how to pray. Unfortunately, a second brother then A | arrived and he succeeded in getting his brother expelled from of g the house. (the distr Amongst the higher classes of the population, it seems, the of th Bible is much read. Mr. Braun once talking with two fakirs in the streets, a wealthy Hindu passed by. He set the two fakirs right laud and invited Mr. Braun to come to his house. There was not only sitting an old piano in the -room, but also a Bible on the table, evidently ) much used. The gentleman acknowledged that he reads the Bible fhe fh g daily, but as to becoming a Christian he cannot yet make up his mind. The Catechist was allowed to offer a prayer. Dhiry (overy As to Educational Work, Dharwar is the most important station of our South-Mahratta District. Besides a Congrega- Th of oy tional School and a Primary School for non-Christians, we have a High School with 11 masters and 204 pupils. The school thege comprises almost all th® sections of the Dharwar population. Prin My. Reusch, the Principal of the school, gives the following 1 the details: — Sthog houg Brahmans 78, Lingaits 33, other Hindus 84, Pancham 1; Moham- medans 10; Christians from the Students’ Home 30, Christians G&I’pm from the town 10; Burasians 6, Parsi 1, and Jew 1. As to the i optional language 37 take Sanskrit, 157 Canarese, 4 Mahratti and o I 0 6 Latin. Mr Reusch and our energetic Christian Headmaster, Ty Mr. Alexander Jaganathan, B. A., experienced great difficulties last D year. The competition of the Government-school is of such a kind il that scarcely an educational ¢ Bhagirathan’ would be able to come JUEN up against it. If one hears that the headmaster of the Government- of g school is an addition to this Vice-President of the Mun"icipality, that finig 2 57 0l v after having been formerly Principal of the Normal School, he now the yougy has been appointed acting Educational Inspector; one can imagine somy fok ‘v that the Manager of a school, which is considered by such an all- tapprored powerful personality to be a rival school, will not feel himself on a bed of roses. No wonder the Government-school increased to 400, them, whid " 0 asked b our school dwindled down to 169. By reducing the school-fees, The school is yrother it Mr. Reusch sueceeded in improving things a little. pelled frm of great importance to us, as the youths of the Students’ Home (the futare Pastors, Catechists and Christian Schoolmasters of this The masters seems, distriet) get their secular schooling in this institution. of this school, Brahmans and Christians, afford an example of a most fakirs in te fakins g laudable harmony; it must be a pleasing sight to behold them yas nof 0l sitting together when school-hours are over and drinking a cup of tea The results in the Bible-lessons given by Mr. Bhaskar in o, eviden] s the Bk the third Standard, Mr. Reusch found excellent. In the higher classes the students are attentive; since the Sanyasi had been in make 1 by ¥ Dharwar, some exhibit a spirit of controversy. The results at Government examinations have been highly satisfactory. ol , g The Students’ Home with its 38 inmates takes in the place of our Christian High Schools in Canara and Malabar. 30 of s, el these youths go to the High School, 7 have joined an Upper The s Primary School (practising branch of a Normal School), and populatioa. 1 the Normal School. From 11 to 5 o’clock they attend these - 0 followiﬂg schools. The necessary bodily exercise they get after school- hours by water-drawing, gathering or cutting of firewood, o1 e carpentery and gardening. , Chr? Mr. Reusch intends to make a trial with washing and flooring hsh i (in case he gets the necessary machinery for the latter purpose). abit ¥ LS The Christian youths in South-Makratta undergoing all these Poadus? exercises most willingly and even not shrinking back from gathering ¥ cow-dung, seem to be a very reasonable set of young men. We sl ol presume that this partly explains the fact that one scarcely hears o0 of debts of Mission-agents in South-Mahratta. Two of the students ore finished their course of instruction and joined the Theological iyl ﬂl 28 \ PR Bl Seminary at Mangalore. Mr. Reusch is of opinion that the non- Ot Christian pupils of the High School do not exert any dangerous thrist influence upon the Christian studeunts, and he adds: ¢ It happens on in Hul the other hand that Christian pupils defend their Christian belief adults before non-Christians, and that they give a good example by good Unak; behaviour and ind}lstry.” 1000 fowar 11 Hubli. then attra Only two years after Dharwar, in 1839, Hubli, the chief town in this district, was made a station. The progress also at- this place was rather slow, but it was continuous.— tha Mr. Berli, the Missionary in charge of the station, feels thank- & 1o ful that plague spared the place in 1900, but rain set in very I late, and when the grain began to sprout it stopped and the $00m 4 rain wanted for the second harvest did not come at all. they Hence the prices for food were three times as high as in nley ordinary years. The weavers in the Congregation were almost Slich g destitute and two of them learned washing, which in this part Ve ag of the world means a step of utter desperation. Affliction th'mg ] about in Hubli had not the same effect upon our Christians as in Dharwar. A0qua; Mr. Berli tells us that a special prayer-meeting after the first auly | thhou good harvest was not well attended, especially not by the poor. Where there is no trust in God, there will be confidence into Prevey illegimate expedients. There was a plot in the congregation fl‘Ol]] g concluded for digging for hidden treasures under the advice of this g sorcerers. A boy 10 years of age was employed as a medium to show the treasures. : ) ‘“ﬂpress The matter was brought to light at last and the offenders were put under Church-discipline. beﬂg 1 it Iy But Mr. Berli’s report contains also some very encourag- 0 ing news about his congregation. One member of the congre- Dajyt gation on each pay-day gives one Rupee to the Mission. foung Another one keeps a box for thankofferings in his house. that ¢ el 1t $he Or it may happen that a father on the day when his child is angen christened, gives a considerable donation.—The congregation happensi in Hubli and Unakallu has increased from 421 to 434. Three stian beli adults have been baptised during the year. It is a pity that le by aud i" Unakallu, small as it is, should be divided into parties. The non-Christians in those parts are said to be friendly disposed towards Christianity and its Missionaries. How important then that a congregation in their midst will render Christianity attractive to them. , the ol ogtess Y As to the Work amongst non-Christians Mr. Rath thinks fnuots- that in those parts with which he is acquainted, there prevails oels thatk a most decided hatred against Christ. sef 10 1] People will coolly listen to any exposition, even on sin, but as ol and soon as the name of Christ is mentioned they retract even what they had admitted before. They are ready for religious disputations ne ot il ¥ under condition that Christ’s name is not introduced. Of course high & i joLe alns such a condition is quite out of question. The testimony of what we as Christians enjoy through believing in Christ is just the one o this p‘v&ﬁ thing needful in proclaiming Christ’s kingdom. Mr. Rath tells us fichon about a man in Unakallu, who has abandoned idolatry, is well fans 81 acquainted with the Missionaries, prays to Christ, calls Jesus his only hope and desire, and is fully convinced that he will perish o te ¥ without Christ. He wished to be baptised, but the relations y the pOﬁf. prevented the Catechist from entering the house and the poor man from going out. For the time, nothing can be done but commend gt isg this man to God and His grace.— Mr. Berli is of opinion that in this part of the country neither plague nor famine made a great | medwm (? " 1 impression on non-Christians. On the other hand ‘although the gt I i belly is the god of these people’, yet the allurements of that Sanyési did not avail much. The attacks were too clumsy. One instance will suffice. «“The Bible cannot be believed,” he ncou? maintained, ‘““there are so many Bibles: there is Tolstoi’s Bible, one pe 0 found in Tibet, the Bible of Barnabas, the Roman Catholic Bible, o N that of Protestant Christians, the Galatians too had their own Bible, s I e 60 which is not yet printed”. If such delicious nonsense turns the fad to attention of the people to the Bible, we have every reason to be il sl thankful that the Sanyési has promulgated his original thoughts Sagoti on the Bible in this part of India. pissed Ouf Schooi for non-Christians at Old Hubli suffered first nember on account of the plague and then by the famine. whole heen 1 My. Berli, on behalf of the station, offers his most sincere Mr.on thanks to Dr. Cardoz for his professional assistance to the Missionaries and the Native Christians at Hubli. for ity atten As a rule at all our stations there is a monthly course of ule, f instruction for our Catechists (¢f. last year’s Report, pages 31 Gated and 32). The table set by Mr. Berli before his fellow-workers o was abundant in spiritual food. As in those regions Artidha Svami, a Vedantist of great renown, makes much ado and has churel 10 beay gathered many disciples round himself, Vedantism was one ¥ Bef of the topics taken up. Mr. Berli besides gave his views on 0lbstaf the development of the offices in the Christian Church, on some doctrines of Romanists and Ritualists, on the origin and our Deo iﬂ A e authenticity of the Holy Scriptures. Th satisfy 12 Bettigeri. Dlaing Two years after Hubli, in 1841, Bettigeri and its ouf- iﬂg al station Malasamudra were founded. Ambassadors of the faulp so-called Kalajnana-sect, who pretended to acknowledge in With ¢ the appearance of Christianity in India the fulfilment of an Wanye old prophesy, came from the east of Dharwar and Hubli, and h iy our Missionaries were impulsive enough to believe in the Ty purity of these people’s motives and consequently they were decelved. The weavers amongst them were settled down at Bettigeri and for the peasants an agricultural colony was established at Malasamudra. After a short time, the Mission- I aries were left alone with their new-built houses, and they of By -3 61 B 56 fums fi had to begin anew in the ordinary manner by preaching Teason fo and schools. Through the conversion of some families at inal fhougs Shagoti in 1865 another out-station arose, which soon sur- { passed Malasamudra. In Bettigeri we have 423 Church- members, in Shagoti 113, and in Malasamudra only 24 (the suffered ] whole station 560). During the last year, Mr. Mayer has most sk been in charge of the Congregation; at the end of the year My. and Mys. Warth arrived from Europe and set free Mr. Mayer tance fo | ; for itinerating work. The Christians at Bettigeri diligently attend church on the whole, but there are exceptions to the ly coure i rule, for at the end of the year a few had to be excommuni- ort, pages cated as they never attended church, and all efforts to ! iR S ellow-onrk improve them had proved abortive. Some of those going to oions Artl church are in danger of supposing that they deserve to go L ado and b to heaven for doing so. 4 1 s i Bettigeri had the necessary rain, but only Bettigeri, the two Jis Tiews ¢ out-stations have not been so well off, and also in Bettigeri some of prch, onsi our people were compelled to fast one day or one day and a half ) origh W in a week. / The Orphanage for Boys contains 67 boys. Mr. Mayer is satisfied with their behaviour in general, but he also com- plains of their dulness. They show no spirit; they are loung- ing about instead of playing. This is to a great part the and 10 fault of the Schoolmasters, who believe that it is incompatible L with the dignity of a Schoolmaster and contrary to good ol t Even the example of an flomi manners to play with their pupils. European Manager will not persuade them to put off this Hoth misplaced solemnity. e ¥ 18 ﬂ]ef i ] | f fed 13 Guledgudd. ooy In 1847, an adherent of the so-called Nudi-sect (a mixture o 5® of Pantheism with some Mohammedan and Christian ideas) L 5, O e e 62 came from Guledgudd to Bettigeri; he found what he sought for and was baptised there. As others followed from the same i Jod sect the station Guledgudd was founded in 1851. Guledgudd bis | with 1ts out-stations is the largest station of South-Mahratta i (617 Church-m embers). This station suffered greatly by last The 1 year’s dearth. The misery was greatest in the northern part allow of the Dijapur district. Though seed was sown three times side in many places, nothing would grow. Some useful work could Four M be done by giving relief-work to poor Christians. 50 & adults and 11 children were admitted to the Christian Church. fopic Amongst these were the parents of a girl in the Orphanage (ol with the remainder of the family. Myr. Lutz is not quite Were satisfied with the spiritual life in the Guledgudd Congregation, Whe although the hand of God lay heavily on them: the famine long having been followed by cholera. in By P liste It is a pity that almost all the Pastors in the South-Mahratta distriet complain of the negligence of parents with reference to the Al schooling of their children. A change for the good has taken s, place at the out-station Halkurki (¢f. last year’s Report, page 87). Categ There love seems to have overcome the obstinate hearts. Mr. Lutz oo received 4 poor children from the little congregation into his house and heart. They were awfully ignorant when they came, and when they joined their class-mates again they distinguished themselves Went very favourably. To come nearer to the hearts of his estranged Tn gy flock, Mr. Lutz took lodgings in the little chapel situated pictu- the 8 resquely on the top of a hill, and through intercourse with the the g; children also the hearts of the parents were drawn nearer. Every ‘xhem g evening the little ones ‘*‘paid their respects” to the Missionary, i ?he ex; recited their seriptural sentences and after having received some Chy food they went home.—Of Kardenhalli, the second out-station after 0 the Mushtigeri, Mr. Eisfelder reports that the people there are confiding, contented and thankful. Most of the inquirers came from there. Suffopg an DY Both of the Missionaries there take part in the Evangelistic Mopyy, Work of the station. Mr. Eisfelder mentions the following:— (Some 63 e be s In a place called Aminagudde a man sometimes used to come ) the e He daily and declare that Christianity is the only true religion. had read a good deal and talked also about baptism, but owing to ruledgull Mabat his fickleness he could not come to a decision.— At Honyund tly by bt Mr. Eisfelder was challenged to enter upon a public disputation. The terms were not quite fair: on our side only the Missionary was thern allowed to speak, the Catechists had to keep silence, on the opponent’s e fine side everybody was privileged to take part in the discussion. work col Mr. Eisfelder was cautious enough to take the lead in the business, ans. o so as to avoid unprofitable talk on all kinds of the subtleties. The an Churd topiecs were God, His existence, the love, justice and holiness of God, our duties towards Him, and the circumstances at that time Ophangt ot qul were favourable to a very praectical treatment of all these subjects. ongregilh When finally Mr. Eisfelder began to exhort them to resist God no the {om longer and besides not to leave love’s labour entirely to Christians in Europe and America, they quite forgot their disputation and ' listened most attentively. -t Although there are no paid Bible-women in Guledgudd, oot 0 J bas e Mrs. Lutz with the assistance of her ayah and the wife of a t, g i Catechist worked amongst the Hindu women in the neighbour- hood of Guledgudd. afo i b The Girls’ Orphanage at Guledgudd is under the manage- { e 6, a0 ment of My. Fisfelder. Out of 77 children 69 attend school. i {hen® | In autumn two children from Dharwar brought measles to s st the school, and not less than 20 children were attacked by iaated P4 the disease. Fortunately none died, but as usual most of o il b them suffered for a length of time from the after-effects. In arel b the examinations the children fared well on the whole. ! i » Christmas-time last year must have made a deep impression gl t.statioﬂf"ﬁf' on the heart of the children. In a time when the whole country ﬂ,l’e 000 i suffered from scarcity of food, Christian friends in Europe prepared an extra treat for poor children out here in India. Besides, on the on 14 morning of the festival the whole of the school went to the town g (some miles distant from the Orphanage), wherse the songs of children ol — il i 64 helped much to make the service in the church more impressive. On died, this occasion 6 of the children received baptism. What a joy it il must have been for Nagi (now Sulakshmi) to be admitted to the Yifire Church of Christ together with her parents and the other children, plase who had followed her. There was little Subbakti, a dear child, thurel who however had to be divorced from her former husband, before thelr ¢ she could be baptised. Two others of the girls, when they came and asked admittance to the Orphanage, they said that their parents they S0rTo had died from plague, which story proved to be untrue. Their father, a holy hemp-smoker and vagrant, was on a trip to Benares 0 and the mother wandered about in Guledgudd, so before the children Missh were baptised, the written agreement of the mother was obtained. ! 14 00eas] Bijapur. passy The station at this historical place was taken up in 1885. e ¢ The growth of this congregation has been rather slow (46 against e 50 in last year). With reference to the famine Mr. Metz gy reports:— 4 golds “In places, where last year no harvest coﬁld be obtained, 0me 1y this year things are satisfactory, but the part of our Then g district, which is called the granary of Bijapur, had no harvest in the at all. Many villages consequently have become depopulated; Werg (‘Thre people have either gone to places where the Government has opened relief-work or they have gone to the Nizam’s dominions, dispuy, where they have had a good harvest. Another calamity of ing the tofrygt this station was the scarcity of water. The poor in this district seem to have been very well looked after by Govern- =il ment and the Municipality of Bijapur. Besides also wealthy Trugg b then | Hindus distinguished themselves by liberality. One of them In addition to then is said to have fed about 200 persons a day. gy hunger and thirst the poor people of this district were also ask I visited with cholera and an epidemic of typhus. Cholera Categ passed by our little congregation, but Mrs. Metz had a bad brok attack of typhoid fever and one of the Christian Schoolmasters Drege 65 préssise, [ died. We offer our hearty thanks to the Civil Surgeolyn Dr. . hat & H. Horton, who treated the family of the Missionary and the nitted fo fe Native Christians with great devotion and skill. Myr. Metz 18 her childe pleased with his little Congregation. People go regularly to a ear ot @ church and joyfully contribute to the expenses according to shand, bele their ability. For cleanliness and a civilised appearance on they e e pae they compare favourably with their Hindu or Mohammedan surroundings. troe, Thl ip 0 Bonats Of course, at such a small station the greatest part of a o the obilie Missionary’s time will be given to Eva,r‘lg'elistic Work. s obtainel Mr. Metz and his Catechists preach in the bazaar, but on one occasion not a single person appeared, the people there being passionate card-players.— Out in the district Mr. Metz in general 1upin1 met either with sympathy or indifference, open hatred was rarely ({oagn experienced. Of course, the pressure of public opinion is also felt. e M e “Onee on our way home,” Mr. Metz relates, we passed the house of a goldsmith who, sitting on the threshold of his house, invited us to come in. We did so and had a pleasant conversation with the man. e Then somebody passed by, saw us and said: ‘Oho, you have called pal‘t of W in the padri and his people, what does this mean?’ The people o o were so upset after this that we thought best to withdraw.” — | depopulated “Three years ago, in a little town, a Swami invited me to a publie rernnet disputation. No Catechist was allowed to open his mouth. Know- s dominiocﬁ‘ ing the ways of this man, I made up my mind to accept the offer, but p ol to frustrate his intention. “Who are you?’ he commenced. ‘T am L. e —¢What are you?’ ‘Iam I’.——¢What do you mean by saying I?’ arh ) (jore ‘I mean I.”— ¢ Who speaks through you, if you speak?’ ‘If I speak, then I do speak.’—¢ What is the meaning of saying I?’ ¢If I say I, also il et 18 then I mean to say I.”— Now I asked him: ‘Do you know what a man o addt” fl means, if he says I?’ ¢I know it most certainly.’— ¢ Well, why do you ask me about it?’ He seemed to be a little perplexed and when a e ore (b e Catechist put in a question, he said rather angrily: ‘You have (b broken the agreement!’ After that he wanted to send away all 2l ef?’ hﬂd present, to which I objected, saying: ‘It is not becoming to you to Gghadly i 66 e show anger. I did not come here to lose my time with such. sub- sngl tleties and puerilities, but to bear message of the salvation in Christ ek for sinners guilty of death, and this message is meant also for you, flich old man. If you do not accept Christ as your Saviour, you will be 2 Mis lost.— The answer which this Swami had expected from me, was: R ‘I mean, I am a man’, and then, as a Vedantist, he would have gone sty on to prove that man is only part of the Divine being, and that sin {ound and salvation are words which convey no meaning. Now this man fohe I met again the other day. He listened attentively to our preaching and remembered our conversation three years ago very well. When lespis we said good bye, he took my hand, accompanied us to the gate of Dreciy i fi the town and promised to pay me a visit at Bijapur.” —In a village 54 miles away in the N. E., Mr. Metz made the acquaintance of Misg people who had read Christian books and thought on their teaching. 100rg The headmaster of the school there said: ¢ We cannot do otherwise Drer than trouble ourselves about the Christian religion, and as soon as D S we have come to the conclusion that it is the true religion, we of the shall be bound to join you, whatever the consequences of such a mith i step may be.” The same man, 5 years ago, in a somewhat rude fhat ¢ manner had rebuffed the Missionaries with the remark that the had f0 Hindus are in possession of a much more excellent religion than lamey the Christians. I The Mission keeps up three schools at Bijapur: a Mahratti made Primary School for non-Christians, a Canarese Primary School Settin for Christians and non-Christians, and a Mahratti Girls’ School. Th The Girls’ School gives opportunity to Mrs. Metz to do some Seemed Mission-work amongst Hindu-women, the mothers of these WhO lig girls inviting Mrs. Metz to come to their houses. baf 1g; i ﬂ\aH fd 1 o Honavar. Sellinq Politically Honavar does not belong to South-Mahratta, Ehegy but to North-Canara. As it however belongs to the Bombay OUtSpU Presidency and as the educational rules are the same there asin Congjg South-Mahratta, we found it more convenient to connect this Sehog) = 67 h such b single station of North-Canara with South-Mahratta. As far on in (fr back as 1838 a school was opened in the bazaar of Honavar, lso for which had to be closed again. Then in 1845 Honavar was made younilk ¢ a Mission-station, but the work there was several times given m e, 7 & up and taken up again. In 1866 Karwar was tried as an | have g out-station with no better result. Although as regards the and thit @ founding of a Christian congregation there, Honavar proved o this ! to be a painful disappointment and a failare, it is not to be- it preachis; despised as a centre of evangelisation, for God granted some well, Ve precious fruits from this field of labour. As to the Congregation o thegate! in Honavar itself, we are glad to say that Mr. Risch, the o o vl Missionary in charge of the station, feels free to draw a quantt ( ittt more pleasant picture of his Church this year than in o ofhere® previous ones. ELLLE Some disturbers of the peace have gone and the remaining part' ,religon of the congregation is anxious to come to a better understanding s of s with its spiritual leader. The attendance at divine servieces is all ol that could be desired. During the hard times, when the weavers ﬂ&fk {hat fi had to wait for their wages, one did not hear murmuring or lamentation. peligon o My. Risch, in the first year of his work at this station, made some extended Preaching tours with the intention of ) \[a‘h}';"] getting acquainted with his new sphere of work. maﬂ SCL“ Though he came through parts of the country, where the Gospel Gil'lS’ Schﬂl‘: seemed never to have been preached, he did not come across people, ) i who never had heard about Christianity. Knowledge abouat Christ [ ! had reached them at Hindu festivals. We are glad to hear that at a Hindu festival near Honavar the younger members of the congregation quite of their own accord helped by singing and by selling tracts. On the whole, the success of the work has not been encouraging, Mr. Risech met either with indifference or with g outspoken aversion. However, the preaching at Anilgoda Mr. Risch ) the Bﬂmh? considered a real pleasure, and he aseribes it to the influence of our ol school there. We have another school at Herangadi, and these 5% P, 68 Sl schools seem to prepare the way for evangelisation, as they remove (qnms all kinds of prejudices against Mission-work, as well as teach e Christian truth in the elementary manner suited to the people.. Jissio Mr. Samuel Bunyan, our Evangelist (stationed at Karwar), fhroug makes the following remark:— of tim I cannot point out any fruit of my work. Of our Lord Jesus mythi we read: ¢ Behold, all the world runs after Him.’ Why is my work mith uot accompanied with any result? Does the cause lie with me? lagt 3 These questions urge me to earnest prayer that God for Christ’s and i sake may equip me with the necessary power from on high. many However, people listen to-.our preaching and this in itself is also a kind of fruit.” At Bhatkal an old schoolmaster came to the have travellers’ bungalow, and in a conversation with Mr. Samuel i o gho declared all the Hindu gods and Hindu customs to be useless. “ However one experience,” he says, ‘“keeps me to the old belief, Mg} In our temples we cover the idol all over with flowers, and if we lomg j Mytirg have a special request, we will ask the idol to give us a flower in acknowledgment of the god’s readiness to fulfil the request and mhat in by behold, often a flower falls into the lap of the petitioner.”” Mr. Samuel’s answer was really to the point. “If you again go to the temple Some 1) with a special request in your heart, put the flower on the ground thl‘ew [ the ¢ before the idol and ask your god: if thou art willing to grant my request, I beseech thee to show such readiness by taking up this in (g Jesag flower and putting it on my nose. For you see, if the idol can throw flowers into one’s lap, it will also be able to take them up.” 18 ag The schoolmaster admitted that indeed this would be a still more Spite f distinet sign from the gods.” b 1ela already b 51\'&“ 1 IV. MALABAR. o 16 Cannanore. iy Camy The work at Cannanore was commenced in 1839 by Dr. With Gundert, who came over from Tellicherry to look after a Whol, small congregation of Tamil-Christians there. In 1841 &lth()u P e 69 they o Ca,nﬁanore, at that time a military station of great import- oll s tud ance with many Europeans, was taken up as a separate people Mission-station with Hebich as its first Missionary, who through his Missionary zeal and great originality in course at Karwy E of time amongst Europeans and Natives acquired an almost i Lord Je mythical celebrity. Cannanore is the only station in Malabar, y is 0y i with an increase worth mentioning (1168 against 1123 e with last year). 38 persons have been admitted to the Church, 0 for Qb and if the Weaving Establishment had not been full, a good om o0 1 many more might have been admitted. Most of the converts tseld sl have relatives in the Christian Church. came fo Mr, Siue There is a family of the Veidyagar-caste, which gradually seems to choose the good part. First of all Kunhirdman (now Jesudasan), o be Munshi at Cannanore and Tellicherry, was baptised after having tho ol ¢4 borne joyfully witness of his belief in Christ. In order to avoid a ors, ald frk rupture with his family, he kept his relatives in the dark about g5 a ot what was going on, which caused him also to be not quite sincere o toqui ﬂﬂ:i in his dealings with his new surroundings and deprived him for 3l S some time of the former peace and joy in his mind. Finally he {0 the o threw off the fear of men and found the right way. For Ramuti, on the %'mmi the elder brother, who by the Bible-women and the Sunday-School fo gt g \ in Chalat had often come in touch with the Gospel, the baptism of pabing U0 4 Jesudasan also became a day of decision and he is one of the o 7 18 adults, who were admitted last year. Jesudasan hopes that in gho o't spite of the shock, which his conversion has given to the family, all ) 88 gl his relatives will follow him in course of time. And indeed, a sister already took the decisive step, a younger brother and a cousin we shall meet at the next station, and some others seem to be on the point of deciding for Christ. As to outward conditions of life the congregations in Cannanore (about 780 souls) and in Chowa (an out-station 1 with 345 souls) are in a very favourable position. On the 18 whole, Malabar cannot be said to have been a famine-district, Lok o bl : although the prices of rice and other‘ necessaries of life were S oo 70 rather high, and moreover the vast majority of our people in gave it Cannanore and Chowa did enjoy a competency through the (Cherr bad gof Weaving Establishment. As to the spiritual life of the sermants Cannanore Congregation, the prayer-meetings mentioned in last year’s Report (pages 90 and 91) were also continued last year spent & fhe gues in a quiet manner. We are sorry to say that peace and 1r, Pef harmony in the congregation have been considerably disturbed found 1 on the occasion of the election of an elder. As usual, the festimals commotion was caused and the greatest noise was made by ] tom such who were not known before as men of a high spiritual still ol type. Meetings held in both congregations at the end of the Peaple year seem to have been accompanied by a special blessing. At Ka Mr, Pe Mr. Tobias, the Native Pastor at Chowa, complains of the ad g existence of an unbrotherly spirit in his congregation; people are 1oy § Li outwardly reconciled with each other, but they do not forgive each other from their hearts. The Pastor longs for an out-pouring of faee ) Hligion God’s spirit on the whole eongregation. 16480 A young men’s association has risen again to life, and bﬂdy il there is a Sunday-School with 75 children and 3 masters. 0 bel; The two Congregational Schools at Cannanore and Chowa, as Mareh well as the three Schools for Hindus at Chalat, Payyanur and (iA M Taliparambu are in a good condition. That last mentioned limsg| has to fight its way against the competition of two Nambutiri schools. I Com }'[Op]as Whilst Mr. Schaal has been in charge of the congregations, tkes, Mr. Peter has carried on the Evangelistic Work of the station. feaiy b With As all the land south of Kasaragod sounds with the Malayalam language, the district of MMr. Peter is too extensive for one Sioy 0 s man, and our Mission will soon have to see its way to establish With a Malabar station between Kasaragod and Cannanore. to 00 Mr. Peter is popular amongst all different sects of the population for in and around Cannanore. At the commencement of last year he divip A 71 s RS T peopls gave at his own bungalow a treat to a number of low-caste children through (Cherumar), in whose schools, not belonging to the Mission, Mr. Peter had got permission to give Bible lessous. Mr. and Mrs. Peter, the life of f servants of the house and, last but not least, the Cherumar children Joned laaii, spent a few very happy hours that afternoon, and as the hosts and wed g the guests were out-castes, nobody felt polluted by the entertainment. b peace ol Mr. Peter attended a number of small Hindu festivals, which he bly disur found not so favourable to the propagation of the Gospel as big s uoml, festivals or house-to-house visitations. People throng together in as male b a comparatively small space or are scattered about in little groups, high syt still old acquaintances may be renewed by the Missionary and e end of people can be reminded of former conversations at their houses. At Kannadiparamba an Adhikari, who collected taxes, called for )l blessg He was very attentive Mr. Peter and requested him to preach. plains o and a number of better people joined us there. At the same place o people every year asvery self-conceited man with a sweetish smile on his ¢ All f forgie A face appears and, affecting the Guru of the nations, he says: oottt} i religions are good, nobody knows who and how God is, for this reason you are very wrong to attack another religion. Let every b, W body please himself and believe in the God, whom he is accustomed ol to believe in.”” People have often heard this address and it does 4§ mas not greatly affect them. Besides the man expects no answer; he o Chord, marches on as soon as he has finished his speech. Mr. Peter says: ) ] 1 “A Mopla boy was very impertinent and arrogant. He called 5amu‘ » st menﬁﬂﬂff himself the proprietor of the temple estates and demanded a tax. I committed ‘this fatherless child’ to the kind care of elder 0 Nﬂﬂlbmij Moplas, who understood the hint and delivered us from his insipid jokes. My magic lantern did good services, especially on the 0l gregatioﬂf1 evening after the earthquake. A Brahman family were so pleased with the performance that they made us a present.— On the occa- )f the sta[iUﬂ‘ i sion of the Payanur festival, whilst standing under those gigantic o BV trees, some young men attempted at something like a contract pire 0 They were prepared gl il with reference to the religions of the world. to concede to Christ divine authority and the position of a Saviour 3)1101'9. for the whole world, under condition that we do acknowledge the o divine authority of Parasurama for Malabar. st — 2 Mrs. Schaal and Mrs. Schonthal supervise the work of the them Bible-women at Cannanore. fhat th Mrs. Schaal tells us of a Hindu woman who asked the Bible- plopen frastra woman to admit at least her eldest ‘daughter into one of the Christian Tespect families, as she would not like to see her grow up in the same unhappy state she was in. Mrs. Schonthal relates of a Tiyar girl, [ogt, omn who lived with the Bible-woman Felicitas and was receiving instruction. Some In an unguarded moment three women came and dragged her away. Another girl has come since then and the same only fo the act of violence was tried, Felicitas, however, was on the look-out and Mrs. Schonthal Chare did not permit the relatives to enter her house. and the Bible-women call also upon the Parsi ladies, who however en .‘ most decidedly refuse to enter upon a conversation about religion. I They say that they are not allowed to hear anything about another also religion, as it might tempt thgm to embrace it. 1y The Weaving Establishment, to which we referred above, SV branch has been a great blessing and whilst our Christians in the heg Cannanore and Chowa in these hard times had their appointed the By work every day and the industrious ones amongst them had Drentie no cause to care for the future, Mr. Schinthal, the faithful Manager of this large Establishment, had to pass through many an hour of anxiety. In three ways the Weaving Establishment saffered in consequence of the Transvaal war: D A number of good customers left the military iHVite( station, the animosity between the English and Germans deprived Bagg) us of many a sympathetic friend, and, owing to the transport of ly R troopsand provisions to Africa, navigationalongthe West-Coast became very irregular and some customers began to threaten with the H Degey withdrawal of orders, if not served in time, On the other hand we Whey Nty have every reason to be thankful for the patience shown by some of the customers. A still greater danger for the peaceful work D/( done in the Weaving Establishment at Cannanore has turned up in beca.l the Chinese war. Mr. Schonthal has always been very anxious heg 11 to cultivate amongst his people a sense of thrift and has assisted Doy |, work of f them in the most liberal manner to make them so far self—dépendent that they live in their own houses and their own compounds. The q the Bl propensity for contracting debts and the habit of drinking have the Chrisn p frustrated his endeavours with many of them, but there remains a in the o respectable number of such upon whom love’s labour has not been a Tiyar il lost. In the last year 5 workmen have been helped to get their 98 ey own houses and another one managed to build it without help. 0 came ‘| Some leave the Establishment and set up work for themselves. It is and the s only a pity, if such people put themselves into opposition not only o Jook-out to the Hstablishment, to which they owe everything, but also to Church-discipline. Of some it may unfortunately be said: *They 15, Sohiotl iho hoveié went out from us, but they are not of us.” hout el In connection with the Weaving Establishment last year about e also a Tailoring Establishment has been started. More than 20 youths expected to be admitted, but also in this rred 2t ! branch of work the two wars have brought disappointment. For igtons 1 the beginning, Roman Catholics had to be employed as assistants of ¢t appointe% the European master, but in June 1900 there were already 7 ap- prentices from our congregations at work. s then N fhe ol il fhroug pass 17 Tellicherry. p e Dr. ézmdert, the founder of our Malabar-Mission, was fitenil invited in the year 1838 by his friend Dr. Mogling to join the Basel Mission. mans depﬁffi He left Tinnevelly where he had assisted : t,yanspm i Myr. Rhenius, and commenced his work at Anjarakandy, the present - out-station of Tellicherry, amongst Pulayers there. (ot f60 it 2 When Mr. Strange, the judge of North-Malabar, made over the j ther 8 Nettur-hill near Tellicherry, with his house, to the Mission, i Dr. Gundert settled down there in 1839, and thus Tellicherry oaef il W‘f‘ became the first station of the Malabar-Mission. From the I el beginning down to the present time, the Nettur-hill has been very aﬂ&‘ prominent as the place where the Native agency of our Mission s 8 74 e got its education. Owing to the departure of many families, of Mar the congregations on Nettur and in the town went down fo the om 60% to 585, To begin with Congregation on Nettur, M}‘. Cf 12 adults and 4 children from outside were added to the Anbatt Church. the ord An old mother had followed her son and two tngre daughters, sick unto death; she lingered on for some months, and since she showed a real desire to be with Christ, she was Christi fheir b baptised a few hours before death. Two others of the converts on Net were the younger brother and the brother-in-law of the Munshi Qress g Jesudisan at Cannanore. From Mr. Frohnmeyer’s report we |l take the following: — I, ] There was much sickness and death on Nettur-hill last year. Auty A mother who had contracted consumption whilst nursing her son, fermeg had to lay down her life too after having suffered patiently for e about two years. As everywhere in the world, so also in our congregations, in sickness and death the inmost man reveals himself. fe fs Very often we meet with a dull resignation, which reminds one of Th the fatalism prevailing in Hinduism. “ There is nothing for it, it Catech must be borne,’ ) seems to be the frame of mind. Others want to among shake off the burden and forgetting their Christian calling, they are B not scrupulous in looking out for help. A family was under suspicion Preack that it sought the help of a heathen sorcerer. But we are glad to Noth, say that in time of tribulation the sterling qualities of our Christians ﬁSher.‘ shine forth. Instead of changing physician and medicine every 4 dosiy week, they cast their burden on the Lord. ‘We are thankful also to eafh, state that in time of sickness the term “brother’ really conveys a the 00n meaning, as in time of trouble our Christians, like the members of We fy one family, sympathise with each other. Only in chronic cases and g where the consolation ought to consist not only in words, and in the gt ti | paying of visits, even the nearest relations must now and then be Deayle reminded of their duties. In the administrations to the sick and Schy poor some of the elders are a valuable help. The two congregations thems at Tellicherry united not only on the 6th of January for a Mission- l‘eligi( service at the town, but also on some other occasions. On the 11th deep =, 75 ny fanll of March a new Catechist and an Assistant Catechist were dedicated weut dm to their service in the Mission, on the 1st of July the ordination of 1 00 Nef, Mr. Charles Hermon (now Pastor in the town) and Mr. Samuel died otk Ambattu (Evangelist for North-Malabar), and on the 2nd September the ordination of Mr. Noah Edapalan (Native Pastor of the Nettur- on and ome moufs congregation) took place. As to the employment of our Nettur- Tist, she Christians, by far the majority of them are fortunate enough to earn their bread in a branch of the Cannanore Weaving Establishment the conre on Nettur-hill. Such as do not make unnecessary expenses for f the Mot dress and food have nothing to complain of. ?}'ys l'epoft it The Congregation at Tellicherry Town is looked after by My. Hiller, who arrived in the latter part of the year from bill st e Australia, and Mr. Charles Hermon, who in June was trans- rsing bet ferred from Cannanore to Tellicherry. Almost all the Church- | pataly I members earn their livelihood independent of the Mission, 0 ol 1 oaf the fishermen amongst them with great difficulty. orals ¥ reminds 026 The time of our Evangelist Samuel Ambattu and of three Catechists is entirely given to the Propagation of the Gospel iag | amongst Hindus and Moplas. Othens Tt From Mr. Samuel’s report we learn that with exception of a g, ey 1 f pnder s {i preaching tour in company with Mr. Peter and his staff to the far North, the district round Tellicherry has been toured throvgh. Inthe e o1 0 g]ﬂ&“ﬁ fisher-village of Tellicherry they met a poor man, who formerly had o (e a desire to become a Christian and who now was at the point of death. His relatives standing round expressed their thoughts about sl I the condition of the man, who anxiously read his fate in their faces. allf ! We felt deep compassion with the poor man and took the oppor- b penl? tunity to explain to all of them the great difference between a onit ) ~» death without Christ and the death of a pious Christian. In Chonad s 102 people came at day and night to speak with us; especially some W aﬂd fis schoolmasters stayed a long time with us. On this occasion they ) the Si@}s 3 Igj themselves became conscious of their utter want of a foundation in ) 0005 regﬂf?:“ religious matters, and to escape perplexity they plunged into the ol deep waters of Vedantism to conceal themselves therein. We ap- Ouile J 76 — proached to bring them off, but they emerged only to swim off again. the con omen | In the house of a Tiyan people were astonished to hear that God in Christ loves sinners and that Christians for the sake of this love ind experienced in their hearts do also perform works of love; these g ignorant people had been under the impression that the propagation - g of the Gospel takes place either in virtue of some Government ool order in consequence of a custom amongst Christians, anyhow, of Pl they think we are compelled to walk about and to do this work, ezl whether we like or mnot. ‘When we then explained to them the ey hearer motives and the nature of Mission-work, the lord of the house seemed to comprehend it and began to praise us. Not only that, thered he went inside, took 9 Rs. from a shelf on the top of the threshold inteler and offered this gift to us. $0me g We hesitated to accept it, encouraging him to experience first of all the love of Christ in his own heart. Howere He answered: “I am not yet prepared for that, but perhaps God it s I will bring it about at some time; meanwhile you will accept this”, oty and in saying so he pat the coins into my pocket. How small e hav,'e soever the gift may appear, it revealed a good and tender heart, Afy the man being neither wealthy nor educated. Wil b In addition to this work of our itinerating agents our Chg 4 Bible-women, under the guidance of Mrs. Frohnmeyer, work Tnstify amongst the women in Tellicherry and the adjacent localities. g g From Mrs. Frohnmeyer’s diary we take the following remarks: — Same | ““Some of my most hopeful women have grown rather indifferent, dep&rt and especially one young woman, who seemed especially attached bad ¢ to us, has turned the cold shoulder on us. But the Lord did open The there § also new doors and show new ways during the last year. A thyf wife of a Dresser and her younger sister have been exceedingly nice; Thong the Jatter reading in a Roman Catholic school, asked even questions Cngy on the ‘Limbus infantum’ and also the Dresser’s wife, who has lost 2 children puts questions on the life after death. These new lndgy Ovey friends did even call at the Mission-house. A Nair-woman was The greatly moved when she heard about the sufferings and death of Christ and asked: ‘How is it that Jesus, the innocent son of God, be o) had to die such a horrible death ?’ When I tried to bring her to 10ng A T, wim of i the conviction of her sins, she seemed to evade, but the Bible- 164z that G women told me that after I had left, she was much exercised in her ke of this mind about what I had told her. Also here the earthquake had of Love; they greatly excited people and turned their minds to more earnest he propagaie thoughts. In Tellicherry town, especially in the houses of some 16 Grovemme educated friends and in that of an old and feeble pensioner (Inspector fians, aujlor of Police), we were always welcome with our message. In the do this neighbourhood of Nettur, at Dharmattam, the death of a young and d to then very amiable woman, a former pupil of our school there and a glad of the o hearer of God’s Word, pained us very much. Onthe whole, the field there does not look very hopeful, ssme women dismiss us with very Yot oty ! the thres irrelevant and cheap excuses, but it must be borne in mind that if, encongl some of them have very weighty excuses which they cannot utter. However, also here sometimes quite unexpectedly a door opens and his on bat it has been a very pleasing feature that in some houses also Mopla- i perbap b 1] o women from some neighbouring house come in and listen to what we have to say.” Tl 1 tender e A few other efforts for the evangelisation of this part of Malabar will be mentioned below in connexion with the Theological Seminary. Characteristic of this station are its many Educational g gt © e, Institutions. To begin on Nettur-hill, the Congregational School has got its own building; up to this it has been under the cend |oalt i o same roof with the Christian High School. After the railway- I 1o 1emd it department had taken our school-building at Dharmattam, we ther ind i had to close that school, and many of our old Hindu-pupils geilly 48 there sought now admittance in our school at Nettur, which ) Lol‘d dld cp at that time we could not well refuse. In consequence of this 48 f yeo B! there is a rather large admixture of Hindu-boys in our 3099 mﬁ'l oven qﬂ(}bh“ Congregational School. —The Christian High School on Nettur under the management of Mr. Ruhland seems to have almost e ] il p 8 st overcome the difficulties mentioned during the last years. gipevoni? # The higher classes are fuller and thus also better times may 5 ol fu? be expected for the Theological Seminary. We trust that ere el f 500 i long also a staff of teachers answering to the aim of this ol o bt 2 N e 78 school will be found. Again death entered the school. One i of the pupils died at home in the house of his parents at Romans Honlet Codacal, the other, a very hopeful student of the highest class, died in the school. His peaceful departure made a deep i impression on his fellow-students. He mentioned himself some 1 (ragk Samuel hymns to be sung and fell asleep without a struggle.—The and Mo first object of this Christian High School is to be a preparatory school for the following two institutions: — Th master The Theological Seminary, as to the number of its students, 1s entirely depending on the Christian High School. small 1 sttt At the beginning of March one student (David Hutton) was examined and was appointed as Catechist at Vaniyankulam. Two of gy nertg new students had joined at the beginning of the year and the whole The number of it number of students during the whole year was 9. students we look forward would be 16, and there is every hope that } Nomml § sooner or later our High School will produce the wanted number of Lning 1 students. We are satisfied with the spirit prevailing amongst our It f ¢ seminarists, and it is our impression that most of them submit to the Logan 4] the oy influences of God’s Spirit. Besides the regular devotional exercises in the morning and evening, the students have a prayer-meeting of Joars iy for fhe their own, and on the evening of the 28th October the annual Mission-service was held with a number of speakers on the test), bl programme. Every Wednesday the students of the Seminary with the eng during the Catechists and Pastors present at the station and one of the Missionaries go to the town for bazaar-preaching. In February of the f and October, a preaching tour was made with the Seminary. Con Hindu-festivals that easily can be reached from Nettur-hill, are Whogl always attended and AMr. Noak, the housefather of the Seminary, once spent a week with the students in house-to-house visitations in gy gy the neighbourhood of the hill. In the later part of the year Mr. Frohnmeyer, the Principal of the Seminary, through poor health I has been much prevented from giving lessons and had partly to the I make up for it by dictation. The course of lessons gone through With | last year was the following: — Ut P i) St sl chodl, 0 Mr. Frolmmeyer’: Apologetics. — Exegesis of the Epistle to the | parents o Romans (the last chapters), beginning of the I. Epistle of St. John. ghest dhy Homiletics, Catechetics, Greek and English. ade ot Mr. Sengle: Church History (end of it) and Syn;bolics, Genesis, himself s Hinduism and Sanskrit.— Mr. Greek and English.— Mr. Noah: Samuel: Singing and Violin. A Munshi took part of the Sanskrit uggle~Tt prepataly and Malayalam. The Training School on Nettur-hill (Manager and Head- master: Mr. Frohnmeyer, assisted by Mr. Satyanathan) is a its student The al, small institution for training Lower Secondary teachers. institution is acknowledged by Government, but for the sake Hutton) of greater liberty it does not draw stipends or other Govern- klan, T ment grants. and the e At the beginning of the year, the spiritual atmosphere of this The punte! Normal School was anything but “normal”, but some ventilation having taken place we had nothing to complain of during the second tted nuntér part of the year. In October the school was examined by Mr. g anongst Logan and Mr. Matthai. Mr. Logan seemed to be satisfied with ) Sub{ﬂlﬁ t(] [ﬂi the work done in the school. The students are trained for two fonel et years in order to gain the necessary time to prepare them not only ’l}'er.meetiﬂg ‘f for the Government examinations (Method examination and Practical o the i test), but also for the examination on behalf of the Mission, held at I oalers 0 the end of every year.— Some students of this institution conducted o] ™ during the last year 2 Sunday-Schools at the town for the benefit ad o of the Hindu-children in our two Primary Schools there. B Do Connected with the work on Nettur-hill are two Primary the SemmN? .\"ettur-hill, i Schools at Anjarakandy and Kuttuparambu, The last mentioned, located in a place, where education is greatly appreciated, is o st Y in a very good condition. o i o 0 The so-called Parsi High School in Tellicherry-town changed gh po" W the management two times during the last year. The school had P“ﬂ"f with its 240 pupils had been over-crowded, and it has become fhok’ ] gOﬂe necessary to erect a separate building for the Primary depart- i _80 N ment of the school. M. Hiller, the Manager, has the impression Yecom that some of the boys are under the saving influence of God’s he fo (hrist Spirit. Mr. Charles Hermon, the Pastor at the town, mentions a boy shone who said in the lesson: “Though we do not serve the Lord Jesus S0 | now, a time will come when most of us shall believe in Him, for and v Jesus is the only Saviour.” Another boy composed a small poem pilgti on the Lord Jesus. quite- brong There are two ‘Primary Schools besides in the town: a Girls’ School at Wadikal, as this part of the town is called. to the “All The locality is bad, but the children there are a pleasant sight. heard Mr. Charles Hermon writes: “ At Christmas one could almost hehar imagine that these children were Christian children. They sang chist b Christian songs, recited Seriptural sentences and gave good answers of tho to questions on the occurrence of that day —and all this before their theu; Brahman parents and a crowd of other people which had assembled.” Harny Another Boys’ School for the population in the fishermen- village we can but mention. The far ¢ ey () 18 Chombala. Cathy 10 Chombala, about 12 miles south of Tellicherry, had been will § (since 1845) an out-station of Tellicherry, in 1849 it was the R made a separate station with M. Miiller as its first Missionary. baptls Myr. Weismann and family left in April last year and Mr. Uber 4 ) took charge of the station. We have first of all to mention then | the death of a faithful servant of God:— 1y Paul Karunakaran, an Assistant Catechist and the hermit of b iy Perambara. A hermit not in the ordinary meaning of the word, fond as if he would have shunned the society of other men, nothing of 1) de] that kind, but he lived voluntarily amongst his own people and far the ( away from any Christian community. The sacrifice seems to have Whe been made in vain. His relatives, though personally not unkind helg towards him, were never reconciled with the step he had taken in Ver} 81 citl e lprey becoming a Christian. His life glided along quietly and peacefully; ance of (ol he felt happy in knowing himself reconciled with God throygh Christ and being a child of God. Amongst his people he really has entions by shone as a light and acted like salt. He was in bad health for he Lord I some years, but this burden and his other burdens he bore patiently ¢ in Hin, & and was faithful unto death. And the hour, on which the weary a small o pilgrim was allowed to enter the rest of God’s people, came after all quite suddenly. In order to get medical help for his leg he was brought by his young fellow-worker, Catechist Samuel Mantody, the tomn; ! i el to the hospital at Calicut, where he died on the day of his arrival. leasaut st “All is merey”, were the last intelligible words, which Mr. Jaus heard from his lips. The non-Christian relatives at Perambara y eguld ol behaved so shamefully after the death of dear Paul that the Cate- . They s chist had to be removed from that place. The holy life and example p good SR of their Christian relative seems to have been entirely lost upon v befoe them; but it will take a long time until the remembrance of Paul d asenlld Karunakaran will be forgotten amongst his fellow-Christians. ho fhernet The Congregation at Chombala (530 Church-members) last year came under the influence of a new Missionary and a new Catechist. 9 mermbers of this Church joined the Roman Catholic Church at Mahé. If they do not mend, this step will be neither a loss to the Protestant Church nor a gain to oy, bl ¥ the Roman Church. Only 2 adults and 38 children were 1849 i o Missin! baptised, but a large number of inquirers had to be sent aud MY away, as Mr. Uber could not provide for them, and most of them looked out for nothing else but bodily maintenance. Mr. Uber bad some very sad experiences with these so-called inquirers. If some come only to take rest and to get the necessary fho bt 0 b W f i food, and they run away on the first working-day, there is not much to deplore, but what Mr. Uber writes about a girl, 16 years of age, iy dl the only daughter of well-to-do people, is a very hard case indeed. gt When she joined us, there was a great commotion and the girl then gpens ! ) held out to the last. o She was put in the Orphanage and learned ]y 0t very well, but after some time she began to tell the children in the had tﬂ f il 6 82 Orphanage all sorts of obsecene stories. She was given in care of a Jesires, b fima Catechist, showing herself disobedient there, another house was tried; finally she ran away and, after having been for a whole year under Tl Christian influence, went to the Moplas.— A Tiyan, after having lfe: how ) been firm against all the onsets of his relatives, was overcome by the bealthy ¢ entreaties of his grandmother. Some years ago a mother had left IIr. § husband and child and become a Christian; last year the father %0 1n ¢ permitted the son, 9 years of age, to follow the mother, and one can imagine the joy of the latter. But also the boy’s face beamed with 10f much joy. When asked: “Would you like to become a Christian?” he Oring said: “Yes, and I would like to be called Peter’’ (the mother’s name guests bel being Petrina). 0 0nr qu fon By As to the spiritual life of the Congregation Mr. Uber points inshuctny out as the two chief dangers, care for subsistence and self- s ang righteousness; on the other hand we welcome some indications I, § of spiritual activity. s by ¢ the Mg There is a Bible-meeting for women eonducted by the Catechist and the Headmaster of the Congregational School, one of the elders Catee unites on Monday evening the young men for an hour of quiet Bible- with 4 ) reading.— On the outward conditions of our Christians Mr. Uber eligion remarks: “A good many of our people live from hand to mouth, their Ta only a few understand how to manage their household affairs. heayep, To extricate Good advice they accept willingly, but do not obey it. Sheddeg some out of the hands of the Moplas is an absolute impossibility, to Tads, contract debts has become a second nature with them. Again Nogla iy others, to their great surprise, discover that work makes them tired Uedayg and they turn from it in disgust. A very strange thing it is that b H\“ﬁus’ 0 people who have done hard work before they came to us, object even to easy work as Christians. Whilst Christians complain of want of ha‘d LK gy k employment, non-Christians earn their good wages on the Mission- Wil g station as washermen, coolies, carpenters, blacksmiths and the like. iy Our people look out for mechanical work, requiring not much adrigg) exertion and bringing in high wages. To be a maid-servant in 2 Stupid | Christian family or a servant in a Mission-house scarcely anybody o, 83 st iven in e desires, but a man with a body like a giant would not be ashamed house wast! to turn a spool-wheel.” hole year The little Congregation at Mahé might show more signs of a, after oy life; however, a place with so many brandy-shops is not a overeome i healthy climate for a young Christian congregation. - mother badld Mr. Schilling, the itinerating Missionary of Chombala, is year fhe il hor, and e also in charge of a number of small out-stations, on which 0o beamed v not much of general interest can be said. Chrigtin?” | Owing to the railway-construction between Calicut and Cannanore, 1o mother's e guests belonging to other Christian denominations have been attracted to our out-stations at Badagara and Muverattu. A young Hindu from Falghat came to Badagara and asked for nothing but He has read the Bible and Christian My, Tl ot instruction and baptism. tracts and seems to be upright. L ome india My, Schilling made it a point during the last year not to pass by the houses of Moplas. He compares this work with the Mission-work amongst Jews at home. by the 4 Catechists they treat sometimes very badly. Mr. Schilling lodged one 0 e j with a Mopla who talked mueh about the superstition of his co- o Of quiet Bi i ians 1t religionists. They believe that a letter of recommendation from 5%1 their Tangel (priest) burried with the corpse will open the gates of paad 0087 heaven. The same Tangel can cut open one’s belly without ousehd { o ' shedding a drop of blood; dry wood of which vessels have been i T axld The bl ! made, he is able to cause to take root and to sprout again. Mopla in conclusion rightly remarked: “What separates Moham- st medans and Christians is the belief in a son of God.” Amongst ks Hindus, of course, the reception has been very different. Mr. Schilling i 127 had to deal with the enlightened and with the superstitious. One 0 U5, Obj ot 4 " 4 Hindu declares the whole universe to be a mere dream, and another phi of : will dismiss us without ceremony. Once, when Mr. Schilling o fhe I addressed a number of coolies, a high-caste man passed by and L fhs 41 advised Mr. Schilling and the Catechists not to trouble about such iting s .E‘ stupid fellows, but to follow him. Having heard the message of | aid.servﬂﬂfi our people at his house, he said: “Nothing is true as to these gods; a0 gy " 6* oy e e 84 ltl § behold I have got only a daughter and no son!” Then he called for There ¢ a reed, and pointing at it he said: “Do you see this reed? a hole above, a hole below, the wind blowing through, nothing else —this They is man!”’ I char much In a similar strain goes what Mrs. Uber.reports as the home ¢ experience of the Bible-woman Markia at Mahé. the Tn A woman there complained that she had spent much money for Jess ] medicines, but all to no purpose. Finally a sanyasi advised her to perform certain ceremonies and to make a vow to Ishvara. “It s Th ) and 3 now about a year,’ she said, ‘‘that I met the sanyési and I obeyed his prescription to the letter, alas I did not derive any benefit.” the Jap The Bible-woman set her right as to the sanyasi and directed her And ] to One, who is able to save to the uttermost. They read and shealy explained Matth. 5, 1-12. The woman promised to leave the bind The Bible-women on the sanyasi and to pray to the Lord Jesus. - whole are kindly received, and in many houses they find portions of the Bible. An old woman, who had said at the beginning that she never cared for the Védas, on hearing of Christ, the judge of Fro the quick and the dead, asked the Bible-woman with a trembling Cpita) voice to show her the way to heaven. ¢ they The schools of the Orphanage and of the congregation Ve my are identical. There is a large school at Mahé, receiving 2 laid ¢ lump-grant from the French Government and 4 Primary txten Schools at Karakadu, Badagara, Muverattu and Perambara. Zatiop The Girls’ Orphanage at Chombala at the end of the hot almogt season in common with the institutions at Nettur suffered 'rllll()ngs greatly from want of water. The calamity was so great that et finally the orphans had to be sent home. After the re-open- s Xm‘ee ing of the school influenza and measles broke out, and finally 1l about 30 children had to be kept in quarantine. On the 14th P § July one of the children (Maria, an orpban from the far in f South) died from consumption. The lively and talented child cholg must have found it very difficult to go the way of death, and 8ce 4 she will be missed by all who knew her, especially by her hegli} S 85 0 he ealllh littl/e sister, who stands now in this world without relatives 8 reed? sl There are 106 girls (from 6 to 15 years old) in the Orphanage ling else-fi They add much life and colour to the congregation me'eting in church. Their songs and good answers are missed very much during the holidays. About 20-30 children have no eports home and must be entertained also during vacations. When much moner the Inspectress of Schools came for inspection there were not less than 64 children on the sick-list (27 of the Orphanage). 1 advised bt [shvara, ‘L The most glorious of all days also in Chombala is Christmas, st and Lolee and a kind of fore-taste is enjoyed by the girls on that day, when the large box does arrive sent by the kind friends in Switzerland. o any bl and direced And then the light and joy on Christmas-evening! Poor Martha, They el she alone stands sad in the midst of all the light and mirth —she is ]ty lous blind and eannot see her doll! o.yonen 0 ey pois” 19 Calicut. ] begiuning th:‘ s, the i From Tellicherry the work was carried on to Calicut, the capital of Malabar. For some years a Catechist was station- ith o il ed there and with the baptism of 13 adults on Christmas 1846, we may say that My. Fritz, the father of this congregation, laid the foundation of the station. The work has greatly be, el extended. In Calicut we have not only our largest congre- d 4 P gation in. Malabar (1813 souls), we see there represented d Perambﬁl'?‘ and of j almost every activity of Mission-work. A good many changes amongst the Mission-agents took place at this station. We et 8 mention first of all the death of the Rev. Jonah Padiath, 3 80 gl o Pk Native Pastor of Calicut. or fhe 1 it l Like a peal of thunder the news of his death broke upon the poor family and the congregation. Mr. Jonah did not die at home (u " He died of in the midst of his flock attached so closely to him. from cholera on the 22nd October at Tuticorin, whither he had gone to ol see a married daughter and her husband, who was not in good of dea b health. He leaves a widow with 6 children. For 30 years he had | )0 i LRI e 86 been stationed at Calicut, the last 15 years as Pastor. Mr. Jaus, wile, . Je who for many years, first as itinerating Missionary and afterwards in the Calicut congregation, had been united with him in the work, itere | makes the following communications about a funeral-service, which s, | took place at Calicat about the same time when the actual funeral S pre furmed took place at Tuticorin. Mr. Jaus spoke first on the great loss gven b sustained by the Mission and pointing out the promise of Dan. 12, 3, he tried to give the consolations of God’s Word. Mr. Stephan there, Chandran, the successor of Mr. Jonah at Calicut, a relative and A intimate friend of the deceased, drew a picture of his character and satist life and with reference to Hebr. 13, 7 he exhorted the congregation hand, to show her respect and love for her shepherd by following his prage example. In behalf of the Presbytery also Mr. Man. Jacob: addressed Childn the congregation, spoke of many a quiet hour of prayer and Bible- study in the house of Mr. Jonah, and expressed the thanks of the Yory there congregation for all the work done by this faithful servant of God. p O th At the beginning of the year Miss A. Ehrensperger and Jigh Mr. H. Hofmann arrived from Europe, later on in the year Sister Kiithe Fritz. Sor In August Mr. Heckelmann, in charge of the Tile-Works, had to leave rather suddenly on account of a A ooy a0 sun-stroke, but was relieved by Mr. Singer from Codacal. lso § At different places and times 42 adults and 4 children from were added to the Church during the year. Mr. Jaus reports 0omg; that he had to send away many peOplQ, even mothers with de]i\’ei their children. Who } fake, We take a special interest in the first baptisms at Annashert, 4 ¥id a new out-station. Assistant Catechist Lazar Pavamani, who Otuny came from this part of the country, was stationed there and had much *> to suffer from relatives and other neighbours. But Lazar’s family fy theyy was like a light brightly shining. Still the hatred of the people was so great that a school for Cherumar there had to be abolished; A about 6-8 children, however, are secretly instructed. So the are festival of baptism was a great refreshment to Lazar and his family. ?(ind The candidates for baptism were the brother and sister of Lazar’s 10 o 9 87 Srtaie Lt to M, wife; along with these also the Catechist’s youngest daughter. nd afterna Mr. Jaus tries his best to keep all the converts from Annasheri m 1o the mt where they are. One of them began a little trade, and sells ghee, Service, il eggs, honey, fowls and the like at Calicut. A young Nair, who actual fue was prepared to join us, was taken back and — strange to say — has the great b turned into an enemy of the Gospel. Lazar is prepared to lay down even his life for the good of Annasheri and the victory of the cross y of Dan. 11 Ir. Sty | I there. 3 rolative o As to the Congregation at Calicut, Mr. Jaus is not quite § charadtr i satisfied with the observance of the Lord’s Day. On the other i congregath: hand, he is confident to say thatin all respectable houses family- g follonig prayer, and in some even special devotional exercises for the coh adires children are held. About 18 people have united in a so-called ayer and Bik « Morning Watch” for the purpose of Bible-reading. Besides o thanksof B servant of O there are the prayer-meetings mentioned last year (page 93). | On three days of the week these people do meet and Mr. rousperg i Jonah very faithfully took a part in these meetings. hopear 1 Some of our Christians really believe in the power of prayer. chat 00 (1 f A poor workman in Pudiarakal was attacked by cholera. He took ot 0 a cup of water, knelt down and prayed: “Oh Lord, thou canst make also this water a water of life to me, and by means of it bring me i Codah from death to life. Oh do so, my Helper. Amen !77 From that nd 4 i moment recovery set in, and he was sure that not men, but God had p Joi 1E delivered him from death. The congregation contains also members ot who have begun to feel that it is more pleasant to give than to take. A school-mistress gave half of her first salary to the Mission, o if dn a widow got a nice collection by laying something aside on all joyful | pyati” occurrences. Mr. Jaus later on in the year began to distribute boxes ok for thank-offerings and realised Rs. 60 at the end of the year from goand these boxes. Lo’ i1 ol o f o A great bother to the Pastor of such a big congregation il are a number of youths without employment, who by all i ho s Ik U mcted kinds of mischief discredit the Christian young men of Calicut il in general. Hence the work amongst the young ones is of sister o I 88 e the greatest importance. Messrs. Kiihner and Hofmann, ap b belonging to the Mercantile Mission, are doing a good work el in this direction. There are three Sunday-Schools with about il i 60 pupils each, which are superintended by these gentlemen. ] satisf 1§ Mr. Kiihner takes also a leading part in the cause of the young men at Calicut. The English and Malayalam division il emb of the Y. M.C. A, at Calicut had its anniversary on the 3rd of a October, the importance and solemnity of which Were en- works hanced by the presence of Mr. McConoughy, Mr. P. Wilder them and Mr. Bader. nunl A sermon of Mr. Bader on John 20, 19-23 was followed by divin an address of Mr. Wilder on the spirit-filled life. In the afternoon a conference took place of the delegates sent by the associations at disty Cannanore, Codacal, Vaniyankulam, Palghat and Calicut. A Commit- tee was formed with a member of each station to found new assoei- 0 ations and to quicken the spiritual life in those existing. Besides » 10 0r o § the new Committee was commissioned to get a special agent, who will devoted all his time to the cause at Mg of these Young Men’s Associations. - Oy That the work done amongst the young ones is not in vain, may aff tn be seen from the happy death of some of the young members in the 0 sy Calicut congregation. Mr. Jaus mentions one Stella, a dear sick 10 ap child, who was for a long time laid up with consumption and was B0y patient to the end. She longed to be with Christ, whom she loved all th from all her heart. There was Jane Thaddai, 14 years of age. W8 of Nursing her sick mother, who was in a very critical state, the poor to pn child overtaxed her strength. Her brother too was lying sick with 1¢] g typhoid fever in the hospital, having a narrow escape, meanwhile Wisg his sister succumbed to the same awful disease at home. ‘What - Ohig an amount of misery in one family! Jane was a quiet, diligent and n () obedient daughter, it seems a precocious fruit, ripe for the heavenly fin ¢ barn. — Immanuel Upot was a youth, 18 years of age, and he died from The typhoid fever. He seems to have been a very talented boy, showing 1y an artistic turn of mind. But above all he was deeply religious, a 0dg most diligent reader of God’s Word. In real earnest he had made Chy “89 e d Hyfim He took 'a. up his mind to dedicate his life to the service of God. & gool m very touching farewell from his poor parents, for whom this bereave- Is with abui ment was a most severe trial. 56 genflens A Church Choir practises on Saturday evening. —1It is very cause of satisfactory to read in Mr. Jaus’s report that elders and We hear alam ding members of the Church take part in Mission-work. ry o the of a blacksmith, who on evenings and Sunday afterncons ich Yere o works amongst non-Christians and distributes leaflets amongst Ir, P, Wil them. At Calicut it is no uncommon sight at all to have numbers of non-Christians at the Church-door during the ag folomed divine service, most of w]nnom are attentive hearers. ) the aferd This leads over to the Work amongst non-Christians in the associafions districtf out, A Cone Our FEvangelist Ashamayan was ordained on the 8th July 1nd new P in order to administer in addition to his evangelistic work sting, Dk’ also in the little congregations of the out-stations (especially dal age at Manjeri and Malapuram). Yomg J Owing to the scarcity of food the Hindu-festivals were not of fn vl attended half as well as in ordinary times. Mr. Ashamayan writes to say that he and his fellow-workers were received even joyfully pembers ! “ in and out of town. A Nair in a high position said: “Tt is not , 0 e s g o enough, if you pay only a visit of a few days. We soon will forget nptioﬂ l all the good things you have told us. How nice it would be, could o Sl we often talk with each other on religion. Christianity is the way fguas 0 to prosperity for our country. The Hindu-religion and other sate, 1" religions will leave people ignorant, but Christianity makes man I}v'mg SiCk il { me&ﬂWh I wise.”” — Mr. Ashamayan gives many instances showing how before ,1Pe> 1ot L} Christ the hearts of men are revealed. One thinks that to believe home: f i in Christ and obtain forgiveness of sin implies a great temptation to et sin again, for if sins are forgiven, it cannot be prohibited to siu. the hea‘fﬂj The man had to be reminded that this is the eoneclusion of a carnal- Jedi® nd be minded man, for one spiritual-minded will not ask forgiveness in gl 1(] bOVs order to begin afresh with committing sin. People who mock at Iy 1l Bl | Christ and insult His servants are more and more growing seldom; t be o 90 tfxey are however occasionally met With amongst temple-servants, classe perfon astrologers and the like.-—In the Ernad-taluk a Tiyar-woman had lost two sons within a few months, and she told us that all vows and oshili “ltas Troblo sacrifices had been in vain as well as the skill of physicians. God who summons people to die, and Him alone I will serve hence- the B forth,” she said. ‘When we consoled her with words of Christ, fhe qo she said: “Now I feel consolation, these words have mitigated my (hoist heart-ache; I shall in future only pray to Jesus.” A similar “ Jesu He w experience Mr. Ashamayan made amongst the Bandhavar in Mumarkat (see under Vaniyankulam). In a village in the east the perfo chief of a caste and a devil’s priest had arranged for a pilgrimage 10f to the Bhagavatl at Kunnungalur to implore her help against all 1 small-pox, cholera and other diseases, when suddenly the priest 10f ¢ (ontg, died of cholera, which greatly shook the faith of these people. A woman in those parts said: ¢‘Idolatry is unnecessary, Raman, fo obe Krishnan and others are no incarnations of God. Through the orld Hindu-religion one cannot get forgiveness of sin, God himself must 5 Ohri help so as to set our religion aright.” slch g [knoy How anxious some people are to hear something of Jesﬁs, Somet may be seen from what the Bible-women at Calicut relate: T log ““An old man was angry with us, because we had not looked authg after him for some time. He received them with the following Megg reproach: °If you would not have come now, I should have written to your Padri and informed him, how you do neglect me biok) . & o ((I bl There are not less than 9 schools in connection with the and | Calicut station, and for want of space we can allude only Iy 4 to the most important amongst them: — Vg Batl The High School at Calicut (Manager: My. J. Knobloch) is a» Sug altogether the biggest of our schools (525 pupils: 280 in the Gy High School Department, 245 in the Primary Department; Chy Parsi 1, Mohammedans 35, Christians 55, Hindus 434). Iel; | In February the Director of Publie Instruction, in September tha There the Inspector of Schools, Mr. Logan, inspected the school. ay; tha is an English association amongst the students of the three highest - 91 Sal s mple-eras classes, its 6th anniversary was celebrated with a dramatic ar-woman b performance. Also ““the day of Pretoria” was solemnised with the b all vomsal exhibition of great patriotism on the part of the students. Mr. olans, ‘i Enobloch is greatly pleased with the interest shown by the pupils in the Bible-lessons. Il serve bene The answers given by some of the students to ds of (b the question: “After all you have learned, what do you think of oifigael Christ?” will be found interesting. A boy of the IV. Form wrote: MoA sl “Jesus was a man of great wisdom. As I learn from the Gospels, He was without sin. By virtue of His strong belief He was able to Bhndharar i in the et perform miracles. To acknowledge Him as the Son of God can- I have heard that r & plgrim not yet be expected from me, an ignorant boy. all men of a strong faith can work miracles. My own religion I do el agi not consider to be perfect. I have even no confidence in it, as it aly the e theso e contains many obscene things which no good man can be expected Besides I do not think that there is any religion in this eSS&Tf; Réﬂlﬂﬂ to obey. world. My motto is: ‘Act according to your conscience!’ Many Through Christians and Germans (!) I consider to be people with a pure heart, 0 himsel such as one will never find amongst Hindus or Mohammedans. I know that from Indian history. I am very glad to hear every day g of 64 something of Christ.” Another one writes: ‘He loves all of us and b el I love Him.” A Brahman is astonished that Christ should have ol ad ot i authority to forgive sins, but he is not yet convineed that He is the ) he flls Messiah or the Son of God. A Mohammedan declares Him to be i e i a great prophet, and the confession of a Christian boy runs like that: IRl “I believe from all my heart that the Lord Jesus is my Saviour me and Redeemer. I cannot otherwise but believe in Him and put all 4o il b my trust in Him. He is Jesus Christ, the promised Messiab, my o e Mediator, through whom I bring all my requests before my heavenly Father. He suffered a shameful death to redeem me from all my 1 b sins and to set me free from the power of Satan.” — Mr. Knobloch ‘came to know that when somebody tried to belittle Christ and 15 B l Christianity, a Hindu-boy of our school got up and said: ¢ Every 7 D religion intends to show men the way to heaven, but it is Christianity jus B that has shown us the shortest and easiest way to this aim.” A ! cause of intense joy and great satisfaction it was to Mr. Knobloch schﬂo" Tﬂ"{' that one of his former students, who had read in our school for 4 10 e 4 o 92 e years, after a long struggle, took the last step and was admitted to | She the Christian Church in Madras. 0 come For non-Christian girls there is a school at Chalapuram and wa know f (54 girls), a Lower Secondary School at Coilandy and a Primary School at Pudiangadi. The Cherumar-school at this He will place had to be abolished like that in Annasheri. For the hap seemed Christians we have a Boys’ School at Calicut, a mixed School at Pudiarakal and a large Lower Secondary Girls’ School at never died v Calicut. To Miss Ehrensperger, who is in charge of this school, we owe the following details:” There are 8 classes, a Al Headmaster and 6 School-mistresses. A Christian girl gives Deen Bible-lessons in the first class without compensation. Amongst aqd f the 160 girls are 18 Hindu-girls. The children like the Natiye school and the lessons. take f In the rainy season such who arrive in wet clothes are sent home e o e for health’s sake. But when the questionis put: “Who has got wet ?77 the g they will not report themselves, being afraid they might the (i lose marks for going home.— We earnestly do hope that ere had t long this school will be raised to the standard of a High School. fhe e Our Medical Mission would deserve a fuller treatment than it Pyg we are in a position to give this year. Dr. Stokes left for Europe 01 g about the beginning of this year without furnishing us with a greaf] |. report on his work. A great acquisition of our hospital has been the sending out of a lady-nurse, Sister Kiithe, even onl) ¢ of lagt before knowing the language, has endeared herself to her \'91‘}' 8 patients, and we are sure that the hospital will become more thse ¢ attractive for women than before. Dr. Wittenberg, the Medical P\ldi&rg Missionary for our Mission in China, acts for Dr. Stokes, P sihi\ity, who is expected to come back to Calicut before the end of the current year. bty Abraham, the father of Lazar at Annasheri, is the Assistant Catechist of the hospital, whilst Maria Hermon, Ty the Bible-woman, attends to the spiritual needs of the female patients. thI’OHg] Mgl il 93 98 admit] She writes about three women, who promised after their recovery to come back and become Christians. Only one of them returned b Chalapun and was baptised. Although she had a relapse, she is happy to landy ul know that she belongs to Jesus Christ in life and death and that sehool 46 He will graciously receive her. The Bible-woman also relates of ashert, B the happy dying of a Christian woman, who all through her sickness seemed to be in communication with her heavenly Father. She mixed St never complained, but was full of praise of the love of God. She s’ Seborl died with a happy smile and words of praise on her lips. arge of o § clasy Also in the year under veview Dr. Hachett- Wilkins has ian girl " been exceedingly kind to the Missionaries residing at Calicut, o, Amug and to such who had for health’s sake to go there; also the Native Christians there are greatly indebted to him. We dren Tl take this o.pportunity to express our most sincere thanks. s ate st b We close with a few remarks on the different branches of 6 o b the Industrial Mission at Calicut. Taking into consideration the difficult conditions under which all our Establishments aid they 0 hope fhat ot bad to work last year, there is every reason to be thankful for igh Selot the result of the year. The sale of tiles from the Tile-Works reatment il at Pudiarakal was very much impeded by the want of vessels, on account of the two wars. At other places the sales were Lftfor B greatly reduced by the famine. Still these works have not hing U8 it 7 gt only given employment to many of our Christians; the result ; il i of last year, also from the financial point of view, has been very satisfactory. Myr. Kiihner, from whose report we take sl 0 these details, feels sorry that up to this we had difficulty at [ e (o N Pudiarakal to put Christian workmen into places of respon- ] the h sibility, which, as a matter of course, are best paid. They o D either find the work too heavy, or they prove to be unreliable.— tho el The Weaving Establishment at Calicut (142 men and 88 women) ot A under the management of Mr. Buesch has also safely passed | i J0 through the difficulties of the year. The sales have been of fhe e il much better than in the previous year, still they bear no et 94 fair proportion to the large amount of fabrics laid up in of fhe the storehouse. (etals Although the working-hours and the number of workmen were reduced, 1200 yards more than in the liave be previous year have been produced, which proves to evidence amongst there & that under normal circumstances our people’s strength is not over-taxed. The Tailoring Establishment connected with the went f Weaving Establishment was also able to work with a small remain profit. Also this Weaving Establishment, of course, was badly avay | Mr influenced by the war, whilst the inland and foreign compe- tition increases every year. Not much different from this is childre the experience of Mr. Hofmann, in charge of the Mercantile Tespe Mission-Branch at Calicut. ney (} In spite of almost unsurmountable difficulties he sees cause to praise the Lord for holding Chrisi Bader His blessing and helping hand over this branch of our work. that 1y d Young 20. Codacal. Dégting, i Mry. Conolly, the noble Collector of Malabar, felt himself A, K; constrained to do something for the amelioration of the Nayadis, a tribe of beggars; he settled down a number of of W’K them on a large track of land near Codacal and handed He Somg over the whole of it to the Basel Mission, who stationed a Schoolmaster there. First cholera caused a great havoc in Cannf the colony, and in 1850 the Moplas blew up the whole under- 10 proy; taking. But instead of Nayadis, Tiyars made their ap- it pearance in the place, and in 1862 it became a separate g, station. Also in this part of the country the first harvest A at Ohy) last year was good, and a few of the poor were able to aSaﬁ extricate themselves from the clutches of their debtors. The i 16 g Congregation at Codacal and out-stations (1316 souls) always &lS[) ( has been a poor congregation, and large admissions to the We ar Church during the last years did not only increase this 45 to poverty, but naturally also lowered the spiritual standard at Iy 95 We take the following 68 laid i of the Christian community there. d the ks details from Mr. Bader’s report: 15 adults and 10 children than it have been admitted to the Church. Death made great havoc % 0 enidae amongst the children at Codacal, amongst 38 death-cases, there are not less than 30 deaths of children. 13 persons trength i1 oted wih f went to the Moplas, and it is a cause of great joy that a son c with & sl remained steadfast even when his father tried to take him 156, WS il .w away by force. oreig (ouf Mr. Bader took great pains with the education of the Codacal t from thid children. As the parents do not feel their responsibility in this the Nenoté respect, the Missionary feels it the more keenly. Also the many new Christians must be educated so as to create something like surmouttl W b Christian manners in the congregation, without which-—as Mr. | for oldg Bader very truly remarks — a Church composed of such elements as ) of our that in Codacal cannot exist. There are 2 Sunday-Schools and 2 Young Men’s Associations, which every month have a common meeting. In Paraperi separate services have been instituted.— p, fil lnel Mr. Kallat, the Native Pastor, is pleased with the attention pation o & of people at church. 3 munte! He thinks that they also do appreciate pastoral care, however, |l ol some of them do so only for the sake of outward advantages. They o st cannot get rid of the superstition that it is the Missionary’s duty to provide his flock with necessities of life. el ¥ o ol e At Chittatakara, Lonappan, who does no longer belong de ther to us, gives still a good deal of trouble. The congregation at Chalasheri —in spite of much sickness and death-—shines o fis o as a light in the surrounding darkness. Some members of fere il Ie We hear [t the congregation preach regularly in the bazaar. debtﬂfs» also of the happy dying of two daughters, whose example, soul§) alwﬂ.‘_S i we are sure, must have been a blessing to their families.— i’ssioﬂS 7 As to the new converts, the conversion of Velu (now Satyarthi) ot at Tritala has been a great refreshment in the midst of so ol & .aub}fif’ I The trials and vexations of this ma, ¥ much worry and anxiety. man have been many, but he not only kept faithful to his in orde calling, his example seems also to strengthen others. One bo si, Hr. Bac Koran, a relative of his, asked several times for baptism, and a his sinf young man there has taken already the decisive step, pre- anythin pared for the consequences of it. having The Work of Evangelisation has not been neglected during Jeremi the last year. chapte After the good harvest, Mr. Bader writes, the Hindu-festivals ln were better frequented than before, people possessing more money; met but the kindness of God touched also their hearts, so that they were more willingly inclined to hear the Gospel. A teacher in the Ponani Al 10 the district received the Catechists very kindly and seemed to be anxious about salvation. Finally they found that at some time he had been e a disciple of Paul Karunakaran. At Wattankulam one refused a {4 10 part New Testament, saying: *No, we do not want this book, on reading admitty it, doubts might be roused in our hearts, perhaps we would find i ], that our present ways are wrong without desiring for a new way or Chritiy possessing the necessary strength to go onit. This would only disquiet there, ) our hearts, so better not!” One Nambutiri turned Mr. Bader out, In the another one surrounded by his friends, invited him to come. On heart ¢ hearing that in Germany there exists nothing in the way of castes, Years he asked whether the German empire has the distinction between attacke the male and female sex! A Tiyan was troubled about the rumour him 1@ of oaur going about to steal children. An old mother after having Wag b heard about Christ’s love exclaimed: *“I should like to die now after Schooliy having heard these words, here below I am of no use, and there in 7 Orphay heaven it will be so glorious. With Moplas the reception, of course, is always a very doubtful matter. One woman said: ¢ What shall ) we do? Iblis won’t let us off!” In a torrent of rain a Mopla and i, his wife drove Mr. Bader and the Catechists off when they had taken A shelter under his verandah. Three Moplas, who had been defeated in a disputation, after some days brought with them a disputant of Sch()( avowed report, who opened the discussion with the topic of the unity the 5 of God. Mr. Bader told him that if we did not know more than this Congg 97 T cations of f man, we would not be the better for it. The question is, what to do aithtul fo in order to come into communion with the One holy God, and referring others, { to sin, the man pretended to be without any. On pereeiving that Mr. Bader refused to dispute with a sinless man, he finally admitted Daptisn, al his sinfulness. He then contested that the Old Testament contains sive step, anything about the sacrificatory death of Christ. His attention having been drawn to Is. 53, he contended that all this refers to olected dng Jeremiah Nabi. On being challenged to show the fulfillment of this chapter in the life and death of the prophet Jeremiah, he withdrew. , Hindu-festind In passing over to the educational work of the station, we ing niore 1Ok mention first of all the Boys’ Orphanage at Paraperi, under the g0 thatthey vt management of Mr. Eckelmann. Owing to the famine-prices o in the Do pod fobeanu in the district the number of orphans rose to 90. e be hid 2 Even Jeremiah, who aceording to last year’s Report was not able I to part with his mother (page 103), was forced by hunger to seek \m one 1e book, o e admittance once more. Another boy, Isaiah, has a very sad story to tell. In 1897 he had been sent to Nettur-hill to join the g e W[)UM ﬁf»: Christian High School. His mind becoming somewhat deranged for & DV “a,‘j: ouldonly 9% there, he was sent back and joined the Agricultural School at Codacal. In the summer of last year a Mopla, who bore a grudge in his g M, B o b o ! heart against the boy’s mother (he had insulted the woman some i years ago, and was punished consequently by the Magistrate), o w1 attacked him suddenly, kicked him, trampled on him and belaboured stinetion et him very badly. The cruel fellow was mulcted, but poor Isaiah Jout 1he ! i was badly off. He still hopes to get admittance after some years’ thr haﬂ There was much sickness in the schooling in our Training School. o o die 0" Orphanage, no wonder, a good many children are half-starved, when 6, 40 i il if (0 they enter the school.— Some friends in Germany enriched the ontiol Orphanage by sending Schnorr’s Pictorial Bible, which greatly g o gladdened the dreary evenings of monsoon-days. m Mop]ﬂ As to other schools we can only mention the Congregational n they il jend bk Schools at Codacal and Pallat, the Ponani-School (62 pupils), the school at which Mr. Bader calls a o & dlspﬂ[aﬂx Chittatakara, i consolation in the face of all the other disappointments {0 pio’ ! ﬂ 1 e 98 | experienced at that place, the school at Chalasheri (78 makin pupils) and a school at Tritala. Something worthy of the O imitation at other stations with many new converts is the aceus Night-School at Codacal. It is not easy to persuade grown- what more up people to attend school after a day’s hard work, but it will go far in raising the intellectual and spiritual standard they 1 of a young Church. 10 | The Tile-Works at Codacal give employment to 117 Christian they c men and 78 Christian women. Besides some inquirers, there the ly are only 10 non-Christian men and 16 women. Not included rather €L5 a1 in this numbers are employees of an higher order (maistries, clerks, engine-men), who are all Christians. Mr. Boas, the there Manager of these Works, has tried many ways to give i employment to people who cannot be admitted in his 0ng, i Establishment. In his report he mentions the training of ad oge cart-wrights and blacksmiths, women were employed with 1y grass-cutting (also reed-grass), 10-20 people with work on gelistof the rice-fields. In the Branch of the Weaving Establishment ing oy of Calicut, at Codacal, 24 men and 16 women found employ- The ment during the year. Still the poverty in Codacal remains With ki a great calamity, and new ways must be found to provide They bl the destitute with such employment ‘that will be sufficient Who Jo not only to keep soul and body together, but also will enable ing g all rigy them to satisfy those needs of a higher kind, indispensable Which g with the calling of a living Christian. tags of ] L 21 Vaniyankulam. ) mﬂd& 9 This newest station in Malabar was founded in 1886 and thag e %t i apart from its small congregation (167 souls) and its flourish- ang e ing schools, it has become an important centre of evangeli- sation and includes a very efficient branch of our Medical g yig Mission. Myr. Walter, who has been chiefly instrumental ip i, S i 99 Ohalaher 1 making the station what it is now, writes with reference to ng oty the Congregation there: «We experience little difficulty in 0nverts i b accustoming our Christians to a Christian manner of life; orstads g what goes on in such a little congregation, of course, can d work, b more easily be controlled. But the time must come, when ritual st they will count things as sin, which they think but little of now (idleness, unfaithfulness and the like), on the other hand t0 117 Chrit they appropriate to themselves the forgiveness of sins and the language of Canaan with an ease and rapidity, which is inquirers, . Not incue rather surprising.” Mr. Walter tries his best to keep inquir- pler (uai ers and converts at the station and find employment for them there. One My, B Most of them are occupied with agriculture. family has been settled down on Church-land and another a0 i one, it is hoped, will follow suit. Another one keeps a shop dnitted 1 0 et and one earns his bread as a weaver. enploel il Myr. Walter and his Catechists, accompanied by the Evan- it ot ¢ gelist of Calicut and his staff, made a very interesting Preach- p Tl ing tour to Manarakadu in the far North of Vaniyankulam. The inhabitants of the place seem to be opulent, and Mr. Walter | fnod et with his fellow-workers met there with people of all rank and caste. odacal reat nd prm}% They addressed a prince and they had conversation with the people, who looked like savages. The prince, a nobleman with very pleas- 1l be gufe ing manners, went on in a very well known strain, saying that, as Jl 1 hx all rivers flow to the sea, so all religions will lead to a common goal, , indispens&ui% which threadbare remark, of course, led over then to Vedantism. A class of people, called Bandhavar, who are said to have immigrated from the east and take their place between the Nairs and Tiyar, made a very favourable impression on our Evangelists. It seems that they left their worship where they came from. They do not serve idols, but they are not without the conception of some creator ied 10 | 8 pd 18 | i and preserver of the world. There is a tradition that once a holy tree with some idol was burned down, and since that they are afraid 10 of e of God and thus without divine service. Mr. Walter relates of a o il hermit, who most readily offered rice and his cooking-vessels to st s 7* . e _ 100 e the weary wanderers. order fo In order to get forgiveness of sin and peace, he left a considerable property, retired from the world and lives stk mofl now in solitude. For 7 months he has lived on one meal a day. Of It course, he had never before heard the Gospel, and after listening with 37 attentively he promised to meditate on what he had heard, and 0l T asked Mr. Walter to see him soon again. Another one of these people, having heard the Gospel, wrote the name of Jesus on a I palm-leaf so as never to forget it and to pray to Jesus. Mr. Walter the leg continues: “We did not know then that we had saved his life by e nig bringing him the glad tidings of Jesus and His love. interes The poor man was contemplating the committal of snicide when we met him. b way Being a very poor tenant, he was happy when he had a good ouly v harvest, but, alas, the landlord came and claimed the whole harvest of bis to get also what his tenant was not able to pay during two bad bapts, years, thus turning him into a beggar. The consolations of the Teogived Grospel inspired his heart with new courage and confidence in God.” Commuy lepart Myrs. Walter gives most in‘teresting extracts from the diary Joung mg 4 child of Julia, and Maria, the two Bible-women of Vaniyankulam. 10 love } “Once when we were speaking of Christ as the light of the world, The one of the Stidra-women there said: ‘It seems to me that since the oldes Christians came here to live amongst us, as if a new light would Vaniyg diffuse its splendour and as if the rays would penetrate into our very minds and hearts. Hitherto we had been quite content with the ) ang P keeping our caste-precepts and were at liberty to live in all kind of sins, but now, sinece we know the will of God and His holy command- 19]] Way ments, we feel uneasy in our mind. Something tells us that we are Joar it doing wrong, and that we are drawing down upon us God’s wrath 014y, and punishment’.” —¢“The Cherumar or outcasts were at the beginning afraid of us, but now they like to hear the Bible-stories. ‘When we once spoke to them about the Kingdom of God and invited them to enter into it, one of these poor people said: ‘Oh, this Palgh kingdom of heaven, of course, will be reserved for the high-caste- people; we have no right to aspire to it ’.””— The Bible-women also speak about a sick woman who posted her daughter in the street in aﬂmngst 101 of sin and i order to ask the Bible-women, when passing by, to look after her world and fie sick mother. meala . | nd after e In the Hospital at Vaniyankulam there were 171 patients had bead, & with 3719 days of nursing, against 110 patients and 1604 days of nursing in the previous year. her one of ne of Josts o Mr. Walter relates about one Ayappen, a Cheruman, who at sus, M, il the beginning was much exercised in his mind because he thought he might pollute others by his presence in the hospital. Gradually saved bis ! Jove, The interest and love for the Word of God entered his heart. Assoon as he was able to walk, he made himself useful in the compound, and hen we net o he hade only when the harvest was over, he began again with the treatment the whole " of his leg. At the same time he joined the class of candidates for baptism. In December he and eleven others were baptised, and he y durng 0 nsolatins o received the name Job. On the following day he joined in the Holy Cobmmunion.——Many of the patients show real thankfulness, others onfitene B depart with empty promises to show their faces no more. Two young men died in the hospital, though not baptised, they died with s fron e a childlike belief in their Saviour. One of them asked Mrs, Walter (anigankae to love him as her son, because he loved her like a mother. There are three Schools in connection with this station: The gt oldest is a Lower Secondary School in the bazaar of o fhat 0 a nev i Vaniyankulam, which gave great satisfaction to Mr. Renschler, rate 00 the Manager. There are besides a Primary School at Tirikatiri and a quite new Lower Secondary School at Ottapalam, the iite onfent railway station for Vaniyankulam. At the beginning of the gis year it was opened with 107 pupils on the rolls, now there are 144. gl st o (is™, gs e 22 Palghat. pthe Bil” i 6od ilf Palghat was an out-station of Cannanore in the days of ht Jh.'Hebz'ch, and two Catechists were stationed there. In 1858 p sl ! 0 I the hig LJ it became a separate station. The hopes of a larger movement e Bib]e.woﬂleﬂj amongst the Iluvar, the Tiyar of that region, have not been tor 0 the s 102 realised to a large extent, and the station being situated near He bor the border of the Malayalam and Tamil-country, the congrega- e knex of Inwa tion always contained an admixture of the Tamil element, osire, | Mr. Hole has been in charge of the Congregation (417 souls). 5 adults and 4 children were baptised during the year 1900, and op welfare and Mr. Hole feels confident to say that a work of God has commenced in their hearts. in the Was sta Johannes (the brother of Devapriyan, our Assistant Catechist for the there) had to give up tailoring (¢f. last year’s Report, page 80 and sorkm 81) and came back to Palghat on account of the disease of one of An his eyes. When he was at the point of death from cholera he was 00ty baptised, and of course the name, by which he called himself long mport ago, was given to him. The congregation has a decrease of 31 souls. aceonn Mr. Hole makes the remark: “Many ran off, because they found the 0ng by work in the Tile-Works at Olavakkoda fatiguing and the strict order there annoying. Also here, just as at Codacal, it is found highly §thoo], necessary to use every effort to raise the spiritual standard of people, ﬂ s bave o who avowedly joined Christ’s Church only for the sake of a livelihood. Also in Melparambu, where the greater part of the workmen in Chrisiy Teads | Olavakkoda have settled down, a night-school has been started, chiefly intended for inquirers who cannot read. As Mr. Hole sums up his opinion on the Palghat eongregation by nothiy saying: “In spite of some painful occurrences, it cannot be denied the W that the Spirit of God has His work in the hearts of many of our iy people. There are upright souls and God’s blessing rests also on this \C their outward affairs; whilst others seem never to succeed in the heg whatsoever they undertake, simply because they do not walk in the g Sho‘ fear of the Lord.” —During the year one of the oldest Christians ﬁaughte at Palghat died. His father had been a Roman Catholic, but one By gw so friendly disposed towards our Mission that Mr. Hebich used to ﬂ]()u gh\ stay at his house, when he went to Palghat. In 1865 Manuel with the faf his mother, 4 brothers, 2 sisters and a sister-in-law joined our breg) Chureh, and in 1872 he was eleeted an elder of our congregation. to joi He had a warm and large heart for others and so also a very liberal keep hand. As to his profession he was an agent on a coffee-plantation. Worgy P e 103 o situatel 1 He bore his long and painful sufferings with Christian patience; , the cong he knew that it was for the best and so did not murmur. In hours of inward affliction and fear he received the Word of God with great Lamil elenet desire, believing that his sins had been forgiven for Christ’s sake on (411 gl the year 19 and ap to the end he showed himself anxious about the spiritual welfare of his family. — It is very pleasing to hear that a workman otk of God b in the Tile-Works, who at the end of the year heard that a balance was standing in his favour, did not take the money, but bought tracts sistant Caiel for the amount, which he distributed amongst the non-Christian o, page 8l workmen. (isease of ot Amongst the 5 Schools in connection with Palghat and its 1 cholers bes out-stations the Lower Secondary School at Palghat is the most 1lod bimset e 1mportant. The school had always a difficult position on reasoof 31 vl Now a new account of rival schools rising up here and there. so {hey fni® one has been opened only about 2 miles distant from our d he strie i3 school. i found I Mr. Hole writes: “The work in these schools is not in vain. andardof pif have seen two prayers composed and regularly prayed by a non- ke ofa vl Christian pupil, 12 years of age, and reading in our 1st Form. It the workod L reads like the prayer of a Christian that loves God and his Saviour.” ag been st ‘As to the Work of Evangelisation, carried on at this station, nothing did reach us but some remarks from Mrs. Kiihnle on | congfegatiou r i the work of the 2 Bible-women there. oannot B Mrs. Kiihnle writes: “ The earthquake on the 8th February of ) Of []]ﬂﬂy [}f i this year and the whirlwind on the 21st of the same month gave g the heathens a great shock. On such occasions their superstitions o succett are shown in various colours. In a rich family of the Vellaler a ot daughter was married to a boy, who afterwards became insane. It oldst 0¥ ‘ is a great trial for the poor girl, but she can read and so divert her thoughts. Bible-portions are her delight, but this is an eye-sore to ‘0 ith i ‘ the family. She would like to become a Christian, but what about 360 e breaking caste, to which she clings tenaciously? Some advised her RrAl ji 1 to join the Roman Catholic Church, where she would be allowed to a0 keep up caste and where she also would find images enough to 081! ﬁt.e: worship.” e 104 e We close with a few words on the Tile-Works at Olavakkods calses | under the management of My. Gebhardt. This establishment The o suffered but little by these hard times. It gave employment of non- to 57 Christian men, 44 Christian women, 77 non-Christian 10w 401 men and 8 girls. (ne People coming from the coast in general cannot bear the when i Palghat-climate and ran away after a fow weeks. But Mr. Gebhardt ot Kait seems to be right in supposing that it is not only the climate that connect] makes these people disappear, but that, as a rule, only the refuse nephey of other stations is sent to Palghat. On the whole, Mr. Gebhardt The 1 is satisfied with his Christian workmen, who are very regular and child o steady in their work now. he soug then, in eathen V. NILGIRIS. B year visfs of 23 Kocitg. be af th What 1 Mr. Casamagor, a retired judge, a physical and intellectual Tenerah) giant and above all a man of God, settled down on the Nilgiris i gl at Kaity, when in 1845 Mr. Weigle of the Bagsel Mission arrived nti) with his wife to restore his health. Mr. Casamajor promised he o to build a Mission-house and to pay half of the expenses for Punis}; a Missionary on the Nilgiris. This generous offer, of course, Was gy was gladly accepted by the Home-Committee, At the beginning Imagipg the first Missionaries stayed at Kateri, not far from Kaity, in 1849 Even 10 Mr. Casamajor died and left all his property to the Mission. Badaga ~ In the year 1900 the Nilgiri-Mission had to pass through Dey, 4 many a struggle, there were also a few changes amongst the the Bad: Wag 1y agents of the Mission. With the end of the year My. Stier arrived at Kaity to succeed Mr. Wieland, who went home on Mg girls | furlough. A child of Mr. Wieland fell a - victim to the Way of epidemic of typhoid fever prevailing then in Qotacamund Présey and its neighbourhood. But what on the Nilgiris in most cases Vi 105 5 8% Ol causes the greatest struggles, are conversions from the Badagas. S establstn The Congregation had 20 baptisms (14 adults and 6 children) ve emplyus of non-Christians and, having increased by 27 souls, numbers T nonChry now 401. One of our Catechists, Paul Mada, must have been very thaﬁkful, annot bear | when his grand-mother and aunt were admitted to the congregation Dut Mr, Gl at Kaity. There are some other very interesting occurrences in the climafa connection with the conversions of last year. One Mark Mada, a , ouly the el nephew of the old Assistant Catechist Zsaiak, was baptised in 1892. o, Mr, Getlar The relatives then dragged away his wife and threw his infant child at his feet, leaving him nothing but an empty house. In vain very regilr he souéht help from Government; he struggled on for one year, and then, in order to regain his wife and his property, he relapsed into heathenism. However, he had no peace in his mind during the last 6 years, and the spark of life was kept alive in him by occasional visits of Bible-women. Last year his wife fell sick and seemed to be at the point of death, when she resolved to become a Christian. What brought her to this decision was a dream, in which a and el venerable-looking figure directed her to follow Christ and through on fhe Him obtain eternal happiness. She gave no rest to her husband Mission g until he called for a Catechist. ‘When he went to see the Catechist, he felt rather ashamed, and said: “I suffered severely under the najr promisji J Then the house e expent punishments of God, and I have enough of it now.’ was consecrated to be a Christian house for the future, and one can offer, of 0¥ imagine the joy of old Isaiah, when the erring sheep came back and At thebeginmg even not alone.— A very serious struggle was that of two young o Baiyl® Badaga women: one Madi, was the great-niece of Isaiah, the other, o the Missio&‘ Devi, the daughter of an enemy of our Mission. Marriage amongst o pis | hrntgli 3 the Badagas is chiefly a financial transaction, and one of the women i was married to a very cruel man. Three times the Collector of the ;es ﬂlIlOﬂgS[ Nilgiris and the Police had to do with the case, but both of the yea! ¥ girls having been proved/ to be of age, nothing could be done in the et homel? way of a law-suit. But finally the relatives of Devi succeeded by yicti[ﬂ 0 [J presents and false rumours. Once she returned after having paid a Madi j ()Otacamif visit to her people; since October last she has disappeared. § n s o SN 106~ was baptised, and kee.ps now the household of her great-uncle.— W L Mahalinga (now Isaiah) as a child went to our school at Kateri and heard the Word of God {rom faithful teachers. it ) After having passed il the Primary Examination, he joined the school at Kaity and passed thelit the Lower Secondary Examination from there in 1896. For three megtin years he was in Government service as a clerk, and joined in 1899 the our training institution at Kaity, where he felt deeply interested in this p the religious instruction, and finally declared his resolution to become a Christian. In November he asked with tears in his eyes for T hands baptism, and from then he received special insiruction as a candidate for baptism. His old father raised no objections, but the mother at Oy and other relatives gave a good deal of trouble. However, the son home remaining always kind and calm, had laid his hand to the plough and did not look back. The mother finally was satisfied with the Peapl son’s ear-rings, which the son most willingly left to his mother. On 0Dy Christmas-day Isaiah was baptised. mith H of fhy On the Nilgiris the scarcity of food was much more felt than on the plains in Malabar and Canara. One can speak o, Chrit of a real famine up there, and also the Kaity congregation elatiy suffered a good deal. My. Liitze, who is in charge of the the P; station, thankfully remembers the kind support in these hard the (} times rendered by English friends in Ootacamund and Coonoor, will g as well as the help through the Editor of the Bombay Guardian & oy and from our German friends at home. The Collector of the listig Nilgiris besides came to our assistance twice in the way of g of relief-works.—But our Christians and the surrounding Th Badagas suffered not only from hunger; the year was also very duay unhealthy and sickness and death prevailed to a large extent. C%w Mr. Liitze thinks that in those days the Word of God fell on Vg a very susceptible ground. Many of our Christians were 'me admitted in the hospitals at Ootacamund and Coonoor and &l‘e l were well looked after there, not only that, a special Native Sl! tyg physician was deputed to Kaity at that time. The influence of i these hard times on our Christians was beneficial on the whole. th(ﬁil’ ( P 10 Teal-un) Mr. Liitze remarks «Jt cannot well be otherwise where men Kater ul are placed under the influence of God’s Word.” —It is worth- having sl while mentioning in this connection that our Christians iun by and sl the little out-station Hulikal, on the occasion of a weekly prayer- 6, Tor e meeting, exerted themselves in collecting money for removing oined tn 18 the great financial deficit of our Mission They raised for inferes sl tion to becon: this purpose the respectable sum of Rs. 23-1-4 i ey The Evangelistic Work of the station was partly in the ag 4 candilae hands of My. Wieland at Kaity and partly in those of Mr. Stokes at Coonoor t the mof pever, the s Last year M Wieland told us about a Korumba, who became he plowh home-sick and heart-sick at Kaity, and had to be sent back to his people (page 67) We are sorry to report that he died in the isfied W s mother 0 monsoon, unfortunately at the time when the Catechist was laid ap It is significant, however, with fever and could not look after him of the state of mind in which he met death to know that he ch more 4 admonished his wife to keep with the Catechist and to become a ne can | Christian For some time she attended instruction, but then the ongregil relatives took her away Mr. Wieland writes ¢ Qur work amongst haree 0 | the Paniyar does not meet with the approbation of their masters the Chettis in these h No wonder, they treat them like slaves, a thing they will never venture to do after the Paniyar have become Christians and (oona A common excuse of people last year was, since you preach in this by(}l Il Jogor o distriet, there is no end of famine and sickness, being the punishment of God.” o ¥ The Cooly-Mission, which since the transfer of Mr. Fritz to S0 Il Anandapur, is chiefly carried on by Mr. Stokes, residing at as Coonoor, brings our Mission-agents in contact with a great lrtreexﬂ » variety of people, coming from many -countries of South-India £ ol ¥ From Coonoor 14 plantations and from Hulikal 24 plantations 1808 are visited every month by Mr. Stokes and the Catechist, Karl CoonOO Satyanathan, his assistant il \&’ Some planters take a real interest in the spiritual welfare of , mﬂueﬂfe their coolies, and the Missionary is a welcome guest at their houses n fhe il = | 108 S SR B The magic lantern is found to be a very valuable help in telling night Bible-stories. For such who are likely to despair of this work funds amongst coolies on the hills, as being not accompanied with immedi- I ate results, what Mr. Stokes mentions at the end of his report will which be encouraging: “Not long ago Mr. Mellis at Coimbatore baptised numb a man, who had heard the Gospel preached to him as a message of 10 for salvation at ‘Hill-grove’ on the Nilgiris. Hence our preaching il is not in vain.” 0ng 1 The work of the Bible-women has been accompanied with neph much encouragement. hours Mrs. Liitze relates the case of a woman, who eonfessed to believe nd in Christ and that to belong to Him was a great gain. When asked: The and “Why?” she replied: “Because then we will have a golden entrance into heaven.” It often happened that the sick and poor asked Categ the Bible-women to pray for them. oy | by Kaity is surrounded by not less than 19 Qut-stations, which Simlay through their schools are preparing for and assisting the work brothey of evangelisation. In addition to this the few Christian Uourt, families at these out-posts are expected to further the cause perjur of Christianity by their Christian example. he Wa the ho Something in this direction is mentioned by Mr. Stokes, who writes about a Badaga youth at Hulikal. Daniel is his name, who Orpha assisied a planter in hunting a panther and was badly mauled by In the beast. He was brought to the hospital in a rather critical state, itep bat contrary to everybody’s expectation he recovered. The it y 1 Badagas said to Daniel’s father, he should have tried soreery, Ty but the old man replied: ‘‘Prayer is my sorcery.” g H t‘ﬂ% l There are not less than 26 Schools in connection with the Kaity station. Most of them, of course, are Primary Schools and are in the Badaga villages. Famine and sickness hampered I from greatly the work in these schools. Some parents were not fo 8 able to pay 8 Pies school-fees a month, and most of the masters were for some time sick. Amongst these schools are also hlS p Was o 109 olp in tlly night-schools, for which Government pays a grant, “when of this vl funds are available”, as the ominous phrase runs. with immefe At Kaity we have the Boys’ Orphanage for the hills, with s repot il which a Lower Secondary day-school is combined. The fore bt * number of boys in the Orphanage is 42. There is an increase 5 0 IS of 10 boys, owing to the famine. ur preath However, it seems that in admitting and feeding the hungry, one must be careful on the Nilgiris. A boy, about 14 or 15, the 1panied yil nephew of our Catechist Abrakam, compelled by hunger, ran for 4 hours behind his back, imploring him to take him to his house and give him food and teaching, as he wished to become a Christian. s to beliee The father, instead of feeding his boy properly, called for the Police, Then st The den enfral and a case of kidnapping was made out against Abraham. Catechist, as a reward for his kindness, escaped a verdict in Court | poor il only because the judge gave him “the benefit of the doubt”. The b boy, of course, had to return to his father and to hunger.—In a -;atjons) “hl(‘ similar case the younger brother, hungry and sick, went to his elder g e 8 brother who is a Christian. The elder brother was also brought to Ol Court, was acquitted, and two false witnesses were put in jail for perjury, where unfortunately one of them died. The poor boy, sick as et the Ca0¥ he was, was brought from the Orphanage into Court, from there to the hospital, and was sent from there back to his mother from the % kaesf i Orphanage. ] In Kaity as well as in our other Orphanages the question l)’ mauled I 1 é | often arises, what to do with boys who are not capable to oritiea For the Lower Secondary study for higher examinations. )vered' Examination 6 boys appeared: 4 passed and 2 failed only in ol 1 some optional subjects. My, Liitze feels very hopeful about the non-Christian boys who attend this school. b tlr 100 il A little boy from Kateri with a mysterious air whispered into ool Mr. Liitze's ear: “Sir, the Bible is dear to me!” A dear little boy 4 s bk from Hullada fell sick and died from typhoid fever. He liked to go to school, and though suffering from fever he went to school. To fg et his parents he often told ‘the great words heard at school”’. He fhe was a well-behaved, obedient child. During his sickness he often j art? o 110 prayed. Shortly before his death he said: “Father, I am in fear!” ey | The father said: *“Pray to the living, true God, the great Jesu-Svami, frand of whom you have heard at school and often told us!” He folded I his hands, prayed aloud and fell asleep. The impression on the el parents was great, they firmly believe that the child has gone to heaven. 15 the oug Four pupils left the Teachers’ Seminary, and six pupils were of th admitted. The house-father Salathiel was transferred to Bada Palghat and Cat. Samuel Satyanathan succeeded him. have To the Catechists’ School three students from Kotagiri were Duri admitted, one of whom has left meanwhile. 1an of I Lagt 24 Kotagiri. b. fhe ( When in 1861 two servants of the Scotch family Cockburn H Tlen were converted, Miss Cockburn, who had been instrumental in fomarg their conversion, invited the Basel Mission to station a Joung Missionary at Kotagiri. This lady, who had already started School 6 night-schools amongst the Badagas, also built the Mission- from | church at Kotagiri with the help of other friends of the Mission. ibery The two first Christians (Samuel and Daniel) are still alive Whole and are elders of the congregation. Thus in 1867 Kotagiri and f became a Mission-station with Mr. A. Biihrer as its first able fi Missionary. The Congregation (280 Church-members) had 25 i non-Christians admitted last year (20 adults and 5 children). Well gy Myr. Kanaka, the Pastor of Kotagiri, writes with reference to this: «The larger number of the famine-converts came from g y) F 1) 0l the the village Tandanad, the abode of a heart-hardened people CWJ and the seat of idol-worship in this district. The conversion e of some of these people reminds one of Saul, who going in search of his fathers lost asses, found a kingdom.” Yt On Ascension-day a blind Badaga-boy was baptised, who at fethey Miss Asquith’s school had previously learned to read. It was a 111 AR S am in fuy very touching scene, when before his baptism the boy sang the Jest-Sin translation of the German hymn: *Weil ich Jesu Schéflein bin”. " Ho ssion on fi: The Young Men’s Association of the station with its 15-20 members, is doing much practical work. Cat. Henry Kodot has goned) © is the energetic president of it. On Sunday afternoons the young men have a Bible-meeting. On Sunday mornings eight pupilsmee of them, with or without a Catechist, go to the surrounding nsferred i Badaga villages, one playing a violin and when the people il have gathered, they address them on the subject of salvation. otagin met During the last year they have been 43 times out in this manner, and once at Milidenu they had an audience consisting of 125 hearers. On Sunday evenings 23 times during the last year the same youths went to the Kotagiri bazaar with the Catechists (in Kotagiri Sunday being the market-day). Iy Gkt The members of this Association also collect for and contribute One of the runettl? towards the Pie-Collection and Bible-Society. young men, an overseer in a coffee plantation, keeps a night- o oo school for non-Christian boys in a village three miles distant aly it fhe M from his place. The congregation is in the habit of giving The Christians on the e it liberally, if people possess something. whole are poor, but most of them are in possession of a house o ol i and field of their own, and if times are not bad, they will be 7 o 28 itS ﬁ I able to support themselves. ) it When reporting on the Kotagirl congregation, we cannot well omit a very unpleasant affair, which took place last year 5 chillel and which has caused public sensation far beyond the limits e’ Came ot > of the Nilgiri-Mission, we refer to the so-called « Kidnapping- Case’ . enel ol The action of the Basel Mission in this case has been very e severely criticised in local Papers, and one Paper went so far as to o g0 g ] make most pernicious attacks on it, misrepresenting things alto- gether and revealing a virulent hatred against our Mission. Under isedy il 65 these cirumstances an objective statement of what really took place B | P, R 112— will be welcome to the friends of our Mission. Two years ago a abefin widow (Bella) with two sons (Choyi and Acha) and two girls, one (etobe 7, the other 3 years of age, came to the Mission-house. A little later Achy on another girl, 10 years of age, followed. The hero of the story {hat b is the girl 7 years of age, who was admitted .to the Orphanage, and the p in December 1899 was baptised and called Maria; the elder mem- Rs, bers of the family were under instruction for baptism at that time. anda As the two sons led the lives of vagabonds, neither they nor the nothin mother were admitted to our Churech. Acha finally tried the Roman haps Catholics, he got some assistance from them, and then he promised Tepres the priest that the whole of his family would join the Roman Churech. persee On the 25th August Maria with an elder girl of the thty Orphanage went to the Hospital to get medicine there. On the hayy way she met her brother Acha, who carried her off, brought her to all thy the priest, in whose compound she was kept in custody with Catho- 8108 D lies. The other girl returned to the Mission-house and reported what had taken place. Mr. Grossmann, the Missionary in charge Ay of the station, being absent, Mrs. Grossmann at once sent Mr. otk of Kanaka, the Pastor, to the Roman Catholic priest, asking him to if gy, send the girl back. The priest pretended to know nothing of the Assisty matter, but directed the Pastor to Acha, who refused to hand over I g the girl, even when threatened with the Police. On the following God v morning at 4 o’clock the priest sent the girl, accompanied by Acha He and a Catechist, down to Coimbatore to the convent. On the same mitigat day the mother of the girl went to the Mission-house, and falling on Prospe her knees, asked help from Mrs. Grossmann; having given the child Dt ghe in charge of Mrs. Grossmanu, she demanded it from her. Under Hitthgy these circumstances the help of the Police had to be sought for, but i g even at this stage of the case peaceful overtures were made to h! by, regain the child. All being in vain, the matter had to be left with iy the Police. The first hearing of the case, after the Police had taken b § up the matter, was on the 15th September at Ootacamund. Acha il]a got 2 months’ imprisonment, and the girl was brought back to the Somg Orphanage. This was all that the Basel Mission desired, and with Jear this the case ends as far as the Basel Mission is eoncerned. After % th that the Police or Government impeached the Roman priest for lO(}ke‘ 4 113 e ears 1) abetting in a case of kidnapping, which case came on on the 15th WO git, October, and was finished on the 17th. All tricks were useless. Alifle bty Acha even went so far as to deny his own mother, and to assert 0 of the iy In the first instance that he and Maria belong to another mother. phanage, ul* the priest got 6 weeks’ imprisonment and had to pay a fine of ho elder ne Rs. 600. On appeal, the punishment was reduced to 2 days’ arrest | at that fie and a fine of Rs. 300. As stated above, the Mission had absolutely they ot nothing to do with the case against the priest, nevertheless—per- ted the Rom haps under inspiration of our opponents—in a Newspaper we were ) b o represented as fanatics, wolves in sheep’s skin, who indulge in the in the Ronu persecution of an innocent lamb, a priest, who simply has done his g of duty and, perhaps, has gone only a little too far in his holy zeal. pete, Onk Any unprejudiced mind will see from the facts of this case that all that we have done was done in sheer self-defence and under brought e Iy with (ute gross provocation. y gnd reporteé Apart from what has been mentioned above about the Iy in ohat work of the Young Men’s Association amongst the hill-tribes, onee st of course also the Mission-agents (two Catechists and an aoking bt oo Assistant Catechist) do systematic Work amongst the Badagas. Myr. Kanaka thinks that famine and other scourges, by which 1 to hand 0% God visited these hills, have not been quite ineffectual. 1] He writes: ““Since August last the severity of famine has been )aﬂied hv On the gt mitigated to some extent, as the first erop was good and the filg prospects of the second crop also are not far below the average, and oiven B8 il 5 but the after-effects of the famine are still felt. Referring to the i} ]]61' L earthquake at the beginning of the year, people often say: ¢ Really ot f i B it is the great God of the universe who has shaken a part of the il ere il b { earth, and if He had shaken a few minutes longer, then chaos would 1l have been the result. When wickedness aggravated, when we all {0 e et g ol ; had forgotten Him, as if He were not in existence, when we were [ in a state of lethargy, He marvellously awoke and warned us. amllﬁd f Some people scarcely could afford one meal a day. That in this bk ! year the wild-growing hill-guava shrubs have borne abundantly, )lfed, aﬂd so that many a poor starving one could feed upon them, must be cerne d AI[ ol looked upon as an instance of God’s special providence. Of course, o I 8 s at Kota there are many whom neither God’s kindness nor His punishments will call to repentence.” Mr. Kanakea relates of an inquirer, who inthe ( suddenly died in the night before Ascension-day. He was one of jeat, th the Tandanad-people, :and his relatives were furious about his gitls th conversion; his wife even using the epithet: “Christian dogs”. haptise A rumour had been spreading about that in the afternoon of On Ascension-day the baptism of the man would take place. One ecan f0 Jear understand that the sudden death about this time has greatly useful intimidated others. An old Badaga, with somewhat advanced ideas, agri ventured to bury his wife in a coffin, and even allowed a girls’ of the school to be established on his verandah. He would have liked onler to join us, but his debts were the fetters which prevented bim it ol from doing so; he also wished to be burried after his death. But, uneley alas, he died, was burned according to the fashion of his tribe and the girls’ school had to be removed. ey b fhene 5 Also the Bible-women find that the earthquake made a 1] Yigt of great impression upon the minds of people. The women even fhem by invite them te come to their houses and to teach them ¢ wisdom”. i the y frends Myr. Grossmann thinks that some of the converts of last year ong may be counted as fruits of the seed sown by the Bible- women. the Inos It The work of the Bible-women amongst the women living I foy on the Nilgiris, reminds us of the great interest in Mission- thay | work manifested by the English ladies at the Kotagiri station. There is a Work-meeting on Friday afternoon, in which they of this work for the Mission. The splendid work done sells easily, and the net proceeds go to the Mission. Our hearty thanks are due to all the ladies, especially to the energetic and o assiduous lady-president of this meeting, Mrs. Cockburn. I\ We conclude with the Educational Work of this station. Yang In Some schools out in the villages had to be abolished, hence of the number of pupils went down from 268 to 190. There are gy er)l left 4 village-schools, a-night-school and the Girls’ Orphanage ahoy cn— 11 (3] [ 18 punshues at Kotagiri. At the beginning of the year there were 32 girls inguire, in the Orphanage. Although 6 girls left the school during the He was o year, there were at the end of it 38. In the case of some new ous. ahot i girls the Orphanage has been rather unfortunate. Two, not yet hritian Qg baptised, ran away, two others were unable to learn at school. o afternon On the 14th October 5 bigger girls were baptised ; they managed ace, (ot to learn reading and writing before that. They make themselves 6 by gl useful by domestic work, gathering fire-wood and cow-dung, doing ydvanced it agricultural work, and at present they are busy with the renovation lowed 8 gif of their own house. To be for some years in a school with its strict uld have i order is very wholesome for such girls. If they would learn nothing prevented i but cleanliness, it would be a great boon to them. ¢ But the outward is death. B8 uncleanliness,” Mr. Grossmann remarks, ‘““is not the worst kind, this i bis e may be encountered by boiling water and in the last end by fire, but there is another kind, of which they will not get rid of so easily. Most of them are good girls, and it does not want much to make ke w8 them happy: a cup of tea or coffee, a small excursion to some place o o e in the neighbourhood will fill their hearts with enthusiasm. Kind e friends in Méaunnedorf (Switzerland) through their weleome gifts have tg of st J done much to make Christmas also in the Orphanage at Kotagiri by the Blb[d the most happy time of the year. It is due to the famine that children, whom their relatives in former years would have preferred to see perish rather than leave them to us, are now brought to us. Since January ot o 5" ) hagit il of this year 10 new children had to be admitted. 1 il i i né Sells eaﬂ Jeaty h&ﬂf energt fio The perusal of the work done by the Basel Mission on its (oo various stations, will convince our readers that the experiences in the various districts are very different. As to the attitude f i i of the population towards Mission-work, of course, there are disiel henfi’ everywhere large masses that either do not know anything 0 B about Christianity or do not care for it, which of course does i 09 8* ST = 116 not exclude that they are influenced by it in many ways. who There are besides most decided opponents of the Gospel, not staf 1o only amongst the Mohammedans, but especially amongst those whose power or livelihood is intimately connected with the ideal mith existing institutions and the superstitions of Hinduism. The 4 educated classes, as a rule, arein a friendly, benevolent relation to Christianity. But we do not forget that in spite of all statt proud talk about «“the spread of education”, looking upon the on ou why | nation as a whole, education has gone scarcely skin-deep, though it is the skin, which an out-sider will see first of all. g Misg Besides some of our educated Hindus bear two souls in one Ml breast: one for the public life and one for the family-life; and finally alienation to «the vain manner of life handed (ane few | down from their fathers” does not yet mean attraction towards salvation in Christ. No wonder then that during the last i)l P year the same educated circles, that occasionally praise the o Missionary as a benefactor of India, did not only most heartily and g join in the foolish talk, which made Missionaries responsible world for the Chinese war, but made also nasty applications of this of (} slander to India. However, God be praised, everywhere are f0 g a few, who «“are of the truth” and thus will hear the voice of mag truth. And these are found amongst all the divisions which made we have pointed out just now. Looking over our Report, we highe do not find that conversions take place in proportion to the Whic} friendliness of the population. The attitude of people in throp South-Mahratta seems to be all that one can wish in the way il of politeness and kindness. On the other hand there is almost H a deadly opposition to Christianity manifested on the Nilgiris, and yet the soil on these hills may be called fertile in comparison with barren South-Mahratta. — As to the motives of our converts, ideal cases have been rare in all our districts, though they have not been absent altogether. The majority of people came for bread’s sake. But a good many of those 115 T who according to their own concession came to the Mission- a0y i Gogel, station first of all in order to get a livelihood, have developed mongst i into quite exemplary Christians, whilst sometimes so-called ted it ideal cases may end with a great disappointment. We agree duism, T with Drummond, who says: «God takes strange ways to start olent et a man’s religion. But the motives, which God allows us to start on, are not the same ones we are to live on.” To lead spie of o on our new converts to live on higher motives is the reason, cing upn Iy shinde) why in our Mission such a prolonged care is taken for the congregations, which partly also explains the fact that our o finstof souls n 0 Mission has comparatively a larger number of European o i Missionaries than other Societies. A progress in many respects cannot be denied to our congregations, but what, with a { life ool few exceptions which only confirm the rule, they lack chiefly cton fomt is Missionary-spirit, the desire to propagate the Gospel by ring fe ) word and deed amongst their brethren according to the flesh, ly puiet and a feeling of responsibility with regard to the non-Christian ot e world next to them. As to our educational work, the want s il of Christian graduates, who are spiritually minded enough st to serve the Mission, is keenly felt and exertions will be eryuhert made to meet this difficulty. Some provision also must be r the ! made for such girls in our congregations, who go in for s Yigvt higher education. There are some other desiderata besides, o Report, P which with all our cares and needs we lay down before the porfo hb throne of our Lord, asking Him: ¢«“Let thy Kingdom come of peﬂple il also in India as all over the world!” g inte? Jepe alrﬂ[‘fi > ) he ‘\'i]é”ifff od fertvile‘ﬂ ut igtrxtfi The mﬂjﬂﬁi i pa] ¢ 118 Appendix L Kalop (fod's P LIST OF BOOKS AND TRACTS Church Bongive Printed from the 1st November 1899 to 31st October 1900. :\régyas The Fir 1. Canarese. The i (lass-B Edition. Size. Copies. Pages. Tot. Pages. Satyadipike, vol. IV. 1899-1900 40 800 192 153600 " The ix Suvésini Vol. I. No. 1—6 ” 500 96 48000 The | The Acts of the Apostles, revised The | translation 122 1500 130 195000 Bonr The Epistles of Saint. Pa;ul ’to 'the. Geog Thessalonians, revised translation 1500 21 31500 Bila The Epistles of Saint Paul to the The ] Galatians, revised translation « 1500 21 31500 Theg The Epistles of Saint Paul to the Philippians and Philemon, rev. tr 1500 20 30000 )\ (e Ma]ay: The Epistle of Saint James, revised translation 16 24000 Tle T ” 1500 the The Lord’s Supper 1000 108 108000 The New Testament with Psalms 16° 5000 399 1995000 %ialay Almg The Gospel of Saint Mark, revised translation 182 5000 84 420000 Bloog The Gospel of Saint L;lke; re\;. tr;lnsi. 5000 146 730000 99 495000 The Gospel of Saint John, ” ” 5000 Counsels to Young Men 168 2000 50 100000 Short The Power of Prayer: Seven Stories 2000 38 76000 Tos I 3000 70 210000 The § History of India The Citizen of India 3000 220 660000 Jong) The Primer, Macmillan’s Series 10000 38 380000 Canarese Primer . VI 10000 40 400000 Tables of Calculation v 10000 48 480000 4 Sy Canarese First Book VIII 122 30000 36 1080000 Arégyabhégya . 11 2000 68 136000 An Epitome of the Geogr ap hy. of‘the‘ The Madras Presidency II 16° 2000 90 180000 The II. Standard Geography II 1000 16 16000 The The Canarese Text-Examiner 375 48 18000 Canarese Almanac for 1901 80 5300 80 424000 The 0N =y, 119 IL. Malayalam Edition Size Copies Pages Tot. Pages 80 350 192 67200 Kéralopakari, vol. XXVII God’s Plan of Full Salvation " 1000 43 43000 Church Discipline 16° 1000 36 36000 63000 Forngeness of Sins 1000 63 ober 1901 ::I; 2000 48 96000 Arovyashastra The First Standard Reader IV 5000 60 300000 The Fifth n n 11 2000 100 200000 Class-Book of Arithmetic for the Ist St 2000 17 34000 Pages, Tot B n n n IInd St 2000 24 48000 192 L5l The Infant Reader (Muliyil’s) ” 10000 52 520000 96 A 8000 60 480000 The First Standard Reader n The Primer, Macmillan’s Series Ly 10000 40 400000 1% | 130 Fourth Reader . II ” 10000 136 1360000 32 160000 Geography for Standard III Ly 5000 ol bt II 4000 84 336000 Balavyakaranam The Infant Reader 1000 22 22000 ol 31l The Essentials of Malayalam Grammar XI 5000 32 160000 111 5000 110 550000 A Geography of the Madras Presidency 20 i Malayalam School Panchatantram VIII 2000 264 528000 The Upper Primary Arithmetic for 16 i 111 2000 128 256000 the Primary Examination, Part III 108 l § i Malayalam Almanac for 1901 - 80 1800 70 126000 0030 399 ‘‘‘‘‘ Alméopakari, vol. XIII 1100 96 105600 & 12° 500 87 43500 Blood of Jesus §4 4 1 149 (bl III. Tulu. i 9 4 Short Bible Stories, Old and New 1008 il Testament, revised edition 12° 3000 65 195000 3 (il The Sermon on the Mount 32° 3000 20 60000 10 ol Jonah 3000 12 36000 gl 290 b 3 IV. Badaga. {0 N [0 Short Bible Stories . it 12° 2000 68 136000 4 4#! 3 V. Anglo-Vernacular. 8 11 16° 3000 36 108000 TheIll. Standard Reader, Anglo-Malay The Primer, containing I. and II. St 90 I Reader, Anglo-Malayalam Iv 16° 8000 35 280000 10 4 bl 80 1300 138 179400 The Sixtieth Report of the B. G. E. M 80 i 120 e Appendix II, Summary of FExpenditure pro 1900. Rs. As I2/ Rs As Personal allowances to the Missionaries 95,230 Itinerancy and vehicles of European and Native Agents 0 . 26,611 Salaries to Catechists, besides those Pastors and Catechists who are paid out of the Church-funds . 21,203 11 Expenses for Bible-women in excess of the grant received from the B. and F. Bible Society, London 342 Baster Expenses for schools and eduéational in- Throg stitutions, besides Orphanages and Paro- i G chial Schools after deducting the Govt. R grants and School-fees received . 35,514 14 LBg Contribution by the Home-Committee to the I Church-funds of the Stations and the oo, I, Orphanages 34,348 Al Expenses for transfers of European and DA G Native Agents . 2,250 R0, » Home-voyages of Missionaries 16,709 12 i » medical treatment and sick-leave allowances of Missionaries 3,613 11 AN, Wog Upkeepandrepairof buildings,new buildings, Government assessment, taxes and rent 31,010 14 11 Pays to Munshis 1,682 B Rig Contribution to the libraries of the Stations 292 6, Ha) Debit Balance o’f“the Medical Mission De- partment . . 3,911 teu.r Es.tabl'ishment 2,000 Towards upkeep of Colpor Sundry expenses for administration, ete. 3,500 b3 1((2:; g L)) ~ 278,221 Ly, Less receipts: Donations . 3,205 B 9 - Ly Interest of Casamajor Fund 2,521 14 1 6.1 Rent of houses and proceeds Mg of compounds 3,987 0 11 Net proceeds of the Press - 5 11 10 X ( . 1,008 — 10,722 ._-l— i: Net expenditure covered by the Home-Com- mittee 6.} . . . 267,498 15 L Subscriptions and Donations 900! Towards the Mission-Fund o Received during the year 1900. Rs. \A b LI ¢<& All sums received on or after the tst of January 1901 will be acknow- 26,611% il ledged in the Report for 1901. — <O —>~<S 210 ) | | Rs = =) MANGALORE. Rs. As e PVA. Ho L 12 10 HL { Baster offering from Karachi 50 0 0| G. Grant Esq. Through Messrs. Warden & Co., Bombay. Mrs. Grant 10 10 Sir George Cotton, Kft. 10 0 Sophy Devarike A. H. 8. West Esq 10 R. W. H. 10 BB St Mrs. Haller 35,51;314 ‘i‘ J. Sp. R. D. Tipping Esq Geo. K. H. R. F. Hiley Esq. (S S B =) 33 0 AJ M. T. J. A. Brockman Esq. H. F. Simpson Esq . B G R. O. ?;;; P. S. Tipping Esq. 9350, ! il H. B, 10 W. Davis Esq. 16,108 ! R. Kaundinya Esq. A Me.iK. W. & Co. 25 o 0o © o © o0 o o < o o 00 0 O o O o o o D. A. Donaldson Esq. agip !l S. Seth Esq. MERCARA. Mrs. Kaundinya 31,010114 9 E. Richter Esq. 50 (=) =) Miss M. Ritter it Mrs. Richter i ! G. Haller Esq. 10 n E. Wright ey 0 DO o W W W ok ottt oo o0 O 0o o0 o 0o e oo o o9 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. ANANDAPTUR. Lk Towards the Orphanage. Towards the Poorfund. 100 00 ) ‘ G. F. Meiklejohn Esq. N. Mc.Milleyn Esq. 3000 ] /D E. Meynell Esq. 100 R. G. Hutson Esq. e M. E. Couchman Esq. 100 G. H. 70 DHARWAR. Mrs. Payne 45 W. Thorley Esq. 14 M. Chisholm Esq. 25 Towards the Students’ Home. 21 Rev. J. Hewison 8 fi H. E. Richter Esq. 012 G. R. Moore Esq. 15 I. Shaw Esq. 10 () I 12 o 0 0 o O O © 2 o %)(.é 10 (=) it J. Logan Esq. I. Bern Murdoch Esq. e 122 Rs. As. P Rs. As. P. V. Phelips Esq. 10 R. V. Austin Esq. LY Hu F. Anderson Esq. 10 H. Webb Esgq. s Mo Rev. W. W. Baillie 10 L C. R. D’Sylva Esq. D. Hugh Lindsay Esq. 5 Towards the Poorfund. (R Jam 12 p il C. P. Muhl Esq., Bangalore R. V. Austin Esq. 25 A1 Jon N. N. 3 g i)g lrs A, In KALEY: For the Girls’ Orphanag?. Bor, W. 1 Neville Priestley Esq. 60 His Excellency the Governor of Madras 20 =} I W) 1. Wray Esq. 12 (Al A. 8. Cowdell Esq. 100 G. Wood Esq. 12 (= A Butter I. Reynolds Esq. 12 John Liebenrood Esq. 100 S His Lordship the Bishop of - Nasten By T. Anderson Esq. L4, G Madras 50 William Thowley Esq. 12 29 Mrs, iy I. Shaw Esq. 45 Rev. H. Pigott (£ 2) I. W. Luxmore Esq. 20 2 (i V. Phelips Esq. 10 Col. Stevenson 15 ) A H. Courpalais Esq. 17 H W N. N. 9 @ FOrNIOHEOUOIHOE ORONEIEC SO O O OO0 0 O L. W. Grey Esq. Hon. H. M. Winterbotham 15 0. g HUBLI. C. B. Barclay Esq. 14 s, Py Mrs. Foy (=} 12 s Hea Mrs. Bak‘er HONAVAR. L. K. 12 D) A. Lucas Esq. 10 Mrs. E. Reed 11 B0, ggy H. G. Hervey Esq. 10 B 1 g Rev. & Mrs. Bishop G. Laird Me.Gregor Esq. 10 H. Sim Bsq. 10 U, 4 R. Mec.Tier Esq. A. Prinkle Esq. 10 R B, T. R. Bell Esq. 10 SES QLS IO IO TE L S e D e e oo T e P e o I e o R o T o o e M o o S ) (e Yigg D, C. Claasen Esq. Captain M. Moore (=i oy = e M ) SO OBNO O Prosp. Contrib. to the A Mage CANNANORE Catechist’s Salary lrs, LD,y Mrs. Isabella Haultain 100 (=) o Geo. Maddox Esq. H. M. Children of Mr. Penn -1 3 6. Harg o Mrs. W. Reynolds By CALICUT. Mrs. Ferguson 24 I. M. Thompson Esg. Vi, A. E. Scovell Esq. L3y Macrae D. N. Morrison 11 Rev. Carr Q’RJa " ‘Welsh 15 General Ramsay ) Iy Mrs. Hamnett ! (hg Russel Miss C. Ling Baptist Dy, C. W. Snell Esq, ik g C. A. Weir Esq. Mrs. Standbridge V.3 Towards the debt of the Mission 3 12 . O O O O O Major Marshal M, PALGHAT. Rev. Geo. Hobday i3 Mrs. F. A. Dupen 10 (<] C. Aiklandaiyar Esq. L) In memory of Mrs. Tomlinson 5 0 W. E. Schmidt Esq. L S LR L S| B B | S L B ) B 5 S S, SRS . ) S O ChS .S OO Cie o o8 &0 & o oSoTo o o o oOa 5 o oo o g, 123 Rs. As. B B Rs. As. P I. W. R. (3 G il A. M. Hurst Esq. 104 Mrs. Me.Murray Mrs. Boggie 0 4 0 L n L. Parkinson COONOOR. oorfund, C. R. James Esq. A. N. Groves Esq. 75 %0 A. M. Jones Esq. Mrs. R. James 50 [ Mrs. A. Inman 50 Th. Stanes Esq. vernor ‘Rev. W. E. Boggs Rev. R. P. Wilder 10 Mrs. W. Mec.Ivor 0ol X 1ot » G. Walsh A. Butters Esq. e H. T. Stanes Esq. 100 0 R. Bake Esq. w w o Master Bob. Curtis op of T. Eagan Esq. il L. A. Groves Esq. Mrs. Sinclair DO DD DO DD QO W W W W W B Mrs. Hayne 9 F. W. Pegg Esq. Ll Osborne (N4 0o Mrs. H. Dashe i1 n A. E. Haldwell Grove ” W. E. Smith » il » Nash G. M. de Winton Esq B s e DWW o o0 o © o o0 o o OO O O oo e Io o0 oS O SIoOO S ham 50l Mrs. Pluckrose Pastor Mellis g n Heath [T SR NN AR A Towards the Cooly Mission 0l 120 n D. McFarlane Hillgrove Estate fl Pilloor n 120 H. C. Atkins Esq. 55 IR Rev. T. E. Slater T. Stanes Esq. 0ot H. Herklots Esq. 60 Mrs. A. Sherman 0! A. N. Groves Esq. 36 Rev. E. Keyworth 24 0o Miss D. Schmidt L. Porter Esq. g0t Mrs. Mulaly A. Mace Esq. Mrs. H. 8. Guthrie Baroness von Engelhardt o © © O © O O w fe T <o T <= S o B = B = S e R = ! E. D. M. KOTAGIRI. il G. Hardy Esq. F. Groves Esq. 100 = =] 1 H. St. | Proceeds of Ladies’ Work- D. H. Kelly Esq. meeting 80 : | M. B. O. Miss M. B. L. Cockburn 50 §l OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO%!@OOOOOOOO@ Mrs. D. Cockburn 50 5 G. R. James Esq. Mrs. A. Perkins 1. F. Hill Esq. 30 a") M. Chalk Esq. I. T. F. Wilson Esq. 20 Al A. Bryant Esq. D. I. D. Cockburn Esq. 15 ] D. M. Rev. V. E. Moller 10 ‘W. Barnard Esq. Rev.I.H.Bishopfor Orphanage 10 | Mrs. H. 8. Chandler Major H. L. Hutchins 5 §l A. E. Richter Esq. [y A joyful heart il H. E. G. D. Ch. H. Brock Esq. ] Mrs. Prince OOOHHHHn‘H—-hAHHHHHHHpAHHL\Dw fo e < T - I B =B o= S =R == = J. Fieg Esq. {5; oo 0 00 o000 O o e oo Pl = T =T T B == = = T == = B = = il 124 Rs. As Rs. As. P. Mr. I. K. London Mrs. Haddock Miss Holloway Miss Norfor Alr, Devad: Mrs. Windle g Geo. Cockburn Esq s Blagy Rev. E. Sell ” Johnstone IR Rev. I. Aunderson ” Hatch 2 L) Pt W. P. Scott Esq. Mr. Maidmont % ?;é F. Sherman Esq. Towards Bible-women’s work. R. Griffith Esq. D O DD DD W W SO O OGS o0 (ol ey o) ) ooy (Fo) E Hom) Miss Ewart 120 0 M, Chri o Jo o Moge » el » Dher A Donations from Members of the Congregation and other Native Friends. Wision MANGALORE. Rs. As. P UDiPI. Rs. As. P N Messrs. L. Joshua & Sons 60 0 0 0 80 Weares Mr. Th. Roberts towards KARKAL., ;4 the debt 50 12 Bapilsof Different gifts LY, Yy Messrs. Arnone & Aiman 8 Mr. Samuel Sumitra for Boi , Mr. H. Aiman 6 Poorfund 0 12 Th. Roberts Sale of f n (e o) (e=)iid=) ey o) KASARAGOD. NN, ¥ ” ” n towards Mr. Th. Roberts towards 5 Y, T Orphanages = Ly Church-fund 10 ” Th. Ramappa ” C. Amos Mission-box of late Ananda lir Saty( Roberts 3 N. N. ot Mr. N. Pearl Catechist’s family at Kumbla 2 Oferings n Th. Pearl DHARWAR. the Wo ” S. Gold | SR S S, S o P R = T« ) A heathen woman at Malapur 3 1 g, L. Fernandez oo Mr. Bhimachi 1 ” ' B§ ” Chr. Maben Bible-woman ' L From a Nigger-box LN [y ORI O Tl O OIS S LS Pl (=T el ) SR ) i o i o) Mr. Hanoch Adina Iy, N. N. (=) MULKI N. Ne =) RO R ODn S O e SO I O S (o) bl Mr. Joseph Vedamuttu HUBLI. ” Jesudasa Aarons Copg Mr. S. P. Hubli 11 ehg n Babu Shetti » Jonathan Havala, Unakallu 10 Cogg Mrs, M. Jeremia n Frida Bangera BETTIGERI. M, p ﬂPa Girls’ Orphanage O = O e e B 0 O B O O (o) =) (= e i (o Different gifts 0l 125 Rs. As. P Bs Rs. As. P, GULEDGUDD Towards the Poorfund. # Mr. D’Vaz ?; Mr Devadana Katapur ” Eliezer Amengara I Bhagya Alada Noah Erandeth Sal. Jogula ”» n Philipp Amengara S < M= O PO 0 > O - o O Jakob Pujari S o S N D . B O (e cm) i (o) ) 11 N. N. Rs. 20, Rs. 105, HONAVAR. 175 D0IEAYS 00tk Rs. 50 100 Mr Christadasa Israel 11 PALGHAT. Jesudasa Kalyana Mose Salins P. 1. Ittyerah Esq. 30 Medad Jayanta 8. Selvanayagam Esq. 12 Ebenezer Aarons A. Venkataramana Pai Bsq. n J. I. Joshua O O k= b ek W] 12 S O O O o K. C. Thomas Esq. ation A. G. Thomas Esq. e oo & C e oo D CANNANORE Mission-box of the Weavers 62 KAITY. PI B kil TELLICHERRY Through Mr. Boyers, Collec- tion at the weekly prayer- 0 b Weavers at Nettur 15 & meetings at Hulikal KAL Pupils of Nettur Schools 12 Mr. C. Job, Ooty ) N. N., Nettur Benjamin Boni M. for Mission-debt 3 for Abr. Madia [ Sale of eggs for the Mission ” Carl Satyanathan N. N., Nettur Isaac Nerkambe AG0D- N. N., Tellicherry J. Sebastian vands JE 4 bt Paul Mada il Mr. Satyanathan oo,_.._nh—-lN)l\'JCDCD e we o oo oo o 9 A. Joshua Anands CHOMBALA. Gnanamani 3 | Gnanayutam ¢ Fumble e Offerings at Bible-meetings of Jes. Konga the women iR ”n Jes. Shanta Mr. I. Kumaren E. Kumaren Lemuel Soens g n Mose Kari I | I. Mavattil ” Vedamanikan ! X N. QO b kt DD QO {am )i (e=1 2000 )" (o i ) o O O © < [ Shantappen CODACAL. G | Satyanathan Collection of the members of P. Jesudasan congregation towards the Aaron Titus ! debt of the Mission 14 A. Joseph fl Codacal 8chool children 0 10 Im'manuel Madia sl Mr. T. K. Mathai ” George Halli n Paul Pilo 11 Samuel Sele ” 4ERL ” T. C. Mathai J. Joseph HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHmetowwww OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOi— OOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOP 126 Rs. As Subser Rs. As. P. Mr. Sam. Satyanathan 12 Mr. K. Nathanael C. Jesudasan 12 n W. Adams » David Jesaya J. M. Jeremia ” Isaac Nare A. Devashirvadam D.D. X Daniel LV n A. John (:Z: g g Abr. David Mission John Mo, |, KOTAGIRI. I, Ephraim Barnabas Rev. I. Kanaka il Gnanamuttu Mr. Henry Kodot Th A. L. David Mrs. - H. Kodot 5y M. E. Samuel Mr. Chr. Adscha ki A. Sandosham Young Men’s Chr. Association Mr. Isaac Bella Jakob Nerkambe b Im. Devasabayam ” Joseph Belli ” Ananda V. Gnanapragasam Mg, B Nath, Palani M. 8. Gnanapragasam 1 A John Philipp D. 8. William y b Jes. Daniel » Simon Bala 3 4 Broy Sam. Dawar » Benj. Samuel G § Gnanasigamany SO 0 090 0 0 OoOCc o000 o oc oo o6 e s S 00 0 o © 0 O W O QO W W O W W W W W » OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP.U ” Gabr. Kanaka S O© H = o= DD W W o W 0300 00 HO o O O ey ey O o5 T e SIS oo O O o 0 oS oo = 1 Togk B, Dayis [ Hog ULI FCp Collection. DY,y Dy, Rs. As Rs. As Mangalore 107 13 10 1314 V.5 Tellicherry Mulki 12 Chombala 37 Rajah ¢ Iy Udipi 15 Calicut 28 Karkal 10 Codacal i, Kiihy Basarur 17 Vaniyankulam Kasaragod Palghat Mercara 9 22 Kaity 01 South-Mahratta Stations 61 13 g Kotagiri 23 (8)2 mooooooc:ow—b"’ Cannanore 46 0 10 Maﬁgc 127 e R‘lu Subscriptions and Donations towards the Sickhouse, Leper Asylum 04 i ‘and Poorfund at Mangalore. Rs.. As Py Rs. As. P. D. D. Murdoch Esq. 12 0 Mr. Th., Ramappa 0t 0 ) J. W. Boys Esq. Messrs. L. Joshua & Sons Missionaries 88 Mr. 8. J. Peter, Madras Mrs. J. Ball 50 ” N. Pearl IN Mr. C. Amos 12 ” Th. Pearl J. Zachariah 12 {0 n ” D. Verghese 30 ” Th. Roberts 12 N Ne = DO O = Ot Ot O O SO e o OO OO Cc O o 0 < M N. N. (= i )i o) (0 0} i e pl = =) ee o OO0 OO0 O Mr. P. Arnone 30 ssociation 3 01 1l Subseriptions and Donations for the Mission Hospital at Calicut. 90 Rs. As. Rs. As, P 90 Mrs. Ferguson 22 H. Hofmann Esq. 0 il {0 ” A. W. Macrae C. Biisch Esq. /asall | ”n Jeanne Dance 35 W. Haas Esq. (it A. Brown Esq. 25 NN, % 0 I C. W. Snell Esq. 19 C. I. Usher BEsq. H. Lockie Esq. N N- Z 0 b E. Davis Esq. 34 M. Chauny Esq. I. Howard Bullivant Esq. Mr. R. Ramachandra Rao A. I. Lp. N: N. F. C. Parsons Esq. 15 H. Rinne Esq. 14 D. N. Morrison Esq S. Russel Esq. D. W. Murchy Esq. 5 R. S. Palmer Esq. % Bs. W. H. Welsh Esq. 13 S. Christie Esq. ER Rajah Gopalachary C. W. Thevenard Esq. ol ar | N. N. Mr. Coomurjee 0§ H. Kiihner Esq. o O o w o 6 60 0 0o 0 o e @ O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPU R. H. Lushington Esq. Sl oSl e SO0 OO0 IOI0 O DS LS S OO OO0 CIOIIS OO 0! gl B! & O <] % Mangalore, 31st December 1900. XN. Altenmiiller, Treasurer. — e S OTERO OO Rasds CONTENTSS. Page List of Buropean Missionaries - Statistical Tables . Table of Stations, Out-stati(')ns ané{ Ag.ent.s 12 Report . . . . 18 i South-Canara. . . 20 Mangalore Mulki . O Udipi 36 Karkala 41 Basrur . 43 Kasaragod 45 | %é Puttur 46 11 Coorg. 8 Mercara 49 9 50 Anandapur 111 South-Mahratta. 10 Dharwar 53 11. Hubli 58 12. 60 Bettigeri 13. Guledgudd - 61 14. Bijapur 64 15. Honavar 66 v Malabar. 16. Cannanore 68 ¥ Tellicherry 73 18 Chombala 80 19 Calicut 85 20 Codacal 94 21 Vaniyankulam 98 22 Palghat 101 Nilgiris. 23 Kaity 104 24 Kotagiri . . . . . 110 Appendix I. List of Books pr .inte.d a,;; th;a B: M. Press ;1uring .the year 118 \ 120 n II. Summary of Expenditure pro 1900 . Subscriptions and Donations received 121 NN NG 2N NN FaN NN P NS ) P Y . R e L 2o e = S e e o Ty s e SRS o A 555 s /./\yiu. 5, =3 i, AL S A ) PRy Lo Nt Tk 0 o ) o R Toos CaZei N e, TP A A CoNats b St il et SaSb s trit s i QAR = R oteen feta - T N S oo S ST Wk, e el o — s o .r)uW. 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