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Corrected up to the 1st May 1902.

[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

Native

Active

Station

N _a,me

Country

Service

R

. W. Stokes (m)

India

1860

Coonoor

Switzerland

1865

. 8. Walter (m)

Vaniyankulam®

. G. Ritter (m)

Germany

1869

Mulki (S. Canara)

. J. A. Brasche (m)

do.

1869

Udipi

do.

Holland

1870

. W. Sikemeier (m)

Mereara (Coorg)

. J. Hermelink (m)

Germany

1872

Mangalore

. G. Grossmann (m)

Switzerland

1874

Kotagiri (Nilgiri)

do.

1874

. J. Baumann (m)*

Udipi

. W. Liitze (m)

Germany

1875

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do

1875

Mercara (Coorg)

[y

do

1876

L.J.Frohnmeyer (m)

Tellicherry (Nettur)

J. G. Kiithnle (m)

do

1878

Palghat

H. Altenmiiller (m)*

do

1878

Mangalore

C. D. Warth (m)

do

1878

Bettigeri

Chr. Keppler (m)

do

1879

Udipi

J. J. Jaus (m)

do

1879

Calicut

F. Stierlin (m)*

do

1880

Mangalore

K. Ernst (m)

do

1881

Dharwar

e e T

M. Schaible (m)

do

1883

Mangalore

20

B. Liithi (m)

Switzerland

1884

do.

1884

Cannanore

K. Hole (m)

Germany

Lo

D. Berli (m)

Switzerland

1885

Hubli

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0

G. Peter (w)

do.

1885

Cannanore

1886

Basrur

J. Geetz (m)

Germany

F. Haber (m)*

Switzerland

1886

Mangalore

J. Sieber (m)*

do.

1887

do.

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1888

W. Bader (m)

Germany

Tellicherry

H. Risch (m)

do.

1888

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R. Bosshardt (m)

Switzerland

1888

Codacal

30

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Fr. Volz (m)*

Germany

1890

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Date of

Name

Country

Service

Active

Station

32.

Ph. Stier (m)

Germany

1891

Kaity

1.4

33.

do.

1893

J. Bichle (m)

Udipi

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34

K. Mayer (m)

do.

1893

Bettigeri

3.

35

A. Metz (m)

do.

1893

Guledgudd

J

36

E. Hiller (m)

Australia

1893

Palghat

1.0

37

P. Borel (m)

Germany

1894

Kasaragod

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38

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do

1894

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do

1894

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40

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do

1894

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41

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do

1895

Dharwar

42

Joh. Knobloeb (m) *

do

1895

Calicut

43

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India

1895

do.

44

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Switzerland

1895

Chombala

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45

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Germany

1896

Karkal (8. Canara)

.

46

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do.

1896

Puttur

¥

8.1

47

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do.

1896

Udipi

48

Liithy

Switzerland

1896

Guledgudd

8. §i

TESQx

8.1

49

Kiithner (m)*

Germany

1896

Calicut

50

H. Eidenbenz (m)*

Switzerland

1896

Cannanore

51

W. Rath (m)

Germany

1896

Hubli

52

1897

G. Renschler (m)

do

Calicut

53

Chr. Diirr (m)

do

1897

Mulki

B W

54

K. Buesch*

do

1897

Cannanore

8, §

55

do

1898

811

W. Spaich

Mangalore

56

H. Stokes (m) *

India

1898

do.

88,

57

M. Stuckert (m)*

Switzerland

1898

do.

8

58

1898

0.7

¥r. Braun (m)

Germany

Bijapur

59

Fr. Singer

do

1898

Codacal

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60

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do

1898

| Mangalore

g

61

A. Scheuer

do

1899

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| Vaniyankulam

62

A. Beierbach *

do

1899

Mangalore

63

I. Pfleiderer (m)

do

1899

do.

5.4 ¢

64

L. Fraas *

do

1899

Calicut

9.0,

e

65

H. Haffner *

do

1899

Cannanore

%( Th

66

J. Maue

do

1899

Tellicherry

1y

67

H. Hofmann *

do

1900

99}1

68

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Mangalore

P. Simpfendorfer

do

1900

do.

10 (

69

W. Metzler

do

1900

Basrur

70. E. Vogt

do

1900

Dharwar

Date of

tion

Name

Native

Active

Station

|

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Service

|

/@)

1900

. A. Spring

Germany

Bijapur

12

N ZﬂrWﬂCK, Dr. ph. & med. (m)

do.

1901

Bettigeri

3

. K. Grau

do.

1901

Guledgudd

1d

Switzerland

1901

1t

i Meyer, Dr. phil.

Tellicherry

75

Chr. Renz*®

Germany

1901

Calicut

ol

76

W. Bernhardt *

do

1901

do.

ur (Cerg

7

do

1901

Codacal

8

J. Ruopp

M. Gekeler

do

1902

Puttur

79

R. Bunz

do

1902

Karkal

Single Ladies.

3

80

Miss E. Kaun dinya

India

1897

81

Miss H. Krauss

Mangalore

§. (auars)

3

Germany

1898

do.

8

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Miss A. Ehrensperger

Switzerland

1900

Calicut

83

Sister K. Fritz

1900

do.

84

Germany

i

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Switzerland

1903

Mangalore

la

I

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85

W.P.Schonthal (m)*

Germany

1870

late of Cannanore

86

do

1871

do

87

G. Hirner (m)*

Mangalore

10

I. Weismann (m)

do

1878

do

Chombala

16

88

C. W. Dilger (m)

do

1880

do

Tellicherry

89

J. Fischer (m)

do

1881

do

90

Anandapur

F. Eisfelder (m)

do

1882

do

Guledgudd

91

A. Glattfelder (m)*

Switzerland

1886

do

Mangalore

92

G. Wieland (m)

1889

do

93

Germany

Kaity

10

J. Bucher (m)

do.

1890

do

Mangalore

ulan

94

J. Boas (m)*

do.

1891

do

Codacal

95

S. Stamm (m)*

Switzerland

1891

do

16

96

Mangalore

0. Singer (m)

Germany

1891

do

Honavar

97

Th. Uber (m)

do.

1892

do

Chombala

98

Tr. Lutz (m)

Switzerland

1892

do

Guledgudd

16

99

1892

If

M. Breidenbach (m)

Germany

do

Mangalore

6

100. O. Eckelmann (m)*

do.

1894

do

Codacal

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140

1st JANUARY

Agents

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1845

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1854

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1876

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1839

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1851

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1841

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1839

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1849

300000

30

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1842

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1857

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21.

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1886

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1858

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1846

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16

11

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14

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115

79

62

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145

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/44

Table of Schools of the Basel

(et

1st JANUARY

1402,

Pupils in Sclf;;ols for Christians

i

Non-Chy

Training and Boarding Schools | Day Schools

STATIONS

§

Number of Schools

Theological Schools

Training Schools

Middle and High

Schools

Boys’ Orphanages

Girls’ Orphanages

Primary Classes

Middle and High

School Classes

L. South-Canara.

Mangalore

18

463

317

Mulki

-

i |

7

279

0

Udipi

10

10

421

98

Karkal

701

60

161 |

Basrur-Kundapur

AP L B -

Kasaragod .

11

gg

§

:%E

()= pieny o) \O) ey, (o

§

13 |

627 |

52

41

10

2

70

1223

135

II. Coorg.

1598

[os]

Mercara

37

0

Anandapur (Am.mat;i)

28

21

18

ELeftoliini it SRAE S

28

21

55

'II]. Southern Mahratta

1o

Dharwar

45

19

II

Hubli

114

12

103 |

Bettigeri-G'adag.

95

14

Guledgudd

54

14

Bijapur .

%

140

1!‘"

236

Honavar

3

Bt i R s

g

ig))

OO OO ™

:Eé

19

26

g:)),:

80

308

%

823

1V.

Malabar.

16

Cannanore

.

199

49

29

17

Tellicherry

130

29

18

Chombala (Mahé)

10

69

12

3

19

Calicut

bt

263

30

20

Codacal .

267

24

{1

21

Vaniyankulam

')41

22

°

‘)M

Palghat .

§§

§)

§

45

45

§

1§

50

96

108

973

144

)u

V. Nilgiris.

23

Kaity

26

19

52

44

4

Kotagiri

OO [N s ol e o o (RO SIRCSE e FEap N LA F ety T T

0

‘§§

37

14

32

5

19

i

52

32

81

21

(8

Grand Total. .

157

18

23

154

oo

S

345

311

2640

300

17

Total 0}‘ 1st anuaoiy}ggi 154

Mt

467

250

3§

\.

2

=

-

e

0 B

German Evangelical Mission,

NUARY

1902

s

e oo

e

;istians

Schools for

Total ofﬂPupi»k; under instruction

Non-Christians

Dy Sghuuls

Boys

Gil‘!s

;

02

Total

1

:

f

School Classes

Primary Classes

z

Primary Classes

Middle and High

Christians

Non-Christians

Christians

Non-Christians

Infant Schools

zéé’

443

5717

2{

t-:'.)g

627

238

182

1319

i

]

o

156

111

10

349

41

gx

70

278

302

114

38

732

0

ﬂ

161

148

13

44

221

163

®w &

110

46

163

§

3

3

627

21

520

15

120

676

SO O OO

14

\7‘)5

1598

f-

7

g

662

1863

495

440

3460

84

109

14

Ei

15

37

&)

LY

2

41

24

67

<

9

b}

/E?}

55

39

104

@)

75

101

63

k7!

18

4

265

20

0

105

40

142

32

219

(14|

145

96

156

55

g

309

120

% |

140

28

118

107

19

272

55

236

12

178

43

236

122

100

g

16

122

/3.

823

10

%

242

871

218

92

1423

SRRSO S & & &

195

08

i

Y]

212

37

134

109

27

497

(or]

220

99

380

2T

142 |

Z

61

86

881

Hl

22

358

22

41

g)g

0

162

31

564

69 |

470

349

174

677

166

95

1112

() ) ) ()

180

63 |

2

[

247

296

178

152

634

o

160

'64 |

3

267

91

18

283

14

43

358

42

\’

181

72

30

208

37

23

4

298

(e fem) )

78

L~

2110

848

835

2495

701

313

4344

.

| -t

(]

907

7

1#

658

12

104

622

35

39

800

21119

125

0

30

28

48

208

85

|

é

:

[}

783

12

134

750

83

41

1008

304

1|

L

5314

1284

- 1928

5987

1536

888

10339

189

1515

1998

1181

5544

1482

757

9701

180

1401

v:

)

A W

e

1918

11

S

10

Detailed Tahle of Stations, Out-stations, and Agents.

Ouf

lst Januvuary 1S902.

—

9 M

Stations

Native Agents:—

it

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

I

Out-Stations

Christian Headmasters

St

of High Schools

T

1. Mangalore

a) Pastoral

a) Pastoral and Evangelistic

Rev. M. Schaible, 7z

o1

Balmatha, Madikeri-

gudde, Nireshwalya,

charvge of station, Native

Rev. S. Andrea, Balmatha

Church, Chairman of the

Jeppu, Bockapatna.

District Committee

”

Mark Salis, Feppu

2

Obed Sumitra,

Rev. M. Breidenbach, 722

Out-Stations .

and oul-stations

Bockapatna

Rev. W. Spaich, 7Z.

n

n

Bolma, Ullal, Bantwal,

Joshua Soans,

3 T

Amyambla.

b) Educational

Madikerigudde

Oit§

Rev. J. Hermelink, 77%e¢o?

Cat. Abraham Heri, Bolma.

Seminary, Bible Revision,

i

”

Gottlob Maben, 747.

i

Dist. Insp. of Schools

Slim

Rev. B. Lithi, Literary

”

E. Karat, City Mission

work and schools

”

Paul Soans, zZ#ner.

Hodaly]

Rev. I. Pfleiderer,

High

Schoof

Miss E. Kaundinya,

b) Educational Work

Brahmin Girls’ School

Theolog.

Cat. Chr. Watsa,

Semi-

Miss H. Krauss, Congr.

Girls’ School

n

Ch. Maben,

!

nary

Miss J. Meyer, Zenana

S. Karat, High School

work, studying Tulu

¢) Mercantile

Fr. Jathana,

Mr. H. Altenmiiller, Genl.

Congr. Girls’ School

Agent & Treasurer

»

F.Huber, Book-Depi.

”

L.Fernandez, l Bantwal

n

P. Shiri,

b

J. Sieber, M. M.-Br.

] Sfﬁoal

H. Hofmann, M. M.-

L

Branch

Naudeligf

d) Industrial

Om'St\

Mr. J. Baumann, Awudroli

Zile-Works

ik

”

F. Stierlin, Weav. Es:.

% Bygy

n

H. Bretschneider,

Kudroli Tile-1Works

Dt

3

H. Stokes, Meck. Est.

mdi?“

M. Stuckert, Kwudroi:

Tile-IW orks

”

W. Heckelmann,

Feppou Tile-1Works

A. Beierbach, Press

P. Simpfendorfer,

Feppu Tile-Works

e

11

Native Agents:—

Stations

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

it

Christian Headmasters

Out-Stations

of High Schools

Rev. G.Ritter, Congregation, | Rev. Charles Gojar, Mulki

e

2. Mulki

Out-Stations.

Orphanage,

and out-sia-

congregation

ents -

tions

FPadur

chists and

Hadike,

”

Im. Furtado,

admasters

Santur, Uchila, Padur,

Rev

Chr. Diirr,

itin.

and

congregation.

Schools

out-stations

Hutyar, Munderu.

Evang. N. Kundar, i#n.

{ gl

Cat. J. Vedamuttu, Kusyar

k2

Benjamin Salins, Sanfur

¢ty Dol

»

J. Aarons, Munderu

s,

k2

Chr. Salis, Uchila

umitra,

”

Gottl. Bangera, Aedike

Buckagalns

Udipi

Rev. J. A. Brasche, Chrisz.

&

Rev. Nahason Vira, Gudde

IS,

congregation

adierigul

Out-Stations :

High School and Orphanage

Rev. Chr. Keppler, Congreg.

”.

Tim. Furtado, Skirve

Herl, B

Parkala, Malpe,

Udyavara, Gudde,

and owul=stations

congregation

{aben,

Shirva, Ambadi,

itin. and

»

Gabr. Bangera, Udipi

Rev. J. Bichle,

!C/

Madambail, Halyanapur.

ont-stations

congregation

s, i

Rev. J. Miller, Malpe Tile- | Cat. Sam. Furtado, Malpe

Works and oul-stalions

N. Suchitta, Udyavara

furk

Ambads

”

Jos. Kairanna,

1/,\

»

A. Furtado, Madambail

s,

"

S

1

Amruta Heri, 747.

beu,' ]

)

Raph. Satyavrata, High

School

g gh gt

”

Jos. Pramodana,

hand,

ikt S |

Kalyanapur

”n

G. Premaya, Farkala

g s

‘ \,; T

4. Karkal

Rev. G. Fischer, Congreg.

Cat. Samuel Sumitra, Congr.

Naundolige, Mudar,

and itin.

2

Daniel Andrea, 7#7.

Out-Stations :

Rev. R. Bunz, stud. Tuln

» Joseph Bhagyan, ¢Zzn.

Hekkadka.

5. Basrur

Evang. Winf. Micha, 7#7.

Rev. J. Goetz, Congregation

Out-Stations :

and itiz.

Cat. Asser Karat, itin.

BV

Kundapur, Barkur,

Rev. W. Metzler, studying

n

Stephan Jathana, iZz.

Canarese

and congregation

”

Daniel Santvana, Barkur

and itin.

»

Hezekiel Bangera,

Barkur and itin.

Asst. Cat. Ch. Manjaru, 7#z.

1]

¥

gt L

12

e

Stations

Native-Agents :é

Shati

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

al

Out-Stations

Christian Headmasters

OufsSta

of High Schools

ERS——

6. Kasaragod

Rev. P. Borel, Congr. and| Evang. Gerson Soens, #Zin.

13, Gule

Out-Stations -

i%in.| Cat. Henry Roberts, Congr.

Out St

Ravaneshvara,

» William Fernandez, izn.

»

Ariel Sumitra, zZz.

Al

farle

Hosadurga, Bekal,

filk

Kumbla, Manjeshvara,

”

Isr. Eliezer, Manjeshvara

Nileshvara.

"

Benjamin Ananda, Kumbla

L]

”

William Kundara,

Hosadurga

"

G. Fernandez, NVileshva.

»

Sal. Bangera, Ravan.

—

»

Isaiah Bangera, Hosad.

W Bigy

7. Puttur

Rev. A. Schosser, Congr.

Cat. Gabr. Almanda, Congr.

and itin

Rev. M. Gekeler, stud. Tuin

Evang. Immanuel Soens, /#.

Cat. Joel Rajiva, itin.

Bl

Dty

8. Mercara

Rev. W. Sikemeier, Congr.

Cat. Eb. Clare, Congregation

Out-Stations -

and ou?-stations

g |

|

”

Nath. Shatananda, 7.

luya §

Fraserpef, Chembu,

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

7

Joseph Bangera,

»

Sundikoppa.

A

sst. Cat. Lewis Salins, ,

—

i

1. Caa,

9. Anandapur

Rev. Ch. Fritz, Congregat.

Cat. William Heri, Congr.

iy

and Orphanage

and itin.

»

LT

S. Sumanta,

»

FNae

»

Im. Jivottama,

»

iy p

10. Dharwar

Rev.K. Ernst, Congregation,

Cat

Israel Dalabhanjana,

Bible Revisiorn, General

itin.

Inspector of Schools

”

Hanoch Adina, S#. Home

Rev

Hr.

Reusch,

High

”

Jacob Davala, ##7.

School, Students’ Home,

»

Ananda Rhonada, Cong.

Dist. Insp. of Schools

Mr. Alex. Jaganadhan, B.A.,

\

f Tellieh4

Rev. Fr. Braun, i%#., schools

Headmaster, High School

11. Hubli

GuLSzauw

Rev. D. Berli, Congregation

Rev.S. Devada, Hubli congr

Out-Stations -

and itin.

”»

itin

liny

Jason Schalla,

Unakallu,

Rev. W. Rath, Unrakallz

»

Devaputra Hebbala,

Uiy

congr. and itin.

by

Unakallu congr

Asst. Cat.Ananda Gunjala,

e %

itin.

12. Bettigeri-

Rev. C. D. Warth, Congr. &

Cat. David Jesudasa, Congr

Gadag

Secular Agent of the District

Bettigeri

Out-Stations -

Rev. K. Mayer, iinerancy,

»

Joh. Prabhakar, Corgs.

Orp/mnage, oul-stations

Shagoti, Malasamudra.

Shagoti

|

Rev. E. Vogt, studying

9

Canarese

Jos. Dalabhanjana, #n.

’ Rev

. N. Zerweck, Dr. ph. &

Asst. Cat, Hermon Challa,

med.

itinerancy

13

S AR S

e

zents:~

Stations

Native Agents:—

ohists al

Pastors, Catechists and

admastels

and

European Agents

Christian Headmasters of

Scehools

Out-Stations

High Schools

Soens, i

13. Guledgudd | Rev. F.Eisfelder, Orplhanage,

Cat. Stephan Sagri, Congr.

out-stations, Chairman of

Guledgudd

berts, Cing.

Out-Stations -

rmandss, i

the District Commitiee

» Shanta Budigi, iZz.

2

Kardenhalli,

itra, dhin

Halkurki,

Rev. E. Luthy, Congregation

b

Sol. Jogula, Aerdenialli

Moot

and itin.

n

Sal. Ramthal, 7Z:%.

Mushtigeri.

nanda, K

Rev. A. Spring, studying

”

D. Katajur, Mushtigeri

undars,

Canarese

”»

Bhagy. Alada, Halkurk:

Hovadury

Rev. K. Grau, studying

| Asst. Cat. Isr. Aralikatte,

e, Nilsk

Canarese !

iZinerancy

era, Koo

Cat. Chemma Halli, 7#:7.

gera, Hid

e

14. Bijapur

Rev. A. Metz, Congregation

and itin.

» Stephan Mathapati, izz.

nanda, Congr

el Soes

15. Honavar

Rev. H. Risch, Congregation

Ev. S. Bunyan, Azrwar itin.

and itin.

va, i

Out-Stations .

Cat. Joseph Sunita,

”

Congrgln

Herangadi, Anilgodu,

”

Ebenezer Aarons,

»

fanands, it

Harwar, Samshi.

»

Medad Jayanta,

”

ngers,

ris Salin s

18. Cannanore

Rev. K. Hole, Congregation

Rev. Tob. Chembankodan,

S

and schools

Chowa

~

Oui-Stations -

Ter, (o

Rev. G. Peter, itinerancy

Rev. George Peter, Canna.

it

Chowa, Chirakal,

Mr. H. Eidenbenz, Weaving

Cat. Paul Sneham, 7#7.

4

Taliparambu, Payyanur.

Establishment

» Ph.Mackadan, Z°aéip. i¢in.

a1,

'

”

K. Biisch,

»

”

”

Jesudasa Melottu,

Layyanur, itin.

» H. Haffner, Zailory

;labhlﬂiiﬂj

fit

:r‘;:

» D. Hutten, iZn. Canze.

o 5.1

Asst. Cat. Ebenezer Bethel,

3313! i/}":l

itin., Chowa

ponads, 0%

17. Tellicherry

Rev. L. J. Frohnmeyer,

Rev. Charles Hermon, Congr.

padhan, 3

Congregation,

Theological

Tellicherry

0 High 9l

Out-Stations :

Seminary

and Training

Rev. Noah Edapalan, Congr.

Hulli o

Anjarkandy,

School,

Chairman

and

Nettur

Kuttuparambu,

xlalla,

{lih

Secretary of the Mission

Rev. Samuel Ambattu, Zv.

Erinjolli.

Rey.

W. Bader, Christian

Cat. Lawrence Puvattur,

ebtult

High School and Distr. Insp.

Aol

Theobogical Seminary

of Schools

”

Henry Menzel, Christ.

13 qu

Rev. P. Sengle, ZVeological

High School

4

Seminary and FEditor of

B

”»

Ant. Valiatingara, zZ:z.

idasty o

« Keralopakari’

D"

Rev. E. Hiller, Farsi High

» Cyprian Arunajalam, 72/7.

School and congregalion

Asst. Cat. N. Kalarikal, 7#77.

dﬂkaﬂ C.W)"

Shar

Rev. J. Maue, Farsi

High

Mr. P. Tharian, B. A., Head-

School & stud. Mald.

master, Chr. High School

ot 4

Rev.

- Mover,

Dr. phil.,

HOU ChaH%s

studying Malayalam

Z.Mgn.’,v

T,

T2,

14

(Sta.tions

Native Agents:—

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

Out-Stations

Christian Headmasters

of High Schools

i

—

18. Chombala-

Rev

Th. Uber,

Congreg.| Cat. Johan. Amengara,

47

Mahe

and Orphanage

Congregation.

Out-Stations -

Rev. R. Schilling, #Zn. and

”

Salathiel Soens, Mahé

it

Mahé, Badagara,

oul-stations

”

Alphai Kallan, zZzn.,

it

Muverattu, Perambara,

Muverattn

Shoran

Payoli, Karakadu.

I

”

Stephan Chattotu, 2.,

Badagara

Asst. Cat. Elias Nambi, #Zzn.

Rev. J. Jaus, szation and

Rev. Stephan Chandran,

R

197 Calicut

Out-Stations :

schools

Congregation

Out

n

Asham. Tumarany Zo.

Mr.Joh.Knobloch, Zigh Sch.

|f

Coilandy, Pudiangadi,

Miss A. Ehrensperger,

Cat. B. Ponon, Congregation

Fat

Markat, Malapuram,

Girls’ School

Manjeri, Annasheri.

”

Paul Selvam,

»

Fag

Dr. W. Stokes,

”

Edw. Peter, Sckools

Medical Mission

”

Abia Edapalan, Coil.,

Sister K. Fritz, ,

”

ilin.

Mr. H. Kiihner, M. M.-B.

»

Devap. Amengaran, »

n

F. Volz, Weav. Es¢.

» Is. Chowalur, Markas »

S ——

n

G. Benner, 7%ie-Works

”»

Fredric Nambi,

B Ry

»

>

L. ¥raas, Weav. Estab.

Madapuram

Dty

"

Chr. Renz, Zailory

Asst. Cat. A. Pavamani,

o

Kerkamb(

”

‘W. Bernhardt, M. J/.- B.

Medical Mission

Wbty

»

L. Pavamani, zZn.

Hisahay

Hi'ﬂf, hi

Yajy

20. Codacal

Rey. R. Bosshardt, Congreg.

Rev. St. Kallat, Congreg.

Tolekyg

Oui-Stations -

and schools

Cat. Isaac Amattil, Orpk.

h’alhani,

Paraperi, Ponani,

Mr. O. Eckelmann,

”

Isaac Laban, #Zin.

Pallat, Tritala,

Orphanage and Secular

Chittatakara,

”

W infred Mantody,

Chalasheri, Vengalur.

District A gent

Pallat, itin.

Mr. F. Singer, 7%/e-Works

”

Rev. Jac. Ruopp, studying

Joseph Taddai,

e

Fonani, itin.

Mabayalam

Uy,

Sal. Mackadan,

Chittalakara

Oug

Hﬂim(

L. Napalli, Chalasher:

iy

Hﬂideﬂ,]!

Charly Kattavalapil,

g

Tritaba

\

<

15

Lgents -

eohists ool

Stations

Native Agents:—

and

Pastors, Catechists and

eadmasten

European Agents

Christian Headmasters of

Schools

Qut-Stations

High Schools

Amengars,

Rev

S. Walter

21. Vaniyan-

Congreg., | Cat

Abr. Arungadan, 7Zzn

Congrg

,,,,,

i

kulam

schoolds, itin., Chairman of

”

Jos. Mantodi,

»

Soens, M

Out-Stations

the District

”

Jacob Cheeran,

n

allan, i,

Angadipuram,

”

Noah Benjamin,

Shoranur, Ottapalam,

Rev. A. Scheuer, Schools

Angadipuram, .

IW‘N

Tirikatiri

”

Bethuel Poyayil, , ,

hattotu, 41

Baduor

Asst. Cat. J. Valiavalappan,

Medical Mission

s Namb

By

22. Palghat

Rev. G. Kihnle, Congres

Rev. Tim. Parakandi,

(Chandran

and itinerancy

Melparambre

Congregih

Out-Stalions

Cat. L. Kallat, Congregation

Tumaray

Melparambu,

Mr. Chr

Gebhardt

»

zlin

Wadackencheri,

Dan. Edakaden,

. Congtgiie

Tide- Works

”

St. Parakandi,

”

Panayur, Mangara

al,

"

Zacharias Pilakaden, ,

Rev. G. Renschler, Sckools

L

Manuel Simon,

Melparambuw

ala, 1

e’

Rev

o, Hre?

23. Kaity

W. Litze, Congr

Cat

1. Shanta, Aaity Congr.

Janb

Lemuel Soens, Ca? Sci

Out-Stations

Orphanage, Training and

Jugrat i ;:

Coonoor, Hulikal

Cat. School

Samuel Satyanathan

Orphanage

ug‘gmam,

Nerkambe, Herehada,

Adhikarhatti, Manihatti,

Rev. Ph. Stier, Out-stations,

”

John Philipp, Sciools

i

Mose Kari, 72z

Hosahatti, Horanhalli,

schools and itin

P;vamﬁﬂ

Hilar, Tummanhatti,

Paul Mada,

”

Manjoor, Sailas,

»

Abr

Madia

Hulikal

Rev

William Stokes,

Yedekadun, Tuneri,

Cooly-Mission

al, (o §

Kalhatti, Nellakotta

Cooly-Mission, itinevancy

K. Satyanathan,

"

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Asst Cat. Isaiah Konga, 7Z7.

fif

”n

”

Hans Isaac, 77/n

s,

Nellakotta, Wynaad

\mtodh

”»

»

Isaac Nerkambe,

jli

filfe

22272

il

[‘addﬂll ’ i

24. Kotagiri

[w({’f’ )

| Rev. G. Grossmann, Congr.,| Rev. Jacob Kanaka, Congr.,

Out-Stations

Orphanage

ana’ schools

2lin

(adid

il

Kokanad, Konakore,

Cat. Henry Kodot

(hil

Jakanare, Denad

”

Isaac Bella,

”

Milidenu, Kanenmukh,

Assste €ati Chry Agja, g

]I, Cﬂﬂ/ﬁ

Gundhada, Horasole

fani?

I

i

ok

(0

forg

Yy = O R

yill

F Boo

fhese

JHILST in 1900 the number of Christians in our Indian

Mission shows only an increase of 61, we have in the

¥

5 year under review an access of 358 souls, but neither

the one nor the other proves anything with reference to the

fertility of the spiritual field, the baptisms of non-Christians

being in both years almost the same in number (1900: 261

[ag}

and 1901: 284).

The difference between these two years

as to the growth of our Church in India is easily explained by

the economical conditions of the country.

In 1900 people

o f

fr

found scarcely any work owing to the famine.

Although

(1oy |

some of our districts (especially Southern Mahratta) suffered

on account of dearth in 1901 as well as in 1900, on the

Loy

whole things improved. People felt confident again to take

Hi

Malah

up their different occupations, agriculture and trade began

to prosper and thus our Christians remained where they

10fce

0r

were, whilst in 1900, according to the statistics, about 300 of

H])[

our people left our stations in search of employment some-

upth

where else. Southern Mahratta was visited with plague even

s ah

tab;

worse than ever before.

In Canara and Malabar we have

Iy

been graciously preserved from outward calamities, but as

4y

the Report will show, the spiritual condition of some of our

)

[

congregations gives cause for grave apprehensions. Whilst

g 4

in Canara spiritual life seems to be at a low ebb in general,

i ('Y

in Malabar the transition from childhood to youth evidently

lggg ¢

of th

is beset with the danger of heresy and naughtiness. Assaults

from inside the Church are much more dangerous and painful

he Q|

than such from outside, the more s0,

if they are so unpro-

$vg 5

17

—

voked, petulant and malicious, as in our case, but we feel

confident that the Lord and His leading hand have not

forsaken us, and such of our Christians as are of the ‘uruthz

will hear His voice and will be safely carried also through

these critical times.

e Tndin

I. SOUTH~GANARA.

e o e

it nether

1

Mangalore.

06 fo fte

For a short historical sketch of each station we refer to

(hristons

1900: &

last year’s Report.

The following changes amongst the Missionaries took place:

o Jears

il

Mr. and Mrs. Hirner and Mr. and Mrs. Glattfelder left

phuned b

for Europe; Mr. Bretschueider and Mr. Heckelmann returned

e

00 peo

from Germany. For the first time arrived Miss E. Guundert

Alth

0l

(now Mys. Pfleiderer), Miss J. Meyer, and Miss E. Prattent

) suﬁeled

(now Mys. Stokes).

). ol b

His Excellency the Governor of Madras on his tour through

) o i

il

Malabar and Canara intended to do us the honour of taking

)

le

notice of the work done by the Basel Mission at this our most

jere 1

important station.

His Excellency feeling indisposed Lady

ot 00

Awpthill was kind enough to pay a visit to the Weaving

sone

b

Establishment, the Printing Office and the Tile-Works at Jeppu.

18 grel

My. Schaible, in charge of the Mangalore congregation as

i e

a whole (2739 souls), sees but little cause to praise the

| uf &

spiritual condition of his flock.

He does not deny that here

Tl

Is

S

and there tokens of genuine Christian life do manifest them-

selves, but in comparison with the many exhibitions of wicked-

geneml

ness and malice and with the many offences given by members

eyl

il

of the Mangalore congregation, the hopeful features cannot

f§

As%ﬂll

be called prominent.

Especially do the youths of Mangalore

1}

alﬂlul

give a good deal of trouble by their unruly and unchristian

) Il

p

3

v,

18

e

behaviour, and also at Mangalore there are not a few who

and

g

seem to feed upon the criticism of their Mission-Society and

their Missionaries.

Self-dependence and self-government are

shee

10t

objects we look forward to with great intensity, but the

(A

mtention of some to smuggle in, besides the legitimate gui-

dance of the congregation through the Missionary and the

The

10t

Presbytery, an additional government of their own leaving

and

everything in the shape of self-support to the Mission, cannot

(ied

be considered to be a step in the right direction.

As to the

pastn

outward conditions of our Christians at Mangalore nothing

i,

has changed since last year; the greater part of them are

a850¢

employed in our Industrial Establishments.

The Missionaries

sig

at Mangalore are very anxious to settle down some Christian

that

families at Bolma and Amyambala with the view to make a

lste

further trial with an agricultural Mission.

(holg

i

As to the spiritual condition of the Balmatha congregation

Mr. Samuel Andrea, the native pastor, is greatly exercised in his

Th

mind about the Christian youths, who, after confirmation rove about

St

without any occupation.

They show no desire for God’s Word or

Teva

Divine worship, they eat up the scanty earning of their poor parents;

g

some of them even do not shrink back from stealing, drinking and

a5k

libelling, they behave shamefully in the houses of other Christians

statio

and fry to seduce better-minded youths.

Mr. Samuel thinks that

for this deplorable condition of the growing-up generation the parents

aftey |

Vs gl

must partly be held responsible.

They are of opinion that it is the

duty of the Mission to provide them and their children with a liveli-

g~

hood, a superstition which perhaps unconsciously has been fostered

Theohg

by the Mission itself. Very often it is also the bad example of parents

d\ll‘ing

themselves by which the children have become what they are.—In

ang 3

a similar strain Mr. Joshua Soans writes about the congregation at

the ba

Madikeri-Gudde.

More hopefully sounds what Mr. Obed Sumitra

ally |

reports on his flock at Bockapatna, although he too feels sorry to

d,jStuf

see how the respect before God’s Word and the holy office are going

Wrrjg

to decay. However, sometimes families meet for devotional exercises

Wlth

e

e

19—

fow who

and collect somethingr for the Mission. 1In the time when cholera was

ity a

raging some volunteered as tenders.

Mr. Obed also tells of a lost

meng

sheep finding the Good Shepherd at last.

A man who had become

ut e

notorious as a good-for-nothing and for a long time had been in jai'l’

came back half-blind and sought for work in the Kudroli Factory,

nafe g1

and e

The manager there took great pains to set him on the right way and

not only did he turn out a good workman, but a change of heart

) Jeavig

and mind also took place.

Then cholera broke out and Devapriya

D, Caunl

died as a poor sinner who had received grace.— Also Mr. Salis,

Lstoth

0

pastor of Jeppu, relates of the happy dying of a youth, 17 years of

o nofin

age.

He had been a good son and was a member of the young men’s

them A

association.

Before confirmation he took part in the practising of a

sslonanes

singing-choir, but strange to say with a great certainty he asserted

Chrisae

that he would not sing on the next Sunday with the others, but only

to malid

listen to them.

On the day of confirmation he was attacked by

cholera and he died with the joyful testimony that his sins were for-

given and that death had lost its horrors for him.

-

g

il 0 I

The Evangelistic work at Mangalore and out in the di-

strict was carried on with great energy in spite of cholera

pore

s Word o

prevailing in the district.

Amyambala, where a holy fig-tree

I pareﬂtsé

has been cut down (¢f. last year’s Report, page 26) has got

a school and became an out-station.

A teacher has been

i l

(e

stationed there and school-work commenced with 12 pupils;

s &

after 10 days there were already 24, and in April the teacher

was able to write that the number of pupils was daily increas-

il

H’,bte

ing. —In Mangalore itself the teachers and students of the

Il

Theological Seminary preached regularly to the heathen

ap

18

during the monsoon on Sunday evenings at the English School

o of ¥

and after the rainy season also on Wednesday evenings in

)ral'e/ﬂ

N

the bazaar.

In the English School the preaching was gener-

1o

g !

ally followed by a discussion.

There was scarcely any

7 S

disturbance.— House-to-house visitation in Mangalore was

Is Sﬂm

!

carried on by Mr. Liithi, accompanied by Catechist E. Karat.

) e gm

»

With the exception of two or three astrologers, who were

| ot

2%

e

20

e

v

a0

rather crabbed and angry, people received them most kindly.

The majority of people seems to be apathetic and indifferent,

(hr

fhe

but there are a few who are most earnestly concerned about

fo

salvation. A family positively declared that they were ready

(hr

to join the Mission.

When Mr. Schaible told them that they

foh

might do so, but that we could not give them employment,

a0t

they said: «Since it is our destiny to perish by hunger, we

prefer to do so being with you”.

On the work of the Bible-women Mrs. Hermelink gives the

Hig

following interesting details:—

mith

fhe |

«Passing a Mohammedan house we were requested by the in-

o

habitants to offer prayers for the recovery of a child which was

dangerously ilL

“Your God is the only true One and He will

fep

accept your prayer,’ they added.

‘When we passed by this house

r?JIs

the next time, we inquired after the little patient and were told

il

that the child was all right again.

ttad]

«The two Bible-women Johanna and Salome had access to the

\ﬂl]'

bis h

house of a Government official, whose wife has been laid up for the

nly

last 17 years.

Although she was very weak and prostrate in body,

it

her mind kept wonderfully clear and active, and she always liked to

Some

see visitors and to talk with them. Thus she also welcomed the

Bible-women and listening attentively to their reading she acquired a

gley|

pretty fair knowledge of God’s Word. Often she would assure the Bible-

g,

women that she believed in God and in His Son Jesus Christ,

Pl

without whom she could do nothing.

But, alas! to obey the voice

reh"ll

of her conscience, to follow the inward desire of her heart and break

g ]

through the barriers of caste and custom she is lacking in strength

and courage.— Another woman, who last year had felt greatly

1611gu

attracted towards Christ and had begun to feel happy in hearing the

by 4

voice of her Saviour, had to pass through a first temptation.

SOII\Q

Having been poor in health for some months her relatives told her

1§ 9

that her ailings were caused by evil spirits, who came to punish her

IO\ g

for her inclinations towards the Christian belief.

She asked the

Bible-women whether there could possibly be any truth in this.

The Bible-women told her that the sure way to get rid of all this

the 1

S,

Sl S

21

t kiny

anxiety and superstition would be to surrender her heart fully to

difern

Christ and to live up to the light which she had received through

ed abn

the Gospel.

Her husband and all her relations being in opposition

ere il

to this she is still hesitating to take up her cross and to follow

Christ.

‘When the Bible-women saw her the last time, she seemed

that thy |

to have regained strength; she received them with great love and

ployuer, |

accompanied them to some other houses.”

uoger,

Passing over to the Educational work at this station the

High School, in spite of all the many difficulties interfering

gives fi

with the progress of this school, has done good work within

by fhe 1

the humble sphere left to it.

Including the 91 pupils of the

flourishing Bazaar School, which may be called the primary

hih

i el

department of the High School, there were 328 pupils on the

rolls.

- {his houe

The building has been increased, a place for gymna-

e fl

stic exercises and a flower-garden have been laid out, also a

reading-room was opened. The Manager of the school tries

I

)

s 0

his best to influence the pupils entrusted to his care not

p fr

only by the Bible-lessons, but also by making a Christian

o 1 bl

spirit pervade all the rules and regulations of the institution.

it hlxed 0

Some rules, specially framed for this purpose, did not gain

Joomet

p

great popularity amongst the pupils. Religious instruction

9 acquilEd i

was given separately to Christian pupils and Hindus.

Mry.

po the Bt

Prleiderer is of opinion that the greater number of pupils are

18 it

religiously indifferent, not only so with reference to Christianity,

q the VOifP

7

but just as well concerning their own religion.

Caste is

t L

everything with them, a miserable substitute for genuine

in S‘}l‘eﬂgE

religion.

i !

A second class of pupils feel somewhat irritated

o

by the Bible-instruction, by which they ‘betoken at any rate

e b

-~

o

some religious interest.

We are glad to hear that there

i

is a third class of youths of whom it can be said that they

i

love and honour the Lord Jesus.

puﬂiq’ﬂ

1 ail{ed b

/

The Balmatha Girls’ School and Training Institution, under

i !

i

the management of Miss H. Krauss, is doing very well.

T b

S LA

2 2_

§001

The Hindu widow, who underwent training (c/. last year’s Report

page 27) passed her examination and was given employment in the

Jst

Girls’ School.

In the theoretical test she gained the first place in the

fi

Madras Presidency. May the Lord so guide her that she will

oy

arrive at the right decision between Christ and Hinduism and give

lisy

up the unprofitable attitude of being amongst Christians a Christian

J0rge

and amongst Hindus a Hindu.

an

In the Primary Examination all the girls passed, in the

I

Lower Secondary Examination 10 out of 11.

The number of

Bl

girls rose to 160.

Six female candidates have undergone

fhe T

training.

For gir

<

Is coming from the district, a boarding-house

wp f

.

1s a great des

1

deratum.

Besides, girls who have passed the

T

ot

Lower Secondary and desire to prosecute their studies, are

that

almost compelled to join the Roman Catholic High School for

661 f

girls, and thus Miss Krauss is very anxious to see her insti-

b

gl

tution raised to the standard of a High School.

We earnestly

lfg

B

hope that the Home-Committee will see its way to give all the

Home(

help needed to the hopeful work of Miss Krauss.

Tathipg

The Brahmin Girls’ School in the town, under the manage-

Th

ment of Miss E. Kaundinya, would also like to enlarge its

the ey

Dig, &

accommodations, the number on the rolls having risen from

editory

78 to 94. Out of these 65 per cent are Brahmins, 29 others

Chang

and 6 Christians.

The wealthy class of people prefer to send

i,

their girls to the Roman Catholic Girls’ School, English being

iy

l” I

taught there already in the lowest classes, whilst English in

86? Zg

Y

Parents care only

our school is only the second language.

LB

for English and a little needle-work, and as this can be got

up in 2— 4 years, they prefer the procedure of a quick polish

Uy |

to a solid instruction in the vernacular, which naturally will

Alman

require much more time.

However, as for the majority of

Ong bY

children, also Canarese is a foreign tongue and thus our

Th

pupils have to master two new languages, perhaps it would

C0me ‘

be better to substitute English in the place of Canarese as

pnﬂtlng

% iy

P

T R

23

ears B

soon as competent teachers in English can be got.

In

ment I

Jesuvananda Salis the school has lost a painstaking and

plae it

faithful teacher.

The girls were in high spirits on the day

3t she 7l

on which they were privileged to salaam the Governor and

s and it

his party; most of them, of course, took the valet in his

5 3 (i &

gorgeous dress for the Governor, who looked much more like

il

an ordinary man.

sed, 1 {1

The Printing Press, under the management of M/r. 4. Beierbach,

o it

is located on Balmatha and employs about 50 hands inclusive of

undengn

the Type-casting Department.

The Manager is endeavouring to keep

gt

up the good name which our establishment has enjoyed since it

y st

was started 60 years ago, by good and correct work that is turned

J

out

studis

At the end of this Report we give a list of the books and tracts

that have been printed during the last year, from which it will be

h Sl

seen that printing in Canarese has the largest share, then Malayalam,

o0 hor I

English, German, Sans®rit, Tamil. The printing orders have of

T antl]

s 3

b

late been so numerous that an application had to be made to the

i

Ll all!

Home-Committee for the sanction of an additional large printing

machine, which, we are glad to say, has most readily been granted.

The Book and Tract Depository is managed by Mr. F. Huber. Of

the matk:

the new tracts issued during the last year we have only to mention one,

nlatg? i

viz. “The Need of Baptism” in Canarese by Rev. Th. Walz.

The

rin ¢

editorship of our Canarese Fortnightly Paper “Satyadipike” has

)

0 ot

5, 4

changed hands, the Rev. B. Liithi being now its editor, assisted by

el gl

Mr. Christian Maben.

The monthly Malayalam Paper «Kéralopa-

g

kiri” has also during the last year been edited by the Rev. P.

Sengle.

We believe that both Papers are doing good work and

¢ 8

DﬂhSh J

j

are fairly widely read, though the number of their subscribers is

an 4

rather a limited one, especially with regard to the latter an improve-

ment in this respect is much desired. As usual, the Canarese

ulCl& p(]h!b

fi

i

Almanac has been edited by Mr. Chr. Watsa and the Malayalam

il

one by the Rev. Ch. Hole.

ol

The Religious Tract Society in London has again generously

d hus (I

come to our aid by the free supply of 120 reams Double Demy

t il

printing paper and 20 reams cover paper, for which our best thanks

ik

are due to them.

Lot

24

The National Bible Society of Scotland in Edinburgh is kindly

contributing towards the expenses of 2 Bible Colporteurs, one of

help

these is working in the S. Canara District and the other in Southern

gives

Mahratta

Besides the above 2 Bible Colporteurs, 11 Colporteurs

o 6

are employed, 4 in South and North Canara and 7 in Malabar, who

(b

during the greater part of the year are travelling about visiting

heathen festivals, fairs, schools, and private houses

Their share

)

o y

in the sales, as given in the statment below, comes to 17112 tracts

and religious books and 26658 school-books, representing a gross

hours

logt

receipt of Rs. 4710-14-2. Besides this our Missionaries and Catechists,

when out on preaching tours or in their house-to-house visitations

Nortk

make it a rule to take tracts with them and to offer them to the

sart

people for sale

At each station a small book-depot is kept where

I

our books and tracts and at some also other good books are kept

looks

for sale

It is by these means that we obtain a fairly good sale

el

of Christian books and tracts as the subjoined statement will show

o}

Meaﬂm

Sale of Books and Tracts from 1st July 1900 to 30th June 1901

b\

£re ¥

1. Our own Publications

As

o)

he Yy

2,213

11

27,053 Canarese Religious Books

2.291 Tulu

n

”

113

6

891

10

19 926 Malayalam

"

»

i

7,247 Canarese School

”

5,431

14

5,247

9

sou] )

34 544 Malayalam

»

19,423 Miscellaneous Books and Maps

5,486

3

hogg

123 Canarese Government Books

37

2

Weayi

433 Malayalam

»

9

152

1

[—y

\iann‘a

130,970 CorIEs

TorAr, Rs. 19,574

5

SR o p SG T Nl Tew ) Hlopi (B - e o)

oty

2. Other Publications

Qg )y

As

0 of

3,811 Bibles and Bible Portions

316

Q|

669 Bangalore Tracts and Books

49

58,196 Commission Sale Books

10,621

b

lad

8,000 Sundry English & Vernacular Books

2,974

rgy

201.646 CopIEs

GRrAND TorAL Rs. 33.536

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et

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25

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The Industrial Establishments at Mangalore are a great

e, 0 f

help to our Christians there.

The Weaving Establishment

1o Southen

gives employment to 130 Christians, the Mechanical Workshop

- Colports

to 60, in the Tile-Works at Kudroli there are 235 Christians

alabar, v

(besides 40 Hindus), at Jeppu 224 Christians (51 non-Christi-

hont T |

Therr har

ans).

We have been able to give work to our Christians all

the year round; for some months the number of working-

17110 s

fing & g1

hours had to be reduced.

The Weaving Establishment has

lost some customers owing to the famine prevailing in the

nd Cates

o T

North of India, which compelled some Mission Societies to

start industries of their own.

them foft

However Mr. Stierlin, the

Superintendent of the Weaving Establishment at Mangalore,

gt v |

ok a1

looks back upon the last year with satisfaction and with

fy ool

gratitude.

Not only 59,678 yards have been woven, but we

it vl 45

also hope that the weavers will have derived many spiritual

blessings from the Word of God read and explained to them

Junetdt ¥

every day in the morning-prayers held by Mr. Stierlin and

ks !

the Native P_astor alternately.

2

Mulki.

l

Mr. Ritter, in charge of the Mulki congregation (824

§

I8

souls), experienced great difficulty in providing with a liveli-

(]l!

hood such of his people as had not found a shelter in the

Weaving Establishment (a branch of the Establishment at

§

Mangalore).

Some were provided with stone-axes to cut

E

1j

i

laterite stones, others were employed as masons. The Christi-

4 )

ans in the Tulu country are exposed to temptations, of which

on other parts of our field we do not know anything. Whilst

in Mulki cock-fighting does not attract so many, attendance

at buffalo-races has become a passion with many. We are

§

It

glad to say that the Mission-festival on the Ascension-day

|

drew together more than such relics of heathenism the hearts

of our Christians at Mulki with its out-stations.

—

s,

e

26

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e al

Kadike, one of these out-stations, is situated on a charming

island formed by two arms of a river near the sea.

Almost all the

of oo

Christians there are farmers, and also women and children work on

hut th

the field, so that the school-attendance is very far from being satis-

The

factory.— At Utchila 22 souls were admitted to the Church (31st

March).

fctor

Most of them have been caused by hunger and other

s

miseries to seek for refuge in the Christian Church.

A woman

belpt

amongst them, when her son joined us 2 years ago, exhibited a

spirit of great hostility, by poverty she has become very pliable

(ol

meanwhile.

Tatter

When they were inquirers, they had to work very hard

to the

to earn their daily bread and in the evenings or during the day,

when called together for instruction, they were rather tired, still

Ol

¢

before their baptism they all had acquired a sound Christian

knowledge.

At Padur Mr. Immanuel Furtado, the pastor, lost his

they ¢

|

wife, who by her Christian knowledge and the integrity of her

thy ¢

character had been an ornament of the Christian community there.—

Jréach

Kutyar seems to be the pearl amongst the out-stations of Mulki.

fa the

Not a rice-

wed £

Samuel with his wife and 3 children was baptised.

Christian, but 2 man who makes it a point to support himself and

Iooked U

Wy

his family.

ety

The experiences of Mr. Diirr, as itinerating Missionary,

10wardy

Hovgre

have been very different.

He met with people who answered

the invitation to believe in Christ with those well-known

any o

requests for material support.

One of them describes his

Dreachiy

Uniffyg

summum bonum in the following manner: ¢Give me a turban,

by thegy

a coat, an Kuropean umbrella, a pair of creaking shoes,

three times a day a first rate dinner, and I shall become a

The

Christian.” Children are very fond of tracts and pamphlets.

Rlue} v

The concertina and a magic lantern Mr. Diirr considers to

W

be of great use.

He relates of an old man, who lives in

1\011]1&

very comfortable circumstances and is half a Christian.

He

Offgreg

brought two cocoanuts, shining like gold, and some of the

0rdey

ordinary kind, and went so far as to say: «You Christians

Wag gl

are like those fine cocoanuts, we Hindus are like the others,

dug b

27

e

0 4 chamy

we are nothing, we are mere frogs, everything i‘s in a state

Almost ol t

of corruption with us: our religious life and our social life,

ildren otk &

but those who have Christ, what happy people they are!”

om belng s

The great Hindu-festival at Dharmasthala passed off very satis-

& Chureh 3

factorily ; the people expected us and quietly they listened to our

ger and o

o A o

addresses from beginning to end.— At Palimar the Brahmins by the

help of the Police tried to prevent us from preaching. The Assistant

g0, exhiliel

Collector of Kundapur had to appear and to investigate into the

me very fi

matter.

The Brahmins naively complained that if people listened

otk vory b

to these Padris, they would all in course of time be converted to

furing thed

ther fied, o

Christianity, especially children reading our pamphlets were sure to

turn out apostates.

Of course the official had to tell them that

ound (i

they did not need to attend the preaching of the Missionaries, if

pusor, b

they did not like, but that they could not prevent them from

afegety o

preaching on a Government-ground. — Evangelist N. Kunder thinks

ity (e

that the opposition of Brahmins is on the increase.

« Formerly they

ons of M8

used to invite us to attend these festivals; our appearance was

N

looked upon as an amusing entertainment, and they hoped that the

o o

conflux to the place would increase and thus the fair would be a

greater success.

Since they see that the hearts of people turn

towards us and our message, the feeling has greatly ' changed.

g Mol

However, at Dharmasthala a Bilavar advised people not to believe

oo 40

any more in Bhutas, and he asked the Catechists to go on with

e well-kno@

preaching even after the night had drawn near.

Another one

el

admitted that their ancestors had put them to great inconvenience

furhis

by their polytheism.

e

aking 30

The Orphanage at Mulki, under the management of Mr.

sl et

Ritter, was graciously preserved by God in a time when cholera

was raging in the neighbourhood.

In January a wealthy

s

Konkani Brahmin consecrated his new and large house.

He

ho I

offered to send a dinner to the children of the Orphanage in

pistes

v

order to delight them on this day of joy. Of course the offer

qome ¢

was gladly accepted. The children were full of expectation.

i

And behold, loads of precious gifts were carried to the

, e 0%

4*‘

—

28

Orphanage: rice, vegetablesi,c‘ocoanuts, salt, spices, oil, and

10 088

sugar, even firewood and plantain-leaves had not been for-

their

gotten.

When the children were in full action the benefactor

I

himself appeared to have a look at the pleasant scene. He

4 10rg

was greatly pleased with the order and quietness prevailing

ate g

in the midst of this extraordinary treat and in conclusion this

(uenee

kind neighbour thanked the manager that «his small gift had

(hnti

been so kindly received”.—In singing the children have

hidden

greatly improved, they even sing in three voices now and at

{hat fhe

Divine service or on their evening-walks their lovely tunes

I

rejoice the hearts of the Mulki-people.

Of course, disappoint-

ments are not seldom.

iting )

Mr. and Mrs. Ritter had procured a

timg, |

nice situation at Mangalore for a girl after confirmation, when

it

60

the mother who leads a life in sin, heard about it, enticed the

Home 1

poor child and made her partake of the same miserable life.

Tbis frag

e g

3

¥

Liglly

Udipi.

Dogury

Owing to sufficient rains in the later part of the year there

They e

was a good second and third harvest, and so the Christians at

Iy g

Udipi and its out-stations (1775) were better off than in the

Teasony

year before.

Mr. Keppler, the Missionary in charge of the

humy,

congregation, earnestly desires that our Christians will show

dent ¢

their thankfulness in a renewed hunger and thirst for God’s

(g gy

Word and in a real appreciation of all the spiritual blessings

Vs g

attainable by them, and he is glad to know that some have

e

savoured the grace of God and are standing in faith.

ha\'e \)e

The Shirwa congregation, scattered about in 8 villages, shows

sttty

in a good many of its members a desire to hear and to learn God’s

(0ot

Word. They are anxious to walk in every respect worthy of their

Eveagy

Christian calling and are willing to receive a word of exhortation.

iﬂ her

Not the same can be said about the other out-stations in care of

Iy

Mr. Keppler. It is especially very sad to hear that 2 Christians

thay

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in cases of sickness instead of remembering that the Lord Jesus is

of begn

their physician, took recourse to a sorcerer and to Bhutas

6 e

Myr. Biichle, who looks after Parkala and Kalyanapur, takes

seene. [

a more hopeful view, but he also thinks that his Christians

s prenal

are lacking in a real joy as to their Christian calling, in conse-

nelusion

quence of which they exert but little influence upon the new-

mall git b

Christian world surrounding them

« They have found the

bildeen b

hidden treasure, but they do not make their neighbours feel

s 10w a0l 4

that they do rejoice in the possession of it.”

Jovely tuee

My, Miiller, in charge of the Malpe congregation, besides

¢, disap) ik

acting Manager of the Tile-Works there, had a very critical

d procur

time

The number of workmen there was out of proportion

i

mation

25

to the orders for tiles, and so the Industrial Committee at

en fiet

i

Home insisted on having the number of workmen reduced

st able i

This was done and, of course, such were removed as had not

given satisfaction

It was wonderful to see how people who

usually pretend that they cannot exist without the Mission

procuring work for them, can manage now for themselves

They went a-fishing and succeeded in earning their livelihood

peyat 1

It 1is especially satisfactory to hear that the people were

e%mm

reasonable enough not to take it amiss, they were in good

f than 10

i

humour even and their conduct was much more self-depen-

charge

dent than before

i

Of course the pastoral work has not be-

come easier by this change, however Divine service on Sundays

i

was well attended; there islessdissatisfaction, and discourage-

I 31 ble\bm

The visitations of God

ment has made way for cheerfulness

ygf S0

have been very earnest aud painful

16 members of the con-

fth

gregation have been called away by death in the midst of life

Bl

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(6 of them by cholera)

Abigail, a young woman, on the last

o

pall

evening of her life gave testimony of a firm and living faith

arthy !

in her Saviour

; et

g

i

In this connexion it is our joyful duty to express our hearty

ns m

thanks to Mr. Krishna Rao, Civil Apothecary at Udipi, who was

) (i

Y

ever ready to render his valuable and gratuitous services to the

0l quie

lg

Missionaries, the boarders in our schools and to the members of our

it also

i &

congregations at Udipi and Malpe.

The |

The work of Evangelisation at Udipi and in the large district

it two

connected with it is beset with many difficulties.

With

[Tt Sta

[Ilrd a1

reference to this Mr. Keppler makes a very sad remark, which

our Christians will do well to take to their hearts:

1 the ¢

if the ()

“The many offences of nominal Christians and the frequent

bt (}

relapses of such into heathenism are the greatest obstacles in the

iy #yop

way of the itinerating agency. Hindus will not fail to call our

attention to this, when they are invited to follow Christ, and it is a

s gnd

sad fact that it is easier to preach the Gospel in places where there

.

are no Christians than in the neighbourhood of Christian congre-

thilhey,

gations.”

gy

This is an awful judgment over Christian congregations,

i} 4

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Ty f

by

but who will gainsay it? — M. Bichle thinks that the attitude

i §

il

of Hindus at Udipi is more hostile than at Mulki, especially

Brahmins whose chief employment it is to run some miles

’*glﬂmng

10 by

every day in order to get a mighty meal at some temple.

Wi whiy

Also here caste seems to be the greatest opponent of Christianity,

Sohorl gy

and Christian preachers are called «destroyers of caste”. The

i wayg

reception was much better in the north-east of the district.

hjm at f

l(If I an

Mr. Béchle met with a man who was able to recapitulate the

leading thoughts of a sermon after first hearing.

In another house

our agents pointed out Jesus Christ as the Saviour of the whole

world. When they rose to go away, a woman asked: “In whom

Mem]y by

Exa‘llinatk

shall I believe now and to whom shall I pray?” They directed her

te g

to Christ and taught her the short prayer: «Lord Jesus, forgive

me my sins!” When they were out of sight, they heard the woman

by 1

pray aloud those simple words.— The Bible-woman Petrina Aaron

Kol

was very sick during March. But as soon as she had recovered, she

took up work again with great energy and faithfulness.

At the

oy be

beginning of August the Lord called her away. She was a humble

¢ i

e

mioes o

and quiet disciple of Christ, who preached not only by her words,

embers o

but also by her life and conduct.

The Orphanage for Boys, together with a day-school, consists

of two divisions: a vernacular division (Infant Standard to

ange disni

1Vth Standard) 164 pupils, and an anglo-vernacular division

fies, With{

s

mak, vl

(IlIrd and IVth Standards) 83 pupils, thus the total number

in the school is 247,

Amongst these there are 102 boarders

§

of the Orphanage, 91 Christian day-scholars and 54 Hindus.

the freque

About Christmas small-pox prevailed at Udipi, but neither

hstacles 1 &

this “nor any plague did come nigh our dwelling .

Christi-

il to el w

ans and Hindus get their Bible-lessons separately.

f, and i it

oy et {6

Mr. Brasche is on the whole satisfied with the behaviour of the

ristian (0%

children, but want of veracity and sometimes a really astounding

obstinacy in denying the slightest fault make education a rather

difficult task. The children are sometimes so accustomed to lying

ngregplch

when they join the school, that even if taken in the very act and

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being fully aware that lies will be punished most severely, at the

i, eqeil]

beginning flatly deny their transgression.

Some of them however

) s 04

did behave very well.

A very pleasant feature is the devout joy

with which some hear Bible-stories.

some tempif’

In February a boy joined the

school and the ciass of inquirers. A month after his mother came

f Christianitff,

st

T

and wanted to take him away. Oh how he implored her to leave

him at the school and how he wept! The mother was inexorable.

be digtrlh

“If I am going to perish, my son shall go with me to hell”, she

said. With heavy hearts Mr. and Mrs. Brasche had to hand over

wfib® '

theschild to this cruel mother.

a,ﬂ()ﬂlef b

But after a few days he returned

merrily and joyfully.—Out of 12 pupils sent to the Primary

i

Examination 8 passed in the first class.

o *1 "

9 direcﬁed

|

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The Christian High School at Udipi was attended last year

105

=

by 139 pupils, 41 of whom are boarders, 20 Christian day-

Jostsy

ol §

he Wﬂﬂlﬂﬂ

scholars and 78 non-Christians.

My. Brasche, the Manager

i

Petrish 4

of the school, thinks that the Christian boys ought to have

leGOVemJ

done better in the Lower Secondary Examination: 16 pupils

i

post

b

(8 Christians and 8 non-Christians) went up for the examin-

s o

—

32

et

ation and 8 passed (3 Christians and 5 non-Christians). We

Ui

only can endorse what Mr. Brasche writes from his ripe

008 I

experience with reference to the Christian youths and to the

Tl |

instruction being in vogue:

the M

“The great assistance rendered by the Mission instead of

encouraging them to greater faithfulness and diligence, I am sorry

to say, in many cases has only nourished their want of self-

Th

dependence, their carelessness and idleness.—It is true, our youths

on the

may be inferior to Brahmins as to ability, besides the evil habit of

excessive coffee-drinking, tells chiefly on the system of our youths,

Dail

Worme,

still if able men in the appropriate manner would really instruct

and educate in the lower classes, how different it would be in a

aud §

IIIrd Form, not to speak of higher classes.

It is almost incredible,

the I

how the development of the spiritual faculties of our children is

the ¢

11

neglected.

All that such pupils are able to do is to commit things

Mhep |

to memory and to solve problems according to given forms or

(lrgg

patterns, but self-dependent thought, perception, inquiring into

M o

6 8

something and logical conclusion are things with which they are

not acquainted, and this in spite of all the object-lessons given in

Toug )

10 ap ¢

our schools for many years.”

Piya’y

On the 22nd November a prize-distribution was held, #Mr. Logan,

kln 111]

the Inspector of Schoois, taking the chair.

There was music, recita-

Fische

tion, the report for 1900—1901 was read by the Headmaster Mr.

be

Venkatesh Prabhu, 8. a., then followed the performance of an episode

hogg

from the life of King Alfred and some other entertaining recitations,

and then the stirring speech from the chair on education, on the true

logk»

aim and method of instruetion.

After the prizes had been distributed,

towards the cost of which some local gentlemen very liberally had

Iy

contributed, the National Anthem brought this interesting meeting

Bl

)

to a conclusion.

amOngsi

We cannot leave this station and this High School without

They P

mentioning that in the midst of much disappointment all

through the Presidency with reference to the results of the

To g

largg

Matriculation Examination, the results

of our school at

hefole

/Am

R

33

tans),

Udipi have been really excellent: six out of niné passed,

m b

one in the first class being the first boy in the Presidency.

and ot

This p'ercentage of 66-6 is really something encouraging to

the Manager, the Headmaster and the whole staff of teachers.

1 st

, [ am ¥t

4

Karkal.

anh of ¥

g, our il

The Christians at Karkal (160) have been very thankful

on the whole to receive any kind of work.

Our Catechist

gl b

f our o

Daniel Andreas lost his wife, who had been a pattern to other

teally D!

women both in the matter of the education of her children

and in house-keeping.

One Lydia at Hekkadka asked for

pould be !

st i

the Lord’s Supper, and My. Fischer had to walk in the night

ur Chllldm i

the distance of 11 miles to and fro, but it was joyfully done,

omnit {8

when he heard that the Lord’s Supper was desired to gain

iren i ¢

courage and strength for meeting death and to enter into

il i

life eternal.

Two days afterwards she died, the name of

hish fh

i

v I

Jesus being on her lips.

A family of new converts was put

o g

to an earnest trial at the beginning. The uncle of Christa-

priya’s wife lay in wait for him for a fortnight in order to

kill him.

Mr.

i M J

He earns his livelihood now as a carpenter.

Fischer is satisfied with the attendance at Divine Service, but

sty

ot g

he thinks that the congregation is still in a stage of baby-

gt

hood. Some really believe in the power of Jesus Christ, but

|

at the same time they are afraid of evil spirits, of “the evil

g

0, [

{

1

jp

look”” and other nonsense.

i

pon

mu'*;

Mr. Fischer with his Catechists was very kindly received at

el

Beilur, and people told him that a Hindu shortly before had been

pfilg

meﬁﬁ::

}

amongst them, who read the Christian Shastras to them and asked

them at the end: “Now, would you not like to become Christians?”

pol 7

They answered: « Yes, if you become a Christian, we all will follow. ”

To this he replied: «But do not think that after that all earthly

)Oiﬂtmeng

cares will be over, on the contrary, you will have to work more than

ol !

before, you will not be allowed to contract debts and you must lead

g

gom

i

34

——

a, proper life

This very same Hindu also helped us to get a house

house

for a Catechist at Beilur and said: «If I should not be permitted to

o

be together with you in this world, I hope to find after death a

il

place of rest amongst you!”

Seemin

TIA1008

~

Alhong

o)

Basrur

hag: e

geune

Before giving a short account of the work done at this

station 1t is our sorrowful duty to say a few words in re-

(hrist

f the

membrance of the Missionary and pastor, who for 18 years

Al G

has been in charge of this station

0 et

The Rev. L. Gengnagel was born on the 12th December

D

His

1845 at Crumstadt, a place between Darmstadt and Worms

Feb

father’s house being a centre of all the earnest Christians in that

e 00

part of the country he was not only in his childhood fully acquainted

st

with God’s Word and deeply influenced by the spirit ruling in a

of gy

pious family, but also at an early time initiated into what must be

10y

called “the reproach of Christ”

When 13 years of age, to use his

own words, “he could not do otherwise than surrender himself to

In

Christ”

Even at that time he felt a desire in his heart «to put

himself at the service of his Saviour

But he had to wait and to

14

submit himself to God’s ways and dealings until in 1869 he saw his

0 b

In

th@ g

way opened and then he joined the Missionary College at Basel

1875 he was sent to India, and his first station was Honavar,

There

station without a congregation, where during 5 years he had oppor-

well a8

tunities of acquainting himself with the Canarese language and with

0

¢ (N

the calling of an Evangelist among the Hindus

In 1881 he was

tlly

transferred to Basrur-Kundapur (founded 1876), and in no way

Reat

hampered by work in a congregation or at schools, he could devote

Oip y

himself almost all the year to itinerating work. And an Evangelist

indeed was Mr. Gengnagel with body and soul

Year after year

i ¥

of g

there was scarcely any Hindu festival or fair at which he was not

present with bis agents and within a certain time he tried to visit

W"] g

all the villages of his district

Heat and exertions he endured

£

joyfully and was satistied with a small corner of a veranda in the

Whyg

/@

P

35

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house of some friendly Hindu

In spite of his enthusiasm he' looked

et

upon Mission-work as a work of faith, so in the midst of disappoint-

after du

ments he never became tired or weary of sowing the good: seed

Seeming success, mock-conversions, persuasions by outward machi-

nations he disdained. And his faith has not been put to shame

Although on the whole his work was a work of hope, Mr. Gengnagel

has been instrumental in the conversion of some souls, in whom a

genuine work of God was clearly manifested. Nagappaja (now

lone at 1

Y0NS 10

Christananda) in 1882 and Shiva Rao (now Mattheeus, cf. the Reports

of the last three years) in 1899 may be named as such

In 1899

for 18 1

Mr. Gengnagel had to go home and his health not permitting him

to return to India he was engaged in deputation-work in Hessen-

) Desnl

Darmstads

After a short illness he was calied home on the 23rd

Worns, B

February 1901, leaving a mourning widow and 10 children, whom

stans

we commit to the Father of all widows and orphans

Also for the

Jy acqa

district, where the late Mr. Gengnagel has worked so faithfully, a time

of harvest will come and then ‘“he that soweth and he that reapeth

g 114

e s ¥

may rejoice together”.

il

In the place of Mr. Liithy, Mr. Gitz has taken charge of

o hins

the Basrur-station

Of the little congregation (107) not much

heatt “0F

1s to be reported

On Hindu festivals the population seems

0 Wil ul

to be rather troublesome, even when visited at their houses

ghe%ﬂﬁh

the reception in most cases is very far from being friendly

B I

There is no other remedy for this but patience

Mr. Gotz as

i Honam

jo ud "

well as two Catechists had the interesting experience that in

one case a blasphemer after having given great trouble gradu-

ally cooled down and being ashamed of his behaviour, silently

1881 Jjo 1

qnw v

went away and in another case even asked the Catechists to

go on with preaching, asking their pardon at the same time.——

llld o

g

Mr. Winfred Micha, the Evangelist at Basrur, in an application

p o] s

of the parable of the lost son to the non-Christian world

writes: —

he WM

el

oﬂf

“ During a conversation with a Hindu he said

‘Do you know

b al®

f

what our condition is? I know the father’s house, but I do mnot

lrﬂ]]d

=“‘-_

5

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e

36

dnhiion il

know the way leading to it.” I replied to this: ‘If you do not know

the way, we will show it to you: Jesus Christ is the way. To believe

e

in Him and to follow Him is the sure way leading to our Father’s

i

house.’

Silently he went away.”

10t be

fo the

6

Kaéarccgod.

Teporg

foke 1]

Kasaragod with its 6 out-stations (193 souls) and 11 schools

is looked after by Mr. Borel.

il

In Ravapeshvara we have lost by cholera one of our old

the g

Christians, Adbraham Chetti.

Not satisfied with Hinduism he had

sl {

embraced Mohammedanism.

He felt greatly disappointed after that

;¢

and in those days a Christian tract fell into his hands.

He

if o

felt attracted and inquired into the matter.

Being convinced of

el

the truth of Christianity he presented himself as a candidate for

Hom

baptism and was admitted by holy baptism to the Christian Church

musiy

(on the 10th November 1867 by the late Rev. H. Kaundinya).

10§ 011]]

For many many years he accompanied our Catechists on preaching-

100k gy

i

tours and as long as his old age permitted, he gave testimony of

1 $0m

his faith in Christ on Hindu festivals.

As a proof of his sincerity

Hindy,

we may mention that he never hesitated to confess his sins before

ind b

the whole congregation, asking forgiveness for his sins.

‘When he

f e

was attacked by cholera he refused to take any medicine, saying:

fook

“The Lord is my Physician.”

As long as he was able to speak, he

What

continued in prayer, often crying out: «Oh Lord Jesus, call me to

pl‘ayep,

be with Thee!” To his own people he said: «I am not afraid to

Whag g

die, I have a desire to be with Christ.”

Mr. Borel misses the old

Christia‘

venerable Abraham very much on his visitations at Ravaneshvara.

K

At Hosadurga Mr. Borel is greatly helped by one of the

Borg |

elders there, a Government official, who is very regular in

Sehog),

seeing and admonishing the members of that congregation and

of e

who moreover sets a good example by his own life. «One can

the G

see in this instance, how important and beneficial this insti-

tution of church-elders can be, if an elder

the p

realises the signifi-

cation of his sacred calling.”

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37

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The prevalence of small-pox and cholera during the year

1. Tolels

under review sometimes seriously interfered with the work

ot it

of Evangelisation.

A good many of the Hindu festivals could

not be taken advantage of.

The work is difficult in proportion

to the predominance of Moplas in the population.

From the

report of Mr. Gerson Soens, the Evangelist of this station, we

nd 11 s

take the following extracts: —

“The higher the position of our Hindus as to caste and education

e of o

the greater their opposition to Christ and His Gospel, especially

duism be bl

since they have heard of Vivekananda and his books.

Some will

nted aftr t

say: ‘How can you expect us to believe your message, since many

s b B

of your people in Europe forsake Christianity and accept our

; convized

religion?’ Amongst the

unprejudiced things are different.

At

Kumbla a Hindu quite agreed with us and told the following

L candidie b

piin Ci

amusing story: ¢Not far from here thieves entered a temple and

1, Faudrp

not only deprived the goddess of all her ornaments, but actually

took away herself. They tied a rope round her leg, dragged her

0 preas:fh'm%'

st ¢

to some distance and left her there’.

¢Is it possible, concluded the

Hindu, ¢‘that a goddess who cannot take care of herself, will guard

i s

and bless us?’— A youth belonging to the Bants cannot get enough

by i et

iﬂS' Wheﬂ 'J

of hearing the Word of God. Sometimes he came to Kasaragod and

took part in our family-worship. After such family-prayer he said :

i, 7%

‘What a difference between you and us! We eat and sleep without

o 9ol

Oh

18 "aH B

prayer, and you pray not only for yourself, but also for us.

what a glorious change it would be, if we would embrace the

pof b

fed

Christian religion!”

misses

Ravané i

Kasaragod has an extended net of village-sechools and Mr.

0

Borel is very anxious to have, as far as possible, Christian

g one !

school-masters in all these schools.

le(f “1

APy

He writes very hopeful

of the work of these school-masters, who are not ashamed of

1 e{?atl

o

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the Gospel, neither before the non-Christian pupils nor before

i)

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the Hindu masters in the schools.

Of visible fruit perhaps

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not much can be said, but is it much different with other

branches of our work in God’s Kingdom ?

It is the work of

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9

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the sower, a work done by faith and in hope.

i

676 pupils

attend these schools, 36 of whom are Christians, 46 Moham-

o

medans and the rest Hindus.

Amongst these 676 there

Ty §

are also 135 girls.

il

Every year about 180 new pupils come

mal

under the influence of the Gospel, a small number indeed in

Holaf

comparison with thousands of children, who grow up with-

out any religious instruction at all, but it is something, and

ith

0

of the

although the station was founded only in 1886, there are

B e

already thousands of people, who have gone through our

SELOr

schools and have heard the word of salvation.

Vi

vy

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7

Puttur.

Sori

130y

We have not much to say about the little congregation (45

souls) at this new station.

At Christmas

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[>]

adults were

lud §

Jois

admitted to the Church there.

My. Schosser reports of a girl

of ihe |

who one year and three months ago could neither read nor

lowep ¢

write and now she reads the Bible-stories as fluently as if she

enders

had gone through a Christian school.

Sorcere

filloy

- Of course the chief work at this station is evangelisation.

It is an immense district and although Mr. Schosser and his

ould

bome,

staff very diligently have travelled for two years through their

g

field of work, they cannot say that they have gone over the

whole ground. Here as everywhere else we meet with indi-

8044l

0y

cations of a spiritual fermentation.

bocks

An old and wealthy farmer reveived Mr. Schosser and his

Dielgy

Catechists kindly, but he began at once to talk about the good'

TAYing

olden times, the times when signs and wonders took place, when

ut

thousands of people gathered at the festivals,

“ Now the glory and

power of the Bhutas has gone down and a new time is dawning,”

]

he said, and concluded with the prophesy that there will be a day,

hogg

on which his children and nephews will embrace Christianity, and

People

added that perhaps this will be the wisesi thing they could do, as

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the power of the Bhutas dwindles down more and more.—On the

46 Mol

other hand it cannot be denied that the belief in Bhutas is still a

Mr. Schosser

676 thes

very great power with the people in the Tulu-country.

did mot experience much in the way of physical opposition and

upls

malicious

disturbance.

He writes: «Polemics against polytheism,

indeed 1

idolatry, worship of Bhutas, sorcery and the like, people listen

y up i

with obvious delight, even a sermon against the moral corruption

The natural man

ething, i

of the population they are mnot averse to hear.

, there

is inclined to look upon the quiet attention given to a castigatory

hrough

sermon as upon something being in itself a positive achievement.

Still

'With the salvation through Christ Jesus things are different.

I remember an instance, when one of my assistants, being himself

greatly moved, enlarged upon the death on the cross of our blessed

Saviour in such a manner that an audience of, to say the least,

150 people not only listened most attentively, but after the prehacer

These are

ratn ¢

had finished, kept perfectly silent for a few seconds.

dults wet

points of culmination in the life of an evangelist.” —The confidence

goofagh

of the people in sorcerers is also gradually vanishing and people of

op tead 10

lower castes begin to look somewhat critically upon their religious

leaders belonging to higher spheres.

No wonder! One consulted a

ly i

f

The

sorcerer, as his brother-in-law was in a critical condition.

fellow after having received his fee prophesied that the patient

vangelisatm

would recover after 10 days.

But alas, when the inquirer came

el ﬂﬂd I

home, he found his brother dead! Mr. Schosser’s concluding remark

poigh 8

seems to be capable of a more general applization.

« Whilst the

e O

he-:

'

so-called educated Hindus are preparel to acknowledge in Christ

il

only the most shining ideal of mankind and whilst they only read

books about Christ and about the Bible, but not the Bible itself, I

g

prefer an old farmer who bought our Bible-Stories, and then on

ger 0

)

paying a visit to me was able to tell some stories verbatim and to

it € ¢

put reasonable questions.”

plaﬁef

il

ks

My. Immanuel Soens, the Evangelist, goes strongly in for

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house-to-house visitations, there being an opportunity to sit up with

people until 10 or 11 o'clock in the evening. Once after having

i

fl

spoken of the art of happy dying one said: “So after all you Chris-

cOuld by

i

40

—_—_—

tians also have to die.”

The Evangelist replied: «Surely we also

e

must die; the goat has got 4 legs and the elephant too; are they

encou

the same for this? The nux vomica tree withers and the sandalwood-

Thea

tree too; are they the same on account of this? The difference

ot

between the death of one who believing in Christ has the assurance

%

that his sins are forgiven, and your death is the same.” The man

finan

then called attention to the nice sentiments contained in the Shastra.

.

10 {6

The Evangelist’s answer was: «Because you found a precious stone

may g

on a mound of ruin, you will not call it a diamond-field, and because

you find a nightingale amongst a number of crows, you will not

a%wp

at Frgg

call them a host of nightingales.” ‘“ Well, we also desire for the

forgiveness of our sins; this is the purpose of all our rites, sacrifices,

egage

g

pilgrimages and the like,” the man continued.

“I know that very

therg p

well,” the Evangelist answered, «but all this is an outward exertion,

which does not touch the heart.

What kind of food will you get,

ad kg

oo,

if the cooking vessels are unclean inside? A clean heart only the

longst

Lord Jesus can create within us.” — The wife of a barber said: “By

the worship of Bhutas we have reached so far that children do not

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if g o

care for their parents and men mnot for their Creator.” — At some

tank dedicated to Bhagirathi, people were accustomed to believe

(g

that the appearance of the goddess manifests itself by the wafer

be'mg g

being changed into something like milk at a certain place. They

Th

were greatly shocked on detecting finally that the milklike water

than §

was produced by soap put into a rift in the wall of the tank.

Cirenyy

Mundus vult decipi.

has 10,

hiS oy

the COU

II.

COORG.

0f

I BINY

8

Mercara.

Mllss\}m

The little congregation at this beautiful place (164 souls)

consists on the whole of outsiders, chiefly connected with the

Mission-shop there. Small as the congregation there is, the

I

place where they meet for Divine Service is too small for

Merca;

them. It is the little school-room, in which during the Week

Of&k

o,

T,

e

tely we ly

37 " children get their schooling.

There

i1s not much to

0; ats

encourage Mr. Sikemeier and his assistants in their work.

sandalol

The attitude of the real Coorgs is one of apathy or outspoken

e (iferne

hostility.

he aswra

Some of them, after they have succeeded in deriving considerable

" The ma

the Shastn

financial advantages from the Mercantile Mission-Branch there, seem

now to act on the principle: “ The Moor has done his duty, the Moor

pecious e

may go” (Schiller, Fiesko 1, 4).

The Evangelists are allowed in

and bet

a few plantations to preach the Gospel and the two Catechists stationed

you will 1

at Praserpet (on the Mysore boundary, at the Kaveri) are earnestly

osite for

engaged in itinerating work in that part of Coorg. A becoming

o, s

place of worship for the Christians at Mercara and an Orphanage

o hat 1

there perhaps would become instrumental in securing the sympathies

vand exeris

and kind assistance of English friends at Mercara and its neighbour-

will you

hood. The unsightly and apparently unsuecessful work carried on

at ol

[

amongst them seems almost to escape their knowledge.

As to the

o sul: l

school up to this it has not been fortunate enough to gain the favour

ilen 28

of the educational authorities.

We are glad to say that an Imperial

A s

Grant has been received for the Girls’ School, the number of girls

:ed fo b

being greater than that of the boys.

by e W

The Mission-Shop, superintended by Mr. Veil, even more

e Thy

than in the year before, had to cope with the unfavourable

AL

circumstances of the present time.

In spite of this Mr. Veil

i te b

has not been without the blessing of God, and as he looks upon

his work as upon one of the many endeavours to bring also

the Coorgs and other tribes gathering there to the knowledge

of Christ, the financial result is not the only factor to be taken

in account in estimating the success of the work done in the

Mission-Shop at Mercara.

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9

Anandapur.

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There is a great contrast between Mercara and Anandapur.

here ®

Mercara paradise-like, equipped with all the natural charms

, sl

of a beautiful hill-station, but from a Missionary point of

6

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42

view devoid of all attractions, a barren disappointing soil.

Coor

Anandapur on the other hand is called a feverish place and

1

fully deserves this name, but there is one consolation: it is a

Vs

real Mission-station, and there is something going on there.

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Perhaps the congregation (228 souls) cannot be called a model-

congregation.

The attendance at Sunday-Services and at the

thoe,

Lord’s Supper is very far from being satisfactory, and some of

3 good

the Christians cause offence by an unchristian life and

fime,

behaviour.

If children do not care to go to school, parents

the o

submit to the will of their children.

Thus no change for the

fhere y

good can be expected from the young generation.

A very

0wy

hopeful sign however is the Young Men’s Association at

e

Anandapur.

There seem to be earnest youths amongst them

atall

and all of them are very regular at church. On Palm-Sunday

An

15 children of the Orphanage were baptised and in the after-

a ot

noon the Orphanage for boys was consecrated with many songs

fbrhiSI

and speeches.

For the children, of course, the climax of

ke |

delight was reached, when the delicious Coorg-coffee and

‘A You

] fOI‘mer

plantains were brought in.—But such days of happiness were

followed by days of mourning.

On the 1st September the

ahog (

[ to beﬁ(

baptism of a few adults had taken place.

Amongst the candi-

Somgthy

dates was a Brahmin widow who was very anxious to be

admitted by baptism to the communion with Christ.

On the

m91 ShO]

teafog ¢

following day her grand-child, an amiable girl of 10 years of age,

died and only one week later the grand-mother followed her.

Yople

ey

On the whole death made a great havoc in the congregation,

b g

and we earnestly hope with Mr. Fritz that these earnest

tmﬂ\ A

visitations of God will serve for the good of this congregation.

W

A special difficulty experienced by the itinerating staff at

Satioy

Anandapur 1s that our Catechists coming from Anandapur

n ),

are suspected by the Coorgs to be Holeyas, the stock of our

burdy

Christians there consisting of such.

In consequence of this

et

they are not admitted to the houses of Coorgsf In South

the bo‘]

fmw\'

&

Senlediialy

43

infing s

Coorg Mr. Fritz could not get permission for his Catechists

| plasead

to preach at the roll-call in coffee-plantations.

A second

on; 1t

Missionary at Anandapur for itinerating work is an absolute

¢ o flew

necessity.

Mr. Fritz is fettered to the station not only by

ol a o

the congregation, two Orphanages and the rural economy

and at

there, but we are sorry to say that he and Mrs. Fritz suffer

and sone

a good deal from fever and are laid up every year for some

n life ul

time.

Still in October Mr. Fritz attended with his Catechists

00l e

the great Hindu-festival at Bhagamandal.

Owing to plague

ange fr

there was not the usual conflux from Mysore, but there were

crowds of Malayalis, Tulus and Coorgs.

There was rather

o, A ¥

sociation &

much opposition, sometimes our people could not preach

nongs D

at all.

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An old Coorg, about 60 years of age, paid a visit to Mr. Fritz

and intimated his readiness to become a Christian.

‘When asked

i the ol

nany S0

for his reasons, he said: “I have a debt of Rs. 3000.”

Mr. Fritz

asked him to pay this debt first of all and then to come again.

o clim I

“As you like,” he said and went away. An educated Malayali and

0

s

coflée ul

a former pupil of the Mission School at Tellicherry expressed himself

ppies it

about Christ and the Bible in very kind and appreciating terms, but

Eptembef ﬁ::

“to become a Christian and to disapprove the faith of my fathers is

g the ca}]lﬁ'

something which my conscience never will allow me, it would reprove

e

sious B

me, should I become an apostate,” he said in conclusion. — Mr. Fritz

relates that at another festival a man of authority permitted our

it 0

people to preach under the shadow of a fig-tree, dedicated to the

J

goddess Kaveri.

el ¥

And not only that, after the OChristian preachers

had finished, he addressed the audience, encouraging them to follow

g

truth and the Bible.

egatiﬂﬂ' i

What especially gives life and colour to the Anandapur-

oogh

station and what gladdens the hearts of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz

ing il

in the midst of so many disappointments and under the

Il

burden of bodily weakness, is the Orphanage there.

We have

gock 07

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mentioned already that on the Sunday Judéica, the house for

a0 O

the boys, was consecrated in all solemnity. Donations from

Bl/

i

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el

44

our German friends at Home enabled Mr. Fritz to erect the

heen

modest, but pretty building.

It consists of a big dwelling-

roug

short

room, a sleeping room, a wash- and bath-room and a sick-

room.

By rebuilding a stable, a temporary dwelling-place

Sucen

has been made for the girls.

There has been much sickness

Lot

and even death amongst the children (2 boys and 7 girls),

There

no wonder, children join the school half-starved and accus-

i

tomed to eat coal and earth. Some of them no human art

a1l gar

can save.

Mr. and Mrs. Fritz feel themselves under great

Death

obligation to Dr. Hiley, who always has been ready with his

well-re

valuable advice and help.

Exuom

In the forenoon the children attend school, where great stress

g

is laid on the Bible-lesson and singing. After breakfast the children

0ng e

are employed with out-door work, for which the large Mission-

oty

property at Anandapur renders all the opportunity required. They

gy

work on the sugar and coffee-plantations and on the rice-field.

In

Mg |

the evenings the boys are allowed to play, the girls help in the

fo help

kitchen.

For order and cleanliness in the houses and in their

am i

neighbourhood the bigger children are responsible by turns, each

for a week.

On Sunday-evenings the chiidren take a walk, which

We

they enjoy greatly. Our friends at home were kind enough also

ﬂle GOS

last year to send a large box which contained everything that the

Iffllgth g

heart of a child @uld desire on a Christmas-evening. Mr. and Mrs.

also g

$0me )

Fritz are almost entirely responsible for the education of 28 boys

and 21 girls and the burden weighs heavily upon them. A native

MiSSi()n.y

superintendent for the boys and a matron for the girls are very much

LU |

required, and we hope that suitable persons will be found ere long.

Hiﬁduism

Ul

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SOUTHERN MAHRATTA.

nobod).

10

Dharwar.

fo iy

Tery

The year 1901 was a year of great suffering for this

WO]]derf

station. In the middle of July plague broke out in Dharwar

Maorty

again and whilst on former occasions our congregation had

G(’d an

e

i

45

el

0 ereet

been gra.oiou.sly preserved, this time the awful disease was

7 Al

brought by a servant into the Mission-compound and in a

and 4 St

short time 17 members of the small congregation (230)

ellngefe

succumbed to the disease.

For two months the dismal guest

1ch sicknes

haunted our compound. Almost all cases ended with death.

nd 17 g

!

There was no panic, as inoculation was this time not com-

pulsory, but the death-rate was something awful.

And many

and ads

human &t

an earnest lesson was given to our congregation at Dharwar.

nnder g

Death made no distinction: it took the pious Pefer, a man

dy wih b

well-versed in the Bible, took little children, but also one

excommunicated, who was frivolous enough to say that the

plague will take only Christians and non-Christians, but not

o great IS

t the il

one being suspended between heaven and earth.

My. Ernst

hagp Mt

points out that chiefly the poor, the hungry, the new-comers

amongst our Christians in the two months when plague was

quied T

iedell D

raging have been always ready without fear and hesitation

s help

to help in burying the dead. God’s mercy and His mighty

arm spared and preserved them.

|5 sy Pﬂ@l‘l

We are very glad to report that in spite of plague and death

, il

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the Gospel of truth and life has been proclaimed throughout the

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length and breadth of the Dharwar district.

Ouar agents there have

(hlllo‘ ; “[1

i

also been drawn into a controversy about Christianity.

A Hindu in

A, 8

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I

some Dharwar newspaper complained of the wasting of money for

0 0

f)&b

Mission-work. One of our Catechists replied, and only after a few

p Aot

months appeared a second article in which a second champion of

oL

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Hinduism, after telling us that he had read the first article with

Tng

ot 0%

satisfaction and the Christian reply with indignation, admitted that

the great tree of Hinduism had begun already to shake and as

nobody else had eniered into the lists, he thought it necessary

1THI

to drive the Christian antagonist from the field.

He spoke then

very highly of idolatry as a kind of mediation and gloried in the

wonderful institution of caste.— Of course, this will give a welcome

1

opportunity to our agents to enlarge upon the true Mediator between

1

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God and man.

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46

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A younger brother of Vishvésappa (cf. last year’s Report, page

with

‘

54), Nilkantappa, followed in April, the man who in the year before

They

had cursed his brother in a shameful manner.

of

Vishvasappa had

gone to Tegar to nurse a daughter-in-law and such love made a

iy &

wholesome impression on his heathen relatives, so that there was always

gy

a friendly relation between him and his people.

Also his son, 15

tlng

years of age, promised to come.

As the head of the family, the

cousin of our two converts and the most decided enemy of the Gospel,

Bieh

ail

has died, there remains every hope for the conversion of the remaining

members of the family.

ofhery

them

Of special interest is what Mr. Braun tells us about a

fheng

number of people in a village about 25 miles distant from

hegy

Dharwar.

They meet in a Lingait temple to read the Bible

they [

under the guidance of a man, who has to look after the temple.

leadey

It is a pity that the leader of the whole movement up to

10 begy

this tries to serve two masters.

Officially he declares himself

10 leary

to be a faithful disciple of the Basava-god, before Christians

he excuses himself with pointing out the dreadful consequence

The

of taking a decisive step.

Mr. Braun is of opinion that also

leath g

the apprehension of being dethroned from his position as a

livq 3

leader of men may be one of the reasons for his wavering

Sthog]

position.

The same man wrote a long sermon addressed to

existem

Gurus and priests of the Lingaitas, exhorting them in the

Jears,

name of Basavanna, but in the words of Jesus Christ, to turn

that C()]

back from the way leading to perdition. His disciples celebrate

Matricu

even the Christian festivals and on Christmas their hall was

By

ornamented. One of our Catechists who frequently visits the

50\\\}\\5 |

people, is of opinion that the movement has assumed greater

ey

dimensions.

Th\

Mprs. Ernst reports about her work amongst Hindu women.

GU\ [

Two new Bible-women have been appointed, who seem to be

the p

very fit for the work.

Hindu-women like the Bible-stories,

l

08¢

especially if illustrated by good pictures, and they even listen

Werg

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47

e

Report,

with pleasure to the singing of ‘Mrs. Ernst and her \assistants.

ea be

They remember now and then what they have heard before,

visappa b

of course, the reminiscences are sometimes rather dim. They

Jove madst

may ask to hear once more the story about ¢«the shepherd’s

o asami

songs of praises”.

A Mohammedan woman had a dream,

) his son, 1~

telling her that the Bible-women would come to her house.

o fanily,

Rich people are sometimes reluctant to receive them, being

of the GO‘EQI*

afraid that money will be asked from them, on the other hand

he temaliy

others came to the Mission-house and begged them to visit

them in their houses.

Passing from one house to another

18 oot

there is always a large attendance of children, who want to

istant o

hear the stories and Mrs. Ernst was very pleased to see that

foe il

they even prefer these stories to the performances of a bear-

»the ot

leader.

As most women think that it is much more pleasant

nent 10

to hear a story than to read it, they can scarely be persuaded

ages Hin¥

I

to learn reading.

E i

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The High School at Dharwar was alrﬁost at the point of

onsqEle

o b

death during the months of plague. Three Christian teachers

lived in the compound where plague was prevalent, but the

it ¥ 3

school had not to be closed this year.

The struggle for

s A

A

|

\

existence has now been going on within our school for four

addressed :

I

A

years, however the result at public examinations were all

!

then iﬂ"

that could he expected this year.

5 out of 9 passed in the

i

St t() fﬂf[,

Matriculation Examination.

It

In University School Final Ex-

s gl

mination 5 out of 15 passed. For the first time 3 Christian

o bl

youths passed the F. Gr. Drawing Examination. The average

gy e

attendance last year was 175.

gl

el

The Students’ Home, with its 44 pupils (3 attending the

Government Training School, 26 the High School, and 15

P

ot ™

the Practising Branch of the Training School) had to be

spell t

i

fh

closed, when plague broke out in the compound; 27 persons

Bib

Jost

were attacked and 17 died (from 23rd August to 14th

e

48

October)

As to results, 3 out of 5 passed the Mulki-Examin-

and |

ation

oither

1 the Public Service Certificate Examination. 3 the

fat

Drawing Examination and 3 were sent to join the Theological

Seminary at Mangalore

oue Ch

exeomt

11

Hubli

facke

ol

The congregation at Hubli (418 souls) had also to take

her share in the general calamity of last year

Mr. Salomon

such o

e e

the pastor, reports as follows: —

et 4

“In 1901 our Christians once or twice a week had to keep a

As

fireson

day of fasting, others could only appease half of their hunger.

the harvest y1e]dec1 only one-fourth of a normal crop, also the coming

1

10 the

year will not be without hardships

During the months of plague

we experienced the help of God

0 hey

There were days on which

20t eag

80-—100 persons died in the city

Government refrained from

ok g

doing anything in the matter, which the population appreciated as

a great relief, people being afraid of the extortions exacted, as they

ek

thnge

say, by lower officials

Mohammedans

refused inoculation and

medicine likewise, and they died away like flies

On the other hand

ey

a Lingait ordered homeeopathic medicines worth Rs. 200. Judging

Bronge

he OWI]

from an experience extending over 4 years, I feel confident in saying

that, if homeeopathic medecine is taken within the first three hours

s vep

after the outbreak of plague, a recovery is almost sure

At the

The

request of many people I published a tract on the plagne.—Family-

" th

life and peace are disturbed in some houses by the evil habit of

Jeople

drinking

1y the;

Mr. Berli bears testimony that Mr. Salomon has been

b ble T

instrumental in saving the life of a woman

In this con-

h) g

nexion Mr. Berli expresses his heart-felt thanks to Dr. Cardoz

“ who always has been a friend in need to the Missionaries

e“deaw

and to the Native Christians

He has been successful in

|

persuading them to get inoculated, and besides God it is

ang k

Dr. Cardoz to whom we owe our thanks for having been let off

fy atlg

so easily.”—At Unakallu only one of our Christians, a strong

helr v

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49

Faiiool

lki-Exane

and heélthy man fell a victim of plague, but he did not care

either for dead rats or for inoculation.

Mr. Rath thinks

tion, 3

that the non-Christians were impressed by the preservation of

Theolog

our Christians at Unakallu, but still more by the death of an

excommunicated Christian, who denied Christianity and openly

attacked the preachers of the Gospel, and although of a

robust health was snatched off by plague.

In such times

also o il

. Sl

such as are without the hope of an eternal life feel sometimes

the emptiness of their life.

Even a wealthy man said: «The

best thing one can do is to die, this life is unbearably

i fo ke

tiresome.”

Dangen 8

Mr. Berli is of opinion that during these hard times the people

5o the conid

in the town perhaps have been a little more inclined than usually

hs of hgt

to hear the Gospel.

Candidates for baptism Mr. Berli might have

got easily, but as he sent some of them to the town to get some

gfained I

work and a place for living there, they disappeared altogether.

appreciated i

“Such as come merely for their bellies’ sake scarcely will ever

;acted; 8 b

change their mind. In times of scarcity, chiefly people who are

oonfin u

indifferent and careless as to religion are driven into our camp.”’—

o ofter h‘d?fi

Evangelisation on account of the plague was chiefly carried on in

the town.

00, g

After many sad experiences in former years Mr. Rath

Jonf 1 af

was very glad to meet with a kind reception at Hapsur.

The experience of the Bible-women in the time of plague,

sure i ¢

on the other hand, has been very different.

They find that

igue./mﬂ?;

people in general instead of turning towards the Living God

try their best to propitiate the supposed hungry goddess; the

Bible-women, however, did not miss any opportunity of showing

o s

by instances taken from the Bible and the hearers’ own

o s

experience, God’s finger in this awful visitation.

And their

D0

endeavour has not been in vain.

Some of the women were

Missianﬂflf

roused to repent for their sins and to ask God’s forgiveness,

suCcesSful :

and they have been so thankful for the spiritual admini-

g ful?

strations of our Bible-women that they asked them to continue

4]11

et i

I

their visits also after the plague had abated.

9 Stfoﬂ

v

05

50

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12

s s

Bettigeri.

plge

The outward conditions on the whole have been the same

a1 dhon

as in Hubli.

s0me fn

Owing to the great dearth, trade and business

came almost to a standstill.

Whilst on former occasions

by peo

Bettigeri in times of plague had been mercifully spared, this

o] |

(16 7as

year out of a population of 30,000 souls at Bettigeri-Gadag

not less than 1,500 perished by plague.

At Bettigeri (of 571

live fn o

0 8 by

souls) 10 of our Christians died. Also at this place Dr. Cardoz

great

through inoculation saved, humanly speaking, a good many.

of fhe |

In spite of famine and plague there was nothing like an influx

Lo,

to Christianity, and such as came, were disappointed as a rule.

el

Children prefer the life of vagabonds to entering a Christian

thape

Orphanage.

Half of our Christians had to live for some time

The

in segregation-tents; the weavers, of course, were very short of

b g

money.— Also the Christians at Shagoti suffered greatly. A

nice feature in them is their contentedness.

That the Mission

1 atgpg

is bound to feed Christians is a superstition which has not

Fangg

yet reached this out-station.

A good many of the Christians

AT

back i

were thankful to be employed as coolies, when Mr. Warth built

Whith

the Doctor’s house at Bettigeri. Bettigeri is to get a Medical

“Fingh of

Mission next year, for which purpose Dr. Zerweck arrived ab

g

the end of 1901.

With grea

The congregation at Shagoti is a pleasant sight. Peacefully they

i gave

live amongst the non-Christians. 4 or 5 Hindus there are most regular

e}

in attending Divine Service at our church. Our Christians do not

B oy gy

deny Christ.

One can read Biblical sentences above their doors,

1§ g fl

such as “The Lord is my Shepherd” and the like.

Being farmers

the four walls of a church exert sometimes a soothing influence upon

L

them and some of them will sink down into the arms of Morpheus.

I, Uiy

There is family-prayer almost in every house, at any rate the Lord’s

prayer is offered.

The - education of children is still a weak point,

OTH. N

n f

however the children are admonished to speak the truth and are

ang mm

punished for telling lies.

At Epiphany the collection at the chapel

i 1%

AT

&

51

el laa s S

was Rs. 9.— At Malasamudra, amongst the few Christians there,

plague has done a fearful work.

Including children and all there

oen e s

are about 15— 20 people, and 7 died. Malasamudra has been for

and busie

some time a child of many sorrows to our Mission. Amongst

these

e OceasL

few people there was scarcely any peace and all exhortations

?

proved futile.

Also family-prayer was not held in all houses, and

gpane,

one was not ashamed to say:

“I cannot have family-prayer, as I

ffigorul

live in continual quarrel with my wife!” The school was looked upon

fgert (1

as a heavy cross laid upon their shoulders.

Let us hope that the

o Dr,

great tribulation of last year has helped to knit together the hearts

y oood 0]

of the few Christians and to unite them more closely with their

ke an

Lord.

One Yogina died in full belief in the grace of God as

ol as a1

revealed in Christ and up to the end pointed out herself the

chapters and verses of the Holy Scriptures to be read.

04 Chris

for some 2

The work of Evangelisation at this station was not neglected

o 1Y st

in spite of plague.

Mr. Mayer tells us that people listened

1 gl

in crowds and at some places were in attendance before the

af the Vit

Evangelists arrived.

ihich b

sl

At Kurtikot a somewhat insolent land-owner appeared on horse-

back with the evident intention of disturbing a religious conversation

¢ M

which Mr. Mayer and his assistants were having with some Brahmins.

g6

{4 \[Edl

“First of all he produced the well-known silly slander against Christ,

saying that He had stolen an ass, and then knocking on his breast

i 1

with great conceitedness he called himself a disciple of Vivekananda.

el

We gave him a Bible and asked him to prove his nonsense, he

refused on the ground that he wanted an English Bible. He followed

o 1 i

us on horseback from place to place, stirring up the people against

i

i ﬂf

us and frustrating thus our work.

In this manner we marched

e e &

through the whole village and finally reached the house of the richest

man in the village. The yongster dismounted and sat on the veranda.

Mr. Mayer was allowed to speak about three-quarters of an hour,

g of)

il

P

our persecuter wanted to oppose us, but the houselord did not allow

him to molest us.

i

On the following day the fellow appeared again

i

and invited us to hear his lecture on Theosophy. Of course we declined,

g 1l

o

I

and again he thwarted our endeavours.

On the third day the

I

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7%

52

e

troublesome youth came again, and we began to get ftired of him.

We let him talk finally and after two minutes he had exhausted all

his wisdom. He objected especially to the creation of the world by

it

the will and word of God and thought to surprise us by the well-

el

known simile of the spider and its web.

Strange to say the young

(hmstia

man felt uneasy in his mind about his behaviour.

He asked our

aud Hal

pardon when we left the place, and insisted on my shaking hands

and 1o

with him.”

|emient

The work of the Bible-women is carried on very re:c;ularly.

Ina ()

We read of a woman who succeeds in combining the characters

wardy

of Mary and Martha.

She was sitting in the kitchen, doing

ya, |

her work, whilst her husband, her children and some

Al ¢

neighbours listened to the Word of God. Elizabeth, the Bible-

il

woman, feeling a little annoyed on account of the apparent

ftom ¢

indifference of the woman addressed her and was astonished

S0mep]

to hear that she not only answered all the questions put to

it

her, but also asked her to tell «the story of the garden”

ichooly

(Gethsemane).

&Way.”

The Boys’® Orphanage at Bettigeri was even not touched by

I

the plague.

Some famine children feel very happy in the

Mtation,

\Viﬂing

institution. One said to Mrs. Mayer: «With you I do remain

and shall never leave you.”

The Collector of Dharwar sent a

20 fap

pecia]

famine-child with the condition that it was not to be baptised

before the lapse of a year.

He has grown into a well-fed boy

da )y

and became the favourite of all. A merry day is the day of

I i

Tl y

washing. Under the superintendence of Mrs. Mayer the boys

wash their own clothes. Of course they are very far from being

%\Hes y(

over-scrupulous and must be sent back frequently to go a

Sdlﬂ(}lst

second time over the business.

T

Every year an excursion is

made to Malasamudra.

To play, sleep and eat under the big

dllring

trees there makes them imagine that they are living in 2

o

fairy-land.

L o

SR

53

ARy

tired of b

exhoustel 4

13 Gﬁledgudd.

the wor

Not much can be said about the congregation at G;xledgudd

by the vl

itself.

The whole congregation (630 souls) consists of the

4y the yu

Christians at Guledgudd, Sumaddi, Mushtigeri, Kardenhalli

To askel m

and Halkurki. Mushtigeri, the largest part of the congregation

haking ok

and not easily accessible, suffers somewhat under the too

\

lenient praxis executed when the congregation was founded.

y tegl]

In a Christian congregation one cannot be too intolerant to-

16 charactn

wards remainders of Hinduism.

Owing to the dearth last

tchen, ¢

year, from 30 to 60 people had to be given work at Sumaddi.

and o

Also the people at Kardenhalli are too poor to support their

j febie

families there.

Almost all the inquirers of last year came

he apped

from this place, but Mr. Eisfelder had to find work for them

s ot

somewhere else.

In such out-of-the-way places a Christian

stions it ¥

school is an absolute necessity.

«“Congregations without

tho gt

schools are very much like trees, the roots of which are cut

away.”

My, Liithy, who is engaged in itinerating work at this

i oucel

station, meets everywhere, in the town and in villages, with

gy i

?-:

willing hearers. Mr. Liithy is of opinion that Mission-schools

] do ot

go far in explaining this hopeful attitude of the population,

especially in the case of former pupils of Mission-schools.

[ Tapt®

!

An old Hindu thought it even necessary to console Mr. Liithy

ol

IIU

by saying: «If you also do not see much in the way of out-

N

K

ward visible fruits, your labour will not be in vain.

I am

“

el

e !

Bt b@}'i

sure, you will not believe that we, former pupils of your

schools, can believe in earnest in Hindu-gods.”

iy B 0

The @irls’ Orphanage at Sumaddi has done exceedingly well

pxous!

0!

during the year under review.

The Inspector of Schools

md 1 [}18 )}

reported on the school: «It was a complete satisfaction to

g Il

i

me to see the Orphanage conducted so very ably.”

Three of

the girls joined the Government Training School at Dharwar.

U

e

During the holidays two excursions were made: one to a

antty.

romantic hill near Guledgudd and another one to Badami, a

schodl

place celebrated for its rock-temples.

But what was most

then 4

them 2

charming for the girls, was the transport in the train and in

bullock-carts.

At Christmas the presents sent from Germany

0 emb

were more satisfactory than ever.

There was such an en-

Mission

and thy

thusiasm prevailing that the girls gave vent to their feelings

of thankfulness by singing 6 songs.

At the Jubilee of the

station 12 children and later on 5 children were baptised.

The Hindu children gave us great joy and with them a

i

refreshing element has entered the institution.

But there

(T 5oy

was not all joy during the year.

The girls were greatly

ity

affected by the early death of a dear child of Mr. and Mrs.

Who gl

FEisfelder.

Tougg

l Sf&l)d.g

14

Bijapur.

ﬁlﬂds 40

This is purely a Missionary-station, as the congregation

There

ity

(56 souls) consists chiefly of employees of the Mission.

ate (g

are some flourishing schools at the station. Mrs. Metz, besides

I}

instructing the girls in the Girls’ School and in the Canarese

litrit

School in sewing, goes twice a week accompanied by the wife

b of

of the Catechist Ramtal (afterwards Chamahalli) and the

Vm&ges ]

wife of the teacher Daniel Devapriya to the houses of

Olllitting

Hindus. Here we have two Bible—women, who do the work

gratuitously.

et i

My. Biddle, the Police Superintendent, sent us 30 children

g ¢

of Policemen and paid their school-fees, twelve of them joined

HUR&Yar

the Girls’ School, the others our Canarese School.

LT

Besides the work of Mrs. Metz and her two Bible-women

Tig m“}

Mg

there is a large work of evangelisation going on in the di-

strict and Mr. Metz knows of not a few, who seem to be not

oy b

far from the Kingdom of God. One man intends to come to

b

Bijapur to bring his children under the influence of Christif

ty (.

AN

55

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anity. The children have aiready arrived and attend our

school and our services.

The father asked us to educate

) Bidim s

b e i

them as Christians, although he does not yet venture to set

14 and i

them an example.

Another one made the curious proposal

i German;f

{

to embrace Christianity with his two sons, settle down in the

such a0 &

Mission-compound to see his sons pfovided for by the Mission

her felng

8

and thus to close‘ his life in peace and without any cares.

bilee of t

15

Honavar.

e baptid

ith then 1

My. Risch, who is in charge of the little congregation

Bt fhe

(79 souls) and of the itinerating work at this station, is of

et greaﬂ,

opinion that there are some young men in the congregation

;. and U

who show signs of spiritual life.

Family-prayer is held in all

houses. Although their trade (weaving) has come almost to

a stand-still, they are ready to contribute towards the different

funds according to their ability. Most of them are anxious

Congregﬂti‘?

also to show before their non-Christian neighbours that they

are Christians.

miOH- T‘Jﬁ‘

;Wzs b

Mr. Risch has made up his mind to visit every village in his

the (hnb®

district and to preach the Gospel at every place.

Of course only

half of this work could be done last year.

In the rainy season the

villages in the neighbourhood of Homavar were taken up, not

Jj ol

omitting a single house.

In villages Mr. Risch found the magic

o st

lantern to be a great help. On the whole our Evangelists did not

o fhe o

meet with a cordial reception.

Even where people were kind, they

sought to avoid a conversation on the Gospel.

Bazaar-preaching at

% Cth!Pi

Honavar was greatly helped and enlivened by the active assistance

fhen Jgiw

of members of the congregation.— By starting a school at Samshi

we really commenced to work amongst Mohammedans.

For the

piken”

present the children like to hear the Bible-stories, which they partly

i

know from the Koran.

But very likely the attitude of Mohammedans

o

o

will change as soon as the Gospel will make an impression on the

il o

heart of some child. — Mr. Samuel Bunyan, our Evangelist, met with

J

o’

the curious argument amongst wealthy people that they have

: i Chrl~[l

4 o

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56

P

T}

inherited their religion in the same manner as their compouxids

and other property; as the one is entail, so also the other must be.

saed |

Abandoning their gods, they would also be liable to forego the

There

property given by these gods, which of course is out of question.

feld, of

and fh

been }

V. MALBBAR.

ofher 1

Lord b

16

Cannanore.

The ¥

This station sustained a great loss by the death of Mys.

Hug v

Peter, the wife of Mr. G. Peter, the itinerating Missionary at

nachin

Cannanore.

«

ffred

1n fhe

Mrs. Peter was born at Ziirich on 23rd September 1864 and

came out to India in 1888.

Her father is still alive.

Mrs. Peter was

4 {eg

fea

first stationed at Calicut, where she married and spent the first

Afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Peter

tgng

happy years of her married life.

i Jg

were transferred to

Chombala and went home from there to

3

Switzerland.

0 ogr |

Having returned in 1897 they were stationed at

Cannanore.

Mrs. Peter not only suffered deeply on account of the

ek, g

In yhig

separation from her children at home, she also lost one of her

the kg

children out here, a stroke from which she really never quite

by ey

recovered. Of the remaining children one was very sickly and even

he Caus

a change to the hills in spring 1901 did not bring the expected

relief.

Shortly after their return from the Nilgiris the child fell

tad beg

sick again and in nursing this child Mrs. Peter had to sacrifice her

ll&turaHJ

own life for the child.

M. g

Her constitution being very much weakened

already, pneumonia consumed the rest of her strength. She departed

Uy

Moggs;

this life on the 11th August 1901 with the full assurance of

everlasting life through Jesus Christ her Saviour.

«The weak and

ﬁleﬂe )t

Yy

quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price,” endeared

her to all who had the privilege of knowing her more intimately.

st'm'mg

Mr. Hole, in charge of the congregations at Cannanore and

P‘fm%uti

iy

Chowa (1208 souls), had to report on a year of many troubles

and anxieties.

fing N

We take from his

report the following

they

Ty

remarks: —

¥ fhy

o

>

-

it

«There were some youths who after a very doubtful life were

! ook

her must e

saved like a brand plucked out of the fire and went home in peace.

) foneg

There are, thank God, houses where regularly family-prayers are

- of quesis

held, of many members of the congregation we know that they pray

t

and that the spirit of God rules in their hearts.

Especially we have

N

been pleased to see that some even with a pecuniary loss and under

other inconveniences took care of some candidates for baptism. The

Lord has His own people also at Cannanore and He knows them.

The Young Men’s Association under the energetic guidance of Mr.

Maue was thriving for some time, but in consequence of sectarian

eath of li

machinations the attendance at Church-services and other meetings

fissionan

b:

suffered somewhat. ‘“The prayer-meetings” to which we referred

in the Reports of the last two years and from which some expected

b 1864

a great spiritual blessing for our congregations, have turned out a

o, Pttt 7

great offence and a hindrance for the spiritual development of our

et e by

congregations.

A Catechist of our Mission, who owes everything

ol M b

what he really possesses of spiritual knowledge and sound experience

o (e

to our Mission, asked a few days’ leave, went to Coimbatore, came

) smtiﬂﬂed i

back, resigned as a Catechist, and from that day he called the church,

aceontt i

It

in which he, his parents and other relatives have been brought to

g e h

the knowledge of Christ, the Church whose foundation has been laid

by men of God like Hebich, Dr. Gundert, Fritz, Miiller and others,

o et ¥

;ickly qud o

he calls this Church «Babel”.

The prayer-meetings in Cannanore

gt "

had been started formerly by this Catechist and thus the ex-Catechist

naturally tried to exert his influence amongst the Christians there.

o il i

i gt

J

Mr. Hole continues:

«We felt it to be our duty to take energetic

measures against extravagances and great disorders, prevailing

it weakeﬂ*‘

amongst these people.

What increases the difficulty of influencing

i

| ssud

0 *

these people for the good is the great insincerity of their present

spiritual leaders. After sneaking into a Christian congregation,

o The il

s

!

I

stirring up people and abusing their mother-church they talk about

e

it

persecution and compare themselves with martyrs, they call the Basel

Mission ¢Babel’ and the Missionaries ‘false prophets’. Representa-

tions will avail nothing, for they are ruled by a strange spirit and

pany

L

they venture to call that spirit the spirit of God.

It is very sad to

ol

the

see that what adds attraction and savour to this movement, is the

Craty

Fiths

et e

58

abuse of the Basel Mission. For people without spiritual experience

Missio

and such as are not well-founded in the Scriptures, the temptation to

spiify

be taken in is very great.

It cannot be denied that many members

Interes

of this new sect are earnest in prayer and in searching the Scriptures.

us fo

And this may be the reason that also a few earnest young men have

(o, I

been attracted by this unsound movement, not seeing what is at

i,

the bottom of it. One of them leaves a flourishing Sunday-School

Dogmaty

amongst Hindu children, with which he had been entrusted, without

sinlesg

even giving notice, so that the children wait for their teacher, who

160 |

meanwhile, ‘driven by the spirit’, is engaged somewhere to preach

rncile

to grown-up Hindus! The prayer-meetings last until midnight, family-

perfett

prayer, family-life and work being mneglected.

‘Whilst there are

simply

thousands of Hindus, who never heard the Gospel at all, this ex-

thngy

Catechist and his companions build ‘on another man’s foundation’,

¢ourse |

The most nasty feature in the whole movement is the passion for

et

Judging and abuse. The fifth commandment does. evidently not exist

ﬂﬂnoury

for. these people.

A time of sifting and a separation seems to be

31](1 iﬁb ¢

inevitable, but our consolation is: ¢There must be also heresies

7

Do oy

amongst you, that they which are approved may be made manifest

Wit gy

among you’ (1 Cor. 11, 19).”—8o far Mr. Hole. The Native Pastors

s gy

Mr. George Peter and Mr. Tobias Chembankodan express themselves

in a similar strain.

At the end of the year a strike broke out in

0 rone

the Weaving Establishment, the people however were careful and mean

formerly

enough to receive their Christmas-presents before. The party deserib-

Publip

ed above was prominent also in this foolish and disloyal action,

the Bagg

they did not shrink back from giving also to this movement a

pongnt

religious colour by giving as their watchword: “Let us leave the

missionarz

bondage of Egypt!” The Pastor of Chowa, on the other hand, wil

oy

nof be far from right, if he contends that the strike is a punishment

of God, because our people did not receive the manifold benefits of

{hyg

they

God granted through the Mission with a thankful heart and did not

praise Him for them.— For one who knows something of the history

of Christ’s Church, there is nothing quite new in this spiritual revel

Iy

at Cannanore and some other places.

We do not deny for a moment

that there are some upright and misled souls amongst our opponents,

Pl’eachil

and we trust that they will become sober and see that the Basel

N

59

| experas

Mission never will stand between them and the highest standard of

empafin

spiritual life, and they will finally find out who really seeks 'their

1y ek

interest: the Mission or their present leaders. What entirely prevents

he St

us from seeing in this movement a power for good and a work of

g 6D ot

God, is the uiter want of Christian charity, of sincerity and humility

g v i

in it.

What shall we think of a spiritual movement, in which

unday-

dogmatically the leading idea is “a second grace”, «perfection”,

sfed, wih

“sinlessness” and which distinguishes ifself as to its outward appea-

teathen,

rence by an astounding neglect of the most elementary ethical

gre 0 o

principles, so that one gets the impression that the standard of

nigh,

perfection and sinlessness is easily attained by these ¢saints” in

i e

simply thinking lightly about sin and denying the name of sin to

Of

all, thses

things which even an unconverted man would reckon to be sin.

s fomfid

course these leaders must have somebody to back them and in this

respect another insincerity seems to reveal itself.

The spiritual

ho pisi i

aly i s

armoury of the ex-Catechist is “the Gospel Trumpet”. Its prophecies

and its abuses of all Protestant Churches he repeats faithfully, he

) Seems ] k

oo o

has reached already so far as to call all Evangelical Churches *Pro-

ol

testant rubbish”.

In the face of such utterances and such a spirit

it is strange that these people look upon “Coimbatore” as their

Nafire Pt

head-quarters, that before doing mischief somewhere, they go there

55 ol

I 01

to receive a mew power and that a faith-missionary who belonged

formerly to the Basel Mission and who but lately in a pamphlet gave

il 2%

public utterance to his brotherly feelings and thankfulness towards

iy

Either what our

the Basel Mission, is said to assist this ex-Catechist.

gl

opponents say about their connexion with Coimbatore and the faith-

missionary must be mere pretention and untruth, or the brethren

p e

who back them must be absolutely ignorant about the spirit they

ot hk i

foster and the work they assist, as we cannot believe for a moment

X Pm;jshﬂlf?-i

that they look upon the Basel Mission and other Evangelical Missions

as upon the Biblical Babel.

Ll

Mr. Peter, who under present circumstances may be said

e bt

it

to have chosen the good part of a Missionary’s work: the

) g

for

preaching of the Gospel to the Hindus, as far as the many

ut OPWE%;

tribulations in his family permitted, has been busy in sowing

ha{; e I

8*

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60

the good seed all over North-Malabar, and he thinks it all-

fllen to

important that an ambassador of Christ can testify to the

it Telli

Gospel-truth not only as one who has read, studied and under-

afer the

stood the Scriptures, but as one who speaks from his own

10 ey

personal experience.

Mr. Peter made a long journey to the

tergd the

northern border of his

district.

At a Hindu-festival up

I Bi

there he met with a good many Malayalis, and the magic

Biablishme

lantern attracted many people.

It was encouraging to see

il on v

¥ouad o

how those Malayalis welcomed Mr. Peter just like an old

good friend.

Mr. Peter was also able at Payanur to assist

Wefimes

his Hindu-friends in getting a little Government Hospital,

e i g

which convinced some bitter enemies of Mission-work that

e Yy

Missionaries really wish to be their best friends.

e

{8 oy

As to the work of the Bible-women at Cannanore we give

ety

the following extracts:

Iy iud&pl

B

In the house of some Patter-women (the Brahmins of Malabar)

the Bible-women read the first part of Luke 12.

One of the women

b by

was struck by the 7th verse and said: «Is it really true that our

W‘]Tk-sh()p 0

Creator does even know the number of our hairs? Then one cannot

gfﬂmude a

hide anything before Him. ' Oh how many sins have we committed,

i)

and He will ask account from us! Is it not so? In future I shall

ey 19

take care not to do anything wrong.” The woman bought some

Bible-portions.

In the house of a Tiyan the end of Matthew 25

came home to the heart of a woman, who never before had heard

L o

about a day of judgment.

She asked God’s forgiveness for her

beginﬂiﬂg 4

manifold sins and complained of her utter inability to leave all and

High Sthoc

follow Christ.

00!\ up

it

The Weaving Establishment at Cannanore lost Mr. Schonthal,

gmtel pa

who for about 30 years had been connected with this esta-

I U]l]O‘(

blishment. When he left in March in the midst of many

by,

I

manifestations of love and gratitude, his heart did scarcely

Che”J t

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forbode how soon the powers for destruction would be at

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work there. My. Eidenbenz, upon whom the difficult task had

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L ey

1

i 1 gl

fallen to conduct the business at Cannanore with its branches

fy to

at Tellicherry and Chombala, had a quiet year especially

d uode:

after the congregation and the establishment had got rid of

1 s o

two weavers, who by their un-Christian behaviour had embit-

ey fo e

tered the life of the Missionaries and Native Pastors long ago.

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Mr. Eidenbenz in his interesting report compares the Weaving

he mag

Establishment with Noah’s ark. Up to this it was the custom that

g 10 &

only on very rare occasions a bird left this ark, and in most cases

«found no rest for the sole of his foot” and returned to the ark,

@ a0 ol

r to

sometimes as the raven of black unthankfulness, scmetimes as a

dove with or without the olive leaf of sincere contrition.

But since

Mg

some years a new hopeful period seems to dawn up: the dove finds

ok i

some dry place and remains there! Now this is on the whole what

the founders of these establishments looked for: the members of our

fe Vo g

congregations arriving with the help of such establishments finally

at an independent mode of living. Mr. Schonthal began long ago

to assist weavers to have their own looms outside of his establishment.

of Yabtw)

Some have tried also without the help of the Mission to set up a

f the woned

work-shop of their own.

If these cuttings keep up a relation of

e {hat

gratitude and sincerity with the mother-tree, nothing more can be

) o e

desired. What took place in consequence of the strike belongs to

0 wmmi(tfd:

1

the year 1902.

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17

Tellicherry.

yater

A" good many changes took place at this station: at the

ol o

beginning of the year Mr. Ruhlond, Manager of the Christian

s 1 b

Jul

High School, left for Europe, and Mr. Bader from Codacal

Jegre &

took up his work. Mr. Hiller at Tellicherry was sick for the

greater part of the year and had to leave the station for a

) rS’chb‘nﬂml. {

more congenial climate.

He was transferred to Palghat and

] s ol

Mr. Maue from Codacal took charge of the work at Telli-

vl

cherry town.

id st

The congregation (575), the greater part of which lives on

b

ol

%

Nettur-hill, about a mile distant from the town, leaves very

1t s

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P

absurdlt

little to be reported on. From Mr. Frohnmeyer’s and My. Noah

Fdapalaw’s reports on the Nettur-congregation we take the

adl

Ie

following extracts: —

thmgy ¢

b 0pe

“There are not a few men and women who love our Lord Jesus

i)

The y

Christ with all their hearts, they are, of course, also in Tellicherry

wy }

the little flock, but we are glad to say that they influence the

public opinion and that such as are fleshly-minded must go more

il

f

or less to the corner.

A few of our Christians, belonging to the

i

?

)

lower order ran away to Mahé, where a very kind and as it seems

iende]

wealthy priest by his philanthropic undertakings attracted a number

of people, who for their belly’s sake embrace any religion.

‘With

I

B i

the exception of two well-behaving women, who were persuaded by

ity il

a former Roman Catholic woman, we cannot congratulate the priest

at Mahé on the acquisition made from our congregation.— The

1nh Gy

e

attendance at Divine Service is on the whole very good, and we have

been very thankful that we were allowed to work in our congregation

uch f

gy gy

without anything of those confusions, dissensions and disorders, which

gty

8o banefully interfere with the care of souls.—Besides the Malayalam

Young Men’s Association, an English Association has been started in

i fy

Mr. Bader and the

Mty

connection with the Christian High School.

Headmaster of the High School (Mr. Tharian) do their best to make

Whﬂt iy {

a\'aﬂ th

it attractive and useful for our English speaking young men; the

b gy

Malayalam branch is looked after by Mr. Noah Edapalan, the Pastor

of Nettur.

gy

preaching;

Myr. Mauwe works joyfully with his Pastor in the little

‘Hldemtm

Tellicherry-congregation.

There is the residence of the ex-

Whogk

)

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Catechist, of whom we had to say so much under Cannanore.

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{

i

But the soil seems not to be as fertile for this movement as

10t

Hy

(]

I

in some other places, our people are loyal towards their

by

Church, which provided them for 60 years in good and bad

days with everything needful, and there seems to be the

me

necessary discrimination to prove the spirits, whether they are

from God or not.

For a short time there was at Tellicherry

: Fll\l;

B

a feeble imitation of the meetings at Cannanore, but when

b Hag

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absardities and improprieﬁes were objected to, the charm went

Mr. N

fae s |

and the matter dropped. Some attacks from outside were so

clumsy and mannerless that even the eyes of the half-blind

were opened.

Lond Jess

Telem

The work of Evangelisation at this station is chiefly carried

on by Mr. Samuel Ambattu, our well-experienced Evangelist,

huenee fe f

f g0 mre

and by three Catechists; for the work amongst Hindu women

g o

about Nettur and in the town we have 4 Bible-women super-

99 1t S48

intended by Mrs. Frohnmeyer.

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Mr. Samuel Ambattu finds a great difference between the people

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living in the town and those in the district.

The latter, he thinks,

orsuaded

are far more accessible: they cannot do without God and are not so

p the pi

much exposed to temptations.

An old Vakil, since last year out of

fion. T

service, testifies to the truth of this: “As a Vakil I did not think

and e ate

much of God, still less of truth, since I do cultivate my own field

it

things are different: there is no reason to deceive anybody, with

s,

-

thoughts of God I fall asleep in the evening”, he said. Mr. Samuel

, Yalayb

thinks that in the town and out in the villages the crown of all our

3 s

preaching must be the cross of Christ and that all keeping back of

] e

lo

Il

what to some is a stumbling block and to others ¢ foolishness”, will

[

10 e

avail nothing. At the same time he is of opinion that new ways

1 ey the

to reach the hearts of the people must be found.

Especially he

| the PﬂS[@f

thinks it highly necessary that we should not be satisfied with mere

preaching, but should assure ourselves that the matter has been

understood. He hopes and expects a good deal from our Mission-

the i

schools in this respect and we presume that it is with reference to

0 i ¢

f

Mission schools out in the district, when he writes that schoolmasters

(ool

ought not to be satisfied with merely telling Bible-stories, but that

et ®

they ought to enter upon the subject matter and give account of

Vchds t

their own belief.

]d ﬂﬂd

%;

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From Mrs. Frohwmeyer’s report we take the following:

{0 bt

“First of all I have to mention the death of our old and faithful

o 1

Bible-woman, Haunnah Hassan, who had been allowed to work for

Tellidlt’lw‘

her Master during the last 18 years. Though nat_uml]y rather rash-

it i

oy

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tempered, she was very patient and gentle throughout her illness and

fong

trusted fully in Christ Jesus, her Saviour

On the eve of the 27th

uder h

January she died, surrounded by most of her children, grand-children

and great-grand-children

How much of good seed she has sown in

tpfou

(of whe

the hearts of her Indian sisters, the Lord’s great day will reveal

al 391

The place of Hannah has been taken in by Deborah Kallarikkal, a

mouzt

new convert

She possesses a good knowledge of the Shastras and

{ e sch

haying gone herself through many trials at the time of her conversion

she is, as it were, an illustration and a telling example of the fact

te edea

that it is possible to leave one’s caste and home and follow Christ

i By

It is most impressive to hear her tell the non-Christians how she

1t o

had lived in darkness more than 40 years of her life and how God

Yy

had brought her to His wonderful light

Of course Deborah being

Aumgy

a new Christian, needs a greater deepening and rooting in God’s

o g

Word and more Christian experience, but we trust that being a

fese

humble disciple of Christ, the Lord will equip her more fully with

Fom oy

all she is wanting for the work. The Bible-women in the town think

ey ¢

that there are two classes of women who hear the Gospel with

a1 whigh

great joy, namely the Chetties and Tiyars, especially do the Chetty-

l

women quietly listen to the Word of God. There are also many

mﬂde of hn

opportunities to speak with Mopla-women, and as long as their

Iy of Ju

husbands keep aloof, they will listen with pleasure to the stories of

g Gl

the patriarchs and of <Isa Nabi

With reference to the death of

g,

Christ their version of the story is: Jesus never died on the cross,

B 15 4

but it was some malefactor who was crucified in his stead.— Later

b )y

on iu the year ome of the Bible-women had to be dismissed, and

Sophia, the daughter of old Hannah, was appointed in her place

) lmp()l

B Btadiy

hl

As mentioned above, in the management of the Christian

fi b ]JI‘()]

High School on Nettur a change has taken place again

My

Nthg ;

tatg;

Bader having been entrusted with this very important work

Ty

We are also exceedingly glad to report that the great

thy i

anomaly of a Christian High School having a non-Christian

Headmaster has been removed by our being happy enough

3%31‘

to engage the services of My. Tharian, B. A.

Even after the

i

fhat f

Primary department of this school had been separated and

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65

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a strong Congregational School had beeﬁ formed and brought

F the Jit

under shelter in a new building picturesquely situated on the

nd-¢hline

2 SOML 1L

top of our hill, the High School shows a strength of 172 pupils,

60 of whom are Christian boarders, 53 Christian day-scholars

will peved

and 59 non-Christians.

It is not yet time to say with any

Larikal, & 5

ashs il

amount of certainty what an influence the mixed character

of the school will exert on our young Christians.

Of course,

QOvesil

the educational part of the work has become more complicat-

of the fid

low Chrsé

ed. But on the other hand the present arrangement is also

My. Bader writes:

s hov

not without its advantages.

d ho Gl

«Many Hindu boys are diligent, assiduous and sometimes talented.

horah el

Amongst them there are also some who have been taught manners at

)¢ 1 i

home and enter almost upon friendship with our boarders.

Some of

ot by

these take also a personal interest in the Bible-lessons.

In the IVth

Form once the lesson was on the parable of the sower and the seed.

‘When a stress was laid on the fact that after all it is the will of

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man which decides, all this being illustrated by the example of Judas

the (e

Iscariot, a youth put a question, which is characteristic of the Hindu

o o 1]

mode of thinking: ¢Why did Christ, being almighty, not change the

mind of Judas and make him inclined towards righteousness?’—In

some Christian boarders the spirit of insincerity, unthankfulness,

pe sfoi

the jahd

defiance, haughtiness and carnality gave a good deal of trouble.

n e 1

There is a very small percentage of Christian parents who bring up

their children ¢in the nurture and admonition of the Lord’.

Even

tead./LilW

it ﬂﬂf

more important than the lessons are the common prayers and the

Bible-reading in the mornings and evenings.

At these hours truth

et pl&ﬂe,

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b

can be brought home to the heart and conscience of the students

i

with greater immediateness.”

I

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The Theological Seminary on Nettur has not yet the big

ptaut ™

classes which we would like to see, but there is every hope

thﬂ U[eﬂ

that in a few years the Christian High School, its feeder, will

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have stronger and more efficient classes. We are glad to say

)

that the highest class consisted of 4 students (about the

1 &ttel lﬂJ

normal strength of a class, looking upon the needs of the

)amted

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district); in March 1901 one student only was examined and

s, of

pTIA

entered upon service, and from the High School only one

teachers,

student was admitted in January. The Principal had to take

sick-leave at the beginning of the year and took up his

Jer: One

lessons again in June.

In January for both of our Semin-

nd of I

04l 4na

aries the staff was strengthened and a most valuable assist-

ance was obtained by the appointment of Mr. Lawrence

|

Iettines

The

Puvattur, who heart and soul went into his work.

fngig o

systematical lesson in Theology for the last year was Dogmatics

TR

(in the year before Apologetics), taken by Mr. Frohnmeyer;

ey

the oy

M. Sengle tookllntroduction to the Old Testament.

During the Christmas holidays a student from Cannanore, weak

fened il

in knowledge and without much spiritual discrimination, but of an

ind ey,

earnest and pious disposition of mind, joined the sectarians at

Yonag,

Cannanore.

He had shown some inclination in that direction, but

aud et

we always hoped that the sound scriptural teaching of his masters

nder big

would make a greater impression upon him than the silly fancies of

ant of

young pseudo-prophets and the oracles proceeding from The Gospel

Trumpet”.

Alas, we had over-estimated his power of judgment as

I Nang

well as his gratitude! He was always sickly in the Seminary and in

i The

listiops

his sick days he had been treated with great kindness and eare,

however he did not think it worthwhile even to consult his teachers

Wl gp

and benefactors before taking such a decided step, he simply ran

Ty hogpt

away and some time after the re-opening of the school, he sent a

4 gt

How far the

letter to the Principal, giving notice of his resignation.

l bt

letter was written by inspiration, of course, we cannot know, buf we

heneﬁted b)

cannot refrain from giving publicity to the last sentence, as being

‘he tmth iIlt

characteristic of the manner in which a lad of this new persuasion

ligg sl

writes to his old Principal.

The sentence runs thus: “Lastly I beg

‘Eﬁ'ﬁe Wlﬂ

you to inquire deeply about this matter before the Lord without any

)

¥y

evil speakings or prejudice and to make the necessary improvements.”

I

p—

! fin

Dseph B

The Training School on Nettur admitted at the beginning

of the year 3 pupils of the Lower Secondary Grade and 1 of

L ey

dehﬁtes’ :

the Primary Grade. In December 3 Lower Secondary candi-

B by

4

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nined i

dates, after they had appeared for the written test, passed the

aaly

examination conducted by the Mission and were employed as

ad o

teachers.

The Mission examines such candidates in Bible (this

ok p b

year: one Gospel and the Epistle to the Romans), an elementary

ur Sem

~

kind of Introduction to the Bible (in which prominence is given

e st

to an analysis of the Biblical books), Church-history, Christian

, L

doctrines, Memoriter, History of KEducation, Bible-teaching,

ok T

Singing and Violin.

Dogus

The High School at Teilicherry-town was at the beginning of

oliney!

the year unfortunate enough to have a sick Manager.

About

the commencement of the second term Mr. Maue was trans-

anote, T

L

ferred from Codacal to Tellicherry first as acting Manager

, it du

and then, after Mr. Hiller had left the station, as the permanent

ofaris ¥

Manager.

Mr. Maue threw all the enthusiasm of a young

it 1

and energetic man into his work, and we hope that the school

s

under his management will have a flourishing period. The

Iy ft?

want of Christian masters is greatly felt at this school.

WThe G(“ff]

Mr. Maue makes the following remark:

jlgoet

“The Bible-lessons are the most satisfactory part of my duties.

oAy wt

Questions on the part of the pupils are encouraged. Besides many

5 ﬂ]ld (W

subtle or cunning questions there are always some coming from the

i

very heart of the pupils.

Especially the story of Christ’s sufferings

) s

and death makes a deep impression on the mind of the pupils.

In

)L ) ol }

the last Bible-lesson one of the students said: ¢ We have been much

for i

benefited by the Bible-lessons; we do feel in our hearts that this is

]]0“ y

Il

e

the truth indeed,’ but carefully he added: ¢Is it absolutely necessary

6y ®

that we submit to the rite of baptism? Will it not be sufficient, if we

)We

i

believe with our hearts?’— In November the first annual report of

Jis

tl‘/ I ]ka 5

‘the Juvenile Debating Society’ of this school made its appearance.

i

oo

The spiritus rector and President of this Society was Mr. Itti

il

There were 31 meetings during the year with

Joseph . a., L. 1.

an average attendance of 30 students, 6 essays and 12 topics of

e

| andl&l

debates, which surely must be called a very hopeful beginning.

i (o

We heartily do wish to this society a long, happy and fruigi’ul life.”

68

BUEATL T

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18

Chombaloc.

the furnac

My. Uber in his report on the congregation at Chomala

(hureh 1

anilt the

(525 souls) describes the spiritual life of his flock as being not

{ngregati

quite satisfactory. The desire to make the Mission a milch

cow 1s sometimes too obvious.

tf dangh

«Some seem to look upon

swer to

benefits

received from the

Mission as upon an earnest-

(istans

money, guaranteeing further advances; yea some seem to

e with

think that they have rendered an immense service to the

No wonder, if such

I, §

Mission by their becoming Christians.

people on account of some trifling outward advantage feel no

THjy a)

it

hesitation in going to Mahé and joining the Roman Catholic

il ho

Church. No wonder again, if some between two stools came

By

to the ground. Not finding what they hoped for, not a few

returned to Chombala, where meanwhile somebody else had

Déasure

o g |

occupied their place.—Really edifying was the suffering and

Her sufferings

D this

death of Elfriede, the young wife of a weaver.

were great, but she was always cheery and felt happy in the

Tl Ig

arms of Jesus.

Those who paid a visit to her felt refreshed

ayer wy

en the

and consoled.

hﬁnded I

At Mahé a conversion from the Roman Catholic Church to the

Mr. Martilli, who in his youth had

Protestant Church took place.

10}

attended the Mission-school at Tellicherry, Mr. Irion and Mr. Herre

byl

W uydy

having been his teachers, and who frequently had heard the Gospel

preached by the great Evangelist Hebich and by Dr. Gundert, not

gy

without having received a blessing, had gone to the Wynaad as a

fte] Sb

planter.

Though successful as to his earthly affairs, his inward man

lay

I

did not receive much in the way of spiritual nourishment there.

"y bl

He was very thankful for the occasional visits of our itinerating

agents, especially our pious Catechist Gabriel Pirachan administered

I iy

sometimes to his spiritual needs.

He often thought at that time of

0uf )

joining our church, but his wife and his brother, a priest in France,:’

Bﬂt wher

who after the Franco-German war was stationed at Mahé and

th

Cannanore, stood in his way. A chronic disease compelled him to

ooy

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69

s

give up his work in the Wynaad and to come down to Mahé.

In

the furnace of these sufferings also his desire to leave the Catholic

Choml

Church ripened to a firm resolution.

On Palm-Sunday of last year

being i

amidst the opposition of his family and in the presence of the little

congregation at Mahé he joined our Mission Church. Shortly after

on 4 i §

the daughter fell sick and having been mercifully preserved in

look e )

answer to the earnest prayers of the father and some of our

M GALIE

Christians, she opened her heart to the Gospel and followed the

16 §eem B

father with her mother.

i

rice 10 1

My. Schilling, the itinerating Missionary at Chombala,

b, if

reports about the remaining out-stations.

At Badagara the

age bl

an Cathol

ex-Catechist tried his best and his worst to alienate especi-

ally the few Syrian Christians there from our Mission. These

stools cand

people very soon found out that it had not been a too rich

measure of the spirit what led that man to disconnect himself

y el i

ftoring ul

from the Basel Mission, and in a meeting he was told that

up to this they had been led by the Basel Mission to Christ,

3 el

whilst he wanted to attract them to himself, and at the end a

prayer was offered, in which a Syrian Christian asked God to

s

open the eyes of this new leader of men, as his eyes were

blinded by spiritual pride.

Also Mr. Schilling thinks that

panh 0

any argumentation with these people is useless: they will

not yield to the authority of truth, but they place themselves

i 1 3

not under but above the Word of God.

] {he (%

In Muverattu some years ago a woman had to be excommuni-

ety

cated. She asked with a broken heart for re-admittance and wept

ol

tears of joy, when her wish was fulfilled.

She is not only very

Pl

regular at Divine Service, once a week she goes to see the Catechist’s

et |

ot :

Elizabeth lives with her non-

' ipeni

\‘? b

wife for Bible-reading and prayer.

Christian relatives and soon after her re-admittance cholera broke

admmﬁw':.

out in the house.

Elizabeth nursed her people and was preserved.

{1 :

But when a child 14 years of age became insane, the superstition of

Yiig

the people broke through and all the afflictions were attributed to a

5l

ol jp!

curse resting on Elizabeth, whom they now wish to get rid of, refusing

o

70

Horerer

food and shelter to her.

However with great tenacity she clings to

her relatives and is still there.— The school at Badagara is in a

fies,

flourishing coadition, the primus of Malabar in the Primary Exami-

it

nation came from that school.

pris, o

amel o

The work of Evangelisation in this district is beset with

1oy hap

many difficulties.

The attitude of some is that of bitter

ik with

hatred ; especially in Perambara the ill-temper of Paul Karu-

leen grar

Babuine

nakara’s relations is unchanged.

More painful than this

are some of the arguments of our opponents. Mr. Elia Nambi

Talmitte

writes of a Nayar, who said: «Christianity is good, but I

g

g g

cannot see any one of your Christians living up to the stand-

This

The

ard of Christianity or trying to act upon its principles.

at least we Hindus do with reference to our religion.’’ —The

Sicknegg

Bible-women relate that once when several Hindu women

s ke

made the usual excuses, such as having no time to hear the

Schod, |

Word or their husbands not permitting them to do so, a

examne]

young man came in and told the women that all that the

i s

Bible-women said was true.

He had attended the Mission

The ¢

school for some years and firmly believed that in the Gospel

the help

we possess the truth for our salvation.

After this testimony

the women listened most attentively.— M. Uber reports that

some women begged the Bible-women to come to their houses,

of g b

even a Mopla-woman

complained

that the Bible-women

the fsty

always pass her house and only visit Hindu women.

She

lage,

hl) bys 3

li

was a pious woman, the skin on her forehead was quite

ly the ¢

rubbed off by continual prayer.

That Christ is greater than

Mohammed she found difficult to understand, but she was

o g

0‘\0

At

th

very anxious to hear something of Jesus.

0 fy

Ly

A woman at Muverattu with her grown-up daughter, decided for

thyg

Christ.

i, {

The daughter was blind formerly, and hearing from Christian

Uty

relatives how Jesus restored the blind to sight, she made a vow to

A

Orphm a

embrace Christianity, if she should receive her sight again.

i

Christian physician made some operation and she got back her sight.

1 German

;—\""“

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71

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However she did not fulfil her vow, being prevented by her rela-

AL B0

tives.

When she was attacked again by some eye-disease, she looked

pary Bum

upon it as a punishment of God; her father, a physician and Hindu

priest, stood in her way again.

After his death, mother and daughter

carried out their resolution.

They brought a little property and felt

esgt wil

very happy in their new behef

The mother after a short time fell

b of lit

sick with dropsy, longed for baptism and shortly after this wish had

Paal

been granted she died. —A great disappointment was the case of a

Brahmin-girl, who had been seduced by Moplas and as she was not

| than f

At the

Tl o

re-admitted to her caste, took refuge with the Christians

beginning she behaved very well, but quite of a sudden she disappeared

pood, it |

i

leaving no trace whatever

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The Girls’ Orphanage at Chombala was visited with much

iples

I

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sickness during the last year

A dear girl, 12 years of age

100, —~

There are 108 boarders in the

inda wo

was taken home by the Lord

school

In November Miss Bernard, the Inspectress of Schools,

beat

examined the school and was especially pleased with the results

0(]() 0

in sewing and in Kindergarten-exercises

&H tth It

e M

The children had some very happy days during the year

By

6

b (0

the help of some Native friends the Manager, Mr. Uber, was enabled

to make a trip with the children to a hill near Mahé and to give

)

OpJ

them a treat afterwards at Mahé

The rolling down from this hill

rpues

of a corpulent man in authority was not within the programme of

e 1o

the festivity, but as this involuntary performance was free of all

g0l

Bibl

danger, it formed the point of culmmation on that day. During the

omel

i

holidays 30 girls were taken to Tellicherry and occupied for some

i

days the empty Theological Seminary, from which many excursions

were made over hills and dales and to the seashore

On the 19th

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fi

October the Governor of Madras and Lady Ampthill passed Chombala

hif e

on their way to Tellicherry. Near Mahé, where the horses were

changed, the children with their teachers and Mr. Uber awaited Their

! de‘lded |

Excellencies

The Governor was pleased with the appearance of the

ol C]m@ﬂ

The children

orphans and Lady Ampthill liked to hear their songs

g

were evidently astonished to hear the Governor of Madras converse

t o

W

in German with Mr. Uber

ok

p—

st

72

i

On Christmas-eve a tragi-comieal scene took place.

In the

M.

midst of all the joy and enthusiasm one child looked very sad and

Jears R

disappointed. 'When asked about her grief she said sobbing: «I have

070 acc0

got only a black one.” Amongst those many dolls there was a

faken o1

black one and she had got it!

®

ih4 ey

Aven

19

Calicut.

Jiung

aud, 35

The year under review has been an eventful one.

The

ten g

face of the whole station has changed. The building of the

et

Medical Mission was almost finished and all that belongs to

Kty

this department of our Mission is now located in one spacious

compound.

The congregation (1815 souls) is under the

The ]

spiritual care of Mr. Jaus and Mr. St. Chandran.

We take

i 601"5’ if i

hﬂs Ifﬂ‘d il

the following remarks from Mr. St. Chandran’s report:

T0ung gy,

“My first and chief visitors are those who apply for alms, the

i g

distribution of which is considered by many here to be the chief, if

Uneede]

not the sole, function of a Missionary or Pastor.

And they demand

A Sutglg

such help as a right.

There are several individuals who are very

W6 i g

indifferent towards church and religion and who seldom show their

Mgiﬂgs i

face in the church. There is no farmer in this congregation, nearly

Hoy g

600 men and women are employed in the establishments. Besides

ag b

people who live and die in their filth and such as live only for their

Dopulyy bl

belly, there are also such as lead a satisfactory Christian life, and even

meﬂlbers N

a good number of excellent Christians, who lead a very exemplary

mﬂﬂy Of 0

life. —Some of our people are under the influence of the anabaptists.

a°CUHlpanie(

They generally absent themselves from our church-services and do not

fh

§ Ay

partake of the Holy Communion with us.

An ex-Catechist and a

1 by g

number of vagrant preachers make circuits through the congregations

in Malabar and they try to make adherents for themselves under the

M(}A

e gy

pretext of reviving the congregations. It is very deplorable to see

i h&\' ]lg

among our people much disloyalty to the mother-church. For any

@alt

oy

I

trifling cause they would leave their own Church and join another, just

barg

like changing a coat.”

tlg

sy

—

it S

73

o Dtk

Mr. Jaus tells us that the blacksmith mentioned in last

very sl

year’s Report (¢f: page 89) also during the last year of his

ing: 41 b

own accord engaged in preaching the Gospel.

The family has

there w1

taken now lodgings in the Poorhouse, and in consequence of

it a new life commenced there.

A very imporfant work at Calicut is the work amongst the

young men.

The temptations of so large a town are many,

and, as we pointed out last year, some unruly fellows amongst

1 one, T

them give a good deal of trouble to the Pastors of this big

Iding of t

congregation.

My. Kiihner, the President of the Young Men’s

elongs b

Association, has furnished us with the following report:

e Spitlt

“The past year 1901 will always be an important year in the

- under

history of our Association; we may say that in this year the Association

I, e ]

has laid aside its children’s gown and exchanged it for the dress of a

eport:

young man. Up to this we revealed our humble existence in the shape

o alns i

of two meetings held in the building of the High School. Now we have

succeeded after all, by the kind assistance of some friends, in renting

o e chief»if

a suitable and well-situated house for our Association.

In this house

] they el

fho are L}

we are able not only to hold our meetings, but we can also give

lodgings to our Secretary and six young men. We have a reading-

o sor

room and on a humble scale also something in the way of a library

il i

has been started. These changes evidently have made our Association

gt BeSiif"

popular amongst the young men in Calicut. The number of our

| Oﬂly fo[ {hﬂ‘-’

il

members rose at once from 50 to 163, amongst whom are a good

many of our Hindu friends (25).— Of course such a rapid growth is

rery eiemp LH'T

accompanied with the danger of superficiality in so far as the ideal of

e anabap;iszf

o 0l

[

this Association to bring young men into the fellowship with Christ,

may be lost sight of, and so we must take care to keep this ideal of the

i

ot &

Yo M..€. A, always prominent. We earnestly hope that in doing so

gt

our Association will safely pass through the critical period of its youth

!

and having attained manhood will be a blessing to the population of

]lomhl

9[0?:

Calicut in general and to our Calicut-congregation in particular. —

Gh F()t Y

N

We are sorry to remark in conclusion that in some of the members of

i

61

this Association an unfriendly feeling against the Basel Mission

10

e

s

74

e

manifests itself. As far as I can see, such feeling has beén caused and

(g |

is fostered by the insincere machinations of a certain party, very well

Frieda,

known by its unfair judging and condemning our Church and by its

there she

preaching sinless perfection. Ido sincerely hope that such members in

n order

course of time will come to see what this very Basel Mission has done

gri:sho

for the furtherance of our Association.—In conclusion we mention

She talks

that besides a number of guests the Bishop of Madras also paid a visit

v the

to our Association-room and addressed the young men there.”

Tvo.

In Annasheri (¢f. last year’s Report, page 86) again a

i 56

family has been converted to Christ.

Mr. Jaus hopes that

b fh

they will be able to remain where they are, although Moham-

T

medans and Hindus do not even allow them to draw water

Gt o

from their wells.

What kind of people these new converts

s fg

are, may be seen from a word of the convert’s wife: “«I do not

ety

like to follow suit like a blind man, I myself want to arrive

fhe wopg

at a true insight” and with these words she asked for regular

This i

instruction.

g gy

An interesting case is that of the Brahmin-widow Lakshmabai,

who 25 days after the death of her husband arrived at the Mission-

st

house in the white dress of a widow.

Mr. Jaus tells us that she is

heal’t ma,y

only 20 years of age. Through Frieda, the wife of a clerk, at Ferrock

]}Ul'ti()ns 0

she had to some extent been acquainted with Christianity. When her

U Superst

tould

husband saw that the Christian religion had begun to attract her heart,

he tried his best to frighten her.

He told her that such as embrace

Uhook of

Christianity will be tortured in an awful manner: their hands and feet

0y, JiF

will be lamed, then having been blindfolded they will be forced to eat

by

cow-flesh. But otherwise he seems not to have molested her.

Once

Wiy fy

when Mr. and Mrs. Jaus were passing by, he teased her saying: «Here

they are, you can go with them Just now!” Soon after the man died.

g

Lakshmabai had to kindle the funeral pile and to perform other

B Uiy {

ceremonies. Her mother-in-law and a sister-in-law began to maltreat

her, aud she made up her mind not to bear this any longer. For

Ty

some time she was wavering whether to make a pilgrimage or to

become a Christian.

As she could not come to a coneclusion, strange

h] p&

to say, she resolved to make Ganapati give a decision in this case.

Wy )

R,

o

R e

75

o0 cangel

Casting lots she drew a white rose, and consequently went to her friend

rty, vy

Frieda, who on her way to Coilandy took her at once to this place. From

ch aud by

there she came to Calicut, where she was ready to do any kind of work

oh membesi

in order to make herself useful.

For the present she has to turn the

ssion has dis

grind-stone and is busy in learning to read and write in Malayalam.

I e ment%:::

She talks Malayalam, Hindustani, Telugu and Tamil, but does not

lso aida i

know the letters of these languages.

here

Two of the Bible-women in Calicut work in the town and

86) agan

one is engaged in the Mission-Hospital.

s hopes b

In their reports we read about a Tamil-widow (she lost her

ough Mot

husband, when she was 12 years of age), who liked to hear the

o draw i

Gospel and took lessons in Malayalam-reading. But the whole work

new (o

was frustrated on the arrival of a Tamil youth, her relative, who

pretending to be possessed by the spirit of the snake-god, persuaded

for ] Qo

a0t t0 Al

04

the woman to feed a snake and to devote herself to this worship.

o] for 1

This superstition took hold of her to such an extent that from that

time an estrangement between her and the Bible-women took place.

The woman has gone back now to the Tamil-country, and it is the

w 14

L\hmm

earnest prayer of the Bible-women that the good seed sown in her

af the M

heart may spring up and bear fruit at some time.—Not many Bible-

I Jf 88

fha

portions could be sold: some want the books gratis, others are still

o, ot M

i

so superstitious that they believe some calamity will befall them,

iy, T b

should they keep such a book in their house.

One woman refturned

fhrack

hrh

fh

a book of the Psalms, as she detected some verses of lamentation

311011 s eﬂlbﬁ

in it.

Maria works from 11 a.wm. till 5. p. m. in the female ward of

il

A h{tllda

B

the Hospital, praying with the sick, talking and reading to the

po o

(]

women in the waiting-room.

She thinks that the readiness to hear

i

stdhﬂ‘ 0

the Word of God is on the increase.

Many people promise to

become Christians after their recovery, a promise which as a rule

is never fulfilled.

Of course, also this kind of Mission-work is a

o

oy

o

sowing in hope like all the other endeavours to reach the hearts of

oAl

pol?

men and to win them for Christ.

’ lougef

In passing over to the Educational work at Calicut we

ao‘e [

Jgrnt

4

take only the most important institutions.

The High School,

l

100 i

under the management of Mr. J. Knobloch, shows the consider-

g i fis®

10%

e

76

A AT

able number of 560 pupils (against 525 last year): 65

Mission.

Christians, 43 Mohammedans, 1 Parsi and 451 Hindus.

Two

Wfrom |

students in the higher classes, who had passed through the

25,7

whole school, died in one month.

Mr. Knobloch found it

dpsenter

possible to visit them on their death-bed.

In connexion with

patir

the High School there is an English Association, attended by

Dot

students of the three highest classes: it has reached its 7th

fimenar

year of age now.

There is also a class for stenography

e (

according to Pitman’s system and the enthusiasm of some

nidenog

students of this art seems to be unbounded.

To the horror

il fe

of all those who are not acquainted with stenography, one of

(i gy

the students expressed the hope that ordinary writing in course

i |

of time would be supplanted by stenography.

el 4

(hriiy

In the Girls’ School at Chalapura a trial has been made with

singing and the girls at Chalapura surpass the students of the

i

el

High School in ability to learn European airs and choruses.

Hempt

The Christian Girls’ School (Lower Secondary) at Calicut,

under the management of Miss Ehrensperger, will, as we hope,

Four :

be raised to the standard of a High School.

The great pity

thha,g

with regard to this school is that there is a scarcity of school-

by

mistresses of a higher grade.

They are such «rare birds”

I?dﬁentS, |

that we either cannot get them at all, or if we get some, 80

B,V his q

many situations are open to them that at any time they may

Mgy,

threaten to leave us unless we increase their pay! Last year

W ggng

the school was in possession of the only two Protestant female-

Pfﬁ)'er al

Matriculates of Malabar.— There are 152 girls on the roll,

g

21 of whom are non-Christians. The Christian girls, we are

b

sorry to say, are often not properly nourished and that

LI

weakens their intellectual faculties to some extent. Seven

girls were sent for the Lower Secondary Examination and

Doy lep(

6 passed.

For the greater part of the year Dr. Wittenberg, who

by g

belongs to our Mission in China, was in charge of our Medical

i%sion b

>4

e

77

i Jeat)

Mission.

From his report we take the following remarks

Tindus, Ty

« From 1st January to 30th November there were 9,954 patients

| through

and 25,710 consultations. Malaria, eye-diseases, elephantiasis,

och found§

dysentery and diseases of the lungs are especially prevalent.

nnexion i

In-patients we had 265 with 5,869 days of treatment.

12

, attendel

patients died, and 490 operations took place, 18 under chloro-

ached ifs T

form-narkosis and 5 successful cataract-operations.

- stenogng

One Christian youth distinguished himself by great patience and

st of s

confidence in God. Chittaren, a boy 10 years of age, helped to cheer

To he o

up all the patients, for his joyfulness in spite of a crushed leg was

aphy,

quite inexhaustible. When his leg had to be dressed he would ask a

ting n o

plantain to bear the pain better, and when the pains were over, he

asked a second one for having behaved so well! There was also a

Christian girl, 13 years of age, over whom the house had broken down

oon madel

whilst she looked after her little sister; she had broken her leg very

tudans

badly, but was always joyful and patient. Her joy at the first successful

o chorust

attempt at walking was indescribable.

7)o (ol

Four miles from Calicut the Municipality offered a place

] s web

with a garden for a mnew Leper-Asylum, the sanction by

he grt 1

Government is outstanding.

In our Asylum there were 42

qiyl s

yO

:

patients, of whom 12 died, amongst them also our faithful Mose.

rare

b

) Uet S0,

By his quiet and peaceful influence he has done much for the

maintaining of order and peace in the Asylum, which is by

e ey

no means an easy thing amongst lepers.

He also conducted

i [ 1

prayer and Bible-meetings amongst his fellow-sufferers. Upon

st 1

|

his approaching death he looked up to his Saviour with a

)

g (0 e

firm belief and remained patient to the last, submitting him-

giflsy i ?ﬁ

i

self to the will of God. Dr. Wittenberg closes his request by

jed 8

saying: «Mose is a precious fruit of the work amongst these

M

pt, ¥

poor lepers.

May the Lord grant unto us many a fruit of

ghion &

this kind!”

i

In conclusion we offer a few remarks on the Industrial

f

il

Mission at Calicut (the Mercantile Branch, Weaving Establish-

f our i

78

In the month

of nursery

ment, Tailoring and Tile-Works at Pudiarakal).

of May last year Mr. Manasse Jacobi, the faithful head-clerk

ofhens £o

fler child

for all the different Branches of the Industrial Mission, cele-

brated the semi-jubilee of the service in the Mission with a

I, I‘(ﬁhn

thankful heart for all the benefits, which he has received from

troming

God

His co-workers joined with great enthusiasm.

The

Mercantile Mission lost Paul Hulikkal, the shipping clerk after

27 years’ service, a very faithful assistant, who not only in his

office, but also in his own house has set the example of an

earnest Christian.

Considering the competition on all sides

hothing

and the unfavourable times Mr. Hofmann, the head of this

gt

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branch, has every reason to be thankful to God for the

blessing which He has laid also upon this branch of our work.

i

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if

f

The Weaving Establishment at Calicut, with a branch at Codacal,

B 0 gy

tat i

gives employment to 274 Christians (144 men and 89 women

at Calicut, and 25 men and 16 women at Codacal). Mr. Buesch,

il

3

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who takes a great interest in the temporal and spiritual

Hlirtp |

welfare of his workmen, feels very thankful that in spite of

ey, |

many anxieties and manifold difficulties the Establishment has

gy

passed through a year of prosperity.

Mr. Renz, in charge of

uf b

ity by

e

the Tailoring, got more orders than he was able to carry out.

t

Even people at Durban in South-Africa wanted to have

ther

{1 lamy

clothes supplied by Mr. Renz.

The Tailoring gives employ-

As the

ment to 31 men, amongst whom are 4 apprentices.

i gy

crowning result of the Tailoring, of course, it must be con-

i

Wileye

sidered that every year one or two learn cutting-out and

e

U

settle down somewhere as competent tailors.

Last year one

Wl

g

reached this aim and returned to his native place Mangalore.

t\"ﬂt

i

Also the Tile-Works at Pudiarakal lost an old and faithful

Dﬂq % 9

Maistry by cholera.

His name was Philipp. This Establish-

"dT( \h

ment gives employment to 110 Christian men, 76 Christian

The

Mg -

women, 8 candidates for baptism and 62 non-Christians.

CJTN

Christians in connection with this Establishment have a kind

1

i\loham

\

9

e

the morh

of nursery, looked after by three old women, which enables

headelat

mothers to take work in the Establishment without neglecting

85101, 0

their children.

The day-school out there, looked after by

o0 Wb g

Mrs. Kithner, we hope, will be provided with a building

becoming such a splendid Establishment.

civel v

asm, T [

clerk aft

only in B

20

Codacal.

e of

~ Nothing éf special interest has been reported about the

n ol s

ead of s

congregation at Codacal itself (the whole station 1377 souls),

but about Chalasheri Mr. Bosshardt reports that also here the

od for fe

f our wor

;;

disciples of a well-known so-called faith-missionary tried their

best to sow the seed of distrust.

at Cotl

We are glad to say, however,

that for the present they have not succeeded.

On the other

| 89 wonel

hand the Pastor and the Catechist of this station complain of

My, Bsh

—e

a certain lukewarmness prevailing in the little congregation.

q spiritual

However, there were also some manifestations of spiritual life.

ip et

ment 1

A woman, 65 years of age, who had exhibited much spiritual

activity but was still in the bondage of opium-eating, has

charge i

received the necessary power to get rid of this evil habit,

Ly ik

after having become blind. When she began to abstain totally

1 b o

from opium, the shock on the system was so terrible that she

s el

Is i

lay unconscious for three days; yet when she recovered

5

conscience her first order was: «Take away all opium from

st i (O

the house, it is from the devil!” — The consecration of the new

g0t u

school-building was a festival for the whole congregation. —

g

Satyarthi at Tritala (the new convert, c¢f. last year’s Report

)l

angﬂlole

pages 95-96) has given satisfaction during the last year, but

Il

1 i

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his hardships are great indeed.

st i

110

; (i

The Tile-Works at Codacal give employment to

fi

Christian men, 77 Christian women, 5 candidates for baptism,

Al

4 Mobammedans, and 3 Hindus.

i d

e

N

Sl s iy

80

Aé to the Evangelisation of the Codacal district in the year

Yatthew 1

Hhuted p

under review, especially the interior parts of it have been laid

jrme] i

hold of. Some people were so utterly unacquainted with our

ebrothe

message that they asked quite anxiously: «What have you

o e e

come for?” When the matter was understood, of course, the

tryed

acceptance was very different. With Brahmins their favorite

il had o

weapon is mockery. The Cherumar (low-caste), on the other

te 2th o

hand, say that they will be driven from house and field,

Ty b

should they venture to serve God according to this new way.

] ke ]

Others again say that it must be horrible and unbearable to

lose one’s caste.

e

In one part of the district cholera was

Jit

prevailing and many sacrifices were brought to Bhagavati,

Ao ap

as she was supposed to be thirsting for man’s blood on

ey

account of neglect.

People bring also many offerings to the

Anogg

temple, and it is satisfactory to know that something of these

{ire goeat

gifts remains for the poor.

In the neighbourhood of Chala-

e fa,mﬂy

sheri the work looked most hopeful, but some think that

@ hang

there is only a difference of names (for the different godheads)

bl

between us and them.—Very important, we think, is what

1§ o

Myr. Bosshardt reports about a movement amongst the Moham-

medans:

by

1et fhg

“There is a curious kind of revival perceptible amongst the Moplas

At furgg

in Tanur and Chalasheri. Catechist Luke, in speaking about it, thinks

that one is reminded of the Malayalam proverb: :To the pickled fish

ity

has grown a beard.” At Tanur, a place with about 14,000 inhabitants,

1

E ooy

on Friday all the Mopla-shops are closed; one who opens his shop or

Uy

sells something will be muleted from 20 to 100 Rs. It 18 10t considered

proper to put horses or bullocks to a vehicle nor to work on the field.

i (i

Collections are made for converts to Mohammedanism and they

:

Thﬁl‘e ]

take great pains in the way of proselyting Tiyars. In Chalasheri

HOH}"& ¥ al

some Moplas began to read the Scriptures in order to overcome

It

S0

Christianity by bazaar-preaching. One may imagine the awful inter-

WS b

0l

prefation given by Moplas to the Holy Scriptures.

According fto

tly iy

Matthew 11, 19 Christ is a man gluttonous and a winebibber;

Il |

oo

.

81

Matthew 12, 40 having not been fulﬁlle‘d, Christ is no ‘prophetlﬁg as he

) ey

been lat

rebuked people and was angry sometimes, he is a sinner; the prophet

| wth o

promised in Deuteronomy 18, 15 is not Christ, who did not come from

«the brothers of Israel”, but Mohammed, who came from the Ishmaelites,

hare

who are really the brothers of Israel.—A similar movement is to be

urse,

observed amongst the Moplas near Ponani.—Mr. Bosshardt and his

I favor

staff had a fine opportu}ﬂty to preach the Gospel at Guruvayar from

the othe

the 20th to 28th November.— The two Bible-women at Codacal report

and feld

very hopefully about their work. They think that famine and cholera

167

acted like pioneers for their work and paved the way for a more ready

yeatall

acceptance of the Gospel.

There was but little opposition in the last

holers Wi

year, and many people willingly heard the glad tidings.

The only

From their houses the Bible-women

Dhagyi

exception are the Mohammedans.

frequently were driven away with derision.

- blood

Amongst the candidates for baptism, 2 Tiyar-families

ngs b i

ng of ¢

gave great satisfaction by their Christian life and walk. The

The father,

] of Chul

one family consists of a widow with 4 children.

one Chandukutti, intended to join us 5 years ago, but, ashe was

think i

dependent on Mohammedans, they prevented him from carry-

t godheadx}

When

k is

ing out his desire and also from selling his property.

he died in May, the Mohammedans wanted by all means to win

e Yohuo

over the widow and when she asked us to help her, they became

quite furious, so that the widow almost despaired of her life.

i the Noge

Mr. Bosshardt sent two Catechists to assist the frightened

out i

woman until the property was sold. One of the assistants did

) pl?med id

all he could do wuntil the rescue

arrived and the woman

) nhab¥

s Jis s

accompanied by two Missionaries and a number of Christians

of Codacal could be safely escorted to the Mission station.

|

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There remains the Orphanage for Boys at Paraperi, half an

ol W B

hour’s walk from Codacal.

A master in this institution, in-

) (s

fected somewhat with the new ideas of an imagined perfection,

L

‘3,}!)}3

was foolish enough to spread his undigested and unbiblical

| &m‘u] i

ideas amongst the boys of the Orphanage.

He displayed at

o’ |

church his disagreement with the institutions of our Mission,

wﬁ]@b

!

11

.

82

L

ine fme:

told the boys that th‘ey as children of God need not pray the

Lord’s Prayer and ridiculed even such as were of another

Hinde i

opinion.

This teaching proved effectual in poor Isaiah, whose

st Vo

0 fhe conf

story we reported last year (page 97).

He went so far as to

{06 back a

tell his comrades that one who prays the Lord’s Prayer,

will be lost, for one who asks for forgiveness of sin, being a

llorgh

o with 4

child of God, must needs offend the Lord.-—On the 16th

Toull ety

September the foundation-stone of «“Salem?”, the new Orphan-

tltved b

age, was laid, and towards the end of the year the building

Oh)

e i

was in a fair way towards completion and promised to

el gy,

become both beautiful and comfortable.

Ths o

thou g

21

Vanigcmkulam.

Py

mifh et

Mr. Walter, who is in charge of this station and its small

gy

congregation (170 souls), has tried with agriculture to provide

for his Christians.

The Hospital there has been instrumental

T gy

id |

of Christ.

also during the year to bring a few souls to the knowledge

il i

Al

gy

One of them, Subhagan, has lived a life full of changes. He was

b&ptned

¥

born in Cannanore, became an orphan when 12 years of age. Later

i

e g

on he went to the police, and being very ambitious he did not shrink

I

U, £}

back from all kind of injustice or oppression in order to make himself

conspicuous. He rose to the position of a Head-Constable. After a service

it

elaho

Ui

of 16 years he took a bribe in order to implicate an innocent man in

g g

ey

Wy

a case of theff. The poor man committed suicide and suspicions were

0

raised against Subhagan. In the law-suit following this he lost his ill-

Iy,

gotten money and his position in the police. He went to the Wynaad,

was a maistry on some estate for some time, contracted malaria there,

b Mﬁﬂ&lke

came down to Ottapalam and from there to the Hospital at Vaniyan-

sllpetgm‘m

kulam. Here he was a diligent reader of the Holy Scriptures and

Oyl h&d b ?

finally testified to his belief in Christ. His day of baptism was a day

of repentance and of joy.— Another convert was the sister of the

fell Siﬁk, t

bugy,

.

compounder in the Hospital. Welii (now Tabitha) was greatly excited

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pray

some time ago, when her brother embraced Christianity, and tried to

of anof

hinder him in doing so as much as she could. At the beginning of her

aiah, vho

stay at Vaniyankulam she did not reveal anything like a broken mind,

0 far s

on the contrary, for the slightest cause she used to run away and to

{'s Prage,

come back after some time

On the last occasion she wanted to give

in, beng s £

a thorough lesson to her brother and so she departed in full dress,

laden with all her ornaments and under the assurance that she never

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would return. However not far from Vaniyankulam robbers came and

o Orpha

relieved her of all her burdens, whereupon she returned to her brother

he buldg

rather dejected in mind and outward appearance. After that, we are

promlsed

glad to hear, she gave no further cause of complaint

The Hospital at Vaniyankulam under the superintendence

of our Doctor at Calicut reports of 8,990 out-patients, 113 in-

patients and 2,870 days of treatment. People have been treated

1d g hﬂlﬁll

with great care, the compounder Augustin especially has made

himself in every way very useful

The spiritual side of the

0 provd

work has been looked after by two Catechists

One Raman

strument

opened his heart to the consolations of the Gospel, was

o Tnorll

instructed and baptised and soon after departed in peace.

Also a young woman, whose elder sister formerly had been

baptised, was lying seriously ill in the Hospital, she lost her

fige b

little child there, but found rest and peace in Christ

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Sometimes

course, there are also quite different experiences

piake h

after a hopeful beginning people leave us and we never hear

g™

about them and some even go away without giving thanks or

ot

I

saying good-bye

Mr. Walter, as far as his other manifold duties allow it, is very

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anxious to preach the Gospel where it never has been heard before

Tl

In Manarkadu Mr. Walter and his Catechists profited greatly by the

it

On the roof of some house an

K.

o

superstition of the people at that place

owl had been seen and as soon afterwards some members of the family

cnpmrfb

fell sick, the house was doomed to desolation Somebody had bought

p W

1t and wanted to break it down. Our people were permitted to live in

SISW Gf

1t and every morning the owner of the house came to ask, how they

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£1s

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{ie Bible-

were.

A festival was held in the neighbourhood and every day the

procession with the idol passed by. Noble women on elephants’ backs

g 1

accompanied the procession and a fine opportunity was offered to our

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agents to preach to these native ladies, who otherwise would have been

s 00 the

beyond our reach. The ladies made the elephants walk very slowly

i and

and stopped the music in order to hear them preach.— Mr. Walter

alshe sa1

met also with inhabitants of the forest, who worship a god called

by God

Maleshvara. In talking about him they point to a prominent rock

visible on the mountains. They invited Mr. Walter to pay a visit to

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them up there and promised to become Christians all in a body (!). In

the north-east of Angadipuram the people know scarcely anything of

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the Gospel and were very dejected in consequence of cholera having

Yokl

made great havoc amongst them. They complained that all their

sacrifices had been in vain. Mr. Walter writes : “It was a pitiful sight

Wl 5

s e

when a Nayar, 91 years of age, who had lost almost all his relatives,

E‘:'U]Zﬂl}l by

sat before us and asked us: ¢By reason of what have I deserved all

this, having committed not a single sin all my lifelong?’

We have

iﬁere PFOFet

been successful in leading the poor man to a consciousness of sin.—

In the house of a Nayar we were received very kindly. The Nayar

admitted that all their gods could not forgive sins. The Lord’s Prayer

and its explanation made a great impression on him, and he wrote it

down with his iron peneil for daily use.”

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The experiences of the Bible-women at Vaniyankulam are

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very encouraging indeed. Often they came to a woman, who

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led a very bad life and for a long time she did not like to see

them at all.

They did not abandon her, and once a day they

Iy 1o

found her deeply depressed in mind. She said: I am so bad

?'m%r

() hum

and I have sunk so hopelessly deep that God will never

by W

forgive my sins.” She felt greatly consoled when the parable

iy

of the lost son was told and explained to her.

.t(' by

In the house

of a Nayar they had never been allowed to speak to the

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By

women, but once they found the mother of the house in great

distress.

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A child had died and there was nothing to comfort

her. This time the ‘Word Qf God fell on thirsty ground, and

nﬁied and

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the Bible-yvomen were asked to come again. The next time

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a young man no sooner had begun to mock at us than the

offered

woman rose and sent him away.— The wife of a blacksmith

uld have b

was on the border of desperation, having lost all her earthly

k very s

At the

goods, and at the beginning she refused to hear us.

— M, Wl

end she said: “Above all I wish to be saved; your God shall

b gud o

be my God.”

The work in the houses of the Chettis is very

rominent 1

difficult, but even there God has opened the doors to some

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hearts.

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The station has two flourishing Lower Secondary Schools at

cholers by

Vaniyankulam and Ottapalam.

At Ottapalam quite of a

that ol fr

sudden a native High School has been started, which caused

4 pitifﬂ] i

not a little anxiety and worry to our brethren at Vaniyan-

1] his s

kulam; however, a good many of the pupils of our school

1 el

there proved to be loyal and faithful to our Mission.

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Pcclghat.,

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It is our sorrowful duty first of all to report on the death

of two young and hopeful fellow-workers at this station.

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Our Assistant Catechist Devaprjyaﬁ died on the 27th

January 1901, being scarcely 30 years of age.

He was generally

1 yomad ™

loved and esteemed not so much on account of great learnedness or

ot e P

ripe experience, but on account of his godliness, earnest zeal and

ety

sincere humbleness.

In dealing with him one felt absolutely sure

.'LI l ] y

that he was standing before a child of God.

Some years ago he

i vl Her

and another young man of his family believed in Christ and came

e e j

to Palghat.

Both of them began with weaving at Calicut and

then they joined the Seminary at Nettur to undergo a course of

In the b

One of them had

mstruction for becoming Assistant Catechists.

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not the patience to learn something first and then to preach, so he

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ran away and began to preach.

Devapriyan, faithful and diligent,

14

to cOﬂf‘{

stayed and finished his course to the great satisfaction of his teachers.

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He was stationed at Palghat.

Being originally an Iravan (Tiyar

e on

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of the Palghat district) his position before Brahmins and Nayarg

of Asens

was naturally not an easy one, but the loving testimony coming

from a heart, true as gold, went to the hearts of people. He

At th

was faithful to the end.

Mr. Kiihnle, the itinerating Missionary of

lnoima

Palghat, tells us that on the last preaching tour in the evenings after

L ye

tiring marches one could see Devapriyan still engaged in conversations

it Bl

with inquirers, people young and old standing round and listening.

[l Work

Frequently one could hear him describing his life in the darkness of

tge 0

Hinduism, how he went to the temple of Subramanya at Parani and

He remembered

Tt ke

how he finally found peace and happiness in Christ.

always bis parents and other relatives in his prayers, and not in vain:

Then

with the exception of his father who remained obstinate, all followed

1t ining

him in course of time (¢f. page 102 of last year’s Report). For the

imteheng

sake of his relations he asked for a transfer to Wadackencheri.

Wik i

Scarcely had he settled down there, when he made a preaching tour

T 2l

to Kollenkodu, his last one.

On the evening of the 26th January he

Tt Some

was attacked by cholera and in the morning the faithful servant was

Wﬂﬁthmg ;

with his Master.

He leaves behind a widow and two little children.

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This

earnest and childlike servant of God will not be forgotten

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amongst us.

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Catechist Samuel Mantodi died on Ascension-day.

After

thi gy

having passed his examination as a Catechist in 1899 he was stationed

B g

at Perambera and had the privilege of working together for some

by,

years with Paul Karunakara, whom he greatly venerated and whom he

i iy

attended until death removed that remarkable man.

He was trans-

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ferred then to Chombala and after the death of his father, a school-

his Wﬂe all(

master at Palghat, he got a transfer to that place.

He went there

L

with the intention of offering a home to his step-mother and her two

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children.

Samuel was of a strong and robust constitution and was

B

ready to work for his Heavenly Master.

He was on a preaching-tour

hﬁab%ﬂ fi

to Wadackencheri and was present there on the 21st April at the

g be,

baptism of a few converts.

In the afternoon he held a catechisation

a Hislyg

with the children on a hymn about baptism.

Cholera was prevailing

ly bay

there and the Catechists intended to leave the place ; they only stayed

B, gy

there for a few days in order to celebrate the Ascension-day with the

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little congregation there.

On the evening previous to this festival

aud Nopw

Samuel was attacked by cholera and was called home on the morning

of Ascension-day.

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people, B

At the same out-station we also lost an earnest and good

Missiouar |

schoolmaster, Subalitan, who had entered upon his work only

Tengs e 7~

0

a few years ago. The congregation (431 souls altogether)

CONVEtsA

at Palghat itself lives partly at Melparambu, a hill near the

ond Lo

Tile-Works at Olavakkodu.

My. Timothy Parakandi is in

o darkest

charge of this part of the congregation.

From his report

ot Do

we take the following remarks:

b rememh@?&i

dnob e

“The number of inquirers has gone down somewhat, partly because

g, al il

the famine has subsided and partly because people have begun to

comprehend that the Mission expects them to maintain themselves by

ordp B e

Tadaead

working with their own hands. Such members of our congregation as

peachng 1

went regularly to work had no difficulty in supporting their families last

year; some have been even able to build their own houses or to lay

i T

] geprnt

something aside for days of need. A spirit of opposition and rebellion

against superiors, such as showed itself in some other congregations,

e el

did not make itself felt here. But an impending strife between two

e o

parties had to be prevented with a strong hand. The aftendance at

church-services is satisfactory.’

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A very extraordinary baptism took

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figh

place at Kanani. There one Raman, who had heard the Gospel in the

tther for i

days of Mr. Hebich and who was very well acquainted with Christianity

and its history, called for Mr. Timothy and after having spoken about

i 0

his previous life and sins he asked for baptism. When asked about

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his wife and son, he said that the son should be converted first and

Lth 1, ¥

it

.

that he had separated from his wife in obedience to Matt. 5, 32!

fo ot Er

i

Mr. Timothy invited him to come to Palghat, to confess his faith

op 4l

publicly and to be baptised there (many years ago the day of baptism

31

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"

had been fixed already, but Raman ran away then), or if in his house,

iz

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it must be done in presence of some Christian brethren. Raman gave

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an evasive answer to the effect that he had written to somebody and

e

after having got a reply he would communicate with Mr. Timothy

i

again. A few weeks after Mr. Timothy, to his great astonishment, heard

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that a Missionary of some other society had come and baptised the

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man, although perfectly unacqainted with him. Raman after that

lors o

seemed to be cheerful, but he never showed any desire for fellowship

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with other believers or to partake with other children of God of

ouses |

spiritual blessings and edification. He wants to be alone and he is

it

never visited by the person who baptised him. "’

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Also Mr. Kiihnle reports of some admissions to the Church.

o e

In spite of the resistance of Devapriyan’s father, the mother of

denity

our dear Devapriyan, 50 years of age, offered herself for baptism.

(ol

Whilst undergoing instruction, her son died and her people prevailed

it 4

greatly upon her not to follow her two sons, however her desire for

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baptism did but increase. About the same time Soyambu, her younger

I i

brother, followed suit, after having been for some time a diligent reader

i

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of the Scriptures. Previously when his elder brother Satyagrahi, a

schoolmaster at Wadackencheri, was unfaithful towards Christianity,

Tt

his younger brother had exhorted him not to prove disloyal, although

ey

he himself owing to the resistance of his wife held back at that time.

b

When his nephew Devapriyan died, he came and stood aghast. He

T

fell sick afterwards and whilst feeling something like the horrors of

T {iok 1

hell, he promised his Saviour to surrender himself to His care. He

i i h(\ug

recovered and kept his promise. Sometimes he looked very sad, thinking

iy

of his wife who would not follow him. On the 21st April he was

by

baptised at Wadackencheri with Vellatshi (now Maria), the mother of

i

Devapriyan. Soyambu’s wife attended the service, but she would not

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believe people who prophesied that she too would follow. But soon after

Mgone

she came and asked for baptism to the great joy of Joseph, her

Uiy

Christian husband. How wonderful what God has done in this family

iy,

during the last 10 years! Thus on the 15th December also Thayi,

0y

who meanwhile had grown marvellously in knowledge, was added to

g gy

the Church of Christ, and her new name is Hannah. On Christmas

ot

there was again a baptism of 14 souls at Palghat. Amongst these

By

there was a Nayar, who had been excommunicated from his caste and

b Bi

would have gone to the Moplas, had his elder brother not advised him

to join the Christians.

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Our itinerating agents did not meet with much: opposition.

Myl i

Of course at Kalpathi, on the celebrated festival, the Brahmin

Pﬂghat.

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0 after i

boys consider it every year a great sport to make a heathenish

r fellml

In their

noise so as to prevent our people from preaching.

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houses the people behave well, they hear attentively and

e and e

invite the

agents to come again; but alas, they remain

!

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what they are.

Mr. Kiihnle feels very sorry that 4 persons,

who were very near to the Kingdom of God, were called to

the Churd r

e mother o

eternity before they came to a decision.

Some of them (f.e.

for- baptsn

Mulli) have been mentioned in former Reports.

One Pallani-

ple prevaﬂed

velan at Kuttanur used to show hospitality to Mr. Kiihnle

or deste

on his' preaching tours;

he cared for

him as a father

D yomge

for his son, and regularly attended the morning and evening

Tigent e

prayers.

atyagnl

That the work of the Bible-women is not always very

Christu]

pleasant, may be seen from the following extract:

p)‘aL Blthﬁ‘]gh

af fhat 0

“In Kijamuri we met in the house of a rich Tharagan many

women who were however not inclined to listen to our good message.

1 ags B

b homs i

We took no heed of this and entered the veranda.

When the master

of the house caught sight of us, he came running and overwhelmed us

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with threatenings and said: ‘If you wish to escape a whipping, you had

o thind

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better go quickly, or I shall hand in a complaint of house-trespassing

against you, and you wiil be punished.

We stood in their yard and

i motlt iy

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read Mark.12,1-—12. But the old man bawled: ¢Enough, enough, get

you gone or you will see what I shall do!””—Mrs. Kiihnle writes of a

s

Chetti woman, who had been ill for a long time and engaged one of our

f Josephv o

Christian women to nurse her for weeks.

. s ol

Gradually she acquired a

good knowledge of God’s Word.

«Last Christmas she paid me a visit

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to see our Christmas-tree with the crib underneath, when I had a good

opportunity of urging her also to come to Jesus.

In remembrance of

I Chﬁstlﬂﬂs ‘

‘When

f e !

her visit I presented her with a Malayalam New Testament.

polg?

the Bible-women visited her, they sometimes found her husband

I caste [l

reading out of it to her, both sitting in an upper room.”

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Myr. Renschler is greatly pleased with the attention of his

pupils at the Bible-lessons in the Lower Secondary School at

| opposition.

Palghat. They are all alive during these lessons.

Some of

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them feel drawn towards Christ and have to suffer a good

iect

deal for their inclination towards Christianity.

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ftare wo

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V. NILGIRIS.

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Kaitg.

pil

Part o

My. Liitze gives us the description of the extensive work

Bl

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carried on at his station under the following heads: «Casting

btk

ol

out of the net”, «The draught”, «In the net” and <At the

shore?.

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“Pﬂi\gi]}g

As to the casting out of the net or the work of Evangeli-

Kt (

sation on the Hills these compare very fairly with other

ity

districts.

One very satisfactory feature is the fact that the

LAY

members of our congregations there more fully than in any

bty

other district are conscious of their position as a Mission

Ol

Church. The members of the Young Men’s Association at Kaity

b Wiy

along with some members of the congregation assist the preach-

1 by

ing of the Gospel with singing and playing their violins

iy,

He gy

and cymbals, which seems to be appreciated by the Badagas.

At a funeral a Badaga spoke very disparagingly of the Kota-

music, praising at the same time the music of the Christians.

Uiy

alld l)ehaﬁm

The most inaccessible district seems to be Todanaad. By

some conversions the animosity of the people did but increase;

Hin

I 5)0ng]

however in one village the people listened quietly to our

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preaching. Mr. Mose Kari relates that at Kendare a Badaga

5,

rushed against him like a lion, shouting out that in this

Uy

village nobody would be allowed to preach.

Notwithstand-

ing this prohibition the Catechist went in and the same man

bl

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came afterwards and offered a meal to the Evangelist. In

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the big village Kateri on the occasion of a funeral our

\{en

00

agents spoke of the day of judgment.

Two well-educated men

afterwards asked questions about Christ, the first and second

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resurrection, on the millennium, Christ’s government with the

saints, and they asked also what their fate would be in the

future world. Five or six years ago there was much more

God has

opposition and contradiction amongst these people.

spoken in manifold ways to them and has humbled their

pride.

Part of this casting out of the net is also the work of our

sive work

Bible-women.

Also Mrys. Liitze testifies to the change which

(astng

has taken place in the attitude of people towards the Mission-

d oAt the

aries.

“ Passing the house of the brother of Daniel (see below) and of the

[ Bragel

Assistant Catechist Isaiah I could not help but remember the intense

pith ot

hatred of this man on the occasion of the conversion of his father and

f that fi

brother. In those days when Mr. Liitze once went to the house of his

father he twisted ropes together with the intention of tying Mr. Liitze

an 10 4

g Missm

to the post of his veranda. He said also mockingly: ‘It seems you

n at iy

have nothing to do, come along, you may tend my buffaloes!’ And

now how kindly he looked at us!—The old Manyagara at Kerehada

e pl‘@&lﬁh'

(father of Devi Shanti below), after we had read the Scriptures with

i TI008

the women in his house, said: ¢ Yes, the Christian religion is good, the

Dadagas

Ten Commandments are good, we all should obey the God of the

the Kot

Christians, but in some Christians I cannot see much of Christian life

hristals

and behaviour.’

However he admitted Daniel at Kerehada to be an

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examplary Christian.” Mrs. Liitze told him that in eternity he would

ncrea

be responsible for his own person. Also at Kerehada the Badaga-

O

women are much more willing to hear the Gospel than in former

jh

3 Badagh

years, and a woman at Halhada said: ‘Formerly when we saw

Christians, we grew angry and abused them, how furious we have

t i thh

been against you, Bible-women! Now things have changed greatly: all

sl

anger and hatred have gone; when I behold you at some distance, I

e il

feel constrained to call you, and the whole of the day we would like to

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listen to you when you tell us the Word of God.””

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Myr. Stier, whose work consists in the supervision of a

o |

whole net of village-schools (more than twenty) and in preach-

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92

ing the Gospel to the Badagas, is also of opinion that on the

[ns

whole the population on the Hills is not inaccessible. People

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give very often their assent to the Gospel-truth. At Kalhatti

bl dsn

a woman has lost all confidence in her little Ganapati. She

amongst

walui

threw earth into his face, saying: «What the Missionary says

imy, 48

is true, you are no God, you hear nothing, you see nothing,

st

you are doing nothing and you are not able to do anything.

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How much have I sacrificed to you, how often invoked you

st fo

and complained to you about my distress, but you have

bt lloweg

never rendered me any help.” — Mr. Stier brought two

fnfision

Kurumba-children to Kaity; the parents had died in 1900

s el 4

owing to the famine. A writer there persuaded the Kurumbas

r Tt

to hand the children over to the Mission.

The Catechist

Iinde g

Isaac for some months tended them.

Mari (afterwards

A o]

Margaretha) was put in the Girls’ Orphanage at Kotagiri

te ey

and died there. Mara (Mark) remained in the Boys’ Orphan-

WS 0 o

age at Kaity. Whilst writing this report we hear that the

0 the J(1

o fy gl

boy has also died.

) Fanteg

Mr. Stokes, residing at Coonoor together with Catechist

g g

Karl Satyanathan, carries on the Cooly-Mission on these Hills.

by

There are 14 plantations at the least, where they are per-

¥ hec&me ‘

mitted to preach to the coolies.

The magic lantern, sent by

Heaty

Myrs. Herklots for this work, attracts a good many hearers.

EH Si@k il

The store-houses of these plantations, sometimes also & CoOw’s

Mg 0

stable are utilised for the purpose.

From Hulikal 25 plan-

U

tations may be visited. We do not hear about any conversion

gy (

of coolies as a result of this work, but sometimes, it seems,

&:el'ﬂity, |

the good seed is carried away and comes forth somewhere

L

else.

Mr. Stokes came to know that two coolies who had

4ty

heard the Gospel on a plantation up here had been baptised

iy bﬂptis:

in the plains by the London Mission.

u eal‘ﬁest

iy

So much as to the «Casting out of the net”, now as to

=

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ey

“Draughts ” Mr. Liitze reports of 43 baptisms.

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Last year we thought thaf the story of Devi, the daughter of the

She

. Paogle

Kaity Manyagara, residing at Kerehada, had come to an end.

Kalhatt

had disappeared in October 1900. But after her return negotiations

ot She

amongst the headmen of the Badagas commenced with reference to her

re-admittance to her caste.

Some contended that she must be sent

a1y S8

away, as Badaga-women, who have broken her caste, could under no

nofhin,

circumstance whatever be re-admitted to her caste.

The Manyagara

anythng

opposed, and it was resolved that as long as the Manyagara would not

oked o

submit to the resolution of his caste all the other Badagas should not

jou have

be allowed to associate with the Kaity villagers.

This caused great

A big council

ght o

confusion and inconvenience, especially at funerals.

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was held at Ootacamund to which even the Toda and Kota-tribes sent

{uramlis

their representatives.

The Kotas sided with the Manyagara and the

Kunde and Mekanad Badagas in another meeting even resolved that in

Cafechis

future all Badagas, men and women, on leaving the Christians might

ftervard

be re-admitted to their caste.

But how strange: two days before Devi

otagh

was to be re-admitted, she returned to Kaity, asked for forgiveness and

) (rphat

on the 10th November she was baptised and is called Shanti now. —

that te

Also in the Kaity-village a conversion took place.

The father long

ago wanted to become a Christian, but the family prevented him from

(atechi

carrying out his wish.

Now in 1894 the son of this family was

oo Jilb

baptised, but his sister succeeded in influencing her brother so far, that

he became a backslider and afterwards he took to drinking and conse-

e e

quently ran into debts.

However he never felt easy after that.

He

, st 1]

fell sick and asked his sister to call for the Missionary, which she

," hearers

refused to do.

Shortly before his death he asked for a Bible and

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implored his sister to join, with her husband and her children, the

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Christian Church; if not, it would go wrong with her in time and

soﬂY(%l'Sim]

efernity.

On a Sunday the sister appeared with her whole family.

i seel

On the same evening our Christians went to the house consecrating it

-

Under instruction for

opentt

as a Christian home by singing and prayer.

holy baptism the people distinguished themselves by great diligence

and earnestness.

41 weeks after the baptism the woman died in a

i bapt]‘ed

childlike confidence into the mercy of her Saviour.—On the 1st of

September there was the first day of baptism at Tuneri, after some

o [ ]

first-fruits from there had been gathered in before.

S

|

94

Sl e

Jind s

The ¢« Fish in the net”” may be described best in the words of

Christ as «of every kind” and so it will be everywhexe else

et

(218 souls).

altrngs, |

{the Lord

In this connection we offer a few remarks on the Kaity-

8 asked

school which, owing to the smallness of the district, combines

lrstian’?

three or four institutions under one and the same roof and

bl T

under one principal

There is a High School coming to

0t of Ch

existence there (up to the IVth Form)

This school is the

Wb Dt

common school for the 71 inmates of the Boys’ Orphanage on

Ty e ¢

the Hills, it is the day-school for 11 Christian boys and 20

I tngrecy

Christian girls, and it is also attended by 40 Badaga and

other Hindu boys

Under the same roof there is further a

Training School with 5 students and a school for future Hills-

Catechists with 3 students

Ml G/()s

In the Primary classes of the High

School there are 104 pupils, in the Lower Secondary Depart-

(13 ((}uihj

ment 31 and in the IVth Form 7

The education of the

Wmat 0

fif

boarders in this many-sided institution, Mr. Liitze tells us,

Y oy

does mnot offer any extraordinary difficulty

The results at

dll 0 he

Government examinations have been satisfactory

At the

i,

annual examination 2 Catechists and a teacher offered prizes

hﬁ@lamn

for good results in religious subjects, which sign of personal

Mgy

interest in our Bible-lessons is worth of imitation

s, |

e Y 6

Under the heading «To the shore” Mr. Liitze finally

relates some instances of happy dying, which are really

d 3 chil,

edifying

When Salome, the wife of a teacher, had died even a Badaga said

gy

“This was a happy death.” Daniel, the first-fruit of Kerehada, who

in 1857 was baptised after great excitement and an awful struggle, died

fy \ears of

after a lingering disease. He was brought first to the Hospital at

Fmds

Ootacamund, from there to Calicut

His non-Christian brother went

b “Oﬂglea

with him to Calicut and brought him back, when he desired to die

amongst his own people

In spite of great weakness he used to sing

Sﬁme f

and to pray. Death had lost its horror for him

He said: «“The

b ] oy

U nt\ml hf

ﬁ"%

95

S Sl L

16 ol f

Lord was with me always, He was with me in great tribulations and

where gy

persecutions, He was with me in good days and with me in all my

sufferings, He will be with me in all eternity.”

After having partaken

of the Lord’s Supper he was full of joy and happiness.

‘When he

the Kaiy

was asked: «Daniel, have you ever been sorry for having become a

, Conling

Christian?” he answered: « Oh no, what would have become of me,

e 100f and

had I not become a Christian? It was worthwhile all the struggle.

coning i

Out of Christ there is nothing but fighting and dissension.”

One

hool 1s e

of his last words was: «Oh how I look forward to behold Jesus!”

phanigs ¢

Truly one of our Catechists said: “Daniel was a shining gem in

our congregation.”

oys and I

alags

; further ¢

24

Kotagiri.

tare A

My. Grossmann in reporting on the congregation there

of the it

(152 souls), mentions that the members of the Young Men’s

ary D

on of te

Association are persevering in their good work: they go on

Sunday mornings out to the villages in the neighbourhood

e tel[S us)

and on the evenings attend the bazaar-preaching or visit the

eqtlts &

sick.

i te

We hope this practical Christianity will keep the

Association warm and alive.

In December they had their

ored 8

anniversary and Dr. Stokes, our Medical Missionary, being

of personal

present, he addressed the young men.— Mr. Jacob Kanaka,

the Native Pastor of the congregation, relates of 11 adults

oo il

and 3 children, who were baptised on the 23rd of June.

a1 I'GﬂHF

There was an old man, 50 years of age, amongst them. Once

he was an influential man and full of ambition, now he has

Also an old woman,

Badigh ol

become very small in his own sight.

80 years of age and forsaken by all her relatives, was in

g

tmggle,

di‘

their midst; she died soon after.

As to the spiritual life of

fogh!?

the congregation Mr. Jacob writes:

ofher “ﬂf

« Some try to walk as children of God, they love the Word of

Lk

God and keep up family-prayer; however our congregation lacks in

used Wiﬂ?

spiritual life.

In order to become light and to dispense light an

gal

ji%

i

~96

outpouring of the spirit of God is greatly wanted.

Mzr. Jacob tells

i

qleasant

us that Christmas has been a festival also for the non-Christian

pupils of the Kotagiri-schools.

al we |

They assemble round the church,

addresses are held, the boys have some recitation, receive their

lysto

for t}

presents, have a look in the afternoon at the Christmas-tree and go

joyfully home.”

{03 been

tlinged

From 23rd to 27th September a course of instruction was

held for all the Catechists on the Hills.

For some hours in

e 26w 1

the foremoon the Missionaries with the Catechists went to

Hiends (I

Diseat an

some Badaga-villages; in the afternoon the 1st Epistle to

s

Timothy was explained, some periods of the Church-history

were gone over and

dnd

)

sermons and 2 catechisations were

By

:

]

held. At the social meeting held at the end of these days

ad 5

Kot §

an animated conversation took place about good and bad

customs in our congregations.— The ladies of the work-meet-

Ty of

ing at Kotagiri were very busy also last year.

The proceeds

Uinby

i

of these meetings in favour of our Mission have been even

mf famm

Rs. 100 this year.

bl 1

vy ey

About the preaching of the Gospel to the Badagas and

other tribes on these Hills Mr. Jacob remarks:

Iy

(ame v

“QOur preaching does not meet with great opposition; monotheistic

4% [

views being in operation in many hearts.

Mohammedans are aware

ihe TeCiy

of this and they use all their influence as creditors of so many

e

Badagas, especially in these hard times of famine, to win people over

to their religion by carnal and crafty arguments.

They have been

g gy

successful

in one case.

A gl

A young convert to Mohammedanism,

Abdulallah Karim, has been sent to Vellore in order to be trained

diSObedienC

there as a Mohammedan missionary for the Nilgiris. But on the

"‘imes 0 |

whole Mohammedanism is not popular on these Hills.

The days of

ity

Tippu Sultan are not yet forgotten.”

My

Grossmann feels very thankful that some of the

planters in his district have begun to show great sympathy

with Mission-work amongst their coolies.

He spent some

/—ﬁ’“&

W

o

el

- Jatoh t

on-Chifin

pleasant da,ys in August on the estate of Mr. Temple Wilson,

and we hope that the many addresses delivered in those

he chunh,

eoee fher

days to hundreds of coolies have not been without blessing.

free and 9

For the Girls’ Orphanage at Kotagiri the year under review

has been a very eventful one. The building was considerably

enlarged and on Ascension-day (15th May) the girls occupied

nction v

16 hours

the new rooms, on which occasion a large number of Mission-

fs weut B

friends (Englishmen, Danes, Americans and Germans) were

present and gave addresses.

The year had commenced with

Bpiste 0

38 girls in the school, at the end of the year there were 56.

pochhisy

23 new girls were admitted (13 from Kaity and 10 from Kota-

ationg Tt

giri) and 5 left the institution (2 by death and 2 ran away).

these (3

A great difficulty in the way of educational work is the

variety of languages: the school-language being Tamil, the

worknét

church-language Canarese, and the family-language Badaga.

e proed

With famine-children the disappointments are not few. Kappi,

, fogn 1t

a girl 14 years of age, had been advised by her uncle fto

drown herself; she preferred to go to the Christians.

After

i

plagis

having been well fed she ran away.

Madi, 9 years of age;

came with her father, a sister 3 years of age, and a brother

41 years old, all sick to death. Her father and sister died,

she recovered with her brother, but both felt like birds in a

o %0 il

cage.

When the spring came they ran away, but they were

e i

found and brought back. Bigger girls coming from outside

and already educated the wrong way, give great trouble by

s bt [

e

danfﬁﬂl:

disobedience, idleness, quarrelling, lying and stealing. Some-

o be i

times on Sunday-afternoons Mr. and Mrs. Grossmann take

it thﬁ'

the girls to Tondenad, Dehakenare or Miledenu, where an

g 0"

open-air-service will be held.

I i ‘J

: sjml’m

gpeﬂt

o ‘

13

e

i

98

e

Looking back once more over the whole of our Mission-

foom |

field we are thankful to say that the work of Evangelisation

mile a0

It 1s not so much

Ohandra

has not been without blessing from above.

the number of new converts that deserves to be pointed out,

e,

as the pleasing change in some districts, which we almost

100 frue,

(tristin

bhad been accustomed to look upon as barren ground. We

say so especially with reference to Coorg and Southern

uy ofhe

Mahratta.

The number of new converts in Canara is also

nfward

on the increase again, we call especially attention to the

Iy iy

large number of catechumens (most of them at Udipi), which

1y B g

v!

augurs well for the current year.

Also on the Nilgiris the

mat of

ey

gathering in of souls from only two stations makes our heart

rejoice.

There is a considerable falling off in the number

i p

of baptisms in Malabar, which is perhaps not so much due

Mo ¢

to a decrease in the susceptibility to the Gospel, but rather

0t pogs

in a greater caution and reluctance on the side of the Mission-

cantempt )

aries to admit inquirers to our congregations. We have been

Chigg

compelled to use greater precaution for two reasons, which

befongg J

perhaps stand in an inward relation to each other.

The one

for the [

reason is the difficulty we experience in providing our con-

Wity

verts with a living which our Mission in obedience to a kind

the G()Sp{

of tradition always has been very anxious to give to new-

comers.

The Establishments are full and no new openings

mplyy

can be found for the present, in consequence of which some

Ul

2

who come only for bread’s sake, are disappointed and retreat

b1

of their own accord; while others must be sent away. The

Wiy

other reason is the spirit prevailing in some of our congre-

Wity %

gations. If Christians are led away so easily from the sound

it fy,

and biblical teaching by our Mission to the unsafe ground of

Uhiny

human dreams and human revelations, if without the slightest

Yoy

trace of thankfulness they compare the Establishments founded

e

for their help and benefit with ¢the bondage of Egypt’, there

a i

can be no doubt that the entrance-door to our Mission and

spiritua]

-

99

Sl

3

Missn

to our Establishments must sometimes have been opened too

el

wide and too liberally.

We call attention to Myr. Stephan

bsomut |

Chandran’s remark (page 72) about the disloyalty of our

inted o, |

people, which severe judgment, we are sorry to say, is only

e i |

too true.

It may be called a psychological problem that

uud. T k

Christians belonging to a Mission, which perhaps more than

Southen |

any other Mission Society takes pains to ameliorate the

1015 40

outward condition of its adherents, distinguish themselves

o fo e

by disloyalty and utter want of attachment.

Whatsoever

may be our shortcomings in dealing with Native Christians,

ipi), hie

il

want of love and sympathy cannot explain this strange

phenomenon.

ot et

In our isolated position as German Mission-

he nuald

aries in this country we have always found it easy and a

much

1t

pleasure to identify ourselves with our Christians.

There is

hu

{ it

more reason to think of the proverb: «Familiarity breeds

contempt”, which however should not be the case amongst

(e Miss

Christians.

o Jare bess

The real solution of the problem, we think, must

SO0 it

be found just in the care— perhaps over-care — of our Mission

for the earthly concerns of our Christians, which has been

Thed

o our (0

misunderstood and misused by our people.

If in one hand

the Gospel, and in the other hand employment, be offered,

10 il

unconverted people are in danger of looking only upon the

e f0 F

employment and of honouring and loving the Missionary

only so far as he is instrumental in procuring a livelihood.

il

[,’J

He is to them only the bread-giver, and Christians being not

(B

AL b

accustomed to look up to him for spiritual advice and

spiritual gifts, finally see in their Mission chiefly an Establish-

our

ﬂﬂlt

ment for the purpose of giving them a livelihood.

This

the SOW’ i

explains the fact that some of our Christians, who have got

) ground 1

employment outside of the Mission, think that with this also

e s]igh

teslf

)

ceases their attachment and their loyalty towards the Mission,

)ﬂt) fou]]{Jie

i

and it explains also partly our newest experience that

i

| pt

spiritual nourishment from outside, howsoever unhealthy

s

13*

—

100

e L S

and doubtful it may be, is liked better than the old Gospel

truth, to which neither the ear nor the heart had been given

before.

We have got our lesson and we write this as a

warning for such as are prepared to go in for Industrial

Missions.

May they learn from our experience, how to avoid

| Dinted

such dangers!

As to the Gospel, which we preach, we have

nothing to reform.

Since the days of Hebich, Gundert and

other men of God of blessed memory up to this the foundation

of our Mission has been the Word of God and nothing else.

ke,

Looking at the extravagances at Cannanore, the boundless

S, o

Tte Firg |

subjectivity devoid of common sense and Christian tolerance,

irinfhia

we fully agree with Professor Dr. von Orelli, who specially

Tt e

with reference to this kind of movements says: «In opposition

Wihiay

e iy

to these reveries one should learn to appreciate more fully

0T, »

again the value of the objective apostolic truth of salvation,

Tt i

as it was brought to light again and confirmed by Dr. Luther

i (glsg

and other reformers and men of God, else one will be carried

T By

14 fyg

about with every wind of doctrine and before being aware

T Ty

of it, he will have become a servant of men.”

T Episﬂe f

The TWO )

!

Dl o]

ty Ggspe] 0

—

t g

1

lefig

. ceseete—os o

o gy

Kﬂnaresg 1

sﬂl}iet)~ ) Bi

b Pilgfimag

h“ﬂghts ah

l

Wty g

Qanarese B

Th% s“"ﬁsini

e Ly

anl XOIeg :)]

% °“ b

g g

e,

Selmll

101

4 GO:

begn giva

Appendix I

his a8 4

LIST OF BOOKS AND TRACTS

Tndus

oW 0 arol

Printed from the 1Ist November 1900 to 31st December 1901.

1, e b

ider

I. Canarese.

found

Edition

wlze

Pages

Copies

Satyadipike, vol. V. 1900-1901

-

40

192

900

ine ¢l

Suvésini, vol. I. Nos.

7T—11

”

120

600

¢ houndl

The First Epistle of Saint Paul to the

n tolerd

Corinthians, revised translation

12°

63

1500

The Second Epistle of Saint Paul to the

o spetl

.

37

1500

Corinthians, revised translation

i oppo

The Epistles of Saint Paul to Timothy and

qore fil

to Titus, revised translation .

335

1500

of salrat

The Epistles of St. Paul to the Ephes1ans

and Colossians, revised translation

33

1500

D, [t

The Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans,

revised translation

59

1500

| e carm

The Three Epistles of St. John, rev. tr.

20

15900

being W

The Epistle to the Hebrews, rev. translation

44

1500

of Saint Peter,

the

The Two Epistles

Epistle of Jude and the Revelation, rev. tr

93

1500

The Gospel of St. Mark, revised translation

78

1000

The Gospel of St. John

n

”

96

1500

The Need of Baptism

I

32

1000

Short Bible Stories

VI

142

6000

Kanarese Hymns (for

Tract and Book

Society, Bangalore)

16°

174

3000

Iv

On Pilgrimages, a Dialogue

77

2000

Thoughts about Death

32

2000

Instructive Stories for Children

VI

61

3000

Canarese Primer .

VII

40

6000

The Suvasini Series No. I. Unmadml

12°

62

525

Object Lessons for Primary Schools, IInd St

II

16°

34

2000

IIIrd St

55

1000

”

”

Full Notes on Canarese Third Reader

II1.

32

4000

v

n

Fourth

”

II

42

2000

Notes on Canarese Second Reader

II

48

10060

Canarese Grammar

500

—

o

102

i

Edition

Size

Pages

Copies

Notes on Poetry Seleetions for the IIIrd St

II

16°

24

1000

n

)

”

”

IVth St

I

”

15

1000

History of India for Middle Schools, Pt

1

96

5000

The oot

”

Pt

II

”

”

n

96

2500

n

”

”

n

Pt. I-1II

6 Eng

in one vol

270

5000

Plain Directions

for

the Treatment of

Common Complaints

by Homeeopathic

Medicines

20

500

A Geography of the Madras Premdency for

Sinplemen

Class IV

IV.

99

5000

TheSiaty

Canarese Almanac for 1902

80

80

4800

II. Malayalam,

e g

Kéralopakari, vol. XX VIII

.

80

192

325

lisip §

Almopakari, vol. XIV. Nos. 57-65

72

1100

Bible Stories, Part II. New Testament

VIII

125

186

2500

Dl

by By,

Basy Lessons on Health

55

2000

The First Reader

16°

28

1000

The Second Standard Reader

Iv

96

5000

n

The Infant Reader

VI

”

47

6000

Writer’s Help

182

1006

A Malayalam Anthology for Ist and IInd St

with Notes

.

12

5000

A Malayalam Anthology for IVth St

VIII

”

40

2500

The Third Standard Reader

III

110

5000

”

A Text-Book of Geography for the IIIrd St

36

2000

A Brief Sketch of Malayalam Grammar

”

47

3000

History of India for Middle Schools, Pt. I

108

7500

The Fifth Reader

106

5000

The Story of Ruth (in Natlve Metre)

11

32°

16

2500

The Book of Daniel

100

5000

»

The Gospel of Mark

114

5000

n

»

in French and Malayalam

”

165

500

The Infant Reader

.

»

VII

16°

48

10000

Easy Lessons in Indian Hlstory

»

112

3000

Malayalam Almanac for 1902

80

70

1700

ITI. Tulu.

Selected Scripture Sentences and Hymns

II

129

105

2000

The Pilgrim’s Progress

16°

164

500

The King’s Son and his Ring

16

2000

ST

103

e

s,

Coyi

.

i

4

IV. Anglo-Vernacular.

I}

5

0\

Edition

Size

Pages.

Copies.

)6

g

0

The English Primer, Anglo-Canarese

1{5

62

3000

I

64

5000

0]

(l

”

”

”

»”

-

”

III

”

44

3000

The English Standard Reader, Anglo-Mal.

10

i >

”

”

Anglo-Can.

”

44

3000

V. English,

il

20

16°

12

5000

Supplement to the Primer for the ITIrd St.

The Sixty-First Report of the B. G. E. M.

80

128

1200

99

]

30

il

VI. German.

“Unter den Telugus” Report of the A. B.

)9

30

Mission in Haiderabad

o

.

.

8o

35

1500

A

il

“Das Erntefeld’’, a monthly Paper published

]

.

40

48

1400

B

by Rev. A. Friesen, Nalgonda

90

0

28

fi

96

il

000

4

32

100

17

0

il

40

10

il

36

000

I

41

1

0§

06

5000

16

UJUU

gl

0

0

4

09

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48

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4

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104_

Appendix IL

®

Summary of Expenditure pro 19oi.

Rs

As

P

Rs

As

Personal allowances to the Missionaries

14

7

95,258

Itinerancy and vehicles of European and

Native Agents

26,781

Salaries to Catechists, besides those Pastors

and Catechists who are paid out of the

Church-fund

21,421

14

(3

1€ s

Iedge

Expenses for Bible-women in excess of the

grant received from the B. and F. Bible

Society, London

350

Expenses for schools and educational in-

stitutions, besides Orphanages and Paro-

chial Schools after deducting the Govt.

grants and school-fees received

38,034

14

Fite i

Contribution by the Home-Committee to the

Church-funds of the Stations and the

g

LY

Orphanages

.

33,999

10

)

Expenses for transfers of European and

1,674

)

Native Agents

n

» Home-voyages of Missionaries

9,634

12

Mg

l&h&

n

smedical treatment andsick-leave

allowance of Missionaries

2,641

11

H' ) 1]]9 Ri}

Upkeep and repair of buildings, new build-

Lo Ny

10

ings, Govt. assessment, taxes and rent

.

31,802

‘360. E. P.

Pays to Munshis

1,943

>

g,

Contribution to the libraries of the Stations

315

(&5

=}

g,

Debit Balance of the Medical Mission De-

Ttg,

38,919

partment, including cost of 2 Doctorhouses

Towards upkeep of Colporteur Establishment

2,000

Sundry expenses for administration, etec.

4,823

L Stncking )

309,600

§

S\wow

Loy

Less receipts: Donations

-

2,493

10

4

] s(OCkin I

Interest of Casamajor Fund

2,231

15

-

8terling By,

Rent of houses and proceeds

of compounds

4,504

11

Net proceeds of the Press

983

10

l Riohter )

n

»

”»

445

ot

Bookshop

10,658

15

Net expenditure covered by the Home-Com-

4

mitiee

.

298,941

oy

i M&iklej

P

Subscriptions and Donations

sy

S

towards the Mission-Fund

.708 |

i

4

Received during the year 1901.

$

G All sums received on or after the 1st of January 1902 will be acknow-

111

i

ledged in the Report for 1902.

o

N

350

00

LR s e L ) e

= 9

MANGALORE.

Rs. As. P

Rs. As. B

1!

E. Meynell Esq.

100

034

Easter offering from Karachi 30 0 0

50

i2

E. Richter Esq.

Through Messrs. Warden & Co., Bombay.

G. Haller Esq.

35

A. M. T. J.

Mrs. Sophy Devarike

23

10

R. O.

15

J. 8.

H. Cockerton Esq.

Mrs. Payne

15

gl 0}

R. M. H.

‘W. F. Simpson Esq.

12

54

0

J. H. du B.

z

((g;

(§))

12

G. R. Moore Esq.

H. E. the Right Honourable,

A. H. J.

12

il

il

Lord Northcote, G. C. I. E. 10

G. Grant Esq.

12

Geo. E. P.

2

12

802

0!

D. . G.

o

-

Mrs. M. Grant

043

00

A. Mec.K.

5

Mrs. Wright

0!

Miss M. Ritter

12

W. & Co.

25

SEOIO O S

S O O QS

10

R. D. Tipping Esq.

|1

PUTTUR.

A. H. S. West Esq.

919

6l

0!

15

W. Davis Esq.

000

E. Stocking Esq,

4 [}

Towards Puttur Poorfund.

A. Brockmann Esq.

§18

i

E. Stocking Esq.

10

Dr. R. F. Hiley

00

10

(=

A friend

f:é

K

Sterling Esq.

H. B Do

ot

MERCARA.

E. Jeffryes Esq.

E. Richter Esq.

50

G. & E. W.

Mrs. Kaundinya

ANANDAPUR.

38 i

S. Mangle Esq.

—

Towards the Orphanages.

R. G. Hutson Esg.

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G. F. Meiklejohn Esq.

120

J. A. Rue Esq.

i

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L

s

106~

Rs. As. P.

Rs. As. P.

|

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Towards the Poorfund.

!

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5

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0 | Dr. H. Cogill

15

Norman Scott Esq.

LY. Grey

P. G. Tipping Esq.

5

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0 | G. Laird Mec.Gregor Esq.

10

(. Ailanday

10

R. C. Brown Esq.

.0 Barel

DHARWAR.

R. Thom Esq.

10

(t eKenzie

Towards the Mission.

T. R. Bell Esq.

G, (lasen B

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W. Thorley Esq.

9

J. B. Jenkins Esq.

LK

Towards the Students’ Home

CANNANORE.

Ui Boker

I. Shaw Esq.

30

i, Goo, Hol

Mrs. I. Haultain

50

Rev. J. Hewison

16

or 6 s,

10

Mrs. Elgee

V. Phelips Esq.

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W. M. Stuart Esq.

10

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Towards the Poorfund.

N. Priestly Esq.

10

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Mrs

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50

I', D. Gabriel Esq.

by g

For the Orphanages.

CALICUT

ML

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I. Shaw Esq.

55

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Macrae

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20

11

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W. Gabriel Esq.

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W. Thorley Esq.

il

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b Binaty

I. Reynolds Esq.

10

10

»

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L0kt

V. Phelips Esq.

G. Wood Esq.

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Rinne Esq.

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Bruce Esq.

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For the High School.

Schoonert Esq.

I

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SO0 OO OO DO

(=) e ) (et e R e e W o i e o )

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M. Gibb Esq.

50

C. Debruan Esq.

gy

20

0

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R. Knight Esq.

PALGHAT

B. Patil Esq.

20

sy p D

Mrs. C. A. Innes

10

Ch. Tenk Esq.

10

g i

R. 8. Austin Esq.

} thtseh B

Major M. M. Grayfoot

G. Vaughan Esq.

Iy

C. Soman Esq.

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Mrs. J. E. Dupen

10

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F. Biggs Esq.

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His Excellency the Governor

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20

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15

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H. H. the Maharajah of Mysore 10

Col. C. D. Peters, I. M. S.

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J. B. W. Biddle Esq.

10 0

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10

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107

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J

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Rs. As. P

Rs. s D :

100

Rev. F. Kember

15010

John Liebenrvood Esq.

L. W. Grey Esq.

18

G. M. de Winton Esq.

10

01

C. Akilandaya Esq.

16

D. Simpson Esq.

00l

C. B. Barclay Esq.

14

W. Marsel Esq.

10 01

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G. McKenzie Esq.

12

Mrs. A. BE. Haldwell

5l

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12

C. Claasen Esq.

G. Sebastian Esq.

50l

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L. K

12

Mrs. Trevers

Mrs. Baker

12

A. Mace Esq.

I

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Rev. Geo. Hobday

50 00

Rev. & Mrs. Bishop

10

Mrs. A. Oaks

381

Mrs. E. Reed

10

Rev. R. Wilder

Col. Stevenson

10

Mrs. A. Sherman

rfund

P. Tiedemann Esq.

L. N. Archard Esq.

500

Mr. & Mrs. E. W. Schmidt

C. R. James Esq.

S. L. Studd Esq.

J. R. Coomber Esq.

E. Schnarre Esq.

A. E. Richter Esq.

TR

Mrs. McMurray

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Geo. Maddose Esq.

M. Mathews Esq.

Mrs. L. Parkinson

H. H. the Jaghirdar of Arni

5 01

|

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Rev. E. Keyworth

R

Rev. F. Ardell

9 (!

H. C. Atkins Esq.

A. M. Hurst Esq.

Master Tomson

50!

Mrs. W. G. Me.Ivor

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Mrs. Sinclair

Mrs. H. S. Chandler

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Mrs. A. Perkins

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Mrs. Hamnett

J. Marshall Esq.

Miss A. E. Daniels

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Mrs. H. 8. Guthrie

J. 8. Benjamin Esq.

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E. Hultsch Esq.

Master Robinson

Mrs. Prince

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L. F. Stephens Esq.

|

C. A. Weir Esq.

Mrs. Vogel

105

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5

Mrs. D. Mc.Farlane

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A. M. Jones Esq.

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COONOOR.

25

Master Bob Curtis

ok

[\

Th. Stanes Esq.

A. Butters Esq.

A. N. Groves Esq.

25

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Lord Bishop I. Gell

50

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I

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Baroness von Engelhardt

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Mrs. T. Wilson

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F. M. Cockburn Esq

Ory

H. T. Stanes Esq.

G. H. Cockburn Esq

Mrs. H. Dashe

Mrs. Hanson

[ SR O AR )

T. Eagan Esq.

Mrs. Berg

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Miss Norfor

Hillgrove Estate

120 0

Miss Haddock

Pilloor Estate

120 0

Mrs. Windle

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H. Herklots Esq.

57 12

Mrs. Morgan

A. N. Groves Esq.

36

Mrs. Maidmont

T. Stanes Esq.

15

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Yaens

Mrs. Griffin

KOTAGIRI.

Mrs. Nielson

F. Groves Esq.

100 0

Miss Ewart

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F. Hill Esq.

32 13

Mrs. Wright

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21

Mrs. D. Cockburn

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12

Mrs. J

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Major H. L. Hutchins

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100

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22

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Donations from Members of the Congregation

and other Native Friends.

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MANGALORE.

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Rs. As. P.

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Messrs. L. Joshua & Sons

60

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towards Orphanages

pay of a Catechist

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David

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J. Joseph

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20

—

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Cannanore

30 14

(=) )

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20

10

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Mangal

Donations towards starting a Chapel Fund at Kasaragod.

Rs. As. P

Rs. As.

N. N., Kasaragod

25

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30

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N. N,

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Mr. G. Soens

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Subscriptions and Donations towards the Poorhouse

11\

and Leper Asylum at Mangalore.

Rs. As. P

Rs. As.

P

Mr

Th. Ramappa

H. E. Lord Ampthill, Gover-

nor of Madras

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»

A. S. Peter

C. Amos

Missionaries

83

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Messrs. Pearl & Sons

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tist of Buropean Missionaries

Statistical Tables

Table of Stations, Out-stations and Agents

10

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Report

16

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17

Mulki

Udipi

28

f

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33

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34

b

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36

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.

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38

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40

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16

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61

18

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68

19

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22

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