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Furppean Missionaries

of the Basgel Grerman Evangelical DMission.

Corrected up to the 1st May 1904.

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

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

Date of

Name

Native

active

Station

Country

i

Service

. 8. Walter (m)

Switzerland

1865

Vaniyankulam"

. G. Ritter (m)

Germany

1869

Mulki, 8. Canara

. W. Sikemeier (m)

Holland

1870

Mercara, Coorg

1872

. J. Hermelink (m)

Germany

Mangalore, 8. Can.

. W. Liitze (m)

do

1875

Kaity, Nilgiris

. J. B. Veil (m)*

do

1875

Mercara, Coorg

do

1876

. L. J.Frohnmeyer (m)

Tellicherry, Malab.

Chr. Eblen (m)

do

1876

Puttur, S. Canara

O W ~1 o O WO D =

J. G. Kithnle (m)

do

1878

Palghat, Malabar

10

do

1878

H. Altenmiiller (m)*

Mangalore, S. Can.

11

C. D. Warth (m)

do

1878

Guledgudd, 8. M.

12

Weismann (m)

do

1878

Chombala, Malabar

13

do

1879

do

J. Jaus (m)

Calicut,

14

. Stierlin (m)*

do

1880

Mangalore, S. Can.

15

Fischer (w)

do

1881

Anandapur, Coorg

16

'Ié‘.

do

1882

. Eisfelder (m)

Kotagiri, Nilgiris

17

M. Schaible (m)

do

1883

Mangalore, 8. Can.

18

B

. Litthi (m)

Switzerland

1884

do.

do

19

1884

K. Hole (m)

Germany

Cannanore, Malab.

20

. Berli (m)

Switzerland

1885

Hubli, S. Mahratta

21

Gtz (m)

Germany

1886

Basrur,

S. Canara

22

oY

. Huber (m)*

Switzerland

1886

Mangalore, do.

23

A. Glattfelder (m)*

do.

1886

do.

do

24

do.

1887

do.

do

25

J. Sieber (m)*

W. Bader (m)

G—efmany

1888

Tellicherry,Malabar

26

H. Risch (m)

Go

1888

Bettigeri, S. Mahr.

27

Switzerland

1888

Codacal, Malabar

R. Bosshardt (m)

Fr. Volz (m)*

Germany

1888

Calicut,

do

29

G. Wieland (m)

do

1889

Kaity, Nilgiris

30

do

1890

H.Bretschneider (m)*

Mangalore, 8. C.

31

Ph. Stier (m)

do

1891

Ootacamund, Nilg.

32

Fr. Boas (m)*

do

1891

Codacal, Malabar

1) Stat. Ottapalam.

1*

=

e

Date of

Name

Native

active

Station

E

Country

Service

33.

Th. Uber (m)

iGermany

1892

Codacal, Malabar

34.

do.

1892

Mulki, 8. Canara

LS

M. Breidenbach (m)

AJSP

35.

Tr. Lutz (m)

Switzerland

1892

Honavar, N, Canara

.1

36.

E. Hiller (m)

Australia

1893

Palghat, Malabar

37.

1894

B B

P. Borel (m)

Germany

Kasaragod, S.Can.

LW, H

38.

Chr. Fritz (m)

do.

1894

Dharwar, S. Mahr.

|50F1

39.

Joh. Knobloch (m) *

do.

1895

Calicut, Malabar

o,

40.

India

1895

do.

ao

1.8, b

W. Stokes, ». &, ¢. v. €D, (m)*

0.Fr

i

41

R. Schilling (m)

Switzerland

1895

Chombala, do.

42

G. Fischer (m)

Germany

1896

Karkal, 8. Canara

BLEG

it

43

do.

1896

do

9}&591

A. Schosser (m)

Udipi,

44

E. Liithy (m)

Switzerland

1896

Guledgudd, 8. M

45

H. Kihner (m)*

Germany

1896

Calicut, Malabar

1896

i

Js A

46

H. Eidenbenz (m)*

Switzerland

Cannanore, do.

0 %J

i

47

G. Renschler (m)

Germany

1897

Calicut,

do

8.1

48

Chr. Durr (m)

do.

1897

Mangalore, 8. C.

‘SI_

do

!

ligJ

49

W. Spaich (m)

do.

1898

Udipi,

!

?

liss B

50

H. Stokes (m)*

India

1898

Mangalore, do.

b1

Switzerland

1898

Calicut, Malabar

0 \JIQ\ \‘

M. Stuckert (m)*

5

i )

52

Fr. Braun (m)

Germany

1898

Bijapur, S. Mahr.

s |

53

Fr. Singer

do

1898

Calicut, Malabar

E;l

?

54

do

1898

do.

do

N

W. Heckelmann (m)*

55

A. Scheuer

do

1899

Cannanore, do.

56

A. Beierbach (m)*

do

1399

Mangalore, S. Can

01

57

do

1899

do.

do.

J

I. Pfleiderer (m)

3GGI@

58

H. Haffner (m)*

do

1899

Cannanore, Malab.

1 By

59

J. Maue (m)

do

1899

Tellicherry, do.

60

do

1900

KBy

H. Hofmann (m)*

Mangalore, 8. Can.

E

[] Pet‘

61

P. Simpfendorfer (m)*

do

1900

do.

do

g o

62

W. Metzler

do

1900

Hubli, S. Mahratta

63

do

1900

do

B Bie

E. Vogt

Dharwar,

Iy

64

A. Spring

do

1900

Bettigeri,

do

M\h

65 N. ZBTWBCK, Dr. ph. & med. (m)

do

1901

do.

do

%

66

Switzerland

1901

L0y

J. Meyer, Dr. phil. (m)

Tellicherry, Malab

)PS(

67

Chr. Renz (m)*

Germany

1901

Calicut,

do

68. M. Gekeler

do

1901

TR ST

%i

3T1}

69. R. Bunz

do

1901

Udipi, 8. Canara

do

H\h

Karkal,

§

) \Hs

0. J. Ruopp

do

1901

Codacal, Malabar

il

. A. Grau

do

1901

Dharwar, S. Mahr.

72

do

. W. Miiller (m)

1902

Vaniyankulamn, M

I i

£

—

ation

Native

Date of

Name

Country

active

Station

e

S?;'vice

, Melabar

aQ

3, Canara

7

o

H. Simon (m)*

Germany

| 1902

Udipi, S. Canara

4

J. Spieth

do

L1902

Hubli, S. Mahratta

1, X, Ganir

75

Fr. Schweikhart

do

1902

Anandapur, Coorg

f, Malsbur

do

76

E. Bommer

do

1902

Mercara,

,go&,S,Can.

7

W. Hahn*

do

1903

Anandapur, do.

ar, 5, Ml

78

do

1903

Caiicut, Malabar

0. Frohling®

, Malabar

9

B. Hitbner

do

1

1903

Udipi, 8. Canara

10

80

Fr. Straub

do

1903

Cannanore, Malabar

ala, do.

81

K. Grossmann

do

1903

Karkal, 8. Can.

[1 §, Canars

82

A. Seiler (m)*

do

1904

Cannanore, Malabar

do

Single Ladiés.

ndd, 8.

83

1900

ty Malabat

Miss A. Ehrensperger | Switzerland

Calicuf, Malabar

84

Miss J. Meyer

do.

1901

Mangalore, S. Can.

’nm'e’ dOI

o

85

Miss L. Miiller

Germany

1902

Calicut, Malabar

t

86

do

1902

do.

do

alore 3G

Miss J. Metzger

o,

87

Miss B. Schneider

do

1903

do.

do

88

Miss Marg. Beck

do

1903

Mangalore, S. Can.

:‘MOY% i

89

Miss M. Stahelin

Switzerland

1903

it Nalabar

Guledgudd, S. Mahr

90

Miss E. Raaflaub

do.

BHT

1903

Calicut, Malabar

ur‘, §, Nabr

91

Miss G. Wessel

Germany

1904

Tellicherry, Malabar

Ity

Malabar

o

At Home.

00

1016y

92

J. A. Brasche (m)

t Germany

1869

late of Udipi, S. €

alore

§ (an

93

G. Grossmann (m)

| Switzerland

1874

do

Kotagiri, Nil.

(10

94

do.

1874

do

b

-~

J. Baumann (w)*

Udipi, 8. C.

1016

9

9

K. Ernst (m)

|

|

Germany

1881

do

Dharwar,S.M

herts

do

96

G. Peter (m)

Switzerland

1885

do

Cannanore, M

[ores

g, (m

97

|

do

do

S. Stamm (m)*

do.

1891

Hubli, 8. M.

98

J. Béachle (m)

Germany

1893

do

Udipi, 8. €

j

g Aghralt

99

. K. Mayer (m)

do

1893

do

Bettigeri,S. M

il

do

i

100

A. Metz (m)

do

1893

Guledgudd, do

7ol

101

Chr. Gebhardt (m)*

do

1894

do

Palghat, Mal

102

do

1894

do

Codacal do.

P. Sengle (m)

do

he

I il

103

Tr. Reusch (m)

do

1895

Dharwar,S.M

104

J. Miller (m)

do

1896

do

Udipi,

5. C

g Cﬂ]]Ma

105

Miss H. Krauss

do

| 1898

do

Mangalore,do

o

Pensioned in India.

e

4 labt

W. Stokes (m)

| India

| 1860

| Coonoor, Nilgiris

jaly

pukl

all !

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Tabular View of Stations, Agents and

(h

1sst JANUARY

1904

Agents of the Mission

—

European

Mission-

Native Agents

)

el

aries

:

S

STATIONS

:

é

Qatechists and

S

within a station’s area

Assist. Catechists

Non-Christian

School-masters

Established in the year

Approximate population

Out-Stations

Brethren

Sisters

Colporteurs

Bible-women

Chr. School-masters

Chr. School-mistresses

.‘;

§

Pastors and Evangelists

1. South-Canara.

.

1834

368000

[y

bt

2

Mangalore

24

5

2199

Mulki

1845

120000

11

Udipi

1854

126000

23

§3(

S

1831

Karkal .

1872

73000

176

Basrur

1876

160000

s

1886

220000

131

Kasaragod .

14

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S Qv N

Puttur

1900

190000

LD b pd = O DD &3

;i);

O O W W W U

O Ot == DD B e

S O WM w S

bl

1257000

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12

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821 27

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11. Coory.

6081

8

Mercara

1870

85657

w

2

9. Anandapur

1853

88300

S

13

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e

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178957

3

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5

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313

III1. S.-Mahratta

Io.

Dharwar

1837

33000

[\V)

s

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II.

Hubli

1839

530600

99

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Bettigeri

1841

290000

00 A

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10

0

e,

Guledgudd

1851

300000

o

10

63

f6g

14.

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1885

457000

s

Honavar

1845

454490

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it

16.

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1841

320000

12

10

17

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1839

210000

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2

119

18

Chombala

1849

300000

9

bE)

=

2

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Calicut

1842

679000

10

‘g

25/ 11 |+20

02

20

Codacal .

1857

449290

16

188

21

1886

Vaniyankulam

445500

2

138

22.

Palghat .

1858

372000

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27

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21

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443

V. Nilgiris.

114

23

1846

Kaity

30000

2

27

24

Kotagiri

1867

16000

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25

Ootacamund

1903

30000

3

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Grand Total ...

102

84

73

26 128f21 43 [267] 74 156

—| S— —— — —

e Jenuey 1905 104

e

83

69

24 [131] 20 |40 |253| 70 |143

30§

* Including a Hindu School-mistress.

1 Including 1 Mohamedan Teacher.

S

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Churches of the B. G. E. Mission.

UARY

1904.

———

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Native Church

1fs

Changes during the year under report

State of the

|

Churches on

Decrease

Increase

Total of

31st Decr. 1903

|

:

New

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Converts

N |

Wit DS AN OO L= TR EGES Jv el

Total number of

0

Church-members on

31st December 1902

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Net increase

Net decrease

Communicants

Total number of

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Deaths

Execommunications

Departures

Adults

Children

m:

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13

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the Mission

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1n

190

=

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and

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Collections

and

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b

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Contribu-

towards

towards the

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Church

towards the

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tions

Mission-

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work

I. South-Canara.

Rs

As

P

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As

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25

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5

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the

Churches towards their Church Expenses,

i

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11

1903.

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and

Collections

Collections

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Special

for the

Collections

nations

=

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for Bible

for local

Total

ards the

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purposes

r-funds

fund

As

R

s P

Rs

As

Rs

As

Rs

| As

Rs

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19

539

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14

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131

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112

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Table of Schools of the Basel

fir

st JANUARY

190

Pupils in Schools for Christians

Scho-l

Training and Boarding Schools

Day Schools

Non-C

STATIONS

Schools

School Classes

Number of Schools

Theological Schools

Training Schools

Middle and High

Boys’ Orphanages

Girls’ Orphanages

Primary Classes

Middle and High

1

South-Canara.

Mangalore

19

7*

E

=

46

]

Mulki

>

(&)

1%

294

151

)12

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.

Karkal

=

)

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Al

AU D Ly B =

Kasaragod

13

§

e

%

g

g

192

59

(:g)

53

97

80

1104

19

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II. Coory.

Mercara

Anandapur (Am.mat;i)

28

20

E

28

C)O

Q&

(=}

\([0})

I1].

Southern Malhratta.

10.

Dharwar

38

II.

Hubli

160

12,

11

'31

Bettigeri-G-adag.

139

12§

13

Guledgudd

57

é

45

970

14.

Bijapur

3

15

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e el e

(g)

((g;

161

26

(gg

((é)(s())

(Zg)

439

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106y

IV.

Malabay.

16

Cannanore

167

54

i1

17

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—t

19

139

b H

18.

Chombala (Mahé)

106

73

11

Calicut

L]

I9

267

68

10

20

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275

il

21

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0

bl

29

22

Palghat

.

e

§

Sj

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0

41

b

19

;’(3:;

g

106 | 962

144

4y

V. Nilgiris.

S

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21

30

59

10

b}

24

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32

39

20

25

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§ §

(05)

0

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ey

@

32

5

30

35

32

98

30

e | e —— m———

;

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Grand Total. .

166

20

25

24071515

320

2655

371

s

Total of Isthmuaryil‘gOé’ 160

o

20

14

2584

351

e

17_ 32

s

169i3{i

\a

182

* 5 Girls.

T Girls.

=

.

sl

German Evangelical Mission.

190 4.

ARY

ans

Schools for

Total of Pupilys under instruction

Non-Christians

Boys

Gir!s

thouls

\

Total

E’v

Schools

:%

Primary Classes

Middle and High

School Classes

Christians

Non-Christians

Christians

Non-Christians

Infant

Sunday Schools

2

|

547

203

279

584

264

E

1278

ME4B

0

52

214

130

o

427

5 |

212

29

346

1Y)

52

809

9¢ | 1l

15

291

51 |

0

240

17

189

S

270

13

204

10

270

0

752

63

23

634

24

-

F:

28

815

2021

318

695

2171

562

462

3890

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mid

15

7

34

(=]

34

34

27

2

66

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10

18

49

1i

36

100

-

10

/:i‘

80

90

201

67

2317

23

333

38

113

43

168

34

28

273

160

3

128

103

163

55

325

13

159 |

220

30

192

101

36

359

50

ol |

0

349

11

294

88

394

105

10

40‘

161

24

118

1

161

0 |

1061

20

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278

1172

222

173

1845

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341

40

116

340

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376

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904

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347

283

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12

St

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

Ot

Sist JamGarsy 190

2 Mul

Stations

Native Agents:—

[t

and

Euaropean Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

Suf, 1

Out-Stations

Christian Headmasters

of High Schools

fityan,

1. Mangalore.

a) Pastoral

a) Pastoral

and Evangelistic

Balmatha, Ullal,

Rev. M. Schaible, 72

Work

Jeppu, Bockapatna,

charge of station, Native

Rev. Obed Sumitra,

Bolma, Bantwal,

Church, Chairman of the

Bockapatna

Amyambala.

District Committee

R

Joshua Soans,

Rev

B Euthi

Mission

Madikerigudde

work in the town, literary

work and schools

Ca

Winfred Micha, Feppu

Gottlob Maben, 7Z7%.

——

Rev. R. Bunz, itinerancy

3 Utlip

”

Daniel Andrea,

N

Miss J.Meyer, Bible-women

Parkala,

work

"

Elieser Karat,

yaray

b) Educational

Town Mission

Sy,

Rev. J. Hermelink, Z%eco’.

n

Lemuel Soens, ZBolma

Tlabe]

Seminary, Bible Revision,

Schools

Gen, and District Insp. of

b) Educational Work

Theolog.

Rev. I. Pfleiderer,

High

Cat. Chr. Watsa,

Semi-

Schoot

bl

Ch. Maben,

Miss H. Krauss,

Girls’

}

7’1(1}’)’

School and Female Train.

Gabr. Almanda,

k)

School

High School

Miss M. Beck, language

n

Fr. Jathanna,

Congr.

Girls’ School

¢) Mercantile

Mr. H. Altenmiiller, Gexd.

”

. Shiri,

lb’am‘wa!

Agent & Treasurer

”

L.Fernandez,| Scioo!

”

Y. Huber, Book-Depit.

”

J. Sieber, M. M.-Br.

H. Hofmann,

”

R

bl

d) Industrial

Mr

\'ﬂllﬂnlige,

F. Stierlin, Weav. Est.

Hudy

”

A. Glattfelder,

Tile-Works

\

8, Bagn,

”

H. Bretschneider,

Zile-Works

K[lndapur,

M. Stuckert,

k2

Sﬂga

k2l

H. Stokes, Mec/:. Ese.

”

A. Beierbach, Fress

”

P. Simpfendorfer,

Tile-Works

Fr. Boas,

"

s

1)

13

Stations

Native Agents:—

i

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

Christian Headmasters

Out-Stations

of High Schools

2. Mulki.

Rev. G. Ritter, congregation,

Rev. Charles Gojar, Maulki

v

s

Kadike,

Orphanage, and out-sta-

L'UIZg}’.

tions

ts and

Santur, Uchila, Padur,

”

Im. Furtado, Zadur con-

asters

Kutyar, Munderu.

Rev

M. Gekeler, 7tin. and

gregation

ols

out-stations

B

Evang. N. Kundar, i¢nerancy

vangele

Cat. J.Vedamuttu, Auzyar .,

. Chy Salis,

Giliie

!

» Gottl. Bangera, Aadike ,

Of’kdpzl/ilfl

, Isr. Elieser, Munderu

» Benj. Salins, Santur

n

e

ha, J440"

sz’(z'e

en, dli

Udipi.

Rev. J. Bichle, congregation

Rev. Nahason Vira,

and ont-stalions

C()!’lg?’.

4,

Parkala, Malpe,

Udyavara, Gudde,

Rev. A. Schosser, Christian

”

Tim. Furtado,

Shirva

"

conRgr.

i Misool

Shirva, Ambadi,

High School

Madambail, Kalyanapur.

Rev

W. Spaich, iZn. and

”

Gabr.

Bangera,

Udipi

s, D

oult-stations

congvr.

Rev. B. Hibner, language

Cat. Sam. Furtado, Malpe

» A. Furtado, Madambail

e, Tile-

Thealog

Mr. H. Simorn, Malp

Works

)

Eb. Clare, Aualyanapur

=l

S

”

Jos. Kairanna, 4mbad:

]

uary

n

N. Suchitta, Udyavara

l['}dna

"

Gabr. Premaya, Farkala

i s y S;r',fm?f

1, “‘7

Raph. Satyavrata, Orphk.

1

'Z, " !j.r' 5;'/,‘1‘};

N

William Heri, Udzp:, itin.

Amruta Heri,

”

”

Bt

| s

4, Karkasl.

Rev. G. Fischer,

cong )'eg.

Cat. Joseph Bhagyan, 7%7%.

and itin.

Beilur, Hekkadka,

”

Samuel Sumitra, Zeilur

Nandolige, Mudar,

”

Paul Soens, congr.

Mudshur.

5. Basrur.

Rev. J. Geetz, congregation

and itin.

Evang. Stephan Jathanna,

Kundapur, Beindur,

itn.

Sagara.

Cat. Hézekiel Bangera,

”

Samuel Karat,

”

”

n

»

Joseph Sunita,

14

Stations

Native Agents:—

Stat

al

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

Out-Stations

Christian Headmasters

Out-St

of High Schools

6. Kasaragod.

Rev. P. Borel, congr., owut- | Evang. Gerson Soens, 2.

13, Gule

séations and itin.

Ravaneshvara,

Cat. Henry Roberts, congr.

fskin

Hosadurga, Bekal,

Yush

Manjeshvara, Kumbla,

» William Fernandez, 7n.

falky

»

Jesudasa Aarons,

2l

Nileshvara.

»

Eb. Aarons, Manjeshva.

» Benjamin Ananda, Kumbla

» William Kundara, Hosad.

»

Ariel Sumitra,

k2

”

G. Fernandez, Nileshva.

”

Sal. Bangera, Ravan.

7. Puttur.

Rev. Chr. Eblen, 7#n.

Rev. Mark Salis,

lein.,

4By

Rev

@hr. Dirr

Evang. Immanuel Soens,

——

8. Mercara.

Rev. W. Sikemeier, congr.

Cat. Jos. Pramodana, 74x.

15, Hongy

Rev. E. Bommer,

Fraserpet, Suntikoppa,

langunage

”»

Nath. Shatananda, ,

Earm Ani

Chembu,

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

”

Joseph Bangera,

”

g, §

Asst, Cat. Lewis Salins, ,

9. Anandapur.

Cat. Asser Karat, congr.

Rev. J. Fischer, congregaz.

I} O&nn&r

and Orphanage

and itin

l, g

Rev. Fr. Schweikhart, Jang.,

»

S. Sumanta,

?

Uy,

and Boys’ Orphanage

”

Isaiah Bangera,

“

Mr. W. Hahn, Zantation

10. Dharwar.

Rev. Chr. Fritz, congregation

Ev. Isr. Dalabhanjana, iZz.

Rev

i

Reusch,

High

Cat. Ananda Rhonada, cox.

School, Students’ Home,

[

”

Shauta Badigi, S Home

School Inspector

Mr

B. K. Mukerji, M. A,

Rev. E. Vogt, tinerancy

Headmaster, High School

Rev. A. Grau, Schools etc.

1. B

11. Hubli.

congregation | Rev,S.Devada, Hubli congr.

j"jﬂd{and;

Unakallu.

Rev. D Berli,

and itin

Cat. Devaputra Hebbala, /2%

""!Pirami,

Rev. W. Metzler, i¢7.

El‘injn]i‘

»

Jacob Davali,

"

Rev. J. Spieth, Zanguage

Asst. Cat. Ananda Gunjala,

ilUn

12. Bettigeri-

Rev. . Eisfelder, /7.

Rev. J. Prabhakar, congr.

Gadag.

Rev. Tr. Lutz, congregation

Cat. Jos. Dalabhanjana, i#in

Shagoti, Malasamudra,

and Orp/zmzzzge

”

Bhagya. Alada, Skagoli.

Moktampur.

n

Rev. Dr. N. Zerweck, Med.

David Jesudasa, Med.

Msiss.

Mission

Asst. Cat. Hermon Challa,

Rev. A. Spring, 7.

itinerancy

£

&

ey

15

—

Stations

Native Agents:—

§i=

sts and

and

European Agents

Pastors, Catechists and

nasters

Out-Stations

Christian Headmasters of

o0ls

High Schools

—

s, il

137 Guledgudd. | Rev. C. D. Warth, Orph., | Cat. Salo. Ramthal, congr.,

Secular Agent, out-stal.

itiner.

s, congr,

Katkinhalli,

Mushtigeri,

Rev. E. Lithy, congr., itin.

» Hanoch Eden, Swmaddi,

ndes, it

Halkurki.

iliner.

Miss M. Stihelin, language

s,

» Salo. Jogula, Aatkinialli

anshone

da, Kunbl

» D. Katapur, Mushtigeri

Asst. Cat. Isr. Aralikatte,

ta, Hostd:

itiner.

y

(]

”

» Nijaguna Kumara,

, Nilihas

Halkurk:

, Ravat

B

14. Bijapur.

Rev. Fr. Braun, congr., itin.

il

Cat. Stephan Sagri, /z/n.

”

Channa Halli,

”

Soens, s

B

15. Honavar.

Rev. H. Risch, congr., itin.,

iana. ,f'll'ilr

Ev. S. Bunyan, /Zinerancy

Karwar, Anilgodu,

Bible-revision, Chalrman

nanda, +

of the S. Malkr. District

Cat. M. Jayanta, congr., itin.

Herangadi, Samshi

» Jason Challa, Bible-rew.,

=

eIl

itliner.

Sa}insv 1

—

18. Cannanore.

Rev.K.Hole, congr., schools

Rev. George Peter, congr.

t, ol

ane

|

il

Chowa, Chirakkal,

Rev. A. Scheuer, iZinerancy

Rev. Tob. Chembankodan,

Taliparambu, Payyanur. | Rev. Fr. Straub, language

Chowa congr.

Cat. Jesudasa Melottu, 7.,

4

Mr. H. Eidenbenz, Weaving

or,

Establishmernt

Chirakkal

/

» H. Haffner, Zailory

» P. Mackadan, /% , Talip.

H\jﬂﬂ?vr l”

» A.Valiatingara

s "

Luyy.

\Oﬂada! i

» B.Ponon, itin., Cannanore

giy Sh HM"

Asst. Cat. Ebenezer Bethel,

itinerancy, Chowa

E{é’fjiv o

Reyv.

St

figh S

17. Tellicherry. | Rev. L. J. Frohnmeyer,

Kallat, congreg.,

Congregation, Theological

Tedlickerry town

/

Anjarkandy,

Huttuparambu,

Seminary

and Training

Rev. Noah Edapalan, Nettur

qlll’ll‘ /,‘mz;]’,

School,

Chairman

and

Erinjoli.

Rev. Samuel Ambattu, Zo.

bl

Secretary of the Mission

1

Rev.

Cat. Cypr. Arunajalam, itzn.

i,

W. Bader, Christian

High School

» Daniel Edakadan,

”

: Gunjdjz"

Rev. ] Mavuve, Farsi High

» John Amengara, Clhrist.

School

High School

¢

[ (oM

» Lawrence Puvattur,

Rev. Dr. J. Meyer, Z%eol.

‘m]].iﬂﬂl

l

Seminary

Seminary

1‘)31 5

’“Zo'

i

Asst. Cat. N. Kalarikal, 72/2.

5

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

Il

master, Chr. High School

Chall

i/[}lf'/tf""y

N

16

o e

Stations

Native Agents:—

Stati

and

Pastors, Catechists and

European Agents

Christian Headmasters

an

Out-Stations

of High Schools

Out-Sta

@at.

Salathiel Soens, Maké

18. Chombala-

Rev. I. Weismann, congreg.,

3. Vani

Mahe.

Orphanage, District Insp.

Abia Edapalan, conrgr.

]

of Sclhoods

Mahé, Kandappenkundu,

”

Stephan Kalangarath,

lisaipy

iliner.

Badagara, Muveratty,

Rev. R. Schilling, ZZn. and

Trat,

Perambara, Nadapuram

oul-stations

”

Alphai Kallan,

”

Shoran

”n

Stephan Chattotu,

»

Asst. Cat. Elia Nambi,

n

Rev

Stephan Chandran,

1-9. Calicut.

1 Rev. J. Jaus, congregation

”

Gr. Renschler, #¢/n. and

€017§'7’.

—

Putiarakkal, Coilandy,

owut-stations

Rev. Charles Hermon, Zu.

Markat, Manjeri,

30 g

Malapuram, Annasheri.

Mr. J. Knobloch, High Sck. | Cat. Paul Selvam, Cal. congr.

Wy

Miss Anna Ehrensperger,

”

Isr

Chowalaur,

Futia-

Vdrtone

Girls’ School

rakal congr.

gy, Yy

Miss J. Metzger, ,

”

"

T. Valiavalappan, iézin.

Dr. W. Stokes, Med. Mission

”

Ignatius Jacobi, A. S¢/.

Miss L. Miller,

”

Lazar Kallat, Coilanrdy

”

Lazar Pavamani,

Mr. H. Kiihoer, #. M.-B7 ,

Sec. Agen? of the District |

Annasheri, itin.

Fr. Volz, Weav. Est.

Bethuel Poyayil,

B Ryt

O. Frohling, ,

”

Markat, itin.

ierrhaa@! s

'W. Bernhardt, 7. .- 5.

Devap. Amengaran,

Manjeri, itin.

mm) Hilg

W. Heckelmann,

kuma St

Tibe-Works

”

Joseph Hutten, ,

”

U

”»

Chr. Renz, Zailory

”

Abel Katuparambu,

Medical Mission

Miss E. Schoeider,

n

Asst. Cat. A, Pavamani, én.

Miss E. Raaflaub, language

Mr. John Kurian, B.4., Head-

master of l/l% High School

|

20. Codacal.

Rev. R. Bosshardt, congr., | Rev. Asham. Tumaran, Coda.

\

itin.

congr.

4

Paraperi, Ponani,

! K()tagn

Pallat, Chittatakara,

Rev. P. Sengle, congr. and | Cat. Isaac Amattil, Furaper.,

Chalasheri, Tritala,

Orphanage

Orphanage

thu,

Mullasheri.

Wl

Rev. J. Ruopp, language,

n

Isaac Laban,

7¢in.

i, Xﬂﬂ“

Schools

”

W. Mantody, fonani, ,

Tadﬂ"ﬂdx fil

Mr. Fr. Singer, Z%e-Works

Sal. Mackadan, Mulia., »

”

”

St. Parakandi, Crkiza.,

”

n

Luke Napalli, Ckala.,

n

i} Ootae&‘

» C. Kottavalapil, 77¢,

"

il

Asst. Cat. W. Martin, £al.,

”

%

sh'hra Tllle

Nllhh"a‘

s

AN

4

17

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§i~

Stations

Native Agents:—

sts and

nasters

and

European Agents

Christian Headmasters of

Pastors, Catechists and

0ols

Out-Stations

High Schools

——

s, Mok

Rev.

2]. Vaniyan-

S. Waliter,

congreg.,

Cat. A. Arangaden, Hosp:.

1, congr.

kulam.

itin., Chairman of the

”

Malabar District

Jos. Mantodi, #Zn.

angatilh

Angadipuram,

”

”

Rev

Jacob Chiran,

iliner,

Trikatiri, Ottapalam,

W. Miiller, langunage,

”

Elias Muthodan, ,

Shoranur.

schools

n,

”

Noah Benjamin, ,, 47g.

ttoly, »

”

Edw. Peter,

"

n

bl 5

Asst. Cat. J. Valiavalappan,

e

itliner.

andran,

[ﬂifgl'.

Rev.

G

Kihnle,

COJ’Zg?’Eg.

Rev. Timothy Parakandi,

mon, B

22. Palghat.

and itinerancy

Melparambu, congr.

Cal. congte

Melparambu,

Cat

Wadackencheri,

Rev. E. Hiller, congregation

Henry Menzel, Zalghal,

lur, P

and schools

rougr.

Panayur, Mankara.

abl

”

Z. Pilalcaden;

itin.

app"m’ iljil-

”

M. Simon, Wadacken., ,

obi, B b

”

D. Hutten, Fanayur,

”

{, ol

Asst. Cat. Satyarthi,

»

mﬂmv

yasherh 10

Cat

23. Kaity.

Rev.

Wi Eitze,

congreg.

Abr. Madia, Aeity con.

OWYH;

and schools

Kerehada, Salemuru,

n

Samuel Satyanathan,

Harkaly 1

Rev. G. Wieland, itinerancy,

schools

Woderu, Kokalhada,

engaril

Hunde, Nerkambe,

schools

Im. Jivottama,

”

o

Coonoor, Hulikal.

Mose Kari, Z¢iner.

ften, »

i}

”

Karl Satyanathan,

goantl

L

Cooly- Mission

zl’lﬂl

”

M. Kaleb,

”

il

lmmdni»

Asst. Cat. Is. Konga,

itin.

]Z:id‘

an'AU[

4

il

»

”

Is. Nerkambe,

”

yHig/'ZS

.

Umaraﬂ;

(:f:l.‘:-

24. Kotagiri.

Rev. G. Grossmann, congr.,

Rev. Jacob Kanaka, congr.,

ik

schools

Jakanare, Milidenu,

Orplanage

Ca.t. Henry Kodot,

itin.

i, A"

Honakore, Kukal,

Denad, Naduhatti,

”

Isaac Bella,

”»

0/?.%41{4?';"

il

Tandanad, Kotanad.

Asst. Cat. Mathias Bella, ,

“1

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I, it

»

”

Che. Ao,

n

i;m, Ml

i it

-.25. Ootaca-

Rev. Ch. Stier, /.

Cat. Johann Philipp, 7/47.

mund.

|

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»

Paul Mada,

»

:IaPil’

Tﬂ:'

Sholar, Tuneri,

Pﬂl‘f !

Nellakotta,

|

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Alresse

LTI DO ———

peple,

i God,

[

CHANGES IN THE AGENCY.

e th

ind eve

A. European Workers (cf. Tables pages 3—5).

ad stor

On the 381st December

1903 there were in the

field

g

84 Missionaries and 73 Missionary-ladies (64 Missionaries’ wives

tharge g

i atey

and 9 single ladies).

10 an gy

Departures to Europe: M and. Mrs. ErnsT, Mr. and

Sy,

Mrs. StamMm, Mr. and Mrs. MAyeEr, Mr. and Mrs. METz, Mrs.

Uil

KEPPLER, Mr. PETER and Miss KAUNDINYA.

Arrivals from Europe: Mr. and Mrs. EBLEN, Mr. and

B Alliye

Mrs. ErsFELDER, Mr. and Mrs. WIELAND returned from furlough,

e

whilst Miss MARGARETH BECK, Miss MARrA StTAHELIN, Miss

\lrﬂlﬂh he

EMMA SCHNEIDER, Miss ELiSE RAAFLAUB, Messrs. B. HUBNER,

Yooy

W. HAuN, Fr. STRAUB, O. FROHLING, further Miss KAUNDINYA

il

(now Mrs. HECKELMANN), Miss BERNECKER (now Mrs. HAFFNER)

TO\\'&I‘(

and Miss HERMANN (now Mrs. RENz) joined the Mission.

Our Mission in Canara lost one of its most experienced

The Rev.

ﬁ%]{?lll' Jjw

and faithful Missionaries in the spring of 1903.

Y Gl

Christian Keppler was born on the 12th November 1849 in

IS(er, W

10

Wirttemberg (Germany) and was sent out to India in 1879.

liy 183

He was stationed at Karkal, Mulki and finally at Udipi, and

spent the greater part of his Missionary-life as a itinerating

Tulu-Missionary.

(eg

Being rather of a practical turn of mind he

was very useful in taking up work, which not every Missionary

suowing }

would be able to engage in.

He started the Tile-Works at

s fy, f

Malpe in 1888 and initiated the Orphanage girls at Mulki into

agricultural work. In social questions he took a special interest.

mtel-} MY&

5

19

ST

But he was seen at his best as a brave and patient witnesé of

on bazaars and at Hindu festivals.

His

Christ in streets,

addresses, being plastic and lively, did not fail to attract

people, and he was also not lacking in that patience of a man

Much

of God, which is so highly appreciated in this country.

more than the derision and mockery of a Hindu audience

and even more than their personal attacks in the form of clods

and stones, he suffered in beholding a low moral and a low

religious standard in some Christian congregations he was in

he il

charge of.

His end came on quite unexpectedly.

Mr. Keppler

s VTS

had attended a Hindu festival at Perdur and went from there

to an out-station, where a Catechist’s house was under con-

M.

struction.

There he was attacked by fever and went homeward.

gy, M

Unable to stand the shaking in the bullock cart, the poor man

had to walk, fever-stricken as he was, for long seven hours.

The case

L. o

He arrived at Udipi at one o’clock in the night.

developed into an inflammation of the kidneys, and on the 26th

oo

March he fell asleep with a joyful belief in his Lord and

I, JII

‘_ THiBYE,

Saviour.

Much sympathy was felt with Mrs. Keppler and the

children at home.

e

Towards the end of the year two Missionary widows at

FLARREH

home, two sisters, who had spent a considerable portion of

J0D.

On the 29th

their lives in India, were called to their rest.

November died at Basel Mrs. Johanna Biihrer, the younger

The e

sister, who worked with her husband, the late Rev. A. Biihrer,

ol

g0

LE

from 1863-1881 at Mulki (Canara) and Kotagiri (Nilgiris).

By

n

I

her humble and unassuming spirit and her self-forgetting love

L'(hpi', w

she endeared herself to all those who had the privilege of

iﬁnel'mﬂg

knowing her.

She was tried, purified and led on to perfection

0

g it ¥

by the heavenly melter in the furnace of intense bodily suffer-

st

ings for five long years, and up to the last her thoughts and

o

prayers were with the Indian Christians at Kotagiri.—Her elder

yli 2

sister, Mrs. Susanna Ammann, the wife of the late Rev. J.

i |

3*

.

i g

20

Ammann (buried at Udipi), was in India from 1845-1866,

hand ¢

and belongs to a Mission period, almost forgotten by the

Supt

Mr. Ammann was one of the founders of

present generation.

alditio

the Tulu-Mission,

he was a prominent personality as an

the p

evangelist and as the organiser of the first Tulu-congregations,

il he

and his name will not be forgotten as the name of the first

Fthey

translator of the Tulu New Testament.

Mrs. Ammann, whose

(techi

heart was concerned about India through a widowhood of

Wemt

almost 40 years, died in California, where she stayed with one

lood,

of her sons.

She died within two months after the death of

The

her younger sister.

%

) 11

gt

B. Native Workers.

Iy

i

The number of Pastors and Evangelists was 26 in 1903

Lasterg

against 24 in 1902, and those of Catechists and Assistant

ety

Catechists

was 128 against 131

i 4902

some very

sad

H.l'. Wl@

dismissals being the cause of this decrease in number.

We

Duni]

are glad to say that, as far as our knowledge goes, no death

the

happened amongst our Indian workers during the last year,

Weflgq

although some of them have been heavily tried by the loss of

their wives (cf. chapter III, 3).

The falling off in number is

essalrt (h(

also partly accounted for by the still scanty supply of new

l Do

hands from our Theological Seminaries (only two from the

A I

Nettur Seminary and none from Kaity); but we are glad to

say that the days of scarcity are drawing to

an end, as we

b of

have in Mangalore and Nettur pretty full

classes

in our

Seminaries, and so we may hope that from

1906 onward a

yearly increase of Catechists may be expected

In all our districts the Indian workers meet once a year

for a course of instruction, conducted by the senior Missionary

L

of the district and some other assistants.

Thus from 14th to

31119 1)]

lp

19th December, to give an example from the Nilgiris this

"]},

time—the Catechists met at Kaity.

They had to write before-

ll@\x (h&tl]

y‘—‘*"x

&7

21

IS Ry

L5-1860

hand an essay on ‘The development of evil according to the

by {he

Scriptures”, which was then discussed at the meeting.

In

nders of

addition to this, time was given every day to the exegesis of

/

[

the Epistle of Jude, and in Church History the Church offices

and the Church discipline of the first period was taken through.

egationy

the fint

Further practical exercises were made in Church preaching,

n, Whos

catechisation of children, and on every morning the whole staff

hood ot

went out to preach in the Badaga villages in the neighbour-

hood.

with one

The number of our Christian Schoolmasters was 267 against

eath 1

253 in 1902, and there were 74 Christian Schoolmistresses

against 70 in the previous year.

In a similar manner

as the Catechists also the Christian

s 10

masters meet every year for a course of instruction held by the

Inspector of Schools or another Missionary appointed by him.

Assistanf

ey S

Mr. Wieland (at Kaity) last year went through the book of

Daniel and gave the outlines of a life of Christ in English;

1her. fie

o del

the criticism-lessons gave occasion to make remarks on the

Jost JE8

method of instruction and a small portion of Church History

el

was gone through.

The Schoolmasters too had to prepare an

et

essay, the subject on this occasion being a biography of Daniel

the prophet.

Iy Of 1

A little tea-party at the end of such meetings brings the

fyom {1

o gl

{

j

hearts of all present still nearer together, and in an unofficial

od, 8 e

manner important questions will be touched such as could not

be dealt with within the programme of the meeting.

g B W

!

II

EVANGELISTIC WORK.

106 0 o

1

Evangelistic work was encumbered with very much the

;\ﬁssimm*f

same impediments in 1903 as in 1902.

To the two districts

il

4 ?

fe

visited by plague (Southern Mahratta and Canara) was added a

i

new district, namely the Nilgiris.

As far as the majority of the

1te be

i

P

22_

ave

population is concerned, the rather pessimistic remark of a city-

missionary will hold true more or less for all districts and for

Trang

all times.

He writes:

“The rich are already satisfied, the

his, &

hit no

educated know already better, those working for their daily

flene

bread have no time, and the studying youths are already pre-

judiced.” Characteristic for the last year all over our own Mission-

nder

field was the increased activity of all the progressive parties

stonare

within Hinduism whose presence formerly had been scarcely

Als

perceptible.

Christian

workers

have every reason to wel-

LEW ¢o

come any movement of this kind.

It 1s true, most of the

fl

Ie ()

adherents of these liberal fractions in Hinduism, on the one

Poong

hand not satisfied with “the vain manner of life handed down

g ¢

from their fathers”, and on the other hand anxious that all

fle 1

»

progress should carefully avoid any thing like disruption and

tly, 1

move on national lines, seem to be lost to Christianity, and

e gg

they seem to take refuge in a Samaj and other societies to

ad hyp

escape the danger of Christianity. They will, however, willingly

b o

or unwillingly help to pave the way for Christ’s entrance

Ioble i

into their country. In Canara we hear from Mangalore and

1] gy

Kundapur, that prominent preachers of this persuasion have

by, |

been invited and tried to revive and organise these so-

g

called “protestants’” of Hinduism.

One Rev. Bhai Baladeva

i) the

Narayana from Bombay came to Mangalore, and a theosophistic

iy m

Ling

preacher came to Kundapur, where a vakil felt so much

gy,

strengthened in his faith afterwards that he felt confident to

15 Jomyy

inform the Christian Evangelist: “People in future will not

{ Yy

listen to you, because our religion is the first and whatever

we require we can find. in it.”

On the whole we hear that the

QUGS

he

poorer classes more readily hear the Gospel which since the

ﬁlse fea

days of Christ has been the case.

The higher classes sometimes

Mo g

shrink back from the ethical commands of Christianity, thus

8¢

unconsciously testifying to the moral superiority of our religion.

Ilann)

W

From Kasaragod, however, we hear that also wealthy people

(f tig A

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22

a iy

have become very accessible, and one of them said to our

nd for

Evangelist there: “We did not understand your manners up to

d, the

this, and so we were rather stiff when you entered our houses,

In the rural districts of Canara

r daly

but now you are our friends.”

y e

the new land assessment, it seems, has embittered those suffering

\[ission-

under it, against Europeans in general, and also German Mis-

sionaries are made to feel 1it.

paies

Our

scatcel

Also Southern Mahratta had its social conferences.

fo ek

new co-operators seem not yet to appreciate the work done by

of the

the Christian Missions.

The ‘Sharada Sadan of Ramabai in

fhe one

Poona was the cause of such a conference at Dharwar, and

ol domn

owing to the presence of the Collector the fling intended at

that dl

the Missionaries, who had been invited, was dealt out merci-

fon aud

fully.

The topics of this social reform on the whole were the

same as those at Madras, and it was refreshing to hear openly

ity il

and honestly acknowledged and deplored, what Missionaries

iefies 1

had pointed out during the last hundred years.

If all the

illngl

noble words would be accompanied by noble deeds, one would

epfranct

feel confident to speak about a morning-red dawning up over

lore

India.

At Hubli too a Shastri coming from Sikarapur in the

on hare

town-hall delivered 8 lectures on the perfections of Hinduism.

hese S

For the same purpose the Lingaits started a journal.

A clear

Balade\:ﬂ

and true statement of Hinduism, as it exists, and an earnest

()b()phl‘HL

endeavour to stir up the bulk of the Indian population from

40 lnulh

fdent !

its ignorance and apathy to religion we have every reason

il 0

to sympathise with, of course simply praising a by-gone phase

whate! ef

of the Indian religion, the life of which is extinet or the

embellishing of modern Hinduism with borrowed colours and

l fhat Th*’

Still

fe

false feathers cannot be called a legitimate business.

e

finé

more objectionable is the practice of some of our antagonists,

3()1119

g

who instead of telling us what they really know; abuse Chris-

i)

gl

tianity, which they evidently neither do understand nor know.

p el

Of this kind, it appears, was a publication of the Arya Samayj

py JF

24

circulated amongst the people at Hubli.—Evangelisation was

the w

again greatly hampered by plague in S.-Mahratta.

At Bettigert

They

and in the neighbouring country it was worse than ever before.

ilvays

if the

Out of the 600 inhabitants of Shagoti, we are told, not less

than a hundred died.

the Ch

Malabar again for another year has been wonderfully

of par

spared from the awful scourge of plague, although it is

lectt

The attitude of

endangered now from the North and East.

High §

Curon

the people in general towards Christianity has not changed.

On the whole our agents are kindly received everywhere in

A cony

the country.

A rude behaviour on the part of the Malabar

i they

people is very seldom; if it takes place, it will be in the houses

0 that

of Nayars and Moplas chiefly.

What our people complain of

jj

What

is not so much a spirit of great opposition, but rather a

(0mmy;

general indifference and apathy in matters concerning religion.

Very disagreeable is also a kind of passive resistance.

Some

e

seem to have found out that either by agreeing to everything

e,

that the Missionary and his people say, or by remaining absolutely

iy g

silent they can get rid of the matter in the shortest time and

Wl g

1in the easiest manner.

Happily the acting upon such methods

trut)

is not altogether left to man’s option; if God wills to speak to

Mogre

a man, he will effect finally an attentive hearing.

Also 1n

“The

Malabar our Theosophists and Samaj people have shown signs

RGN

of greater activity.

\

A Bengali-Brahman came to Calicut and

W b

delivered lectures on the Bhagavat-Gita, and great enthusiasm

ﬁl‘e 0 f

was caused by the lectures of Mrs. Besant, who came to open

nlal‘tl\vl,sl

the eyes of those to whom she belonged in her former birth

lplg

against the danger of religious ignorance and the danger of

Sy

Christian Missionaries.

This, however, falls outside of last

S0rgl

V1

year’s Report.

On the whole the attitude of the progressive

igml'ﬂm

party towards Christianity is rather friendly and in dealing

U,

with them, it seems to a sympathetic Christian, as if he would

One is reminded of

)

move in a partly Christian atmosphere.

g

AN

-

4

25

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the word of our Lord: “He that is not against you is for you.”

etigen

They exhibit a great respect for the person of Christ and are

hefre

always ready to pay a tribute of praise and honour to the Light

ot s

of the world, they take a kind interest even in the affairs of

the Christian Church and lecture us occasionally on the habit

derfully

of partaking of animal food.

At Calicut in the Vidya Shala

h 1 B

a lecture on Christ was given; the Manager of the Christian

tide of

High School was invited and allowed to give his opinion too.

hangel

Curious to say, our friends get mervous and excited, only if

here I

a conversion to Christianity takes place, and are greatly relieved,

Melabar

if they are in a position to report that it was only a rumour

or that the erring sheep has been re-admitted to his community.

o housss

What these

would-be-followers of Christ

will

do,

i the

1plain if

community in general would come to the same conclusion as

pather @

the Tiyyans at Tellicherry, namely, that Brahmos and sympa-

eligin

thisers with Christ are no Hindus any longer, remains to be

. Some

seen.

The convenient distinction between Christ and Christi-

\'er‘\'t‘llllﬂg'

anity and between Catholicism and Protestantism in Hinduism

oot

will scarcely be a permanent shelter for such as are of the

fne

ot: the

truth; but the time will come

when

our friends

| metho

progressive party will have to experience what the editor of

gpeak !

'

Also 18

“The Theistic Light”

(Calicut,

March 1904, No. 12) has

Tl

expressed so happily in saying: “Where was there a victory

own S

in which some men had not to bare their breasts to the enemy’s

i

ﬂicm il

fire or fall lifeless into the ditch? No noble cause but has its

afhusi?

p f0 Opl?ll

martyrs.”—It was a year of lecturing, the last year: also the

Moplas had their revival-preacher at Tellicherry who was

e B8

swrrounded every evening by crowds of people.

Our Moplas

(g i

sorely need to be enlightened upon their own religion, their

6 Ofl

s

ignorance being the greatest obstacle as to the propagation of

104! £

i\

Christianity amongst them.

deﬂhm

On the Nilgiris for a more effectual preaching of the

he ol

Gospel in those villages scattered all over the hills and in a

ndel?

4

26

et

SI01

part -of the Wynaad, a new centre of operation had to be

established.

A Missionary was stationed at Ootacamund, not

oty o1

to work at that place, which is looked after by other societies,

e ou

but to work from there in the Todanaad district and in the

11 then

f0 for

Wynaad until a more suitable centre of work will be decided

upon in the midst of these districts.

jou cal

@) As to the experiences of our itinerating Agents during

Frange

1903 we meet in Canara with the interesting fact that in

{ance g

Mangalore the adherents of the Brahmo-Samaj begin to imitate

0 that

Christian customs and institutions. Under the guidance of their

feel fhg

apostle from Bombay they introduced regular family prayers to

Ay 1

secure the coming generations for the new creed. Not only

auly of

that, women go about in the houses in the manner of our

e

Bible-women to get influence over the conservative female

Tty po

part of the community.

To bring the hearts more closely

ittent

together and to keep them warm, even the agapes of the ancient

ﬂlmg b“

Christians have been introduced.—Mr. GEKELER, the itinerating

0

Missionary at Mulki, found the hearts of the Bants to be

b

very hard.

The high moral demands of Christianity they do

Waﬂing

not relish; and to be saved by mere grace through the merits

% thyy

of Christ sounds to the ears of a Tulu audience just as it

g

sounded i1n the ears of St. Paul’s audience in

Corinth or

il 5

Athens.

With greater understanding they listened to a lecture

bty 1

on agriculture delivered by Mr. Gekeler.

The cock-fights offer

Uty

the great opportunity for preaching in the Tulu-country. Before

e

the fighting begins and before the passions of the people have

8 thy

been aroused, our messengers get a good hearing, and not

seldom 1t happens that the audience itself delivers our people

from a troublesome disturber of the peace by sending him

o hoy

away. Evangelist NaATHANIEL KUNDAR relates about a very in-

teresting conversation, conducted by a distinguished Konkani,

| lig i,

oy, Iy

at which about 50 persons were present. God, Christ, transmi-

0l

gration, caste were the topics discussed. After two hours’ dis-

Ll |

27

ol e

o e

cussion the chairman in summing up said: “It is true, there is

d, mot

only one God, and what we practice is in many respects wrong.

Clefes

We ought not to worship bhutas and demons, neither believe

n the

in them.

But we are scarcely in need of Christ.

If we were

Jecided

to forsake our idols and believe in the only true God, whom

b

When the

you call Jehovah, we might hope to go to heaven.’

Evangelist in conclusion showed them the necessity of repen-

durng

that 1

tance and of faith in Christ, a part of the hearers even agreed

Jmitate

to that.—Almost touching are the endeavours of some who

feel that the old wine has gone and who try to preserve at

of ther

any rate the old skins.

We are told that the holy Tulasi is

agers 0

ot aily

only of sanitary importance, that the lamps near it are lighted

i of our

in the evening to show people the right way to the house, the

The

, fomal

water poured down means only the watering of the plant.

reverential circumambulations round the holy fig-tree are no-

lostly

thing but bodily exercises.

Others indulge in jests referring

o anCI

ineratiy

to old superstitions.

One at Puttur says, “I have got all the

s fo b

bhutas in a basket up there in the chimney, there they sit

wailing and whimpering.” On the other hand, of course, there

are thousands who seem not to be aware that the world has

he el

changed during the last century in India.

A Brahmin near

st 881

()H.lﬁ’h 0

Mulki in real earnest assures the Missionary that his very

breath must needs pollute the surrounding atmosphere, and

g Jectut

another one near Puttur puts out his “beautifully shaped and

ghts Oﬁer

parted tongue” in proof of his divine descent.—Tragi-comical

. Bdﬁllﬁ

was the compassion of an old woman in the Puttur district,

e 1"

when the Missionary with his fellow-worker passed her house:

and ﬁOf

“Look at these two nice men,” she cried out, “two fine figures,

il

! p

80

look how they perspire and how dusty and dirty they are!

il

DO hﬂﬂ

i

What is all this for! Since I heard that you came here, I pitied

pl \el‘

you.

Leave this business; you can do very well without it.

People all say that it is useless and hopeless what you do, they

t Uau?l]

I

will not believe in your Jesus.

What a pity, what a pity!”—

otk

sdl

4*

28

AR R

v

oS

In the Kasaragod district a wealthy landlord has been exceed-

He erected a comfortable shed

mdole

ingly kind towards our people.

for them, very well furnished, and had friendly intercourse

Touses

with them.

Another one went so far as to encourage the

hiry

Evangelists in saying: “Do not be disheartened, if just now

Il Ihe

people seem to be refractory, they will all come some time

follow;

A

in large numbers.

Formerly nobody manured the tobacco-fields

Nprey

with fish ; one began, and almost all do it now.”

The Mis-

and

sionary said: “Why do you not make the beginning? you read

) o

the Bible and all our tracts in Canarese?”’

He said that the

Whergg

question of transmigration greatly exercised him in his mind.

Condipo

“Is there really only one birth, and is it sure beyond all doubt

() we

that there is eternal life after death?”’ he asked.

It is refresh-

Besinny

ing to hear a real big question instead of those dishonest so-

ey

phistries of such as care for nothing but for the prerogatives

In

of their caste or the tiresome idle tirade of so many, who inform

oy

us that Christ, Mohammed and Krishnan are all the same and

59

that every body should worship God according to his creed,

commy

unconcerned whether it is true or not.

Mr. JATHANNA of Basrur

0 they

met one of the latter kind, who said: “Itisinsulting, if Christians

I55g,

i

always say that only their religion is true.

Good things need

(i 1gy

not to be offered from house to house, people will come and

g

)

ask for them!” The KEvangelist replied that according to the

dlEam\

Shastras it is right to convince one’s neighbour of being wrong,

trg]

and as to the offering of good things people indeed come un-

@ oy

invited to the toddy-shops, but milk and butter are offered, walk-

ing from house to house. ‘A grim old man in the Kasaragod

The E\ :

district has even succeeded in defining the caste of our Lord

Jesus.

“Our Shastras,” he cried rather angrily, “tell us about

Of the 1:

your Jesus, that his occupation was that of a shepherd; a

Peraiy

guru of such a low caste I shall not accept as my mediator!”

Waty

Owing to plague our itinerating agents could not for some

On their

Ul

time preach in the bazaar at Virajapet (Coorg).

! fl‘()m th(

/4-"—"'\\

A\

29

SR TR

yeeel:

tours from house to house they did not pass by the houses of the

e she

indolent and proud Coorgs, and were pleased to find in many

100U

houses whole Bibles or New Testaments.

The defence of 1do-

ge fhe

latry, where it is defended, seems to be in Coorg the same as

18 0w

in the low country. At Gaje a Coorg brought forward the

f

1 T

following arguments:

(1) the gods are compared with the

co-fells

Supreme Godhead the same what governors,

comimissioners,

he s

and collectors are with reference to the King of England;

o eal

(

(2) idolatory is merely a kind of object-lesson;

(3) how and

that the

wheresoever we imagine God to be there He will be ac-

cordingly; (4) these gods help us in days of need and distress;

is mind

(5) we cannot depart from the way of our forefathers.—

11 ol

pefrel

Beginning with the 5th and last argument the preceding four

onest 8

arguments seem to be superfluous.

In Southern Mahratta and North Canara the reception

;r()%)‘ﬁﬁ\'ei

amongst the lower classes is all that can be expected.

There

0 IO

is a knowledge of the Bible spreading more and more in the

Same ul

country.

hi‘ Cl’({etl.

The Brahmins and wealthy people either keep aloof

Of Pt

or they stand upon a trifle in order to escape the matter at

1ssue.

s

Some who have gone to Mission Schools in their youth

An itiner-

i

can never quite get rid of the Christian influence.

ngs JE

i

ating Missionary met an official who was greatly troubled by

gome &

l

14

dreams.

He dreamt that he had died and had to stand his

N2 tO [h

=

trial before God, the holy and all-knowing God.

He saw a

g WOl

sea consisting of fire and whilst asking God for mercy he

come I

awoke. Now he wanted the Missionary to appease his mind.—

ol walkj

The Evangelist of Dharwar relates about a great disappointment

Kﬂwagmi

of the poor Hindus there.

To attract many people the gurus

Jli o

had promised that on occasion of the festival at Mandira the

s

prevailing drought would cease and all rivers will be full of

epherdi

water.

The gurus, evidently very deficient in the science of

ediet®”

meteorology, promised in vain: not a drop of water fell down

'}

fs”

from the skies.

The people were directed to another place,

OU [héf l

s

30

but with the same result.—The preaching-hall in the bazaar of

of (h

Hubli has proved a success.

People who find it disgracetful

Jests

to stand in the crowd at some corner of a street, come in

fxpert

and listen.

Mr. BeRrLI lectured four

times

on creation and

love

N

man’s fall.

Mr. SaLomoN DEvADA, the pastor, gave 5 lectures

lsepl

on the origin of the Bible.

The life of Christ was shown and

disciph

explained by

means of a magic lantern.

Mr.

Berli con-

Th

templates giving a course of lectures on temperance now.

nfhe

lenty.

In Guledgudd plague was very bad last year and no much in

Canng

the way of preaching-tours could be done during the year.

The same sad news came from Bijapur, where the fear of

Derieng

death was so awful that between the Hindus and Mohamme-

Sty

dans an exchange of their gods took place.

Hindus entered

oliceny

upon a contract with Mohammedan saints to be saved. The

bim g

Mohammedans took the money and then confessed that they

d ]0}

couldn’t help

in this calamity,

whereupon some of them

1(01 A fy

received a sound thrashing from the Hindus.

In such a time

him, )

the real value of a religion will be tested.

In some places

Whogs

the Hindus carefully compared the death-rates between the

atend

Christians

and non-Christians.

Although in most places by

mlffll ]

God’s grace and by the precautions taken by our people the

elebygy

death-rate was not so awfully high

as amongst others, this

ity

is not -the point, but we hope that our Hindu friends will

Q\'le\'thj

come to see that a real believer in Christ, even whilst entering

into the jaws of death, will triumph over death through Christ,

of fhe

who

is the

resurrection

and the life.— Mr.

BANYAN,

the

COUI‘[SO“

Evangelist of Honavar, shows in his report how Christianity

sometimes may be demonstrated ad oculos.

The substance of

4 (gt

a conversation was the following: ‘“Wherefrom came your help

g Hin

during the last famine?

The Indian princes did a little, the

ki

Ol

rich merchants enriched themselves still more through your

Wi\u& 0

poverty and desperation.

Luxury went on as usual.

From

Europe and America we got corn and money from the disciples

mode%y

r’%

R R

31

4

7aat ot

of Christ.

What reason had they to care for you?

The Lord

macell

Jesus in whom they believe is love itself.

His love they have

'

ome 1

experienced in their hearts, and thus in their hearts the fire of

love was enkindled.

should never

abuse the

on aud

Hence you

disciples of Christ, but rather become His true and faithful

Jectus

ywm aud

disciples.”

mh o

The Evangelists in Malabar were fortunate enough to travel

ce DO

in the length and breadth of the country without the impedi-

much 1

ments experienced in other districts.

A colporteur went from

Cannanore to Coorg and sold 145 Malayalam Bibles.

He ex-

he et

0

perienced God’s special providence.

In a wvillage the Moplas

, fear 01

ohame:

surrounded him in a rather threatening manner.

Suddenly a

; enfael

policeman, personally acquainted with him, appeared and set

him free.

o, Tt

On his return to Cannanore he gave an enthusiastic

and joyful account of his journey, and will start a second time

fhat ther

for a tour in this direction, taking this time 500 Bibles with

of then

'

him

Mr. SCHEUER, the itinerating Missionary of Cannanore,

o a e

whose

district includes

820,107 souls and 52,938 houses,

me plicé

el fhe

attended big Hindu festivals at Payyanur and Taliparambu.

When he and his co-workers preached before the walls of the

p}aces

Iy

celebrated Perumal temple in Payyanur, people listened very

enpe

attentively till some unmannerly fellows appeared and spoiled

thers, s

everything.

The audience, however, felt indignant and dis-

jends ™

approved of their rude behaviour.

In spite of great opposition

# etertd

of the high-caste people the reception on the whole was

i (st

courteous and kind everywhere.

In Pudiyateru a local dis-

NTAN,

fhe

turbance by God’s kind providence must have helped to secure

s

tianiff\:

I

a quiet hearing for our preachers.

The Moplas did not allow

1bstﬂﬂce ()

the Hindus to disturb our work. And why so? A Hindu had

quled

committed suicide and his people had buried him within the

s f

il

walls

of a Mopla-mosque

under construction.

Thus the

ouﬂh P

Moplas took the side of the Missionaries.

A Brahmin in his

i

l A

He

modesty declared himself to be God and hence sinless.

16

el

T

32

was questioned about the qualities of God, and whilst attribut-

asuf

ad tl

ing them to himself he mentioned amongst others also ommni-

science.

“Well, being omniscient”’, the Missionary said, “you

improy

Hopla

will be kind enough to give the names of the Catechists standing

before you!” TUnder the applause of the Moplas he had to

s ad

retreat.

In Walarpattanam (station “Azhikkal’’), one of the

house-t

citadels of the Moplas, a Sheikh coming from Coimbatore had

fious |

caused a split in the Mopla community and by preaching and

they by

so-called wonders he had won over about 3000 Moplas to his

1 Nopa

sect.

The orthodox party, greatly perturbed in their minds

ity be

about the matter, did not object so much against our preaching

aul g

as formerly, besides a Catechist by means of homoceopathic

other

medicines became popular amongst them.

Our agents were

I 10l

e

even invited to preach.—Besides at Cannanore, Taliparambu

and Payyanur a first trial was made by Mr. Scheuer with

b f;

lectures in English for the benefit of the educated circles.

Sy

In the fisher village of Tellicherry our Evangelist met a former

L6 \fy

candidate for baptism, who himself confessed that a sting in

I Yy

his conscience has been left and that he does not feel happy,

Ly

although he prays to Christ, holds family prayer and attends

filof ¢

the weekly bazaar-preaching at that place. He has got a good

knowledge of the Scriptures, but being sick now, he does really

not know what to do. Highly interesting and instructive reading

| Ihe P(

it is what Mr. SCHILLING, the itinerating Missionary at Chombala,

4 abat

writes about his experiences in all the different activities of an

g

evangelist.

As to bazaar or street-preaching he who remains

IO dea]

quiet in the midst of all kind of teasing, provocation and abuse

egegy

has won the day. At Payoli a Mopla asked:

“Is it really true

3(0]’]&3 k

“Yeag.

that your Jesus ascended to heaven?” Missionary:

ety 0

Mopla: “Will you answer me a question?” Missionary: “Yes,

if it is a reasonable one.” Mopla:

“Well, did Jesus ascend to

iy

heaven by means of a ladder or on horseback or how?” “Why

& 3y

no answer?”’ Missionary: ‘“In the Zabur we read: ¢Sit not where

bl

oy

,ﬂ*’%

33

b

a scoffer sits’; in the Injil we read ‘Shun profane babblings!’

) Ol

and the Mussulman cries out in the mosque: ‘Mockery and

d, “ym

impropriety let be far from us!” What shall I say then?” The

tandng

Mopla was confused and the Missionary had got a text for

As to

ad t0

his address, namely, he spoke on the way to heaven.

house-to-house visitations Nayars are often proud and contemp-

o of {he

fore had

tuous before one has opened his mouth, Moplas only after

hing

(

they have been addressed. But Mr. ScHILLING writes also about

s to IS

a Nayar, who had many questions on Hinduism and Christian-

ity, he listened to the word like a hungry and thirsty man

ir s

and accompanied the Missionary and his Catechists also to

jreacling

other houses.

The person of Christ and Christianity attracted

ceopatt

him powerfully.

““What shall I do, being quite alone?” he

asked.

For the time Mr. Schilling could only advise him to

iparambu

isearch for truth together with like-minded friends.—But not only

e Vil

Brahmins consider themselves to be without sin, Mr. RENSCHLER

0 s

;o fomne

near Manjeri met a Cheruman (about the lowest class people

in Malabar), who also claimed to be sinless.

He pretended

) sy !

never to have spoken a lie, never to have stolen even a hand-

¢l hﬂPPfi

ful of corn from his master.

But when he had gone as far as

e

this a woman cried out: “Will you even deny this? Oh how

of 8 g

often we have done this!” The polemic spirit of the Moplas

068 el

in the Ponani district, of which we reported last year, has not

" eadg

yet abated.

They collect money for employing preachers

ol

l

against Christianity and publish a monthly magazine intended

f16s i

to deal with Christianity in the spirit of Ishmael.

Their

0 remﬂiﬂs

exegesis of scriptural passages and their distortion of Bible

and i

stories baffles one’s comprehension.

Not so. bad is their

call tmi

version of creation: “A light is floating to and fro before God.

1e

16

Finally He happens to look upon it and the light begins to

1T

perspire and drops fall down.

The big ones are the prophets,

el

the small ones the remaining men; at the end the light itself

i

falls down and this of course is Mohammed.”

A Mullah wanted

10

e

5

34

ot Sl e

to cure a sick woman by a miracle in presence of our Evangelist

fo th

Mr.

CHARLES HERMON.

He failed in his exertions and now

husha

The

becoming furious he said that the presence of these Christians

has frustrated his endeavours.

The Catechists belonging to

een

the Vaniyankulam station visited last year the first time a place

lome

considered to be a very citadel of Hinduism.

Liow castes are

broug

not admitted there at all. A woman there said:

'

“(Oh that the

JIst

time would come soon which will set us free from the bondage

When

of the Nambudiris!” And a Nayar went so far as to prophesy

Swore

that a time will come, when with the whole country the same

with |

change will take place as with the hill, on which the Basel

took

Mission has settled down and which formerly was a habitation

threy |

of demons and robbers.

A rather amusing controversy took

1 Tudy

place in the Codacal district, where two Nayars led Mr. BoSSHARDT

Ji b

to a neighbouring house, where he would find people competent

Tih 18

to defend Hinduism. Arriving there, he was astonished to find

Axlopg

about 20 pilgrims, all having fastened a piece of tin on their

(ng

mouths and thus under a vow to be silent.

Their ears having

.y

not been shut up Mr. Bosshardt commenced preaching. When

of e

he finally exhorted them to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ

expla

instead of trusting in Subrahmanyan, they could no longer

the

stand it: they tore off their tin and began to cry and to beat

Wsfopy

their drums in a quite frantic manner. At Gurawayar last year

the Ba‘

a company of Tiyyar with their gifts was refused admittance

honozu,

there.

Angrily they went away saying:

“Thus after all the

th 1y

Missionaries seem to be right. God is no respecter of persons

(haractE

and the idol in this temple cannot be the true God.”

() JBre

As to evangelisation on the Nilgiris, last year plague was

a great hindrance.

The most inaccessible parts of the hills are

ay y,

the villages in the meighbourhood of Coonoor, owing to the

toddy-shops there.

How under the Badagas the women aré

]ak‘f\nal

treated may be seen from the following occurrence: A woman

Wag d‘

with two children, the wife of a prospering contractor, comes

35

gelit

to the Mission-house at Kaity and asks for admittance, as her

| nov

husband does provide her neither with food nor with dress.

1St1D8

The well-fed husband came and flatly denied all that had

ng o

been complained by his wife.

“The good clothes are all at

) et

home and I shall send for them,” he said.

The clothes were

6s ate

brought, but the woman said: “These are all not mine, they have

hat the

just now been borrowed from some neighbouring houses!”’

ondage

When the husband, laying his hand on the head of his son,

ophey

swore that he would treat her well in future she went away

with him.

8 SAE

As soon as they had arrived in their village, he

o Bl

took the children and the new clothes away from her and

threw her out from his house.

As a rara avis last year also

bitafion

a Toda came to Kaity; as he could not persuade his wife to

sy IDOk

join him, he returned. Mr. WIELAND was received everywhere

GSHARIE

with respect, and it is satisfactory to hear that people are so

mpetel

anxious to buy tracts.

Boys often run a long distance to get

o ful

one

Also Badagas have their problems: A Badaga asked

00 thel

Mr. Wieland: “Supposing there is a God, how can the eclipses

o having

When

of the moon be explained?” When a Catechist ventured to

'

explain the matter, he was very angry with him.

Even on

5 Chl'is[

the Nilgiris Hinduism seems to aim at a revival and at a

o long

restoration.

Mr. KaNaka, the Pastor of Kotagiri, relates that

{0 het

the Badagas at Jakanare celebrated last year a new festival in

s 1

honour of Jadeya Swami, the god of tufts of hair.

Besides

ttanct

R

the usual pujas, there was dancing on a heap of burning coals,

characteristic for this new festival.

The swami had once

f pepﬂﬂ

appeared to their forefathers as an ascetic, living in the jungles.

He was afterwards displeased with the villagers, disappeared

loue \\(1

and went to some “other villages.

Some time ago two men

polls &

were possessed by the spirit of the god and warned the

7 m Ih

Jakanare people to re-institute his worship, which accordingly

el u

was done

with eclat.

Mr. STIER, the new

evangelist for

i Omﬂﬂ

Todanad and Wynad, entered upon his work with great energy,

p ((]Hle

55

36

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but plague rendered it very difficult to travel about with the

Jressi

necessary freedom.

People would ask him,

when plague

jj

yery |

surrounded them:

“What shall we do?” His answer was:

|

punis}

“Repent, believe in the Gospel and place yourself under the

¢onso]

protection of the true and living God!”

heavil

;

In going through the reports of Evangelists and after that

s

home

through those of our Bible-women, it strikes one to observe

groun

that the male agents are inclined to make the conservative

bbb

fakir-y

women responsible for the anxious reluctance of so many men

walkir

inwardly convinced of the truth of the Gospel.

Very likely a

flme ;

good many of those belonging to the strong sex, if urged to

A oy

decide for Christ, take refuge behind the alleged conservatism

Tife o

of “females in the family”.

But our Bible-women on the

With g

other hand report in quite a similar strain telling us that so

Jou g

many women have decided for Christ in their hearts, but they

How

sorrowfully ask us: “What shall we do, as long as our husbands

iy

are in opposition to it?”

These two kinds of statements,

10 ady

contradictory as they seem to be, may be mere excuses on

O og

both sides or they may be equally true.

At Cannanore a

131(1 1

woman had already taken refuge in a Christian family, but

and }

after two days she was detected and had to go back. The

klllam

lady conducting the Bible-women’s work at Tellicherry relates

(0} pe|

about an amiable girl, only 17 years of age, who took a great

4 KQI

interest in God’s Word and felt unhappy to leave the place,

2 g

as she had been ordered to marry.

Thinking about her ap-

LT

proaching marriage, she would say: “I believe in the Gospel, but

ey

what am A to do?’

§

She was told to become a good and

Somel ]

faithful wife to her husband, to read the Word of God and to

tey il

be earnest in prayer, and God would show her an opening out

of all difficulties.

“ﬂlers (

And He did so! We were glad to hear that

th

her husband was favourably disposed towards the Christian

E g

o

g

religion.

For a New Testament which the lady sent her

oy

before her departure she thanked in the most touching ex-

\\'ent S

N

37

yith fhe

pressions.

Shortly after her marriage she came home being

- lage

very ill.

At the beginning she looked upon her illness as a

6 WSl

punishment of God, and oh how thankfully she received the

nder the

consolations of the Gospel for all those that are weary and

heavily laden.

God in His wisdom and kindness took her

fher tht

home to finish His work, as we do hope, on a more congenial

) QhseIve

ground.—The Bible-women at Chombala met again with the

servae

The woman

fakir-woman of whom we reported last year.

a0y 1}

walking on nails went out for a new pilgrimage, at the same

ey

time asserting her belief in Christ and declaring all idolatry

wged 0

a pious fraud.

The Bible-women at Calicut tell us about the

Servatsl

wife of a police-inspector, with whom they could associate as

) 0l e

with a Christian sister.

Her husband would say in jest: “I see

s that ¥

you will deprive me of my amiable wife by your instruction!”

ut g

How sad, that she suddenly died from cholera.

At Vaniyan-

ushand

kulam an awful accident gave our Bible-woman an opportunity

to administer the consolations of the Gospel by word and deed.

tatements

geuses O

On occasion of a Hindu festival an explosion of the materials,

ﬂﬂﬂﬂ@fé I

laid up there for fire-works, took place.

Many were killed

111111‘ l!\H

and those wounded were brought to the hospital at Vaniyan-

kulam.

ack T

The accident itself and the Christian love shown by

17 16

Jatd

our people made on some of the women a lasting impression.—

01\ ) 076!

At Kotagiri the conversion of a young woman may be called

the P

a direct fruit of the work of Bible-women. Our Missionary-

ladies and Bible-women, very often to their great disappoint-

f her ¥

I

ment, sometimes have to speak to men as well as to women.

Some men will not leave them alone with the women, sometimes

ool

10

they do so from suspicion and as a measure of precaution,

ol ol

1

others do it to give annoyance, and some take an interest in

enilg !

the matter.

The last class is always welcome, sometimes an

hedt

i

(k

Ik

i

old grandfather will explain the matter more fully and will

confirm the communications of the Bible-women.

A Brahman

g

it

g

went so far as to say to Mrs. RiscH (at Honavar): “Yes, yes,

i

38_,

whol

yours must be the true Shastras, for in them you find pardon,

the

peace and salvation, whereas we have only foolish tales.”

b) The Basel Mission always believed in Schools for

Stiece

Hindus as a power for the evangelisation of India. We value

A

the 1

the department of our Primary Schools out in the district

Of course more than in any other

(o

not less than anything else.

branch of work all depends on the Christian character of the

frien

Schoolmaster, who in many cases is the sole representative of

We fi

Christianity and who most of his time will be without control

thing

of 0

of his superiors.

Some stations (f. 4. Mangalore and Kasaragod)

have a whole net of such schools, most of them being Upper

Tnany

Primary,

some Lower Secondary Schools.

Mr

Lurar at

ey

Mangalore writes of one of these schools that it clears the way

f the

to the hearts of the people, who otherwise would be rather

HLUH

averse to the preaching of the Gospel.

From Kasaragod we

T

I6 1

hear that two new schools could be opened: a Girls’ School at

ff]

lb 1§

Hosadurga and a Boys’ School at Puttur.

At Basrur the teacher

(@ eg)

of a private and rival school with flying colours joined our

the N

school with 60 pupils.

Such alliance after a feud of long

heing

standing was

duly celebrated by a festival,

at

which the

e ¢

stomachs of the old and the new pupils were liberally taken

lake

into consideration.

Also at Beilur (out-station of Karkal) a

('ateeh?

new school with 95 children was opened for use with great

d {

sbolemnity. REight Hindu gentlemen delivered addresses on this

Whey

occasion.—Especially in districts where plague was prevailing

mﬂstel,

and the itinerating work could scarcely be carried on, it was

Dupils

a consolation that anyhow the children (at Guledgudd 200)

Qi

are not neglected, but get regular instruction. Of course in some

places, f.i. Mangalore and Bijapur also these schools had to be

t

closed.

T ouy

Some of these schools do really excellent work.

Mr. MoLLerR at Vaniyankulam reports on the Primary School

of Oy

at Trikatiri, ‘tha‘t the results at an examination of the Bible

f the

lessons were most excellent.

The boys were able to tell the

t

t 1gg

AN

[}

e L

ard

whole of a Bible-story; they had not to be helped, and related

the stories, not verbatim in the language of the book. Mr. Miiller

ols for

succeeded in the Lower Secondary School at Vaniyankulam in

o valie

admitting ‘three boys from the caste of shoemakers, although

istoe

the matter caused a little commotion on the first days.

Of

iy other

course, the work 1s not without troubles. Tenaciously our Hindu

p of e

friends cling to what they are accustomed. On the other hand

ative of

we find it sometimes difficult to make them persevere in some-

thing new. Schools are opened with great eclat and on account

oot

of some rival school they empty after a few months. A school-

saragol

manager at some places must be on the look-out for certain

g e

il

emergencies and constellations like a banker. A former master

{he v

of the Girls’ School at Tellicherry started a rival school, and

about 30 children left our school to come back after some time.

he T2t

The master in our Panchama School at Erinjoli, Dr. MEYER

pagol

tells us, has to lead the children almost every day to school

ool

o teache

(a real paidagogos).

Sometimes on having almost reached

el O

the school abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit and the poor master

being himself a Cheruman, may try with another one.

Other-

| of I

wise the school is really a factor of Mission work.

The children

WhiCh [‘ﬁf

take interest in the Bible-lesson, sometimes our itinerating

lly fi

Catechists stay there, questioning the children and seeing them

)

qith g

and their parents in their houses.

On the 20th December,

when Dr. Meyer gave a Christmas-treat to the children, the

master enjoyed a quiet day and had not to search for his

Pre\'ﬂih’ﬂ‘f

pupils.

At the end of the festival a child got up and with a

ol 1

f i

i

9

)

stammering voice he said: “We thank all the children in Europe

g‘ud

(L #

-

b

who contributed to make us so happy this evening, we shall

$ 80

try our best to honour and love the Saviour, whom we have

pad ¥ I

come to know in this school, in future more and more.” —Some

it |

‘01\

of our best Primary Schools are in a great perplexity on account

1y g

As

of the financial returns in connection with fixed grants.

fhe B

the receipt from school-fees must be calculated according to

il i

0

AR R

40

Government rates, which in rural districts are not actually

had

received and cannot be levied, in the very best of our schools.

of

Pars

there will be an apparent surplus of income, in consequence:

The

of which a well earned and an absolutely necessary grant will

be lost.

As it often happens with laws aiming at some misuse,

Jear

also in this case those for whom the law is intended will be

e

ingenious enough to escape it and the honest will suffer.—

thosy

On the Nilgiris, where village-schools form a very considerable

thm)

fully

part of Mission work, many schools had to be closed on account

of plague,

We read of a boy who on a festival left the place,

our

when the worship of the idols was about to commence.

The

(606

\

school at Konakore (Kotagiri station) is attended by a Irula

(eath

and a Kurumba boy, which is a rare case on the Nilgiris.

formy

The Manager of our High School at Mangalore, who is in

2y

the most trying and most difficult position of all our managers

fo

I

i

(

¢

of High Schools, is to be congratulated on the excellent work

US g

done by him and his staff, under the most discouraging

in hig

circumstances.

Plague did not interfere greatly with the work

the ge

last year, but there are so many flourishing rival schools at

Witeg

Mangalore, that a real success is quite out of the question.

Jea g

There are 48°/y Brahmins in the school, but all poor.

The

situation has become more difficult last year, as in consequence

by

of plague new Lower Secondary Schools have been opened out

0n g

in the district.

Of course the school has chiefly to suffer on

Wy

account of its being a Mission School, which is not the case

Dersoy

everywhere.

In view of all these difficulties Mr. PFLEIDERER

lt ag

1s the more to be congratulated on the very creditable results

GOVen

at public examinations. In the Primary Examination he passed

shi

10 out of 11 and 3 in the 1st class, in the Lower Secondary

hldia,

7 out of 11, and in Matric. even in this year of slaughter 7 out

0\'91’ (

of 14.—Towards the end of the year plague was again very

bad at Dharwar and 4 pupils of our High School there

succumbed to it.

of g

The new headmaster, a strict disciplinarian,

and p

41

ctual

had to fight his way, but he prevailed to the final satisfaction

schodls

of everybody.—Our High School at Tellicherry (the so-called

uent

Parsi High School) also in 1903 continued its onward march.

I

A

1t vl

l

i

The building is now almost double of what it had been two

DISUS,

years ago and what is most important, all this space is wanted.

illle

A reading-room has been opened, where the connection with

ffer—

those who have left the school can be continued. Mr. MAUE

ideralle

thinks that a good many of the pupils feel themselves power-

fully attracted- by the Gospel.

But, of course, the biggest of

acount

our

schools will

always be the High School at Calicut

o pltt

(606 pupils).

The school has sustained a great loss by the

0 T’I’f

g It

death of Joseph Verki, a Christian graduate, a master and a

He joined the staff of the school

I,

former pupil of the school.

21 years ago.

He was a painstaking master and always ready

o 1

mantgt?

to make himself useful.

But what endeared him especially to

ent 08

us was his sincere piety and humbleness.

There is an entry

30111'a§‘ﬁ'~3;-'

in his private diary on the 1st of January, which reveals to us

the secret power of a life devoted to duty and to God. He

fhe i

writes :

“Dear Lord, help me that this year may become a

chotls

year of joy and peace! Be thou always with us, for without

quegtin}ll‘.

0! The

Thee we never can be really joyful!” And the year indeed

became a year of joy and peace. He was born in 1880 and died

e

on the 29th August 1903.

Mr. KNoBLOCH once asked the boys:

gened ol

“Why can you not come to an inward assurance about the

Suﬁ'e!‘ [

person of Christ?” and one of the pupils was of opinion that

- the ¥

it was on account of the English Government.

The English

il

i

Government indeed needs strong shoulders to take the respon-

ot |

sibility for all what is laid upon her by our good people in

he Pﬂggeﬁ |

India.—There is a great demand for more High Schools all

sl

over

our

Mission-field.

Perhaps Southern Mahratta would

T |

'

have a first claim, as the district is somewhat behind in matters

g 1

g‘ﬂl

of education.

The people in Kasaragod, Badagara, Ottapalam

ol

fet :

and Palghat all would like to have a Mission High School, but

o }

6

42

i S

our Mission being a society of very limited means and besides

being

being engaged in almost all branches of Mission-work, cannot

of m

afford to give undue prominence to one Missionary activity.

and 1

2. As to the result of all these exertions, if nothing but

outward conversions are acknowledged as a real fruit of work,

seour

of course—considering the big apparatus of the Basel Mission

Himg

and the numbers of non-Christians on our field—the baptism

ied

of 146 adults (against 159 in the previous year) and 76 Hindu

1ol

children (against 121 in 1902) cannot be called a glorious

oo

result and a rich harvest.

Even if it all would be corn and

{hem

not so much chaff in it as there usually is, it is really very

W

little in the way of visible fruit.

We do value even this small

had |

number of conversions very much indeed, not only because

Temg

they mean the salvation of individual souls, they are besides

Ty ¢

a manifestation of the power of God contained in the Gospel.

mh ;

But on the whole the present work in India scarcely can be

(o

called more than a preparation of the hearts for the real

Missig

acceptance of the Gospel by the nation as a whole.

Looking

tate,

upon our final aim to win India for Christ, perhaps even more

s fh

important than the small number of baptisms is the change

{ s\\‘h

of mind which gradually as a result of Mission-work takes

he ¢

place in the population with reference to their attitude towards

(egj

Christ.

We hear from our Evangelists and Bible-women that

(e

especially in towns there are families in which they can speak

Aty

and have intercourse almost

with the same freedom and in

g

which they meet with the same understanding as in a Christian

Bt ¢

family.

This shews that the leaven of the Gospel has really

untlie‘

begun to leaven the meal. Our account of the reception which

the Gospel found on our Mission-field last year contained

g |

a good many indications in this direction. When in an assembly

turm

of Hindu gentlemen at some town in Malabar one of them

Hil]d\

made a contemptuous and silly remark about the Lord Jesus

Proy

Christ, another Hindu got up and protested against such remarks

o

=

beside

being made in his presence.

This is not only an exhibition

Canno

of moral courage, it is a confession of Christ (Matth. 10, 32),

i)

and it is a sign of a new time dawning up.

g bt

Again we hear from plague-stricken districts that this awful

f work

scourge had not the desired effect upon the hearts.

When at

Mlssion

Mangalore the daughter of a Brahmin, attending our school,

haptis

died from plague, the mother said: ‘‘Now I neither believe in

“To the

, Hind

idols nor in God, none of them could help me.”

Jomots

g

poor the Gospel is preached” and we are told that amongst

om Al

them it is in many cases appreciated.

At Karkal on Christmas

Hy (i)

14 persons were baptised.

All very poor people.

A youth

is sl

had heard the consolations of the Gospel and he brought the

[ecaust

remaining members of his family.

There was nothing in the

esides

way of outward attractions, they had to earn their livelihood

with their own hands.

Some would like to come, but they

Gospé

cannot yet see their way. At the foot of the hill, where the

¢ e

e 16l

Mission has settled down at Karkal, a youth was in a dying

state.

Tiookng

His people wanted to bring a sacrifice to the bhutas

as their last resort.

The youth implored them, not to do it.

el mt\l"f

“What I have learned up there in the Mission School is truth,”

changt

he said and then he died.

The father after that came and

§ fa

fowai

desired to become a Christian, his wife opposed him, his

el [hﬂ?

creditors threatened him, and in addition to all this he fell sick.

n 51] t&!\

After the Missionary had prayed with him he felt strengthened

and again he came and said: “I shall become a Christian.”’

ol

But the opposition of the others increased, nothing was left

st

Il

o

=

untried to intimidate the poor man, and so he is wavering still.

il

In consequence of the morally low conception of their Gods

and in consequence of Vedantism, consciousness of sin, the

i

turning point for a mnew life, is the one great difficulty with

lb\e

ml‘l‘

Hindus.

So it is good news, if an official whom his relative

i e

pronounces to be a lunatic, because he showed an inclination

[d Jest

towards Christianity, says: “Yes, indeed, if I do not get rid of

I‘Emﬂrk’;

Gvk

e

-+

my sins, I shall become a lunatic!” At Mulki even a Mohammedan

Jett

101¢

by listening to the bazaar-preaching awoke to a consciousness

of his sins, and he came to the Mission-house with his seven

hear

children.

His wife ran away and by his co-religionists he

ISy

was harassed with good and bad words so persistently that he

Warn

ad

thought his life in danger and with a sad heart went back again.

A few people could be baptised in Southern Mahraita. Very

feem

often, and this is something very natural and proper, Christians

old |

try to win their relatives over to Christ.

It is a sign that

have

ma

they are mnot disappointed and they feel responsible for the

souls of their brothers and sisters according to the flesh. Thus

I

from Kardenhalli (Guledgudd) a family came to Dharwar, where

Iy

their sister Christina lived. Abel and Rebecca, the new converts,

I

The

did not show a great understanding in spiritual things, but

they exhibited an uncommon sense for what is proper and

Conye

righteous, and they try their best to walk worthy of their calling.

00 the

i

Mohammedans very often do disappoint, but from the neigh-

16 ﬁ]

bourhood of Bijapur a Turk came to Dharwar against the will

the

of his father, but with his knowledge. e stays now in the

the D

Students’ Home and makes the impression of one rejoicing in

of the

the mercy and faithfulness of God. May God perfect the good

G

work begun in him! A very sad case is reported from Bijapur.

Whey

Last year we mentioned a man from Kunnur, in the neighbour-

the

hood of Bijapur, who had handed over one of his fields to the

back

Mission.

For some years we had every reason to consider

g

(

him to be a secret disciple of Christ.

Last year he made up

ﬂlel‘e.

his mind to confess Christ.

The Sunday was already fixed, on

liag g

which Doddappa was to be baptised.

On Saturday evening

hl\ lel

he told Mr. BRAUN that he could not undergo baptism. His

hith

friends had made a last exertion to shake his belief in Chris-

tianity and they had succeeded.

Strange to say, they did so

\\p

0

by introducing ‘the Babel-Bible question’: the Hamarabi-

Caliy

codex, Prof. Delitzsch’s lectures, and even the German Emperor’s

de(lm

.a""\"*

45

et

letter were employed to confound the poor man.

Of course

medan

I

none of them understood the question at issue, still less its

§ Seve

bearings on the Christian belief, everything was distorted and

misunderstood from the Hamarabi-codex down to the Kaiser’s

ists e

warm confession of Christ.

fhat he

But alas, it served the purpose

and Doddappa has not been seen since then.

His conversion

k aga

seems to have been after all a mere intellectual one, else an

1, Ve

hristans

old babylonian codex and a German Assyriologist would not

o i

have upset him.

As the Babel-Bible question was discussed

in a Bijapur newspaper with an absolute carelessness as to facts,

for the

Mr. Braun tried to set things right, but his article was declined

h, Ths

1, whert

by the editor.

Mundwus vult decipi!

comverty

Most of the baptisms of last year took place in Malabar.

The young Nambiyar at Nettur (Tellicherry station), whose

g}, but

conversion we mentioned in last year’s Report, was baptised

per il

on the 12th July 1903. His case was a matter of great anxiety.

r callng

16 neigi'r

The first excitement having been over and a nasty inroad into

the Mission-compound having been repelled, we hoped that

e il

the poor boy would be left alone now.

But on the evening

\ m Ih@

of the 26th April he was enticed by an old friend and forcibly

olcng i

carried off. For some time we did not know anything of his

e g0

whereabouts and the authorities could not help us much in

B

the matter.

He was detected after some weeks at Calicut, came

jgbott

back and after having been hidden for some time at Chombala

s o O

and Palghat, he ventured to return to Nettur and was baptised

C()HSMEY

there.

We earnestly hope that after all the tribulations he

mﬂlltt hp

has gone through and after all the trouble he has given to

ﬁxed- o

S

his relations and to us, he will grow in grace and turn out

i

a faithful disciple of Christ.

The greatest number of baptisms

m

took place at Calicut.

Of course, these are not all to be looked

iy (b7

upon as the outcome of the Mission-work done at that station.

Calicut is a convenient place to go to for all such who by a

it

decisive step will lose their livelihood and do not know what

e

46

to do.

A big family, consisting of 20 souls, decided for Christ

e e

at Tellicherry. For obvious reasons they found it too difficult

LEVer

to take the decisive step at Tellicherry and went to Calicut.

And

But apart from these Tellicherry people, Calicut had a rich

Im th

harvest from its own field.

At Annasheri the house of Catechist

(rmam

LazArR was consecrated to become a centre of much blessing

fth-

in that part of the country.

Moplas were present and were

agad

pleased to hear the bell rung as a time-keeper for the surround-

2 Tell

ing localities.

The greatest and most bitter opponent of our

there,

work there died suddenly and his wife at once joined us; the

knew

endeavours of her many enemies to ruin her socially proved

had

all abortive.

Also a family of Cherumars consisting of 5 souls

lie e

came to Annasheri, and about the same time also a Brahmin

10§ fee

appeared.

He had been engaged formerly in carving idols,

Self-sac_

and behold, now during his stay at Annasheri he works with

et

his hatchet as diligently as any ordinary son of this earth.

Stlog]

The family who came from Tellicherry belonged to the Vannan-

the ()

Dr, )

caste (the women wash, the men are sorcerers, ph}fsicia.ns,

tailors and schoolmasters).

One of them, whose name was

Dasse

Chantu, had been a schoolmaster.

At this time he heard

emply

Mr

PrrER (itinerating Missionary at Cannanore) teach at his

(‘hum

school which seemed to have made an impression upon him.

g |

Whilst candidate for baptism his wife was enticed by her

St

relatives at Mahé and carried away.

Being over-cautious they

help b

did not take the train, but travelled by boat, so that by means

lve £y

of telegraph and railway they were overtaken and the woman

was -regained by her husband at Badagara.

Chantu (now

a g

Satyavratan) is undergoing training asan Assistant-Catechist.

Mgy

At Calicut even a Badaga youth, who had accompanied a

tngyg

soldier’s family, was baptised before he left.

He had shown a

Went ¢

real desire for salvation:

Instructive as to the ideal of Indian

Loy

sinlessness is the following: A Nayar appeared as an inquirer.

ace

He was quite in earnest, when he assured the Missionary that

N lle

4

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47

(Chnst

he never committed any sin, except perhaps in a former birth,

fhcalt

never a bad word or an impure thought occurred to him.

allet

And the same saint on the following day absconded, taking with

A 0

him the wedding-suit of his neighbour and the golden nuptial

techns

ornament of his neighbour’s wife.

And all this in his present

lessng

birth!—Some sensation has been caused by the conversion of

1 e

a graduate, Bappu is his name, at Palghat.

He is originally

ot

a Tellicherry man, belonging to a well-known Tiyyan family

of our

there.

It was not a sudden conversion, and for such, who

15 ﬂl“

knew him, it did not happen quite unexpectedly. His father

P

L0V

had wished to become a Christian, and lying on his deathbed

5 sl

he encouraged his son to carry out what he, the father, did

The mother led a life full of

il

!

not feel himself equal to do.

0 1&101

self-sacrifice for her sons, to whom she desired to secure a good

education.

g Wil

Bappu was a student in the Basel Mission High

g e

School at Tellicherry up to Matrie, and afterwards he read in

the Christian College in Madras, where the Bible-lessons of

qnnl

Dr

MmLER made a lasting impression upon him.

Having

passed all his examinations with great distinction, he was

e hIf

employed in the Calicut High School of our Mission and in the

ol

el

Christian High School on Nettur, was Supervisor of Schools for

ot

some time, and finally became Headmaster of our Lower

00 il

i

Secondary School at Palghat. The obligation he was under to

by |

help his mother in the education of his younger brother and the

s 4

love for his wife and children made him hesitate for a long time.

y e

1 011]3”

But his brother having passed his B. A. examination he appeared

H(\“

I\

as a candidate for baptismi.

Partly to avoid unnecessary

i |

al I

ol

sensation and partly on account of his mother, the family

»Hﬂled :

consisting of Bappu, his wife, two sons and two daughters,

went to Calicut, where on the 20th December they were baptised.

[0 !

From there they informed their mother of what had taken

f ol

Il

place, and on their return to Palghat she was only sorry that

il

she had not been informed of what was going on.

Exertions

i ot

S AL Gy

48

were made by the family to gain Bappu, whose name is now

those

Timotheus, back, but we are sure that one who has really

hous

Anan

found Christ can never be happy without Him.

fhe

Mr. LiuTze at Kaity on the Nilgiris feels very sorry about

a young man from Ketore, who was a candidate for baptism

IV

and had given great satisfaction.

His relatives left nothing

Kark

untried to get him back, but even their law-suits failed.

So

qly

fom

they had recourse finally to a devilish stratagem.

Messengers

came and told him that his younger brother being on the

hou

point of death longed to see him once more.

Now, this i1s a

fal

rather common trick, and the actors must have played well to

he

deceive him.

He went to see his dying brother, but never

Kong

returned.

§thog

Christians have been warned not to enter that

village, as they would be sorry for it.

So the case 1s rather

clear.—At Tuneri Mr. STrER has been privileged to baptise a

Bl

few Badagas.

In August the parents of Cat. PAUL were

L ¢

o |

baptised, he himself having prepared them for the holy rite,

which must be a quite overwhelming matter to a son.

A girl

BV

had come from Ebanaad, but the raging tumult of about 60

S

Badagas who came to force her out again, the poor girl was

Cong

not equal -to resist.

sty

ahoy

I

THE NATIVE CHURCH.

Pag

1

The Church has increased by 440 souls (last year 411)

L}

tl

and counts now 15909.

The increase is due to an admission

e

of 222 souls from outside, and to an excess of births (668)

)

over deaths (435).

The death-rate is rather high, probably due

U

0pe

A)

to the unhealthy condition everywhere, at some places also to

ht‘, W

plague.

ht Wy

Not a sign of an outward increase of the Church but

Jnem

otherwise a very necessary enlargement was the building of a

o

new Mission-house and of an Orphanage at Anandapur.

The

tbg

new house is built on a hill, and we are exceedingly glad for

the

&

LA

49ﬁ

'

15 00F

those, for whom it did not come too late, that a healthier

s 1eally

v

house on that feverish place will make Mission-work at

Anandapur more efficient and more agreeable.

At Karkal on

7 abou

the 22nd March a nice little church

was dedicated to the

bapts

service of God.

Once the heathens used to say:

“You ab

nothing

Karkal have not even a house to worship God in, you have

o, 0

-only a stable.”

May this pretty church, rising up as it seems

o

Nbenut N

from the green waves of a refreshing grove, serve as a light-

The Calicut

on 1t

house to many a weary and hopeless traveller.

t

IS 1§ d

station has got a new cemetery, far away from the town, and

| yell

the old one in the midst of this city had to be closed. At

Konakore (out-station of Kotagiri) a house for a school and a

15 2

1t

schoolmaster was built.

for

2

Educational Institutions of our Church. Not much

iy !

is to be said about our Congregational Schools.

We should

apIse i

like to keep our Christian children at school up to their 13th

f el

or 14th year of age.

We have not yet succeeded in this

A

il

|

everywhere.

Either we must have for this purpose a Lower

0

Secondary School for each congregation or, as it seems to be

ébom ]

.contemplated by the Educational Department, the course of

girl s

instruction for a Upper Primary School must be lengthened by

about two years.

The position of a Christian master in a

One of the

Parochial School is not always an enviable one.

.veal' .ﬂ“

weakest points in a new Church seems to be the family-

education of children.

If a boy gets well-deserved punishment

s

at school in England or Germany, he will behave exceedingly

s (i

properly and will be uncommonly quiet at home after that,

ally 0

e

he will not think of complaining or crying about the matter,

g ol

0

he will be very thankful to his classmates, if they do not

mention the matter before his parents, or if the master does

\H(h b

not call at his house about this time, for he is in great danger

ing

to get an additional flogging at home.

Not so with many of

il

the parents in our congregations out here.

The boy enters

O]ﬂd il

1

B

50

his house as a martyr.

The father feels imdignant that the

time,

master has been so rude as to lay his hand so heavily on his

a i

immaculate offspring. Without much inquiring into the matter,

Hea

merely trusting into the account given by his son, he will go

for th

and abuse the master, or, if he is an educated man, he will

Ivite

write an indignant and offensive letter to the master.

Thus

e’

masters in such schools very badly need to be backed by the

peak

authority of the manager or of the pastor of the congregation.

pupil

Hindus by their “gurubhakti” are not so much liable to fall

there

into such a mistake, but one does not see why Christians

adm

should not show

rather

a

more 1intense and more sincere

the 1

A timid master

or

one

gurubhakti than mnon-Christians.

bays

lacking in moral courage under such circumstances will be

them,

intimidated and the discipline of his school must suffer.

Let

I by

us hope that such parents as have been described above, in

QHOUg

proportion to their more fully realising their great responsibility

o ()

as Christian fathers and Christian mothers, will get rid of all

00 g

those symptoms of childish weakness.

fromy

Last year (1902) the Canara Orphanage for Girls at Mulki

the ¢

was surrounded by all kind of diseases, in the year under

With

report the unpleasant guests entered the institution.

In the

(rag

spring there was an epidemic of measles.

Some were sent

g

home, two of whom unfortunately died, others came back

Stoy

apparently

convalescent;

then they began to suffer from

of

after-effects, but by God’s help and the medical skill of

ladg

Mrs. RiTTER they recovered.

The Orphanage also in another

&ﬂm

case- experienced God’s special providence.

About 150 feet

Lay

distant from the Orphanage is the well of the institution (about

t'“'() ‘

50 feet deep).

Sabine, one of the bigger girls, when quite

meQ(

alone, fell into the well and nobody knew about it, nobody

at B

happened to be occupied in that part of the compound. It

feart

was fortunate that she could swim, but ﬁnding nothing to take

Ty,

hold of she was gradually becoming exhausted. After some

Of ag

£

51

b the

time, which seemed to be an endless time to the poor girl,

m s

a Hindu happened to pass by and heard her cry for help.

QUEY,

He alarmed others, and the girl was rescued.

A great festival

il g

for the whole school is the day on which Joseph from Taudlachil

i vl

invites the Orphanage with its whole staff to taste his “new

Th

rice”’, which includes a lot of other delicious eatables, not to

b the

speak of coffee, the modern ambrosia of India.—15 of the

il

pupils in the Boys’ Orphanage at Udipi joined the High School

fo fall

there, others took up different handicrafts.

31 new boys were

S

admitted, so that at the end of 1903 there were 97 boys in

since

the 1nstitution.

Mr

SCHOSSER wonders sometimes that the

o1 016

boys are not more naughty, which of course he will not tell

ull

|

13

them.

What he means to say is this, that they are lacking

i

in buoyancy of spirit, that they are not frolicky and boyish

ove, 1

enough; some do not like even to jump about and play.

The

bl

two Orphanages at Anandapur would have suffered a good deal

1ol i

on account of the sickness of Mrs. FiscHER, had not Mrs. VEIL

from Mercara been kind enough to come down and look after

il

the children, which she has done with great devotion. A child

undﬂ

with whom uncleanliness had become a habit and upon whom

h] Iht

drastic measures had lost all effect, Mrs. Veil cured first by

attracting the boy and gaining his confidence, telling him Bible

) bﬂck

stories and other stories and thus having strengthened his power

. fon

of will, the promise of an extraordinary Christmas present was

made in case he would get rid of his evil habit.

One of the

il ¢

children said: “Oh, I myself feel disgusted with stealing, but

/

I am too weak to resist this bad desire!” The children in these

( abo

two institutions have plenty of out-door-work on account of

the coffee and rice-cultivations at this station.—The Orphanage

: : quite

at Bettigeri had an anxious time last year.

Plague was raging

whﬂdy

fearfully at that place, and also the Orphanage did not escape.

d J

Two boys died from plague, one of them, a child seven years

of age, belonging to the shepherd-caste, often cried in a delirious

g

7*

52

state: “Father in heaven!” The children, although surrounded

i

by death, were not much troubled by cares and lived on merrily.

Sdl

Some Hindu boys have been admitted, one handed over by

Th

the Collector.

It 1s always an uncertain matter with such

Ina

strays: they are accustomed to vagabonding and prefer this

U}

with all its miseries and dangers to a regular mode of life.

One of these, an amiable child otherwise, having been cured

a

and properly fed, disappeared, another one did the same, but

Ko

not without making the necessary provisions for his long

The

journey.—The Girls’ Orphanage at Sumaddi, near Guledgudd,

al

was in the same danger, but no death from plague occurred.

the

Sometimes the orphans are visited by their Hindu relations

5§

and not always with a good intention.

On the other hand

leay

this gives also an opportunity to offer salvation to such people.

10§

A new curriculum has been introduced by the Educational

il

Department of the Bombay Presidency, in which prominence

10 1

is given to the object-lesson and a more rational method in

o

needle-work.

The girls have taken to the latter with great

W0

nterest.

The children are happy and show also signs of

g0l

gratitude.

They are always ready to contribute from their

Ma

pocket-money a little to the Mission or to the Bible Society.

hrg

At the public examinations they did fairly well.—The case of

hag

the Mopla girl in our Orphanage at Chombala, mentioned

M

in our last Report (the child was claimed by her mother after

Jea

six years, as we have reason to believe, for immoral purposes)

Camg

was decided in the District Court in favour of the Mission and

froy

for the good of the girl.

An appeal has been lodged against

bt

this decision before the High Court.

Of the Boys’> Orphanage

at Codacal (Malabar) Mr. SENGLE reports that the school has

chi

Ve

been raised to the standard of a Lower Secondary School, which

With

will enable us in future to teach able boys up to the Lower

ap

dl

Secondary Examination so that they may enter either the

Training School at Nettur or the Christian High School there.

ey

e ]

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nded

Mr. Sengle also made a beginning with a Dhoby or Washermen’s

|

School and

(9}

~

boys undergo training under a Hindu Master.

)

The boys have taken cheerfully to it, and if they persevere, we

such

may hope that they will earn their livelihood by a work, which

r {hs

up to this has been taken up only by Hindus and Mohammedans.

f e

We have nothing to report this year of the Boys’ Orphanage

aned

at Kaity (Nilgiris).

The Girls’ Orphanage for the Nilgiris at

g b\‘t

Kotagiriwasunderthe superintendence of Mr. and Mrs. GROSSMANN.

Jong

The younger girls attend the congregational school, which is

rlgudd

a Lower Secondary School.

The official language is Tamil,

fllile

i \

the children’s own language in most cases is Badaga, Canarese

Jafion

is the church-language, and a little English they have also to

o

learn at school.

So their linguistic faculties are apparently

ol

not neglected.

Those who enter the institution as grown-up

ationt

girls are taught Canarese by the matron so as to enable them

nence

to read their Bible and Hymn-book. Besides they have plenty

thod Il

to do with needle-work, cooking, gardening, gathering of fire-

) gl

il

wood and other domestic work, in which, of course, the school-

0718 0

going children will assist them in their leisure-hours.

A widow,

) Ihfh

Madi is her name, from Milidenu, entered the school.

Her

)00

161}

brother came before and died in January 1903.

The mother

s !

had prevented her for a long time and wanted her back, but

Il

100¢ I

Madi was firm, and she is an able and diligent girl (about 18

ol ﬂt[{“

years of age).

Another woman, won by the Bible-women,

s

came from Kerebetta, the place where our first converts came

i OH (uhl

from. Her husband often talked about his becoming a Christian,

but always hesitated; finally Belli, his wife, went alone with her

ﬂo’ﬁﬂ‘

hands*

child.

The husband took both back again.

When Belli again

ol 1

went to the Mission-house he followed and even drank coffee

with the Christians.

it

The relatives, however, persuaded him

again and so he married another wife.

Belli has now lost all her

ngl

relatives, but she has gained Christ.

The wild twins, of whom

ol m"

fhet

we related last year, have now been tamed and baptised.

54

AR

In Southern Mahratta we have not yet a Christian High

6

School, but in connection with the High School at Dharwar we

fuf

have the so-called Students’ Home.

Three students went up

00

for Matriculation, two passed.

Three students were admitted

Ui

to the Theological Seminary at Mangalore.

In a place like

fa

1

Dharwar much opportunity can be given to the students to

enlarge their general knowledge and to widen their spiritual

1

horizon.

They heard lectures delivered at the High School

10t

and in the Government Training College, they attended the

il

ne

services in the Church of England and listened to the addresses

of Mr. W. H. Stangs, an English Evangelist, and to the beautiful

{04t

songs and the violin-playing of an Indian Evangelist. There

edr

were entertainments

by means of the magic lantern and

onl

Mr. ScHIFFLER also gave startling accounts of his journeys on

Sig

the bicycle round the

world. Excursions were made and

!

cricket-matches were arranged with the students of neighbouring

10

schools.

When Mr. ErNsT went home, the students in his

Chr

honour gave a performance of the history of Joseph in living

far

pictures, which was a very good idea indeed and gave general

of

satisfaction.—The Christian High School at Udipi did very well

ag

again at public examination.

A real treat it is to hear the

We

students of this flourishing institution sing.

The compiler of

th

this Report had the pleasure of hearing them sing in December

un

1903 and does not hesitate to say that he never before had

Son

heard such excellent singing in India, even within the Basel

for

Mission.

These musical achievements are still more to be

fe

appreciated, when we hear that they are the result of private

the

efforts on the part of a Christian graduate who is a Master of

Owy

our High School at Udipi.—The Christian High School at Nettur

the

(Tellicherry) had its building considerably enlarged; there is

in ¢

also an increase in the number of students, especially if we

Xq

look a few years back; in 1898 there were 94, there are 194

now.

Lt

We hope that the results at public examinations,

the

A

55

Hioh

especially in the Matriculation Examination, will be better in

IR

future.

To a large extent we are in this respect dependant

Ll

on the material sent to us from the district.

Mr. BADER, the

[t

Principal of the institution, bears witness to the efficiency and

ce lle

faithfulness of his teaching staff. He is very much pleased

ents

with some of the Hindu students who show not only an interest

xplll{‘dﬂ

in the Bible-lesson, but who are anxious to get an insight

VALl

into the pragmatic connexions of the history of God’s kingdom

led

pll 1l

on earth.

As to the Christian boarders Mr. Bader found it

ddr

(poe

‘‘‘‘‘

necessary to make the first year after admittance a year of

eattl

trial in order to get rid of boys who are utterly unfit for higher

1l

education.

It seems to be abnormal that out of 60 boarders

Pl o

) Al

only 5 belong to Calicut, the biggest Malabar station. A hopeful

e

S0

sign it is that the boys in general are no longer satisfied with

a pass at the Lower Secondary Examination, but are anxious

il

Je i

{

to continue their

studies.

It cannot be denied that our

hourmé

Christian boys have begun to realise their situation and show

o 1l

i I

tar more diligence and energy than formerly.

In the 3 classes

Wi llete

of the High School department Greek has been introduced

pery

again last year.

The Students’ Prayer-meeting for Mission-

work is still going on, and the boys are anxious to contribute

peat I

their mite to the Mission. The High School for Girls at Calicut,

pl

et ¢

under the management of Miss EHRENSPERGER, had a trouble-

)e(tlllw |

sSome year.

There was difficulty in getting Christian graduates

fore) o

for the higher classes, and owing to this the school failed to

e B

; w 4

get the recognition of Government.

People, who had signed

the petition for a Girls’ High School, did not even send their

v |

own children.

Otherwise Miss Ehrensperger is very hopeful for

o5

for (!

the future.

A Hindu girl in the 1st form got the first prize

it A

»

in the Bible-examination.

There are 190 girls, who after the

fhere

examination for promotion, when the school was closed, got

H‘ i it

19 ](11

little presents, provided by a Ladies’ Committee at home; so

there were no tears on that occasion, not even from the eyes

ll

il

o

56

of such as could not be promoted.—The little High School at

0l

Kaity suffered somewhat from the plague prevailing in the

Y

distriet.

Mr

th

LtTze, the Manager of the school, lost two

valuable assistants.

A Hindu graduate, who was so much

118

initiated into Christian literature, that he even read Merle

Th

d’Aubigne’s History of the Reformation, vanished without leaving

dk

a trace, and his able successor had to resign in order to continue

1

his studies for M. A. The boys of the Matriculation class had

01

to appear as private candidates last year, one Christian Badaga

il

boy passed. Of the Christian boarders in this school we read

Di

that they wash their own clothes, that they gather firewood

Th

and that they do on the whole a good deal of manual work. They

all

also contribute from their poverty to the Church-building Fund at

Kaity, and many of them pinched themselves in their daily food

yes

to join in the thanks-offering on the Bible Society’s Centenary.

I

The report of the Theological Seminary at Mangalore has

gy

not yet been published.

The classes are full again, and this

offi

year an examination took place and a few students were

Whe

consecrated to their holy office.

The Seminary is very regular

T

in bazaar-preaching.

Such of the audience as seem to be

10

attentive are invited by Mr. HERMELINK to come to his house,

6X;

an opportunity of which they but seldom avail themselves.

ye

A Mohammedan preacher gave trouble for some time; by help

u

of the police the preachers got rid of his molestations.—From

]

the Theological Seminary on Nettur-hill in March 1903 only

one Catechist and an Assistant Catechist passed their examination

and - were

Chay

consecrated for their work by their Principal,

de(1(

Mr. FROENMEYER.

There will be two small classes for two

9

Al

years to come and then we will be able to send out from 3 to

4 Catechists every year, which will be quite sufficient for our

A

work in Malabar. Four students from the Christian High Schools

Cauty

have been admitted at the end of the year.,

One is a passed

1§ th

Matriculate, as on principle all our students in the Seminary

Wy

Ny

il

ought to be; another one was expected to pass, and we shall

the

give him another chance this year.

We are very thankful

o

that the Christian High School from which our Seminary recruits

much

itself, has begun again to teach Greek; for our table in the

Merl

Theological Seminary is so crowded with theological subjects,

that we really are at a loss to begin with the fundamental lessons

AvILg

e

in Greek. Besides for the Exegesis of the New Testament one

The

W hﬂd

ought to know some Greek before joining the Seminary.

ol

students conducted by the Catechists of the station and by

o el

Dr. MEYER went out on Wednesday evenings for street-preaching.

They conducted two Sunday Schools, and once or twice a year

el

They

all classes attended some Hindu festivals in the neighbourhood.

Tndat

The Training School on Nettur has done well in the last

y ol

year.

Our first assistant, Mr. SATYANATHAN, is the right man

in the right place, and almost the whole of what the depart-

tenall:

AL

ment requires, is laid on his shoulders.

The departmental

ad 8

officers were pleased with the working of the school and the

whole appearance of the students.

Our course of training is

§ el

two years, as we have to teach a good many subjects in addition

I egul&l

to those prescribed by the department.

There is a Mission-

o e

1

joust

examination in religious and other subjects at the end of every

\[&

year, and a master will be considered by the Mission as fully

llbe1

qualified, if he has passed in the Mission-examination as well

by belp

as in the departmental examinations.

10

3

Not much

o o

The spiritual life of our congregations.

il

change can be expected from one year to another, and for

mna o

J |

deciding whether there is a healthy growth in single congre-

e

)

gations or in the church on the whole or the contrary, also a

for

longer period of time is required.

We give simply the facts

o

ju

and even conclusions from these must be drawn with great

for

1l

caution. A very pleasing fortune of the Mangalore congregation

Sehot?

ol

is the many young men’s associations, of which Mr. SCHAIBLE

p

writes.

There seem to be not less than five in the different

!

8

o

parts of the station, there is also one for young women.

Oux

(h

hopes and our fears for the future of our church centre round

q

10

our young men and women, and how many are the temptations

for them in a place like Mangalore or Calicut! A matter of

(0

be

tremendous importance in such places is the temperance question.

A native pastor writes about his section of the congregation:

4l

“Drinking is on the increase and is consuming the very marrow

hal

of the congregation.” For the present Mr. Schaible is confident

Bl

to write: “The family-life and matrimonial life of our people

Wa

contrasts favourably with that of the surrounding non-Christians.”

the

If this speck of light is not to vanish away, an open war must

the

be organised against drink, the curse of all family-happiness.

Ku

From another congregation we read about the peaceful departure

th

of a presbyter’s pious wife.

Her pastor calls her a living

aff

Christian.

She was welcome amongst Christians and Hindus

2

0

in time of sickness and other distress; all respected her and

et

she has given nobody offence.

She went to Jesus in a triumph-

hag

ing faith.

The same might be said about the wife of our

e

Catechist at Malpe.

In her family-life and in the congregation

\'Ql‘:

she was a model to others and died with a sigh of prayer on

the

her lips.

Our people at Shirva are very poor, and under great

Ing

disadvantages they have to earn their livelihood.

They make

T

however both ends meet without begging.

Some have to go

10

to the hills for work and being without spiritual ministrations

H]an‘

there, the pastor of Shirva began to keep up a correspondence

ang

with them.

Very sad news is what we hear from the out-

R

station Ambadi,

where 13 Church-members

relapsed into

(OH')[

heathenism for their bellies’ sake.

But what we read from other

iy

out-stations of Udipi may be called glad tidings. At Kalyana-

theyg

pur a wife has become the spiritual guide of her husband.

1y

He had gone to Mangalore as the servant of a Roman Catholic

Oh

master and became a Catholic.

Now he was ordered to go

Ky

back and fetch his wife, as she also must become a Catholic

@\'er‘v

.....

59

O

Christian.

The woman flatly refused and said:

“They have

ot

got idols as many as we and the number of their bhutas is

Ao

not small.

If we must leave our caste, let us go to the Mission

fer of

congregation

!77

Both of them did accordingly.

A curlosity

eston

between! At one out-station the people on the christening of

o

a boy contribute to the Church-fund Re. 1, if it is a girl, only

IEDVO

half a Rupee!! Gudde, the oldest out-station, celebrated on the

pfdent

3rd of November a very enthusiastic harvest-festival.

There

peapl

was much singing, the little church was ornamented up to

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the horns of the altar, offerings were made chiefly in kind and

the hymn sung was composed by the pastor.

In Madambail-

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Kurkal, Mr. Bicure tells us, there are living Christians and

ppiness.

thus in spite of much poverty family-life and the outward

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affairs of life are in good order. At this place a family baptised

20 years ago, which soon after had relapsed into heathenism,

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returned again, and they said: “Since we left you all happiness

Jer a0

has gone.”

Parkala is called by Mr. Bichle an oasis in a

pumpk

of ou

desert.—The little congregation at Kasaragod (232 souls) was

very liberal in her contributions to Church and other funds,

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they collected Rs. 322-2-3.

At Anandapur (Coorg) the young

men’s association is called still a blessing to the congregation.

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The many sudden cases of death must be an earnest warning

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to that Church. The pastoral work at Karkal is beset with

many difficulties.

The Christians are almost all new Christians

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and ought to be frequently looked after.

They live, however,

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so much scattered about, that for a tour in this widespread

congregation Mr. FiscHER must travel 68 miles.

Some have

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also to go to the hills to earn their bread and they return from

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there fever-stricken.

“How happy are the Christians in our

industrial establishments!”’

Mr.

Fischer

remarks.

What a

Christian heroism under most trying circumstances Daniel at

Cath@lii‘

Kerevashi has shown during the last year! The Hindus drive

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every day their cattle into his field, without a word of complaint

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he drives them out again.

When advised to have recourse to

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more drastic measures, he will reply: “God will help me!”

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His bullocks run away and the plough passes over his foot

that

without hurting him; he says: “God, I thank Thee for this

kind keeping!” He falls sick and without murmuring he says:

Soul

“God will not forsake me!” He is engaged to a girl and she

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throws him over, because no fishes can be got at Kerevashi.

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He only said: “God has disposed otherwise.”

When he was

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sick, his house and stable were burnt down, three pieces of his

cattle and all his straw perished in the flames, he thanks God

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for what had been left to him. Finally he succeeded in getting

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a diligent and good wife, and one may imagine how thankful

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the lonely man must have been.

The little congregation on a

Aiss

chil

Sunday morning collected Rs. 18 after his house had been

burnt down.

for

The congregation at Hubli (Southern Mahratta) has always

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a high number under the heading: “arrival from other stations”,

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which does not always mean gain.

The Night-School, we are

glad to say, was carried on also last year.

What a blessing

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in a congregation, where all the young men go either to the

cotton-mills or to the work-shops of the Railway Company.

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Also in this congregation the temperance-question is a burning

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question.

The pastor is not satisfied with the liberality of the

be

“There shall be ten and I shall be the eleventh”

congregation.

the

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is their maxim, but even if there are ten, they will not give,

is his opinion.—The Bettigeri-congregation had an awful time,

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as from 24th September till 3rd November not less than

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20 members of the congregation died from plague.

We cannot

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refrain from mentioning one case: Johannan, 14 years of age,

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was nursed by the Bible-woman Elizabeth, who had brought

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up his father.

The boy in his last moments sang the Canarese

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translation of the German Hymn: “Wenn ich Thn nur habe.”

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We earnestly hope that this time in which the shadows of

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death were hovering over the congregation, will not be without

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lasting blessing

Drink and playing of cards Mr. LuTz calls

the two besetting sins of his congregation.

He also regrets

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that the Mission has got no industrial establishments in

Southern Mahratta.

He remarks: “Here too our people are

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on

others,

but

without

Christian

influence.”

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dependent

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Mr. Warth gives a very favourable report on the congregation

at Mushtigeri.

The people are all peasants and they will call

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for the Catechist in the midst of the night to offer a prayer

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In the evenings the

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before they begin to thrash their corn.

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Catechist conducts a kind of night-school, not exactly according

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to educational rules, but still very useful! —At Honavar a

hank

Mission Primary School has been started, so the few Christian

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children are not any longer compelled to go to a Hindu school

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for instruction.

One of our Christians has got a weaving

establishment of his own, in which regularly, morning and

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evening, prayers are held.

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The Cannanore congregation, as we hope, will come round

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again and the troublesome times and the unhealthy circum-

bl

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stances have taught us many useful lessons.

We hear that

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those church-members who are employed in private weaving

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establishments are very irregular as to church-going.

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be interesting to know whether this came to light only

after

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they had to leave our Establishments or whether they

have

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become lazy and indifferent to the Word of God after

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separation from the HEstablishment.

We are, however,

glad

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to hear that Mr. HoLe conducts every Monday a morning

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prayer in one of these private establishments and that arrange-

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ments for such devotional exercises have been made in another

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one.

A Malayalam Bible-meeting on Sunday evening and

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a Prayer-meeting on Monday evening at the Mission-house

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have been

very

well attended.

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sectarian party of

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“Extremes meet:”’—These over-spiritual people during the

last year have taken to gold-digging on moon-lighted nights,

by which they have shown us what we ought not to do, but

if an old mother amongst them together with a young man go

out, Bible in hand, and disregarding mockery and scoff bear

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witness of Christ, they show us an example of what we ought

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In the Tellicherry congregation, the greater part of

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which is located on Nettur-hill, the death-rate was uncommonly

high last year.

Some of these deaths may be really called

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gain, not only as the end of long suffering, but as these

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brethren and sisters went home with a firm assurance of eternal

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life.

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Also an end, causing terror, took place, the end of a very

bad life.

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The Nettur congregation being the oldest of our

Malabar Churches, containing many old Christians, the Christians

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living all closely together in one place and having been always

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under close control, having also the Christian High School

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and Seminaries with their big staff of Missionaries, Catechists

and Christian masters in their midst, may be expected to be

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in a more satisfactory state than other congregations with

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many new Christians.

We dare say that the majority of the

church-members are well founded in the Word of God and

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some are very anxious to improve their knowledge, approaching

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the Missionary with lots of questions as to scriptural difficulties.

As to the Calicut congregation we insert the following remarks

from .the Native Pastor’s report:

“There are many true

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children of God, who by word and deed and demeanour glorify

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their Redeemer’s name. On the other hand Mr. Jaus and myself

were even subjected to legal proceedings, both civil and

criminal, lodged against us by our own people.

But, thank

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God, He has not allowed the power of darkness to prevail

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against us.

There are many whose only aim it is to obtain

worldly benefits from the Mission and nothing more, and I

must say, that injudicious liberality encourages such people to

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But there is really

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play various tricks for duping the donors.

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much spiritual life in the congregation.

The ¥. .M. C. A, and

but

Y. W. C. A., various Sunday Schools, weekly prayer-meetings,

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conducted by the elders at their different circles, are manifest-

ations of such life.”

Mr. ScHILLING tells about a Christian girl

Jea

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at Badagara (out-station of Chombala) whose confirmation had

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to be postponed again and again on account of her apparent

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weak understanding. But when finally confirmed she did very

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well, surprising the minister by her good knowledge.

year and a half after that she was to be married, but God’s

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ruling was otherwise. She fell sick and resigning herself entirely

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to the will of God she went home willingly and peacefully.

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Her parents and her intended bridegroom she directed to Christ

and with the name of Jesus on her lips she died.

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guest of our congregation has started a Sunday School for

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Hindu children at Badagara.

The congregation at Codacal

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had to pass through severe “trials.

Cholera was raging in that

district and death held his harvest also in our congregation.

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There are hard cases, fully known only to our Heavenly Father.

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Such a case is that of Lydia.

Mr. BossHARDT communicated

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the following: Four years ago her husband had run away,

then two children died. These tribulations led her to Christ

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and she became His devoted disciple.

This poor woman in

qlfies

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1902 brought Rs. 5 to the Missionary, as her gift for the

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Mission! Finally God heard her prayers and her husband

returned and they lived happily together for some time.

Then

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cholera broke out.

Lydia nursed her parents who died.

Then

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her turn came.

When her last hour came near, she wanted to

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She turned to the wall and

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say something, but she could not.

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wrote on 1t with her feeble hand:

“Rs. 3 of my money give

to the Mission.”

Her husband followed soon after.

The

ohtal?

Native Pastor tells us that during the time of cholera the

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people met daily in prayer.

A segregation-house proved to be

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a great advantage.

Many of the new Christians, but also

some very old ones who ought to know better, give great

trouble by not sending their children to school and to the

catechisation at the church on Sunday afternoons.

As to the

congregation at Palghat Mr. HILLER is greatly pleased with the

liberality of our Christians and their readiness to help each

other, but he complains of the many quarrels and even law-

suits in consequence of a very doubtful kind of lottery (called

“kur1” in Malayalam), of which our people cannot get rid.

On Sunday evenings the Catechists of the Kaity station

(Nilgiris), accompanied by the Y. M. C. A., go out and preach

to the Badagas.

The Kaity Christians are very anxious to get

a place of worship becoming to their situation on the hills.

They do whatever they can to enlarge their fund for this

purpose.

Now and then they will give half of their wages or

they will put something in a box hung up in some houses

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for this purpose. The writers at Hulikal (near Coonoor) together

with the Christians of this out-station meet for a Bible and

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prayer-meeting once a week.

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Looking upon our congregations as a whole we fully endorse

for all our congregations, what Mr. RiscH, the chairman of

the Southern Mahratta district, gives as his opinion regarding

that district: “With reference to a real co-operation in the

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work of furﬂwring the coming of God’s kingdom on earth our

congregations have not yet grown to maturity.

The chief

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problem for the future will be: how shall we raise the spiritual

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and social standard of our Christian congregations so far that

according to the intention of Jesus Christ they will become

a light and salt for the surrounding world?”

In conclusion we think it proper to mention that from the

23rd to the 27th of November the General Conference of our

Mission was held at Mangalore. On the Sunday evening before

the sessions commenced, there was a Divine service at church

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with a sermon in Germall and at the end all present partook of

the holy sacrament. HEvery morning before the work commenced

there were devotional services, which were a great blessing

and a spiritual refreshment.

The following objects were dis-

cussed and on each of them one or two papers had been drawn

up and circulated amongst the members of the Conference.

There were first of all the reports prepared by the chairman

of the three

districts,

which, of course, gave occasion to

the discussion of a good many questions.

(2) A petition

from the Christian Schoolmasters of Malabar with reference to

their Pension Fund, further to the relation of the former

V. Grade Teacher to the present Primary Teacher, and finally

some desiderata concerning their houses and their travelling

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allowances.

(8) Petition from the Pastors and Catechists of

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Malabar for increase of pay. (4) The Bible-women, their position,

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their training, pay, etc.

(5) Greater financial powers of the re-

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presentatives of the Home-Committee out here. (6) Continuation

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of religious instruction after the baptism of adults and after the

confirmation respecting the school-going time of Christian

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children. (7) The Basel Mission and higher education. (8) Means

of

and ways as to how to awaken in our Native Agency, in the

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members of our Synods and in our Presbyters a more vivid

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sense of responsibility and a more self-dependent co-operation.

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(9) The temperance question.

Of course all the resolutions the

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Conference arrived at, were only proposals and suggestions,

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and 1t will rest with the Home-Committee either to sanction

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or to decline our proposals.

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IV. MEDICAL MISSION.

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We are indebted to Dr. STokeEs’ Report on the Medical

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Mission at Calicut for the following remarks:

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They all come to us for relief from bodily pain and suffering,

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but scarcely any have a desire for cure from sin, because

they do not realise their soul is ill.

On the occasion of the coronation festivities all our hospital

patients and the inmates of the Leper Asylum who could

without injury to their health enjoy a hearty meal were

sumptuously fed by Mr. Rarichan Moopen, a wealthy landloxd

at Calicut; in addition each patient received a white cloth.

During the year under review we had 313 in-patients in the

hospital; about half of them were on their own diet.

140 were

Christians, 158 Hindus and 15 Mohammedans.

In the out-

patients’ department 13818 were registered and treated for

various diseases. The number has far exceeded all previous years.

As to typhoid patients the hydropathic treatment was

carried out, which the natives cannot understand.

The native

idea is to apply heat to counteract the fever, for instance a

hot iron to the head. A father, who brought his little boy suffer-

ing from dropsy, after having tried all sorts of native medicines,

was not at all ashamed to confess that the red marks on the

child’s body came from hot iron.

He was not a cruel man,

on the contrary a very loving father.

It is always cheering to us when we see the gratitude of

some of our patients.

A Nayar brought his son, who was in

a pitiful condition, but on account of caste prejudices he could

not be persuaded to leave the child in the hospital.

He lived

4 miles distant from Calicut, but every day the boy was carried

to the hospital till at last he had recovered his health and

strength.

Father and son came

several times

afterwards,

expressing their thankfulness and, to give it an outward sign,

they brought eggs, plantains etc.

“If my child should get ill

again, I would leave it in your care, as I have learned to know

you and your hospital,” he said once.

In our lying-in-hospital ‘Bethlehem’® we had many serious

confinement cases, the most difficult one being a case of

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ecclampsia

Miss MULLER had sometimes a very busy and

anxious time of it

The opening ceremony of the new Leper

Asylum at

Chevayur

3 miles from Calicut, took place on the 25th of

October with Mr. KrisaNA Rao, Sub-Judge of Calicut, in the

chair

The Rev

[.. J. FROENMEYER laid the claims of the

lepers before the general public and gave an account of the

good work done by the Leper Mission throughout India and

the Kast

There is at present room for 20 patients

buty 27

have been accommodated by closing in the verandas and

utilising one of the out-houses

Under treatment there were

16 Christians, 17 Hindus and 7 Mohammedans

7 died, 6 left

without leave, and at the beginning of this year there were

28 on the roll

Mr. Jaus in his description of the first baptism at the new

Leper Asylum at Chevayur mentions that one Choi

an old

man, when reciting the Lord’s Prayer, broke down in the midst

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To the great amusement of the large audience he

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quietly turned round to his friend Krishnan and said

“Y gl

g0 on now, you know much better than I!” One Hulda, feeling

her end approaching, had only two requests to make

first she

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asked for the Lord’s Supper, and secondly she wished that after

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her departure from life all the lepers in the Asylum should

be treated with coffee.

Both of these requests were granted

and she departed in peace.

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The Medical Mission at Bettigeri has overcome the first

difficulties and the following remarks of Dr. ZErRwECK will be

found interesting

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The Medical Mission at Bettigeri has begun to take root amongst

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the population there

1849 patients have undergone treatment

Amongst the 25 operations of a more serious character there

were 30 plague operations

On the whole 105 plague patients

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were treated in 1903, which does not include the many cases

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where the diagnosis was uncertain, but a case of plague was

highly probable.

500 people were inoculated in the Mission

Hospital, of whom two only died, although plague was raging

fearfully at Bettigeri and the surrounding district.

Dr. Zerweck

is of opinion that it was inoculation that brought plague to a

standstill in the Bettigeri congregation; but he feels doubtful

whether the Hindu population will come to understand such

lessons or whether they will continue to believe that plague

goes to places where it is invited by the crowing of cocks and

thus will prefer the slaughter of fowls to inoculation.

Dr. Zerweck reports with great satisfaction that his staff

has been increased by a special Catechist, one of whose duties

it is to attend to the spiritual needs of pa,tiehts waiting for

admittance to the consultation-room; of course such people

are not always in a mood to listen to an address on a religious

subject, and there is too much to disturb them, but much can

be done in this direction for in-patients, and especially when

patients are visited at their own houses.

We take this opportunity to offer our hearty thanks to

different medical gentlemen who in times of sickness never

got tired to render their most valuable help to Missionaries

and to members of our congregations: Dr. Carpoz at Hubli,

Dr. LarreNAts at Tellicherry, Dr. VErRGHESE at Calicut and

Apothecary Mataias at Udipi have been mentioned in the

reports.

V. INDUSTRIAL MISSION.

There was a time in which the Basel Mission chiefly was

known as the Mission that makes tiles and towels.

We should

feel really sorry, if nothing else would be made in our Mission.

The industry in our Mission is one of the solutions of a problem,

with which gradually all Indian Missions—a few perhaps

excepted which happen to be fortunately situated in this

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respect,—will have to deal; it is the social problem, which from

the beginning has been very acute in those parts of India,

where by God’s providence our fathers commenced Mission-

work. We are placed before the alternative: either to feed

our Inquirers,

without giving them work, which is absurd and

immoral, or not to concern ourselves with their outward affairs,

which every Mission will do and gladly do, wheresoever it is

possible, which in 99 cases out of a hundred cases is a sheer

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impossibility, and if still done, will not be Christ-like.

our Mission, led by God’s providence, has done from the

beginning and gradually has had to do on a large scale, must

be done in one form or the other, under the name Industrial

Mission or under some other name in almost every Mission.

At Mercara (Coorg) we have a Mission-shop. The coffee

business is not so prosperous there as it was, and some think

that Coorg will be ere long reduced to what it was before

coffee was introduced.

This and a great competition from all

sides are of course not favourable to the Mission-shop, on which

the greater part of the small Mercara-congregation depends

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entirely. The clerks are Tulu-people and, as Mr. VEIL tells us,

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will risk consumption in Coorg, if their lungs are not strong

enough.

The wife of one of these clerks, a daughter of

Catechist GABRIEL ALMANDA, died from consumption.

She had

found grace and died with full belief in her Saviour.

Owing

to the sickness of clerks Mr. Veil was put to such straits that

he had to employ some Schoolmistresses and two pupils of the

High School to keep up his Establishment.

In a dark rainy

night thieves came with the intent to clear Mr. Veil’s store-

room. About 30 tiles they broke in pieces, and whilst taking

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counsel, how to pass through a window shut by a grating, their

matches fell down into a tub full of water.

They had to

retreat and these matches and the broken tiles revealed their

Iintentions.

Mr. Veil has many acquaintances amongst the

Coorgs and along with his mercantile transactions he is anxious

to win them for Christ.

He 1s sorry to say that they are

loath to hear God’s Word, they are not willing to buy Bible-

portions or our tracts.

Still they may be persuaded to buy

sometimes a publication of the Madras Tract Society. Mr. Veil

says that sometimes one feels tempted “to shake off the dust

of one’s feet for a testimony unto them”, and he adds that

perhaps the proud and self-conceited race must become poor

first, before they will lend their ears to an invitation for

salvation.—Similar Mission-shops we have at Mangalore and

Calicut.

Mr. BERNHARDT was in charge of the Calicut-shop.

He was a young, promising gentleman, who has been very

successful last year in his business.

He closes his report in

writing:

“I ke my work more and more and may I be

permitted threugh the grace of our Lord to stand on this post

for a very long time.”

Kight months after having written this

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he went to his rest.

The Tile-Works at Calicut and Codacal and the Weaving

Establishments at Calicut and Mangalore were represented at

the Exhibition in Madras.

They carried away some of the

prizes.

At Codacal 117 men and 73 women are employed in

the Tile-Works, only 2 Hindus and 3 Mohammedans are amongst

them, all the rest are our own people.

Connected with the

Weaving Establishments at Calicut and Cannanore there are

two Tailories.

Mr. RENz at Calicut has succeeded in founding

a home for his apprentices.

It is a matter of great satisfaction

to know that these youths outside of the workshop are

properly supervised and looked after in a place like Calicut.

Mr. HAFFNER reports on the Tailory at Cannanore that the

number of apprentices is about 20, in the Tricot Tailory 12-15

women are employed. He thinks that to become a perfect

tailor one must be trained for 5 years.

And Government

trains a schoolmaster within one year! Since June 1902

Mr. Haffner has opened a kind of Night-School for his

apprentices.

They get instruction in ordinary drawing and

professional drawing, and a clerk gives them lessons in English.

These lessons are very much liked by the youths.

The

Weaving Establishment at Cannanore about the time of the

Delhi-Durbar was scarcely able to carry out all the orders.

As a proof how close the relations between the industrial

department and the spiritual department sometimes are and

we mention that Mr. EIDENBENZ,

the

always should be,

Superintendent of the Weaving Establishment, expresses his

special gratification over the fact that one of his best weavers

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left him and was appointed as an Assistant Catechist.

Weaving Establishment at Mangalore is an old institution too.

Mr. STIERLIN tells about two old good men, who had to resign

work and get pension owing to old age.

The grants given

from the Sick-Fund in this institution last year by far exceeded

the deposits.

The work in all our Establishments is commenced

every day with the reading of God’s Word and prayer, and it

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is Mr. Stierlin’s heartfelt desire and prayer that not only the

work of the hands of his weavers may prosper, but also that

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God may make His Word a blessing to the hearts and lives of

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his workmen.

This Establishment employs 145 persons.

It

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has a branch at Mulki, just as Cannanore has branches at

Tellicherry and Chombala, and Calicut at Codacal.

In Canara

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we have three Tile-Works: one at Kudroli, another one at

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At

Jeppu (the oldest of all), and one at Malpe, near Udipi

Kudroli, Mr. BRETSCHNEIDER tells us, 279 persons (185 Chris-

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tians, 14 inquirers and 80 Hindus) are employed.

In addition

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to this 120 persons are at work outside of the Establishment.

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Thus this one Establishment gives work to about 400 people.

)

Plague did not interfere with the work. The South African war

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being over, our tiles have a great run, which Mr. Bretschneider

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acknowledges with great thankfulness after four meagre years.

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What a great benefit, Mr. Bretschneider remarks, it is for our

Christians, who for the most part come from the poorer classes

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to be provided with healthy work in Kstablishments, where

even by a Pension-Fund, a Sick-Fund and a Poor-Fund, as

far as possible, provision is made with the view of the

uncertainties and adversities of this life.

We mention finally

the Mechanical Establishment at Mangalore.

Mr. StokES, of

course, cannot expect every year a work like the erection of

the Kadimbilla Bridge, but the KEstablishment has done good

work also in 1903.

It gives employment to 72 persons.

“Tts.

chief aim is”’, as Mr. Stokes puts it, “to train up young men not.

only to be industrious and clever, but also to help them to

guide their lives in the paths of integrity and honesty.

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a great pleasure to me to watch some of them growing up

into steady men.

Some have left to join the railway and are,

I believe,

doing

well.

Our Night-School is making fair

progress.”’

Mr. EIpENBENZ in the concluding words of his report

compares the work of the Industrial Mission with the work

done by St. Peter according to Acts 3, 6. 7.

In both cases

an act of Christian charity! If the Industrial Establishments

could do nothing more but to educate our people so far that

they entertain respect for manual work and acquire the habits

of industry and devotion to duty, they would be justified in

glorying in their work and it would be a work greatly assisting

Mission work. But such of our Industrial brethren as are

real Missionaries will do far more than this, they will, as well

as itinerating Missionaries and Kducational Missionaries, use

their influence and use the opportunities granted to them

through their work, for the salvation of the souls entrusted to

thex}n and for the furtherance of God’s Kingdom.

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VI

OUR LITERARY ACHIEVEMENTS.

Sale of

Tracts and Books from 1st July 1902 to 30th June 1903.

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Our own Publications.

Copies.

Rs

As

91,374

Canarese Religious Books

1,369

12

80

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a grant of £ 10 for each of our Bible Colporteurs working

in S. Canara, Coorg, Southern Mahratta and Malabar. To both

Societies we tender our best thanks for their invaluable assis-

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LIST OF BOOKS AND TRALCTS

Printed from the 1st November 1902 to 31st October 1903.

I. Canarese.

Edition

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Copies

1902 —1903

80

192

825

Satyadipike, Vol. VII

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A Garland of Canarese Christian Lyrics

11

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44

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Bible Stories in Canarese, 1I. Part, New

Testament

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192

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Knowledge of the Supr‘eme Spult

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92

1200

VIII

114

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Good Words

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The Decalogue .

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59

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The Married Life, I. The Weddxno‘

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54

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Ten Errors Refuted

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Rev. II

162

48

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The Story of Four Princes

The Heart Book

1X

80

3000

Heaven and Hell

45

2500

3000

Lingaitism Examined

n

48

The Supreme Guru

I.

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48

3000

Action Songs

0

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50

2000

Rules for the B. G. Evangelical Miss.

Church

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91

600

Canarese Third Reader, by E. Marsden, B. a.

1o

100

10000

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I1I

130

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Rev. II

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164

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History of India for Middle Schools

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96

5000

Easy Lessonsin Indian History for Prim. Schools

IIT

102

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The Primer, by M. S. Hari Hara Aiyar, B. a

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1Vv

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72

2000

Canarese Primer

IX

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40

6000

Full Notes on Canarese Fourth Reader

111

48

2500

Object Lessons for Primary Schools

III

46

2000

Suggested Instructions for the teaching of

Object Lessons

Dy

80

47

3000

A Catechism of Canarese Grammar

VII

120

60

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44

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A Family Guide to Biochemistry

Cr

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Canarese Almanac for 1904

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80

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II. Malayalam.

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80

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425

Kéralopakari, Vol. XXX,

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24

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On Pollution

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96

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21

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The Good Teacher

Ry

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228

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The Gospel of Matthew

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John

192

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22

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Jonah

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XII

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162

32

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The Infant Reader, by J. Muliyil, B. A.

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Easy Lessons in Indian History for Primary

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Geography for St. III, t.)y E. Marsden, B. A.

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School Panchatantram

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264

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Morning and Evening Prayers

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122

30

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80

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Rules for the B. G. Evangehoal Mlss Chu1ch

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Sydenham Clarke Esq

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