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T H O M A S S . S H E N S T O N ,

BRANTFORD , ONT.,

TREASURER OF TH E BAPTIST FORE IGN M ISSI ONARY SOCI E TY OF

ONTAR IO AND Q UEB EC.

And th is co ntinued by the space o f two (twenty ) yearso that they wh ich dwelt in Asia heard the wo rd o f the L o rdJesus. A lmo st th ro ugh o ut al l Asia , th is Pau l

(McL aurin , Timpany, Craig and Currie) bo th persuaded and

turned away much peo ple, saying that th ey be no Go ds, wh ichare made with hands.

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A TE L OOGOO IDOL -FUL L S I Z E .

The write r being o f the o p inio n that perhaps n o o ne was

in a better p o sitio n than h imself to co l late the facts hereinnarrated, and being co nv inced o f th eir usefulness— especiallyin the future—were the o nly m o tives that prompted him to

undertake the task, wh ich was by no means a smal l o ne . If

the interest in o ur Fo reign M issio ns is intensified in the reade rby the reading as it is in the write r by the writing , the laborbesto wed o n th is l ittle bo o k w ill no t have been in vain .

LIBRARY7 4 7 4 3 7

UNIVERSITY OFTORONTO

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TREASURER’

S OFFICE.

Received f mm

t/ze same being a co ntr zbutz'

o zz to f leeREGULAR BAP TIS T

FOREIGN IVIIS SIONAR Y SOCIE TY OF ON TARIO

AND Q UEBEC.

The f o l l owing wil l co rrectly indicate h ow al l such contributions havehitherto been , and wil l hereaf ter be, expended . Many f o rmer co ntributo rsh ave already passed away from earth , but the resu lts o f their l iberality wil lg o o n and o n f o rever . H ow interestin g will be the meeting in heaven between a Tel o o g o o co nvert and the co ntributo r to o ur Fo reig n M issio n .

As by one man sin entered into the NV ORLD and so deathpassed upon al l men ,

for all have sinned Having noh0pe, and without Go d in the WORLD it Go d sentnot his son to condemn the WORLD , but that the WORLDthrough him might be saved For Go d so loved theWORLD that he gave his only begotten so n

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,that whosoever

believeth on him shal l not perish , but h l V O everlasting life .

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation,

that Christ Jesus came into the WORLD to save sinners,

Ye are the light of the WORLD . This gospel of thek ingdom shall be preached in al l the WORLD for a witness untoall nations

,and he said unto them , go into all the WORLD and

preach the gospel to every creature . As thou hastsent me into the WORLD , even so have I also sent them intothe WORLD. Because many false prophets are goneout into the WORLD .

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5k He that believeth and isbaptized shal l be saved .

i " We do testify that theFather sent the Son to be the Savior of the WORLD.

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greekfor the same Lord over AL L is rich unto AL L that call uponhim . For NV H OSUEV ER shall call upon the name of the Lordshall be saved . H OW then shal l they cal l on him in whom theyhave not believed l and H OW shall they believe in him of whomthey have not heard ?and H 0W shal l they hearwith o ut a preache r?And H OW shall they preach except they be sent ? as it is written How beautifu l are the feet of them that preach the gospelof peace

,and bring glad tidings of good things

8 TEL OOGOO M ISS ION .

L OCATIONS .

THE EARTH Before the mountains were brought forth,

or even thou hadst formed the earth and the world , even fromeverlasting to everlasting

,thou art Go d,” who In the beginning

created the heavens and the earth . By the mouth of G o d ,so

that things which are seen were.not made of things that do

appear. " “ Lift up your eyes to the heavens , and look upon theearth beneath

,for the heavens shall . vanish away like smoke and

the earth shall wax Old l ike a garment , and they that dwelltherein ‘shall die in like manner 3 but my salvation shal l be forever

,and my righteousness shal l not be abolished .

”—Gud'

s Wo rd.

ASIA is bounded on the north by the Artie Ocean , on thewest by the Red

, B lack and Mediterranean seas,on the South by

the Indian Ocean,and on the east by the Pacific Ocean , being

almost entirely within the northern division of the eastern bemisphere. Its length from east to west is m iles

,and from

north to south 6 900 miles , and containing squaremiles, or four times as large as all Europe . I ts population is

or one-half that of the g lobe .

INDIA OR II INDOSTAN is bounded on the north by theHimalaya mountains

,on the west by the Arabian Sea , &c. , on

the south by the Indian Ocean,and on the east by the Bay of

Bengal ; containing an area of square miles,and a

population of Its form is somewhat that of an

irregular triangle , two of which lines are about miles o fsea coast , and the remaining line from east to west from Sea tosea, about miles . The whole forming the southern portionof Asia . Its society is divided into four grand divisions calledCastes . B rahmins or priests , so l diers , merchants, and laborers . None of these can intermarry , or even eat and drink together . These grand division s are sub-divided. Those who havebeen degraded from their caste are called pa rz

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ahs,and are out

casts from society .

BRITISH IND lA is an extensive empire of squaremiles comprl smg the major part Of the southern part of thecentral peninsula of southern Asia , together w ith the island ofCeylon (810. There are now nine presidencies. The three chief onesare, the Bengal , with Calcutta, a city of as its capital ,

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Bombay , with Bombay , a city of as its capital,and

Madras,with Madras , a City of as its capital I ts

population is estimated at of whom aredirectly or indirectly under B ritish ru le . The Teloogoo countryis within the Madras Presidency .

THE TELOOGOO COUNTRY .—This country is somewhat

of a triangular shape,its 3 l ines being from 4 00 to 600 miles in

part of India on the westernChicacde to Madras, a distance

the Madras Presidency, and co nse

The number of Teloogoos variously0 t o or about three and

a half times that of Canada , and one twentieth the entire po pulation of Hindostan . The greater portion

,perhaps f o ur-fi fths

,

of whom reside within the above described lim its,and the remain

ing o ne-fifth are scattered throughout Hindostan .

It is generally admitted that physically , mentally , and morally the Teloogoos are far in advance of al l the other t ribesand races in India . As tradesmen

,they rank fi s t

,and t heir

language,Dr. Caldwel l (a most competent judge) says , “ in

point of euphonic sweetness justly claims the fi rst place .

” It hasalways appeared to me providential ly fortunate that our firstCanadian mission should be located in such a desirable field .

Read to the end of this book and I doubt not but the readerwil l endorse this opinion .

MADRAS .- This is a large seaport city of some

population . lying at the mouth ( if such a sea bay can have amouth) of the Bay of B engal , on the western coast thereof . It isabout 130 miles south Of Ramapatam ,

and some 300 miles southwest from Cocanada .

CALCUTTA is a city of lying so far ( 4 5 0 miles)north east of our Canadian field of labor that It is seldom named inconnection therewith . Madras is the ch ief shipping port for allEuropean vessels which touch there before passing up the Bayof Bengal to Calcutta &c .

BOMBAY IS a city of 800,000, ly ing so far ( 5 00 miles) northwest Of the Teloogoo country that it vi rtually has no connectionwith our Canad ian mission

10 TEL OOGOO ‘M ISS ION .

RAMAPATAM is a town of lying in the westernma rgin of the Bay of Bengal , 120 mi

l es north of Madras .Here is located the theological seminary in which Rev . A . V . .

TImpany was, for some years, connected as tutor’ and principal .

NELLORE is a flourishing town with a population (includingsome adjacent villages , a common practice in India) ofIt lies on the south side of the great river Pannaar, and is 90miles north of Madras

,and 1 5 miles inland from the Bay of

Bengal, 7 5 miles from Ongole , and 2 5 0 miles from Cocanada

Here the first mission was established in '

Telo o g o o land by Rev .

S . S . Day .

ONGOLE —This is a small town of population situated some 10 miles inland from the Bay of Bengal , 15 0 miles fromMadras and 30 north of Ramapatam . One of the first missionswas established here .

AKIDU .—This is an in land village of some 2000 inhabi

tants,lying inland from the Bay of Bengal 1 5 miles, and 130

m i les north east of Ongole and 1 5 0 miles from Madras .

COCANADA .—This is one of the busiest of the many busy

seaport towns lying along the western shore of the Bay of Bengal .It has a population of souls . It is nearly midway betweenMadras and Calcutta , and 6 5 miles north east from Akidu, fortynorth east from Tuni

,and 9 north west from Samulco tta . The

great Godavari river is a few miles south east therefrom .

Here is where the Canada Baptists planted their first standard,

the bearers being Rev . John McL aurin and wife

SAMULCOTTA.—This is a town of inhabitants some

n ine miles north west from Cocanada and eight miles from theBay of Bengal . Here is located the seminary of the Canadianmission , of which the Rev . John McL aurin is the principal .

TUNI .—This is a village of some population lying

some 4 0 miles north -east of Cocanada,and eight miles from the

Bay of Bengal . This is where B ro . Currie was stationed.

TH E E ND —Bu t the day o f the L o rd wil l co me as a thief in a nig ht ; inthe which the heavens shall pass away with a g reat no ise, and the elementsshal l mel t with fervent heat, the earth also and the wo rks that are thereinshal l be burned up . Seeing that al l these th ing s shal l be disso lved .

L o o king f o r and hasting n Ito the coming o f the day o f Go d , wherein the

peaver

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ing o n fire shal l be disso lved, and the elements shal l mel t with

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TH E TEL OOGOO M ISSION .

The word “ Teloogoo has n ow become a household wordamong the Canadian Baptists and I want it to become stil lmore so . The sole object of this little book is to intensify stillmore the great interest in the mission which I know existsalready in so many . I think I can best accomplish this purposeby commencing with the planting of the first mission by theAmerican Baptist Missionary Union in 183 5 , and tracing itshistory , as briefly as I can , from that date year by year to January 1888

,covering a period of about 5 2 years . A t this date

the American Un ion have a large number of missions and stations .

in Teloogoo land,but I shall confine my compilation to such

station s only as our own missionaries were in some way conn ected with , namely , NELLORE

,RAMAPATAM and ONGOL E .

As early as 1805 the general Baptists of England made afeeble attempt to establ ish a m ission among the Teloogoos by sending out the Rev . Mr . Sutton

,who took up a position in Orissa .

Apparently for the lack of success the undertaking was soonabando ned

'by the withdrawal of Mr . Sutton , their only m ission

ary . It would appear that M r . Sutton himself had never lostconfidence in the mission , inasmuch as thirty years afterwards ,when in the United States

,he urged the American Baptists to

take up what the English Baptists had thrown down,and to

their honor be it said they did .

183 4 - 5 .

The 2 l st American Baptist General Convention was held inthe City of Richmon d on April 29, 183 5 . At this meetingB rethren Kenduck ,

Peck , Al len ,Charles and McGinn is ,

” wereappointed a committee on new fields of labo r . They reported :We would earnestly direct the attention of the Board and Conventio n to that portion of theMadras Presidency which stretches northward from the City of Madras a lo n g the Bay of Benga ltowards the City of Calcutta , for about 600 miles , embracingthe country of '

1 e l ling ana There is no Baptist Church in the“ south of India The country is wholly unoccupied exceptingMadras City . The interesting character and su

perior intel ligence of the vast native population of the Tellin ‘

g ana country .

’l< might bring their direct labors tobear on at least of the people of India .

The New Testament and a grammar of the Tel lin g ana languagehas been published by Dr. Carey .

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12 TEL OOGOO M ISS ION.

The Rev. Samuel S . Day and wife were designated to thisTeloogoo field 2o th September of this year and on the2 2nd took passage in the ship Louvre for Calcutta . The RevHoward Malcolm and 10 others took passage with them . Thepassage mOney and outfit cost

183 5 -6 .

The 2 2nd Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Co nvention was held in Hartford City

,Conn . , April 2 7 , 183 6 .

M issionaries on the field,Rev. S . S . Day and wife . At this

m eeting a committee reported . The Board was first directed tothe people who speak the Telinga or Teloogoo tongue by the Rev .

Mr. Sutton , an English Baptist Minister. He described the country as stretching along the coasts south westerly fromOrissa 600 miles, and transversely into the interior 4 00 miles ,and a population of 10 are subj ects of the N izam (Nabob) of H yderbad, anciently called Telingana, from which the Telinga s derive their name .

“ M r . and Mrs . Day and Mr . Abbott, were desig ried for theTelin g ana Mission on Sept . 20th last ( 183 5 ) and on the 22ndtook passage

,with other missionaries in the ship L o uvre for

Calcutta . The measures they would adopt on their arrival therewere left to t l e direction of providence .

9“ NO impediment to the propagation of the gospel is apprehended in any parto f his dominions , sustained, as he is, in his authority by the forceso f the “ East India Company . As early as 1809 aTelinga version of the New Testament had been made bythe Serampore missionaries , and though it per ished in the destructive fire of 18 12 , it was prepared anew and printed in 18 17 .

18 . The Teling a Pentateuh was also printed by the same missio naries in 182 1 . What is now wanted is men .

Let the requisite number of missionaries be furnishedthe duty specially assigned to the American Churches , and thework is ready to their hands . They may at once enter in andplant , and reap , and gather unto everlasting life .

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The 2 3 rd Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Board ofForeign Missions was held in the City of Ph iladelphia

,April

2 6th , 1887 .

Missionaries o n the field,Rev . S . S . Day and wife, and Rev.

Levi Hal l and wife .

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Extracts from Reports . Mr. and Mrs . Day arrived atCalcutta early in February

, 183 6, and proceeded thence to V iz ag apatam , where they have since been prosecuting the study o fthe language . Mr . Abbott, who, it was expected , would be asso ‘

cisted with them,having

,in accordance with the advice of Mr .

Malcolm and others, joined the Karen Mission . Mr . and Mrs .

Hall were designated to th is service , and sailed last October incompany with others.

The post at which the mission will be ultimately stationed ,is yet u ndetermined. Weighty considerations are in favo r ofcommencing operations in the neighborhood of Madras.”

183 7 -8 .

The 2 4 th Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Co nvention was held in the City of New York on April 2 5 , 183 8 .

Missionaries on the field,Rev S . S . Day and wife.

Extracts from report—“ Oi those who have fallen in themission field, it is our painful duty to record the names ofLevi Hall and Catharine B . M . Hall .The Teloogoo M ission Opens an extended and invi ting field

of operation . We have bu t one missionary and wife laboring inthis far-reaching field . What is th is among a population of from

to The funds are exhausted .

If n o t replenished immediately they wil l be constrained to counseln o t fo r enlargement of the mission , but fo r the least disastrousmethod of their reduction .

”

In January, 183 7 , Mr . Day made an interesting tour of 20

days, northwardly , to Berhampore, distant about 120 miles , andthen ce back through the interior . During this excursion hev isited about 4 0 villages

, o f which one half had probably neverbefore seen a missionary

,or even a Christian .

”

In March,Mr. Day removed to Madras . One eighth of its

population are Teloogoos . “ At our last date (Aug . Mr.Day was desiring to locate himself, at a short distance from oneof the city gates , and on the pr incipal road leading to theTeloogoo co untry.

” “ It is Obvious that the Teloogoo Missionneeds to be reinforced . The B oard have but o ne missionaryfamily among 000 Teloogoos, along a coast of at least 600miles , to say noth ing of the population In the interiorthere are probably not less than 3 00 towns wh ich might be o c

cupied as mission stations .”

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183 8-9.

The 2 5 th Annual meeting of the America B aptist Conventionwas held in the City Of Ph iladelphia

,April 24 th , 183 9.

Missionaries on the field , Rev. S . S . Day arid wife .Extracts from IPrepo rts

The necessities of the Teloogoo Mission make yet strongerappeals to the sympathies of the churches , and urge to whateversacrifices are required fo r its speedy relief and enlargement .

”

In'

January 183 8 , M r . Day was still labo ring at the,

VillageWo nara-petta, where there is a population of Teloogoos .

The board regret that they have not yet been able to reinforce th is mission , owing to various untoward circumstances , MrDay has been laboring alone during the whole period since themission was established .

”

Mr. Day writes I have been almost two years within th iscountry (January 183 8) and have acquired so much knowledgeof the language as to read and speak it with ease , and to knowthat while it is beautiful and flowery

, it is exceedingly difficu lt to acquire . But I am left alone

,and I would now implore the

B oard to send , as soon as possible, six or eight missionaries. Ican refer to more than 30 places demanding each a missionary,though more then half the country is scarcely known to me .

”

In September,Mr . Day writes to the B oard .

“ In my latevisit to B ellary

,I

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baptised 2 2 persons , in a place where neverbefore the ordinance of baptism had been administered, in the

presence of of all sorts and ranks .”What am I

, that on me alone for so long a time, shouldrest the responsibilities of such a mission as it is proposed toestablish among the Teloogoos ? But let me hOpe still . Go d hassustained me h itherto . 0 may we rely in Him still . . His is thework— the cause is His—His the laborers—the money .

18 39 4 0.

The 26th Annual Meeting of the American B aptist Co n vention met in the city of New York , Apri l 29th 1840,

Missionaries in charge , Rev. S . S . Day and wife . On thei rway to the Mission

,Rev . Stephen Van Husen and wife, hay ing

sailed for Madras, on October 2 2nd, 183 9.

Mr.Day writes to the B oard thus Be not ang ry with me

for my heart once beat high in relation to this mission , hope in

spired my feeling and actions . N ow, my heart sinks , or swells

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with a kind of desperation , my hands g row weak, or are nervedf o r a moment as by despair . Where are all the young brethrenI left in Hamilton

,pledged to the foreign field 2 are

there none to be found for the heathen ? Have the heathen noclaims .

18 40

The 2 7th Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Co nvention was held in the City of Baltimore

,April 28 th, 184 1.

Nellore .—M issionaries in charge, Rev. S . S . Day and wife ,

Rev . 8 . Van Husen and wife .Extract from report o n the Te‘o o g o o Mission

For,what is the meaning of our holy convocation What are the

principles on wh ich we meet and del iberate , and resolve and act 2It is n o t admitted , nay, rather acknowledged , that there is awork to be done—a work to be done for Go d a work which wemay do—a work which He requires us to do l”

Mr. and Mrs . Van Husen arrived at Madras on March 9th

18 4 0, and o n the 2 1st'

reached Nellore,a town some 110 miles

distant from Madras , where Mr. and Mrs . Day had arrived’

a

few days previous, for the purpose of establish ing the first missionamong the Teloogoos .Extract from repo rt Nellore is in the midst of a dense

Teloogoo population , and for this and other reasons, i s peculiarlyeligible for a central permanent station . The missionaries hereanted a good mission compound

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>l< In th is the scriptures are read and expounded in Teloogoo every morning anda sermon

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preached every Sunday to about 2 5 . On the 2 7 th

September the first Teloogoo connected with the mission was

baptised in the Pennar river in the presence of several thousandspectators . Two others were baptised in Madras in

“ Several tours have been made . In the early part of 183 9,

Mr . Day in one day distributed about 3 5 00 tracts and 5 00 portions of scripture .

”

In May of last year Messrs Day and Van Husen attended twofestivals celebrated at a few miles distance from Nellore

,at both

of which they gave about 2000 tracts and 700 portions ofscripture .

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184 1- 2 .

The 28 th Annual meeting of the American Baptist Co nven~

tion was held in the City of New York , April 2 7th , 184 2 .

Nellore —Missionaries in charge Rev. S . S . Day and wife,

S . Van Husen and wife .Extracts from reports The Teloogoo need not only that

their present missionaries be supplied with mo l e ample meansfo r efficient action but that their strength be increased by theaccession of fellow labourers . The work is to o large for the fo rceemployed

,even if in unbroken health and efficiency .

In a letter written by Mr . V an Husen in May , 184 1 he saysWould that it were in the power of the Board to send us atleast six laborers . What are two m issionaries amongtoThe expense of the mission for the year was

184 2-3 .

The 29th Annual meeting Of the American Baptis t Convention was held in the city of Albany, April 2 6th, 184 3 .

Nellore—Missionaries in charge Rev . S . S . Dav and wife andS . Van Husen and wife .

Extracts from report —The‘ members of the Teloogoo Missionhave been prosecuting their work amidst many embarrassments,especially from sickness the past year, but not without encouragements.

The city itsel f , being the resort of tho usands of Teloogoosfrom towns and country, inland and far distan t, furnishes extensive facilities for the promulgation of the gospel , both bypreach ing, etc.

“ At the date of our last information , December 184 2 , themissionaries were expecting sho rtly to organize a mission Church .

B esides the mission circle,there were n ine who cherished a hope

in Christ . ”The expense of the mission for the y ear was

184 3 -4 .

The 3 0th Annual meeting of the American Baptist Co nvent ion was held in the City of Ph iladelph ia

, April 2 4 th, 18 4 4 .

Nellore—Missionaries in charge Rev . S . S . Day and wifeand Rev. S . Van Husen and wife .

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Extracts from Reports Your committee are deeply convinced that the means , in the hands of the Board , for executingthe great task they have undertaken in Asia, are entirely inadequate .

“ The Teloogoo M ission , though greatly in need of reinforcement, is steadily advancing in efficiency and interest . The missio naries occupy distinct parts of the city , Mr. V anH usen havingremoved to the south-west border in July . This arrangementincreases the influence of the mission . Three werebaptized in August , in the Pen naar , near where . Van Rappa, thefirst convert

,was baptized in 184 0. and thousands

begin to DOUBT as to the D IV INITY of their idols .“ Mr. V anH usen

’s hea lth is reported bad .

”

The expense of the mission for the year was

184 4 -5 .

The 3 l st annual meeting of the American Baptist Conventionwas held in the City of Providence

,April 3 0th, 184 5 .

NELLORE .—Missionaries in charge

,Rev. S . S . Day and

wi fe,Rev. S . V anH usen and wife . Noth ing of importance to

record for the year beyond the organization of a mission churchof eight members in October of last year

,and the returning home of

Mr. V anH usen and wife, on account of ill health . The members comprising said church were Rev . S . S . Day and wife, Rev,V anH usen and wife , Elizabeth Jackson , Christian Nursa, JamesCay and E lisha .


184 5 -6 .

The 3 2nd annual meeting of the American Baptist Convention was held in the City of B rooklyn

,May 19th

,184 6 .

NELLORE —Missionaries'

in charge, Rev. S . S . Day andwife.Mr . V anH usen arrived in th is country on l st October last

with health so much impaired as to preclude all prospects of h isreturn to India .

Mr . Day was taken suddenly and :alarmingly ill , and wasobliged to leave India hurriedly on the 3 rd December. Arrivedat London Apri l 11th , and in this country on June 2 nd.

We cl ip the following from the “ Lone Star ” j ubilee papersWhen Mr . Day reached home he found the Executive Com

mittee discussing the propriety of abandoning the mission .

H e entered a most emphat ic and determined protest to the

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abandonment of the Teloogoo field . This led the Committee tohesitate

,and they finally decided to await the indications of

Providence , It was decided,at the annual meeting of

Union m 184 8, to return [Mr Day , and on the l 0th of October

of that year be , with Mr. and Mrs Jewett sailed for Madras enroute for Nellore .

”

Extracts from Reports " Your Committee would ask for thesympath ies and prayers of all the friends of the Board in behalfof the To lo o g o o Mission . «15 0 . The expense of the mission forthe year was

184 6 -7 .

The 3 3 rd annual m eeting of the American Baptist Co nvention was held in the City o fC incinn ati 0 .

,May 18 , 184 7 .

NELLORE —Missionaries In charge,lione .

Extracts from Reports . The Teloogoo M ission,established

ten years since,has had for the most of that period the services

of only o ne missionary , and is now left with native helpers only .

To be resuscitated and carried forward with any measure of effi

ciency or prospect of permanency , three m issionary fam il iesshould be associated with our missionary brother now in thiscountry

,whenever providence shall permit him to resume his

labors . The field is large . embracing a population ofWhenever reinforced

,it should be with a missionary force suffi

ciently numerous not only to secure it from all liability to finalabandonment , but also to insure an uninterrupted and vigorousprosecution of the work .

”


184 7 - 8 .

The 3 4 th annual meeting of the American Baptist Convemtion was held in the City of Troy

,N . Y .

,M ay 16th, 184 8 .

NELLORE .-The missionar ies all in America .

The Wednesday meeting (May 17) was opened with prayerby Rev. John Bates , from Ireland . This is the father of thewives of our two first Canadian missionaries

,Timpany and

McL aurin .

Extracts from the Report on The Expediency of rein f o rc

ing the Teloogoo Mission .

The question submitted for consideration is,virtually

,

should the Teloogoo Mission be sustained ? For more than twoyears it has been left in charge of native assistants . They havebeen faithful . If missionaries are not to be sent

,it

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can hardly be expedient to protract the existence of the mission .

The character , number and state of the Teloogoo people , givingpromise of early success proportionate to the expenditure, wehave not been disappointed in the character of the field we havebeen cultivating

,in its extent

,its accessability

,or its productive

ness . The Teloogoos are found to be what they were said to be .

The Nellore district (the seat of the Teloogoo Mission)contains people

,or 113 to the square mile . They are

considered one of the noblest races of Hindostan .

One half of the male population can read . The protectio n of life , l imb and property, is entire . There isno hindrance to missionary labor

,except from caste .

No mission in the Union,in comparison with the work to be per

formed , has been sustained by us so feebly as this . The historyof the mission furnishes no ground of discouragement .The scriptures have been translated into the Teloogoo tongue ,and the New Testament

, W h’

fi'

drtio n s of the Old . printed .

There is a general preparation for the conversion of the peoplefrom dumb idols to the l iving Go d .

"

“ Rev . Amos Sutton , Of the Orissa Mission , at whose instanceoriginally the mission was undertaken

,speaking of the Teloogoos

in a letter near the close of 184 6 , says The population isimmense , they are a noble race , the country a lways accessible ,the government favorable

,the language beautiful , expense

moderate,intercourse with the people unrestrained

,and a begin

ning made. In my Opinion you had better considerwell before you abandon your present ground

,you will never

recover it if you do . There is no station but ourown in the Nellore district

,containing over souls .”

“ It has been laid down as a principl e in missionary enterprises, and we hold it to be a just principle that we should workWH ERE Go d works , and WH EN Go d works

Diff erent missions have their respective favorites and supporters . Multiplication o f interest in this direction may bestrength concentration hardly pressed

,may be decrease—Again

,

what would be the more general subjective influence of drawingback 2The long report closes thus We have only to suggest in

conclusion , that , be the decision what it may , it ought to beregarded as final . If the Teloogoo M ission cannot be sustained

,

n o w is the most favorable time for withdrawal . Al ready them issionaries are withdrawn

,by the providence of Go d, and the

entire closing up of the mission , n o w in charge of the nativeassistants

,can be effected at comparative l ittle cost . If the

TELOOGOO M ISSION .

decision is to continue the mission,the missionaries ought to go

forth wi th a well founded assurance that, when by reason ofdeath they shall cease to labor

,others will enter into their labors .

This most important and leng thy report was referred to acommittee consisting of W illiam R . Wi lliams

,Elisha Tucker ,

Leonard Tracy , John Truesdale and Alanson P . M asonThe following are brief extracts from their reportReinforcement on the one hand , or on the other, the prompt ,

peremptory and final abandonment of our mission station amongthe Teloogoo people

,a race of many noble natural endowments

,

large in numbers , and receiving as yet but l ittle share in themissionary endeavours of the age Our churches maywell falter here

,at the thought of closing between themselves

and this vast multitude of dying idolators the door,and barring

and bolting the door in despair— to be to us no longer a door ofhope and access to enlighten their blindness

,to be to them no

more a door of hope and escape through which they may receivethe light of salvation and evade the second death .

Whilstwilling to afford them (Executive Committee) all proper aidand counsel in such emerg encies , we may also shrink , quite asj ustly , from deciding the same question , when the board approachesit with so much less fullness of knowledge

,and their judgment in

the matter must be the hasty verdict passed on the briefest examination

,To depart from the Teloogoo field is a step critical

and irreparable . We look to this cluster o f scho olsand native assistants , and o ur hearts say “ DESTROY IT NOT

FOR A BLESSING Is IN IT . If the Board do not abandonit , it should , in the judgment of the Committee, be after solemnand public prayer

,and with a deep sense of the vast results

,inter

minable and incalculable,to these Teloogo os and ourselves, which

such withdrawal involves . 9“ B lessed wil l the result be,

if the ful l augmented charities of our churches in the cominghalf year shall say to the Telo ogoos , We

,the Baptists of

America . will not desert you .

’

By resolution the ExecutiveCommittee was in structed to continue the Teloogoo Mission .

The native assistants in the sole charg e of the mission are reportedas steadfast

,faithful and diligent . ’


184 8 9.

The 3 5 th annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of Philadelphia

,May 1 5 th , 184 9.

NELLORE —M issionaries in charge, Rev . S . S .’ Day

,and

Lyman Jewett and wife,Mrs. Day in America .

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2 TELOOGOO MISSION.

Teloogoo country is n o w a field of encourag ing promise .

The church was found to be scattered,but not lost .”

Previous to June last the missionaries had been at threeheathen festivals

,at one of which it was supposed or

were present . They preached to individuals and to

groups,amounting in all to several thousand . Mr .

Jewett goes out into the highways , call ing upon the people toforsake their idols and turn to the true'

G o d Mr . Jewett preached his first regular Teloogoo sermon in the chapel on Dec . 3 rd .

”

Heathenism is evidently on the decl ine . The priests areunable to support it . On the last day of the greatMohammedan feast

,November 2 6 , Messrs . Day and Jewett went

among the people,preached and talked from 1 1 a . m . to 6 p . m

and gave away 180 portions of scripture and 2 5 0 tracts .

Many afterwards came to the mission house for books and tracts.

Extract from: report on re-enforcement of missions : “ TheTeloogoo Mission was re established too recently to add to

,or

change,materially

,the views which in 184 8 led the Board to

dir ect it resuscitation . The re organization of the mission hasbeen effected Two missionaries are in the field

,lending assidu

o usly to its culture . We must aim not only to givethe mission stabil ity and security against a second and fatalabandonment , but efiectiveness proportionate to its largeness ofassured results. For the present necessity the missionary forceshould be doubled .

”

From Nellore,August 2 1st , 18 5 0, M r . Day writes his wife ,

who is in America My heart is at times troubled and castdown because of the fewness of the missionary laborers here

,and

the little success in the way of conversions attending the laborsof that few ; but my :faith has not failed a moment since myreturn here. Great things will ere long appear

,and many will

turn to the Lord . Among the Teloogoos ere many years pass,

nay , I even expect to live and see , and hear glorious thingsmany turning from idols to serve the living Go d . I know yourprayers are often to this end .

”

A few weeks la ter he again wrote his wife : Yesterday .

30th September, 185 0, we dismissed nine school masters and 2 70children , all of whom were daily occupied as chief part of theirduty of reading and committing to memory the precious Wo rd ofGo d in their own tongue

,in reading other suitable elementary

school books prepared on Christian principle,and in committing

whole catechisms , poems , and hymns about Christ and salvation .

Thus by one sweep of the pen in the name of the ExecutiveCommittee notifying us that in the appropriation fer the Telo o

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goo Mission for the year commencing October l st , 18 5 0, therewas nothing allowed for the support of sch ools .

”

In a letter written to his wife on December 2 5 th,18 5 0, Mr.

Day says : “ Here how many times , just as our families havesunk sweetly into sleep , about 1 1 o ’clock all would be startledby the sudden outbreak of drums, &c. ,

children half awake running crying to father and mother

,and perhaps for

.hours the

l ittle on es were kept waking and the parents utterly deprived ofsleep till five in the morning . O , how many times I have lostentirely my Saturday night’s sleep by the doings in that sink ofabomination . How many times I have gone over in the middleof the night and preached to as many of those deluded beings ascould be induced to give any attention . Not a few times whenyou even supposed me in my room I was among these poor,wretches

,trying to persuade them to turn from such wickedness

and obey that gospel of salvation I declared to their dull ears.

0 how many times my soul sickened at the sight of that olddeceiver assuming to be Go d, and upon his sacred seat receivingthe worship as Go d . of the hundreds of deluded beings who come ,many of them 20 or 5 0 miles for the express purpose of beingthere on this night .

”

Expense for the year was

18 5 0—1 .

The 3 7th annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of Boston on May 13 th

, 185 1.

NELLORE —Missionaries in charge,Rev . S . S . Day and

Rev . L. Jewett and wife .

Extracts from reports The committee on the TeloogooMission are permitted to report a state of things in connectiontherewith peculiarly interesting and encouraging .

Results connected with the re-establishment of missionary operatio ns among the Teloogoo

,have been such as to approve

most fully the wisdom and the wel l adjusted arrangements ofthis measure . . The evidence is constantly reaching us of a growing Spirit of inquiry among the people in regard to the truth o f

'

Christianity , attended by a general suspicion concerning thes oundness of their various systems of relig io us science .

”

But while your committee see much that is encouraging inthe past history and present aspects of this mission , they areimpresed with the conviction that its interests are quite toomuch involved In contingencies

,arising fiom the un certanity of

life and health to the present l imited number of missionaries .

2 4 TELOOGOO MISSION .

They would accordingly recommend , that at the earliest possiblemoment the TelOo g OO IMission be strengthened by at least two ;additional laborers . ’

Extracts f rom report : i‘ Mr . and Mrs . Jewett

have made good progress ih'

the acquisition of the language,and

Mr. Jewett has entered with zeal on the work of preaching thegospel . The attendance at the chapel has been from70 to 100. There has been daily preaching in the streets , andseveral tours have been made to attend native festivals, forpreaching and tract distribution . The number of people addressedin this manner exceed From 80 to 2 20pupils have beenweekly instructed in , the Sabbath School . SinceMarch

,18 4 9,over portions of scripture have been distribut

ed and received with avidity ”

Mr . Day writes “ The general aspect is more encourag ingthan at any ' time since the commencement of the mission .

Idolat ry is losing credit . Scarce a man of all the thousandsaddressed , has attempted in good earnest to defend it by discussion . Two persons have been hopefully converted .

Expense of the mission for the year was

185 1- 2 .

The 3 8th annual meeting of the American Baptist Mission~ary Union , was held in the City of Pittsburg

,on May 18

,18 5 2 .

NELLORE —Missionaries in charge,Rev . S . S . Day and L .

Jemett and wife .

For several months during the year,all the missionaries were

more or less laid up in consequence ‘

Of il l-health,but n o twith

standing this drawback,the schools were kept up, many villages

visited , portions of the scripture given away and thousandsof tracts distributed .

Extract from report These (Teloogoo and Assan) arepeculiar

,inasmuch as they are the only points in which the

American Baptists have made any attempt to assist in the

evangelization of the tribes connected by lan g uag e and race withthe population of Hindostan . Though your committee

,as a

general principle,would discourage the scattering of our evan

g el ical forces, they cannot but feel that the providential indications that led to the estab lisment of these missions were clearand decided . One nat ive co lpertcur gave away 13 ,700; tracts ,and reports to have frequently met with natives with someknowledge of the Christian religion and anxious to learn more .

Extracts from report “ Were these conversions the solepositive resul t of the year’s Operations

,they would no t be deemed

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of smal l account . But they area part, and, In certain aspects ,perhaps not the ch ief part

,of what has been done for the Tel o o

goos . A knowledge of the leading truths , a perception of theclaims of christianity

,has -been g ained by large numbers of the

people . Prejudice has been m itigated . The native mindis in a transitional sta te , revolving from the absurditie s and

abominations of the current superstition , &c.

Among the m ISSIo naries designated this year were Rev . JohnL . Douglass and wife , for the Teloogoos . He had been pastorof the Baptist Church at Fort Ann

, N . Y.


18 5 2- 3

The 3 9th annualmeeting of the American BaptistMissionaryUnion was held in the City of Albany on May 17th , 18 5 3 .

NELLORE.—Missionaries in charge

,Rev . S S . Day , and

Rev . L . Jewett and wife .

And he said unto him , Lord, let it alone this year also , till Ishal l dig about it, and dung it, and if it bear fruit, well , and ifnot , then after that thou shalt cut it down . Luke , x iii . and 8 .

The Lord did let it alone this year also,and the Union did

dig about it ” and the consequence was it did bear fruit well .What a critical moment th is was H o w evenly poised the sca lebeam ! Thousands do now and perhaps mill ions will yet havecause to rejoice throughout eternity that the beam was broughtdown in favor of the

'

LOne Star.1 find it n ecessary to give a more copious account of the pro

ceeding s of this meeting, inasmuch as the destiny of the missionh inged j ust here .

The fcommittee on fthe Teloogoo and Assam Missions wasMessrs . S . B . Swain , Massachusetts ; E . Hutch inson , VermontM . G . Clark , Pennsylvania ; H . C . Fish , New Jersey ; S . B .

Webster, Oh io G . C . Germond , New York L . D .

'

B o o n , Ill inois .A deputation , consisting of M essrs . Peck and Granger had

spent twelve days at Nel lore , and on their r epo rt the ExecutiveBoard reported , of which the fo llowing are brief extractsEvery facility was furnished for conducting their inquiries.No question respecting the field , the plans, the work of the fruitsof the mission failed to receive thorough investigation . Theresult was a high degree of satisfaction with the value of thestation , with the fidelity and abil ity of the missionaries

,and

,also

,

a strong conviction that the mission should be reinforced duringthe present year by

,at least

,two additional families

,or that it

should be speedily relinquished,and the missionaries now there

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be assig ned to some other field. This is the only alternativenamed by the deputation . The question

,therefore

,sub

mitted by the deputation is, shall the Teloogoo Mission be reiifforced or relinquished during the present year ? They do notundertake to decide the question . The Executive Committee present in th is form a concise statement of its facts andviews .” These consideration s are

“ 1 . TH E WANT OF SUCCEss.—No more than three persons

have been baptized since the mission was recommenced in 184 9,and it is not known that more than four others have been converted in the same time . If the number of conversions be themeasure of success, it cannot be denied t hat little encouragementis afforded for reinforcing the Teloogoo M ission .

”

2 . TH E WANT OF SU ITABLE NATIVE H EL PERs.—No such

helpers are in training, and there is no immediate prospect of any.

The two Teloogoo brethren now employed by the mission areworthy of confidence , but their education and rank are not suchas to give them the w idest usefulness .”

3 . Other religions being in the field .

4 TH E ABILITY OF TH E MISSIONARIES To ENTER OTHERFIELDS .

—Their knowledge of o n e oriental language would facilitate their acquisitio n of another

,and

,however deeply they may

regret to leave the Teloogoos, it is believed that they would bewilling , in the even t o f relinquish ing the mission , to j oin others .On the other side it was stated.

1 . TH E EXTENT OF TH E FIELD .- The Nellore district alone

has a population of to and with the excep

qio n of the native preacher , and the day School of the Free Churchof Scotland

,the district has n o missionaries than our own .

2 TH E KNOWLEDGE ALREADY GAINED BY TH E MISSIONARIES.

—The country,the lang uage, and the character of the Teloog oos

are known to them , and with many individuals they have' l ittle

less than intimate personal acquaintance .

”

3 . TH E PREVAILING POLICY OF TH E MISSION Thechief work of o ur missionaries was found to be VERNACULARPREACHING . To th is service

,the oral dispensation o f the gospel

,

the missionaries have trained themselves,and in the chapel , at

at stations in and around Nellore,and at the great Hindoo festi

vals , thousands of Teloogoos have the gospel PREACHED to themby our brethren . Thus to preach !is the work which absorbsthem ,

and this fact is presented as a strong reason for the co ntinuance of the mission .

” “ In all respects it is a difficultand a momentous question

,requiring a careful balancing of the

claims of the Teloog oo race o n the o ne hand, and o f o ur own

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resources , in men and means,on the other . That race is esti

mated at souls . The continuance of the mission will call for the second , third and fourth reinforcements , andfor the planting of new station s

,involving additional outlays

from year to year. The real question then is , can the Teloogoomission be adequately su stained without going beyond theresources of the Board , or depriving other fields of the men andmeans wh ich they need ?”Extracts from the report On the foregoing They

,

therefo re , proceed at once to the question wh ich is proposed bythe Executive Committee

,shal l the Teloogoo Mission be rein

forced o r relinquished ? In the presence of this question yourcommittee tremb ‘

e . They feel that there are fearfu l respo nsibilities involved , and yet after a careful examination of the factsthey are unanimous in recommending a suitable reinforcement ofthe mission , not an abandonment . We do not so understand the great commission . We are unable to find in it anyclabse for retreating soldiers, and venture to express the hopethat the Board will never detain itself in seeking to find it .Your committee feel admonished

,that if the perishing mil lIo ns of

the Teloogoos were forsaken by us , on the ground of want ofsuccess

,that we should be greatly in danger of grieving the Holy

Spirit,and of bringing down upon our more prosperous missions

death and barrenness . The door is wide Open , and we are inthe field and it i s a vast perishing field

,and who will dare to

retreat 7Extract from report on Expenditure The board have the

judgment of the deputation , that the need of reinforcement inthe Teloogoo Mission is so u rgent that they advise the managersto break up the mission itself in the even t of failure to reinforceit No words can shew a stronger necessity than th is alternative .

”

The costs of sustaining the mission the last year was $3 ,602 .64 ,and it is not supposed that it could be less,the present year,even if relinquished . The sending of two additional families,including outfit

,passage

,buildings and salaries . would probably

increase the expense of the mission to the current year I”In 1885 the Rev . W. S . McKen z ie

,of the American Baptist

M issionary Union , of Boston ,U. S . ,

publ ished a tell ing Sketchof the Teloogoo Mission ” wh ich he cal led “ TH E LONE STAR .

The following is Oopied therefrom“ At the evening session of the Union , the great question of

relinquishing or re enforcing the Teloogoo Mission was underdiscussion . E loquent pleas were delivered by some for re euforcement . One of the speakers

,pointing to Nellore on the inap

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suspended o ver’

the platform ,called it “ TH E LONE STAR. The

words fell upon the ears of one present with peculiar force Thatnight

,before sleeping , L r .

S . F . Smith , the author of MyCountry

,

’tis to Thee,

” and of “ Yes,my Native Land I Love

Thee,

” put to paper the following stanzas on

TH E LONE STAR .

Shine on,

“ Lone Star Thy r adiance brightShall spread o’er all the eastern sky

Morn breaks apace from gloom and nigh tShine on

,and bless the pilgrim ’s eye.

Shine on,

“ Lone Star ” I would not dimThe light that gleams with dubious ray

The lonely star of Bethlehem,

Led on a bright and glorious day .

Shine on,

“ Lone Star ” l in grief and tears,

And sad reverses oft baptized :Shine on amid thy sister spheresLone stars in heaven are not despised .

Shine on,Lone Star” Who lifts his hand

To dash to earth so bright a gem ,

A new “ lost pleiad from the bandThat sparkles in night’s diadem

Shine on,

“ Lone Star ” The days draw nearWhen n one shall shine more fair than thou

Thou , born and nursed in doubt and fearWilt gl itter on Immanuel ’s brow .

Shine on , “ Lone Star ” till earth redeemed ,In dust shall bid its idols fall

And thousands,where thy radiance beamed

,

Stil l crown the Saviour Lord of all .”

The accomplishment of the prediction couched in the above6mnr omp tu stanzas will soon appear in the sequel of this sketch .

Before the close of the meetings that year in Albany , the Unionpassed this resolution , That the Teloogoo Mission be continuedand suitably reinforced, p ro viding that , in, the judgment Of theBoard of Managers . it can be done consistently with the claimsof Southern Burmah .

”

30 TELOOGOO MISSION.

to the Lamb of Go d, which taketh away the sin of the world .

NO wonder he wrote home that he had too much to do to feelthe need of society for society ’s sake .

” In November he wroteI devote my time wholly to the preaching department . I amearnestly look ing for fruit . I feel in my soul that our labor willn o t be in vain . My belief of the ultimate success of the missionremains as firm as ever. I would rather labor here as long as Ilive

,than to be torn up by the roots to be transplanted

”

Extract f rom report Relative to the Teloogoo Mission,

you r committee feel that the question of RELINQUISHMENT is nolonger one of discussion . In the meeting of the Board and ofthe Un ion at Albany

,one year ago

,this subject was faithfully

canvassed . and,we hope

, SETTLED FOREVER . It was there reso lved

,in view Of other circumstances

,favorable and adverse

,that

,

trusting in Go d,the TELOOGOO M ISSION SH OIIL D LIVE . It does

live . Go d has given it a man after his own heart,who

,

if we will permit him,will not cease to preach to the Teloogoos

Jesus Christ . In view of what we have already done forthis mission

,in view of its present promising state

,and of the

millions of Teloogoos w ithout the word of life,and most of all

,

in view of the dying command of Jesus Christ to preach thegospel to every creature

,your committee would express the hope

that the Executive Committee will spare no pains in securing , atthe earliest possible period

,one or two additional men to labor

among the Teloogoos.”The Rev . John L Douglass and wife sailed for India in

December last . There were distributed in Nellore and neighborhood , during the year , portions of scripture andtracts , and one person was baptized .


18 5 4 - 5 .

The 4 l st annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of Chicago on May 1 5 th

,18 5 5 .


,Rev . L . Jewett and

wife . Hope expressed that the Rev. F. A . Douglass and wife,

who sailed from Boston in October,had arrived safe at Nel lore .

Extract from Committee ’ s Report (of this Committee the lateRev . R . A . Fyfe

,D . D .

,was 9“ B ro . Jewett

and wife are at present the only active laborers among the millions of Teloogoos . B ro . Douglass and wife have probably reachedNellore before this

,but it will be many months before they can

speak in the native language,

But what are two or threemissionaries among so many ? It is hoped that before long the

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missionaries wil l be abl e t o circulate the whole B ibl e among t heTeloogoos . Go d has granted but l ittle apparent success to thelabors of the missionaries among this people .

i" The fewwho have enrolled themselves openly under the banner of thecross , Show the thoroughness of their conversion by their greatliberality , wh ich has abounded even in their deep poverty . TheS ix members of the church in Nellore have contributed more thanenough to support a native pastor ."

Notwithstanding the feebleness of the mission at Nellore .

Mr. Jewett earnestly pleads for the establ ishment of a secondstation at Ongole , some 70 miles from Nell ore. Thus pleads Mr .Jewett : Let us have one missionary in Nellore , and one inOngole. This place cannot remain long unoccupied . Itis now Offered to your acceptance— these are the great wants ofthe present day . Give us men

,therefore

,as well as money .

”

Extracts from annual report An edition of copiesof the History of Christ

,

’ by Mr . Day,has been printed . It is

a small volume of 2 3 2 pages,wholly in the words of the four

gospels . portions of scripture and tracts have beendistributed in all the villages within twenty miles of Nellore

,

and in every villag e on the road to the north for 14 3 miles between Nellore and Gun to o r and the vil lages bordering on theBay of Bengal . if The missionaries have been earnestlydesirous to give to the m ill ions of Teloogoos the whole B ible intheir own tongue . The result of the labors of the missio naries among the Teloogoos is manifest in the wide spreadconviction on the minds of the masses in favor of christianity .

Ongo le,where Mr. Jewett so earnestly pleads ‘for the

establ ishment of a new mission,l ies on the main road leading

north to Calcutta and north -west to Hyderabad running someeight miles inland parallel with the Bay of Bengal . It wasyears ago a walled city of some importance

,but now has a po pu

lation of about only . Nel lore and Ongole,says Mr .

Jewett , are two of the most important places in the Nellore distriet—the two great thoroughfares and centres of influence . Inthe immediate neig hborhood are numerous villages containingfrom to inhabitants . Formerly we have askedmuch . N o w I ask only for two stations for the Teloogoo BaptistMission . Let us have one more missionary in Nellore ,and one in Ongole

,that the sympathies

,prayers and efforts in

itinerating may overshadow the intervening villages with thoseinfluences

o

which bring salvation . It is most disheartening to the most courageous spirits to be told that there are no

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recruits to sustain them in the war . What can we do who are

but dust and ashes ? Give us men .


18 5 5 -6 .

The 4 2nd annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of New York on May 13 th, 18 5 6 .



wife,and Rev. F . A. Douglass and wife .Mr . and Mrs . Douglass reached Ne llore on April 14 th , after

a voyage of 108 days . During the year nine were added to thechurch by baptism . Two native preachers have been employed ,of whose labors the missionaries speak with most decided approbabion .

Extracts from report The last baptized , December 2 5 th,is a youth of sixteen of much promise . About R 2

monthly are taken up after the communion service to defray thecurrent expenses of the church . The native assistantshave distributed , during the year , portions o f scripture ,and tracts . Messrs . Jewett

,Douglass and assist

ants , in May , distributed scriptures and tracts in large quantitiesto those who came to the tent for them

,Are .

The cold season as usual was Occupied in tours . Inorder to reach as many as possible of both sexes , Mr. and Mrs .

Jewett,with two female

‘

christians undertook the journey , Theywere received on every side with kindness, and found Open houseseverywhere for religious service . At one place the female portion Of the company were invited to the headman ’s house , wherethey found a large number of females assembled to receive themand to hear from them the word of Go d.

4° The womenexpressed much joy and surprise at the pains that had been takento visit them with the glad tidings of the gospel .Mrs Jewett and Nersu visited Ongole

,and pitched their tent

within a few minutes walk of the centre Of the city .

During this tour the gospel was preached in sixteen differentvillages . The Teloogoo mission in its lonely position , at adistance from the other missions of the union , feebly supportedand at times ready to be abandoned

,has been subject to many

discouragements. It still lives,and Go d has not forgotten

to be gracious to it.Mr . Jewett . writes We labor under the deep impression

that we are doing a work which,in its ultimate results , W i l l

affect the welfare of millions,by turning them from the worship

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of idols to the living Go d. Al ready the fallow ground seems tobe breaking up and the seed of the gospel seems to sink downinto the good soil .”Expenses for the year were

185 6-7

The 4 3 rd annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of Boston 0 11 May 19th

,18 5 7 .

NELLORE .—Missionaries In charge , Rev. L . Jewett and

wife and Rev . F . A. Douglass and wife .The native Christian Nersu who had been a most devoted

colporteur for some six years,died at Nellore November 12

,18 5 6 .

Among h is last words were — “ The same truths wh ich I havepreached to others are n o w my joy and support .Two were baptized during the year, making the total number

of the Nellore church twely e . A third candidate for baptismrequested to be baptized in h is own village . During the year

portions of scripture have been distributed and tracts .

The report says An edition of the Teloogoo New Testament

,sufficiently large for the present wants of the mission has

been printed'

at Vizagapatam .

”


185 7 -8

The 4 4 th annual meeting Of the Ameri can Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of Philadelphia on May 18th , 18 5 8 .

NELLORE .— Missionaries in charge

, Rev . L . Jewett andwife

,and Rev . E. A . Douglass and wife .

Extracts from report The last year has been one of trialas regards both personal and mission concerns . As early asJanuary

, 18 5 7 , Mr . Douglas was constrained by the protractedand alarming illness of his wife to leave the station with hisfamily and remove to Madras. Before the health of Mrs .Douglass had been sufficiently reestablished to justify their returnto Nellore

,intelligence was received of the breaking forth of the

Bengal mutiny,and shortly afterwards they were joined by M r .

and Mrs . Jewett who left the station in AugustJewett was absent at Madras about four months, returning inNovember

.Mrs . and Mrs . Douglass , by the advice of her physi

cian . remained till January .

One only was added to the church during the year , makingtheir total membersh ip thirteen .

3 4 TELOOCOO M ISSION.

Mr. Jewett, on August 8th , 'writes I still cherish the

hOpe expressed in previous letters, that the Sepoys in the Madrasand Bombay Presidencies wil l prove staunch , and that co nse

quently the Mohammedans will fear to rise and all o f us escapeunharmed. Still , the great Mohammedan festival of ten days,commencing August 2 1st , is dreaded by every one in these parts.Should a combined attack be made , all the inland unprotectedplaces would be l ik ely to be destroyed, while Madras, fully awaketo the pressing danger

,would be likely to be overcome. For a long

time we resolved to stand our ground , but at last yielded the point .

Capt . Beaver , who commands over 300 invalid Sepoys stationedhere

,says that , in case o f a rise , he can afi

‘

o rd n o pro tection tous who are on this side o f the town.

Were I alone, I would not think of leaving , my hope ofgeneral safety being pretty strong, but when one has 5. wife and

helpless children , he may well fear when there is no cause tofear

,but how much more when bazaar reports make every ear to

tingle My wife has thought it best to go to Madras Sver sincewe received an unpleasant visit from two native gentlemen ,strangers from the north—as inquisitive spies— attended bytwenty armed men with spears and swo rds .”

Mr . Douglass writes We are looking to the meeting of theUnion th is monthwith great solicitude .

if In these contending waters we fear millions of heathens will be left to perish—perish eternally .

“X We begin to feel as a mission a painful needof an increase to our number . We ought to be multiplied t entimes . ‘lt We can see no reason why the board

,and the

churches through it, should not arise to the saving ofTeloogoos—the most numerous and the most interesting people .confessedly , of South India . There is not a vil lage closed to thegospel and everywhere the servant of Christ is treated withrespect

,and h is message very seldom despised.

”

Extract from report—Yo ur committee are persuaded thatthe Board are brought to this alternative , either to relinquishthe Teloogoo Mission , or speedily reinforce it . In a field thatnumbers its disturbed more or less by the mutiny

,

that has infected all parts of India , there is little to hope for atpresent from a feeble force in the m idst of so many millions.

”

One additional missionary , it was suggested , should be sentto Nellore in October.

The expense Of themission for the year was

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18 5 8-9.

The 4 5 th annual meeting of the.

American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held In the City of New York on May 17th , 18 5 9NELLORE —Missionaries in charg e, Rev . L . Jewett and

wife,and Rev. F . A . Douglass and wife.Extracts from report We are here (Teloogoo M ission)

however,cal led upon to offer devout thanksgiving to the great

Head of the church that He has visited our brethren of thismission with a gracious outpouring of the Holy Spirit , and giventhem the joy second to none on earth

,in welcoming converts

among the heathen into their little family of the household o f

faith . Your committee would recommend the vigorous pro secution of the work among the Teloogoos .”

Extracts from the missionaries report We have neverknown a. darker period than towards the close of the first half ofthe mission year. We fel t that we were coming to nothing.

While we were mourn ing our own unpro fitableness, and ourleanness, to bring us still lower the Lo rd called away, suddenly ,o ur on ly catechist , Jacob , who died March 5 th . Late inthe evening of the 2 2nd , two came to the mission house andrequested that they might be baptized the fol lowing day.

The ordinance of baptism was administered to them late in theafternoon of the 2 3 rd. The next day

,March 2 4 th

,three

young men came to the mission house to inquire what they mightdo -to be saved . The church observed Monday , April 5 th as aday of fasting and prayerMr . Jewett writes I am not qualified to write out on

paper , worthily, a history of th is revival . I can speak of theflesh , but what can I say about the spirit ?Mr. Douglass writes —“ I cannot forbear saying it is a day

of g reat trembling and rejoicing among us . We firmly believethat the Lone Star ” will be the centre of a cluster of brighterstars .”Repor t At the close of last mission year, t he number of

church members was thirteen . The present year we havereceived by baptism l 3—in all 26 members . Our laborshave been confined almost wholly to Nellore . We hopethe churches wi ll furnish the means which will enable the committee to open the way to those who have said ‘we are ready tog o to the Teloogoos .

’

Mr . Jewett writes further We are in immediate want ofanother mission house in order to double the influence among the


Teloogoo peop le . “it We have waited till our faith haswavered for the fulfilment of a promise for the supply of Ouracknowledged want .Expense of the mission for the year was

185 9-60.

The 4 6th annual meeting Of the American Baptist M issionaryUnio n was held in the City of Cincinnati on May 2 2nd

,1860.

NELLORE .-M issionaries in charge


wife,and Rev. F . A . Douglass and wifeFive were added by Baptism during the year . During the

month of September that fearful scourge the cho lera, visited themission and in a few days took by death two members of theirsmal l church and four pupils from their school .Extract from report Go d is g iving new encouragement to

the worn laborers of the Teloogoo Mission,who have been so long

watching for the morning.

“ The Teloog oo Lone Star ’ is fast becoming a bright andluminou s body . and the brethren there cherish the hope of seeingit , in their own day ,

‘ a constellation .

’ It is a sweet mission ,sweet with the influences of divine love and the o‘dors of heavenlyg race . It deserves to be strengt hened , and the committee havethought of good relative to it . Much money and manymen will be needed

,and the churches cannot fail to furn ish both .

Under date of June 2 1,M r . Jewett writes It now appears

that the Lord has been carrying on a silent work in the souls ofmany persons for several weeks past. I think for eight weeks atleast . if ‘ They will soon come in crowdsExpense for the year was

1860-1 .

The 4 7th annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUn ion was held in the City of Brooklyn on May 28th, 186 1 .

NELLORE —Missionaries in charge,Rev. L, Jewett and

wife, and Rev. F. A . Douglass and wife .

Extracts from report . Although this field exhibits a stubborn soil and abounds in the most formidable obstacles, it hasbeen occupied by men who have displayed in a high degree thepatience of faith

,undaunted courage and unrelenting persever

ance . The accounts from the Teloogoo Mission indicategradual and eff ective progress . N0 mission in Asia , of any denomination , has ever been favored with more faithful laborers .

The establishm e n t at Nellore has lo n g rs eemed like a Lone Star ’

3 8 TE LOOGOO M ISSION .

work of missions is emphatically a work of faith . The death ofVan Husen

,under the influence of cl imate and labor

,at Nellore

,

spread a gloom over the early l ife of this mission,which years

have not been ab le to remove . The quest ion , years ag o ,was anxiously asked by the Executive Committee, and discussedin the meetings of the Board and of the Union , shal l the Telo og o o be given up ? Shall the Lo ne Star be blotted out 7 Aftermost careful consideration , no co nclusion could be reached saveDestroy it not , for a blessing Is in itMr . Jewett who has long and faithfully labored in that

field,sinks under his to ils just a s he is gathering in the harvest,

and,tearing himself away, tu rns towards America as the only

hope of regaining his health . The trial , ’ says he, ‘ of leavinghome at first

,i s lessthan nothing compared to that of leaving the

mission field to return .

’ Mr Douglass is thus left . to

labor alone among the Teloogoos . Wh ile our missionari esare thus willing to hold on , and labor on against such fearfulodds

,let the day never come when the American Baptist Mission

ary Union can say , let the mission go , the infant church be scattered, and the heathen given up to perish . Your co m

mittee recommend that the Teloogoo mission be reinforced as

speedily as possibleOn the 28th of May , Mr . Jewett was taken alarmingly sick

and was hastened o ff to Madras with h is family . After spendinga few weeks there it was decided for him and family to returnfor a time to America . Leaving his family at Madras he took ahasty trip to Nellore

,Ongole

,&c. , and bid all good bye . Mr.

Jewett writes On seeing me Obatu embraced me in his arms .I felt as much streng thened ,

by seeing him as ever Paul did byhi s brethren who met h im in the wilderness. We ordainedKanakiah as pastor of the church on the last Sabbath I spent inNellore .

Bro . Douglass writes under date of March l 0th Bro . and

sister Jewett are sending us their last letter wh ile in India .

Their l ittle daughter they must soon g ive Up to Jesus whom, she

says,she l o ves better than anybody else. ’

It was very disheartening to find on his (Mr . JeWett) arrival ( in America), that the question of abandoning the

‘ LoneStar ’ Mission was ag ain before the Board and Churches . At

the anniversary of the Society , held in Providence in 1862 , aresolution was offered and its passage urgently demanded that theTeloogoo field be abandoned . Rev. Dr . Warren pleaded withthem to wait at least until Mr . Jewett then on h is voyage home

,

should return .

‘ Let us wait,

’ said he , ‘and hear what B rother

SCRAP BOOK . 39

Jewett has to say on this question ?’ Th is proposition was re

luctantly agreed to . Mr . Jewett had no doubtful report to makeof the Lone Star .’ When asked concerning surrendering themission , he replied with an emphatic No .

’ He declared beforethe Board that if encouragement and aid were not given him bythe Union

,he would return alone and unaided

,except by God ’s

promise and spirit , and spend his remaining days among theTeloogoo people . The Board resolved to return Mr. Jewett

,

if health was restored,and a helper with him .

” —Rev . D . Downie,

of N t-l lo re , at the conference held at Nellore February 5 -10,1886 .


1862-3 .

The 4 9th annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of Cleveland o n May 19th , 1863 .

NELLORE .

—Missionaries in charge, Rev. F. A. Douglass

and wife ,

Extracts from report We cannot despond forthose who have so much courage and hope for themselves . Ourconviction increases at every step we take with them in thereview of their work

,that such unselfish devotion

,such faith and

such heroism in the cause of Christ and for the souls of men,

cannot but be acceptable to Go d, and that he wil l yet pourhonor upon them in the sight of the heathen , by causing h is wordto triumph in their salvation . It is also a sadden ing consideration that al l the interests of this station should be suspendedupon the u ncertainity of a single l ife . This consideration isespecial ly painful , when we look upon the Teloogoo Mission .

I’ake B ro . Douglass from Nel lore , and the Teloogoo Mission ispractically given up . W’ hen we look at upwards ofof heathens so accessible

,and at their character, as among the

most intel ligent and elevated of the Hindoos. We are

convinced that there are no fields from which we might expectbetter returns

,if the station was so manned that those who man

them could labor to the best advantage . Our review has

brought u s to accept the words of Mr . Douglass as words of sobertruth

,when he says Let the churches send ten missionaries

to the Teloogoo,to enter and occupy this vast unoccupied field ,

instead of keeping one man suspended here by the brittle threadof life. It has been my privilege to visit al l the missionsin the Teloogoo country except two

,and I can ; without envy or

comparison , say that the field given us thus by Go d in his providence, is sufficient in size to cal l for an o utlay o f men and means

40 TELOOGOO M ISSION .

to the extent I could no t presume to name .

’ Your com

mittee cannot but hope , therefore, that measures will be takenimmediately to reinforce Nellore .”On December 14 th , 186 1, Ko nakiah was duly ordained pastor

of the Nellore church by the missionaries, Messrs . Jewett andDouglass . Two were baptized by Mr. Douglass in the “

Pennar

river . on December 5 th, 186 2 .

Mr . Douglass writes from Nellore On reading an abstractof the report of the discussion

,at the last annual meeting

,upon

the propriety of abandoning this field , I confess to ming ledsurprise and indignation . A thousand precious memories rushedinto my mind of the scenes witnessed on these grounds , madesacred by agony and tears , by. triumphs of faith

,by dying grace

such as was never,to my knowledge , surpassed in any land, and

I f elt like sounding them with trumpet tongue into the ears o fthose who seemed asleep . But I would ask

,is the Teloogoo

mission to be forever the subject of apology by its friends inAmerica and India ? If so , what are the grounds of that apology ? Apologists should know for what they apologize , or be.

silent . Have boards and committees been il l advised inreference to the matter ? Have they l een misled ? Oris the apology to come only from the India side of the question ?Are the feeb le agents of mission labor (four families in twentyyears for heathen) t o be called to g ive an account fornot laying in thedust massive temples of caste , the masterpiece ofSatan , that have withstood the tempest of ages ? Let thechurches send ten men to the Teloogoos to enter and occupy thisvast unoccupied field

,instead of

The expense of the mission f o r the year was1863 -4

The 5 0th annual meeting of the American Baptist 'Missio naryUnion was held in the Ci ty of Philadelphia on May 2 4 th

,186 4 .

NELLORE —Missionaries in charge, Rev . F . A . Douglassand wife .

In consequence of the sickness of Mr. Douglass and wife theywere absent from Nellore from May 2 1st to September 2 1st

,vis

iting the sea side and at Madras . Soon after Mr . Douglass .

return to Nellore, he baptized four converts , to which he refersthus As I stood in the water

,and these trophies of a

Saviour's love came down one after another into the waters,my‘

heart said,amen the heathen shall yet come in crowds Many

barbarians were spectators . The scene will not be fo rgotten o n

earth , and , I trust, will n o t be disowned in heaven .

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' 4 1

Extract from report The Teloogoo Mission is now in thecharge of Rev. L. Jewett and Rev . F . A . Douglass. A

mission of such promise, and on which so much has been expended , ought not to be left in a languishing state . Its fields are

white and ready for the harvest . Only the laborers are wanting .

We cherish the hope that Mr . Jewett will soon be able to returnto hisp ost . He ought to be accompanied by two fresh and yigo ro us men . Th is increased force is absolutely necessary to raisethe m ission to a state of real efficiency and give promise of largesuccess .”Extract from report The Rev . S . S . Day , of the Teloogoo

Mission . seeing no pro spect of being able to resume labor in h isformer field has resigned.

”

The three last months of the year was spent by Mr. Douglassin preaching In Ongo le and the numerous villages around it .The expense o f the mission for the year was $3 , 5 12 .3 8 .

1864 - 5

The 5 1st annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of St . Louis on May 23 rd, 186 5 .


,Rev. L . Jewett Rev .

F. A. Do ug lass and wife, and Rev . J . E . Clough and wife .Extract from report —Mr . A. V . Timpany, of V enna, Canada

west, has been appointed a missionary of the Union .

Extract from report Rev . Lyman Jewett of the TeloogooMission

, accompanied by Rev . J . E . Clough and wife , who arehenceforth to form a part of the mission , sailed from Boston on

thev

30th of last November, to resume the cultivation of that field .

Mrs. Jéwett remains in this country, but will j oin her husband indue time. Al l a re hopeful and happy in the prospectbefore

’

themExtract from report The committee were happy in being

able to make even this addition to the working force of the mission , and only regret their inability to make a larger one. Thefield Is an inviting one

,and would well repay any amount of

labor bestowed on it .”In February, 186 5 , Mr. Douglass writes I have also to

tell you of another visitation of ,the Lord to

,our school . The

entire School of nineteen pupils has been blessed with the Spirit’sinfluence . Some have found peace in believing .

”

Again he writes -“ The native helpers have been touring

near Ong ole , having travelled bya new road, and been absent

4 2 Tsto o co o M ISSION.

just two mno ths,in wh ich time they have done a highly important

work,visiting and preaching in 7 3 difierent vi l lages, and in

”

many of them more than once .


1865 -6 .

The 5 2nd annual meeting of the American Baptist M issionaryUnion was held in the City of Boston o n May 23 nd, 1866 .


,Rev. L . Jewett and

wife,and Rev. J . E . Clough and wife .

Messrs . Jewett and Cloug h arrived at Madras about the endof March

,they remained in that city some three weeks and then

proceeded to Nellore , which place they reached on the 2 2nd ofA ril .e . and Mrs . Clough took sh ip for England in . September,from thence to B o ston , where they arrived in the fore part ofFebruary . This return to America was rendered necessary onaccount of their failing health .

Orr the 14 th of May M r. Douglass baptized five persons intothe fellowship of the Nellore church .

November‘

6th Bro . Clough writes It was myhappy privilege to baptize four upon a profession of their faith inthe Lord Jesus Christ . The Lone

.

Star ’ mission hasstood here in the midst of darkness deeper than night f o r abouttwenty years, yet but few have believed our report 1. We

feel that th is cannot longer be endured—Go d has a people herewho must come out and unite themselves with the children ofl i ht.

”

gEleven were baptized during the year. Present number

thirty eight.The expense of the mission for the year was

CANADA .

On the 18th of October , 1866 (so says the 1st _

repo rt) a fewministers met with

,the Rev. D . Murdock of the American Mis

sio nary Union in the Beamsville parsonage house , and there virtual ly inaugurated our own Canadian ForeignM issionary Society .

We have not been able to find out the names of the honored few.

1866-7 .

The 5 3 rd annual meeting of the .AmericanBaptist MissionaryUnion was

'

held in the City of Chicago on May 2 l st, 1867 .

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NELLORE .—Rev. L . Jewett and wife , missionaries in charge.

ONGOLE—Rev . F . A. Douglass and wife .Extracts from repo rt . Since our last report anew station

has been opened In Ongole and Mr . Clough has taken charge ofit . “6 Arriving there on the 17 th September i‘ On

gole is 70 miles from Nellore -and 10 from the sea Thepeople g enerally are intelligent— larger in size and stronger thanthose in and near NelloreMr . Clough writes In March in company with Mr.

Jewett I went to Ongole . Wh il e there two persons, whosehomes ' were forty m iles west of Ongole

,were baptized.

“

4"

Besides the study of the lang uage , I myself preached every evenin g either in the town or the adjacent villages, and , aided by thenative preachers

,conducted public worship on the Sabbath in

Teloogoo.

”

After three nights travel by bullock cart over rough roads ,and no roads at all, sometimes through and sometimes aroundcotton and rice fields , preaching by day at times in my tent andat times in the vil lages

,we arrived at Tul a Conda Padu . Here

I pitched my tent in a fair tamarind grove,and sent word to the

villages around that I had come to see them and tell them aboutJesus . The word soon spread

,and the next day between thirty

and forty men and women appeared before the tent , havingbro ught provisions for four or five days and an entire change ofclothes , to put on when they sho uld be baptized. They saidthat they now came to learn more about Jesus but theybelieved already and wished to be baptized . Then com

menced In that tamarind grove a series of meetings which continned for five days

,and which I never can forget . There were in

zo nstant attendance thirty-five a nd at times many more . Themeetings were for preaching

,prayer

,reading the scriptures and

inquiry . At the end of the fifth day,Sunday , January 20th,

twenty—eight were baptIz ed on profession of their faith in theLord Jesus Christ . The meetings and baptisms almost made meth ink another day of Pentecost was being given to us . I haveseen many revivals at home, and witnessed many precious outpourings of the Holy Spirit

,but I never saw such a blessed time

as this was,never saw such faith and such love for Jesus the

Saviour . Their faith is simple,but O how strong

Those . baptized live in six villages from twenty-five to fiftyfive

zmiles remote from Ongo le . To witness th is scene was

worth more than I can tell. I can now toil on patiently, Ithink

,and feel that our labor Is no t in vain The man .

4 4 TELOOGOO MISSION .

who came in the morning returned accompanied by three others .He then said that four beside h imself

,l ivm g in his vil

lage , were believm g in Jesus , and he would go home to-morrow,

and after three weeks they would all come together .Many times I have written that we must have more help - missio naries for this Ongole field and for Rampatam and Al lo re.

Now the need has,to my mind

,ripened into a positive necessity .

If I climb to the top of a hill within half a mile of thespot where I now sit

,I can look over a vast plain

,forty miles to

the north,sixty miles to the west

,forty miles to the south, and

east as far the eye can reach over the Bay of Bengal . This vastplain contains hundreds of towns and villages , and teems withhuman beings . Al l these and multitudes beyond can be

reached by a missionary on cart or pony. How I long to go andtell them about Jesus ! Ongole is the central point, the basefrom which I must work . If the Lord should give memy health

,I should l ik e to travel six months in the year , and go

w ith tent and family,from vi l lage to village

,preach ing the

gospel . Such tours must , I think , result in untold good . We

are praying and expecting you wil l appoint at least two new menfor this field before the close of the anniversary of Chicago.”Mr. Jewett writes Are you not glad we toiled so hard to

get a footing at Ongole ? B ro . Clough says,n ow is the

time to strike,the time to put new laborers into the field. We

expect to meet him and his family at Ramapatam on the 13 thinst . and spend a fortnight In united labor

,prayer and counsel .

Expense of the mission fo r the year was

TH E CANADA AUXILIARY TO TH E AMERICAN

BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION .

SECRETARY—REV . WM . STEWART, B . A .

T REASURER- T. S . SH ENSTON , ESQ .

The l st annual meeting was he ld in the Thames St . BaptistChapel

,Ingersoll

,on the 17th October, 1867 . The annual ser-w

mon was preached at 1 1 a . m . by Rev . Dr. Thos. F. Caldicott,of

Toronto, from Hebrews iii , 2 O Lord revive thy work .

”

4 6 TELOOGOO MISSION.

among the Teloogoos,a people of pecul iar interest and intel li

gence , to whom many look as l ikely to take , at no distant day , ;

a large part in the evangelization of the teeming millions ofHindostan . He carries the gospel accordingly to a people whoowe allegiance to our own beloved Queen

,and he will read to

them the Word of Life in a ‘ version made by Carey and hiscoadjutors . When we think of this , who can help exclaiining ,

H ow wondrously does Go d work ? ’ Little did Carey dream .

that in thisf ar o ff province of the B ritish Empire a society wouldever be formed or a missionary designated to take up and carryon “ the blessed work that was not permitted to him to finish

,

May the committee meeting of six Canadian,Baptist ministers,

held in the parsonage s tudy in Beamsville,be as fruitful in results

as the parlor.

meeting of thirteen English Baptist ministers, held,in Kettering three quarters of a century ago

,and may the mantles

Of,

a Carey and a Judso n,too

,fall on our beloved brother , who

has heard and is about to obey the divine call,

‘ Depart , for Iwill send the far hence unto the Gentiles .

’

Mr . Timpany writes —Beginning with the middle June, bythe l oth of July

,four of the associations and several of t he

churches were visited .

’

I was totally unprepared for the warm sympathy and inter~est manifested for me and my work

,and soon perceived that Go d

had been fitting his people for a hearty reception of their newand additional work .

’

Since beginning In June I have travelled some or 3 ,000m iles and delivered between seventy and eighty addresses i n

,

churches and Sabbath Schools,and raised In cash and subscrip

tions,about $1200 for the Society . I think this IS fair, consider

ing that my visiting was m ore for breaking up the ground thangather ing a harvest . ’

‘ In my address I have endeavo réd to lay before God's people

,

the condition of the world , and their relations to it by virtue o f'

their relation to the world’s po ssessor, the Lord Jesus Christ.'

May the Holy Spirit deepen the consecration of all . ’

It will be gratifying to al l to learn that this outfit has been .

complete and Is in al l its departments of the best materials . Its

estimated cost is $700. An efficient committee o f ladies inB rantford has rendered great assistance in getting it up , and it isonly proper to state that fully one-third of the entire outfit hascome from the church In B rantford Other churches have madevaluable donations

,both in money and materials . The whole

SCRAP BOOK . 4 7

sum received by the Secretary for Outfit Fund to date,and ac

knowledged in the columns of the CANADIAN BAPTIST, is“ Our missionary and his companion leave the province a

week from to-day . Let our sympathies and prayers go with them .

May He who gathers the w inds in his fist, and measures the

waters in the hollow of His hand,bring them in safety to their

desired haven They sail from New York via the Inman steamerto England , and thence by an East India packet ship round theCape to Madras . Two Teloogoo women accompany them on thevoyage . From these persons , converts Of the M ission , they wi llbe able to gain some l ittle knowledge of the language during thethree or fourmonths they wi ll be thrown together . On arrivingat Madras . o ur friends will at once go to Nellore , the headquarterso f the Mission

,where Bro . Jewett has resided and labored for

eighteen y ears . Their . first efforts will be directed to thethorough acquisition of the language

,and when this has been

accomplished they wil l enter on a station of their own . Theremay . they be spared to labor long and well for Jesus and for sou ls ,and may they have many of that dark-hued

,but subtle-minded

race , as their crown of j oy and rejoicing on that day .

”

Thus our young enterprise has been inaugurated . We arepersuaded that Go d is in it . It is the youngest child of thedenomination and one of the best-beloved . It has a claim on o n

sympathy,l iberal ity and prayers . When we think of our young

brother and sister far away ' on India ’s coral strand,

’ laboringdown in the dark pit of heathenism ,

who among us will , or rathercan refuse to be liberal and systematic in our contributions thatthey may be well supported

,and to be earnest and persevering in

our prayers,that blessings in richest abundance may rest on

,the

crown of the head of those who are separate from their brethren ?”

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

Received from al l sources .

Paid American Baptist M iss . Union .

Paid DisbursementsBalance on hand .

$1169 2 7

The following reports of the interesting meeting at wh ich thisreport was adopted will be read with interest by every co ntribu

tior to _ o ur Mi=sio n ,Fund.


FROM TH E CANADIAN BAPTIST.

The first annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to theAmerican Baptist Missionary Union was held In the ThamesStreet Baptist Chapel (Rev. T . Baldwin’s), on the evening ofThursday

,October 17th , 1867 The exercises of the meeting

were interesting in the highest degree , and the place of worshipwas crowded to its utmost capacity . The chair was occupied byT . S . Shensto n ,

Esq . , of B rantford , Treasurer of the Society, whocal led on the Rev . C . Walker

,of St . Catharines

,to lead in prayer

In his opening remarks the chairman thanked the audienceHe declined

,however

,making a speech , pleading his inability to

do anything like j ustice to the theme . Instead of giving a speechhe would give $5 to the goo d cause He then called on the Rev .

Wm . Stewart, B . A . , of B rantford , the mission Secretary, toread the first annual report . This document gave an interestingand detailed account of the inception of the enterprise , and statedthat about had been raised for it in about five months .

4° Three-fifths of the former of these two amounts wereraised through the personal exertions of Mr. Timpany h imself,and more than one-third of the latter by members of the churchand congregation in B rantford .

Rev . Dr. Fyfe , in a brief speech , moved the adoption o f thereport This was encouraging ; but he hoped to see better results next year . They were now sending o ut their firstmissionary

,but he was quite sure h e would not be their last .

He had pleasure in moving the adoption of the reports,which

were really one . He had listened with the deepest interest tothat of the Secretary

,an admirable report on an admirable sub

ject. Rev . H . L loyd,M . A III a few earnest words seconded

the adoption of the report,which was unanimously carried .

Rev . Dr . Murdock,of Boston

,Mass

,delivered the charge to

the missionary . He first congratulated the Baptist brethren inCanada on the success which had attended their young ForeignMissionary Society . The fact that had been raised showedthat they possessed the missionary spirit . He thought that nomissionary

,who went forth under the pledge of their support

,

need for one moment cherish a feeling of anxiety in reference tothe result of his going forth. Then addressing Mr. Timpany hesaid It gives me great pleasure here

,in the midst of your

brethren , among whom you have been trained to the great workof preaching the gospel to the destitute, to convey to yo u the

instructions of the Executive Committee of the American BaptistMissionary Union , by whose authority yo u have been appointed

SCRAP BOOK . 49

to the work of Foreign Mission s in India . You are,henceforth ,

my brother , lifted out of al l local connections . You are separated from all merely provincial interests

,and elevated into a

sphere of more general and unusual activity . You this nightenter into the fellowship of those noble and heroic men , who , notcounting their lives dear unto them ,

separated themselves fromcountry and kindred , and planted themselves amid the great da rkness o f heathenism . It is my duty to remind you that you go forthupon no holiday entertainment . Though the rig ors and hardshipsof missionary life have been much tempered of late

,yet y o u go

forth to encounter error and crime hoary with the strength o f

thousands of years . You go forth in the name of the DivineMaster to achieve the conquest of men in His name and by Hispower. Yo u are to encounter not merely diverse opinions youare to encounter errors which have mingled themselves with thethoughts

,the feelings , the hopes , the passions , the sinful lusts of

men through countless generations . You are to smite throughthese thick incrustations of p rejudices , with the hammer of truthYou wil l meet oppositions

,but yo u are to encounter them ,

not byyour own wisdom -not by your own might —but by the wisdomthat is born from above . You are to achieve conquests by themight of your christian meekness , by the sweetness of that spiritwhich Christ breathes into his disciples . You are t o preach thegospel . — but the great work that you are to do amongthe heathen is to preach the gospel of Christ and of salvation .

You are to make known to men the truth that Christ died forsinners , and that sinners may be pardoned through him . Thisis the great truth that the men to whom you go need most of allto know. You need not go with the terrors of the law , for theyhave felt them they acknowledge them . They will proclaim to you their deep sense of g uilt, their sense of ruin . But

y o u need to make them know and fee l that Christ is a saviour,that he has power on earth to forgive sins

,and if you can only

impress this lesson upon them,if you can only teach them these

great,these fundatmen al facts of the gospel , you will cause l ig ht

to Spring up before their darkened pathway and the very bloomof heaven to arise in hearts that have only known sin before .You g o then to perform the most essential work , to preach thegospel ; you wi ll preach it as men gather about you , you wi llpreach it by the wayside

,you will preach it in the house , in the

m arket , wherever you go , wherever you are brought into intercourse with men

,your one work is to preach the gospel It is :

fo r: this that we send you forth in the name of your Divine Mas


ter . You are not our servant , but you are the servant of Christ .We do not issue instructions to you because we regard you asany sense our employee or our agent

,but you are the servant of

Christ,and we are the servants of Christ

,and it is a work of

material sacrifice,and mutual co usel upon which we enter— you

are going down to the bottom of the pit, as Carey designated it ,and we holding the rope . We cal l to you

,and yo u speak to us

your want shall come to us always with an open ear and a readyhand . We claim the privi lege

,and it will be our duty to counsel

you,to advise you with reference to your work . Never under

stand an expression of that sort , my brother, as intended to be acommand

,or as given with any spirit of unworthy dictation .

Take what we say to you as the suggestions of your brethren .

If what we suggest be wise , follow it . If your clearer knowledge,

your better acquaintance with the local circumstance of the casecompel you to take a different course from that which yourbrethren at the missionary room suggest to you , act , as you must,in the fear of the great Go d who is the Father and Mast er of all .as you must in view of the decision of the coming judgment . Insaying this I do n o t by any means w ish to open the door to anything like insubordination . I know you will never take advantag e of the magnanimity of your brethren in this respect topursue any course dictated by mere self-wi ll , or by mere selfseeking . You will receive what we say as the counsel of y ourbrethren , your equals , your elders, your superiors in some sense.

You will have your days of darkness and of trial . These dayswill come or your case will be difierent from that of any othermissionary that has gone out . There will be times when you willthink that your brethren do n o t

'

enter into your feelings , do notproperly provide for your wants . The pressure will be closeupon your spirit

,and at times the iro n will enter into your very

soul . Their sympathy so warm . so generous, so constant,so

true,wil l be so distant from you that its sweet and grateful pres

sure will scarcely ever reach your heart . Even in these momentsof trial , of suffering and depression , keep constantly alive in yourheart the assurance that your brethren love you , and that they wil lto the extent of their abilities sustain you

,that you may throw

yourself back upon them,and feel the beating of the warm and

the generous heart , even though there may seem to be— owing toother claims equally pressing with your own— something likeindifference

,and something like coldness towards your special

wants . My brother,go forth with confidence in your brethren ,

and above all , go forth with an abiding confidence in the loving

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kindness of that Go d who has called you to his work,and who

has so graciously opened the door for your entering upon it .There wil l be times when your only refuge will be in Go d andwhen your sweetest consolation will be to repeat those wordsthat have been so full of comfort to the saints on earth Thename of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runneth intoit and is safe .

’ Let your dependence be in Him,and when al l

the hearts that have beat kindly to you shal l have ceased to beat,when father and mother forsake you

,then be sure that Go d wil l

be your portion and your strength forever . Your tempora l home w ill be in the family of Mr . Jewett, who has been formany years connected with the mission to which you are going .

We bid you g o , not by any authority vested in us, but in thename and by the authority of your Divine Master

,your Lord

and our Lord . We bid you go in his name and in his strength .

You are henceforth associated with that great host of sanctifiedand redeemed men who have given themselves

,their substance

and their l ives , to the , work of propagating the gospel . Youenter that great and select company—the Careys

,the Judso ns

,

the Marshmans,the Wards— into that great company of heroic

men , the divinest conquerors that have ever moved upon the faceof the earth . You enter into that great company . You marchto the music of that heavenly song

,the song of honor

,glory and

salvation to the Lamb . You march not under the red cross flagof England

,nor under the meteor banner of the country across

the l ine but you march under the blood stained cross of Calvary.

You go forth in the ranks of that great host that are wel l entitledto be called the world’s conquerors

,proclaiming that inimitable

name before which everything in heaven and in earth shal l ultimately bow , till you fal l at your post, or till you hear that onesong which Shall employ al l nations and al l tribes

,

“ Worthy theLamb that was slain .

Rev . A . V . Timpany then replied He remarked that littledid the b oy of fifteen years ago . when he read the accounts of themissionaries

,realize the event of this present night . He thanked

Go d,his grace sustaining him

,that he was privileged to go forth

as a laborer in the Lord ’s harvest . Though I may sow with afeeble hand

,he said

,though my sheaves may be few,

yet I willrejoice when the Sheaves of my Master are gathered in , and theharvest home is sung— sung by the sweet choir of heaven , sungby those who have been saved

,not of the Anglo-Saxon race

alone,but of all kindreds and tribes and tongues and peoples . I

thank our heavenly Father that he has enlarged my heart, that


he has widened my views and my aims for this work . When theLord for Christ ’s sake forgave me my Sins

,I felt it was the least

I co uld do to give all my time , all that I am or ever expect to be,to the Saviour . When I looked over the world and saw millionsof my fellow men going down to death with none to tell themof the way of l ife , I felt that G o d had work for me to do amongstthem . An d yet the question would come up , “ What can youdo ? Oh it is l ittle

,it is nothing in comparison w ith the vast

amoun t of work to be done—a work so grand that it m ight wellengage the tong ue of angels , far less the tongue of weak stammering mortals . I was taught by Go d to do his will , to be justwhat. he wou ld have me to be

,and I thank Go d that when the

surrender was made,my j o y was that which no man can take

away . l oing to the heathen was not my own choosing first .What I passed through the Lord knows . I thank him it is

all right . The lesson that I learned when I was brought intothe ministry was not forgotten when the subject of Foreign M issions was brought before me. B rethren and friends

,I can truth

fu l ly raise my Ebeneze r,and say

,

“ Hitherto the Lord hathhelped me As I stand here designated as your missionary tothe heathen , I can testify to the great k indness of my heavenlyFather in al l the way I have been brought til l now My brethren of my beloved A lma M ater

,I charge before Go d and in the

presence of these witnesses,that you do not allow our Foreign

Missions to lack a m an among the heathen . If I am taken away,

pray that the Lord of the harvest wil l find one of your numberto fill the vacant place . You owe it to your Go d , to your brethren a t home

,and to the heathen abroad . I wish you

,my young

brethren,to remember these words

,though Go d grant it may not

be necessary to step into my place for many long years . Bu t

you wi ll be wanted to take advantage of the opening fields oflabo r . With regard to my motives for going out as a foreignmissionary , I hope they are pure . I saw the heathen world insin and wretchedness - thousands going down to death with noSaviour proc laimed to them . I saw the benefit it would be toour brethren at home The christian Spirit is emphatically missio nary, and the more the people possess it, the more work theywi ll do for their Lord and Master . We are blessed just in proportion as we are self- forgetting . Another motive , we have hadfor some time an institute f o r training of young men for theministry . Was it not the least we could do to give one man outof our number

,who have graduated there , to the labor of foreign

miss ions, as an offering to Go d for the b lessings that he has


of fellowship and pledge of support . Go to your distant field oflabor , and remember that you leave behind you thousands Ofbrethren and Sisters

,who in their closets, on their knees before

Go d, by the family altar and in the house of Go d, wil l rememberyou and pray for you

,and out of the abundance of their liberality

will ever be ready to extend to you that material aid that youw ill need in that distant land . You need not fear that ourhearts wil l be cold towards you , though you shall be lost to Sight,you shall be dear to our memories and dear to our hearts We

will watch you as you fight the battles of the Lord . Rely uponit , that Go d will bless you in the work . Let me remind you of thesupport of the great Go d of missions . B rother

,may Go d be with

you ; may Go d bless you,and oh ! may it be the joy of your

heart to know that underneath you is the valiant arm of Jehovah,

and round about you is the host of holy angels that encampetharound them that fear Go d. When you are tossing to and froupon the raging ocean , remember that you are going upon theerrand of Him who holds the winds in his fist and the waters inthe hollow of his hands . Remember that Go d has promised t obe with his servants . As Addison beautifully expressed it

H ow are thy servants blest, O Lord ?How sure is their defence

,

Eternal wisdom is their guideTheir help Omnipotence .

”

With such help and such su ccor you shall be sustained.

Even though you should die “ at your post , your reward will besure

,and Go d

,in that day when the angel reapers shall descend ,

and heaven cry “ Harvest Home,shall give you that j o y and

that crown of rejoicing that the faithful laborer in God ’s wo rkshal l have . I extend to you

,my brother , this hand of fellowship

and in the union of these warm hands let our brethren here seethe union of our home and foreig n work . As the representativeof our mission work at home

,I give you this hand of fellowship .

This is a high work . Use the powers that Go d has given youthat you may honor his blessed name . Attempt great th ings inthe name of your Master

,and Go d will bless you go to you r

field of labor,then

,and may Heaven’s smile rest upon yo u , and

may you return in the evening bringing your Sheaves with you .

After a few affectionate words of parting to the m issionary’syoung partner in life

,the Rev . gentleman concluded his address.

The Chairman , Mr . Shenst o n ,being obliged to leave, Rev .

Dr . Caldicott to o k ‘

the chair and presided during the remainder

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of the evening . _A l iberal collection was then taken up. The

Secretary announced that a little over $5 0 was wanting to complete the missionary outfit, and he hoped that the amount wouldbe made up before they separated . Voluntary contributions atonce began to pour in faster than the Secretary could make a noteof them . Contribution s of $2 5 , $ 10, $5 and $ 1 were handed upto the platform

,or will be sent to the Treasurer in a few days.

Delegates,

gave for their respective churches husbands for theirwives , and parents for their children and grand -ch ildren

, until ina Short time nearly were raised. The work of giving wasinterrupted for a few minutes during which Dr. Murdock , of B o ston , by-request, gave a sketch of the people. and the missionary ’sfield o f . labo r . The

’

peo ple . he said, are known as the Teloogoos .Their language is a dialect of the old Sanscrit it sustains aboutthe same relation to the Sanscrit, as the Italian do es to the Latinlanguage . Indeed

,the language of the Teloogoos is

,as has been

sometimes called , the Italian of the Indies . The people arelarge

,stalwart

,n oble Specimens of men . Their language is cap

able of the tenderest expressions as well as the abstrusest ah

stractio ns of metaphysics . The people are remarkable,not mere

ly fo r their physical qualities . but for their understanding . Itis estimated that there are from twelve to sixteen millions ofthese people speaking this language . The mission among thesepeople was commenced about 30 years ago by Mr . Day, a nativeof this province , various fortunes attended it . The great Mr.Jewett went there 19 years ago and preached to the people . Theyflocked to hear h im from all the regions round about. When heread to them the gospel of Christ they stood around him with thetears running down their faces

,and many of them were savingly

conversed to Go d .

Rev . John Bates, of Woodstock , father-in -law to the missionary

,offered np the designation p rayer. AS he solemnly com

mended the young couple to the watchful care and blessing of theGo d of missions

,many were moved to tears . It is next to an

impossibility to describe the scenes which followed . Spontaneo usly the people began again to give . Such holy enthusiasm , andearnest liberality

,was never witnessed before

,even by the oldest

ministers present . Not till after midnight did the meeting breakup

,for the people would not go away til l they had given of their

substance to the Lord ’s cause . An opportun ity was g iven at theclose of the meeting to al l who desired it to shake hands withMr . Timpany and partner and bid them farewell—an opportunitywhich was apparently embraced by every one present .


The“

fol lowing are extracts from the GLOBE’

S report of themeeting

On the evening of Thursday , 20th inst ,a hig hly interesting

and enthusiastic pub l ic meeting was held in the Baptist Church .

Ingersoll,in connection with Foreign M issions . Mr . T. S . Shen

ston , of B rantford , in the chair . Scripture read by Rev. A.

Gill is, of Quebec , and prayer by the Rev . John Bates , B . A ofWoodstock . The Secretary , Rev . Wm . Stewart

,B . A of To r

onto,read an admirable report . During the year the Teloogoo

M ission to which the Baptist Churches in Ontario have sent twomissionaries

,with their wives

,during the last t hree years

,had

from being one of the most unpromising , became one of the mostinviting m issions o n heathen soil . The n ew converts are numbered by hundreds , and hundreds more have applied for baptism .

In December last 3 2 4 were baptized . Suitable mission premisesat Ramapatam have been purchased

,where Rev . Mr . Timpany

is now laboring with most encouraging success . The movementamong the Teloogoos is really most wonderful

,and so urgent is

the need of laborers that the Parent Society (American Missionary Union of Boston

,U . S . ) have recently made arrangements

for the erection of a theological school at Ramapatam .

Speeches were delivered by ° Rev . J. Hurd, of B rant ford , Rev .

Dr . Mu rdock,of Boston

,U . S ; Rev .Wm Pixley , of New York ,

and Rev . H . Llyod,M . A. ,

of Toronto . The addresses were ofa high order

,and the large audience listened with unabated

interest to the close .

At the close of the public meeting a draft of a constitutio nprepared by Rev. John Bates was submitted and adopted .

The first six parties who paid towards the support of the newForeign Mission enterprise were

Rev . Dr . R . A . Fyfe, $8 ; Rev . John Bates

, $6 ; Rev . W.

Forsyth , $ 5 ; Rev . Dr . Warren , $8 ; Rev. A. E . Kitchen, $ 5 ;

Rev . T . Booker, $ 5 .

The Rev . R . A . Fyfe,D . D . ,

who moved the adoption of thereport —a very correct likeness of whom is herewith given—wasnot only its President

,but was virtually the originator of our

Fo reign Mission Society and gave the first contribution to itsfunds . Assuming that these facts will awaken in the reader’sm ind an interest in this g entleman, I g ive

’ a brief outline of hishistory .

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ROBERT AL EXANDER FYFE .

Robert Alexander Fyfe was born near the City of Montrealon October 20th

,18 16 , and spent his boyhood days amidst a

French population . In his 20th year he left the store in whichhe had been employed for some years

,in order to take a ful l

course of studies at Madison University , N . Y . On account ofhis fail ing health he was unable to take a

“ full course ” as hedesired . Of his peculiar state of mind

,shortly after leaving '

Madison , Mrs . Fyfe , his wife , writes “ He had in h is wretchedstate of heal th been beset with doubts of a serious nature. On hispartial recovery he one day wandered Off to the woods (I think ) ,time passing unnoted till a fellow student discovered him sittingby a hollow stump and roused him . From circumstance

,he

found he had probably been there about thirty-six hours .,I am

pretty sure my memory is carrec t in this . H is mind he told nie,°

5 8 TELOOGOO M ISSION.

went through a process of reasoning at that time,wh ich he

reg retted he had no t then written down . It seemed always tohim to have been unlike what he found in books . But NEV ERagain did he doubt Go d or the truths of . the Bible . NO ancientor modern sceptic, or imaginative speculator, shook him in h isconvictions for one minute from that time .

”

On his complete restoration to health , he resumed his l iterarypursuits

,preferring

,however

,to attend the Academy at V V

o rces

ter,Mass , instead of returning to Madison .

His theological studies were pursued at Newton Seminary ,from wh ich he graduated in the year 184 2 , and was ordained inB rookline , Mass , August 2 5 th , of the same year His firstpastoral charge was in

t”

the village of Perth , County Lanark , On t.

in which he remained for ei hteen months . Fo r a brief period,

during the latter part o f ' 84 3 , he is found in charge of theMontreal Baptist College. In the following year he assumed thepastorate of the March St. Church , Toron O

,and it was during

this pastorate that the Bond St . Church was erected and occupied .

From here he went back to his former church in Perth , andremained there up to 1860

,when he became Principal of the

Canadian Literary Institute at Woodstock . He held pastoratesin Rhode Island

,Milwaukee and Toronto. He died at his own

house in 4 th,1878 , at 11 o

’clock a . m .

,

aged -6 1 years , 10 months and 1 5 days . On the following Fridayhe was buried in the city Of Toronto .

1867-8 .

The 5 4 th annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of New York on May 2 1, 1808 .

M issionaries in chargeNELLORE .

—Rev . L. Jewett and wife.ONGOLE .

—Rev . J . E. Clough and wife , and Rev , A . V .

Timpany and wife.Extracts from Report Your committee have read with

care and much interest the facts and details narrated in the(Teloogoo) report , and fully endorse the sentiment Of the same

,

that this mi ssion is one of the most inviting and important fieldscultivated by the Union

,and that the limits to good to that

intelligent,wealthy

,interesting and needy people, can only be

fixed by'

the amount.

of effort,and interest put forth on their

behalf to lead them to Christ. The ‘ Lone Star ’ Of 15 yearssince is to-day a brig ht constellation wh ich ignorance of the

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people h id from the Baptist Churches of America for manyyears .”

As your pioneer missio nary , Bro .; Day , a man Of much laborand faith

,and beloved by many Teloogoos

,both l iving and dead

,

was a native of Canada,so your last o fiering to the field

, Bro .

Timpany ,is a gift of the Baptists of Canada , or of the Dominion .

We have only to regret that three mission families had not beensent o u t with B ro . Timpany to the field

,that imperative needs of

which cal l loudly for ten families to occupy as many large citiesand centres of wide influence . Ongole

,seventy miles north of

Nellore,is to the Union a ch ild of providence

,and has ever been

one of hope .

”

“ The native church of over seventy members , the nine efficientnative preachers and teachers , the new chapel dedicated to God,costing over only $15 0 of which was given from yourtreasury

,the hundreds of villages reached during the year

,the

important Opening at Ramapatam ,these al l and many more unite

to create an interest in the general work of your brethren there ,which only a participant in the work and actual Observation ofthe field can ful ly enter into .

Extract from report The total amount received from thecentral district

,including Canada , is The increase

of donations is nearly more than one-half of which iscredited to Canada .

”

Extract from report M r. and Mrs. Timpany, present withus at our last annual meeting, set out for their field of labor thelatterl

’part of October, taking steamer for England , thence they

proceeded to Madras,hoping to reach their destination in March .

His labors among the churches of the Dominion during thesummer and ear ly autumn , were characterized by a remarkabledegree of earnestness, and called forth a very hearty and generous response . His entrance upon the foreign field makes a newera with our brethren ac ross the line, and it is hoped he will soonbe followed by others

,who shall receive like assurance of sym

pathy and support .

”

At 9 O’clock on the fi rst Sabbath in November a good

congregation had assembled.

“6 In the evening Carakiah ,

the native ordained preacher, administered the communion afterpreaching a good sermon and giving the right hand of fellowshipto ten young converts . At the close the remark went round

,

‘This is the greatest day we ever witnessed in Nellore .

’ The chape lwas well filled with believers. numbers of whom were rejoicingin their first love of Christ, who had come in from ten to twenty

60 TELOOGOO M ISSION .

miles to celebrate together the dying love of Christ. In December another addition of eight was made to the church by baptism f “

Through the various agencies, copies Of scripture por

tions,and 8 4 tracts were given away and sold .

Mr . Clough writes Of the native preachers I cannotdescribe in detail the labor of these men . They havealso p reached daily in the bazaar and other places in the town .

The villages near Ongole have been visited scores of times,and

the people in more than EIGHT HUNDRED V ILLAGES,within a cir

cuit of forty miles around Ongole have heard the gospel throughthemNellore .

—Baptized , thirty-three members,sixty-four .

Ongole— Baptized,sixty- eight members

,seventy five .


CANADA .

The 2ud annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to theAmerican Baptist M issionary Union was held in the AlexanderStreet Toronto Baptist Chapel on the 2 2nd of October, 1868 .

SECRETARY—REV . WM. STEWART , B . A .

, BRANTFORD .

TREASURER - T. S SH ENSTON ,Esq .

,BRANTFORD .

After an unusually protracted passag e our young missionaryarrived safe in Madras and found there a c luster of friends to'

g iVe them a welcome . Then again at Nellore they received amost hearty welcome from that truly grand Old man

” and h iswife

,M r. and Mrs Jewett .

Extracts from the second annual report The set time Of

favo r to the Teloogoos seems indeed to have come , and the fieldOf labor in the judgment of the Committee in Boston is fastbecoming o n e of the most inviting and important cultivated bythe American Baptist Missionary Union. May we n o t mark itasa special token for good that Canadian Baptists are honoredof God ' in sending a representative to such a hopeful and inviting

“ O n his arrival and settlement at Nellore , Bro , Timpany atOnce commenced the systematic study of the language , with

62 TELOOGOO MISSION .


To total amount received . $205 6 93By paid American Missionary Union .

Balance on outfit .

DisbursementsBalance on hand

93

1868-9.

The 5 5 th annual meeting o f the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of Boston on May 18th , 1869.



wife,and Rev . A . V. Timpany and wife .

ONGOLE —Rev John E . Clough and wifeRev. Wm . Stewart , of B rantford , it appears, was present and

took part in this meetingExtract from report The Province of Ontario has hereto

fore been nominally included in the Central District Nothing ,however

,had ever been done there in the way of systematic

efforts to raise money for Foreign Missions til l the autumn of1866

,when the Home Secretary

,responding to the invitation Of

lcadi g brethren in the province,attended the convention which

met that year at Beamsville . The result of this conference withthe brethren Of the convention was the appointment of a Provincial Committee

,a Secretary and Treasurer

,who were charged

with the business Of raising funds for Foreign Missions . It wasunderstood at the time that a young man , then a student in theCanadian Institute at Woodstock , would soon make appl icationfor appointment as a missionary Of the Union . In the spring of1867 , Mr . A . V. Timpany , the young man referred to , appearedbefore the Executive Committee and received a unanimous appointment being designated to the Teloogoo Mission . No pledgeswere exacted of our Canadian breth ren as a condition of hisappointment , but it was understood that they should render suchaid as they might be able towards the outfit and support of the newmissionary . Mr . Timpany spent much of the time between hisappointment and departure for his distant field of labor . visitingthe churches of Ontario and Quebec , under the direction of theRev. Wm . S tewart and T. S . Shensto n , Esq . , of Brantford ,Secretary and Treasurer of the Provincial Board. The peopleeverywhere responded to the appeal made to them with liberalOfferings to the cause of missions . The modest assurance of o ur

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brethren in reference to the support of Mr. Timpany have beenmore than real ized , for instead Of paying a part of the necessaryamount , they have supplied the means for his entire outfit, passage

,and salary up to this time. During the year ending March

3 1st,1867 , the amount contributed from Canada for missions to

the heathen was The next year,besides providing an

ample outfit for Mr . Timpany , they paid into our Treasuryand during the year just closed they have sent us

“ It will be seen from another part Of this report that ourbrethren are still ready t o give to the cause what is moreprecious than gold , and that another of their s‘ons has beenaccepted as a missionary of the Union

,and designated to the

Teloogoos .”

Al lusion is here made to Rev . John McLau rin,then pastor

Of the Baptist Church,Stratford

,Ontario.

Extract from report Mr. Timpany and h is family reachedMadras , after a long passage , on the l 6th Of April

, 1868 . Onthe 4 th of May they set o ut for Nellore

,and o n the 9th were

welcomed to the m ission house by Mr . and Mrs. Jewett .

Al l knelt and gave thanks to the Go d of Missions . ”Mr . and Mrs Timpany visited the Ongole Mission and had

the privilege of witnessing the work of grace going forward inthat place . He hopes soon to take up the work withvigor , and if deemed best open a new and independent stationat Al lo re or Ramapatam .

The ordinance of baptism was administered to three inFebruary , one in each Of the months of March

,April

,May,

October, November and three in December . On the last occasioneleven , in al l twenty—six were baptized.

Mr. Jewett writes i‘ A n ew era in the history ofthis mission begins with the arrival o f Mr . and Mrs . Timpany .

We feel the warm hearts of B aptists in the Dominion of Canadabeating in unison with our own . We thank Go d and takeco urag ef

’

Nellore—Baptized,seventy members

,17 2 .

Ongole—Baptized,twenty-six ; members, eighty-One.

The expenses for the year was

CANADA .

The 3 rd annual meeting of the CanadaAuxiliary to the American Baptist M issionary Union was held in the town of Woodstock

,October 2 1st 1869.

6 4 TELOo co o M ISSION .

TREASURER - T. S . SH ENSTON,ESQ .

SECRETARY— REV . WM STEWART ,B . A .

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE—REV . JO HN B XTES,REV . H .

LLOYD, A . M . ,H . E . BUCHAN ,

ESQ , M . D .

Extracts from 3 rd annual report The influence of ourlast annual meeting led B ro . John McL aurin to Carry out atonce the long slumbering desire of h is heart

, and to say to theBoard of the Society Here am I

,send me .

’ He has beengladly accepted as a Missionary and has been designated to laboramon g the Teloogoos, Side by side with our other M issionaryhis forme r friend and college companion

,and now his brother -in

law—Rev . A . V. Timpan y .

”

The field of labor among the Telo ogoos 13 still ful l of promise. During the past year there has been a remarkable work Of

grace,especial ly in connection with the Ongole station . B rother

Timpany has made such encouraging progress in the study of thelanguage , that he is now able to speak to the Teloogoos in thei rown tongue

,the wonderful works of G o d. By this time he has

probably entered on . his n ew station of Ramapatam ,where satis

facto ry arrangements have at last been made for securing suitable mission premises . H e is still fired with burning zeal for thework

,and is looking forward with bright anticipations to riéh

harvests soon to be gathered in from the over-whitening fie lds.Bro . Jewett

,who has given twenty of the best years of his l ife

to the great cause,writes thus A new era in the history

‘ ofthis missio n begin s with the arrival of B rother and Sister Timpany . We feel the warm hearts of the Baptists in the Dominionof Canada beating in unison with our own . We thank Go d andtake courag e .

’ Surely it is an honor for us to be permitted tostrengthen the hands and encourage the hearts of those whomG o d has honored , and to enter on this work at a period so brightwith promise .

”

It was then unanimously resolved that Revs . Dr. Fyfe andWm . Stewart be requested to proceed to Boston at the approaching anniversaries , and confer with the Executive Committee ofthe Parent Society on the question at issue . These brethrenaccording ly proceeded to Boston , and had an interview with theSecretaries of the society

,and then with the Executive Com

mittee . They found that the following were the difficulties inthe way of Canadian Baptists holding real estate for mission purp o ses in India ;

SCRAP BOOK . 6 5

1 . That the American Baptist Missionary Unio n ,holding its

property in India only by the courtesy of the B ritish Commissio ners, could g ive no title that would be valid in law.

2 . That the Canadian Baptist Foreign Missionary Society,

having no act of incorporation , could legally hold no real estate.3 . That the Union , having experienced much trouble from

divided proprietary interests in the past , was unwilling to allowof these in future , even if the foregoing difficulties had no t

existed.

B rethren Fyfe and Stewart then made an offer that themoney recently raised for mission premises by Canadian Baptists, should be received by the Union for the purchase of realestate for the use of the Teloogoo Mission , o n the single condition that the Union should refund the money thus received ,whenever the Canadian Baptists are ready to conduct missionsto the heathen o n their own responsibility .

”

We are sure that when,in a few weeks , they leave their

home and friends and native land , to go far hence unto theheathen , they will be followed with many and fervent prayers

,

that He who rules amid the raging of the sea, may keep them inthe hol low of His hand

,and guide them in safety to their desired

haven“ Brother McL aurin has spent the greater portion of his time

since the month of April , in visiting among the churches. Hehas everywhere been well received

,and has done good work in

awakening a missionary spirit the only regrets being that thelimited time at his disposal , compels him to leave many fieldsunvisited .

”

Extract from Mr. McL aurin’

s report Since April I havetravelled miles , attended eig ht associations , visited fortyfive churches and sixteen Sunday schools , besides addressingprayenmeeting s and visiting. I have delivered over ninety ad

dresses and sermons . Financially the result may have been lessthan anticipated

,but we must remember the heavy and special

calls for other denominational objects .”

B reth ren , I am satisfied with my tour. I know missionsl ie near many hearts . I love you better, I love my native landbetter than befo re

,but I love the poor Teloogoos none the less

for that . I have more confidence in you , and , knowing yo ubetter

,I fear not for my support, for I am in the hands of H im

who doeth all things well . ’Extracts from annual report continued

TELOOGOO M ISSION.

During the year several questions have arisen , which ledthe Executive officers to feel more than once that they neededthe co un sel

'

o f their brethren . They would respectful ly suggestthat an Executive Committee of three be appointed at the annualmeeting

,whose duty it Shal l be to meet and consult with the

Treasurer and Secretary as occasion m ay require . They arepersuaded t hat

,by this appointment , they may not only be

greatly aided in their work , but also that the wants of o u r‘

own

m issionaries,in regard to native assistants

,books

,schools

,&c.

,

would be more promptly met .

“ The brethren in the Lower Provinces have more than onceexpressed a desire to co operate with us in the Foreign M issionary enterprise . A Foreign Missionary Society for the Dominionof Canada would be hailed with interest and delight .

_

May we hope,however

,that a closer acquaintance and more f re

quent intercourse,may open the way , in the not distant future,

for a joint occupancy of some missionary field Z


DR . CR .

Received f rom al l so u rces $ 3 180 4 6 Paid B alance due Treasurer SB 215 27

Balance due Treasurer . 1 4 7 86 Paid Am erican B ap . M iss . Un io n 195 3 5 9

Ou tfit an d Disbursemen ts 115 9 4 6

$ 3 328 3 2 $33 28 3 2

1 869-70.

The 5 6th annual meeting of the American Baptist M Issio naryUnion was held in the City of Phi ladelphia on May 2 4 th, 1870.

M issionaries in chargeNELLORE .

— Rev . L. Jewett and wife and Rev . John McLaurin and wife .

ONGOLE —Rev . John E . Cloug h and wife .

RAMAPATAM .- Rev . A. V . Timpany and wife .

At this meeting the Rev . Dr. J . H Castle was present .Extract from report In Ontario there is no stated agency ,

except that of the efficient Secretary of the Canadian B aptistForeign Missionary Society

,Rev . Wm . Stewart, B . A .

,Toronto

,

who,as the pastor of a la rge chu rch

,is able to give but l ittle

attention to the work of collection . Owing to the presence ofRev . John McL au rin in the province during the greater portionof the year , it has not been necessary for our agent to extendhis personal labors so far . 9‘ The brethren of the Provinceof Ontario have n o t only remitted through their Treasu 'rer’

,

Thomas S . Shensto n ,a large amount of money

,but they have

SCRAP BOOK . 67

sent two more choice spirits to the heathen -The Rev . JohnMcL aurin and wife . Our Treasurer has receipted to M r .

Shensto n for 20,in addit ion to which the churches of

Ontario contributed from $700 to for the outfit of Mr .and Mrs . McL aurin .

”

Extract from report Mr . and Mrs . McL au rin sailed fromNew York last December , expecting to reach Madras at the endof February . They would repair to Ne llore and make a tempo rary residence in -the M ission House with Mr . Jewett . Sincethe last report land and buildings suitable for a M ission stationhave been bought at Ramapatam ,

and Mr Timpany has beendesignated to occupy them . Mr . Timpany has also madeseveral tours for missions west to Ongole

, to Ramapatam ,to Al

lore,and to the region west to Nellore

,keeping in mind all the

time the importance of acquiring facility for the use ' of the languag e . In al l those labors his wife has been an helpmeet.M r . C lough writes When I look back over the year 1869

the blessings received appear so many and so marked,and we

were so happy in our work,that it sometimes seems like a dream

,

too good to be true . Many times , especial ly during the monthof December

,when far away among the jungle villages , did th o se

words come to me ; ‘ be stil l,and know that I am Go d I will be

exalted among the heathen,and wi ll be exalted on the earth ’

1”

Nellore .—Baptized

,fifty

-five members , one hundred andtwenty-six .

On g ole—Baptized , five hundred and seventy -three members,

seven hundred and n ine .

Ramapatam— Baptized

,six hundred and twenty -eight mem

bers , eight hundred and thirty -five .

Expense for the year was 4 0.

The 4 th annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to theAmerica B aptist Union was held in the Queen Street BaptistChapel

,St . Catharines

,on the 20th October, 1870, T . S . Shens~

ton,Esq . ,

in the chair. Meeting addressed by Dr. G . C . Hurdand others.

PRESIDENT—REV. JOHN BATES .

VICE-PRESIDENTs—H . E . PARSONS AND W . CRAIG .

S ECRETARY—REV . WM . STEWART ,B . A .

TREASURER— T. S SH ENSTON ,ESQ .


At this meeting a constitution for the government of theSociety was adopted .

Extracts from the fourth annual rep o rt A delay of a fewweeks elapsed after our last annual meeting . ere our dear B rotherMcL aurin and his companion were enabled to leave the shoresof the new world . That delay , however , was overruled for good .

It was finally decided that they shou ld go to India by the overland route . and accordingly they set sail from New York , in thesteamship Colorado

,on the 2 2nd December, 1869. After Spend

ing a few days in Old England . they again sailed from Southampton in the Nyanza , on the 18th of January of the presentyear

,and after a speedy and prosperous voyage

,they arrived at

Madras, one day sooner than the vessel was due . SinceB rother McL aurin

’s arrival , he has been very busily employed in

the study of the Teloogoo language,in which

,according to the

best accounts,he is making rapid and successful progress .

During the year the spirit has been copiously p o ured out onthe Teloogoo Mission , and converts have been multiplied . Frombeing one of the most unpromising , it has become one of the mostinviting missions on heathen soil . Indeed

,it is not too much to

say that the scenes of Pentecost have,in a measure

,been recently

renewed among the Teloogoos . The new converts are numberedby hundreds

,and hundreds more have applied fo r baptism . In

December last 3 2 4 were baptized . In this interesting and

promising period of the history of the mission,our own laborer .

B rother Timpany, fully equipped for the work, is now permittedto engage in it B rother Timpany has been greatlyblessed In winning souls o n several mission tours made by h imduring the year . Indeed

,so wonderful has been the movement

among the Te loogoos, and so urgent is the need of laborers , thatthe Committee of the Parent Society have recently made arrangements for the erection of a Theological School at Ramapatam .

Indeed , it is n ow confidently asserted that no other field ,at home or abroad , has such claims upon the Baptists of thiscontinent as the mission to the Teloogoos .”

Your Committee would close by expressing their strongand growing conviction , that the cause of Foreign Missionsis invested with as great a moral grandeur as any ever contemplated by the mind of man . They are thankful that representat ives of Canadian Baptists are permitted to labor in a field thatis being v isited w ith such remarkable and refreshing visitationso f divine gra ce .”

7 0 TELOOGOO M ISSION.

Ramapatam . Mrs . Jewett,myself and native helpers

were to u rin g m o st of the time from l st January to 3 1st March .

We spent t en days in Ramapatam ,with the other members of

the mission in laying o u t work and prayer.While Mr. Clough and Mr . McL aurin were touring

,the

former was taken dangerously ill with the measles . On his partial recovery he went to reside for a time at the sea Side .Mr . Clough writes I hope for good things

,but I must

remember th e Ch ristians now live in 160different villages,widely

separated that new villages are being added monthly,and that

teachers are qualified slowly .

”

Mr . Timpany wri tes As the recently purchased premisesat Ramapatam were not expected to be vacated til l April , weplanned a long trip to the Southwes t ‘of Nellore . We had beenout ten days

,when a letter came asking us to take the Ramapa

tam house at once We repaired without delay to Nellore,made

ready,bade good—bye to our friends

,and on the 5 th of February

took possession of our n ew station in the name of the L o rd ofmissions .

3 " We had been ' in Ramapatam only eight days,

when word came that the McL aurins were at Madras .The latter part of March all our m ISSIo narIes and their familiesmet with us for a week . In October we again wen t outfor a tour . In one village I baptized all the head men , so thatit may now be cal led a christian village .

M rs Timpany has applied herself pretty closely the who leyear

,and is now quite at home in the language. B esi'des other

reading I have read the entire Teloogoo bible through duringthe year

,I gain much in preaching power by doing so . Our

aim is to become as good Te‘o o g o o scholars as wel l educatedTeloogoos , and by God’s blessing we will do it for it will pay and

pay well .”

Nellore—Baptized , fifty-six members 174 .

Ongole—Baptized,4 4 3 ; members, 1 103 .


,seventy ; members , 107 .

Expense of the mission for the year was $17

The fi fth annual meeting of the Baptist Foreign MissionarySociety o f Canada was held in the John St . Wesleyan Chapel

,

Hamilton—in consequence Of the Park St . Baptist Chapelbeing e nlarg ed— o n October 19th, 187 1 , Rev. John Bates in thechair. The meeting was addressed by Rev . Dr . Cooper , Rev. C .

Perren,Rev . W’

. K . Anderson,Rev . J . W. M anning . Rev . J . B .

Pixley,and Wm . Craig , Esq .

,of Port Hope .

SCRAP BOOK . 7 ]

PRESIDENT—REV . JOHN BATES,VICE-PRESIDENTS—WM . CRAIG AND O. A . MORSE .

SECRETARY— REV . WM . STEWART , B . A .

TREASURER—T. S . SH ENSTON ,ESQ .

Extracts from fifth annual report : The mission tothe Teloogoos continues to enjoy the favor of Go d in a markeddegree . At Nellore, the oldest station , about seventy have , during the past year

,been added to the church by baptism . A t

Ongole the number of members has inc reased from 709 to 12 8 2while at Ramapatam ,

where Brother Timpany labors , the churchwhich was organized on the 2 6th of March , 1870, with a memhership of thirty-five

,had at last accounts increased to 115 . It

is believed that there is now a grand total of over 1600 baptiz ed believers and nominal Christians

,an increase of twenty

fold in less than five years . An association has also been formedand a Theological Seminary planned . What hath Go d wroughtWe may well look back with l ively gratitude, and forward withinvigorating hope .

On B rother TImpany’s field

,consisting of Ramapatam and

three other pr incipal stations,the year has been one of g reat

blessing . Al l the expectations of your missionary have not beenrealized , but much good has been accomplisl ed . In severalplaces the Christians have endured trials and persecutions of II O

ordinary kind,but they have remained firm In the faith .

The native chiirch at Ramapatam has been trained to adopt themonthly offering syst em , and during the first year of its existencewe raised nearly Rs . 300 (about for work on the chapeland for the support of native preachers . B rother Timpany hasbeen abundant in labors

,having travelled on the mi ssion work

14 00 miles, and visited and preached the g ospel in 1 5 0 differentvillages and hamlets . In due season Go d will give the increase .

”

Brother McL aurin,your other missionary has found the

year to be one of continued goodness from the Father of M ercies .He has prosecuted the study of the language with such successthat in about fifteen or sixteen months after his arrival . hepreached his first sermon in Teloogoo . H e accompanied Brothe rClough on a tour of five or six weeks through the jungle, baptiz ing considerably over a hundred , and gaining experience andinformation on his trip which cannot be over-estimated .

The importan t station at Ongole will be lef t under Brother Mc

Laurin 's care .



CR .

B alance o n h and 120 10 Paid American Bap . Miss . Unio n$35 64 27Received f rom al l so urces 3994 09 Disbursements

Cash in h an d " 4 94 19

$ 4 114 19 $ 4 114 19

The 5 8th annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion was held in the City of N ew York on May 2 1

,187 2.

Missionaries in chargeNELLORE .

—Rev. L . Jewett and Rev . E Bullard.

ONGOLE .—Rev . J . E. Clough and wife , and Rev ,

JohnMcL aurin and wife .

RAMAPATAM .—Rev A . V . Timpany and wife.

Extract from report The Rev . Samuel S. Day,the

founder of the Teloogoo Mission,and who spent over seventeen

years among that people , retiring only when broken health compel led him to do so, has entered into rest . He lived to see theseed he sowed in prayer and faith bear much fruit

,though others

entered into his labors ere he passed to his reward . Hisname will long be fragrant

,not only among the redeemed Telo o

goos,but among the churches of the western world .

”

We may add here that Mr. Day was born in Ontario,Canada

,

in 1808 , received his education at H amilton Literary TheologicalInstitution , N . Y. He was appointed a missionary to the Telo ogoos in ‘

183 5 and arrived at Calcutta February 5 th , 1886 . In184 0 he establ ished the Nellore mission . He visited America in184 5

,and on his return was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs .

Jewett . In 18 5 3 he was again obliged to visit America , but wasnever able to return . He died Sabbath , September 17th , 187 1 ,at Homer

,N . Y . Mrs . Day (Miss Ro enna Clark), was born at

Stoddard,N . H . , October 12 th, 1809. She died at Homer

,N .

Y . ,May 19th , 1880.

Extract from report The history of t his mission (Telo ogoo) during the past year has been a repetition of the history ofprevious years . The laborers have been few an d the harvest hasbeen great . C onverts continue to be multiplied, but there is alack of men to gather them in and organize them into churches .”

During that month seventeen were baptized and many whohad become cold were quickened . M r. Jewett administered communion there (Al lo re) to fifty bel ievers

,who though not formally

recognized as a church really c onstitute a branch “of the Nellore

SCR’

AP -BOOK . 7 3

church , with a native preacher acting as their pastor. Th is isone of our hopeful mission centres . It only needs a missionfamily

'

to bring it'

very speedily into‘ rank with‘ Nellore , Rama

patam and Ongole .

”

Ramapatam—During the year

,Mr. Timpany: made several

tours , the last of which was made In December, on which occasionhe was accompanied by Mrs . Timpany. With scarcely anexception , in every' pl visited :

l

cro wds have collected and

quietly listened to the story o f * Christ’s love‘. In December last the Christians of this place (Cumbaldenny), and Paltypallum organized themselves into a church ‘ of th irty-eightmembers .”

Mr. Timpany writes . We met in their n ew chapel,and

had a precious time for several days . We hope to ordainPediah In a few months as pastor of this young church .

None have fallen away,but on the contrary nearly all converts

who were nOt members a year ago, have been baptised during theTimpany was there four days the last of the year.It did our hearts good to see their clean houses

,

neatly whitewashed“ The school at Ramapatam has been continued during

.

thewhole year

, with an average attendance of forty to sixtyscholars.”

'

.Mr McL aurin removed with the family to Ongole o n

November l st, 187 1 , with a view of assuming the !charge of thestation after the retirement of Mr. Clough .

Mr . McL aurin made a nineteen days tour In September andone of sixteen days in November and December , and a third oneof seventeen days in December . These tours covered a vast extent o f territory , and i ncluded many villages, in a large numberof which converts were found and baptiz’ed .

’ ~Hundredsof villages were

'

visited in all of which the ‘ gospel was preached ,and over 280were baptized .

Nellore.—Baptized, ninety three ; members,Ongole .—Baptized , 609 ; members, 16 5 8 .

Ramapatam .—Baptized

,17 1 ; members, 267 .


The sixth annual meeting of the Canada Au xiliary to theAmerican Baptist Union was held in the Aylmer church o n

October 17th , 1872 .


PRESIDENT—REV . JOHN BATES.

V ICE-PRESIDENTS—WM .

’

CRAIG AND H . E . PARSONS .

Mu mm y—REV . J .L . CAMPBELL,CHATHAM.

TREASURER -T. S SHENSTON , ESQ . BRANTFORD .

Extracts from sixth annual report Mr . Clough ,whose labors In Ongole havebeen attended with such abundantblessing

,and whom we are glad to welcome at our anmversaries,

has been so much impaired that he has been compelled to returnto his native land. Sti ll the miss ionaries report that the workhas not in any degree flagged but is rather more interesting than

,

ever. Some 912 believers have been baptized on a profession offaith In Christ. In Nellore there is no w a church memhersh ip Of 24 8, with thirteen preachers and catechists

,and four

teen female assistants . I II Ramapatam 17 1 were baptized duringthe year, and there IS now a total membership of 2 67 ; while fromOngole the following summary is presented . Number of villagesvisited by Mr . Clough or assistants, about 1200 ; tracts distributed, 2600 ; sc ripture portions , 1 5 00. Number of churchmembers

,per last report 1102 ; baptized in 187 1 , 609.

Total number, Ongole Baptist Church , December 3 1 , 187 1, 165 8.

Number of vil lages In which members live , 191. B rotherTimpany has still charge of the station at Ramapatam . Duringthe year he has made several tours

,on one ' occasion being

accompanied by Mrs : Timpany . Mr . Timpany expressesthe hope’ that dII rin g the year he will be able to

‘

do'

much moreconsecutive

,effective work in the neig t ring v illag es than here

tofore . His native staff wi ll be larger and better qualified ; andthe hope Is entertained that the students In the Sem inary

,which

was to have been formally opened on the l st of April last,w ill

also render service in this department . The Seminary buildingis completed

,though no Principal has yet been secured ,

“ Mr . McL aurin removed with h is family to Ongole o n

November 1st, 187 1 , with a view of assuming the charge of thestation after the retiI ement of Mr Clough . With the same endin view

,and to fit himself more ful ly for the task , Mr . McL aurin

arranged three extensive mission tours with Mr. Clough : Thefirst was made In September , through the south eastern portionof the Ongole field , occupied nineteen days , and was blessed inthe gathering of fruit . The second was made in November

,

through the north eastern portion of the field , and occupied fromNovember 17th , till December 2md. The third Ltrip was com

S CRAP B OOK . 7 5

men'

ced on the 1 1th of the same month , and occupied till the2 8th. The missionaries went as far west as Cumbum ,

and northas far as Markapo o r . The tour covered a vast extent of Terr itory

,and included many villages, In a large number of which

converts were found and baptized . Indeed, this last resultmarked each of the trips referred to . Hundreds of villages werevisited

,in al l of which the gospel was preached , and more than

1 5 0 converts were baptized . These tours o ceupiedfi ftytwo days

,and were performed without serious accident

“or the

interruptio n of the usual health of the m ission aries . Mr .McLaurin has now maste red the language

,and Is able to preach

to the people In thei r own tongue ”

F INANCIAL STATEMENT.

CR .

Balance o n h and 494 19 Paid Parent So cietyReceived dur in g theyear 2136 08 Tran slatio n Tel o o g o o Scriptures 10 00Balance d ue Treasurer ” 28 33 Disbursem ents 28 00

$265 8 60l$265 8 60

1872 - 3 .

The 5 9th annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUniOn was held In the City of Albany on May 20th

,1873 .

Missionaries In chargeRAMAPATAM .

—Rev . A. V. Timpany and wife,and Miss

L iveria Peabody.

ONGOLE .—Rev . John McL aurin and wife.

Mr. Pixley writes I think our visit to Canada has paidthe Union well . It is quite evident that the missionary spirit isincreasing among the churches th rougho ut the Dominion.

_

In

cluding the legacy from the estate of Deacon Boom , we havereceived from CanadaExtract from report Go d continues to smile on the

mission of the Teloogoos as in former years . Converts continueto multiply

,and the

b

number of baptisms has been limited , no t bythe withdrawal of converting grace, but by the inability of themissio naries to visit the villages and examine and baptize thecandidates . The Theological Seminary at Ramapatamopened In April last under charge Of M r . Timpany. Of course,it is impossible for him ; in addition to his labors In the field , todo al l that the case required , but he has done his utmost to makeit a blessing to the young men and the people .

”


In the reg ion around Ramapatam the work seems to havemadea decided advance . Mr . Timpany has endeavored to supplyhis own lack of service in the field , in consequence of h is co nfinement in the Seminary. by sending forth the students , on theSabbath and during the vacation. In another place tenm iles due west from Ramapatam a very interesting work hascommenced . Four men

,al l head men

,have recently been

baptized .

The report goes on to say Mr . McL aurin travelled touring during the year over 1 000 miles in the jungles

,having made

five trips of over twenty days each . A large part of the timewas spent in the V illages, where the widely scattered members ofthe Ongole Church reside, helping the weak, «t o .

Mr . McL aurin reports t hat there are. now in the field over200 converts awaiting baptism whom he has been unable to reachduring the year, and who have been unable t o come into thestation .

Ramapatam .-Baptized , 178 ,

members , 4 29.

Ong o le .—Bapt‘ized , members

,

Expense for the year was $16 , 126 .99.

The 7th annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to theAmerican Baptist Union was held in the First Baptist Chapel ,B rantford

,on Thursday evenm g October l 6th , 187 3 , T. S . Slien

ston,Esq . in the chair. Prayer by Rev. T. Dyall . Addresses

were delivered by ‘ Rev . Theo , H . Porter and Rev} M. Saunders ,delegates from the Maritime Provinces

,and by Rev. G . H .

B righam,District Secretary the American Baptist Missionary

Un ion .

PRESIDENT—REV . JOHN BATES .

V ICE PRESIDENTS—é PARSONS AND W. CRAIG.

S ECRETARY—REV . J . L . CAMPBELL, CHATHAM .

TREASURER—LT.S . SH ’ENSTON , ESQ .

The absence of B ro Cljo'

ug h In America,and the continued

feebleness of Bro . B ullard ’s health—now being restored— also ,the fact that the time of Bro . Jewett of Nellore

,has been large

ly occupied in the revision of the Telg o o o o ScriptuI es placedthe burden Of the Telo ogoo Missmn almost exclusively o n theshoulders of our own two Canadian brethren

,Timpany and Mc

L aurin w each of thembeing compelled to do the work whichproperly belongs to several men ; and nobly have they laboredand richly have they been blessed.


christians belong ing to the Ong ole church . This large field yourmissionary divided into eight parts and over each art he hasplaced a native preacher with an assistant

,who goFrom village

to villag e proclaiming to their benighted countrymen the oldo ld story of Jesus and h is love

“ The vast amount o f work on the field for the most part rendered the presence o f your missionary imperative at Ongole . He

,

however, managed during the year to make six tours into . thejungles, which occup ied considerably over 100 days These weredays of the right hand of the Most Hig h , and richly rewardedBro . McL aurin for al l histo ils . At the annual meeting in Ramapatam he had already baptized into the fellowsh ip of the Ougole church 690 rejoicing converts . In a tour during the montho f July last, he baptized 112 persons additional. making a totalof 802 baptized by him since our last report. There are also yetover 200 converts on the field awaiting the ordinance—personswhom he has been unable to reach and who , like many others ,have been unable to come to the station. We may

,we l l exclaim

What hath God wrought?’ The Lord has done great things foro ur -missionaries whereof we are glad.

”


DB . CB.

To am o unt received from al l B alance due Treasurer 38 33

so urces $334 1 10 Paid America B aptist M issio nUnio n 3 100 00

Disbursements 106 03

Balance ou 96 74

$ 3341 10

1873 -4 .

The 60th annual m eeting of the America Baptist M issionaryUnion was held in the Hal l Of Representative s at WashingtonCity. D.C..May 2 4 , 1874 . Missionaries In charge—several withtheir wives. The o n ly

'

Canadian , Rev. A. V . Timpany, and wifewho were at Ramapatam .

The report rejoices at the Baptism -

o f 1026 Teloogoos duringthe year and then adds : The favor of Go d has continued torest o n the Mission to the Telo ogo os. It has suffered the loss oftwo efficient workers by the resig nation of Rev . John McLaurin ,

who with his estimable wife , have” go ne to Cocanada , in the

Province o f Circars to establish a newm ission unde r the auspiceso f o urCanadian brethren.

”

Bro . McLaurin and wife .left Ongole fo r their new home at

Cocanada o n the 22nd o f February . Of h is last year’s work in

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Ongole he thus writes The year began with a burst of bléSsing in the north whi ch nearly surprised us

,used as we now are

to great things from the Lo rd. During the first tour,in less

than a month , 2 72 . were baptized . The Christians ‘

are

growing stro nger in the christian faith and beginning to understand better the principles of the gospel . I feel thatchurches ought to be established right away, though ,

this wouldentail a great deal of extra labor and care on your missionaries.

People of all castes have repeatedly told me and thepreachers

,your religion is the only true one . We know it must

prevail .’ i ii I have known high native officials to use it‘

-as

an argument with village officials why they should no t molestthe Christians

,saying

,

‘ we , too, must become Christians soo n .

’

From Ramapatam B ro . Timpany writes -“ I made a longtrip through the northern parts of the mission. Sickness anddeath were al l around us. The terrible cholera was around. Bythe time we reached home the benefit Of our rest was knocked o ut

of me , and we were nea rly sick with anxiety and care .In every village where the gospel is preached, souls come to theSaviour. I Spent about three months travelling o n the

field,and baptized 15 0 while doing so.

“ In October of this year the most disastrous flood everknown In that part of the country visited Nellore , and the poormissionaries suffered intensely In many respects . For some daysthe mission compound was covered with water, most of the nativehouses were washed away and the chapel

’s foundation greatlydamaged .

Nellore .—Baptized

,5 7 ; members , 3 3 6.

Ongole .

—Baptized , 708 ; members, 2Ramapatam .

- Baptized members , 67 5 .

Expense of the mission fo i the year was 3 30,Theeighth annual meeting of the Auxiliary to the Am erica

Baptist Mission Union was held in t he York St. Baptist Chapel ,London on the 22nd Oc to ber 1874 . The President the Rev .

John Bates in the chair. Addresses were delivered by Rev . D .

Baldwin,Rev. Lyman Jewett a Teloogoo missionary , Dr. R .

A . Fyfe , Dr Davidson , and A . A. Ayer of Mo ntreal . Mrs .Jewett sang several Teloogoo hymns .PRESIDENT—REV . JOH N BATES .

VICE-PRESIDENT—WM . CRAIG AND A. A. AYER.

SECRETARY—REV . J L . CAMPBELL.

S . SHENSTON , ESQ .

80; TEL‘

OOC'

OO M ISSION .

Extracts from the eighth annual report : “ Vl'

ith aresponsibility, and yet with hearts 1ig hty

“

Go ,d we announce in the very c

'enunder circumstances of an g of an independent Can

About the time of that ever memorable meeting in Ingersoll ,where B ro . Timpany was designated a missionary to the Telo og obs, Go d converted to himself a well educated native in that fardistant land . He was baptized by the Rev. M r . Doll . StrictBaptist Minister in Madras Thomas Gabriel ’s heart yearned

f o r th e salvation of his benighted countrymen . He could notrest - Abandoning his worldly employment , he hasted northwardtwo hundred miles beyond Ongole . Went where no missionaryhad gone before, to the great heathen city of Cocanada, on theGauda very, and there alone he unfurled the blood Stained bann er

'

Of the cross God was w ith him in his lonely toil . Fiveyears rolled by A church of about 15 0 members was formed ,several native preachers raised up

,and a few native schools es

tabliShed , But Bro . Gabriel had gone to his utmost limit. Hehad no means no support

,and was becoming considerably In

‘volv‘ed In debt . His m ission at this interesting stage had eitherto be taken up by someE uropean society, or must be whollyabandoned . In his extremity B ro . Gabriel sent an appeal throughM r. Dol l to the En g l ish’Baptists but they were unable to ren derhim any aid . The American Baptists closed their year burdened with a heavy debt

,and were discussing retrenchment . The

Baptists of the Maritime Provinces had already taken np a m ission of their own in Siam . Their hands were more than“ ful lwas under these

'

circumstan ces,‘ when the existence even of the

mission was trembling In the balance, that Gabriel , through Bro .

McL aurin ,sent a soul stirring appeal to us . Our contributions

al ready largely exceeded the amount of our direct responsibilityto the Board In B oston . The estimated Cost of the m ission waseasily within the l imits of our ability if we’ would do anythinglike

_ our duty. B ro . McL aurin,who had temporarily occupied

B ro . Clough ’s field during the latter’s visit to America, wouldsoon be relieved

,and he intimated his readiness to go to Cocan

ada and take charge of the new mission . Our American brethren . while regretting the loss of such a valuable laborer as B ro .

McL au rin ,not only heartily concurred , but gave us the official as

surance that their ‘ Committee regarded with mu ch favor theopening of a new mission at Cocanada by our Canadian brethren .

’

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It was then,after anxious prayerful consideration ‘ looking to

the Lord for help and guidance,’ that your Beard unanimous

ly decided to take up this field . The ann o uncement h as beenhailed with joy by our churches , and the decision enthusiaStical lyendorsed at our various denominational gatherings. It becamenecessary to telegraph Bro . McL aurin the decision of the Board .

The despatch,sent by the Rev . Dr. Fyfe , left Boston , United

States, on Tuesday, the 28th October, 1873 , at four o’clock p.m .

,

and reached Madras in nine hours and a quarter , thence by mailto

‘

Ongole , where it was received by Bro . McLaurin on the 3 rdNovember at 6 o ’clock p m . , and set our hearts fearing, hoping,trembling and rejoicing .

’ This memorable message was as follows GO to Cocanada on basis of your letter. Send resignation .

’ A flash of l ight speeding half around the globe.‘

G lad tidings of great joy to that ancient and heathen OIty— and the workwas done the first Baptist Foreign Mission of Ontario and Quebec was established at Cocanada .

”

Just as the foregoing extract from the annual report wasprinted we came into possession of the acco unt of the Board meetin g at which

'

it was decided to organize an independent Missionat Cocanada . We th ink such an important Board meeting oughtnot

‘ to'

be overlooked notwithstanding to some extent it may bea repetition of what is mentioned in the annual report.

' Pursuant to adjournment the Board of Directors met at theresidence of Mr. T . S . Shensto n immediately at the close of theab

’

o ve'

platf o rm meeting p .m . The meeting was organizedby Wm . Craig , Esq. Vice-President

,taking the chair. Prayer by

Rev. John Dempsey.Present—Rev . R . A . Fyfe , D.D . ,

Rev . J .

Cooper, Rev. James Coutts, T. S Shensto n ,

J . E . Wells , A . R.

Pratt, Rev. J . L Campbell,also as visitors, Rev . Theo . Porter,

and Rev. Mr. Saunders from the Maritime Provinces .Letters from Rev. John McL aurin of Ongole dated respect

ively March 14 th,August 11th and August 19th 187 3 were read,

also o ne from Rev. A. V . Timpany, of Ramapatam , dated August 12th 1873 .

These letters all related to the formation of a new’

and independent mission at Cocanada. Among the reasons assigned forthis movement were : 1 . That it is a very busy and growingtown . 2 , It being nearly 200 miles distant from the nearestAmerican Mission . 3 . The town being In the very heart of theTeloogoo country . 4 . A nucleus of a Mission had been thereformed by one Thomas Gabriel, a converted native . 5 . Mr. Gabriel had asked assistance from England, the United States and .


the Maritime Pro vincesnbut failed to obtain it. 6 . The desirableness of having an independent Mission of o ur own

,etc . Bro .

McLaurin estimated the expense for the year to beAfter long and careful deliberation it was decided to take upthismission , and Dr Fyfe was delegated to visit Boston City to secure a full and f raternal understanding with the brethren of theAmmican Baptist Missionary Union , with reg ard to our aimsand plans with respect to our contemplated n ew and independentM ission .

On the 28th October Dr. Fyfe had a most satisfactory interview with the Boston brethren and reported to the Board onthe 15 th November the following resolution

The Committee regard with much favor the opening of anew Mission at Cocanada by our Canadian brethren and to facilitate the plan they wil l release Mr . McL au rin to take charge Ofit,whenever he shall express a desire to that effect .

In the event of his mission being successful , Dr. Fyfe, wasauthorized to telegraph from Boston to B ro . McL aurin as follows

“ Go to Cocanada on basIs of your letter . Send resignation s

—Fyfe .Thus was inaugurated the first Foreign Missionary Society of

Ontario and Quebec .

Report continued This city is the largest seaport town between Calcutta and Madras . It has a population of about 20

,

000 inhabitants,and is growing rapidly . The Go davery is the

natural key and outlet to one of the largest, richest , most populo us and promising districts of country in all India . On the 1 2thof March last B ro . McL aurin took full possession of this field asyour missionary . His time has been considerably occupied in arranging matters in connection with B ro . Gabriel ’s previous work ,and laying the foundation for future operations . He has withhim a number of native preachers and teachers, and already thesmile of heaven is resting on this new field . From March untilthe end of August last 5 7 saved out o f heathenism had already,

been baptized on “ profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus ;and more were coming . Your missionary adds You see wehave not entered upon a barren field . With the divine blessingwe want but your prayers and your money to make it blossom asthe rose .

’

“ At the founding of a new mission there necessarily is a largeamount of extra expense . Mission grounds require to be purchased shall we

,the Baptists of Canada , prove um

SCRAP BOOK . 83

worthy of our trust and of that religious body which was the firstto enter the Foreign Field ? Never .”

Our esteemed and honored brother Timpany h as been laboring with his characteristic zeal and energy on his old field atRamapatam . We continue still to sustain him under t he American Board just as before . We love him too dearly ever to th inkof giving him up . In the overwhelming labo rs which he hadas Principal of the Theological Seminary and missionary of alarge and growing station , he has been partia l ly relieved . TheRev. R . R . Williams , a new missionary , recently sent out by theUnion

,has assumed the charge of the Seminary as Principal .There have been baptized during the past year in both

churches on this field 2 4 7 , present number,“ It is with pecul iar pleasure we hail among us to-night at

our annual g athering our beloved and venerable brother the Rev.

Lyman Jewett , D . D . , of Nellore—the companion of Bro . S . S .

Day,In their united lonely labors before the brighter times of

the mission—the brother now engag ed In the work of the Telo ogoo scripture revision— in whose house B ro . Timpany and h iswife acquired the language—who has ever been Spoken of by ourmissionaries in terms of unqualified love . A blessing on h iskindly heart and on h is silver hair . ’ May Go d long spare h imand his consecrated companion (whom we also welcome with j oy )to that glorious work in which He has so signally honored h im .

’

“ This report cannot better be drawn to a close than in theburning words of a letter received last week from Bro . McL aurin .

He says I fear that you will think we write hard sometimes,

but you cannot imagine how we feel face to face with the Devi l,

I have trembled with eagerness,and melted into tears in

quick alte rnation as I have thought of it . I have sat on theprow of my boa t and scanned vast stretches of country with apopulous village every two or three miles containing hundreds o f

thousands of immortal beings who never heard in telligibly theway of l ife

,and I have gazed with a yearning heart upo n

' the

poor wretches as I Saw them pass along the canal bank, and know

that they must burn In hel l forever because there was no one totel l them of Jesus . Yet

,I have sat on a cot in a house that in

many places in Canada would be called a poor pigsty,and allow

ed the tears to stream down my face unrestrained as I look uponthose redeemed ones and heard them sing of a Father In B eav

A B lessed Elder B roth er, " A Home beyond the Clouds .’Ah ? at such moments I felt Heaven very near . Then my faithin that glorious old Gospel—the blessed old gospel—was greatly


streng thened . Then I did not wonder much at Paul ’s almost in :sane glorying in it . No wonder Festus thought him mad . It .

was a kind of mania . The world thinks us mad and so we wantto be beside ourselves for the overthrow of Satan’s kingdom .

—beside ourselves to bring glory and honor to Jesus Christ .At a special meeting of the Executive Committee l eld in the

Woodstock Institute May 2nd , 187 4 , it was resolved ‘ That weregard ourselves as having taken charge of the Cocanada Missionfrom the 1st January, 187 4 .


CR

Cash o n h and " 96 7 4 Pal d Rev. J . mo h aurin in al l 1882 74

Received from all SOurceS $ 4 5 80 88 Paid American Bap . M iss . Un io n 5 00 00

Disbur sem ents " 102 05

Balance o n h and 2192 83

$ 4677 62 $ 4677 62

l o

The 6 1st annual meeting of the American Baptist MissionaryUnion

,was held in the City of Philadelphia 011 the 2 5 th day of

May , 187 5 .

The Union have n ow five stations and a goodly number ofmissionaries supplying them . Ramapatam is reported as underthe charge of Rev. A V . Timpany and wife , Rev . D . H . Drake,and Miss L . Peabody and sixteen native preachers .

Extract from report The progress of the wonderful workamong the Te loogoos has not been as marked and visible duringthe year 187 4 as in some of the previous years but it has stillbeen gratifying beyond the ordinary fruits of m issionary labor.Mr. Timpany writes Owing to the want Of funds

for travell ing we were very much straightened in this respect.‘he field suffered in every way by my not being on it . InsteadOf being out four or five months as usual , I was only out half thattime . A wide and eff ectual door is opened , but it must beentered to receive the benefit. It is only an aggravation to haveto stand before it and not be able to enter it on account of thewant of means to move . We made a long tour of thirty-five

days. During the time , by working day and night , we saw thechristians in about sixty villages at times ranging from a fewminutes up to days . We came home worn out in body and mind

,

but we had a grand good time. Many times we were astonishedat the chang e that has come over the people . Four o r five yearsag o , some were af i aid of ns, others abhorred us, and mo st of the


Executive Committee met at Paris June 5 th of this year atwhich Rev . G . F . Currie was appointed o ne of our missionaries

,

and Dr . Fyfe and Dr . Davidson were appointed delegates to attend .the convention of the Maritime Provinces .

Executive Committee met in the Woodstock Institute July2 6th of this year at which the plans submitted for buildings atCocanada were adopted

,t he cost not to exceed

The fo l lowing Officers were appointed at the annual meetingPRESIDENT; O. RAYMOND .

VICE-PRESIDENTS—WM.

‘

CRAIG AND A. A. AYER.

SECRETARY—REV . J . L . CAMPBELL .

TREASURER—T. s. SH ENSTON .

Extracts from the 9th annual report : It pleased Go d inHis infinite wisdom to r em o ve from our -midst

,on Saturday

,the

8th of May last , in the seventy-first year of his age , the venerable and only President we have ever had over the Foreign Missio nary Society of these Provinces— the father of Mrs . Timpanyand Mrs . M cL aurin—that true and tried friend of our Mission

,

the Rev. John Bates . Only those who knew him best can realize the loss we have sustained. Next to our B ibles , writesone of your Missionaries

,

‘ his letters were,most prized by us ’

His last g enero us gO‘

l f t of $ 5 00 to our Teloogoo Mission was worthyof him

,who had so cheerfully consecrated his family and his best :

energies to this noble enterprize . His last sermon was preachedto the people of his ch arge in St. George , on Sabbath the 2nd ofMay .

‘ Like a soldier he died at hispo st .

Bro . Timpany has labored with his characteristic zeal andenergy on his Old field at Ramapatam. This last trip theycame in crowds in every place to listen to

'

the story of Jesus andHis Love . Their faith ‘ in idols is well nigh gone .

”

“ At the “ meeting of ‘ the Association which was held in NellOre,

fo n the 12 th of March , in addition to his other duties, Bro .

Timpany was appointed as asso ziate of the‘ Rev. Dr . Jewett , in

the revision of the Teloogoo New Testament Scriptures He isals

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o'

eg

ng ag ed in preparing a compendium of Theology for the benefit of the native Christians .”What changes have 'been witnessed in Ramapatam during

the past five years This field was first tak en possession of as aMission Station by Bro . Timpany,

‘on the 5 th February 1870, al ittle over five and a half years ago. So hostile were the nativesto the reception of the t ruth that the first Sabbath n o ne

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wo uld’

SCRAP BOOK . 87

come to hear him . New in that same field your missionar has under his charge two flourishing churchesw ith an aggregate of 7 30 members , 60 of whom were baptized by him dnrin g thepast year . ”

On the 12th of March , 187 4 , B rother McL aurin,under the

direction of your Board , arrived at Cocanada and ‘

to o k possessionof this field as the direct Missionary of the Baptists of theseProvinces . The year was one of peculiar toils and trials Muchpatient labor was required in arranging matters In connectionwith brother T Gabriel ’s previous work , and In settl ing the af

fairs o f the Mission. Your missionary , however , proved f ullyadequate to the important task which was imposed upon him andin the mo st thorough and efficient manner discharged the dutiesof his new posit ion . God’s Spirit was richly poured out upon h is ,and by the 1st of January last he had already baptized into' thefellowship of the Church in Cocanada, 13 3 precious souls.

The Rev. Thos . Gabriel , of Cocanada, on the first of Jannarylast departed this l ife in peace . With his one hand i n that of hisweeping wife and the other in that of your weeping Missionary

,

he passed to heaven , the dying words Jesus is precious ’ lingering on h is expiring l ips ’

“ In August of 187 3 the Baptists of the Maritime Provincessent out seven Missionaries to labor amOn g the Karens of Siam .

One already inBurmah was writing to join them ,and another

was sent' out in August of 187 4 . making nine Missionaries in all ,viz Four men and their wives with one unmarried lady

, Afterexploring the country it was found that the number of K ‘arensin Siam was far fewer than expected (not more than 10,

000 ofPwo s and Sg aus) and these so distant and scattered among themountains as to be practically inaccessib le The condition of thefield the Missionaries In a joint letter (dated Rahang , Siam , Feb“ruary the 13 th, laid fully before the Board of the Maritime Provinces and asked for further instructions as to the fieldin which they should labor in future .

”

“ The Board called a special meeting of the B aptist Co nvention of Nova Scotia

,New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island

,.

in the town of Amherst , N .S . , on the 12th to 14 th May last, todetermine what field they sho u ld occupy . A letter previ ouslyreceived from the Secretary of the Board of the Maritime Provinces (dated St . John , N .B 2 6 th April

,187 5 , and received l st

May last ,) enquired whether we in these Provinces were willingthat they should unite with us in the Teloogoo field

,and upon

what basis . At a special meeting of your B oard held at Brant

88 Tanoo q o o MissION .

ford o n the 4 th of May last , the f ollowing statement regardingthe area and boundaries of our Missionary field among the Tel o ogoos

,and the fol lowing resolutions as a basis of Union were un

animo usly adoptedLet it suflice to addAt a Board meeting held at the house o f T . S. Shensto n ,

May4 th 1878 Bro . J . L. Campbell was deputed to represent us at theforthcoming convention in Amherst, N .S will repeat to the Missio naries of both societies Occupying the Teloogoo field . At aBoard meeting held at Paris on the 5 th day of June Bro . Campbell reported having visited the Amherst Convention on the12th , 13 th and 14 th of May and fo und the brethren there anxiousfo r their missionaries to o ccupy the Teloogoo field at an early date.Extract from

,repo rt

The Missionaries of the Maritime Provinces at once promptly and cheerfully acted upon the instructions of their Convention .

Some of their number safely arrived a t Cocanada during themonth o f July , and before the present date they will all, excepting Miss M . Armstrong, be there . There will

,therefore

,be at

Cocanada, at the present time, the following Missionaries , viz :Rev. J . McL aurin and wife, Rev. W. B . Boggs and wife

,

Rev . R . Sanford and wife, Rev . G. Churchil l and wife,Rev. W .

F. Armstrong and wife .

”

Thus led by the clearest indications of Divine Providence,

the Baptists of the Dominion are united in this gloriousundertaking

_o f publishing the glad tidings of Salvation to the

benighted Teloogoos. These Missionaries are Side by side,j oy

fully working together on the banks of the far distant Go daveryfor the purpose of winning jewels for Emmanuel ’s crown fromIndia ’s dusky sons . May Go d smile upon their efforts and blessthem a thousand fold

Our_

latest tidings from the field are full of encouragements.

Baptisms are being administered by B ro . McL aurin . Others ,not yet baptized , are awaiting the ordinance . Yo ur Missionaryexpects to

,

secure,compound and complete the erection of mission

premises_

at.

Co canada during the approaching cool season , andthe outlook is full of promise .”We have also here w ith us to-night our excellent B rother,

Rev. George F. Currie , B .A.,of New B runswick , who is n ow

under appointment as our Missionary,and who wi ll to-night be

publicly designated to this great work to which he feels Go d hascalled him . He expects

,as soon after the meeting of this Con

ventio n as possible,to set sail for Cocanada

,where he hopes to

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arrive about the new year. He is the th ird male Missionarysent out by this Board .

Thus the Independent Foreign Mission,inaugurated by us

two years ago,has already been carried forward to a great result.

We bless the G o d of Missions for the clear pathway in which hehas led us

,and the marked tokens by which every step has been

indicated . May the Baptists of this Dominion prove worthy ofthe great trust committed to their charge

,and the honor to which

G o d has called them . May this, the highest and holiest of all

our enterprises,occupy an increased interest in the affections ,

prayers and l iberality of our churches and members ; and, maythe lone star mission now bursting forth into a constellationof such unsurpassing bril liancy fi l l that dark land with the lightof the glorious Gospel of Christ .On the 5 th day of June at a Board meeting held at Paris Rev.

G. F. Currie was appointed one of o ur Foreign Missionaries.


B alance o n h and $2192 83 Paid Missio nariesReceived f rom al l so urces GOI2 00Disbursements

Balance in

$ 8204 84


TheR ev . John Bates, of whom the above is a striking likeness

,was born in Bug bro o k , Northampton , England, on January

2 6th, 1805 , and died at St . George , B rant County, Ontario, on

May 8th,187 5 . He was the father of Mrs . Timpany and Mrs .

McLaurin , the wives of the firs tmissionaries sent to India by theBaptists of Ontario and Quebec.

In 1827 , when 2 2 years of age, he went to the City o f Londonto seek there his fortune , and the one he found after a diligentsearch of several weeks , was a situation as porter to a dry goodsfirm in Cheapside at a salary of £ 15 per annum . While thusemployed in delive ring large packages in the various parts ofthat great city

,he m ight often be seen

,while taking short rests

on the way , reading Watts Logic,

” or some other similar usefulwork

,taken from his pocket .

He was baptized on Christmas day ,1829, at the Eagle St .

Chapel,by Mr . VV o o l laco tt , the pastor , Mr. Ivimey ,

being toounwel l at the time to do so . H is first sermon was preached inMay

,183 1, in the chapel of the church of which he was a mem~

ber,from John iii . 3 , and his second in the same place on the

second Sabbath of July following , from John V II . 3 7

SCRAP BOOK . 91

For some time he was‘much inclined to off er h imself as a

missionary to labor among the negroes in the island of Jamaica,

but eventually offered himself as a missio nary to Ireland , and wasduly designated for this service in the Keppel Street Chapel

,of

which Mr . Prit chard was pastor, February 7th , 183 3 .

On January 26,183 6 ,

he was married to M iss Sarah S tuart ,daughter of Mr. Stuart , of Dromahair , Ireland, who on thefollowing May was baptized by her husband in a lake near theresidence of her father . In 18 39 they both visited England.

February 20th,18 5 0

,he and ‘ family left Ireland for Liverpool .

and from that city sailed for N ew York March 4 th,which was

reached on the 8th day of April .Mr. Bates then moved o ut

“ far west and remained theresome four years . While there his son Samuel was out with “ theBoys in B lue .

” In a charge made upon the enemy ’s works atVicksburg

, May 2 2,1863 . his company participated . His zeal

and courage carried him into the hottest of the fire,and being

struck in the thigh with a minie ball fel l on the field . TheUnion forces drew back

,and as Samuel had fallen on a Spot

that was nearest the enemy ’s picket line,he was taken prisoner

and conveyed to the hospital at Vicksburg,where he died on the

14 th of June,of whom the captain wrote : He died a happy

christian,maintaining his principles to the last .

In June,18 5 8 , Mr . Bates accepted a call to the Park Street

Church,Hamilton

,Ontario . In March , 18 5 9, he returned to the

United States (Iona). Late in 1864 he became pastor of theDundas Church . I n April

,1867 , removed from . Dundas to

Woodstock . In May,187 6 , he is found attending the annual

meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union in Chicago,

in the double capacity of christian minister , and parent aiding inthe designation of his son-in - law

,Rev . A. V. Timpany , to the

Teloogoo field of foreign missions . In April,1867

,M r . Bates

resigned the Dundas Church and became pastor of theWoodstockChurch . From there he removed to St . George , April l 6th ,

1870, where he died May 8th , 187 5 . Professor Jas . J. Bates,B .

A. , of the Woodstock Institute , and Rev . S . S . Bates,B . A.

,

pastor of the College Street Baptist Church , Toronto , are sons.We copy the following from his published memoir“ On July 6 , 1840, little Jane was born . In recording this

happy event three days later , Mr . Bates says , ‘ Last night Iread the first, chapter of Samuel , after which I held my l ittle babyin my arms

,and presented it by faith in prayer to Go d . I look

upon it as a loan for a little season,and would wish to bring it


up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord . It is lent to theLo rd as long as it l iveth , it Shal l be lent to the Lord . As I havea prevailing desire , if it be the will of Go d, so may little Jane bethe wife of a missionary , and be useful in her day and generation .

Nevertheless , not my will , but the will of the Lord be done. ’How literally and fully this earnest wish has been fulfilled . readers of these pages may know. Little Jane is now the wife ofRev . A . V. Timpany, for several years al ready a useful missionary in India

,and though at this present date for a , time engaged

in the home service . His daughter Mary,born in Banbridge

,

l reland, November 16 , 184 6 , is now the wife of Rev . John Mc

Laurin,like Mr Timpany , a missionary to the Teloogoos .”

An extract from a letter written by Mr . Bates from Woodstock. January 2 3 , 1868, to Mr . and M rs. Timpany

“ I have Often travelled twenty miles and preached to lessa f ew and if yo u are spared I expect that you will do the

same among the Teloogoos . I am thankfu l that the Lord fil lsour houses , but I could not re fuse to speak to any number Go dsends to me . Yes in tramping about Ireland

,among the

poor Catholics,I have been very frequently encourag ed by the

twos ’ and ‘ threes . ’O to be faithful my son and daughter to the twos and

threes ! Then Go d wi ll give us nines and ten s and then thehundreds .To the same parties and from the same place

,March 15

, 1870.

Now,if I were a missionary in the east, I should pray that

I might find sermons in rice and curry , in flowers and trees,in

every object around me with which the people—yes that is theword—the peop le would be familiar. And whether weare in Woodstock amidst snow and ice , or in Nellore , amidst hotwinds and under the burning sun

,if the common people do n o t

hear us gladly ’we lack one great th ing to make us useful .”


some a goodly number of native preachers and helpers . Rev . A .

V . Timpany still at Ramapatam .

Reported present at the meeting from Ontario , Rev . Dr . J . H .

Castle , Rev . M r . Stewart, B .A . , Hamilton Rev . J . L . CampbellDundas Rev . C Perrin , St . Catharines , Rev . J . E . Vining ,

Boston Rev . E . Chesney , Port Perry ; Rev . S . Doyle,Toronto .

Extract from report The Lone Star ’ Mission that in184 5 was without a missionary , and . whose abandonmen t wasseriously considered in subsequent years at several meetings ofthe Union , and in 186 5 , when the n o w veteran Jewett was re

tu rning to the field , and B ro Clough as a new recruit was accompanying him

,had but 3 8 living members

,has become one of

the brightest among the constellation of American Baptis t Missions . It has now six stations and twenty missionaries

,and near

members . There is n o w hope to-day,bright and promis

ing,that the of Teloog oos wi ll n o t long hence be.

numbered among the christian peoples of the earth .

”

In one of the reports it is stated that “ The Rev A . V .

Timpany of the Telo ag o o M ission of Ramapatam is on his way toCanada , and in a report of the following year ( 187 7 ) it is stated ,The Rev . A . V . Timpany, wh o returned to this country inOctober last

,resigned with a view of joining the Canadian

Cocanada M ission .

” This closes our connection with the Ame rican Union ,

Nellore— Baptized , 16 ; members, 188 .


,4 8 members

, 764 .

Ongole— Baptized,18 1 members

,

Expenses of the mission for the year,

The l 0th annual meeting of the Baptist Foreign M issionarySociety of Ontario and Quebec was held in the Jarvis St . Toronto Baptist Chu I ch ,

Thursday,October 19th 187 6 .

The President Rev. Dr Fyfe , in the chair . Prayer by RevE . Edwards

,of Parry Sound

,late Missionary In B ombay under

the British F . M . Society . Addresses were delivered by B ro .

John Craig , Missionary under appointment of the Board , Rev .

A . A. Cameron , of Ottawa, Rev . J . Gordon , of Mo ntreal, Rev.

Dr . W'

. S . McKen z ie of Boston , Mass , and Rev A. V . Timpany ,recently returned from Ramapatam , India .

PRESIDENT— REV . R . A . FYFE , D . D .

VICE -PRESIDENTS—WM. CRAIG AND A. A. AYER .

SECRETARY—REV . J . L . CAMPBELL .

TREASURER—4 T. s. SH ENSTON , ESQ .

SCRAP BOOK . 95

On the 22nd of January , 187 6 , at 4 o’clock p . m .

, the deed ofthe Cocanada compound was duly signed , sealed and del ivered ,and registered in the proper court in that town . The whole costwas rupees

,or about

B ro . McL au rin and family left their rented premises andmoved into the Cocanada Baptist Mission House on Wednes

day,February 9th , 1876 .

On Saturday , February 12th , 1876 , Bro . and Sister Curriearrived from Burmah at Cocanada and made their . home withBro . McL aurin at the Mission House .

Under date 2nd October, 1876 , Rev . John Craig o fl’

ered himself as a missionary to the Teloogoo s. At a Board meeting heldin the Jarvis Street Church

,Toronto

,on Thursday , October 19,

1 876 , such offer was unanimously accepted . B ro . Craig'

waspresent at this meeting and stated that He dare not disobeywhat he felt confident was God ’s call to him .

Extracts from the 10th annual repo rt

We have two families, or four Missionaries at Cocanadawhile two of our Missionaries are for a short time recruitingtheir strength at home . Then , in 1868

,there were less than

100 native converts , in connection with our churches,in

that land ; n ow ,there are between four and five thousand .

Should the Missions continue to be adequately reinforced andsustained , and the ratio of increase during the next ten years inany way approximate that of the past , the membership of thesenative Churches

,among the Teloogoos

,will

,at our next Foreign

Missionary decade,be greater than that of all ou r Churches in

Ontario and Quebec,even if our members in the meantime are

multiplied by two . It is with peculiar gratitude and joywe hai l among us , tonight . our own pioneer M issionaries to th eTeloogoos— our beloved and honored B rother and Sister Timpany .

On the 24 th October,1867 , bidding farewell to country and to

kindred,and followed by the denomination’s prayers

,they left

our shores for distant India . After an unusually protracted anddangerous voyage , they reached Madras on the 15 th of April , andNellore on the morning of the 9th of May

, 1868 . On the 20thof the same month they began the study of the language under anat ive Pundit

,and

,in about a year after

,Bro . Timpany conduct

ed his first service in the Teloogoo language,in the Chapel at

Nellore .

On the 5 th February,1870, they moved to Ramapatam and

took possession of this new field, where they continued to labor upto the 27th of February last . When they arrived at Ramapatam


there was neither Church nor Missionary before them,and hea

then ism held full sway . When they returned from Ramapatam,

last spring,they left behind them two Churches with between 700

and 800 members,scattered among about eighty villages also ,

four ordained native Preachers,with a full staff of Teachers and

Colporteurs “ with an excellent Compound and M ission premisesat the Station besides ten Chapels and School Houses completed

,

and about as many more in progress of e rectio n on the field,Bro .

Timpany also superintended the er e tion of the Theological Seminary , at Ramapatam , opened the School on the 6 th of April ,187 2 , and in addition to his pastoral charge , carried on the Seminary, as its first Principal

,for two years, until re lieved by Bro .

W illiams . A year ago, last March , he was appointed a memberof Teloogoo B ible Revision Committee .

” He also wroteTeloogoo Compendium of Theology , ” a book of about 300pages

,which was going through the press in its first edition when

he left India .

”

Worn down and wearied,not of the work but in it

,with his

devoted companion and his family,he has sought his native land

,

for a brief respite from M Issio n ary toils and a much needed rest .

We welcome them back to-night .

”

Baptized during the year 69, membersh ip 287 .

On the 2nd of the present month Bro . Timpany resigned hisconnection with the American B aptist Missionary Union ; andhas now

,in the full

,direct sense

,entered the permanent services

of your Board . The Executive of the Union parted with himwith much regret

,and invoked the Divine blessing o n h is future

career . When he returns to India , he wil l go to Cocanada, andjoin Bro . McL au rin and B ro . Currie

,in our own Canadian field, o n

the banks of the Go davery.

”

The work at Cocanada,during the past year

,has been re

plete with interest . With the energy which is his characteristic,B ro . . McL aurin has been laying the foundations of a great workfor Christ

,in that dusky-pe o pled and most promising field . The

diffi culties arising out of the late lamented B ro . Gabriel ’s financial

'

embarassmen t required much wise and patient unravel ling .

”

The gospel has been preached in scores of native villages .Regular services have been maintained at Cocanada

,in Teloogoo ,

with one service each Lord’s day in English . Josiah , an ablenative preacher

,has been '

o rdained as an evangelist , and has rendered valuable help in touring and preaching the Word .

After much anxiety in endeavoring to secure land , on wh ichto erect Mi ssion Premises

,by a providential opening, your Mis

SCRAP BOOK . 97

sio nary was enabled to purchase land and house complete at

Cocanada. The place contains a little over twelve acres, Sur

ro unded by a hedge , and is described as “ one of the best locations in the town .

’

On the 2 2nd of January last the formalpurchase was completed, and on Wednesday the 9th February ,yo ur M issionary and his family left their rented premises

,where

they had lived nearly two years , and moved into our own Canadian Baptist Mission House .

’ The cost of this property,purchased

more cheaply than it could be built, was rupees,or nearly

of this amount have already been paid,and the

balance will be wiped out as soon as the state of our treasurywill permit. Through this purchase the Society is saveda heavy rental a home is provided in the meantime for B rotherand Sister Currie

,free .

”

Bro . McLau rinhas also, during the past year, written a workpresenting our views on the subject of Christian Baptism—thefirst publication of the kind made in Teloogoo . It became necessary for him to do this in simple defence from the attacks whichhave been made upon us by the Missionaries of other societies .The work

,which will undoubtedly be a valuable addition t o the

Christian literature of that language, is n ow going through thepress . We hope in a year from now our B ro . John Craigwil l go hence to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christamong the Teloogoos . May Go d grant him the desire of hisheart

,and a life of abundant usefulness and blessing .

”

The excellent brother , designated for the foreign field atour last Convention , left Brantford on the 26th October, sailedfrom Halifax , on the Al lan steamer ‘Nova Scotian

,

’ on the 2ndand arrived at Liverpool on the 14 th November . Thence hesailed in the steamship City of Cambridge , ’ of the City Line ofSteamers , on the 30th November, and landed safely at Calcuttaon the 14 th of January last . After remaining there three dayshe took passage on the steamer Ava

,

’ of the B ritish India Line,

and reached Rangoon on the 2 l st of the same month. Here, o n

the l st of February , he was united in marriage , by the Rev ; W .

H. Sloan, of the A . B . M . Union , to Miss Maria Armstrong,from H enthada, one of the Missionaries under the Board of theLower Provinces embarked on the next steamer—the Asia

,

’ ofthe B . I Line— o n the 6th , and arrived safely at their journey

’send

,at Cocanada

,at noon 0 11 Saturday the 12th of February .

Here they were welcomed by B ro . and Sister McL aurin,and have

ever since occupied a portion of the same Mission house . Theyhave both bent their energies on the study of the language

,and


with such success that we find B ro . Currie,in four months and a

half , able to read h is Teloo goo Testament with very l ittle difliI

culty , able to understand considerable of what he hears in Telo ogoo preach ing and conversation and venturing to talk a little inthe vernacular . B rother McL aurin speaks of his proficiency inthe language , during the short time he has been engaged in itsstudy, as simply extraordinary,

’and adds, He

’

(Bro . Currie)can make himself understood by pure Teloogoo speaking nativeswith a facility wh ich I do not think I have seen equalled inIndia for the time .

’

“ Already , Bro . Currie writes , the barrier of our ignorance ofthe language is beginning to melt away

,and we are hOping for a

good time bye -and-bye,when , with tong ue and ear trained to the

use of the vernacular,we shall be able to tel l the old , old story

to the multitudes of human beings all about us who are still indarkness .


CRCash o n h and ” 65 Paid Rev. G . F . Curr IeReceived from all so urces 4 914 85 Paid Rev. J . McL aurin in al lB alance due 3 3 3 73 Disbursements

$64 4 3 23

TWO BURIALS.

SCRAP BOOK . 99

MR. JEWETT.

Just here perhaps is the most suitable place to bid goodbye to Mr. and Mrs . Jewett

,from whom all our missionaries

have received so many acts of christian kindness . We are gladto be able to give so good a likeness as the above

,taken from

a photograph in the writer 's possession . We have no materialby us from wh ich we can furnish any account of his life andlabors . On the grave stone of Sir Christopher Wren

,in the

grave yard of St . Paul ’s Church,London

,England

,are engraved

these words , IF YOU WISH TO SEE MY MONUMENT . LOOK AROUND .

Nhereby it is expected that the readers wil l look upon and

admire St . Paul ’s Cathedral , of which he was the designer andbuilder . In l ike manner we say , If you desire to know aboutM r . and Mrs . Jewett , look through the preceding pages of th isbook.


MRS. JEWETT.

The above cut is a g ood copy of the photograph from whichthe same was taken

,but it is only due to Mrs . Jewett to state

that both do her an injustice The photograph used was theonly one within our reach , and we would have considered ourbook very incomplete without her l ikeness with the rest .

102 TELUGU MISSION .

the 12th day of March , 187 4 , when our Missionary McL aI‘

I rin

first took formal possession of the Cocanada Mission . To com

mence here,however

,would not be satisfactory

,inasmuch as it is

well known that considerable sums of money were contributedfor Foreign M issions several years previous to that date . Thenagain

,if we take our starting point f rom February, 1868 , the

day our M issionary Timpany arrived at Nellore, in India, inconnection with the American M issionary Union

,it would

naturally excite curiosity concerning the Union to which he wasconnected and the history of the people among whom he waslaboring . Under these circumstances we thought it would bethe most satisfactory to commence where the American Un ionbegan missionary operations among the Telugus in India in183 5

,and then g ive a brief outline of the rise and progress of

that m ission down to the time when our o wnmissionaries becam edisconnected with the Union

,and fairly established w ithin

Cocanada . This narrative is a most interesting o ne, and well v

worth the reading . But inasmuch as our M issionaries Timpanyand M cL aurin gave several years of faithful labor in Nellore

,

Ongole and Ramapatam , whereby these missions have becomehousehold words with many a Canadian

,we have thought it

best to continue giving the relig io us‘

and financial stat istics ofthese three places to the close of this book— 1888 .

SCRAP BOOK . 103

The Telugu people n ew number 18,000,000 soul s ,!but inas

much as they form only the 4 l st part of the vast population ofAsia , and the 14 th part of that of India, and are located alongthe border of what Is termed a Bay ,

” they appear to be regardedby some as too insignificant a people to have so much money andattention bestowed on them by various religious ! societies .Thinking it desirable j ust here to dispel such erroneous estimation as to their numbers, ’ I have prepared the above diagram asthe readiest method of do ifig so . By the last census ( 188 1) thepopulation of Ontario was 2 2 3 . Notwithstanding sincethen many thousand have moved to the United States

,I will

suppose a net increase of 27 6 This would make the present

104 TELUGU MISSION.

population of Ontario to be Each bl ock i n the abo vediagram represents population . This shows at a glancethe relative numbers of Ontario ns and Telugus, the formerbeing represented by 2 2 light colored squares, and the latter by180 black ones . I t is thus seen that our missionaries have theirhands full .

The 11th annual meeting of the Baptist Foreig n MissionarySociety of Ontario and Quebec was held in the Jarvis StreetBaptist Church , Toronto, Thursday October i 5 th, 1877. Rev . Dr.Fyfe

,President

,in the chair. Prayer by the Rev. G . M . W.

Carey,M . A .

,of St . Johns

,New Brunswick. Addresses were

delivered by Rev . A . H. Munro, o f Montreal , and Rev . J . W. A .

Stewart , B. A . ,of St. Catharines .

At this meeting the Rev . John Craig, B . A., missionary electto the Telugus was set apart for the foreign work as followsWelcome to the work

,by Rev . A . V . Timpany.

Designation Prayer,by Rev. Geo . Richardson.

Hand of fellowship,by Rev . Dr . T. L . Davidson .

Charge to the Missionary,by Rev . Dr . Wm . Stewart .

Farewell on behalf of Jarvis St . Church , o f which B ro . Craigis a member

,by Dr . John H . Castle .

With you A lways,

” a valedictory hymn was sung, composedfor the occasion by Mrs’

,J . C . Yule .

iBrcsiUent.

REV . R. A. FYFE , D . D.

vitez lflu simuts.

WM . CRAIG and A. A. AYEB .

Samaria .

REV . J. L . CAMPBELL (Fo reig n), REV . JAMES Cou'm's (Home).

areasuret .

T. S. SH ENS'I ON, E SQ .

The l st annual meeting of the Canadian Telugu Conferencewas held at Bimlipatam on the 2 2nd of January 1877 , at wh ichMr . and Mrs . McL aurin and Mr . and Mrs . Currie were reportedas being present . The only one of pm Mission at wh ich anywere baptized was Cocanada . The report from which wasBaptized, 107 membership

, 4 3 8 .

At a Board meeting held in Woodstock , April 18th B ro .

Campbell resigned the Secretaryship and Rev . James Coutts wasappointed in his stead .



DR .

Received from al l so urces Bal ancedue Treasurer .

ce due Treasurer . Paid M i ssi o nariesD isbursem ents .

The 1st annual report of the Women ’s Baptist Foreign Missio nary Society for Ontario was held in Toronto , Oct . 18th, 1877 .

larcsipmt.

MRS . WM. McMASTER .

B irc=1§rrsil r.t

MRS . J. H . CASTL E,MRS. C. A. MORSE , and MISS BELLA L IGHTBODY.

i rrrexarirs.

MRS . H . H.H UMPRREY, Co rrespo nding ; MISS MORSE,Reco rding .

Errasurxr.

MISS ERSKINE B UCHAN .

The report says that “ the Society has reason to thank Go dand take courage . There have been 30 circles formed and/ ag rowing interest is manifested in the work .

”


DR .

Received from al l so urces 5 90 44

$5 90 4 4 $ 5 90 4 4

The 1st annual meeting of the Women ’s Baptist ForeignMissionary Society

,East

,was held in the parlor of St . Cathar

ines Street Church,Montreal

,on Thursday , September 6th 1877 .

The President, Mrs . T . J. Claxton , in the chair .iBrrSiDtnt.

MRS . T. J CLAXTON .

H ireslfiresibents.

MRS. A. H . MUNRO, MRS . J . GORDON , MRS . J . L . CAMPBELL .

fi erretarira.

MRS.W. M. ALL OWAY, Co rrespo ndin g ; MRS .W. S. PORI EOUS , Reco rding .

fi reasurer.

MISS GREEN .

Extract from report Mrs . Timpany, being present wasrequested to address the meeting, and in responding said it gladened her heart to know that there were so many gathered together

,pledged to help in the work of carrying the gospel into

the homes of India. It was o f necessity women’s work,men

were not allowed to visit the women in their homes .” It was reported that had been received during the year.

SCRAP BOOK . 107

From the 6 3 rd annual report of the American Baptist Union( 1877 ) owe learn that the Union have n o w 5 separate stationsamong the Telugus and have baptized of them during the year7 2 4 and expended The following are the numberof baptisms in connection with the three stations with wh ich ourCanadian Missionaries were formerly connected .

Nellore —Baptized , twenty -two members,3 12 .

Ongole—Baptized , 6 5 6 members , 3 407 .

Ramapatam—Baptized , twelve ; members ,

ONE Lord ONE Faith, ONE Baptism .

108 TELUGU ‘MISSION .

1878 .

THE ISTH ANNUAL MEETING

OF TH E

BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSIONARY SOCIETY

ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

Was held in the First Baptist Church , B rantford . on Thursday the 17 th day Of October , 1878 . Rev . Dr. Wm . Stewart

,of

Hamilton,in the chair. Prayer by Rev . Professor John Tor

rence,after which the meeting was addressed by Rev . J . L .

Campbell,Rev . A . A . Cameron , of Ottawa, Rev. J. D . King

,of

Yorkvil le,Rev. T. L . Davidson , of Guelph , made a Spirited

appeal for to liquidate the debt of that amount andsucceeded in securing Closing prayer by Rev . E . J .

Stobo of Collingwood .

iBrrSiDent.

T. S . SH ENSTON ,E SQ .

”

H irrz larrsihrnt'

WM . CRAIG and A. A. AYEB .

S ecretari‘

5 .

REV . J. L . CAMPB ELL and REV . JAMES COUTTS.

Ereasurrr.

T. D IXON CRAIG.

The 2nd annual meetin g'

o f the Canadian Telugu Missionwas held at Cocanada on , _

the 17th January , 1878 , at wh ich Mr .and Mrs. McLaurin , Mr. and Mrs . Currie and Mr. and Mrs .Craig were reported as being in attendance . Baptized during theyear, 3 5 members , 4 3 3 .

January 4 th,1878, Mr .

~and Mrs . McL aurin arrived safe atCocanada .

January 2oth , 1878 , Mr . and M rs Currie occupied Tuni asan independent Missionary Station .

Extract from a let ter written by Bro . Timpany There is acanal now open all the way from Madras to Cocanada . Thesouthern portion of the canal has been mostly dug in “ faminetimes .” We do not take time to stop at any of the resthouses on the way , as it will be all we can do to reach Cocanadaby Janua rv . The third day on the canal

,towards evening

,I

110 TELUGU MISSION.

afterwards Mr. and Mrs . Timpany,’ child ' and a Telugu girl ,

Amelia Keller . It was a time of excitement and joy . I t would ”

take many sheets like this to express all we felt and said. Well,you may imagine it.”The report makes aff ectionate allusion to the death of Rev .

Dr . Fyfe , at one time a President of this Society . (See pageExtracts from the annual report The past year has wit

nessed in,the ' Telugu country

,chiefly on the old : fields formerly

occupied by our brethren Timpany and McL aurin , the m o stglorious relig o us awakening which has ever been experienced inthe whole history of modern missions . In gathering thousands ofthis most interesting peple ,

who are forsaking their idols and turning to worship the one living and true Go d . it would appear almostthat the question of ancient prophecy are to have a literal affirmative fulfilment ‘ Shall the earth be made to bring forth inone day ? or shall a nation be born at Once

It was in compliance with the written solicitation that theSecretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union first Visitedthis province and organized here an auxiliary of that Society in1866 . When in 187 3 , we became an independent society, wewent to Boston and negotiated the terms by wh ich the arrangement was amicably entered into . On the death of Our firstpresident . Rev . John Bates was elected to that position . andfilled it with his usual abil ity unti l his Master said It isenough ! and he entered upon h is blessed reward .

’ OnMonday

,3 0th September last, accompanied by Mrs. Timpany,

their youngest daughter,and Miss Amelia Kelle r, a native

Telugu , our dear brother left Canada for India . They sailedfrom New York on the the 2nd of October on the steamshipAUSTRALIA , of the Anchor Line , for London . Thence theyexpect to take passage by the P and O Line direct for Madras ,where they hope to arrive about the l st of December.B ro . Timpany proposes going to Cocanada , when he will takecharge of that station

,while our weary and toil worn missionary,

B ro . McL aurin ,will return to this country for a much needed

restA cloud of glory has burst during the past few months over

the South Telugu country . On the Ongole field , where BrotherMcL au rin labored up till the time he came to Cocanada , andwhere he was richly blessed

,and faithfully sowed the incorruptible

seed of the kingdom,a glorious harvest is now being reaped . b ur

ing the six weeks,from June l 6th to July 3 l st last , 8 ,691 pre~

cio us souls were baptized on a profession of their faith In the

SCRAP BOOK . I l l

Lo rd Jesus Christ o n that field alone. Thus , where on ly a fewshort y ears ago the darkness of unbroken heathenism reignedsupreme

,when twelve years ago a feeble church of eight mem

bers was organized n o w there is a church of overmembers l

After the designation services of our last annual meeting ourBro . Craig and his devoted companion immediately left ourshores for the far distant field to which Go d has called them .

Early in January last they arrived at t heir destination . Herethey were cordially welcomed by B rothe l and Sister McL aurin

,

and have Since resided with them in the mission home at Cocanada ”

“ By indication of providence, clear as though directed visiblyby the pillar of cloud and fire we have been led to occupy thiswonderful land . Go d has called us to and honored us with thisglorious trust Our hand has been put to the mission plow andwe dare not look back . That denomination which will be mostrichly blessed in all the various departments of its home workwh ich will develop the largest benevolence and the most co nsecrated piety— to which Go d will give power over the nationswill be the denomination which will be most thoroughly embued

with the foreign mission spirit .


DR . CR .

Received f rom al l so urces . . 65 Paid b alance due Treasu rer

B alance due 24 2 5 ? Paid Missio nariesDisbursements

$6942 18 $6942 18

The 2nd annual meeting of the Women’s Baptist ForeignMissionary So ciety west , was held in Emmanuel CongregationalChurch

,Brantford , October 16th , 1878 . The President

,Mrs .

McMaster, in the chair .

iBrrsiUmt.

MRS. M . FREELAND .

H gtcz lflresybenls.

MRS . J. H . COUTTS and MRS . H . J. ROSE .

Sun tan} .

MRS . H . H . H UMPHBEY, Co rrespo nding ; M ISS MORSE , Reco rding .

fi rrssurtr.

M ISS ERSKINE BUCHANAN.

TELUGU MISSION .

E xtract from report At a meeting held o n October 18th,1877 , D r ; Fyfe and Rev. J . L .

'

Campbel l appeared in o rder tolearn what the Society thought about paying all the money ,

collected by the different circles to the General Board—theSociety

,however, to have the power of choice, and as far as

possible their choice would be respected . The request which Mr.Campbell made is embodied in the following resolution passed bythe General B oard at its last annual meeting : ‘ That .we re

spectful ly request al l Auxiliary S o cieties NOT to make any directappointment o f missionaries

,nor any direct appropriation to

missionaries,but ‘ to submit their recommendations to the General

Board , and as far as possible their wishes should be carried out .

’

A special meeting was appointed in Order to discuss this matterthoroughly . Letters received in the ‘ meantime from' Circlesthroughout the province

,showed such conflicting opinions that it

was thought best to give it up for a time . B ut an art icle in theBAPTIST, written by Rev . Mr . Coutts , Home Secretary of theGeneral Society , severely criticizing the constitution of thisSociety

,and also a suggestion from Rev . Mr. Campbell that our

Central Board might make concessions , and thus remove themisunderstanding existent between it . and the General Board

,

l ed to the submission of certain amendments to the Con stitution .

Mr . Coutts, in a letter to the Recording Secretary, said that theseproposed amendments gave entire satisfaction

,and that a vo te of

thanks had been passed to the ladies for what they had done .

Letters were also received from diff erent members of the Boardexpressing their approval .


To tal received Paid Fo reign M issio nDisbursements.

Bal ance o n hand

$15 4 6 03 $ 15 4 6 03

The 2nd annual meeting of the Women ’s Baptist ForeignMissionary Society East

,was held in the parlor of the St . Catha

rine Street Church,Montreal , on Friday September 27th, 1878 ,

the President, Mrs . T . J. Claxton , in the chair .

SCRAP BOOK . 115

This boat was built the latter part of the year 1879. Theorigina l cost . not including some things from the Old boatMinnie Wilson

,was Rs . 12 7 3 5 9. Since then , some things have

been added , so that the boat as seen now in the picture has costabout Rs. 14 00. l he keel is 4 0 feet long. From the prow overwhich yo u see the anchor chain drawn

,to the stern , is 4 4 feet.

The width inside,amidships

,is 9 feet 4 inches .

Beginning at the prow. there is a deck 8 feet long. From thisyo u enter the saloon cabin by two steps down . This cabin is 13feet long . with five venetian windows on each side ; there is awide bench on each side upon which beds for 4 can be Spread ifnecessary.

The man standing near the foremast is the Captain to whomis paid a salary of a month . Mr . Timpany and his l ittlegirl Mary are standing on the foot-board of the boat

Christ DID bless, butdid NOT Baptize.

1 16 TELUGU M ISSION .

THE 13TH ANNUAL MEETING

OF TH E


ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

Was held I II the Queen St Church S t. Catharines on Thursday,

October 16th , 1879. The President T . S Shensto n In the chair.Prayer by the Rev . W. Stewar t of Hamilton . Addresses weredelivered by Rev . H . Porter, of B rantford , Rev . A. P .

McDiarmid of StrathrOy , ReV . E . J . Stobo Of Collingwood, and

Rev . John McL au rin , one of our Missionaries , who, with hiswife

,sung a I‘elug u hymn .

larrsibrnt

T. S. SH ENSTON .

WM . CRAIG and A. A. AYER .

S erretarirs.

REV . JAMES COUTTS .

Errasur r.

T. DIXON CRAIG .

January 13 th, 1879, the 3 rd annual meeting of the CanadianTelugu Conference was held at Chicacole , India , Among thosein attendance weI e B ro . A . V. Timpany , Pro . McL aurin andMr . and Mrs C raig. At this meeting n o statistics were given .

January 7 th 1879, from Cocanada M rs , Currie writesMr . and Mrs. Timpany

’

s arrival has quite enlivened us . Theyseem to have brought a good gust o f home air and enthusiasm tothis wa im cl imc. The sight of faces from home is in itself cheering when they bring the good news of how near the interests Ofthe Foreign Mission lie to the hearts of many in Canada , we cann o t but feel encouraged , and ready to strive more earnestly todo good to the Telug us . 9‘

I Mr. CurI ie was ill with feV er .Mr. c L aurin had just Cometo See us bringing medicine for him .

and we were in the midst of preparations f o r the journey to Cocanada

,in search of medicai aid , when the cyclone burst upon

us. Had he not been with us I do not know what we shouldhave done . H e was l ike an angel Of mercy to us . We were

1 18 TELUGU MISSION.

in the habit Of milking her yourself it is n o t l ikely she two uld dryup but if the one who milks her thinks she ought to dry up,dup she will.

“ In July last, we bought a cow with a very young calf, and Ithink she yielded about two quarts a day . But the rains werealmost incessant

,and in September the calf sickened and died .

Then,to induce the co w to continue her yield of

,milk

,the calf

was stuffed,or rather the calf was skinned and the skin was stuf

fed . It was perfectly ridiculous to see how that cow would goo n when she saw the boy bringing the stuffed calf to her atmi lking-time. However the stufi

‘

ed calf trick got played out onthat cow in about a month and a half, and so she dried up .

”

To the Rev. W . H . Porter,B ro . Currie writes We are

surrounded ' by the densest heathen darkness . Not anotherEnglish speaking family resides in the place ; and beyond therange of our few servants and native evangelists , not anotherChristian household within many miles . But I do no t wish tosay much about the disadvantages, many though there be, of liv~ing at a country station like this—they are of little ‘ account . Ifour Master honor us with a good measure of success in the workwe have undertaken

,We shall rejoice to be here

,notwithstanding

the few privations which we may find it nece ssary to undergo .

As to success, it is scarcely time to expect much as yet, in aplace where regular work was commenced only about ten monthsago . In heathen communities generally a considerable amountof ploughing and sowing is necessary before much reaping canbe done .

June From Bangalore B ro Timpany writesThe LINK Is a delight to us in India , and Is l iked by all whosee it . It is pleasing to know that it is being more and moreappreciated at home Only yesterday I saw the notice ofthe fi rst Parsee woman that has been p tiz ed In India . N o w ,

one has come , is this no t a pledge that the go : pel Is able t ) bringmore—brin I all ? Is it any wonde r that Dr Thomas of Serampore

,went crazy with joy when Krishna Paul

,the firs t Hindu

convert in B ngal, was going to be baptized ? Why, he saw init the p ledge of all India for Christ. And to one who lovesChrist is not the j o y unutterable

'

l”

June 27th, 1879, B ro . Currie rejoiced greatly at having re

ceived the deed for the Tuni compound of 2 1} acres which he saysi s a most eligible piece of land . The price paid was $160.

SCRAP BOOK . 119

July 26th , 1879, The Rajah of Samu lco tta gave as a gift thepremises worth for the Seminary so long as they shal lbe used for the Mission or educational purposes.

”

August, LINK , 1879, I cannot says Mr. Clough , “ enterfurther into detai ls , but the pro gress and present aspect of thework will be suffiiciently understood by the following recordBaptized in June , 1268 July . 7 5 13 : August , 4 66 ; November ,5 9 ; December, 4 00— total , 9,606 . 2 ,

2 22 were baptizedin one day last July accupying nine hours . There were six ad

m inistrato rs but only two at a time baptized .

September 19th , 1879, the keel of the new Mission boat waslaid .

September , 1879, LINK . With deep regret we learn thatRev. John and Mrs Craig , of Cocanada, have been called to en

dure a sore b i reavement in the death on Sunday the 13 th ofJuly

,of their l ittle daughter Ida , who had just completed her

first year . May Go d, the Holy Spirit, comfort them .

B ro . Craig’s first tour .” After a f u ll year ’ s sojourn in Cocanada I felt that I was ready to make my first tour . I hopedthat B ro . Timpany would visit the field soon after his arrival

,

and that I might have the p leasure of accompanying him . However extensive buildIng operations have kept him busy in Cocanada

,so that as I was determined to see some of our Christian

vil lages , I was compelled to go alone . And yet I was only alonein’ the sense that I had no Eng ish-speaking companion . had agood guide and helper in our ordained preacher Josiah

,and he

was accompanied by one of the school boys . We left Cocanadaon t he evening of Tuesday the l 1th of March . I will quote fromletters written from time to time during my trip .

”

“ The diameter of this house is about 10 feet . A post in thecentre supports the apex of the roof . The walls are about 4 %feet high , thick near the ground but Sloping towards the topboth outside and in . A hole in the wall constitutes the door

,and

as the ends of the bamboo come down in front of it,one has to

stoop very low to get in or out These bamboos reached fromthe top of -the post to the wall al l around

,and thatch is laid

over them . This kind of roof keeps out both wet,cold and heat

,

very wel l . Certainly not much cool breeze gets in . I would prefe i to stay under the trees if it were not for the hot sun .

’ “X

“ Th is morning the m o o nsiff of the village came to see meSamuel introduced him as the “ Rajah ,

” which means “ king,

”

but in this case only chief man of the village . He asked mehow much salary I received from the Government . I told him


my salary -was paid by Christians in Canada . How hard it seemsto make these men understand that we are not connected withthe Government Josiah says that it is commonly believed thatthe Government g ives 1 00 rupees for every B rahmin that is baptiz ed 7 5 rupees for every one belonging to the Rajah caste 5 0

rupees for every Sudra and so on , the rate descending with thecaste of the converts .”

Four men and fo ur women were examIned by Josiah previousto baptism . Those present were asked if they knew anythingabout the candidates

,and made various rep lies , saying that they

ought‘ to be baptized . Then we al l walked down to a fine largetank which was quite near a hymn was sung . and then Josiahread the clo sing verses of Acts ii . After this Josiah took one ofthe men and walked slowly o ut to where there was sufficientwater

,while the Christians present sang part of a .hymn . Here

is a translation of what Josiah said to each candidate before administering the ordinance . Thou hast received the Lord JesusChrist as thine own Saviour

,therefore I am giving the immersion

in the name of the Father, and of the Holy ,Ghost .” As soo n

as each one was baptized the Christians sang a verse or two, just

as we do in Canada on Such Occasions . Josiah himself led intothe water the first one to be baptized

,and the second “ one walked

in alone . But after that an elderly Christian man led in one tomeet Josiah as he was leading out the one whom he had j ust~ bap~

tiz ed,and so they met half way and exchanged the candidates

they were leading . I never saw the ordinance conducted withgreater propriety than on thIs occasion . After the baptism wegathered together again

,and Josiah addressed a few words of ex

hortation to those who had just put on Christ .

”

On Monday evening the 2 4 th I left in a handy for Akeed,which was reached on Tuesday , about 10 p m . I was glad to beo n the boat once more . On Wednesday morning we started forhome . Thursday n ight we reached the Go davery river, butcould not cross

,so we anchored there . We had a good wind on

Friday,and made about three mi les an hour ; reached home at

p .m .,and found all wel l . Josiah did not return with me ;

he remained on the field .

”

“ October 16th,1879, Board met in the town of St .‘ Catharines .

At this meeting it wasmoved by Dr .Wm . Stewart and secondedby Wm . Craig , Esq .

,of Port Hope and carried unanimously

That having read a letter from Rev . A. V . Timpany respectingthe difficulties he is meeting With in coo perating with Pedo -Baptist M inisters in the Revision of the Telugu Scriptures, this

122 TELUGU M ISSION.

And al l were baptiz ed IN TH E RIVE R Jo rdan ,co nfessing their Sins . M ark

i. 5 . And it came to pass in th o se days, that Jesus cam e f rom N az areth o fGal ilee , and was baptiz ed o f J o h n IN JORDAN , and Jesuswh en h e was baptiz edwen t up straig htway OUT OF TH E WATER . M a/rk ,

i. 9.

I in deed baptiz e yo u with water ; bu t h e Shal l baptiz e y o u with the Ho lyGh o st. Mark , i . 8 . And sudden ly there came a so und f ro m Heaven as o fa rushin g m ig hty WIND ,

and it F ILLED AL L TH E HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SIT

TING . A cts,ii . 2 .

Jo hn was also baptiz in g in En o n , n ear to Salim ,B ECAUSE there was MUCH

WATER THERE . Acts, iii, 23 .

Kn o w ye n o t, that as m any o f us as were baptiz ed I NTO Christ, were baptiz ed I NTO H I S DEATH THERE FORE , we are B URIED WITH H IM BY BAPTISM I NTOH IS DEATH , Ro m vi . 3 . They wen t do wn b o th in to TH E WATER

, bo th Philipand the eunuch ; and he baptiz ed h im ,

and when they were COME UP OUT OF

TH E WATER ,etc . Acts viii , 3 8 .

H e that hath my comm andmen ts, and keepeth them , he it is that l ovethme Jo hn , xiv, 21.

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123

There shal l be fo r every mal e chil d baptiz ed two Go df athers and o ne Go d

m o ther m ust be ready at the Fo nt. And the priest co ming up to the

F o n t shal l take the child into his hands an d th en naming it af ter

them ,he SHAL L DIP IT IN TH E WATER discreetly and warily BUT IF THEY CER

TIPY that the child is weak , it Shal l suffice to po ur water upo n it.

(Of Adu l ts. ) Stan din g at the F o nt then Shal l th e Priest take each

perso n to be baptiz edby the rig ht hand , and placin g h im co nveniently by the

F o nt, Shal l th en DIP H IM IN TH E WATER ,o r po ur water upo n him .

—Ewtm ctc

f rom b o o k o f Commo n Prayer .

No aren t shal l be urg ed to be present, n o r be admitted to answer as Go dfather o r his own child—Cha r h of E ng land Can o n ,

N o . 29.

The Ho ly Scriptures Speak o n ly o f Baptism by immersio n . The do gma o f

the church is to Sprink le , and we sh o u ld in th is, as in everything else , fo l l owthe Church

—Roman Catho lic Catechism .


Extracts from the 13 th annual report It is with un

mingled joy that we welcome back to our midst at this co nvéfition the second of OM missionary families sent by the Baptists ofthese Provinces to labor among the Telugus—M r . and Mrs. McLaurin . B ro . McLaurin was designated at Woodstock at theconvention of 1869. On the 12th of March 1874 he took possession o f the Cocanada Mission in the name of your Society

,and

continued to labor,there until the 14 th of February last, when ,

with his family he set sail for Canada, arriV ing in Montreal onthe 2 6th of May . It was during thei r return journey (February 22)that they lost their youngest child .

”

The Rev . G . F. Currie commenced the Tuni Mission on the26th January , 1878 . A mission compound of acreshave been secured and a substantial brick misson house 5 4 feetby 2 2 feet with stone foundation has been erected upon it .”

“ In a paper read by Dr . Murdock at the meeting of the America M ission Union last May , he stated that at the close of 1877B ritish India , including Burmah and Ceylon , containedChristians , natives, with a nominal christian population of atleast more . And at the same ratio of increase whichprevailed during the past 20 years , 5 0 years more would makethat Whole vast region as really Christian as Great Britain is today . N0 time for inaction this . Every Christian should be ahero .


DR . CR .

Received from al l so urces. $914 5 21 B al ance due TreasurerBalance due 113 09 Paid Fo r .

m issio nariesDisbursements

$925 8 30

The 3 rd annual meeting of the Women ’s Baptist MissionarySociety

,West

,was held in the School room hall of the Jarvis St

Church , Toronto , 011 Friday the l 0th day of October 1879. TheThe President

,Mrs . Freeland, delivered a very interesting open

ing address .iBreSiUent.

MRS. M . FREELAND.

B gtcslsrrszbcnls.

MRS. J. H . CASTLE and MRS . H. J. ROSE .

S ecretary.

MRS . H . H . HUMPHREY, Co rrespo nding ; M ISS MORSE , Reco rdin g .

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QIrIasurrr.

From the 6 5 th annal repo rt o f the American Baptist Union( 1879) we learn that the Union have now 6 separate Stationsameng the Telugus and have. baptized o f them during the year

and expended $3 3 , The fo l lowing are the num

OIrgele—Baptiaed, membership,34 0 membership,

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The (ReV .) John M cL aurin was bo rn in Osg oode, Carleton CO .

Ontario" , on the 9th of Aug ust (Dr . Judso n’

s birthday) 183 9.

He was baptized on the 20th of March,185 4 . Entered VV o o d

stock Institute , No v . 5 th ,186 1, and took therein a full literary

and theological course and graduated therefrom 2nd o f April ,1868

,and became pastor of the Stratford Church

,January 1868 ,

having been ordained 24 th of July of the same year . Ofi'

ered

himself as a Missionary at a Board meeting of the Auxiliary Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario , held in the Bond St.Baptist Chapel , Toronto, 1868 , and was accepted in March following . He was offered to and accepted by the American Baptist Missionary Union , designated in October 186 9, and by thethe Union sent to labour among the Telugus . Was married toMiss Mary Bates on the 12th October

,1869, and sailed for India

from New York on the 2 2nd December of the same year. Reached Madras l l th February, and Ramapatam on the 2ud March ,1870.

128 TELUGU M ISSION .

MRS. MCL AURIN .

Mrs . Rev . John McL aurin (Mary Bates) , the second daughterof the Rev. John Bates, was born in Banbridge , Ireland , on thel 6th Of November. 184 6 . Emigrated with the family and settledin Iowa

,U . S .

,in 18 5 0. She was educated at the Rockfo rd

Seminary, Illinois, U . S .,and the Woodstock College

,Ontario ,

was married to the Rev . John McL aurin on October 12 , 1869,and very shortly afterwards started with her husband for Indiain order to share with him all the trials , hardships 'and anxietiesof a missionary’s life . She thoroughly mastered the Telugulanguage and vernacular, and used this knowledge to the bestadvantage as a Zenana worker and teacher , both in Co canadaand Samulco tta . Besides discharging the duties of a regularteacher in the Seminary

,it Often fell to her lot for weeks together

,in

her husband’s absence,to take the oversight of the whole mission .

At present she , with her husband , are residing at Woodsto'

ck,

Ontario, taking a much needed rest.


years ago this month . Our preacher, Peter, was one of them ,

and his brother Samuel,who Is munsifi

' or head magistrate of aneighboring village , was also of the number . I noticed Inthe BAPTIST of February 5 th , an appeal from Mrs . Humphrey In

regard to the new boat . Shall I tel l you how far we have totravel on the boat to reach the villages about which I have beenwriting ? From heI e to the river Go davery Is over thirty-onemiles

,the river is four miles wide ; then from the other Side to

the place where we enter the lake 1s about forty miles, and fromthere to Gunn anapudi about fifteen m iles . The total distan cewould be ninety miles , and that Is the way we went in Decemberlast . After the water gets low in the lake, we go to El lore , andtravel from there by land . Ellore IS about forty-five or fo rty-sixm iles from the other Side of the river, so when we go that waythe boat takes us eighty miles, and we have to go fourteen m ilesmore by palanquin . We have kept the boat pretty busy since itwas finished . Our sisters must not hesitate to invest in such apaying thing .

I have told of God’s doings du I ing the past three monthsthe reader’s faith must picture the near future .

March 1880,LINK . During the month of December

,Mr . and

M rs . Timpany, with Mr. and Mrs . Craig , made their first tour inthe new mission boat visiting many of the vil lages of the Cocanada field. Mr. Craig writes — “ Friday, the 19th , was spent inGo o nnanapo o dy. Many of the women came to see the ladies .

They had never seen an Englishwoman before . On Saturday weall went to Comalam o o dy , where Peter s brother Samuel lives .He Is munsiff or headman as government o fiicer . In the eveningBro . Timpany and I visited Chintalapo o dy . Two young menfrom there have just professed their faith in Christ . They arethe first from that village . On Sunday we had a meeting inGo o nanapo o dy ,

the Christians and,

candidates al l gathering therefrom the other vil lages . After a short sermon by B ro Timpanythe candidates were examined

,and most of them gave satisfac

tory evidence of faith in Christ . Then a church was organizedand called the G o o n anapo o dy Church . Three deacons and aclerk were chosen . Then the approved candidates were received

,

after which we all adjourned to the tank,where B ro . Timpany

baptized fifty-two .

Arrangements were also made for the re organization of thechurch at Akidu , which , since Nathan Gabriel ’s defection in1878 , had been regarded as disbanded. Of the outlook hereMr. Craig says I expect to work among al l the villag es o n

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the islands in Co lair , after I get settled at Akidu . This is apromising field . I should not be surprised if we have a thousandmembers In connection with the Akidu station before five yearsare past

,in fact it may be sooner .

Besides the fifty two Telugus at Go o nanapo o dy , Mr. Timpany baptized several others during the tour ”Mr. Timpany writes under date April l st I completed

the chapel a few days ago . I waited unti l the rainy season wasover to put o n the final

b

coat of plaster on the terraced roof outside . I bu ilt a brick baptistry outside , between the chapel andthe road I expect it wi ll be used ere long . Pray for us . Ask

your Circles and Board to pray for us . There are great thingsbefore us . The next quarter of a century— who can declare it ?Heaven high

,will ring with the shouts of victory and the songsof the redeemed nations

,whowill then be in the high noon of

His glory , where now they behold only the glowing of the horizon

,as the Sun of Righteousness comes up . 0

,Jesus , King o f

Saints !June 4 th

,1880, B ro . Timpany writes from Cocanada As

to our Mission here in Cocanada. I am fully persuaded that Go dwil l g ive us the people just as fast as we are able to take care ofthem and train them in the truth as it is in Jesus Lastmonth I made a short trip

, away to the northwest of this , two

day ’s journey . After I passed Samu lco tta,which is about seven

m iles from here where there are some Christians , all beyond is aheathen waste . My soul was pained and my heart made sad as Ipassed through and near to many large towns and villages, andrealiz ed that no servants of the Living Go d were there . Thepeople heard the gospel message in almost every case with intenseinterest Idols are not bel ieved in as formerly . Al l that iswanted now is the faithful preaching of the Word of Go d , andmultitudes of the people wi ll sooner or later believe .

“ Why Is it that some of our ladies who are in independentcircumstances do not come out on their own charges ? It hasgot to come to this. Al ready some from GreatBritain are doingthis . As I feel now ,

and have always felt about this work ofMissions, had I a million pounds sterling I would still be a missi o nary .

“ We long to be able to put all our time into this blessedwork of preaching . Buildings

,&c . ,

have taken much of my time .

This year the preparation o f a Telugu Testament in conjunctionwith Dr . Jewett presses heavily upon mef Soon we must starta school for training a ministry. Where and how it is to be


brough t about remains to be known . If any reader of this hasabout $5 ,000 for land and buildings ,—send it along Before. themoney do es its work I doubt not more souls wil l be gathered toChrist through it than there are dollars .

”

Under date,Tuni , September 29th , Mr . Currie writes ?

I heard that a Christian family was l iving In a certain village in that region and one object of our visit was to seek outthis family and afford them whatever encouragement and spiritual benefit we might be able to impart . We found the familyabove m entioned , and were not a little pleased to discover aChristian home in the midst of heathen darkness prevailing allaround . The husband was absent

,but the wife and l ittle son

were at home and seemed to appreciate our visit very hig hly .

The house was given up to me . The one room was scupu lo usly clean and in this respect appeared in striking contrastwith the ordinary dwellings of their class . The wife’sbrother-in -law and Sister , having been taught y her . profess tobe bel ievers in Christ and were coming to Tun I to be baptized .

”

September, 1880, Mr. Timpany writes— “ The recent terriblefamine that carried o fi’ between four and five mil lions of people

,

was in the Telugu and Can rnese country mostly,and has left its

mark . For one thing it has given idolatry a shaking that it wil lnever recover

,Some will ridicule this last remark , but they be

lon g to the class who ridicule the Christian religion , and are nom o re impartial witnesses on one side than I am on the other.”There is the very highest encouragement to work for the sal

vation and regeneration of the Telugu race. ‘ They are not g oingto give place to a superio r race

,for there is none superior to them

in India or the East .“ It is a little over twelve years Since I came to India . As

to the change that has come over the attitude of the people inlarge sections of the country during the intervening time I canpersonally bear witness. ’

The Baptist Missions have grown from two stations to seventimes that number . Where there were only seventy communicants there are n ow as many Telugu church members as therewere in Ontario and Quebec at the

b

time I left for India . Ourchurch members in Ontario and Quebec have about doubled , buthere they are more than two hundred times as many . I was reminded the other day in co nversatio n with one of my old Rama.patam preachers of what Dr . Warren , the beloved Ex-Secretaryof the Missionary Union

,

’ uttered years ago,The time is com

ing when converts will be so numerous that the question will be


Last evening Josiah baptized six in the baptistry adjoining thechapel

,between it and the road . A good many of the passing

people stopped to hear the remarks of the preacher and to witness the administration of the rite .

”

Extracts from the 1 4 th annual report Bro . McL aurin‘

was

allowed to accept a position as Professor in the T heo logical Depar tment (Woodstock Institute) until its removal to Toronto, orhis return to India

,with the understanding that all the time he

felt able to give to denominational work during the vacations,be

at the disposal of your Board he to receive therefore a bal ancesalary of $300. Contrary to the fears of some earnest brethrenthe result of this arrangement has proved favorable to the inter ;ests of the Foreign Mission Society . During the time at his dis ~posal

,our brother has been both abundant and successful in his

labors . In the interests of this society he has visited 10 Associatio n s. del ivered 3 5 addresses , travelled over miles , raisedin cash and pledges the sum of This is a most g ratifyingresult . But the still grander result of needed informationimparted and holy inspiration given by addresses and contact with the people

,the ‘ great day alone will fully reveal .”

Your B oard wou ld also put on record their appreciation of the part taken by Dr . Castle in securing $ 5 00 for theAkidu field , from the Livingstone Estate of which he had beenappointed a trustee .

”

Extracts from the 14 th annual reportSince then ten others have been baptized and others are

coming . In addition to these , fifteen have been baptized fromSamu lco tta , a large town . Some seven miles from Cocanada .

Here the head man and all his family are believing, and yourmissionary expects soon to baptize the entire household on professio n of their faith in Christ Many more in the place professto have forsaken their idols and to have turned to the livingGo d . We wonder not when our brother says of the movement,It has been a most blessed work .

’

Bro . Timpany says -“ I would ask the prayers of all God 's

people,that the Lord of the harvest would raise up laborers for

his harvest in Cocanada . The harvest is ripe,but the reapers

are not to be found .

”

I would call special attention to one resolution passed bythe Cocanada Conference

,at its meeting last January . It is the

one referring to the necessity of a school for the training of a

SCRAP BOOK . 13 5

native ministry . Our success or failure as a mission in its largestsense

,I am satisfied is bound up with this question and our solu

tion of it .

”

This new and promising field Ak idu is under the care ofour energetic young brother

,Rev . John Craig

,B . A . Regarding

this important station your missionary reports as follows Inpresenting my second annual report , I am g lad to have the privilege of t elling about some active work in this great harvest field .

In December B ro . Timpany with his family, and Mrs . Craig andmyself made a tour in the Oo lair region , and visited some of theprincipal villages .”

When we were out in December , we visited Akidu twiceto see about securing land . Our efforts at that time did notavail us much . Delays took place in securing land for acompound till Bro . Timpany and I visited the Zemindar, whoowns the vil lage , and obtained

’ from him a gift of between fourand five acres adjoining the bank of the canal . As this g ift wassecured only a few days before the end of June

,there is no

further progress to report .

”

We planned to go out ag aIn January , but Bro . Timpanygot an attack of fever

,

-

so I had to go alone. However,as I had

Josiah and Peter with me , I was not left entirely to my ownresources . I was o ut about five weeks and visited eighteen villages

,seeing the homes of nearly all our christians During this

tour eighty were baptized . In March,I made a Short tour

,vis

iting only a few villages,but enjoying the privilege of baptizing

twenty seven candidates . Sixty eig ht of those baptized duringthe two tours were from villages that had given no convertsbefore December last . The closure of the canals for some six orseven weeks

,and the danger of travelling during the very hot

weather,prevent much touring being done

,between the middle

of March and the end of June .

"

Two churches have been organized on this field,besides the

one at Gunnanapudy . When we g et settled at Akidu we hOpeto organize another there , taking in the Christians of the surrounding villages . Though this report is for the past year , thestatistics below are for the past six months only , as this field wasnot separated from the Cocanada field before January l st ,

Baptized,3 27

‘ membership,4 8 1.



DR . CR .

Received f rom al l so urces . $ 8948 5 1 Paid balance due TreasurerPaid Missio nariesD isbursem ents

B alance o n h and

$8948 5 1 $8948 5 1

The 4 th annual meeting of theWomen ’s Baptist Foreign Missio nary Society , West, was held in the Alexander St . To rontoBaptist Church , October 2 2nd 1880.

iBreSiUeut.

MRS . FREEL AND .

‘

H iceslaresinents.

MRS . J . H CASTLE AND MRS J . H . ROSE .

S eeretaries.

MRS . H . H .HUMPHREY , Co rrespo ndin g ; MISSDEXTER, Reco rding .

measurer.

MISS L L OYD .

Extracts from the 4 th annual report —Mr . Timpany writesThe Telugus are not going to give way to a superior people

,

for there are none superior to them in India or the east and thatas Christians

,they will be a lovely and loveable people . All

the repressive and inhuman teaching of their religion during allthe time past

,has failed to dry up the deep well of parental af

fectio n , even for the daughters of the house,” and he adds,may

we not hope,that by the time we have preached the Gospel as

w idely and persistently as has been done in the Southern part ofthe Telugu country , we sha l l witness l ike scenes on the Cocanadafield .

’ when were baptized in a single day,and in the

short space of 7 months.

”

And now , in conclusion , we would say, let none of us relaxour efforts . The time is fast approaching for each of us

,when

the Opportunity for service will have passed away forever. Itmay be that while we loiter In the work

,precious souls

,wh ich

we might have been instrumental in saving , are passing away un

p repared to stand before their Go d. May he give us all grace tobe more faithful .


DR . CR .

Received f rom al l so urces ssio n purp o ses . $1300 00Balan ce o n h and . 5 9 24

$1987 00

‘13 8 TELUGU M ISSION.

This boat was purchased April,1874 , and cost with the re

pairs about $ 100, and was paid for by the Olivet Baptist ChurchSunday School

,Montreal City . It was named after a young

lady of that school who had been most active in securing themoney. In 1879 it was broken up and a part of it used in thebuilding of the Canadian .

’ Error,only called “ Canada ” o n

pag e 118.

SCRAP BOOK . 139

188 1 .

THE 15 TH ANNUAL MEETING

OF TH E


ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

Was held in the Olivet Baptist Church,Montreal City , on

Friday . the 2 8th day October, 188 1. The President,T . S . Shen

ston,Esq . . in the chair. Prayer by the Rev . A . H . Munro .

Addresses were made by Rev. VV In . Stewart . D . D . . Rev . W. N.

C lark , D. D ., Rev . John McL aurin

,and the Rev . W . S. McKen

zie of Boston,U . S .

lBreSiDeut.

T. S . SH ENSTON ,E SQ .

H iredfiresibents.

WM . CRAIG and A. A. AYER.

S eeretaries.

REV . JAMES COUTTS.

Treasurer.

T. DIXON CRAIG.

January 188 1 - The 5 th annual meeting of the Canadian Baptist Telugu Con ference was held at B imlipatam

,India .

Among those in attendace thereat were Mr , Timpany, Mr . Currie,

and Mr . Craig , who reported as follows Cocanada,baptized 4 1

,

members 86 Tuni , baptized 3 , members 10 Akidu,baptized 15 0,

members 4 70.

January 2 6th,188 1 .

— At a Board meeting held this day theRev . W. Pickard offered to the Society $5 00, on the payment tohim of the interest thereon during his life

,which liberal offer

the Board was most thankful to accept .In the LINK for February

,188 1, appears a letter from Mr.

Craig which closes thus,in al luding to the contemplated l beo

ological School Men sometimes get their true call whilestudying in such a school . I know that my call came to mewhile I was studying at Rochester School . Apart from being acal l to preach the gospel in a foreign land

,it was such a ca'l to

preach as I had never had before . It seem to produce asgreat a change in me as my conversion produced . So when o ur

140 TELUGU MISSION.

Telugu Theological School is Opened I expect we shall receivemany into it without looking for very high aspirations in them

,

but firmly believing that they wil l not leave the school withoutreceiving a baptism from on high .

’

Under date Feb’y 2 5 th , 188 1, Bro Timpany writesSabbath was nearly al l taken up in village preaching in two largevil lages . About ten , Sabbath evening , we started for the villageof M irnapand, where we first broke ground last October. It wasour intention to spend two days here and then come home . Sucha change as has come over this vi llage during the past fewmonths. Al l have turned to the l iving G o d . A good manywere awaiting baptism . The caste village of: Yalukato du ,

a l ittleless than a mile distant

,gave Josiah

b

and his party a betterreception if possible than they had met in any other village . Ihope some of them love Christ. TWO or three of them told melast October that they believed in Jesus as their Saviour . Iwent into the christian village and looked about for a site tobuild the school-house

,and then examined the school . The

teacher, Buchiah, formerly a Sudra , now a christian , is doing

excellent work . While I was thus engaged,I was startled by

the appearance of two men from Cocanada. I knew somethingwas wrong . The m essage was brief Mrs . Craig is very sick ,come at once .

’ We made immediate arrangements to do so. Thepeop le were very much disappointed. A party of women

,some

ten or twelve in number,fol lowed along the canal for a mile

talking. Some of them said , we hope to be baptized .

’ I toldthem that if all went well , in ten days I should come back andbring Mrs . Timpany . So we hope to do .

“ We reached Cocanada at two o’clock on Tuesday morning,and, thank G o d ,

found Mrs. Craig a little better. The girls hadrested themselves by changing their work , had a good time , andcame back well pleased with what they had seen and heard . Theywere well reminded of what Christianity had done for them

,by

seeing the difference between themselves and the heathen girls .They were led to desire more culture , that they might be betterable to tell others about Christ . If our mission boat never didanything else than enable us to make this one trip

,it would have

been money well spen t.”Cocanada

,March 29th , 1881 , B ro . Timpany thus writes

Were I a sing le missionary , I would receive from the Societyonly two - thirds of what I now receive Theother third of my support

, $ 400, is given because of the wife .

Andwhile nomina ‘ly M rs.

'l impany gets no salary , really , through

14 2 I‘ELUGU MISSION .

March 18th , 1881, Board meeting held at No . 187 Yong e St.Toronto . The Secretary was instructed to write to all the missio naries to ascertain their views with respect to the best place tolocate the Theological Seminary in India.

Under date , March 28th , 1881 B ro . Timpany writes —“ Yes

terday we had a most painful scene at a baptism . It is only twoweeks since that two Sudras were baptized . The morningservice was all over and a large company was gathered aroundthe baptistry to witness the baptism of Nareah one of our teachers . They had sang a hymn when we saw some one coming witha great cry . In a moment Nareah

’

s wife burst like a mad oneinto the company and th rew her arms around her husband Hetried to break away . but she held him fast . A number of Christian women crowded around and endeavored to break her grasp ,

but she threw them away like children and this mo st painfulscene went on . At last I told them to sing a hymn . While thiswas being done the baptism of the other candidates began and Iunlocked the Woman’s grasp , she sank to the ground rolled and

beat herself with her hands . The husband was baptized andwent to change his clothes . His wife was crying you shall notbaptize my husband .

’After a While they took her to Mrs . Tim

pany,who talked to her , but apparently to little or no purpose .

I could not but pity the woman,for if she came with her

husband she would lose her relation s,and if she kept with her

relations,she would lose her husband This is the attitude of

Hinduism towards Christianity at present . A Hindu may liveas licentious a life as it is possible for a man to live he may lie ,steal

,commit murder , go to jail in fact do anything but get bap

tized,and it is the duty of the wife to cl ing t o him . But as soon

as a man becomes a professed Christian by baptism ,his wife wi ll

be incited to leave him and disown him as if dead . Caste is adevilish system . and from what I saw of its workings yesterdayI hate it

,if possible more , than ever .”

The LINK for May,1881

,gave to its readers the following sad

news Our beloved young b rother,Rev

.J. Craig . has, in the

inscrutable providence of Go d,been called upon to part from the

wife of his youth . On Thursday the 7th of April , his father,W illiam Craig , Esq. , of Port Hope , received a cablegram co n

veyin g the sad intelligence that Mrs J. Craig , had died at Akiduon the Saturday preceding . NO particulars have yet been receiv

ed . An infant daughter,born a t Cocanada

,was just six weeks

old at that date .

SCRAP BOOK . 14 3

MRS. CRAIG .

Mrs . Craig was the eldest daughter of Horace Perry,Esq .

,

born at Port Hope,Ontario

,February 13 th

,18 5 3 . When about

14 years old was converted and joined the church of that town ,while under the care of Rev . John Dempsey , (now of Ailsa Craig)When 16 years of age she removed to the City of Rochester

,U .

S and there continued to reside until her marriage to the Rev.

John Craig,on the 20th September, 1877 . On the 24 th of Octo

ber In the same year she and her husband sailed from New Yorkfor Telugu land

,India

,and arrived safe in India , January l st

1878 . Afte r a residence of a year or two in Cocanada they re

moved to Akidu ,the station assigned Mr . Craig , November 6th ,

1880,and there Mrs . Craig died the following April 2nd, leaving

a little daughter, (Mary Alice ) only seven weeks old . Her body

lies at rest in the cemetery at Narapu r , some 30 miles east ofAkidu and close to the celebrated G o davery river.

14 4 13 :1.t l im o s .

n the Thm z e ci Grz ce by tbca g nds ef m thifi ng fnim

f or Jun e, 1881(Gal aha d fm 1 M ia to W. Craig . Era , o f Po rt Hm )

a mas

l l im po mXaf-sfi mg him to sen d a do cwr and m am H e

g ivm cp afi bape , and had m m r ith hfm bz t th e o versea ?

the h st w d o i cs f o r ber , and crn S : nday afim a m in

Akidu, th e lmfi al to o k place at l fixsz po re, t i er-e tlm-m

'

s a cem e


and then through fear that I would be '

compelled to leave mystation . They were bo th surprised and encouraged when theyheard that I intended to stay here as long as Go d saw fit to keepme in‘ health and strength . Peter told me there was great sorrow among the women at Gunnan apuddy and the neighboringvillages . They had all seen Mrs. Craig as lately as last November

,and some of them had talked with her .There is no doubt but that this sad event has had a softening

effect on some of our people who had grown careless and lost theirlove to the Saviour to a g reat extent . B eside this

,n o t on ly in

Akidu, but for many miles around the people know about my lossand in a sort of a way many sympathize with me

,I believe . If

G o d wil l but bless this affliction to the good of hundreds andthousands we may Well praise Him for His infinite wisdom .

”

In the top drawer of a litt le bureau M rs. Craig had with herin Cocanada I found three l ittle books

,and their titles are

,

“ MyTimes in God ’s Hand” “ The Imitation of Christ” and MissH averg al

’

s work ,

“ Kept for the Master 's Use .

” H OW I wishthat every woman in our church would read the last of these .

Not but what it would bless the men too . It has blessed me .

But the book was written by a woman,and many of the exho r

tatio ns in it are addressed more particularly to women . If Iwanted a Mission Circle started in any church I think I wouldsend a copy of this work to open the eyes and the hearts of thewomen there as my first step .

The school at Cocanada has been closed for the annual vacation . Two ‘ of the girls from this region came back marriedwomen. One of them

,who se name is Shantamma

,belongs to

Chinnam illy , a village about six miles from here Her husband ’sname is Jo seph. They will probably live at Chinnamil ly, so thatShan tamma may teach school there

,while her husband will teach

in another village , Gummu luru . The other bride,Mary , is a

sister of the young preacher who is stationed here . Her husband ’sname is David . They wil l l ive at Asaram

,a village twelve miles

to the S . W. o f Akidu . A widow,called Annamma

,will teach

in her own village,Artamurn

,four miles to the N . E . from here .

Please remember these new workers in your prayers . Need Iask that I myself be not forgotten .

”

From the same about the same date The early part of thepast year was a time of darkness to me

,my wife being ill at C0

canada for about six weeks in February and March . As thecanals were to be closed soon it was thought best for us to returnto Akidu at the end of March , especially as Mrs Craig seemed

SCRAP BOOK . 4 7

considerably better. A few days after our arrival at Akidu shewas smit ten down by apoplexy and died on Saturday the 2nd ofApril , at 5 p In .

Mr . and Mrs . Bowden,of Narsapur

,came to my help

,and

were with me when Mrs . Craig died . Afterwards they verykind ly took charge of my li ttle baby for a few months until M r.

and M rs. Timpany ,of Cocanada , gave her a permanent home in

their family .

”

Aboard the Mission Boat- “ Canadian,June l st 188 1 , Bro .

Timpany writes One woman , a sister of one of themen aboutto be baptized , said to me , ‘ I have believed

,and because I would

go to the meeting with the Christians,my husband has taken the

two elder children and left me with this little one at my breastto live as best I may .

’ Of the four females baptized,one is a

young woman who will go to the g irls’ school at Cocanada after

vacation .

”

“ This morning,17th, I walked a couple of miles, and held a

meeting in a village where heretofore there were no Christians .A man and his wife were received , and I baptized them in achannel close at hand

,and then came back

,reaching the boat at

one O’clock

,tired

,hungry

,and hot . These two converts are ap

parently very nice people the woman’s face fairly glowed as she

spoke of her conversion . Six months ago she went to visit hermother in Nuramanda

,and was there converted . There are

about 300 people in their hamlet,and I doubt not their coming

is the death of Satan ’s rule in it,—others will be converted . One

of the heathen men said It is now only a question of time forall to come .

’Al l wil l not come at once

,but they wil l come , a

few or many,until all are Christians . Last October

,the village

of Nirnapand was visited by me , and the first converts therebaptized . It is n o w a Christian village . The head men are allChristians . This is the first Christian village on the Cocanadafield . Eight days since I baptized nine people there .

”

From the same,September 5 th ,

188 1.-“ My dear brother

McL aurin Yesterday was our first monthly meeting . A goodmany were in from the fie‘d . It was a full day for me with

.

Telugu and English work . Josiah broke bread for the Teluguchurch at p . m . We had a good time . A marriag e was tocome o ff tod ay at 11 a . m . Josiah was to Ofiiciate . Tillhe was with me and the preachers , and some of the heads of thevillages . I went to breakfast ; Josiah came to me and askedabout the marriage . .I told him to go on and I would comeover . I did so . He had a fine selection of scripture po rtio ns

14 8 TELUGU M’ISSION .

wh ich he read .

'

After singing a hymn,he made some remarks

,

and then .prayed . He then placed the parties and commenced tomarry them . I noticed that he was mixing things considerably .

He closed, however, and prayed again . After it he seemed tohave lost h imself. I tried to have him write up the entry in themarriage book , but seeing he could not do it , I did some and gotMurramunda Peter to write the rest . When all was ready forJo siah'

s signature,I asked him to Sign . He said Are We not

to talk more about the scriptures Are we not to pray more iI said Al l is over

,we only want you to Sign here .

’ I put thepen in his hand . He said

,I am to write Jesus I said , NO,

you are to write Josiah He wrote,and wrote in English

,but

it was more like Jesus than Josiah . I said W rite Burder ; hewrote as he had written at first

,I put the pen through his hand

and .wrote ‘ Burder. ’ I than‘ came home and he started andwalked home . On the way Samuel asked him Sir

,why did

you talk so to-day at the marriage ? ’ He replied,I am going

on a journey .

’ He went home and lay down upon the bed . Ithought it was only a sharp attack of bile

,and went over and

gave him some pills . At four o’clock I was called by some ofthem

,saying Josiah was in convul sions . I ran over and saw him

,

and then knew what was the matter— apoplexy. I sent at oncefor the dresse r

,Dr . Paul , and myself attended to reducing the

convulsions . Why should I write more ? At ten o’clock p . In .

Josiah died , or rather left for home . You Should see his faceSO restful— so glad

,I should say I can hardly believe he is dead .

You wrote to me once,My heart is sore to-day ,

’Gabriel wa s

dead . I can say as you did . It is n ow between one and twoo clock in the morning I cannot sleep . Josiah has gone withO’

ut a pain ; really it is more like a translation than any thingelse . Last evening he preached on death . This morning in thechapel , he spoke of the glories of heaven and the redeemed .

N ow,so soon

,he has proved it all . My helper , faithful an d

true,has gone to his reward .

September 13 th, 1881.—The action of B ro . Timpany In sco ur

l n g suitable premises for the school at Samu lco tta was approvedof and he thanked. At the same meeting B ro . McLaurin wasappointed to take charge of the Theological School , and Bro .

Timpany to take charge of the Cocanada field .

From the same,September 27 , 188 1. The reader of the

LINK will have learned before this of the death of Rev . JosiahBurder, our only ordained native preacher. They will rememberwhat Bro . McL aurin wrote about him some time ago in the LINK .

15 0 TELUGU M issIoN.

natives. who could read. In answer to this appeal $400 was '

immediately sent him , one party giving $25 0, and another $15 0.


DR .

Ba lan ce o n hand . 3 1 3 5 Paid f o r Fo r . M issio n purp o ses. 00Received f rom al l so urces 7687 5 3 D isbursements 5 60 88

Balance o u hand IOO OO

$7718 88 $7718 88

The 5 th annual meeting of the Women’s Baptist foreign Mis ssio nary Society was held (date or place o f meeting c o uld notlearn ) suppo sed date October 1881 .

imminent.

Mas. M . FBEEL AND .

Hireslar’

essbmts.

Mas. J. H . CASTL E and MRS. H. J. ROSE .

fi ttrttarg .

Mas. H . H .H UMPRREY,Co rrespo ndin g ;~M IssE . DEXTER Reco rding .

an asurer.

M ISS L LOYD .

The following new l ife members reported z—Mrs . Ash ley,

Wo odsto ck Mrs . Tuttle of B rantford, Mrs . Grant of London,

M rs. B . J . Timpany, Cal ton ; Miss Dyke, Miss Smith and‘

MissLloyd of Toronto .The repo rt says The ladieswho co nduct the LINK in such

an efi cient manner deserve the hearty thanks o f the So ciety.

i‘ We were all saddened when,in the early part o f the

year. the newSr‘

eaehed us that the wife o f o ne of our Missionarieshad been called to her eternal home . Mrs. Jo hn Craig. a ladyvery much beloved by all who had the pleasure o f knowing her ,died o n the 2nd Of April last . Tru ly the Lord’s ways are no t o ur

ways .


CR .

Balance o n hand 623 26 Paid Fo r . Missio n purpo sesReceived f rom al l

Balance on han d

$2248 36 $2248 36

SCRAP BOOK 15 1

The 5 th annual meeting o f thesio nary Society, East , was held in the l st Chu Mo

o n the 27th Octo ber, 1881.

MB“ An a.

H iwiflmsitentl .

Mm. D. K. McL AUaEN,

Summits.

Mas. BENTBY, Recording ; MIss‘

Mum . Co rrespo nding .

Mas. FRANK SMtTH .

The repo rt says : Besides the help wh ich o ur Society hasbeen able to give to the funds of the Telug u Mission , our Circleshave been the means of develo ping the latent powers and abilities o f a larg e number o f the ladies of o ur churches


DR . CR.

B alance o n hand “ 98 Paid Fo reign Mis. So cietyReceived from all so urces 825 Disbursements

Balance o n hand .

$923 8 4

From the 67th annual report of the American Baptist Union( 1881) we learn that the Union have now 7 separate stationsamong the Telugus and have baptiz ed of them during the year

and expended $4 3 ,4 3 1 .3 2 . The following are the numberof baptisms In connection with the three statio ns with wh ich ourCanadian M issionaries were formerly connected .

Nellore .—Baptized , fifty membersh ip, 4 14 .

Ongole—Baptized, membersh ip .

Ramapatam .—Baptized , 14 5 membership

,5 15 .

15 TELUGU MIssIoN

“ SCRAP'

BOOK . 15 5

1882.

THE .16TH ANNUAL MEETING

0? THE

BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY'

SOCIETY

ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

Was held in the James St . Baptist Church , Hamilton, o n

Thursday the 19th day of October,1882 . T . S . Shensto n ,

thePresident, in the chair . Addresses were delivered by Rev . D.

Hutch inson , o f St . Thomas, Rev . W. W . Dawley , of Guelph , Rev.Mr. Douglass , a returned Telugu Missionary and Rev . Dr. B . D .

Thomas, of Toronto.fi resihznt.

T. S. SH ENsTON.

H ittslfiresihents.

WM. CRAIG and A. A. AYER.

Secretary.

REV . JAMES Co uTTs.

mu seum .

T, DIXON CRAIG .

January , 1882 , the 6th annual meeting of the Canadian TeluguConference was held in Akidu . Among those reported presentwere Mr. A. V . Timpany, Mr. G . F. Currie , andMr . John Craig,who reported as followsCocanada.

—Baptized , fif ty-six members , 14 0.

Tuni .—Baptized , six members,eighteen .

Akidu -Baptized,1 5 8 members , 6 40.

In January, 1882 , five churches were organized into the God

avari Association . Since then it has met at Akidu, Cocanada ,Gunnanapudi, Samulco tta and a second time at Akidu .

June 4 th , 1882 , the Akidu chapel wasdedicated.

At a Board meeting held March 14 th,1882 , a communication

was received from the Women’s Foreign Missio nary Society re

commending Miss M . J. Frith as a most suitable sister for Zenana work In India

,with respect to which the following resolution

Was passed “ That in accordance with the wish and resolutionsof the Women’s M issionary Societies, West and East, we do n owappoint Miss Frith a Missionary of th is Board to the work indi

15 6 TELUGU MISSION .

cated in her own application and the resolution of the - LadiesBoards ,”

Miss Frith sailed from New York 2nd September, 1882 , fo rIndia .

February 2 2md,1882 , Mr . Craig writes from India Some

months ago I announced my intention Of giving a copy of theNew Testament to every one who woul d learn by heart and recitethe Sermon o n the Mount . You wi ll be glad to hear that a largenumber of Testaments are likely to be won in thisway, and thatmost of them will g o to scholars in our vil lage schools. L have

already given thirty-four books,and others have been ~wo n . The

Gospel of Matthew is being used as a reading book in many of theschools . The pupils al l learn to sing a few nice hymns. Perhaps I should add that many Of the scholars are children ofheathen people ,

“ The pupils are very youn g as a rule , but there are a fewyoung men among them . I was particularyly pleased a few daysago

,when I visited Tarakaturu ,

one of our villages, to find threeor four young men learning to read . These are al l christianyoung men

,hence they may become teachers in their own and

other villages . By their zeal they Show that they have goodstuff in them .

March Mr.’

Timpany writes Letters and newspapers do not live breathe

,laugh cry

,sing or pray . The com

ing of new missionaries is like pouring warm water intothe bath which has been getting too cold for health or comfort .It Is like a rel igious and social tonic. Next to going homé o urselves , let us see someone from home . Then what interest .

gathers about the unpacking of boxes. Our pleasure is not al ll ike that which comes from viewing the beautiful flowers , etc .

, ofa neighbor ’s garden .

”

In LINK of March , 1882 , Mr. Currie writes In this fieldthe present year has been the most satisfactory, as to results, ofany since the statio n was opened. The number baptized has notbeen large

,but enough to afford us considerable encouragement .

A beginning has been made in several villages and now that theice is broken , we hope for a more rapid increase in future years .

We have had some trying experiences arising from the misconduct and necessary exclusion of some of our native assistants .

But their places are now filled by others , who are doing morefaithful and efficient work . Our present outlook is hopeful , thoughwe may not have very large ingathe ring s for years to come

1 5 8 TELUGU M ISSION.

done at the wrong time and must be done over again—no fo r e

sight and no plan— all haphazard and guesswork . The Missionary must be carpenter, maso n ,

’

blacksmith , and architect all inone—else there will be much loss . S till , maybe the work is asg ood as the pay . My head carpenter gets a month the

head mason and the head boss of all gets aboutMasons and carpenters get 15 0 . per day each wh ile able bodiedCoolies get 7 5 a wh ile women and boys get just the halfof the latter. Are you amazed that they can exist on that 7 Let

us see— a hardworking man eats one seer of rice a day, it coststwo cents . Add o ne cent for some kind of relish , and you havethree cents for one man ’s food per day . Suppose a family toconsist of five persons

,fathe r

,mother, and three children , two

boys and a younger sister,between the ages of twelve and six

years respectively. The father will earn 7 7} cents, and themother and son the same

,while the second so n may get one cent

per day running errands, etc, Their to tal income will be sixteencents per day if they have work all the time , which is seldom thecase, or if they are inclined to work steadily, which is more seldom the case . Now for expenditure . The family will eat

,in

flush times,four seers of rice a day , costing two cents a seer

eight cents—add three cents for condiments , and we h ave forfoo d eleven cents, put down 1% cents for tobacco and cullu (whiskey) for the family, and we have a total of 129, cents for food ,etc . This would leave 3 5 cents for clothing and hou se repairs,which would be ample

,especially as the two younger ones would

wear no clothing, and the elder next to nothing . This estimaterefers to the common Coolie , and , of course , the higher class farebetter in proportion to their better pay . The poor Hindoo

,l ike

the Digger Indian of the West , fares sumptuously while food isto be had , and draws up his waist 'belt and lies down to sleepwhen food is scarce and dear . They have w onderful powers ofadaptation .

”

From Cocanada under date August 13 th , 1882 , Bro . Timpanywrites Nhen the claims of the perishing multitudes of theheathen are presented

,and the last great order of your Lord

urged you say and think it settles the question , Oh we have somuch to do at home

,Charity you know begins at home , ’ you run

each one to her own house,and the women of heathendom may

go on in their misery,for aught you wil l do . You then wonder

that your children and neighbors do not have more faith in yoursincerity and in t he religion you profess . One Sabbath when I

“washome I preached in a certain wealthy church and presented as

SCRAP BOOK . 15 9

well as I could the claims of the heathen . A collection was takenup at the close of

_

the service by the deacons,one of whom

,a

wealthy man , put in one cent. I wil l never forget the shock itgave me when the pastor

'

s daughter mentioned it after we got tothe parsonage . How much good do you think that man’s prayersor exhortation would do any of the young people of that place ?We must deny ourselves and take up our cross if we would follow Jesus and beHis Disciples . I would not have you do less workat home. a great deal more ought to be done . But wh ile you dothe work at home see to it that the command to send or take thegospel to the ends of the earth is not n eglected and make sacrifices to carry out this command . Doing this your own homeswill be made glad by the presence and blessing of the Saviourwho came to seek and save the lost .Parting words from Miss F rith My dear sisters

,the time

has arrived for me to say farewel l to my dear mother,sisters and

brothers,to many dear relatives and friends

,and to you

,my

sisters , who have helped so nobly by your means , that you mayg ive the light to those of our sex who still sit in the darkness ofheathenism .

My long-cherished desire that I might go with God’s messageOf love to the '

perishing so uls of India, has been granted , so thatnow , instead of mourning , I have come to rejoice that G o d hascalled me to this work . SO I gladly go

,with the assurance in

my heart that when I have taken a last look Of the dear ones leftbehind, of home and of country , that the promise Jesus made ,‘ Lo , I am with you alway ,

’ will be abundantly fulfilled . I expect to have trials and disco uragements there as I have experi

enced in Home Mission work,only of a different character but

God’s grace , He has promised , will be suffi cient . I knew youwill remember me in prayer

,that I may be as n iar vel lo usly help

ed by our blessed Lord to acquire the language,to endure the

heat, and to accomplish the work you are send ing me to do, as Ihave been in everyth ing since I placed myself in the hands of theBoard last autumn. I have needed nothing but what has beenprovided my purse has been l ike the w idow ’s barrel of mealand cruise of '

o il.”

Morrisburg , August l 6th, 1882 .

En Route—A postal card from Miss Frith , dated September15 , says : We l eft New York on the 2nd inst . , arrived inGlasgow on the 13 th

,and came to Liverpool yesterday . We had

a very p 'easant and prosperous voyage across the Atlantic,as

many of you had asked of our heavenly Father. Messrs . Ryle

160 TELUGU MISSION.

and Chute,missionar ies going to the Telugus

,have made arrange

ments for us to sai l from London to Madras 011 the 4 th of October . J . Frith , in LINK for October.October 2md , 1882 — The Theological Seminary at Samulco tta

was Opened with 17 male and two female students .From Cocanada, under date of November 30, 1882 , M iss

Frith writes We left London Oc tober 4 th ,and arrived at

Madras November 9th, our voyage covering a little more thanfive weeks. I spent a day and a nig ht with Mr . and ‘Mrs .Waterbury , American missionaries at Madras, in company withthe other missionaries who left the ELDORADO when“ I did We

met Dr . and M rs . Jewett and Miss Menkie,a ZenanaMissionary.

Oh Friday , the l 0th,I had my luggage transferred to the

ASSYRIA from the ELDORAO, and again was away for two or threemore days’ sail ing on the Bay of Bengal . Saturday -we had aheavy fog and storm , and almost at the end Of my journey , I wasobliged to succumb to a little fit Of sea -sickness

,which was very

humbl ing after having been such a good sailor . The vessel wasdue at Cocanada on Sunday morning , but we were detained a dayby the storm

,so instead of spending the Lord 's day in Cocanada .

9“ Cocanada, although not quite so pretty, is very nice, andI am contented and happy here , surrounded with many kindfriends . Sometimes I am tempted ‘ to ask myself

,is it al l a

dream ? N0 ,it is the real ization of one long dream '

o f years .

made up of hopes and fears , broken n ow and then with fits ofindiff erence . Yes

,I am here

,my sisters, ready, when the lan

guage 1s acquired , to begin the work we tog ether have -under‘

taken for ' the Lord . My MUNSH I comes every morning and givesme a lesson . Although I have not yet had much experience Ithink I shall enjoy the study Of the language .

”

“ I long for the time to come when I shall be able to talk alittle to the girls who -so frequen t ly come in to see me ; andI believe there are plenty of homes I might visit at once if I wereready . But let us work w ork and wait until the Master saysGO ,

’ after having been fully prepared to present the gloriousl ight to our heathen sisters si tting in darkness .”Extracts from repo rt — “ B ro . Craig reports the completion

of the M ission House, the total costt:

bein g also theerection of a chapel at a cost of $300. Building has beenfound very expensive in Akidu ; as bricks, lime and sand had tobe carried a distance of forty m les, invo lvihg an Outlay of $5 00 toboatmen alone . Mush inconvenience has been felt attimes by having only one mission b oat for the Cocanada and

162 I‘

ELUGU M ISSION .

The seven following new Circles are reported for the yearSt. George, Hamilton , St . Thomas , Ailsa Craig, Beverly St .Church

,Toronto

,Delhi and Belf o un tain .

‘

Extract from the 6th annual report We all felt that wemust send a Zenana worker to India . At the January meetingthe application of Miss Frith , of Montreal , was considered andyour B oard after a long and earnest discussion

,unanimously de

cided to recommend her to the General Board for appointment .What we have for some time desired 13 now an aecom

plished fact ; we have now a lady Missionary appointed to workamong the Zenanas .”


CR .

B alance o n hand $ 1324 70 Paid Fo reign M issio nTo tal received 2223 92 D isbursements.

Bal ance o n h and . .

$35 48 62

The 6th annual meeting Of the Womens Baptist Foreign Missio nary Society , East , was held in the Olivet Baptist Church inthe City of Montreal on the 12th day Of October

,1882 .

iBrcsiUent.

M ES . JL ARK.

17itzslarrsihenta.

MRS . PAYNE, and MRS . D . K. MCLAREN ,

Secrttaries.

BENTLY, Reco rdin g ; MISS MUIR, Co rrespo nding .

Grrasurzr.

MRS. FRANK SMITH.

3 new Circles (Cumberland , B eebe , and Roxboro ) reportedduring the year , making the total number 2 2 , and have 3 5 lifemembers.The report closes thus Looking back upon the year just

closed , we must all real ize that the work in which we are engagedclaims our earnestandmost zealous efforts . In sending o ut o ur sisterMiss Frith , we have added another l ink to the Chain which bindsour hearts to the noble band of Missionaries in our Canadian Telugu Mission ; and let us hope that in the coming year, while they arelaboring in far-Off India , amid so many discouragements . it maybe said

o

o f the Canadian women of Canada They have done whatthey could.

’

SCRAP BOOK . 163


CR .

Ba lance o n h and 4 17 7 1 Paid f o r M issio n purp o ses

Received from all so urces 95 8 4 5 Disbursem ents

Balance o n h and

$ 13 76 16 $ 1376 16

From the 68th annual report of the American Baptist Missionary Union ( 15 82 ) we learn that the Union have now 7 separatestations amo ng the Telugus and have baptized of them duringthe year 2 16 3

,and expended $4 5 The following are the

number of baptisms in connection with the three stations withwhich our Canadian Missionaries were formerly connected .

Nellore - Baptized,forty-five membership

,5 10.

Ongole—Baptized,

membership,

Ramapatan1 .—Baptized

,twenty—three ; membership , 5 3 1 .

Know ye not,that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus

Christ were baptized into h is death ?Therefore we are buried with h im by baptism into death

that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory ofti e Father

,even so we also should walk in newness of life .

For if we had been planted togethe r in the l ikeness of hisdeath

,we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrec tion

Knowing this,that our old man is crucified with him

,that

the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we shouldnot serve sin .

—TB E WORD OF GOD.


M Iss FRITH .

Miss Frith was born in Winchester 'near Ottawa I n 18 5 1 .

When e 'even years old she began to realize her sinful state .From

that time she earnestly desired to be a Christian but not until theAugust of ’

6 7 while attending a series of revival meeting s conducted by M r T L . Campbell , assisted by Mr . McPhail

,Mr . Mc

Laurin (Missionary) and others did she find peace and l ight . Twodays after her 0 l IIV t’ I

'

SiOH she was baptized In the Castor river byMr. D . Mulhern Two years later in a conversation concerningthe Mis<io niaries Mr and M rs . McL aurin and Mr . and Mrs.

Timpany, her co usin , James Frith , explained to her what a callto the Lord 8 work was . That conversation made such an impression on her mind that a year later she offered herself to the

Lord for the foreign field . After spending nearly two years instudy, three I n teaching and over two laboring as a B ible womanin Ottawa and Montreal , Miss Frith by the advice of her friendslaid her case before the Forei g n Missionary Board . The result o fthis step was that No v. 13 th

,1882 , she was welcomed in .Co

canada by M r . and Mrs. McL aurin and Mr . and M rs. Timpanywhose cal l to India years before had led her to listen until she

,

too , heard the voice of the Master Go work tod ay inmy vineyard .

”

TELUGU MISSION.

of true consecration in all that was said and done . There seemed to be a general feeling that we needed more of the Spirit’spower in our work , and hence earnest prayers went up for thisblessing .

” Mrs . Tucker, wife of Major Tucker , of theSalvation Army , was one of the Speakers . Her remarks contained much good sense , I thought . I heard her on Sunday

,the 3 l st

Dec.,also

,and was much struck with what she said . I was

moved to tears as I heard her speak of the struggles She had

gone through in giving up all for Christ’s sake . She said it was

not pleasant to see former friends curl their lips in scorn . It wasnot pleasant to be ridiculed , but what She had don e , She haddone because she felt ‘ the Lord called her to do it for the sake ofHis work . She spoke very strongly on the subject of womenpreaching in public

,and cited the history of Deborah and others

in proof of what Go d can do through weak women .

”

On board the Mission boat “ T . S . Shensto n , under dateFebruary 27th , Bro . Craig writes In the evening I visited thevillage

,wh ich is two or three miles from the canal . As I went

on foot, I had plenty of exercise before I arrived at the boatagain

,about 10 o’clock . I preached in the moonlight to quite a

crowd of Malas . On Thursday morning I'

visited another villagenearer the canal ; I had never visited it before . I preached firstin the Malapi

l ly and then in the Shudra village . Returning tothe bo at I baptized three men from Ardhavararn . In the evening we visited two villages further south , one on the West side ofthe canal and the o ther on the east Side , but both far enoughaway

.Having visited one

,I returned to the boat about half

past seven had a cup of tea and then went to the other.’

On Monday I preached and a man was baptized in the canal . I forgot to say that four women were baptized in the canalat L ing ampadu on Saturday before I attended to the policebusiness .

”

The work is full of promise in every department . Peter hasbaptized sixty two and Ih ave baptized ten since the new yearbegan , making a total of seventy-two .

”

From Cocanada , under date, April 20th , 1883 , B ro . Timpanywrites To me the work seems glorious , not only in what isdone

,but particularly in what we know is coming. The stone

cut out of the mountain without hands, is filling the Whole earth .

It is fill ing India, and the Telugu country wil l n o t be passed over .

Never,at any time of my life

,was l ife dearer to me for my work ’s

sake than n ow,for the harvest time is come . Satan and al l wick

ed angels and men cannot keep back the car of salvation.

”

HSCRAP BOOK .16 4

‘ H old the rOpes !"We are getting hold of the j ewels in the

mine I lI have very

“

7 little anxiety about the women’s part of the workyou have organization But I am anxious

,very anxious, about

the general society . We cannot hold up here now, it would beruin . After some years , when thework in some places has become self-sustaining

, it would not be so bad. But for the presentthe war suppl ies must come from home . May GOd Open thehearts of our people at home to supply our wants . We are onlyplaying at M Issio ns yet— only think , Baptists give $10,

000 : 3 3% cts each for spreading the gospel among the heathenOh , it makes my soul sad when I think of it . How very fewthere are who know why Christ their Saviour keeps them in thewo rld

,—still

,the dawn of a better day comes on apace .

"

From Samulco tta , under date , May 2nd 1883 , Bro . McL aurIn

writes Friday,the 20th April , Mrs. McLaurin and I went

down to Cocanada to the opening of the home boxes. It was thefirst week of our vacation

,and our minds were at ease , so we en

joyed the occasion thoroughly. I n eed not particularize . Manyold , trusted and loved names appeared . They recalled manyscenes

,bo th pleasing and sad .

”

From Akidu,under date May 10, 1883 , Bro . Craig writes

Last year I sent an account of my April to ur then I visitedthe villages north of Akidu . This year I visited the villages tothe south-west . I travelled with my tent . The first night westopped at a village six miles west of Akidu ,

and on the edge ofCo lair Lake . A great many heard the truth ; I counted abouttwen ty

sfive women among those who were listening at one time .We have only two or three members there

,but many m o re must

come out soon The second night we were at a village abouteight miles further south . The third night we moved on toPeyyairu , where fifty-three were baptized in November , 188 1 .

On that occasion the village headman,who is a Shudra

,told one

of my preachers he would give him quite a quantity of rice , if atthe end of a year there was one christian left among the fiftythree baptized . He said they would al l be drinking and gambling again before a year was past . The preacher went to him onthe occasion of our visit last month

,and reminded him of h is

promise,but he only smiled . The Mala hamlet here has become

a Christian hamlet .I visited about sixtenteen other villages and returned to

Akidu o n the 19th April, at 11 p. m .

”


Two or three weeks ago‘ my students came from. Samulco ttafor the vacation , and are now at work upon various parts of thefield . Last Sunday we had a good many people at our monthlymeeting . Eight were received for baptism ,

and on Mondaymorning I baptized them in a tank a short distance from the

mission compound . Peter and I have baptized one hundred andten since the beginning of this year .

,

I trust we'

may have theprivilege of b aptizing many more before the end of June .

”

In “ Mission Boat,” under date October 11, 18 83 , B ro . Craigwrites with respect to the “ MEMORIAL HOUSE, AKIDU .

” Inmy report to the Board I gave someparticulars about the newhouse at Akidu for a girl ’s ‘boarding school . The building wasfinished in July , but a suitable time for dedication services wasnot found till Sunday last

,October 7th . On that day we met at

2 30 p . m. , in the Memorial House instead of the chapel , and Ipreached to the christians assembled , taking as my subject thelast chapter of Proverbs . I spoke of her to whose “memory thehouse had been ere ated

,reminding the women and girls present

of the example she had set them by her brief but consecrated lifein India. In regard to the house , I said we had met to thankGod for it and ask His blessing on it , that very many many girlsmight find a home in it

,and while there might learn not only

such things as reading and writing , but also their duties as

Christian women that after a few years of study at Akidu , theymight g o back to their various villages to train the chi ldren theymight find there ; that so the inflence of this Memorial Housemight be felt for years in numbers of villages o n the Akidu

_

field .

I am sure that all ’our Sisters at home will join us in these desires .”“ Our people do" not have many feasts

,so it is wise to arrange

one for them occasionally . On Monday . the 8th , I provided afeast to which about seventy sat down . It was the feast of dedication , so it was partaken

’ of in the new house . Cooking thefood furnished as much pleasure as eating it . After the mealWas over we sung a‘ number of hymns and the p eople dispersed .

’

November 2,1883 , Mr. Timpany writes We travelled the

most of two nights to reach the place . The second night a widetreacherous river took us two hours to cross . It was

half-past four Sabbath morning before I got the tent pitchedand , tired out , threw myself on my cot for an hour . On M ondayevening

,29th October , I baptized j ust at dark in L in g ampurty ,

eighteen men and women . I have never had anyth ing like thiso n my Cocanada fi eld before . The head man of the village ofof nearly two hundred houses , h is wife,

’ son,daughter . and

'

Sister


Cocanada Station—Of the work and prospects on this Iniportant field , our brother Timpany thus writes I t Is causefor profound gratitude to Go d that al l the mission band whowere here a year ago are, after another year, alive and In usualhealth There are now o n the Cocanada field nearly 200church members

,scattered In places far apart. In one direction

I must g o by boat some 60 miles to visit some Of them . thoughthe direct route is nearer . In another direction I must g ostraight way 4 0 miles, by cart , to reach others So you see

,the

good seed of the Kingdom is widely planted . With care,its

fruit will cover all the region . Cocanada has been much stirredby the baptism of some caste men . I was told , years ago ,that I should never baptize In Cocanada

,a B rahmin of the place.

That,if I did so

,my place would be torn d .0wn I did it, and

there came near bring a great ro w . It was averted by the quick ;n ess and sense of th eEnglish police -o fficer. The young B rahmin’

was under 18 years of age , so his relatives took him away bylegal .means . He says he will never be anything but a Ch ristian .

B ro . Craig sends the following report of the Tuni fieldDuring the past year , by the blessing of Go d, considerable pro

g ress has been made on the Ak idu field . I must still devote aparagraph of my report to the subject of

Building —Although the building of the Mission Boat wasmentioned in the Secretary ’s report , last October , the boat wasnot finished , till the end of September. I was .detained in Cocanada nearly the whole of that month

,waiting for the boat

,as

I wished to return to Akidu on it, so that I might proceed totour at once . The boat has pro

'

ved a g reat blessing already . Ihave visited many villages that I could not have visited had Inot had a boat to myself .I take p leasure in reporting . also , the erection of a house, to

be used as a dormitory or dwelling house for the girls ’ boardingSchool. Instead of erecting a number of smal l houses or roomsin a row ,

I have built o ne large house, with verandah al l around,

the back verandah and part of the end verandah being walled into serve as store r

,oom cooking room , bath-room and Sick room.

The main room is 27 feet long and 18 feet wide . I suppose thatabOIIt 7 5 girls could be accommodated if necessary . The verandahcould be arranged so that some might Sl eep on it . The house 18substantially built, and has cest about $ 5 30, which has been contributed by relatives and friends

,in loving rememberance of my

late wife . Hence the bui lding will be known as the MemorialH ouse.

”

SCRAP BOOK . 169

The Seminary at Samulco tta was opened on the 3 rd of Octtober

,much to the j o y of us all . Mr. and Mrs . McL au rin moved

to Samulco tta on the 29th of September, and i n the same dayI started fo r Akidu o n the new boat— its first trip . M r. M c

Laurin ’s furniture was on the Canadian .

’ Mr . and Mrs . Mc

Laurin were with me on the ‘ T. S . Shensto n .

’ We. consideredit a high day

,and joined in praising Go d for both the new mis

sion house and the new boat . During the year,three single. and

two married students from the Akidu field have attended theSeminary .

”

Until April , we had only o ne man from the Madjas‘ among

all our Christians . In that month . eight were baptized at avi llage about twenty-four miles south of Akidu .

” '

i‘

“ I take pleasure in ' reporting the baptism of a number ofyoung people , most of whom were child ren of christians . Convertshave been received from quite a number of new villages . In all

,

2 3 3 have been baptized , and the membership at the end of Junenumbered 92 5 .

F INANCIAL STATEMENT.

DR .

Received f rom al l so urces $9690 94 Paid Missio naries .

D isbursem en ts .

B alance o n h and

$9690 94 $9690 94

The 7th annual meeting of theWomen ’s Bap tist Foreign Missio nary Society was held on the 12th day of October

,1883 in

lBrrsiUcnt.‘

Mus FREELAND.

‘

H icrslarrs Dents.

MRS .

'

J. H. CASTLE AND MRS. THOMPSON.

S trretarirs.

MRS . JOSHUA DENOV AN , Reco rding ;'

MRs. H . J. ROSE , Co rrespo nding .

Erra tum .

MRS . W. H ELLIOTT .

The report says it would be difficult indeed -

to estimate thegood that has been accomplished and the impetus that has beengiven thro ug h t he instrumental ity of the M issionary LINK . l ts

columns always contain the latest intelligence from our M ission~aries , as well as much that is of general interest

”

TELUGU M ISSION


CR .

Balan ce o n h and $14 17 5 8 Paid f o r F o r . M issio n purp o ses .

0

55 24 69 00Received f rom a l l so urces 2 678 99 Disbursem ents 5 6 91

Bal ance o n h an d . 15 70 66

$ 4096 5 7 $ 4096 5 7

The 7th annual meeting of the Women’s Baptist Foreign Missio nary Society , East , was held on the 1 1th day o f October, 1883 ,at the City of Ottawa .

iBrzsiUent.

MRS . T . J . OL Ae N.

B icedfiresihmts.

MRS . PAIN AND MRS . AY SE.

S ecretarg .

Mas. BENTLY, Reco rdin g ; M ISS M UIR, Co rrespo nding .

ul tras/Inter.

MRS . FRANK SMITH .

The report says Our Sister,Miss Frith , who went to labor

as a Zenana worker in September last,we are happy to say , is

progressing remarkab ly well . Several communications from herhave been received

,proving her fitness for the work .

”

We desire to record our grateful thanks to our aged sister,

Mrs . McPhail for her generous donation of $ 15 0 to the funds ofthe Society .

”


B alance o n h and . . 294 I2 Paid Fo reign Mis. So cietyReceived from al l so urces 1018 91 Disbursem ents

Balance o n hand

$13 13 03 $1313 03

From the 69th annual report of the America Baptist Missionary Union ( 1883 ) we learn that the Union have 7 separate stations

,

among the Telugus . and have baptized of them during theyear 2067 and expended The following are the number of baptisms in connection with the three stations with whichour Canadian Missionaries were formerly connectedNellore—Baptized

,fifty

- four members,5 6 3 .

Ongole — Baptized , members,

Ramapatam—Baptized , twenty-three members, 5 3 1.

17 2 TE LUGU MISSION .

TH E 1sm ANNUAL MEETING

OF TH E

BAPTIST FOREIGN M ISSIONARY S OCIETY“

ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

Was held in the Baptist Church in the town o f ? St '

. Thomas,

on Thursday,October 16 , 188 4 . Mr. C . Raymond ‘ in ‘the ch‘air.

Prayer by Rev. Dr. Castle . Addresses were I n by Rev . Mr.’

McDiarmid,of Ottawa Rev . John Craig , H allam‘

and

Mrs . Churchil l , the three last returned mi ‘ fromIndia.

iarrsincnt.

CHAS . RAYMOND .

F iresiarrswents;

WM . CRAIG and A. A. AYER.

S tra tum.

REV . J . W. A. STEWART, B .A.

Errasurer.

T. S . SH ENSI ON ; E SQ .

January 12th , 1884 - The 8 th annual meeting of the Canadian Telugu Conference was held In the Mission House, Cocanada .

Among those present we re , Mr and Mrs. McLaurin , M I . andMrs . Timpany, M r. and Mrs . Currie, Mr . Craig and M iss Frith .

StatisticsCocanada

,baptized , 123

Tun i , baptized , 18 ; members , 5 0.

Akidu , baptized , 178 ; members , 97 5 .

LINK fer June 1884 —Dear Friends - By God’s mercy my

little girl and I have reached Canada In safe ty . We arrived atNew York on Sunday , the 18th of May , at Rochester the nextday

,and at Port Hope on the 2 2nd . Althoug h feeling rather

weary . I hope to be present at some of the associations to tell ofwhat Go d IS doing through us among the Telugus May He ehable us to be faithful . Hoping to meet many

tD

o f you soon andspeak face to face

,I am your fellow servant,

JOHN CRAIG .

PSCRAP BOOK. 17 A

LINK for July, 1884 —Rev . G . L and Mrs . Currie , of theTuni Station , with their children, reached home on the 9th ofJune

,in fairly good health . They are now at Wolfville

,Nova

Scotia,where the family will temporari ly reside . Mr. Currie

went to India as a Missionary of the Ontario and Quebec Society,

about nine years ago—M rs. Currie , formerly M iss Armstrong,was sent o u t previously by the W . M . A. Societies

,of the Mari

time Provinces,and was married to Mr. Currie soon after his ar

rival in India They have both done good,steady

,earnest pion

eer work at Tuni , and will be warmly welcomed by their manyfriends in the several provinces of our DominionJuly 5 th, 1884 , Mr. Currie writes from Wolfville He in

whose hands are the winds and waves,permitted no harm to befal

any of us in the conveyances in which we travelled , the long road,

and brought us in safety to our destination. Mrs . Currie has hadthe great pleasure , after nearly eleven years absence, of meetingagain in the flesh her dear ag ed mother .

”

Extract from report Sufiice it to say ,that late in the evening of Oct . 16th , 1873 , at the house of T . S . Shensto n

,Esq

B rantford , there were laid before the Board of this Society, lettersfrom the Rev. John McL aurin

,then at Ongole

,and the Rev . A .

V . Timpany , then at Ramapatam ,setting forth the needs and the

advan tages as a mission field of the Telugu country surroundingCocanada on either side of the great G odavery river . Thesebrethren earnestly reeommended u s to undertake this field as amission of our own , and to accept heartily a work which seemedalmost thrust into our hands by the Lord of the harvest . B eforethe Board adjourned that night it was unanimously resolved toobey the leadings of Providence

,and to enter upon this independ

ent work.

”

“ Of the honored brethren who then constituted this Boardand assumed this responsibility

,the Revs . John Bates

,R . A.

Fyfe, James Cooper, T . L. Davidson , and Mr. A. R McMaster

have Since gone to their reward .

”

“ Ten years work .—What then have these ten years aecom

plished o n this Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission field ? AS to

fie workers—Mr . and Mrs . McL aurin arrived at Cocanada inarch , 1874 , and in February . 1876, were joined by Mr. and

M rs . Currie . In January,1878 , Mr. and Mrs . Craig were added

to their number,and in December of the same year Mr. and Mrs .

Timpany ,and finally Miss Frith joined them in November

,

188 2 . To these who have gone forth from our own Christianland we rej o ice to add the following , won from heathenism ,

viz


seventeen Native Preachers, of whom .three are ordained,three

Colporteurs,Six B ible-women , and twenty -three Teachers in the

day schools . Taken altog ether , surely a band of wo rkers whomwe may deem it a privilege to sustain

As to the kinds of work , let us remember that the Telugup eople In all number about 000 and that of these at least

000 are entirely dependent on this society for their evang eliz atio n ,

and f o r a ll the blessings of the gospe l.Passing on now from the Spiritual and mental and coming to

the material,we find that this Society has become the possessor

of prope rty in that far-o ff land to the value of aboutThis property consists of station chapels . homes for the missionaries

,dormitories for the station schools , village school -house

’s,

the Seminary bui lding, boats , tents et z . , and the ground by .

which all these are occupied .

Our brother , the Rev. G . F . Currie,with h is family

,from

Tuni,a lso safely reached his home In Wolfville

,Nova Scotia

,in

the month of June . It is exactly nine years since we bade B ro .

Currie Go d-speed on his setting out for India.

Mr . Timpany has travelled over a large part o f his wide fieldduring the year

,and as a rule , his preaching has received good

attention . He reports 12 1 baptisms amongst the Te lugus .These inc lude a l l classes

,from the Brahmin down to the Pariah .

Mr . Craig sa‘ys We have continued to preach the gospelto the people of Akidu

,but have not seen much fruit as yet . In

some of the neig t I in g vi llages , however, there has been quite aningathering

,so

<3

that our hearts are cheered .

”

Touring I n September and October I was o ut for threeweeks and visited fourteen v illages

,where we have members

,

and three where we have none . In November I was outten days and visited fourteen villages . On November 27th I setout for Co lair Lake and v isited on and near it twenty villages;returning to Akidu on December 20th . After our Conferenceand Association ,

in January , I was o ut for about two weeks ;and returned to Akidu on February 13 th , just a week before mydeparture for Canada .

”

In closing , Mr . Craig says I left Cocanada with my littlegirl on the 4 th of March . On the 14 th We sailed from Madras .

We reached New York on the 18th of May . I would record mygratitude to Go d for His preserving care over us during the longj o urn eyfi

’

General Outlook .- V

V

ith a l l the obstac les and discouragements

,incident everywhere to foreign mission enterprise

,we can

TELUGU M ISSION.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT .

CR .

Balance o n h and $ 15 70 66 Paid f o r M issio n pur

po ses

Received from a l l so urces . 2897 4 5 Disbursemen tsB alan ce o u h and .

$ 4 4 68 11 $ 4 4 68 - 11

The 8th annual meeting of the Women 's Baptist Fo reign Missio nary Society was held in the First Baptist Church in the Cityof Montreal

,October the 2nd , 1884 .

iBIcSiDrnt.

MRS . BLAxTON.

11 icrslflresiurnts.

MRS . PAYNE ,and MRS . UPHAM .

S ecretaries.

MRS. BENTLY , Reco rding ; MISS MUIR,Co rrespo ndin g .

Greasur r.

M RS . FRANK SMITH .

The Report states that one new Circle N est Winchester hadbeen organized during the year, and that “ The reports from I II

dia are most encouraging.

”


Balance o n hand0

4 30 73 Paid M issio nariesi

Received from a l l so urces 138 22 Di sbursem ents

Balance o n h and

$15 68 95 $15 68 95

From the 7oth annual report of the American Baptist Missio nary Union for 1884 , we learn that the Union have now 11

separate station s among the Telugus , and have baptized of themduring the year 2 , 7 2 3 , and expended $69, 180. 7 6 . The followingare the number of baptisms In connection with the three stationswith which our Canadian Missionaries were formerly cOnnected :Nel lore —Baptized thirty-two ; members , 5 6 3 .

Ongole .

—Baptized,1,6 5 3

,members , 14 , 5 88 .

Ramapatam , baptized , 5 0 ; members , 6 28 .

co eANADA MISSION HOUSE See subsequent pag e) .

178 TEIZUG'

U‘

MISSION.

“

REV . JOHN CRAIG , B . A.

John Craig was born in Toronto,Canada

,June 4 th 18 5 2 . He

was converted and baptized into the Bond Street Baptist ChurchToronto

,by Dr . Caldecott . H is education was obtained in the

High School , Port Hope , Upper Canada College and TorontoUniversity

,Toronto . where he g raduated silver medalist and in

the Theological Seminary , Rochester, N . Y.

He spent some time in England and the Continent and o heyear as pastor of a Baptist Church in Canada. He was appo mted to Mission work in October

,1877 , and sailed the fol lowing

week for India,reaching Cocanada early in January He

entered at once into the study of the language,and while doing

so took charge of the Eng lish work in Cocanada . In 188 1 ’

he

took charge of the Akidu S tation,comprising the larger number

of Christians and where during the previous year M ission premises had been bui lt . In April of that year his wife Martha PerryCraig died at AkiduOver a year of 188 4 -5 was Spent in Canada recruiting his

health and doing much valuable work for the Mission . Whileathome he married Miss Sumner, of Beamsville, and in company

TELUGU MISSION

Ada A .Sumner

, B ro . Craig’s present wife is the - daughterof Mr

.and Mrs . Sumner of Beamsville of Ontario She. was

born April I l th , 18 5 6 ,and born again and baptized by Rev R .

B .Mont

gomery in 1869. She was educated in the H Ig h School

of her native vill ag e and the Art School , Toronto . I

She taught school for several years with , much,

-

success . Inthis way '

She developed a character and gained an experiencewhich admirably fitted her for her after l ife work. Al l this timeShe had a desire to devote herse lf to Fo reign Mission work .

“She married Bro Craig in July 1885 and ,Sailed with him f o

India, Aug . l st of that year .Mrs

.Craig - is a fi rm

,conscientious , evenly balanced christian

woman,whose influence for good is ever increasing, and whom

may Go dspare many ye ms to be a comfort and help to her hus

band and a blessing to the Telugus.

REV . J . R . STI LLWEL L ,B . A.

This brother was born in Walpole , Ontario, Canada, January 15 th, 18 5 5 , was converted and baptized by his grandfatherRev

.T

.Stillwel l in 18 74 . He was educated in H amilto nC o l

leg iateInstitute

,Toronto University (B A . ) and Rochester

SCRAP BOOK .181

Theological Seminary.He taught school several years and

preached during his College vacation . In 188 5 he responded tothe appeal of the Board fo r one to fill the place of B ro Timpany ,

was accepted , ordai ned and designated at Brantford in July andwith his wife sailed in company with B ro . and Sister Craig Aug .

1st and landed in India , October of the same year.He at once entered upon the study of the language and with

such success that he conducted a fu 1 service in Telugu befo re lIe hadbeen nine months in the country and was prepared for his 2ndyear’s exan nina 'io n before the end of the first year . On accountof the failure o f Bro McL aurin

’

s health in 1887 he was appointed by his B rethren Principal o i the Seminarv .

MRS . J . R. STILLWELL .

Rebecca Delahey was born near Pembroke, Ontario . Herfather is of H ug en o t

blood and She possesses to a large extent theexcellent Characteri: ties of that famous race . She is fu ll of warmthand zeal and ever ready to learn or do to the extent of her abil ityand to second her husband in every good word and work . Mayher days be long and her life full of blessing .



OF TH E


ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

Was held in”

the Guelph Baptist Church on Thursday, October2 2nd

,1885 . The President

,Chas Raymond

,Esq .

,in the chair.

Meetin g°

addressed by' Mr . Smith , of Tiverton ; Rev. J.

W.

’

A.

Stewart , Secretary ; Rev . G . M . W. Carey , M . A of Brantford ,and F . W . Auvache, the new Missionary .

QBIISiSrnt.

CHAS . RAYMOND .

n rsifil resments.


S rrrrtam.


Greasurrr.

T. S . SH ENSI ON , E SQ .

January 19th, 188 5 —The 9th annual m e eting of the‘Cana

dian Telugu Conference was held at Bimlipatam , India . Amongthose reported present were , Mr . and Mrs . McL aurin

, Mr. andMrs . Timpany, and M is sM . J . Frith . The statistics furn ishedCocanada , baptized , 104 ; members , 3 77 .

Tuni,baptized , 3 members , 5 3 .

Akidu ,baptized

, 12 5 members , 1118.


—MRS . TIMPANY.~

Mrs . Jane Timpany (now Mrs . Booker) is the oldest daughterof the late Rev. John .Rates of 'whom a notice is g iven on page90, and a siste r of Mrs . (ReV . ) John McL aurin our first Missionary to Cocanada . She was born in Ballina . Ireland , on the 6thJuly 184 0

,and immigrated with her father’s family to America ,

landing in New York on the 8th day of April . 18 5 0. For sometime her father was the pastor of the Baptist Church in Cascade ,Iowa , U . S . Mrs . Timpany became a member of that church in18 5 5 being baptized by her father while he was pastor thereof.Was married to Mr . Timpany on the 15 th of October, 1867 , andin the following m o nth sailed from New York City for London .

and from thence to India,arriving at Madras on the 18th of April

of the following year, and at Nellore— her first M issionary home-twenty-one days afterwards . The whole journey occupyingover Six months ! This was before the Suez Canal was Opened ,She has travelled this miles journey four tImes one ofwhich was as a widow and n o w writes the author “ I am reallyat a loss what to say as there are very few events in my lifeworth recording . She is a sister to :Professor J . T . Bates, B .A. ,

of the Woodstock College and Rev . S . S . Bates , B . A ., pastor of

the College Stree t Baptist Church , Toronto . The name of Tim ~

pany will always be associated with the Ontario and Quebec Foreig n Missionary Society as is the name of Judson with that of theAmerican Baptist Missionary Society .

SCRAP BOOK . 185

REV . A. v. TIMPANY.

FALLEN ON THE FIELD .

LINK for March , 188 5Startling and sad was the message flashed from India to

Canada on Friday , the 20th of February Timpany died yesterday

,

”and repeated by the Secretary of the Foreign Mission

Board till many hearts that day were bowed beneath the bitterstroke of sudden bereavement . To the children patiently longingand waiting for the return of their loved parents

,after one more

year of absence—to the aged parents—to the many relatives theblow must have been severe indeed. May Go d, who is a verypresent help in time of trouble , s trengthen these loving hearts tobear their heavy sorrow.

186 TELUGU MISSION.

To his cal l to the work and persistent determination topreach the gospel in the regions beyond to those who otherwisew ou ld never have heard of a Saviou r’s love

,the Foreign M ission

ary Society of Ontario and Quebec owes its existence . And

when , after nine years of service in India , he returned , feeble ,faded and worn to regain health and strength , the women of ourhur t hes wil l long remember with what indomitable perseverancehe planned

,worked for and urged ' the organization of the

Wom en ’s Foreign M issionary Societies,and the establishment of

this little month ly paper .N o particu lars of his cal l to depart and be w ith Christ can

reach Canada for many weeks . but we cannot help fearing thatthe burden and strain of double work proved too much for hisenfeebled body

,so that the Master . who doeth all things wel l

,

in loving kindness called His tired servant home to rest from hislabors and enter into the j o y of his Lord . Breatl ing more ofthe Spirit of the Apostle Paul than any man we ever met

,it may

truly be said of him ,

“ He hath fought the good fight,he hath

kept the faith ; henceforth there is laid up for him a crown ofrighteousness which the Lord , .the rig hteous judge , shall give himat that day .

”

From many a christian home , from many a praying Ci rcle ,from many a pulpit in our land has the cry gone up to ourFather in H eaven to sustain and comfort the widow in her desolation

,to fold her close to H is loving bosom

,to place underneath

and round about her the Everlasting Arms . The children alsoare commended to the care of the Father of the fatherless

.

’

“ The memory of the just is blessed Many ,both in India

and Canada will ever thank Go d that A. V . Timpany l ived andworked and taught others to work for Jesus .A standard bearer has fallen The banner of the Lord must

no t be left to trail in the duSt . Who will take the vacant place 1

q

M . FREELAND .

The LINK for JuneAmeri ‘cus V eSpucius Timpany was born in the township o f

Bayham' E lg in

'

Co un ty, Ontario , OII the 2 l st of Decembe r, 184 0.

Al thoug h surrounded by religious influences he was not convertedtil l he w as nineteen , when the Rev . J . P .

. Hall was ho ldn igSpecial services in the Malahide and Bayham church .

I II 15 60 he entered the College at Woodstock, where he completed the l itera ry and theological courses . He was absent fromco : lege t

w o years,during which he taught 'school a t Flo'rence ' for


from cholera on the 19th February , 1885 . The Telugu chapel,

the G irl ’s Dormitories,and the mission boat CANADIAN

,a‘re

memerials of his faithfulness in providing for the material wantsof the mission . I might add the English Chapel at Cocanada,which was bought and renovated under his directions , also theAkidu mission boat , which was built under his superintendence .

When part of the Cocanada field was made a separate chargewith Akidu for its station

,the district that remained to the Co

canada missionary contained only 5 0 converts . 1‘

his was at thebeginning of 1880 Under Mr . Timpany

’

s care this number increased to 4 00 in five years . Mr . Timpany was the author of aCompendium of Theology in Telugu , and was known as one of thebest Telugu scholars among the M issionaries laboring in thatlanguage . He has left a loving wife and three children tomourn his loss and cherish his memory . The picture is from aphotograph taken j ust before he returned to Ind ia in 1878 .

SUDDEN CHANGE .

Since the last number of the LINK reached its readersGo d has perm itted death to remove from those very nearand dear to the editor

,a sweet young wife and tender loving

mother,rendering her presence in that bereaved Manitoba home

an imperative necessity .

At the Board meeting held on the 17th of April a very judicious committee was appointed to secure another editor f o r th islittle paper. We have reason to bel ieve that they will be eminently successful and that the LINK will in future become a greater power for good than ever before .

The number for June will be issued under the new manag e

ment,when notice wil l be given of any change of address for

communications and remittances ; in the meantime they can besent as usual .In laying down the work we ' have loved so well , and in bid

ding farewell to al l the dear friends with whom ,for nearly seven

years,we have been in constant communication , we thank them

most fervently for their kind consideration,efficient help

,and in

valuable co -Operation . We also bespeak a continuance of thesame cordial sympathy for those upon whom the future conductof the LINK will devolve .

M . FREELAND.

SCRAP BOOK . 189

LINK, July , 188 5 From a letter to,

Mr. Wm . Elliott,Jan~

uary 26th, 1885 , by Mr. Timpany . The day of salvation O f thispeople draws near at length . Where. 5 years ago, there were about3 00 Christians, n ow there a re 1 5 00

,and I fully expect to see in

another five years this 1 5 00 reach as many thousands . The living Go d is on o ur side.

MR . TIMPANY ’

S DEATH AND BURIAL.

I enclose a copy of a letter received this week from Cocanada .

The writer is clerk of our English Baptist church at that pTace .

The details given in the le tter will be read with sorrowful interest by thousands in this country .

All our conjectures were vain,for it seems that our

brother was taken away very suddenly by cholera . Perhaps afew explanations may be in place Coringa wil l be found ono ne of my maps a few miles south of Cocanada. Dr. Beech , theGovernment Surgeon at Cocanada

,was a personal friend Of Mr.

Timpany. The Rev. Mr. English is the Government Chaplain ,and a clergyman of the Church of England . The bridge mentioned joins the two parts of Cocanada . otherwise separated by a widecreek with connects the canals with the sea . Cocanada proper isnorth of the creek ; the Mission premises are in the

'

northernpart of Cocanada . South of the creek is Jug g audhapuram ,

whichcontains the meeting house Of our English church , and also thecemetery where Mr . Timpany was buried . Gabriel Josiah , mybaby that died in 1879, and many others ‘

Of our people thereawait the resurrection Of the j ust. I might add that Jug ganadhapuram is now regarded as part of Cocanada. The cemetery isabout a mile and a half from the mission premises . The carriagethat bo’re Mr. Timpany

’s body to the grave was used to carry our

baby’s body six years ago.JOHN CRAIG .

April,2nd

,1885 .

Cocanada,20th February , 1885 .

—My dear B rother Craig,It is my painful duty to inform you of the death of our dear Bro .

Timpany . He died yesterday of a sharp attack of cholera atabout ' 2 .30 p . m and was buried at p . In . On Wednesdaythe 18th , he conducted the prayer-meeting, and spoke soearnestly and lovingly of heaven . There was a look Of wearinessin his face , and the mere recounting of the joys of heaven seemedto refresh him. It is not known how he contracted the disease,

190 TELUGU MISSION.

but Mrs . Timpany th inks it was on this wise . On Tuesday,the

17th , he went to Coringa on business and while there one of hisChristians brought him

o

a small pot of milk. He did not particu larly want to drink , but to please the man and show hisappreciation of his kindness , he. drank it against hIs better judgment Although he made no complaint of any specific

,i llness

a l l next morning , it is believed that with the milk he imbibedthe germs of the disease. This belief is confirmed to a certainextent by the fact that certain cases of cholera have occurred inCoringa

,and that the epidemIc 1s raging in Masulipatam and

northwards to such an extent that the canal between that placeand Bezwada has been put under quaran tine .

The attack was a sharp one symptoms exhibited themselvesat 8 a m ,

and by 2 . 30 p m he was gone . It was so sudden and nuexpected that none of us knew it till our poor pastor was gone . Mywife and I were the first to get th e re , bu t we were an hour too late .

Brother McL aurin is most u nfortunately away at Rangoon ,which port he reached yesterday . He had gone to try and shakeo ff the fever, which has attacked him with unusual rigor lately .

This morning M rs . McL au rin received a teleg ram from -him , andwired him a reply , informing him of the sad news . I forgot tomention that poor Mr . Timpany

’

s death was so unexpected thatMary was in school , and when sent for came home too late to seeher father alive . Owing to the nature Of the disease , Dr . Beech ,who undertook the funeral arrangements , hurried on , and weburied him at p . m . At a little past 8 p . m . we put him inthe coffin ,

and he was borne to the chapel in the mission cornpound . There Jonathan had a short service, as Dr. Beech wasaverse to exposing the body long . Thence the body was borneaway in his o wn carriage , drawn by his christians. At tenminutes to nine we were crossing the bridg e , and at half-pastnine last night We had put out of sig ht to await the final resurrection

,the poor

,tired

,weary and worn out body of our beloved

pastor . AS the night was dark we had eight torches to illuminethe long procession which followed him to the grave. You can

imag ine what a weirdly solemn sig ht it was . There in the silentgrave yard

,with the darkness and stillness of nature around ,

were gathered the people of Cocanada ; his school girls, nativechristians

,and members of the English church , sobbing and cry

ing as if their hearts -were breaking .

The Church o f England burial service was read over him bythe Rev. M r . English , and we put him away . It was an impressive and awful ceremony in its g loomy grandeur, for each one Of

192 TELUGU MISSION.

school he intended building . The first donations towards it havebeen put in the bank , and he talked of raising subscription s whenhe went home . l hope yo u wi ll remember this scheme in yourappeals for help A boarding school is much n eeded , and if weonly had the accommodation , we would get many more scholars.With Christian love

,bel ieve me ,

Yours very truly, GEO . H . WH ITE ,

In LINK for November , 188 5 , Miss Frith writes We cannot look back and renew the work of the past '

year without firstmentioning the great loss we have sustained in the death of ourdear B ro . Timpany , who was so deeply interested in our workamong

,

the women . We miss his earnest prayers , his words ofencouragement

,his sympathy

,his unwavering h o pe and faith in

the l iving Go d. I shall always feel that ‘

it‘

was a greatprivilege to have spent my first two years in India with Mr . andMrs. Timpany, and if success follows my labors , as I hope therewill be

,I Shall feel that it is owing in a great measure through

the blessing and wisdom of Go d,to the inestimable help and ad

vice rece ed from them .

”

April, 15 th , 188 5 , at a Board meeting held in V Vo o dsto ck a

resolution was passed relatin g to the ‘

lo ss sustained by the Mission in the death of Rev . A . V. Timpany , and a copy ordered tobe sent to h is widow.

At th is same meeting B ro . John R . Stillwell presented himself to the Board as a candidate for Missionary labor in the Foreig n field . After having answered the various question s putto him in a most satisfactory manner, he was unanimou sl y appointed as one o f our Missionaries .July LINK , 1885 , Mr Craig writes " And n o w that the time

has come when I must leave Canada with its spiritual light andwarmth , and go back to the darkn ess and clIilliness of heathenIndia

,I ask for myself personally

,and to those who go to that

land for the fi rst time , a special interest in your prayers . Dr .Carey ;did well when he compared missionaries to m iners . I havebeen down a mine

,and know the darknes and gloom that reigns

there . I have been in India and know someth ing of the grossspiritual darkness found there .”

“ Mr. Stillwell and I expect to sail from Quebec on the l st August

,and to be at Cocanada about the l st October . I am happy

to say that we each hope to have the companionship of a wife . Istate these facts so that our friends may pray for every membero f our little party wh ile we are o n the way and after our arrival

SCRAP BOOK . 193

in India. Before my visit to Canada I wrote many a letter tothe LINK . If the Lord wi ll

,I shall write many more after my re

turn to India . To al l who read these lines I now say—FarewellIn the LINK for the same month — “ In a letter from Mrs .

Manning , of Halifax . written a short time after Mr . Currie’s departure

,she says ‘We have had your missionaries

,Mr. and

Mrs . Currie,with us for a few days . I invited her down to

Hal ifax to see - him o ff . We held a farewell service onFriday evening

,and on Saturday at two O

’clock the steamerleft . Poor Mrs . Currie , it was with a sad , heavy heart she turned away and took the train 'for Wolfville. Three l ittle childrenare a g reat care and responsibility for one so frai l as she . Herstrength returns slowly . I hope the warm weather wil l bringnew l ife ; but she wi ll miss her husband so very much . Theseseparations are very trying

,and involve great sacrifice for the

cause . I felt in looking at her that I had really made no sacrificeto give the gospel to the heathen .

”

July , 2 1st . 188 5 , Mr. J . R . Stillwel l became a member of theFirst Baptist Church

,B rantford

,and was ordained therein .

July , 1 1th 188 5,Tuni , B ro . Currie writes I am glad to

be able to report my safe arrival in this country,after a journey

of a little more than two months from Canada . Fo r travell ingmerciesgranted me all the way I feel deeply grateful . LeavingWolfville , N . S . , on the 2 4 th April , I reached England on the4 th May , Madras on the 2 l st June , and Cocanada on the l stJuly. Was cordially welcomed at Cocanada by the occupants ofthe Mission House . and was pleasantly surprised to find that themembers of the English Baptist Church had arranged for a welcome meeting

,to be held in their chapel on the evening of the

following day . At this meeting which came o ff at the time appointed among other exercises Of a devotional and social character, an address of welcome was read and responded to , makingaltogether a quite enjoyable occasion . But , alas ! ho w clearlyone sees out here the tremendous gap that has been made in ourworking force . Ah , that new-made grave in Jug g anadhapuramWe can only fall back upon the assurance that others will be raised up and the work will go on .

”

After remaining about a week .in Cocanada , I came to Tuni,arriving here two days ago . It was pleasan t to see the familiarplace again

,and to exchange greetings with the Christians who

l ive at the station . But here,too

,pleasure is mingled with pain

,

A new made grave in our little cemetery contains all that is mortal of K. Jane , the wife of Charles . She was the most intel li.


gent,the best educated, and the best qualified for usefulness of

al l our Christian women . Her loss is keenly felt,and her pres

ence greatly missed here . Not a few familiar faces have appeared at the door of the mission house during these two days , and itis encouraging to be assured both by words and looks that many ,besides o ur native Christians, are pleased to see the house againoccupied.

Some weeks after the news of B ro . Timpany’s death was tele

g raphed to Ontario, Mrs Freeland received a letter of which thefollowing Is an extract

Here is a letter for the LINK . B rother McL aurin is hereHe is not well , sick with fever and planning to go away for a seavoyage . It makes me feel lonesome . I do hope M r . Craig willbe back by the 1st October , and that a new missionary may come .

PrayG o d to put it into the heart of a good man to come to thiswork . There is a great deal of interest in all parts of our mission field . I verily believe a thousand would be baptized thisyear could we do the work . Oh it is glorious

,but where are the

reapers ? The girls are doing nicely . I am trying to get a suitab le matron . There are 4 9 girls in the boarding school . M rs .

Timpany has not been well, but is better n o w . Mary is well . Iam wel l, save when I overwork and give the slumbering favor achancef

’

A . V . TIMPANY .

September, 14 th , 188 5 , B ro . Craig writes,dated Red Sea

It has occurred to me that a table of distances from Canada toIndia might be found both interesting and useful . Hence I sendyou the following

Toronto to Quebec (abo utl . .

Q uebec to L iverpo o l . .

Liverpool to LondonLondon to Gibraltar . .

Gibraltar toMalta to Port Said .

Port Said to SuezSuez to Aden .

Aden to ColomboColombo to Madras


October ’

9, 188 5 , Co canada B ro . Craig writes By theblessing of Go d Mrs Craig and I arrived here safely on the l st Ofthis month , and M r . and M rs . Stillwell arrived to-day

,after a

week or ten days in Madras At present this house containso ur whole force of missionaries , Mr. Currie having been here forsome time , and Mr. and Mrs . McL aurin having come fno mSamu lco tta this morn ing to see the new arrivals and attend awelcome meeting to be held in the evening.

”

“ Those to whom everything here is new have one advantage .

They do not feel the shadow that falls on us who look in vain forour beloved fellow-worker of former days . Perhaps by-and-byeI shall become used to h is absence . I might write muchmore

,but I forbear . I hope to go to Akidu next week and spend

a few weeks on that field . We desire a continual interest inyour prayers . I forgot to say that the seminary re openedyesterday.

’

Akidu , November 20th , 1885 , B ro . Craig writesB efore I left Akidu on my way to Canada, I asked ( r o d to permit me to see the mission house once more ; in other words tob ring me back safely in due time . On the 17th of October Ihad the pleasure of entering the house

,and thanking my heavenly

Father for his answer to my prayers . I was welcomed cordiallyenough by all

, but there was a certain amount of sorrow mingledwith the joy . Peter came from Gunn anapudi to see me . Hewept as he took my hand, for part of his sorrow was very fresh .

Isaac,who had been his companion for many years

,had been

called away on the first of the month,and Peter’s heart was very

sore .

‘ This has been a year of sorrow .

’ he said .

‘ First camethe sad tidings of Mr . Timpany

’s death,and before we had

reco vered from the shock caused by that, cholera visited Gunana

pudi,and carried o ff fifteen of our members . Then my l ittle girl

fell sick and died ; she was nearly four years old . And last ofall

,Isaac became ill

,and died on the first of the month .

”

No vember 20th, 1885 , Cocanada Bro . Stil lwell writesLong before this reaches you , you will have received B rotherMcL aurin

’

s notice of our arrival here 1 yes , we a re here, atCocanada—we arrived at Madras on the 2 6th September, andthere said good-bye to our steamer

, Co ro madel , which seemed tohave grown into something very much like a friend , for we hadslept In its cabins and walked its decks and mingled with itspeople a whole month . At Madras also we parted with theCra igs, who went o n in an earlier steamer than we could getready for. We foll owed them in the next steamer, leaving

ScR‘

AP BOOK . 197

Madras at noon , Tuesday , October 7th ; and arriving at ancho ragevery early on the morning of the 9th . It was a beautiful morning . And then we looked at the boats coming o ff to usand studied their occupants, but none struck us as at all familiar .We had not met B ro . Currie before , and so did not know h imunti l he came up the ship ’s ladder and introduced h imself. Hehad come Off very early to meet us

,and accordingly we had the

pleasure of his welcome before quitting the ship . We had

received two letters at Madras wel coming us to India, one fromB ro . McL aurin , and the other from Miss Frith And B rotherCurrie brought another from B ro . Craig

,so that we were not left

in any doubt as to the welcome awaiting us .Under Bro . Currie’s escort we left the steamer in a little

steam launch and steamed first to the mouth of the canal , then upthe canal In about half an hour we arrived at the final landingplace, and as we came near saw B ro . C raig with carriage andpush and— umbrella . B ro . Craig looked to our bagg age, and wetook possession of the carriage and made our way to the MissionHouse . We passed the bridge that spans the canal , theclo ck tower at the Cocanada extremity

,several tanks or ponds,

and finally passed through a gateway bearing the inscription :“ Canadian Baptist Telugu mission ” in English and Telugu characters . Through the gateway we passed into the Mission compound . Then came the Telugu chapel

,which looked quite natur

al and the Mission House exactly as the photograph has it, except a few changes made of late in the front yard . Here wef o und

'M rs. C raig and Miss Frith,and had barely got inside when

brother and sister McL aurin put in an appearance, having comefrom Samulco tta that morning .

Extracts from the 19th annual report At the time of Mr.Timpany

’

s death the Rev . Mr . Currie was at his home in Wolfville , Nova Scotia, enjoying a much needed and well-earned rest .As soon as it became known what a loss the Mission had sustained at Cocanada , and ho w imperatively help was needed there,Brother Currie did n o t wait to be called out , but at once vo lunteered his service

,and declared h imsel f ready to sail o n any day

the Committee might name . This action on his part was the firstrelief which came to the Executive Committee in the crisisbrought on by Mr . Timpany

’

s death and when it is further remembered that Mr . Currie’s departure for India involved his separation from wife and children

,your Board feels that is due to

him to declare here our appreciation of his truly magnanimousconduct . The Executive Committee , in consideration of the hot


season in India , deemed it inexpedient for Mr . Currie to sailsooner than the latter part of Ap ril , and also invited him to afarewell meeting at Guelph on the evening of March 26th . Thism eeting was largely attended , and was m o st inspiring , and willdoubtless often be looked back to by your earnest

,self-denyin g

Miss10nary, as he toils amongst the Telugus . Mr. Currie sailedat the time appointed , and on July l st landed at Cocanada, wherehe was met on the wharf by the Rev . John McL aurin .

”

“ As the o utcome of all this correspondence , Mr . J . R . Stil lwell

,B . A. , appeared before your Board a t its semi -annual meet

ing,and formally and most heartily offered himself as a mission

ary to the Telugus . Before the meeting , and at the time of it ,every means was u sed to acquaint the Board with the physicalconstitution , mental abilit ies and training, and spiritual characterand experience of M r . Stillwell

,with the result that his offer was

as heartily accepted as it was made . He was accordingly unanim o usly appointed to go forth under the auspices of your SocietyHis ordination took place in the First Baptist Church

,Brantford

,

on July 2 l st . It is not unfittin g to say here that his examinationbefore the Council was at once a surprise and a delight

,revealing

a grasp of Christian truth and a power of personal conviction andreligious earnestness which promise well for his career as a a missio nary . Indeed , those who know him best believe that in B ro .

Stillwell we have a strong man,for whom we are thankful to

Go d,and whose life

,if spared

,will count for something in the

Canadian Baptist Telugu M ission .

”

Having bid farewel l to us al l,B rethren Craig and Stillwell

and their wives sailed from Quebec on Saturday,the l st Of Aug

ust . After a short stay in London,they proceeded on their jour

ney to India . They were favored with a prosperous voyage,and

reached Cocanada probably about the first of the present month(October) , and , doubtless , by this time are settled at their workin that land .

”


Total received from the Churches . 3 3

Total received from Women ’s Baptist F . M . Society(West) 3 4

Total received from Women ’s Baptist F . M . Society(East) . 00

TOtal received from Judson M issionary Society , Woodstock . 5 5 2 5


ford ; Mrs . Lorenzo Bea], Boston M iss Martha Nelles , Wilsonville ; Mrs . Hol lins

,St . Thomas ; Mrs . T . D . Crawford

,B rant

ford ; Mrs . W . Pegg, Hartford Mrs . T . Cartwright,Calton .

The report closes thus We have lost some on whom weleaned

,but it is that others may have an opportunity to work .

We must not fail to do our share let each resolve to do everything in her power , that this great work may prosper , and thatall in our own land

,and they that sit in darkness

,may see the

Light of the World .

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CR .

Balance o n h and 63 Paid f o r M issio n pur

po

ses

Received f rom al l so urces . 34 15 78 D isb ursem en ts .

B al ance o n h and

$ 5 l 7 l 4 1 $ 5 171 4 1

The 9th annual meeting of the Women ’s Baptist MissionarySo ciety , East, was held in the First Baptist Church , Montreal ,on the 8th day of October

,188 5 .

19resihent.

MRS . PAYNE,and MRS . UPHAM .

S erretaries.

MRS. BENTLY, Reco rding ; MISS MUIR,Co rrespo ndin g .

Ereasurer.

M RS . FRANK SMITH .

Mrs . P. A . McEwen and M rs. A . D . McCal lum were addedto the l ist of life members during the year

,making the total num

ber 40.


CR .

B alance o n h and 494 0€ Paid Fo reign M issio nTo tal received . 1069 30 Disbursem en ts.

Balance o n

$15 63 39 s 15 63 39

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From the 7 1st annual report ( 188 5 ) of the American BaptistM issionary Union we learn that the Union n ow have 12 separatestations among the Telugus

,and have baptized of

’

them duringthe year and expended The following are thenumber of baptisms in connection with the three stations withwhich our own Canadian M issionaries were formerly connected .

Nellore,

— B aptized,5 3 ; members , 4 79.

Ong ole — Baptized,304 members

,

Ramapatam .

— Baptized,12 members , 6 3 1 .

But I have a baptism to be baptized with and ho w am IstraItened ti ll it be accomplished l

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly : and hiss

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weat was as It were great drops of blood fal ling down to theground .

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,sayin g .

ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHAN I 2 which is,being interpreted

,My

Go d , my Go d, why hast thou forsaken me 2But he was wounded for our transgressions

,he was bruised

for our iniquities the chastisement of bin peace ‘was upon himand with his stripes we are healed - GOD

’

S WORD.

TELUGU MISSION.

MISS HATCH .

Miss S . Isabel Hatch is the oldest daughter of John Hatch,

Esq ., of Woodside,” near Woodstock , the coun ty town of the

County of Oxford , Ontario . Her grandfather,the late John

Hatch , Esq. , was one of the earliest settlers in that county . A

large portion of the present Town of Woodstock is on the farmpurchased by h im when in a state of nature in 18 20. Our heroine missionary graduated from the Woodstock Col lege, and afterwards for four years became a teacher therein She was baptizedin that same town in 187 3 , by the late Rev . John Bates , ofwhom reference is made 011 page 90. Al l those best acquainted withher in Ontario speak in the highest terms as tO '

l er‘ qualificationsfor the important position she has voluntarily undertaken . H er

own letters and the letters of others from India,al l tend to in

tensify our interest in the brave girl,who leaves the home of her

childhood to teach the heathen miles away , the way ofsalvation . The author

,from long acquaintance with her parents

and g randparents feels a deep interest in her we lfare .

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REV . H . F . LAFL AMME I

B ro . L afiamme was born in West Winchester, Ontario , Canada

,January 2 5 th , 186 5 . When 1 5 years of age he was sent to

Woodstock College to study for the law . Here in the fall of1880, the Lord found him and turned his heart to the m inistryof Hi s word . In 1886 he went to Toronto for his Arts course .

Here he met M r. Forman , who visited the Colleges and Institutions of the United States and Canada, calling for volunteers forthe foreign field . Bro . L aflamme at once volunteered—Offeredhimself to our Board

,was appointed , ordained and designated to

the work,in company with Bro . Davis . Together they visited

many of the churches of Ontario and Quebec with much profi t tothe Society . In company with M r . an d Mrs . Davis . he sailedfor India

,landing in Cocanada November 12th, 1887 . While

studying the language of his future charge he keeps his mind andheart engaged in Eng lish work in Cocanada . Our brother is ayoung man full of faith

,and zeal , and devotion for the Master,

and we pray that the Lord whom he loves will greatly use himfor His own glory in the salvation of many Telugus .


MRS. F . W. AV AUCH E .

Mrs.F

. W. Avauche (Elizabeth Owen) , is the 3 rd daughtero f Lewis Owen, a member of the Welsh Baptist Chapel , Evertonvillage

,Liverpool . Mrs . Auvache was born in Liverpool in the

year 18 5 3 ; was educated in Liverpool and graduated in War

rington Col lege , England . She was baptized in the City ofChester

,and was for some years previous to her marriage engaged

in a

'

christian philan thro phic work in L iverpool .Married to Rev . F. W . Auvache on Dec . 8th , 1885 , and soon

after left for India . In consequence of ill health , returned withher husband in November , 1887 , and at present is compelledto reside in London , England , for medical treatment.Just before embarking for India Mrs . Avauche

’

s churchmembership was transferred by letter to the Baptist Church inStfatfo rd, Ontario . Mr

.and Mrs . Avauche are now both mem

bers of that church .

20 TELUGU MISSION .

MRS . J. E . DAVIS.

Laura Lockhart was born in Durham Co Ont . , Nov . 5 th,

185 6. In ‘

1878'

she was conve rted and joined the PresbyterianChurch of which her parents were members . Even then shewished to be immersed . She was an active worker in SabbathSchool and Mission Circle for y ears . She had also often expressed a desire to go to teach the heathen the way of life . Sometime before her marriage of her own accord she went to PortH ope—.was immersed and joined the Baptist Church there . HerL ord has heard her heart ’s cry and she is now preparing to tel lthe story of life to the heathen Telugus .

SCRAP BOOK . 209

REV . J ' E . DAVIS, B . A.

B ro .Davis was born at Wicklow, Ontario , Canada, February

17th , 185 8 .He was converted and bapt ized at H aldimand by

Rev.J

. B .Moore . U p

" to his 2 3 rd year his educational advan tages were o f the scantiest . I II 18 80 he went with his brotherG . B Davis

,B . A .

,to the North West to establish PrairieC o l

lege. H e studied in that institution and subsequently in Rapid

City ,Academy for about fou r years, and matriculated into Mani

toba University with first class honors . He graduated B . A. in1887 , and came east the same year , with the intention of studying theology in McMaster H al l

,Toronto , but the call for men to

fil l the vacant posts in the Telugu field was too urgent, and besent in his name . He was ordained and designated to the workin Bloor St . Baptist Church , Toronto , o n 5 th July . 1887 .

Himself,wife and Mr . L aflamme reached India . November

12 , of the same year. Bro . Davis’ diffi culties in early life wil ladmirably fit h im to endure hardship as a g ood soldier of JesusChrist

.He is richly endowed for work, and may Go d use him

mightily for H is glory .

TELUGU ’ M ISSION .

MRS. GARSIDE .

Mrs. Garside is the daughter of Rev. Joshua Den o van ofAlexaqder St. Baptist Church , Toronto . Margaret Den o van wasborn in Glasgow,

Scotland,was baptized by her father in M o n

treal and her education in the different places where her fatherhad pastorates . She is young and her Christian experience ismostly to be made and her l ife work lies most ly in the future .

She brings with her to her work a sunny disposition and a tendeney to "

find the humorous side of life These tendencies wil lstand her ingood stead during many a gloomy day in India . Mayher life be a very long one

,a very sunny one and withal a very

bl essed o ne.


MRS. CURRIE.

Mrs . Currie (Maria E'

. Armstrong) , was born at Wolfville , N .

S and was educated at the Ladies Seminary in that place . Was

converted and baptized in 186 1 by Rev. Mr. De B lois and unitedwith the Wolfville Church . In 187 2 offered for Foreign servicesand was accepted by the Foreign Missionary Board of t he Maritime Provinces . Was designated in August 187 3 at W indsor,N . S. ,

in company with six others for the Karens of Siam,sailed

from St . John and reached Rangoon . Burmah , January 12th ,187 4 . She spent two years in Burmah during which time shestudied the Karen language and did Mission work at Savoy

,

Maulmein , and H enthada . She was married to Rev . G . F . Currie of the Ontario Board in Rangoon February l st , 187 6 , andshortly after sailed for Cocanada and in 1878 , took up her residence with her husband among the wilds of Tuni . Here for sixyears she knew the toils

,the cares

,and the privations of M ission

ary life as few know them . Her Missionary spirit was deep andoriginal and she was strong both to bear and to do because sheloved her Lord and loved the Telugus. Sadly needing a rest shereturned with her wearied husband to Canada in 188 1. Cheerfully she made the sacrifice when she sent him to fi l l the vacantplace in 187 5 . In one short year the g reat sorrow of her life befel her—She was a widow and

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her children fatherless

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OF TH E


ONTAR IO AND QUEBEC

Was held in the Baptist Church , Town of Paris on Thursdaythe 2 1st day of October, 1886 .

iBreSihent.

CHAS . RAYMOND .

c c resgtIents.


S ecretary.


GIreaSIIrer.

T. S . SH ENS I ON , E SQ .

January 20th , 1886 .—The 10th annual meeting of the Cana

dian Telugu Conference was held ip the Cocanada M ission HouseAmong those reported present were Mr . and Mrs . McL aurin , Mrand Mrs. Craig , Miss Frith and Mr . Stil lwell . StatisticsCocanada .

— Baptized , forty-three members , 4 03 .

Tani—Baptized , eight members , fifty-two .

Akidu .—Baptized

,202 members

,

February LINK,Bro . McL aurin writes We are also re

j o icin g in a very fine Do llond 's telescope . This is the joint giftof B ro . Claxton , of Montreal , and the trustees of Wo o ksto ck

Col lege . B ro Claxton gave it to the Colleg e years ago , and nowwi th his concurrence it has been presented to Samulco tta Seminary . A few days ago it was unpacked

,and our boys had their

first view of the heavens through a telescope . It is really a verysuperior instrument, and we are al l very much indebted to thedonors .The above we use to get better acquainted with God ’s mighty

worlds rolling in space . We have another instrument which assists us to become conversant with God ’s minutest wonders beneath our feet—a microscope . For this we are indebted to B ro .

Shensto n , our treasurer.”

2 14 TEL’UGU MISSION.

RE V . G . F . CURRIE, M . A.

Thexf o l lowin g letter will contain all the information aboutthis B rother that wil l be expected in a Scrap Book .

” The departed Brother Spent a week or two with the writer just previou sto his departure for India. He was the youngest son of Z ebulaand L o

‘

vin ia Currie . He was a printer by trade , and in“ that

capacity worked in the 'city of Philadelphia and in the Harper ’sestablishment in the city of N ew York . It was in this way beprocured the means for h is five years iin the Wolfville Institutefrom which he graduated in 1874 .

He was born in Fredericton , N . B . , in 184 4 . He was con “

verted when a lad of some eleven years , and at that time publicly expressed his desire to be a foreign missionary . When eight

_

2 16 TELUGU M ISSION.

standard of the cross . '

And this he did , the Lord granting himsomewhat at least of his soul’s desire . He wasted no time in argument with those who came only to oppose

,he preached “ the truth

as it is in Jesus , ’ beginning first In the town of Tuni and extendin g h is sphere of labor gradually , until every part of the field hadbeen travelled Over . The upper classes would n o t heed h is message, and with strong desire he turned to the lower castes andoutcasts. At the end of six years a church of abo ut fifty or Sixtymembers had been gathered from th irteen villages— the fruit ofunremitting toil. He felt it very hard to leave the work In thespring of 1884 , for there were enquirers in several sections of thefield .

After his return , he writes in November , 1885 Othercandidates are desiring baptism In different places

,but how soon

I Shal l be able to meet them I do not know.

” The previousmonth he writes “ Prayer 1s a great source of comfort and en

co urag ement to me now in my isolation . I realize [ the fulfilmento f the promise, Lo , I am with yo u alway .

’ I have been wonderful ly sustained and have great reason to be thankful . YetI do so long to see the people submitting to Christ

,and this 10 n g

ing is so far from being satisfied .

” His desire was at least partial ly granted, for he baptized about 24 persons after his return .

A few of these were from the Cocanada field,the northern part

of wh ich he had charge of . He had , indeed, general supervisionof al l the fields from the time of h is arrival until M r

. Craig re

turned to India . In addition to direct missionary work amongthe heathen, he superintended the building of a house which servedas a

,

residence for his family, a school house which servedthe double purpose of school house and chapel

,and a missio n

hOuse wh ich he was engaged in finishing when the call came tohim to rest from his labors .A few sentences must close this sketch . Mr. Currie endeav

o red always to preach somewhere each day. He was a father tohis Christians . He made their troubles his own , and they weresure of his practical help . He never spoke complainingly of hisprivations. The first years at Tuni were attended with manyhardships . When depressed by severe and continued illness , anddiscouraged by the state of the work , “ once only

,

” says Mrs. Currie

,

“ I heard him exclaim all these things are against us . ’

Tho se who have gone into heathenism as dark and imbruted asthat at the new station at Tuni can understand his travail ofspirit . Those who were privileged to know Mr. Currie will agreewith me in saying that he was faithful , conscientious, earnest,

SCRAP BOOK. 2 147?

ever zealous , watchful, exact, wise, helpful . Perhapse hi8 <mo sk

distinguishing trait was humility,

the ro o tFromwh ich al l heavenly virtues Sho o t.”

He seemed to have the gift of self-efi'

acement. He never forg ot,that “ the servant is not above his Lord

,

’ and with much sweet,ness and gentleness of spirit strove to obey the injun ction, M,

love serve one another .” 1 trust o ur young men at Acadia , at

Woodstock, at McMaster Hall may catch the spiIit which impel,led this noble life .Mrs . Currie , whom I was privileged to count a

,

member o f,my Sabbath School class in my college days

,and her three- l ittle

children wil l receive the prayerful sympathy of all readers o f the,

LINK .

Woodstock , Ont . , Sept ., 1886 . THEODORE H . RAND.

B ro . McL aurin writes , August 3 rd Long before you see,

this you will know that as a mission we are again bereaved .

Our faithful devoted brother Currie has been called to his rest,and reward. H e had been sick for a long time

,but we thoug htt

he was improving til l Saturday , 3 1st July, when he suddenly,sank away. We had not anticipated this. It seemed to us as if,in our weakness he could not be spared

,so we looked to ,

theLord with much confidence for his recovery . But his work: wasdone . What patient , close , hard work , it has been, few, know.

After years of lonely trial at Tuni , those desert places were beginning to be glad for him

,and the solitary places to blossom,

Much new ground had been taken in the Master’s name, and fruitbegan to cheer h is heart . When now we have to lay the hero ofthose quiet toils away to re at , we fee l that we

'

have lost much ,and we are grieved for poor Tuni . May the Lord quickly sendone to its rescue . The poor wife will be almost crushed . I wishyou had known her, a gentle refined Spirit only God can so othesuch grief. She wil l think it would not have been so hard hadshe been with him , but she cheerfully bore the harder part insending h im back so soon and so promptly when she was compelled to remain behind . I hope you will still have her come up toyour annual meeting some time when she can bear it.

B ro . Craig writes Our house has been somewhat like,a

hospital for weeks past . About the middle of June I went outfor a short trip , and Mrs . Auvache came down from Samulcptta,When I returned I found Mr. Auvache here also , they had.movedin the meantime But Mrs. Auvauche was quite poo rly, and, for

TELUGU MISSION.

weeks She lwas‘

a prisoner“

inher room . Our dear brother Curriecame on the 6th July, stayed for a few days a nd .then went toSamulco tta . On the 1 5 th Mrs. Craig and I set out for a tour .The next day Mr . Currie came here expecting to be comfortablein o ur; bedroom ,

but our baby came that day and upset all o urplans. Mr. Currie had to be content with a bed In this roomthe study . In the next roo m Mrs . Craig was in bed , and on theOther

,

Side of the house Mrs . Auvache was still il l.”We were so thankful that Mrs . Craig regained her strength

rapidly . Meanwhile Mrs . Auvache began to appear at the table ,but Mr. Currie became worse and was removed to Miss Frith ’sroom on Saturday the 2 4 th . After ou r brother’s departure on the3 l st

,we al l seemed to be well for a few days , but it was not long

before the care and excitement undergone by Miss Frith began totell on her

,and she took to her bed . A week ago last SatuI day

she left f o I Bimlipatam ,but she has been poorly there too . I

trust we shal l have better news soon .

“ Mr. McL aurin‘

also has had one of his sick spells lately,and

it begins to seem almost certain that he should go hom e I II thespring . I trust the friends at home will bear us up In the armsof faith at all times , they never know what troubles we may bepassing through . When it comes to death a message is sent , butnot otherwise.”

B ro . Auvache writes Arrived July 6 . Here the diseasewas so far checked

'

as to allow of a Short visit to Samulco tta.

On returning to Cocanada,however

,his illness became more seri

ous .’

Everything was done for him that the physician’s skill , and

careful nursing,night and day could do . Two or three times it

seemed as if health was returning,and not until July 30.

’k OnSaturday

,July 3 1

,he sank rapidly . The most earnest efforts to

prolong hisfleeting life weI e made .

‘At about p . m ., he

partly raised himself In bed ,and stretching his arms upwards , he

seemed eager to take hold on some one unseen to us , while hisface seemed to lose the weary look of pain , and in its place came .

a look of j o y and peace. Then he sank down and at 8 . 2 5 O’clock

he was with the Master he so dearly loved and whom he so faithfully served . Miss Frith

,Mr . and Mrs. Craig , Mrs . Au

vache,and myself were with him when he passed away . We had

sent word to Bro . McL aurin,but before he or B ro . Stillwell cou ld

get here,our dear brother was in glory . The doctor says the

cause Of death was failure of the heart’s action brought about bythe debil ityof the whole system . Speaking to him a few daysbefore his death

,I said, ‘ Bro . Currie, this Is o ne of the al l thing s

TELUGU M IsSION .

could have treatment . He went. Al l was done for him thatwas possible. But he had finished his course and the Lordtook h im .

”

This will throw additional labor upon those left, especi

al ly On Bro . Craig. He wil l n eed your prayers and sympathy .

I am only good for so much . There are no reserves of s trengthin me any more .

’

Who is to have the privilege of taking up the fallen mantle 2A good man a gentle

,patient toiler a man full of the Holy

Ghost and of faith, has left a vacant p lace . Who wil l come andfill it

B ro . J. R . Stillwell, October 12th, 1886 , writes : I hadnot seen Mr. Currie as yet, and knew him by name only . Bu t

Mrs Currie sent us a warm,hearty

,genuine m ISSIo nary letter

just before setting sail,and we felt we had something special to

say to Mr . Currie when we should meet him . The meeting tookplace on the morning that we lay o ff the Cocanada coast , waitingfor some one to come o fi

’ and meet us. and trying to realize ourvoyage had come to an end . We had not waited long when agentleman came up the ship

’s ladder and asked for us . The gen

tleman was Mr. Currie , and we saw him fo r the first time . Inhis o wn quiet way he took charge of us

,and together he went on

shore. Since that time wemet him often and soon became aoquainted. Quiet

,unassuming

,and rather retiring

,you might not

notice him particularly at first but on further acquaintance hissmooth

,even way

,his wel l

“

trained mind , his sincerity,[tho ro u g hhonesty in everythIn g , the defin iteness of his knowledge , his practical good sense

,his faithful performance of his work , his court

eo us bearing and kindness of heart , all soon won him respectand love . We cannot wonder, then , at our missing him and finding it hard to grasp it all as reality He departed so unexpectedly and quietly ,

gliding away,as it were, that we cannot help

feeling how uncertain our hold is of our friends . Another hasgone . Another place is vacant . Its meaning is clear to us .Has it any voice for you

,enj oyIng gospel light Cl

February 1 2 , 1886 , Nellore ,

Bro . CraigJ

writes Fouryears ago we began to talk of a j ubilee celebration , and n ow it isa thing of the past . After our conference at Cocanada we lefton the 2 5 th January for Nellore . Our party consisted of Mr ,

and Mrs . McL aurin,M r and M rs Archibald , Mr. and M rs. Craig ,

Miss Gray,Miss Frith

.and Mr . Currie . The ladies occupied the

CANADIAN , and the gentlemen the T . S . SH ENSTON .,At meal

times we made exchang es We reached Kottapatam , eight m iles

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2 27

1

from Ongole , on Sunday morning, January Sl st,and spent theday at that station . Our canal journey ended on Wednesday, the

3 rd February,at 3 p . m . ,

and were soon travell ing over a smoothroad to Nel lOI e

,where we were welcomed by

b

Mr. and Mrs .Downie and M iss Wayte .

”

The jubilee meetings began on Friday the 5 th inst . , ata . m . , and were very interesting throughout . The first half

hour of each day was devoted to a prayer meeting. Therewere present in all thirty-three m issionaries

,including wives .

Every one missed Dr . and Mrs . Jewett, who were compelled toleave India two months ago on account of Mrs . Jewett’s illness .Greetings were sent to them by a telegram to Malta . Dr. Jewetthad been appointed chairman for the first day. The chair wasleft empty , but ornamented with garlands of flowers .

”

September 14 th,1886 . Board met in the Standard office

No. 1 17 , Yonge Street, Toronto The Rev . Dr . L . Jewett wasintroduced to the Board by T . S . Shensto n .

September,‘

l 886 , LINK, appears the following two itemsMiss Hatch , formerly of Woodstock C o llege , has been appointedby the Women’s Societies to labor in IIIdIa . Al l who

,know Miss

Hatch will recognize that one with her devotio n and ability wil ldo good Service in the department to which she is called .

July l 6th , near Samulco tta , India, on the Canadian Bap tistMission Boat T . S . Shensto n ,

” the wife of John Craig,of a son .

October 1886 , Link —From a letter from one of our missionaries we learn that Mr . Stillwell has already made so much progress in Telugu that he is able to co ndu zt services with a fluencythat is most g r Itifyin g , and that augurs well for his

'

f uture usefu lness . He takes charge at once of the Samulco tta Seminary,and we trust that a long career of usefulness awaits h im in thatposition .

LINK —Miss Hatch did not get her appointment in time tosail with the Canadian Missionaries . She will

,however

,meet

the Sanford 's and Churchil l’s in L ondon, and have their companyfor the rest of the journey . She takes the Cunarder Catalonia ,which sails from Boston on October 14 th . Many prayers andgood wishes will follow our sister

,and all will give

,her a hearty

Godspeed to her work .

Extracts r m Report 27 4 converts have been p tiz edduring the year

,making the membership III our Telugu churches

on June 30th , 1886 , 1, 87" Two new churches have

0

been organ “

iz ed.

”

222 TELUGU MISSION.

This year we are again called upon to mourn,for our be

loved brother, the Rev . G . F . Currie, has been taken . Last yearyour Board had to report his self-denying action in cuttingshort his time of rest and starting at once for India to help fil lthe gap made by Mr. Timpany

’s death . l ittle did we think

when we bade him such a hearty G o d-speed that we should see

his face no more,

’ and that one Short year would end his work .

He died at the early age of forty two,and in the eleventh year

of h is service as a Missionary of this Society . Bro . Currie sacrificed h imself to the cal l of the hour last year . He hadnot recruited . The care , the lonel iness, the hard Work , the incessant travelling , the poor food and want of medical assistance,did their work . A good man

,a gent le

,patient toiler

,a man full

of the Holy Ghost and of faith has left a vacant place .”At the first meeting ‘ of you r Bo ard for this year, Mr. 'F.

W. Auvache, of Stratford , appeared before it as a candidate forwork on the Foreign Field . The acceptance of him by the Boardwas unanimous and most hearty . His ordination took place atStratford on Nov . 10, 1885 . He sailed from Quebec on November 2 l st ; After spending a little time ”with his friends in England

,where

,also, his marriage took place, he, with Mrs . Auvache

reached Cocanada in March of the present year.”For some time Miss Isabel la '

H atch,of Woodstock , has con

sidered it her duty to devote her life to Missionary work : During a large part of the year the member’s of the Womens Societies have had it in their minds to send her forth . In response toan earnest appeal by the Missionaries n ow in India ‘ for her to besent at once, action was finally taken by the Board of the Wom

en ’s Society of Ontario , early in ' September,appointing

“ MissHatch to go . At a special meeting of your Board convened onSeptember 2 l st, this action Wom‘ en ’s Society was heartilysanctioned. Accordingly Miss Hatch sailed from Boston on “ the14 th of this month (October .) She will proceed to Cocanada forthe study of the language , and the future will

-

determine the exact Sphere of her work . In consideration of her high Christiancharacter , her mental training, and her experience in teaching , itmay be confidently predicted that if Go d preserves her In life andin health a career of great usefulness Is before her In our TeluguMission .

Mr . Currie reached Cocanada from Canada . July 1st, 1885 .

Here he remained In charge till the arrival of Mr. Craig, Oct. l st.

He then proceeded alone to Tuni, where, in spite of separationfrom wife and children , and isolation from those of his own '

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Extracts from reportThe next appropriation was . that as ‘ a sl ight acknowledge

ment of the debt of gratitude we owe to the late Mr. Timpanyand to Mrs. Timpany, that $100 be remitted annual ly to Mrs

Timpany for four years .“ The list of Life-members made this year , is as follows

Mrs . W. Pegg, East Ward , Brantford Mrs . Wm . Hollins , St .Thomas Mrs. Crawford , B rantford , 1st Church Mrs . Wm .

Pickard, Guelph ; Mrs . A . V . Timpany ,

Woodstock ; Mrs. Ryder,Goble’s Corners M rs. S . Dadson , Paris Mrs. Davis

,2nd, Lobo

Mrs . John Bates, Mrs . McL aurin , India Mrs . T . S . Shensto n ,

B rantford, l st Church M rs. Carey , B rantford , l st ChurchMrs . Ira Barber, Villa Nova ; Mrs , John Haviland, Boston ;Mrs . John Nelles, Boston ; Miss Clara Lugsdin

,Jarvis St .

Church,Toronto .

”


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Balance o n h and $2232 Paid f o r Missio n purpo ses

Received from al l 4104 4 9 D isbursemen ts .

B alance o n hand

$6336 73

The 10th annual meeting of the Women’s Baptist MissionarySociety

,East

,was held in the Olivet Baptist Church

,Montreal

City the 7th day of October, 1886 .

imminent.

MRS . T. Jviczsiaresincnts.

MRS. PAINE AND MRS . UPHAM.

S ecrziarlrs.

MRS. BENTLY, Reco rding ; MISS MUIR, Co rresponding .

Greasurer.

MRS . FRANK SMITH .

New circles have been formed during the year in the followingplaces z—Buck

o

ingham. Kea re

,Maxville and North Nation

Mills,making In al l 3 5 circles.

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Extracts from the reportAt the request of Mrs . Castle , President of the Western So

cIety, an extra effort was made to raise $200, to assist in theerection of the new Zenana house. An appeal was made to ourcircles , which was heartily responded to, and soon the requiredamount was raised , and sent on to the treasurer of the GeneralSociety.

”

“ In the year to come may the sisters in all our churches engage heartily and lovingly in this work

,that more laborers may

be sent fo rth , and soon may we hear of large numbers of the Telug us accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour .”


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Balance o n hand 3 493 18 Paid Fo reign M issio nTo tal received 115 3 O5 Disbur sements.

Bal ance o n hand .

$ 1646 23 1646 23

From the 72nd annual report of the American Baptist Union( 1886) we learn that the Union have n o w 12 separate stationsamong the Telugus and have baptized of thenr during the year

and expended The following are the numbersof baptisms in connection with the three stations with which ourCanadian Missionaries were formerly connected.

N ellore ,— Baptized , twenty-one members , 4 96Ongole .

—Baptized , 3 5 6 members,

Ramapatam .—Baptized , twenty members , 601 .

N)

N)

C) TELUGU M ISSION .

1887 .

THE 2 1TH ANNUAL MEETING

OF TH E


ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

Was held in the Jarvis Street Baptist Church ,Toronto . on the

17th day Of October, 1887 . Dr . Thomas in the chair. Addresseswere de livered by Dr . W . S . McKen z re

,of B oston ,

U . S"

. Rev .

John McL au rin,and Robert Garside .

:lBresiUent.

WIL LIAM CRAIG .

H ireflfiresihrnis.

CHAS . RAYMOND an d A. A. AYER .

S ecretary

REV . JAMES GRANTEreasurrr.

T. S . SH ENSTON .

The 11th annual meeting of the Canadian Telugu Conferencewas held at B imlipatam 0 11 M onday , January 10th

r

-1887 .

Amon g those reported present were M r . an d Mrs -McL au rin,Mr .

and Mrs . Craig , M r . and Mrs,Stillwell

,M iss Hatch and Mr.

Auvache. StatisticsCocanada

,baptized

, 7 2 members,490.

Tuni .—Baptized , eleven members,5 3 .

Ak idu .—Baptized

,17 2

,members ,

At the 12th annual conference held at Cocanada January 17th1888 ,

1 .966 members are reported .

B ro . Craig writes from India . February l 0th,1887 -On the

afternoon oftD

Thursday , the 19th January a‘ counci l met at Gocanada for the purpose Of examining three candidates for ordination . B ro . McL aurin was m oderator and Jonathan Burder

,

clerk .

M iSSIOII aries\

Ap pointed .— At a meeting o f the Foreig n Mis

sion Board , of On tariOand. Quebec heldw o n M arch 18th ,two of

the students of McMaster Hall were appointed to the Foreign“

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, March 2 1, 1887 , Bro . Craig writes from India .On’hurs

day,at a village two miles nearer Gunnanapudi, I heard from

Cocanada and Samulco tta that Mr . McL aurin was ill . and fearedhe must leaveIndia at once . I started immediately for home , Spentabout one hour at Akidu, and arrived at Cocanada on Sundaymorning very early .

”

“ I found Mr. McL aurin feel ing better,but on Monday he

was quite il l again , and we began to make arrangements,

for asea voyage to Colombo, where he might wait for the steamer forLondon . The sea always does him good . He was feeling sopoorly that I concluded to accompany

b

him and Mrs . McL aurin .

I came to this decision more readily,because I was feeling poorly

myself. We have had a succession of hurries and delays? Whileexpecting the steamer on Saturday

,we heard that it m ight come

on Friday and so prepared . Even the farewell meeting was heldon Thursday evening , instead of Friday. This was given by theEnglish church , addresses being presented to Mr . and Mrs .McL aurin and Miss Frith , each of whom received a silver napkinring . But the steamer did not come on Friday .

April , 1887 , LINK contains a long and most interesting letterfrom Miss S . I . Hatch , on her arrival at Cocanada, of which thefollowing are short extracts Mr. and Mrs . Churchil l , Dr .Emma Cummings and self

,took passage from Liverpool to Madras

the fol lowing week . There were other missionaries aboard (Episcopal). The passengers represented al l classes from the righteousover-much to the most un r1g hteo us, so that it might easily besuspected that the relations were not always the most cord ial .The ship , however, sailed smoothly on through the calm seas,quite unconscious of the tumults and storm s that were beingcontinually repressed within . The weather all along was delightful

In two days we reached Madras,anchoring there on Sun

day night .”

My letters rece ed on board here , the first item of newswas that the Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario andQuebec had closed the year free of debt. Cheery welcome tidingsthis ! When we know ho w heavy the burden had been a fewweeks before .

”

We take the steamer to Cocanada,stopping at Musuli

patam , where we left our pleasant companion and dear friend ,

Emma J . Cummings , M . D. ,who goes to Baputla as a Medical

Missionary, and who wil l l ive with Mr. and Mrs . Bullard , Mrs .

Bullard being a Canadian and formerly a student of Woodstock

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College. On Saturday morning we anchor at Cocanada, and onthe steam launch coming out to meet us we recognize the facesof Mr . McL aurin and Mr . Auvache . H OW good to grasp thehand of an Old friend after so many to ssings to and froSome of the home letters which they bring with them are

gulped down while questions and answers , inquiries , and ordersfor luggage are so hastily Spoken So we say good-bye to thelast companions of our voyage

,Rev G . Churchill and wife , who

have taken great care of their protege and shown her muchkindness. Mrs . McL aurin greets us on the shore and I am hurried to the Mission Compound

,my new home . The sun is

intensely hot,for it is mid-day and the excitement is too great

to allow us any g l impse of the town as we follow through . Thecompound is a pretty inviting place in th is the cool season of theyear. and as we drive to the door of the Mission House we aremet by Mrs . Craig , Mrs . Auvache and Miss Johnson

,from whom

and from all our missionaries we received a very hearty welcomeeither by letter or by telegram , and so we close ‘ Our Notes bythe Way.

’

From Tuni,May 18

,1887 , Mr. Craig writes My last

communication was from Colombo,after I had said farewell to

our fellow-workers,who were homeward bound. On Satuday,

the 30th April,I had the pleasure of reaching home . Mrs . Craig

was recovering from a week ’s illness and Mr . Auvache had justtaken to his bed , where he renrained for some time , with a severeattack of fever. He is not wholly well yet

,though moving about .”

On the 3 rd May,early in the morning, I received a telegram

announcing the safe arrival of our party at Suez. This messagesaved us from anxiety until we had letters from Aden onSaturday last , which told us of the the extreme illness of B ro .

McL aurin between Colombo and Aden . If he reaches Canadaand has his health restored , his life ought to be one of greatblessing to many

,because it has apparently been given back so

many times .”Farewell to Mr . and Mrs . McL aurin , and Miss Frith on their

leaving Cocanada,copied from BAPTIST of Nov . , 1887 . On the

evening of Thursday,the 17th instant, a social gathering of the

English Baptist Church and congregation . presided over by theRev . Mr. Auvache

,the pastor of

tb

the church , was held In the newTimpany Memorial Boarding and Day Scho Ol , for the purpose ofpresenting farewell addresses to Rev . Mr. McL aurin

, of theCanadian Baptist Mission , and Miss Frith , Zenana Missionary ,on the occasion of their departure for Cairada, to recruit their


“

health , wh ich had been materially declining f o r. some considerabletime.

"

The social was larg ely attended The whole of the front po rtion of the large building was fully occupied

, among others theRev . Messrs . Heilles and Miles

,of the Narsapur M ission were

present .The proceedings commenced bythe chairman calling upon the

Rev. Mr. Craig,to ask a blessing , when tea and cakes provided

by some of the Marthas of the Churchwere served AD L IB ITUM,

by some of the young ladies of the school , who cheerfully undertook the work .

Next an appropriate hymn was sung,and an appropriate ad

dress was presented to the Rev . Mr. McL aurin , by Mr. G . H .

White , of Messrs . Hall,W ilson dz Co .

The address was handed over to the Rev . M r . McL aurin , ac ,

companied with two silver napkin rings, having’

his own andMrs . McL aurin

’

s names engraved on them . Upon which therev . gentleman , who was very weak, rose, and in behalf of himself and Mrs . McL aurin thanked them for the handsome mannerin which they expressed their esteem and regard

,and for the

many kind words spoken,with reference to h imself and his wife .

Miss Frith who appeared to be overcome at the prospect ofleaving those who were endeared to her , briefly tendered herheartfelt thanks for the kind allusions made t o hersel f and herlabours in Cocanada

,and hoped in God’s Providence

,

to returnsoon to the scene of her labors

,where she had made up her mind

to l ive and die .

June 30th,1887 , C . BAPTIST—

“ Mr and Mrs McL aurin , andson

,arrived at New York , on Saturday , June 18th , where they

remained until Tuesday . kindly entertained by Rev . M . McGreg :

or and wife . From New York they went direct to Woodstock,

where their children were awaiting them . Mrs . McL aurin wasvery well during the whole of thejourney from Cocanada, but isby no means so

t,

ro bust as when She went away . Mr. McL aurin

though far from strong,is very much improved

,and feels that

his strength Is daily returning . From the day he left Ceylon un

til he reached Malta,neither he nor anyone on board expected

that he would ever again see land . As soon , however, as he ,feltthe cool n ro thern breeze he began to mend . . His stay in Englanddid much for him , and during the Atlantic voyage he continued

.

to improve . The meeting with loved ones at Woodstock,espec

ial ly with their own ch ildren , was a g ladly solemn occasion .

”

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of her zenana work, paying the workers and meeting them oncea

'

mo nth .

October,1887 , LINK . Farewell Services to Missionaries .

Farewell services Of a very interesting character, were held inB rantford , and in Toronto , on the occasion of the departure o fMr. and Mrs . Davis. and Mr. L aflamme for India . That inBrantford was held in the Park Church , under the auspices ofthe Young People’s Association of the Churches . The service inToronto was held in the Jarvis Street Church . Rev . Dr.Thomas , Rev. James Grant , Rev . John Alexander , and Mr .

Mr . Davis and L aflamme delivered addresses , and Dr. Castleoffered rayer. The addresses were all good , but that Of Mr.A lexandbr

,in which he referred to the struggles he had passed

through in connection with giving up his daughter to the foreignwork , and the joy he had reached in making the sacrifice , waspeculiarly touching ) “ k

November , 12 , 188 7, C . BAPTIST info rms its readers that inconsequence of sickness Mr. and Mrs . Auvache were

'

returningfrom India with no prospect of their ever returning .

November, 1887 , LINK . The ordination services occurred on

Sunday evening , after the preaching of the annual sermon forthe Foreign Mission Society by the Rev . Dr. Kellogg of thePresbyterian Church . The services were Of a highly impressivecharacter. The ordinatio n prayer was Offered by Rev. JoshuaDeno van the charge to the candidate was given by Rev . JohnMcL aurin the right hand of fel lowship was extended by theRev . Dr . Thomas . Mr. Garside is expecting to sail for India inNovember. The fund started by Messrs . Davis and L aflammefor the third man is now complete .November

,19th , 1887 , C . BAPTIST—A most unique an de

lightful service was held in the Sunday School Hal l of the JarvisStreet Church , onWednesday evening , 9th inst. It was a churchfamily farewel l to Mr. and Mrs . Garsid e . The spacious roomwas filled to repletion . Dr. Thomas presided . Mr . William RIlio tt spoke for the Board of Deacons , Mr. D . E . Thomson for themission societies of the church

,Mr. W. J . Davis, for the Sunday

School, and M rs. Castle for the Ladies Circles . A deputationfrom the Alexander Street Church

,consisting Of Mr. Huston an d

tho Rev . Professor McGreg o r, were introduced , and spoke withadmirable appropriateness for the Young People

’s Associationand the church which they represented . Mr . Garside feelinglyresponded . Before the meeting closed the Rev . Joshua Den o van

arrived , and spoke words which thrilled all hearts . For appro

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priateness, conciseness and variety of speech—for t enderness ,warmth and enthusiasm Of feeling—fo r all that goes to make ameeting delightfully memorable

,this certainly excelled. Not

the least impressive features were the fervent prayers led byRev . A. Grant , Dr. Buchan and Dr. Castle.Mr. and Mrs . Garside left for New York the following morn

ing,and sailed for Liverpool on Saturday per steamship Etruria.

December 9th , 1887 , Bro .Craig writes What changes wehave experienced in our mission during the past four years Orperhaps I should say the past three yearsubecause the departureof Mr. Currie and family and of myself and child for Canada inFebruary, 1884 , was not an unexpected event. But the death ofour pioneer missionary a year later

, brought Mr . Currie backmonths befo re he expected to come and even I hastened my departure from Canada and came as early as was safe for Mrs.

Craig and Mr. and Mrs . Stillwell. Then we welcomed Mr. andMrs . Auvache in March , 1886 , and felt that we were picking updareng th once more . B ut July brought sorrow and loss whenB ro . Currie was called home to glory . Then it soon became evident that B ro . McLaurin must leave . We gave Miss Hatch ahearty welcome in December

,that is

,a year ago

,but I for one was

very much disappointed in not seeing any young: men coming . Next came the decision that Miss Frith must go home, andher departure with Mr. and Mrs . McL aurin soon followed.

What an anxious time they had on the way to England every oneknows . Well, what next ? Some more joy in the shape of reinforcements . B ut before the first of them came

,another decision

had been reached. Extreme illness had forced Bro . Auvache todecide that he must leave for England at once . On the 12thNovember I went out to meet Mr. and Mrs . Davis and Mr

'

.

Laflamme. I can assure you that was a high day at the MissionHo use. Mr . and Mrs. Stillwell were in from Samu lco tta andMiss Fa lsom was with us too . A young lady for the Narsapur

M ission came on the steamer with our friends and was met byanother young lady

,and both were with us during that day.

”

Only a week later I went o ut to the steamer once more .This time to see Mr. and M rs. Auvache and baby safely onboard. Miss E llen Gibson , whom I call deaconness, was withus. This expedition was as wretched as the previous one hadbeen enjoyable. In the one case I went to welcome new-comerswith vigorous bodies

,in the other I went to say farewell to those

who were in weakness and illness , leaving India to save their

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lives . On the 12th I went on a steam launch , and the sea wascalm. On the 19th we had to go in a sail-boat, and the sea wasrough .

Extracts from the 2 1st report About this '

ime word wasreceived from India that the health of the senior missionary

,Rev .

John McL aurin, was so impaired that it was a grave question if

he could hold out much longer . For more than a year he had beenso enfeebled that his work

,at other times a j oy, had become a

burden almost too heavy to~be borne .”

He accordingly sailed from Madras in April,and although

seriously ill almost al l the way across , and constrained to tarryfor a whil e in England to recuperate

,along with Mrs . McL aurin

he arrived amongst us the third week of June . It is surely amatter of gratitude to our Father in heaven that he is able toreport himself as recuperating fast . It is also well-known thatM iss Frith , of the Women

’s Society,had been in poor health for

a considerable time . Our sister’s heart was so absorbed in herwork that she forgot to take care of herself

,and

,consequently

,

her frame,not strong at the best , gave way, and she, too, acting

upon the advice of the other missionaries came home with Mr .and Mrs . McL aurin for a period of rest . ”

It meant the closing up of Samulco tta Seminary for mo rethan one year

,and the entire cessat ion of all the work in this

department which has been going O II so hopefully ever since Bro .

McL aurin had started it five years ago . It must be confessedthat when the news reached us here in Canada of this foundationwork

,the education Of a native ministry being stopped

,that our

fears grew apace , and that we seemed to see a dark cloud threatening the

'

cradle we had Watched with so much solicitude andhope.”

Only one missionary on the field, Bro . J . Craig, who is ableto do full missionary work .

”

In h is report on the field, B ro . Craig writes It was

'

myhope that I should be able to care for the Akidu field andpart of this field without overtax ing . my strength 3 but the eventthat saddened July ,

'

1886,left additional burdens on my shoul

ders . From then till April of this year , I had the care Of all thefields

,and the work was almost too much for me . When Mr.

McL aurin was leaving,

here in such a weak condition , I felt itwould be a comfort to him and his wife were I to accompany himand his wife as far as Ceylon . I did so

,and the change did ”me

much good, and when I returned , part of the burden was gone,

2 36 TELUGU M ISSION.d

The 11th annual meeting of the Women ’s Baptist ForeignMissionary Society was held .

imminent.

MRS . J . H. CASTLE .

’

TIiredBresineuts.

Mas. THOMPSON . AND Mas. J. C. YULE .

secretaries.

M ISS GRACE ALEXANDER,Reco rding ; M ISS BUCHAN

, Co rrespo nding .

mreasurer.

MES . J . L , EL DIOTT.

2 3 new circles o rg anIzed during the year making in al l 15 0.

The following ladies have becOme l ife members during theyear': Mrs. Thos . Couch , Guelph Mrs . Moor, College Street CircleToronto ; Mrs . Mills , Parliament Circle, Toronto ; Mrs . ElmoreHarris , B loor St . Toronto ; Mrs . Chas . Stark , B loor St. Cir cle,To ronto ; Mrs Hall . Dundas ; Mrs . Lewis B enedict , B rantfordMrs . Bone , St. Catharines Miss Jane Randal , Paris Mrs. Carryer

,and Miss Hatch

, Woo dstock ; Mrs Walter, St . Thomas .


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Bal ance o n hand 1487 4 3 Paid Fo reign Missio n .

To tal received 4636 7 4 DisbursementsBal an ce o n

$6 124 17 6124 17

Woman’s Fo reig n Missionary Society Of Eastern Ontario andQuebec.

flaresihent.

MRS . T. J . CLAXTON.

'

H ieesiflresinents.

MES. PAINE AND MRS . UPHAM.

S ecretaries.

Mas. BENTLY, Reco rding ; MISS

'

MUIE , Co rrespo nding .

mu seum .

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The 11th annual meeting of this Society was held in the OlivetChurch , Montreal , on the afternoon of Thursday , October 6th,

The attendance was the larg est the Society has yet had .

The President, Mrs . Claxton . then gave a most cordial welcome to the delegates from the circle present

,expressing the

pleasure that al l felt In welcoming Miss Frith and the Rev. J .

McL aurin amongst us at this time . Touching reference was

made In the course of her address to the missionaries who hadjust left, and to the one who was then leaving our shores (MissAlexander sailed from Boston October 6th ), and the g reat honorthat women of this age received in being called to work tog etherin this o ur Master’s cause closing with an earnest appeal to themembers Of the Society for continued interest , for " Behold , liftup your eyes and look on the fields

,for they are wh ite already to

harvest.”

Two new circles for the year reported,making the total num

ber 7 4 .

Extracts from reportWe regret to state that our very efficient and hardworking

Corresponding Secretary , Miss Muir, has been compelled to retirefrom active connection with the Board , in order to recruit herhealth . We shal l miss her Spirit of enthusiasm for missions, herloving zeal for the salvation Of the Telugus wh ich has Oftenstirred us to greater effort

,but we shall continue to pray that it

may please Go d to soon restore her to health , and that She mayagain engag e with us in this work which she has so much atheart . "

With four new missionaries going out th is year,we are nu

der fresh Obligations to strive to induce every Baptist woman tobecome an active member Of our Circles , and all doing what theycan for our Foreign Missions .”


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Balance o n h and 397 09 Paid f o r Missio n purp o ses .

Received f rom al l so urces. 115 8 71 D isbursemen ts

Balance o n h and

$15 5 5 80

From the 7 ‘

i rd annual report of theAmerica Baptist Missionary Union ( 1887 ) we learn that they n o w have 13 separate stat ions among the Telugus, and have baptized of them during the

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year and expended The following are thenumbers baptiz ed during the year in connection

,

w ith the threestation with which our Missionaries were formerly conn

'

ectedNellore.

7—Baptized , twenty-two members , 5 82 .

Ohg o leé—Baptized , 5 08 members ,

Ramapatam—Bap tized

,none members, 601.


the number of Missionaries laboof Canada

, Baptists , 8 , (two oflanguage) , American BaptistMissionary Society , 4 ; Church

Missionary SociMissionary Society , 2 ,

Episcopal Methodist, 4Of 3 5

5 l 3 l ight colored squares in the left hand diag rarepresenting each ”

a ministers who are caring for theo

spiritual wants Of the of Ontario ’s population , represented

22 light colored squares o n the right hand diagram.

'

1hecolored squares in the left hand diagram representing

ach 5 min isters (3 5 ) are caring for the spiI itual wants Of the8,000,000 Telugus represen ted by the 180 dark colored squares

o n the right hand diagram . It is thus plainly seen that whilein Ontario there IS one minister to every 8 5 8 of the population

,

in the Telugu land there IS only one Minister to everyYes ,

. it is true we “ have heathen at home. But what have weabroad .

Mill ions 8 5 0

The population Of the world is estimated atThe chart opposite shows the actual relative number accordingto their religion . Each square represents (one m ill ion)soul s . Two and one-fifth of a square wil l represent the po pu lation of the Pro vm ce Of Ontario

JEWS,' The Jews do not accept Christ as the long promised Messiah ,

but are still looking for the Messiah , when he comes is to be theirtemporal King.

GREEKCHURCH , 80,0000.000.

Austria,

Russia; -63 ,000,000. Turkey, 13 ,000,000 Greece

,

l1,000,000. This church disown the authority of

and ’o f course dOes no t recogn ize the Church Of Rome ‘

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aS v‘the true church . They baptize their children when from four

to eighteen years Of age by immersion, and give them the Lord’sSupper immediately afterwards. They pray for the dead

,and

believe that the real body of Christ is In the sacramental bread .

PROTESTANTS,

Europe,

Asia , Africa,&c

000. America , Al l Christians who differ (protestagainst) from the Church of Rome .

ROMAN CATHOLICS,

Europe , Asia , Africa,

America , Believe in the infall ibility of the Popepurgatory— masses offered to Go d a true and proper propitiatorysacrifice for the l iving and the dead—accept only the Church ’sinterpretation o f all scripture Whosoever will be saved beforeall thing s it is necessary that he shall hold the Catho lic faith ,

which faith except every one do keep entire and inviolate,without

doubt he shall perish everlastingly .

MOH AM EDANS,

India,

Turkey, A compound of

Paganism,Judaism and Christianity

,with the Koran as their

B ible,and as their rallying cry

,

“ There is no Go d but Go d, andMahommet is his prophet.

HEATHEN , 000.

Those who worship idols,and are Ignorant of the true G o d

and the only way of salvation , through the atonement of Christ .

TELUGUS ,

Heathens . About are under the influence of ourown Missionaries . I

‘

heir country lies on the west side of theBay Of Bengal , and is shown on the map as lying within thedotted lines.

To tal Annual Receipts.

84 1 4 1 9 I s

Paid Secretaries during the 2 1 years.Paid Treasurers during the 2 1 years

'li. “ a m t , r

I A n ; J ! .

An average o f less than 6 cerlts per day.

WQMEN’

S BAPTIST FOREIGN Mis.

S IONARY SOCIETY.

‘

Date o f Place o f

Pag e Anhual M eetipg Annual Meeting Presidents. SecretarIes Treasurers.

To ro nto MrsMcMaster Miss Mo rse MissEBuchanBrantfo rd Mrs. Freeland

To ro nto Mrs. L airdTo ro nto MissDexter Mi

‘

s

;

s L lo yd( 5

Brantfo rd

To ronto Mrs eno van Mrs.W H Ellio ttL o ndo n Miss V El lio ttSt. Catharines Mrs. Castle

H amilto nAylmer M iss Alexander M rs. J L E llio tt

W o m e n’s B a p tis t F o r e ig n M iss io n a r y S o c ie ty .

Date o f Place o f0

Annual Nee-ting . Annual Meeting PresIdents. Secretaries. Treasurers.

Mrs.JT Claxto n MrsWSPo rteo us 61188 G reen

Mrs, Ayer Mrs. BentleyMrs SmIth

BAPTIST FOREIGN MISS IONARY S OCI

ETY OF ONTARIO AND Q UEBEC.

3, Date o f Annual H lace o f Annual

Cl: M eeting . M eeting . Presidents. Secretaries Treasurers

Ing erso l l N o ne Rev . W . Stewart T\

S Shensto n

To ro nto N o ne

Wo o dsto ck N o ne

St. Catharines ReV .] no BatesH amilto n

Aylmer

Bran tfo rd RevJLCampbellL o ndo n

GuelphTo ro nto

To ro nto

Brantfo rd T S Shensto n RevJasCo utts T D CraigSt. CatharinesTo ro nto

M o ntreal

H amilto nL o ndo n C Raymo nd RevJWA Stewart T S Shensto n

St. Tho mas

Guelph

Paris

To ronto Wm . Craig Rev] as.Grant

COMPARATIV E S TATEMENTS .

ONTARIO AND Q UEBEC. Am . BaptnM iSS . Unio n .

Members. Ma le Telu g u Male‘

Telug u

M issio naries. M embers M issio naries. Members.

McL aurin , Craig and Stillwell , are the o n ly o nes who understand the

lang uag e.

This number is from the annual repo rt o f,

May, 1887. I have been

unsuccessful in all my attempts to Obtain a later repo rt, May 2 0th , 1888.

TELUGU M ISSION .

AN APPEAL .

Reader listen to what thy Reedemer says,yea commands

GO into all the world (Europe, Asia , Africa and America), andpreach the gospel (the good news— that G o d so loved the world ,

to every creature He that believethfaith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of Go d

and is baptized shall (SHALL , SHALL) be saved , but he that believeth not shall (SHALL , SHALL , be dammed .

” Mark,also , these

searching questions . Whosoever (which includes the Telugus)Shall cal l upon the name of the Lord shall (SHALL ,) be saved .

But how then Shall they (the Telugus) call on him in whomthey have not believed ? How Shall they believe in him of Whomthey have not heard ? H o w shall they (the To lug us, hear withouta preacher ? H OW Shall they (McL aurin

,Craig

,Stillwell

,La

flamme, Davis , Garside and Miss Hatch) preach , except they besent (by the Baptists of Ontario and Quebec)This does not mean that Mr. A Shal l remind

\

M r . B . that it ishis duty to aid in sending out these missionaries , but is for thereader—M r . A—himself to act . The harvest truly is plento us( look at the diagram ), but the laborers are few.

Craig , McL aurin,Stil lwell

,L aflamme , Davis, Garside and

Miss Hatch from the Baptists of Ontario and Quebec ) , pray yethe Lord Of the harvest (who filled your barn ) that he wil l sendforth laborers into his (HIS ) harvest .

” “ H ow readest thouH OW much owest thou unto my Lord ?” H ow much was yourassessment last year ? How much your tobacco bill ? H o w

much did you give for that How ‘ much have youg iven f o r the Telugu Mission ? Are you willing to go yourself ?Are you willing for you so n or daughter to go Are you willingthat those who do go shall suffer for the want of money ? Are

you willing that the Telugus shal l perish for the lack of missionaries? Do you expect to spend an eternity in heaven with thousands of Telugus saved through the instrumentality of o thers ?

Brethren Timpany and Currie and Mrs. John Craig have laiddown their lives in th is warfare

,and the many hot tears shed for

them fell miles away from their graves .What i s a few dollars in money compared with the sacrifice

made by these brothers and sisters ! Money is essential , and th ismoney must come out of the pockets of the Baptists of Ontario

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a nd Quebec. Can you not give ten o r even twenty times morethan you have been giving hithe rto ? Christ commands yo u to“ rol l away the stone

,

” which you can do,

‘in '

o rder that He maycommand the dead “ to come forth “ He that hath an ear tohear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the (Ontario andQ uebec Baptists) churches .

”

If each of the 3 0,000 Baptists Of Ontario and Quebec would

contribute half a cent a day for Foreign Mission purposes, itwould be $5 4 ,600 a year.

Out of every 100 church members only TEN GIVE ANY

THINt} WHATEVER to Foreign Missions. $9 out of every$ 10 contributed by ONE-TENTH OF TH IS ONE-TENTH .

$98 is Spent for religious purposes among the comparative few a t

H OME for every $ 2 expended among the hundreds of HEATHENS A BROAD . In the United States

, (and I presume in Outario and Queb ec ) there is one minister to every 600 persons, butin heathen lands on ly o ne to

2 5 0 TELUGU M ISSION .

T . S . SH ENSTOX :

The above is a very fair likeness of the author . of whomnothing personally needs to be said . I have stated alreadyfrankly that my sole object in going to the trouble and expenseI have

,was to preserve from loss interesting facts in connection

with the orig in and the first twenty year's o reratio n o f ouryoung Canadian Foreign M issionary Society, and did not knowof any really competent party at all likely to undertake the task .

I am painfully conscious of many defects of emissio n and commission

,and at the same time real ize how useless it would be for me

t o cry “ Wolf, Wolf, after D . D .

’s,B . A .

’s,M . A .

’s, &c have

been raising the monotonous cry from time immemorial in theShape p f mock-modest appeals to their “ indulgent readers tooverlook the many imperfections , 810 .

It is a FACT— not mock modest nonsense—that from severalessen tial standp

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oints I ought not to have undertaken the task ,and forced myself into the position with my eyes open , solely fo rthe reason named above Many defects 1 detected when to o lateto remedy them

,and many doubtless there are of which in mercy

I am kept in b l issful ignorance , owing to my defective education

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