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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtra reproduit en un seul cliche, il est film6 A partir de Tangle supdrieur gauche, do gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mini ''ocon»d» "■♦o.. ^^, Andaman lllands Kuid lCEVLON nc AlERKMi BAPntT MitllOIAinr UllOR. mMONT TCMPIE. BOSTON. . ... — , ■■ ^ I 1^ I TjM.m ip *j aj-.a - ' — p"^ <♦♦■ ?»« TAVOVV V 9 HBBH mmmm^ Teloogoo Mission SCRAP BOOK — BY — Thomas S. Shenston, BRANTFORD, ONT., Tbfabuueb of the Baptist Fobbion Misbiohaby Society of Oktabio add Quebec. " And this continued by the space of two (twenty) year ; so that they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus. * ♦ * * Almost throughout all Asia, this Paul (McLaunn, Timpany, Craig and Ourrie) both persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no Gods, which are made with hands." — The Bible. Greater t/te distance the light shineth, the brighter the light is at home. BRANTFORD : Pbinteo at thb Expobitob Book and Job ( ffice. 1868. A TELOOGCO IDOL-FULL SIZE. The writer being of the opinion that perhaps no one was in a better position than himselt to collate the facts herein narrated, and being convinced of their usefulness — especially in the future — were the only motives that pronopted him to undertake the task, which was by no means a small one. If the interest in our Foreign Missions is intensified in the reader by the reading as it is in the writer by the writing, the labor bestowed on this little book will not have been in vain. Strap !5«k)k. TREASURER'S OFFICE. Branlford, iSH. . 4^ A'tii'i:t'e the Savior of tlie WORLD. For there is no difference Ijetween the Jew and tlie Greek ; for the same Lord over ALL i.s rich unto ALL that call upon him. For WHOSOEVER shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. HOW then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed ? and HOW shall they Ijelieve in him of whom they have not heard? and HOW shall they hear without a preacher? And HOW shall they preach except they be sent ? as it is writ- ten : How Ijeautifui are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things ! 8 TELoo«ioo Mission. Locations. THE EARTH.— " Befon' the mountains were hrouylit forth, or even thou had.st formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God," who *• In the beginning created the heavens and the earth." '* By the mouth of God, so tliat things which are seen were not made of things that do appear." "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath, for the hea\ ens shall vanish away like smoke and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell tlierein shall die in like manner ; but my salvation shall be for- ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished " — Ovd's Wonl. ASIA is bounded on the noith by the Artie Ocean, on the west by the Red, Black and Mediterranean seas, on the South by tlie Indian Ocean, and on the east by the Pacific Ocean, being almost entirely within the northern division of the eastern hemis- phere. Its length from east to west is 5,200 miles, and from north to south 6,200 miles, and containing 1 8,000,000 square miles, or four times as large as all Europe. Its population is 750,000,000, or one-half that of the globe. * INDIA OR HINDOSTAN is bounded on the north by the Himalaya mountains, on the west by the Arabian Sea, ic, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the east by the Bay of Bengal ; containing an area of 1,600,000 scjuare miles, and a population of 260,000,000. Its form is somewhat that of an irregular triangle, two of which lines are '^out 1,900 miles of sea coast, and the remaining line from east to west from sea to sea, about 1,600 miles. The whole forming the southern portion of Asia. Its society is divided into four grand divisions called " Castes." Brahmins or priests, so'diers, merchants, and labor- ers. None of these can intermarry, or even eat and drink to- gether. These grand divisions are sub-divided. Those who have been degraded from their caste are tailed pariahs, and are out- casts from society. BRITISH INDIA is an extensive empire of 1 ,500,000 square miles comprising the major part of the southern part of the central peninsula of southern Asia, together with the island of Ceylon ein<; from 400 to 600 miles in length, and lies on the southern part of India on the westt.'rn shore of the Bay of Bengal from Chicacde to Madrn, a distance of 600 miles. It is within the Madr'is Piesiut ■\, and conse- <|uently under British rule. The number of Teloo;. > os variously estimated at from 15,000,000 to 17,000,000, or th.ut three and a-lialf times that of Oanada, and one twenti' i ; the - ntire y -j»u- lalion of Hindostan. The greiLer portion, perhaps fo':r-fifths, of wh*"'"' ' side within the above described limits, and the remain- ing one-tifth are scattered throughout Hindostf- . It is generally admitted that physically, mentally) , and mor ally the Teloogoos are far in advance of all tho other tri'/'S and races in India. As tradesmen, they rank fi-f-t, and their language, Dr, Caldwell (a most competent judge) says, " in point of euphonic sweetness justly claims the first plact." It has always appeared to me providentially fortunate that our first ('anadian mission should be located in such a desirable field. Read to the end of this book and I doubt not but the reader will endorse this opinion. MADRAS. — This is a large seaport city of some 450,000 population, lying at the mouth (if such a sea bay can have a mouth) of the Bay of Bengal, on the western coast thereof It is about 1.'50 miles south of Ramapatam, and some 300 miles south west from Cocanada. CALCUTTA is a city of 700,000. lying so far (450 miles) north east of our Canadian field of labor tnat it is .seldom named in connection therewith. Madras is the chief shipping port for all European vessels which touch there before passing up the Bay of Bengal to Calcutta &c. BOMBAY is a city of 800,000, lying so far (500 miles) north west of the Teloogoo country that it virtually has no connection with our Canadian mission. 10 Teloocoo Mission. RAMAPATAM is a town of 15,000 lying in the western margin of tlie Bay of Bengal, 120 miles north of Madras. Here is located the theological seminary in which Rev. A. V. Timpany was, for sonie years, connected as tutor and principal. NELLORE is a flourishing town with a population (including some adjacent \illages. a connnon practice in India) of 40,000 It lies on the south side of the great river Pannaar, and is 90 miles north of ^ladras, and 15 miles inland from the Bay of Bengal, 75 miles from Ongole, and 250 miles from Cocanada. Here the first mission was estai)lished in Teloogoo land by Rev. S. S. Day. OXGOLE. — This is a small town of 10,000 population situat- ed some 10 miles inland from the Bay of Bengal, 150 miles from Madras and 30 north of Ramapatrm. One of the first missions was established here. AKIDU. — This is an inland village of some 2000 inhabi- tants, lying inland from the Bay of Bengal 15 miles, and 130 miles nortli east of Ongole and 150 niiles 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 30,000 souls. It is nearly midway between Madras and Calcutta, and 65 miles north east from Akidu, forty north east from Tuni, and 9 north west from Samulcotta. The great (iodavari river is a few miles south east therefrom. Here is where the Canada Baptists planted their first standard, the bearers being Rev John McLaurin and wife. SAMULCOTTA.— This is a town of 13,000 inhabitants some nine miles north west from Cocanada and eight miles from the Bay of Bengal. Here is located the seminary of the Canadian mission, of which the Rev. John McLaurin is the principal. TUNI. — This is a village of some 3,000 population lying some 40 miles north-east of Cocanada, and eight raiUs from the Bay of Bengal. This is where Bro. Ourrie was stationed. THB E\D.— But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in a Digbt; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved. * * • Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elemients shall melt with fervent ueat. ScHAP Book. 11 HE T ELOOGOO M ISSION. The wonl "Teloogoo" has now become a liousehold word among the Caiiadiau Baptists and I want it to become still more so. The sole object of this little book is to intensify still more the great interest in the mission which I know exists already in so many. I think I can best accomplish this purpose by commencing with the planting of the first mission by the American Baptist Missionary Union in 18.'i5, and tracing its history, as brieHy as I can, from that date year by year to Jan- uary 1888, covering a period of about 52 years. At this date the American Union have a large number of missions and stations in Teloogoo land, but I shall confine my compilation to such stations only as our own missionaries were in some way coii- nected with, namely, Nellore, Ramapatam and Onoole. As early as l80o the general Baptists of England made a feel)le attenipt to estnblish a n;ission among the Teloogoos by send- ing out the Rev. Mr. Sutton, who took up ^ position in Orissa. Apparently for the lack of success the undertaking was soon abandoned by the withdrawal of Mr. Sutton, their only mission- ary. It would appear that Mr. Sutton himself had never lost confidence 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. 1834-5. The 21st American Baptist General Convention was held in the City of Richmond on April 29, ^835, At this meeting *' Brethren Kenduck, Peck, Allen, Charles and McGinnis," were appointed a committee " on new fields of labor." They reported; " We would earnestly direct the attention of t'le Board and Con- " vention to that portion of the Madras Presidency which stretcii- **es northward from the City of Madras alorig the Bay of Bengal ••towards the City of Calcutta, for about COO miles, embracing " the country of 'lellingana There is no Baptist Church in the "south of India. The country is wholly unoccupied excepting " Madras City. * * * The intere.sting character and su- "perior intelligence of the vast native population of the Tellin- "gana country. * * * might bring their direct labors to '•l?ar on at least 40,000,000 of the people of India. '^ - * •* The New Testament and a grammar of the Tellingana language " has been published by Dr. Carey," 12 Telooooo Mission. " The Rev. Samuel S. Day and wife were designated to this Teloogoo field 20th September of this year (1835), and on the 22nd took passage in the ship Louvre for Calcutta. The Rev. Howard Malcolm and 10 others took passage with them. The passage money and outfit cost $5,598.36." 1835-6. The 22nd Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion was held in Hartford City, Conn., April 27, 1836. Missionaries on the field, Rev. S. S. Day and wife. At this meeting a committee reported. " The Board was first directed to the people who speak the Telinga or Teloogoo tougue by the Rev. Mr. Sutton, an English Baptist Minister. * * * He describ- ed the country as stretching along the coasts south westerly from Orissa 600 miles, and transversely into the interior 400 miles, and a population of 13,000,000. * * '•• 10,000.000 are sub- jects of the Nizam (Nabob) of Hyderbad, anciently called Tel- ingana, from which the Telingas derive their name." •'Mr. and Mrs. Day and Mr. Abbott, were designed for the Telingana Mission on Sept. 20th last (1835) and on the 22nd took- passage, with other missionaries in the ship Louvre for Calcutta. The measures they would adopt on their arrival there were left to tl e direction of providence. * * * No inipedi- ment to the propagation of the gospel is apprehended in any part of his dominions, sustained, as he is, in his authority by the forces of the East India Company. * * As early as 1809 a Telinga version of the New Testament had been made by the Serampore missionaries, and though it perished in the e- structive fire of 1812, it was prepared anew and printed in 1817. 18. The Telinga Pentateuh was also printed by the same mis- sionaries in 1821. * What is now wanted is men. * Let the requisite number of missionaries be furnished — the duty specially assigned to the American Churches, and the work is ready to their hands. They may at once enter in and plant, and reap, and gather unto everlasting life." 18867. The 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions was held in the City of Philadelphia, April 26th, 1887. Missionaries on the field, Rev. S. S. Day and wife, and Rev. Levi Hall and wife. Scrap Book. 13 Extracts from Reports. — " Mr. and Mrs. Day arrived at Calcutta early in February, 1836, and proceeded thence to Viza- gapatam, where they have since been prosecuting the study of the language. Mr. Abbott, who, it was expected, would be asso- ciated with them, having, in accordance with the advice of Mr. Malcolm and others, joined the Karen Mission, Mr. and Mrs. Hall were designated to this service, and sailed last October in company with others." " The post at which the mission will be ultimately stationed, is yet undetermined. Weighty considerations are in favor of commencing operations in the neighborhood of Madras." 1837-8. The 24th Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion was held in the City of New York on April 25, 1838. Missionaries on the field, Rev S. S. Day and wife. Extracts from report. — "Of those who have fallen in the mission field, it is our painful duty to record the names of * * * Levi Hall and Catharine B. M. Hall. ***".. " The Teloogoo Mission opens an extended and inviting field of operation. We have but one missionary and wife laboring in this far-reaching field. What is this among a population of from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000. * == * The funds are exhausted. If not replenished immediately they will be constrained to counsel not for enlargement of the mission, but for the least disastrous method of their reduction. " " In January, 1837, Mr. Day made an interesting tour of 20 days, northwardly, to Berhampore, distant about 120 miles, and thence back through the interior. During this excursion he visited about 40 villages, of which one half had probably never before 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. 25,) Mr. Day was desiring to locate himself, at a short distance from one of the city gates, and on the principal road leading to the Teloogoo country." "It is obvious that the Teloogoo Mission needs to be reinforced. The Board have but one missionary family among 5,000,000 Teloogoos, along a coast of at least 600 miles, to say nothing of the population in the interior * * * there are probably not less than 300 towns which might be oc cupied as mission stations." 14 Tkloouoo Mission*. ^ 1838-i). The 25th Annual meeting of the America Baptist Convention was held in the City of Philadelphia, April 24th, \S'M). Missionaries on the field, Rev. S. S. Day and wife. Extracts from reports : " The necessities of the Teloogoo Mission make yet stronger appeals to the sympathies of the churches, and urge to whatever sacrifices are required for its speedy relief and enlargement." In January 1838, Mr. Day was still laboring at the Village Wonara-petta, where there is a population of 10,000 Teloogoos. " The board regret that they have not yet been able to rein- force this mission, owing to various untoward circumstances, Mr Day has been laboring alone during the whole period since the mission was established." Mr. Day writes : — " I have been almost two years within this country (January 1838) and have acquired so much knowledge of the langu&ge as to read and speak it with ease, and to know that while it is beautiful and fiowery, it is exceedingly diffi- cult to acquire. But I am left alone, and 1 would now implore the Board to send, as soon as possible, six or eight missionaries. I can refer to more than 30 places demanding each a missionary, though more then half the country is scarcely known to me." In September, ]\[r. Day writes to the Board. " In my late visit to Bellary, I baptised 22 persons, in a place where never before the ordinance of baptism had been administered, in the presence of 3,000 of all sorts and ranks." " What am I, that on me alone for so long a time, should rest the responsibilities of such a mission as it is proposed to establish among the Teloogoos 1 But let me hope still. God has sustained me hitherto. C) may we rely in Him still. His is the work — the cause is His — His the laborers — the money." 1839-40. The 2Gth Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion met in the city of New York, April 2!Hh 1840. INIissionaries in charge, llev. S. S. Lay and wife. On their way to the Mission, Rev. Stephen Van Husen and wife, having sailed for Madras, on October 22nd, 1839. Mr. Day writes to the Board thus :— " Be not angry with me for my heart once beat high in relation to this mission, hope in- spired my feeling and actions. Now, my heart sinks, or swells ScHAP Book. 15 with a kind of desperation, my hands grow weak, oi- are nerved f )r a moment as by despair. Where are all the young brethren 1 left in Hamilton, pledged to the foreign Held ? ■'■' * are there none to be found for the heathen ? Have the heathen no claims. 1840-1. The '27th Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion was held in the City of Baltimore, April 28th, 1841. Nellore.' — Missionaries in charge, Rev. S. 8. Day and wife, Rev. 8. Van Husen and wife. Extract from report on the Teloogoo Mission ; — " * * * For, what is the meaning of our holy convocation ! What are the principles on which we meet and deliberate, and resolve and act ? Tt is not admitted, nay, rather acknowledged, that there is a work to be done — a work to be done for God — a work which we may do— a work which He requires us to do 1" IMr. and iNlrs. Van Husen arrived at Madras on March 9th 1 S 40, and on the 21st reached Nel lore, a town some 110 miles distant from Madras, where Mr. and Mrs. l>ay had Jirrived a few days previous, for the purpose of establishing the first mission among the Teloogoos. Extract fiom report : — " Nellore is in the midst of a denso Teloogoo population, and for tlii.s and other reasons, is peculiarly eligible for a central permanent station. The missionaries here rented a good mission compound * * * T-i this the scrip- tures are read and expounded in Teloogoo every morning and a sermon preached every Sunday to about 25. On the 27th September the first Teloogoo connected with the mission was baptised in the Pennar river in the presence of several thousand spectators. Two others were baptised in Madras in 18;^!)." " Several tours have been made. In the early part of 18."?9, M r. Day in one day distributed about 8r>00 tracts and .'>00 por- tions of .scripture." In May of last year jNlessrs Day and Nan Husen attended two festivals celebrated at a few miles distanee from Nellore, at both of which they gave about 2000 tracts and 700 portions of scripture." 16 Teloowoo Mission. M 1841-2. The 28th Annual meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion was held in the City of New York. April 27th. 1842. 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 moie ample means for etticient action ; but that their strength be increased by the accession of fellow labourers. The work is too large for the force employed, even if in unbroken health and efficiency." In a letter written by Mr. Van Husen in May, 1841 he says: Would that it were in the power of the Board to send us at least six laborers. What are two missionaries among 8,000,000 to 10,000,000. The expense of the mission for the year was $1,514.72. 1842-3. The 29th Annual meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion was held in the city of Albany, April 26th, 1843. Nellore. — Missionaries in charge Rev. S. S. Day aud wife and S. Van Husen and wife. Extracts from report : — The members of the Teloogoo Mission have been prosecuting their work amidst many embarrassments, especially from sickness the past year, but not without encourage- ments. * * * The city itself, being the resort of thousands of Teloogoos from towns and country, inland and far distant, furnishes exten- sive facilities for the promulgation of the gospel, both by preaching, etc." '* At the date of our last information, December 1842, the misf>ionaries were expecting shortly to organize a mission church. Besides the mission circle, there were nine who cherished a hope in Christ." The expense of the mission for the year was $2,753.84. 1843-4. The 30th Annual meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion was held in the City of Philadelphia, April 24th, 1844. Nellore. — Missionaries in charge Rev. S. S. Day and wife and Rev. 8. Van Husen and wife. Scrap Book. \1 Extracts from Reports: — "Your committee are deeply con- vinced that the means, in the hands of the Board, for executing the great task they have undertaken in Asia, are entirely in- adeqr.ate." " The Teloogoo Mission, though greatly in need of reinforce- ment, is steadily advancing in efficiency and interest. The mis- sionaries occupy distinct parts of the city, Mr. VanHusen having removed to the south-west border in July. This arrangement increases the influence of the mission. * Three were baptized in August, in the Pennaar, n&ar where Van Bappa, the first convert, was baptized in 1840. * and thousands begin to doubt as to the divinity of their idols." " Mr. VanHusen's health is reported bad." The expense of the mission for the year was $3,022.69. 1844-5. The 31st annual meeting of the American Baptist Convention was held in the City of Providence, April 30th, 1845. NELLORE.— Missionaries in charge, Rev. S. S. Day and wife. Rev. S. VanHusen and wife. Nothing of importance to record for the year beyond the organization of a mission church of eight members in October of last year, and the returning home of Mr. VanHusen and wife, on account of ill health. The mem- bers comprising said church were Rev. S. S. Day and wife, Rev, VanHusen and wife, Elizabeth Jackson, Christian Nursa, James Oay and Elisha. The expense of the mission for the year was $2,935.34. 1845-6. The 32nd annual meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion was held in the City of Brooklyn, May 19th, 1846. NELLORE.— Missionaries in charge, Rev. S. S. Day and wife. Mr. VanHusen arrived in this country on 1st October last w:th health so much impaired as to preclude all prospects of his return to India. Mr. Day wps taken suddenly and 'alarmingly ill, and was obliged to leave India hurriedly on the 8rd December, Arrived at London April 11th, and in this country on June 2nd. We clip the following from the " Lone Star " jubilee papers : *« When Mr. Day reached home he found the Executive Com- mittee discussing the propriety of abandoning the mission, * * He entered a most emphatic and determined protest to the 18 Teloogoo Mission. abandonment of the Teloogoo field. This led the Committee to hesitate, and they finally decided to await the indications of Providence, * ^ It was decided, at the annual meeting of Union ia 1848, to return [Mr. Day, and on the 10th of October of that year he, with Mr. and Mrs. Jewett sailed for Madras en route for Nellore." Extracts from Reports : "Your Committee would ask for the sympathies and prayers of all the friends of the Board in behalf of the Toloogoo Mission." Ac. The expense of the mission for the year was $4,167.98. 1846-7. The 38rd annual meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion was held in the City of Cincinnati, 0., May 18, 1847. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, none. Extracts from Reports : — " The Teloogoo Mission, established ten years since, has had for the most of that period the services of only one 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 missionary families should be associated with our missionary brother now in this country, whenever providence shall permit him to resume his labors. The field is large, embracing a population of 10,000,000. Whenever reinforced, it should be with a missionary force suffi- cientlj numerous not only to secure it from all liability to final abandonment, bat also to insure an uninterrupted and vigorous prosecution of the work." The expense of the mission for the year was $1,216.50. 1847-8. The 34th annual meeting of the American Baptist Conven- tion was held in the City of Troy, N. Y., May 16th, 1848. NELLORE. — The missionaries all in America. The Wednesday meeting (May 17) " was opened with prayer by Rev. John Bates, from Ireland." This is the father of the wives of our two first Canadian missionaries, Timpany and McLaurin. Extracts from the Report on " The Expediency of reinforc- ing the Teloogoo Mission." "The question submitted for consideration ii, virtually, should the Teloogoo Mission be sustained ? For more than two years it has been left in charge of native assistants. They have been faithful. * * If missionaries are not to be sent, it Scrap tiooK. 10 can hardly bo expedient to protract the existence of the mission. The character, number and state of the Teloogoo people, giving promise of early success proportionate to the expenditure, we have not been disappointed in the character of the field we have been 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 2,000,000 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 pro- tection of life, limb and property, is entire. * There is no 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 history of the mission furnishes no ground of discouragement. * * * The scriptures have been translated into the Teloogoo tongue, and the New Testament, with portions of the Old. printed. There is a general preparation for the conversion of the people from dumb idols to the living God." "Rev. Amos Sutton, of the Orissa Mission, at whose instance originally the mission was undertaken, speaking of theTeloogoos in a letter near the close of 1846, says : The population is immense, they are a noble race, the country always 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 consider well before you abandon your present ground, you will never recover it if you do. * * * There is no station but our own in the Nellore district, containing over 2,000,000 souls." *' It has been laid down as a principle in missionary enter- prises, and we hold it to be a just principle that we should work WHERE God works, and when God works " " Different missions have their respective favorites and sup- porters. Multiplication of interest in this direction may be strength ; concentration hardly pressed, may be decrease — Again, what would be the more general subjective influence of drawing back ? " The long report closes thus : — " We have only to suggest in conclusion, that, be the decision what it may, it ought to be regarded as final. If the Teloogoo Mission cannot be sustained, now is the most favorable time for withdrawal. Already the missionaries are withdrawn, by the providence of God, and the entire closing up of the mission, now in charge of the native assistants, can be efiected at comparative little cost. If th^ 20 Teloogoo Mission. decision is to continue the mission, the missionaries ought to go forth with a well founded assurance that, when by reason of death they shall cease to labor, others will enter into their labors." This most ini|)ortant and lengthy report was referred to a committee (.-onsisting of William 11. Williams, Elisha Tucker, Leonard Ti-acy, John Truesdale and Alanson P. Mason. The following are brief extracts from their report : *• * * * Keinforcement on thr> one hand, or on the other, the prompt, peremptory and final abandonment of our mission station among the Teloogoo people, a race of many noble natural endowments, lai'ge in nunibers, and receiving as yet but little share in the missionary endeavours of the age ♦ * * Our churches may well falter hero, at the thought of closing between themselves and this vast multitude of dying idolaters the door, and barring and bolting the door in despair — to be to us no longer a door of hope and access to enlighten their blindness, to be to them no more a door of hope and escape, through which they may receive the light of salvation and evade the second death. * * * Whilst willing to afford them (Executive Committee) all proper aid and counsel in such emergencies, we may also shrink, quite as justly, from deciding the same question, when the board approaches it with so much less fullness of knowledge, and their judgment in the matter must be the hasty verdict passed on the briefest ex- amination, To depart from the Teloogoo field is a step critical and irreparable. * We look to this cluster of schools and native assistants, and our hearts say : " Destroy it not FOR A Blessing is in it. * * If the Board do not abandon it. it should, in the judgment of the Committee, be after solemn and public prayer, and with a deep sense of the vast results, inter- minable and incalculable, to these Teloogooa and ourselves, which such withdrawal involves. * * Blessed will the result be, if the full augmented charities of our churclies in the coming half year shall say to the Teloogoos, 'We, the Baptists of America, will not desert you.' By resolution the Executive Committee was instructed to continue the Teloogoo Mission. The native assistants in the sole charge of the mission are reported as * steadfast, faithful and diligent.' " The expense of the mission for the year was $1,766.10. 1848 9. The 35tli annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Philadelphia, May 15th, 1849. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, Bev. S. S. Day, and Lyman Jewett and wife, Mrs. Day in America. Scrap Book. Si Kev L. Jewett and wife, recently designated missionaries to the Teloogoo field with Rev. 8. 8. Day, sailed for Madras on their way to Nellore on October 10th, and arrived on the February following at that city. On the voyage they were instrumental in the conversion of some of the sailors of the ship in which they sailed. Under date of March 14, 1849, Rev. 8. 8. Day, writes from Nellore to his wife in America thus : " These eyes look upon the distant hills and fruitful vales, the rivers, the streets thronged with a busy multitude, and the idols and idol temples of Nellore. This heart is again affected. * ♦ I have seen our once happy home, and walked through the empty desolate rooms, the forsaken chapel. It WAS to us once home. * * Yes, happy and blessed was I in it once, now hov changed. The sanctuary of the Lord, where the name of our God and Saviour was proclaim- ed, and where prayer was wont to be made, has for a long time been forsaken and closed, so that the heathen passer by might tauntingly say, ' where is now thy God V * * * Gould we expect anything better 1 Jwas it right for the mission to be thus neglected so long by the churches of America ? Had a man been sent even one yeak earlier, all this evil, according to human judg- ment, would have been prevented. I grieve over it, but do not wonder." On the 4th of April following, he writes : " * * * None of thes« things move me. I am resolved by God's grace to demy MYSELF and do His will, who has chosen me to this trial, and to this work of the gospel ministry among the heathen. Were you with me, we could sit down and weep^together, we could pour out our complaints before God." The expense for the year was $3,659.28. 1849-60. The 36th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union, was held in the City of Buffalo on May 14th, 1S50. NELLORE — The missionaries in charge, Bev. 8. SL Day, and L. Jewett and wife. Extract from report : " Mr. Day and Mr. and Mrs. Jewett, sailed for Madras on October 10th, 1848, and reached Nellore on April 16th, 1849. The mission had been without American help- ers a little more than three years. The first view of things was dis- heartening. Influences hostile to the prosperity of the mission had been in operation for so long a period, that a cloud hung over its prospects. The cloud, however, soon began to be lifted up. The 22 TeLOO«00 MI88IOK. Teloogoo country is now a field of encouraqing promise. * * '•' Tiie church was found to be scattered, but not lost." '• Previous to June Inst thth, IHAO, Mr. Day says : " Here, how niaiiy times, just as our families have sunk sweetly into sleep, ubout 11 o'clock all would be startled by the sudden outbreak of drums, A-c, children half awake run- ning crying to father and mother, and i)erliaps for hours :;he little ones were kept waking and tin' parents utterly deprived of sleep till five in the morning. O, how niany times I have lost entirely n>y Saturday night's sleep by the doings ip that sink of abomination. How many times I have gone over in the middle of the night a .' preached to as many of those deluded beings as could be inducer! to give any attention. Not a few times when you 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. O how many times my .soul sicken< d at the sight of that old deceiver assuming to be God, and upon his sacred seat receiving the worship as God, of the hundreds of deluded beings who come, many of them 20 or 50 miles for the express puri)0.se of being there on this night." Expense f )r"the year was .1?1,721.25. 1850-1. The 37th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Boston on May 13th, 1851. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, Rev. 8, S. Day and Rev. L. Jewett and wife. Extracts from reports : " The committee on the Teloogoo Mission are permitted to report a state of things in connection therewith peculiarly interesting and encouraging. * * Results connected with the re-establishment of missionary oper- ations among the Teloogoo, have been such as to approve most fully the wisdom and the well adjusted arrangements of this measure. The evidence is constantly reaching us of a grow- ing spirit of inquiry among the people in regard to the truth of Christianity, attended by a general suspicion concerning the soundness of their various systems of religious science." " But while your committee see much that is encouraging in the past history and present aspects of this mission, they are impresed with the conviction that its interests are quite too much involved in contingencies, arising from the uncertanity of life and health to the present limited number of missionaries. ^ 24 Telooooo Mission. They would accordingly recommend, that at the earliest possible moment the Teloogoo Mission be strengthened by at least two additional laborers." Extracts from report : •« * * -1= Mr. and Mrs. Jewett have made good progress in the acquisition of the language, and Mr. Jewett has entered with zeal on the work of preaching the gospel. * * * The atten'l",nce at the chapel has been from 70 to 100. There has been daily preaching in the streets, and several tours have been made to attend native festivals, for preaching and tract distribution. The number of people addressed in this manner exceed 50,000. From 80 to 220 pupils have been weekly instructed in the Sabbath School. * * Since March, 1849,over 400,000 portions of scripture have been distribut- ed and received with avidity." Mr. Day writes : " The general aspect is more encouraging than at any time since the commencement of the mission. Idolatry is losing credit. Scarce a man of all the thousands addressed, has attempted in good earnest to defend it by discus- sion. * * Two persons have been hopefully converted." Expense of the mission for the year was $1,722.82. 1851-2. - The 38th annual meeting of the American Baptist Mission- ary Union, was held in the City of Pittsburg, on May 18, 1852. 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 ill-health, but notwith- standing this drawback, the schools were kept up, many villages visited, 2,494 portions of the scripture given away and thousands of tracts distributed. Extract from report : '• These (Teloogoo and Assan) are peculiar, 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 language and race with the population of Hindostan. Though your committee, as a genera, principle, would discourage the scattering of our evan- gelical forces, they cannot but feel that the providential indica- tions that led to the establisment of these missions were clear and decided." One native colpertour gave away 13,700^|tracts, and reports to have frequently met with natives with some knowledge of the Christian religion and anxious to learn more. Extracts from report : ** Were these conversions the sole poMtive result of the year's operations, they would not be deemed Scrap Book. of small account. But they are a part, and, in certain aspects, perhaps not the chief part, of what has been done for the Teloo- goos. A knowledge of the leadin;; trutlis, a perception of the claims of Christianity, has been gained by large numbers of the people. Prejudice has been mitigated. * * The native mind is in a transitional state, revolving from the absurdities and abominations of the current superstition, Ac" Among the missionaries designated this year were Rev. John L. Douglass and wife, for the Teloogoos. He had been pastor of the Baptist Church at Fort Ann, N. Y. Expense for the year was $2,041.47. 1852-3 The 39th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Albany on May 17th, 1853. 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 I shall dig about it, and dung it, and if it bear fruit, well, and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down. Luke, xiii. 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 this was ! How evenly poised the scale beam! Thousands do now and perhaps millions will yet have cause to rejoice throughout eternity that the beam was brought down in favor of the ^' Lone Star." 1 find it necessary to give a more copious account of the pro- ceedings of this meeting, inasmuch as the destiny of the mission hinged just here. The 'committee on Jthe Teloogoo and Assam Missions was : Messrs. S. B. Swain, Mp.ssifchusetts ; E. Hutchinson, Vermont; M. G. Clark, Pennsylvania; H. C. Fish, New Jersey; S. B. Webster, Ohio ; G. C. Germond, New York ; L. D. Boon, Illinois. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Peck and Granger liad spent twelve days at Nellore, and on their report the Executive Board reported, of which the following are brief extracts . — " Every facility was furnished for conducting their inquiries. No question respecting the field, the plans, the work of the fruits of the mission failed to receive thorough investigation. The result was a liigh degree of satisfaction with the value of the station, with the fidelity and ability of the missionaries, and, also, a strong conviction that the mission should be reinforced during the present year by, at least, two additional fp. lilies, or that it should be speedily relinquished, and the miKr^ijtiaries now there 26 Trlooooo Mission. be assigned to some other field. This is the only alternative named by the deputation. * * The question, therefore, sub- mitted by the deputation is, shall the Teloogoo Mission be rem- forced or relinquished during the present year ? They do not undertake to decide the question. * * The Executive Com- mittee present in this form a concise statement of its facts and views." * * These considerations are : " 1. The Want of Success. — No more than three persons have been baptized since the mission was recommenced in 1 849, and it is not known that more than four others have been con- verted in the same time. If the number of conversions be the measure of success, it cannot he denied that little encouragement is aftorded for reinforcing the Teloogoo Mission." *' 2. The Want of Suitable Native Helpers. — No such helpers are in training, and there is no immediate prospect of any. The two Teloogoo brethren now employed by the mission are worthy of confidence, but their education and rank are not such as to give them the widest usefulness." " 3. Other religions being in the field. * ■•" " " 4 The Ability of the Missionaries to Enter Other Fields. — Their knowledge of one oriental language would facili- tate their acquisition of another, and, however deeply they may regret to leave the Teloogoos, it is believed that they would be willing, in the event of relinquishing the mission, to join others. On the other side it was stated. •* 1. The Extent of the Field. — The Nellore district alone has a population of 1,000,000 to 2,000,000, and with the excep- tion of the native preacher, and the day school of the Free Church of Scotland, the district has no missionaries than our own." " 2 The Knowledge Already Gained by the Missionaries. — The country, the language, and tlie character of the Teloogoos are known to them, and with many individuals they have little less than intimate personal acquaintance." '* 3. The Prevailing Policy of the Mission — =•= * The chief work of our missionaries was found to be vernacular PREACHING. To this service, the oral dispensation of 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 them by our brethren. Thus to preach [is the work which absorbs them, and this fact is presented as a strong reason for the con- tinuance of the mission." * * " In all respects it is a difficult and a momentous question, requiring a careful balancing of the glaims of the Teloogoo race on the one hand, and of our own SCHAP booK. 27 resources, in men and means, on the other. That race is esti- mated at 10,000,000 souls. * * The continuance of the uiis- sion will call for the second, third and fourth reinforcements, and for the planting of new stations, involving additional outlays from year to year. The real question then is, can the Teloogoo mission be adequately sustained without going beyond the resources of the Board, or depriving other fields of the men and means which they need ? " Extracts from the report on the foregoing : — " '•■ * They, therefore, proceed at once to the question which is proposed by the Executive Committee, shall the Teloogoo Mission be rein- forced or relin(iuished ? In the presence of this (juestion your committee tremb'e They feel that there are fearful responsi- bilities involved, and yet after a careful examination of the facts they are unanimous in recommending a Buitable reinforcement of the mission, not an abandonment. * * We do not so under- stand the great commission. We are unable to find in it any clause for retreating .soldiers, and venture to express the hope that the Board will never detain itself in seeking to find it. * * Your committee feel admonished, that if the perishing millions of the Teloogoos were forsaken by us, on the ground of want of succesS, that we should be greatly in danger of grieving the Holy Spirit. ;ind of bringing down upon our more prosperous missions death and barrenness. The door is vvide open, and we are in the field and it is a vazt perishing field, and who will dare to retreat ? " Extract from report on Expenditure : — "The board have the judgment of the deputation, that the need of reinforcement in the Teloogoo Mission is so urgent that they advise the managers to break up the mission itself in the event of failure to reinforce it. No words can shew a stronger necessity than this alternative." " The costs of sustaining the mission the last year was ^3,- 602.64,and it is not supposed that it could be It ss,the present year, even if relinquislied. The sending of two additional families, including outfit, passage, buildings and salaries, would probably increase the expense of the mission to $3,600, the current year !" In 1885 the Rev. VV. S. McKenzie, of the American baptist Missionary Union, of Boston, U. S., published a telling " Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission " which he called "The Lone Star" The following is copied therefrom ; '* At the evening session of the Union, the great (question of relinquishing or re-enforcing the Teloogoo Mission was under discu-ssion. Eloquent pleas were delivered by some for re-en- forcement. One of the speakers, pointing to Nellore on the map f 28 Teloogoo Mission. The That ••My suspended over the platfoi'm, called it "The Loxe Star." words fell upon the ears of one present with peculiar force night, before sleeping, Lr. S. F. Sn»ith, the author of Country, 'tis to Thee," and of " Yes, my Native Land I Love Thee," put to paper the following stanzas on " THE LONE STAR." Shine on, " Lone Star " I Thy radiance briglit Shall spread o'er all tlie eastern sky ; Morn breaks apace from gloom and night : Shine on, and bless the pilgrim's eye. Shine on, " Lone Star " ! I would not dim The light that gleams with dubious ray ; The lonely star of Bethlehem, Led on a bright and glorious day. Sliine on, " Lone Star " ! in grief and tears, And sad reverses oft baptized : Shine on amid thy sister spheres : Lone 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 band jj That sparkles in night's diadem ? Shine on, " Lone Star " ! The days draw near When none shall shine more fair than thou ; Thou, born and nursed in doubt and fear Wilt glitter on Inmianuel's brow. • Shine on, *' Lone Star " ! till eartii redeemed, In dust shall bid its idols fall ; And thousands, where thy radiance beamed, Still crown the Saviour Lord of all." ' ' The accomplishment of the prediction couclied in the above im»romptu stanzas will soon appear in the sequel of this sketch. Before the close of the meetings that year in Albany, the Union passed this resolution, *' That the Teloogoo Mission be continued and suitably reinforced, providituj that, in the judgment of the Board of Managers, it can be done consistently witli tho claims of Southern Burmah." ScuAP Book. 29 Extract from report : — " Preaching in the streets has been more systematically maintained than in previous years. By this means many from tlie surrounding country and villages who might not otherwise be reached are brought within the sound of the gospel, and are supplied with tracts and portions of scrip- ture. * * Faith Cometh by hearing. * It is not in India alone that the word preached does not profit, not being mixed with faith in tliose that lipard it. * * Two thirds of their time is employed in preaching the gospel." "Towards the close of the year 1853, a notableV'vent occurred which some have regarded as the turning point in the history of the mission. Mr. and Mrs Jewett, Chri.stians Nersu, Julia and Ruth, made a tour to the north, reaching Ongole about the'end of December On the 1st of January, 1864, before the sun was up, this little band ascended the hill which overlooks Ongole to get a view of the surrounding country. As they looked down upon the large and populous town with its Hindu temples and Mahom- medan moscjues, and counted some fifty villages within easy range — knowing that all this dense population were ignorant of the true God, like Paul on Mar's Hill, their hearts were stirred within them. There and then they knelt down and each in turn prayed to the God of missions to send a missionary to Ongole. They came down from the sacred spot with lighter hearts for they had a peculiar assurance that God heard them. The answer was long delayed, but it came in God's own time. In 1855 the Rev. R A. Douglass and wife joined the mission and remained till 1865, when he returned to the United States. Mr. Jewett remained till 1862 when his health broke down and he was obliged to return home." The foregoing is an extract from a " Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission," by Rev. D. Downie, at the missionary conference held in Nellore, India, February 5th, 1856. The expense of the mission for the year was $2,602,84. 1858-4. The 40th annual meeting of tlie American Baptist Missionary Union, was held in the City of Philadelphia, May 16th, 1854. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, Rev. 8. S. Day.and Rev L. Jewett and wife. On account of sickness, Mr. Day was obliged again to aban- don hiii much loved field of labor. He sailed homeward from Madras on June 21st, 1853, and arrived in America in Septem- ber witli his health much improved by the voyage. Mr. and Mrs, Jewett were thus left alone among 17^000,000, to point them i 36 Teloogoo Mission. " to the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." No wonder ho wrote home that he liad " too much to do to feel tlic need of society for society's sake." In November lie wrote : ''I devote my time wholly to the preaching department. I am earnestly looking for fruit. 1 feel in n)y soul that our labor will not be in vain. Mv belief of the ultimate success of the mission remains as firm as ever. I would rather labor here as long as I live, than to be torn up by the roots to be transplanted-" Extract from report : — " Relati^ e to the Teloogoo Mission, your committee feel that the question of relinquishment is no longer one of discussion. In the meeting of the toard and of the Union at Albany, one year ago, this subject was faithfully canvassed, and, we liope, settled forever. It was there resolv- ed, in view of other circumstances, favorable and adverte, that, trusting in God, the Teloogoo Mission Should Live. It does live. '• ^ God 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 for this mission, in view of its present promising state, and of the millions of Teloogoos without the word of life, and most of all, in view of the dying command of Jesus Christ to preach the gospel to every creature, your committee would express the liope that the Executive Committee will spare no pains in securing, at the 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 neighbor- hood, during the year, 2,879 portions of scripture and 4,750 tracts, and one person was baptized. The expense of the mission for the year was $3,328.38. 1854-5. The 41st annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Chicago on May 15th, 1855. NELLORE. — Missionaries in cliarge. Rev. L. Jewttt and wife. Hope expressed that the Rev. F. A, Douglass and wife, who sailed from Boston in October, had arrived safe at Nellore. Extract from Committee's Report (of this Committee the late Rev. R. A. Fyfe, D. D., was chairman) : — " -'^ * Bro. Jewett ru-d wife are at present the only active laborers among the mil- lions of Teloogoos. Bro. Douglass and wife have probably reached Nellore before this, but it will be many months before they can speak in tlie native language, * * , But what are two or three missionaries among so many ? It is hoped that before long the Scrap Book. 31 missionaries will be aWe to circulate the whole Bible among the Teloogoos. God has granted but little apparent success to the labors of the missionaries among this people. * * The few who have enrolled themselves openly under the banner of the cross, show the thoroughness of their conversion by their great liberality, '. hich has abounded even in their deep poverty. The six members of the church in Nellore have contributed more than enough to support a native pastor." " Notwithstanding the feebleness of the mission at Nellore. Mr. Jewett earnestly pleads for tlie establishment of a second station at Ongole, some 70 miles from Nellore. Thus pleads IMr. Jewett : " Let us have one missionary in Nellore, and one in Ongole. * This place cannot remain long unoccupied. It i? now oftered to your acceptance— these are the great wants of the present day. Give us men, tlierefore, as well as money." Extracts from annual report : — " An edition of 1,000 copies of the ' History of Christ,' by Mr. Day, has been printed. It is a small volume of 232 pages, wholly in the words of the four gospels. ■•' 6,490 portions of scripture and tracts have been distributed in all the villages within twenty miles of Nellore, and in every village on the road to the north for 143 miles be- tween Nellore and Cluntoor and the villages bordering on the Bay of Bengal. * * The missionaries have been earnestly desirous to give to the millions of Teloogoos the whole Bible in their own tongue. * '^'- The result of the labors of the mis- sionaries among the Teloogoos is manifest in the wide spread conviction on the minds of the masses in favor of Christianity. * Ongole, where Mr, Jewett so earnestly pleads for the establishment of a new mission, lies on the main road leading north to Calcutta and north-west to Hyderabad running some eight niiles inland parallel with the Bay of Bengal. It was years ago a walled city of some importance, but now has a popu- lation of about 10,000 only. Nellore and Ongole, says Mr. Jewett, are two of the most important places in the Nellore dis- trict— the two great thoroughfares and centres of influence. In the innnediate neighborhood are numerous villages containing from 1,000 to 3,000 inhabitants. Formerly we have asked much. Now T ask only for two stations for the Teloogoo Baptist Mission. * * 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 those influences which bring salvation. * ' It is most dishearten- ing to the most courageous spirits to be told that there are no 82 Tpxooooo Mission'. recruits to sustain them in the war. What can we do who are but dust and ashes ? Give us men. * * " Expense of the mission for the year was $3,172.33. 1855-0. in Tlie 42nd annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Now York on May 13th, 1856. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, Rev. L. Jewett and wife, and Rev. F. A. Douglass and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass reached Nellore on April 14th, after a voyage of 108 days. During the year nine were added to the church by baptism. Two native preachers have been employed, of whose labors the missionaries speak witii most decided appro- baliion. Extracts from report : — '* The last baptized, December 25th, is a youth of sixteen of much promise. * About R 2 monthly are taken up after the communion service to defray the current expenses of the church. * * The native assistants have distributed, during the year, 2,260 portions of scripture, and 5,050 tracts. Messrs. Jewett, Douglass and assist- ants, in May, distributed scriptures and tracts in large quantities to those who came to the tent for them," &c, " The cold season as usual was occupied in tours. * In order to reach as many as possible of both sexes. Mr. and Mrs. Jewett, with two female christians undertook the journey, They were received on every side with kindness, and found open houses everywhere for religious service. At one place the female por- tion of the company were invited to the headman's house, where they found a large number of females assembled to receive them and to hear from them the word of God. * * The women expressed much joy and surprise at the pains that had been taken to 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 tlie city. ""■ During this tour the gospel was preached in sixteen different villages. * * The Teloogoi> mission in its lonely position, at a distance from the otlier missions of the union, feebly supported and at times ready to be abandoned, has been subject to many discouragements. * lo still lives, and God has not foi'gotten 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, wdl affect the welfare of millions, by turning them from the worship Sc'HAP Book. :^3 of idols to the living God. Already the fallow ground seems to be breaking up and the seed of the gospel seems to sink down into the good soil." Expenses for the year were $4,485.42. ' 1856-7. The 48rd annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Boston on May 19th, 1857. 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, 1856. Among his last words were : — "The same truths which I have preached to others are now my joy and support." Two were baptized during the year, making the total number of the Nellore church twelve. A third candidate for baptism requested to be baptized in his own village. During the year 1,450 portions of scripture have been distributed and 4.000 tracts. The report says : — " An edition of the Teloogoo New Testa- ment, sufficiently large for the present wants of the mission has been printed at Vizagapatam." Expense of the mission for the year was $3,675.15. 1857-8. The 44th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Philadelphia on May 18th, 1858. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge. Rev. L. Jewett and wife, and Eev. F. A. Douglass and wife. Extracts from report : — " The last year has been one of trial as regards both personal and mission concerns. As early as January, 1857, Mr. Douglas was constrained by the protracted and alarnting illness of his wife to leave the station with his family and remove to Madras. * * Before the health of Mrs. Douglass had been sufficiently reestablished to justify their return to Nellore, intelligence was received of the breaking forth of the Bengal mutiny, and shortly afterwards they were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Jewett, who left the station in August * Mr. Jewett was absent at Madras about four months, returning in November. Mrs. and Mrs. Douglass, by the advice of her physi- cian, remained till January." One only was added to the church during the year, making their total membership thirteen. 34 Trloogoo Mission. Mr. Jewett, on August 8th, writes : — *' I still cherish the hope expressed in previous letters, that the Sepoys in the Madras und Horiib.'iy Presidencies will prove staunch, and that conse- i|uently the Mohammedans will fear to rise and all of us escape unliarmed. Still, the great Mohanunedan festival of ten days, commencing August 21st, is dreaded by every one in these parts. Siiould a combined attack be niade, all the inland unprotected places would lie Ukely to be destroyed, while Madras, fully awake to the pressing danger, would be likely to be overcome. For a long time wo resolved to stand our ground, but at last yielded the point. Capt. leaver, who commands over 300 invalid Sepoys stationed here, says that, in case of a rise, he can afford no protection to us who are on this side of the town." " Were I alone, I would not think of leaving, my hope of general safety being pretty strong, but when one has a wife and lielpless children, he may well fear when there is no cause to fear, but how much more when bazaar reports make every ear to tingle My wife has thought it best to go to Madras ever since we received an unpleasant visit from two native gentlemen, strangers from the north — as inquisitive spies — attended by twenty armed men with spears and swords." Mr. Douglass writes : — " We are looking to the meeting of the Union this month with great solicitude. In these contend- ing waters we fear millions of heathens will be left to perish — per- ish eternally. * * We begin to feel as a mission a painful need of an increase to our number. We ought to be multiplied ten times. * We can see no reason why the board, and the churches through it, should not arise to the saving of 14,000,000 1'eloogoos — the most numerous and the most interesting people, confessedly, of South India. There is not a village closed to the gospel and everywhere the servant of Christ is treated with respect, and his message very seldom despised." Extract from report. — Your committee are persuaded that the Board are brought to this alternative, either to relinquish the Teloogoo Mission, or speedily reinforce it. In a field that numbers its 14,000.000, disturbed more or less by the mutiny, that has infected all parts of India, there is little to hope for at present from a feeble force in the midst of so many millions." One additional missionary, it was suggested, should be sent to Nellore in October. The expense of the mission for the year was $2,224.35. Scrap Book. 35 1 858-9. d be sent The 45th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of New York on May 17th, 1851) NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, Rev. L. Jewctt and wife, and Rev. F. A. Douglass and wife. Extracts from report: — "We are here (Teloogoo Mission) however, called upon to otier devout thanksgiving to the great Head of the church that He has visited our brethren of this niicsicn with a gracious outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and given them the joy second to none on earth, in welcoming converts among the heathen into their little faniilv of the household of faith. Your committee would recommend the vigorous prosecu- tion of the work among the Teloogoos." Extracts from the missionaries report: — "We have never known a darker period than towards the close of the first half of the mission year. We felt that we were coming to nothing. While we were mourning our own unprotitablenegs, and our leanness, to bring us still lower the Lord called away, suddenly, our only catechist, Jacob, who died March 5th. * Late in the evening of the 22nd, two came to the mission house and requested that they might be baptized the following day. * The ordinance of baptism was administered to them late in the afternoon of the 23rd. * * The next day, March 24th, three young men came to the mission house to inquire what they might do to be saved. The church observed Monday, April 5th as a day of fasting and prayer." Mr. Jewett wntes : — "lam not qualified to write out on paper, worthily, a history of this revival. I can speak of the flesh, but what can I say about the spirit ? " Mr. Douglass writes : — "I cannot forbear saying it is a day of great trembling and rejoicing among us. We firmly believe that the " Lone Star " will be the centre of a cluster of brighter stars." Report : — ** At the close of last mission year, the number of church members was thirteen. The present year we have received by baptism 13 — in all 26 members. * Our labors have been confined almost wholly to Xellore. * * We hope the churches will furnish the means which will enab'e the com mittee to open the way to those who have .said ' we are ready to go to the Teloogoos.' " Mr. Jewett writes further : — " We are in immediate want of another mission house in order to double the influence among the T 36 Tkluocoo MisHiev. Teloogoo people. * We have waited till our faith has wavered for the fulfilment of a promise for the supply of our acknowledged want." Expense of the mission for the year was $4,97.'i.97, 1859-60. The 4Gth annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Cincinnati on May 22nd, 1860. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, Rev. L. Jewett and wife, and Rev. F. \. Douglass and wife Five were added by Baptism during the year. During the month of September that fearful scourge the cholera, visited the mission and in a few days took by death two members of their small church and four pupils from their school. Extract from report : — *' God is giving new encouragement to the worn laborers of the Teloogoo Mission, who have been so long watching for the morning." •' The Teloogoo * Lone Star ' is fast becoming a bright and luminous body, and the brethren there cherish the hope of seeing it, in their own day, ' a constellation.' It is a sweet misrion, sweet with the influences of divine love and .the odors of heavenly grace. It deserves to be strengthened, and the committee have thought of good relative to it. * * Much money and mf.ny men will be needed, and the churches cannot fail to furnish bcch." Under date of June 21, Mr. Jewett writes : — " It now appears that the Lord has been carrying on a silent work in the souls of many persons for several weeks past. I think for eight weeks at least, * * 'They will soon come in crowds ' " Expense for the year was $3,174.2 ,C. 1860-1. The 47th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Brooklyn on May 28th, 1861. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, Rev. L, Jewett and wife, and Rev, F. A. Douglass and wife. Extracts from report : — " Although this field exhibits a stub- born soil, and abounds in the most formidable obstacles, it has been occupied by men who have displayed in a high degree the patience of faith, undaunted courage and unrelenting persever- ance. * * The accounts from the Teloogoo Mission indicate gradual and effective progress. No mission in Asia, of any de- nomination, has ever been favored with more faithful laborers. The establishni'-nt nt Nellore has long seemed like a ' Lone Star ' ScKAP Book. 87 dimly seen ; but now, as many have hoped, it is looming up in radiant beauty, and shining with increased lustre. * +: Let us remember our brethren of the Teloogoo Mission in our pray- ers, and by our word and deed, by sympathy and support, bid thei'i ' God speed.' " "In the language of Mr. Ward, in a recent communication: ' My brother, the Executive Committee were right in not giving up this mission. God, 1 believe, is with us, and I cannot but hope tliat better things are in store for us.' " Extract from report : — " Referring to a week of prayer, in January 1860, one of the brethren remarked, it was generally ob- served by all the christians of Nellore, of every name, and was one of the most blessed and important weeks ever seen in Nellore. * * A general impression seems to prevail among the people that tiie religion of Jesus is g-^tting a strong hold, and that its ultimate triumph is certain." Mr. Douglass writes : — " In the evening we went again to the village. After I had read a few verses from the Bible and made a few remarks, Lydia, sitting, and before unobserved in the crowd, numbering perhaps 100 people, began in a very simple Way to speak of Jesus. All the head men of the village were present. No sooner had she risen to her feet, with her staff in her hand, then the company divided and stood for more than an hour with eyes fixed on this aged disciple of Jesus as she poured forth in the sweetest and most stirring language and imagery the truth of God— such a display of the sins and folly of heathenism to which she had been devoted for fifty years, its entire emptiness and unsurpassed cruelty, then the glorious gospel of the son of God, in its fulness and saving power. There was a deep feeling and interest in the assembly, no interruption, except to say, as many did, ' yes, mother, what you say is true.' " Mr, Jewctt and family spent near two months in and around Ongole. In a village two brothers were converted. Only one baptized during the year. Expense of the mission for the year was $3,010.37. 1861-2. . The 48th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Providence on May 27th, 1862. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge. Rev. L Jewett and wife and Rev. F. A. Douglass and wife. Extracts from report : — "We cannot recall the history of the Teloogoo mission without our convictions being deepened that the 88 Teloogoo Mission. work of missions is emphatically a work of faith. The death of Van Husen, under the influence of climate and labor, at Nellore, spread a gloom over the early life of this mission, which years have not been able to remove. * * The question, years ago, was anxiously asked by the Executive Committee, and discussed in the meetings of the Board and of ;;he Union, ' shall the Teloo- goo be given up 1 Shall the Lone Star be blotted out ? ' After most careful consideration, no conclusion could be reached save : * Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it ' " ** Mr. Jewett, who has long and faithfully labored in that field, sinks under his toils just as he is gathering in the harvest, and, tearing himself away, turns towards America as the only hope of regaining his health. 'The trial.' says he, *of leaving home at first, is less than nothing conipared to that of leaving the mission field to return.' * * Mr. Douglass is thus left to labor alone among the Teloogoos. '•' * While our missionaries are thus willing to hold on, and labor on against such fearful odds, let the day never come whan the American Baptist Mission- ary Union can say, let the mission go, the infant church be scat^ tered, and the heathen given up to perish. * Your com- mittee recommend that the Teloogoo mission be reinforced as speedily as possible " On the 28th of May, Mr Jewett was taken alarmingly sick and was hastened off to Madras with his family. After spending a few weeks there it was decided for him and family to return for a time to America. Leaving his family at Madras he took a hasty 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 strengthened by seeing him as ever Paul did by his brethren who met him in the wilderness. We ordained Kana- kiah as pastor of the church on the last Sabbath I spent in Nellore." Bro. Douglass w^rites under date of March 10th : — **Bro. and sister Jewett are sending us their last letter while in India. Tiieir little daughter they must soon give up to Jesus whom, she says, she loves better than anybody else." " It was very disheartening to find on his (Mr. Jewett) arri- val (in America), that the question of abandoning the ' Lone Star ' Mission was again before the Board and Churches. At the anniversary of the Society, held in Providence in 1862, a resolution was offered and ivs passage urgently demanded that the Teloogoo field be abandoned. Rev. Dr. Warren pleaded with them to wait at least until Mr. Jewett, then on his voyage home, should return. ' Let us wait,' said he, ' and hear what Brother Scrap Book. 39 Jewett has to say on this question ? ' This proposition was re- luctantly agreed to. Mr. Jewett had no doubtful report to make of the ' Lone Star.' When asked concerning surrendering the mission, he replied with an emphatic ' no.' He declared before the Hoard that if encouragement and aid were not given him by the Union, he would return alone and unaided, except by God's promise and spirit, and spend his remaining days among the Teloogoo people. The Board resolved to return Mr. Jewett, if health was restored, and a helper with him." — Rev. D. Downie, of N« llore, at the conference held at Nellore February 5-10, 1886. The expense of the mission for the year was $3,205.64. 1862-3. The 49th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Cleveland on May 19th, 1863. NELLORE.— Missionaries in charge, Hev. F. A. Douglass and wife Extracts from report : — •' '■' * We cannot despond for those who have so much courage and hope for themselves Our conviction increases at every step we take with them in the review 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 God, and that he will yet pour honor upon them in the sight of the heathen, by causing his word to triumph in their salvation. * * It is also a saddening con- sideration that all the interests of this station should be suspended upon the uncertainity of a single life. This consideration is especially painful, when we look upon the Telooji.'^o Mission. Take Bro. "Douglass from Nellore, and the Teloogoo iviission is practically given up. V-'hea we look at upwards of 14.000,000 of heathens so accessible, and at their character, as among the most intelligent and elevated of the Hindoos. * •* We are convinced that there are no lields from which we might expect better returns, if the station was so manned that those who man them could labor to the best advantage. * * Our review has brought us to accept the words of Mr. Douglass as words of sober truth, 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 th ? brittle thread of life. '■^'- * It has been my privilege to visit &■' ib i missions in the Teloogoo country except two, and I jati, ^^^tnuut envy or comparison, say that the field given us thus by (i^od in his provi- dence, is sufficient in size to call for an outlay of nwn and means #1 m u 40 Telooooo Missiox. to th© extent I could not presume to name.' * * Your com mittee cannot but hope, therefore, that measures will be taken immediately to reinforce Nellore." On December 14th, 1861, Konakiah was duly ordained pastor of the Nellore church by the missionaries, Messrs. Jewett and Douglass. Two were baptized by Mr. Douglass in the Pennar river on December 5th, 1 862. Mr. Douglass writes from Nellore : — " On reading an abstract of the report of the discussion, at the last annual meeting, upon the propriety of abandoning this field, I confess to mingled surprise and indignation. A thousand precious memories rushed into my mind of the scenes witnessed on these grounds, made sacred by agony and tears, by triumphs of faith, by dying grace such as was never, to my knowledge, surpassed in any land, and I felt like sounding them with trumpet tongue into the ears of those who seemed asleep. * * But I would ask, is the Teloogoo mission to be forever the subject of apology by its friends in America and India ? If so, what are the grounds of that apol- ogy ? Apologists should know for what they apologize, or be silent. * * Have boards and committees been ill advised in reference to the matter ? Have they Veen misled ? * * Or is the apology to come only from the India side of the question ? Are the feeble agents of mission labor (four families in twenty years for 16,000,000 heathen) to be called to give an account for not laying in the dust massive temples of caste, the masterpiece of Satan, that have withstood the tempest of ages ? * =i= Let the churches send ten men to the Teloogoos to enter and occupy this vast unoccupied field, instead of * * " The expense of the mission for the year was $4,407.67. 1863-4. The 50th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Philadelphia on May 24th, 1864. NELLORE — Missionaries in charge, Rev. F. A. Douglass and wife. In consequence of the sickness of Mr. Douglass and wife they were absent from Nellore from May 21st to September 21st, vis- iting the sea side and at Madras. Soon after Mr. Douglass' return to Nellore, he baptized four converts, to which he refers thus : *' 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 forgotten oi, earth, and, I trust, will not be disowned in heaven." Scrap Book, 41 M Extract from report : — •* The Teloogoo Mission is now in the charge of Rev. L. Jewett and Rev. F. A. Douglass. * * A mission of such promise, and on which so much has been expend- ed, 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 return to his post. He ought to be accompanied by two fresh and vig- orous men. This increased foi'ce is absolutely necessary to raise the mission to a state of real efficiency and give promise of large success." Extract from report : — " The Ke\ . S. S. Day, of the Teloogoo Mission, seeing no prospect of being able to resume labor in his forraer field has resigned." The three last months of the year was spent by Mr. Douglass in preaching in Ongole and the numerous villages around it. The expense of the mission for the year was $3,512.88. .■it| 1864-5. The 51st annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of St. Louis on May 23rd, 1865. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, Rev. L. Jewett, Rev. F. A. Douglass and wife, and Rev. J. E. Clough and wife. Extract from report : — Mr. A. V. Timpany, of Venna, Canada west, has been appointed a iijissiot?ary of the Union. Extracv, from report : — '• Rev. Lyman Jewett, of the Teloogoo Mission, sictoiupanied by Rev. J. E. Clough and wife, who are hence^c '.li v,o form " part of the mission, sailed from Boston on the S 'ti of l'.stNov^ember, to resume the cultivation of that field, Mrs. «/'ewtttt remains in this country, but will join her husband in due tin? " All are hopeful and happy in the prospect before "hem." Extract from report : — " The committee were happy in being able to make even this addition to the working force of the mis- sion, and only regret their inability to make a larger one. The field is an inviting one, and would well repay any amount of labor bestowed on it." 7r. February, 1865, Mr. Douglass writes : — ** I have also to tell r* ^ of another visitation of the Lord to our school. The entit". ,v'^f;ol of nineteen pupils has been blessed with the Spirit's influ*^u H?, Some have found peace in believing." Again he writes : — " The native helpers have been touring near Ongole, having travelled by a new road, and been absent w ! 42 Teloogoo Mission. just two mnoths, in which time they have done a highly important work, visiting and preaching in 73 difierent villages, and in many of them more than once." The expense of the mission for the year was $7,554.51. ; '■ 18C5-G. The 52nd annual meeting of tlie American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Boston on May 23nd, 1866. NELLORE. — Mi' i-.'onari 3 in charge, Rev. L. Jewett and wife, and Rev. J. E. * " ''- md wife. Messrs. Jewett anu '. n arrived at Madras about the end of March, they remained ii lat city some three weeks and then proceeded to Nellore, which place tliey reached on the 22nd of April. Mr. and Mrs. Olougli took ship for England in Septe.jiber, from thence to Boston, where they arrived in the fore part of February. This return to America was rendered necessary on account of their failing health. On the 14th of May Mr. Douglass baptized five persons into the fellowship of the Nellore church. November 6th Bro. Clough writes :— -" * It was n>y happy privilege to baptize four upon a profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. * '•' The ' Lone Star ' mission has stood here in the mids^ of darkness deeper than night for about twenty years, yet but few have believed our report ! * * We feel that this cannot longer be endured— God has a people here who must come out and unite themselves with the children of light." Eleven were baptized during the year. Present number thirty eight. The expense of the mission for Jie year was $11,568.70. CANADA. On the 18th of October, 186G (so says the 1st report) a few ministers met with the Rev. D. Murdock of the American Mis- sionary U?iion in the Beamsville parsonage house, and there vir- tually inaugurated our own Canadian Foreign Missionary Society. We have not been able to find out the names of the honored few. 18GG-7. The 53rd annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary XJnion was held in tlie City of Chicago on May 2kt, 1867. Scrap Book. 43 M NELLORE. — llev. L. Jewett and wife, missionaries in charge, • ONGOLE — Rov. F. A. Douglass and wife. Extracts from report : — " Since our last report a new station lias been opened in Ongole and Mr. Olough has taken charge of it. -^ * Arriving there on the 17th September "•= * On- gole is 70 miles from Nellore and 10 from the sea * The people generally are intelligent — larger in size and stronger than those in and near Nellore." Mr. Clough writes : — " In March in company with Mr. Jewett I went to Ongole. While there two persons, whose homes were forty miles west of Ongole, were baptized. * * Besides the study of the language, I myself preached every ev ;i- ing either in the town or the adjacent villages, and, aided by the native preachers, conducted public worship on the Sabbatli in Teloogoo." " After three nights travel by bullock cai't over rough roads, and no roads at all, sometimes through and sometimes around cotton and rice fields, preaching by day at times in my tent and at times in the villages, we arrived at Tula 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 about Jesus. The word soon spread, and the next day between thirty and forty men and women appeared before the tent, having brought provisions for four oj five days and an entire change of clothes, to put on when they should be baptized. They said that they now came to learn move about Jesus but they believed already and • wished to bo baptized. Then com- menced in that tamarind grove a series of meetings which con- tinued for five days, and which I never can forget There were in constant attendance thirty-five and at times many more. The meetings were for preaching, prayer, reading the scriptures and inquiry. At the end of the fifth day, Sunday, January 20th, twenty-eight were baptized on profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The meetings and baptisms almost made me think another day of Pentecost was being given to us I have seen many revivals at home, and witnessed many precious out- pourings 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 fifty- five miles remote from Ongole. * * To witness this scene was worth more than J can tell. I can now toil on patiently, I think, and feel that our labor is not in vain * The man hV- inH- SS iil 44 Teloogoo Mission. who came in the morning returned accompanied by three others. * * He then said that four beside himself, living in his vil- lage, were believing 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 — mis- sionaries for this Ongole field and for Rampatam and AUore. 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 the spot 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 vast plain contains hundreds of towns and villages, and teems with human beings. All these and multitudes beyond can be reached by a missionary on cart or pony. How I long to go and tell them about Jesus ! Ongole is the central point, the base from which I must \v ork * * If the Lord should give me my health, I should like to travel six months in the year, and go with tent and family, from viUage to village, preaching the gospel. Such tours must, I think, result in untold good. We are praying and expecting you will appoint at least two new men for this Held 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 ? * * Bro. Clough says, now is the time to strike, the time to put new labooers into the field. We expect to meet him and his family at Ramapatam on the 13th inst., and spend a fortnight in united labor, prayer and counsel." Expense of the mission for the year was $6,863.55. THE CANADA AUXILIARY TO THE AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION. Secretary— REV. WM. STEWART, B. A. Treasurer— T. S. SHENSTON, Esq. The 1st annual meeting was held in the Thames St. Baptist Chapel, Ingersoll, on the 17th October, 1867. The annual ser- mon was preached at 11 a. m. by Rev. I)r. Thos. F. Oaldicott, of Toronto, from Hebrews iii, 2 : "0 Lord revive thy work." Scrap Book. 45 Extracts from report : — " Some ten years since the question of entering more fully on the work was canvassed by the brevhren v;ho attended a convention held in Toronto, and a brother was appointed to prepare a paper on the following subject : — * Ought Canadian Baptists as such, to have a Foreign Missionary Society ; or ought they to co-operate with existing organizations.' For some reason the paper was never presented and the question con- sequently remained in abeyance. Now and again it formed the theme of conversation on the part of those who had understand- ing of the times to know what Israel ought to do, but the men and means seemed both to be wanting. Meanwhile, that God who has all resources at his disposal, was raising up a young brother and summoning him to the glorious work. A son of the soil, a member of one of our own churches, an alumnus of our own Theological schools. He seems to be just the man we want for this great cause. His anxiety for the work is no mere ephe- meral outburst of enthusiasm, no passing flight of fancy or senti- ment, for it has been tested in no ordinary degree. God has called him and he dares not disobey." "On the morning of the 18th October, 1866, a committee of six ministers went in the study of the parsonage house at Beams- ville, and held a conference with Rev. Dr. Murdock, of Boston, one of the Secretaries of the American Baptist Missionary Union, in regard to the best method of co-operating in the Foreign Mis- sion enterprise. Dr. Fyfe had previously corresponded with ths Board in Boston, and as the result of that correspondence. Dr. Murdock was deputed to visit the province and invite co-operation. In the frankest manner possible he offered to place at our dis- posal the knowledge, appliances and services of the society he represented. The offer was heartily accepted for the present, and a Secretary and Treasurer were appointed for a year. It was further arranged that our missionary should be examined and accepted by the Board, and should go out under their direc- tion, while they should act as our agents in transmitting to him the means of support. The plan seems simple and inexpensive, and must therefore commend itself to all as peculiarly adapted to the present state of our young enterprise." " A few mouths transpired, and our young brother, Americus V. Timpany, to whom reference has already been made, having completed his full course of literary and theological study, pro- ceeded to Boston, and was at once «xamined and received as a missionary by the Executive Committee of the Union. He was appointed to labor in the Presidency of Madras, British India, M li 4 ' . B !' V' ii 46 Teloogoo Mission. among the Teloogoos, a people of peculiar interest and intelli- gence, to whom many look as likely to take, at no distant day, a large part in the evangelization of the teeming millions of Hindostan. He carries the gospel accordingly to a people who owe allegiance to our own belo\ ed Queen, and he will read to them the Word of Life in a version made by Carey and his coadjutors. When wo think of this, who can help exclaiming, •How wondrously does God work?' Little did Carey dream, that in this far off province of the British Empire a society would ever be formed or a missionary designated to take up and carry on the blessed work that was not permitted to him to finish. May the committee meeting of six Canadian Baptist ministers, held in the parsonage study in Beamsville, be as fruitful in results as the parlor meeting of thirteen English Baptist ministers, lield in Kettering three quarters of a century ago, and may the mantles of a Carey and a Judson, too, fall on our beloved brother, who 1ms heard and is about to obey the divine call, ' Depart, for I will send the far hence unto the Gentiles.' ' Mr. Timpany writes : — Beginning with the nuddle June, by the 10th of July, four of the associations and several of the churches were visited.' ' I was totally unprepared for the warm sympathy and inter- est manifested for me and my work, and soon perceived that God had been fitting his people for a hearty reception of their new and additional work.' * Since beginning in June I have travelled some 2,000 or 3,000 miles and delivered between seventy and eighty addresses in 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 more for breaking up the ground than gathering a harvest.' ' In my address I have endeavored to lay before God's people the condition of the world, and their relations to it by virtue of their relation to the world's possessor, the Lord Jesus Christ. May the Holy Spirit deepen the consecration of all.' * It will be gratifying to all to learn that this outfit has been complete and is in all its departments of the best materials. Its estimated cost is $700. An efficient committee of ladies in Brantford has rendered great assistance in getting it up, and it is only proper to state that fully one-third of the entire outfit has come from the church in Brantford. Other churches have made valuable donations, both in money and materials. The whole Scrap Book. 47 sum received by the Secretary for Outfit Fund to date, and ac- knowledged in the columns of the Canadian Baptist, is $370.15." " 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 winds in his fist, and measures the waters in the hollow of His hand, bring them in safety to their desired liaven I Tliey sail from New York via the Inuian steamer to England, and thence by an East India packet "ihip round the Cape to Madras. Two Teloogoo woni'^n accompany them on the voyage. From tliese persons, converts of the Mission, they will be able to gain some little knowledge of the language during the three or four months they will be thrown together. On arrivir.g at Madras, our friends will at once go to Nell ore, the headcjuarters of the Mission, where Bro. Jewett has resided and labored for eighteen years. Their first efforts will be directed to the thorough acquisition of the language, and when this has been accomplished they will enter on a station of their own. There may they be spared to labor long and well for Jesus and for souls, and may they have many of that dark-hued, but subtle-minded race, as their crown of joy and rejoicing on that day." " Thus our young enterprise has been inaugurated. We are persuaded that God is in it. It is ihe youngest child of the denomination and one of the best-beloved It has a claim on our sympathy, liberality and prayers. When we think of our young brother and sister far away on ' India's coral strand,' lalDoring down in the dark pit of heathenism, who among us will, or rather can refuse to be liberal and systematic in our contributions that they 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 all sources .$1169 27 Paid American Baptist Miss. Union 1000 00 Paid Disbursements Ill 60 Balance on hand 57 67 S1169 27 ||.1 ^i The following reports of the interesting meeting at which this report was adopted will be read with interest by every contribu- tor to our Mision Fund. fcj 48 Trlooooo Mission. II If i! 1^ From the Canadian Baptist. The first annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to the American Baptist Missionary Union was held m the Thames Street Baptist Chapel (Rev. T. Baldwin's), on the evening of Thursday, October 17th, 1867. The exercises of the meeting were interesting in the highest degree, and the place of worship was crowded to its utmost capacity. The chair was occupied by T. 8. Shenston, Esq., of Brantford, Treasurer of the Society, who called on the Rev. 0. Walker, of St. Catharines, to lead in prayer. In his opening remarks the chairman thanked the audience * * He declined, however, making a speech, pleading his inability to do anything like justice to the theme. Instead of giving a speech he would give $5 to the good cause He then called on the Rev. Wm. Stewart, B. A., of Brantford, the mission Secretary, to read the first annual report. This document gave an interesting and detailed account of the inception of the enterprise, and stated that about $2,000 had been raised for it in about five months. * * Three-fifths of the former of these two amounts were raised through the personal exertions of Mr. Timpany himself, and more than one-third of the latter by members of the church and congregation in Brantford. Rev. Dr. Fyfe, in a brief speech, moved the adoption of the report * * This was encouraging ; but he hoped to see bet- ter results next year. They were now sending out their first missionary, but he was quite sure he 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 to that of the Secretary, an admirable report on an admirable sub- ject. Rev. H. Lloyd, M. A., in 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 in Canada on the success which had attended their young Foreign Missionary Society. The fact that $2,000 had been raised showed that they possessed the missionary spirit. He thought that no missionary, who went forth under the pledge of their support, need for one moment cherish a feeling of anxiety in reference to the result of his going forth. Then addressing Mr. Timpany he said : It gives me great pleasure here, in the midst of your brethren, among whom you have been trained to the great work of preaching the gospel to the destitute, to convey to you the instructions of the Executive Committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union, by whose authority you have been appointed Scrap Book. 49 ui* to the work of Foreign Missions in India. You are, henceforth, my brother, lifted out of all local connections. You are separ- ated from all merely provincial interests, and elevated into a sphere of more general and unusual activity. You this night enter into the fellowship of those noble and heroic men, who, not counting their lives dear unto them, separated themselves from country and kindred, and planted themselves amid the great dark- ness of heathenism. It is my duty to remind you that you go forth upon no holiday entertainment. Though the rigors and hardships of missionary life have been mucli tempered of late, yet you go forth to encounter error and crime hoary with the strength of thousands of years. You go forth in the name of the Divine Master to achieve the conquest of men in His name and by His power. You are to encounter not merely diverse opinions ; you are to encounter errors wiiich have mingled themselves with the thoughts, the feelings, the hopes, the passions, the sinful lusts of men through countless generations. You are to smite through these thick incrustations of prejudices, with the hammer of truth You will meet oppositions, but you are to encounter them, not by your own wisdom — not by your own might — but by the wisdom that is born from above. You are to achieve conquests by the might of your christian meekness, by the sweetness of that spirit which Christ breathes into his disciples. You are to preach the gospel. * * — but the great work that you are to do aniong the heathen is to preach the gospel of Christ and of salvation. You are to make known to men the truth that Christ died for sinners, and that S'nners may be pardoned through him. This is the great truth tliat the men to whom you go need most of all to know. You need not go with the terrors of the law, for they have felt them ; they acknowledge them. They will pro- claim to you their deep sense of guilt, their sense of ruin. But you need to make them know and feel 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 fundatmenal facts of the gospel, you will cause light to spring up before their darkened pathway and the very bloom of heaven to arise in hearts that have only known sin before. You go then to perform the most essential work, to preach the gospel ; you will preach it as men gather about you, you will preach it by the wayside, you will preach it in the house, in the market, wherever you go, wherever you are brought into inter- course with men, your one work is to preach the gospel. It is for this that we send you forth in the name of your Divine Mas- ,'■4! m M '-''if w r^J hi V 50 Telooqoo Mission. I I \ ter. You are not our servant, but you are the servant of Christ. We do not issue instructions to you because we regard you as in any sense our eniployot^ or our agent, but you are the servant of Clirist, and y/o are the servants of Christ, and it is a work of inat(;rial sacrifice, and mutual cousel upon which we enter — you are going down to tlie bottom of the pit, as Carey designated it, and wfe holding the rope We call to you, and you speak to us ; your want shall come to us always with an open ear and a ready liand. We claim the privilege, und 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 a command, or as given with any spirit of unwortliy dictation. Take what we say to you as the suggestions of your biethren. If what we suggest be wise, follow it. If your clearer knowledge, your better accjuaintance with the local circumstance of the case compel you to take a different course from that which your brethren at the missionary room suggest to you, act, as you must, in the fear of the great God who is the Father and Master of all, as you must in view of the decision of the coming judgment. In saying this I do not by any means wish to open the door to any- thing like insubordination. I know you will^never take advan- tage of the magnanimity of your brethren in this respect to pursue any course dictated by mere self-wi:l, or by mere self- seeking. You will receive what we say as the counsel of your brethren, your equals, your elders, your superiors in some sense. You will have your days of darkness and of trial. These days will come or your case will be different from that of any other missionary that has gone out. There will be times when you will think that your brethren do not enter into your feelings, do not properly provide for your wants. The pressure will be close upon your spirit, and at times the iron will enter into your very soul. Their sympathy so warm, so generous, so constant, so true, will be so distant from you that its sweet and grateful pres- sure will scarcely ever reach your heart. Even in these moments of trial, of suffering and depression, keep constantly alive in your heart the assurance that your brethren love you, and that they will to 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 to other claims equally pressing with your own — something like indifterence, 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 Scrap Book. 51 i^our will kindness of that God who has called you to his work, and who lias so j^raciously opened the door ici- your entering upon it. There will be times wlien your only refuge will be in (;■■ I j 4 I i I ;r li J i I i I 54 Teloogoo Mission. of fellowsliip and pledge of support. Go to your distant field of labor, and remember that you leave behind you thousands of brethren and sisters, who in their closets, on their knees before God, by the family altar and in the house of (jrod, will remember you and pray for you, and out of th^ abundance of their liberality will ever be ready to extend to you that material aid that you will need in that distant land You need not fear that our hearts will be cold towards you, though you shall be lost tos' ' , you shall be dear to our memories and dear to our hearts i e will watch you as you fight the battles of the Lord. Rely upon it, that God will bless you in 1 he work. Let me renjind you of the support of the great God of missions. Brother, may God be with you ; may God bless you, and oh ! may it be the joy of your heart to know that underneath you is the valiant arm of Jehoval , and round about you is the host of holy angels that encampeth around them that fear God. When you are tossing to and fro upon the raging ocean, remember that you are going upon the errand of Him who holds the winds in his fist and the waters in the hollow of his hands. Remember that God has promised to be with his servants. As Addison beautifully expressed it : " How are thy servants blest^ O.Lord ? How sure is their defence. Eternal wisdom is their guide ; Their help Omnipotence." With such help and such succor you shall be sustained. Even though you should die at your post, your reward will be sure, and God, in that day when the angel reapers shall descend, and heaven cry " Harvest Home," sh^l give you that joy and that crown of rejoicing that the faithful laborer in God's work shall have I extend to you, my brother, this hand of fellowship and in the union of these warm hands let our brethren here see the union of our home and foreign work. As the representative of our mission work at home, I give you this hand of fellowship. This is a high work. Use the powers that God has given you that you may honor his blessed name. Attempt great things in the name of yonr Master, and God will bless you : go to your field of labor, then, and may Heaven's smile rest upon you, and may you return in the evening bringing your sheaves with you. After a few affectionate words of parting to the missionary's young partner in life, the Kev. gentleman concluded his address. The Chairman. Mr. Shenston, being obliged to leave, Rev. Dr. Caldicott took the chair and presided during the reiuaiader Scrap Book. 66 of the evening. A liberal collection was then taken up. The Secretary announced that a little over $50 was wanting to com- plete the missionary outfit, and he hoped that tlie amount would be made up before they separated. Voluntary contributions at once began to pour in faster than the Secretary could make a note of them. Contributions of $25 .$10, |5 and $1 were handed up to the platform, or will be sent to the Treasurer in a few days. Delegates gave for their respective churches ; husbands for their wives, and parents for their children and grand-children, until in a short time neaily $1,000 were raised. The work of giving was interrupted for a few minutes dv"Mig which Dr. Murdock, of Bos- ton, by request, gave a sketch of the people and the missionary's field of labor. The people, he said, are known as the Teloogoos. Their language is a dialect of the old Sanscrit ; it sustains about the same relatioi to the Sanscrit, as the Italian does to the Latin language. Indeed, the language of the Teloogocs is, as has Vieen sometimes called, the Italian of the Indies. The people are large, stalwart, noble specimens of men. Their language is cap- able of tlie tenderest expressions as well as tlie abstrusest ab- stractions of metaphysics. The people are remarkable, not mere- ly ;^or their physical qualities but for their understanding. It is estimated that there are from twelve to sixteen millions of these people speaking this language. The mission among these people was commenced about 80 years ago by Mr. Day, a jjative of this province, various fortunes attended it. The great Mr. Jewett went there 19 years ago and preached to the people. They Hocked to hear him from all the regions round about. When he read to them the gospel of Christ they stood around him with the tears running down their faces, and many of them were savingly conversed to God. Rev. John Bates, of Woodstock, father-in-law to the mission- ary, offered np the designation prayer. As he solemnly com- mended the young couple to the watchful care and blessing of the God of missions, many were moved to tears. It is next to an impossibility to describe the scenes which followed. Spontane- ously the people began again to give. Such holy enthusiasm, and earnest liberality, was never witnessed before, even by the oldest ministers present. Not till after midnight did the meeting break up, for the people would not go away till they had given of their substance to the Lord's cause. An opportunity was ^iven at the close of the meeting to all who desired it to shake hands with Mr. Timpany and partner and bid them farewell — an opportunity which was apparently embraced by every one present. " s. U 1 I; r 3 ii; l! } i : i ' 56 TeLOOGOO MI8SION. The following are extracts from the Globe's report of the meeting: '* On the evening of Thursday, 20th inst., a highly interesting and enthusiastic public meeting was held in the Baptist Church. Ingersoll, in connection with Foreign Missions. Mr. T. S. Shen- ston, of Brantford, in the chair. Scripture read by Rev. A. Gillis, of Quebec, and prayer by the Kev. John Bates, B. A., of Woodstock. The Secretary, Eev, Wni, Stewart, B. A , of Tor- onto, read an admirable report. During the year the Telcogoo Mission to wliich the Baptist Churches in Ontario have sent two missionaries, with their wives, durnig tlie last three years, had from being one of the most unpromising, became one of the most inviting missions on heathen soil. The new converts are num- bered by hundreds, and hundreds more have applied for baptism. In December last 324 were baptized. Suitable mission premises at Eamapatam have been purchased, where Rev. Mr. Timpany is now laboring with most encouraging success. The movement among the Teloogoos is really most wonderful, and so urgent is the need of laborers that the Parent Society (American Mission- ary Union of Boston, XJ. S.) have recently made arrangements for the erection of a theological school at Ramapatam. * '■• Speeches were delivered by Rev. J. Hurd, of Brantford, Rev. Dr. Murdock, of Boston, U. S. ; Rev. Wm Pixley, of New York, and Rev. H. Llyod, M. A., of Toronto, The addresses were of a high order, and the large audience listened with unabated interest to the close." At the close of the public meeting a draft of a constitution prepared by Rev. Jolni Bates was submitted and adopted. The first six parties wlio paid towards the support of the new Foreign 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 tlie adoption of the report — a very correct likeness of whom is herewith given — was not only its President, but was virtimlly the originator of our Foreign Mission Society and gave the first contribution to its funds. Assuming that these facts will awaken in the reader's mind an interest in this gentlenian, I give a brief outline of his history. Scrap Book. 57 •• ifl M ROBERT ALEXA.NDER FYFE. Robert Alexander Fyfe was born near the Oity of Montreal on October 20th, 1816, and spent his boyhood days amidst a French population. In his 20th year lie left the store in which he had been employed for some years, in order to take a full course of studies at Madison University, N. Y. On account of his failing health he was unable to take a " full course " as he desired. Of hie peculiar state of mind, shortly after leaving Madison, Mrs. Fyfe, his wife, writes ; " He had in his wretched state of health been beset with doubts of a serious nature. On his partial recovery he one day wandered off to the woods (I think), time passing unnoted till a fellow student discovered him sitting by 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 correct in this. His mind he told me, 58 Teloogoo Mission. went through a process of reasoning at that time, which he regretted he had i.v»c then written down. It seemed always to him to have been unlike what he found in books. But never again did he doubt God or the truths of the Bible. No ancient or modern sceptic, or imaginative speculator, shook him in his convictions for one minute from that time." On his complete restoration to health, he resumed his literary pursuits, preferring, however, to attend the Academy at Worces- ter, Mass., instead of returning to Madison. His theological studies were pursued at Newton Seminary, from which he graduated in the year 1842, and was ordained in Brookline, Mass , August 25th, of the same year. His first pastoral charge was in the village of Forth, County Lanark, Onfc., in which he remained for eighteen months. For a brief period, during the latter part of 1843, he is found in charge of the Montreal Baptist College. In the following year he assumed the pastorate 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, and remained there up to 18G0, when he became Principal of the Canadian Literary Institute at Woodstock. He lield pastorates in Rhode Island, Milwaukee and Toronto. He died at his own house in Woodstock, Ont. September, 4th, 1878, at 11 o'clock'a. m., aged 61 years, 10 months and 15 days. On the following Friday he was buried in the city of Toronto. • ■ ~ 1867-8. ,: The 64th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of New York on May 21, 1808. Missionaries in charge ; NELLORE.— Rev. L. Jewett and wife. ONGOLE.— Rev. J. E. Clough and wife, and Rev. A. V. Tirapany 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 mission is one of the most inviting and important fields cultivated by the Union, and that the limits to good to that intelligent, wealthy, interesting and needy people, can only be Hxed by the amount of effort and interest put forth on their behalf to lead them to Christ. The ' Lone Star 'of 15 years since is to-day a bright constellation which ignorance of the ri i Scrap Book. 5d people liid frotii the Baptist Churches of America for many years." *' As your pioneer missionary, Bro. Day, a man of much labor and faith, and beloved by many Teloogoos, both living and dead, was a native of Canada, so your last oflering to the field, Bro. Tinipany, is a gift of the Baptists of Canada, or of the Dominion. We have only to regret that three mission families had not been sent out with Bro, Timpany to the held, that imperative needs of which call loudly for ten families to occupy as many large cities and centres of wide influence. Ongole, seventy miles north of Nellore, is to the Union a child of providence, and has ever been one of hope." "The native church of over seventy members, the nine efficient native preachers and teachers, the new chapel dedicated to God, costing over $1,000, only $150 of which was given from your treasury, the hundreds of villages reached during the year, the important opening at Ramapatam, these all 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 of the field can fully enter into." Extract from report : — " The total amount received from the central district, including Canada, is $49,010.20. The increase of donations is nearly $5,000, more than one-half of which is credited to Canada." Extract from report : — " Mr. and Mrs. Timpany, present with us at our last annual meeting, set out for their field of labor the latterjpart 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 the summer and early autumn, were characterized by a remarkable degree of earnestness, and called forth a very hearty and gener- ous response. His entrance upon the foreign field makes a new era with our brethren across the line, and it is hoped he will soon be followed by others, who shall receive like assurance of sym- pathy and support." " At 9 o'clock on the first Sabbath in November a good congregation had assembled. * * In the evening Carakiah, the native ordained preacher, administered the communion after preaching a good sermon and giving the right hand of fellowship to ten young converts. At the close the remark went round, 'This is the greatest day we ever witnessed in Nellore.* The chapel was well filled with believers, numbers of whom were rejoicing in their first love of Christ, who had come in from ten to twenty ^^1 fH IH ' i 1.: > !| ^'U k m TuLOO(;oo Mission. miles to celebrate together the dying love of Christ. In Decem- ber anot her addition of eight was made to the church by baptism." *• Through the various agencies, 2,616 copies of scripture por- tions, and 1,784 tracts were given away and sold." t Mr. Clough writes of the native preachers: — "I cannot describe in detail the labor of these men. * * They have also preached 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 right hundred villages, within a cir- cuit of forty miles around Ongole have heard the gospel through them " Nellore. — Baptized, thirty-three ; members, sixty-four. Ongole. — Baptized, sixty-eight ; members, seventy five. Expense for the year was $13,900.17. i CANADA. The 2ud annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to the American Haptist Missionary Union was held in the Alexander Street Toronto Baptist Cliapel on the 22nd of October, 1868. Secretary— REV. WM. STEWART, B. A., Brantford. Treasurer— T. S SHENSTON, Esq., Brantford. - i After an unusually protracted passage our young missionary arrived safe in Madras and found there a cluster of friends to give them a welcome. Then .^gain at Nellore they received a most hearty welcome from that truly " grand old man " and his wife, Mr. and Mrs Jewett. E^rtracts from the second annual report : — ' The set time of favor to the Teloogoos seems indeed to have come, and the field of labor in the judgment of the Committee in Boston is fast becoming one of the most inviting and important cultivated by the' American Baptist Missionary Union. May we not mark it as'^' special token for good that Canadian Baptists are honored of 'Odd in sending a representative to such a hopeful and inviting field." " On his arrival and settlement at Nellore, Bro, Timpany at once commenced the systematic study of the language, with 11 Scrap IJook. 61 which indeed he became somewhat acquainted on his voyage by the aid of the two Teloogoo women who accompanied him, and who have since been baptized. From his known aptitude for the ac(iuisition of language, we have little doubt that ere many months have elapsed he will be preaching to the people, in their own tongue, the wonderful works of God." "Surely there is no church worthy of the name, that in these days of missionary activity, is willing to be longer under the imputation of doing nothing to send the gospel of the grace of God to the regions beyond." •' Your committee cannot close their report without referring to the presence at this annual meeting of Rev. Dr. Murdock, one of the Secretaries of the Parent Society, whose visits we hail with delight, and of Kev. Francis A. Douglass, who was for over ten years a faithful and zealous laborer among the Teloogoos. He comes to visit our churches for a few weeks, under the direc- tion of your committee, and seeks to disseminate information in regard to the character and wants of tlie people among whom he labored, and thus to foster a missionary spirit. For his own sake,|and for the sake of the Master whom he loves and serves, a brotherly love and a hospitable reception are earnestly bespoken on his behalf. Those churches that fail to secure a visit from Bro. Douglass will miss a rich treat."' " Before another annual meeting is held, Bro Timpany will probably I ave entered on a station of his own. In order to do this, a largely increased appropriation will be recjuired. Four- teen millions of Teloogoos, as interesting, and enterprising, and ready a people as are to be found among the teeming millions of HindO'jtan, require the gospel. A Canadian was the pioneer Baptist missionary among them, Bro. Day, who now resides in the States. Another Canadian has taken his place on the field, one whom we know and love. He is our own missionary. Let us follow him with our prayers." Bro Timpany writea : — "I have seen the heathen, and heathenism is all, and more than all I liad conceived it to be. It is emphatically the service of Satan. But what a change the gospel makes on the Teloo;;oos ? I wish you could hear and see some of the native Christians. They are indeed trophies of divine grace, when ennobled by Christ within, they are men and women every inch. If those christians who are cold in their zeal for missions were put here for only a week, they would be cured forever. " liaKi^ 62 Tkloo<;oo Mission. Financial Statement. To total amount received $2056 93 By paid American Missionary Union i$1650 00 " Balance on outtit 56 00 " Disbursements 54 13 " Balance on hand 296 80 .$2056 93 1868-9. The 55th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Boston on May 18th, 1869. NELLORE. — Missionaries in charge, Rev. L. Jewett and wife, and Rev. A. V. Timpany and wife. ONGOLE —Rev John E. Clough and wife Rev. Wm. Stewart, of Brantford, it appears, was present and took part in this meeting. Extract 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 till the autunm of 1866, when the Home Secretary, responding to_ the invitation of leadi g brethren in the province, attended the convention which met that year at Beamsville. The result of this conference with the brethren of the convention was the appointment of a Provin- cial Committee, a Secretary and Treasurer, who were charged with the business of raising funds for Foreign Missions. It was understood at the time that a young man, then a student in the Canadian Institute at Woodstock, would soon make application for appointment as a missionary of the Union. In the spring of 1 867, Mr. A. V. Timpany, the young man referred to, appeared before the Executive Committee and received a unanimous ap- pointment being designated to the Teloogoo Mission. No pledges were exacted of our Canadian brethren as a condition of his appointment, but it was understood that they should render such aid as they might be able towards the outfit and support of the new missionary. Mr. Timpany spent much of the time between his appointment and departure for his distant field of labor, visiting the churches of Ontario and Quebec, under the direction of the Rev. Wm. Stewart and T. S. Shenston, Esq., of Brantford, Secretary and Treasurer of the Provincial Board. The people everywhere responded to the appeal made to them with liberal ofieringQ to the cause of missions. The modest assurance of our Scrap Book. 63 brethren in reference to tlie support of Mr. Timpany have been more than realized, for instead of paying a part of the necessary amount, they have supplied the means for hia entire outfit, pas- sage, and salary up to this time. During the year ending March 31st, 1867, the amount contributed from Canada for missions to the heathen was |84.26. The next year, besides providing an ample outfit for Mr. Timpany, they paid into our Treasury $2,496.28, and during tho year just closed they have sent us $3,047.74 " " It will be seen from another part of this report that our brethren are still ready to give to the cause what is more precious than gold, and that another of their sons has been accepted as a missionary of the Union, and designated to the Teloogoos." Allusion is here made to Rev. John McLaurin, then pastor of the Baptist Church, Stratford, Ontario. Extract from report : — *' Mr. Timpany and his family reached Madras, after a long passage, on the 16th of April, 1868 On the 4th of May they set out for Nellore, and on the 9th were welcomed to the mission house by Mr. and Mrs. Jewett. * * All knelt and gave thanks to the God of Missions." " Mr. and Mrs Timpany visited the Ongole Mission and had the privilege of witnessing the work of grace going forward in that place * * He hopes soon to take up the work with vigor, and if deemed best open a new and independent station at Allore or Ramapatam." " The ordinance of baptism was administered to three in February, one in each of the months of March, April, May, October, November and three in Decemljer. On the last occasion eleven, in all twenty-six were baptized." Mr. Jewett writes : — '• '■"'■ * A. new era in the history of this mission begins with the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Timpany. We feel the warm hearts of Baptists iix the Dominion of Canada beating in unison with our own. We thank God and take courage." Nellore. — Baptized, seventy ; members, 172. Ongole. — Baptized, twenty-six ; mendiers, eighty -one. The expenses for the year was .87, 8.51, .32. CANADA. The 3rd annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to the Anieri can Baptist Missionary Union was held in the town of Wood- stock, October 21st 1869. ':!•- 64 Tkloocjoo Mission. Treasurer -T. S. SHENSTON, Es(i Seckktahy— REV. WM STEWART, B. A. Executive Committee— REV. JOHN B\TES, REV. H. LLOYD, A. M., H. E. BUG HAN, Esq , M. D. Extracts from .3rd annual report: — "The influence of our last annual meeting led Bro. John McLaurin to carry out at once the long slumbering desire of his heart, and to say to the Board of the Society : ' Here am T, send me.' He has been gladly accepted as a Missionary and has been designated to labor among the Teloogoos, side by side with our other Mi-ssionary — his former friend and college companion, and now his brother-in- law — Rev. A, V. Timpany." *' The field of labor among the Teloogoos is still full of prom- ise. During the past year there has been a remarkable work of grace, especially in connection with tlie Ongole station. Brother Timpany lias made such encouraging progress in the study of the language, that he is now able to speak to the Teloogoos in their own tongue, the wonderful works of God. By this time he has probably entered on his new station of Ramapatam, where satis- factory arrangements have at last been made for securing suit- able mission premises. He is .still fired with burning zeal for the work, and is looking forward with bright anticipations to rich harvests soon to be gathered in from the over-whitening fields. Bro. Jewett, who has given twenty of the best years of his life to the great cause, writes thus : ' A new era in the history of this mission begins with the arrival of Brother and Sister Tim- pany. We feel the warm hearts of the Baptists in the Dominion of Canada beating in unison with our own. We thank God and take courage.' Surely it is an honor for us to be permitted to strengthen the hands and encourage the hearts of those whom God has honored, and to enter on this work at a period so bright with promise." '* It was then unanimously resolved that Revs. Dr. Fyfe an^ Wm. Stewart be requested to proceed to Boston at the approacl ing anniversaries, and confer with the Executive Committee oi the Parent Society on the question at issue. These brethren accordingly proceeded to Boston, and had an interview with the Secretaries of the society, and then with the Executive Com- mittee. They found that the following were the difficulties in the way of Canadian Baptists holding real estate for mission pur- poses in India ; I'n Scrap Book. ()'» 1. That the American Baptist Missionary Union, holding its property in India only by the courtesy of the British Oommis- sioners, could give 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 allow of these in future, even if the foregoing difficulties had not existed. Brethren Fyfe and Stewart then made an offer that tl>e money recently raised for mission premises by Canadian Bap- tists, should be received by the Union for the purchase of real estate for the use of the Teloogoo Mission, on the single condi- tion that the Union should refund the money thus received, whenever the Canadian Baptists are ready to conduct missions to the heathen on 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 the heathen, they will be followed with many and fervent prayers, that He who rules amid the raging of the sea, may keep them in the hoUow of His hand, and guide them in safety to their desired haven ! " «' Brother McLaurin has spent the greater portion of his time since the month of April, in visiting among the churches. He has everywhere been well received, and has done good work in awakening a missionary spirit ; the only regrets being that the limited time at his disposal, compels him to leave many fields unvisited " Extract from Mr. McLaurin's report : — ** Since April I have travelled 4,000 miles, attended eight associations, visited forty- five churches and sixteen Sunday schools, besides addre.ssing prayer-meetings and visiting. I have delivered over ninety ad- dresses and sermons. Financially the result may have been less ^han anticipated, but we must remember the heavy and special calls for other denominational objects." '* Brethren, I am satisfied with my tour. I know missions lie near many hearts. I love you better, I love my native land better tha?' before, but I love the poor Teloogoos none the less for that, i have more confidence in you, and, knowing you better, I fear not for my support, for I am in the hands of Hini ' who doeth all things well.' " Extracts from annual report continued : — \VJ ■9. if > .4 ■ 66 Teloogoo Mission. ■i •' During the year several questions have arisen, which led the Executive officers to feel more than once that they needed the counsel of their brethren. They would respectfully suggest that an Executive Committee of three be appointed at the annual meeting, whose duty it shall be to meet and consult with the Treasurer and Secretary as occasion may require. They are persuaded that, by this appointment, they may not only be greatly aided in their work, but also that the wants of our own missionaries, in regard to native assistants, books, schools. &x., would be more promptly met." " The brethren in the Lower Provinces liave more than once expressed a desire to co operate with us in the Foreign Mission- ary enterprise. A Foreign MissionJii-y Society for the Dominion of Canada would be hailed with interest and delight. * * May we hope, however, that a closer acquaintance and more fre- quent intercourse, may open the way, in the not distant future, for a joint occupancy of some missionary field ? " Financial Statement. DR. Received from all sources $3180 4(> Paid Balance due Treasurer $ 215 97 Balance due Treasurer 147 U6 |8328 32 CR. Paid American Bap. Miss. Union 1953 59 Outfit and Disbuisemeuts 1159 46 $3328 ;'2 1869-70. The 5Gth annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of Philadelphia on May 24th, 1870, Missionaries in charge : NELLORE. — Rev. L. Jewett and wife and Rev. John Mc- Laurin and wife. ONGOLE —Rev. John E. Clou^'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 Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, Rev. Wm. Stewart, B. A., Toronto, who, as the pastor of a large church, is able to give but little attention to the work of collection. Owing to the presence of Rev. Jolin McLaurin in the province during the greater portion of the year, it has not been necessary for our agent to extend his personal labors so far. * * The brethren of the Province of Ontario have not only remitted through their Treasurer, Thomas S. Shenston, a large amount of money, but they have ,fi. Scrap Book. 67 sent two more choice spirits to the heathen — The Rev. John McLaurin and wife. Our Treasurer has receipted to Mr. Shenston for $1,806 20, ia addition to which the churches of Ontario contributed from $700 to $1,000 for the outBt of Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin." Extract from report : " Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin sailed from New York last December, expecting to reach Madras at the end of February. They would repair to Nello''8 and make a tem- porary residence in the Mission House with Mr. Jewett. Since the last report land and buildings suitable for a Mission station have been bought at Ramapatam, and Mr Timpany has been designated to occupy them. * * Mr. Timpany has also made several 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 lang- uage. * * In all those labors his wife has been an help- meet." ■, ■ , Mr. Clough writes : " When T 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 he true. Many times, especially during the month of December, when far away among the jungle villages, did those words come to me ; ' be still, and know that I am God [ will be exalted among the heathen, and will be exalted on the earth ' !" Nellore. — Baptized, Hfty-five ; members, one hundred and twenty- six. On:;cle. — Baptized, five hundred and seventy-three ; members, seven hundred and nine. Ramapatam. — Baptized, six hundred and twenty-eight ; mem- bers, eight hundred and thirty-five. Expense for the year was $14,142 40. The 4th annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to the America Baptist Union was held in the Queen Street Baptist Chapel, St. Catharines, on the 20th October, 1870, T S. Shens- ton, Esq., in the chair. Meeting addressed by Dr. G. C. Hurd and others. Pkesident— REV. JOHN BATES Vice-Presidents— H. E. PARSONS ahd W. CRAIG. Secretary— REV. WM. STEWART, B, A. Treasurer- T. S SUENSTON, Emi. m . IS-i 4' :.!: 68 TeloogOo Mission. At this meeting a constitution for the government of the Society was adopted. Extracts from the fourth annual report : — " A delay of a few weeks elapsed after our last annual meeting, ere our dear Brother McLaurin and his companion were enabled to leave the shores of the new world. That delay, however, was overruled for good. It was finally decided that they should go to India by the over- land route, and accordingly they set sail from New York, in the steiniship Colorado, on the 22nd December, 1869. After spend- ing a few days in Old England, they again sailed from South- ampton in the Nyanza, on the 18th of January of the present year, and after a speedy and prosperous voyage, they arrived at Madras, one day sooner than the vessel was due. * * Since Brother McLaurin's arrival, he has been very busily employed in the study of the Teloogoo language, in which, according to the best nocount'?, he is making rapid and successful progress." '• During the year the spirit has been copiously poured out on the Teloogoo Mission, and converts have been multiplied. From being one of the most unpromising, it has beconie one of the most inviting 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 numbered by hundreds, and hundreds more have applied for baptism. In December last 324 were baptized. In this interesting and promising; period of the history of the mission, our own laborer. Brother Tirapany, fully equipped for the work, is now permitted to engage in it * * Brother Tiinpany has been greatly blessed in winning souls on several mission tours made by him during the year. Indeed, so wonderful has been the movement among the Teloogoos, and so urgent is the need of laborers, that tlie Committee of the Parent Society have recently made arrange- ments for the erection of a Theological School at Ramapatara. * Indeed, it is now confidently asserted that no other field, at home or abroad, has such claims upon the Baptists of this continent as the mission to the Teloogoos." "Your Committee would close by expressing their strong and growing conviction, that the cause of Foreign Missions is invested with as great a moral grandeur as any ever contemp- lated by the nnnd of man. They are thankful that representa- tives of Canadian Baptists are permitted to labor in a field that U being v sited with such remarkable and refreshing visitations gi divine gr..ce." Scrap Book. 69 Financial Statement. DB. Keceived from all sources. .$2853 35 CR. Balance due Treasurer 147 85 Paid American Bap. Miss. Union 1892 oy Disbursements C93 :M) Balance on hand 120 10 $2853 35 1870-1. $2353 35 Teloogoo includes the * ^= The The 67th annual nieeting of the American Baptise Missionary Union was held in the City of Chicago on May 21st, 1871. Missionaries in charge : NELLOSE. — Rev, L. Jewett and wife, and Rev. E. BuUard, ONGOLE — Rev. John E. Clough and wife. RAMAFATAM.-Rev. A. V. Timpany and wife, and Rev John McLaurin and wife. The meeting was opened by prayer by Rev. R. A. Fyfe, D. D, A committee report most encouragingly of the Mission. Extract from report : — " The Western District two Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, amount collected in those provinces was $2847.62." Extract from report : — '* Mr. Jewett and his assistants visited about 800 villages during the year, some of them as many as six times, preaching and distributinoj bibles and tracts. * * Of the fifty-six converts received this year, nineteen were able to read." From Raraapatam, June 22nd, 1871, Mr. McLaurin, writes: *' About a month ago a man came to Ong.)le from his home 120 miles distant. He travelled all the way on foot. la his village he had heard of the ' Religion of Jesus ' as the good news spread from village to village in the vast region between that and Ongole. He wanted to hear more of Jesus and if worthy, to be baptized. He also wanted a teacher for the surrounding villages, affirming that if a teacher wont all would believe." *' This is the way God works — from village to village the news is carried by neighbor or relation, and in little groups under the shade trees, the people hear for the first time a very imperfect sketch of the ' Old, old Story.' " Mr. Jewett writes : — " Early in the year we were called to part with Mi', and Mrs. Timpany, with v/hom we have lived and labored most happily for nearly two years. We could not retain them any longer, as an interesting field awaits their occupancy — „t.;.i 70 Teloogoo Mission. 1 1 fi t !. Raniapatam. * * Mrs. Jewett, myself and native helpers were touring most of the time from 1st January to 31st March. We spent ten days in Raniapatam, with the other members of the mission in laying out work and prayer." While Mr. Clough and Mr. McLaurin were touring, the former was taken dangerously ill with the measles. On his par- tial recovery he went to reside for a time at the sea side. Mr. Clough writes : — "I hope for good things, but I must remember the christians now live in 160 different villages, widely separated ; that new villages are being added monthly, and that teachers are qualified slowly." Mr. Timpany writes : — " As the recently purchased premises at Raniapatam were not expected to be vacated till April, we planned a long trip to the southwest of Nellore. We had been out ten days, when a letter came asking us to take the Ramapa- tarn house at once We repaired without delay to Nellore, made ready, bade good-bye to our friends, and on the 5th of February took possession of our new station in the name of the Lord of missions. * * We had been in Raniapatam only eight days, when word came that the McLaurins were at Madras. '•■ * The latter part of March all our missionaries and their families met with us for a week. * * In October we again went out for a tour. In one village I baptized all the head men, so that it may now be called a christian village." " Mrs Timpany has applied herself pretty closely the whole year, and is now quite at home in the language. Besides other reading I have read the entire Teloogoo bible through during the year, I gain much in preaching power by doing so. Our aim is to become as good Te'oogoo scholars as well educated Teloogoos, and by God's blessing we will do it for it will pay and pay well." Nellore. — Baptized, fifty -six ; members 174. Ongole. — Baptized, 448 ; members, 1103. Raniapatam. — Baptized, seventy; members, 107. Expense of the mission for the year was $17,806.84. The fifth annual meeting of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Canada was held in the John St. Wesleyan Chapel, Hamilton — in consequence of the Park St. Baptist Chapel being enlarged — on October 19th, 1871, Rev. John bates in the chair. The meeting was addressed by Rev. Dr. Cooper, Rev. C. Perren, Rev. W. K. Anderson, Rev. J. W. Manning, Rev. J. B. Pixley, and Wm. Craig, Esq , of Port Hope. -^M, — Scrap Book. fl President— REV. JOHN BATES, Vice-Presidents— WM. CRAIG and 0. A. MORSE. Secretary— REV. WM. STEWART, B. A. Treasurer— T. S. SHENSTON, Esq. Extracts from fifth annual report : — *'* * The mission to the Teloogoos continues to enjoy the favor of God in a marked degree. At Nellore, the oldest station, about seventy have, dur- ing the past year, been added to the church by baptism. At Ongole the number of members has increased from 709 to 12i?2 ; while at Ramapatam, where Brother Timpany labors, the church which was organized on the 26th of March, 1870, with a mem- bership of thirty-five, had at last accounts increased to 115. It is believed that there is now a grand total of over IGOO bap- tized believers and nominal christians, an increase of twenty- fold in less than five years. An association has also been formed and a Theological Seminary planned. What hath God wrought ! We may well look back with lively gratitude, and forward with invigorating hope." '* On Brother Timpany's field, consisting of Ramapatam and three other principal stations, the year has been one of great blessing. All the expectations of your missionary have not been realized, but much good has been accomplisl ed. In several places the christians have endured trials and persecutions of no ordinary kind, but they have remained firm in the faith. * The native church at Ramapatam has been trained to adopt the monthly offering system, and during the first year of its existence we raised nearly Rs. 300 (about $150), for work on the chapel and for the support of native preachers. Brother Timpany has been abundant in labors, having travelled on the nii?sion work 1400 miles, and visited and preached the gospel in 150 different villages and hamlets. In due season God will give the increase." •' Brother McLaurin, your othi r missionary has found the year to be one of continued goodness from the Father of Mercies. Ho has prosecuted the study of the language with such success that in about fifteen or sixteen months after his arrival, he preached his first sermon in Teloogoo. He accompanied Brother Clough on a tour of five or six we^ks through the jungle, bap- tizing considerably over a hundred, .\nd gaining experience and information on his trip which cannot be over-estimated. * The important station at Ongole will be left urder Brother Mc- Laurin s care." ■■!■■■ , * -J 72 Teloogoo Mission. Financial Statement. DR. Balance on hand $120 10 Uoceived iio^i all sourcea 3994 09 CR. Paid American Bap. Hiss. Uhion$3564 27 DisburHements 55 73 Cash in band 494 19 $4114 19 1871-2. $4114 19 The 58th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of New York on May 21, 1872. Missionaries in charge : NELLORE.— Rev. L. Jewett and Rev. E Bullard. ONGOLE.— Rev. J. E. Clough and wife, and Rev. John McLaurin and wife. RAMAPATAM.— Rev. A. V. Tirapany 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 com- pelled him to do so, has entered into rest. He lived to see the seed he sowed in prayer and faith bear much fruit, though others entered into his labors ere he passed to his reward. * * His name will long be fragrant, not only among the redeemed Teloo- 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 Hamilton Literary Theological Institution, N. Y. He was appointed a missionary to the Teloo- goos in 1835 and arrived at Calcutta February 5th, 1886. In 1840 he established the Nellore mission. He visited America in 1845, and on his return was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Jewett. In 1853 he was again obliged to visit America, but was never able to return. He died Sabbath, September 17th, 1871, at Homer, N. Y. Mrs. Day (Miss Roenna Clark), was born at Stoddard, N. H., October l2th, 1809. She died at Homer, N. Y., May 19th, 1880. Extract from report: — " The history of this mission (Teloo- goo) during the past year has been a repetition of the history of previous years. The laborers have been few and the harvest has been great. Cjnverts continue to be multiplied, but there is a lack of men to gather them in and organize them into churches." •' During that month seventeen were baptized and many who had become cold were quickened Mr. Jewett administered com- munion there (AUore) to fifty believers, who though not formally recognized as a church really constitute a branch of the Nellore Scrap Book. 73 church, with a native preacher acting as their pastor. This is one of our hopeful mission centres. It only needs a mission family 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 occasion he was accompanied by Mrs. Timpany. * ■•' With scarcely an exception, in every place visited, crowds have collected and quietly listened to the story of Christ's love. * '•' In Decem- ber last the Christians of this place (Cumbaldenny), and Palty- pallum organized themselves into a church of thirty-wght members." Mr. Timpany writes ; — " We met in their new chapel, and had a precious time for several days. * * We hope to ordain Pediah 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 baptized during the year. Mr. Timpany was there four days the last of the year. He says : ' It did our hearts good to see their clean hout <,, neatly whitewashed.' " *' The school at Ramapatam has been continued during the whole year, with an average attendance of forty to sixty scholars," < • . . *• Mr. McLaurin removed with the family to Ongole on November Ist, 1871, with a view of assuming the charge of the station after the retirement of Mr. Clough." *• Mr. McLaurin made a nineteen days tour in September and one of sixteen days in November and December, and a third one of seventeen days in December. These tours covered a vast ex- tent of territory, and included many villages, in a large number ox which converts were found and baptized. * * Hundreds of viJi^fres were visited in all of which the gospel was preached, and over 280 were baptized." Nellore. — Baptized, ninety-three ; members, 248. Ongole. — Baptized, 609 ; members, 1658. Ramapatam. — Baptized, 171 ; members, 267. Expense for the year was $24 799.03. The sixth annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to the American Baptist Union was held in the Aylnier church on October 17th, 1872. :.iM:fl ■ ^m m 3 11 ■: 74 Teloogoo Missiot). PRB8IDBNT— REV. JOHN BATES. Vice-Presidents— WM. ORAIG and H. E. PARSONS. Secretary— REV. J. L. CAMPBELL, OiiATflAM. Treasurer -T. S SHENSTON, Esq., Bhantford. Extracts from sixth annual report : — *' * * Mr. Clough, whose labors in Ongole have been attended with such abundant blessing, and whom we are glad to welcome at our anniversaries, has been so much impaired that he has been compelled to return to his native land. StiJ the missionaries report that the work has not in any degree flagged but is rather more interesting than ever. Some 912 believers have been baptized on a profession of faith in Christ. * * In Nellore there is now a church mem- bership of 248, with thirteen preachers and catechists, and four- teen female assistants. In Ramapatam 171 were baptized during the year, and there is now a total membership of 267 ; while from Ongole the following summary is presented : Number of villages visited by Mr. Clough or assistants, about 1200; tracts distrib- uted, 26U0 ; scripture portions, 1500. * * Number of church members, per last report, 1102; baptized in 1871, 609. * * Total number, Ongole Baptist Church, December- 31, 1871, 1658. Number of villages in which members live, 191. * * Brother Timpany has still charge of the station at Ramapatam. During the year he has made several tours, on one occasion being accompanied by Mrs. Timpany, * * Mr. Timpany expresses the hope that during the year he will be able to do much more consecutive, effective work in the neighboring villages than here- tofore. His native staff will be larger and better qualified ; and the hope is entertained that the students in the Seminary, which was to have been formally opened on the 1st of April last, will also render service in this department. The Seminary building is completed, though no Principal has yet been secured." "Mr. McLaurin removed with his family to Ongole on November 1st, 1871, with a view of assuming the charge of the station after the retirement of Mr Clough. With the same end in view, and to tit himself more fully for the task, Mr. McLaurin arranged three extensive mission tours with Mr. Clough. The first was made in September, through the south eastern portion of the Ongole field, occupied nineteen days, and was blessed in the gathering of fruit. The second was made in November, through the north eastern portion of the field, and occupied from November 17th, till December 2nd. The third trip was com- Scrap Ijook. 75 menced on the 11th of the same month, and occupied till the 28th, The missionaries went as far west as Cumbum, and north as far as Markapoor. The tour covered a vast extent of Terri- tory, and included many villages, in a large number of which converts were found and baptized. Indeed, this last result marked each of the trips referred to. Hundreds of villages were visited, in all of which the gospel was preached, and more than 150 converts were baptized, * * These tours occupied fifty- two days, and were performed without serious accident, or the interruptif^n of the usual health of the missionaries. * * Mr. McLauriu has now mastered the language, and is able to preach to the people in their own tongue." FiNAyciAL Statement. DR. Balance on hand $ 494 19 Received du' ing the year 2130 08 Balance due Treasurer 28 33 $2658 69 CR. Paid Parent Society $2C20 00 Translation Teloogoo Scriptures. 10 00 Disbursements 28 00 $2C58 UO 1872-3. The 59th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union was held in the City of xVlbany on May 20th, 1873. Missionaries in charge : RAMAPATAM.— Rev. A. V. Timpany and wife, and Miss Liveria Peabody. ONGOLE. — Rev. John McLaurin and wife. Mr. Pixley writes : — " I think our visit to Canada hag paid the Union well. It is quite evident that the missionary spirit is increasing among the churches throughout the Dominion. In- cluding the legacy from the estate of Deacon Boom, we have received from Canada $5,259.85." Extract from report : — " God continues to smile on the mission of the Teloogoos as in former years. Converts continue to multiply, and the number of baptisms has been limited, not by the withdrawal of converting grace, but by the inability of the missionaries to visit the villages and examine and baptize the candidates. * * The Theological Seminary at Ramapatam opened in April last under charge of Mr. Timpany. Of course, it is impossible for him, in addition to his labors in the field, to do all that the case required, but he has done his utmost to make it a blessing to the young men and the people." i I ^??; 76 Teloogoo Mission. *' In the rej^ion around Ramapatam the work seems to have made a decided advance. Mr. Timpany has endeavored to supply his own lack of service in the field, in consequence of his confine- ment in the Seminary, by sending forth the students, on the Sabbath and during the vacation. * '■^- In another place ten miles due west from Ramapatam a very interesting work has commenced. Four men, all head men, have recently been baptized. The report goes on to say : " Mr. McLaurin travelled tour- ing during the year over 1,000 miles in the jungles, having made five trips of over twenty days each. A large part of the time was f-pent in the villages, where the widely scattered members of the Ongole Church reside, helping the weak, &c." Mr. McLaurin reports that there are now in the field over 200 converts awaiting baptism whom he has been unable to reach during the year, and who have been unable to come into the station. Ramapatam. — Baptized, 178 ; members, 429. Ongole. — Baptized, 477 ; members, 2,092. Expense for the year was $16,126.99. The 7th annual meeting of the Canada Auxiliary to the American Baptist Union was held in the First Baptist Ohapel, Brantford, on Thursday evening October 16th, 1873, T. S. Shen- ston, Esq., in the chair. Prayer by Rev. T. Dyall. Addresses were delivered by Rev. Thfo, H. Porter and Rev. M. Saunders, delegates from the Maritime Provinces, and by Rev. G. H. Brigham, District Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union. , . President— REV. JOHN BATES. Vice Presidents— H. E. PARSONS ahd W. CRAIG. Secretary— REV. J. L. CAMPBELL, Chatham. Theasuuer— T. S. SHENSTON, Esq. The absence of Bro. Clough in America, and the continued feebleness of Bro. Bullard'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 Telgoooo Scriptures, placed the burden of the Teloogoo Mission almost exclusively on the shoulders of our own two Canadian brethren, Timpany and Mc- Laurin — each of them being compelled to do the work which properly belongs to several men; and nobly have they labored and lichly have they been blessed. Scrap Book. 77 Eaniapatam, lying to the north of Nellore, is the field in which Bro. Timpany labors, and has become a point of peculiar interest. On the 6th of February, 1870, your missionary took possession of the station, and for the first time planted there the standard of the cross. During the past year a happy change has been in progress ; prejudice is rapidly melting away. During one of his preaching tours, Bro. Timpany had to pass through a district smitten with that fell foe — the Asiatic cholera ; but, even although it was within his own camp, He who has counted the very hairs of our heads cast His protecting shield about him and he came forth unharmed. Two hundred and ten precious souls were baptized by him during the past year ; and here wliere less than four years ago your missionary preached the first Sabbath in Jiis own sitting-room to a congregation composed only of the servants and others who came with them from Neliore, there are now nearly 600 communicants. But Ramapatam has witnessed other changes. The Theologi- cal Seminary founded for the purpose of educating natives for the work of the Christian Ministry has been built here. Besidos the charge of the church, Bro. Timpany has also been Principal of this Institution. * This Theological Seminary whs open- ed in February, 1872, and closed its first year auspiciously in December last, having made a noble beginning with fifteen stu- dents in attendance. After two months' vacation the fifteen, with four additional students, returned to begin the new year in February last. On the 14th, 15th, and 16th of March last the Teloogoo Asso- ciational meetings were held at Ramapatam. All the niissionar- ies on the field were present and about 600 native Christians. A season of great interest and profit was enjoyed, and at the close fifteen persons publicly professed Christ by baptism — one of the number having come fifty miles for this purpose. With four months spent at different times in travelling and preaching in the villages — with the pastoral care of the church — its stations and its workers — with the whole charge of the col- lege at Ramapatam, we can realize faintly the Overwhelming trials of this noble missionary, Bro. Timpany. Northward still is the large field occupied by Bro. J. Mc- Laurin, which has Ongole as its central station — a field which has been the scene of toils no less arduous and even richer re- sults. It covers an area of 7,000 square miles, contains 1,300 villages with a population of about one million people. Scatter- ed among over 200 of these villages are to be fonnd the native r i' . 1 i <\ r ? ^ i-m m 'i ; 78 Telooooo Mission. christians belonging to the Ongole church. This largo field your missionary divided into eight parts and over each part he has placed a native preacher with an assistant, who go from village to village proclaiming to their benighted countrymen " the old old story of Jesus and his love." " The vast amount of work on the field for the most part ren- dered the presence of your missionary imperative at Ongole. He, however, managed during the year to make six tours into the jungles, which occupied considerably over 100 days, These were days of the right hand of the Most Hi^h ; and richly rewarded Bro. McLaurin for all his toils. At the annual meeting in Bam- apatam he had already baptized into the fellowship of the On- gole church 690 rejoicing converts. In a tour during the month of July last, he baptized 112 persons additional, making a total of 802 baptized by him since our last report. There are also yet over 20ij converts on the field awaiting the ordinance — persons whom he has been unable to reach and who, like many others, have been unable to coaae to the station. We may well exclaim • What hath God wrought? ' The Lord has done great things for our missionaries whereof we are glad." Financial Statement. Db. To amount received from all sources $334110 $3341 10 CB. Halance due Treasurer $ 38 33 Paid America BaiHist Mission Union 3100 00 Disbursementii. 106 03 Balance on tiaud 96 74 $3341 10 18734. The 60th annual meeting of the America Baptist Missionary XInion was held in the Hall of Representatives at Washington City. D.C, May 24, 1874. Missionaries m charge — several with their wives. The only Canadian, Rev. A. V. Timpany, and wife who w?re at Ramapatam. The report rejoices at the Baptism of 1026 Teloogoos during the year and then adds : *' The favor of God has continued to rest on the Mission to the Teloogoos. It has suffered the loss of two efficient workers by the resignation of Rev, John McLaurin, who with his estimable wife, have gone to Oocanada, in the Province of Circars to establish a new mission under the auspices pf our Canadian brethren." Bro. McLaurin and wife left Ongole for their new home at Goqanada on the 22nd of February. Of his last year's work in Scrap Book. ft Ongole he thus writes : — " The year began with » burst of bless- ing in the north which nearly surprised us, used as we now are to great things from the Lord. During the first tour, in less than a month, 277 were baptized. * * The christians are growing stronger in the christian faith and beginning to under- stand better the principles of the gospel. * * I feel that churches ought to be established right away, though this would entail a great deal of extra labor and care on your niissionaries. * * People of all castes have repeatedly told me and the preachers, ' your religion is the only true one. We know it must prevail.' * * I have known high native officials to use it as an argument with village officials why they should not molest the christians, saying, ' we, too, must become christians soon.' " • From Ramapatam Bro. Timpany writes: — •'! made a long trip through the northern parts of the mission. Sickness and death were all around us. The terrible cholera was around. By the time we reached home the benefit of our rest was knocked out of nie, and we were nearly sick with anxiety and care. * * In every village where the gospel is preached, souls come to the Saviour, * * 1 spent about three months travelling on the field, and baptized 150 while doing so." "In October of this year the most disastrous flood ever known in that part of the country visited Nellore, and the poor missionaries suffered intensely in many respects. For some days the mission compound was covered with water, most of the native houses were washed away and the chapel's foundation greatly damaged. - ' NeHore. — Baptized, 57; members, 836. ■.'■<' Ongole — Baptized, 708; members, 2,761. • ' " Ramapatam. — Baptized 247 ; members, 675. * '^^* Expense of the mission for the year was $30,882.07. ''" ' "- The eighth annual meeting of the Auxiliary to the America Baptist Mission Union was held in the York St. Baptist Chapel, London on the 22nd October 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 Montreal. Mrs. Jewett sang several Teloogoo hymns. ' ' President— REV. JOHN BATES. Vice-Pkesident— WM. CRAIG and A. A. AYER. Secretary— REV. J. L. CAMPBELL. Treasurer— T. S. SHENSTON, Esq. ti !f4 ii.l n Ih: 80 Teloogoo Mission. Extracts from the eighth annual report •.**«« With a deep sense of increased responsibility, and yet with hearts lifted up in gratitude to Almighty God, we announce in the very cen- tre of the country of the Teloogoos, under circumstances of a peculiar pleasing character, the founding of an independent Can- adian Baptist Foreign Mission in Cocanada." About the time of that ever memorable meeting in Ingersoll, where Bro. Tinipany was designated a missionary to the Teloo- goos, God converted to hiniself a well educated native in that far distant land. He was baptized by the Rev. Mr, Doll, Strict Baptist Minister in Madras. Thomas Gabriel's heart yearned for the salvation of his benighted countrymen. He could not rest. Abandoning his worldly employment, he hasted northward two hundred miles beyond Ongole. Went where no missionary had gone before, to the great heathen city of Cocanada, on the Gaudavery, and there alone he unfurled the blood stained ban- ner of the cross Cod was with him in his lonely toil. Five years rolled by. A. church of about 150 members was formed, several native preachers raised up, and a few native schools es- tablished. But Bro. Gabriel had gone to his utmost limit. He had no moans ; no support, and was becoming considerably in- volved in debt. His mission at this interesting stage had either to be taken up by some European society, or must be wholly abandoned. In his extremity Bro. Gabriel sent an appeal through Mr. Doll to the English Baptists, but they were unable to render him any aid. The American Baptists closed their year burden- ed with a heavy debt, and were discus.sing retrenchment. The Baptists of the Maritime Provinces had already taken up a mis- sion of their own in Siam. Their hands were more than full. It was under these circumstances, when the existence even of the mission was trembling in tlse balance, that Gabriel, through Bro. McLaurin, sent a soul-stirring appeal to us. Our contributions already largely exceeded the amount of our direct responsibility to the Board in Boston. The estimated cost of the mission was easily within the limits of our ability if we would do anything like our duty. Bro. McLaurin, who had temporarily occupied Bro. dough's field during the latter's visit to America, would soon be relieved, and he intimated his readiness to go to Cocan- ada and take charge of the new mission. Our American breth- ren, while regretting the loss of such a valuable laborer as Bro. McLaurin, not only heartily concurred, but gave us the official as- surance that their • Committee regarded with much favor the opening of a new mission at Cocanada by our Canadian brethren.* im Scrap Book. 81 It was then, after anxious prayerful consideration 'looking to the Lord for help and guidance,' that your Board unanimous- ly decided to take up this field. The announcement has been hailed with joy by our churches, and the decision enthusiastically endorsed at our various denominational gatherings. It became necessary to telegraph Bro. McLaurin the decision of the Board. The despatch, sent by the Rev. Dr. Fyfe, left Boston, United States, on Tuesday, the 28th October^ 1873, at foiu* o'clock p.m., and reached Madras in nine hours and a quarter, thence by mail to Ongole, where it was received by Bro. McLaurin on the 3rd November at 6 o'clock p ni., and set our hearts fearing, hoping, trembling and rejoicing.' This memorable message was as fol- lows : — * Go to Cocanada on basis of your letter. Send resigna- tion.' A flash of light speeding half around the globe. Glad tid- ings of great joy to that ancient and heathen city — and the work was done ; the first Baptist Foreign Mission of Ontario and Que- bec was established at Cocanada." Just as the foregoing extract from the annual report was printed we came into possession of the account of the Board meet- ing at which it was decided to organize an independent Mission at Cocanada. We think such an important Board meeting ought not to be overlooked notwithstanding to some extent it may be a repetition of what is mentioned in the annual report. Pursuant to adjournment the Board of Directors met at the residence of Mr. T. S. Shenston immediately at the close of the above platform meeting (I0:30p. .) The meeting was organized by Wm. Craig, Esq., Vice-Pre .ideiit, taking the chair. Prayer by Rev. John Dempsey. Piohv a.< — Rev. R. A. Fyfe, D.D., Rev. J. Cooper, Rev. James Coutus, T. S. Shenston, 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 McLaurin of Ongole dated respect- ively March 14th, August 11th and August 19th 1873 were read, also one from Rev. A. V. Timpanv, of Ramapatam, dated Aug- ust 12th 1873. These letters all related to the formation of a new and inde- pe)ident mission at Cocanada. Among the reasons assigned for this movement were ; 1 . That it is a very busy and growing town. 2 It being nearly 200 miles distant from the nearest American Mission. 3. The town being in the very heart of the Teloogoo country. 4. A nucleus of a Mission had been tliere formed by one Thomas Gabriel, a converted native. 5 Mr. Gab- riel had asked assistance from England, the United States and !1! 1 , . I '■ I I ; 11 i ■ 1} I ! A^ '• II M isf 'If V :ll a Teloogoo Mission. |he Maritime Provinces, but failed to obtain it. 6. The desir- apleness of having an independent Mission of our own, etc. Bro. McLaurin estimated the expense for the yep-i' to be $5270.00. 4fter long and careful deliberation it was decided to take up this mission, and Dr Fyfe was delegated to visit Boston City to se- cure a full and fraternal understanding with the brethren of the American Baptist Missionary Union, with regard to our aims and plans with respect to our contemplated new and independent Mission. On the 28th October Dr. Fyfe had a most satisfactory in- terview -w^ih the Boston brethren and reported to the Board on the 15th November the following resolution: — '• The Committee regard with much favor the opening of a new Mission at Cocanada by our Canadian brethren and to facil- itate the plan they will release Mr. McLaurin to take charge of it, whenever he shall express a desire to that effect." In the event of his mission being successful, Dr. Fyfe, was authorized to telegraph from Boston to Bro. McLaurin as fol- low3 : — "Go to Cocanada on basis of your letter. Send resignation. —Fyfe. Thus was inaugurated the first Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec. Report continued : — " This city is the largest seaport town be- tween Calcutta and Madras. It has a population of about 20,- 000 inhabitants, and is growing rapidly. The Godavery is the natural key and outlet to one of the largest, richest, most popul- ous and promising districts of country in all India On the 12th of March last Bro. McLaurin took full possession of this field as your missionary. His time has been considerably occupied in ar- ranging matters in connection with Bro. Gabriel's previous work, and laying the foundation for future operations. He has with him a number of native preachers and teachers, and already the smile of heaven is resting on this new field. From March until the end of August last 57 saved out of heathenism had already been baptized on profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus ; and more were coming. Your missionary adds : ' You see we have not entered upon a barren field. With the divine blessing we want but your prayers and your money to make it blossom as the rose. ' " "At the founding of a new mission there necessarily is a large amount of extra expense. Mission grounds require to be pur- chased ; * * shall we, the Baptists of Canada, prove un- we Scrap Book. 83 worthy of our trust and of that religious body which was the first to enter the Foreign Field ? Never." " Our esteemed and honored brother Timpany has been lab- oring with his characteristic zeal and energy on his old field at Ramapatam. We continue still to sustain him under the Ameri- can Board just as before. We love him too dearly ever to think of giving him up. In the overwhelming labors which he had as Principal of the Theological Seminary and missionary of a large and growing station, he has been partiaUy relieved. The Rev. R. R. Williams, a new missionary, recently sent out by the Union, has assumed the charge of the Seminary as Principal. * * There have been baptized during the past year in both churches oa this field 247, present number, 675." "It is with peculiar pleasure we hail among us to-night at our annual gathering our beloved and venerable brother the Rev. Lyman Jewett, T>. D., of Nellore — the companion of Bro. S. S. L.'w, '1 their united lonely labors before the brighter times of th'^ ii";-!sion — the brother now engaged in the work of the Teloo- goo scripture revision — in whose house Bro. Timpany and his wife acquired the language — who has ever been spoken of by our missionaries in terms of unqualified love. * A blessing on his kindly heart and on his silver hair.' May God long spare him and his consecrated companion (whom we also welcome with joy) to that glorious work in which He has so signally honored him." " This report cannot better be drawn to a close than in the burning words of a letter received last week from Bro. McLauria. He says : ' I fear that you will think we write hard sometimes, but you cannot imagine how we feel face to face with the Devil, * * I have trembled with eagerness, and melted into tears in quick alternation as I have thought of it. I have sat on the prow of my boat and scanned vast stretches of country with & populous village every two or three miles containing hundreds of thousands of immortal beings who never heard inrtelligibly th^, way of life, and I have gazed with a yearning heart upon the poor wretches as I saw them pass along the canal bank, and know, that they must burn in hell forever because there was no one to tell 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 upon those redeemed ones and heard them sing of a • Father in Heav- en,' • A Blessed Elder Brother,' ' A Home beyond the Clouds.' Ah ? at such moments I felt Heaven very near. Then my faith in that glorious old Gospel — the blessed old gospel — was greatW ■ ^1 IH Bi Teloogoo Mission. strengthened. 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. Tlie world thinks us mad and so we want to 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 1 eld in the Woodstock Institute May 2nd, 1874, it was resolved '• That we regard ourselves as having taken charge of theCocanada Mission from the 1st January, 1^74. Financial Statement. DR. I CR Cashonhand 90 74|Pa1d Rev. J. McLiauria in all 1882 74 Beceived from all sources $4580 88 Paid American Bap. Miss. Union 500 00 Disbursements 102 05 Balance on hand 2192 83 I $4077 (12 $4677 62 1874-5. The Gist annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union, was held in the City of Philadelphia on the 25th day of May, 1876. The Union have now five stations and a goodly number of missionaries supplying them, Ramapatam is reported as under the 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 work among the Teloogoos has not been as marked and visible during the year 1874 as in some of the previous years ; but it has still been gratifying beyond the ordinary fruits of missionary labor." Mr. Timpany writes: — " '■■ * Owing to the want of funds for travelling we were very much straightenetl in this respect. The field suffered in every way by my not being on it. Instead of being out four or five months as usual, I was only out half that time. '•' * A wide and effectual door is opened, but it must be entered to receive the benefit. It is only an aggravation to have to stand before it and not be able to enter it on account of the want of means to move. We made a long tour of thirty-five days. During the time, by working day and night, we saw the christians in about bixty villages at times ranging from a few minutes up to days. We came home worn out in body and mind, but we had a grand good time. TNIany times we were astonished at the change that has come over the people. Four or five years ago, some were afiM^d uf ns, others abhorred us, and most of the Scrap Book. 86' B caste people avoided us all they could. This last trip they came in crowds in every place to listen to the story of Jesus and his love. Their faith in idols is well nigh gone, they believe even now that Jesus is a Saviour, that all who believe in hini will be saved. I hardly dare express what I feel sometimeSj and yet why should we not look for it ? — the time is coming when they shall ". lok towards the loving Lord God in multitudes, when they shall move like a flood sweeping all before them. One thing is certain, the time is coming, must come, when they all will leave their idols, and at least be nominal christians, and many more than that — trne disciples of the Lord Jesus." Brief illusion was made last year to the sufferings of the mis- sionaries and natives in Nellore in consequence of the disastrous flood. Still greater sulFering and anxiety were in store for them this year. The dreadful cholera broke out and for some months the mortality was truly dreadful. For two months about 150 died weekly in Nellore alone. At this date it is estimated that there are over 30,000 Teloogoo Christians. All the missionaries from Bro. Day down appears to hai'e had a kind of presentment as to the conversion of thousands of the Teloogoos. They all prophesied this even when all the surroundings were most unpromising. Nellore. — Baptized, 12 ; members, 190. Ongcle — Baptized, 110 ; members, 2,642. Ramapatam— Baptized, sixty ; members, 727. Expense for the mission for the year, $27,534.02. The 9th annual meeting of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec, was held in Ihe Baptist Ohapel Guelph, Thursday evening October 21st 1875. Rov. Dr. Fyfe, in the chair. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Travers of Oswego, N.Y., a delegate from the New York convention. Addresses were de livered by Rev. D. A. Steele of Amherst, N.S., a delegate from the Maritime Provinces, Dr. Davidson and Rev. G. F. Currie. Bro. Currie became a member of the Guelpii Church and was designated at this annual meeting. The charge was given by the Chairman, Designation prayer. Rev. J Dempsey, of Inger.soll, and Right hand of fellowship by Rev. Wm. Stewart of Hamilton. At a special meeting of the Executive Committee held in the Woodstock Institute, January 28th of this year it was resolved " That we instruct Bro. McLaurin to proceed with procuring the land and the erection of Mission premises as speedily and as econ- omically as he can." tfii -i.ii .&■'. -v" yii II « ffiir: liH'" > '*i » 86 Teloogoo Mission. Executive Committee met at Paris June 5th of this year at which Rev. G. F. Currie was appointed one of our missionaries, and Dr. Fyfe and Dr. Davidson were appointed delegates to at- tend the convention of the Maritime Provinces. Executive Committee met in the Woodstock Institute July 26th of this year at which the plans submitted for buildings at Cocanada were adopted, the cost not to exceed $8,500. The following officers were appointed at the annual meeting: — President— 0. RAYMOND. Vice-Presidents— WM. CRAIG and A. A. AYER. Secretary— REV. J. L. CAMPBELL. Treasurer— T. S. SHENSTON. Extracts from the 9th annual report:— "It pleased God in His infinite wisdom to remove from our midst, on Saturday, the 8th of May last, in the seventy -first year of his age, the vener- able and only President we have ever had over the Foreign Mis- sionary Society of these Provinces— the father of Mrs. Timpany and Mrs. McLaurin — that true and tried friend of our Mission, the Rev. John Bates. Only those who knew aim best can real- ize the lc»ss we have sustained. ' Next to our" Bibles,' writes one of your Missionaries, ' his letters were^ most prized by us' His last generous gift of $500 to our Teloogoo Mission was worthy of him, who had so cheerfully consecrated his family and his best energies to this noble enterprize. His last sermon was preached to the people of his charge in St. George, on Sabbath the 2nd of May. ' Like a soldier he died at hispost.' " " Bro. Timpany has labored with his characteristic zeal and energy on his old field at Ramapatam. * * This last trip they came in crowds in every place to listen to the story of Jesus and His Love. Their faith in idols is well nigh gone." "At the meeting of the Association which was held in Nel- lore, on the 12th of March, in addition to his other duties, Bro. Timpany was appointed as associate of the Rev. Dr. Jewett, in the revision of the Teloogoo New Testament Scriptures He is also engaged in preparing a compendium of Theology for the ben- efit of the native Christians." " What changes have been witnessed in Ramapatam during the past five years ! This field was first taken possession of as a Mission Station by Bro. Timpany, on the 5th February 1870, a little over five and a half years ago. So hostile were the natives to the reception of the truth that the first Sabbath none would Scrap Book. 97 come to hear him. * * Now in that same field your mission- ary has under his charge two flourishing churches with an aggreg- ate of 730 members, 60 of whom were baptized by hira during the past year." «» On the 12th of March, 1874, Brother McLaurin, under the direction of your Board, arrived at Cocanada and took possession of this field as the direct Missionary of the Baptists of these Provinces. The year was one of peculiar toils and trials., Much patient labor was required in arranging matters in connection with brother T Gabriel's previous work, and in settling the af- fairs of the Mission. Your missionary, however, proved fully adequate to the important task which was imposed upon him and in the most thorough and efficient manner discharged the duties of his new position. God's Spirit was richly poured out upon his, and by the 1st of January last he had already baptized into the fellowship of the Church in Cocanada, 133 precious souls. " The Rev. Thos, Gabriel, of Cocanada, on the first of January last departed this life in pear-p. With his one hand in that of his weeping wife and the other in that of your weeping Missionary, he passed to heaven, the dying words * Jesus is precious ' linger- ing on his expiring lips." "In August of 1873 the Baptists of the Maritime Provinces sent out seven Missionaries to labor among the Karens of Siam. One already in Burmah was writing to join them, and another was sent out in August of 1874. making nine Missionaries in all, viz : Four men and their wives with one unmarried lady. After exploring the country it was found that the number of Karens in Siam was far fewer than expected (not more than 10,000 of Pwos and Sgaus) and these so distant and scattered among the mountains as to be practically inacces-iible. The condition of the field the Missionaries in a joint letter (dated Rahang, Siam, Feb- ruary the 13th, 1875,) laid fully before the Board of the Mari- time Provinces and asked for further instructions as to the field in which they should labor in future." " The Board called a special meeting of the Baptist Conven- tion of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, in the town of Amherst, N.S., on the 12th to 14th May last, to determine what field they should occupy. A letter previously received from the Secretary of the Board of the Maritime Prov- inces (dated St. John, N.B., 26th April, 1875, and received 1st May last,) enquired whether we in these Provinces were willing that they should unite with us in the Teloogoo field, and upon what basis. At a special meeting of your Board held at Brant- I !! 1> ? I'' 1 il iiil ill li '88 Teloogoo Mission. !' i i ford on the 4th of May last, the following statement regarding the area and boundaries of our Missionary field among the Teloo- goos, and the following resolutions as a basis of Union were un- animously adopted ." Let it suffice to add : At a Board meeting held at the house of T. S. Hhenston, May 4th 1878 Bro. J. L. Campbell was deputed to represent us at the forthcoming convention in Amherst, N.S , will repeat to the Mis- sionaries of both societies occupying the Teloogoo field. At a Board meeting held at Paris on the 5th day of June Bro. Camp- bell reported having visited the Amherst Convention on the 12th, 13th and 14th of May and found the brethren there anxious for their missionaries to occupy the Teloogoo field at an early date. Extract from report : — '• The Missionaries of the Maritime Provinces at once prompt- ly and cheerfully acted upon the instructions of their Convention. Some of their number safely arrived at Cocanada during the month of July, and before the present date they will all, except- ing Miss M. Armstrong, be there. There will, therefore, be at Cocanada, at the present time, the following Missionaries, viz: — Rev. J. McLaurin and wife. Rev. W. B. Boggs and wife, Rev. R. Sanford and wife. Rev. G. Churchill and wife, Rev. W. F. Armstrong and wife." *' Thus led by the clearest indications of Divine Providence, the 55,000 Baptists of the Dominion are united in this glorious undertaking of publishing the glad tidings of Salvation to the benighted Teloogoos. These Missionaries are side by side, " joy- fully working " together on the banks of the far distant Godavery for the purpose of winning jewels for Emmanuel's crown from India's dusky sons. May God smile upon their efforts and bless them a thousand fold ! " '' Our latest tidings from the field are full of encouragements. Baptisms are being administered by Bro, McLaurin. Others, not yet baptized, are awaiting the ordinance. Your Missionary expects to secure, compound and complete the erection of mission premises at Cocanada during the approaching cool season, and the outlook is full of promise." We have also here with us to-night our excellent Brother, Rev. George F. Currie, B.A., of New Brunswick, who is now iinder appointment as our Missionary, and who will to-night be publicly designated to this great work to which he feels God has called him. He expects, as soon after the meeting of this Con- vention as possible, to set sail for Cocanada, where he hopes to Scrap Book. 89 arrive about the new year. He is the third male Missionary sent 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 God of Missions for the clear pathway in which he has led us, and the marked tokens by which every step has been indicated. May the Baptists of this Dominion prove worthy of the great trust committed to their charge, and the honor to which God has called them. May this, the highest and holiest of all our enterprises, occupy an increased interest in the affections, prayers and liberality of our churches and members ; and, may " the lone star " mission now bursting forth into a constellation of such unsurpassing brilliancy fill that dark land with the '* light of the glorious Gospel of Christ." On the 5th day of June at a Board meeting held at Paris Rev. G. F. Currie was appointed one of our Foreign Missionaries. Financial Statement. DR. Balance on hand $2192 83 Received from all sources 6012 00 $8204 84 CR. Paid Missiionaries $6770 21 Disbursements £40 00 Balance ia hand 1194 63 $8204 84 !■ f' 11^1 i '1 1 1 ,il i "if f ]# -■: -M J 'm . 'i J ■■■\tt 'i| '4 ^ \'M i i 1^1 ! 90 TEr.oonoo Missiov. I mi: 5 (np^^^ ^^/^ The Rev. John Bates, of whom the above is a striking like- ness, was born in Bugbrook, Northampton, Enghmd, on January 26th, 1805, and died at 8t. George. Brant County, Ontario, on May 8th, 1875. He was the father of Mrs. Timpany and Mrs. McLaurin, the wives of the first missionaries sent to India by the Baptists of Ontario and Quebec. In 1827, when 22 years of age, he went to tiie City of London to seek there his fortune, and the one he found after a diligent search of several weeks, was a situation as porter to a dry goods tirra in Cheapside at a salary of I' 1 5 per annum. While thus employed in delivering large packages in the various parts of that great city, he niiglit often be seen, while taking short rests on th^ way, reading '■ Watts Logic," or some other similar useful work, taken from his pocket. He was baptized on Chi'istmas day, 1829, at the Eagle St. Chapel, by Mr. WooUacott, the pastor, Mr. Ivimey, being too unwell at the time to do so. His Hrst sermon was preached in May, 1831, in the ciiapel 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 VII. 37. ScHAP Book. 91 For somo tinift ho was much inclined to offer himself as a missionary to lalmr among the negroes in tin; island of Jamaica, but eventually ollered himself as a missionary to Ireland, and was duly designated foi- this s(M-vi(.-e in the Keppel Street Chapel, of which ]\Ir. Priti-hard was pastor, February 7th, IHli'.i. On January 'JO, IH.'Wj, he was married to Miss Sarah Stuart, daughter of Mr. Stuart, of Dromahair, Ireland, who on th(! followii)g May was hipti/.e 1 by her husbmd in a lake near the residence of her father. In 1 S:JU they l)pth visited England. February 20th, 1S50, he and family h;ft Ireland for Liverpool, and from tliat city saihd for New York March 4tli, which was reached on the 8th day of April. Mr. Bates then moved cut "far west " and remained there some four years Whih; there his son Sanmel was out with " the Boys in Blue." In a charge made upon tlie enemy's works at Vicksburg, JNlay 22, 18(]3, liis conspany participated. His zeal and courage carried him into tiie hottest of the fire, and being struck in the thigh with a niinie bill fell on the field. The Union forces drew back, and as Sanmel 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 14th of June, of whom the captain wrote : " He died a happy christian, maintaining his principles to the last." In June, 1858, jNIr. Bates accepted a call to the Park Street Church, Hamilton, Ontario. In March, 1851), he returned to the United States (lona). Late in 1864 he became pastor of the Dundas Church. In April, 18G7, removed from Dundas to Woodstock. In May, 187G, he is found attending the annual meeling of the American Baptist Missionary Union in Chicago, in the double capacity of christian minister, and parent aiding in the designation of his son-in-law, Uev. A. V. Timpany. to the Teloogoo field of foreign missions. In April, 1867, Mr. Bates resigned the Duudas Church and became pastor of the Woodstock Church. From there he removed to St. George, April 16th, 1870, where he died May 8th, 1875. Professor Jas. J. Bates, B. A., of the Woodstock Institute, and llev. S. S. Bates, B. A., pastor of the College Street P.aptist 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. Bate.^ says, 'Last night I read the first chapter of Samuel, after which I held my little baby in my arras, and presented it by faith in prayer to God. I look upon it as a loan for a little season, and would wish to bring it I ftl I ' ! 35 i t , ■ ; I--' I:: ' ,i , IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) ^ A^^s 1.0 i.l Si^iJIlM 111121 Mm 2.0 1.8 1.25 1.4 i4 .« 6" — ► V] v^ /. ^ !\^/ %. ^ n''' >^^ ^y^^ /A o 7 Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STRIET WEBSTER, NY. H580 (716) 872-4503 1^ ^-r to t 92 Teloogoo Mission. up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. It is lent to the Lord as long as it liveth, it shall be lent to the Lord. As I have a prevailing desire, if it be the will of God, so may little Jane be the wife of a missionary, and be useful in her day and generation. Nevertheless, not my will, but the will of the Lord be dona' How literally and fully this earnest wish has been fulfilled, read- ers of these pages may know. ' Little Jane ' is now the wife of Rev. A. V. Timpar.y, for several years already a useful mission- ary in India, and though at this present date for a time engaged i>i the home service. His daughter Mary, born in Banbridge, Ireland, November 10, 1846, is now the wife of Rev. John Mc- Laurin, like Mr Timpany, a missionary to the Teloojjoos." An extr.act from a letter written by Mr. Bates from Wood- stock. January 23, 1868, to Mr. and Mrs. Timpany: '* I have often travelled twenty miles and preached to less (' a few '), and if you are spared I expect that you will do the fame among the Teloogoos. I am thankful that the Lorci fills our houses, but I could not refuse to speak to any number God sends to me. * * Yes in tramping about Ireland, among the poor Catholics, I have been very frequently encouraged by the • twos ' and ' threes.' " " O vo be faithful my son and daughter to the twos and threes ! Then God will give us nines and tens and then the hundreds." 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 the word — the people would be familiar. * * And whether we arri in Woodstock amidst snow and ice, or in Nellore, amidst hot winds and under the burning sun, if ' the common people ' do not hear us ' gladly ' we lack one great thing to make us useful." HcHAP Book. 93 MRS. BATES. We have always felt that the mothers and wives of our mis- sionaries have never received the one tithe the sympathy and commendation they are justly entitled to. How is this ! If the widow who »• cast in three mites " was commended by our Lord ; how much more worthy of commendation is the mother who gives up her son or daughter, or the wife who gives up home comforts for foreign hardships 1 We are familiar with the heroic deeds of many a (male) missionary but of very few of their wives. How is this ? Is it right ! Is it because their self denials were not as great and their labors not as abundant ? Not a bit of it Were we only qualified to grapple with this subject in a suitable man- ner it would form one of the most useful and important chapters in the book in our estimation. 1875-6. The 62nd annual meeting of the American Ba^itist Missionary tTnion was held in the City of Buffalo on the 23rd of May, 1876. Besides Nellore, Ongole and Ramapatam there are four other important stations with one or more misQionaries at each, and ir. 'li r. :1 04 Teloogoo Mission. some a goodly number of native preachers and helpers, liev. A. V. Tinipany still at Raniapatam. Reported present at the meeting from Ontario, Rev. Dr. J. H. Castle, Rev. Mr. Stewart, B. A., Hamilton ; Rev. J. L. Campbell Dundas ; Rf^v. C Perrin, St. Catharines ; Rev. J. E. Vining, Boston ; Rev. E. Chesney, Fort Perry ; Rev. S. iJoyle, Toronto. Extract from report : " The * Lone Star ' Mission that in 1845 was without a missionary, and. whose abandonment was seriously considered in subsequent years at several meetings of the Union, and in 1865, when the now veteran Jewett wa« re- turning to the field, and Bro Olough as a new recruit was ac- companying him, had but 38 living members, has become one of the brightest among the constellation of American Baptist Mis- sions. It has now six stations and twenty missionaries, and near 4,000 members. There is now hope to-day, bright ajid promis- ing, that the 18,000,000 of Teloo^oos will not long hence be numbered among the christian peoples of the earth. " In one of the reports it is stated that, " The Rev A. V. Timp.^ny of the Teloagoo Mission of Ramapatam is on his way to Canada." and in a report of the following year (1877) it is stated, •' The Rev A. V. Tinipany, who returned to this country in October last, resigned with a view of joining the Canadian Cocanada Mission." This closes our connection with the Ameri- can Union. Nellore — Baptized, 16 ; members, 188. Ramapatam — Baptized, 48 ; members, 764. Ongole — Baptized, 181 ; members, 2,825. Expenses of the mission for the year, $33,430.30. The 10th annual meeting of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec was held in the Jarvis St. Toron- to Baptist Church, Thursday, October 19th 1876. The President RvW, Dr Fyfe, in the chair. Prayer by Rev. E. Edwards, of Parr/ Sound, late Missionary in Bombay under the Hritish F. M. Society. Addresses were delivered by Bro. John Craig, Missionary under appointment of the Board, Rev. A. A. Cameron, of Ottawa, Rev. J. Gordon, of Montreal, Rev. Dr. W. S. McKenzie 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. Becretary— REV. J. L. CAMPBELL. Treasurer— T. S. SHEN8T0N, Esq. Scrap Book. 95 ft On the 22nd of January, 1876, at 4 o'clock p. m , the deed of the Cocanada compound was duly signed, sealed and delivered, and registered in the proper court in that town. The whole cost was 10,000 rupees, or about $5,000. Bro. McLaurin and family left their rented premises and moved into the " Cocanada Baptist Mission House " on Wednes- day, February 9th. 1876. On Saturday, February li*th, 1876, Bro. and Sister Currie arrived from Burmah at Cocanada and made their home with iiro. McLaurin at the Mission House. Under date 2nd October, 1870, Rev. John Craig offered him- self as a missionary to the Teloogoo'. At a Board meeting held in the Jarvis Street Church, Toronto, on Thursday, October 19, 1876, such offer was unanimously accepted. Bro. Craig was present at this meeting and stated that '' He dare not disobey what he felt confident was God's call to him." Extracts from the 10th annual report : — *' We have two families, or four Missionaries at Cocanada while two of our Missionaries are for a short time recruiting their strength at home. Then, in 1868, there were less than 100 native converts, in connection with our churches, in that land ; now, there are between four and five thousand. Should the Missions continue to be adequately reinforced and sustained, and the ratio of increase during the next ten years in any way approximate that of the past, the membership of these native Churches, among the Teloogoos, will, at our next Foreign Missionary decade, be greater than that of all our Churches in Ontario and Quebec, even if our members in the meantime are multiplied by two. * "^^ It is with peculiar gratitude and joy we hail among us, tonight, our own pioneer Missionaries to the Teloogoos — our beloved and honored Brother and Sister Timpany. On the 24th 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 and dangerous voyage, they reached Madras on the 16th of April, and Nellore on the morning of the 9th of May, 1868. On the 20th of the same month they began the study of the language under a native 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 5th February, 1870, they moved to Ramapatam and took possession of this new field, where they eontinued to labor up to the 27th of February last. When they arrived at Ramapatam VX! I i 96 Teloogoo Mission. there was neither Ohurch nor Missionary before them, and hea- thenism held full sway. When they returned from Ramapatani, 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 Mission premises at the Station ; besides ten Chapels and School Houses completed, and about as many more in progress of erection on the field, Bro. Timpany also superintended the er ction of the Theological Sem- inary, at Ramapatam, opened the School on the 6th of April, 1872, and in addition to his pastoral charge, carried on the Sem- inary, as its first Principal, for two years, until relieved by Bro. Williams. A year ago, last March, he was appointed a member of " Teloogoo Bible Revision Committee." He also wrote " Teloogoo Compendium of Theology," a book of about 300 pages, 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 Missionary toils and a much needed rest. We welcome them back to-night." * * ♦ Baptized during the year 69, membership 287. " On the 2nd of the present month Bro. Timpany resigned his connection with the American Baptist Missionary Union ; and has now, in the full, direct sense, entered the permanent services of your Board. The Executive of the Union parted with him with much regret, and invoked the Divine blessing on his future career. When he returns to India, he will go to Cocanada, and join Bro. McLaurin and Bro. Currie, in our own Canadian field, on the banks of the Godavery." " The work at Cocanada, during the past year, has been re- plete with interest. With the energy which is his characteristic, Bro. McLaurin has been laying the foundations of a great work for Christ, in that dusky-peopled and most promising field. The difhculties arising out of the late lamented Bro. Gabriel's finan- cial embarassment required mudh wise and patient unravelling." " 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 able native preacher, has been ordained as an evangelist, and has ren- dered valuable help in touring and preaching the Word." After much anxriety in endeavoring to secure land, on which to erect Mi-sion Premises, by a providential opening, your Mis Scrap Book. 97 sionary was enabled to purchase land and house complete at Oocanada. The place contains a little over twelve acres, sur- rounded by a hedge, and is described as " one of the best loca- tions in the town.' On the 22nd of January last the formal purchase was completed, and on Wednesday the 9th February, your Missionary and his family left their rented premises, where they had lived nearly two years, and moved into our own ' Cana- dian Baptist Mission House.' The cost of this property, purchased more cheaply than it could be built, was 9,000 rupees, or nearly $4,500 ; of this amount $2,500 have already been paid, and the bilance will he wiped out as soon as the state of our treasury will permit. * * Through this purchase the Society is saved a heavy rental ; a home is provided in the meantime for Brother and Sister Currie, free." " Bro. McLaurinhas also, during the past year, written a work presenting our views on the subject of Christian Baptism — the tirst publication of the kind made in Teloogoo. It became neces- sary for him to do this in simple defence from the attacks which have been made upon us by the Missionaries of other societies. The work, which will undoubtedly be a valuable addition to the Christian literature of that language, is now going through the press. * * We hope in a year from now our Bro. John Craig will go hence to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ among the Teloogoos. May God grant him the desire of his heart, and a life of abundant usefulness and blessing." "The excellent brother, designated for the foreign field at our last Convention, left Brantford on the 26th October, sailed from Halifax, on the Allan steamer * Nova Scotian,' on the 2nd and arrived at Liverpool on the 14th November. Thence he sailed in the steamship ' City of Cambridge,' of the City Line of Steamers, on the 30th November, and landed safely at Calcutta on the 14th of January last. After remaining there three days he took passage on the steamer ' Ava,' of the British India Line, and reached Rangoon on the 2l8t of the same month. Here, on the Ist of February, he was united in marriage, by the Rev. W. H. Sloan, of the A. B. M. Union, to Miss Maria Armstrong, from Henthada, one of the Missionaries under the Board of the Lower Provinces ; embarked on the next steamer — the ♦ Asia,' of the B. I Line — on the 6th, and arrived safely at their journey's end, at Cocanada, at noon on Saturday the 12th of February. Here they were welcomed by Bro. and Sister McLaurin, and have ever since occupied a portion of the same Mission house. They have both bent their energies on the study of the language, and lil l^i'^'isS ii > Vn 5 ■' is 98 Telooooo Mission. with such success that we find Bro. Gurrie, in four months and a half, able to read his Teloogoo Testament with very little diffi- culty, able to understand considerable of what he hears in Teloo- goo preaching and conversation and venturing to talk a little in the vernacular. Brother McLaurin speaks of his proficiency in the language, during the short timo he has been engaged in its study, as ' simply extraordinary,' and adds, ' He ' (Bro. Currie) ' can make himself understood by pure Teloogoo speaking natives with a facility which I do not think I have seen equalled in India for the time.' " " Already, Bro. Currie writes, the barrier of our ignorance of the language is beginning to melt away, and we are hoping for a good time bye-and-bye, when, with tongue and ear trained to the use of the vernacular, we shall be able to tell ' the old, old story ' to the multitudes of human beings all about us who are still in darkness." Financial Statement. DR. Cosh on hand $1194 GS Received from aU sources 4914 85 Balance due Treasurer 333 78 $6443 23 CR. Paid Rev. G. F. Currie tl297 31 Paid Rev. J. Hctiaurin in all 4(U0 00 Disbursements...... 635 92 $C443 23 '! TWO BUBULS. Scrap fiooK. M Ms, MR. JEWETT. Just here perhaps is the most suitable place to bid good- bye to Mr. and Mrs. Jewett, from whom all our missionaries have received so many acts of cliristian kindness. We are glad to be able to give so good a likeness as the above, taken from a photograph in the writer's possession. We have no material by us from which we can furnish any account of his life and labors. 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." thereby it is expected that the readers will look upon and admire St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was the designer and builder. In like manner we say, ♦• If you desire to know about Mr. and Mrs. Jewett, look through the preceding pages of thia book. i 100 Tbloogoo Mission. MBS. JEWETT. The above cut is a good copy of the photograph from which the same was taken, but it is only due to Mrs. Jewett to state that both do her an injustice The photograph used was the only one within our reach, and we would have considered our book very incomplete without her likeness with the rest. Scrap Book. 101 1877. THE Baptist Foreign Missionary Society OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC. [jI ^n; Up to this date our Canadian Missionary Society has been simply an Auxiliary to the American Baptist Missionary Union, consequently our missioDaries were properly their servants, and solely under their control Happily nothing occurred during the ten years close connection to mar for a moment the harmonious working of the twaini and all will, I think, readily admit that the connection for the time named has been mutually advan- tageous. They parted with the best of good wishes for each other. Why should it be otherwise ? Each preach the self-same gospel for the same purpose, to the same people and expecting and receiving the same results — the conversion of the poor Telugus (hereafter we propose to spell this word thus). As we before stated, the sole object of the writer in getting up this SoBAP Book was simply to preserve from oblivion many useful facts and statistics relating to our own Foreign Mission before they became lost past recovery. In order to accomplisli this purpose it was a somewhat perplexing question to select the best starting point. Virtually our mission was commenced on lUi. 102 Teluuit Mission. the 12tJi (lay of March, 1874, when our Missionat;; xvicLaurin first took formal possession of the Cocanada Mission. To coin- nience here, however, would not be satisfactory, inasuuich as it is well known that fotisiderahli! sums of nio::ey were contributed for Foreign Missions several years previous to that date Then again, if we take our starting point Irom February, 1868, the day our Missionary Tiinpany arrived at Nellore, in India, in connection with tin; American Missionary Union, it would naturally excite curiosity concerning the Union to whicli he was connected and the history of the j>eople among whoni he was lahorintr Under tiiese circumstances we thought it would be tiie most satisfactory to comineiice where the American Union began missionary operations an\ong the Telugus in India in 1835, and then give a brief outline of the rise and progress of that mission down to the tinie when our own missionaries became disconnected with the Union, and fairly established within Cocanada. This nari'utive is a most interesting one, and well worth the reading. iUit inasmuch as our Missionaries 'limpany and McLaurin gjivo several years of faithful labor in Nellore, Ongole and Kamapatam, whereby these missions have become household words with many a Canadian, we have thought it best to continue giving the religious and iinani'ial statistics of these three places to the clo.se of this book — 1888. I,"' Scrap Book. 103 HIBj ■■■■■■■■ The Telugu people now iiumber 18,000,000 souls, but] inas- much as they form only the 41st part of the vast i)opuIation of Asia, and the 14th part of Ihat of India, and are located a'onj? the border of what is termed a " Bay," they appear to be rpf,'aided by some as too insignificant a people to have so much mon(>y and attention bestowed on them , by various relij^iousj societies. Thinking it desirable just liere to dispel such erroneous estima- tion as to their numbers,!^I._have prrpared the abov(^ diagram as the readiest method of doing so. By the last census (1881) tlie population of Ontario was 1,923,223. Notwithstanding since then many thousand have moved to the United States, I will suppose a net increase of 270,777. This would njake the present ,-:il l''! ■ '' it >i. I 3| ■1 i ' I ■K 104 Teluou Mission. I ; ; I I ft. population of Ontario to be 2,200,000. Each block in the above diagram represents 100,000 population. This shows at a glance the relative numbers of Ontarions and Telugus, the former being represented by 22 light colored squares, an4 Ph& l^t^tPr by 180 black ones. It is thus seen that our missionaries have their hands full. The 11th annual meeting of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec was held in the Jaryis jStreeti Baptist Church, Toronto, Thursday October 15th, i877, flev. Dr. Fyfe, President, in the chair. Prayer by the Rev. Q. M. W. Oarey, M. A., of St. Johns, New Brunswick. Addresses were delivered by Rev. A. H. Munro, of Montreal, i^nd flev. J. W. A. Stewart, B. A., of St. Catharines. At this meeting the ^ev. John Craig, B. A., missionary elect to the Telugus was set apart for the foreign work as follows : — Welcome 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, of which Bro. Craig is a member, by Dr. John H. Oastle. •' With you Always," a valedictory hymn was sung, composed for the occasion by Mrs, J. C. Yule. Vnsititnt. * - [ Key. B. A. Ftvi, D. D. Wh. Cbaio and A. A. Atkb. Aiciitatiea. Bey. J. L. Cahfbxll (Foreign), Bsv. Jahhb CouTTS (Home). CrrHurrc. T. S. SuiNBiON, Bbq. The 1st annual meeting of the Canadian Telugu Conference was held at Bimlipatam on the 22nd of January 1877, at which Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin and Mr. and Mrs. Currie were reported as being present. The only one of our Mission at which any were baptized was Oocanada. The report from which was : — Baptized, 107 ; membership, 438. At a Board meeting held in Woodstock, April 18th Bro. Campbell resigned the Secretaryship and Rev. James Qoutts was appointed in his stead. I I ! Scrap Book. 105 *' The following are the statistics of the Mission : — Baptized, 79 ; present membership, 325. Extracts from report : — " Since that date Bro McLaurin has made two additional tours, and up to the 15th of July last baptized 65 more, 11 of whom are in Cocanada. * * It is with special gratitude that your board records the payment of the entire indebtedness ($2,000), which rested on the Mission premises at Cocanada. This beautiful and valuable property, free from any claim of man, now belongs to the Baptists of On- tario and Quebec." '* Bro. Carrie has secured a valuable portion of land in Tuni and is now engaged in erecting temporary premises, in which they shall reside. He hopes to be able to occupy the building and enter upon his permanent work there about the beginning of the new year. Long may he be spared, and richly may he be blessed in his work in this important field." " It is with devout gratitude to God — and with a solemn consciousness of our increased responsibility — that we to-night set apart our beloved young brother, John Craig, B. A., to the great work to which God has called him. The son of one of our hon- ored and esteemed Baptist families— called to go among the gen- tiles by a voice which he dared not refuse — having fully com- pleted his literary and theological courses of study, we joyfully receive l.im as God's gift to !our Telugu Mission. Bidding fare- well to country and kindred with his consecrated companion, he is going far hence into heathen lands to dwell. They will leave New York on Wednesday next, (24th inst.) by the Cunard Steamer Abyssinia for England, from which place they will take steamer direct to Madras. With the Divine blessing they antici- pate arriving at Cocanada about the slot'^ of the present year. ' Under date September 28th Bro. Timpany writes :—*' Dur- ing the past year, I have, sick or well, worked steadily in the in- terest of the Foreign Mission Society. Had tl e financial condit- ion of the country been difierent, a much larger amount with far less labor would have been realized. * * The primary object of my visit home is to recruit a wasted constitution, preparatory to my spending another term in our Telugu Mission ; and, while I found it hard sometimes to summon energy for the wprk, yet it has been to me a period of rich blessing, the kindness that I have experienced in their houses day after day I have enjoyed more than I can tell." \h I 106 Teluou Mission. i I f. I Financial Statement. DR. Beceived from all aources $792! 67 Balance due Treasurer 254 79 $8176 36 CR. nalance due Treasurer. paid Missionaries Disbursements .$ 333 73 . 7645 62 . 297 U $817C 30 The 1st annual report of the Women's Baptist Foreign Mis- sionary Society for Ontario was held in Toronto, Oct. 18th, 1877. )|}rc9t0(nt. Mbp. 'Wv. McMabted. rirt=i:rfsili r.t.. Mrs. J. H. Cabtlk, Mrs. C. A. Mobse, and Mibb Bella Liobtbodt. &ttxciaxit9. Mrs. H. H.Humphbet, Corresponding; Miss Morbe, Recording. (TTraBurir. Mibb Ebbkine Bochan. The report says that " the Society has reason to thank God and take courage. There have been 30 circles formed and a growing interest is manifested in the work." Financial Statement. Db. Received from all sources $ 690 44 $590 44 CR. Disbursements ' $ 26 39 Cash on nand 564 06 $690 44 . " The 1st annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, East, was held in the parlor of St. Cathar- ines Street Church, Montreal, on Thursday, September 6th 1877. The President, Mrs. T. J. Glaxton, in the chair. l^rfBtDcnt. Mbb. T. J. Claxton. Ftcc^i^rtsiOtntB. Mas. A. H. MuNBO, Mas. J. Gobcom, Mbb. J. L. Cahpbill. ii^ttTttaTttB. Mai. W. M. Allowat, GorreBponding ; Mas. W. S. Pobtioub, Recording. STreasurtr. Mibb Obeen. !fihctract from report : — " Mrs. Timpany, being present was requested to address the meeting, and in responding said it glad- ened her heart to know that there were so many gathered to- gether, pledged to help in the work of carrying the gospel into the homes of India. It was of necessity women's work, men were not allowed to visit the women in their homes." It was re- ported that f 434.87 had been received during the year. Scrap Book. 107 From the 63rd annual report of the American Baptist Union (1677) we learn that the Union have now 6 separate stations among the Telugus and have baptized of them during the year 724 and expended $80,683.37, The following are the number of baptisms in connection with the three stations with which our Canadian Missionaries were formerly connected. Nellore — Baptized, twenty two; members, 312. Ongole — Baptized, 656; members, 3407. Ramapatam — Baptized, twelve; members, 1,401. One Lord One Faith, One Baptism. I 108 Telugu Mission. 1878. THE ISth annual MEETING OF THE BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OP .ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Was held in the First Baptist Church, Brantford. on Thurs- day tlie 17th 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 Yorkville, Rev. T. L. Davidson, of Guelph, made a spirited appeal for $2,100, to liquidate the debt of that amount and succeedec in securing $1,300. Cloi-ing prayer by Rev. E. J. Stobo of Collingwood. )3rtBtt)cnt. T. S. Shension, Esq. lTicc=}3nsi6cnt.'. Wm. Craio and A. A. Ay£B, Smclnri a. • . Bey. J. L. Campbell and Key. James Coutts. I 3rrc88urrt. T. Dixon Cbaio. The 2nd annual meeting of the Canadian Telugu Mission was held at Cocanada on the 17th January, 1878, at which Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin, Mr. and Mrs. Currie and Mr. and Mrs. Craig were reported as being in attendance. Baptized during the year, 3 ; members, 433. January 4th, 1878, Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin arrived safe at Cocauada. January 20th, 1878, Mr. and Mrs Currie occupied Tuni as an independent Missionary Station. Extract from a letter written by Bro. Timpany : — '• There is a canal now open all the way from Madras to Cocanada. The southern portion of the canal has been mostly dug in '• famine times." * We do not take time to stop at any of the rest houses on the way, as it will be all we can do to reach Cocanada by January. Tiro third day on the canal, towards evening, I SciiAP Book. 109 asked Mrs Timpany if she had been once straightened out during the day. The answer was * No.' * Why,' said she, * that is just the reason 1 feel so tired.' " "That night we were roused by our boatmen answering the questions of the boatmen passing us going towards Madras. It turned out that they had Miss Day on board There, in the centre of one of the salt water lakes through which the canal finds its way, we made the acquaintance of Mary Day, born in Nellore, and the daughter of the first Baptist Telugu Missionary. We had a pleasant visit of half an hour." April 22nd Bro. Timpany writes from Oocanada thus : — *' The chapel walls are now eleven feet above the groiind floor. * * Every minute I get I am devoting to the revision of the Telugu Gospe's, so as to be ready for the meeting of the delegates at Bangalore in .June." At a Board meeting held October 16th on motion of Rev. Dr. Stewart, seconded by Wm. Craig and Resolved "That our Mis- sionaries make no compromise in translating the words of the New Testament referring to the ordinance of Baptism." Rev. Mr. Olough writing from Ongole June 24th says : — " I and my native assistants baptized 328 converts. At a later date writes : — " Since then we have baptized in June 75, 75, 140, 150, 188, 212. In July, 199, 614, 2,222, 781, 216. 279, being a total of 5,429 between the 16th of June and 7th of July." Mr. Clough adds : — ♦* Perhaps, not one hundred of the whole number ever re- ceived from me directly or indirectly a • pice ' (one quarter of a cent) of the famine fund, and never expect to receive any finan- cial aid from me." * * In August Bro. Timpany writes from Raniapatam : — *' If I am not mistaken. God, by His spirit, is moving on the hearts of thousands and thousands of these Telugu people. He has shown them by the fearful famine that vain in the help of idols." In September was issued the first number of the Missionary Link, \i hich has done and is doing so much good for the cause of missions in Ontario and Quebec. December 14th, Mr. Jewett writes from India: — "I last wrote you November 30. On the Sabbath, December 1, T gave notice that Mr. Timpany would preach the following Sabbath, and that the formation of a church would follow the sermon. December 3, at 4 p. m., the steamer • Nepaul ' arrived in the Madras Roads. The surf was so high that the passengers could not land till Thursday a. m. Then at some risk they came ashore. First came our children, Mr. and Mrs. Nichols, and no Telugti Mission. II I afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Timpany, child and a Telugu girl, Amelia Keller. It was a time of excitement and joy. It wouM take many sheets like this to express all we felt and said. Well, you may imagine it," The report makes affectionate allusion to the death of Rev. Dr. Fyfe, at one time a President of this Society. (See page 57). Extracts 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 McLaurin, the most glorious religous awakening which has ever been experienced in the whole history of modern missions. In gathering thousands of this most interesting peple, who are forsaking their idols and turn- ing to worship the one living and true God. it would appear almost that the question of ancient prophecy are to have a literal affir- mative fulfilment : * Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day ? or shall a nation be born at once ? ' " *' It was in compliance with the written solicitation that the Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union first visited this province and organized here an auxiliary of that Society in 1866. When in 1873, we became an independent society, we went to Boston and negotiated the terms by which the arrange- ment was amicably entered into. On the death of our first president, Hev. John Bates was elected to that position, and filled it with his usual ability until his Master said : ' It is enough ! and he entered upon his blessed reward.' * On Monday, 30th September last, accompanied by Mrs. Timpany, their youngest daughter, and Miss Amelia Keller, a native Telugu, our dear brother left Canada for India. They sailed from New York on the the 2nd of October on the steamship Australia, of the Anchor Line, for London. Thence they expect to take passage by the P and O Line direct for Madras, where they hope to arrive about the 1st of December. * * Bro. Timpany proposes going to Cocanada, when he will take charge of that station, while our weary and toil worn missionary, Bro. McLaurin, will return to this country for a much needed rest " * * " A cloud of glory has burst during the past few months over the South Telugu country. On the Ongole field, where Brother McLaurin labored up till the time he came to Cocanada, and where he was richly blessed, and faithfully sowed the incorruptible ceed of the kingdom, a glorious harvest is now being reaped. Dur- ing the six weeks, from June 16th to July 81st last, 8,691 pre- cious souls were ba;ytized on a profession of their faith in the ipll Scrap Book. Ill Lord Jesus Ohrist on that field alone. Thus, where only a few short years ago the darkness of unbroken heathenism reigned supreme, when twelve years ago a feeble church of eight mem- bers was organized now there is a church of over 12,000 members ! " * * "After the designation services of our last annual meeting our Bro. Craig and his devoted companion immediately left our shores for the far distant field to which God has called them. Early in January last they arrived at their destination. Here they were cordially welcomed by Brother and Sister McLaurin, and have since resided with them in the mission home at Co- canada " * # " By indication of providence, clear as though directed visibly by the pillar of cloud and fire we have been led to occupy this wonderful land. God has called us to and honored us with this glorious trust Our hand has been put to the mission plow and we dare not look back. That denomination which will be most richly blessed in all the various departments of its home work — which will develop the largest benevolence and the most conse- crated piety — to which God will give power over the nations — will be the denomination which will be most thoroughly embued with the foreign mission spirit." Financial Statement. DB. Received from aU sources $6699 65 Balance due Treasurer 242 5? $6942 18 OR. Paid balance due Ireasurer $ ?54 79 Paid Missionaries 60,39 88 Disbursements 547 51 $6942 18 The 2nd annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society west, was held in Emmanuel Congregational Church, Brantford, October 16th, 1878. The President, Mrs. McMaster, in the chair. ^rtnttient. Mas. M. Fbbeland. Mrs. J. H. Goutts and Mas. H. J. Boss. Sccretar;;. Mas. H. H. HuHPHBET, Corresponding; Miss Morse, Recording. CtfBBurjr. Mms Erskinx Buchanan. 112 Teluou Mission. ■. Extract from report : — "At a meeting held on October 18th, 1877, Dp, Fyfe and Rev. J. L. Campbell appeared in order to learn what the Society thought about paying all the money collected by the different circles to the General Board— the Society, 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 by the General Board at its last annual meeting : ' That we re- spectfully request all Auxiliary Societies not to make any direct appointment of 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 matter thoroughly. Letters received in the meantime from Circles throughout the province, showed such conflicting opinions that it was thought best to give it up for a time. But an article in the Baptist, written by Rev. Mr, Coutts, Home Secretary of the General Society, severely criticizing the constitution of this Society, and also a suggestion from Rev, Mr. Campbell that our Central Board might make concessions, and thus remove the misunderstanding existent between it and the General Board, led to the submission of certain amendments to the Constitution. Mr. Coutts, in a letter to the Recording Secretary, said that these proposed amendments gave entire satisfaction, and that a vote of thanks had been passed to the ladies for what they had done. Letteis were also received from different members of the Board expressing theii approval. FiNAKCiAL Statement. DR. Total received 3898 78 Balance ou hand C47 65 $154C 03 OB. Paid Foreign Mission $924 98 Disbursements 4191 Balance on hand S60 04 $1646 03 The 2nd annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society East, was held in the parlor of the St. Catha- rine Street Church, Montreal, on Friday September 27th, 1878, the President, Mrs. T. J. Clax^on, ii» the chair* Scrap Book. 118 {IrtsiQ-nt. Mrs. T. J. Claxton. Mrs. a. H. Munro, and Mrs. J. Gordon. 5.T.ftrii-s. Mrs. M. W. AlIowat, Corresponding ; Mrs. W. S. Pokteous, Recording. JTrcaau rr. Miss Green. The report states :—" There were frequent discussions on various subjects, but the love of Christ in the heart manifested itself in the spirit with which these discussions were carried on." Mrs. Timpany was present and addressed the meeting On the evening of the same day a public meeting was held, with A. A. Ayer in the chair. Addresses were delivered by Kev. J. L. Campbell, Rev. A. H. Munro, Rev. J. Gordon, and Rev. \. V. Timpany. Mr. and Mrs. Timpany and Amelia Keller (a Ttlu- gu), sang some hymns in Telugu. Financial Statement. DR. Kecoived from all sources . .$ 598 44 $ 598 44 CR. Paid Foreign Missions 8 501 40 Kalauce on hand 77 04 $ 598 44 From the 64th annual report of the American Baptist Mis- sionary Union (lti78), we learn that the Union have now five separate missions among the Telugus and have baptized of them during the year 298, and expended $26,064. The following are the number of baptisms in connection with the three stations with which our Canadian missionaries were connected : Nellore — Baptized, 26 ; membership, 302. Ongole — Baptized, 110; membership, 3,269. Ramapatam — Baptized, 77 ; membership, 701. : if ml I ! ! Scrap Book. 116 This boat was built the latter part of the year 1879. The original cost, not including some things from the old boat Minnie Wilson, was Rs. 1273 5 9. Since then, some things have been added, so that the boat as seen now in the picture has coRt about Its. 1400. Ihe keel is 40 feet long. From the prow over which you see the anchor chain drawn, to the stern, is 44 feet. The width inside, anudships, is 'J feet 4 inches. Beginning at the prow, there is a deck 8 feet long. From this you enter the saloon cabin by two steps down. Tins cabin is 13 feet long, with tivc Venetian windows on each side ; there is a wide bench on each side upon wliich beds for 4 can be spread if necessary. The man standing near the foremast is the Captain to whom is paid a salary of $3.50 a month. Mr. Timpany and his little girl Mary are standing on the foot-board of the boat. Christ DID bless, but did not Baptize. 110 Teluoii Mission. 1879. THE 13rii ANNUAL MEETING or THE BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OP ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Was held in the Queen St Church St. Catharines on Thursday, October 16th, 1879. The President T. S Shenstou in the chair. Prayer by the llev. VV. cJtewart of Hamilton. Addresses were delivered by Rev. W. H. Porter, of Brantford, Rev. A. P. McDiarrnid of Strathroy, Rev. E. J. Stobo of Collingwood, and Rev. John McLaurin, one of our Missionaries, who, with his wife, sung a Telugu hymn. IJrcsiDfnt T. S. Shenston. Tit ^JrcsiS.ntJ. Wm. Craio and A. A. Ater. *ccttiar fg. Rev. James Coutis. Crfneur r. T. Dixon Cbaio. January 13th, 1879, the 3rd annual nneting of the Canadian Telugu Conference was held at Chicacole, India. Among those in attendance weie Bro. A. V. Tinipany, I ro. McLaurin and Mr. and Mrs Craig. At this meeting no statistics were given. January 7th 1879, from Cocanada Mrs. Currie writes: — "Mr. end Mrs. Timpany's arrival has quite enlivened us. They seem to have brought a good gust of home air and enthusiasm to this wai ni cHme. The sight of faces from home is in itself cheer- ing when they bring the good news of how near the interests of the Foreign Mission lie to the hearts of many in Canada, we can- not but feel encouraged, and ready to strive more earnestly to do good to 1 he Telugus. Mr. Currie was ill with fever. Mr. McLaurin had just come to see us bringing medicine for him, and we were in the midst of preparations ior the journey to Co- canada, in search of medical aid, when the cyclone burst upon us. Had he not been with us I do not know what we should have done. He was like an angel of mercy to us. We wtre SCUAP IJooK. ir tre safely removed to the Traveller's Bungalow where we roniained some days. After the violence of the storm had subsided, and as soon as the road had become passable, Mr. Currie took a palan- quin and came to Oocanada. Mr. McLaurin kindly remained and superintended the storage of the furniture in one of the liajah's rooms. We suffered loss of property of course, but our casM was so much better than that of some of our neighbors, (Telugus) who lost life or friends by the falling of their frail nmd huts, that it was with grateful hearts for God's wonderful merjy to us that we came to Cocanada. The change, and proper medical help has benefitted Mr. Currie's health so that now he is well enough to return to Tuni and to work, we hope." February 22, 1879, at Bombay died Mary McLaurin, the third t.'ughter of our Missionaries Mr. and Mrs. ISIcLaurin. Little Mary was born in Cocanada, India, December 17th, 1875. On the cars between Madras and Bombay, while, her parents were on their way to Canada, she was taken with a malignant type of diphtheria, of which, in spite of parental care and medical skill she died and in that far off land were laid her precious remains. February 24th, 1879, from Oocanada Mrs. Timpany writes : — ** Mr. Timpany is already making good use of the instruments the Toronto ladies gave him He has two parties wb.o come to him every day to be treated. Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin, with their little ones left more than a week ago for Madras. Mr. and Mrs. Oraig are busy with the language and we expect will soon be able to use it pretty well." February 13th, 1879, Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin left Cocanada for Ontario. March 2nd, 1879, a small church of G members was formed in Tuni, and in the evening the ordinance of Baptism was ad- ministered for the first time in that place. In June 1879, Mr. Craig writes : — " One of the most peculiar and annoying customs here in the matter of cows is that of keep- ing the calf with its mother nil the time she is in milk, if the cow does not 1 ave her calf beside her, she will not yield her milk, so the native* say. Consequont'y, the process of milking is as follows : The cow is tied to a post, and the calf is brought and allowed to suck a little ; then it is pu'led away and tied near its mother's head, so that she can see it. After the cow has been milked, the calf is allowed to take what is left." •' But suppose your calf dies, what then ? Why, then conies the tug of war. Ten to one your cow will dry up in a short time, because tliat is the proper thing for the cow to do. If you were : i i 'Vf ; i-{!ij 118 Telugu Mission. in the habit of milking her yourself it is not likely she would dry up ; but if the one who milks her thinks she ought to dry up, dry up she will. ' "In July last, we bought a cow with a very young calf, and I think she yielded about two quarts a day. But the rains were almost incessant, and in September the calf sickened and died. Then, to induce the cow 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 go on when she saw the boy bringing the stuffed calf to her at milkinw-time. However the stuffed calf trick got played out on that cow in about a month and a half, and so she dried up." To the Rev. W. H. Porter, Bro. Ourrie writes : — " We are surrounded by the densest heathen darkness. Not another English speaking family resides in the place ; and beyond the range of our few servants and native evangelists, not another Christian household within many miles. But I do not wish to say much about the disadvantages, many though there be, of liv- ing at a country station like this — they are of little account. If our Master honor us with a good measure of success in the work we have undertaken, we shall rejoice to be here, -notwithstanding the few privations which we may find it necessary to undergo. As to success, it is scarcely time to expect much as yet, in a place where regular work was commenced only about ten months ago. In heathen communities generally a considerable amount of ploughing and sowing is necessary before much reaping can be done." June 24, 1879. From Bangalore Bro Timpany writes: — " The Link is a delight to us in India, and is liked by all who see it. It is pleasing to know that it is being more and more appreciated at home. * * Only yesterday I s^iw the notice of the first Parsee woman that has been baptized in India. Now, one has come, is this not a pledge that the gospel is able to bring more— briuii all? Is it any wonder that Dr. Thomas, of Stram- pore, went crazy with joy when Krishna Paul, the first Hindu convert in Bv ngal, was going to be Imptized ? Why, he saw in it the pledge of all India for Christ. And to one who loves Christ is not the joy unutterable 1 " June 27th, 1879, Bro. Currie rejoiced greatly at having re- ceived the deed for the Tuni compound of 2^ acres which he says is " a most eligible piece of land." The price paid was $160. Scrap Book. 119 )re of Lni- idu in ces |re- July 26th, 1879, The Rajah of Saniulcotta gave as a gift the premises worth $3,000, for the Setitinary "so long as they shall be used for the Mission or educational purposes." August, Link, 1879, " I cannot " says Mr. Clough, "enter further into details, but the progress and present aspect of the work will be suffiiciently understood by the following record : — Baptized in June, 1268 ; July. 7513 ; August, ^?6 ; November, 59 ; December, 400— total, 9,606. - * 2,'222 were baptized in one day last July accupying nine hours. There were six ad- ministrators but only two at a time baptized." September 19th, 1879, the keel of the new Mission boat was laid. September, 1879, Link. With deep regret we learn that Rev. John and Mrs Craig, of Cocanada, have been called to en- dure a sore b-reavement in the death on Sunday tiie 13th of July, of their little daughter Ida, who had just completed her first year. May God, the Holy Spirit, comfort them. Bro. Craig's " first tour." " After a full year's sojourn in Co- canada I felt that I was ready to make my first tour. I hoped that Bro. Timpany would visit the field soon after his arrival, aud that I might have the pleasure of accompanying him. How- ever extensive building operations have kept him busy in Cocan- ada, so that as I was determined to see some of our Christian villages, I was compelled to go alone. And yet I was only alone in tne sense th&t I had no Eng ish-speaking companion. [ liad a good guide and helper in our ordained preacher Josiah, and he was accompanied by one of the school boys. We left Cocanada on the evening of Tuesday the 1 1th of March. I will quote froui letters wiitten from time to time during my trip." * * " The diameter of this house is about 10 feet. A post in the centre supports tlu* apex of the roof. The walls are about 4^ feet high, thick near the ground, but sloping towards the top both 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 Those bamboos reached from the top of the post to the wall all around, and J hatch is laid over them. This kind of roof keeps out both wet, cold and heat, Tery well. Certainly not much cool breeze gets in. I would pre- fer to stay under the trees if it were not for the hot sun." * * •' This morning the moonsiff of the village came to see me Samuel introduced him as the " Rajah," which means '* king," but in this case only " chief man " of the village. Ho asked me how much salary I received from the G'/ ernment. I told hiij 120 Telugu Mission. my salary was paid by Christians in Canada. How hard it seems to make these men understand that we are not connected with the Government ! Josiah says that it is commonly believed that the Government gives 100 rupees for every Brahmin that is bap- tized ; 75 rupees for evnry one belonging to the Rajah caste ; 50 rupees for every Sudra ; and so on, ihe rate descending with the caste of the converts." " * " Four men and four women were examined by Josiah previous to baptism. Those present were asked if they knew anything about the candidates, and made various replies, saying that they ouglit to be biptized. Then we all walked down to a fine large tank which was quite near ; a hymn was sung, and then Josiah read the closing verses of Acts ii. After this Josiah took one of the men and walked slowly out to where there was sufficient water, while the Christians present sang part of a hymn. Here is a translation of what Josiah said to each candidate before ad- ministering the ordinance. — " Thou hast received the Lord Jesus Christ as thine own Saviour, therefore I am giving the immersion in the nanie of the Father, and of the Holy Ghost." As socn as each one was baptized the Christians sang a verse or two, just as we do in Canada on such occasions. Josiah himself led into the water the first one to be baptized, and the second one walked in alone. But after that an elderly Christian man led in one to meet Josiah as he was leading out the one whom he had just Imp- tized, and so they met half way and exchanged the candidates they were leading. I never saw the ordinance conducted with greater propriety than on this occasion. After the baptism we gathered together again, and Josiah addressed a few wordi of ex- hortation to those who had just put on Christ " * " On Monday evening the 21:th I left in a bandy for Akeed, which was reached on Tuesday, about 10 p.m. I was glad to be on the boat once more. On Wednesday morning we started for home. Thursday night we reached the Godavery river, but could not cross, so we anchored there. A^e had a f»ood wind on Friday, and made about three miles an hour ; reached home at 9.30 p m., and found all well. Josiah did not return with me; hv> remained on the field." *' October 16th, 1879, Board met in the town of St. Catharines. At this nieeting it was moved by Dr. Wm, Stewart and seconded by Wm. Craig, Esq., of Port Hope and carried unanimously •' That having read a letter from Rev. A. V. Timpany respecting the difficulties he is meeting with in co-operating with Pedo-Bap- tist Ministers in the Revision of the Telugu Scripture ^, this lifiTi ScKAP Book. 121 Board instructs its Missionaries to make no compromise in trans- lating the words of the New Testament rfferrinpj to the ordinance of Baptism, but to render them by their exact Telugu equiv- alent, and further, in case the Missionaries cannot carry out this principle the do withdraw from they Union Revision Committee of Madras, this Board pledges itself to give its best help to pub- lish a faithful revision." 2 ?- ? ? e «; g^ ^ ^ <3k Ch. 1^ ^ ^ r ^ c^ €h ^ o ^ ^ 2> c«. ^ t*^ Pa ^ o o t- &; -OSt w s< ? ex =?, 1 122 Telugti Missiox. And all were baptized in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Mark. i. 5, And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from IVazireth of Oalilee, and was baptized of John in Joudan, and Jesus when he was baptized went ap straightway out of the wateh, Mark, i. 9. I indeed baptize you with water; but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, Mark, i. 8. And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it pilled all tub house whkre they were bit- liMO. Acts, a. 2. John was also baptizing in Enon, near to 3alim, because there was much WATER THERE. ActH, iii, 23. Know ye not, that ab many of is as were baptized into Christ, were bap- tized into his death ? Therefore, we are huuied with him by baptism into HI8 death, Jiom , vi. 3. Tliey went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch ; and he baptized him, and when they were come up out op the water, etc. Acls viii, 38. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that lovetb me John, xiv, 21, Scrap Book. 123 ark. ;h of ized loly la of SIT- tUCH bap- INTO ]ilip T OP vetb There shall be for every male child baptized two Godfathers and one Ood- mother . . . must be ready at the Font. And the priest comiag up to the Font shall take the child into bis hands .... and then naming; it after them, he SHALL dip it in tub water discreetly and warily Hut if they cbb- Tii'T tliat the child is weak, it shall suffice to pour water upon it. (Of Adults.) Standing at the Font . . . then shall the Priest take each person to be baptized by the right hand, and placing him conveniently by the Font, shall then dip him in the water, or pour water upon him. — l&xtracta from hook of Common Prayer. No parent shall be urged to be present, nor be admitted to answer as God- father for his own child. — Chur h of England Canon, No. 29. The Holy Fcriptures speak only of Baptism by immersion. The dogma of the church is to sprinkle, and we should in this, as in everything else, follow the {jhxuoh.—Jioman Catholic Catechism, '! a f.1 *, ■ ,..■- 124 Telugu Mission. Extracts from the 13th annual report: — "'It is with un- mingled joy that we welcome back to our midst at this conven- tion the second of our missionary families sent by the Baptists of these Provinces to labor among the Telugus — Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Laurin. Bro. McLaurin was designated at Woodstock at the convention of 1869. On the 12th of March 1874 he took pos- session of the Cocanada Mission in the name of your Society, and continued to labor there until the 14th of February last, when, with his family he set sail for Canada, arriving in Montreal on the 26th of May. It was during their return journey (February 22) that they lost their youngest child." *' The Rev. O. F. Currie commenced the Tuni Mission on the 26th January, 1878. * * A n»ission compound of 2^ acres have been secured and a substantial brick niisson house 54 feet by 22 feet with stone foundation has been erected upon it." " In a paper read by Dr. Murdock at the n)eeting of the Am- erica Mission Union last May, he stated that • at the close of 1877 Britisl^ India, including Burmah and Ceylon, contained 500,001) Christians, natives, with a nominal christian population of at least 1,000,000 more. And at the same ratio of increase which prevailed during the past 20 years, 50 years more would make that whole vast region as really Christian as Qpeat Britain is to- day.' No time for inaction this. Every Christian should be a hero." Financial Statement. CR. DK. Received from all sources $9145 £1 Balance due Treasurer. 113 09 $9528 SO / Balance duo Treasurer $ 242 53 Paid For. - isaiouaries 8502 50 Disbursements 454 27 $9258 30 The 3rd annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society, West, was held in the School room hall of the Jarvis St Church, Toronto, on Friday the 10th day of October 1879. The The Pirsident, Mrs. Freeland, delivered a very interesting open- ing addre^ib. l^reailicnf. Mbb. M. Fbeelakd. Mrs. J. H. Castle and Mbs. II. J* Bobe. Sftrctarn. Mus. H. H. Humphrey, Corresponding; Miss Mobbe, Beoording. iHTrcasuTtr. Mbb. Laimo. Scrap Book. 125 30 At the meeting a constitution was adopted. The following ladies bec".aie lif*^ members during the year : — Mrs C Haymond, Guelph ; Mrs. Cooper, London ; Mrs. S. Gill, Guelph ; Mrs. Oastle, Toronto ; Mrs. Donovan, Toronto ; Mrs. Porter, Brant- ford ; Mrs. Geo. Hill, Brantford ; Mrs. Grant, Paris ; and Mrs. Coutts, Guelph. Financial Statement. DB. Balance on hand , Beceived from all sources. ...$ 580 03 ... 1424 35 $2004 38 OR. Paid For. Mission purposes $1530 00 Disbursements 23 33 Balance on band 451 C5 $2004 38 The 8rd annual meeting of the Woman's Baptist Missionary Society east, was held in the parlor of the First Baptist Church, Montreal, on Friday October 20th, 1879. ]9ir0tticnt. MbS. J. G0B£0N, rtc(=)Pr(0ititnt0. Mbs, a. H. Munbo, and Mbs. Bently. Secretaries. MiBB MutB, CorreBponding ; Mbs. W. S. Pobtkous, Recording. STreaaurtr. MiSB Obe£n. Mrs. Gordon in the chair. A constitution adopted. The report says : — '♦ The reports from the Circles are encouraging, and the amounts received in almost every case are larger than last year. * * And now that we have succeeded beyond our expectation having $G00 towards the $1,000 promised for the chapel, and every prospect of easily rais- ing the other $400, shall we rest content and think we are doing all that can be expected of us ? Most certainly not ! We are but beginning to realize our power and ability to have some of the responsibility towards furnishing the means to evangelize the Telugus." Financial Statement. DR. Beceived from all sources $ 88 37 Balance on baud 97 44 9078 81 CR. Paid Foreign Mis. Society 9 815 00 Disbursements 20 00 Balance on bond 143 81 $978 81 1 "i 126 Telugd Mission. From the 6dth anual report of the American Baptist Union (1879) we learn that the Union have now 6 separate Stations among the Telugus and have baptized of them during the year 10,537 and expended $33, 721.57. The following are the num- ber of baptisms in connection with the three stations with which our Canadian Missionaries were formerly connected. Nellore. — Baptized, fifty-five ; membership, 344. Ongole. — Baptized, 9,6U9 ; membership, 12,804. Ramapatam — Baptized, 340 ; membership, 1,858. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water : and the eunuch snid, See. here is water ; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou belie vest wilh all t&ine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still : and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch ; and he bsiptized him. And when they were come up out of the water. Aces viii. 86-39. BcRAp Book 127 REV.'JOHNSMcLAUflIN, The (Rev.) John McLaurin was born in Osffoode, Carleton Co. Oatario, on the 9th of August (Dr. Judson's birthday) 1839. He was baptized on the 20th of March, 1854. Entered Wood- stock Institute, Nov. 5th, 1861, and took therein a full literary and theological course and graduated therefrom 2nd of April, 1868, and became pastor of the Stratford Church, January 1868, having been ordained 24th of July of the same year. Offered himself as a Missionary at a Board meeting of the Auxiliary Bap- tist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario, held in the Pond St. Baptist Chapel, Toronto, 1868, and was accepted in March fol- lowing. He was offered to and accepted by the American Bap- tist Missionary Union, designated in October 1869, and by the the Union sent to labour among the Telugus. Was married to Miss Mary Bates on the 12th October, 1869, and sailed for India from New York on the 22nd December of the same year. Reach- ed Madras 11th February, and Ramapatam on the 2nd March, 1870. 11 m I'l^ - ri 128 Feluoc Mission. r'^'f . J I g ^ ^^^^■|j|i h, !^K'^ 1 , 1^ HP^''' w If . --♦ - ■ ■•'.■vi fa^^^^ t' ri g K, UBS. McLAUBIN. • Mrs. Rev. John McLaurin (Mary Bates), the second daughter of the Rev. John Bates, was born in Banbridge, Ireland, on the 16th of November. 1846. Emigrated with the family and settled in Iowa, U. S., in 1850. She was educated at the Rockford Seminary, Illinois, U. S., and the Woodstock College, Ontario, was married to the Rev. John McLaurin on October 12, 1869, and very shortly afterwards started with her husband for India in order to share with him all the trials, hardships and anxieties of a missionary's life. She thoroughly mastered the Telugu language and vernacular, and used this knowledge to the best advantage ay. a Zenana worker and teacher, both in Cocanada and Samulcotta. Besides discharging the duties of a regular teacher in the Seminary, it often fell tober 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 Woodstock, Ontario, taking a much needed rest. Scrap Book. 129 1880. THE 14th ANNirXL MEETTG OF THE BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIOXAKY SOCIETY OK iffhter the tiled ford lario, 869, ndia eties lugu best nada ular |er,in sion. bock, ONTARIO AND OUl.BKC Was held in the Jaivis Stroot Toronto Baptist Church, on Friday, 22nd October, 1880. T. S. Sheiiston, President, in the chair. Addresses were delivered by Rev. ,J. U. Castle, 1). D., of Toronto ; Rev. J. E. Hooper, St. John, N. B. ; Re\ . John McLaurin, missionary ; Rev. J. L. Campbell, and Rev. A. M. Douglass, of New York. JjJrcsiDcnt. • . T. S. SiiENSTON, Esq. ' ; ■ Fict=}9rtsitifnl8. ' Wm. Cbaio and A. A. Ayer. ' ScerttariiB. ' • Rev. James Coutts. ■, ' . BEreaaurtt. * . T. Dixon Cuaig. January 1st, 1880. — The western portion of the Cocanada field was set apart for the new field of Akidu, and placed under the charge of Mr. and Mrs. Craig, who took up their abode there. January 2nd, 1880. — The 4th annual meeting of tlie Cana- dian Telugu Conference was held at Cocanada, India. Among those reported thereat were Mr. and jMrs. Timpany, Mr. and Mrs. Currie, and Mr. and Mrs, Craig. Statistics. — Cocanada, baptized, 119 ; members, 402. Tuni, baptized, 2 ; members, 8. March 20, 1880, Cocanada, Bro. Craig writes : •' I am sure the readers of the Link will be glad to hear that 163 have been baptized during the past three months on my field. Of these, all but six are on the southern half of the field, where we have now 290 church members. Of these 290, the greater number belong to the Gunnanipudi church. In Gunnanapudi it- self there are now 77 church members. It was in this village that the first of Thomas Gabriel's converts was baptized eight 130 Tkluou Mission. years ago this month. Our preacher, Peter, was one of them, and his brother Samuel, who is munsiff or head magistrate of a neighboring village, was also of the number. * * I noticed in the Baptist of February 6th, an appeal from Mrs. Humphrey in regard to the new boat. Shall I tell you how far we have to travel on the boat to reach the villages about which I have been writing ? From here to the river Godavery is over thirty-one miles, the river is four miles wide ; then from the other side to the place where we enter the lake is about forty miles, and from there to Gunnanapudi about fifteen miles. The total distance would be ninety miles, and that is the way we went in December last. After the water gets low in the lake, we go to Ellore, and travel from there by land. Ellore is about forty-five or forty-six miles from the other side of the river, so when we go that way the boat takes us eighty miles, and we have to go fourteen miles more by palanquin. We have kept the boat pretty busy since it was finished. Our sisters must not hesitate to invest in such a paying thing." »* I have told of God's doings during the past three months : the reader's faith must picture the near future." March 1880, Link. •' During the month of December, Mr. and Mrs. Timpany, with Mr. and Mrs. Oraig, made-their first tour in the new mission boat ; visiting many of the vil'ages of the Oocan- ada field. Mr. Craig writes : — "Friday, the 19th, was spent in Goonnanapoody. Many of the women came to see the ladies. They had never seen an Englishwoman before. On Saturday we all went to Comalamoody, where Peter's brother Samuel lives. He is munsiff or headman as government officer. In the evening Bro. Timpany and I visited Chintalapoody. Two young men from there have just professed their faith in Christ. They are the first from that village. On !Siniuay we had a meeting in Goonanapoody, the Christians and cai .didates all gathering there from the other villages. After a Ji >vt sermon by Bro Timpany the candidates were examined, arid most of them gave satisfac- tory evidence of faith in Christ. Then a church was organized and called the Goonanapoody Church. Three deacons and a clerk were chosen. Then the approved candidates were received, after which we all adjourned to the tank, where Bro. Timpany baptized fifty-two." Arrangements were also made for the re-organization of the church at Akidu, which, since Nathan Gabriel's defection in 1878, had been regarded as disbanded. Of the outlook here Mr. Oraig says : — " I expect to work among all the villages on ,^y Scrap Book. 181 m the the islands in Colair, after I get settled at Akidu. This is a promising field. I should not be surprised if we have a thousand members in connection with the Akidu station before five years are past, in fact it may be sooner." '* Besides the fifty-two Telugus at Goonanapoody, Mr. Tim- pany baptized several others during the tour." Mr. Timpany writes under date April 1st: — "I completed the chapel a few days ago. I waited until the rainy season was over to put on the final coat of plaster on the terraced roof out- side. I built a brick baptistry outside, between the chapel and the road I expect it will be used ere long. Pray for us. Ask your Circles and Board to pray for us. There are great things before us. The next quarter of a century — who can declare it 1 Heaven high will ring with the shouts of victory and the songs of the redeemed nations, who will then be in the high noon of His glory, where now they behold only the glowing of the hori- zon, as the Sun ox Righteousness comes up. 0, Jesus, King of Saints! Reign!" June 4th, 1880, Bro. Timpany writes from Cocanada : — *' As to our Mission here in Cocanada. I am fully persuaded that God will give us the people just as fast as we are able to take care of them and train them in the truth as it is in Jesus Last month I made a short trip away to the northwest of this two day's journey. After I passed Samulcotta, which is about seven miles from here where there are some Christians, all beyond is a heathen waste. My soul was pained and my heart made sad as I passed through and near to many large tov/ns and villages, and realized that no servants of the Living God were there. The people heard the gospel message in almost every case with intense interest. Idols are not believed in as formerly. All that is wanted now is the faithful preaching of the Word of God, and multitudes of the people will sooner or later believe." " Why is it that some of our ladies who are in independent circumstances do not come out on their own charges ? It has got to come to this. Already some from Great Britain are doing this. As I feel now, and have always felt about this work of Missions, had I a million pounds sterling I would still be a mis- sionary." " We long to be able to put all our time into this blessed work of preaching. Buildings, i a W' s by Scrap Book. 135 native ministry. Our success or failure as a mission in its largest sense, I am sai^isfied is bound up with this question and our solu- tion of it." " This new and promising field Akidu is under the care of our energetic young brother, Bev. John Craig, B. A. Regarding this important station your missionary reports as follows : * In presenting my second annual report, I am glad to have the privi- lege of telling about some active work in this great harvest tield. In December Bro. Timpany with his family, and Mrs. Craig and myself made a tour in the Colair region, and visited some of the principal villages." * * . " When we were out in December, we visited Akidu twice to see about securing land. Our efforts at that time did not avail us ihuch. * * Delays took place in securing land for a compound till Bro. Timpany and I visited the Zemindar, who owns the village, and obtained from him a gift of between four and five acres adjoining the bank of the canal. As this gift was secured only a few days before the end of June, there is no further progress to report." * "We planned to go out again January, but Bro Timpany got 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 own resources. I *vas out about five weeks and visited eighteen vil- lages, seeing the homes of nearly all our christians During this tour eighty were baptized. In March, I made a short tour, vis- iting o' 'y a few villages, but enjoying the privilege of baptizing twenty seven candidates. Sixty-eight of those baptized during the two tours were from villages that had given no converts Lriore December last. The closure of the canals for some six or seven 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 get settled at Akidu we hope to organize another there, taking in the Christians of the sur- rounding villages. Though this report is for the past year, the statistics below are for the past six months only, as this field was not separated from the Cocanada field before January 1st, 1880." Baptized, 327 ; membership, 481. M m r^ ^ 1 '19 136 Telugu Mission. Financial Statement. DE. Iteceived from all sources. .S8948 51 $8948 51 CR. Paid balance due Treasurer $ 113 09 Paid Missionaries 8765 30 Disbursements 38 77 Balance on hand ?1 35 $8948 61 The 4th annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Foreign Mis- sionary Society, West, was held in the Alexander St. Toronto Baptist Church, October 22nd 1880. llrrailient. Mbs. Fbeeland. irice=i|teBil)fnt8. Mrs. J. H* Castle and Mrs J. H. Bose. SemtartcB. Mrs. H. H. Huhphbby, Corresponding ; Miss Dbxteb, Beoordiug. CTuaBUttt. Miss Lloyd. Extracts from the 4th annual report . — Mr. Timpany writes : — " The Telugus are not going to give way to a superior people, for there are none superior to them in India or.the east ; and that as Christians, they will be a lovely and loveable people. All the repressive and inhuman teaching of their religion during all the time past, has failed to dry up the deep well of parental af- fection, even for the daughters of the house," and he adds, may we not hope, that by the time we have preached the Gospel as widely and persistently as has been done in the Southern part of the Telugu country, we shall witness like scenes on the Cocanada field,' when 2,222 were baptized in a single day, and 9,606 in the short space of 7 months." " And now, in conclusio:"", we would say, let none of us relax our efforts. The time is fast approaching for each of us, when the opportunity for service will have passed away forever. It may be that while we loiter in the work, precious souls, which we might have been instrumental in saving, are passing away un- prepared to stand before their God. May he give us all grace to be more faithful." Financial Statement. DB. Received from all sources $i535 95 Balance on band 461 OS $1087 00 CR. paid for For. Mission purposes. ..$1300 00 Disbu-semeuta 59 24 Balance on band 627 7g $1987 00 m m Scrap Book. 137 ' The 4th annual meeting or the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, east, was held in the Parlor of the First Bap- tist Church in the city of Montreal, Thursday, October 7th 1880. Mrs. O 0. Edwards occupied the chair ; Rev. John McLaurin addressed the meeting. )9rc0itt(nt. Mbb. Ayeb. Mrs. Munro and Mbb. Wiitham. Sccrttaiies. Mbs. Behtlt, Recordiofr; Miss Muib, CorrespondiDg. STrtasunr. MisB Green. The 4th annual report says : — *' The Education of the Telugu Women, the bringing of the gospel into the Zenanas is what we long for and pray to see accomplished. We want to help in this way." Financial Statement. ■i: > ■ 'II ■ the It lich un- je to DR. Total received $590 67 Balance ou hand 157 38 $ 747 95 OR. PaidForeign Mission $C20 Oo Disbursements 29 41 Balance on hand 98 54 $ 747 95 From the 66th annual report of the America Baptist Mission- ary Union (If 80) we learn the Union have now 7 separate sta- tions among the Telugus, and have baptized of them during the y»'ar 1,547, and expended $29,279.36. The following are the baptisms in connection with the three stations with which our Canadian Missionaries were connected : — Nellore — Baptized, fifty-four ; members, 366. Ongole. — Baptized, 465 ; members, 13,106. Ramapatam. — Baptized, 866; members, 1,853. 138 Telugtt Mission. This boat was purchased April, 1874, and cost with the re- pairs about $100, and was paid for by the Olivet Baptist ^Church Sunday School, Montreal City. It was named after a young lady of that school who had been most active in securing the money. In 1879 it was broken up and a part of it used in the building of the "Canadian." Error, only called "Canada "on page 118. le re- lurch oung the n the "on Scrap Book. 139 1881. THE 15th annual MEETING OF THE BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY 0» ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Was held in the Olivet Baptist Church, Montreal City, on Friday, the 28th day October, 1 88 1. The President, T. S. Shen- ston, Esq.. in the chair. Prayer by the Rev. A. H. Munro. Addresses were made by Rev. Wui. Stewart, D. D., Rev. W. N. Clark, D. D., Rev, John McLaurin, and the Rev. W. S. McKen- zie of Boston, U. S. ilrtBilient. . "■ T. S. Shension, Esq. Vitt-'JI^ttsititnti. f Wm. Cbaio and A. A. Ayer. £>cmtartes. Rev. Jameb Coutts. STreaaurtt. T. Dixon Craio. January 1 88 1 — The 5th annual meetinj? of the Cana- dian Baptist Telugu Conference was held at Binilipatam, India. Among those in attendace thereat were Mr. Timpany, Mr. Currie, and Mr. Craig, who re:)orted as follows : Cocanada, baptized 41, members 86 ; Tuni, baptized 3, members 10 ; Akidu, baptized 150, members 470. January 26th, 1881. — At a Board meeting held this day the Rev. W. Pickard offered to the Society $500, on the payment to him of the interest thereon during his life, which liberal offer the Board was most thankful to accept. In the Link for February, 1881, appears a letter from Mr. Craig which closes thus, in alluding to the contemplated 1 heo- ological School : — " Men sometimes get their true call while studying in such a school. I know that my call came to me while [ was studying at Rochester School. Apart from bein^ a call 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 as great a change in me as my conversion produced. So when our ^1 i ill 1. 1 140 Telugu Mission. Telugu Theological School is opened I expect vf3 shall receive many into it without looking for very high aspirations in them, but firmly believing that they will not leave the school without receiving a baptism from on high." Under date Feb'y 25th, 18«1, Bro Timpany writes : •« * ♦ Sabbath was nearly all taken up in village preaching in two large villages. About ten. Sabbath evening, we started for the village of Mirnapand, where we first broke ground last October. It was our intention to spend two days here and then conie home. Such a change as has come over this village during the past few months. All have turned to the living God. A good many were awaiting baptism. The caste village of Yalukatodu, a little less than a mile distant, gave Josiah and his party a better reception if possible than they had met in any other village. ♦ I hope some of them love Christ. Two or three of them told me last October that they believed in Jesus as their Saviour. I went into the christian village and looked about for a site to build 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 something was wrong. The message was brief : • Mrs. Craig is very sick, come at once.' We made immediate arrangements to do so. The people were very much disappointed. A party of women, some ten or twelve in number, followed along the canal for a mile talking. Some of them said, ' we hope to be baptized.' I told them that if all went well, in ten days I should come back and bring Mrs, Timpany. So we hope to do." "We reached Cocanada at two o'clock on Tuesday morning, and, thank God, found Mrs. Oraig a little better. The girls had rested themselves by changing their work, had a good time, and came back well pleased with what they had seen and heard. They were 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 better able to tell others about Christ. If our mission boat never did anything else than enable us to make this one trip, it would have been money well spent." Cocanada, March 29th, 1881, Bro. Timpany thus writes: — •• Were I a single missionary, I would receive from the Society only two-thirds ($800) of what I now receive ($1,200). The other third of my support, $400, is given because of the wife. Andwhile nominally Mrs. linipany gets no salary, really, through Scrap Book, 141 3, i )ugh me, she does get $400 a year, and she earns it. As a rule our wives do as much work along with the husband as any single woman would. Before the women at home began to work direct- ly in Foreign Missions, the wives of Missionaries were not able for lack of means, to do for their Christian women and for heath- en women what they are able to do now, and are doing ; neither were the Missionaries able to do for women what they are able to do now. Your Board this year gives $500 towards Mrs. Tirapany's and my support. To the question that some will ask, ' Does this go to enlighten the women of Heathendom ? I would answer 'Yes, every cent of it, and more.' But again it may be said, ' You and Mrs Timpany would have been supported if the women had not organized and had not contributed as they do now.' Yes, that is true— and it is just as true that our hands would have been ti* d and our work hampered without the help you have given, whereas now, we are able to make the most of our- selves. The $500 that you gave to the General Society enables me, and I might add, Mrs. Timpany also, to travel more, and evangelize more. The trip of three weeks, just closed, will well illustrate my point. Twenty-three were baptized. Some of them were females. Some of them will come to the girls' school, and others will send their girls to the village schools that we are establishing." " When Bowe of our sisters read my letter, and that I made a trip, and twenty-three persons were baptized, they will rejoice ; but it may be that it will not occur to them that fully one-half of the blessing represented by twenty-three added to ~ His people, comes under the head ' Work for * Light for our Heathen sisters ' You should '.\ Lord and the Women.' see how those mothers look when we tell them that we will take the girls and educate them They know what this means, for they all know about the ' Girls' Boarding School.' " From the same and about the same date : — " During all my time in Kamapatam only two Sudra people were baptized. It is a hard thing for these Hindoos to break caste. * Twice before this he had tried to carry out his purpose to become a Christian. * * He was knocked down in the street and car- ried like one dead to his father's yard. To which he replied ' you may kill me, but what you ask I will not do, or promise to do." They tried to get him to eat food, but this he would not do for fear that it was poisoned. He did not eat until he got food from friends. They kept him shut up for three weeks and guarded him. Thiuking him cured they relaxed their watchful- ness, he came away by steamer to Madras and was there baptized," itr, .J 142 Telugu Mission. March 18th, 1881, Board meeting held at No. 187 Yonge St. Tordnto. The Secretary was instructed to write to all the mis- sionaries to ascertaio their views with respect to the best place to locate the Theological Seminary in India. Under date, March 28th, 1881 Bro. Tinipuny writes :- "Yes- terday we had a most painful scene at a baptism . It is only two weeks since that two Sudras were baptized. * * The morning service was ail over and a large company was gathered around the baptistry to witness the baptism of Nareah one of our teach- ers. They had sang a hymn when we saw some one coming with a great cry. In a monient Nareah's wife burst like a mad one into the company and threw her arms around her husband He tried to break away, but she held him fast. A number of Christ- ian women crowded around and endeavored to break her grasp, but she threw them away like children and this most painful scene went on. At last I told them to sing a hymn. While this was being done the baptism of the other candidates began and I unlocked the woman's grasp, she sank to the ground rolled and beat herself with her hands. The husband was baptized and went to change his clothes. His wife was crying ' you shall not baptize 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 relations, 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 live as 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 cling to him. But as soon as a man becomes a professed Christian by baptism, his wife will be incited to leave him and disown him as if dead. Caste is a devilish system, and from what 1 saw of its workings yesterday I hate it, if possible more, than ever." The Link for May, 1881, gave to its readers the following sad news : — " Our beloved young brother, Rev. J. Craig, has, in the inscrutable providence of God, been called upon to part from the wife of his youth. On Thursday the 7th of April, his father, William Craig, Esq., of Port Hope, received a cablegram con- veying the sad intelligence that Mrs J. Craig, had died at Akidu on the Saturday preceding. No particulars have yet been receiv- ed. An infant daughter, born at Cocanada, was just six weeks old at that date." Scrap Book. 148 !i her of live lie, bap- soon will MBS. CBAIO. Mrs. Craig was the eldest daughter of Horace Perry, Esq., born at Port Hope, Ontario, February 13th, 1853. 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 ^ • *j e Rev. John Craig, on the 20th September, 1877. On the 24cr» of Octo- ber m the same year she and her husband sailed from New York for Telugu land, India, and arrived safe in India, January 1st 1878. After 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 Narapur, some 30 miles east of Akidu and close to the celebrated Godavery river. .11 4; I 'i;: 144 Teluou Mission. " The bereaved husband is, we know, fervently remembered at the Throne of Grace by thousands of symathizing friends whose hearts overflow with love and sorrow for him and his motherless little one, in this his hour of deep distress. May Qo(' the Holy Spirit — the Comforter — sustain and strengthen hit With the departed one, all is well. " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord." The following truly touching account we copy from the Link for June. 1881:— {Oathered from a letter to W. Craig, Esq., of Port Hope.) Mrs. Oraig remained at Cocanada about five weeks after the baby was born. She left there with her husband by boat on the evening of Friday, March 25th, for A.kidu. They rested on Sun- day, and reached their home on Monday, when she felt pretty well, v/ith the exception of a headache. On Tuesday, about half- past five, she complain<>d of a numb feeling in her forehead, but it passed away. On Wednesday morning, after her breakfast, she felt sick ; she ate a little curry at dinuer, but held the spoon with difficulty. She then took a little walk with her husband, but before tea wished to go to bed. That night she was feverish, and wished her husband to str ^, with her ; and on Thursday morning she wasyery ill, and he got the overseer's wife, a Eurasian, to stay with her, and sent a mes- senger to Mr. Bowden (one of George MuUer's missionaries at Mirsapore), asking him to send a doctor and come himself. He also sent for Mr. Timpany. During that night no one was with him but the Ayah and sweeper. On Friday rooming he had given up all hope, and had no one with him but the overseer's wife for part of the time, and Peter, the preacher. No one came till Saturday morning at nine o'clock, when the doctor, or dresser, arrived, and inmiediately after, Mr. and Mrs. Bowden. Efforts were made to relieve her, but without effect ; and she died on Saturday evening, about five o'clock. Mrs. Bowden performed the last sad offices for her, .and on Sunday afternoon a service in Telugu was conducted by Peter. As there is no cemetery at Akidu, the burial took place at Mirsapore, where there is a ceme- tery, walled in, near the river. This place is the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bowden. They left Akidu at three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and stopped for refreshments at half-past ten ; then went on, and at five a.m. on Monday they passed Palkole, where Mr. Mcarae, a missionary who resides there, mot them on the road with coffee and bread. Mr. Bowdeu's house was reach- ed at eight a. m., and after breakfast the funeral services were Scrap Book. 145 held. The servicou were conducted by Mr. Heelis, a missionary. At the house they were partly in English and partly in Telugu, and at the grave all in Tclugu. [In consequence of the canal being closed for repairs, and the palki the only mean-s of conveyance, Mr. Timpany could not get to Akidu in time to be of any service ; and when the tidings of Mrs. Craig's death reached Mrs. Timpany, at Cocanada, the burial had already taken place. — Ed.] At the monthly meeting of the Executive of the Foreign Mission Society, held on the 10th of May, the following resolu- tion was unanimously carried : — Moved by Rev. J. L. Campbell, seconded by Robert Lawson, Esq., and resolved — [hat whereas it has pleased Ood to remove by death our be- loved sister Craig, wife of our esteemed missionary, Rev. John Craig, B. A., of Akidu, — I'hirefore resolved, that we hereby put on record our high es- steem of her devotion to the ciuse of Foreign Missions — to which cause she cheerfully sacrificed the comforts of her native land, the blessings of a Christian country, the pleasant society of friends and relations, and finally her own life. And further, that we deeply sympathize with our beloved brother in this the time of his deep grief and sad bereavement, and pray that the mighty " God of Jacob " may give comfort and consolation in this the hour of trouble and sorrow. Resolved — That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Bro. Craig by our Secretary, and also to the Canadian Baptist and Missionary Link for publication." T. S. Shenston, James Coutts, President. Secretary. A letter from Bro. Craig, dated, Akidu, June 9th, 1881, just two months after the death of his wife : — '* Many deeply sympa- thetic letters have come to cheer me in my great sorrow. When Bro. Timpany was here with me for a few days I spoke to him about the telegram and said I was thankful that we had the privilege of speaking to our friends at home in that way. I also assured him that I should not be unbearably lonely after he was was gone, because I knew that thousands were praying for me at home. Christ's grace was sufficient for me, so that 1 remain- ed at my post to the wonder of both Christians and unbelievers. The Christians were mourning first over the loss of Mrs. Craig i Vn ;l 146 Teluqu Mission. Ill and then through fear that I would be compelled to leave my station. They were both surprised and encouraged when they heard that I intended to stay here as long as God saw fit to keep was great sor- me in health and strength. Peter told me there row among the women at Gunnanapuddy and the neighboring villages. They had all seen Mrs. Craig as lately as last Novem- ber, and some of them had talked with her." " There is no doubt but that this sad event has had a softening eficct on some of our people who had grown careless and lost their love to the Savioui to a great extent. Beside this, not only in Akidu, but for nianj miles around the people know about my loss and in a sort of a way many sympathize with me, I believe. If God will but bless this affliction to the good of hundreds and thousands we may well praise Him for His infinite wisdom." In the top drawer of a little bureau Mrs. Craig had with her in Cocanada I found three little books, and their titles are, "My Times in God's Hand" ; " The Imitation of Christ" ; and Miss Havergal'i work, " Kept for the Master s Use." How I wish that 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 exhor- tations in it are addressed more particularly to women. If I wanted a Mission Circle started in any church I think I would send a copy of this work to open the eyes and the hearts of the women there as my first step. The school at Cocanada has been closed for the annual vaca- tion. Two of the girls from this region came back married women. One of them, whose name is Shantamma, belongs to Chinnamilly, a village about six miles from here Her husband's name is Joseph. They will probably live at Chinnamilly, so that Shantamma may teach school there, while her husband will teach in another village, Gummuluru. The other bride, Mary, is a sister of the young preacher who is stationed here. Her husband's name is David. They will live at Asaram, a village twelve miles to the S. W. of 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 I ask that I myself be not forgotten " From the same about the same date : — " The early part of the past year was a time of darkness to me, my wife being ill at Co- canada for about six weeks in February and March. As the canals were to be closed soon it was thought best for us to return to Akidu at the end of March, especially as Mrs Craig seemed Scrap tSooK. 147 considerably better. A few days after our arrival at Akidu she was smitten down by apoplexy and died on Saturday the 2nd of April, at 5 p m. Mr. and Mrs. Bowden, of Narsapur, came to my help, and were with me when Mrs. Craig died. Afterwards they very kind y took charge of my little baby for a few months until Mr. and Mrs. Timpany, of Cocanada, gave her a permanent home in their family." Aboard the Mission Boat " Canadian," June 1st 1881, Bro. Timpany writes : — " One woman, a sister of one of the men about to 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 breast to live as best I may.' Of the four females baptized, one is a young woman who will go to the girls' 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 a channel close at hand, and then came back, reaching the boat at one o'clock, tired, hungry, and hot. These two converts ' ^ ap- parently very nice people ; the woman's face fairly glowed as she spoke of her conversion. Six months ago she went to visit her mother 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 for all to come.' All will not come at once, but they will come, a few or many, until all are Christians. Last October, the village of Nirnapand was visited by me, and the first converts there baptized. It is now a Christian village. The head men are all Christians. This is the first Christian village on the Cocanada field. Eight days since I baptized nine people there." From the same, September 5th, 1881. — "My dear brother McLaurin : Yesterday was our first monthly meeting. A good many were in from the fieVl, It was a full day for me with Telugu and English work. Josiah broke bread for the Telugu church at 4.30 p. m. We had a good time. A marriage was to come off to-day at 11 a. m. Jo^^iah was to officiate. Till 10.30 he was with me and the preachers, and some of the heads of the villages. I went to breakfast ; Josiah came to me and asked about the marriage. I told him to go on and I would come Qver. I did so. He had a fine selection of scripture pckcion^ m 148 Telugu Mission. which he read. After singing a hymn, he made some remarks, and then prayed. He then placed the parties and commenced to marry them. I noticed that he was mixing things considerably. He closed, however, and prayed again. After it he seemed to have lost himself. I tried to have him write up the entry in the marriage book, but seeing he could not do it, 1 did some and got Murramunda Peter to write the rest. When all was ready for Josiah's signature, I asked him to sign. He said : ' Are we not to talk more about the scriptures ! Are we not t .ay more ? * I said : ' All is over, we only want you to sign herb.' I put the pen 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 * Write Burder ; ' he wrote as he had written at first, I put the pen through his hand and wrote ' Burder.' I than came home and he started and walked 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. I thought 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 of them, saying Josiah was in convulsions. I ran over and saw him, and then knew what was the matter — apoplexy. I sent at once for the dresser, Dr. Paul, and myself attended to reducing the convulsions. Why should I write more? At ten o'clock p. m. Josiah died, or rather left for home. You should see his face — so 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 was dead. I can say as you did. It is now between, one and two o clock in the morning- I cannot sleep. Josiah las gone with- o'ut a pain ; really it is more like a translation than anything else. List evening he preached on death. This morning in the chapel, he spoke of the glories of heaven and the redeemed. Now, so soon, he has proved it all. My helper, faithful and true, his gone to his reward " September 13th, 1881. — The action of Bro. Timpany in secur- ino; suitable premises for the school at Sanmlcotta was approved of and he thanked. At the same meeting Bro. Mcf^aurin was appointed to take charge of the Theological School, and Bro. Timpany to take charge of the Cocanada field. From the same, September 27, 1881. — "The reader of the Link will have learned before this of the death of Rev. Josiah Burder, our only ordained native preacher. They will remember what Bro. McLaurin wrote about hiiu some time ago in the Link. Scrap Book. 149 he Josiah was the father-in-law of Auielia Keller, whom so many of you saw in Canada. The loss of this native minister is a severe blow to our missions, more so than I can tell. But it does no good to sit down and grieve. We have to gather up the things that remain and go on with our work. God fills the places of these He calls away, and continually adds to the number of His faithful ones in the earth. Last Sabbath we had a baptism.*' October 19, 1881. — "At a Board meeting at Hamilton held this day the Hon. Wm McMaster read a letter to the Board to the effect that he had donated to the Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec the interest of $15,000 of the stock in Standard Publii^'iing Company. For this a suitable acknowledge- ment was made at a subsequent meeting of the Board." The 15th annual report alludes feelingly to Mrs. Craig's death That Bro. McLaurin was appointed to take charge of the Theological Seminary and Bro. Tinipany the Cocanada field. The Missionaries had done during the year considerable touring. The long cherished desire of Mr. Currie had been gratified by the appointment of a Bible woman in the person of Hannamah. Extracts from report : — " Bro. Craig says : "I was compelled to be absent from Akidu during six weeks in February and March My return with Mrs. Craig at the end of March proved more unfortunate than my absence. Humanly speaking we may say that had it not been for the pressure of this building work, my wife and I would have remained in Cocanada for a few weeks longer, and after events might have been very different from what they were. But it is not in man that walketli to direct his steps ! In all things I desire God's guidance and I believe he led me." " Last year Bro. Timpany in his report referred to the fact that the great want of India was * an earnest, devoted, divinely-called ministry,' and urged the necessity of a school for the training of such. Today we have the satisfaction of reporting premises secured, and all necessary arrangements made for the prosecution of this as soon as Jji'o. McLaurin returns to India. What possibilities are before us ! Under God's blessing what magnitude this work may assume during the next fifty years." Cocanada. — Baptized, forty-two ; members, 111. Tuni. — Baptized, five ; members, e even. Akidu. — eighty-one ; members, 516. About this time we think that it was that Bro. Craig made an appeal through the Baptist for a few hundred dollars for the purchase of Telugu New Testaments to circulate among the I ill }> i 190 Teluot; Mission. natives who could read. In answer to this appeal $400 was im- mediately sent him, one party giving $250, and another $150. Financial Statement. CR. Balance on band $ 31 35 Received from all sources 7687 63 $7718 88 DR. paid for For. Mission purposes. ..$7068 00 Disbursements 660 88 Balance on hand lOO 00 $7718 88 The 5th annual meeting of the Women's Baptist foreign Mis- sionary Society was held (date or place of meeting could not learn) supposed date October 1881. JPteailient. , . Mas. M. Fbiselano. , Mas. J. H. Castle and Mbb. H. J. Boas. ^ Mas. H. H. HUMPHBBT, Corresponding; Miss E. Dexteb , Beoording. QTrrasurrr. MiSB Lloyd. The following new life members reported : — Mrs. Ashley, Woodstock ; Mrs. Tuttle of Brantford, Mrs. Grant of London, Mrs. B. J. Timpany, Oalton ; Miss Dyke, Miss Smith and Misa Lloyd of Toronto. The report says : — " The ladies who conduct the Link in such an efficient manner deserve the hearty thanks of the Society. * * We were all saddened when, in the early part of the year, the news reached us that the wifeof one of our Missionaries had been called to her eternal home. Mrs. John Craig, a lady very much beloved by all who had the pleasure of knowing her, died on the 2nd of April last. Truly the Lord's ways are not our ways.' Financial Statement. DR. Balance on hand Received from all aouroes. .$ 1626 10 CR. Paid For. Mission purposes $ 000 00 Disbursements 23 OC Balance on hand 1324 70 $2248 ?a ■i;t Scrap Book 161 The Sth annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Forefj^ ]^9> j sionary Society, East, was held in the Ist Ohurch, Montreal Citf , < on the 27th October. 1881. , ' » .' Mbs. Aybb. ■, „, ! Mas. D. K. McLaubbn. AfcrtlarifB. ••' / ' Mas. Bejitlt, Recording; Miss Muib. Corresponding. QTrtasurer. Mbs. Fbank Smith. The report says : — "Besides the help which our Society has been able to give to the funds of the Telugu Mission, our Circles have been the means of developing the latent powers and abili- ties of a large number of the ladies of our churches." Financial Statement. DR. Balance on hand $ 98 54 Received from all sources 826 30 $923 84 CR. Paid Foreign Mis. Society $ 500 00 Disbursements 13 Balance on hand 417 71 $933 84 From the 67th annual report of the American Baptist Union (1881) we learn that the Union have now 7 separate stations among the Telugus and have baptized of them during the year 3,029 and expended $43,431.32. The following are the numljer of baptisms in connection with the three stations with which our Canadian Missionaries were formerly connected. Nellore. — Baptized, fifty ; membership, 414. Ongole. — Baptized, 2,757 ; membership, 15,692. Bamapatam. — Baptized, 145 : membership, 515. i| ^'il t 152 Teluou Mission. Scrap Book. 153 •4 ■4 tu O o M CO CO Q o THE COCANADA MISSION CHAPEL. " The chapel inside is 60 feet long by 22 feet wide, and is 17 feet from floor to ceiling. The verandah is 9 feet wide. It is seen that a part of the verandah is taken in by a wall. This is a room for stores connected with the school work, etc. There is another room like it on the opposite corner. The wall which you see, past the corner of the chapel, is the southern wall of the compound. Along here runs the great road by which the great- er portion of the foot and passenger traffic of Cocanada passes. To the left of the picture, in the shadow of the trees, is the Bap- tistry. The foundations are deep and wide. Of lime there was used 3,375 bushels, and nearly twice that of sand. The wood- v/ork not counting in the shingles of the verandah, took 1 1 tons of teak (50 cubic feet to a ton). A good many may be interested in these few items, hence I mention them. Almost north, about 16 rods, and facing the group of school- girls, is the Mission House. North-west about as far are the girl's quarters. Fronting the Chapel, at an angle to it, and about two rods distant, is the road running through the Compound up to the Mission House. We have many times during the year seen the Chapel very well filled with hearers." SAMULCOTTA SEMINARY BUILDING. This building, from end to end including verandahs, is ninety- five feet long. It is forty-five feet wide, including verandahs. It is divided into two main portions, the school division to the right, and the dwelling house to the left. That dark space Vieyond the steps, on which the boys are sitting at the right, is the door of India Philips, the Christian teacher's class room. Just to the left of that and hidden by the projecting octagonal room, are two doors leading into my study and class-room. In this room we have our school prayers and all night meetings. It is 25x20 feet. Immediately to the left of this, the door of which can be seen black through the octagonal room, is our dining-room. The octagonal room in front was built last season. In it we hold our Sunday morning preaching. The room below is our living-room. The leafy covering in front, supported by slender poles, is called a pandal, is about twelve feet wide, and is used for keeping away the sun and intolerable glare of the hot season. The tree in front is an ordinary country one, and the foliage on the pandal is a Rangoon creeper which has made its way up there. The roof is tiled. The white stripes are made of mortar and serve to keep the tiles in place. The house faces east, and the view is taken from the north-east. i ■I'i 'Uf. M T-:^ Scrap Book. 155 m 3 < H EH O U CO . 1882. THE 16th annual MEETING Of THB BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OP ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Was held in the James St, Baptist Church, Hamilton, on Thursday the 19th day of October, 1882. T. S. Shenston, the President, ia the chair. Addresses were delivered by Rev. D. Hutchinson, of St. Thomas, Rev. W. W. Dawley, of Guelph, Rev. Mr. Douglass, a returned Telugu Missionary and Rev. Dr. B. D. Thomas, of Toronto. iPKBiDent. T. S. Shenston. Fice=^«silJtnts. , ' . Wm. Craig and A, A. Atgb. xTcretatD. Eev. James Coutts. ffrrnautcr. ' . T. Dixon Craig. January, 1882, the 6th annual meeting of the Canadian Telugu Conference was held in Akidu Among those reported present were Mr. A. V. Timpany, Mr. G. F. Currie, and Mr. John Craig, who reported as follows : — Cocanada. — Baptized, fifty-six ; members, 140. Tuni. — Baptized, six ; members, eighteen. Akidu — Baptized, 158 ; members, 640. In January, 1882, five churches were organized into the God- avari Association. Since then it has met at Akidu, Cocanada, Gunnanapudi, Samulcotta and a second time at Akidu. June 4th, 1882, the Akidu chapel wasdedicated. At a Board meeting held March 14th, 1882, a communication was received from the Women's Foreign Missionary Society re- commending Miss M. J. Frith as a most suitable sister for Zen- an»N work in India, with respect to which the following resolution was passed "That in accordance with the wish and resolutions of the Women's Missionary Societies, West and East, we do now appoint Miss Frith a Missionary of this Board to the work indi- :| 156 Teluou Mission. cated in her own application and the resolution of the Ladies Boards." Miss Frith sailed from New York 2nd September, 1882, for India. February 22nd, 1882, Mr. Oraig writes from India : — •' Some months ago I announced my intention of giving a copy of the New Testament to every one who would learn by heart and recite the Sermon on the Mount. You will be glad to hear that a large number of Testaments are likely to be won in this way, and that most of them will go to scholars in our village schools. I have already given thirty-four books, and others ha.ve been won. The Gospel of Matthew is being used as a reading book in many of the schools. The pupils all learn to sing a few nice hymns. Per- haps I should add that many of the scholars are children of heathen people, " The pupils are very youna; as a rule, but there are a few young men among them. I was particularyly pleased a few days ago, when I visited Tarakaturu, one of our villages, to find three or four young men learning to read. These are all christian young men, hence they may become teachers in their own and other villages. By their zeal they show that they have good stuff in them." March 23, 1882, Mr. Timpany writes:—" JLetters and news papers do not live, breathe, laugh, cry, sing or pray. The com- ing of new missionaries is like pouring warm water into the bath which has been getting too cold for health or comfort. It is like a religious and social tonic. Next to going home our- selves, let us see someone from home. Then what interest gathers about the unpacking of boxes. Our pleasure is not all like that which comes from viewing the beautiful flowers, etc., of a neighbor's garden." In Link of March, 1882, Mr. Currie writes : — " In this field the present year has been the most satisfactory, as to results, of any since the station was opened. The number baptized has not been large, but enough to afford us considerable encouragement. A beginning has been made in several villages ; and now that the ice is brokea, we hope for a more rapid increase in future years. We have had some trying experiences arising from the miscon- duct and necessary exclusion of some of our native assistant:^. But their places are now filled by others, who are doing more faithful and efficient work. Our present outlook is hopeful, though we mty not have very large ingatherings for years to come " Scrap Book. 157 field of In the same Link Mr. Craij? writes : — •' Altogether there were 101 persons baptized on my field while I was out in November and part of December. It is a grand work." '."""."Tty, In tho same Link Mr. Timpany writes : — " I think we are quite as strong again in this Oocanada mission as we were a year ago. The same I believe is true of Turn and Akidu. Some more of the girls have been received for baptism, and, all being well, will be baptized in two weeks. We are baptizing very often now in Oocanadi. Among those recently baptized are Baby Oraig's nurse and her husband, the mission peon (?). Ap- pana and the cook, who have been in the employ of the Mc- Laurins and ourselves some eight years. Just a few minutes ago one of our fchool girls, the Colporteur's daughter, Lydia, a girl about eight years old not more, she may be only seven, came to me and got a present of a new Telugu Testament. She had just recited, word for word, from the beginning to the end, the .26th chapter of Matthew. On Sabbath ten of the girls took books the same way. A number have since done the same." From Akidu, May 10, Bro. Criag writes : — '• The third night we moved to Peyyairu, where fifty-three were baptized in November, 1881. 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 at the end of a year there was one Christian left among the fifty-three baptized He said they would all be drinking and gambling again before a year was past. The preach- er went to him on the occasion of our visit last month, and re- minded him of his promise, but he only smiled. The Mala ham- let there has become a Christian hamlet." * * « I visited about sixteen other villages and returned to Akidu on the 19th April, at 11 p.m. Two OP three weeks ago my students came from Samuhotta for the vacation, and are now at work upon various parts of the field. Last Sunday we had a good many people at our monthly meeting. Eight were received for baptism, and on Monday mor- ning I baptized them in a tank a short distance from the Mission compound. Peter and I have baptized one hundred and ten since the beginning of this year. I trust we may have the priv- ilege of baptizing many more before the end of June." In May Link Bro. McLaurin writes : — ' ' But, like most things in this country, though slowly the end will come. The house will be finished, the students will come, and the schools begin. Things move so slowly that we are often impatient So many mistakes are made by the builder — so many things are m m 158 Teluott Mission. done at the wrong time and must be done over again — no fore- sight and no plan — all haphazard and guess work. The Mission- ary must be carpenter, mason, blacksmith, and architect all in one — else there will be much loss. Still, maybe the work is as good as the pay. My head carpenter gets $5.00 a month ; the head mason $4.86 ; and the head boss of all gets about $4.00. Masons and carpenters get 15c. per day each ; while able bodied Coolies (men), get 7^c. while women and boys get just the half of the latter. Are you amazed that they can exist on that 1 Let us see — a hardworking man eats one seer of rice a day, it costs two cents. Add one cent for some kind of relish, and you have three cents for one man's food per day. Suppose a family to consist of five persons, father, mother, and three children, two boys and a youns;er sister, between the ages of twelve and six years respectively. The father will earn 7i cents, and the mother and son the same, while the second son may get one cent per day running errands, etc, Their total income will be sixteen cents per day if they have work all the time, which is seldom the case, or if they are inclined to work steadily, which is more sel- dom 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 have for food eleven cents, put down 1| cents for tobacco and cuUu (whis- key) for the family, and we have a total of 12^ cents for food, etc. This would leave 3| cents for clothing and house repairs, which would be ample, especially as the two younger ones would wear no clothing, and the elder next to nothing. This estimate refers to the common Coolie, and, of course, the higher class fare better in proportion to their better pay. The poor Hindoo, like the Digger Indian of the West, fares sumptuously while food is to be had, and draws up his waist'belt and lies down to sleep when food is scarce and dear. They have wonderful powers of adaptation." From Cocanada under date August 13th, 1882, Br writes : — ** ^hen the claims of the perishing mult, heathen are presented, and the last great order c urged ; you say and think it settles the question, " Oii much to do at home, charity you know begins at home, you un each one to her own house, and the women of heathendom may go on in their misery, for aught you will do. You then wonder that your children and neighbors do not have more faith in your sincerity and in the religion you profess. One Sabbath when I was home I preached in a certain wealthy church and presented as ir any )t the jur Lord « hav<^ ,0 Scrap Book. 15D any t the Lord av> o u un your T was bed as well as I could the claims of the heathen. A collection was taken up at the close of the service by the deacons, one of whom, a wealthy man, put in one cent. I will never forget the shock it ff&ve me when the pastor's daughter mentioned it after we got to the parsonage. How much good do you think that man's prayers or exhortation would do any of the young people of that place ? We must deny ourselves and take up our cross if we would fol- low Jesus and be His Disciples. I would not have you do less work at home, a great deal more ought to be done. But while you do the work at home see to it that the conmiand to send or take the gospel to the ends of the earth is not neglected and make sacri- fices to carry out this command. Doing this your own homes will be made glad by the presence and blessing of the Saviour who came to seek and save the lost." Parting words from Miss Frith : — •* My dear sisters, the time has arrived for me to say farewell 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 may give the light to those of our sex who still sit in the darkness of heathenism. My long-cherished desire that I might go with God's message of love to the perishing suuls of India, has been granted, so that now, instead of mourning, I have come to rejoice that God has caiiv d 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 left behind, of home and of country, that the promise Jesus made, * Lo, I am with you alway,' will be abundantly fulfilled. I ex- pect to have trials and discouragements there as I have experi- enced in Home Mission work, only of a different character ; but God's grace. He has promised, will be sufficient. I know you will remember me in prayer, that I may be as marvellously help- ed by our blessed Lord to acquire the language, to endure the heat, and to accomplish the work you are sending n»e to do, as I have been in everything since 1 placed myself in the hands of the Board last autumn. 1 have needed nothing but what has been provided ; ray purse has been like the widow's barrel of meal and cruise of oil." Morrisburg, August 16th, 1882. En Route — A postal card from Miss Frith, dated September 15, says: "We left New York on the 2nd inst., arrived in Glasgow on the 13th, and came to Liverpool yesterday. We had a very pleasant and prosperous voyage across the Atlantic, as many of you had asked of our heavenly Father. Messrs. Ryle ■ n^ i^' 1 i i' 160 Teluou MiSSlOK. and Chute, missionaries going to the Telugus, have made arrange- ments for us to sail from London to Madras on the 4th of Oc- tober." — ^J. J. Frith, in Link for October. October 2nd, 1882. — The Theological Seminary at Samulcottf. was opened with 1 7 male and two female students. From Cocanada, under date of November 30, 1882, Miss Frith writes: — "We left London October 4th, and arrived at Madras November 9th, our voyage covering a little more than five weeks. I spent a day and a night with Mr. and Mrs. Waterbui'v, American missionaries at Madras, in company with the other missionaries who left the Elhouado when I did. We met Dr. and Mrs. Jewett and Miss Menkie, a Zenana Missionary. On Friday, the 10th, [ had my luggage transferred, to the Assyria from the Eldchao, and again was away for two or three more days' sailing on the Bay of Bengal. Saturday we had a heavy fog and siorm, and almost at the end of ray journey, I was obliged to succumb to a little fit of seasickness, which was very humbling after having been such a good sailor. The vessel was due at Cocanada on Sunday morning, but we were detained a day by the storm, so instead of spending the Lord's day in Cocanada. * * Cocanada, although not quite so pretty, is very nice, and I am contented and happy here, surrounded with many kind friends. Sometimes I am tempted to ask myself, is it all a dream ? No, it is the realization of one long dream of years, made up of hopes and fears, broken now and then with fits of indifference. Yes, I am here, my sisters, ready, when the lan- guage is acquired, to begin the work we together have under- taken for the Lord. My Munshi comes every morning and gives me a lesson. Although I have not yet had much experience I think 1 shall enjoy the study of the language." *' I long for the time to come when I shall be able to talk a little to the girls who so frequently come in to see me; and I believe there are plenty of homes I might visit at once if I were ready. But let us work work and wait u.^til the Master says • Go,' after having been fully prepared to present the glorious light to our heathen sisters sitting in darkness." Extracts from repcrt : — " Bro. Craig reports the completion of the Mission House, the total cost being $2,900 ; also the erection of a chapel at a cost of $300. * * Building has been found very expensive in Akidu, as bricks, lime and sand had to be carried a distance of forty mles, involving an outlay of $500 to boatmen alone. * ''• Mush inconvenience has been felt at times by having only one mission boat for the Cocanada and Scrap Book. 161 Akidu fields. Bro. Craig writps, * I have much pleasure in tel- ling you that a boat for Akidu has been built at Cocanada. The new boat is about the same size as the Canadian, and will look very much like it. Its cost was $700 and is named after our President, T. S. Shenston.' " "Your Board," the report goes on to say, "does not know who furnished the money for building the mission boat T. S. Shenston, but is satisfied that it is one whose alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God " The writer desires to state that he furnished no part of the funds to build the boat, nor did he know who did till a few days since. A more much appropriate name would have been " Cbaig." Report continued : — " Bro. McLaurin under date of July 1st writes : We arrived at Cocanada on the 17th of March. The following day Bros. Timpany, Craig and myself, visited Samul- cotta and saw the house. I must confess I was diappointed, not with the situation — that is good — neither with Samulcotta— that is all right ; but with the house and the state of dilapidation in which are found it." The report closes thus ; "In reviewing the result of the year's labor, your Board s es much for which to thank the God of Missions, and much reason for encouragement as to future ef- forts. Never in the history of Missions hus the finger of (Jod more clearly pointed out to the seventy the duty of going forward. Never before had our Foreign Mission so deep a hold on the Bap- tists of Canada as at this hour." Financial Statement. DR. Balance on hand $ 10() 00 Received from all sources lOSOO 75 Balance due Treasurer k9H 41 $ii,()'jr) 1(1 CR. paid Missionaries $10D85 00 Disbursements 710 16 $11095 16 ^■■|i The 6th annual meeting of the Womens Baptist Foreign Mis- sionary Society, West, was held (?) on the 13th of October, 1882. yicsiticnt. Mrs. Fueeland. ritc-U]rtBillfiitg. Mb8. ,T. H. Castli: and Miia H/J, Ko3E. $rfrctnrits. Mrs. J. E Wells, Corresponding ; Miss Dexter, Recording. JTrtasurcr. Miss Lloyd. 162 Ielugu Mission. The seven following new Circles are reported for the year : — St. George, Hamilton, St Thomas, Ailsa Craig, Beverly St. Church, Toronto, Delhi and Belfoun'ain. Extract from the 6th annual repoit : — ' We all felt that we must send a Zenana worker to India. At the January meeting the application of Miss Frith, of Montreal, was considered and your Board 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 is now an accom plished fact ; we have now a lady Missionary o.ppointed to work among the Zenanas." Financial Statement. Balance ou hand . Total received . . DR. . $1324 70 . 2223 92 $3548 62 CR. Paid Foreign Mission $2087 21 Disbursements 44 39 Balance on hand 1417 02 $3548 02 The 6th annual meeting of the Womens Paptist Foreign Mis sionary Society, East, was held in the Olivet Baptist Church in the City of Montreal on the 12th day of October, 1S82. JPrcBiBtnt. Mas. !}labk. Mna. Patne, and Mbs. D. K. McLaren, Stcretarite. • Mbb. Bently, Becording; Mias Muib, Corresponding. 3rrea8ur;r. Mrs. Frank Smith, 3 new Circles (Cumberland, Beebe, and Koxboro) reported during the year, making the total number 22, and have 35 life luenibers. The report closes thus : — "Looking back upon the year just closed, we must all realize that the work in which we are engaged claims our earnest and most zealous efforts. In sending outoursister Miss Frith, we have added another link to the chain which binds our hearts to the noble band of Missionaries in our Canadian Tel- ugu Mission; and let us hope that in the coming year, while they are laboring in far-off India, amid so many discouragements, it may be said of the Canadian women of Canada ' They liave done what they could.'" ScKAP Book. 165 1883. THE 17th annual MEETIG OP THE BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY ONTARIO AND QUEBFX Was held in the Talbot Street Church, London, Thursday, October 18th, 1883. Chas. P. iiaymond, Esq., in the chair. Addresses were delivered by Rev. J. L, Campbell, of Chelten- ham, Rev. Dr. B. D. Thomas of Toronto ; Rev. Dr. W. N. Clark of Toronto and Rev. J. W. A. Stewart of Hamilton. i^Tcailitnt. Cn.\8. IUymond. Wm. Cbaio and A. A. Ayer. Stcrtlatp. Bev. J. W. A. Stxwabt, B.A. QTtraBUTtT. , T. S. Shension, Esq. At a Board meeting held this day Treasurer Rev. E. W. Dad- son and Secretary Rev. J. L Campbell resigned their respective offices and T. S. Shenston, Esq., was appointed to fill the former and Rev. J. W. A. Stewart, the latter. The 7th annual meeting of the Canadian Telugu Conference was held at Bobbili, India, on the 1 3th day of January, 1 888. Among those reported present were Rev. John McLaurin, Rev. John Craig, Mrs. A. V. Tinipany, and Miss Frith. Statistics : • Cocanada. — Baptized, forty three ; members, 167. Tuni.— Baptized, seventeen; members, 35. Akidu. — Baptized. 220 ; members, 820. January, 1888. — Five of the Telugu churches were organized into an Association — 2 from Chicacole, 2 from Bimlipatam, and 1 from Bobbili. Under date, India, January, 9th, 1883 Mr. Craig writes with respect to the Calcutta Conference : — ' I am sure that all lovers of the Lord will rejoice to hear that there seemed to be a spirit 166 Telugu Mission. of true consecration in all that was said and done. There seem- ed to be a general feeling that we needed more of the Spirit's power in our work, and hence earnest prayers went up for this blessing.' * * " Mrs. Tucker, wife of Major Tucker, of the Salvation Army, was one of the speakers. Her remarks contain- ed much good sense, I thought. I heard her on Sunday, the 31st 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 was not pleasant to be ridiculed, but what she had done, she had done because she felt the Lord called her to do it for the sake of His work. She spoke very strongly on the subject of women preaching in public, and cited the history of Deborah and others in proof of what God can do through weak women." On board the Mission boat " T. S. Shenston," under date February 27th, Bro. Craig writes : — ' In the evening I visited the village, which is two or three miles from the canal As I went on foot, I had plenty of exercise before I arrived at the boat a»ain, about 10 o'clock. I preached in the moonlight to quite a crowd of Malas. On Thursday morning I visited another village nearer the canal ; I had never visited it before. I preached first in the Malapilly and then in the Shudra village. Returning to the boat I baptized three men from Ardhavaram. In the even- inw we visited two villages further south, one on the west side of , the canal and the other on the east side, but both far enough away 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 can- al. I forgot to say that four women were baptized in the canal at Linganipadu on Saturday before I attended to the police business." '* The work is full of promise in every department. Peter has baptized sixty two and I have baptized ten since the new year began, making a total of seventy-two." From Cocanada, under date, April 20th, 18S3, Bro. Timpany writes ; — "To me the work seems glorious, not only in what is done, but particularly in what we know is coming. The stone cut out of the mountain without hands, is filling the whole earth. It is tilling India, and the Telugu country will not be passed over. Never, at any time of my life, was life dearer to me for my work's sake than now, for the harvest time is come. Satan and all wick- ed angels and men cannot keep back the car of salvation." * * fj&,im / Scrap Book. 16^ lalf- * Hold the ropes ! We are getting hold of the jewels in the mine ! ! '" "I have very little anxiety about the women's part of the work : you have organization But I am anxious, very anxious, about the general society. We cannot hold up here now, it would be ruin. After some years, when the work in some places has be- come self sustaining, it would not be so bad. But for the present the war supplies must come from home. May God open the hearts of our people at home to supply our wants. We are only playing at Missions yet — only think, S0,000 Baptists give $10, 000 : 83| cts each for spreading the gospel among the heathen ! Oh, it makes my soul sad when I think of it. How very few there are who know why Christ their Saviour keeps them in the world, — still, the dawn of a better day comes on apace." From Samulcotta, under date. May 2nd 1883, Bro. McLaurin writes : — " Friday, the 20th April, Mrs. McLaurin and I went down to Cocanada to the opening of the home boxes. It was the first week of our vacation, and our minds were at ease, so we en- joyed the occasion thoroughly. I need not particularize. Many old, trusted and loved names appeared. They recalled many scenes, both pleasing and sad." From Akidu, under date May 10, 1883, Bro. Craig writes: " Last year I sent an account of my April tour ; then I visited the villages north of Akidu. This year I visited the villages to the south-west. I travelled with my tent The first night we stopped at a village six miles west of Akidu, and on the edge of Colair Lake. A great many heard the truth ; I counted about twenty five women among those who were listening at one time. Wo have only two or three members there, but many more must come out soon The second night we were at a village about eight miles further south. The third night v- ^ moved on to Peyyairu, where fifty-three were baptized in November, 1881. On that occasion lie village headman, wlio is a Shudra, told one of my preachers he would give him quite a quantity of rice, if at the end of a year there was one christian left among the fifty- three baptized. He said they would all be drinking and gamb- ling again before a year was past. The preacher went to him on the occasion of our visit last month, and reminded him of his promise, but he onlj' smiled, The Mala hamlet here has become a Christian hamlet." *' I visited about aixtenteen other villages and returned to -Cii Akidu on the 19th April, at 11 p. m." 168 Telugu Mission. " Twc or three weeks ago ray students came from Samulcotta for the vacation, and are now at work upon various parts of the field. Last Sunday we had a good many people at our monthly meeting. Eight were received for baptism, and on Monday morning I baptized them in a tank a short distance from the mission compound. Peter and I have baptized one hundred and ten since the beginning of this year. I trust we may have the privilege of baptizing many more before the end of June." In "Mission Boat," under date October 11, 1833, Bro. Craig writes with respect to the " Memobial House, Akidu."— " In my report to the Board I gave some particulars about the new house at Akidu for a girl's boarding school. The building was finished in July, but a suitable time for dedication services was not 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 I preached to the christians assembled, taking us my subject the last chapter of Proverbs. I spoke of her to whose memory the house had been eroDted, reminding the women and girls present of the example she had set them by her brief but consecrated life in India. In regard to the house. I said we had met to thank God for it and ask His blessing on it, that very many many girls might 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, they might go back to their various villages to train the children they might find there ; that so the inflence of this Memorial House might be felt for years in numbers of villages on 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 a feast to which about seventy sat down. It was the feast of dedi- cation, so it was partaken of in the new house. Cooking the food furnished as much pleasure as eating it. After the meal was over we sung a number of hymns and the people dispersed." November 2, 1883, Mr. Timpany writes : — *' We travelled the most of two nights to reach the place. The second night a wide treacherous river took us two hours to cross. It was half-past four Sabbath morning before I got the tent pitched and,' tired out, threw myself on my cot for an hour. On Monday evening, 29th October, I baptized just at dark in Lingampurty, eighteen men and women. I have never had anything like this on my I Oocanada'jfield before. The head man of the village of of nearly two hundred houses, his wife, son, daughter and sister Pci:ap Hook. 167 t ' ' ': were among the number. There were others to come and they wanted me to stay another day. I could not do so, and the same night we turned homeward." At a meeting of the Board November 12th 1883, at the Stan- dard Publishing House, Toronto, was read a letter from Bro. Currie, in which on account of the health of himself and family he asked permission to visit Canada, January 1st, 1884. January 14th, 1884, at a Board meeting a letter was read from Missionary Currie in which he stated that inasmuch as it is deemed necessary for Missionary Craig to return home this year he deemed it best that he and his family siiould postpone their le- turn for another year. This It-tter bridged over a great difficulty in which the Board found themselves placed and the Secretary wag instructed to express to Bro. Currie the feelings of the Board with respect to his generous offer. Extracts from report : — Samulcotta Theological Seminary. — Regarding the work, aim, and success of this School of the Proph- ets, the esteemed and devoted Principal, Bro. '..cLaurin, sends the following cheering report ; — " We have much pleasure in submitting this, our first report of the Samulcotta Theological Seminary, to the prayerful atten- tion of the Board. 1 need say nothing to you about the import- ance of this school to our Mission, and the necessity of maintain* ing it in a state of efficiency. To this I believe you to be fully alive. Our object. — Our first great object is to train men, who have given evidence of a call of God to preach the Gospel, to be more efficient in their work. * * The whole expense of food and clothing, for a single student, for the school terms, is about $17. * * Our students are required to be n>embers of the Churches, to be at least 14 year.'' of age, and persons with a desire to be useful. Men and boys are not allowed to wear any jewelry. Women are not allowed nose jewels or toe rings. Both men and women are required to wear the national dress. Neither drink- ing nor smoking is permitted Wo also require one hour of man- ual labor during the day. This they have done during the past year with alacrity. * * Though the Missionary's wife is not reckoned a Missionary, yet her work is often, in many respects, no less important than his. Mrs. McLaurin teaches five English classes. This is volun- tary work on tke part of teacher and taught, being aside from our regular course of studies." •urn ,t:;';i mi 168 Teluou Mission. Cocanada Station — Of the work and prospects on this im- portant field, our brother Timpanythus writes: — "It is cause for profound gratitude to God that all the mission band who were-herea year ago are, after another year, alive and in usual health * * There are now on the Cocanada field nearly 200 church members, scattered in places far apart. In one direction I must go by boat some 00 mi'es to visit some of them, though the direct route is nearer. In another diiection I must go straight-way 40 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 stirred by the baptism of some caste men. I was told, years ago, that I should never baptize in Cocanada, a Brahmin of the place. That, if I did so, my place would be torn down. I did it, and there came near b« ing a great row. It was averted by the quick- ness and sense of Iha English police officer. The young Brahmin was under 18 years of age, so his relatives took him away by legal means. He says he will never be anything but a Christian." Bro. Craig sends the following report of the Tuni field : — " During the past year, by the blessing of God, considerable pro- gress has been made on the Akidu field. I must still devote a paragraph of my report to the subject of - Building. — Although the building of the Mission Boat was mentioned in the Secretary's report, last October, the boat was riot finished till the end of September. I was detained in Co- canada nearly the whole of that month, waiting for the boat, as I wished to return to Akidu on it, so that I might proceed to tour at once. The boat has proved a great blessing already. 1 have visited many villages that I could not have visited had I not had a boat to myself. I take pleasure in reporting, also, the erection of a house, to be used as a dormitory or dwelling house for the girls' boarding- school, instead of erecting a number of small houses or rooms in a row, I have built one large house, with verandah all around, the back verandah and part of the end verandah being wal'ed in to serve as store-room, cooking- room, bath-room and sick-room. The main room is 27 feet long and 18 feet wide. I suppose that about 75 girls could be accommodated if necessary. The verandah could be arranged so that some might s^eep on it. The house is substantially built, and has co»t about $530, which has been con- tributed by relatives and friends, in loving rememberance of my late wife. Hence the building will be known as the Memorial House." PciiAP Cook. 169 " The Seminary at Samulcotta was opened on the 3rd of Oct- tober, much to the joy of us all. Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin moved to Samulcotta on the 29th of September, and < n the same day I started for Akidu on the new boat — its first trip. Mr. Mc- Laurin's furniture was on the ' Canadian.' Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Laurin were with me on the * T. S. Shenston.' We considered it a high day, and joined in praising God for both tlie now niis- sion house and the new boat. During the year, three single and two married students from the Akidu field have attended the Sv^minary." ** Until April, we had only one man from the Madjas among all our Christians. In that month, eight were baptized at a village about twenty-four miles south of Akidu." * '•' '• I take pleasure in reporting tiie baptism of a number of young people, most of whom were children of christians. Converts have been received from quite a number of new villages. In all, 233 have been baptized, and the niembership at the end of June numbered 926." Financial Statement. DR. Received from all sources . .$9090 94 $9090 94 CH. Paid Missionarioa $ 898 41 DisburHeinents 8487 70 Balance on hand ;tU4 8:3 $'j(:uo 94 The 7th annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Foreign Mis-' sionary Society was held on the r2th day of October, 1883 in iPr'siUcnt. Mu9 Frbeland. -"■■"•■» ricc=53rca Ucnta. Mrs. J. H. Cabtlb and Mbs. Thompson. S.-tretarica. Mrs. Joshua. DsifoVAS, Recording ; Mrs. H. J. Rose, Corresponding. ffrcaauttr. , ■ Mrs. W. H Elliott. The report says " it would be difficult indeed to estinmte the good that has been accomplished and the impetus that has been given through the instrumentality of the Missionary Link. Its columns always contain the latest intelligence from our Mission- aries, as well as much that is of general interest." ,ll-J Jil: 170 Iklugu Mission Financial Statement. DR. nalanco on hand $1417 58 Received from all i>ource>> 2078 90 $409« 57 CR. paid for For. Mission purposes. ..$24(50 00 Disbursoineuts 5() 01 Balance on band 1570 OG *■ $4090 57 The 7th annu.al nireting of the Women's Baptist Foreign Mis- sionary Society, East, was held on the 11th day of October, 1883, at the City of Ottawa. iPteailwnt. Mns. T. J. CiiAXTON. Mbb. Pain and Mbb. Ayeb. Seentarjj. ' ' Mas. Centlt, Uecordinsr; Mess MuiR, Correspondiag. BTrtaButcr. Mbs. Frank Smith. The report .says : — " Our sister, Miss Frith, wlio went to labor as a Zenana worker in September last, we are happy to say, is progressing remarkably well. Several communications from her have 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 $150 to the funds of the Society." Financial Statement. . r DR. Balance on hand $ 294 12 Received from all sources 1018 91 $1313 03 CR. Paid Foreign Mis. Society f 850 00 Diabaraemeuts 32 30 Balance on baud 430 73 $I3IS 03 From the 69th annual report of the America Baptist Mission- ary Union (1883) we learn that the Union have 7 separate sta- tions among the Telugus. and have baptized of them during^ the year 2067 and expended $64,391.67. The following are the num- ber of baptisms in connection with the three stations with which our Canadian Missionaries were formerly connected : Nellore — Baptized, fifty-four ; members, 563. i ' . Ongole. — Baptized, 1,972 ; members, 20,865. ■' '.■ I • Ramapatani — Baptized, twenty-three; members, 531. ' . ■•■.: We have great pleasure presenting to our readers a picture of the first graduating class of the Samulcotta Seminary. Who can estimate the power for good that these four men, care- fully taained and consecrated to Christ's service, represent 'I We hope to hear of these men from time to time as leaders in Clirist- ian work, and we trust that year by year gradually increasing classes will go forth into the great harvest held. We are doing no more important work in India than that of training native preachers and teachers. Through these chieHy must India be evangelized. m m '■' ' 'fh ■ ■ *■! m m - i 'tis 172 TlilX'CU Ml88IO>f. ie84. THE IStii annual MEETING or TRK BAPTIST FOKEIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Was held in the Baptist Church in the town of St. Thomas, on Thursday, October 16, 1884. Mr. C. Raymond in the chair. Prayer by Kev. Dr. Castle. Addresses were made by Rev. Mr, McDiannid, of Ottawa; Rev. John Craig, Rev, Mr. Hallam and Mrs. Churchill, the three last returned missiohaHcs from India. iprrstlicnt. Chab. Raymond. F.Kt=JprtBjlicnt». Wh. Cbaio and A. A. Ayeu. Stcrctarp. " Rev. J. W. A. Stiiwart, B.A. STrrnsurrr. T. S, Sh»:.hbion, Esq. '■ January 12th, 1884 — The 8th annual meeting of the Cana- dian Telugu Conference was held in the Mission House, Cocanada. Atiioi'g those present wete, Mr and Mrs. McLaurin, Mr. and Mrs. Timpany, Mr. and Mrs. Currie, Mr. Craig and Miss Frith. Statistics ; Cocanada, baptized, 123 ; members, 263 Tuni, baptized, 18; members, 50. Akidu, baptized, 178; members, 975. Link for June 1884 : — Dear Friends, — By God's mercy my little girl and I have reached Canada in safety. We arrived at New York on Sunday, the 18th of May, at Rochester the next day, and at Port Hope on the 22nd. Although feeling rather weary. I hope to be present at some of the associations to tell of what God is doing through us among the Telugus. May He en- able us to be faithful. Hoping to meet many of you soon and speak face to face, I am your fellow-servant, John Craig. Scrap Hook. Link for July, 18^4 : — Rev. G. L and Mrs. Currie, of the Tuni Station, with their children, reached home on the 9th of June, in fairly good health. They are now at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where the family will temporarily reside. Mr. Currie went to India as a Missionary of the Ontario and Quebec Society, about nine years ago — Mrs. Currie, formerly Miss Armstrong, was sent out 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 many frit-nds in the several provinces of our Dominion July 5th, 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 had the great pleasure, after nearly eleven years absence, of meeting again in the llesh her dear aged mother." Extract from report : — " Sutiice it to say, that late in the eve- ning of Oct. IGth, 1878, at; the house of T. S. Shenston, Esq, Brantford, there were laid before the Board of this Society, letters from the Rev. John McLaurin, then at Ongole, and the Rev. A. V. Timpany, then at Ramapatam, setting forth the needs and the advantages as a mission field of the Telugu country surrounding Cocanada on either side of the great Godavery river,. These brethren earnestly recommended us to undertake this field as a mission of our own, and to accept heartily a work which seemed almost thrust into our hands by the Lord of the harvest. Before the Board adjourned that night it was unanimously resolved to obey the le idings of Providence, and to enter upon this independ- ent work." " Of the honored brethren who then constituted this Board and 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 accom- plished on this Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission field ? As to the workers — Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin arrived at Cocanada in March, 1874, and in February. 1876, were joined by Mr. and Mis. Currie. In January, 1878, Mr. and Mrs. Craig were addisburscnient.s iSaluuuu on huud... $4408 11 , . $2028 00 . . . 84 48 , . . 1755 lilJ $4408 11 The 8tli annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Fi reigii Mis- sionary Society was held in the First Uaptist Church in the City of Montreal, October the 2nd, 1884. }3rcsilinu. Mbb. ^laxton. Vkt-'&xtsiXitnts. Mks. Payne, and Mits. Upiiam. SccrclarifS. Mrs. Benxly, Kecording; Mijia Mum, Correspoadiug. CTrtnsHt v. Mbs. Frank Smith. The Report states that one new Circle—^ .Vest Wincliestcr had been organized during the year, and that "The reports from In- dia are most encouraging." Financial Statement. DR. I cu. Balance on hand 9 430 73 Pnid "'issionan'os $1CI'2 01 Beceived from all eourues 1138 '^'^ DisburKcmcMits y-2 to ualuuce on hand . 41)4 Cj $1CC8 sw $1508 SJ& From the 70th annual report of the American Baptist Mi«!- sionary Union for 1884, we learn that the Union have now 11 separate stations among the Telugus, anil have haptized of them during the yeor 2,723, and expended §(39,180.76. The following are the number of baptisms in connection with the three stations with which our Canadian Missionaries were formerly connected ; Nellore. — Baptized tliirty-two ; members, .'")U;5. Ongole. —Baptized, 1,658 ; member.s, 14, -'388. Ramapatam, baptized, 50 ; members, 628. COCAXADA MISSION HOUSE See subseauent page). ¥l\ r iffl Teluou Mission. SiSiSiik,iim REV. JOHN CRAIG, B. A. John Oraig was born in Toronto, Canada, June 4th 1852. He was converted and baptized into the Bond Street Baptist Church Toronto, by Dr. Caldecott. His education was obtained in the High School, Port Hope, Upper Canada College and Toronto University, Toronto, where he graduated silver medalist and in the Theological Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. He spent some time in Enghiud and the Continent and one year as pastor of a Baptist Church in Canada. He was appoint- ed to Mission work in October, 1877, and sailed the following week for India, reaching Cocanada early in January 1878. He entered at once into tlie study of the language, and while doing so took charge of the English work in Cocanada. In 1881 he took charge of the Akidu Station, comprising the larger number of Christians and where during the previous year Mission prem- ises had been built. In April of that year his wife Martha Perry Craig died at Akidu Over a year of 1884-5 was spent in Canada recruiting his health and doing much valuable work for the Mission. While at home he married Miss Sumner, of Beams ville, and in company Scrap Book. 179 g his lilo at. ipany with Mr. and Mrs. Stillwill they sail* d for India, landing in Co- ranada Oct. 1st, 1885. Since that time he has resided at Cocan- ada and carried on Mission work there as also on the Akidu Held. Bro. Craig is a painstaking, persevering and conscientious Missionary. lie lends all the energies of mind and heart to the conversion and elevation of the Telugus and especially in the mat- ter of self-support has been eminently successful., lie takes an intelligent interest in all that pertains to the good of the country as a whole, and er-joys to a large extent the confidence and respect of both natives and Eurasians. :f 'if -^:yvl::,S :., ' .. ; ,,_■■ , J ;., |,„,V; , ■ :K. fi-ri -. , . S/' 1-.. *■".'. 1 r- :■■■■ irt-i f/r 1 * ^^^ffih i 1 IN 1 r: ^ W •'"gBt!^SwiM ■ ' ^SHjkL^^M^m K ^Bi^'' N fe- ^^^^^^^''' jM'S .• ^^^^HL '9fS ■iM y^ „ .^:jwmw ^|':"V MRS. JOHN CRAIG- (/Kc Sumneu ) Bro Craig has been twice married His first wife was Martha Perry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Perry, formerly of Port Hope and afterwards i>f Rochester, N. Y. She was a (luiet. unostenta- tious sweet dispositioned Christian woman, who did what she could in the sphere to which (3od called her. She died almost alone in Akidu in April. 1881. Her sweet face and atlectionate heart endeared f.er to all who knew her. She left behind heT a precious memory and a dear little girl who now lives with her uncle in Port Hope. 180 Ieluou Mission AcU A. Sinnner, Bro. Craig's present wife is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sumner of lieamsville of Ontario She was born April 1 1th, 1856. and bom again and baptized by Rev. R. H. Montgomery in 18G9. She was educated in tlie Higii School of her native village and the Art School, Toronto. She taught school for s-everal years with much success. In this way she deve'oped a character and gained an experience which admirably Htted her for her aftf^r life work. All this time she had a desire to devote herse f to Fo-eign Mi>l)cnt0. Wh. Cuaio and A. A. Aybr. Sfcrrtarp. Rev. J. VV. A. Stewart, B.A. (Krtieuxtr. T. S. Shenbton, Esq. January 19th, 1S85. — The 9th annual m»eting of the Cana- dian Telugu Conference was held at liimlipatani, India. Among those reported present were, Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin, Mr. and Mrs. Timpany, and Mis* M. J. Frith. The statistics furnished : Cocanada, baptized, 104 ; members, 377. Tuni, baptized, 3 ; members, 53. Akidu, baptized, 125 ; members, HIS. *..,. 1 PcuAP Book. m 'i Caiia- Lmong Lr. and I'shed : WL, MISS ALEXA.NDER. Miss Alexander's connection with our Foreign Mission work seems like a beautiful dream. 8he is the eldest daughter of the Re\^ John Alexander of Toronto. Her whole life has been one of Christian activity and specially helpful to her father in his pastoral work in Montreal, Brockville, Brantford, Toronto and other places. To know her was to love and esteem her highly for her work's sake. She was appointed in June, 1887, and sail- ed from Boston on the 6th of October of the same year and reach- ed Madras in December. Tuesday the 6th September a large meeting was^held in the Jar vis Street Baptist Church, Toronto, to bid her farewell. On tlie voyage she became acquainted with Rev. D. H. Drake of the Missionary Union — shortly after landing they became engaged and werej married in the Mission House in Cocanada on the 17th January, 1888. Believing that He doeth all things well, we would not have it otherwise if we could. Her work is ours, as our work is hers, because the whole is our connnon Lord's. She meant to engage in Zenana work in Cocanada. She may engage in the same or other work in a larger sphere. May all possible blessing attend her way. II It .1 'f 184 Iklugu Mission '!: I !: MRS. TIMPANY. Mrs. Jane Timpany (now^Irs. Bookeiy is the oldest daughter of the late Eev. John Fates of whom a notice is given on page 90, and a sister of ^Irs. (Rev.) John ^McLauiin our first Mission- ary to Cocanada. She was born in r)allinii. Ireland, on the Gtli July 1840, and imniigrated with lier father's faniilv to America, landing in New York on the 8th day of April. 1850 For some time her father was the pastor of the Buptist Church in Cascade, Iowa, U. S. Mrs. Timpany became a member of that church in 1855 being baptiz. d l)y her father while he was pastor thereof. Was married to Mr. Timpany on the loth of October, 18G7, and in the following n;onth 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 Hrst Missionary home — twenty-one days afterwards. The whole journey occupying over six months I This was before the 8uez Canal was opened, She ha^ travelled tin's 11,000 miles journey four tnnes one of which was as a widow and now writes the author " I am really at a loss what to say as there are very few events in my life worth recording. Siie is a sister toJProfessor J. T. Bates, B.A., of the Woodstock College and Eev. S. S. Bates, B. A., pastor of the College Street Baptist Church, Toronto. The name of Tim- pany will always be associated with the Ontario and Quebec For- eign Missionary Society as is the name of Judson with that of the American Baptist Missionary Sooiety. liii Scrap Book. 185 KEY. A. V. TIM P ANY. FALLEN ON THE FIELD. Link for March, 1885 :— Startling and sad Was the message flashed from India to Canada on Friday, the 20tli of February : " Tiiiipany died yes- terday," and repeated by tlio Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board till many hearts that day were; bowed beneath the bitter stroke of sudden bereavement. To the children patiently longing and waiting for the return of their loved parents, after one more year of absence — to the aged parents — to the many relatives the blow must have been severe indeed. May God, who is a very present help in time of trouble, strengthen these loving hearts to bear their heavy sorrow. ■'" !i fr- ';■ t IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) k // %'. O .-*«^ '.s ^ ^ ^ A 1.0 I.I 1.25 ;.;:ia iiiiM 2.2 ■"•■ |4 '- liar 12.0 III 1.8 U 111.6 Photographic Sciences Corporation V ill to this work some years previously, and after prayerful consideration had otfered himself to the Missionary Union of Boston, U. S., for service in the foreign field. He was accepted and and appointed to the Telugu Mission. Through his efforts an Auxiliary Society was organized in Ontario and Quebec. On the 15th October, 1867, Mr. Timpany was married to Miss Jane Bates, daughter of the late Bev. John Bates. A few days later designation and farewell services were lield in connec- tion with the meetings of the Convention at^IngersoU, when the power of the Holy Hpirit was felt in a remarkable degree. On the 24th October, Mr. and Mrs. Timpany left Canada for India. From England they went to India on a sailing ship by the Cape of Good Hope, and were sevoriil months on the voyage. After a short stay in Madras they proceeded to Nellore, where they arrived in May, 1808. Mr. Tinipany was soon able to help Dr. Jewett in mis.sionary work. Early in 1870 he removed with hia family to Ramapatain about forty miles north of Nellore, and occupied the place as a station of the Mission. Here he labored for six years, .and had the joy of .seeing the Lord's work pros- pering in his hands. When he began the work there were thirty or forty members in the district ; wljen he left in March, 1876, there was a membership of six or seven hundred. The Theologi- cal Seminary at Ramapatam was begun by him and remained under his care for a year. Mr. Timpany returned to Canada with his family in July, 1876, and in the following October he resigned his connection with the Missionary Union and worked henceforth as a mission- ary of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec. During the two years of his stay in Canada he visited most of our churches ; aroused our sisters to take a definite part in the work by organizing Circles with Central Boards, and started the publication of the Missionary LiXK. Mr, Timpany had a natural gift for the practice of medicine. While at Rama- patam he was able to relieve much physical suflering, but he felt the need of instruction, especially in surgery, and hence attended lectures at the Toronto School of Medicine in 1877-78. Leaving Canada in September, 1878, with his wife and youngest child, he returned to India, and arrived at Cocanada on the 26th December. There he labored inces.santly till bis death 188 Telugu Mission. from cholcr.i on the lOtli February, 1885. The Telugu chape', the Gill's J)ormitorio.s, and the mission boat Canadian, are menierials of his faithfulness in providinsf for the material wants of the mission. I might add the English Chapel at Cocanada, which was bought and renovated under his directions, also the Akidu mission boat, which was built under his superintendence. Wh'-n part of the Cocan )da field was made a separate cJiarge with Akidu for its station, the district that remained to tlie Co- canada missionary cont.'iinod only 50 converts. Phis was at the beginning of 1880 Under Mr. Timpany's care this number in- creased to 400 in five years. Mr. Timpany was the author of a Compendium of Theology in Telugu, and was known as one of the bnst Telugu scliolars among the Missionaries laboring in that language. * '"• He has left a loving wife and three children to mourn iiia loss and cherish his memory. The picture is from a photograph taken just before he returned to India in 1878. SUDDEN CHANGE. Since the last number of the Link reached its readers God has pernatted death to remove from those very Ufnr and dear to the editor, a sweet young wife and tender loving mother, rendering her presence iu that bereaved Manitoba home an imperative necessity. At the Board meeting held on the 17th of April a very judic- ious committee was appointed to secure another editor for this little paper. We have reason to believe that they will be emin- ently successful and that the Link will in future become a great- er power for good than ever before. The number for June will be issued under the new manage- ment, when notice will be given of any change of address for communications and remittances; in the meantime they can be sent as usual. In laying down the work we have loved so well, and in bid- ding farewell to all 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 the same cordial sympathy for those upon whom the future conduct of the Link will devolve. M. Fheeland. Scrap Book. 189 ;hape', N, arc •wants anada, [so the idence. c'narge he Co- at the iber in- lor of a e of the in that Idren to ; from a 878. readers ry nt'ar r loving a homo ry judic- for this )e eniiu- la great- jmanagc Iress for can be in bid- ly sHven Ink them and in- of the conduct IND. Link, July, 1885 :—" From a letter to Mr. VVm. Elliott, Jan- uary 26th, 1885, by Mr. Timpany. The day of salvation of this people draws near at length. Where. 5 years ago, there were about 300 Christians, now there are 1 500, and I fully expect to see in another five years this 1,500 reach as many thousands. The liv- ing God is on our side." MR. TIMPANY'S DEATH AND BURIAL. I enclose a copy of a letter received this wi>ek from Cocanada. The writer is clerk of our English Baptist church at that p'aco. Tlie details given in the letter will be read with fcori'owful inter- est by thousands in this country. All our conj(^ctures were vain, for it seems tliat our brother was taken away very suddenly by cholt;ra. Poi-iiaps a few explanations may be in place : Coringa will l)e found on one of my maps a few miles south of Cocanada. Dr. Beech, the Government Surgeon at Cocanada, was a personal friend of Mr. Timpany. The Rev. Mr. English is the (jiovernment Chaplain, and a clergynian of the Church of England. The bridge mention- ed joins the two parts of Cocanada otherwise separated by a wide creek with connects the canals with the sea. Cocanada proper is north of the creek ; the Mission premises are in the northern part of Cocanada. South of the creek is Juggaudhapuram, w hich contains the meeting house of our English church, and also the cemetery wliere Mr. Timpany was buried. Gabriel Jo.siah, my baby that died in 1879, and many others of our people there await the resurrection of the just. I might add that Jug^^anad- hapuram is now regarded as part of Cocanada. The cemetery is about a mile and a half from the mission premises. The carriage that bore 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 Brother 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 at about 2,80 p. m , and was buried at 9.30 p. in. On Wednesday the 18th, he conducted the prayer-meeting, and spoke so earnestly and lovingly of heaven There was a look of weariness in his face, and the mere recounting of the joys of heaven seemed to refresh him. It is not known how he contracted the dist^ase. ^ I'll 190 Teluou Missiok. but Mrs. Timpany thinks it was on this wise : On Tuesday, the 17th, he went to Coringa on business, and while there one of his Christians brought him a small pot of milk. He did not par- ticularly want to drink, but to please the man and show his appreciation of his kindness, he drank it against his better judg- ment Although he made no complaint of any specific illness till next morning, it is believed that with the milk he imbibed the germs of the disease. This belief is confirmed to a certain extent by the fact that certain cases of cholera liave occurred in Coringa, and that the epidemic is raging in Masulipatam and northwards to such an extent that the canal between that place and Bezwada has bepn put under (juarantinn. The attack was a sharp one ; symptoms exhibited themselves at 8 a.m., and by 2.30 p m he was gone. It was so sudden and un- expected that none of us knew it till our poor pastor was gone. My wife and I were the first to get th^re, but we were an hour too late. Brother McLaurin is most unfortunately away at Rangoon, which port he reached yesterday. He had gone to try and shake off the fever, which has attacked him with unusual rigor lately. This morning Mrs. McLaurin received a telegram from him, and wired him a reply, informing hina of thg sad news. I forgot to mention that poor Mr. Timpany's death was so unexpected that Mary was in school, and when sent for came home too late to see her father alive. Owing to the nature of the disease, Dr. Beech, who undertook the funeral arrangements, hurried on, and we buried him at 9.30 p. m. At a little past 8 p. m. we put him in the coffin, and he was borne to the chapel in the mission com- pound. There Jonathan had a short service, as Dr. Beech was averse to exposing the body long. Thence the body was borne away in his own carriage, drawn by his christians. At ten minutes to nine we were crossing the bridge, and at half-past nine last night we had put out of sight to await the final resur- rection, the poor, tired, weary and worn out body of our beloved pastor. As the night was dark we had eight torches to illumine the long procession which followed him to the grave. You can imagine what a weirdly solemn sight it was. There in the silent grave yard, with the darkness and stillness of nature around, were gathered the people of Cocanada ; his school girls, native christians, and members of the English church, sobbing and cry- ing as if their hearts were breaking. The Church of England burial service was read over him by the Kev. Mr. English, and we put him away. It was an impres- sive and awful ceremony in its gloomy grandeur, for each one of Scrap Book. 191 clay, the e of his lot par- how his er judg- c illness irabibed I certain urred in bam and iiat place em selves n and un- ;one. My [• too late. Rangoon, md shake ;or lately. him, and forgot to feted that e to see )r. Beech, and we ut him in ;sion com- Jeech was vas borne At ten half-past nal resur- ir beloved o illumine You can the silent •e around, 'Is, native and cry- iv him by in impres- ich one of us felt that we were burying the mortal remains of one, who for many years was to us a kind and loving father, who identi- fied hi:nself with ua thoroughly. Our sorrows were his sorrows, our joys his joys ; the smallest affairs of each one of us interested him as if they were his own. We, the members of the English Church, are overwhelmed with our great loss. We have lost a loving, large hearted, humble pastor, and we feel that we shall never look upon his like again. On Saturday, the Hth inst., he married the Rev. J. Williams, of Vizianagram, to Miss Gordon, and in a speech he gave on that occasion, he dilated largely on death, in connection with birth and marriage, the other two great events of life. On Sunday the 15th, he preached one of the most eloquent sermons I have ever heard him deliver. His theme was ** JesuR," and oh ! how lov ingly he spoke ! What glorious pictures he drew of the bliss of heaven ! During the sermon, in a state of rapture he exclaimed, " Sun of my Soul ! " We little thought that before five days had gone by he would be basking in the light and warmth of that "Sun." I believe he hardly spoke during his illness. In the morning he went to his work as usual, but remarked to Mrs. Timpany that he was very ill. During his illness I believe he only said, " This is cholera. The will of the Lord be done, I would like to live for the work." I believe God took him t'> give him rest, for if ever a man looked worn out and weary, and thoroughly in need of rest, our poor brother did. I think his frame was so ex- hausted as to be able to offer no resistance to the inroads of any serious disease, much less such a malignant and deadly one as cholera. What is our sorrow and los.<» to that of Mrs. Timpany and his little ones, here and in Canada ! Our hearts are pained at her grief and bereavement, but we trust in the Lord to •' tem- per the wind to the shorn lamb." This morning a telegram was sent to the Rev. J. W. Stewart, Hamilton, ** Timpany died yesterday." I can imagine the wail there will be through Canada when the news spreads. Oh ! if he had been relieved for a little while to recruit himself, things might have turned out otherwise ; but regrets are vain. He is now at rest. We hope that the death of our dear pastor will be an eloquent appeal to the sons of Canada, and that there will be no difficulty in getting more to come and gather in the abundant harvest. Our school will miss him very much, I really do not know what we will do without him, It is getting on so nicely, and only lately he had a long chat with us about the boarding ']• 192 Telugu Mission. school he intended building. The first donations towards it have been put in the bank, and he talked of raising subscriptions when he went home. 1 hope you will reniemVjer this scheme in your appeals for help A boarding school is much needed, and if wo only had the accommodation, we would get many more scholars. With Christian love, believe me, Yours very truly. Geo H. White. In Link for November, 1885, Miss Frith writes : — '* We can- not look back and renew the work of the pest year without first mentioning tlie great loss we have sustained in the death of our dear Bro. Timpany, who was so deeply inteiested in our work among the women. We miss his earnest prayers, his words of encouragement, his sympaUiy, his unwavering hope and faith in the living God. * * I shall always feel that it was a great privilege to have spent my first two years in India with Mr. and Mrs. Timpany, and if success follows my labors, as I hope there will be, I shall feel that it is owing in a great measure through the blessing and wisdom of God, to the inestimable help and ad- vice received from them." April, 15th, 1885, at a Board meeting held in Woodstock a resolution was passed relating to the loss sustained by the Mis- sion in the death of Kev. A. V. Timpany, and a copy ordered to be sent to his widow. At this same meeting Bro. John R, Stillwell presented him- self to the Board as a candidate for Missionary labor in the For- eign field. After having answered the various questions put to him in a most satisfactory manner, he was unanimously ap- pointed as one of our Missionaries. July Link, 1885, Mr Craig writes : — -'And now that the time has come when I must leave Canada with its spiritual light and warmth, and go back to the darkness and chilliness of heathen India, I ask for myself personally, and to those who go to that land for the first time, a special interest in your prayers. Dr. Carey did well when he compared missionaries to miners. I have been down a mine, and know the darknes and gloom that reigns there. I have been in India and know something of the gross spiritual darkness found there." '♦ Mr. Stillwell and I expect to sail from Quebec on the 1st Aug- ust, and to be at Cocanada about the 1st October. I am happy to say that we each hope to have the companionship of a wife. I state these facts so that our friends may pray for every member of our little party while we are on the way and after our arrival ScuAP Book. 103 ^e can- ut first of our r work ords of iaith in a great kir. and e there through and ad- dbtock a ,he Mis- dered to ;ed him- ihe For- jors put sly ap- ihe time Ight and heathen to that Dr. I have it reigns le gross list Aug- happy wife. I J member |r arrival rs. in India. Before my visit to Canada 1 wrote many a letter to the Link If the Lord will, I shall write many more after my re- turn to India. To all who read these lines 1 now say — Farewell ! " In the Link for the sane month : — " In a letter from Mrs. Manning, of Halifax, written a short time after Mr. Currie's de- parture, she says : ' We have had your missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Currie, with us for a few days. 1 invited her down to Halifax to see him ott". We held a farewell service on Friday evening, and on Saturday at two o'clock the steamer left. Poor Mrs. Ourrie, it was with a sad, heavy heart she turn- ed away and took the train for Wolfville. Three little children are a great care and responsibility for one so frail as she. Her strength returns slowly. I hope the warm M'eather will bring new life ; but she will miss her husband so very much. These separations are very trying, and involve great sacrifice for the cause. I felt in looking at her that I had really made no sacrifice to give the gospel to the heathen." July, 21st. 1885, Mr. J. R. Still ^rell became a member of the First Baptist Church, Brantford, and was ordained therein. July, 11th 1885, Tuni, Bro. 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. For travelling mercies granted me all the way I feel deeply grateful. Leaving Wolfville, N. S., on the 24th April, I reached England on the 4th May, Madras on the 21st June, and Cocanada on the 1st July. Was cordially welcomed at Cocanada by the occupants of the Mission House, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the members of the English Baptist Church had arranged for a wel- come meeting, to be held in their chapel on the evening of the following day. At this meeting which came off at the time ap- pointed, among other exercises of a devotional and social charac- ter, an address of welcome was read and responded to, making altogether a quite enjoyable occasion. But, alas ! how clearly one sees out here the tremendous gap that has been made in our working force. Ah, that new-made grave in Jugganadhapuram ! We can only fall back upon the assurance that others will be rais- ed 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 pleasant to see the familiar place again, and to exchange greetings with the Christians who live at the station. But here, too, pleasure is mingled with pain, A new made grave in our little cemetery contains all that ia mor- tal of K. Jane, the wife of Charles. She was the most intelli- P ' I "^ i H 1 8 !; Hii TelL'GU MlHSION. gent, the best educated, ar. 1 the best qualified for usefulness of all our Christian women Her loss is keenly felt, and her pres- ence grently missed ht->rc. Not a few familiar faces have appear- ed at the door of the mission house during these two days, and it is encouraging to be assured both by words and looks that many, besides our native Christians, are pleased to sec the house again Occupied." Some weeks after the news of Bro. Timpany's death was tele- grapiied to Ontario, Mrs. Freeland received a letter of which the following is an extract : — •' Here is a letter for the Link. Brother McLaurin is here He is not well, sick with fever and planning to go away for a sea voyage. It makes me feel lonesome. I do hope Mr. Craig will be back by the 1st October, and that a new missionary may come. Pray God to put it into the heart of a good man to come to this work. There is a great deal of interest in all parts of our mis- sion field. I verily believe a thousand would bo baptized this year 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 suit- able matron. There are 49 girls in the boarding school. Mrs. Timpany has not been well, but is better now. Mary is well. T am well, save when I overwork and give .the slumbering favor a chance." A. V. Timpany. September, 14th, 1885, Bro. Craig writes, dated Red Sea: — •' It has occurred to me that a table of distances from Canada to India might be found both interesting and useful. Hence I send you the following : — Toronto to Quebec (about) 479 Quebec to Liverpool 2650 Liverpool to London 220 London to Gibraltar 1299 Gibraltar to Malta 981 Malta to Port Said 935 Port Said to Suez 87 Suez to Aden 1.^08 Aden to Colombo 2093 Colombo to Madras 610 Madras to Cocanada 350 11,012 ScR?.p Book. 195 BSR of pres- )pear- incl it many, again ,s tele- ch the is here r a sea lig will y come. to this )ur mis- led this are tlie it a suit- . Mrs. well. I t favor a ANY. Sea :— mada to ke I send )12 "The total distance by the route we have taken is just about 11,000 miles. If we travelled witii the mails via Brindisi in Ita'y, and then via Bombay to Madras, the distance would be less by one thousand miles. I hope the readers of the Link will not forget us because we are so far away. Think of us and pray for us and our work." September, 2 1st, 1885, at a Board meeting held this day Miss S. I. Hatch, of Woodstock, Ont., was, on the recommendation of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, appointed one of our Missionaries for the Telugus. October 22nd, 1885, at a Board meeting held in Guelph, Mr. A. W. Auvache presented himself as a candidate for the Foreign Mission field, who, after answering in a satisfactory manner num- erous que.stiotis was duly appointed as one of our missionaries. October 2nd, 1885, Oocanada, Bro, Craig writes: — " We left Suez on Friday, the 11th September. The voyage to Colombo was very pleasant on the whole. We arrived there on the 22nd and left again on the 24tli for Madras, which place was reached on the 26th. * * We landed at Madras exactly a month from the day we embarked. Having found a stopping place, we learn- ed that Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin had been there three days before, on their way home to Cocanada from Bangalore. Mr. Stillwell and I spent the afternoon calling on Dr. Jewett and Mr. Water- bury, both of the American Baptist Missionary Union." '* On Monday after attending to various matters Mrs. Craig and I took the steamer for this place, where we arrived yesterday morning, on the day so often mentioned by our late brother in his urgent requests for an early return, on my part. Bro. McLaurin was waiting at the landing, and gave us a warm wel- come. Mrs. McLaurin, Miss Frith, Miss Folson, and Mr. Currie were at the mission house to give their welcome. We liave had a happy meeting, and are all deeply thankful to God for His pre- serving care. Mr. and Mrs. Stillwell remained at Madras to purchase furniture. Bro. McLaurin expects to open the seminary next Thursday. I need scarcely say that I miss the face and voice of our dear departed brother." October 8, 1885, Samulcotta ; Bro. McLaurin writes : — " We are back again in our old home, and at our loved work. We opened to-day with over fifty students. * * A week ago to- day we welcomed Bro. and Sister Craig back to India. How glad we were to see them ! To-morrow we go into Cocanada, to receive Bro. and Sister Stillwell. May their days be many and very useful and very happy in India." I f ^^h 190 Tkluul' Mission. October 9, 1885, Cocanada ; Bro. Oraig writes: — "By the Massing of (»oil Mrs Oaig and I arrived here safely on the 1st of this month, and Mr. and Mrs Stillwell arrived to-day, after a week or ten days in Madras At present this house contains our whole force of missionaries, Mr. Currio having been hero for some time, and Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin having come from ►Sanmlcotta this morning to see the new arrivals and attend a welcome meeting to be held in the evening." " Tiiose to whom everything here is new have one advantage. They do not feel the shadow that falls on us who look in vain for oar beloved fellow-worker of former days. Perhaps by and-bye I shall become used to his absence. * * I n)ight write much more, but I forbear. I hope to go to Akidu next week and spend a few weeks on that field. We desire a continual interest in your prayers. I forgot to say that the seminary reopened yesterday." Akidu, November 20th, 1885, Bro. Craig writes: — " * =•= Before I left Akidu on my way to Canada, I asked God to per- mit me to see the mission house once more ; in other words to bring nje back safely in due time. On the 17th of October I had the pleasure of entering the house, and thanking my heavenly Father for his answer to my prayers. I was welcomed cordially enough by all, but there was a certain amount of sorrow mingled with the joy. Peter came from Gunnanapudi to see me. He wept 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. 'Th'shas been a year of sorrow.' he said. 'First came the sad tidings of Mr. Timpany'_ death, and before we had recovered from the shock caused by that, cholera visited Gunana- pudi, and carried oft" fifteen of our members. Then my little girl fell sick and died ; she was nearly four years old. And last of all, Isaac became ill, and died on the first of the month." ""^^ * November 20th, 1885, Cocanada ; Bro. Stillwell writes : — " Long before this reaches you, you will have received Brother McL'iurin's notice of our arrival here ! yes, we are here, at Cocanada — we arrived at Madras on the 2Gth September, and there said good-bye to our steamer, Coromad«l, which seemed to have grown into something very much like a friend, for we had slept in its cabins and walked its decks and mingled with its people a whole month. At Madras also we parted with the Craigs, who went on in an earlier steamer than we could get ready for. We followed them in the next steamer, leaving Scrap Book. m By the e 1st of after a antains lere for e from ttencl a •antage. vain for and-bye te much nd spend terest in e opened d to per- words to )ctober I heavenly cordially ir mingled me. He sry fresh, had been was very irst came we had Gunana- little girl d last of }< '^: * |writes : — Brother here, at Imber, and |seemed to )r we had with its with the could get leaving Madras at noon, Tuesday, October 7th, and arriving at anchorage very early on tlie morning of the 9th. It was a beautiful morn- ing. * And then we looked at the boats coming' oil' to us and studied their occupants, Init none struck us as at all familiar. We had not mot I3ro. Currio before, and so did not know him until ho came up the ship's laddt^r and introdiiced himself. He had come oft' very early to meet us, and accordingly we had the pleasure of hi< welcome before quitting the ship. We liad received two letters at Madras welcoming us to India, one from Bro. McLaurin, and the other from l^.Iiss Fritli Vnt! Brother Currie brought another from Bro. Oraig, so that w. werg not left in any doubt as to the welcome awaiting us," " Under Bro. Currie's escort we icft the ceamcr in r little steim launch and steamed first to the mouth of the < an'xi, then up the canal In about half an hour we arrived at the I'nal landing place, ana as we came neai" siiw Bro. Criiig -.vuh cirriage and ; 'Tsh and — umbrella. B^o. Craig looked to our b.igiage, and we took possession of the carriage and made our way to the .Mi.ssion House. * '•■ " We passed the bridge tiiat spans thc^ canal, tin; clock tower at the Oocanada extremity, se\ era! tanks or f.onds, and tinally passed through a gateway bearing the inscription • "Canadian Baptist Telugu mission" in English and 'I'elugu char- acters. Through tlie gateway we passed into the Mi-J.sii)i) com- pound. Then came the Telugu chapel, which looked (|uite natur- al and the Mission House exactly as the photograph has it, ex- cept a few changes made of late in the front yard. Here we found Mrs. Craig and Miss Frith, and had barely got insiJe when brother and sister McLaurin put in an appearance, having come from Samulcotta tliat morning." Extracts from the 19th annual report : — •' At the time of Mr. Timpany's death the Rev. Mr Currie was at his home in Wolf- ville, Nova Scotia, enjoying a much needed and well-earned rest. As soon as it became known what a loss the Mission had su.stain- ed at Cocannda. a'ld how imperatively help was needed there, Brother Currie did not wait to be called out, but .at once volun- teered his service, and declared himself ready to sail on any day the Committee might name. This action on his part was the Hr.st relief which came to the Executiv- Committee in the ori.sis brought on by Mr. Timpany's deatli ; and when it is further n;- membared that Mr, Currie's departure for India involved his sep- aration from wife and children, your Board feels that is due to hiui to declare here our appreciation of his truly magnanimous conduct. The Executive Committee, in consideration of the hot ft'''' •1 198 Telugtj Mission. season in India, deemed it inexpedient for Mr. Currie to sail sooner than the latter part of April, and also invited him to a farewell meeting at (Juelph on the evening of March 26th. This ineeting was largely attended, and was most inspiring, and will doubtless often be looked back to by your earnest, self-denying Missionary, as he toils amongst the Telugus. Mr. Curria sailed at the time appointed, and on July 1st landed at Cocanada, where he was met on the wharf by the Rev. John McLaurin." * * •'As the outcome of all this correspondence, Mr. J. R. Still- well, B. A., appeared before your Board at 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 used to acquaint the Board with the physical constitution, mental abilities and training, and spiritual character and experience of Mr. Stillwell, with the result that his ofler was as heartily accepted as it was made. He was accordingly unani- mously appointed to go forth under 'the auspices of your Society His ordination took place in the First Baptist Ohurch, Brantford, on July 21st. It is not unfitting to say here that his examination before the Council was at once a surprise and a delight, revealing a grasp of Christian truth and a power of personal conviction and religious earnestness which promise well for his career as a a mis- sionary. Indeed, those who know him best believe that in Bro. Stillwell we have a strong man, for whom we are thankful to God, and whose life, if spared, will count for something in the Canadian Baptist Telugu Mission." * * " Having bid farewell to us all, Brethren Oraig and Stillwell and their wives sailed from Quebec on Saturday, the 1st 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 work in that land." Financial Statement. Total received from the Churches $5,822 38 Total received from Women's Baptist F. M. Society (West) 2,969 34 Total received from Women's Baptist F. M. Society (East) 1,055 00 Total received from Judson Missionary Society, Wood- stock 65 25 Scrap Book. 199 to sail [m to a 1. This md will denying 13 sailed 1, where * * R. Still- lal meet- niission- me of it, I physical character ofter was fly unani- ir Society 5rantford, ainination ^ revealing iction and IS a a mis- at in Bro. laukful to ng in the Id Stillwell st of Aug- their jour- »yage, and lent nionth iheir work 55,822 38 2,969 34 1,056 00 55 25 Total received from the Foreign Missionary Society, Winnipeg 63 80 Total received from the Sunday Schools and Mission- ary Boxes 1,880 38 Total, Miscellaneous 949 08 Total received from Individuals 755 20 Total received from Legacies 191 47 Total received from Collections 88 88 Total Receipts for the year $13,820 18 Balance on hand at last audit 173 16 Total from all sources for the year $13,998 42 HoAv Paid Out. Paid the Missionaries $13,125 64 Paid for Printing 139 00 Paid for Interest 67 00 Paid for Postage, Stationery 101 11 Balance on hand 560 64 $ 18,993 42 The 9th annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Foreign Mission Society of Ontario was held in the town of St. Catharines on the 8th day of October, 1885. J9rcBiBent. MbS. J. H. CikSTLE. Mrs. Thompbon. and Mrs. J. C. Ycli. StcretaritB. MiBS V. Elliott, Recording ; Mrs. H. J. Bobb, Corresponding. Mrs. W. H, Elliott. 16 new circles reported for the year and tlie following nine ladies been made life members during the year : — Mrs. D. B. Wal- lace, Simcoe ; Mrs. J. Hull, Princeton ; Mrs. G. L, Oliver, Hart- '3 m i BB 200 Felugu Mission. I ford ; Mrs. Lorenzo Beal, Boston ; Miss Martha Nelles, Wilson- vflle ; Mrs. HoUins, St. Thomas ; Mrs. T. D. Crawford, Brant- ford ; Mrs. W. Pegg, Hartford ; Mrs. T. Oartwright, Calton. The report closes thus : — "We have lost some on whom we leaned, but it is that others may have an opportunity to work. We must not fail to do our share ; let each resolve to do every- thing in her power, that this great work may prosper, and that all in our own land, and they that sit in darkness, may see the •Light of the World.'" Financial Statement. DR. Balance on band $1755 Ki Keceived from all sources 3415 7H $5171 41 CR. Paid for V ission purposes $2879 :W) Disbursements .59 87 Balance on hand 22^2 24 $5171 41 The 9th annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society, East, was held in the First Baptist Church, Montreal, on the 8th day of October, 1885. ■ ! iPrtettrtnt. Mbb. ^laxton. ,■ . Mbs. Payne, and Mrs. Uphah. Sttreian'M. Mbs. Bently, Becording ; Mias Mum, Corresponding. STrraeurrr. Mbb. Fbank Smith. Mrs. P. A. McEwen and Mrs. A. D. McCallum were added to the list of life members during the year, making the total num- ber 40. Financial Statement. DR. Rtdance on hand $ 494 OC Total received 1009 30 11663 39 CR. Paid Foreign Mission $ 10.'>5 00 Disbursements 15 21 Balance on hand 403 18 I 15C3 39 Scrap Book. m $5171 41 re added tal num- f 1055 00 15 21 493 18 From the 71st annual report (1885) of the American Baptist Missionary Union we learn that the Union now have 12 separate stations among the Telugus, and have baptized of them during the year 1,556, and expended $96,860.70. The following are the number of baptisms in connection with the three stations with which our own Canadian Missionaries were formerly connected. Nellore. — Baptized, 53 ; members, 479. Ongole. — Baptized, 304 ; members, 14,632, ' Ramapatam. — Baptized, 12; members, 631. But I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished ! And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly : and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying. r.LOi, Eloi, lama sabachthani ? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities ; the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed — God's Word. i \i ■ <■•!', tJ m 5? o 03 O piTPVi;-:.^' Scrap Book. 203 GIRL'S BOARDING SCHOOL OOOANADA. The photograph of this school was taken in January, 1884' It shows a row of houses, in which the boarding school girls live while attending school A palm tree stands in front of the houses, near the center, and there are some small cocoanut trees also in the yard. To the right is a stone well. Many of the girls are standing in front of the houses. These buildings wore paid for by the Women's Foreign Mission Society of Eastern Ontario 'and Quebec The clupel and boat were paid for by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario. THE BAPTIST MISSION HOUSE AT OOOANADA P3 <1 O P3 rn OS H-t O The cut on page 177 represents the Mission House, Cocanada. The house is over 60 feet wide exclusive of verandahs. It is about 44 ft. deep, excepting in the front centre, where a bow of 8 feet makes it 52 feet. There are six large rooms, with four dressing and bath rooms attached The door directly in front, leads into a room 52 feet long and 22 feet wide. Verandahs 10 feet wide extend all around the house, and at the sides they are enclosed to form bath rooms and dressing- rooms. It is reached by a flight of steps from the back. The shrub- bery in front is part of the garden. That circular piece of mas- onry in front is the curb of a disused old well. The rooms to the left were occupied by Brother and Sister Currie, till they removed to Tuni, and then by Brother and Sister Craig till they went to Akidu. Thf^ rooms to the right were oc- cupied by the McLaurins from 1876 till 1879. It was in this house tha^ Brethren Timpany and Currie died. The house with 12 t^i X of ground, cook house, stables, wells, roads, etc,, were bougi. n December, 1875, for R's. f ,900 ($4,260). The building itst i cost when new R's. 15,000. m Telugu Mission. JP?P!p*f^ MISS HATCH. Miss S. Isabel Hatch is the oldest daughter of John Hatch, Esq., of ** Woodside," near Woodstock, the county 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 farm purchased by him when in a state of nature in 1820. Our hero* ine missionary graduated from the Woodstock College, and after- wards for four years became a teacher therein. She was baptized in that same town in 1873, by the late Rev. John Bates, of whom reference is made on page 90. All tliose best acquainted with her in Ontario speak in the highest terms as to ler qualifications for the important position she has voluntarily undertaken. Her own letters and the letters of others from India, all tend to in- tensify our interest in the brave girl, who leaves the home of her childhood to teach the heathen 11,000 miles away, the way of salvation. The author, from long acquaintance with her parents and grandparents feels a cl^sp interest in her welfare. Scrap Book. 206 'iH&iSiii iimt&, i REV. H. F. LAFLAMMB: Bro. Laflamme was born in West Winchester, Ontario, Can ada, January 25th, 1865. When 15 years of age he was sent to Woodstock College to study for the law. Here in the fall of 1880, the Lord found him and turned his heart to the ministry of His word. In 1 886 he went to Toronto for his Arts course. Here he met Mr. Forraan, who visited the Colleges and Institu- tions of the United States and Canada, calling for volunteers for the foreign field. Bro. Laflamme at once volunteered — oflfered himself 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 profit to the Society. In company with Mr. and Mrs. Davis, he sailed for India, landing in Cocanada November 12th, 1887. While studying the language of his future charge he keeps his mind and heart engaged in English work in Cocanada. Our brother is a young man full of faith, and zeal, and devotion for the Master, and we pray that the Lord whom he loves will greatly use him for Hiii own glory in the salvation of many Telugus. 206 Teluou Mission. MRS. F. W. AVAUCHE. Mrs. F. W. Avauche (Elizabeth Owen), is the 3rd daughter of Lewis Owen, a member of the Welsh Baptist Chapel, Everton village, Liverpool. Mrs. Auvache was born in Liverpool in the year 1853 ; was educated in Liverpool and graduated in War- rington College, England. She was baptized in the City of Chester, and was for some years previous to her marriage engaged in a christian philanthrophic woi-k in Liverpool. Married to Rev. F. W. Auvache on Dec. 8th, 1885, and soon after left for India. In consequence of ill health, returned with her husband in November, 1887, and at present is compelled to reside in London, England, for medical treatment. Just before embarking for India Mrs. Avauche's church niembership was transferred by letter to the Baptist Church in Stratford, Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Avauche are now both mem- bers of that church. Scrap Book. 207 ■V ' I daughter Everton ol in the in War- City of J engaged and soon ned with jompelled s church ;!hurch in loth mem- REV. F. W, AUVAOHB. Rev. Fredrick William Auvache was bom in London, Eng., on August 15th. 1856. Converted in Hampton, England, in August, 1871. Baptized in Woodstock in the fall of 1878, by the late Prof. Torrance. Emigrated to Canada in April 1872. Educated at the Gait High School, Woodstock College, and the Pastor's College, London, England. Sailed from Quebec for India on November 20th. 1 885. Married to Elizabeth Owen in Liverpool, England, on December 8th, 1885. Arrived in India March 2nd, 1886. Compelled through ill health to leave India on November 20th, 1887, and arrived in Canada May 3rd, 1888. By a Council held at the call of the Stratford Ohurch, November 10th, 1885. Mr. Auvache was ordained by a unanimous vote of the Council, after a very satisfactory examination. While quite youn£» he was placed in Miss McPherson's " Home," in London, England. The Christian influences there surrounding him led to his converdion when he was fourteen years of age. At the prayer-meeting in the " Home " was developed the desire to, in a quiet way, make known the gospel. It was not, however, until 1875, through a conversation had with a student of Woodstock College, that he realized that some day he might preach the truth, and, may be, become a foreign missionary. 208 Tbluou Mission. MBS. J. B. DAVIS. Laura Lockhart was born in Durham Co Ont., Nov. 5th, 1856. In 1878 she was convetted and joined the Presbyterian Church of which her paients were members. Even then she wished to be immersed. She was an active worker in Sabbath School and Mission Circle for years. She had also often expres- sed a desire to go to teach the heathen the way of life. Some time before her marriage of her own accord she went to Port Hope— was immersed and joined the Baptist Church there. Her Lord has heard her heart's cry and she is now preparing to tell the story of life to the heathen Telugus. Scrap Book. 309 REV. J- E. DAVIS, B. A. Bro. Davis was born at Wicklow, Ontario, Canada, February l7th, 1858. He was converted and baptized at Haldimand by Rev. J. B. Moore. Up to his 23rd year his educational advant- ages were of the scantiest. In 1880 he went with his brother G. B Davis, B. A., to the North West to establish Prairie Col- lege. He studied in that institution and subsequently in Rapid City Academy for about four years, and matriculated into Mani- toba University with first class honors. He graduated H. A. in 1887, and came east the same year, with the intention of study- ing theology in McMaster Hall, Toronto, but the call for men to fill the vacant posts in the Telugu field was too urgent, and he sent in his name. He was ordained and designated to the work in Bloor St. Baptist Church, Toronto, on 5th July. 1887. Himself, wife and Mr. Laflainme reached India November 12, of the same year. Bro. Davis' difficulties in early life will admirably fit him to endure hardship as a cood soldier of Jesus Christ. He is richly endowed for work, and may God use him mightily for His glory. 210 Tkluou Mission. . .,'... -.'.JB .-.,i' 1 ' , - ■' - 'Vi' ' i|i V' ' f rr'-:-,, ■'?■■■■■■;,.;, \„.. :'%v>i , i . ,; '''-..^i,!. . . :/:;'.ofiin^^H ^^^^^^Ik'''' ''''^'^'^niV^ffi ^^^^Hhj;.'^', ^ :;• ''•''^T^'ljji '^M^^^^H ^^H^^^l ^I^^^B::''!;^''''' MHHM^^^^^^^^HL^ ''*fll W ^^'' m MRS. GAR8I0E. Mrs. Garside is the daughter of Rev. Joshua Denovan of Alexander St. Baptist Church, Toro. to. Margaret Denovan was bom in Glasgow, Scotland, was baptized by her father in Mon treal and her education in the different places where her father had pastorates. She is young and her Christian experience is mostly to be made and her life work lies mostly in the future. She brings with her to her work a sunny disposition and a ten- dency to lind the humorous side of life These tendencies will stand her in good stead during many a gloomy day in India. May her life be a very long one, a very sunny one and withal a very blessed one. ScKAi* Book. 211 enovan of ■ovan was in Mon ler father erience is lie future, md a ten- sncies will tdia. May ^al a very KEV. EOBERT'llGARSIDE. Emigrated from Leeds, Yorkshire, England, with his father's family in 18(»8. Was baptized by Rev. Robert Cameron and be- came a member of the Biantford Tabernacle Church a few years ago. •* The evening meeting of the Fyfe Missionary Society, on December 2nd, 18ti7, took the form of a farewell service to our esteemed fellow-student, Robert Gai'side. who sails on Saturday next for India, as the special representative of our young men. All the city churches were represented in the gathering * * The Rev. Dr. Castle, as President of the Faculty, addressed his farewell words to the missionary elect, He was convinced that the foreign ticid required our very best men. Robert Garside was one of the noblest and best gifts wliich the College could bestow upon India As a student ne has shown himself to be of solid manhood and the brilliant talent of honest hard work. He went forth upon a sacred and glorious mission, carrying with him the esteem and love of the Faculty and students. The Doc- tor expressed his gratitude that the reproach of former days was blotted out, when the appeal, "A man for India," was iterated and reiterated . without response. if : ■ 1 ''■':■ ■'UK 212 Ieluou Mission. MRS. CURRlfi. 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 1861 by Rev. Mr. De B!ois and united with the Wolfville Church. In 1872 offered for Foreign services and was accepted by the Foreign Missionary Board of the Mari- time Provinces. Was designated in August 1873 at Windsor, N. S., in company with six others for tho Karens of Siam, sailed from St. John and reached Rangoon, Burmah, January 12th, 1874. She spent two years in Burmah during which time she studied the Karen language and did Mission work at iSavoy, Maulmein, and Henthada She was married to Rev. G. F. Cur- rie of the Ontario board in Bangoon February 1st, 1876, and shortly after sailed for Cocanada and in 1878, took up her resi- dence with her husband among the wilds of Tuni. Here for six years she knew the toils, the cares, and the privations of Mi>sion- ary life as few know them. Her Missionary spirit whs deep and original and she was strong both to bear and to do because slie loved her Lord and loved the Telugus. Sadly needing a rest she returned with her wearied husband to Canada in 1881. Cheer- fully she made the sacrifice when she sent him to fill the vacant place in 1875. In one short year the great sorrow of her life be- fel her — she was a widow and her children fatherless Scrap Book. 213 Wolfville, N. place. Was ]s and united eign services of the Mari- at Windsor, F Siam, saikd fanuary 12th, ich time she [rk at Savoy, fr. G. F. Cur- It, 187G, and up her resi- Here for six ,8 of Mi>sion- HS deepond , because she Ing a rest she 884. Cheer- l the vacant »f her life bc- less 1886. THE 20th annual MEETING 01' THE BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Was held in the Baptist Church, Town of Paris on Thursday the 21st day of October, 1886. l^rtBtDtnt. Chas. Raymond. r>ct=}3rr»jlienlB. Wm. Cbaio and A. A. Ayer. Sccrrtarp. Rev. J. VV. A. Stkwart, B.A. Crtasuwr. T. S. Shension, Esq. January 20th, 1886. — The 10th annual meeting of the Cana- dian Telugu Conference was held in the Cocanada Mission House Among those reported present were Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin, Mr and Mrs. Craig, Miss Frith and Mr. StillwcU. Statistics : — Cocanada, — Baptized, forty-three ; members, 40-^. Tuni. — Haptized, eight ; members, fifty-two. Akidu. — Baptized, 202 ; members, 1,248. February Link, Bro. McLaurin writes; : — " We are also re- joicing in a very fine Doilond's telescope. This is the joint gift of Bro. Claxton, of Montreal, and the trustees of Wookstock College. Bro Claxton gave it to the College years ago, and now with his concuirence it has been presented to Samulcotta Semin- ary. A few days ago it was unpacked, and our boys had their first view of the heavens through a telescope. It is really a very superior instrument, and we are all very much indebted to the donors. The above we use to get better acquainted with God's mighty worlds rolling in space. We have another instrument which as- sists us to become conversant with God's minutest wonders be- neath our feet — a microscope. For this we are indebted to Bro. Shenston, our treasurer." ' f: 214 Telugu Mission. REV. G. F. CURRIE, M. A. The^following letter will contain all the information about this Brother that will be expected in a "Scrap Book." The de- parted Brother spent a week or two with the writer- just previous to his departure for India. He was the youngest son of Zebula and Lovinia Currie. He was a printer by trade, and in that capacity worked in the city of Philadelphia and in the Harper's establishment in the city of New York. It was in this way he procured the means for his five years [in the Wolfville Institute from which he graduated in 1874. •• He was born in Fredericton, N. B., in 1844. He was con" verted when a lad of some eleven years, and at that time public ly expressed his desire to be a foreign missionary. When eight. Scrap Book. 215 een years of age he united with the Fredericton church. About this time he attended the Provincial Training or Normal School at St. John, and subsequently taught the public school for eight- teen months at Keswick Ridge. Here he first began evangelistic and temperance work. He afterwards spent five years at the in- stitution at Wolfville, graduating at Acadia College as one of the class of '74. His college course was marked by unusual ability in study, all subjects of the curriculum being grappled with in a searching and masterful way ; while his life was characterized by a simple, earnest, and firm religious faith. Friends in Cardigan, Newcastle and Andover — all in N, B., — will remember his faith- ful labors as a home missionary during his college vacations. He was ordained to the work of the ministry at Andover, in July, 1874, immediately after his college graduation, and forthwith offered his services as a foreign missionary to the Board of the Maritime Provinces. The Board was unable to give him the ex- pected encouragement in pursuance of his plans. Shortly after this the Board of Ontario and Quebec sought him out and offer- ed to send him at once to India. He joyfully accepted the ser- vice, and after visiting a number of the churches in Ontario, was publicly designated at Guelph to the Cocanada mission field. Em- barking at Halifax November, 1875, he reached Rangoon, Janu- ary, lb76. On the first of February he was married to Maria E. Armstrong, of Wolfville, N. S. — she, it will be remembered, being one of the band of Missionaries who left the Maritime Provinces in 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Currie embarked at once for Oocanada, where they resided for nearly two years. While en- gaged in the study of the Velugu language Mr. Currie took an equal share with Mr. McLaurin in the charge of the English Bap- tist Church. He also organized in connection with the congreg- ation a temperance society which has grown in numbers and in- fluence; and superintended the Sabbath School. As his ability to speak to the natives increased, he seized every opportunity of preaching to them either in bazaar, village, or on missiciiary tours ; on a number of which he accompanied Mr. McLaurin. Leaving Cocanada he opened in January, 1878, a station in an entirely new field at Tuni. Then commenced a heroic conflict with superstition, ignorance, and Brahmin prejudice. He fought single handed, or even worse, for the two men who went with him as preachers proved unworthy of confidence, and were event- ually dismissed. For a time it seemed almost as if the battle was going against him, but gathering a feeble band of recruits he held the ground with reverent determination to plant there the 'ii: \\\ i' 1 fc: »I 216 Telugu Mission. standard of the cross. And this he did, the Lord granting him somewhat at least of his soul's desire. He wasted no time in argu- ment with those who came only to oppose, he preached "the truth as it is in Jesus,' beginning first in the town of Tuni, and extend- ing his sphere of labor gradually, until every part of the field had been travelled over. The upper classes would not heed his mes- sage, and with strong desire he turned to the lower castes and outcasts. At the end of jix years a church of about fifty or sixty members had been gathered from thirteen vi]'ages — the fruit of unremitting toil. He felt it very hard to leave the work in the spring of 1884, for there were enquirers in several sections of the field. After his return, he writes in November, 1885 : " Other candidates are desiring baptism in different places, but how soon I shall be able to meet them I do not know." The previous month he writes : •* Prayer is a great source of comfort and en- couragement to me now in my isolation. I realize [the fulfilment of the promise, • Lo, I am with you alway.* I have been won- derfully sustained and have great reason to be thankful. Yet I do so long to see the people submitting to Christ, and this long- ing is so far from being satisfied." His desire was at least part- ially granted, for he baptized about 24 -persons after his return. A few of these were from the Cocanada field, the northern part of which he had charge of. He had, indeed, general supervision of all the fields from the time of his arrival until Mr. Craig re- turned to India, In addition to direct missionary work among the heathen, he superintended the building of a house which served as a residence for his family, a school house which served the double purpose of school house and chapel, and a mission house which he was engaged in finishing when the call came to him to rest from his labors. A few sentences must close this sketch. Mr. Currie endeav- ored always to preach somewhere each day. He was a father to his Christians. He made their troubles his own, and they were sure of his practical help. He never spoke complainingly of his privations. The first years at Tuni were attended with many hardships. When depressed by severe and continued illness, and discouraged by the state of the work, " once only," says Mrs. Cur- rie, ' ' I heard him exclaim * all these things are against us.' " Those who have gone into heathenism as dark and imbruted as that at the new station at Tuni can understand his travail of spirit. Those who were privileged to know Mr. Currie will agree with me in saying that he was faithful, conscientious, earnest, Scrap Book. 217 ever zealous, watchful, exact, wise, helpful. Perhaps his most distinguishing trait was humility, the root From which all heavenly virtues shoot." He seemed to have the gift of self-effacement. He never forgot that " the servant is not above his Lord," and with much sweet- ness and gentleness of spirit strove to obey the injunction, " By love serve one another." 1 trust our young men at Acadia, at Woodstock, at Mc Master Hall may catch the spirit which impel- led this noble life. Mrs. Ourrie, whom I was privileged to count a member of my Sabbath School class in my college days, and her three little children will receive the prayerful sympathy of all readers of the Link. Woodstock, Ont., Sept., 1886. Theodore H. Rand. Bro. McLaurin writes, August 3rd : — '* Long before you see this you will know that as a mission we are again bereaved. Our faithful devoted brother Ourrie has been called to his rest and reward. He had been sick for a long time, but we thought he was improving till Saturday, 81st July, when he suddenly sank away. We had not anticipated this. It seemed to us as if in our wr^kness he could not be spared, so we looked to the Lord with much confidence for his recovery. But his work was done. What patient, close, hard work, it has been, few know. After yeai'S of lonely trial at Tuni, those desert places were be- ginning to be glad for him, and the solitary places to blossom. Much new ground had been taken in the Master's name, and fruit began to cheer his heart. When now we have to lay the hero of those quiet toils away to rent, we feel that we have lost much, and we are grieved for poor Tuni. May the Lord quickly send one to its rescue. The poor wife will be almost crushed. I wish you had known her, a gentle refined spirit ; only God can soothe such grief. She will think it would not have been so hard had she been with him, but she cheerfully bore the harder part in sending him back so soon and so promptly when she was compel- led to remain behind. I hope you will still have her come up to your annual meeting some time when she can bear it. Bro. Oraig writes : — " Our house has been somewhat like a hospital for weeks past. About the middle of June I went out for a short trip, and Mrs. Auvache came down from Samulcotta. When I returned I found Mr. Auvache here also, they had moved in the meantime But Mrs. Auvauche was quite poorly, and for MM ! iil ■ « V t: ... y , l*i &\ 218 TelUOU M188IOK. weeks she was a prisoner in her room. Our dear brother Currie came on the 6th July, stayed for a few days and then went to Samulcotta. On the 15th Mrs. Craig and I set out for a tour. The next day Mr. Currie came here expecting to be comfortable in our bedroom, but our baby came that day and upset all our plans. Mr. Currie had to be content with a bed in this room — the study. In the next room Mrs. Craig was in bed, and on the other side of the bouse Mrs. Auvache was still ill." " 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's room on Saturday the 24th. After our brother's departure on the 31st, we all seemed to be well for a few days, but it was not long before the care and excitement undergone by Miss Frith began to tell on her, and she took to her bed. A week ago last Saturday she left for Bimlipatam, but she has been poorly there too. I trust we shall have better news soon." *' Mr. McLaurin also has had one of his sick spells lately, and it begins to seem almost certain that he should go home in the spring. I trust the friends at home will bear us up in the arms of faith at all times, they never know what troubles we may be passing through. When it comes to death, a message is sent, but not otherwise." Bro. Auvache writes : — " Arrived July 6. Here the disease was so far checked as to allow of a short visit to Samulcotta. 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. * On Saturday, July 31, he sank rapidly. ' The most earnest eflforts to prolong his fleeting life were made. * At about 8.15 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 his face seemed to lose the weary look of pain, and in its place came a look of joy and peace. Then he sank down and at 8.25 o'clock he was with the Master he so dearly loved and whom he so faith- fully 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. McLaurin, but before he or Bro Stillwell cou'd get here, our dear brother was in glory. The doctor says the cause of death was failure of the heart's action brought about by the debility of the whole system. Speaking to him a few days before his death, I said, ' Bro. Currie, this is one of the all things Scrap Book. 219 that work together for good.' He replied, *Ye8, God knows best ; I am quite content.' " •' Our brother was buried on Sunday, August 1. We had a short service in our English chapel, conducted by Bro. McLaurin, the service in the cemetery being conducted by Bro. Craig. Our dear brother's body lies near to Brother Timpany's, there to await the Lord's coming." August 10, 1886, Samulcotta; Bro. McLaurin writes: — '•* * How unnatural it feels to put that name at the head of an obit- uary notice. Brother Currie, who only a few weeks ago was with us in this same room, whose features and form stand clearly before me as T write, whose quiet, gentle, soothing, musical voice I can now hear. Brother Currie, my first helper on the Cana- dian field, and the man who last year so heroically sprang into the breach made by Bro. Timpany's death, and who so soon fell at his po3t. Yes Bro. Currie's body has been laid in the ceme- tery, where our treasures are accumulating, and his soul has gone to join the great cloud of witnesses. We do not profess to understand our Father's dealings with us in this matter. We would rather not lift the veil. We know that He doeth all things well ; and Bro. Currie's work was done. And there was nothing else to do but take him to glory. We are not cast down. We loved our brother dearly." * * " He came to us on the 12th February, 1876. He entered into our life like a gentle breeze, to soothe and refresh us." "Everybody who has come in contact with our brother knows that he was a quiet man. He was a gentle man, a meek man, a man full of self repression. Yielding in matters of policy, etc., though firm enough in matters of principle and conscience. These are qua'ities not generally popular, though they are a blessing in our loud-voiced work-a day world, and much set by in the good book. He learned the language early and well. * * In 1868, with his wife, he removed to Tuni. Tuni was and is a peculiarly hard field. The people are very poor and very ignor- ant and debased. He suffered much from fever, and they were constantly exposed to wild beasts and venomous reptiles. The house was more than once visited by Dacoits or thieves. Hard work was done and fruit was the result. When Brother Currie returned to his native land, with his family, in 1884, there was a church of fifty members and several preachers and teachers gathered from this virgin soil." " He came here two weeks before his death. I saw the case was serious, and besought him to go to Coganada, where he III i i ■! (I 2 Telugu Mission. oould have treatment. He went. AH was done for him that was possible. But he had finished his course and the Lord took him," " This will throw additional labor upon those left, especi ally on Bro. Craig. He will need your prayers and sympathy. I am only good for so much. There are no reserves of strength in me any more." " Who is to have the privilege of taking up the fallen mantle 1 A good man, a gentle, patient toiler, a man full of the Holy Ghost and of faith, has left a vacant place. Who will come and fill it?" Bro. J. R. Stillwell, October 12th, 1866, writes :—•• I had not seen Mr. Ourrie as yet, and knew him by nauje only. But Mrs Ourrie sent us a warm, hearty, genuine missionary letter just before setting sail, and we felt we had something special to say to Mr. Ourrie when we should meet him. The meeting took place on the morning that we lay off the Cocanada coast, waiting for some one to come off and meet us. and trying to realize our voyage had come to an end. We had not waited long when a gentleman came up the ship's ladder and asked for us. The gen- tleman was Mr. Ourrie, and we saw him for the first time. In his own quiet way he took charge of us; and together he went on shore. Siiice that time we met him often and soon became ac- quainted. Quiet, unassuming, and rather retiring, you might not notice him particularly at first ; but on further acquaintance his smooth, even way, his well trained mind, his s .ncerity,[thorough honesty in everything, the definiteness of his knowledge, his prac- tical good sense, his faithful performance of his work, his court- eous bearing and kindness of heart, all soon won him respect and love. We cannot wonder, then, at our missing him and find ing it hard to grasp it all as reality. He departed so unexpect- edly and quietly, gliding away, as it were, that we cannot help feeling how uncertain our hold is of our friends. Another has gone. Another place is vacant, Its meaning is clear to us. Has it any voice for you, enjoying gospel light ? " February 12, 1886, Nellore ; Bro. Oraig writes: — "Four years ago we began to talk of a jubilee celebration, and now it is a thing of the past. After our conference at Oocanada we left on the 25th January for Nellore. Our party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin, Mr. and Mrs Archibald, Mr. and Mrs. Oraig, Miss Gray, Miss Frith, and Mr. Ourrie. The ladies occupied the Oanadian, and the gentlemen the T. 8. 8henston. At meal tinges we made exchanges' We reacheCO C4 Beceived from all souices I4U53 GS $15214 29 CR. Paid Miflsionaries $14248 60 Disbiirsoments COO 91 Balance on band 304 74 $16214 29 The 10th annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, West, was held in Hamilton on the 1 5th Oc- tober. 1886. Mbs. J. H. Gabtle. Tict'Tl^tteiXttritt. Mrs. Thompson, and Mrs. J. C. Yule. Sstnttmte. MiBS V. Elliott, Recording ; Miss Bochan, Correflponding. ExtMurtx. Mrs. W. H, Elliott. M V I 224 Tbluou Mission. Extracts from report : — *' The next appropriation was. that as ' a elight acknowledge- ment of the debt of gratitude we owe to the late Mr. Timpany and to Mrs. Timpany, that $100 be remitted annually 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, Brantford, 1st Church; Mrs Wm Pickard, Guelph ; Mrs. A. V. Timpany, Woodstock ; Mrs. Ryder, Goble's Corners ; Mrs. S. Dadson, Pans ; Mrs. Davis, 2nd, Lobo ; Mrs. John Bates, Mrs. McLaurin, India ; Mrs. T. S. Shenston, lirantford, 1st Church ; Mrs. Carey, Hrantford, 1st Church ; Mrs. Ira Barber, ^illa Nova ; Mrs, John Haviland, Boston ; Mrs. John Nelles, Boston ; Miss Clara Lugsdin, Jarvis St. Church, Toronto." Financial Statement. DR. I CR. Balance on bnnd $2232 24 Paid for M insion purposes $4S5I 84 Received from all sources 4104 49l DiBbursements Ili7 40 Balance on hand 1587 43 $0336 7S $<3336 73 The 10th annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society, East, was held in the Olivet Baptist Church, Montreal City the 7th day of October, 1886. 1 ?i>vf«(i«nt. Mhm. T. J,|(Ilaxton. Mbb. Painband Mbb. Uphau. atctdariefj. Mas. Bentlt, Becordins; Miss Muib, Corresponding. STnasuTtr. Mrc. Frank Smith. New circles have been fonned during the year in the following places : — Buckingham. Kenmore, Maxville and North Nation Mills, making in all 35 circles. Scrap Book. 225 Extracts from tho report ; — " At the request of Mrs. Castle, President of the Western So- ciety, an extra effort was made to raise $200, to assist in the erection of the new Zenana house. An appeal was made to our circles, which was heartily responded to, and soon the required amount was raised, and sent on to the treasurer of the General Society." ♦ '' '• In the year to come may the sisters in all our churches en- gage heartily and lovingly in this work, that more laborers may be sent forth, and soon may we hear of large numbers of the Tel- ugus accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour." Financial Statement. $0336 73 DR. Balance ou hand $ 493 18 Total received 1163 05 $1040 23 OR. Paid Foreign MisflJon $ 1238 85 Diabursementfl 10 29 Balance on hand 397 OU $ 1646 23 From the 72nd annual report of the American Baptist Union (1886) we learn that the Union have now 12 separate stations among the Telugus and have baptized of them during the year 1,220 and expended $63,020.27. The following are tho numbers of baptisms in connection with the three stations with which our Canadian Missionaries were fornierly connected. Nellore, — Baptized, twenty-one ; members, 496 Ongole. — Baptized, 356; members, 14,890. Ramapatam. — Baptized, twenty ; members, 601. 'i|. I lollowing Nation 226 Telugu Mission. 1887. THE 21th annual MEETING OF THE BAPTIST FOEEIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OP ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Was held inthe Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Toronto, on the 17th day of October, 1887. Dr. Thomas in the chair. Addresses were delivered by Dr. W. S. McKenzie, of Boston, U. S. ; Rev. John McLaurin, and Robert Garside. V/lLLIAM CbAIO. Chas. T?ayhond and A. A. Ayeb. Setretttrg. Kev. Jameb Grant Creaaunr. T. S. Shenston. The 11th annual meeting of the Canadian Telugu Conference was held at Bimlipatam on Monday, January 10th, 1887. Amonsj those reported present were Mr. and Mrs McLaurin, Mr. and Mrs. Oraig, Mr. and Mrs, Stillwell, Miss Hatch and Mr. Auvache. Statistics : Cocanada, baptized, 72 ; members, 490. Tuni. — Baptized, eleven ; members, 53. Akidu. — Baptized, 172 ; members, 1,829. At the 12th annual conference held at Cocanada January 17th 1888, 1.966 members are reported. Bro. Craig writes from India. February 10th, 1887 : — On the afternoon of Thursday, the 19th January a council met at Co- canada for the purpose of examining three candidates for ordina- tion. Bro. McLaurin was moderator and Jonathan Burder, clerk." Missionaries Appointed. — At a meeting of the Foreign Mis- sion Board, of Ontario and Quebec, held on March 18th, two of the students of McMaster Hall were appointed to the Foreign Scrap Book. 227 ETY on the [dresses ; Rev. mference th, 1887. rin, Mr. and Mr. uary 17th —On the net at Co- or ordina- Burder, reign Mis- th, two of e Foreign Field. Mr. J. E. Davis, B. A., had been for some weeks before f he Board, and had already been accepted by the Executive Com- mittee. Mr. H. F. Laflamme appeared before the Board for the first time and manifested such zeal and enthusiasm that he was appointed at once Mr. Davis is a graduate of the Manitoba University, Winnipeg, and has spent several years in the North- west. He has had considerable experience in Mission work on the prairies, and this will doubtless be of use to him in India. He has had only one year of his theological course, but it was felt that the emergency is such at present as to justify the ap- pointment of an under-graduate. Mr. Laflamme is still in the third year of his University course, and is only twenty two years of age. About this date Rev. James Grant of Paris was appointed Secretary in room of the Rev. J. W. A. Stewart, B. A. who had accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church in the city of Rochester, New York. March 1S87, Link. — *• In a letter from Miss Frith dated Ban- galore, Dec, , 23. She writes cheerfully as to her condition, but she is not by any means strong yet. She writes : " I thought a great many times, a while ago. that I would be with Mr. Tim- pany and Mr. Currie soon, and my body would be lying beside theirs in the little grave-yard, but God had other plans and I have been spared for some purpose I trust to do a little more work or perhaps to shine for him. March 10th, 1887, Miss Hatch wrote from India— Mr. Craig has had charge ot all the fields, Cocanadu, Tuni and A.kidu, going out touring on them as often as possible ; and besides this he has had to .superintend these three buildings, the Zenana House, Rest House and Natives' House. One cannot do here as at home, put buildh)g into the hands of a contractor and then leave him to fill out the contract, for there is no one here com- petent for that. In many cases the missionaries themselves have had to supervise everything, personally, but Mr. Craig rightly thinking his time too precious for that, and know- ing that most of his time was needed in the fields, has engaged an overseer for these buildings whom he holds riisponsible during his absences. This is the best that could V-^ a me, but the build- ings don't progress quite as rapidly hs thv.; might have done otherwise. At present, however, the Zenann house is nearing completion." 228 Telugu Mission. March 21, 1887, Bro. Craig writes from India: — " On Thurs- day, at a village two miles nearer Gunnanapudi, 1 heard from Cocanada and Samulcotta that Mr. McLaurin was ill. and feared he must leave India at once. I started immediately for home, spent about one hour at Akidu, and arrived at Cocanada on Sunday morning very early." " I found Mr. McLaurin fee'ing better, but on Monday he was quite ill again, and we began to make arrangements for a sea voyage to Colombo, where he might wait for the steamer for London. The sea always does him good. He was feeling so poorly that I concluded to accompany him and Mrs. McLaurin. I came to this decision more readily, because I was feeling poorly myself. We have had a succession of hurries and delays. While expecting the steamer on Saturday, we heard that it might come on Friday and so prepared. Even the farewell meeting was held on Thursday evening, instead of Friday. This was given by the English church, addresses being presented to Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin and Miss Frith, each of whom received a silver napkin ring. But the steamer did not come on Friday." April, 1887, Link contains a long and most interesting letter from Miss S. I. Hatch, on her arrival at Cocanada, of which the following are short extracts : — " Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, Dr Emma Cummings and self, took passage from Liverpool to Madras the following week. There were other missionaries aboard (Epis- copal). The passengers represented all classes from the righteous over-much to the most unrighteous, so that it might easily be suspected that the relations were not always the mo.«^ttjordial. The ship, however, sailed smoothly on through the calm seas, quite unconscious of the tumults and storms that were being continually repressed within. The weather all along waa delight- ful. * * " In two dd-ys we reached Madras, anchoring there on Sun- day night." * * My letters received on board here, the first item of news was that the Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec had closed the year free of debt. Cheery welcome tidings this ! When we know how heavy the burden had been a few weeks before " '* We take the steamer to Cocanada, stopping at Musuli- patam, where we left our pleasant companion and dear friend, Emma J. Cunmiings, M. D., who goes to Baputla as a Medical Missionary, and who will live with Mr. and Mrs. BuUard, Mrs. Bullard being a Canadian and formerly a student of Wo., iscock Scrap Book. 229 be lial. 8ing sun- liewa land lings Ileal College. On Saturday morning we anchor at Cocanada, and on the steam launch coming out to meet us we recognize the faces of Mr. McLaurin and Mr. Auvache. How good to grasp the hand of an old friend after so many tussings to and fro ! Some of the home letters which they bring with them are gulped down while questions and answers, inquiries, and orders for luggage are so hastily spoken ! So we say good bye to the last companions of o"r voyage, Rev (J. Churchill and wife, who have taken great care of their protege and sliown her much kindness. Mrs. McLaurin greets us on the shore and I am hur- ried 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 glimpse of the town as we follow through. The compound is a pretty inviting place in this the cool season of the year, and as we drive to the door of the Mission House we are met by Mrs. Craig, Mrs. Auvache and Miss Johnson, from whom and from all our missionaries we received a very hearty welcome either by letter or by telegram, and so we close ' Our Notes by the Way.' " From Tuni, May 18, 1887, Mr. Craig writes:— "My last commnnication 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 just taken to his bed, wliere he ^-emained for some time, with a severe attaok of fever. He is not , ; lly well yet, though moving about." *' Ou the 3rd May, early in the morning, I received a telegram annoiincing the safe arrival of our party at Suez. This message 3t"^'e^ us frOii anxiety until we had letters from Aden on Satu!" lay last, which told us of the the extreme illness of Bro. Mfl>»n'y. between Colombo and Aden. If he reaches Canada J nd has his health restored, his life ought to be one of great Messing to many, because it has apparently been given back so many times." Farewell to Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin, 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 the Msv. Mr. Auvache, the pastor of the church, was held in the new J'lvMjany Memorial Boarding and Day School, for the purpose of ■j;?esenting farewell addresses to Rev. Mr. McLaurin, of the Canadian Baptist Mission, and Miss Frith, Zenana Missionary, on the occasion of their departure for Canada, to recruit their H 280 Telugu Mission. health, which had been materially declining for some considerable time. The social was larfjely attended. The whole of the front por- tion of the large building was fully occupied, among others the Rev. Messrs. Heilles and Miles, of the Narsapur Mission were present. The proceedings commenced by the chairman calling upon the Rev. Mr. Craig, to ask a blessinfj, when tea and cakes provided by some of the Marthas of the Church were served ad libitum, by some of the • *v'ng h dies of the school, who cheerfully under- took the work. Next an appropr . i hymn was sung, and an appropriate ad- dress was presented to the Rev. Mr. McLaurin, by Mr. G. H. White, of Messrs. Hall, Wilson «k Co. The address was handed over to the Bev. Mr. McLi,urin, ac- companied with two silver napkin rings, having hJis own and Mrs. McLaurin's names engraved on them. Upon which the rev. gentleman, who was very weak, rose, and in behalf of him- self and Mrs. McLaurin thanked them for the handsome manner in which they expressed their esteem and regard, and for the many kind words spoken, with reference to himself and his wife. Miss Frith who appeared to be overcome at the prospect of leaving those who were endeared to her, briefly tendered her heartfelt thanks for the kind allusions made to herself and her labours in Cocanada, and hoped in God's Providence to return soon to the scene of her labors, where she had made up her mind to Jive and die. June 80th, 1887, C. Baptist. — "Mr and Mrs McLaurin, and son, 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. McLaurin was very well during the whole of the journey from Cocanada, but is by no means so robust as when she went away. Mr. McLaurin though far from strong, is very much improved, and feels that hip 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 felt the cool nrothern breeze he began to mend. His stay in England did much for him, and during the Atlantic voyage he continued to improve. The meeting with loved ones at Woodstock, espec- ially with their own children, was a gladly solemn occasion." RBMBSa mPiTI ' ' ScKAP Book. 231 In Canadian Baptist : — "At the request of the Bloor St. Baptist Church, Toronto, an Eoclesiiistical Council convened on Monday and Tuesday, July 5th, 1887, for the purpose of examining and if thought advisable ordaining to the work of the gospel in India, Brethren H. F. Laflamme and J. E. Davis. After devotional exercises, Pastor El- more Harris, of Toronto, was elected Moderator, and Pastor David Hutchinson, of Brantford, Clerk. The churches which responded to the invitation were as follows, ^dz : — * * Among the visiting brethren were John McLaurin, returned Missionary from India. July 4th, 1887, at a Board meeting held in the Bloor St. Church, Toronto, Miss Isabella Alexander was appointed as a Missionary, July, 17th, 1887. — At a Board meeting in the Standard Office Mr. Ilobt. Garside was appointed as a missionary, but not to be sent until $1,500 should be raised as a special fund for that purpose AugAist, 1887, Link, extract of a letter from Miss Hatch, dated at Cocanada : — My Dear Mrs. Newman, — Our dear Miss Frith has to day left us to the deep regret of all. Many hearts were sad, but none more sad than her own. The thought of leaving the work so dear to her was very hard after being here only a limited time. As she says it ^' s hard for her to leave home when she came liere, but now it was doubly so to leave this, the land of her adoption, and the land to which God had specially called her. During the past few weeks all the time she could possibly spare and more has been taken up by receiving visitors who had come for the last talks. European and Eurasian, English and native Bichamic and Christian, one and all were listened and talked to with equal attention : to one an earnest word of advice, to an- other an encouraging word ; to one a reproof to another an exhor- tation, with many not Christians a few beseeching words of prayer. To-day the verandah was filled again, the ochool-girls were here and sang their good-bye hymns with their loved missionary sitting in their midst, to-night the verandah is quiet, the school girls have gene to their rooms, and Miss Frith is on the sea homeward bound. Many here are praying for her (juick return, and we hope those at home may unite their petitions at the Throne of Grace, that if it is God's will she may be fully restored so as to be able shortly to do &<• In the meantime 1 take a nominal oversight i^ 282 Tbluou Mission. of her zenana work, paying the workers and meeting them onct a month. October, 1887, Link, Farewell Services to Missionaries. — Farewell services of a very interesting character, were held in Brantford, and in Toronto, on the occasion of the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, and Mr. Laflamme for India. That in Brantford was held in the Park Church, under the auspices of the Young People's Association of the Churches. The service i a Toronto was held in the Jarvis Street Church. Rev. Dr. Thomas, Rev. James Grant, Rev. John Alexander, and Mr. Mr. Davis and Laflamme delivered addresses, and Dr. Castle offered prayer. The addresses were all good, but that of Mr. Alexander, in which he referred to the struggles he had passed through in collection with giving up his daughter to the foreign work, and the joy he had reached in making the sacrifice, was peculiarly tc KJiinp "'•' * * November, 12, ISBT, C. Bapi'ist informs its readers that in consequence of sickness Mr. and Mrs. Auvache were returning from 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 for the Foreign Mission Society by the Rtev. Dr. Kellogg of the Presbyterian Church. The services were of a highly impressive character. The ordination prayer was offered by Rev. Joshua Denovan ; the charge to the candidate was given by Rev. John McLaurin ; the right hand of fellowship was extended by the Rev. Dr. Thomas. Mr. Garside is expecting to sail for India in November, The fund started by Messrs. Davis and Laflamme ' for the third man ' is now complete. November, 19th, 1887, C. Baptist — A most unique an de- lightful service was held in the Sunday School Hall of the Jarvis Street Church, on Wednesday evening, 9th inst. It was a church family farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Garside. The spacious room was filled to repletion. Dr. Thomas presided. Mr. William El- liott spoke for the Board of Deacons, Mr. D. E. Thomson for the mission societies of the church, Mr. W. J. Davis, for the Sunday school, and Mrs. Castle for the Ladies Circles. A deputation from the Alexander Street Church, consisting of Mr» Huston and tho Rev. Professor McGregor, were introduced, and spoke with admirable appropriateness for the Young People's Association and the church which they represented. Mr. Garside feelingly responded. Before the meeting closed the Rev. Joshua Denovan arrived, and spoke words which thrilled all hearts. For appro- Scrap Book. 233 an de- Jarvis church room iam El- for the Sunday utation ion and ke with elation ieelingly enovan appro- priateness, conciseness and variety ot' speech— for touderuess, warmth and enthusiasm of feeling — for all that goes to make a meeting delightfully memorable, this certainly excelled. Not the least impressive features were the fervent prayers led by Rev. A. Orant, 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 we have experienced in our mission during the past four years ! Or perhaps I should say the past three years,, because the departure of Mr. Currie and fimily and of myself and child for Canada in February, 1884, was not an unexpected event. But the death of our pioneer missionary a year later, brought Mr. Currie back months before he expected to come and even I hastened my de- parture from Canada and came as early as was safe for Mrs. Craig and Mr. and Mrs. Stillwell. Then we welcomed Mr. and Mrs. Auvache in March, 1886, and felt that we were picking up strength once more. But July brought sorrow and loss when Bro. Currie was called home to glory. Then it soon became evi- dent that Bro. McLaurin must leave. We gave Miss Hatch a hearty welcome in December, that is, a year ago, but I for one was very much disappointed in not seeing any young* men com- ing. Next came the decision that Miss Frith must go home, and her departure with Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin soon followed. What an anxious time they had on the way to England every one knows. Well, what next ? Some more joy in the shape of rein- forcements. But before the first of them came, another decision had been reached. Extreme illness had forced Bro. Auvache to decide that he must leave for England at once. On the 12th November I went out to meet Mr. and Mrs. Davis and Mr. Laflamme. I can assure you that was a high day at the Mission House. Mr. and Mrs. Stillwell were in from Samulcotta and Miss Falsom was with us too. A you»g lady for the Narsapur Mission came on the steamer with our friends and was met by another young lady, and both were with us during that day.'' •' Only a week later I went ou* to the steamer once more. This time to see Mr. and Mrs. Auvache and baby safely on board. Miss Ellen Gibson, whom I call deaconness, was with us. This expedition was as wretched as the previous one had been enjoyable. In the one case I went to welcome new-comers with vigorous bodies, in the other I went to say farewell to those who were in weakness and illness, leaving India to save their 234 Telugu Mission. lives. On the 12th I went on a steam launch, and the sea was calm. On the 19th we had to go in a sail-boat, a id the sea was rough." Extracts from the 21st report : — " About thit inie word v/as received from India that the health of the senior missionary, Rev. John McLaurin, was so impaired that it was a grave question if he could hold out much longer. For more than a year he had been so enfeebled that his work, at other times a Joy, had become a burden almost too heavy to__be borne." * * " He accordingly sailed from Madras in April, and altliough seriously ill almost all the way across, and constrained to tarry for a while in England to recuperate, along with Mrs. McLaurin he arrived amongst us the third week of June. It is surely a matter of gratitude to our Father in heaven that he is able to report himself as recuperating fast. It is also well-known that Miss Frith, of the Women's Society, had been in poor health for a considerable time. Our sister's heart was so absorbed in her work that she forgot to take care of lierself, 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. McLaurin for a period of resL" '•' * " It meant the closing up of Samulcotta Seminary for more than one year, and the entire cessation of all the work in this department which has been going ou so hopefully ever since Bro. McLaurin had started it live years ago. It must be confessed that when the news reached us here in Canada of this foundation work, the education of a native ministry being stopped, that our fears grew apace, and that we seemed to see a dark cloud threat- ening the cradle we had watched with so much solicitude and hope." * * ** Only one missionary on the field, Bro. J. Craig, who is able to do full missionary work." In his report on the field, Bro. Craig writes: — "It was my hope that I should be able to care for the Akidu field and part of this field witliout overtaxing my strength ; but the event that saddened July, 1886, left additional burdens on my shoul- ders. From then till April of this year, I had the care of all the fields, and the work was almost too much for me. When Mr. McLaurin was leaving here in such a weak condition, I felt it would be a comfort to him and his wife were I to accompany him and 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, t [■ I Scrap Book. 235 having taken charge of Tuni and part of this Mr. Stillwell field." * ■■'• Bro. Craig writes : — " In September I had the pleasure of organizing cimrches at Maran»anda and Nalluru. These two places are centres of aggressive work, and well worthy of having separate churches of their own." * * " It will be remembered that for many year Bro. John Craig was the laborious and successful missionary upon this field. Since liis removal to Cocanada as general overseer of our mission work on that and the other fields, Akidu has been without a resident missionary. We are hoping that the time is not far off wlien the way will be opened for Bro. Craig's return to his old mission ground." '■' * " Early in this year," writes Bro. McLaurin, "it became evi- dent that I could not remain nmch longer in the country, and Bro. Stillwell was unanimously asked by the missionaries to hold himself in readiness for the place. He came to Samulcotta at the beginning of the Seminary year He had so far progressed with tlie language as to matei'ially assist in religious exercises and take some classes When illness compelled us to go to Bangalore he took full charge of the Seminary and taught all the classes till our return. From January till the final break down of my health, he taught all the classes with the exception of the senior theological class. From the 1st of March, till the close on the 5th of April, he again assumed full charge. I consider such progress and such work on the part of our brother to be alto- gether phenomenal." " VVe had the pleasure also during the year to welcome Miss Hatch, of Woodstock, to a share of our work. * * We predict and pray for her a long life and usefulness in training the future ministry of our Telugu Christians." Statistics for the year : Samn'cotta. — Members, sixty. Tuni. — Baptized, five ; members, fifty-seven. Akidu. — Baptized, sixty-five ; members, 1330. Cocanada, — Baptized, forty; members, 418. Total, 18G5. Financial Stat. fnt. DR. Balance on hand 8 -'M 78 Kcceivcd from aU sources 15219 22 hv \unce due J rousurer : 14^2 32 $157£G 32 CR. Paid Missionaries $14(;42 87 Disbursemonts '.)4l 13 Ualuucedue Treaa 142 32 $1572C 32 236 Teluou Mission. The 11th annual meeting of the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society was held. 3Prc0i)i(nt. Mb8. J. H. Castle. Victt}fitni1tnt». Mbs. Thompson, add Mhb. J. C. Tulk. Zttxttaxlu. MiBB Qbace Alexandeb, Bfcording; Miss Buchan, Corresponding. STreRSum. Mrs. J. L, Eluott. 23 new circles organized during the year making in all 1 50. The following ladies have become life members during the year: Mrs. Thos. Couch, Guelph ; Mrs. Moor, College Street Circle Toronto ; Mrs. Mills, Parliament Circle, Toronto ; Mrs. Elmore Harris, Bloor St. Toronto ; Mrs. Ohas. Stark, Bloor St. Circle, Toronto; Mrs Hall Dundas; Mrs. Lewis Benedict, Brantford ; Mrs. Bone, St. Catharines ; Miss Jane Randal, Paris ; Mrs. Car- ryer, and Miss Hatch, Woodstock ; Mrs Walter, St. Thomas. Financial Statement. DB. Balance on hand $ 1487 43 Total received 4636 74 $6124 17 OR. Paid Foreign Mission $ 4075 QO Disbursements 107 48 Balance on band 1941 69 $ 6124 17 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Eastern Ontario and Quebec. IPrcisititnt. Mbs. T. J. Claxton. ViU'Vixtiititntfi. Mbs. Painb and Mbs. Uphau. Mbs. Bentlt, Beoording; Miss Muib, Corresponding. QTrtasuric. Mbs. Fbamk Shitb. ScttAP Book. 237 The 11th annual meeting of this Society was held in the Olivet Church, Montreal, on the afternoon of Thursday, October 6th, The attendance was the largest the Society has yet had. The President, Mrs. Glaxton. then gave a most cordial wel- come to the delegates from the circle present, expressing the pleasure that all felt in welcoming Miss Frith and the Rev. J. McLaurin amongst us at this time. Touching reference was made in the course of her address to the missiotiuriei who had just left, and to the one who was then leaving our shores (Miss Alexander sailed from Boston October 6th), and the great honor that women of this age received in being called to work together in this our Master's cause ; closing with an earnest appeal to the members of the Society for continued interest, for •• Behold, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest." Two new circles for the year reported, making the total num- ber 74. Extracts from report : — •' We regret to state that our very eflScient and hardworking Corresponding Secretary, Miss Muir, has been compelled to retire from active connection with the Board, in order to recruit her health. We shall miss her spirit of enthusiasm for missions, her loving zeal for the salvation of the Telugus which has often stirred us to greater effort, but we shall continue to pray that it may please God to soon restore her to health, and that she may again engage with us in this work which she has so much at heart." *' With four new missionaries going out this year, we are un - der fresh obligations to strive to induce every Baptist woman to become an active member of our Circles, and all doing what they can for our Foreign Missions." Financial Statement. Balance on hand $ 307 09 Keceived from all sources 1158 71 $1555 80 CR. Paid for Mission purposes $1190 00 Disbursements 16 95 Balance on band 348 85 $1555 8o From the 73rd annual report of the America Baptist Mission- ary Union (1887) we learn that they now have 13 separate sta- tions among the Telugus, and have baptized of them during the WWW' Ikluou M issiov year 1,060 and expended 849,148.04 The following are the numbers Imptized during the year in connection witli the three station with wliich our Missionaries were formerly connected : — I l^ellore. — Baptized, twenty-two; members, 582. Ongole.— Baptized, 508 ; members, 15,117. Ramapatam. — Baptized, none ; members, GO I. g are the the three lu'ctcd ; — Scuivp Book. •239 n It is a work of no small difficulty iw ascertain the correct num- ber of Protestant Ministers now laboring within the Province of Ontario, The lists published by the respective denominations give a total of 3,330, after making due allowance for those resid- ing within the province of Quebec included within some of the ecclesiastical boundaries of the East. From the best sources of information within our reach the following, we believe, will be found correct :— Methodists. 1,040 ; Presbyterian, 566 ; Ohurch of England, 485; Baptist, 165 ; Congregationalists, 150; Evan- gelical Christians (so called) 134 ; United Brethren in Christ (so called) 25 ; making a total of 2,566 being 775 less than the num- ber given in the Canadian Almanac. 240 Pelugu Mission. The following are the number of Missionaries laboring among the Telugus, Province of Canada, Baptists, 8 ; (two of whom have not yet learned the language), American Baptist Missionary Union, 14; London Missionary Society, 4 ; Church of England Missionary Society, G ; Evangelical Missionary Society, 9 ; Re- formed Dutch Missionary Society, 2 ; Episcopal Methodist, i ; making a total of 35. Each of the 5 1 3 light colored squares in the left hand diagram, representing each r> ministers (2,565) who are caring for the spir- itual wants of the 2,^00,000 of Ontario's population, represented by the 22 light colored squares <.n the right hand diagram. 'I lie 7 dark colored squares in the left hand diagram representing each 5 ministers (35) are caring for the spiritu^J wants of the 18,000,000 Telugus represented by the 180 dark colored squares on the right hand diagram. It is thus plainly seen that while in Ontario there is one minister to every 858 of the population, in the Telugn land there is only one Minister to every 500,000 ! Yes, it is tiue we •* have heathen at home. " But what have we abroad. Millions 850 170 8 176 80 116 The population of the world is estimated at 1,400,000,0(10. The chart opposite shows the actual relative number according to their religion. Each square represents 1,000,000 (one million) souls. Two and one-fifth of a square will represent the popula- tion of the Province of Ontario. . Jews, 8,000,000. The Jews do not accept Christ as the long promised Messiah, but are still looking for the Messiah, when he comes is to be their temporal King. Greek Church, 80,0000.000. Austria, 3,000,000. Russia, 68,000,000. Turkey, 13,000,- 000. Greece, 1,000,000. This church disown the authority of -the Pope, and of course does not recognize the Church of Rome Scrap Book. 241 242 Teluou Mission. as the true church. They baptize their children when from four to eighteen years of age by immersion, and give them the Lord's Supper immediately afterwards. They pray for . the dead, and believe that the real body of Christ is in the sacramental bread. Protestav-^s, 114,000,000 Europe, 74,000,000. Asia, 1,000,000. Africa, &c., 2,000,- 000. America, 37,000,000. All Christians who diffe' ' rotest against) from the Church of Rome. Roman Catholics, 186,000,000. Europe, 138,000,000. Asia, 4,000,000. Africa, 2.000.000. America, 42,000,000, Believe in the infallibility of the Pope — purgatory — masses offered to God a true and proper propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead — accept only the Chnrch's interpretation of all scripture — " Whosoever will be saved before all things it is necessary that he shall hold the Catholic faith, which faith except every one do keep entire and inviolate, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly." MoHAftiMEDANS, 162,000,000. India, 92,000,000. Turkey, 70.000,000. A compound of Paganism, Judaism and Christianity, with the Koran as their Bible, and as their rallying cry, " There is no God but God, and Mahommet is his prophet." Heathen, 850,000,000. Those who worship idols, and are ignorant of tiie vrue God and the only way of salvation, through the atonement of Christ. Teluous, 18,000,000. Heathens. About 1,500,000 are under the influence of our own Missionaries. Their country lies on the west side of the Bay of Bengal, and is shown on the map as lying within the dotted lihes. f MEMORIAM. REV. JOHN BATES, The first President of the Begalar Baptist Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec. Bom in Bajbrook, Northampton, England, January 26tb, 1806. Died in St. George, Brant County. Ontario, May 8th, 1875. ^^^^^^^^^^^ (See Page 90. REV. A. V. TIMPANY, The first Missionary sent out by the Begnlar Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec. Born December 21st, 1840. Designated at Ingersoll, Oct. 17th, 1867. Died in Coohuada, British India, February 19th, 1885. . (See Page 185 REV. GEORGE F. CURRIE, Was Bom at Fredericton, N. B., 1846. Died at Cocanada, July 31st, 1886. A Missionary of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec, who was laboring among the Telngus in India. ^-.^^^—^^^^^ (See Page 214 MARTHA MARIA PERRY CRAIG, Bom at Fort Hope, Ontario, February 13th, 1853, Died at Akidu, India, April 2ad, 1881. The wife of Rev. John Craig, B. A., a Missionary of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec, laboriL'g among the Telugus in India. (See Page 143 MARY McLAURIN, Born in Cocanada, India, Dec. 17th, 1875. Died at Bomb&y, India, Feb. 25th, 1879. Daughter of Bev. John McLau- rin, a Missionary of the Raptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec. (See Page 117 IDA WADE ORAIG, Daughter of Bev. John Craig, Born in Cocanada, India, June 27th, 1878. Died in Cocanadn, July 14, 1879. Aged 1 year and 17 dnys. (See Page 119 Total Annual Receipts. to If .^i u . Sj . re . P .merica B issionary PAID ario and eign Miss Society omen's F ssionary S West. omen's F ssionary S East. ^^ a S cS ^i§ ^§ 1867 $ 6,863 55 $ 1,169 27 1868 4,393 56 2,056 93 1869 7.851 32 3,180 46 1870 14,142 60 2,853 35 I87I 17,806 64 3,994 09 1872 13,920 80 2,136 08 1873 16,126 99 3,341 10 1874 30,382 07 4,580 88 i«7S 27.534 02 6,012 00 - 1876 33.430 30 4,914 85 1877 30.583 37 7<92i 57 $ 590 44 $ 434 37 1878 26,064 62 6,699 65 898 78 598 44 1879 33.721 57 9,145 21 1.424 55 978 81 1880 39.279 56 8,948 51 1,535 95 590 57 1881 43,451 32 7.687 52 1,625, 10 825 30 1882 45.036 11 10,596 75 2,223 92 958 45 1883 64,391 67 9.690 94 2,678 99 1,018 91 1884 69,180 76 12,657 29 3,897 45 1,138 22 1885 96,360 70 13,820 82 3,416 78 1,069 30 1886 63,020 27 14,653 65 4,104 49 1,107 07 1887 49,148 04 15,209 22 4,636 74 1,158 71 $732,689 84 $151,270 14 $27,033 19 $9,878 15 Paid Secretaries dur ing the 2 1 years $450 00 Paid Treasurers duri ng the 21 years. 000 00 An average of less than 6 cents per day. $450 00 WOMEN'S BAPTIST FOREIGN MIS- SIONARY SOCIETY. West Date of Place of Page Annual Meeting Annual Meeting Presidents. Secretarifs Treasurers. I06 Oct. 18, 1877 Toronto MrsMcMaster Mit ft ft 63 Oct. 21, 1869 Woodstock None (< i( ft ft 67 Oct. 20, 1870 St. Cathaiines Rev. Jno Bates it li ft ft 70 Oct. 19. 187I Hamilton (( t( <( ti tf ft 73 Oct. 17, 1872 Aylmer It iC <( (( ft ft 76 Oct. 16, 1873 Brantford 1 i< RevJLCampbeli ft ft 79 Oct. 22, 1874 London (( (< t( t( ft If 85 Oct. 21, 1875 Guelph C. Raymond (< i( ft ft 94 Oct. 19, 1876 Toronto RevI^.A.Fyfe (< <( ft ft 104 Oct. 15, 1877 Toronto