opinion concerning the means for supplying them, and carrying the salutary designs of your society into effect, and the probable expense attending it. The means are, printing presses completely provided with every requisite. If we are favored with all the necessary materials, and sufficient paper, fifty pounds sterling for one press, and one hundred pounds for three presses, will probably suffice, out of which the bookbinders can also be paid, &c. We shall regularly transmit exact accounts to your committee.' "'†

Abstract of the Report in 1809.

"The Rev. Mr. Pæzoid having written that the spirit of refractoriness and disorder which had appeared in the Malabar congregation at Vepery had been in part subdued by means of the Secretary's letter in the name of the Society, but that a few still continued refractory; the Society intimated to Mr. Pezold in reply that the ancient rules of the mission ought to be observed as strictly as possible, and that the government of the country, they trusted would protect their missionaries from disturbance. This the gov. ernment had shewn itself willing to do. From a subsequent account it appears that things were more quiet.

"Mr. Pezold, in January 1809, visited the Christians at Pullicat, to whom he preached several times. He administered the Lord's Supper to thirty-nine Portuguese and twenty-three Malabar Christians, and baptized twenty-three children. He also visited and consoled the aged and infirm. In February he went to St. Thomas's Mount, and on his arrival found all the good people assembled to hear the Gospel preached to them in their own language. Two Roman Catholics were received into the congregation, and seven Heathens were publicly examined and baptized, who had been under instruction for some time Before he departed, the people gave him the contents of their alms-box, aboutnine pagodas, for their poor feilow Christians at Pullicat; and though poor themselves,they promised should God bless their undertakings to continue their weekly collections for the same purpose. Mr. Pazoid has sent extracts from his diary,

Let it never be forgotten that this very district of Tanjore is the proper scene and province of the labors of the Bartlett's Buildings Society." † Ch. Ob. vol. ix, p. 521–523.

from which it appears, that the religious duties of the mission had been regularly performed by himself, in conjunc tion with the catechists and schoolmasters. The number of communicants in the native congregations on Easter day, was nearly 200, who were all quiet and peaceable Christians.

"The Rev. Mr. Holzberg writes from Cudalore, that his labors in the mission have been uninterrupted. In both the English and Malabar congregations many have heard the word profitably. His school, consisting of twenty children, was under the care of a very able and worthy schoolmaster, called Pitshey-Mutton, who had been recommended by Mr. Kolhoff, of Tanjore. In 1806, he had baptized nineteen children and six adults: the communicants were eighty two. In 1807 he had baptized four children, and three, adults: the communicants were ninety-eight. In 1808 he had baptized fourteen children and nine converts: the communicants were 102. He had dispersed books and tracts in great

numbers.

"The Rev. Mr. Pohle writes from Trichinapoly, expressing his great satisfaction in the appointment of Mr. Horst one of the society's missionaries. He observes, that in consequence of the age and infirmities of the country priest, Sattianaden, and of the state of the southern congregation, ideas were entertained of ordaining, according to the rites of the Lutheran church, two or three of the fittest catechists that they may administer to the Tanjore and southern congregations.

"The Rev. Messrs Kolhoff and Horst the missionaries at Tanjore, speak of a Bramin of whose conversion to Chris tianity they had good hopes. This Bramin was willing to be employed in any situation in the mission, but the income of the Tanjore mission being already inadequate to their most necessary disbursements, the missionaries were under the painful necessity of directing him to look out for assistance from the missions on the coast. A great part of the revenues of the country were formerly allotted, by the Hin doo kings, to the support of Heathen temples and Brahmins; and this appropriation is continued by the British government. When a Bramin, therefore, resolves to embrace Christianity, he not only draws on himself the indignation of his order, and of all other Hindoos, but forfeits a the privi leges and emoluments he formerly enjoyed. Of course he

has none to look up to, for assistance in obtaining a livelihood, but to Christians.

"The native fellow-laborers had continued to assist Messrs. Kolhoff and Horst in preaching the word of God to Christians and Heathens, and had visited the country congregations in a variety of places, exhorting them to live as became Christians. Sattianaden had been employed in dispensing the sacraments in various places. They complain much of the want of more Malabar Bibles and Testaments in all the congregations; and they state that great pains had been taken to inure the children under their care to habits of profitable industry. They mention the zeal shewn by several members of the congregation at Buddaloor to act according to their Christian engagements. The Christians, it appears, have been often prevented, by the Heathen civil servants of the company, from attending public worship on Sundays, being called to work on that day. A strict order had been given, by a late excellent collector, that no Christian should be obliged to work on Sundays; but this order, it seems, is not enforced.

"Buddaloor was the very place where the late Mr. Swartz was robbed of his gold stock-buckle. At that time there was not a single Christian there, but now there is a great number, as may be seen by the account of this mission for 1794.

"The increase of the Tanjore congregation is stated to be 35, viz. 2 Hindoos of high cast, 4 persons of the Kalla cast, 5 of the Palla cast, 15 Pariars, and 9 Papists. The communicants were 253.

"The Danish missionaries at Tranquebar had been put to great inconvenience by the interruption of their usual supplies from Copenhagen, and had applied to the government of Madras for protection and support, their pecuniary difficulties having obliged them to lessen the number of their children and to postpone many urgent objects. Their congregation, however, in the midst of these disadvantages, had enjoyed the means of grace, and had had an increase of sixty-four children, born of Christian parents, and fourteen adults, who had quitted heathenism, and accepted the saving Gospel of Christ; among these was a Mahrattian Bramin, who spoke the Telinga language, and who had become, not only a theoretical, but a real and practical Christian, n which character he continued to persevere. Their commu

nicants were 1048. Mr. John, the missionary, had lost his sight so as to be unable to read and write; as had the assistant Mr. Schreyfogel. In this state of affliction, the faithful senior catechist Saroiragen, and the other catechists in the Tranquebar district, had afforded them much comfort and assistance. The government of Madras had advanced, for the use of the mission, 200 pagodas a month, which was, however, much less than its necessities required."

Abstract of the Report in 1811.

"The Rev. Messrs. Kolhoff and Horst, in a letter dated Tanjore, January 30, 1810, report, that they and their fellow-laborers had had many opportunities of explaining the important truths of our holy religion to Heathens and Papists, and of inviting them to accept the grace of God shewed to us in Christ Jesus. They had also inculcated on their congregations and schools the great importance, the necessity, and the inestimable advantage of living according to the Gospel of Christ; and they pray that God may bless their poor labors, and render them effectual by animating every one of their hearers to work out their salvation with fear and trembling.

"Among the different casts, those called Telunga are more inveterate against Christianity than any other, except the Bramins. A man of this cast, admitted into the congregation some years since, had evinced the sincerity of his professions, not only by leading a Christian life under many sufferings, but by his endeavors to convert his family to Christianity; in which he has happily succeeded. Among all the catechumens, the family of this man had given them the greatest satisfaction by their love of the truth and their devout frame of mind.

"Among the deaths that had occurred, and were greatly regretted, were two catechists, Dhewaragayam and Areelappen. They had both been converted from paganism, and trained up and employed as teachers, by the late Rev. Mr. Swartz. Although their talents were not so brilliant as those of some other native laborers, they were faithful in improving them, and had made themselves greatly esteemed by the Heathens, as well as among Christians, by their Christian disposition, their unfeigned piety, and their pru

Ch. Ob, vol. x, p. 60, 61.~

dence and zeal. "The country priest Sattianaden, who was still employed on the Tinnavelly province, as well as all the other teachers, had faithfully assisted them in church and schools, and in going abroad and preaching Jesus Christ, among believers and unbelievers."

"The number of communicants had greatly increased. All of them had been fully instructed and those admitted for the first time attended a special preparation of a month or more, and were afterwards carefully examined. If any of them had been at variance with others, and not fully reconciled (a case which did not often occur,) they were not allowed to partake of the Holy Sacrament. Whoever had turned his back on this divine ordinance, when in health, was seldom admitted to it on his sick bed. Such, a patient, however, was visited and exhorted unremittingly to cry to God for mercy and forgiveness through Christ, 'Those who had not received the sacrament for a year or upwards previous to their death, and died impenitent, were interred at a distance from other Christians and without the burial service.'

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"The missionaries acknowledge with gratitude the merof God in inclining the Court of Directors to raise their allowance for the schools from five hundred to twelve hundred pagodas annually. The news had reached them when overwhelmed with anxiety, and the supply relieved them from the necessity of contracting new debts, in order to maintain the many native laborers in the Tinnavelly district, for which the annual produce of Mr. Swartz's lega cy was insufficient.

"The progress of Christianity, and the conversion of the Heathens resident at a distance from any of their congregations, having obliged them to increase the number of their native teachers, to enlarge the old places of worship, or to erect new ones, and to visit them from time to time, their funds were unable to bear those expenses, but they trusted that the Lord of the harvest would incline the hearts of his servants, the Honorable Society, if possible, to enable them vigorously to carry on his work in that nation.' On this account they were anxious for a printing press at Tanjore. The brethren at Tranquebar had assisted, as much as was in their power, but their supplies were insufficient. "Their want of Bibles, Testaments, Psalters, and other religious books, was greater than they could describe, If it