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Identifier: indiamalaysia00thob (find matches)
Title: India and Malaysia
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Thoburn, J. M. (James Mills), 1836-1922
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts New York, Hunt & Eaton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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eople as we should have done. They are the most numer-ous of these three southern races, numbering at present per-haps very nearly, if not fully, 20,000,000. They have beenfound thus far the most accessible of the three races, and it isamong them that the American Baptists are making suchwonderful progress. Our own missionaries have been led toattempt more among the Kanarese. AVe have two stationsin the Nizams Territory among the Kanarese, and also workamong the same people at Bangalore. Last year the atten-tion of our Church was attracted to the important station ofKolar, in the Province of Mysore. Here an excellent Englishlady. Miss Louisa Anstey, had established, and for nearly 458 INDIA AND MALAYSIA. fifteen years maintained, an orphanage and mission among theKanarese people. Finding it difficult to continue the workin the new proportions which it had assumed^ this ladyoffered to make the whole mission over to us without chargeof any kind. AYe had no resources at the time; but en-
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A TEI.UGU FAMII^Y. couraged by a few kind friends whom I met at Oil City, Pa.,and trusting in God who had led us so wonderfully hitherto,I cabled to India to accept the offer. We have now twomissionaries stationed at Kolar, a prosperous orphanage withseveral Christian settlements in the vicinity, and a Christiancommunity of over five hundred. CENTRAL AND SOUTH INDIA. 459 AYe liave done less among the Tamil people in their owncountry than perhaps among any other of the leading Indianraces. We, have, however, Tamil work at Bangalore, andalso in the city of Madras, which is practically a Tamil city.Our work here, as elsewhere, is inseparable from the workwe are doing among the English-speaking people. Everyyear Tamil men are converted and unite with us, and wecould not give up such work if we tried. We have onlyto extend the work, strengthen our forces, and apply thesame methods which have been found successful elsewhere,in order to attain the measure of success among the peopleof these

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