"The Lone Star" : a sketch of the Teloogoo Mission
McKenzie, W. S. (William Scott), 1832-1896
ss cae ae a Pam -Tmadve | : P . &. «<6 cs ” THE LONE sTak. * A » SKETCH OF THE TELOOGOO MISSION. ‘ aaa i REV. W. S. McKENZIE, a i aR, : DISTRICT SECRETARY * OF A. B. M. UNION. a ie i i i ke Mey ‘ : _ , ae BOSTON: a 6 * MERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION, TREMONT TEMPLE. : a2 ie 1875; ee eh CALL SB. % - f by ae ¥.¢ 4 a ee ‘iw i ‘4 Whe, r Sir 7 ' Sh iS a \ * Stereotyped and Printed by : RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY, SOSTON.” a ( A + docil “THE LONE STAR.” THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE. On the western coast of the Bay of Bengal is the country of the Teloogoos, stretching north and south about six hundred or seven hundred miles, and extending from the coast inland a dis- tance of three hundred and four hundred miles. It is a country densely peopled, numbering, by the latest estimate, eighteen millions. But Teloogoos are scattered far beyond the bounds of their own peculiar territory, dwelling in large numbers in all the towns and cities of Southern India. The boundaries and the population of the Teloogoo country, as recently ascertained by one of our missionaries on the field, and published in ‘+ The Missionary Magazine” for October, 1874, are thus given: ‘¢ Beginning on the south at Pulicat, thirty miles north of Madras, it” (the Teloogoo country) ‘‘ extends along the coast five hundred and thirty miles, as far as Chicacole (sometimes given as far as Ganjam, about seven hundred miles). From Chicacole it takes a north-westerly direction, four hundred and sixty miles, to the River Wurdah, or the head of the River Taptee ; then south, six hundred miles, as follows, — to Beder and Yedagherry, and east of Auspree, and between Gooty and Bellary, to near Bangalore; from near Bangalore, east, two hundred miles, to Pulicat. We have within these bounds a country larger than the Eastern and Middle States together, and nearly twice as densely populated. ‘‘ The number of inhabitants, instead of diminishing by the _ last census, as is often the case in such countries as this, has increased. The former census, and the one, I believe, from ‘vhich our former estimates have been taken, gives the inhabi 3 = 4 The Lone Star: tants at sixteen midlions; the last census gives it at eighteen millions. EIGHTEEN MILLIONS OF TELooGoos! . Compared with Burmah, we need three times the number of workers. Burmah, including both Burmah Proper and British Burmah, has only five millions of inhabitants.” The prevalent sysiem of religion among the leloogoos is Brahmanism, the tenets, ceremonies, and gross idolatries of which are well known to those familiar with missionary litera- ture. The system of caste is rigidly maintained among the Teloogoos, as everywhere in Hindostan, and has always been a formidable obstruction to the progress of. Christianity in that land. That obstruction, however, is being gradually weakened, and is likely to be speedily overthrown by the secular enter- prises of a Christian civilization, thus paving the way for a more rapid spread of the Christian religion among the various tribes of Hindostan. BEGINNING OF THE MISSION. In the year 1805 a feeble effort was made to evangelize the Teloogoo people. The London Missionary Society sent out in that year a few missionaries to labor for the Teloogoos. This enterprise was attended with little or nosuccess, and was eventu- ally relinquished. Rey. Amos Sutton, a missionary of the English General Baptists in Orissa, while on a visit to the United States, in the year 1835, urged the Baptists of this country to establish a mission among the TLeloogoos. The proposal of Mr. Sutton received a favorable response, and in September of that year, Rev. Samuel S. Day, with his wife, and Rey. E. L. Abbott, sailed from Boston to Calcutta, with instruc- tions to open a missicn among the Teloogoos. A large number’ of other missionaries, under the auspices of our Board of Foreign Missions, designated to the East, sailed with Messrs. Day and Abbott. Rev. Howard Malcom accompained this group of missionaries. On the arrival of the company at Calcutta, in — February, 1836, it was decided that Rev. Mr. Abbott should join the Karen Mission in British Burmah. Thither he went, leaving Rev. Mr. Day to open the Teloogoo mission. Mr. Day & ¢ A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. 5 immediately proceeded to Vizagapatam, one of the principal cities of the Teloogoo country. There our solitary missionary entered upon a preparation for his arduous mission-work. He engaged a learned Brahmin as his teacher. But Mr. Day did not long remain in Vizagapatam. He deemed it to be more conducive to his work to establish his residence in one of the suburban villages of Madras. Four years of labor pass away amid numerous - difficulties of a very discouraging nature. A few Eurasians, Tamils, and English residents are baptized, but none of the Teloogoos are inclined to embrace Christianity. Mr. Day begins to think of Nellore as better suited to his work among the Teloogoos. That town is one hundred and ten miles north of the city of Ma- dras, and is situated in the midst of a large population, purely of Teloogoos. Thither he determines to go. In February, 1840, he moves his family to Nellore. Here he rents a piece of land and erects a building adapted to mission purposes. Soon after his arrival at this new station he is permitted to welcome to his aid Rev. Stephen Van Husen and wife from the United States. In September of this year, 1840, Rev. Mr. Day baptized his first convert from the Teloogoo people. But the little church left alone at Madras, exposed, and without the , oversight of a religious teacher and leader, very soon went down, ‘¢though another was soon after constituted at Arcot, embra- cing some of the same members, together with several Tamil and Teloogoo people who were baptized at Arcot, and placed under the charge of an intelligent native assistant.” While our missionaries at Nellore meet with obstinate hin- drances to their work, in the prevalent and despotic system of gaste, they have entire freedom in preaching at the street cor- ners, and on public festival occasions; also in establishing schools for the education of children, even from the families into which the missionary is not allowed to enter. In the high. ways many Teloogoos hear the gospel from the lips of the mis. sionaries ; and many parents, visiting the schools, in which they are more than willing to have their children taught, listen to the truth. The soil is under a silent preparation for ‘‘ the seed 6 The Lone Star: of the kingdom.” The sowing for a coming harvest is going on, despite contempt and opposition from the people. Another Teloogoo is baptized in the year 1848. More schools at different points are established. But the main pur- pose of the missionaries in going among the Teloogoos is to preach the gospel, and to that purpose they persistently adhere. The population in and about Nellore is gradually beginning to feel the power of gospel truths, and consequently to cherish secret doubts’ respecting the divinity of their idols. But the health of the overworked missionaries now begins to fail. Mr Van Husen is obliged to return home. He reached this coewn- try in October, 1845, ‘‘ the victim of a distressing malady.” Mr. Van Husen never resumed mission-work in India, but died at Brattleboro’, Vt., in December, 1854, aged forty-two. In the same month and year in which Rev. Mr. Van Husen reaches home, Rev. Mr. Day’s health is completely prostrated. He, too, is compelled to quit the mission. He arrives home in June, 1846. So sudden and severe is Mr. Day’s illness, that he is unable to make provision for the care and continuance of the mission-work at Nellore. The mission-property, the schools, and the little church of seven members, only two of whom are Teloogoo converts, are taken in charge by a Eura- sian preacher, aided by two native Christians. At home the question of abandoning the Teloogoo country as a mission-field, is now seriously entertained. But Mr. Day, seconded by an appeal from Rev. Mr. Sutton, in the Orissa mission, strenuously pleads for its continuance and re-enforce ment. Accordingly it is ‘* determined, for the present at least, not to advise a dissolution of the mission.” ‘The brethren of the Executive will ‘* wait for future indications of Providence,” and leave events ‘‘ to decide the policy which should be pursued.” The annual meetings of the Missionary Union for 1848 are held in Troy, N.Y. Mr. Day’s health is measurably re-estab- — lished. A new man, Rev. Lyman Jewett, is ready and anxious to accompany Mr. Day, if he is to be restored to the Teloogoo field. It ig resolvel by the Union, in its meetings at Troy, to re-open that mission by returning Rev. Mr. Day, and with him A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. Ws, send out Rev. Mr. Jewett and wife. Mrs. Day will remain in this country with her children. The missionaries sail on the 10th of October, 1848, from Boston to Calcutta, en route for Nellore. QUESTION OF DISCONTINUING THE MISSION. We pass over five years of struggles, and almost utterly fruit- less efforts, in the Teloogoo mission at Nellore, and come at once to another critical juncture in its history. In 1853 the anniversary meetings of the Union are being held in Albany, N.Y. A deputation to the Asiatic missions, consisting of Rey. Messrs. Peck and Granger, had spent twelve days, in the January previous, at Nellore. They had reported to the Exec- utive Committee their observations and impressions relating to that interesting but unfruitful mission. In that communica- tion the deputation express themselves satisfied with the value of the station at Nellore; with the fidelity and ability of the missionaries ; and, also, give utterance to a strong conviction that the mission should be speedily re-enforced or relinquished. In the event of its being abandoned, they suggest that the mis- sionaries there laboring be assigned to some other field. But the deputation hesitate to counsel the relinquishment of the Teloogoo field. They frankly confess that their personal inves- tigations brought out circumstances that seemed to them to weaken the claims of the mission. And what are the con- siderations urged in favor of relinguishment? They are briefly these: 1. -‘The want of suecess. 2. The want of suitable native helpers.. 3. The care bestowed on the people by other Chiis- tian denominations. 4. The ability of the missionaries to enter other fields. Such were the considerations, which, to the view of the excellent brethren composing the deputation, seemed tc weaken the claims of a mission among the vast heathen popula- tion of the Teloogoo country. As to ‘‘the care bestowed on the people by other Christian denominations,” we find that in and around Nellore, embracing a population of nearly two millions, the Free Church of Scotland had, in 1853, one native preacher and one day school! In the whole Teloogoo country, with its nearly eighteen millions of 8 The Lone Star souls, there were ten missionary statiors, with fifteen mission- aries from four different denominations. ‘‘ The care bestowed” was, surely, very inadequate. As to the transfer of the mis- sionaries to the other and more productive mission-fields of the Union, there was not much to transfer; for Mr. Day must come home at once, leaving only Mr. Jewett to be sent across the Bay of Bengal into Burmah, or elsewhere in Farther India. The arguments urged by the deputation for a re-enforcemen? are, briefly, 1. The extent of the field. 2. The knowledge already gained by the missionaries. 8. The prevailing policy of the mission. The ‘‘ prevailing policy” referred to is the preaching of the gospel in the vernacular by our missionaries. ‘* To this service, the oral dispensation of the gospel, the mission- aries have trained themselves; and in the chapel, at stations in and around Nellore, and at the great Hindoo festivals, thousands of Teloogoos have the gospel preached to them by our brethren.” Thus to preach was the one absorbing work of our missionaries among the Teloogoos. ‘This is the fact presented by the depu- tation in the third argument for continuing and re-enforcing the mission. The main work of the missionaries of other denomi- nations in Hindostan was in schools for the education of children. The deputation, having reported to the Executive Committee of the Union their views for and against the Teloogoo Mission, leave the responsibility of action with the Committee. The Committee appeal to the Board of Managers for some decisive action in the case. The Board of Managers cast the. burden they are not willing to carry upon the denomination as repre- sented in the meetings at Albany, in 1853. A special committee is appointed on the question — Shall the Teloogoo Mission be relinquished or re-enforced? ‘That com- mittee in their report say, among other things: ‘‘ In the pres- ence of this question your committee tremble. ‘They feel that there are fearful responsibilities involved; and yet, after a care- ful examination of the facts, they are unanimous in recommend- ing a suitable re-enforcement of the mission, not an abandon- ment. They are unable to see any good reason why we should A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. 4 turn our backs on that important and white harvest-field. We do not so understand 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.” Noblesentences! How they ring with the courage of faith ! The special committee continue as follows: ‘‘ We regard the work of missions, not as a work of expediency, but of faith, an«| of persevering labor. God has never permitted us in any of our missions to walk by sight. They have all had their days of darkness and. trial. ‘¢ Your committee feel admonished, that if the perishing mil- lions of the Teloogoos were forsaken by us, on the ground of want of success, we should be greatly in danger of grieving the Holy Spirit, and of bringing down upon our more pros- perous missions, dearth and barrenness. ‘The door is wide open, and we are in the field, and it is a vast and perishing field, and who will dare to retreat? . . . If there is doubt as to men and means to carry this mission forward successfully with our other missions, the committee would only suggest, that the God of missions is a great God, and our times of necessity, in the whole history of missions, have been our times of salvation.” At an evening session of the Union, the great question of relinquishing or re-enforcing the Teloogoo Mission was under discussion. Eloquent pleas were delivered by some for re-en- forcement. One of the speakers, Rev. J. L. Barrows, pointing to Nellore on the map’ suspended over the. platform, called it ‘‘Tur Lone Star.” The words fell upon the ears of one present with peculiar force. That night, before sleeping, Dr. S. F. Smith, the author of ‘* My country, ’tis of thee,” and of *‘Yes, my native land, I love thee,” put to paper the following stanzas, on ‘““THE LONE STAR.” Shine on, ‘“‘ Lone Star!” thy radiance bright Shall spread o’er all the eastern sky; Morn breaks apace from gloom and night: Shine on, and bless the pilgrim’s eye. 10 The Lone Star: Shine on, ‘‘ Lone star’?! Iwould not dim The light that gleams with dubious ray; The lonely star of Bethlehem Led on a bright and glorious day. Shine 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 That sparkles in night’s diadem ? Shine on, ‘‘‘Lone Star’’! the day draws near When none shall shine more fair than thou — Thou, born and nursed in doubt and fear, Wilt glitter on Immanuel’s brow. Shine on, ‘‘ Lone Star’’! till earth redeemed, In dust shall bid its idols fall; And thousands, where thy radiance beamed, Shall ‘* crown the Saviour Lord of all.’’ The accomplishment of the prediction, couched in the «bove impromptu 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 con- tinued and suitably re-enforced, providing that, in the judgment of the Board of Managers, it can be done consistently with the claims of Southern Burmah.” Rev. Mr. Day relinquished a second time the mission field in 1858, and reached this country in September of that year. Rev. Mr. Jewett and family were now alone in the mission, attempting all that was possible to keep the arduous work moy- ing on. Early in the year 1855 the solitary mission family at Nellore is aided and cheered by the arrival of Rev. F. A. Douglass and wife from the United States. Good work is being lone. Besides the preaching in and bevond Nellore, tracts and scriptures are being distributed in all the numerous communities within a radius of twenty miles of the mission station, — even in villages as far north as Guntoor, a distance A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. 11 of one hundred and forty-three miles from Nellore, a few souls are converted and added to the little church. Tt was in the year 1853 that Mr. Jewett, with his wife, and one of the native Christians, named Jacob, visited a town called Ongole, seventy-seven miles north from Nellore, and containing a population of about six thousand, all Teloogoos. In the public thoroughfares of Ongole, the missionary, reviled and stoned, preaches the gospel. The work of the day being done, seemingly in vain, the three, towards evening, ascend a hill overlooking the town, and there, singing a hymn, they prayed God to send a missionary to Ongole. The years roll away, filled with labors incessant, and some- times discouraging almost beyond the endurance of the strong- est faith. Now sitkness in the mission families, and now other adverse circumstances arrest labor, and drive the laborers from the field. Mr. Jewett, in 1862, with his physical system almost hopelessly shattered, is compelled to relinquish his work and to return home. | THE QUESTION AGAIN. The anniversary meetings of the Union are this year (1862) held in Providence, R.I. Again the question of abandon- ing the Teloogoo Mission is under debate. Indeed, its abandon- ment is urgently demanded, as the writer well remembers. ‘¢ Wait,” exclaimed Dr. Warren, ‘‘ wait, brethren ; ye know not what ye are doing! Wait; let us hear what Br. Jewett, who is now on his journey home, has to say on this question.” ‘* For the most part,” writes one, ‘‘ Mr. Jewett had received from those for whom he was sacrificing his life, a dreary toleration, sometimes exchanged for open opposition ; and if he turned his wearied thoughts to America for rest, he too often found him- self only tolerated there. Sometimes’ he found the Board dis- cussing the abandonment of the mission ; sometimes apologizing to the public for its existence.” But Mr. Jewett never relaxed his*confidence in the God of missions; and the ‘‘ Lone Star” Mission was to Mr. Jewett precious beyond expression. With the vision of faith he beheld a day breaking for ine millions of that benighted and besotted people. 12 The Lone Star: On his arrival home, in 1862, the relinquishment of the mission is proposed to him, and considerations urged in jus- tification of such a step. But Mr. Jewett is immovable. Un- swervingly he maintains himself against a surrender. He believes the Lord has ‘‘ much people” among the Teloogoos, and that the Baptists of America should give them Christ’s gospel. He believes that the prayers already sent up to heaven will yet be answered; that the labors, the struggles, the sacri- fices, and the money thus far laid upon the altar of God for the salvation of the Teloogoos are not squandered, but will, in due season, bring forth a rich harvest. The Union may abandon the field, but he will bear no part of the fearful responsibility involved in that abandonment. If encouragement and aid are refused him by the Union, then he will return alone, and spend his remaining strength and days among the Teloogoos. The confidence, the courage, the faith, and the determination of Mr. Jewett were not to be treated lightly, and could not be overthrown or weakened by arguments based on a policy of expediency. Mr. Jewett,-in the presence of the Executive Committee of the Union, declared, in most emphatic terms, his determination never to abandon the Teloogoo Mission. 'The Sec- retary, smiling, answered: ‘‘ Well, brother, if you are resolved to return, we must send somebody with you to bury you. You certainly ought to have a Christian burial in that heathen land.” It is resolved to return Mr. Jewett, if health is re-established, to his field of labor. But he must carry a helper with him. That helper is raised up; the Lord has been training a man to reap in a field already well tilled, and now nearly ready for the reapers. LIGHT BREAKING. It is the year 1865. Twelve years before was held that re- markable prayer-meeting on a hill, now known as ‘ Prayer- Meeting Hill,” overlooking Ongole. Three believing souls, at the close of day, ascended that hill, and looking down upon‘the idolatrous temples of the place, they felt a peculiar inclination to ask God for a missionary to be sent to Ongole. Dr. Jewett, now (1874) in this country, informs the writer, that in tha‘ A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. 13 prayer-meeting, composed of himself, Mrs. Jewett. and the native Christian Jacob, there was given to them a strung assur- ance of being heard in the special prayer then and there offered. The answer came after the lapse of twelve years. Mr. Clough, the ‘‘ Missionary for Ongole,” arrives at Nellore, in company with Mr. Jewett. Mr. Clough lingers for a while in Nellore, making prepara- tion to begin labor. He writes from Nellore, under date Nov. 6, 1865: “* Yesterday was a happy day for the ‘Lone Star’ Mission. It was my privilege to baptize four. Our little church, which has been struggling against adverse winds and tides for these many years, feels strengthened. God is sending us his elect, a great multitude of whom we expect to see here among the Teloogoos ere many years, who shall come out from heathenism.” Faith is again predicting. And why not? ‘¢ The Lone Star Mission,” continues Mr. Clough, ‘‘ has stood here in the midst of darkness deeper than night, for about twenty-five years; yet few, very few, have ‘ believed our re- port.’ We feel that this cannot longer be endured; that God has elect people here, and that they must come out from the reckless multitude. I am no longer able to keep quiet, and daily I go with the catechists to the village near the mission- house, pveaching. Brother Jewett preaches in the bazaar nights and mornings, and has a class in theology.” Early in the year 1866 Mr. Clough, the ‘‘ Missionary for Ongole,” makes his first visit to his designated station. Soon the mighty spirit of the Lord descends to bring out the elect from the multitudinous ranks of the heathen. On the first day of January, 1867, a church is organized in Ongole. It begins its existence with only eight souls. But the little one is speedily to become a thousand. It is now (1874) the largest Baptist church in the world, numbering about three thousand three hundred souls. RE-ENFORCEMENTS. The Teloogoo Mission is again re-enforced in April, 1868, by the arrival of Rev. Mr. Timpany and wife, who left this country 14 The Lone Star: in October, 1867. Rev. A. V. Timpany, a native of the Prov- ince of Nova Scotia, is a gift from the Baptists of Canada, and has been, up to the present, supported in the work by funds contributed to the Union by those brethren. Rev. Mr. Day, the pioneer in this field of missions, was also a native of Canada. Mr. Timpany on arriving at his field of labor, and seeing the Teloogoos flocking in crowds to receive the gospel from the lips of the missionaries, is filled with joyful amazement, and joins in the work with enthusiastic zeal. In his first communi- cation to the Mission Rooms, he writes: ‘‘'To-day you have the most successful mission in India. Send us men and means, and by the help of our Master, we will gather this people by the thousands. God’s Spirit is resting upon Teloogoo, as it brooded of old upon the deep.” A month later he writes: ‘* The work of God in the Teloogoo Mission goes on gloriously. God is giving and going to give us the Teloogoos just as fast as we can take care of them. God has an elect people here, and they must come. They are coming. The Nellore Mission is alive ; sterling additions are being made.” The Annual Report of the Union for 1870 presents copious extracts from the letters of the Teloogoo Missionaries. In those extracts we find such sentences as these: ‘‘ In the midst of harvest, . . . men and women turned out by hundreds to hear about Jesus; and not only. to hear, but to believe also. Three hundred and twenty-four were baptized in one month (December) ; and hundreds of others sent away until we should know them better.” Again: ‘‘ The first week in January, 1869, we .. . spent in special prayer. We asked the great Head of the Church that he would send five hundred of his own elect to us, the year then just commenced. If all we have baptized prove to be real Christians, . . . the number asked for came, and seventy-three more.” Another family, Rev. John McLaurin and wife, is added to the mission-band on the Teloogoo field, having sailed from this country in December, 1869. Mr. McLaurin is likewise a gift to this mission from the Baptists in Canada, and also supported by funds provided by them so long as he remained a missionary 2 - ba A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. 15 of the Union. Recently our brethren in Canada have estab- lished a mission of their own among the Teloogoos, in a region of the Teloogoo land called Coconédo; and Mr. McLaurin, with \ the best wishes for his undertaking, has dissolved his connec- tion with the Union, and opened a mission in Coconada, under the auspices of the Foreign Mission-board of the Canada Bap- tists. In November, 1870, the mission was again re-enforced by Rev. Edwin Bullard, son of a former missionary of the Union. At the beginning of the year 1872, while yet surrounded with eager listeners, and numerous converts were waiting for bap- tism, the health of Rev. Mr. Clough broke down; and at the urgent solicitation of his associates, he returned home for rest, with the hope of recuperating his exhausted system. He ar- rived in this country early in May, 1872. He was charged by ‘his brethren left behind, to bring with him on his return, four additional laborers, and to secure while in this country an endowment of fifty thousand dollars for a Theological Seminary for training a native Teloogoo ministry. Both of those objects have been gained ; and Mr. Clough, having left behind him his little daughter ‘‘ Nellore,” has resumed his mission among the Teloogoos, with recruited health, and heart full of hope in his work. The first six years of Mr. Clough’s labors, among the Teloogoos were one protracted Pentecost; and during his absence from the field in pursuit of health, under the labors of» Rev. Mr. McLaurin, who in the interim had charge of the station at Ongole, the work of the Lord went forward with un- abated power, over seven hundred in one year having been added to the church by baptism. ‘* The history of modern missions has rarely recorded such a work. In our own fields, only the ingathering among the Karens, under Boardman and Abbott, shows so marked features of the power of the gospel over whole peoples.” THE PRESENT OUTLOOK. The ‘‘ four men for the Teloogoos,” called for in the appeal of Rev. Mr. Clough, and three of whom are in the field, — the fourth being on his passage thither, — are Revs. D. Downie, 16 ~ The Lone Star. R. R. Williams, W. W. Campbell, and D. H. Drake; the first’ three accompanied with their wives, and the last unmarried. Besides the above named. brethren, with their wives, are two single women connected with the Teloogoo Mission. These are supported by funds from the Woman’s Baptist Missionary Society of the West. The women are Miss A. L. Peabody, who has been in the field three years, having sailed from Boston, Jan. 2, 1872, and Miss M. A. Wood, now on the pas- sage thither, having sailed from New York, Sept. 19, 1874. iThe ‘‘ Lone Star” shone on, though its light was oftentimes ‘¢ dubious.” Its ‘‘ radiance bright” is already beginning to ‘¢ spread o’er all the eastern sky.” The Teloogoo Mission has now four central stations — Nellore, Alloor, Ramapatam, and Ongole, — each with many out-stations. Native laborers, full of zeal and faith, are pushing out into the dense darkness of the_ | land, carrying the blazing torch of divine truth. The churches comprise a membership of about forty-five hundred, where six years ago there were thirty-eight members. Connected with the Teloogoo Mission at this hour are fifteen American missionaries, including women. There are about fifty ordained and unordained native helpers. There are thirty schools, embracing nearly six hundred pupils, with native teachers and assistants, to the number of thirty-five. A Theo- logical Seminary, with an endowment of fifty thousand dollars, — is established at Ramapatam, doing a good work in the way of fitting native converts to preash the gospel to their countrymen. What hath God wrought! Faith has at length won the vic: ‘ory over the doubts and fears of many years. ‘Shine on ‘ Lone Star’! thy radiance bright Shall spread o’er all the eastern sky — Morn breaks apace from gloom and night, Shine on, and bless the pilgrim’s eye. ca ‘Shine on, ‘Lone Star’! till earth redeemed In dust shall bid its idols fall, And thousands, where thy radiance beamed, Shall ‘Crown the Saviour Lord of all.’ ’’ ae Ey f: = CD ie at ra ne. ais Cian. 