~ A KA vie SEQUEL TO THE “LONE STAR” TRACT. BY REV. W. S. MCKENZIE, Distr. SECRETARY OF A. B. M. UNton. BOSTON : AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION. 1879. G. J. Srites, PRiInTER, 101 Mi_kK SrreEtT, Boston. THE TELOOGOO MISSION. Tur “Lone Star” Tracr anp irs Sequren.— The “Lone Star” tract, published first in 1874, gives a sketch of the Teloogoo mission from its origin in 1836 up to near the middle of the year 1873. That sketch has had a very wide circulation. Its welcome among American Baptists, it is not too much to say, has been such as no other missionary tract has ever re- ceived. The history of this mission has been a most eventful one. Its reverses and successes have been extraordinary and surprising, exciting the profoundest interest among those who have watched its fortunes. The recent and marvellous advance in the evangelization of the Teloogoos has summoned anew the attention of christians everywhere to that mission field. A brief narrative of the latest developments in the mission has been published and extensively circulated by the Missionary Union. But no notice was taken of the leading events that had tran- spired between the closing date of the first tract and the date of the great awakening described in the second. The first edition of the latter, ten thousand copies, was nearly exhausted in a few days after it came from the press; and in issuing this new edition of the Sequet, an attempt is made to eae, the missing links in the published history of the Teloogoo mission. THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1873.—Reyv. Mr. Clough, having regained his health, returned in the autumn of 1878 to resume his labors in Ongole, where he arrived on the last day of January, 1874. He had now associated with him Rev. Mr. Campbell and wife. Rev. Mr. McLaurin, who had been Mr. Clough’s fellow-laborer, and had the sole charge of the work at Ongole during the absence of Mr. Clough in America, 4 Sequel to the «Lone Star” Tract. dissolved his connection with the Missionary Union, and pro- ceeded at once to Coconada, to open a mission among the Teloogoos of that country, under the auspices of the Canadian Baptists. In his report to the Union, up to the close of 1873, he says: “The year began with a burst of blessing in the North, which nearly surprised us, used as we are to great things from the Lord. During the first tour, in less than a month, two hun- dred and seventy-seven persons were baptized. From that time the work progressed steadily....I have no doubt that we shall see some mighty religious revolution in India before we die. Thousands of people expect it. Brahmins, Mohammedans, and people of all castes, have repeatedly told me and the preachers, ‘Your religion is the only true religion.” ‘We know it must prevail. ‘We all must come, too, some day.’ J have known high native officials use it as an argument with village officials, why they should not molest the christians, saying, ‘We, too, must become christians soon.’ I believe we can breathe the at- mosphere of the change.” At this station, Mr. McLaurin had baptized, during the year 1878, over seven hundred converts, and the total membership of the church was two thousand seven hundred and sixty-one. Mr. Downie and his wife reached Nellore in December, 1873, and relieved Dr. Jewett, who immediately joined the other members of the Teloogoo Bible Revision Committee at Rajah- mundy. On quitting Nellore, Dr. Jewett wrote to the Mission Rooms as follows: “The broad and needy fields I was leaving never looked more attractive. I did not leave them without an inward struggle; but in that struggle there was no doubt as to the path of duty. The Teloogoo people must have the Bible in as perfect a translation as can be made at the present day.” In the spring of 1874, Dr. Jewett, with shattered health, was obliged to seek respite in this country from the wearying service in which he had so long and so heroically toiled. The Lord had signally honored the faithful and per- sistent labors of this veteran missionary, while by his brethren in America he was greatly revered for his indomitable courage Sequel to the “ Lone Star” Tract. 5 manifested in clinging to the once seemingly hopeless and widely discredited “Lone Star” mission. At Ramapatam, Rev. Mr. Timpany, with waning health, was carrying the heavy burden of mission work, teaching in the seminary, travelling, preaching, baptizing, organizing work, and overseeing the native laborers. He says in his annual report, “The expectations to which I gave expression a year ago respecting the eastern portion of this field have been quite realized. A large number have been baptized, and quite a number of villages have come under our influence. In looking over the field, it seems white to the harvest. In every village where the gospel is persistently preached, souls come to the Saviour.” The whole number baptized by Mr. Timpany dur- ing the year was two hundred and forty-seven; and the mem- bership was six hundred and seventy-five. Rev. Mr. Williams, who went out with Mr. Clough on his return to India, took charge of the Theological Seminary at Ramapatam, assisted by Miss Peabody. At Alloor, Rev. Mr. Bullard was laboring un- der great disadvantages, but not without success. Tur YEaR 1874.— The Secretary of the Missionary Union, in the annual report of the foreign department, presented at the anniversary in the spring of 1875, remarks: “'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 pre- ceding years; but it has still been gratifying beyond the ordi- nary fruits of missionary labor.” The mission had been again reénforced during the year by the arrival of Rev. Mr. Drake and Miss M. A. Wood. Although the missionaries encoun- tered many discouragements in every part of the Teloogoo field, they cherished bright anticipations of success in due time. Mr. Downie writes: “This Nellore field is a grand one, and is white and ready for the reapers. For nearly thirty years the seed has been sown broadcast. Such faithful work as this field has ‘re- ceived must sooner or later yield an abundant harvest.” Mr. Clough and Mr. Campbell were pushing out into the regions be- yond. They went as far as Hyderabad, a large city two hun- 6 Sequel to the “ Lone Star”? Tract. dred and ten miles northwest from Ongole, and connected by railroad with Bombay and Madras, three hundred and ninety- seven miles from the former, and four hundred and ninety-two from the latter. The locality is thus described by Mr. Clough: “ Hyderabad, Secunderabad, and Golconda bear the same rela- tion to each other as New York City, Brooklyn, and Jersey City do, and contain over two hundred thousand people. It is at present by far the largest and most important city in the Teloogoo country. The city itself is now largely Mohamme- dan in religion; but the country is Teloogoo, and of the Brahminical faith, as here.” Mr. Clough, though he has no very cheering report of success to give for 1874, sees in the near future a victory for Christ and his gospel among the Teloogoos. He writes: “I fully believe that the prospect ahead was never so bright and encouraging. It will be a glorious thing, for which we should be thankful, if we can hold our own while the thirty-eight students at Ramapatam, and the one hundred and forty at Ongole, are preparing for the harvest.” And Mr.Timpany has the same bright outlook, as indicated in these words: “I hardly dare express what I feel sometimes; and yet why should we not look for it?—the time 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 all be nominal Christians, and many more than that,— true disciples of the Lord Jesus.” Mr. Bullard, writing from Alloor, remarks: “The foundations have been laid, and the work, we believe, will go on. The ground to be covered is large, and we feel that it is not our duty to limit ourselves to a small part only. Our plan is to cover the whole; and, although it may take time before the desired re- sults will appear, in the end we believe that the people will become the Lord’s people, and the land a christian land.” And so the letters of all the laborers abound with the boldest pre- dictions regarding a great success in the Teloogoo mission. at no distant day. Tue YeEAR 1875.—The mission is again reénforced by the arrival of Rev. Mr. Loughridge and wife; also Rev. Mr. New- Sequel to the “ Lone Star” Tract. , i hall. The Nellore station was visited by a disastrous flood, and the cholera raged fearfully for two months, sweeping away hundreds of the natives. Mr. Clough, in company with Mr. Drake, spent three months preaching in the jungle villages, going as far as Kurnool, one hundred and eighty miles dis- tant from Ongole. At a town never before visited by a missionary, one hundred and forty miles from Ongole, Mr. Clough baptized twenty-six converts, who were organized into a branch church. Deacons were chosen, and a pastor settled. Mr. Clough was assured by the christians of this town that if he would remain a week longer, one hundred converts more, from various villages, would be ready to offer themselves for baptism. The baptisms for the year, at the Ongole station, were one hundred and eighty-one, and the membership of the church was two thousand eight hundred and twenty-five. The baptisms at Ramapatam were forty-eight, and the church had a membership ef seven hundred and sixty-four. At Nel- lore, the baptisms were sixteen, and the church numbered one bundred and eighty-eight. A new and most important mis- sion centre was established in the city of Secunderabad, and occupied by Mr. Campbell and his’ wife, with two native preachers, one teacher, and one colporteur, from Ongole. A church was organized in Secunderabad, starting with fourteen members, and the little company was being increased. The missionary at Secunderabad, with his native helpers, was entering villages and publishing the glad tidings where no christian missionary had ever been. For 1875, the Teloogoo mission reported fifty-three native preachers, five churches, two hundred and forty-six baptisms, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven members. Tue YEAR 1876.—Rev. Mr. Timpany returned to America, and in October of this year severed his connection with the Union, with a view to joining the Canadian mission in Coconada. Miss Mary M. Day, the daughter of Rev. Samuel 8. Day, the founder of the Teloogoo mission, was appointed to service among the Teloogoos. On the field, the laborers were strug- 8 Sequel to the “« Lone Star’? Tract. gling with formidable obstacles, but still achieving some grati- fying successes. The stations of Nellore and Alloor were united. For lack of means, the missionaries were obliged to leave inviting fields untilled and unvisited. ‘The cholera scourge was prevalent. At the close of this year, the famine began, which through the year 1877 spread such melancholy desola- tions throughout the whole of the Madras Presidency. Mr. Clough was making strenuous efforts to prepare for this calam- ity. He writes: “God only can see the end; but we intend to fight on and pray on as long as there is anything left of us, and the result will honor Jesus: I fully believe that when the fam- ine is over, if not before, there will be such a turning to Jesus, such a casting-away of idols and Brahminism, as India has never before seen.” Mr. Clough had baptized in this year six hundred and fifty-six, and the membership of the church was three thousand four hundred and seven. Mr. Loughridge was busily employed in getting up the projected institution for an advanced course of education. The year was a very trying one at Ramapatam, but. Mr. Newhall struggled heroically to meet the perplexing emergencies of his position. Mrs. Williams, the wife of Mr. Williams, in charge of the Theological School, suddenly died “in the full flush of life and hope.” Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were getting their mission work well organized at Secunderabad. Mr. Drake began work at Kur- nool in August of this year. After reaching the field, he ex- pressed the beliei that God had a great blessing in store for the people of Kurnool. He writes: “We should not enter- tain a doubt in regard to the success of the work. I have not come here to experiment. I feel that the Lord has brought me here to do a work for him, and I want to be found in my place. The new station gives promise of much good.” Be- fore the close of the year, he baptized twenty-two converts. Many others professed faith in Christ, but Mr. Drake kept them waiting until he could test the genuineness of their pro- fessions. The whole number of baptisms among the Teloo- goos in 1876 was seven hundred and twenty-four; and the Sequel to the “ Lone Star” Tract. 9 total membership of the churches at the close of the year was four thousand three hundred and ninety-four. THe. YEAR 1877.— The annual report of work in the Teloo- goo field, presented at the anniversary meetings in 1878, opens with the following record: “The changes in the mission are comprised in the lamented death of Mrs. Newhall, the departure of Mr. Bullard on account of poor health, the return of Dr. and Mrs. Jewett, and the accession of Miss Day to the ranks of the laborers. The effects of the famine are clearly traced in the large death-record and the comparatively small number of baptisms.” Mr. Downie writes: “The new year dawned upon us amid sickness and death. Cholera was still raging. The famine is, of course, the great event of the year.” Mr. Clough’s annual report for this year gives a copious descrip- tion of the state of the people and of the mission during the terrible famine year. Only afew sentences of that report can be quoted here. He says: “From February Ist until about August 1st, all my time and energies were employed on the Bucking- ham Canal. I believe it was God’s plan of saving hundreds, if not thousands, of Christians and their relatives and friends from hunger, disease, and death. During the year under re- view, although continually amid horrible, sickening scenes, we feel that as missionaries, and as a mission, we have enjoyed the special smile of Heaven upon us continually. It is true that only one hundred and ten have been baptized; but it should be remembered that since about the 15th of March we have not baptized any, though hundreds, yes, thousands, have clamored for the ordinance; but we have not had the time or strength, even if it had been desirable,to conduct the neces- sary examination of the candidates. At our bi-monthly meet- ing the Sunday before Christmas, over fifteen hundred from near and afar requested baptism. The greater part of this multitude are, no doubt, believers in Jesus as the only Saviour. We expect glorious things in due time.” In closing his report, Mr. Clough says: “I look back over the year 1877 with amazement, and, I trust, devout thankful- 10 Sequel to the “ Lone Star” Tract. ness. Sometimes the outlook was dark indeed, and we could ~ not see ahead a streak of light even; but step by step, day by day, we have been led. I will mention a few among many of the Lord’s mercies to us: (1) The first month of the year, large donations from friends in India, together with a Government loan, enabled me to keep the christians from starving to death. (2) The canal contract provided all who were willing to work, and the old, lame, sick, and children, if they would only come to my camp, abundant support from February till the middle of August. (3) When no more work was to be had, the little mes- sage, ‘Thousands christians starving. Solicit aid, ‘wired’ to Burmah, Assam, Calcutta, London, and Boston, touched warm _ hearts all prepared to respond; and within afew hours words of cheer came back over the lines, telling us that money was even then on its way for the suffering. Missionary brethren, every one, in Burmah, Assam, and Siam, and friends and native churches, gave most liberally, and by their prompt, liberal aid we were enabled to tide over a most critical time. (4) Before their funds were exhausted, money from Calcutta, from London, came; and then the ‘Mansion House’ funds, through the general fam- ine committee trustees, were given without stint. Last, but not too late to meet a special needed work, came the much ap- preciated response from our own native land, through Hon. J. Warren Merrill, and Rev. C. F. Tolman, and F. A. Smith, Esq.” Mr. Newhall writes from Ramapatam: “For many months past, applications have been made from time to time for bap- tism ; but [have thought it wise to put off all such until the work of distributing relief was over. About December Ist, however, T concluded to keep them waiting no longer, and allowed some candidates to come before the church. I speak within bounds when I say there are hundreds waiting for baptism. The Spirit seems to have fallen upon us in answer to prayer. The les- sons of the famine have evidently not been entirely lost upon the degraded sufferers. The heathen seem susceptible, to an un- usual degree, to the force of christian truth. I am aware that this is due partly to the aid which has recently come to them Sequel to the “ Lone Star” Tract. 11 from christian nations; but I believe that there has been and still is an outpouring of the Spirit, opening the hearts of these sufferers to the reception of the gospel,—a power independent of and deeper than any expectation of pecuniary gain.” Mr. Williams, at Ramapatam, in his annual report for the same year, makes the following statements, so literally fulfilled by recent events: “We look,” writes Mr. Williams, “for great ingatherings into our churches soon, such as have not been known in the history of modern missions. If I am not utterly mistaken, God, by his Spirit, is moving on the hearts of thou- sands and thousands of-these Teloogoo people. The students are out from Saturday morning until Sunday evening every week. They preach, give medicine and a little money to the very helpless. They tell me that whole villages are ready to become Christian. I believe that God is about to fulfil his promise to the Son regarding this people. It looks as though a nation is to be born ina day. We, if wise, will get ready to receive them.” The whole number of baptisms among the Teloogoos for this year was two hundred and ninety-eight, and the total membership was four thousand five hundred and twenty-two. During this terrible famine nearly four hundred Teloogoo christians died. Tur Year 1878.— The reader will have observed the bright anticipations and confident predictions expressed by the mis- sionaries in their communications for the last few years, relative to the near approach of a great religious movement among the Teloogoos. That movement began in 1877, during the terrible ravages of the famine. But the missionaries felt the necessity of exercising the greatest caution in giving encouragement to those who professed to be converted and requested baptism. On the 16th of June, 1878, Mr. Clough opened once more the doors of the church for the admission of members. On the 24th of June, Mr. Clough writes that he had begun to bap- tize converts, and in that letter says: “Before this reaches you, there will be five hundred baptized christians, probably, within four miles of where I now write, residents of Ongole 12 Sequel to the “ Lone Star” Tract. and suburbs. If rain comes soon, and a harvest is given, as we hope, there will be three thousand baptisms in this mission (Ongole) within the next six months. The converts are now waiting for the ordinance. This means an addition to our Te- loogoo mission of not less than fifteen thousand souls. Perhaps twenty thousand would be nearer correct.” A few days after the above was written, Mr. Clough sends forward the following: “In my letter of the 24th, I mentioned that we had again com- menced baptizing believers in the Lord Jesus as their Saviour, and the Saviour of the whole world. Since then, the work has gone on, widening and deepening; and now, as I write these lines, it seems to me that the blessed gospel which we try to preach is going to sweep everything before it.” On the 7th of July, Mr. Clough reports that he and his native helpers had baptized five thousand four hundred and twenty-nine since June 16th. Larer.—On the 31st of July, Mr. Williams, who went to Ongole on the 12th of that month to aid Mr. Clough, writes as follows: “Brother Clough and his helpers were literally crowded upon by the pedple who were pressing into the king- dom of God. I saw what few missionaries have seen. More than a thousand people from one of the Ongole Pallums came into the compound, and gave up their idols. Great as this in- gathering is, it is not beyond my anticipations. When we think how many earnest men are at work on the field, who go day after day telling the simple story of the cross, and plead- ing with their fellow-men to turn unto God, and remember what God has promised, who could look for less?” On the 5th of August, Mr. Clough, after referring to the help he had re- ceived from Mr. Williams, says: “I cannot write in detail. God was with us, and glorified himself. A multitude were baptized, — three thousand two hundred and sixty-two in all. These make, with those already reported, eight thousand six hundred and ninety-one baptized from June 16th to July 31st, inclusive. Zo God be all the praise now and through all eternity! Unless I err greatly, if my life and health Sequel to the “ Lone Star” Tract. 18 and my native preachers are spared, before Jan. 1, 1879, five thousand more will be baptized by us; and then, D.V., the work will go on and on, until the little flame kindled here be- comes a mighty fire, sweeping everything before it.” Stmt Larer.—On the 17th September, Mr. Clough again writes: “The total number baptized up to date, since June 15, is nine thousand one hundred and forty-seven. Is this too large a blessing? Is it not what you have been praying for? Are the converts unacceptable, because so many? Are we not after all the Teloogoos? We—my native preachers and my- self — believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and in preaching the gospel. We baptize those only whom we have reason to be- lieve he has regenerated. How can-we do otherwise? Thou- sands of converts now await baptism. We must advance all along the line, and keep the old camp-fires burning also. Txren anp Now.—In that same letter, Mr. Clough says: “Twelve years ago this morning we arrived in Ongole. The outlook was then dreary enough. Twelve years of hard work, of joys and sorrows, have passed. We look around us, we think of the past, and can but exclaim: ‘What hath God wrought!’ We can now see that God intends to do great things for the Teloogoos. Past blessings are but an earnest of greater ones just before us, if we are faithful over the few things, already given. I rejoice with trembling, not because I doubt the goodness of God and his promises, — but are the American Baptists going to stand by me? or are they going to hear of the great revival among the Teloogoos, rejoice for a day, then forget us nearly, and leave the great multitude just out of heathenism upon me? When at home in 1872-73, I often said: The Teloogoos are going to come to Jesus just as fast as the Teloogoo missionaries and the American Baptists are ready and prepared to teach the converts the ‘all things whatsoever I have commanded.’” Is 1r Genuine? — That question many are asking concern- ing this religious awakening among the Teloogoos. Rey. John McLaurin, formerly a successful missionary in Ongole, 14 Sequel to the “ Lone Star” Tract. under the auspices of the Missionary Union, but now laboring in Coconada, where the Canadian Baptists have a promising mission among the Teloogoos, sends to the Canadian Baptist (Nov. 21, 1878) a letter, dated Sept. 24, 1878, from which the following is selected: “The conviction has for some years been taking possession of my mind that, though the accessions to Christianity in India amply justified the expenditure of men and money invested in missions, and though it was our duty and privilege to rejoice in what had been done, still the Lord would accomplish his purposes of mercy toward India in a dif- ferent manner before long. There was a spirit abroad in the land, a breaking-down of old prejudices, a conviction of the truth of Christianity, an expectation of the break-up of the , Hindu system, a saturation of the mind of certain districts with gospel truth, which did not seem to be utilized in the present order of things; and I felt that the Lord intended to use these latent forces for. his own glory some day. I believed it would be brought about by something which would stir the public mind to its deepest depch. Some political or social revolution, or may be pestilence or famine. I believe the movement has begun. Do I believe in the genuineness of this revival? Ido believe in it heartily, joyously, and hopefully, for these reasons: 1st. I believe in the power of the gospel to effect such a work as this. 2nd. I believe the Teloogoos are a prepared people, made ready by the Spirit for such a movement. 8rd. I know each square mile of the field embraced, thoroughly, by personal contact. 4th. I know each preacher, teacher, and colporteur intimately. I know his spirit, motives, and modes of work. 5th. There is not a village on the whole field in which the gospel has not been faithfully preached many times a year, for the last half dozen years or more. 6th. In this way, the whole field has been saturated with the knowledge of Jesus Christ and the way of salvation. The people have heard all this for years with indifference, though in one sense believing it all the while. The famine came, and deathstared them in the face They were stirred out of their indifference, were made to