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 l^ublished by llie r.eiieral Literature CommiLLee 
 
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 WOMAN’S Home and Foreign Missionary Society of 
 THE Lutheran Church. 
 
 (General Synod.) 
 
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 1897. 
 
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NO. 145. 
 
 ®ur flnbia fIDission. 
 
 Sarab C. Sabtlcr. 
 
 Our Mission in India was founded in 1842 by Rev. C. F. Heyer, familiarly 
 known as Father Heyer. The spirit in which it was founded is shown by his 
 reply when asked where he thought the General Synod should locate its Mis- 
 sion : “Whither-soeverthe Lord may direct, we ought to follow and commence 
 thewoi’k. ” He was sent out by the Pennsylvania Synod, the General Synod 
 having at first resolved to carry on its Mission work under the American 
 Board, but in 1843 the Mission came under the care of the General Synod. 
 
 Father Heyer embarked at Boston, October 14th, 1841, and arrived at 
 Guntur, July 31, 1842. Among the providences which led to the founding of 
 
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our Mission hei-e, perhaps none is more conspicuous than the fact tliat H. 
 Stokes, Esq., was then collector in Guntur. It is a sad fact that Christian 
 Missions in India have been often hindered by civil servants sent out by a 
 Christian government, but Mr. Stokes was a noble exception. He had long 
 been wishing for such a helper in his distinct, and, wheH he heard of the mis- 
 sionary’s arrival, at once sent for him. Father Heyer had tied his palankeen 
 between two trees, intending to make that his dwelling, but Mr. Stokes gave 
 him a house where he could begin work at once, and for six months he lived 
 there and ate at Mr. Stokes’ table. 
 
 In 1843, the first converts, three in number, were gathered in, and the next 
 year marked the arrival of helpers. Rev. Walter Gunn and his wife. 
 
 In 1849, Father Heyer established a new mission station in the Palnad at 
 points 60 to 70 miles west of Guntur, a work of grace having begun there 
 through the instrumentality of one man who had been won to Christ during a 
 visit of missionaries to his town. The Palnad has always been one of the 
 most successful stations, but because of the scarcity of workers and its being 
 the jnost unhealthy section of gur IMission, it has been inuch of the timg without 
 
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a resident missionary. Dr. Harpster labored there during- his first term of 
 service and Dr. and Mrs. Albrecht are now settled there, building a dwelling 
 and a school house at Rentachintala, as a center. 
 
 In 1850, Rev. .1. G. Martz came to join the two mission- 
 aries, but was compelled to return the following year. 
 Before his return the Mission was called to mourn its first 
 loss in the death of Mi'. Gunn. He had been in failing- 
 health for some time, but remained at his post to the end. 
 In the same year our work was enlarged by receiving from 
 the North German Missionary Society, the Rajahmundry 
 Station, 115 miles north-east of Guntur, with the Mission 
 property and two missionaries. Rev. C. W. Groening and 
 Rev. A. F. Heise. 
 
 In 1852, the missionaries were fui'ther reinforced by the 
 arrival of Rev. W. I. Cutter and Rev. W. E. Snyder with 
 their wives. They could not i-emain long on account of ill-health. Mrs. 
 Snyder died in 1864, and in 1856, the rest of the party returned to America ; 
 
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 MRS, AMY S. ALBRECHT 
 
but in 1858, Mr. Snyder with his second wife came back to India, accompanied 
 by Rev. E. Qnangst and Rev. A. Long with their wives. Mr. Snyder died of 
 cholera in 1859. In 1861, a new station was opened by Mr. Long at Samulcotta. 
 
 In 1862, Mr. Heise returned to Europe and in 1865, Mr. Greening, after 
 long and faithful service, also returned. The same year Mr. Long and two of 
 his children died of small-pox. This left Rev. E, Unangst alone in charge of 
 the four stations, Guntur, Palnad, Rajahmundry and Samulcotta. But tlie 
 field was too large for one man, so in 1869, Father Heyer, at 78 years of age, 
 again went to India to take charge of Rajahmundry and Samulcotta, which 
 became stations of the General Council, while Guntur and the Palnad remained 
 to the General Synod. 
 
 In 1871, Rev. Unangst was obliged to return to America, and for about a 
 year the church in India was left without a missionary in charge, the only time 
 iu its history. The care of the field during this time was entrusted to Mr. R. 
 E. Cully who had been in the service of the Mission since 1862. 
 
 In 1872, Rev. Unangst returned, accompanied by Rev. J. H. Harpster, and 
 in 1873, Rev. and Mrs. L. L. Uhl arrived in Guntur. The Anglo-Vernacular 
 
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School, which was first started about the year 1852 but closed in 1865 because 
 of the lack of funds due to the civil war, was at this time re-opened and Rev. 
 Uhl had charge of it during his first twelve years stay in India. This School 
 was the foundation of the Arthur G. Watts Memorial College. In 1886, It was 
 raised to the position of a Second Grade College under the principalship of 
 Rev. L. B. Wolf who is still in charge. It takes pupils as far as the First in 
 Arts Examination, which about corresponds to the end of Sophomore year in 
 our American Colleges. It is open to all classes and creeds and, so far, it and 
 its branches have given us about the only way of approach to the high-caste 
 Hindu. The new college building was formally opened on March 17th, 1893) 
 by His Excellency, Lord Wenlock, Governor of Madras. 
 
 In 1874, Rev. A. D. Rowe was sent out, having spent the previous years 
 in travelling among the churches to raise the money necessary to send him. 
 His appeals were made especially to the Sunday schools and he went as the 
 Children’s Foreign Missionary. The Mission thus reinforced had a hopeful 
 outlook and we find the decade from 1870-80, a most prosperous one, over 
 5,000 being baptized during that time. The Christmas season of 1876 was 
 
Specially significant in our Mission. At this time the church in Guntur, 
 known as the Stork Chapel, was dedicated and two native pastors were or- 
 dained. In 1877-78, occurred that dreadful famine throughout India in wliich 
 millions perished. Mr. Rowe took a specially active part in the relief 
 measui’es, which even secured for him honorable mention by those in charge 
 of the Mansion House Relief Fund in London. His position in this respect 
 was a great helj:) to his work in influencing for good the hearts and lives of 
 the people and an unusual number of conversions is recorded as the result of 
 these years. Having t*aken a short furlough in America, spent chiefly in 
 visiting the home churches in the interest of the work, Mr. Rowe with his 
 wife and four little children returned to India in the fall of 1881. As soon as 
 he reached Guntur, he began work with his accustomed energy. The district 
 work was then very laborious on account of the many recent additions to the 
 church, and he was also occupied with the building of two houses for the mis- 
 sionaries and with other special objects. Overwork I’endered him an easy 
 prey to typhoid fever from which he died September 16, 1882, the announce- 
 ment bringing grief to the hearts of many throughout the chui’ch who kijcw 
 
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Woman’s Hospital, Guntur. Maternity AVard, 
 
and loved him. There are many who owe their first interest in foreign mis- 
 sions to Rev, A. D. Rowe. 
 
 In 1881, Rev. Charles Schnure was sent to India, the second missionary 
 supported by the Children’s Missionary Society. He was accompanied by his 
 wife and by Miss Kate Boggs. Miss Boggs was sent bythe 
 Executive Committee of the Woman’s Home and Foreign 
 Missionary Society which had resolved to assume the sup- 
 port of the Zenana work and the girls’ schools in Guntur. 
 Work had already been done in this line by the wives of 
 some of our missionaries, but it was necessarily limited. 
 To the disappointment of the women of the church. Miss 
 Boggs was a great sufferer during the whole of her stay in 
 India and was obliged to return in 1883. 
 
 The W. H. and F. M. Society sent out two more work- 
 ers in 1883, Dr. Anna S. Kugler and Miss Fannie Dryden, 
 
 OR. ANNA S. KUGLER 
 
 in the largest missionary party ever sent out by our Board, the others being 
 
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Dr. Unangst, who had come to America for a short rest, hiS' wife and daughter, 
 Ella, and Rev. L. B. Wolf and wife. 
 
 In 1884, Rev. W. P. Swartz received his appointment 
 for India, and, as the United Synod of the South had agreed 
 to support him, he travelled a year through the South, 
 reaching India in 1885. From this time dates the Mission 
 Printing Press which has since been one of the successful 
 evangelistic agencies. 
 
 In 1887, Rev. John Nichols and wife arrived, but before 
 he had completed his first year in India, God called him 
 away. 
 
 The bungalow at Narasarowpett which was to have been 
 his field of labor, was built as a memorial to him, chiefly 
 by the young men of the Church. It is now occupied by 
 Rev. N. E. Yeiser who with his wife went to India in 1892. The W. H. & F. 
 M. Society also have a home at Narasarowpett, which was occupied by Miss 
 Kistler during the last years of her work in our Mission. 
 
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In 1890, Rev. L. L. Uhl, Ph. D., who had spent five yeai's in America, 
 during which time he had been instrumental in raising large sums of monej- 
 for building the College and the Hospital for Women 
 and Children, and had also taken a three years post- 
 graduate course at the Johns Hopkins University, again 
 reached the India field at the beginning of the year, ac- 
 companied by Mr. and Mrs. John Aberly and Miss 
 Amy L. Sadtler. Mr. Aberly was ordained by the India 
 Conference, Dec. 1891. 
 
 1892 was the 50th year since the founding of the 
 Mission, but owing to threatened famine and consequent 
 MISS ANNA SANFORD. haud timcs, the celebration of the Jubilee was postponed 
 to the following year. The celebration began with two large meetings in 
 Guntur, audience about 1200, followed by an extended tour of the whole 
 field by as many of the missionaries as possible, closing with a meeting 
 in Guntur held in the new (,'ollege Hall, July 31st. These meetings were of 
 great benefit to the congregations visited. Much enthusiasm was manifested 
 
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and a surprising amount of money contributed liy natives to the building of a 
 Dormitory for the Boarding boys, a memorial to Father Heyer. Dr. Uhl, 
 writing of the Jubilee and its results says: “It has not had 
 its like in India.” 
 
 In the same year, 18!)3, Dr. J. H. Harpster returned to 
 take u]) his loved work. Since 1876, when he was obliged 
 to leave India on account of impaired health, he had been 
 a successful pastor at home. 
 
 In 18!»4 and 1895, the woman’s work suffered a num- 
 ber of losses. Miss Dryden and Miss Kistler left the field 
 and Miss Sadtler was removed to another part of it through 
 her marriage to Rev. G. W. Albrecht. The married ladies 
 of the Mission kept the work from falling and the Mission 
 has since been reinforced by the arrival of Miss Katharine 
 Fahs and Miss Jessie Brewer in 1894, Dr. Mary Baer and Miss Anna San- 
 foi’d in 1895, and Miss Mary Knauss in 1896. 
 
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The Missionaries now in the field are : 
 
 DR MARY BAER. 
 
 Rev. L. L. Uhl, Ph. D, 
 Rev. L. B.Wolf and wife, 
 Rev. John Aberly, and wife, 
 Rev. J. H. Harpster, 
 
 D. D., and wife, 
 
 Rev. Noah Yeiser, and wife. 
 “ Geo. Albrecht “ 
 
 Rev. Sam. C. Kinsinger, 
 Dr. Anna S. Kugler, 
 Miss Katharine Fahs. 
 Miss Jessie Brewer. 
 Dr. Mary Baer, 
 
 Miss Anna Sanford. 
 Miss Mary Knauss. 
 
 These are only a small portion of the workers actually employed. They 
 are, in fact, only the leaders who direct the native forces under them. Revs. 
 Uhl, Harpster, Albrecht, Yeiser and Kinsinger are district missionaries. 
 Rev. Wolf is principal of the College and Rev. Aberly has chaa'ge of the 
 Guntur Church, the Boys’ Boarding School and the Theological School in 
 the College. The ladies who have gone out recently are engaged in the study 
 
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of the language or beginning to assist with the work in the schools or zenanas. 
 Miss Fahs is a trained nurse and with Dr. Baer will be a valuable aid in 
 the finely equipped Hospital for Woman and Children, which under Dr. Kug- 
 ler’s supervision, is nearly ready for opening. The new Dispensary which 
 was the first of the group of Hospital buildings to be 
 erected, was opened in 1893 and the work has since then 
 been carried on more advantageously than in the narrow 
 quarters previously occupied. The .Jubilee House for medi- 
 cal missionaries was opened in 1895. The Training and 
 Girls’ Boarding School, for the education of the daughters 
 of Christians in the district and the training of teachers is 
 an efficient power for good. It is under the care of Miss 
 Brewer and of Miss Minnie Moses, an English girl, edu- 
 cated in Madras, an earnest devoted Christian, who has 
 been working in our Mission since 1891. 
 
 MISS JESSIE OREWER* 
 
 It is impossible in a tract of this size to tell anything of the results or 
 methods of work. The wisdom of those who laid the foundation of the Mis- 
 
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sion has been seen by theii- successors. Schools have been encouraged from 
 the beginning and our efforts have always looked toward the establishment 
 of a native ministry. Work was begun among the low-caste population. 
 The standard of instruction required before baptism, 
 while exceedingly low from an American standpoint, 
 has been high when compared with some missions, and 
 it was made obligatory for persons to renounce caste 
 before admitting them into the church. 
 
 The field is large, consisting of seven taluks or 
 counties in the district south of the Krishna River, and 
 there is great need for more workers as well as more 
 efficient means for carrying on the work, so that ignor- 
 ant converts may be trained into true piety, the heathen 
 reached with the Gospel message and the personal work of the missionary 
 given where there is the greatest need. “Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the 
 harvest that he would send forth laborers into his harvest,” and come ye 
 up “to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty” 
 forces of heathenism. 
 
table showing 
 
 THE TIME OF SERVICE OF MISSIONARIES. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Mrs . 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Wa^t^r arrived in 1842, returned (finally) in 1870. 
 
 M ALTtR Gunn, arrived in 1844, died in 1851 
 Gunn, arrived in 1844, returned in 1851. 
 
 G. Martz, arrived in 1850, returned in 1851 
 
 C. W. Groening, joined in 1851, returned (finally) in 1865. 
 
 OENING, joined m 1851, returned (finally) in 1865. 
 
 A. F. Hetse, joined in 1851, returned (finally) in 1862. 
 Heise, joined in 1857, returned in 1862. 
 
 WL E. Snyder, arrived in 1852, died in 1859. 
 
 Snyder, (first wife) arrived in 1852, died in 1854 
 Snyder, (second wife) arrived in 1858, returned in 1859. 
 
 W. I. Cutter, arrived in 1852, returned in 1855. 
 
 Cutter, arrived in 1852, returned in 1855. 
 
 A. Long, arrived in 1858, died in 1866. 
 
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Mrs. Long, arrived in 1858, returned in 1866. 
 
 Rev. E. Unangst, arrived in 1858, returned in 1895. 
 Mrs. Unangst, arrived in 1858, died in 1888. 
 
 Rev. J. H. Harpster, arrived in 1872, returned in 1876. 
 Rev. J. H. Harpster, {second term) arrived in 1893. — 
 
 Mrs. Harpster, arrived in 1893. 
 
 Rev. L. L. Uhl, Ph. D., arrived in 1873. 
 
 Mrs. Uhl, arrived in 1873, returned in 1885. 
 
 Rev. A. D. Rowe, arrived in 1874, died in 1888. 
 
 Mrs. Rowe, arrived in 1874, returned in 1882. 
 
 Rev. C. ScHNURE, arrived in 1881, returned in 1885. 
 Mrs. SCHNURE, arrived in 1881, returned in 1885. 
 
 Miss Kate Boggs, arrived in 1881, returned in 1883. 
 
 Rev. L. B. Wolf, arrived in 1883. 
 
 Mrs. Wolf, arrived in 1883. 
 
 Miss Anna S. Kugler, M. D., arrived in 1883. 
 
 Miss F. M. Dryden, arrived in 1883, returned in 1894. 
 
Miss Ella Unangst, arrived in 1883, returned in 1887. 
 
 Rev. W. P. Swartz, arrived in 1885, returned in 1887. 
 
 Rev. John Nichols, arrived in January, 1886, died November, 1886. 
 Mrs. Nichols, arrived in 1886, returned in 1887. 
 
 Miss Susan R. Kistler, arrived in 1888, returned in 1895. 
 
 Rev. John Aberly, arrived in 1890. 
 
 Mrs. Aberly, arrived in 1890. 
 
 Miss Amy L. Sadtler, arrived in 1890, married in 1895 to 
 
 Rev. Geo. Albrecht, Ph. D., arrived in 1892. 
 
 Rev. Noah E. Zeiser. arrived in 1892. 
 
 Mrs. Zeiser. arrived in 1892. 
 
 Rev. Samuel C. Kinsinger, arrived in 1894. 
 
 Miss Katherine Pahs, arrived in 1894 
 
 Miss Jessie Brewer, arrived in 1894 
 
 Miss Mary Baer, M. D., arrived in 1895. 
 
 Miss Anna Sanford, arrived in 1895. 
 
 Miss Mary Knauss, arrived in 1896. 
 
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