HANDBOOK 
 
 OF 
 
 CEYLON MISSIONS 
 
 (PROTESTANT) 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 H <5 s Cfo fa 
 
 IK oil <£.’ 'g&oscvop. 
 
 PRICE 25 GTS. 
 
 COLOMBO: 
 
 W. Methodist Mission Press. 
 
 1896. 
 
WESLEYAN PRESS AND BOOK ROOM 
 COLOMBO, CEYLON. 
 
 Sinhalee* Language 
 
 SEXT BY 
 
 Rev. T. Moscrop 
 
 M anaqer. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 T HE need of sncli a Handbook as this has often been 
 apparent. Amongst the many who visit Ceylon are 
 some who desire to know what Christianity is doing; these 
 often ‘ scramble round ’ for information, and have a very 
 confused idea even after their questions have been patiently 
 answered by mission workers. There are some globe-trotters 
 who inconsiderately waste the time of men and women whose 
 chief desire is to get on with their work. Even the interviewer 
 is by no means unknown. ‘ When were you born, What 
 county do you come from, What training have you had, Are 
 yon married, and if so what family have you ?’ are questions 
 that have been asked, and so some curious people will find 
 little satisfaction in these pages; but the compiler hopes that 
 the issue of this Handbook will save his time in future by 
 enabling him to say to visitors, ‘ There you are.’ It may be of 
 use to other workers. 
 
 Many Ceylon residents may also desire to have a summary 
 of the work being done in their midst. 
 
 There has been much unavoidable delay in publishing. It 
 is not so easy as it looks to get out even a little work like 
 this. The book -has many deficiences; but it is a beginning, 
 and if a useful purpose is served there will be other and 
 improved issues from time to time. 
 
 The compiler is indebted to workers of various missions for 
 information supplied. The account of the American Mission 
 is by Rev. R. C. Hastings, m.a., and that of the Salvation 
 Army by Brigadier Nurani, 
 
 The Missions are given in chronological order. That the 
 Presbyterian work comes last is accidental. 
 
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 HANDBOOK 
 
 OF 
 
 CEYLON MISSIONS 
 
 (^Protestant) 
 
 CHIEF RELIGIONS OF CEYLON- . 
 
 are Buddhism (professed by 
 sm (professed by the Tamils), 
 Christianity in various forms. 
 It ought to be added that Demon-worship very largely prevails 
 amongst both Buddhists and Hindoos. In the darkest hours 
 of life devil ceremonies are practised by the people and their 
 nominal religion is apparently forgotten. 
 
 For those who wish to gain information as to these religions 
 a list of books is given in Appendix A. 
 
 STATISTICS. 
 
 A few statistics to enable the reader to understand the 
 missionary problem are given : 
 
 DISTRIBUTION OF RACES (Census, 1891). 
 
 Sinhalese, 2,041,158; Tamils, 723,853. 
 
 Moormen (Arab descendants) 197,166. 
 
 Burghers and Eurasians, 21,231 ; Malays, 10,133. 
 
 Europeans, 4,678; Yeddas, 1,229; others, 1,341, 
 
 Total Population, 8,007,789. 
 
 HE principal religions 
 the Sinhalese), Hindu 
 Mohammedanism, anc 
 
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 DISTRIBUTION OF RELIGIONS (Census. 1891). 
 
 Christians f C f holics 
 
 rrot.es tants 
 
 Bnclclhists 
 
 Hindoos 
 
 Mohammedans ... 
 
 Others 
 
 246,214 4 
 55,913 j 
 
 30-2,1*27. 
 
 1,877,043. 
 
 615,931. 
 
 211,995. 
 
 692. 
 
 PROVINCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF RELIGIONS. 
 
 Province. 
 
 Christ- 
 
 ians. 
 
 Bud- 
 
 dhists. 
 
 Hin- 
 
 doos. 
 
 Moham- 
 
 medans. 
 
 1 
 
 Others. 
 
 Western ... 
 
 160490 
 
 528,806 
 
 22,233 
 
 50,841 
 
 165 
 
 Sabaragamuwa ... 
 
 5,890 
 
 218,533 
 
 25,623 
 
 8,547 
 
 31 
 
 North Western ... 
 
 45,269 
 
 240,382 
 
 11,016 
 
 23,385 
 
 18 
 
 Central ... 
 
 *27,694 
 
 244,504 
 
 171189 
 
 31,059 
 
 61 
 
 Uva 
 
 3,899 
 
 114,086 
 
 33,789 
 
 7,044 
 
 383 
 
 North Central ... 
 
 947 
 
 59,888 
 
 5,614 
 
 8,884 
 
 - 
 
 Northern 
 
 43,872 
 
 1,328 
 
 261992 
 
 12,098 
 
 6 
 
 Southern 
 
 5,812 
 
 461,869 
 
 3,939 
 
 18,168 
 
 11 
 
 Eastern ... 
 
 8,274 
 
 7,647 
 
 80,537 
 
 51,969 
 
 17 
 
 Total. ... 
 
 302127 
 
 1877043 
 
 615936 
 
 211995 
 
 692 
 
 < 
 
 The following are the percentages: 
 
 Buddhists 62. 40 Mohammedans 7. 04 
 
 Hindoos 20. 47 Others 0. 05 
 
 Christians 10. 04 
 
 For further information the Census Returns, or Ferguson’s 
 Ceylon Handbook — a most valuable work — may be consulted. 
 
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 Mr. Ferguson gives the following division of the Protestant 
 
 community: 
 
 
 Episcopalians 
 
 20,200 
 
 Presbyterians and Congregationalists (A. B. M.) 
 
 12,500 
 
 Wesleyans ... 
 
 18,500 
 
 Baptists 
 
 4,500 
 
 Total ... 
 
 56,000 
 
 These figures are estimates ouly. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF CHRISTIANITY IN CEYLON- 
 
 In the early Christian centuries there was considerable com- 
 mercial intercourse between the sea-board of the Mediterranean 
 and India, and doubtless many Christian traders found their 
 way to Ceylon.* Cosmas Indico[>lenstes, a Nestorian and a 
 merchant of Alexandria, wrote in 597 in his Christian Topo- 
 graphy that in Taprobane (Ceylon) there was a Christian 
 Church with clergy and a liturgy. These Christians, he 
 states, were Persian sojourners ; there is no evidence what- 
 ever that Christianity had any hold upon the people of the 
 country. Writers of the 'ninth, thirteenth, and fourteenth 
 centuries describe Ceylon but they make no mention of 
 Christianity. 
 
 There is no evidence that Ceylon was seriously influenced 
 by the Christian faith until the arrival of the Portuguese in 
 151)5. A few years afterwards they conquered the maritime 
 provinces, and “ there were scores of restless priests in their 
 armies, forts and settlements.” In the middle of the century 
 Francis Xavier visited the island and thousands were baptized. 
 Large numbers of clergy carried ou the work, and the people 
 “ were only too ready to embrace a religion which gave them 
 
 * This fact is used in a very interesting way by Rev. S. Langdon 
 in The Appeal to the Serpent , or Life in an Ancient Buddhist City, a 
 Story of Ceylon in the 4th Century (R. T. S.). 
 
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 high-sounding honorific baptismal names and interfered 
 seldom, if at all, with their continued observance of Bud- 
 dhistic feasts and ceremonies ” (Ferguson’s Ceylon in 1893.) 
 Roman Catholicism has thus had the first and the longest 
 chance, and this fact should be borne in mind in any com- 
 parison between its progress and that of Protestantism. 
 
 A century and a half after the Portuguese the Dutch came 
 and with them the Reformed Faith. Unfortunately there 
 came also a fierce intolerant spirit. Roman Catholics were 
 subjected to all kinds of prohibitions and disabilities and 
 were even grievously persecuted. Besides, a mistaken, 
 because coercive, policy was adopted towards the people in 
 the hope of converting them to Christianity. 
 
 The British came to Ceylon in and their policy of 
 
 toleration soon proved that the masses of the people were still 
 Buddhists and Hindus at heart, and that the efforts of 
 the previous century, on mistaken lines, had been a hindrance 
 to true religion. Between 179^ and the coming of the 
 first British Protestant missionary in 18I& thousands upon 
 thousands had gone back to heathenism. The following 
 extract from the Jubilee Sketches of the C. M. S. (1818-1868) 
 will show how matters stood: 
 
 “ They were just beginning to become aware (on the arrival of the 
 missionaries) of the fact that the outward profession of Christianity 
 was no longer necessary to secure their civil rights, and were going 
 back in large numbers to the open practice of Buddhism which all 
 along they had secretly believed. The gradual cessation of efforts to 
 instruct the people in the doctrines of the Gospel, which preceded and 
 followed the advent of the English rule, left the mass of nominal 
 adherents, who still retained their outward profession of Christianity, 
 in utter ignorance of its real nature, and so confirmed in them the idea 
 that connection with it, although no longer compulsory, still placed 
 them in a more advantageous position; and that the reception of its 
 rites (Baptism and Marriage) still secured to them the countenance of 
 the ruling powers, and gave them a respectable standing, which, for 
 worldly advancement and profit, it was necessary to retain. 
 
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 The Dutch, however, do not always receive full credit for all that 
 they did for the advancement of Christianity in Ceylon. For a long 
 period of their rule they made vigorous efforts and liberally expended 
 funds, in direct endeavours to convert the people to Christianity. Not 
 only did they establish schools for instruction of the children, but they 
 also built Churches and employed Ministers in direct Missionary 
 work among the adults. Yet their earnest and praiseworthy efforts 
 seem to have been marred by their mistaken policy, in making the 
 reception of Baptism and the outward profession of Christianity 
 necessary in order to secure to the people their civil rites and privi- 
 leges, and as a passport to Government. The result of this false 
 policy was to make the outward profession of Christianity almost 
 universal, but, at the same time, it so opened the flood-gates of 
 hypocrisy that the tide of false and insincere professors completely 
 overwhelmned the real converts, and overspread the laud with a 
 spurious Christianity which, although imposing in extent, was utterly 
 false and unsound. When therefore the pressure of compulsion was 
 removed by the advent of the British power, thousands openly 
 returned to their former superstitions, while the great majority of 
 those who kept up their connexion with Christianity had been so 
 educated and trained in hypocrisy and false profession that, while 
 outwardly as a body conforming to Christian worship, and anxious, 
 as a matter of respectability, to obtain Christian rites, they held as 
 their religious belief the doctrines of Buddhism, and diligently 
 practised in secret all its ceremonies and rites. 
 
 ..... .A more trying field for labour it would be difficult to 
 imagine. It is a matter well understood by planters that, while the 
 primeval forest land, if cleared and planted, will soon yield a rich 
 return, the land of the lower ranges, previously exhausted by native 
 cultivation, will often mock their efforts and disappoint their hopes. 
 This fact has its counterpart in spiritual husbandry. Pure Buddhists 
 and Hindoos are ten-fold more accessible than the thousands of relapsed 
 and false professors of Christianity among whom Missionary work in - 
 Ceylon was commenced. The very traditions and remains of the 
 state of things which previously existed are all stumbling blocks in 
 the way of present progress.” 
 
 Ceylon then has been Christianised twice over, or rather 
 ecclesiasticized— a very different thing. And the lesson to 
 
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 be learnt is this, that making haste too quickly only makes 
 more delay, and that some fast methods are much too slow. 
 It is claimed that the slower methods of to-day are those that 
 really speed the issue. 
 
 MISSIONS AND CHURCHES. 
 
 After the British occupation the first Missionaries to arrive 
 were three Germans sent out by the London Missionary Society 
 in 1804. They did not stay very long, the conditions of the 
 work being considered unsatisfactory and the claims of India 
 pressing. The Baptist Missionary Society began work in 
 1 8 1 '2; the Wesleyan Missionary Society in 1 8 1 4; the American 
 Board of Missions in ) Bid; and the Church Missionary Society 
 in 1818. The Anglican Church has considerable work apart 
 from that carried on by the C. M. S., some of it being a 
 development out of the old system of chaplainces. (The 
 Disestablishment Ordinance passed in 1881, and disemlow- 
 ment commenced 1888). This work is described in this 
 Handbook as * Diocesan and S. P. G.’ The Society for the 
 Propagation of the Gospel began work in 1 840. 
 
 The Presbyterians have no missions, but there are Churches 
 in Colombo, Kandy and Galle, 
 
 The Salvation Army began operations iu 1885. There are 
 two small missions carried on by ladies at Heneratgoda and 
 Veyaugoda. The Ceylon and Indian General Mission has 
 done some work, and a Friends Mission is projected. 
 
 The British and Foreign Bible Society, through several 
 local auxiliaries, and the Ceylon Christian Literature Society 
 are a very great help to all the Missions. 
 
 Tiaoaoawig” 
 
THE BAPTIST MISSION. 
 
 Mission to Ceylon Commenced, 1812. 
 
 T has already been stated that this Mission was the 
 first to begin operations Mr. Chater, its first 
 Missionary, arrived in Colombo in 18l'<! after a 
 short experience in India. Since then there has been a 
 succession of able and faithful Missionaries who have been 
 invariably proficient in the vernaculars, particular by in 
 Sinhalese in which language work is chiefly carried on 
 Some have done a considerable amount of literary work. 
 Amongst these are Messrs. Chater. Allen, Davies and Carter. 
 The latter is considered to be the best European Sinhalese 
 Scholar living — his English-Sinhalese Dictionary being quite 
 a thesaurus of information and almost invaluable. A dis- 
 tinguished name is Ebenezer Daniel [1830-1844], who gave 
 himself with such self-denying* devotion 'to his work as to 
 
 earn the name of the Apostolic Daniel. 
 
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 CENTRES OF WORK. 
 
 There are three principal Districts: 
 
 ]. Colombo, which includes not only the City but many 
 outstations in the W ester n Province, and two stations — 
 Madampe and Chilaw — in the North Western. 
 
 2. Kandy including Matale, Kadugannawa, Gampola, and 
 outstations running North towards Anuradhapura. 
 
 3. Sabaragamuwa Province, with Ratnapura as the principal 
 station. 
 
 Missionaries are in charge of these Districts and are 
 assisted by Evangelists, Teachers &c. 
 
 Recently the policy of making churches self-supporting has 
 been introduced. One church, however,— Colombo Grandpass — 
 has been self-supporting for thirty-one years. The Colombo, 
 Cinnamon Gardens, English Church has also been self- 
 supporting for several years and is vigorously worked. There 
 
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 are now five native churches entirely supporting their own 
 pastors; and some others, with no paid pastors, are self- 
 supporting, the churches ministering to themselves. 
 
 This plan of self-support, and of developing the resources 
 of the native churches, is at present in the experimental stage 
 but the Missionaries regard the movement hopefully. One 
 result is that several new centres of evangelistic work have 
 been occupied. 
 
 There is a Ceylon Baptist Mission Conference which meets 
 annually. It consists of the Missionaries, of evangelists of a 
 certain standing, of two pastors and two laymen appointed 
 by the Ceylon Baptist Union and some others. There are 
 District Committees in connection with the Conference meeting 
 at least twice a year. 
 
 The Ceylon Baptist Union is a federation of churches 
 formed for the purpose of inspiring mutual sympathy and 
 help, and of realising oue-ness for service. Delegates and 
 individual members, both ministerial and lay, are admitted. 
 It meets twice a year. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS &C: IN THE PRINCIPAL STATIONS. 
 
 The Baptist Mission has not spent much energy on English 
 schools &c: preferring to reserve its strength for vernacular 
 work. Hence its institutions are fewer in number, and its 
 operations more unseen, than is the case in other missions. 
 
 Colombo: — Cinnamon Gardens Church (self-supporting 
 English) and School; Grandpass Church (self- 
 supporting Sinhalese). 
 
 Girls’ Boarding School (Anglo-Vernacular), 
 Borella. 
 
 Kandy: — Church in Ward Street and Schools; Church at 
 Kadugaunawa; Church at Gampolaj Church and 
 Bazaar Preaching Room at Matale. 
 
 Ratnapura: — Church and Schools. 
 
STATISTICS FOR 1895. 
 
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 Number of Scholars. 
 
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 568 
 
 198 
 
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 •SP!D 
 
 484 
 
 125 
 
 19 
 
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 1566 
 
 397 
 
 234 
 
 2197 
 
 •SRIO 
 
 782 
 
 92 
 
 103 
 
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 DISTRICT. 
 
 COLOMBO DISTRICT, •• 
 
 KANDY DISTRICT. 
 
 SABARAGAMUWA DISTRICT. 
 
 Totals 
 
 2 
 
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 W. METHODIST 
 MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 
 
 Mission to Ceylon Commenced, 1814. 
 
 IVE Missionaries of this Society landed at Galle on 
 June ‘29th, 1814. Their leader, Dr. Coke, died on 
 the voyage. Another Missionary joined them the 
 following year. The principal towns were soon occupied and 
 work evangelistic, pastoral, educational and literary com- 
 menced. Other workers followed whilst several Ceylonese 
 Assistants were also in a few years employed. Some names 
 have become conspicuous. The Sinhalese-English Dictionary 
 (revised) by Clough, one of the first baud, is still a standard 
 work. The researches of Gogerly into Ceylon Buddhism 
 have laid all subsequent investigators under obligation, whilst 
 Spence Hardy’s books are well known. Percival, Kilner, and 
 others did excellent work in North Ceylon. The history of 
 the founding of the Mission is given in Harvard’s Narrative 
 of the Mission to Ceylon and India , and the history of the 
 South Ceylon Section up to 1854 in Spence Hardy’s Jubilee 
 Memorials. These two works are not, however, easy to 
 obtain. A report is issued annually. 
 
 Mission work is now carried on in Sinhalese, Tamil, 
 Portuguese and English in four districts, each containing 
 several stations. Connected with these stations are circuits 
 consisting of groups of preaching centres. Quarterly Meet- 
 ings consisting of ministers and laymen are held in the 
 circuits for the management of local affairs. 
 
 The four Districts are: — 
 
 1. Colombo District — a few miles north of Colombo to 
 Alutgama, the southern boundary of the Western Province. 
 
 Principal Stations: Colombo, Caltura; also Moratuwa. 
 
 2. Kandy District — which includes not only Kandy but 
 the Uva Province and the district round Negombo in the 
 Western Province. 
 
 
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 Principal Stations: — Kandy, Negombo, Haputale, Badulla. 
 
 3. Galle District — the Southern Province. 
 
 Principal Stations: Galle, Matara, Dickwella. 
 
 4. Jaffna District — which includes both the Northern and 
 the Eastern Province. 
 
 Principal Stations: Jaffna, Point Pedro, Trinconialie, Batti- 
 caloa and Kalmunai. 
 
 Missionaries are stationed at all the places named, and 
 they are assisted by Ceylonese Ministers, Catechists, Teachers, 
 Bible-women &c. 
 
 Each of these Districts has an Annual Synod consisting of 
 ministers and laymen to administer its affairs. There is an 
 Annual Ceylon Synod consisting of representatives from the 
 District Synods. 
 
 About Rs. 30,000 are received from the people in the 
 various stations annually for the support of the work. 
 
 There are two Printing Offices, and about 10,000,000 
 pages annually are issued, chiefly of school books, in four 
 languages. 
 
 Two periodicals are issued monthly: the Church Record in 
 English, and the Ceylon Friend in Sinhalese. 
 
 There are four self-supportiug circuits. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS &C: IN THE PRINCIPAL STATIONS. 
 
 Colombo, Pettah: Church, Wesley College (boys), High 
 School (girls). Kollupitiya: Church, High School 
 (girls), Boarding School (girls), Middle School (boys). 
 Printing Office and Book Room. Maradana: Church. 
 Wellawatte: Boys’ Industrial Home. Jampettah Street: 
 Tamil Church aud Schools. The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ 
 Home, Front Street, is carried on under the auspices of 
 this mission. 
 
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 Caltura: Church, High School (boys), High School (girls). 
 
 Morafcuwa is a strong Sinhalese centre. 
 
 Galle, The Fort: Church, High School (girls), and Industrial 
 School. Richmond Hill: Church, Richmond College. 
 Training Institution. Boarding Schools (boys and girls), 
 
 Matara, The Fort: Church, High School (girls); Eliyakanda: 
 Boarding School (girls). 
 
 Kandy, Brownrigg Street: Church, High School (girls), 
 High School (boys); Katukele: Industrial Home and 
 Orphanage (girls). 
 
 Negombo: Church; Churches at Kurana, Seeduwa &c. 
 
 Haputale, (Diyatalawa Station): Happy Valley Mission, with 
 Industrial Home and Reformatory (boys) and Orphanage 
 Printing Press; Wiseman Hospital and Medical Mission 
 (Welimade). 
 
 Badulla: Church, Industrial Home and Orphanage (girls), 
 High School (girls). 
 
 .Jaffna: Church, Central College (Boys), Training Institution, 
 Boardmg School (girls). 
 
 Point Pedro: Church, Boys’ School, Boarding School (girls). 
 
 Triucomalie: Church, High School (boys), Boarding School 
 (girls), Soldiers* and Sailors’ Home. 
 
 Batticaloa: Church, High School (boys), Boarding School 
 (girls). Training Institution, Medical Mission and 
 Dispensary, Printing Press. 
 
 Kalmunai: Church, Industrial School and Home (boys), 
 Boarding School (girls.) 
 
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STATISTICS FOR 1S95, 
 
 13 
 
 Total under 
 
 Instruction. 
 
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 5913 
 
 3786 
 
 6231 
 
 10189 
 
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 : 2163 
 
 1 
 
 | 1727 
 
 1758 
 
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 2418 
 
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 3750 
 
 2059 
 
 4473 
 
 7771 
 
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 251231 
 
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 57 
 
 64 
 
 67 
 
 137 
 
 325 
 
 •SJB[0l{0g qpqqfcg 
 
 3276 
 
 1986 
 
 3805 
 
 7616 
 
 16683 
 
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 1233 
 
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 287 
 
 258 
 
 78 
 
 583 
 
 1206 
 
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 1430 
 
 248 
 
 452 
 
 1216 
 
 3346 
 
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 268 
 
 159 
 
 152 
 
 268 
 
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 166 
 
 116 
 
 170 
 
 323 
 
 775 
 
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 23 
 
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 48 
 
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 DISTRICT. 
 
 COLOMBO , • • • 
 
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 JAFFNA •• •• 
 
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 THE AMERICAN BOARD OF 
 COMMISSIONERS FOR 
 FOREIGN MISSIONS, (A. b. c. f. m.). 
 
 The Ceylon Mission began 1810. 
 
 HIS Mission was started by the Rev. Edward Warren, 
 Rev. and Mrs. James Richards, Rev. and Mrs. 
 Benjamin C. Meigs, and Rev. and Mrs. Daniel 
 Poor, d.d. They left America, October, 1815, and arrived in 
 Ceylon jnst five months later. After remaining in Colombo 
 six or seven months they removed to Jaffna in October, J816, 
 and started what is called “ The American Ceylon Mission. 5 ’ 
 Towards the close of 1819 the mission was re-inforced by the 
 arrival of four ordained men and their wives; but owing to 
 the opposition of the Ceylon Government, no others were 
 allowed to land in Jaffna untill 1833 when a number of new 
 men, accompanied by their wives, joined the mission. 
 
 During these 80 years a large number of faithful Mission* 
 aries have been connected with the mission, many of whom 
 have been Tamil scholars of no mean ability. Such books as 
 Winslow’s large (quarto size) Tamil Dictiouary, and Spauld- 
 ing’s English and Tamil Lexicou, as well as a number of 
 smaller works on a variety of subjects, attest to their scholar- 
 ship. Names such as Poor, Scndder, Green, Spaulding, 
 Hastings and Howland are held in affectionate remembrance 
 by all classes of people. 
 
 FIELD AND STATIONS. 
 
 The field of the mission extends along the whole northern 
 coast of the peninsula of Jaffna up to the Point Pedro district, 
 and in the south includes the large district of Chavagacherri 
 as far as the Church Missionary Society’s field of Pallai. 
 The seven little islands lying to the west of the peninsula are 
 also included, the farthest, Delft, being 20 miles distant from 
 
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 Batticotta station. The total population of the portions of 
 the peninsula worked by this mission, according to the last 
 census, is 1(35,700. 
 
 In the earlier history of the missiou there were eight 
 stations, two of which are not now occupied by foreign 
 missionaries. The six stations kept up are: — 
 
 I. Batticotta, started in 1816. In 1823 the famous Batti- 
 cotta English Seminary for bovs was founded ruanv of whose 
 
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 graduates have since occupied prominent positions under the 
 Government, as well as supplied the mission with a staff of 
 native helpers. The Medical Department also was first 
 organized at Batticotta by Dr. Ward and afterwards removed 
 to Manepy. The Jaffna College (the successor to the 
 Batticotta Seminary) was started in 1872, being chartered by 
 the Ceylon Government in 1895. It is a first grade College, 
 a affiliated to the Calcutta University, and has a strong staff of 
 foreign and native instructors. 
 
 II. Tellipally started in 1816. Here the Mission Training- 
 School is located. It was started at Batticotta soon after the 
 abolishment of the Batticotta Seminary in 1855, and removed 
 to Tellipally in 1871. The Industrial Department of the 
 Training School was started a few years later and is a 
 
 , flourishing institution. 
 
 III. Oodooville, started in 1819, is the seat of the 
 Oodooville Female Boarding School which came into existence 
 in 1824. For over 40 years Miss Eliza Agnew was its faith- 
 ful and efficient Principal. She gave her life for the Tamil 
 women, never once returning to the home land. The school 
 is an Anglo-Vernacular Boarding School. 
 
 IV. Manepy, started in 1820. In 1834 a printing estab- 
 lishment was opened. For many years Bibles, Testaments, 
 portions, school books, and tracts were issued from the press 
 most of which work, with the exception of school books, has 
 been transferred to Madras. In 185- the press was passed 
 over into the hands of a native Christian firm. The 
 
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 “ Morning Star,’’ a paper published fortnightly, in Tamil and 
 English, was started in 1840 and still continues. 
 
 V. Chavagacherry station started in 1833. This is not 
 occupied by a Missionary family at present. 
 
 VI. Udnpiddi started in 1847. The Udnpiddi Boarding 
 School was in 1867 for the poorer girls of the mission. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 There are 18 churches connected with the American Mission, 
 with two or three others soon to be organized. Of these 
 churches nine are wholly self-supporting, and six others are 
 aided more or less by these stronger churches, making 1 5 in 
 all that receive no foreign aid. The remaining three receive a 
 little help from the mission. Of these 18 churches, two only 
 are without ordained native ministers or pastors, and these 
 two hope to be supplied with native pastors ere long. The 
 number of communicants at the close of 1895 was 1710; the 
 number of baptized children and adherents (not communicants) 
 are as many more. The amount of contributions collected 
 from the native Christians themselves for 1895 was Rs. 8,336 
 which was increased to nearly Rs. 9,500 by income from 
 other sources. 
 
 The mission employs several catechists and a large number 
 of Bible women to carry on evangelistic work. Bible distri- 
 bution is done by means of three colporteurs snpported by the 
 Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society. The policy of the mission is 
 to throw the responsibility more and more upon the churches, 
 or in other words to bring them as rapidly as possible to 
 entire self-support. 
 
 The Ecclesiastical Association is a body composed of the 
 missionaries, native pastors, licensed preachers, and one 
 delegate from each church. It meets twice a year in July 
 and December, and discusses questions relating to the welfare 
 of the churches, but has no ecclesiastical authority. 
 
 Another organization is the “ Native Evangelical Society ” 
 
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 founded by the churches in 1847. The operations of the 
 Society are confined to the islands lying west of the peninsula. 
 Its income amounts to about Rs. 1*200 annually. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 ]. Jaffua College for boys. Average number of students 
 150 in Preparatory, Entrance, F.A. and B.A. classes, Calcutta 
 Univershy. Principal, Rev, S. W. Howland, d.d., two 
 foreign instructors and eight native teachers. 
 
 2. Tellipally. Training and Industrial School for boys. 
 Average number of boarders, including Middle Practising 
 School, 60; day schools 10; total 70. Principal Rev. T. S. 
 Smith, m.a, and 6 native teachers. 
 
 3. Oodooville Girls’ Boarding School. Average number of 
 boarders 110. American Lady Principal, Head Master and 
 eight native teachers. Girls’ Training School with an 
 
 y x average of five or six boarders. 
 
 4. Udupiddi Girls’ Boarding School. Average number of 
 boarders 55. Lady Principal (wife of missionary at station), 
 assisted by Head Master and three other teachers. 
 
 5. English Schools: One High School, six Middle Schools 
 with over 700 pupils. 
 
 6. Vernacular Schools: 97 boys and Mixed Schools and 25 
 
 ^ girls’ schools numbering about 8000 children. 
 
 MEDICAL WORK. 
 
 Medical work was begun by Dr. Scudder, and was after- 
 wards developed in a remarkable way by Dr. Green. On his 
 return to America in 1874 the work was practically left in 
 the hands of natives until 1893 when the Dr. Scott arrived 
 and -took charge. The medical work is in two branches: 
 
 (1) The General Medical Mission. During 1895, 4835 
 cases were treated by Rev. T. B. Scott, b.a., m.d., and by Mrs. 
 Scott, m, d. Additional hospital buildings are being erected. 
 
 (2) The Woman’s Medical Mission. New buildings are 
 being erected from funds collected by the Misses Leitch, at 
 Eruvil, and will be completed within the year. Two quali- 
 fied lady doctors have already been appointed who will open 
 the fine new hospital early in 1897. 
 
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CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 
 
 Mission to Ceylon Commenced, 1818 . 
 
 HE first Missionaries to arrive were Mr. Lambrick, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Mayor, Mr. Knight, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Ward. Since then the Society has sent many 
 choice workers to the island: Selkirk, Browning, Bailey, 
 Trimnell, Marsh, Oakley and others. Mr. Oakley was in 
 Ceylon fifty-two years without ever visiting England. Some 
 of the missionaries have excelled in village itineration, others 
 in educational and literary work, the translation and revision 
 of the Scriptures receiving special attention. The history of 
 the mission 1818-1868 is given in Jubilee Sketches , an Outline 
 of the Work of the C. M. S. in Ceylon. 
 
 The following are the chief divisions of the work as at 
 present carried on: 
 
 1. The Western Province: — Colombo, Galle Face; Colombo 
 
 Tamil ; Cotta. 
 
 2. The Southern Province: — The Baddegama District. 
 
 3. The Central and North Central Provinces: — Kandy 
 
 Town; Kandy Central Itinerancy; Anuradhapura. 
 
 4. The North-Western and Sabaragamuwa Provinces: — 
 
 Kandyan Western Itineration, including Kurunegala 
 
 and Kegalle. 
 
 5. The Northern Province: — Jaffna, with the country to 
 
 the South almost to Anuradhapura. 
 
 6. Tamil Cooly Mission: — in several Provinces. 
 
 The Missionaries hold a half-yearly Conference. In the 
 interval between the Conference, matters of importance, 
 especially those that are financial, are attended to by a 
 Finance Committee composed chiefly of laymen. 
 
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 Every Church has a Committee for local affairs consisting 
 of a Pastor and several laymen. From the Church Com- 
 mittees. delegates are appointed to the District Councils which 
 manage the financial affairs of groups of Churches. These 
 District Councils are responsible for the pastors’ salaries 
 which are paid from sums raised locally, whilst a grant-in-aid 
 is received from the Missionary Society — a grant decreasing 
 y yearly, so leaving the entire support eventually to the 
 
 churches themselves. 
 
 Lady Workers. Of late years quite a number of ladies 
 have been sent out from England and they are engaged in 
 school, evangelistic and zenana work in Colombo, Kandy, 
 Baddegama, Dodanduwa and Jaffna. They are connected 
 with the Church Zenana Missionary Society. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS &C: IN THE PRINCIPAL STATIONS. 
 
 Colombo: Galle Face Church and School; St. Luke’s 
 
 Church, Borella; Tamil Boarding School fgirls); 
 Tamil Boarding School (boys). 
 
 Cotta: Church, English High School and Boarding 
 
 (boys); Boarding School (girls), Training 
 ^ Institution. 
 
 Baddegama: Church, Middle English School (boys), Board- 
 
 ing School (girls). 
 
 Kandy: Church, Trinity College with boarding (boys); 
 
 Training Institution; School for High Class 
 Kandyan girls carried on by the C. Z. M. S.; 
 Tamil Church and School. 
 
 Kegalle: Church, Boarding School (girls), 
 
 v Jaffna: Churches, St, John’s College (boys); Training- 
 
 Institution (boys); Tamil Boarding School 
 (girls); English Boarding School (girls). 
 
 There are also Churches at Wattegaina, Gampola, 
 Nawalapitiya and Pussellawa. 
 
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 Tamil Cooly Mission: The labourers on the Tea Estates 
 are chiefly Tamils from South India. They number nearly 
 300,000. There is a special mission for their benefit. The 
 Annual Report states: 
 
 “ The Tamil Oooly Mission— established under the auspices 
 of the C. M. S. at the invitation of a few Planters in 1854 — 
 has in view the following objects: — 
 
 To visit every Estate where Tamil labour is employed, and 
 to carry the Gospel both to Christians and Heathens. 
 
 To gather together Christians for Public Worship, and to 
 endeavour to form them into regular congregations. 
 
 To establish schools wherever possible, and, in short, to use 
 every available means for promoting the moral and religious 
 welfare of the Tamil people while they remain in the Planting 
 Districts.” 
 
 The mission is under the superintendence of the C. M. S. 
 which appoints and pays the Missionary Superintendents ; a 
 Local Fund supports the Tamil Catechists and the schools 
 and defrays the general expenses; the General and the 
 Executive Committee consist of the Missionaries and of 
 subscribers from the various planting districts. 
 
 There are three Missionary Superintendents, one Native 
 Pastor, 43 Catechists and Evangelists. 1250 estates are more 
 or less visited in the Central, North Western, Western, Uva 
 and Sabaragamuwa Provinces. 
 
 About Rs. 5000 are raised annually from native sources, 
 and about Rs. 8000 from Planters and others. 
 
 The statistics are included in the general statistics of the 
 
 C. M. S. 
 
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 PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL. 
 
 RK is carried ou by the Ang'lican Church through 
 the C. M. S., the S. P. G., and by means of a 
 General Purposes Fund raised locally. 
 
 The Bishop and two Clergy are still paid by Government, 
 and annual allowances are received towards the support of 
 two others. The General Purposes Fund amounts to Rs. 7000 
 or Rs. 8000 annually, and is administered by the Annual 
 Synod consisting of the clergy and of elected lay representa- 
 tives from the various congregations. The following are the 
 present objects of the Fund: — 
 
 1. Assistance to stipends of Clergy in districts where the 
 members of the church are few and j)oor. 
 
 2. Grants towards maintenance of schools, chiefly] verna- 
 cular. 
 
 3. Salaries of Catechists. 
 
 4. Inspection of Schools in Religious Knowledge. 
 
 5. Revision of the Sinhalese Prayer Book. 
 
 6. Other occasional votes and incidental expenses. 
 
 An Annual Report is made to Synod. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS &C: IN THE PRINCIPAL STATIONS. 
 
 Colombo: Mutwal: The Cathedral, St. Thomas’ College 
 (boys); Divinity School; Orphanage (boys); St. James’ 
 Kotahena, and St. Thomas’ (Tamil). The Fort: St. 
 Peter’s Church. Pol watte: Church; St. Margaret’s 
 Home and School (girls); Bishop’s College (girls). 
 Churches at St. Sebastian, Hultsdorf, Pettah (with 
 High Schools). Dematagoda (with High School). 
 Bambalapitiya (with Schools.) 
 
 Moratuwa: Churches. 
 
 Panadure: Church; High Schools (boys and girls). 
 
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 Kalutara: Church; High School (boys). 
 
 Negombo: Church. 
 
 Ratnapura: Church; High School (boys). 
 
 Kandy: Church; St. ,Paul’s College (boys); Indus- 
 
 trial School (boys). 
 
 Matale: Church; High School (boys). 
 
 NuwaraEliya: Church; St. Edward’s School (European boys). 
 y Badulla: Church; High School (boys). 
 
 Galle: Church; High School (boys); Buona Vista 
 
 Orphanage (girls). 
 
 Matara: Church ;High School (boys), High School (girls). 
 
 Batticaloa: Church; High School (boys). 
 
 Trincomalie: Church. 
 
 Jaffna: Church. 
 
 KuRUNEGALA:Church; High School (boys and girls). 
 
 There are Churches in the Planting! Districts of 
 Dickoya, Dimbula and the Kelaniya Valley. 
 
 STATISTICS (S. P. G. only). 
 
 Missionaries 
 
 16 
 
 Churches 
 
 18 
 
 No. of Christians 
 
 4,357 
 
 Catechists 
 
 10 
 
 Chapels 
 
 12 
 
 Communicants 
 
 1,343 
 
 Readers 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 Children in Schools. 
 
 5,386 
 
 [The Compiler regrets that he has been unable to complete the 
 Anglican Church statistics. There are 28 clergy, several thousand 
 Christians and between 3000 and 4000 children in schools not 
 included in the C. M. S., and S. P. G. returns. The returns to the 
 Synod are in many cases incomplete.] 
 
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 THE SALVATION ARMY. 
 
 Ceylon Work begun 1883. 
 
 Captain and his wife with three Lieutenants in 1883 
 secured a cattle-shed in Gas Works Street, Colombo, 
 for meetings. The opening created a very great 
 stir, and during the first few months hundreds of people of all 
 classes were savingly converted. The work has since spread 
 to other parts of the Island, and is carried on in the different 
 languages spoken. Meetings are held .’every night preceded 
 in most cases by an open-air march or service. 
 
 Any rank or position may be held in the Army by natives 
 if capable, notably instanced by two of the Ceylon ^Officers — 
 Colonel Weerasooriya, a Sinhalese who became second in 
 command of India and Ceylon, and Colonel Musa Bhai a 
 Tamil till recently in command of Ceylon. 
 
 The following is a list of the various Stations and Institu- 
 tions at present. 
 
 Colombo District. Corps at Pettah, Maradana, Talauga- 
 uia, and the Civil, Naval and Military League, Prince Street. 
 
 Prison Gate Brigade for ex-prisoners at Bullers Road, 
 Borella (Colombo), to which is attached 6 acres of land given 
 by the Government of Ceylon. This is used as a Market 
 Garden and ex-prisoners do the cultivation. A dairy is also 
 carried on in connection with this place. The Government 
 gives a monthly grant of Rs. 100. Rescue Home for fallen 
 women, Kanatte Road, Borella, Colombo. Average number: 
 24 inmates who do gardening, needlework &c. Friends 
 desiring to visit either of these places can get permission at 
 the S. A. Head Quarters, Slave Island. 
 
 Moratuwa District. Corps at Lunawa and Moratumulla. 
 
 Kandy District. Corps at Kandy and Gampola. 
 
 Rabukkana Division consists of village work carried on 
 in the following places: — Aragoda, Barahelagamuwa, Beligo- 
 dapitiya, Hewadiwella, Handngala, Ratmiwella, Kudagama, 
 Siyambalangamnwa, Talampitiya No. I. and No. II. 
 
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 Swamiwatta near Talampitiya, an estate of ]8 acres 
 cultivated with a view to self-support for the Village District. 
 
 Veyangoda and Henaratgoda Districts. Six villages. 
 
 Home of Rest for sick officers at Mount Lavinia. 
 
 Printing Press and Book Depot at Union Place, Slave 
 Island, Colombo. A monthly periodical in Sinhalese called 
 “ Yuddha Ghosawa” (War Cry) is published. 
 
 The Head Quarters for Ceylon is situated in Slave Island. 
 
 One School for Destitute Children. There are 10 
 Village Schools at work. A Lasses’ Garrison at Kandy 
 for Officers. 
 
 Salvation Army Statistics for 1895. 
 
 )) 
 
 ) 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
 | Corps. 
 
 Outposts. 
 
 European Offi- 
 cers. 
 
 Native Officers 
 and Cadets. 
 
 | Local Officers. 1 
 
 Soldiers. 
 
 Recruits. 
 
 J unior 
 
 Soldiers. 
 
 Indoor 
 
 Meetings. 
 
 Open Airs. 
 
 Sales of 
 
 War Cry. 
 
 Colombo 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 
 75 
 
 80 
 
 53 
 
 1553 
 
 1341 
 
 3820 
 
 Galle. . 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 83 
 
 20 
 
 59 
 
 172 
 
 1251 
 
 2337 
 
 Henaratgoda 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 9 
 
 . 
 
 
 34 
 
 . 
 
 79 
 
 24 
 
 12 
 
 Veyangoda . . 
 
 2 
 
 
 • 
 
 10 
 
 
 5 
 
 22 
 
 40 
 
 46 
 
 8 
 
 60 
 
 Rambukkana 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 1 
 
 39 
 
 27 
 
 507 
 
 504 
 
 128 
 
 1867 
 
 50 
 
 1270 
 
 Kandy 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 
 3 
 
 31 
 
 12 
 
 355 
 
 411 
 
 1443 
 
 Gampola 
 
 1 
 
 • 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 • 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 92 
 
 211 
 
 1330 
 
 Total . . 
 
 24 
 
 26 
 
 14 
 
 91 
 
 43 
 
 677 
 
 698 
 
 298 
 
 4164 
 
 3291 
 
 10272 
 
 SOCIAL work. 
 
 Prison Gate Home. 
 
 Average Inmates . . . . 22 
 
 Passed through Home . . 218 
 
 Number in Situation . . 46 
 
 Restored to Friends or doing well 108 
 Number of officers in Home 4 
 
 Meals supplied . . . . 16,887 
 
 Rescue Home. 
 
 Average Inmates . . 20 
 
 Number Admitted . . 49 
 
 Passed through home 36 
 Number in Situation 18 
 Number of officers in home 4 
 Meals supplied . . 26,612 
 
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THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 
 
 HE Presbytery of Ceylon is a united one and consists 
 of Ministers and Elders of the Dutch Reformed and 
 of the Scotch Churches. There is a Consistory for 
 each Church, the members being the Minister, the Elders and 
 Deacons. There are seven Churches, and several preaching 
 places in the planting districts. 
 
 The greater number of Ceylon Presbyterians are descendants 
 of the Dutch who took possession of the island in the 17th 
 Century. The Dutch Reformed Church was the established 
 Church until the British occupation. There are Dutch 
 Churches with pastorates in Colombo and Galle. An 
 occasional service is held in Matara. The services are in 
 English, with the exception of one in Sinhalese in the 
 Wolfendahl Church, Colombo, intended chiefly for servants. 
 
 The Scotch Church has churches in Colombo and Kandy, 
 and there is an aided Chaplain who works in the planting 
 districts. 
 
 There are six ministers in all, two of whom are still on 
 the establishment. 
 
 Much interesting information concerning Ceylon Presbyter- 
 ianism is given inLAPiDARiUM Zeylanicum, being a collection 
 of Monumental Inscriptions of the Dutch Churches and 
 churchyards of Ceylon. It is shown therein that the Dutch 
 Church did much to educate and uplift the people. 
 
 Colombo: 
 
 Galle: 
 
 Mataba: 
 
 Kandy: 
 
 INSTITUTIONS &C. 
 
 Wolfendahl Church — a fine old building— and 
 Girls’ High School. 
 
 Maligakanda: Church and Girls’ High School. 
 Bambalapitiya: Church and Manse. 
 
 Fort: Church for the Military and for Scotch 
 residents. 
 
 Church. 
 
 Church. 
 
 Church, 
 
 Complete Statistics are not available. 
 
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 APPENDIX A. 
 
 Books on Ceylon Religions and Missions. 
 
 The following list is not by any means complete. It is 
 issued to aid those who may desire to go through a course of 
 reading in the subjects indicated. 
 
 Books Containing References to Missions. 
 
 Ceylon in 1894. By Mr. John Ferguson. 
 
 Two Happy Years in Ceylon. By Miss Gordon Gumming. 
 History of Ceylon. By Sir J. Emerson Tennent. 
 
 Lanka and its People. By Dr. Murdoch. 
 
 Books on Buddhism. 
 
 A Manual of Buddhism. By R. S. Hardy. 
 
 Eastern Monachism. do. 
 
 Christianity &. Buddhism Compared. do. 
 
 Buddhism Primitive and Present in Magadha and 
 Ceylon. By Dr. Copleston, Bishop of Colombo. 
 
 Buddhism. By T. W. Rhys Davids. 
 
 Christianity & Buddhism. By T. Sterling Berry. 
 Short Chapters on Buddhism. By Dr. Titcomb. 
 Buddha: his Life, his Doctrine, his Order. 
 
 By H. Oklenberg. 
 
 The Light of Asia and the Light of the World. 
 
 By Monier Williams. 
 
 The Appeal to the Serpent, a story of Ceylon in the 
 4th century. By S. Langdon. 
 
 Buddha and his B.eligion. By Dr. Murdoch. 
 
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 Books on Hinduism. 
 
 Hinduism. 
 
 Hindu Mythology. 
 Religions of India. 
 The Hindoos. 
 Hindu Philosophy. 
 
 By Monier Williams. 
 By W. J. Wilkins. 
 By A. Barth. 
 
 By W. Ward. 
 
 By J. Davies. 
 
 Books on Mohammedanism. 
 
 Islam and its Founder. 
 
 Islam as a Missionary Religion. 
 The Koran. 
 
 Mahomet and Islam. 
 
 Mohammed &, Mohammedanism. 
 
 By J. W. H. Stobart. 
 By C. R. Haines. 
 
 By Sir William Mnir. 
 do. 
 
 By R. B. Smith. 
 
 Missionary Books. _ 
 
 Narrative of the Mission to Ceylon and India. 
 
 By W. M. Harward. 
 
 Jubilee Memorials of the Wesleyan Mission, South 
 Ceylon. By R. S. Hardy. 
 
 Operations of the Church Missionary Society in 
 Ceylon. By J. Selkirk. 
 
 Recollections of Ceylon. By J. Selkirk. 
 
 Jubilee Sketches of the C. M. S. in Ceylon. 
 
 By J. Ireland Jones. 
 
 Progress of Christianity in Ceylon. By Sir J.E.Tennent. 
 Seven Years in Ceylon. By Mary and Margaret Leitch. 
 
 Punchi Nona, a Story of Village I<ife. By S. Langdon. 
 My Mission Garden. do. 
 
 The Happy Valley. do. 
 
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 ) 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 Auxiliaries of Mission Work. 
 
 The various Missionary Societies and Churches are rnueh 
 indebted to the Christian Literature and Religious Tract 
 Society, and to the British and Foreign Bible Society. 
 
 The C. L. S. and R. T. S. 
 
 Statistics for 1894-5. 
 
 C. L. S.. 
 
 Copies Printed. 
 
 Total Pages. 
 
 School Books 
 
 69,500 
 
 2,447,000 
 
 Periodicals 
 
 58,900 
 
 7963,00 
 
 R. T. S. 
 
 128,400 
 
 3,243,300 
 
 Tracts 
 
 126,000 
 
 504,000 
 
 Books 
 
 6000 
 
 697,000 
 
 
 182,000 
 
 1,201,000 
 
 
 Total 260,4000 
 
 4,444,300 
 
 A Monthly Magazine for the young, The Children’s Lamp, 
 and a Monthly Periodical, the Satyalokaya , both in Sinhalese 
 are issued. 
 
 The B. and F. B. S. 
 
 The following were issued in 1895 by the Colombo Depot. 
 
 
 Bibles. 
 
 New Testaments. 
 
 Portions. 
 
 English 
 
 777 
 
 177 
 
 
 1,178 
 
 Sinhalese 
 
 920 
 
 516 
 
 
 9,828 
 
 Tamil 
 
 253 
 
 173 
 
 
 4,169 
 
 Portuguese 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 1951 
 
 870 
 
 
 15,175 
 
 Total Copies in 
 
 the South 
 
 
 17,996 
 
 
 do. 
 
 North 
 
 
 7393 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 25,389 
 
 
 Many Colporteurs and Biblewomen are employed. 
 

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 WORKS BY REV. S. LANGDON- 
 
 Punchi Nona, a story of Ceylon Village Life. ... Rs. 2. 50 
 My Mission Garden. ... ... ... Rs 1. 50 
 
 The Happy Valley, or the Uva Mission. ... Rs. 2. 00 
 The Appeal to the Serpent, a Story of Ceylon, in 
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 The Two Men of Devon, a Story of Ceylon in the 
 
 16th Century. ... ... ... ... Rs. 2 00 
 
 Christianity and Buddhism Compared, by Rev. R. S. 
 
 Hardy. ... ... ... ... Rs. I. 00 
 
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 Lanka aud its People, or Ceylon Past and Present. 
 
 Buddha and his Religion 
 
 Kristiyaui Pragnapti, an Examination <.f Buddhism by 
 Rev. D. J. Gogerly. 
 
 Demon Worship aud other Superstitions in Ceylon. 
 History of the Kandy Tooth Relic. 
 
 History of Ceylon. ... 
 
 Aeconut of the Vedas. 
 
 Popular Hinduism. 
 
 Philosophic Hinduism. 
 
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