Identifier: indiamalaysia00thob (find matches)
Title: India and Malaysia
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Thoburn, J. M. (James Mills), 1836-1922
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts New York, Hunt & Eaton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ple of this race, and it is fromJaffna, a mission-station of the American Board in NorthernCeylon, that we draw most of our Tamil preachers and teach-ers in the Straits Settlements. We have here an indicationof the changing conditions which we already begin to dis-cover as the people of this lethargic East begin to moveabout more freely. Christianity will yet be carried to manya distant point by colonists, or by Eastern Christians movingfrom place to place in the ordinary course of their businessengagements. When our Missionary Committee, a few years ago, afterfull deliberation, decided to support work throughout thevast region known at that time as the South India Confer- 460 INDIA AND MALA YSIA, ence, embracing the country as far south as Madras andBangalore, a responsibility was assumed which probably fewof those concerned were able to appreciate. It is forevertoo late for us to retreat, and one of the first great dutieswhich awaits our missionary authorities is that of effectually
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.1 TAMII, GROUP. strengthening our work throughout the whole of South In-dia. Eight or nine American missionaries should be sentinto that region at once. Whether they go among the Tamil,Kanarese, or Telugu people, they will find a most invitingfield, and can enter upon their labors with assured hope ofsuccess. But we can not prosecute such a work by following CENTRAL AND SOUTH INDIA. 461 our present somewhat desultory methods^ and we can not im-prove the methods until we have more men on the fieldadapted to such work, and with their lives fully consecratedto live and die for India. Three or four men should at onceenter the Tamil part of the work. At least three should bestationed in the Telugu country, and two or three more bestationed among the Kanarese. If we were able at once tostrengthen our forces and extend our lines in that region, wewould soon be reaping as large a harvest among all three ofthese peoples, as any which has rewarded our labors in otherparts of India. The city of

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