The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . gole, in the Telugu country of theMadras Presidency. It was at the close of mylong horseback preaching tour through the domin-ions of the Nizam of Hyderabad. In the course of our return journey and on thethird day from Masulipatam I came to the town ofOngole, and while the palanquin-bearers were chang-ing I took my stand in the main street, and by sing-ing in a sonorous voice a Christians rallying songto one of the most loved old Telugu tunes, I hadgathered a fine audience. I then preached to them,taking as my theme God and Man and Sin and S
The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . gole, in the Telugu country of theMadras Presidency. It was at the close of mylong horseback preaching tour through the domin-ions of the Nizam of Hyderabad. In the course of our return journey and on thethird day from Masulipatam I came to the town ofOngole, and while the palanquin-bearers were chang-ing I took my stand in the main street, and by sing-ing in a sonorous voice a Christians rallying songto one of the most loved old Telugu tunes, I hadgathered a fine audience. I then preached to them,taking as my theme God and Man and Sin and Sal-vation, through the God-man Jesus Christ, whohad come down from heaven and lived and sufferedand died for us men and for our salvation. The audience was very attentive, and after givingout a few Gospels and tracts I got into my palanquinand pressed on in my journey. While waiting, I hadenquired and could hear of only two Christians, evennominal ones, in a radius of sixty miles from Ongole,and on reaching the next mission station I found this 240. Incidents at Ongole 241 estimate confirmed. That was iu 1863. Meantime,in 1864, being on business in Madras, it had beenmy privilege to meet the Eev. J. E. Clough andMrs. Clough, on their first landing as new mission-aries of the American Baptist Missionary Union tothe Telugus. Desiring to be of some assistance tothem in obtaining their needed supplies, and to seethem off on their boat on the back water canal onthe first stage of their journey up to Ongole, to whichthey were to go as the first missionaries to that sta-tion, I was glad to bid them Godspeed to thatregion, which I had found so neglected and yetpromising. In February, 1873, on the adjournment of ourTelugu Bible Eevision Committee at Eajamundry, Iwas to journey down by this same route to great ingathering in the Ongole region hadmeantime taken place, or rather had fully begun,and Dr. Clough had then gone home in quest ofhealth and more funds. The missionary th
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