. In brightest Asia. Wadi, about two thirds of the way from Bombay to Madras, we were met by sev-eral of our missionaries in the Deccan, so called, or the Nizams dominions ; andwere detained for a there weday of conference respecting thework in this particular certain respects this field isdistinct from the old originalTelugu field. Here in the centreof India is a native independentempire, under the rule of theNizam, with Hyderabad for itscapital. It is the strongestMohammedan centre in , in the midst ofthis dominion our workers,pioneered by Brother Camp
. In brightest Asia. Wadi, about two thirds of the way from Bombay to Madras, we were met by sev-eral of our missionaries in the Deccan, so called, or the Nizams dominions ; andwere detained for a there weday of conference respecting thework in this particular certain respects this field isdistinct from the old originalTelugu field. Here in the centreof India is a native independentempire, under the rule of theNizam, with Hyderabad for itscapital. It is the strongestMohammedan centre in , in the midst ofthis dominion our workers,pioneered by Brother Campbell,who is now resting in America,have effected a vigorous entrance,and great blessing has attendedthe work. We have established stationsat Secunderabad, Palmur, Hana-maconda and Nilgonda, in allof which fruit from among theTelugu people has beengathered. The missionariesworking here are BrotherMaplesden and wife, at Secun-derabad ; Brother Chute, wife andsister, at Palmur, and BrotherFriesen and wife, at NIZAMS PALACE, HYDERABAD. On the Tehigu Field. 153 The station at Hanamaconda, where we have a good mission-house and a chapel, has been unoccupied for two years. Our conference was held in a railway car which was placed at our disposal, and served for a chapel by day and a lodging-place at night. To hear those earnest brethren and sisters represent, not only the needs, but also the rare promise of this great district, in which they so eagerly toil, was enough to melt adamant. To them the work is a living joy, and they wonder that other helpers do not come to share in toil so exalted and so rewarding. Not all fields by any means are so ripe as this. The Deccan missionaries repre-sent that the tidings of good things and the inspiration arising from the work in the older district about Ongole, have communicated them-selves to the region where they are laboring. The wave of blessing seems to sweep northwestward, and workers only are needed to soon gather thousands of
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