The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . palle was a youngBrahman of nearly twenty-two years of age,named Hanumanta Eau. In August, 1862,the Eev. E. C. Scudder and myself had gone as acommittee of the American Arcot Mission on a preach-ing tour to the north and west of Palmaner to visit theimportant towns in the regions adjacent and report asto the best one to be occupied as a second Telugustation of the mission. Palmaner was then the onlystation of our mission in the Telugu country, and allagreed that there ought to be at least two Telugustations in the mission. We pitched our ten
The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . palle was a youngBrahman of nearly twenty-two years of age,named Hanumanta Eau. In August, 1862,the Eev. E. C. Scudder and myself had gone as acommittee of the American Arcot Mission on a preach-ing tour to the north and west of Palmaner to visit theimportant towns in the regions adjacent and report asto the best one to be occupied as a second Telugustation of the mission. Palmaner was then the onlystation of our mission in the Telugu country, and allagreed that there ought to be at least two Telugustations in the mission. We pitched our tents first at Madanapalle, a townof seven thousand inhabitants, thirty-four milesnorthwest of Palmaner, and spent some days inpreaching in the different streets of that town andin all the surrounding villages. The first time that we preached in the Brahmanstreet an educated young Brahman stepped forwardand began to ask questions, trying, as we thought,to bring on a discussion, and so prevent our present- iug the truth connectedly and effectively. 198. Hanumanta Rau 199 You say/^ said he, that Jesus Christ is the onlyDivine Saviour of men. You believe in and worshipChrist. We believe in and worship Krishna. If webelieve with our whole heart in either one and trulyworship him, we will in the end reach is really no such very great difference betweenKrishna, our God, and Christ, your God. You wor-ship one : we worship the other. They are both in-carnations of the Divinity.^ We quoted from their own Sh^stras to show thatKrishna led a life of licentiousness and infamy, sothat all his contemporaries were afraid to have himaround, and all pure women fled at his approach;besides it is known that in anger he killed many eveninoffensive men. And then we pictured the purelife of Jesus Christ, as recorded by the Evangelists,and admitted even by His enemies, and read fromthe Gospels in our hands of His deeds of healingand restoration of life, instead of murder, and toldof His wond
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