. The gospel in South India : or the religious life, experience, and character of the Hindu Christians . r coffee now his anxiety arose from another heathen neighbours, fearing a drought for wantof timely rains, set about to make offerings toVaruna-Bhagavan, the god of rain, and calledupon him to contribute for the object. On hisrefusal to comply with their impious demandthey were greatly enraged, and threatened andcursed him in the name of their gods. But hecalmly replied, Do not vainly trust on yourgods, who have no power to grant our earnestpetitions for rain. It
. The gospel in South India : or the religious life, experience, and character of the Hindu Christians . r coffee now his anxiety arose from another heathen neighbours, fearing a drought for wantof timely rains, set about to make offerings toVaruna-Bhagavan, the god of rain, and calledupon him to contribute for the object. On hisrefusal to comply with their impious demandthey were greatly enraged, and threatened andcursed him in the name of their gods. But hecalmly replied, Do not vainly trust on yourgods, who have no power to grant our earnestpetitions for rain. It is the Christians God alonewho is able to give rain or to withhold it. Thisbold protest made, however, no impression onthe hearts of the superstitious idolators, whoremarked that Visuvasam would have to suffera serious loss for his continued opposition to theworship of Kattisaki as well as other deities. But,by the grace of God, his fields gave their fullincrease, so that his income was by no means lessthan three hundred rupees, the sum specified in thedream. The neighbours that have witnessed this,. STEADFASTNESS OF HINDU CHRISTIANS. 113 feeling greatly astonished at it, said : This is a badomen; this good-for-nothing fellow will soon die,or his fields would not have yielded such a goodcrop while ours have failed. But Visuvasam, inno way disheartened by this superstitious remark,replied : Sirs ! God has pitied and blessed me,and He may do the same to you, if you will butrenounce your faith in idols, and put your soletrust upon Him. Think no more that idols cansave or kill. The time of my death is in myGods hand; idols have nothing whatever to dowith it. Missionaries are also often privileged to bewitnesses of happy instances of the adherenceto duty of these Christians, and their faith undertrial or persecution. * A man of the blacksmith caste in Pareychaleydistrict was converted to Christianity, and becamean earnest believer. When he first embracedChristianity, he had to under
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