The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . mped on to the pole of the first cart, and,taking the whip and the drivers ropes, fearlesslydrove it, with the others following through the forestand out into the next clearing. All the way through,after a tour of one hundred and fifty days, he wasmy mainstay in all difficulties; nor did he quailwhen he saw the angry mob in one town gather upstones with which to stone us. Some years passed by. In August, 1873, theTelugu Bible Eevision Committee met at Madana-palle. On our ^Missionary Sunday! had askedone of the committee, the Eev. Thomas Y.
The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . mped on to the pole of the first cart, and,taking the whip and the drivers ropes, fearlesslydrove it, with the others following through the forestand out into the next clearing. All the way through,after a tour of one hundred and fifty days, he wasmy mainstay in all difficulties; nor did he quailwhen he saw the angry mob in one town gather upstones with which to stone us. Some years passed by. In August, 1873, theTelugu Bible Eevision Committee met at Madana-palle. On our ^Missionary Sunday! had askedone of the committee, the Eev. Thomas Y. Dar-ling, a missionary at Bezwada, to give an accountof a wonderful ingathering which had taken place afew years before in the region some little distancewest of Bezwada. Mr. Darling had at Eajamandry told us how, someyears previously, some men had appeared at hishouse at Bezwada one day, asking if he was the manwho knew about and told about the Divine Ee-deemer, Tesu Kristu, and begging him, if so, tocome with them to their village, some twenty or. < B 2° J 3 cu i^ Q§- 13 ^ c The Unbaptized Volunteer Missionary 187 thirty miles west, for they all wanted to learn moreabout Yesu Kristu and join His religion. Theybrought with them a copy of the Gospel of John toshow what they wanted. Although it was the hotseason, and not suitable for touring, they were soearnest that he could not refuse them, but took histent and went out with them at once, great as theheat was. He told us that to his utter surprise he found ascore or two of heads of families who knew a greatdeal about Christianity. He found, on enquiry, thatsome years before, in April, 1862, as near as hecould make out, a young man from far to the southhad come there to purchase oxen, and had broughta lot of these books with him, which he had readand explained to them in the evenings while spend-ing his days in buying oxen in all the villages aroundthem, and that they had been ever since trying tofind some one who coul
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