93

Compared with Christian burial in hope of
resurrection 94

Kedgaon, a happy contrast and relief 94

The center of the work of Pundita Ramabai 94

The story of her life a romantic and thrilling one 94

The pitiable condition of child-widows in India
touches her heart 95

In time of famine she furnishes a refuge for two
thousand four hundred of them 95

The wonders of her plant, in schools, hospital,
printing office, factory, and farm 96

A great scholar of the Brahman caste, she is
recognized as the most influential woman in India 96

Madras, the third largest Indian city, gives us our
first tropical heat 97

A center of mission work for the Telugus and their
tribal conversion 97

New Year's Day reception at Lord Pentland's, the
governor of the Madras Presidency 98

Followed by a reception from the Rochester men,
my former pupils 99

X. THE TELUGU MISSION 101-113

Madras, next to Calcutta and Bombay in thrift and
importance 103

Baptists have done most for the Telugus, as
Congregationalists most for the Tamils 103

Statistics of our mission are most encouraging 103

Self-government, self-support, self-propagation,
require time 104

Conference at the house of Doctor Ferguson brings
together men from four separate fields 104

The theological seminary at Ramapatnam, in charge
of Doctor Heinrichs 105

Our reception by teachers and students, and value
of their work 105

Ongole and the work of Doctor Baker, the successor