of Doctor Clough 107
Laying the corner-stone of gateway to the new
hospital 107
Country tour into the heart of Telugu-land, and
open-air preaching to the natives 107
Vellumpilly, where 2,222 were baptized, and Sunset
Hill, where Doctor Jewett prayed 109
Kavali, and the work of Mr. Bawden for a hereditary
criminal class 110
Industrial education side by side with moral and
religious 110
Nellore, our first permanent station in South India 111
Its high school, under Rev. L. C. Smith; its
hospital, and its nurses' training-school 112
Mr. Rutherford, successor to Dr. David Downie,
and Mr. Smith--all of them Rochester men 112
XI. THE DRAVIDIAN TEMPLES 115-124
The Dravidians are the aborigines of India 117
The Aryan conquerors appropriated their gods, and
Siva married Kali 117
Massiveness and vastness characterize their
temples, but also Oriental imagination and
invention 118
The temple at Tanjore, with its court eight hundred
by four hundred feet 118
Its multitude of chapels, each with its image in
stone of the lingam, or phallus 119
Its central image of a bull, the favorite animal of
Siva 119
Its tower, or gopura, is the grandest in India 119
Its sculptures of gods and goddesses wonderfully
realistic 119
Its appurtenances tawdry, childish, and immoral 120
Yet Tanjore was the home, and is the tomb, of
Schwartz, the first English missionary to India 120
The raja's library of Oriental manuscripts 121
Madura, the center of Drav
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