My Indian friend writes of a village he visited. A letter just received says: ―
“It’s one of our out stations; the converts were baptized just a year ago. These converts are poor outcaste people, and they live by beating ‘tom-tom’ to the marriages and deaths in heathen temples, so when they become Christians they refuse to go to the heathen temple to beat ‘tom-tom,’ therefore the heathen of that place (so called high caste people) are persecuting our Christians, threatening them that they will not pay their yearly wages, and sorry to say that one of our Christians in that place was beaten by these men for not serving their heathen temple. Oh! praise the Lord that these young Christians are giving good testimony in their village, but they need teaching the Scriptures. On this day a number of converts requested me to give a Holy Tamil Bible to each. Our country is changing, and they do not care for religion, and they want home rule (i.e., heathen rule). We Christians are enjoying our freedom under the British... and if ever the heathen get the power they will persecute us. Now I request you to pray for us, in this time of trouble and trial... We have another thought about starting a Bible class of our own, as we do not wish to send our candidates to the other seminaries, as they teach all sorts, and it is a dangerous position for our workers. I have my own Bible class,”
“Pray one for another.” A. A. L.