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1899 1

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THE

EF UL JV\ISSION

DEAR

FRIENDS

is fully three years since our last

Report

was sent out and

that

som

progress has been made in the work we feel called

to-that

is to reach

the Gospel

the

Nepaulis living in Nepaul-seems proved by the fact tha

our

Second Report is being written over

the

border in

epaul

itself

we have with

the

cordial consent

of

the

local officials been camping for over a fort

Slowly but surely we have been winning our way into the confidence of the Nepauli

now there are several places across

the

frontier where we can camp for a longer or s

t ime-can freely preach the Gospel sell Scriptures and do Medical work no

forbidding us. Ours

is

pioneer work

and

from the first we expected

that

it would

us to sow rather

than

to reap;

but we

do

thank

God for giving us so soon so

favour with

the

people

and

for allowing us in so many places to be the first to p

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Christ to those sitting in darkness,

and

to

be

witnesses to His grace

and

power to

from sin. We have, of course, had difficulties at times, and it has only been by pr

and

pains, by patience and tact, that

the

present attitude of officials

and

people to

us has been attained.

It

is impossible in a short report to give details

of

all w are doing,

but

we

like to tell you a

little-,first,

about our Evangelistic work, and then about the Colpo

and

Medical Mission.

Every morning in

the

week, except Friday, a short G

vangelistic

Work Meeting

is

held in our Dispensary before medical he

given.

Our

house lies within thirty yards

of

the main road from Nepaul to Darje

and

day by day we literally fulfil

the

command

to

go

out

into the highways

and compel them to come in. Sometimes those who come are

very

jungly,

having seen a white face before, and it is not always easy to persuade them that w

to give them something,

not

take some of their f w pice from them.

Once

insid

Dispensary, however, they sit quietly,

and

listen very wen.

The

Dispensary has

altered since

w

last wrote, and w can now crowd sixty people into it; but not seld

larger number come,

and

then some have to stand outside and listen through the d

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window, there being no room inside. Weare preparing stone

and

tim ber for a new

and

Dispensary,

and

perhaps some friend or friends who read this will feel led to

se

the 60 still required to complete

the

huilding, which is very much needed.

On Friday, our Bazaar day, when 1200 people or more come to Sukhia-Pokhr

meeting

is

held in front

of the

Mission House,

and

100 to 200 people stand, in biting

in winter, or pouring rain in summer, listening for an hour while

we

sing

and

preac

Gospel. Often on

Thursday

evenings

we

go along to

the

Coolie

Rest

House, and

a short meeting, standing among a crowd

of

Nepaulis who are cooking their evenin

upon small fires on the earthen floor.

The

place is a good one for reaching stra

but at times the wood smoke makes speaking somewhat difficult At the close

o

of these meetings a N epauli coolie once asked, Sahib, is the religion

of

Jesus Chri

poor

men? He

wao very poor himself, and was no doubt thinking of the many r

he had seen given by rich men in order to

get

pujah performed by the Hin

Buddist priests.

t

gave us a grand chance to tell him that the Lord Jesus saves al

come

to Him, rich or poor, without money and without price.

During

the

dry season

we

go on tour as much as possible, walking from pla

place, preaching and giving medical help by day, and at night holding Gospel La

Meetings with Scripture slides,

and

sleeping in a tent.

In

this way

we

reach Eusti

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Bazaars not visited by any other missionaries. Sometimes we climb 3000 or 4000

a day up the great ridges of the Himalayas and camp at night beside a few huts

elevation of over 10 000 feet above the

sea;

and again

we

are down in the Nepaul

at the foot of the mountains with its dusty paths and deadly fever preaching

at

large Bazaar and reaching hundreds

of

people at one meeting.

It

will give some id

the ups and downs we have to face when I mention that one year when we w

between

us

a little over 700 miles we had to climb fully 100 000 feet. At first

we

only stay a few hours across the frontier but during the winter of 1900-01 we spent

a month camping in different places in Nepaul and hope this year to do even b

s opportunity offers we hold Lantern Meetings on some of the tea gardens we

when on tour nearly all

the

coolies who work on them being Nepaulis.

In the course of the last three years we have held

about

1000 meetings attend

over 43 000 people or including children nearly half as many

more;

and as very

come and go at the open-air meetings perhaps 100 000 in all have heard at least a

of Christ and His salvation. This may seem a large number

but

at this rate it wil

over ninety ye rs to preach on e to the 3 000 000 people in Nepaul; and while Chri

are enjoying themselves

at

horne these souls many of whom could be reached are

daily in

the

dark. May we ask are

you

doing

ll

you can to help

them?

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Colportage

We believe the Gospel to be

the

power

of

God

unto

salva

whether heard or read, and so do our utmost to spread the

tures in as many of the vernaculars spoken in the district as we can. 'Ve keep a

of Gospels in the following eight languages :-Nepauli, Hindi, Tibetan, Lepcha, Be

Urdu, Chinese, and English, and sell, or

at

times give them away, wherever

we

go

the

close of our daily meeting they are offered for sale. We go

round

the Sukhi

other Bazaars with them, and often, at

the end

of a lantern meeting on a hillside

some out-ofthe-way village,

the

people press around us to buy for a farthing or half

some of the wonderful words

o f

life

of

which they have just heard a little.

~ t i o n l

Bible Society

of

Scotland kindly makes us an allowance of

10

a year to

to spread the Scriptures on the British side

of

the border, which is used toward

support of a native helper.

In

the

summer of 1899

we

got

our

friend, Mr. David Macdonald of

Ghoom

speaks five or six languages fluently, and has helped us in different

ways-to

tra

into Nepauli a tract, written by the late Mrs. Pennefather

of

Mildmay, called

Beautiful Home, which tells in simple words

the

Gospel story. 'Ve published

copies, and it has been widely spread

both

here

and

in Nepaul. Some time ago a

shopkeeper in Elam,

the

nearest town across

the

border, being struck by

the

way p

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bought Gospels on a Bazaar day he spent in Sukhia, carne to us

and

said,

. Can

SOlne of

these books

to

sell in my shop

at

Elam? hoping probably to make a

money

by their sale.

'Ve

gladly let him have a supply

at half

price, and, though

we

not

seen him since, have

no

doubt that

heathen man has

helped to scatter

the Wo

God far into Nepaul. Mrs. Grimke,

of

London, was good enough to get up in Ne

for our use, a number

of

her well-known Scripture Cards, and of these a good

thousands

have been given away by other workers in Darjeeiing, as well as by ourse

During 1899, 1900, and 1901,

we

sold over 2400 portions of the Scriptures, ma

which,

and of

the cards, have gone from ten to thirty .days journey into

the

interior

we can and

do pray

that

they may

be made the

Word

of

Life to many souls whom

no Christian voice can reach.

t has

been

our privilege year by year to minister medical

Medical Mission

to an

ever-increasing

number of the

sick

and sufferin

surgical

and

medical part falling to my wife, while the writer looks after

the

Dispe

details. God has greatly blessed

the

means used,

and

it is in large measure owing

medical help, freely given,

that we

have been able to

enter

Nepaul,

and

there preac

Gospel

of

Christ. People who as yet

care nothing

for salvation from sin will come

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journey to get an offensive sore dressed, or a bad cut healed, and having come they

of the power of

the

Great Physician, and of

His

desire to save freely all who wil

themselves to Him.

Either at

our Dispensary or when on tour 6700 cases were

treated

in 1899

number rising in 1900 to 8054, while last year the large

number of

12,060 rec

surgical or medical aid. \Ve do not desire to undertake serious surgical cases, f

have no hospital in which to give proper after-treatment; but my wife is sometime

no choice

but

to operate. In

one

case she was obliged to

amputate at the

elbow th

of a Nepauli lad, twelve years old, who had fallen from a tree a fortnight before

sustained a severe

compound

fracture. His parents had called in some Nepa

Jhankris,

or sorcerers, who

did

pujah

for the boy till his arm mortified,

and

a

would not take him into Darjeeling his arm was taken off in our Dispensary, and he

a very good recovery. She has also

been the

means of saving

the

lives of

not

Nepauli and Bhutia women at childbirth, besides performing a number

of

minor o

tions, and extracting dozens of teeth. The medical help is much appreciated, p

often coming several days'

journey

to obtain it, and we sometimes get recommend

from unexpected quarters.

For

instance, a N epaulese Jhankri, whose business i

cure

the

sick by incantations, for which he gets well paid (kill or cure

),

was

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GHOUl

T

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OF

THE MISSION HoesE.

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strongly advising some Nepaulese coolies to ask for medicine. Go to

the

Mems

he said;

she

gives very good medicine. My little girl was very sick; I got som

her,

and

three doses cured. Go at once. Which they did.

Accounts

s

explained in our last Report,

we

ask

no

help for our personal w

but for the cost

of

the Medical work and Evangelistic tours

we

d

on gifts (sent in answer to prayer by any who desire to give the Gospel to Nepaul)

on

the proceeds of small sales of work, held by several friends at home. Donations

be sent at

home

to Messrs. Morgan Scott, 1 Paternoster B u i l d i n g ~ London,

who will acknowledge them in

The Christian

in which paper,

and

also in right

W

accounts

of

the

work at times appear. Friends in

the

Colonies

or in

India

should

by money order to Ghoom

P.O,

Darjeeling, India, there being no money order of

Sukhia-Pokhri P.O.

The

accounts annexed cover three years, and show that a

ordinary needs of the :vlission have been fully met, while Rs. 1000 (about 66) have

laid aside towards the cost

of

the new

Hall

and Dispensary it is intended to build

sufficient funds have been received. The balance on hand is required to financ

sales of work, as we buy Indian goods here,

and

have to lie out of the money for n

ten

months while

the

goods are being sent

home and

sold.

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ales o Work f any ladies would like to help us by holding a Drawing-room

they might write to Mrs. John Colville, Cleland House, Cle

Scotland, who will gladly send a small or larger parcel of

Indian embroideries and

articles; the proceeds, with any unsold goods, to be returned to her after the sal

would be a very real help if a

f w

friends in new localities would undertake this se

and if they held one sale, w think, from the experience of others who have done so

would want to hold another

Th

III

show :- 1) A view of Sukhia-Pokhri Bazaar, taken early

e us ra Ions

.

mornmg. (2)

The

same, taken on Bazaar day. (3) A

taken in front of the Mission House after one of our Bazaar :Meetings; it will give

idea of what the people

w

live among look like. (4) A group of N epaulis, tak

Nepaul. The old man in

the

centre was very good to us,

and

begged to have his

taken. I am old, he said, "and will soon die; then how will my young ch

remember what their father was like? Do make my picture. So w "made it,

a

was greatly delighted when he got a copy.

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In closing,

we

wish to thank very warmly all who in the

Thanks for Help

have helped us

in

any way. To all who in

England

Sco

America, and India have

sent

gifts for the work we tender thanks. To

the

Scripture

Mission, London for a free grant of Gospels, and to Mrs.

Grimke

for a large numb

Scripture

cards;

to

those

who have

sent

us magazines and papers from

home

or

where; to a

number

of

Tea Planters

for

kind

hospitality received when we were on

and for

the

illustrated papers forwarded for

the

use

of the men at the

Soldiers H

Darjeeling;

to Messrs. Burroughs, Welcome Co.,

London

and to Messrs. S

Stanistreet

Co., Darjeeling, for letting us have tabloid and other drugs at

red

prices;

to friends in and

near

Darjeeling who have

sent medicine

botlles and

articles for use

in

our Dispensary;

to

:\liss

S F Gardner

Calcutta, for

the

loan o

Kodak to

take photos

while on tour; to several Scotch and American ~ 1 i s s i o n a r

different parts of

India

for buying goods for the sales of work, and to a number of

in

Scotland

and

England

for

the substantial

help received

through

sales held in

homes;

above all, to Mrs. John Colville

and

to Mrs. Marr for their unwearied kin

in giving time and care, year after year,

to

all the details

connected

with the sales.

the Lord reward you all 1

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We

know some of you have been praying for us,

and we

as

Requests for

with all

our

hearts to continue to

do

so. Pray, if it be best,

th

Prayer

may be

kept

in good health.

}ly

wife has often

been

laid aside

ague, and

the

writer was off work for two months with typhoid fever. Ask for ble

on God's Word spoken day by day,

and that

some who are convinced

of

the

truth

have courage to come

out

on the Lord's side. Pray

that the door

into Nepaul m

opened

more widely,

and that we

may be able to reach those living further off

finally pray

that we

ourselves may daily

be

kept near

to the

Lord, may be filled wit

Spirit,

and

so enabled

to do work-unseen

it may be,

but real-that

will bring glo

our Master,

and that

will

stand

in that day

when the

fire shall try every man's w

what sort it is.

'Ve

are, dear Friends,

NEPAUL

MISSION

HOUSE,

SUKHIA-POKHRI P .O . DARJEELING,

INDIA.

Yours in

His

service,

J

VI AND

R. R. INNES WRIGH

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THE

NEPAUL

MISSION

CASH

STATEMENT

FRail

1ST ]A:,\l:ARY,

lRnll,

TO :HST DECEMBER,

HlOl.

HOME

ACCOUNT

To

Balance from 31st

December,

1898,

Donations

received

direct-No.1, Glasgow, 10/-;

No. :2,

Glasgow,

101-.

Do. per

Tile Clzristia1Z

Do.

per

rigM

Words

Allowance

from

National

Bible Society

of Scotland

on

Scriptures

sold

:2

years),

Nett Proceeds

from

Sales of

Work :{ years),

By Medicines

and Instruments,

Lantern

Slides, Screen,

and Fittings,

Printing Report,

Cost

of Cartoons,

Books,

Postages,

Remittances

to India-see Indian

Account,"

...

Balance

in Bank and

with Messrs.

Morgan & Scott,

6;i

1

76

S

10

(

20 )

I

: ~ H

(

i>

10

:

II

270 0

40

L

:{H2

I

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THE

NEP UL MISSION

CASH

STATEMENT FROM ST JANUARY 1899

TO

31sT D E C E ~ [ J l E R 1901.

INDIAN ACCOUNT.

To

Balance from 31st December, 1898,

Proceeds of Remittances for 270-see Home Account,

Donations,

I899-No.

I, Dysart,

Do.

2,

Darjeeling,

3, Calcutta,

4, Sukhia,

I900-No.

1, Calcutta,

2,

Sukhia,

3,

Dysart,

4,

Calcutta,

5, Darjeeling,

6,

Secunderabacl,

7,

Philadelphia,

...

8, Turzum,

9,Impur,

Do.

I90I-No. I,

Darjeeling,

2, Nagri, ...

3, Dunfermline, ...

4, Darjeeling,

5, Ghoom,

Small Donations

-Sukhia-Pokhri,

Gospels, Books,

Tracts

sold,

... Rs.500

13

4021 7

Rs.59 I 0

50

0 0

10 0 0

5

Rs.lO 0 0

;

0 0

51

11 0

10 0 0

10 0 0

20

0 0

94

11

II

,j 0 0

10 0 0

Rs.5

0 0

10 0 0

74 2 I

8 0

20 0 0

124 1

216 6

122 1

60

76 II

Rs.5122 9

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INDIAN ACCOUNT Continued).

By Dock Dues, Duty,

Carriage,

Cartage,

Medicines and Food for Patients,

Dispensary Furniture, Wire

Fence round

Land granted by

Covernment,

Rent of Dispensary,

Native Helpers,

Sweeper,

Tent, Camping Requisites,

Coolies

on Tours,

...

Gospels, B o o k ~ , Tracts, Photos, Postages,

Mission

Buildings

Fund-Amount

Transferred,

Balance in Bank, ...

GHOO:\t, 26tll Feilruary H102.

-Examined

anJ found correct

D. MAcDo:>:ALD, Supt G07Jernment

Vaccination

Depot

GllOo1lt

Maclure.

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Co.

laa 'og-ow.

R s . l : { ~

1007

?Oi

11 H

iSH

lB4

1000

itm

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