The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1921, Page 76

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In Vadakkangulam we now have a complete
higher grade vernacular school with eight stand-
ards, or classes. The curriculum followed is that
of a lower secondary school. There are 143 chil-
dren on the rolls. ... Vadakkangulam offers a

rich field for mission-work among the higher castes.
It is proposed to erect a‘bungalow in the course of
the next two years to enable a missionary to live
there. Brother Goerss is working on a plan and

Newly Baptized Hindu Christians.

New schools have been opened at Kandanguli
and at Puthucheri (girls). The former has an en-
tolment of sixteen, the latter of twenty-five.

Nagercoil, isnt, June 22, 1921. ~

Paut F, HEcKEL.

Vaniyambadi Field.

The return of former missionaries to our India
mission-field as well as the arrival of new men has
not only served to stimulate the -few that were
laboring here, but has also materially affected
building and other important ventures.

You, dear readers of the PIoNEER, must re-
member that we have two mission-fields here in
India: one, the so-called Northern Field, situated

- in the Madras Presidency, the other, the Southern

Field, situated in the native state of ‘Travancore,
It is my intention to write concerning the most
important occurrences in the Northern Field.
The most noteworthy events in our section of
the mission-field are undoubtedly three dedications
that followed each other at intervals of seven days.

DEDICATIONS OF ScHOOLs.

Girls’ Boarding-School. — For a long time the
need of a girls’ boarding-school has made itself felt;
so, persuaded that one should be founded, Confer-
ence decided to restore an old building in Ambur
and use it for this purpose. On July 2, prospective
pupils arrived in Ambur from all parts of our field,

and on the following day an impressive dedication

service was held, conducted by the Rev. Kuechle.
The building received the appropriate name “Tab-
itha”; and though it is but small (far too small,
for only about 20 of the applicants could be accom-
modated), we fervently hope that it will be a means
of educating some of India’s daughters to be valu-
able mission-agents in the service of the Lord and of
lifting them from their sordid conditions to a hap-
pier, healthier, and nobler outlook on life, of clevat-
ing them from their usual lethargic habits to a life
of toil and usefulness.

School at Thuraiyeri.-—'The second dedication
took place in Thuraiyeri, one of the villages belong-
ing to the Vaniyambadi circuit, under the care of
the Rev. Harms. Many years ago Rev. Freche built
a substantial church in this village, and it was des-
tined, until July 10, to serve a dual purpose, that
of a church and also that of a school. Now a very
pretty little building has been erected just outside
the limits of the chert. On Sunday morning,
July 10, the congregation and missionaries assem-
bled in the church. Then a procession was formed
which passed through the village and back to the
school; and, as is customary in India, thrice it
wound round the new building and finally came to
a halt on the front veranda. Rev. Harms unlocked
the door in the name of the Triune God, and after
a prayer had been spoken in the school, all assem-
bled in the church, where two sermons, ‘delivered
by the Brethren Hamann and Kuechle, edified the
audience. After the service, wreaths were presented
to all the missionaries and ladies present.

School-Chapel at Oorgum.— The third dedica-
tion of this series took place at Oorgum, Kolar
Gold-fields, on’ July 17. On the Gold-fields, where

_80 many people are employed and where the children