"Into the Malabar congregation "To the Portuguese congregation "In the year 1743 there were 62 added to "these congregations, amongst whom were 34 "converts from Popery; they had then also "123 communicants, and nine catechumens, "that they maintained 40 children this last year entirely at the charge of the Mission. That they are still in great want of a Church large enough to hold 500,” From the Journal of Mr. Fabricius it appears, "that he had converted and baptized several "Heathen by his conferences with them, and that besides preaching himself to the Heathens "within the limits of the company's district, he "had four times this year sent a catechist and "schoolmaster with good success into the country to seek for some dispersed Christians, "and to confer with the Heathen. The Rev. "Mr. Kiernander states that he had several ca"chumens under preparation for baptism, that "the schoolmaster Thomas, and the catechist "Ambrose, go on well with business, that the catechist, as well as himself go out into the villages twice a week to visit the new Chris tians, and to make known to the Heathens the way to salvation, that the Malabarian con gregation had been encreased this year 37, "viz. 34 natives and three Roman Catholics; "that the congregation consisted of 59 persons "whereof 21 were communicants; that the "number of children now entirely maintained in "the Malabarian and Portuguese schools were "24. ،، "Professor Franck having engaged to look out for two proper persons for new Missionaries upon his own kind promise to pay the expence of their voyage has accordingly pro"cured two new Missionaries, viz. the Rev. Messrs. Breithaupt, and Klein, who are now gone at the Professor's own charge to supply "the places of Mr. Fabricius and Mr. Zeglier "at Tranquebar; the Professor likewise out of "his affectionate regard to the Society as well as " zeal to this branch of their Designs has remit"ted thither a further sum of 3001. towards the support of the two English Missions at Ma"dras and Cuddalore. The Missionaries at Tranquebar state, "that they had gone as far as the 24th chapter of "Proverbs in an impression of the Portuguese 66 Bible, and had sent as a present to the Society "three copies of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, and three of a new Grammar in the "Tamulic characters; and find it will be necessary to print the Bible in that language, they having great application made to them for it, 68 "and that their town church was the last year "encreased by an addition of 116 adult persons, "Over and above 97 children, 15 whereof belonged to Portuguese parents, and 82 to Malabarian, all members of their congregation; "that to the country church were added 335 "souls, viz. "Of Adult Heathen "Roman Catholic converts "That the total number admitted from the beginning of their Mission amounts to 6,800 persons, of which were then living 4,480. "That Pastor Aaron, and Diego, together with "a catechist, employ five or six weeks at a time "in instructing those that came for baptism, "before they are baptized, in the principles of "the Christian Religion; that the two little "schools at Transchaur and Tirapalaturey are " in a good good state and of particular service "to the Mission, as places wherein to preach "and perform other divine offices in the country; that two native ministers, had travelled for "two, three, four, nay sometimes for six weeks together at different times to instruct the dispersed Christians, and to administer the holy "Sacrament among them; that Pastor Aaron "in his travels towards the South, instructed "and baptised seven Pagans near the Maraver "tract under many troubles and abuses both "from the Roman Catholics, and the Heathens; "that Pastor Diego in his travels to the same place afterwards met with a Heathen master "who gave him an extraordinary character of a "Christian servant whom he had taken for his "herdsman, and wished he had more Chris"tian servants; that they conceived great hopes " from the travels of these two ministers amongst "the villages. 66 "That the Roman Catholics still continue "their inveterate hatred of them; that an ap,plication having been made to them by 100 66 persons in the country for two Arabic Testa"ments they had complied with their requests, "and at the same time made a present of several "other books, and that they had the satisfaction "to hear from one of the Christian converts that they had done a great deal of good, as we hope "to hear the same of some Arabic Testaments, "which Mr. Gueisler has found means to dis perse by way of Mocha; that in the Portu "guese School were 22 boys and 17 girls, be sides five boys and mine girls, who come out of "the country, that the Malabarian School con"sists of 110 boys and 84 girls who are all "maintained by benefactions from Europe; that "their church in the town being too small for "their congregation, they had after many dif -31 ། กา ficulties laid the foundation for a new one just "without the town. They request the Society' "to supply them with printing paper and other necessaries for the carrying on the printing of books in the Portuguese and other languages. By the account for the year 1745 it is stated in the Journal, "that the Christians are SO encreased in the neighbouring villages as to have with the consent of the Heathen magistrates a Christian warden or head man appointed over them according to the custom of the country, and that Mr. Gneisler on visiting the Malabarian Christians at Palacatti found there a congregation of about 150 including "some Portuguese, and that their reader had been brought up in the Mission of Madras, The Rev. Mr. Kiernander acquaints the Society that the Malabarian congregation "has been encreased this year 15, so that the "number of the congregation at present 71. The Tranquebar Missionaries state that they continued preaching, and instructing in, the fields and private cottages, and that in their |