sound he fancied that the book was one with which he was acquainted. Listening, he found that it was one of the Gospels which he possessed. Going in, he saluted the reader, and by him was introduced to a company of Christians, “the congregation of the Gospel,” in Cannanore. Delighted at last to meet with a company of Christians, he saluted them as old and dear friends. “I have long wished to learn something about the gospel," said he to this band of disciples, “and this day the Lord has brought me to you, that I may know more clearly his holy word.”
His stay at Cannanore was too short for him to receive much instruction in the truth, but he obtained the five books of Moses, with Joshua, Judges, and Psalms, with which he returned to Mysore. Still he sighed for some one to declare to him more fully the doctrines of the Scriptures. God, we cannot doubt, was by his Spirit unfolding to him his will, and preparing him for usefulness among his countrymen. He continued to labour with them with so much success, as greatly to stir up the rage of the heathen and Roman Catholics of Mysore, by whom he and his friends were much persecuted. They were reviled, beaten, stoned, and had a
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