Produced by The Bookworm, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber's Notes: Bold is surrounded by =equal signs=. Italics are shown by _underscores_.] [Illustration: Old India. "You think you know us; you know nothing at all about us!" and the old eyes peer intently into yours, and the old head shakes and he smiles to himself as he moves off. Every bit of this picture is suggestive: the closed door behind,--only a Brahman may open that door; the mythological carving,--only a Brahman has the right to understand it; the three-skein cord,--only a Brahman may touch it. Even the ragged old cloth is suggestive. In old India nothing but Caste counts for anything, and a reigning Prince lately gave his weight in gold to the Brahmans, as part payment for ceremonies which enabled him to eat with men of this old man's social position. Look at the marks on the baby's forehead; they are suggestive too.] THINGS AS THEY ARE MISSION WORK IN SOUTHERN INDIA BY AMY WILSON-CARMICHAEL _Keswick Missionary C.E.Z.M.S._ AUTHOR OF "FROM SUNRISE LAND," ETC. WITH PREFACE BY EUGENE STOCK [Illustration: Tamil Text: VICTORY TO JESUS' NAME!] LONDON: MORGAN AND SCOTT (OFFICE OF "=The Christian=") 12, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C. _And may be ordered of any bookseller_ 1905 FIRST EDITION _April 1903_ _Reprinted_ _August 1903_ " _January 1904_ " _November 1904_ " _January 1905_ To the Memory of My Dear Friend, ELEANOR CARR, Whose last message to the Band, before her translation on June 16, 1901, was: "YOU WILL BE IN THE THICK OF THE FIGHT BY THE TIME THIS REACHES YOU, [Illustration: Tamil text: THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S!]" Note WITHIN a few weeks of the publication of _Things as They Are_, letters were received from missionaries working in different parts of India, confirming its truth. But some in England doubt it. And so it was proposed that if a fourth edition were called for, a few confirmatory notes, written by experienced South Indian missionaries, other than those of the district described, would be helpful. Several such notes are appended. The Indian view of one of the chief facts set forth in the book is expressed in the note written by one who, better than any missionary, and surely better even than any onlooker at home, has the right to be heard in this matter--_and the right to be believed_.