CURRY A preparation of meat or vegetables made by grinding various condiments and mixing them together. FAKEER Religious beggar. GURU A religious teacher. IYER Title given to Brahmans and Gurus. PADDY Rice in the husk. Paddy fields = rice fields. PARIAH A depressed class. PŪJAH Worship. "ū" is pronounced like "oo." RUPEE Value 1s. 4d. SAIVITE A worshipper of Siva. SALAAM A salutation meaning "peace," used in greeting and farewell, and often in the sense of "thank you." The right hand is raised to the forehead as one says salaam. SEELEY Tamil woman's dress of silk, muslin, or cotton. SHANAR A Caste of Palmyra-palm climbers. SIVA The third person in the Hindu Triad. The Destroyer. TOM-TOM An Indian drum. VAISHNAVITE A worshipper of Vishnu. VELLALAR A Caste of landowners and cultivators. VISHNU The second person in the Hindu Triad. The Preserver. THINGS AS THEY ARE MISSION WORK IN SOUTHERN INDIA CHAPTER I About the Book "We can do nothing against the Truth, but for the Truth." _St. Paul, Asia and Europe._ "There is too little desire to know what is the actual state of mission work in India, and a regard to the showy and attractive rather than to the solid and practical. I will try, however, to avoid being carried away by the tide, and to set myself the task of giving as plain and unvarnished a statement as possible of what is actually being done or not done in the great field of our foreign labour." _Bishop French, India and Arabia._ THREE friends sat Native fashion on the floor of an Indian verandah. Two of the three had come out to India for a few months to see the fight as it is. And they saw it. They now proposed that the third should gather some letters written from the hot heart of things, and make them into a book, to the intent that others should see exactly what they had seen. The third was not sure. The world has many books. Does it want another, and especially another of the kind this one would be? Brain and time are needed for all that writing a book means. The third has not much of either. But the two undertook to do all the most burdensome part of the business. "Give us the letters, we will make the book," and they urged reasons which ended in--this. This, the book, has tried to tell the Truth. That is all it has to say about itself. The quotations which head the chapters, and which are meant to be read, not skipped, are more worthful than anything else in it. They are chosen from the writings of missionaries, who saw the Truth and who told it.