Excerpt from Seventy-Five Years in the Madura Mission: A History of the Mission in South India Under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A This history has been prepared by request of the M adura Mission. It has been carried through under certain limitations, especially those of time, expense and material. The time necessary for preparation, investigation, writing and publishing has had to come out of the multifarious duties Of a missionary's busy life. All expenses had to be kept Within the limits of great moderation. Materials are abundant, but of very uneven proportions. Certain periods, and certain phases of work are abundantly supplied, while others Of equal or greater importance have very meagre materials from which to draw. Effort has been made to group events in their relations and sequences in some due proportion to their importance; It has not been possible to apportion the illustrations accord ing to merit or importance, some desirable ones being impossible to Obtain, and others being too expensive. At the Same time such as were available have been used to illustrate interesting persons and Objects. For a few of these we are indebted to the kindness of friends. Quotations from many writers scattered through 75 years cannot all be harmonised into a uniform Spelling or use of words, especially names, for these have changed considerably during the years under review. For example the terms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.