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132 MISSIONS IN THE TELUGU COUNTRY
members was different from ours, the chin being
placed, and the bow being held in the middle instead
of at one end. The music played was entirely Indian,
as were also the lyrics sung to this accompaniment.
Later in the history of the Band another attraction
was added by the gift of a magic-lantern. Pictures
both sacred and secular, thrown on a portable screen,
attracted great crowds.
Special attention was paid to preaching. The
subjects to be dealt with by every member were
carefully arranged. The form of the addresses became
well known to those who heard them often, and stamped
itself on the memory. Some time after the Band had
ceased to tour, the writer, when arranging a preaching
tour for members of the Church of England Mens
Society, found that with one accord they took up the
subjects, and adopted as much as possible the style, of
the addresses which they had heard from the Band.
It was intended that the Band should tour somewhat
widely. The rule was that it should visit each of the five
districts of the Mission once during the year ; that it
should remain on tour an average of twenty days each
month ; that it should, if possible, preach the Gospel
in every village and hamlet in the district, and that while
in a district it should generally be joined by the agents
belonging to the part in which it was, so far as the mis-
sionary could spare them. As a matter of fact, this
last regulation so swelled its numbers that sometimes
three preaching bands went out simultaneously to
different villages. The records show that the rule of
covering the ground of the whole Mission in the year