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Raghavapuram.
Khammamett.
192 MISSIONS IN THE TELUGU COUNTRY
Razu, a high caste convert, formerly in the service of the
Government, who resigned his post in order to carry on
mission work, and was afterwards ordained and laboured
in the district until 1893, when ill health compelled him
to retire. A certain amount of success was met with
among the Kois, but these converts proved unstable.
They were not willing that the Malas, who work for
them as servants as they do elsewhere for the Sudras,
should be admitted to the Church with themselves,
and there were many defections among them. The
great bulk of the Church has here, as elsewhere, been
built up out of the Malas. This side of the work has
prospered, and there are now over twelve hundred
Christians in all. The Rev. J. Cain has worked here
almost continuously since 1874. Mrs. Cain has raised
up a new industry among the women and girls, in the
form of lace-making, which is famous throughout South
India.
Raghavapuram was first occupied as an independent
mission-station in 1870. The beginning of the work in
this part has been described above, and the movement
which started fifty years ago has been in flood ever since.
Even after the separation from the district of two others
there still remain over five thousand Christians.
Khammamett is the centre of the most lately formed
district of the Telugu Mission. It was first occupied in
1888. For the greater part of the period that has
elapsed since there was steady growth without any
remarkable ingatherings. Of late years, however, the
number of accessions has largely increased, and has
strained the resources of the Mission to the utmost.