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AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY 201
the present time some S.P.G. students are undergoing
medical training there. It is di£6cult, in so brief an
account, to give a fair idea of what this hospital has been
doing. On the medical side it is widely and deservedly
famous, and patients seek its aid from distances as
great as two days' journey by rail. The number of in-
patients in a year has reached nearly a thousand, and
that of out-patients fourteen thousand. But far more
is accomplished than these figures suggest, for the true
spirit of Christianity is exhibited in the care taken both
of the souls and of the bodies of those who come within
its walls.
The next Mission that we intend to speak of is that American
of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, f^^gt^*
Their chief work is carried on in the country lying to the 1835.
east of the S.P.G. Mission, but separated from it by the
high range of the Eastern Ghauts. It works, however,
in some of the villages of our districts, and as its con-
verts in these villages are almost exclusively drawn
from the Madigas, it sometimes happens that in the
same village will be found an S.P.G. congregation of
Mala Christians, and an American Baptist congregation
of Madiga Christians.
The American Baptist Society began work in 1835
with two missionaries. By 1844 they had only eight
Church members. For many years the Mission was
singularly unsuccessful, and the field was repeatedly in
danger of being abandoned. A conversation which took
place on one of these occasions between Jewett, a