ng forth a new and glorious creation. In
that country, at this present time, a terrible famine is making ravages.
Even that calamity may be overruled for good. At all events it gives
fresh emphasis to the call for all followers of Christ to enter in and
work for God, where the harvest indeed is plenteous and the labourers
are few. It may be that even in times of trial the Spirit will be
poured out from on high, and that God will yet gladden with tidings of
great joy the hearts of some to whom those fields are unutterably dear,
and who have long waited for the full corn in the ear.

W. ARTHUR.

CHAPTER ONE.

DANIEL'S PARENTAGE.

Before Daniel was baptised his name was _Chikkha_, but we will call him
Daniel from the beginning to the end of this little memoir. He lived
sometimes at Goobbe, and sometimes at Singonahully. Goobbe is a large
market town in the kingdom of Mysore, and Singonahully is a small
village about two miles from Goobbe. The Wesleyan Mission premises are
situated between these two places. If my young readers, for whom this
little book is written, will take a large map of India, they will see
`Goobbe,' in Latitude 13 degrees 19 minutes North, and Longitude 77
degrees East. It is fifty-five miles north-west of Bangalore, and about
seventy north-east of Seringapatam.

Many years ago,--it is not known exactly how many--a man of the
Washerman caste left his native village and came to Singonahully. He
brought his family with him, but left behind a box containing an idol
and some other sacred things, in charge of the village priest. This man
was Daniel's grandfather. In Singonahully he entered into friendly
relations with the old village washerman, who was nearly blind, and
helped him in his work. In due time one of the blind man's daughters
was given in marriage to Daniel's father, whose name was Veera Chickka.

Daniel was born May 4th, 1799, or according to his own phraseology, "I
was born on the day Seringapatam was taken by the English." It may here
be observed that many of the middle and lower classes of the Hindoos do
not keep any correct record of the time when their children are born, so
that if no event of importance happens about that time, there is
generally no means of ascertaining the age of anyone in such families.

Daniel's father was always a poor man, so that his son was never sent to
school; and he was never abl