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of Doctor Clough 107 Laying the corner-stone of gateway to the new hospital 107 Country tour into the heart of Telugu-land, and open-air preaching to the natives 107 Vellumpilly, where 2,222 were baptized, and Sunset Hill, where Doctor Jewett prayed 109 Kavali, and the work of Mr. Bawden for a hereditary criminal class 110 Industrial education side by side with moral and religious 110 Nellore, our first permanent station in South India 111 Its high school, under Rev. L. C. Smith; its hospital, and its nurses' training-school 112 Mr. Rutherford, successor to Dr. David Downie, and Mr. Smith--all of them Rochester men 112 XI. THE DRAVIDIAN TEMPLES 115-124 The Dravidians are the aborigines of India 117 The Aryan conquerors appropriated their gods, and Siva married Kali 117 Massiveness and vastness characterize their temples, but also Oriental imagination and invention 118 The temple at Tanjore, with its court eight hundred by four hundred feet 118 Its multitude of chapels, each with its image in stone of the lingam, or phallus 119 Its central image of a bull, the favorite animal of Siva 119 Its tower, or gopura, is the grandest in India 119 Its sculptures of gods and goddesses wonderfully realistic 119 Its appurtenances tawdry, childish, and immoral 120 Yet Tanjore was the home, and is the tomb, of Schwartz, the first English missionary to India 120 The raja's library of Oriental manuscripts 121 Madura, the center of Drav
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