One penny.

ARECA NUT Nut "eaten" by the Indians with betel leaf or lime.

BETEL Leaf of a creeper.

BANDY A bullock cart.

BRAHMA The first person in the Hindu Triad, regarded as the
Creator.

BRAHMAN The highest of the Hindu Castes.

BRAMO SAMAJ A sect of Hindu reformers who honour Christ as a man,
but reject Him as a Saviour.

CHEE! Exclamation of derision, disgust, or remonstrance.

COMPOUND A piece of ground surrounding a house.

COOLIE A paid labourer. "Coolie" is the Tamil word for pay.

CURRY A preparation of meat or vegetables made by grinding
various condiments and mixing them together.

FAKEER Religious beggar.

GURU A religious teacher.

IYER Title given to Brahmans and Gurus.

PADDY Rice in the husk. Paddy fields = rice fields.

PARIAH A depressed class.

P[=U]JAH Worship. "[=u]" is pronounced like "oo."

RUPEE Value 1s. 4d.

SAIVITE A worshipper of Siva.

SALAAM A salutation meaning "peace," used in greeting and
farewell, and often in the sense of "thank you."
The right hand is raised to the forehead as one says
salaam.

SEELEY Tamil woman's dress of silk, muslin, or cotton.

SHANAR A Caste of Palmyra-palm climbers.

SIVA The third person in the Hindu Triad. The Destroyer.

TOM-TOM An Indian drum.

VAISHNAVITE A worshipper of Vishnu.

VELLALAR A Caste of landowners and cultivators.

VISHNU The second person in the Hindu Triad. The Preserver.

THINGS AS THEY ARE

MISSION WORK IN SOUTHERN INDIA

CHAPTER I

About the Book

"We can do nothing against the Truth, but for the
Truth."
_St. Paul, Asia and Europe._

"There is too little desire to know what is the
actual state of mission work in India, and a
regard to the showy and attractive rather than to
the solid and practical. I will try, however, to
avoid being carried away by the tide, and to set
myself the task of giving as plain and unvarnished
a statement as possible of what is actually being
done or not done in the great field of our foreign