Cobra’s Den and Other Stories of Missionary Work among the Telugas of India

Jacob Chamberlain was a Medical Missionary from Connecticut who served in India amongst the Teluga people.

Chamberlain effectively used his medical and surgical work to open the way for Christian teaching. Considered one of the most enterprising of modern missionaries, he is credited in large measure for the marked success and rapid growth of the Christian church in India. His amazing experiences became the primary material for tracts and books.

Florence R. Scott, Evangelical Dictionary of Christian Missions, p. 172

My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this public domain title for digitisation.

Jacob Chamberlain [1835-1908], The Cobra’s Den, and other stories of missionary work among the Telugus of India. New York / Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1900. Hbk. pp.270. [Click to visit the Jacob Chamberlain page for the download link to this book and other material]

Contents

• Introductory

1. The Cobra’s Den
2. The Snake-Bitten Hindu’s Story
3. The Angry Mob and the Story of the Cross
4. The Surgeon’s Knife Dethrones a Hindu Idol
5. Yes, or No? Instructions Wanted
6. Those Torn-Up Gospels
7. The Hindu Judge’s Opinion of the Bible
8. Marketing the Bible
9. A Medico-Evangelistic Tour
10. Hinduism as It Is
11. “Lord Ganésa” and Little Rámaswámi
12. A Brahman’s Testimony
13. A Daybreak Audience and a Chase for a Tiger
14. The Spotted Tiger Foiled
15. The Heat of India: How I Keep My Study Cool
16. Oddities of Travel in India
17. A Missionary Sanitarium
18. How the “Cut” Cuts
19. How Hindu Christians Give
20. A Merchant of Means Join Us
21. “Break Cocoanuts Over the Wheels”
22. The Weaving of India Rugs or God’s Plans in Our Lives
23. “Despondent Missionaries”
24. The Change of Front in India
25. Vernacular Preaching: Is it Ineffective?”
26. A Unique Missionary Meeting on the Himálayas
27. The Oriental “Bride of the Lamb”

Preface

The exceedingly kind reception given on both sides of the Atlantic, to “In the Tiger Jungle and Other Stories of Missionary Work among the Telugus” seems to indicate that such simple sketches of incidents in the life and work of any earnest, observant missionary have a place of some importance, in quickening the interest of both young people and older in all that pertains to the spread of the Kingdom, and that another collection of such sketches may not be out of place. Indeed, many urgent requests, from both friends and strangers, in Europe, Asia, and America, have been received, that at the earliest date another such collection should be issued. As these requests have come largely from acknowledged leaders in the church in the Home Lands, as well as from fellow-missionaries in different countries, and from Missionary Secretaries of many Societies and Boards, the call can no longer be left unheeded…Page 7