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Excerpt from Social Christianity in the Orient: The Story of a Man, a Mission and a Movement The story was repeated hundreds of times the world over. Among all the links that were then being forged to bind the West to the East, in the beginnings of the racial contact which is now assuming such vast propor tions, that story played a part. It forced a host of Chris tians who seldom thought beyond their own country and their own race to ask, Who are those people whose faith in our Master, Jesus, is so simple and so strong? They thus took the first step in the direction of that larger sense of brotherhood which enfolds all races. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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John Everett Cloud was born on July 16, 1836 near Frewsburg, New York, United States. His father, Cyrus Clough, was of Welsh descent, and his mother, Mariah Sturgeon, Scotch-English. They were both pioneers by disposition, and in 1844 the family moved westward and settled for two or three years in Winnebago County, where they suffered hardship and poverty. Moving on to Strawberry Point, a claim staked by them in Iowa, they found better fortune.
John acquired a little schooling at Strawberry Point and a taste for more. From 1853 to 1857 he worked with a party of surveyors in Minnesota and Dakota and saved money for further education. In the fall of 1857 he entered the Burlington (Iowa) Institute, but owing to the loss of his savings in the financial crisis of that winter, he was soon “working his way. ” The Civil War interrupted the work of the Institute. Clough was not drafted, however, nor did he wish to enlist. His family persuaded him to finish his college course at the newly founded Upper Iowa University. Entering the senior class there in the fall of 1861, he graduated the following June with the Bachelor of Arts degree. For a year he taught at Colesburg, Iowa, public school, and then took up the work of colporteur- age with definitely religious service in mind. In quest of theological training he attended a “Ministers’ Institute” in Chicago. He was ordained on November 20, 1864 in Burlington, Iowa.
In 1864 Clough accepted and assigned to the Telugu Mission, India and sailed from Boston November 30 on the James Guthrie, and arrived at Nellore, Madras Presidency, April 22, 1865. At Nellore, Clough began at once the study of the vernacular and early set about the writing of tracts, such as Where are You Going? and Messages for All. In the midst of this work there came to Nellore a letter from one Yerraguntla Periah, a Madiga leather-worker, of a village near Ongole, asking for Christian teaching. It was decided that the Cloughs should accept the invitation. Thus was his own life-work determined as a missionary among the outcastes, and a large body of converts made possible for the Mission.
On Septemer 17, 1866 Clough arrived to take up residence in Ongole. Within a month he organized a Baptist church and began to receive numerous members into it. A “mass movement” was soon under way. The converts came at first by tens, then, in 1869, by hundreds, and after that by thousands. The terrible famine of 1876-1878 spread its distress over the Telugu area, affecting the lower classes most of all, but Clough was able to enroll his Madigas in Government famine-relief projects.
During this period he deemed it wise to refuse baptism to many thousands who sought admission to the Church. In June 1878, however, he began again to exercise the rite, and within six weeks 9, 000 converts were baptized. At the close of the year the total membership of the Ongole Church was nearly 13, 000, representing some four hundred villages, and in 1883 there were 21, 000 members over a field so large that division became necessary.
Clough’s service in India was interrupted by several furloughs in America. Until 1902 he continued active missionary service but during 1901 and 1902 he suffered painful accidents which led to the curtailment of his work and a visit to America. In 1905 he was forced to retire from India altogether.
John Clough was highly regarded on missionary annals. He was the founder of the Baptist in Church in Ongole. He raised $50, 000 for the founding of a Telugu theological institution; in 1883 he secured $10, 000 to build the Ongole mission high school, and $15, 000 for mission houses in Ongole and Madras; and in 1890 he raised $50, 000 for sending out new missionaries to new stations, and $50, 000 to establish Ongole College.
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Clough joined the Baptist Church in February 1858.
On August 15, 1861 Clough married Harriet Sunderland. His first wife died in 1893, leaving two sons and three daughters, and in 1894 he married Emma Rauschenbusch, of the Mission.
