He was, however, reprimanded for this by the committee which employed him at Madras, and the chapel was withdrawn; upon which the Soodras remained without any public worship whatever for five months, when the catechists and schoolmasters came forward and acknowledged their pride and contumacy, the children dropped into the schools, and the grown-up people, one by one, returned to church, but in their own way.
At Tanjore, the contest was a much harder one.

Serfojee had died in 1834, and the son whom Bishop Heber had vainly tried to obtain for education was one of the ordinary specimens of indolent, useless rajahs, enjoying ease and display under British protection; but the Mission had gone on thriving as to numbers, though scarcely as to earnestness or energy; and the Christians numbered 7,000, with 107 catechists and four native clergy, under the management of Mr.Kohloff, almost the last of Schwartz's fellow-workers.

The Bishop's letter was read aloud by him, after the sermon, on the 10th of November, 1833.

There was an immediate clamour of all the Soodras, who would not be hushed by being reminded that they were in church, and, while Mr.Kohloff was being assisted from the pulpit, gathered round his wife and insulted her.
Letters passed between the Soodras and the missionaries.

There was no denial that the Bishop's command was right in itself; but an immense variety of excuses were offered for not complying with it, and only one of the four priests consented,--Nyanapracasem, an old man of eighty, who may be remembered as one of Schwartz's earliest converts, and of the four priests ordained by the Lutherans,--with three catechists, and ten of the general body; all the others remained in a state of secession.