V. S. Azariah
A clergyman from Tinnevelly in south India and a delegate of the National Missionary Society at Edinburgh in 1910, where he asked the foreign missions for friendship between missionaries and Indian workers.
The minutes of the conference list him as the Rev. V. S. Azariah of the National Missionary Society, Tinnevelly, among the speakers on India in the first day’s debate (World Missionary Conference, 1910, vol. 9, p. 78). On the evening of 20 June he gave an address on co-operation between foreign and native workers. He said that he spoke from ten years’ observation of the missions of India, that his own relations with missionaries had been happy, and that a want of friendship between the two sides was nevertheless holding back the Indian church. He added that India would need Western missionaries for years to come, and closed with the words “Give us FRIENDS!” (World Missionary Conference, 1910, vol. 9, pp. 306–315). See the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh.
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