Lack of Missionaries

good to change one’s wife, so it is not proper to change one’s religion.17 Missionaries could not travel in the mountain area with safety as there were a lot of highway robbers. In other words, Telugus were not very much prepared for the Word of God in the 16th century. Although there were some Portuguese and American Christians settled down in Golconda for trade, they were far from being exemplary in Christian life. LACK OF MISSIONARIES: The early missionaries who had come to India, concentrated themselves on the coastal areas. Very few really tried to go into the interior. A few missionaries did travel across the vast and extensive Bisnagar kingdom. They set the spark of Christianity at the very heart of the kingdom, namely, the capital of the kingdom. Unfortunately they did not persevere in their efforts of conquering souls to Christ in these parts, for whatever reasons it might have been. At the very beginning, a new Christian needs a constant reminder and an encouragement to face all the difficulties arising from social and family life. This was not given to the new Christians. There were times when the Christians of these parts were neglected even for a period of forty years. Therefore how could any one expect Christianity to take deep root among the Telugus in the first two centuries? While the number of Christians started increasing in a few