Salvation Found

With a real desire to know the difference between Hinduism and Christianity, he eventually wrote to a well-known missionary, expressing a wish to study the latter. This was in March, 1902, and some little time after, whilst under the care of an Indian missionary, he became convinced of his need of salvation, and that Christ Jesus the Lord was the real and only Saviour of sinners. With a simple trust in the person and work of Christ he soon expressed a longing desire to be baptized, and this ceremony was arranged for Christmas Day, 1902. On the evening before, however, he was attacked with cholera, and the doctors gave him no hope of recovery. Strong in his intention to be baptized, an old Christian in the district was called, whilst the wife of the Indian missionary already referred to took the necessary steps, and with prayer at her heart suggested the name Moses be given him, the reason given being that God was able to save this lad, as He did ancient Moses from the Nile, and He did.
Now the birth-name of the lad was Nahappan, meaning “Father of Serpents,” one of the Hindu gods. After he became a Christian he was called Gnanappan, “Father of Wisdom,” his father’s family name being Ramasamy, he was called after his baptism, R. G. Moses. I owe boundless gratitude to my dear friend, he told me, for educating and explaining to me the truths of Christianity. He will undoubtedly receive the promised reward of Mark 9:41.
Sometime after the conversion of Moses, his brother and two of his cousins embraced the truth of Christianity, and were baptized in the name of Christ.