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 Later, for 5 years—from 1894 to 1898—he settled down once more in his own native-place of Masulipatam, amidst loved and loving ones, as Assistant Professor of English and History, besides being the Superintendent of the High School Department, in Noble College. There the fullest use was made of the varied opportunities of good work that offered themselves. He did good work as a Municipal Councillor. He was Chairman of the Primary Examination Board in Kistna for a term of three years. In particular, under the auspices of the local Social Purity Association, he opened a memorable campaign for Purity and against Nautch and soon enlisted the practical sympathy and support of influential and promising spirits and, with signal success, extended the crusade far and wide over the Telugu country. The Masulipatam Brahma Samaj, which had been in existence for over a decade and of which he had been a member since the days of his teachership in the Hindu High School, had been keeping up a languid life at the time through the devotion of a few old adherents. Now he threw himself