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and the Brotherhood, to confer degrees like those of the Universities of Copenhagen and Kiel, but not carrying the rank in the State implied in Danish degrees unless with the sanction of the Crown. The King, in the audience which he gave, informed Dr. Marshman that, having in 1801 promised the mission protection, he had hitherto refused to transfer Serampore to the East India Company, since that would prevent him from keeping his word. When, in 1845, the Company purchased both Tranquebar and Serampore, it could be no longer dangerous to the Christian Mission, but the Treaty expressly provided that the College should retain all its powers, and its Christian character, under the Danish charter, which it does. It was thus the earliest degree-conferring college in Asia, but it has never exercised the power. Christian VIII., then the heir to the throne, showed particular interest in the Bible translation work of Carey. When, in 1884, the Evangelical Alliance held its session in Copenhagen, and was received by Christian IX., 28 it did well, by special resolution, to express the gratitude of Protestant Christendom to Denmark for such courageous and continued services to the first Christian mission from England to India. How Dr. Carey valued the gift of the King is seen in this writing, on the lining of the case of the gold medal, dated 6th November 1823: “It is my desire that this medal, and the letter of the King of Denmark, which accompanied it, be given at my death to my dear son Jonathan, that he may keep it for my sake.” The letter of King Frederic VI. is as follows: “MONSIEUR LE DOCTEUR ET PROFESSEUR WILLIAM CAREY-- C’est avec beaucoup d’intérêt que nous avons appris le mérite qu’en qualité de membre dirigeant de la Société de la Mission, vous avez acquis, ainsi que vos co-directeurs, et les effèts salutaires que vos louables travaux ont produits et partout où votre influence a pu atteindre. Particulierement informés qu’en votre dite qualité vous avez contribué a effectuer bien des choses utiles, dont l’établissement à Frédéricsnagore a à se louer, et voulant vous certifier que nous vous en avons gré, nous avons chargé le chef du dit établissement,--notre Lieutenant-Colonel Kraefting, de vous remettre cette lettre; et en même temps une medaille d’or, comme une marque de notre bienveillance et de notre protection, que vous assurera toujours une conduite meritoire. “Sur ce nous prions Dieu de vous avoir dans Sa sainte et digne garde.--Votre affectionné FRE- DERIC. “Copenhague, ce 7 Juin 1820. “Au Docteur et Professeur WILLIAM CAREY, Membre dirigeant de la Société de la Mission à Frédéricsnagore.” The new College formed an additional attraction to visitors to the mission. One of these, in 1821, was the Maharaja Serfojee, the prince of Tanjore, whom Schwartz had tended, but who was on pilgrimage to Benares. Hand in hand with Dr. Carey he walked through the missionary workshop, noticed specially the pundits who 28 His Majesty’s Lord Chamberlain formally expressed to the British Minister at Copenhagen, H.E. the Hon. Edmund Monson, C.B., the King’s high pleasure at “the author’s noble expressions of the good his prepossessors of the throne and the government of Denmark tried to do for their Indian subjects,” when the first edition of this Life of William Carey, D.D., was presented to His Majesty.--See Taylor and Son’s Biographical and Literary Notices of William Carey, D.D., Northampton, 1886. 174
were busy with translation to which Lord Hastings had directed his attention, and dilated with affectionate enthusiasm on the deeds and the character of the apostle of South India. In 1823 cholera suddenly cut off Mr. Ward in the midst of his labours. The year after that Charles Grant died, leaving a legacy to the mission. Almost his last act had been to write to Carey urging him to publish a reply to the attack of the Abbé Dubois on all Christian missions. Another friend was removed in Bentley, the scholar who put Hindoo astronomy in its right place. Bishop Heber began his too brief episcopate in 1824, when the college, strengthened by the abilities of the Edinburgh professor, John Mack, was accomplishing all that its founders had projected. The Bishop of all good Christian men never penned a finer production--not even his hymns--than this letter, called forth by a copy of the Report on the College sent to him by Dr. Marshman: “I have seldom felt more painfully than while reading your appeal on the subject of Serampore College, the unhappy divisions of those who are the servants of the same Great Master! Would to God, my honoured brethren, the time were arrived when not only in heart and hope, but visibly, we shall be one fold, as well as under one shepherd! In the meantime I have arrived, after some serious considerations, at the conclusion that I shall serve our great cause most effectually by doing all which I can for the rising institutions of those with whom my sentiments agree in all things, rather than by forwarding the labours of those from whom, in some important points, I am conscientiously constrained to differ. After all, why do we differ? Surely the leading points which keep us asunder are capable of explanation or of softening, and I am expressing myself in much sincerity of heart--(though, perhaps, according to the customs of the world, I am taking too great a freedom with men my superiors both in age and in talent), that I should think myself happy to be permitted to explain, to the best of my power, those objections which keep you and your brethren divided from that form of church government which I believe to have been instituted by the apostles, and that admission of infants to the Gospel Covenants which seem to me to be founded on the expressions and practice of Christ himself. If I were writing thus to worldly men I know I should expose myself to the imputation of excessive vanity or impertinent intrusion. But of you and Dr. Carey I am far from judging as of worldly men, and I therefore say that, if we are spared to have any future intercourse, it is my desire, if you permit, to discuss with both of you, in the spirit of meekness and conciliation, the points which now divide us, convinced that, if a reunion of our Churches could be effected, the harvest of the heathen would ere long be reaped, and the work of the Lord would advance among them with a celerity of which we have now no experience. “I trust, at all events, you will take this hasty note as it is intended, and believe me, with much sincerity, your friend and servant in Christ, REGINALD CALCUTTA. “3rd June 1824.” This is how Carey reciprocated these sentiments, when writing to Dr. Ryland: “SERAMPORE, 6th July 1824. “I rejoice to say that there is the utmost harmony between all the ministers of all denominations. Bishop Heber is a man of liberal principles and catholic spirit. Soon after his arrival in the country he wrote me a very friendly letter, expressing his wish to maintain all the friendship with us which our respective circumstances would allow. I was then confined, but Brother Marshman called on him. As soon as I could walk without crutches I did the same, and had much free conversation with him. Some time after this he wrote us a very friendly letter, saying that it would highly gratify him to meet Brother Marshman and myself, and discuss in a friendly 175
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LIFE OF WILLIAM CAREY, Shoemaker &
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CONTENTS PAGE I. CAREY’S COLLEGE
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Careys also had fallen on evil time
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for young Carey than for the rest o
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And England’s priestcraft shakes
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the fulness of his fame, that the e
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This cobbler’s shed which was Car
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“He followed Paul; his zeal a kin
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His genial loving-kindness and his
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“FIRST, As to their distance from
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crop, maintain themselves. They wou
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It was from Courteenhall, a Northam
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plied the dealing of the Lord of Ho
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appear to the subsequent subscripti
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CHAPTER III INDIA AS CAREY FOUND IT
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a licence; clouded the early years
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ciety which has so generously exert
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We can now see that, as usual, both
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with letters; the washing is done b
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Warren Hastings Hindoo Christians h
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and is still in good order. There t
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Bengali sounds. It is a language of
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came incarnate, under the threefold
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“Sometimes I enjoyed sweet season
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will do well to associate as much a
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efore magistrates and judges; and w
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time meant the distillation of rum.
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land, America, Germany, and France,
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ies, rightly trusting to Danish pro
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efore sent missionaries to Tranqueb
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other; brother Carey is treasurer,
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CHAPTER VI THE FIRST NATIVE CONVERT
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whom, thirty years after, Macaulay
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hammedan convert was Peroo, another
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not join them occupied the missiona
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as one of the “great things” fr
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While the Marshmans gave their time
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CHAPTER VII CALCUTTA AND THE MISSIO
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“The number of inquirers constant
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on probation, there were five survi
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chapters of Matthew are translated
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for one family, say also what will
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cannot be insulted without your bei
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CHAPTER VIII CAREY’S FAMILY AND F
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“MY DEAREST LOVE,--I felt very mu
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“A mission into Siam would be com
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Marshman could not resist joining t
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constant and familiar converse with
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his instrumentality, and what a tri
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than be accessory to a misunderstan
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CHAPTER IX PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT, B
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Bhagavat-Geeta or Dialogue of Krish
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When Carey and his colleagues were
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The seventy students, their governo
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on the public service, enjoy the fa
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thought it incumbent upon him to at
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CHAPTER X THE WYCLIF OF THE EAST--B
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colleagues accomplished, that which
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Sir Charles Wilkins, the Caxton of
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cape of the Peninsula to Benares).
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eady, 500 copies of it were struck
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of the valley of the Brahmapootra.
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Lahore “the book of Jesus is spok
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Page 130 and 131: CHAPTER XI WHAT CAREY DID FOR LITER
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Page 152 and 153: At a time when the English and even
Page 154 and 155: of the Society. He concluded his ad
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Page 162 and 163: tion the Governor-General yielded t
Page 164 and 165: thus expressed in a letter to Franc
Page 166 and 167: 1812 the Committee had been increas
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Page 170 and 171: men as theirs differ from one anoth
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Page 182 and 183: In 1826 Carey, finding that his fav
Page 184 and 185: Dr. Carey’s last report, at the c
Page 186 and 187: ence, representing all the Protesta
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Page 190 and 191: annual revenues collected for this
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Page 194 and 195: might India now have been!” In Se
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Page 198 and 199: am Carey to the converts’ burial-
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Page 204 and 205: performed by these respectively for
Page 206 and 207: II.--STATUTES AND REGULATIONS OF SE
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