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Dr. Carey’s last report, at the close of 1832, was a defence of what has since been called, and outside of India and of Scotland has too often been misunderstood as, educational missions or Christian Colleges. To a purely divinity college for Asiatic Christians he preferred a divinity faculty as part of an Arts and Science College, 29 in which the converts study side by side with their inquiring countrymen, the inquirers are influenced by them as well as by the Christian teaching and secular teaching in a Christian spirit, and the Bible consecrates the whole. The United Free Church of Scotland has, alike in India, China and Africa, proved the wisdom, the breadth, and the spiritual advantage of Carey’s policy. When the Society opposed him, scholars like Mack from Edinburgh and Leechman from Glasgow rejoiced to work out his Paul-like conception. When not only he, but Dr. Marshman, had passed away Mack bravely held aloft the banner they bequeathed, till his death in 1846. Then John Marshman, who in 1835 had begun the Friend of India as a weekly paper to aid the College, transferred the mission to the Society under the learned W. H. Denham. When in 1854 a new generation of the English Baptists accepted the College also as their own, it received a Principal worthy to succeed the giants of those days, the Rev. John Trafford, M.A., a student of Foster’s and of Glasgow University. For twentysix years he carried out the principles of Carey. On his retirement the College as such was suspended in the year 1883, and in the same building a purely native Christian Training Institution took its place. There, however, the many visitors from Christendom still found the library and museum; the Bibles, grammars, and dictionaries; the natural history collections, and the Oriental MSS.; the Danish Charter, the historic portraits, and the British Treaty; as well as the native Christian classes--all of which re-echo William Carey’s appeal to posterity. 29 In 1834, the year Carey died, there were in the college ten European and Eurasian students learning Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Bengali, mathematics, chemistry, mental philosophy, and history (ancient and ecclesiastical). There were forty-eight resident native Christians and thirty-four Hindoos, sons of Brahmans chiefly, learning Sanskrit, Bengali, and English. “The Bengal language is sedulously cultivated... The Christian natives of India will most effectually combat error and diffuse sounder information with a knowledge of Sanskrit. The communication, therefore, of a thoroughly classic Indian education to Christian youth is deemed an important but not always an indispensable object.” 180
CHAPTER XV CAREY’S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FOR THE PEOPLE OF INDIA The Danish charter--The British treaty--Growth of native Christian community--Lord Minto’s concession of self-governing privileges--Madras Decennial Conference and Serampore degrees-- Proposed reorganisation of College so as to teach and examine for B.D. and other degrees--Appeal for endowments of Carey’s Christian University ATTENTION has already been directed to the far-seeing plans which Carey laid down for Serampore College. It is a pleasure to record that while this volume is in the press (1909), a scheme is being promoted by the College Council for the reorganisation of the College on the lines of Carey’s ideal, with a view to making it a centre of higher ministerial training for all branches of the Indian Church. It will be remembered that in 1827 the College received from Friedrich VI. a Royal Charter, empowering it to confer degrees, and giving to it all the rights which are possessed by Western Universities. Under Treaty dated the 6th October, 1845, the King of Denmark agreed to transfer to the Governor-General of India, Lord Hardinge, G.C.B., for the sum of £125,000, the towns of Tranquebar, Frederiksnagore or Serampore, 30 and the old factory site at Balasore. Article 6 of this treaty provides that “the rights and immunities granted to the Serampore College by Royal Charter, of date 23rd of February, 1827, shall not be interfered with, but continue in force in the same manner as if they had been obtained by a Charter from the British Government, subject to the General Law of British India.” 31 For lack of an endowment sufficient to maintain the teaching staff required, and to establish the necessary scholarships, the College has never been fully developed on University lines. Since 1883 it has been used as a training Institution for preachers and teachers for the Bengal field of the Baptist Missionary Society. Meanwhile in the century since Carey’s statesman-like ideal was sketched, under the providence of God there have been two notable developments in the conditions of Indian life--(1) the educated Christian natives of India, from Cape Comorin to Peshawar, have grown, and continue to grow, in numbers, in character, and in influence, with a rapidity pronounced marvellous by the official report of the Census of 1901; (2) the three hundred millions of the peoples of India have, by the frank concession of the Earl of Minto and his advisers, and the sanction of Viscount Morley and Parliament, received a virtual constitution, which recognises their fitness for self-governing rights under the benevolent rule of King Edward VII. and his Viceroy in Council. Christianity, and the leaven of the more really educated Christian natives, will alone moralise and loyalise the peoples of India, and prepare future generations for a healthy independence, material and political. As they have watched the lines along which these developments have proceeded, the leaders of the missionary enterprise have become more and more convinced that the realisation of Carey’s ideal has been too long delayed, and that the influence of the Christian community on the great movements of Indian thought has suffered in consequence. In particular, while the need for highly-equipped Indian preachers, evangelists and leaders, is far more urgent now even than it was in Carey’s day, the most experienced missionaries of all societies are far from satisfied with the present level of theological education in the Indian Church. They are convinced that the time has come to reorganise the whole system of ministerial training, and to secure for the study of Christian Theology in India that academic recognition which it has enjoyed for centuries in Western lands. Since the British Government is pledged to neutrality in religious matters, it is unable to sanction the establishment of Divinity faculties, in any of the State Universities, Hence the Decennial Missionary Confer- 30 Serampore--Srirampur or place of the worshipful Ram. 31 Aitchison’s Collection, vol. i., edition 1892, pp. 81-86. 181
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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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the Serampore fire. I could scarcel
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CHAPTER XI WHAT CAREY DID FOR LITER
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It was a critical hour when the fir
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