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ence, representing all the Protestant Missionary Societies working in India, meeting in Madras in December 1902, appointed a Committee “to confer with the Council of the Serampore College, through the Committee of the London Baptist Missionary Society, to ascertain whether they are prepared to delegate the degree-conferring powers of the Charter of that College to a Senate or Faculty, representative of the various Protestant Christian Churches and Societies working in India.” The College Council (of which Meredith Townsend, Esq., is Master, and Alfred Henry Baynes, Esq., F.R.G.S., is Secretary), has taken this request into careful consideration, and after being assured by the highest legal opinion that the Charter is still valid, has resolved to do everything in its power to carry out the suggestions of the Decennial Conference. They realise, however, that if the degree-conferring powers of the Charter are to be used, the College itself must be raised to the highest standard of efficiency as a Teaching Institution, and its permanence must be guaranteed by an adequate endowment. The Council has felt that the attainment of these two objects is possible only through a union of the forces of the various Protestant Christian Churches working in India. The result has been the adoption of a wise and catholic project of reorganisation, under which it is hoped that Serampore will become a great interdenominational College of University rank, giving a theological training up to the standard of the London B.D., conferring its own divinity degrees, and maintaining an Arts and Science department, for the present at least affiliated to the Calcutta University. It is justly claimed that such a Christian University at Serampore will both unify and raise the standard of theological education in the Indian Church, helping to build the Eastern structure of Christian thought and life on the one Foundation of Jesus Christ, the Word of God. The scheme which the Council has sanctioned contemplates the permanent endowment of the requisite professorships and scholarships. The College building will provide sufficient class-room accommodation, but it will be necessary to secure additional land, and to erect houses for the staff and hostels for the students. An immediate endowment of £250,000 is aimed at with a view of establishing a well-equipped theological faculty, with a preliminary department in Arts and Sciences. The Council, however, is not without hope that in due time Carey’s noble vision of a great Christian University at Serampore conferring its own degrees, not only in theology but in all branches of useful learning, may powerfully appeal to some of the merchant princes of the West. It is estimated that the sum of £2,000,000 would be required for this equipment and endowment of the University on this larger scale. The great missionary Churches and Societies look favourably on the proposal, initiated by their own missionaries, to co-operate with Carey’s more immediate representatives in realising and applying his ideal which is bound to expand and grow as India becomes Christianised. The members of the College Council maintain that, in view of the world-wide influence of the modern missionary movement, inaugurated by William Carey, a movement that has been so beneficial both to the Church at home and to non-Christian nations, there is no institution that has greater historical and spiritual claims upon modern philanthropy than Serampore, and they believe that there are large numbers of men and women in Great Britain, America, India and other lands who will consider it a sacred privilege to have their names inscribed with those of Carey, Marshman and Ward on the walls of Serampore College as its second founders. The Council is doing all within its power to reorganise the College on the broadest possible basis, believing that an institution with such inspiring traditions and associations should be utilised in the interests, not merely of one denomination, but of the whole Church in India and the nation. Up to the present, the Council, though legally an entirely independent body, has worked in the closest association with the Baptist Missionary Society’s Committee. But now with the fullest sympathy both of the Baptist Missionaries on the field and the Committee in England, it is also inviting the co-operation of all evangelical Christian bodies in the work of Serampore College. It is prepared to welcome as full professors of the College, in Arts and Theology, repres- 182
entatives of other evangelical missions, who shall have special superintendence of the students belonging to their respective denominations, and be free to give them such supplementary instruction as may be thought necessary. All professors without distinction of denomination will share equally in the local management of the affairs of the College. The final authority must, in accordance with the Charter, remain in the hands of the College Council, but in order to admit of the due representation upon the Council of the various evangelical bodies which may co-operate, the present members of Council have, with the hearty concurrence of the Baptist Missionary Society’s Committee, approved the suggestion that application should be made to the Indian Legislature for powers to enlarge its membership. The Honorary Secretary of the College Council, A. H. Baynes, Esq., 19 Furnival Street, London, E.C., will be glad to supply further information, or to receive contributions towards the Fund for the endowment and equipment of the College. In view of the conditions at present existing in India, this appeal should be of interest not only to friends of Christian missions, but to philanthropists generally, for a Christian University, conducted on the broad and catholic principles laid down by Carey, supplementary but in no way antagonistic to the existing Universities, will be a most effective instrument for permeating the political and social ideals of the youth of India with the spirit of Christ. This is a matter that deeply concerns, not only the Missionary, but also the statesman, the merchant, and all true friends of India of whatever race or creed. In all the romance of Christian Missions, from Iona to Canterbury, there is no more evident example of the working of the Spirit of God with the Church, than the call of Carey and the foundation of Serampore College under Danish Charter and British treaty, making it the only University with full powers to enable the whole Reformed Church in India to work out its own theological system and Christian life. 183
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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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The practice of infanticide was rea
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Page 182 and 183: In 1826 Carey, finding that his fav
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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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