Life of William Carey by George Smith - The Jesus Army

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its own people and to half the human race. These are Chaucer, the Father of English Verse; Wyclif the Father of the Evangelical Reformation in all lands; Hooker, the Father of English Prose; Shakspere, the Father of English Literature; Milton, the Father of the English Epic; Bunyan, the Father of English Allegory; Newton, the father of English Science; Carey, the Father of the Second Reformation through Foreign Missions. 198
APPENDIX I.--CHARTER OF INCORPORATION OF SERAMPORE COLLEGE WE, Frederick the Sixth, by the Grace of God King of Denmark, the Venders and Gothers, Duke of Slesvig Holsten, Stormarn, Ditmarsken, Limessborg and Oldenborg, by writings these make known and publicly declare, that whereas William Carey and Joshua Marshman, Doctors of Divinity, and John Clark Marshman, Esq., inhabitants of our town of Fredericksnagore (or Serampore) in Bengal, being desirous of founding a College to promote piety and learning particularly among the native Christian population of India, have to secure this object erected suitable buildings and purchased and collected suitable books, maps, etc., and have humbly besought us to grant unto them and such persons as shall be elected by them and their successors to form the Council of the College in the manner to be hereafter named, our Royal Charter of Incorporation that they may the more effectually carry into execution the purposes above-mentioned: We, being desirous to encourage so laudable an undertaking, have of our special grace and free motion ordained, constituted, granted and declared, and by the presents We do for ourselves, our heirs and successors ordain, constitute, grant and declare: 1. That the said William Carey, Joshua Marshman and John Clark Marshman, and such other person or persons as shall successively be elected and appointed the Council of the said College, in the manner hereafter mentioned, shall by virtue of the presents be for ever hereafter one body politic and incorporate by the name of the Serampore College for the purposes aforesaid to have perpetual succession and to have a common seal, and by the said name to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, and to answer and be answered unto in every court and place belonging to us, our heirs and successors. 2. And We do hereby ordain, constitute and declare that the persons hereby incorporated and their successors shall for ever be competent in law to purchase, hold and enjoy for them and their successors any goods and chattels whatsoever and to receive, purchase, hold and enjoy, they and their successors, any lands, tenements or hereditaments whatever, and that they shall have full power and authority to sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property to be by them acquired as aforesaid, unless the sale or alienation of such property be specially prohibited by the donor or donors thereof, and to do all things relating to the said College or Corporation in as ample a manner or form as any of our liege subjects, or any other body politic or corporate in our said kingdom or its dependencies may or can do. 3. And We do hereby ordain, grant and declare that the number of Professors, Fellows or Student Tutors and Students, shall be indefinite and that the said William Carey, Joshua Marshman and John Clark Marshman, shall be the first Council of the said College, and that in the event of its appearing to them necessary during their life-time, or in the case of the death of any one of the three members of the said first Council, the survivors or survivor shall and may under their respective hands and seals appoint such other person or persons to be members of the Council of the College, and to succeed each other so as to become Members of the said Council in the order in which they shall be appointed, to the intent that the Council of the said College shall for ever consist of at least three persons. 4. And We do hereby further ordain, grant and declare, that for the better government of the said College, and the better management of its concerns, the said William Carey, Joshua Marshman and John Clark Marshman, the members of the first Council, shall have full power and authority for the space of ten years from the date of these presents, to make and establish such statutes as shall appear to them useful and necessary for the government of the said College, in which statutes they shall define the powers to be entrusted to their successors, to the Professors, the Fellows or Student Tutors and the other Officers thereof, and the duties to be 199
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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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weapons, in winning the first victo
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merchants as well as Arabs from Eas
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lunted the natural shrewdness of th
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“I therefore only observe, respec
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attending him, for exposing himself
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“17th September 1816.--I approve
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held on 14th September, when the co
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educated as the cultivators. Before
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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 176 and 177: Bible as at last tolerated under th
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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
Page 188 and 189: CHAPTER XVI CAREY’S LAST DAYS 183
Page 190 and 191: annual revenues collected for this
Page 192 and 193: the college, and remained, assiduou
Page 194 and 195: might India now have been!” In Se
Page 196 and 197: weather will permit us to expect. I
Page 198 and 199: am Carey to the converts’ burial-
Page 200 and 201: What must have been the feelings on
Page 204 and 205: performed by these respectively for
Page 206 and 207: II.--STATUTES AND REGULATIONS OF SE
Page 208: III.--ARTICLE VI., CLAUSE 2, OF THE
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