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for one family, say also what will be sufficient for two small families, so that if Brother Rice, or any other should soon join me, it may not be necessary to bring the subject again under consideration. This sum I will receive under the same regulations as other stations are subject to, and which I heartily approve. And if, on experiment, it be found much too large, I shall be as glad to diminish it, as to have you increase it, if it be found much too small. “Sept. 7.--Since writing the above, we have received the distressing intelligence, that a few days after Mr. Carey left us, and soon after he had reached the brig (which had previously gone into the great river) on the 31st of August, about noon, she was overtaken by a squall of wind, upset, and instantly sunk. Those who could swim, escaped with their lives merely, and those who could not, perished. Among the saved, were Mr. Carey and most of the Bengalees. Mrs. Carey, the two children, her women and girls, and several men--in all, ten persons, perished. Every article of property had been transferred from the boats to the vessel, and she had just left the place, where she had been long waiting the arrival of Mr. Carey, and had been under sail about three hours. Several boats were not far distant; the gold-boat was within sight, but so instantaneous was the disaster, that not a single thing was saved. Some attempts were made by the lascars to save Mrs. Carey and William, but they were unsuccessful. Mr. Carey staid on the shore through the following night; a neighbouring governor sent him clothes and money; and the next morning he took the gold-boat, and proceeded up the river. A large boat, on which were several servants, men and women, beside those that were in the vessel, followed the gold-boat. The jolly boat has returned here, bringing the surviving lascars. “The dreadful situation to which our poor brother was thus reduced in a moment, from the height of prosperity, fills our minds continually with the greatest distress. We are utterly unable to afford him the least relief, and can only pray that this awful dispensation may prove a paternal chastisement from his Heavenly Father, and be sanctified to his soul.” While Judson wrote to Serampore, which he once again visited, leaving the dust of a child in the mission burial-ground, “I am glad to hear you say that you will not abandon this mission,” Carey pressed on to the “regions beyond.” Judson lived till 1850 to found a church and to prepare a Burmese dictionary, grammar, and translation of the Bible so perfect that revision has hardly been necessary up to the present day. He and Hough, a printer who joined him, formed themselves into a brotherhood on the same self-denying principles as that of Serampore, whom they besought to send them frequent communications to counsel, strengthen, and encourage them. On 28th September 1814 Judson again wrote to Carey from Rangoon: “DEAR BROTHER CAREY--If copies of Colebrooke’s Sungskrita Dictionary, and your Sungskrita Grammar are not too scarce, I earnestly request a copy of each. I find it will be absolutely necessary for me to pick up a little of the Pali, chiefly on account of many theological terms, which have been incorporated from that language into the Burman. I have found a dictionary, which I suppose is the same as that which Mr. Colebrooke translated, adapted to the Burman system. This I intend to read. I want also Leyden’s Vocabulary, and a copy or two of your son’s grammar, when it is completed. I gave your son on his going up to Ava, my copy of Campbell’s Gospels, together with several other books, all of which are now lost. The former I chiefly regret, and know not whence I can procure another copy. “There is a vessel now lying here, which is destined to take round an Ambassador from this Government to Bengal. He expects to go in about a month, as he told me. He is now waiting for final instructions from Ava. If Felix be really to be sent to Bengal again, I think it most probable that he will be ordered to accompany this ambassador. 80
“Mrs. J. was on the point of taking passage with Captain Hitchins, to obtain some medical advice in Bengal; but she has been a little better for a few days, and has given up the plan for the present. This is a delightful climate. We have now seen all the seasons, and can therefore judge. The hot weather in March and April is the chief exception. Nature has done everything for this country; and the Government is very indulgent to all foreigners. When we see how we are distinguished above all around, even in point of worldly comforts, we feel that we want gratitude. O that we may be faithful in the improvement of every mercy, and patient under every trial which God may have in store for us. We know not how the Gospel can ever be introduced here: everything, in this respect, appears as dark as midnight.” By 1816 Judson had prepared the Gospel of Matthew in Burmese, following up short tracts “accommodated to the optics of a Burman.” Carey’s third son Jabez was clerk to a Calcutta attorney at the time, in 1812, when Dr. Ryland preached in the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, the anniversary sermon on the occasion of the removal of the headquarters of the Society to London. Pausing in the midst of his discourse, after a reference to Carey, the preacher called on the vast congregation silently to pray for the conversion of Jabez Carey. The answer came next year in a letter from his father: “My son Jabez, who has been articled to an attorney, and has the fairest prospects as to this world, is become decidedly religious, and prefers the work of the Lord to every other.” Lord Minto’s expeditions of 1810 and 1811 had captured the islands swept by the French privateers from Madagascar to Java, and there was soon an end of the active hostility of the authorities to Christianity. Sir Stamford Raffles governed Java in the spirit of a Christian statesman. The new Governor-General, Lord Moira, afterwards Marquis of Hastings, proved to be the most enlightened and powerful friend the mission had had. In these circumstances, after the charter of 1813 had removed the legislative excuse for intolerance, Dr. Carey was asked by the Lieutenant-Governor to send missionaries and Malay Bibles to the fifty thousand natives of Amboyna. The Governor-General repeated the request officially. Jabez Carey was baptised, married, and despatched at the cost of the state before he could be ordained. Amboyna, it will be perceived, was not in India, but far enough away to give the still timid Company little apprehension as to the influence of the missionaries there. The father’s heart was very full when he sent forth the son: “24th January 1814.--You are now engaging in a most important undertaking, in which not only you will have our prayers for your success, but those of all who love our Lord Jesus Christ, and who know of your engagement. I know that a few hints for your future conduct from a parent who loves you very tenderly will be acceptable, and I shall therefore now give you them, assured that they will not be given in vain. “1st. Pay the utmost attention at all times to the state of your own mind both towards God and man: cultivate an intimate acquaintance with your own heart; labour to obtain a deep sense of your depravity and to trust always in Christ; be pure in heart, and meditate much upon the pure and holy character of God; live a life of prayer and devotedness to God; cherish every amiable and right disposition towards men; be mild, gentle, and unassuming, yet firm and manly. As soon as you perceive anything wrong in your spirit or behaviour set about correcting it, and never suppose yourself so perfect as to need no correction. “2nd. You are now a married man, be not satisfied with conducting yourself towards your wife with propriety, but let love to her be the spring of your conduct towards her. Esteem her highly, and so act that she may be induced thereby to esteem you highly. The first impressions of love arising from form and beauty will soon wear off, but the esteem arising from excellency of disposition and substance of character will endure and increase. Her honour is now yours, and she 81
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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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Page 36 and 37: We can now see that, as usual, both
Page 38 and 39: with letters; the washing is done b
Page 40 and 41: Warren Hastings Hindoo Christians h
Page 42 and 43: and is still in good order. There t
Page 44 and 45: Bengali sounds. It is a language of
Page 46 and 47: came incarnate, under the threefold
Page 48 and 49: “Sometimes I enjoyed sweet season
Page 50 and 51: will do well to associate as much a
Page 52 and 53: efore magistrates and judges; and w
Page 54 and 55: time meant the distillation of rum.
Page 56 and 57: land, America, Germany, and France,
Page 58 and 59: ies, rightly trusting to Danish pro
Page 60 and 61: efore sent missionaries to Tranqueb
Page 62 and 63: other; brother Carey is treasurer,
Page 64 and 65: CHAPTER VI THE FIRST NATIVE CONVERT
Page 66 and 67: whom, thirty years after, Macaulay
Page 68 and 69: hammedan convert was Peroo, another
Page 70 and 71: not join them occupied the missiona
Page 72 and 73: as one of the “great things” fr
Page 74 and 75: While the Marshmans gave their time
Page 76 and 77: CHAPTER VII CALCUTTA AND THE MISSIO
Page 78 and 79: “The number of inquirers constant
Page 80 and 81: on probation, there were five survi
Page 82 and 83: chapters of Matthew are translated
Page 86 and 87: cannot be insulted without your bei
Page 88 and 89: CHAPTER VIII CAREY’S FAMILY AND F
Page 90 and 91: “MY DEAREST LOVE,--I felt very mu
Page 92 and 93: “A mission into Siam would be com
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Page 96 and 97: constant and familiar converse with
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Page 100 and 101: than be accessory to a misunderstan
Page 102 and 103: CHAPTER IX PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT, B
Page 104 and 105: Bhagavat-Geeta or Dialogue of Krish
Page 106 and 107: When Carey and his colleagues were
Page 108 and 109: The seventy students, their governo
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Page 114 and 115: CHAPTER X THE WYCLIF OF THE EAST--B
Page 116 and 117: colleagues accomplished, that which
Page 118 and 119: Sir Charles Wilkins, the Caxton of
Page 120 and 121: cape of the Peninsula to Benares).
Page 122 and 123: eady, 500 copies of it were struck
Page 124 and 125: of the valley of the Brahmapootra.
Page 126 and 127: Lahore “the book of Jesus is spok
Page 128 and 129: the Serampore fire. I could scarcel
Page 130 and 131: CHAPTER XI WHAT CAREY DID FOR LITER
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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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At a time when the English and even
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of the Society. He concluded his ad
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It was by this means that Carey edu
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sion spirit directly gave birth to
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ings for promoting Christianity, wi
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tion the Governor-General yielded t
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thus expressed in a letter to Franc
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1812 the Committee had been increas
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property, or thirty-two letters ran
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men as theirs differ from one anoth
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we may edify one another may abound
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CHAPTER XIV CAREY AS AN EDUCATOR--T
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Bible as at last tolerated under th
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and the Brotherhood, to confer degr
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manner all the points of difference
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In 1826 Carey, finding that his fav
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Dr. Carey’s last report, at the c
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ence, representing all the Protesta
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CHAPTER XVI CAREY’S LAST DAYS 183
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annual revenues collected for this
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the college, and remained, assiduou
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might India now have been!” In Se
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weather will permit us to expect. I
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am Carey to the converts’ burial-
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What must have been the feelings on
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its own people and to half the huma
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performed by these respectively for
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II.--STATUTES AND REGULATIONS OF SE
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III.--ARTICLE VI., CLAUSE 2, OF THE
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