The Life and Times of Carey, Marshman, and Ward: Embracing the History of the Serampore Mission, Bind 1

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Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1859
 

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Side 15 - of the Baptist Mission in India. He took for his text the passage in Isaiah liv. 2, 3: — "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations : spare not, lengthen thy cords,
Side 129 - English is supposed to confer. In a letter written about this time to the Society in England, the missionaries say : "Commerce has raised new thoughts and awakened new energies, so that hundreds, if we could skilfully teach them gratis, would crowd to learn the English language. We
Side 226 - brethren to usefulness, fostering every kind of genius, and cherishing every gift and grace in them ; in this respect, we can scarcely be too lavish of our attention to their improvement.It is only by means of native preachers we can hope for the universal spread of the Gospel through this immense continent. Europeans are too few, and their subsistence costs too much,
Side 379 - at the door of our College, though not admitted to its portico, to force that hitherto impregnable fortress, the Chinese language. The means, we all know, that, in the present circumstances, can be employed in that difficult undertaking, are very inconsiderable. The honour is so much the greater to those, whose
Side 462 - considerable progress in the compilation of an Orissa grammar. He had also commenced the printing of a Bengalee dictionary, which eventually extended to three quarto volumes, and he had been for some time collecting materials for a Universal Dictionary of the Oriental languages derived from the Sanscrit, with the corresponding words in Greek and Hebrew. He had likewise finished
Side 242 - emphasis than usual, and there is reason to believe with more than ordinary sincerity . " As to my returning in order to receive episcopal dignity, my soul sinks at the thought of it. I trust my lines will rather be cast in a curacy. Place the mitre on any head. Never fear; it will
Side 76 - in the neighbourhood of Malda, after the model of the Moravians. " We ought," says he, " to be seven or eight families together; and it is absolutely necessary for the wives of the missionaries to be as hearty in the work as their husbands;
Side 18 - to spread abroad the knowledge of the gospel among barbarous and heathen nations seemed to him highly preposterous, inasmuch as it anticipates, nay, reverses the order of nature. Men must be polished
Side 6 - on him for eighteen months. While in this enfeebled state, he was frequently obliged to travel from place to place to dispose of his goods to procure bread. The church and congregation at Barton were not able to raise enough to pay for the clothes worn out in their service.
Side 13 - Church. degree, soon rendered him respected not only by those who attended his ministry, but by many other persons of learning and opulence." These ministerial labours and this success, however, never for a moment relaxed Mr. Carey's ardour for the great missionary object on which his thoughts ! and affections were now fixed. The

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