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Title: The Life of William Carey

Author: George Smith

Posting Date: January 29, 2009 [EBook #2056]
Release Date: February, 2000

Language: English

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The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary

by

George Smith

PREFACE

On the death of William Carey In 1834 Dr. Joshua Marshman promised to
write the Life of his great colleague, with whom he had held almost
daily converse since the beginning of the century, but he survived too
short a time to begin the work. In 1836 the Rev. Eustace Carey
anticipated him by issuing what is little better than a selection of
mutilated letters and journals made at the request of the Committee of
the Baptist Missionary Society. It contains one passage of value,
however. Dr. Carey once said to his nephew, whose design he seems to
have suspected, "Eustace, if after my removal any one should think it
worth his while to write my Life, I will give you a criterion by which
you may judge of its correctness. If he give me credit for being a
plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too
much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I
owe everything."

In 1859 Mr. John Marshman, after his final return to England, published
The Life and Tim