Suave Cornell Universit H 4 iT OLIN LIBRARY-“?" CULATION” sia ATE DUE CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ITHACA, N. Y. 14853 John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia JOHN M. OLIN LIBRARY ‘Ob% pue | seBed eos—y379GG00 GILVYDISNOD SHL Coe oe ny BAPTIST MISSIONS IN FOREIGN LANDS, FROM THE TIME OF GAREY TO THE PRESENT DATE, By REV. G. WINFRED HERVEY, M.A. . With an Introduction By REV. A. H. BURLINGHAM, D. D. ST. LOUIS: CHancy R. BARNS. 1884. WAS oN BV 2520 et | 884 COPYRIGHT.: CHANCY R. BARNS, 1882. COPYRIGHT. CHANCY R. BARNS, 1884. All Rights Reserved. PREFACE. The want of a history of our foreign missions has of late been felt, and occasionally expressed. In attempting to supply this .want we have made the work as comprehensive as possible, including all Baptist foreign missions, as well British as Ameri- can, and embracing every period, from the earliest date to the present time. The more recent operations here described are, for the most part, of great general interest, but it is now too soon to-form a just estimate of their historical value. “Truth is the daughter of Time.” We have thought best to consult the wants of the many rather than of the few. And hence incidents which may be regarded as beneath the dignity of history find a welcome place in the simple and familiar annals of our own missionaries. Still, the most advanced student of missions will perhaps observe that we have not refused to solve any difficult problem or to answer any living question that belongs to our subject. Any history of this kind, we are well aware, is exposed to the charge of narrowness of views, and especially of making too much of baptism. This ordinance, we shall again be told, is only aform. Yes, it is a form, and so is the pond lily: it ap- pears to be a flower that lives and floats on the surface of the water; but its stem and roots lay hold on the soil berieath, on vast telluric influences and on the mysterious life of the whole vegetable world. In like manner, as this volume abundantly proves, true baptism is vitally and fixedly counected with the power of Christ’s resurrection, with universal obedience, the Great Commission and the conversion of all nations. iv PREFACE. But while the writer is required to limit his survey to Baptist foreign missions, he is not blind to the achievements of mission- aries of other names. So far from it, he has derived strength and courage from the thought that, however humble his own services, he nevertheless belongs to that great army of mission- aries whose conquests and triumphs the morning ever sees in advance, as she runs her career around the world. Our grateful acknowledgments are due to E. B. Underhill, Esq., LL. D., Honorary Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, of London; to A. H. Baynes, Esq., LL. D., General Secretary of the same society; to the Rev. J. N. Murdock, D. D., Corresponding Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, of Boston; to the Rev. H. A. Tupper, D. D., author of the admirable History of the Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention and Corresponding Secretary of the foreign work of the Convention; to Professor William Gammell, the elegant author of the History of the earlier periods of the Bap- tist foreign missions; and to the Rev. S. F. Smith, D. D., whose missionary letters and sketches shine with the poet’s supernal light. To the published writings of all the authors above named, we are indebted for valuable historic and biographical materials. Our grateful regards are likewise due to the Rev. C. H. Carpenter, D. D., author of “Self-Help in Bassein,” to Rev. H. W. Pierson, author of the now very rare ‘“‘ American Mission- ary Memorial,” and to several others, for valuable engravings copied into this volume. Our prayer is that many of our readers, who are now perhaps plucking wayside flowers, may lift up their eyes and look on the ripe harvest-fields which are to-day brought near them, enter and reap, receive wages and gather fruit unto life eternal. G. W. H. CONTENTS. Page NRO OW, damatunintee dex seus Suite wacmereietn glues Ae hc xiii I. WILLIAM CAREY AND THE MISSION IN HINDUSTAN, i Il. PLANTING THE ACORN, ....-...cscscscecceccercceceees 6 Il. THE GROWTH OF CAREY'S MISSION,......0..s0see0es is IV. DEBATES AND VICTORIES,..........sccecccececeseceees 21 V. VICISSITUDES OF MISSIONARY LIFE,.......0..0.0s005 Q7 Vi. THE WORK IN ENGLAND) +. 0:10