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 THE REV. WILLIAM CAREY, D. D, 
 
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EDINBURGH; 
 
 Printed by A. Balfour and Co. Niddry Street. 
 
TO 
 
 THESERAMPORE BRETHREN 
 
 INDIVIDUALLY, 
 
 AND IN MEMORY OF THE 
 
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 THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE 
 
 IS INSCRIBED, 
 
 BY THEIR FRIEND AND BROTHER, 
 
 IN TOKEN OF HIS 
 
 LONG, UNBROKEN, AND INCREASED ATTACHMENT, 
 
 1 Corinthians xv. 58. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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ADVERTISEMENT, 
 
 Though almost the whole of this discourse was delivered on the evening 
 specified, yet as within the period usually allowed for worship, there was 
 not time to illustrate several points in the character of Dr. Carey, ad van- 
 tage has been taken, when extending the following pages for the press, to 
 supply the deficiency. 
 
 Written out as it has been within a few days, to mark our sense of his 
 value who has now gone to the church above, it must of necessity be re¬ 
 garded as merely an outline, and therefore does not supersede, in any de¬ 
 gree, what the Christian public in this case are entitled to expect,—a full 
 and authentic memoir. Dr. Carey’s life, abroad, no one at home is com¬ 
 petent to write ; but as soon as that arrives, whatever is wanting in his 
 early history, as well as in his correspondence with Fuller, SutclifF, and 
 Ryland, or in Fuller’s with him, can be easily supplied. This will form 
 the authentic “ Memoir of his life and labours.” 
 
 Meanwhile the following outline is submitted to the friends of the Se- 
 rampore Mission, whether in Britain or Ireland, and whatever profits may 
 arise from the sale of this, or of any following edition, will be devoted towards 
 one object which Dr. Carey had so deeply at heart, throughout more than 
 forty years of his life, viz. the printing of the Sacred Scriptures in the lan¬ 
 guages of India. 
 
 Edinburgh, 2d December, 1834. 
 
 Before proceeding farther, it may be as well to state the following 
 
 particulars, in succession. 
 
 Dr. Carey was born at Hackleton, Leicestershire, on the 17th August . . 1761 
 
 — brought to the knowledge of the truth, about the year • . . 177.9 
 
 — joined the church at Olney, Bucks, under Mr. Sutcliff, at the close of , 1783 
 
 — called to the work of the ministry by that church . . . . 1785 
 
 — came to Moulton, a village, four miles from Northampton . . . 178G 
 
 — ordained pastor over the infant church there ... * 1787 
 
 — removed to Leicester, in the month of July ... . . 1789 
 
 — ordained pastor over the church in Harvey Lane, there, in May . . 1791 
 
 — embarked for India, in a Danish East Indiaman, on the 13th June . . 1793 
 
 — arrived at Balasore, the 7th; on shore the 10th ; and at Calcutta 12th November 1703 
 
 — went up the country to Madnabatty, near Malda .... 1794 
 
 — removed and settled down at Serampore, on the 10th of January . . . 1800 
 
 — the New Testament in Bengalee finished at press, 7th February . . 1801 
 
 — received his appointment in the college of Fort William, in April 
 
 — died about half past five o’clock, on the morning of Monday, the 9th June . 1834 
 
 — interred at five o’clock, the following morning, in the Mission burying-grouml, 
 being within two months and a week of completing his 73d year. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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A DISCOURSE. 
 
 ISAIAH LI. 2, 3. 
 
 <* I called him alone , and blessed him, and increased him; For the 
 Lord shall comfort Zion ; he will comfort all her waste places ; and 
 he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the gar¬ 
 den of the Lord ; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanks¬ 
 giving, and the voice of melody .” 
 
 Although these words were probably first written for the 
 Jews, to revive their drooping spirits when they should go 
 into captivity, and though X have no doubt that they will one 
 day cheer the remnant that must yet return ; still, it is not to be 
 overlooked, that they form a part of a standing record, and 
 are equally addressed, in every age, to all those who 44 follow 
 after righteousness and seek the Lord . 11 
 
 But if these words be equally intended to encourage the 
 Gentile church, Zion, in her estimation, is a term of vast 
 import, since the world itself is the land of promise, and that 
 as certainly as Canaan was to the Jew. 
 
 The Lord, therefore, has not, in any age, concealed from 
 his own people the origin of the church, or the manner of his 
 procedure in the days of old, but, on the contrary, for their en¬ 
 couragement and instruction, calls upon them to look to both. 
 
 The truth is, that the works of the Lord arc great, but 
 thev are not on this account, like some other things that are 
 great, apparent to all. On the contrary they must he sought 
 out , and they are so, by all those who have pleasure in them. 
 This pleasure too is of a heavenly nature. To sec effects in 
 their causes, and all causes in God, constitutes the highest 
 ecstacy of intelligent beings—while ever and anon they re- 
 
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 OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 sponsively cry, u O the depth, and the riches, both of the 
 wisdom and knowledge of Cfod ! how unsearchable are his 
 judgments, and his ways past finding out !—for of Him, and 
 through Him, and to Him are all things : to whom be glory 
 tor ever. 
 
 Mere mental delight, however, is not the only object which 
 God has in view, when desiring us to look to the origin of his 
 working. It is intended that we should profit by the con¬ 
 templation. It is not merely to see what great things arise 
 from small beginnings, or that they fetch a compass, in some 
 degree corresponding to their magnitude, though all this be 
 fraught with instruction, but because he has connected the 
 beginning with the end, in such a way as to promote that end. 
 Thus, for example, if the Lord has determined that at last he 
 will comfort Zion, in the largest sense of the term, making 
 her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of 
 the Lord,'’ it is because all this began to be, in the Divine 
 mind, long ago, and the security for it will be found, in his 
 original dealings with the father of the faithful. “ Look to 
 Abraham—I called him alone, and blessed him, and in¬ 
 creased him, for—-the Lord will comfort Zion.” 
 
 To some minds, however, I am perfectly aware, the appli¬ 
 cation of such a passage as this, on the present occasion, refer¬ 
 ring to a character so high as that of Abraham, may appear 
 forced and unnatural ; but to those who know how to apply 
 and improve the historical allusions in Scripture, as well as 
 its doctrinal and preceptive parts, it will not so appear. 
 Analogy, they know to be a resemblance in some circum¬ 
 stances, though not in all ; and they know also that, more 
 especially from the days of Abraham, there is a beautiful 
 analogy in the dealings of God with all his people from the 
 highest to the lowest, while with regard to his eminent servants 
 this is most apparent. Besides, shall the deliverance of Lot 
 out of Sodom be adduced as a proof that “ the Lord knoweth 
 how to deliver the godly out of temptation or the promise 
 given to Joshua, the captain of the Lord’s host, be quoted as 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
 a security that the Lord will never leave nor forsake any of 
 his children ; and shall the calling of Abraham and its con¬ 
 sequences not be improved, when God is pleased once more to 
 proceed after a similar manner, though upon an inferior scale ? 
 
 After all, however, I have selected this passage chiefly for 
 two reasons. The first is, that in the earlier stages of Carey’s 
 exertions in India, when the feeling of loneliness was extreme 
 and deeply felt, these simple yet sublime words came with 
 great force to his mind, and proved the source of solid comfort. 
 44 It has been a great consolation to me,” said he, 44 that 
 Abraham w T as a/o-ie, when God called him.” And again, 
 fourteen years after his arrival in India ; 44 We have no secu¬ 
 rity but in God. I feel a confidence, however, in Him, espe¬ 
 cially as it respects the concerns of his church. The example 
 of his increasing Abraham, who was alone when God called 
 him, and this being held up to encourage the hope that he 
 will comfort, repair, beautify, and fill his church with glad¬ 
 ness, is a support to me.” 
 
 I confess, too, that great though the example of Abraham 
 be, as well as that of other eminent characters in Scripture ; 
 in God’s providential and gracious procedure towards this his 
 servant, even in our own day, there seem, to my mind, several 
 lines of resemblance, which, on such an occasion as this, 
 ouoht on no account to pass unheeded. 
 
 Keeping the passage which I have read, therefore, in view 
 throughout, I may remark in general, that when the God of 
 heaven intends mercy to a multitude, there are several leading 
 features by which his course has been distinguished, and you 
 will now be able to judge for yourselves, whether they are 
 apparent in the present instance. 
 
 I. Only a single individual is chosen , and generally from 
 a slate of great obscurity. 
 
 I called Abraham alone , and I blessed him and increased him 
 
 _f or the Lord will comfort Zion. In all the great things which 
 
 God has done for his cause and kingdom this is apparent, so 
 
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 that if we look back, through all ages, we never find him com¬ 
 mencing with a crowd or even with a few, while the number of 
 individuals on the whole is so small, that one is astonished. 
 
 When he was about to begin the world again, and the end- 
 of all flesh came before him, then it was Noah alone who 
 found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Intending, in our own 
 day, to justify the heathen through faith, he preached before 
 the gospel unto Abraham, saying, 44 In thee and in thy seed 
 shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” When the 
 church was to be preserved, then he sent only Joseph before 
 it, long before he was Lord of all Egypt, able to bind the 
 Egyptian princes at his pleasure, and teach her senators wis¬ 
 dom. When another king arose that knew not Joseph, this 
 people were sunk down to the lowest ebb in Egypt , 44 at which 
 time, 1 ’ says the first martyr, 44 Moses was born.” When they 
 were to be established as a kingdom, he 44 found David, the 
 son of Jesse, a man according to his own heart, who should 
 fulfil all his will.” Were this people afterwards dispersed 
 among the heathen ? then Daniel is found, and made prime 
 minister, through successive reigns, of the greatest monarchy 
 on earth. If the temple-worship is to be restored, he fixes 
 only on a single scribe, or a single priest ; and if the walls of 
 Jerusalem are to be rebuilt, one of the king’s cupbearers be¬ 
 comes the single and leading instrument. The Saviour of 
 the world, it may be said, chose twelve apostles, but then, it 
 should be remembered, that he called them one by one; and 
 when he looked at the world at large—the nations of the 
 earth—or all the other sheep who were not of Jewish extrac¬ 
 tion, then, from heaven above, he fixed upon only 44 a certain 
 young man, whose name was Saul.” 
 
 Now, if the grace of God was displayed in selecting only 
 one man to begin with, it is not less to be admired, in the 
 obscurity of his origin. What w T as Abraham before he was 
 called ? Nothing more than the son of an idolater beyond 
 the flood ; and even his grandson Jacob ?— 44 a Syrian ready 
 to perish, who went down into Egypt to sojourn there.” 
 Joseph was sent before, indeed, but he had first been sold for a 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
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 slave, and Moses was but the child of parents in a state of 
 bondage. David when anointed was but a shepherd lad. (( I 
 took thee,” said the Lord of hosts, “ from the sheepcote, even 
 from following the sheep, that thou shouldst be ruler over my 
 people Israel—and I have made thee a name like the name 
 of the great men that are in the earth.” As for Daniel and 
 the three individuals whom God employed to restore Jerusa¬ 
 lem, what were they but four Jewish captives ? The apostles 
 were all men of the humblest origin ; and though Paul hap¬ 
 pened to be a Roman citizen, what was he, when called, but 
 the mere hireling of the Jewish priests ? Even then, as if 
 this would not suffice, he must pass for three years into the 
 depth of obscurity in Arabia. 
 
 Now, if the grace and condescension of God are to be ad¬ 
 mired in choosing such instruments as these to begin his great 
 works, is it not now to be observed by us, in hissending Carey 
 to the Eastern World ? He also, emphatically, was called 
 alone , and raised from a state of the greatest obscurity. 
 
 Trivial and very incidental circumstances contribute to¬ 
 wards the first impressions upon every mind preparing by 
 God for any great work; but upon these, at present, I need 
 not dwell, for it is now established that for even years together, 
 Carey had no one who could fully sympathise with his load¬ 
 ed mind; and that he was thus, as it afterwards appeared, 
 66 called alone,” no men were so forward to confess as those 
 who finally associated with him.* In conversation with his 
 
 * This impression of mind also, it must not be forgotten, was cherished 
 and grew amidst a singular conflict respecting the duty of all to whom the 
 gospel is proclaimed, to believe it! while senior ministers were saying— 
 “ the time is not come ; the time that the Lord’s house should be built j” 
 and those in younger years—“ there is more than enough to do at home.” 
 As early as 1784, indeed, the minds of Fuller, Sutcliff and Ryland were 
 perplexed about the path of duty, but Carey, says the first of these, “ with¬ 
 out reading any thing material on Christian doctrine, besides the scriptures, 
 had formed his own system.” His mind was even then bent on action, so 
 that when Fuller in 1780 published on “ the gospel worthy of all accepta¬ 
 tion ”—then said Carey—“ If it be the duty of all men, where the gospel 
 
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 pastor at Olney, Mr. Sutcliff, whose memory I revere, and 
 with whom I then lived, I have seen him dwell upon this 
 subject till he was overcome to weakness.* <6 I believe,” 
 said Dr. Ryland, u that God himself infused into the mind 
 of Carey that solicitude for the salvation of the heathen, which 
 cannot fairly be traced to any other source ;” and when even 
 Fuller heard him disclose his ideas, he confessed that he had 
 at Jirst some feelings like those of the desponding nobleman, 
 in 2 Kings, when he answered the man of God, and said, 
 tc Behold if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might 
 this thing be.” 
 
 “ The mission, therefore, that was afterwards projected to 
 India, originated,” says Dr. Ryland, 66 absolutely with Carey;” 
 “ its origin,” says Mr. Fuller, u may be found in the work¬ 
 ings of his mind, which for nine or ten years had been 
 directed to this object with very little intermission ;” and this 
 carries us back to the year 1782-3. 
 
 The obscurity of the man,—the young man whose mind 
 was thus so long and so deeply affected, was extreme. Thus, 
 when the Lord intended to raise up an instrument for convey¬ 
 ing his blessed word to the nations of the East, and proclaim- 
 
 comes, to believe unto salvation, then it is the duty of those who are in¬ 
 trusted with the gospel, to endeavour to make it known among all nations 
 for the obedience of faith.” 
 
 * This was in the summer of 1805. It was upon Mr. Sutcliff’s sug¬ 
 gestion that certain ministers at Nottingham, in June 1784, agreed to 
 spend an hour, on the evening of the first Monday in every month, in social 
 prayer, for the revival of religion and the success of the gospel, the practice 
 which has since extended to every part of the kingdom. Carey, however, 
 when at Leicester, had an additional meeting of a similar character, and in 
 order to meet the convenience of his country members, it was fixed to be 
 held on market-day; and this it was that contributed to the fine spirit they 
 discovered when he offered himself to go to the heathen world. “ No,” 
 said they, “you shall not go ,—we will send you ; we have been long calling 
 upon God, and He now calls upon us to make the first sacrifice.” Thus, 
 in leaving an affectionate church, which had doubled its number under his 
 ministry, and for which he in return entertained the tenderest regard, Carey, 
 among missionaries, perhaps still stands alone. 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
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 ing to them the unsearchable riches of Christ, He went to none 
 of our cities or towns of celebrity—to not one of our Univer¬ 
 sities, or as they are styled, £C seats of learning,”—but to an 
 obscure village in Leicestershire, where, in the midst of a 
 poor family, he found a youth then struggling for his support, 
 and earning, by hard labour, but a scanty subsistence. All 
 this occurred at Hackleton, before he came to reside at Moul¬ 
 ton, a village four miles distant from Northampton. Even 
 there his whole income being much below L.20 a-year, he 
 taught a village school for his support. And here we cannot 
 but admire by what slender means, He, who has all power in 
 earth as well as heaven, can stamp the deepest impressions on 
 the human mind. Among other branches, when instructing 
 some of the village children in geography, of which he was 
 very fond, he had resolved to inform them, as he pointed out 
 the different countries on the map or the globe, the religion 
 professed by each of them in succession. Going over this, as 
 he had to do again and again, saying— 44 These are Christi¬ 
 ans, and these are Mahometans, and these are Pagans, and 
 these are Pagans , and these are Pagans —it occurred to 
 him, 44 I am now telling these children as a mere fact, that 
 which is a truth of the most melancholy character.” Here 
 therefore it was, with little or no encouragement from without, 
 that he sat down and penned his 44 Inquiry into the Obliga¬ 
 tions of Christians to use means for the Conversion of the 
 Heathens which was, however, not published till the be¬ 
 ginning of the year 1792.* 
 
 * Owing to Lis own innate modesty, combined with poverty, this could 
 not appear sooner. When on a visit to Birmingham, before this period, a 
 friend urged him to write and print, offering to give ten pounds towards 
 paying the printer. “ On his return,” says Dr. Ryland, “ he met Fuller 
 and Sutcliff in my study at Northampton, and there pressed one of us to 
 publish on the subject. We approved much of what he urged, but made 
 some objections, on the ground of so much needing to be done at home , &c. 
 However, when he could not prevail on any of us to promise to undertake 
 the work, he said, he must tell the whole truth; that in the warmth of 
 conversation at Birmingham, he had said, that he was resolved to do all in 
 
 his power to set on foot a mission. “ Well,” said his friend, “ print upon 
 
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 II. In the individual thus selected , the greatness of mind or 
 character being given by God , it may be seen from the very 
 first, as well as in future life , and it rises into notice , not by 
 any personal effort, much less by ambition. 
 
 This observation will appear in all its force, if applied to 
 Abraham, when at the very first he came out by faith from 
 his father’s house, and went out, 6t not knowing whither he 
 wentor at the door of his tent, long before Isaac was born, 
 when directed toward the stars of heaven, he believed, accord¬ 
 ing to that which was spoken , u so shall thy seed be.” It 
 appears in Joseph’s character, whether in Potiphar’s house, or 
 grinding in the prison, long before his being arrayed in ves¬ 
 tures of fine linen, with a gold chain about his neck, when 
 Pharaoh said, 66 only in the throne shall I be greater than 
 thou.” This greatness of character, of which faith in God is 
 the cause, was as conspicuous in the words of David, when, 
 but a stripling, he came out to fight with Goliah of Gath : 
 nor less so in Daniel, when on the way to promotion, he pur¬ 
 posed in his heart and implored the prince, that he might not 
 defile himself with the king’s meat, nor with the wine that 
 he drank. 
 
 Now that compass of mind, mercifully imparted to our de¬ 
 parted friend and brother, long before the time in which he 
 impressed the minds of other men with his views, ought not 
 now to pass unnoticed. While he was yet only ministering 
 
 the subject, I will help to bear the expense.” That, he replied, he could 
 not do. “ If you cannot do it as you wish, do it as well as you can,” said 
 his friend; “ you have just now bound yourself to do all you can for this 
 purpose, and I must keep you to your word.” Being thus caught through 
 his own zeal, he could get off in no other way than by promising that he 
 would write, if he could not prevail on any one more competent to under¬ 
 take it. We then all united in saying, “Do by all means write your 
 thoughts down as soon as you can; but be not in a hurry to print them ! 
 let us look over them and see if any thing need to be omitted, altered or 
 added!” I need scarcely add, that they found his “ Inquiry” needed very 
 little correction. 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
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 the word of life to a small village church, or turning round 
 the globe before these village children, in faith and heaviness 
 he roamed over the world itself. To look back on the ideas 
 which he then entertained, we are happily able to do even 
 now. They present a lesson at once interesting and instruc¬ 
 tive, and the more so, because it is now apparent that they 
 were not merely ideas or sentiments floating in the brain, but 
 conscientious principles deeply seated in his mind. 
 
 It seems as though it had been the commission of our 
 blessed Lord to his apostles, which, of itself alone, set all in 
 motion. He had said Go—Go and teach all nations , and 
 again, Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every 
 creature. The extent of this commission was manifest, 
 and though, perhaps, scarcely a single individual upon earth 
 at the moment arrogated less to himself than Carey, the obli¬ 
 gation was felt by him to be hnperative. He sat down— 
 patiently examined into all that had been accomplished, 
 first by the apostles themselves, and then by others down to 
 his own day ; and after this took a minute survey of the exist¬ 
 ing state of the world. Dividing it into the four quarters of 
 Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, he ascertained as exact¬ 
 ly as he could the extent of every country, the number of its 
 inhabitants, and their religion. At the conclusion, his esti¬ 
 mate was this—That there were then living in the world 
 about seven hundred and thirty-one millions of human beings, 
 —-of these he calculated that seven millions were Jews ; thirty 
 millions belonging to the Greek and Armenian churches; 
 forty-four millions were Protestant Christians; one hundred 
 millions Roman Catholics; one hundred and thirty millions 
 Mahometans ; and therefore, four hundred and twenty mil¬ 
 lions still in Pagan darkness. An estimate as we now know 
 to have been below the truth. 
 
 Of the heathen he entertained no desponding idea ; they 
 appeared to him as capable of receiving knowledge as our¬ 
 selves, having in many places discovered uncommon genius ; 
 in others, a tractable disposition ; but his conceptions of other 
 parties were at once just and depressing. The vices of the 
 
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 Europeans had been conveyed to the heathen, and had sunk 
 them lower still—the Christians of the Greek and Armenian 
 churches were more vicious than the Mahometans themselves 
 —the Georgian Christians, near the Caspian, maintained 
 themselves by selling their neighbours and relations, and 
 even their children, for slaves to the Turks and Persians—the 
 members of the Greek church were extremely ignorant, and 
 Papists in general almost as much so, and very vicious. 
 44 Nor,” said he, 44 do the bulk of the Church of England 
 much exceed them, and many errors and much looseness of 
 conduct are to be found amongst dissenters of all denomina¬ 
 tions. The Lutherans in Denmark are much on a par with 
 the ecclesiastics of England, and the face of most Christian 
 countries presents a dreadful scene of ignorance, hypocrisy, and 
 profligacy. Various baneful and pernicious errors appear to 
 gain ground in almost every part of Christendom ; the truths 
 of the gospel, and even the gospel itself, are attacked, and 
 every method that the enemy can invent is employed to un¬ 
 dermine the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Such was the state of things, in our world, according to 
 Carey's estimation—and with this general, though gloomy 
 outline, every dispassionate and intelligent Christian will 
 agree, when he is reminded that the picture was drawn be¬ 
 tween the years 1785 and 1791 ; and, therefore, years before 
 the existence of any Missionary efforts in this country; when 
 the church at large lay in a state of sad repose. 
 
 Turning, however, again to the heathen world ; there were 
 impediments in the way. Their distance from our shores— 
 their barbarity —the danger of being killed —the difficulty of 
 subsistence , and their language was unknown 1 But before 
 his spirit, these mountains were but a plain. 
 
 If dista?ice were talked of, he literally fixed his eye on the 
 mariner's compass, or on the ships that had gone out on 
 voyages of discovery, but above all on such passages of the 
 Divine word as this, 44 Surely the isles shall wait for me , and the 
 ships of Tarshish first , to bring my sons from far, their silver 
 and their gold with them , unto the name of the Lord thy God” 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
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 Oomftieree, he believed, would subserve the spread of the 
 gospel, and that there would be a very considerable appropri¬ 
 ation of wealth to that purpose. 
 
 As to the barbarity of the heathen—This he thought 
 could be an objection only to those whose love of ease render¬ 
 ed them unwilling. This was no objection to the apostles, 
 nor, in modern times, to such men as Elliot or Brainerd ; 
 nor even to commercial men, who braved all such barbarity, 
 for the profits arising from a few otter-skins. After all, this 
 uncivilised state of the heathen he regarded as an argument 
 for preaching to them, not against it. 44 Can we hear,"” said 
 he, 44 that they are without the gospel, without government, 
 without laws, without arts and science, and not exert ourselves 
 to introduce among them the sentiments of men and of 
 Christians ?” 
 
 In regard to the danger of life , he thought that whoever 
 went, must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh 
 and blood; our duty as creatures and as Christians loudly 
 calling upon us to venture every thing. 
 
 As to the difficulty of jirocuring subsistence; this would 
 not be so great as at first sight. 44 The Christian minister 
 would at least obtain such food as that on which the natives 
 subsisted, and this would only be passing through what he 
 had virtually engaged to do, by entering on the ministerial 
 office. The Christian minister was in a peculiar sense not his 
 own. He engages to go, where God pleases—to do or endure 
 whatever he commands. He virtually bids farewell to friends, 
 and pleasures and comforts. 1 ’ 44 It is inconsistent,” said Carey, 
 44 for Ministers to please themselves with thoughts of a nu¬ 
 merous auditory, cordial friends, a civilized country, legal 
 protection, affluence, splendour, or even a competency. The 
 slights and hatred of men, and even pretended friends—gloomy 
 prisons and tortures, the society of barbarians of uncouth 
 speech—miserable accommodation in wretched wildernesses, 
 hunger and thirst and nakedness, weariness and painfulness, 
 
 hard work, and but little worldly encouragement, should rather 
 
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 be the objects of their expectation.'” 66 I question,” said he, 
 64 whether all are justified in staying here, while so many are 
 perishing in other lands. Sure I am, it is entirely contrary 
 to the spirit of the gospel for its ministers to enter upon it 
 from interested motives, or with great worldly expectations. 
 On the contrary, the commission is a sufficient call to them 
 to venture all, and, like the primitive Christians, go every- 
 where preaching the gospel.”^ 
 
 As for the difficulty of acquiring a foreign tongue , having 
 mastered several languages already, he made nothing of this 
 objection; but fully satisfied that the prophecies respecting 
 the increase of Christ’s kingdom were true , and the commis¬ 
 sion of the Saviour was still obligatory , his mind was loaded 
 with a sense of the importance of all these principles. Thus, 
 when he began to be about thirty years of age, having made 
 known his views through the medium of the press ; in the 
 summer of 1793, he gave to all he had said the force of his 
 own example, by embarking for India. 
 
 Before doing so, however, in May 1792, he had delivered 
 that impressive discourse founded on Isaiah liv. 2, 3, which 
 has so frequently been referred to since in different parts of 
 the kingdom. Having observed, in his introduction, that the 
 church was here addressed as a desolate widow, dwelling in a 
 little cottage by herself; that the command to enlarge her 
 tent contained an intimation that there should be an enlarge¬ 
 ment of her family ; and that to account for so unexpected a 
 change, she was told, that her 44 Maker was her husband,’' 
 and that another day he would be 44 called the God of the 
 whole earth,”—he then enforced what he conceived to be the 
 spirit of his text, in two exhortations. 44 Expect great things , 
 from God—attempt great things , for God.” 
 
 44 If all the people had lifted up their voices and wept,” said 
 Dr. Ryland, 64 as the children of Israel did at Bochim, I 
 
 * A description of the Christian Minister, which is quoted with w T arm 
 approbation, by Melville Horne, of the Church of England, and then 
 powerfully applied, in his “ Letters on Missions." pp. 123—138. 
 
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 should not have wondered at the effect, it would only have 
 seemed proportionate to the cause ; so clearly did he prove 
 the criminality of our supineness in the cause of God.” 
 
 Of the reach or compass of Carey’s mind, therefore, even 
 at the opening of his career, I need say nothing more ; but it 
 is peculiarly important to observe, that the principle of 
 faith in God being once implanted, we see not one of these, 
 his most eminent instruments of good to man, rise into notice, 
 or advance one step to wealth, or power, or future usefulness, 
 under the influence of any thing bordering upon hasty ambi¬ 
 tion. On the contrary, the reverse is strikingly visible. 
 
 44 I have lift up mine hand, unto the Lord the most high 
 God, the possessor of heaven and earth,” said Abraham to the 
 king of Sodom, 44 that I will not take from a thread even 
 to a shoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is 
 thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abraham rich.” 
 David was anointed to be king over Israel, but did he hasten 
 after the crown ? 44 As the Lord liveth,” said he of Saul, 
 
 44 his day shall come to die, or he shall descend into battle 
 and perish. The Lord forbid that I should stretch forth mine 
 hand against the Lord’s anointed.” Just before the king of 
 Babylon 44 made Daniel a great man, and gave him many 
 great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province”—■ 
 what were his w'ords ? 44 There is a God in heaven that re- 
 
 vealeth secrets—but as for me, this secret is not revealed to 
 me for any wisdom that I have more than any living.” 
 
 Upon landing in India ; rising into notice, or occupying 
 any station of public eminence, was assuredly the very last 
 thing for which Dr. Carey either looked or cared. 44 The 
 plan laid down in my little piece,” said he in his first letter, 
 44 1 still approve of, and think the very best that can be fol¬ 
 lowed. A missionary must be one of the companions and 
 equals of the people to whom he is sent, and many dangers 
 and temptations will lie in his way.—I live in a house be- 
 
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 longing to a black man, who generously offered it to me for 
 Jiothing , till I am otherwise settled.” 
 
 After this, many proofs might be adduced of his shrinking 
 from any thing like advancement : let one instance only suf¬ 
 fice—his appointment in the government college of Fort 
 William. 44 You must know,” said he, 44 in 1801, that a college 
 was founded last year in Fort William. I always highly ap¬ 
 proved of the institution, but never entertained a thought that 
 I should be called to fill a station in it—and to my great 
 surprise, I was asked to undertake the Bengalee Professor¬ 
 ship.” When the letter came, he had but just time to con¬ 
 sult his brethren, who were of opinion, that for many reasons 
 he ought to accept it; but after this, it required the argu¬ 
 ments of both provost and vice-provost to secure his assent. 
 44 As to my ability,” said he, 44 they could not satisfy me, but 
 they insisted upon it, that they must be the judges of that. 
 —They proposed me that day or the next to the Governor 
 General, (Marquis Wellesley,) who is patron and visitor of 
 the college.” 
 
 I need scarcely add, that Dr. Carey occupied a treble chair 
 in this Institution ; being professor of the Sungskrit, Ben¬ 
 galee, and Mahratta languages for so many years. 
 
 III. The life of such a man becomes the special care of pro¬ 
 vidence, and yet) after all , his labours , however great , are 
 chiefly preparatory or prospective. 
 
 In illustration of this remark need I here again refer to the 
 Sacred Writings? With the special interpositions of divine 
 providence on behalf of Abraham you must be all familiar. 
 When he went from one nation to another, from one kingdom 
 to another people, how Jehovah suffered no man to do him 
 wrong; yea he reproved kings for his sake. The rescue of 
 Joseph from his brethren—of Moses from the waters of the 
 Nile, and the wrath of Pharaoh—the many deliverances of 
 
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 21 
 
 David from the hands of Saul, as well as of Daniel from the 
 Lions’ 1 den, may here naturally occur to our minds. An 
 early providential preservation seems to have made a deep 
 impression on the heart of Paul, more especially as it was just 
 at the opening of his career ; and flashing across his mind 
 afterwards, you see the Spirit of God introduce it, in what 
 might seem an abrupt connexion,—“ The governor under 
 Aretas kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, de¬ 
 sirous to apprehend me, and through a window in a basket 
 was I let down by the wall, and escaped their hands.’’ 1 
 
 Carey had been on board of an English vessel, in which he 
 intended to have gone to India—but was prevented. Had he 
 then thus proceeded, such was the feeling at the time, that it 
 is more than probable he would have been immediately sent 
 home again. But providence providing a more secure passage 
 for him on board of the Princess Maria, a Danish East India- 
 man, he first took up his abode at Bandell, an old Portu¬ 
 guese town, in the province of Bengal. He afterwards re¬ 
 moved to Mudnabatty, between Malda and Binagepore, till 
 in the close of 1799 , one of those trivial incidents, as they are 
 called, though actually links in the chain of providence, fixed 
 him down, with his brethren Marshman and Ward, at Scram- 
 pore. This small Danish settlement of about six square 
 miles, has proved the “ little sanctuary,” where he and his 
 brethren have been preserved, amidst all the <fi times that 
 have passed over them, and over” India, “ and over all the 
 kingdoms of the countries ;” where God also has given them 
 “ one heart, to walk in his statutes, and keep his ordinances, 
 and do them.” * 
 
 * Their settling down here has been ascribed, in part, to so trivial an inci¬ 
 dent as the substitution by the compositor, of one letter for another, a p in¬ 
 stead of a b ! and the omission of a t, whether by design or inadvertently. 
 Upon Marshman and Ward, &c. landing, “ Government,” says Dr. Carey, 
 “ refused to permit the (American) captain to trade unless he produced the 
 passengers at the police office, (who had, either by the mistake of the printer 
 or by design, been published in the newspaper, papist missionaries) to enter 
 into an agreement to return to Europe, or get the company’s leave to reside 
 in the country. 1 wrote to some gentlemen of my acquaintance to interest 
 
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 Dangers may pass away, and fear lawfully subside ; but the 
 interpositions of a kind and gracious providence are never to be 
 forgotten ; for there have been seasons of danger and difficulty 
 and depression. At one period, the slightest incident was the 
 occasion of alarm to the government of India, but their residence 
 upon Danish ground was the means appointed for preserving 
 them from harm, till the imaginary storm soon drifted away, 
 [dolatry was then supported, and at a vast expense, by our 
 own government, and Christianity discouraged, even though 
 the charter required the 66 chaplains to learn the Portuguese 
 and Hindoo languages for the purpose of instructing the Gen- 
 toos in the Christian religion.”* 
 
 These were days, in which Carey said ,— 66 He trembled 
 for his country, because 4 the Lord is a God of judgment. - *” 
 These were times, which required all the prudence of Carey, 
 and Marshman, and Ward abroad, the eloquence of Wilber- 
 force in the senate, of good old Charles Grant at the India- 
 house, and of Fuller from the press at home, to preserve the 
 mission. Nor in justice to the memory of the Danish gover¬ 
 nor, should his steady and manly conduct be forgotten ; for 
 what were his words ?—- u that he would not suffer the printing 
 press to be taken out of the settlement, and that if force was 
 used, he would strike the flag and surrender himself a priso¬ 
 ner of war.” 
 
 But a better day soon dawned upon India, and though that 
 
 themselves in the business, which they very kindly did, but in vain. The 
 report of papist missionaries made government fear that they were French 
 emissaries, as I heard this week. A standing rule of government was 
 therefore enforced in this instance, to our great distress at that time,— 
 though perhaps it may eventually turn out for the furtherance of the Gos¬ 
 pel.” Of course, on proper explanation, all fear died away, though this 
 trivial affair explained the importance of a secure abode, and Danish ground 
 being chosen, there they were to live, till their residence became as pleasing 
 to the eye of the British government as that of any men in India. 
 
 * It is said to have been remarked by Sir James Mackintosh, in a letter 
 from India in 1807, “ that all religions were tolerated in that country, ex¬ 
 cept Christianity.” “ To some,” said Fuller, “ this may appear surprising; 
 but to those who know the truth, there is nothing surprising in it.” 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY, 
 
 23 
 
 was not the only season in which some apprehension was felt, 
 yet, taking it all in all, from that time to the present moment, 
 through the reigns of successive Governors-general, there have 
 been many proofs of kindness, cordiality, and support. That 
 would be a cold heart which would let such mercies pass— 
 
 Forgotten in unthankfulness, 
 
 And without praises die. 
 
 Nor are the merciful interpositions of a gracious providence 
 in raising up our departed friend from the bed of severe per¬ 
 sonal affliction to be forgotten. At least three several times, 
 I think, during his life, it was feared that his end was come, 
 and upon one of these, Marsh man and Ward stood around his 
 bed, apprehensive of his drawing his last breath. But his 
 work was not finished, and God in mercy not only raised him 
 up, but restored all his powers, giving him to enjoy more of 
 health, and vigour, and greater vivacity, than falls to the lot 
 of most Europeans in India, or even our own land. Thus, 
 extending his days till within two months and a week of his 
 seventy-third year ; God gave him to see in this foreign land, 
 which is so trying to a British constitution, not only his chil¬ 
 dren's children, but even the third generation; for it is now 
 some years since Dr. Carey was a great-grandfather. 
 
 Such providential mercies prove to a certainty that there is 
 an end in view. The care of the Almighty for men like 
 these, and the prolongation of their lives, is not so much for 
 their own sake; it is on account of generations yet unborn. 
 Abraham, it is true, was a fully persuaded that what God had 
 promised he was able also to perform, and therefore it was im¬ 
 puted to him for righteousness. ,1 Now, says Paul, 66 it was not 
 written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him 1 ’—to 
 preserve him in the remembrance of all successive generations 
 as an instance of strong faith in early days—“ but for us also 
 to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him who raised 
 up Jesus from the dead, who was delivered for our offences 
 and raised again for our justification. 11 Abraham’s life was 
 prolonged, not that he might merely sec an advanced age, 
 
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 but that by faith he might dwell in the land of promise as in 
 a strange land, looking for a city which hath foundations,—- 
 and therefore sprang there even of one , and him as good as 
 dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and 
 as the sand which is by the sea-shore, innumerable ! The 
 life of David was wonderfully preserved, not only that he 
 might subdue all his enemies round about, but chiefly that 
 he might prepare for the reign of Solomon—not that he 
 might die 44 in a good old age, full of days, riches, and 
 honour, 1 ’—but that it might be 44 in his heart to build an 
 house of rest for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God 
 of Jacob, and make ready for the building.” 
 
 So, assuredly, it is not to be supposed, that the days of 
 Carey have been prolonged, simply that he might fall asleep 
 in peace and joy at Serampore, when above threescore years and 
 twelve. He has been useful to many souls, and millions, I 
 believe, welcomed him to the realms of dav ; but his whole 
 life has been mainly preparatory to what is coming, and what 
 the Lord is about to do. He has been going through the 
 gates—preparing the way—casting up the high-way—gather¬ 
 ing out the stones, and laying a foundation. He has been 
 lifting up a standard for the people, and, under God, giving 
 them a banner to be displayed because of the truth; round which 
 they will one day rally, and not forget the man, who was 
 blessed by God, and increased, though he was 44 called alone.” 
 
 Such at least was the idea entertained by one who knew him 
 best-—his beloved brother Fuller. I well remember his voice 
 and manner, nearly thirty years ago, when ordaining two 
 missionaries to the heathen at Oxford, one of whom engaged 
 in prayer at the grave of Carey. Addressing them from these 
 words, 44 Believe in the Lord, so shall ye be established; be¬ 
 lieve his prophets, so shall ye prosper,”—he introduced, in 
 the course of his address, the 132d Psalm, and spoke to this 
 effect:— 44 It has been supposed that this Psalm was repeated 
 by Solomon at the dedication of the Temple, nor is there any 
 thing unnatural in this supposition. Upon his first entrance 
 into that sacred structure, what could be more appropriate ? 
 
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 25 
 
 Might he not say 4 there is a pillar that was once wet with 
 my father’s tears, and there is a stone over which he vowed 
 and prayed unto the mighty God of Jacob’— 4 Lord,’ said he, 
 
 4 remember David and all his afflictions.’ ” Now, we also are 
 desirous of rearing a superstructure for God, among the hea¬ 
 then, and even of a nobler kind; and I have no doubt that a 
 day will yet come, when men shall rise up on the plains of 
 India, and say—O remember Carey and all his afflictions, 
 how he laboured, and prayed unto the mighty God of Jacob. 
 
 To some, all this may seem nothing more than the par¬ 
 tiality of friendship; to others of an envious mind, nothing 
 else than the language of party feeling. I notice it chiefly 
 to mark the impression on the mind of Fuller ; and perhaps 
 you will be not far from the same mind, when once I remind 
 you, that the permanent usefulness and renown of such men 
 as Tindal and Coverdale—of Luther and of Bedell, will ever 
 rest chiefly upon their translation of the Sacred Scriptures , 
 though it was simply the language spoken in their native 
 kingdom. 
 
 What then may we not expect from the labours of a man, 
 who, when above thirty years of age, left his native country 
 to live under a vertical sun, and after sailing fifteen thousand 
 miles, succeeds in translating the word of life, not into one 
 language only, but into that of nations not a few; who saw 
 the first Christian Church in Bengal, consisting of its proper 
 natives, and of which he was so long the pastor, branch out 
 into six and twenty others ; and left behind him a chosen 
 band of Brothers in the Ministry, who, from the eldest to the 
 youngest, cherish for his memory and example a reverence 
 and affection more than I am able to express. 
 
 IV. T'Ae natural endowments of all such men redound to 
 the glory of God. 
 
 From the Sacred Scriptures we see that in framing man 
 
 at first, his natural endowments were intended to expatiate 
 
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 OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 on the world of nature as the works of God. When 
 44 out of the ground the Lord God had made to grow every 
 tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food," 1 "— 
 He 44 took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, 
 to dress it and to keep it.” So also, 44 when out of the ground 
 the Lord had formed every beast of the field, and every fowl 
 of the air, he brought them unto Adam, to see what he would 
 call them ; and whatsoever Adam called every living crea¬ 
 ture, that was the name thereof.”” Endowed with the faculty 
 of speech even in his solitary state, before the formation of 
 Eve, he gave names to every one of the animal tribes. 
 Here was the student of nature in perfection. 
 
 Yet even now, amidst the ruins of the fall, when God is 
 pleased to raise up a man for some great design, it is worthy 
 of notice that he generally endows him with what v 7 e call a 
 natural taste for some other field of study ; which shall serve 
 not only as a useful recreation, but preserve health, and oper¬ 
 ate like a spring, preparing the mind for severer labour. 
 
 Thus, for example, when 44 God gave Solomon wisdom and 
 understanding exceeding much,”” so that the effusions of his 
 heart were like the sand on the sea-shore, he also prodigiously 
 excelled in what men have since styled botany and natural 
 history. 44 He gave good heed,” it is true, 44 and sought out 
 and set in order many proverbs,” speaking not fewer than 
 three thousand, and his songs or odes were a thousand and 
 five ; but notwithstanding, he found time also to speak of trees, 
 from the cedar tree, that grow r s still in Lebanon, even unto 
 the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of 
 cattle and of fowl, of reptiles and of fishes. 
 
 Many if not most of those who have long admired Dr. 
 Carey as a missionary of the cross, and especially as a labo¬ 
 rious translator of the Scriptures, will probably he surprised 
 when they are told that a passion for nature seems to have 
 been born with him ; that it grew with his growth, and served 
 greatly to cheer many a morning even of his declining years. 
 
 In a letter to myself, about fifteen years ago, from a beloved 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 27 
 
 Sister of his, who still survives him, there is the following pas¬ 
 sage, beautifully descriptive of his early days, 
 r “I believe my dear Brother was fitting, from his childhood, 
 for the great work in which God has since employed him. He 
 was nearly six years older than I am. On that account I was 
 often greatly indulged by him, and carried in his arms on 
 many of his walks; and I recollect even now with what de¬ 
 light he used to shew me the beauties in the growth of plants. 
 When a boy, he was of a studious turn, and fully bent on 
 learning, and always resolutely determined never to give up 
 any point or particle of any thing on which his mind was set, 
 till he had arrived at a clear knowledge and sense of his sub¬ 
 ject. He was not to be allured or diverted from it; he was 
 firm to his purpose, and steady in his endeavour to improve. 
 His memory was strong, and I think very retentive. 
 
 This admiration for nature accompanied him to the East, 
 when he went out, for far other and nobler purposes, yet 44 not 
 knowing whither he wentand there, for many years he was 
 enabled to indulge in it to good account. This delight in 
 the works of God has always been regarded as conducing in no 
 small degree to his health, and to that fine flow of spirits for 
 which he was distinguished. Rising before five in the morn¬ 
 ing, he rode out for an hour, and after this was to be found 
 among his trees and plants. In process of time his garden 
 became perhaps the first private garden belonging to any 
 European in India: and when I)r. Roxburgh retired to this 
 city, where he died, he said that Government could be at no 
 loss in the meanwhile by committing the keys ol the Govern¬ 
 ment Botanic Gardens to Hr. Carey. The consequence of 
 this v r as, the publication of the Hortus Bengalensis , or cata¬ 
 logue of the plants growing in the Honourable East India 
 Company’s Botanic Garden at Calcutta, which he printed 
 at Serampore in 1812. The manuscripts of Roxburgh were 
 also in part committed to his care, which he edited ; The 
 Flora Indica, first in two volumes, in 1821-24; and again 
 in three volumes, from the Serampore press, in 1832. I 
 
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 OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 shall only add here, that in the botany of India, two trees 
 and an herb bear his name—the Careya arborea ,— spherica , 
 —and herbacea. The first of these, the Saul tree, is one of the 
 woods of which Indian ships are built, and it was given by 
 Dr. Roxburgh as a token of his respect, so long ago as the 
 year 1797* Drawings of the Careya arborea and the Careya 
 herbacea may be seen in Roxburgh’s fasciculus of the plants 
 of Coromandel.* 
 
 The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India owes 
 its origin to Dr. Carey, the prospectus he published, dated 
 u Mission-House, Serampore, 15th April 1820,” being the 
 cause of its formation. What is rather singular, when the 
 first meeting was called, no one appeared save Dr. Marshman 
 and another gentleman ; but nothing daunted, they considered 
 the society as formed, on the 14th of September 1821, and 
 calling another meeting on the 21st of the following month, 
 
 * Although Dr. Carey never intended to return to Britain, and through¬ 
 out life frequently expressed this his unalterable determination ; yet amidst 
 these studies his affectionate remembrance of his native land found its in¬ 
 
 dulgence. The grape, even under the sun of Bengal, he brought to such 
 perfection, that it has been seen on the table of the Governor- General; but 
 his oak he could not rear to more than six or eight inches in height. 
 Amongst some English earth, in which other seeds had been conveyed to 
 him, there sprang up to his great delight, the daisy ; and this he perpetuated, 
 as an annual, raised by seed preserved from season to season. It was this 
 incident that awakened the muse of Montgomery, in his Daisy in India , 
 supposed to be addressed by Carey to the first plant. 
 
 Thrice welcome, little English flower ! 
 My mother-country’s white and red; 
 In rose or lily, till this hour. 
 
 Never to me such beauty spread: 
 Transplanted from thine island bed. 
 
 A treasure in a grain of earth. 
 
 Strange, as a spirit from the dead. 
 Thine embryo sprang to birth. 
 
 Thrice welcome, little English flower! v 
 
 Of early scenes belov’d by me. 
 
 While happy in my father’s bower. 
 
 Thou shalt the blithe memorial be; 
 
 The fairy sports of infancy. 
 
 Youth’s golden age, and manhood’s prime, 
 Home, country, kindred, friends,—with thee, 
 
 I find in this far clime. 
 
 Thrice welcome, little English flower. 
 
 To me the pledge of hope unseen; 
 
 When sorrow would my soul o’erpower. 
 
 For joys that were, or might have been, 
 
 I’d call to mind, how, fresh and green 
 I saw thee—waking from the dust; 
 
 Then turn to heaven with brow serene. 
 
 And place in God my trust. 
 
 Seethe other stanzas in “ The Pelican Islands.” By J. Montgomery, 1827. 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
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 the plan was soon patronized by the Marquis and Marchioness 
 of Hastings. Of this institution, of which Dr. Carey was for 
 some time the secretary, the Governor-General is now the pa¬ 
 tron, and in 1830, 20,000 rupees, say about L.2000 was 
 voted by Government to be bestowed in premiums for the most 
 successful cultivation of sugar and tobacco, silk and cotton. 
 
 Nor was it to the vegetable world only that he directed his 
 leisure moments, if leisure he ever knew ; though he but sel¬ 
 dom referred to these subjects when w r riting to his Christian 
 correspondents. Now and then, however, he would glance at 
 them, and in the present instance you will observe the reason. 
 “ I have for a long time,'’’’ says he to Dr. Byland, so long ago 
 as 1811, 66 been describing the birds of Asia, and have already 
 accomplished almost one half of them, and some of the quad¬ 
 rupeds, and a few of the insects. I shall perhaps publish 
 them in a series of papers in the Asiatic Researches, but have 
 not yet determined. I have but little time to spare for these 
 pursuits, for which I have a strong natural inclination; but I 
 also find it very expensive, as nothing can be done without 
 books and animals, as well as correspondents in different 
 countries. These, I have in a good measure, but yet the 
 w T ork goes on very slowly. I notice this, because you mention 
 a wish that our brethren might know something of natural 
 history and geography. I certainly wish so too, and to shew 
 that I do, I make this attempt to fill up this department. 1 ’’ 
 
 In a few words, besides his valuable lectures on divinity, 
 lectures on astronomy and geography, as well as natural his¬ 
 tory, and in Bengalee as well as English, were delivered by 
 him for many years. 
 
 And let not these brief notices of natural science be consi¬ 
 dered here as at all out of place. They refer to the works of 
 God; a department to which, I am sorry to say, many Chris¬ 
 tians pay far too little attention. They may in some degree 
 shew, how much India stands indebted to one solitary mission¬ 
 ary landing on her shores, and, in part, redeem that most 
 honourable appellation from the vulgar and unmerited disgrace 
 
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 which has sometimes been cast upon it by unreasonable and 
 wicked men. At all events, they will explain to you, how 
 well qualified was this departed Christian for the lectures he 
 delivered on these subjects in Serampore College. 
 
 Dr. Carey’s aptitude for acquiring languages was however 
 his most wonderful natural endowment. This to you, as 
 Christians, considering the glorious object to which he applied 
 his attainments, must prove the most interesting of all the ac¬ 
 quirements with which his Maker blessed him. At the same 
 time, it is of all others that on which I feel it to be most dif¬ 
 ficult to touch. He was so eminently modest in regard to his 
 attainments, that it becomes a task to ascertain their great ex¬ 
 tent. But still, although I ought to be as well informed as 
 perhaps any one now remaining alive in Britain, my inability 
 you will the less regret, when I inform you that a more full 
 account of them is expected from those devout men—the be¬ 
 loved circle who laid him in the grave. 
 
 Before he left this country for India, though in the midst 
 of the pressures of poverty, and supporting himself, as already 
 hinted, first as a journeyman shoemaker, and then as a village 
 schoolmaster, and pastor of a small infant church, he seems, 
 notwithstanding, even then to have been able to read his Bible 
 in at least seven languages, including his native tongue ! 
 
 64 I never formally,” says Dr. Ryland, 44 examined the pro¬ 
 ficiency he had then made in learning Latin, Greek, Hebrew, 
 French, Dutch, Italian, &c., but one anecdote will illustrate 
 what, indeed, his subsequent attainments render unnecessary 
 to be proved. I one day had occasion thus to address him : 
 4 Well, Mr. Carey, you remember I laughed at you when I 
 heard of your learning Dutch, for I thought you would never 
 have any use for that language; but now I have the first op¬ 
 portunity of profiting by it. I have received a parcel from 
 Dr. Erskine of Edinburgh, who has long been used to send 
 me any interesting publications which he receives from Ame¬ 
 rica, or which have been printed in Scotland; and this parcel 
 
 contains several of those sorts ; but he says I shall wonder that 
 
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 he has enclosed a Dutch book. This, he informs me, is c A 
 Volume of Sermons,’ written by a divine now living in Hol¬ 
 land ; at the end of which is a dissertation on the call of the 
 gospel, which if any friend of mine or Mr. Fuller's understands 
 the language sufficiently to translate it for us, we should be 
 glad to see. Now, (said I to Mr. Carey,) if you will trans¬ 
 late this dissertation for me, I will give you the whole.' He 
 soon brought me a good dissertation on the subject, and after¬ 
 wards an extraordinary sermon on Hosea, chap, iii., which I 
 doubt not were translated from this book.* I once also, in an 
 accidental way, made a trial of his skill in French ; and hence, 
 at that early period I inferred, that as his motives to learn 
 Latin and Greek and Hebrew must have been stronger than 
 those that excited him to acquire French and Dutch, his pro¬ 
 ficiency in them could not be less. His present eminence in 
 oriental literature every one acknowledges; but it is pleasant 
 to trace the rise of the oak from an acorn." 
 
 Upon his arrival in India, the first language to which Dr. 
 Carey applied, was the native tongue of the people among 
 whom he lived and died,—the Bengalee ; a tongue spoken 
 at present by a population inferior only to Austria or France. 
 By the spring of 1791, he saw it to be a language “ very 
 copious and abounding with beauties." Soon after this, how¬ 
 ever, he fully perceived, that the Sungskrit was the grand 
 root of oriental literature,—the parent of Eastern languages, 
 —the key by which he would be enabled to unlock all their 
 treasures,—read their shasters for himself,—and ultimately 
 translate the word of life. By the year 1796*, therefore, he 
 had begun to study the Sungskrit and Hindoosthanee. By 
 the following year after his removal to Serampore, he was 
 
 * And I am now able to give additional interest to tin’s anecdote, from the 
 best authority, owing to my residence with Mr. SutclifF, whose conversation 
 used so delightfully to beguile the evening. Dr. Carey actually acquired the 
 knowledge of this tongue without the intervention of one elementary book, 
 through some Dutch quarto, obtained, I think, from an old woman either in 
 the village or its neighbourhood. 
 
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 appointed to the college of Fort-William ; and besides the 
 performances of all its duties, as well as his constant and un¬ 
 wearied engagements as a minister of Christ and pastor of a 
 church, we find him in ten years after this expressing himself 
 as follows, in a letter to Fuller, Sutcliff, and Ryland, of De¬ 
 cember 1811. 
 
 44 I have of late been much impressed with the vast impor¬ 
 tance of laying a foundation for Biblical criticism in tbe East, 
 by preparing grammars of the different languages in which we 
 have translated, or may translate, the Bible. Without some 
 such step, they who follow us will have to wade through the 
 same labour that I have, in order to stand nearly on the 
 same ground that I now stand upon. If, however, elemen¬ 
 tary books are provided, the labour will be greatly contracted, 
 and a person will be able in a short time to acquire that which 
 has cost me years of study and toil. 
 
 44 The necessity which lies upon me of acquiring so many 
 languages, obliges me to study and write out the grammar of 
 each of them, and to attend closely to their irregularities and 
 peculiarities. I have, therefore, already published grammars 
 of three of them, namely, the Sungskrit , the Bengalee and 
 Mahratta. To these I have resolved to add grammars of 
 the Telinga , Knrnata , Orissa , Punjabee , Kashmeera , Gu- 
 juratee , Nepalese and Assam languages. Two of these are 
 now in the press, and I hope to have two or three more of 
 them out by the end of next year. 
 
 44 This may not only be useful in the way I have stated, 
 but may serve to furnish an answer to a question which has 
 been more than once repeated, 4 How can these men translate 
 into so great a number of languages ?’ Few people know what 
 may be done till they try , and persevere in what they under¬ 
 take. 
 
 44 I am now printing a Dictionary of the Bengalee, which 
 will be pretty large, for I have got to page 256 quarto, and 
 am not near through the first letter. That letter, however, 
 begins more words than any two others. 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
 33 
 
 u To secure the gradual perfection of the translations, I 
 have also, in my mind, and, indeed, have been long collect¬ 
 ing materials for An Universal Dictionary of the Oriental 
 Languages, derived from the Sungskrit. I mean to take 
 the Sungskrit, of course, for the ground-work, and to give the 
 different acceptations of every word, with examples of their 
 application in the manner of Johnson, and then give the sy¬ 
 nonyms in the different languages derived from the Sungskrit, 
 with the Hebrew and Greek terms answering thereto ; always 
 putting the word derived from the Sungskrit term first,and then 
 those derived from other sources. I intend always to give the 
 etymology of the Sungskrit term, so that that of the terms 
 deduced from it in the cormate languages will be evident. 
 
 o o o 
 
 64 This work will be great, and it is doubtful whether I. 
 shall live to complete it; but I mean to begin to arrange the 
 materials, which I have been some years collecting for this 
 purpose, as soon as my Bengalee dictionary is finished. 
 Should I live to accomplish this, and the translations of 
 Scripture in hand, I think I can then say, 6 Lord, now lettest 
 thou thy servant depart in peace.'’ 11 
 
 By this period it will be observed, that Dr. Carey alludes 
 to a question which had been more than once repeated. The 
 truth is, that eight years before this, or in the year 1803, they 
 had begun to look far beyond the Bengalee in regard to the 
 translation of the Scriptures, at least into some, if not all 
 these Oriental languages ; and though at that time, not aware 
 of their number being so great, out of this arose that plan 
 which has been so successful, in giving the word of life to so 
 many nations, and which has been laid before the Christians 
 of this country, in ten successive memoirs, as w r cll as in the 
 brief review, from the commencement up to close of the tenth. 
 
 Suffice it, therefore, here only to add, that the entire Scrip¬ 
 tures of the Old and New Testaments have been printed and 
 circulated in six oriental tongues, besides that great work, the 
 Chinese Bible, by Carey’s beloved and inseparable companion 
 in labour, Dr. Marshman,—that the New Testament has been 
 
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OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 34 
 
 printed in twenty-three languages,—that the Pentateuch and 
 other parts of the Old Testament have been also printed and 
 circulated in several of these languages, in which the New 
 Testament has been completed; and that portions of the 
 Scriptures have been printed in ten others. Or in few words, 
 God most graciously prolonged the years of his servant, till 
 he lived to see more than two hundred and thirteen thousand 
 volumes of the divine word, in forty different languages, issue 
 from the Serampore press !* 
 
 V. and Finally. The grace of God is most especially to 
 he admired in the moral qualities bestowed on these his most 
 eminent servants. 
 
 For, oh ! my hearers, after all, what signify natural en¬ 
 dowments in themselves considered ? What a melancholy 
 spectacle are gifts without grace ! The most splendid talents 
 without the fear of God ! Some men indeed have possessed 
 great talents, of which God gave them the use, but Satan, 
 uniting with the pride of human nature, has spoiled them of 
 their value, and managed their application. 
 
 Moses might not only be exceeding fair, but learned in all 
 the wisdom of the Egyptians, mighty in words and deeds ; 
 but what had all this availed without his faith and his meek¬ 
 ness ? By the former he might indeed be renowned at the 
 court of Pharaoh, but without the latter he had never been 
 (( king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the 
 tribes of Israel were gathered together." The former must 
 have died with him, but by the latter the crown he sought 
 still beams around his brow. 
 
 Solomon's wisdom might remain with him, but once left to 
 
 * See the Tenth Memoir respecting the translations of the Sacred Scrip¬ 
 tures into the oriental languages, and the Review,—recently published by 
 the same booksellers that appear on the present title page. In this will be 
 found not only a list of Pr. Carey’s literary works, but much interesting *\nd 
 curious information. 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 35 
 
 himself, what had become of him, after all his folly, had he 
 not arrived at this conclusion,— a Fear God, and keep his 
 commandments, for this is the whole of man Saul of Tarsus 
 might be brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, and might out¬ 
 strip many of his equals in Jewish learning; nay, after this 
 he might be expert in languages, and speak with tongues 
 more than all his companions in the ministry, but without 
 love , according to his own expression, he had been but e< as 
 sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. 1 ’ 
 
 No, the languages of men, or even angels, cannot charm 
 his ear, whose eye is on the heart, and <£ Nature is but a 
 name for an effect, whose cause is God. 1 ’ 
 
 The mind indeed, enlighten’d from above, 
 
 Views him in all; ascribes to the grand cause, 
 
 The grand effect; acknowledges with joy 
 His manner, and with rapture tastes his style. 
 
 —Philosophy baptis’d 
 In the pure fountain of eternal love 
 Has eyes indeed ; and viewing all she sees. 
 
 As meant to indicate a God to man, 
 
 Gives Him his praise, and cares not for her own. 
 
 Learning has borne such fruit in other days 
 On all her branches : and piety has found 
 Friends in the friends of science.— 
 
 But still, alas ! science and \nety have but too often been 
 seen far, far apart from each other. Now, I am not aware 
 of any one alive, who was so deeply impressed with the im¬ 
 portance of the distinction to which we now refer, as the man 
 who has lately left us. Fie did indeed count all things hut 
 loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus the 
 Lord, and his correspondence abounds with proof. Thus, in 
 1821, after referring to his study of nature, he says,—- cc I 
 have but little time to spare for these pursuits, for I am more 
 in my element in the translation of the word of God than in 
 any other such employment; and I now begin to entertain the 
 idea, that I may yet live to see this work accomplished in 
 most of the languages in which it is begun.' 1 
 
3G 
 
 OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 It was about the age of seventeen or eighteen that Dr. 
 Carey was brought to the knowledge of the truth. 44 Before 
 this,” says his sister, already referred to, 44 with respect to 
 religion, he was at enmity with God, and in many things 
 ridiculed his people. I well remember our wondering at the 
 change. This was evident in his conduct and conversation. 
 For some time he stood alone in his Fathers house. Like 
 Gideon, he wished to throw down all the altars of Baal in one 
 night, though his zeal, at that time, might exceed the bounds 
 of prudence. I often used to wish he would not bring his 
 religion home, though it was a harder task to discover his zeal 
 at home, than anywhere. Often have I seen him sigh, as if 
 his heart were overwhelmed, yet he could not speak to us. 
 He, however, asked leave to pray in the family, and one cir¬ 
 cumstance I well recollect. He always mentioned these words, 
 —that all 4 our righteousness was as filthy rags.’ That 
 used to touch my pride, and raise my indignation,—however, 
 1 always had a particular regard for my brother, so that I 
 kept ray feelings in my own bosom, lest any one should think 
 slightly of him, for that I could not bear. Poor boy ! he 
 used to look on us all with grief, but more particularly, he 
 afterwards told me, on me, as I was then in a poor state of 
 health, and so often brought apparently to the borders of the 
 grave,—then raised up, but still thoughtless of the hand that 
 sustained my soul in death, though I knew it not. 
 
 44 When in his nineteenth year, I believe, my dear brother 
 used to speak at a friend’s house in the village, when he came 
 to see us. I recollect a neighbour of ours, a good woman, the 
 first Monday morning after he had spoken before a few friends, 
 came in to congratulate my mother on the occasion, when, 
 with some surprise, my mother said,— 4 What ! do you 
 think he will be a preacher ?’ 4 Yes, 1 our friend replied, 
 
 4 and a great one too, if lie lives.’ My father felt a great 
 desire to hear him, if he could go undiscovered. In this he 
 was afterwards gratified, though unknown to my brother, or 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 37 
 
 any one at the time. We could tell he was gratified, although 
 he never discovered any thing to us like praise. 
 
 44 In a few years, X hope, God gave him the desire of his 
 heart, in bringing his two sisters to see a beauty in religion. 
 Then were we dear indeed to each other. 4 Grace ! ’tis a 
 sweet, a glorious theme, 1 —and we felt it unite the bonds of 
 natural affection with stronger ties. ,, 
 
 The conversation of a fellow-apprentice,—the ministry of 
 the Rev. Thomas Scott, the expositor of Scripture,* and the 
 perusal of a small valuable work, entitled, 44 Hall's help to 
 Zion's travellers the father of the late Robert Hall, were 
 the means under God of the conversion of Dr. Carey. 
 
 With regard to his character, it was certainly based in great 
 humility and self-abasement. He was distinguished through 
 life by a careful selection, and then great firmness in friend¬ 
 ship—enlarged humanity—disinterestedness, or an entire su¬ 
 periority to any value for money ; and, consequently, with re¬ 
 gard to liberality, or rather the devotion of his substance and 
 his income to the glory of God, he, (in common with Marsh- 
 man, yet alive, and Ward gone before him,) has trodden an 
 uncommon and unfrequented path to his Father's house above. 
 He will be long remembered also, and especially by those w r ho 
 knew him best, for a singular happiness of disposition ; but 
 above all, for unshaken faith in God, and unwearied zeal for 
 his glory. This outline, however, at present, I can fill up, 
 I am afraid, but very imperfectly. 
 
 1. His character was based in humility. This for many 
 years has been observed, and it frequently has furnished mat¬ 
 ter of thought and self-examination to others. Many a time 
 
 * “ I am surprised,” said Mr. Scott, to Dr. Ryland, in 1821, “ as well 
 as gratified at your message from Dr. Carey. He heard me preach only a 
 few times, and that, as far as I know, in my rather irregular excursions : 
 though I often conversed and prayed in his presence, and endeavoured to 
 answer his sensible and pertinent inquiries, at Hackleton. But to have sug¬ 
 gested a single useful hint to such a mind as his, may be considered as a 
 high privilege and matter of gratitude. Send my kindest remembrance to 
 him, when you write.” 
 
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 OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 have those who visited him felt ashamed of themselves after 
 retiring from his presence, chiefly owing to this—a humility 
 and lowliness which have been productive of great good abroad, 
 and I trust also at home. 
 
 In publishing the early volumes of the Periodical Accounts, 
 the greatest caution was necessary lest he should be offended. 
 44 You have published,” said he, 44 a great deal too much 
 about me ; there are many things which I may mention in 
 the confidence of friendship, as matter of thanksgiving at a 
 throne of grace, which if ever they are made public, must 
 wear the appearance of consummate vanity."’*’ Yet let any 
 man look over the pages of these volumes, and see whether 
 he can find any thing reprehensible in our beloved and revered 
 Fuller’s disclosures. 
 
 44 There is nothing remarkable,” said he, one day, 44 in 
 what I have done. Suppose that the western world had been 
 covered with idols—if any man had sat down in the centre of 
 Europe, he might have done the same thing. It has only 
 required patient perseverance.” 
 
 One may w r ell feel astonished at hearing such a man say, 
 44 I alone am unfit to be called a missionary”—though such 
 an expression I do find in one of his letters. Or, as upon 
 another occasion, his appointment in Fort-William College— 
 44 I wonder how people can have such favourable ideas of me.” 
 And what is all this but the grace of God ? 
 
 . The more thy glories strike mine eyes. 
 
 The humbler I shall lie— 
 
 Thus while I sink, my joy shall rise 
 Unmeasurably high. 
 
 Yes, all such expressions must be resolved into the same 
 grace of self-abasement wdiich led one with whom he has now 
 met, to exclaim—- 44 To me, who am less than the least of all 
 saints, is this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the 
 unsearchable riches of Christ.”— 44 For I am the least of the 
 Apostles, that am not meet to be called an Apostle,” 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY, 
 
 39 
 
 Genuine Christian humility, as it grows with a man’s years 
 and increasing usefulness, becomes more and more striking. 
 As he rises in public estimation, be sinks in his own. So it 
 was here, and especially when he used to anticipate his death. 
 Some years ago, in prospect of this, he had selected a passage 
 of Scripture to be improved after his dissolution. It was 
 Psalm li. 1,2; as descriptive of his only hope —the mercy of 
 God; and his highest wish —perfect purity. At the end of 
 his days, however, after all his abundant labours, he fixed on 
 these expressive words— <£ By grace ye are saved and, un¬ 
 questionably, it was by the grace of God, he was what he 
 w T as. 
 
 2. Firmness in friendship.’-— This excellency is most ap¬ 
 parent, where it is seen among men who differ extremely in 
 natural temperament. United to them all, and for many 
 years without one moment of interruption, I can truly affirm 
 that no men could differ, in this respect, more from each other 
 than Fuller, Sutcliff, and Hyland at home-—or Carey, Marsh- 
 man, and Ward abroad ; and so did Luther from Melancthon; 
 and so did the Apostles from each other. This it is which 
 gives to Christian friendship its peculiar lustre—explaining, 
 at the same moment, the true character and the power of the 
 grace of God, as it reigns in the Church. To say nothing of 
 the world, often bent on separating very friends; persons of 
 inferior grace, or of narrower minds, might find fault with 
 them, both at home and abroad ; while they continued to live 
 on, above their sphere of judgment. Such a three-fold cord is 
 not easily broken ; while all the time these men were far from 
 being blind to each other’s defects, and none could be more 
 affectionately faithful than they were to each other. “ Posi¬ 
 tive excellence,” said one of them, 66 is often accompanied with 
 more positive faults, than that which is chiefly negative; yet 
 the subjects of the former, taken all in all, are by Jar the 
 most estimable characters. 1 ’ What defect there might be in 
 the character of Carey, I do not know ; and for the best of 
 reasons, I have never heard ; otherwise I would state it now 
 
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 OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 without any hesitation ; but it was on such a fine principle as 
 that which has just been quoted, that these men loved each 
 other, and with their eyes open ; while the cause in which 
 they had embarked, with each of them, the cause was the 
 centre of union. To say nothing here of the men individually, 
 this spirit of Christian friendship.is the legacy which, as united , 
 they leave to posterity; and so, after all the prejudices and 
 the passions of the existing generation shall sleep with it in 
 the grave, there will always remain this lovely triumvirate, 
 abroad and at home. Well will it be for those who succeed 
 in this work, whether in India or Britain, if they emulate the 
 grace and the exertions and the unbroken friendship of 46 the 
 first three” 
 
 At the close of his life, the prospect of such friendship re¬ 
 maining, and to be exemplified on the spot, for which it has 
 been so distinguished, was one which Dr. Carey cherished 
 with unmingled delight; and let us hope that the Lord will 
 fulfil all his expectations—nay, and why not exceed them, 
 since he is the God of love ?-—since the Redeemer as a Pro¬ 
 phet so taught,* as a Priest so intercedes,^ and as a King 
 has so commanded ?t 
 
 3. Enlarged humanity .—How frequently do w r e find tire 
 man of letters absorbed in them, and unwilling to lift his eye 
 from the page and look on the misery of his fellow-creatures, or 
 open his ear to their cries P It was not so here, and though 
 long familiarity with the miseries of Hindooism has hardened 
 by degrees the heart of many an European in his day, they 
 never could the heart of Carey. 
 
 His exertions unquestionably first led to the prevention of 
 infanticide, and that of persons devoting themselves to death 
 at Saugur island in the mouth of the Hooghly; and though 
 the immolation of widows on the funeral pile w r ent on, it wtis 
 through his influence that the Marquis of Wellesley left a 
 minute, on his retiring from the Indian government, declar¬ 
 ing his conviction that Suttees might , and ought to be abo - 
 
 
 *f* John xvii. 21. $ John xv. 17. 
 
 John xiii. 35. 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
 41 
 
 lished. The truth I believe to be this, that previously to the 
 return of the Marquis in 1805, or thirty years ago, Dr. Carey 
 submitted three memorials to government, the first relating to 
 the exposure of infants in the northern parts of Bengal, the 
 others to Saugur island and the inhuman practice of Suttee. 
 The two first evils were soon and very easily abolished, but of 
 the latter, Carey and his brethren never lost sight. In 1817 
 the valuable document, drawn up in examination of the 
 Shastras of highest authority, to prove that it was decidedly 
 contrary to the law of Munoo ; and which, after being laid 
 before Mr. Harrington, the first judge of the chief native 
 court of justice, was deposited for preservation in the library 
 of Serampore College, may be adduced in proof. In 1822 
 also a powerful article against this dreadful custom was insert¬ 
 ed in the quarterly 44 Friend of India,” which, after abundant 
 proofs and many arguments, closed in these expressive words 
 of Scripture, 44 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn 
 unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou say, 
 Behold, we knew it not, doth not He that pondereth the 
 heart consider it ? and He that keepeth thy soul, doth not 
 He know it ? and shall not He render to every man accor¬ 
 ding to his work^ ?” After this the Sumachar Durpun , or 
 Serampore Bengalee and English newspaper, lent all its 
 powerful aid, till on the 4th of December 1829? u the burn¬ 
 ing or burying alive of the Hindoo widow” was declared by 
 the Governor-General in council to be illegal , a day never to 
 be forgotten in India. There have been other individuals 
 who lent their aid ; but surely if the blessing of them that are 
 ready to perish come upon the heads of any, then Carey and 
 his companions must come in for their share. 
 
 I only add, that in the attempt to establish a leper hospital 
 in Calcutta, Dr. Carey, it is well known, took an active part. 
 The Benevolent Institution, in the same city, for the educa¬ 
 tion of the indigent and neglected Portuguese children, was 
 established by the Senior Serampore Brethren in 1809, and 
 has continued under their management to the present day. 
 
42 
 
 OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 They were the first who commenced the education of the 
 Hindoo female , and schools for boys have long been formed at 
 their stations scattered over India. 
 
 4. Disinterestedness and Christian generosity .—This was a 
 feature in the character of the deceased, in common with his 
 two companions in labour, which, from the nature of the case, 
 has been so generally known to Christians of every denomina¬ 
 tion, that it may seem scarcely necessary to mention it. As 
 it could not be altogether concealed, so it has been more fre¬ 
 quently remarked, though, from my intimate acquaintance 
 with their proceedings, I have been long persuaded that we 
 who now live, like persons who stand too near an object, 
 cannot fully appreciate either the extent or proportion of their 
 bounty. The subject will be better understood some years 
 hence. 
 
 At this moment, therefore, I shall not even name the pro¬ 
 bable amount thus devoted to the cause of God, as this will be 
 better reserved for the Memoir of Dr. Carey ; but it is of im¬ 
 portance to ourselves that one remark be made. 
 
 Often has it been observed, that in the days when wealth 
 flows upon a man, being, as it seems, of a generous disposition, 
 he goes on to abound in liberality. But let his income be 
 greatly abridged, or let him suffer the loss of property, nay, 
 should both these overtake him, then, as all others seem to 
 excuse him, so he excuses himself, referring to his former 
 days. Should such heavy trials also occur when the party has 
 arrived at old age, another obstacle occurs. Every period of 
 life has its besetting sins, and how frequently, in the last 
 stages of a man's existence, do we, therefore, see the stream of 
 human depravity still linger and run in the solitary channel of 
 covetousness or vanity ? 
 
 What a striking contrast to all this, have we now furnished 
 to us here ? Income was greatly abridged, owing to the retrench¬ 
 ments of Government, in abolishing the College of Fort-Wil¬ 
 liam—in giving up certain works, and ceasing to print as they 
 had been accustomed to do. Then came those calamitous 
 
AND CHARACTER OP CAREY. 
 
 43 
 
 iailures in Calcutta, by which not only Dr. Carey, his com¬ 
 panion in life, and his companion in labour, Dr. Marshman, 
 suffered; but which affected all parties in India, and many at 
 home, religious, civil, and military. 
 
 Amidst all these things, did their heart or hand close or 
 draw back ? And when once this series of evils came to a period, 
 what did this venerated departed man say ? In the very last 
 letter I received from him these were his words -— 44 I am firmly 
 convinced that all these very distressing circumstances are un¬ 
 der the management of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is Lord 
 of all on earth and all in heaven. I therefore am still, and 
 acknowledge that He is God.” But nevertheless, under the 
 limitation of means, his bounty flow r ed, and I should rather 
 think in larger proportion. 
 
 And this spring, within two months of Dr. Carey^s death, 
 what says his surviving companion ? 44 As to the Mission, we 
 are full of hope and joy amidst our poverty. Poverty, in¬ 
 deed, does not dismay me, for I find that God has often kept 
 his people in a state of outward dependance on him, when he 
 has had any thing important to do by them. Peter was con¬ 
 strained to say, 4 Silver and gold have I none,’ but this did 
 not prevent thousands being converted under a single sermon.” 
 
 After such a statement as this, will it be believed, though 
 never mentioned before, that since the year 1827 only, from 
 L. 7 OOO to L.8000 sterling have been devoted by the Seram- 
 pore Brethren towards those great undertakings in which they 
 have through life been employed? Such is the fact; I be¬ 
 lieve that I am below the truth ; for at the same time, I must 
 add, that in regard to what Dr. Carey and his companions 
 have done in this and in other ways, much of it is known only 
 to Him who condescends to notice even a cup of cold water 
 given to a disciple, and so much the better. They have dis¬ 
 persed abroad ; they have been long sowing in a cause of 
 which one singular peculiarity is, that 44 no labour can be in 
 vain.” This seed must one day rise above the ground, and 
 grace will secure the harvest. Long have they exerted them- 
 
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 OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 selves for those who, emphatically, cannot recompense them, 
 therefore they shall be blessed ; and recompensed at the re¬ 
 surrection of the just, will t£ stand in their lot at the end of 
 the days.”* 
 
 5. Habitual cheerfulness , or happiness of disposition. 
 Whether any would ascribe this, in the present instance, to 
 something constitutional, or a sense of duty, or both com¬ 
 bined, I do not know ; perhaps it might be the latter, for 
 cheerfulness it is the duty of every Christian to cherish ; 
 whilst he, among many others, will ever stand a striking 
 proof, that Christianity, in its highest degree, is the brightest 
 contrast to melancholy. At the same time, I am persuaded 
 that Dr. Carey’s constant occupation, methodically, of every 
 hour, and his mind being engrossed by the works of God, 
 chiefly at the dawn of day, and the word of God or his cause 
 to the close of every evening, must be taken into the account. 
 However, so it was, that his habitual cheerfulness has struck 
 many a man who had no religion ; and this also continued 
 throughout life, so that 66 the cheerful old man,” a title often 
 given him by one of the highest rank in India, was probably 
 not given by her alone. Be this as it may, I well know that 
 it was this quality, in association with all the others, which 
 led him who has lived longest with him, and in the greatest 
 intimacy, to dwell upon the pleasure and enjoyment thus de¬ 
 rived. And such, therefore, being the loss which he has sus¬ 
 tained, that he may he upheld and comforted, and that the 
 
 * Thus, in noticing every thing with regard to Christian generosity , as 
 well as some things relating to humane exertion, it will be observed that I 
 have found it impossible to notice Dr. Carey by himself alone. This is the 
 way in which I well know, both from long acquaintance, and his own cor¬ 
 respondence with myself, he wished such things to be mentioned, if noticed 
 at all, and for the best of reasons. These men, of whom one mercifully still 
 remains, and two are gone, have been so closely united in their work, that 
 to point to one personally, and give him his precise share, would be as dif¬ 
 ficult to another, as to point out in the rainbow where one colour ends and 
 another begins ; to say nothing of those beloved men who are now treading 
 in their footsteps. 
 
AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
 45 
 
 arms of his hands may be made strong by the hands of the 
 mighty God of Jacob, must surely be the wish and the prayer 
 of every friend of the Mission. 
 
 6 . Unshaken faith in God. Now that he is gone, it would 
 be well for the church at large, if the peculiar character or 
 complexion of the faith in God, which Carey evinced through¬ 
 out life, were more studied than it is. He was strong in 
 faith, but this was not to be observed in strong language with 
 respect to himself: it must be viewed in connexion with the 
 cause of God. When he said, “ visit me with thy salvation,’ 1 
 it was that he might see “ the good of God’s chosen , rejoice in 
 the joy of his nation , and triumph with his inheritance .” Be¬ 
 ginning, therefore, with Abraham, and coming down through 
 the death and triumph of God’s dear Son, his faith and hope 
 would rise till they became like the current of his own Ganges, 
 bearing away every obstacle before them. Take one illustration, 
 in his own words, when, like Abraham, he was all alone. Above 
 forty years ago, in the spring of 1794, lie said — 66 My soul 
 longeth and fainteth for God, for the living God, to see his 
 glory and his beauty as I have seen them in his sanctuary. 
 When I first left England, my hope of the conversion of the 
 heathen was very strong ; but among so many obstacles it 
 would utterly die away unless upheld by God ; having nothing 
 to cherish it, but many things to obstruct it for now a year 
 and nineteen days, which is the space since I left my dear 
 charge at Leicester. Since that time I have had hurrying 
 up and down—a five months’ imprisonment with worldly 
 men on board the ship—five months spent in learning the 
 language, my Moonshi not understanding English sufficiently 
 to interpret my preaching—my colleague separated from me 
 —long delays respecting my expected settlement—few oppor¬ 
 tunities for social worship—no woods to retire to, like Brain- 
 erd, for fear of tigers ; not fewer than twenty men in the 
 department of Dayhutta, where I am, having been carried 
 away by them from the salt-works this season—no earthly 
 thing to depend on. Well, I have God, and his word is 
 sure; and though the superstitions of the heathens were a 
 
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 OUTLINE OF THE LIFE 
 
 million times more deeply rooted, and the examples of Euro¬ 
 peans a million times worse than they are—if I were deserted 
 by all, and persecuted by all, yet my hope fixed on that sure 
 word will rise superior to all obstructions, and triumph over 
 all trials ; God’s cause voill triumph, and I shall come out of 
 all trials as gold purified in the fire.” 
 
 In comparing, what may be called the characteristic or 
 the peculiar cast of faith, in any believer now, with that 
 of even the Father of the faithful, we need not for one 
 moment hesitate : even the apostles rejoiced in the assurance 
 that others had obtained like precious faith with them¬ 
 selves. Now, in regard to this heavenly grace, it seems 
 as though there had been two great leading objects, which 
 Carey thought should habitually engage and animate the 
 mind of every believer. On these two he often fixed his own 
 eye, as held out by God to exercise and increase the faith of 
 his people, first by promise , not performance, in either case. 
 The first, under the former dispensation, the second, under 
 the present. The first, referring to the person of God’s be¬ 
 loved Son, “ his chosen one, in whom his soul delighteth 
 and the second, to the triumph—the universal triumph of 
 his cause : the first embracing all the wonders of his person, 
 obedience and death—the second involving the seven-fold 
 glory of his kingdom. The mind of Abraham was exercised 
 in realizing the first—his, in realizing the second ; but the 
 question of time , with both parties, was not the question. This 
 they wisely regarded as a circumstantial, and would not con¬ 
 found curiosity with faith. No, it w T as the object itself—to 
 penetrate, to realize the object—to comprehend the substance 
 of things revealed, though not to be seen as yet ; and then, 
 rejoicing in this, and acting under its influence, believe, as it 
 were, and labour for posterity. Thus, Abraham’s faith was 
 displayed, not in curious inquiries respecting himself, but in 
 desire to see what form the blessing he had received would as¬ 
 sume another day ; and in this he was gratified, perhaps two 
 thousand years before Christ was born. 44 Abraham rejoiced 
 to see my day, and he saw, and was glad.” To realize the 
 
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 moral grandeur, and ultimate extent of His kingdom upon 
 earth, was Carey’s object. The grasp of his mind, and the 
 very style of his expressions, abundantly prove this. Though 
 firm as the adamant in his principles, so far from being ham¬ 
 pered or confined by what is denominated a party, the whole 
 of Christendom, as some men will call it, was but a small affair 
 with him, for his mind would rise and roam over the “ very 
 much land which remains to be possessed.” At such moments, 
 as though listening to the cry of the heathen, all bars to inter¬ 
 course must either give way or be surmounted; distance of place 
 was as nothing in his eye, and so he would then think it ought 
 to be with the church herself. But I greatly prefer that he 
 should speak for himself. Thus, when beating up the Bay 
 of Bengal, and urging to exertion the friends he had left:—- 
 
 6 ‘ Africa is but a little way from England; Madagascar 
 but a little farther ; South America, and all the numerous and 
 large islands in the Indian and Chinese seas, I hope will not 
 be passed over. A large field opens on every side, and mil¬ 
 lions of perishing heathen, tormented in this world by means 
 of idolatry, superstition, and ignorance, and subject to eternal 
 misery in the next, are pleading—Yes, all their miseries 
 plead, as soon as they are known , with every heart that loves 
 the Redeemer, and with all the churches of ithe living God. 
 O that many labourers may be thrust out into the vineyard 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that the Gentiles may come to 
 the knowledge of the truth as it is in Him.” 
 
 Sixteen years after this, the state of the world, and the 
 means appointed for turning it into the Garden of the Lord, 
 dwell as usual on his mind. Thus, in language never printed 
 before, he speaks in August 1809 :—“ The state of the world 
 occupies my thoughts more and more, I mean as it relates to 
 the spread of the gospel. I was forcibly struck this morning, 
 with reading our Lord’s reply to his disciples, in the fourth of 
 John. When he had told them that he had meat to eat that 
 they knew not of, and that his meat was to do the will of his 
 Father, and to finish his work, he said, 4 Say ye not, there 
 
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 are yet four months, and then cometh harvest ?’ He by this 
 plainly intended to call their attention to the conduct of men 
 when harvest is approaching ; for that being the season on 
 which all the hopes of men hang for temporal supplies, they 
 provide me?i, and take measures in time for securing it. After¬ 
 wards, directing their attention to that which so occupied his 
 own, as to be his meat and drink, he adds— 4 lift up your 
 eyes and look upon the fields,’—of souls to be gathered in— 
 6 for they are white already to harvest.’ 
 
 44 After so many centuries have elapsed, and so many fields 
 full of this harvest have been lost, for want of labourers to 
 gather it in, shall we not at last reflect seriously on our duty ? 
 Hindoosthan requires ten thousand ministers of the gospel at 
 the lowest calculation ; China as many: and you may easily 
 calculate for the rest of the world. England has done much, 
 but not the hundredth part of what she is bound to do. Ought 
 not every (individual) church to turn its attention chiefly to the 
 raising up and nurturing spiritual gifts, with the express de¬ 
 sign of sending them abroad ? Should not this be a specific 
 matter of Prayer P And is there not need to labour hard to 
 infuse this spirit into the Churches ? 
 
 44 A mission to Siam would be comparatively easy of intro¬ 
 duction and support. Amission to Pegu , and another to Ar- 
 racan , could not be difficult of introduction. Missions to As¬ 
 sam and Nepaul should be speedily tried. I do not know 
 about the facility with which missions could be introduced into 
 Cochin-China, Cambodia, and Laos ; but were the trial made, 
 
 I believe difficulties would remove. Even the borders of 
 China might be visited from Burmah, if an entrance could not 
 be obtained into the heart of the empire. I have not men¬ 
 tioned Sumatra , Java, the Moluccas, the Philippines, ox Japan; 
 but all these countries must be supplied. This is a very im¬ 
 perfect sketch of Asia only, without including the Mahomedan 
 countries; but Africa and South America call as loudly for 
 help, and the greatest part of Europe must also be assisted by 
 the Protestant Churches, being nearly as destitute of real 
 
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 godliness as any heathen country upon the earth. What a press¬ 
 ing call then is there for labourers in this spiritual harvest ! 
 and what need that the attention of all the churches in Eng¬ 
 land and America should be drawn to this very object. I 
 have filled my paper with these reflections, because they were 
 uppermost in my mind.”*' 
 
 Here then is a mind evidently loaded with the state of 
 mankind, and, with his eyes fully open, drawing no sanguine 
 picture ; yet as evidently believing in the universal prevalence 
 of pure and undefiled religion. Against hope, believing in 
 hope , and not staggering at the promise of God through un¬ 
 belief, but being strong in faith, and in the meanwhile 
 giving Him glory. Upon what or whom then did his 
 assured confidence rest in faith and hope ? Hear himself 
 again, about two years before this.— 44 I have for many months 
 had my mind drawn to that passage in Isaiah xl. 2/, 28, 
 God is 4 the Lord—the everlasting God—the Creator of the 
 ends of the earth he can therefore do all that is necessary 
 for the enlargement and the benefit of his church. Notwith¬ 
 standing the wickedness of the world, and the ingratitude of 
 his own people, 4 He fainteth not, neither is weary.’’ He 
 knows how to accomplish all that he has promised—for 4 there 
 is no searching of his understanding.’’ 
 
 To the close of his life it was still the same. Thus, only 
 three years before his death, he says to me— 44 With respect 
 to myself, I consider my race as nearly run; the days of our 
 years are threescore years and ten. I am now only three 
 months short of that age, and repeated bilious attacks have 
 
 * It has been remarked as one characteristic of a great mind, that while 
 it comprehends the vast, it does not overlook the minute. What then was 
 the very next paragraph in this letter ? “ The Lord is prospering his cause 
 
 here. Last night at our church meeting one person was received, and 
 three more proposed for communion. Krislmoo labours indefatigably in 
 Calcutta; doors open for him ; and he has more invitations to make known 
 the gospel to private families than he can attend to.” &c. 
 
 Since this period China has been visited by Mr. GutzlafF; Arracan and 
 Assam attended to by the Serampore Brethren. 
 
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 weakened my constitution ; but I do not look forward to death 
 with any painful anticipations. I rejoice in the complete and 
 full atonement made by the death of our Lord Jesus Christ; 
 I rejoice in the free grace of God, as published in the gospel. 
 I cast my soul upon, and plead the efficacy of, that atonement, 
 and I feel this to be firm ground which will not fail me when 
 I need it most. That glorious atonement is a full answer to 
 every charge which the righteous law of God can bring against 
 me ; and to that I therefore continually recur. It appears to 
 me that I have still two or three years’ work to do, particularly 
 in putting my last corrections to the Bengalee and Sungskrit 
 versions of the Sacred Scriptures, now going through the 
 press. But the Lord knows better than I do, how far my 
 life is necessary for those works .'”— u Let us all keep at our 
 posts , and labour in hope to promote this glorious cause. 
 Christ has suffered, and now we are expecting the glory that 
 should follow, and which is guaranteed to us by the faithf ul 
 promises of God .” 
 
 It is here not unworthy of remark, that God graciously ex¬ 
 tended his life to the three years on which his heart was set; 
 and ten months afterwards he says to Mr. Hope— <fi Through 
 great mercy my health is now perfectly restored, and I am 
 considerably better than I was through the past year; I have 
 resumed my customary avocations, and hope I may be able to 
 continue the labours in which I am engaged. I have anxi¬ 
 ously desired to finish the new edition of the Bengalee Scrip¬ 
 tures before my death,” and having then got to the third 
 chapter of the Ephesians, he adds — u I, therefore, like Paul, 
 when he saw the brethren from Rome, seeing it brought thus 
 far through the press, thank God and take courage.” 
 
 I have now only to add but a very few lines from his last 
 letter, received on the 30th of September last year —“ As 
 every thing connected with the full accomplishment of the 
 divine promises depends on the almighty power of God, pray 
 that I and all the ministers of the word, may take hold of his 
 strength , and go about our work, as fully expecting the ac- 
 
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 .complishment of them all , which, however difficult and im¬ 
 probable it may appear, is certain ; as all the promises of God 
 are in Him, yea, and in Him, Amen.” 
 
 Thus, I think, it must now appear to all, what was the 
 key-note on Yhich this eminent man dwelt throughout the 
 days of his pilgrimage; dying in the assured persuasion not 
 only that c< the light of the moon ” would one day be 66 as 
 the light of the sun, and the light of the sun seven-fold as 
 the light of seven days,’’ but that 66 the Lord shall be king 
 over all the earth when there shall be only u one Lord, and 
 his name one.” 
 
 7- Zeal for the divine glory. Too often, in observing what 
 is called the zeal of a man, we are constrained to lament its 
 associates. It does not dwell with prudence—it is impatient 
 of delay—comes periodically, and when it does appear, is too 
 like the haste of a man in the dark. Sometimes he is to be 
 seen or heard, running every thing into one thing, while all 
 things else are forgotten; and at other seasons, when a fine 
 opportunity is presented, he overshoots the mark ! This then 
 is spurious, and ought not to be so denominated, for, alas ! it is 
 frequently accompanied with no small share of personal vanity. 
 
 Genuine zeal proceeds from filial love to God, and is pro¬ 
 portionally concerned for His glory among men. In the 
 present instance, its exhibition is peculiarly worthy of exa¬ 
 mination. Would to God that it might be observed by all; 
 carefully studied, especially by young men, and above all, by 
 such as are engaged in the work of the ministry, whether at 
 home or abroad ! 
 
 The associates of zeal, in the mind of Carey, would seem 
 to have been industry and patience, submission and humility. 
 They were the industry and patience of a man, blended with 
 the submission and humility of a little child. May not these, 
 I ask, be received as safe and certain evidence of the degree 
 of zeal, in him, or in any man ? 
 
 If so, suppose we take a single day only in the life of Hr. 
 Carey as a specimen of industry , with which, however, ob- 
 
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 serve, owing to his humility, we had probably never been ac¬ 
 quainted, had it not come out in the way of apology for not 
 writing. It was in June 1806, and happens to be one of his 
 days at Calcutta. 44 I am extremely loth to let this oppor¬ 
 tunity pass without dropping a line, and yet scarcely can 
 find time to w r rite to any one. I give you a short view of 
 my engagements for the present day, which is a specimen of 
 the spending one-half of the week. I rose this morning at a 
 quarter before six, read a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and 
 spent the time till seven in private addresses to God, and then 
 attended family prayer with the servants in Bengalee. While 
 tea was getting ready, I read a little in Persian with a 
 Moonshi, who was waiting wdien I left my bed-room ; read 
 also before breakfast a portion of the Scripture in Hindoos- 
 thanee. The moment breakfast was over, sat down to the 
 translation of the Ramaywna from Sungskrit, wdth a pundit, 
 who was also waiting, and continued this translation till ten 
 o’clock, at which hour I went to College, and attended the 
 duties there till between one and two o’clock. When I re¬ 
 turned home I examined a proof-sheet of the Bengalee trans¬ 
 lation of Jeremiah, which took till dinner-time. I always, 
 when down in Calcutta, dine at Mr. Bolt’s, which is near. 
 After dinner, translated, with the assistance of the chief Pun¬ 
 dit of the College, the greatest part of the eighth chapter of 
 Matthew into Sungskrit. This employed me till six o’clock. 
 After six, sat down with a Telinga Pundit, (who is translat¬ 
 ing from the Sungskrit into the language of his country,) to 
 learn that language. At seven I began to collect a few pre¬ 
 vious thoughts into the form of a sermon, and preached in 
 English at half-past seven. About forty persons present, and 
 among them one of the Puisne Judges of the Sudder Dewany 
 Adawlut. After sermon I got a subscription from him of 
 500 rupees, (L.63, 10s.) towards erecting our new place 
 of worship ; he is an exceedingly friendly man. Preach¬ 
 ing was over and the congregation gone by nine o’clock. I 
 then sat down and translated the eleventh of Ezekiel into 
 
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 Bengalee, and this lasted till near eleven, and now I sit down 
 to write to you. After this I conclude the evening by read¬ 
 ing a chapter in the Greek Testament, commending myself 
 to God. I have never more time in a day than this, though 
 the exercises vary.”* Many other proofs of industry might be 
 adduced ; and yet this is the self-same man who said at an¬ 
 other time, cc With respect to myself, I have great reason to 
 lament the want of zeal for God; and for the encouragement 
 of others I may say, that if the Lord should at all bless my 
 labours, none need fear to lay themselves out for him ; yet I 
 have lately had some comfortable revivals of soul, and find 
 in6reasing pleasure in preaching the gospel to the Gentiles. 
 I will therefore go on in the strength of the Lord God, and 
 make mention of his righteousness, and of his only.’” 
 
 His submission under untow r ard events, and patience in 
 waiting for the fruit of his toil, were equally conspicuous. 
 As for the former, the mention of them would often close with 
 these words — 66 but perhaps this may turn out for the further¬ 
 ance of the gospel.” With regard to the latter, he fortified 
 his mind by contemplating his true position. 66 Perhaps it is 
 good that we should be unsuccessful for a season, or, as I 
 sometimes think, we may be like pioneers to prepare the way 
 for some more laborious and successful ministers who may suc- 
 
 * At this period of his life, Dr. Carey spent three days of every week at 
 Calcutta, and thus carrying on his work with greater advantage than if he 
 had not moved from home. Every hour was arranged. Thus, after the 
 above, he says, “ This is Thursday, to-morrow evening I return to Seram- 
 pore. We have then a conference with our Native Brethren: after which 
 Brother Marshman and I revise the Ramaywna till eleven. At six the 
 next morning we begin again till eight. After breakfast and family prayer 
 —revisal of proof-sheets and translations, and preparing for Sabbath. 
 After tea, family consultations, and the temporal concerns of the mission 
 till near midnight. Lord’s day, exercises are various. Monday—the Ra- 
 mayana till breakfast. After which, proof-sheets and translations till tea- 
 time. After this a lecture on some science till nine. Tuesday at six, the 
 Ramaywna. At seven, social prayer-meeting for the success of the gospel 
 in Ilindoosthan. After breakfast the same course as on Monday, till four. 
 Then to Calcutta. Thus at present I spend my time.” 
 
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 ceed us, and have the happiness of bringing many souls to 
 Christ. Should this be the case, our labour will not be in 
 vain, and we shall in another world see with joy, that we have 
 not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.”—Again, 44 I feel 
 myself perfectly at home in my work as a missionary, and re¬ 
 joice that God has given me this great favour, to 6 preach 
 among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. 1 I 
 would not change my station for all the society in England, 
 much as I prize it; nor indeed for all the wealth in the 
 world. May I but be useful in laying the foundation of the 
 church of Christ in India, I desire no greater reward, and 
 can receive no higher honour.” 
 
 His humility I have already noticed as the basis of his 
 character, but in connexion with the cause of God, this was 
 so striking, that I must close with it; for, to change the 
 figure, he was truly 4 clothed in humility 1 as with a garment 
 down to the foot. At an early period he had said to Pearce 
 — 44 I feel a growing desire to be always abounding in the work 
 of the Lord; and I know that my labour in the Lord will 
 not be in vain. I am encouraged by our Lord’s expression, 
 4 He that reapeth 1 (in this harvest) 4 receiveth wages, and 
 gathereth fruit unto eternal life. 1 If, like David, I am only 
 an instrument of gathering materials, and another build the 
 house, I trust my joy will not be the less.” And now, in 
 the evening of life, what were some of his expressions ? 
 
 44 A great and glorious work has been wrought in India 
 since the year 1793. How it has been wrought, and by whom, 
 it would be difficult to say, but the fact cannot be denied. 
 Allowing every drawback; all that detraction can say on the 
 one hand, to disparage the work ; and all that vain-glorious 
 boasting can do on the other, to give all the glory to some in¬ 
 dividuals, or bodies of men ; still it must be said that a great 
 work has been wrought, and that the state of the country, and 
 especially the tone of public feeling, both among Europeans 
 and natives, has undergone a great revolution.” 
 
 Thus did he delight to sink himself into nothing. And 
 
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AND CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
 yet, now that he is gone, it belongs to survivors to appreciate 
 his share in this glorious work. Far be it from me to detract 
 either from the living or the dead in this cause : no, but I do 
 presume, that both parties would unite in saying, that as far 
 as in him lay, like Moses, he has brought this cause through 
 the wilderness, and it will be for others to go in to the pro¬ 
 mised land—like David he has prepared the materials, nay, 
 he has laid the foundation, and it remains for others to rear 
 the superstructure. He has fought a good fight, kept the 
 faith, and finished his course ; and it now only remains for his 
 survivors 66 to watch in all things, to endure afflictions, to do 
 the work of evangelists, and make full proof of their ministry.” 
 
 With regard to the last days and the death of Dr. Carey, 
 I must give the account in the words of the only letter which 
 has yet arrived, though others had been sent off before it. It 
 is from Mr. Leechman to Mr. Hope, dated 10th June, 1834. 
 
 “ As the Crown, which leaves this to-morrow, may perhaps 
 reach home before the Indus, which brings you many letters, it is 
 right in our present circumstances that we embrace this opportu¬ 
 nity too, though at the risk of some repetition in our communica¬ 
 tions. What you and we have long been looking for has at 
 length arrived. Our venerable and beloved Dr. Carey is no 
 more ! On the morning of the 9th instant, about half-past five 
 o’clock, the good and faithful servant, after having so long borne 
 the heat and the burden of the day, entered into the joy of his 
 Lord. For some time past he was reduced to the greatest pos¬ 
 sible weakness, incapable of doing or saying any thing, and almost 
 unconscious of existence ; till at last the w heels of nature stood 
 still, and his spirit took its flight on high. It was matter of great 
 consolation to us all that the dear Doctor had hut little suffering, 
 except a little before the closing scene. lie had no disease hut 
 a gradual decay of nature ; and his mind was in perfect peace. 
 When last able to speak on the subject, lie told us he had no 
 raptures, hut he had no fears. The cross of Christ, the atone¬ 
 ment of the Redeemer, was the only and all-sufficient ground of 
 his confidence and joy. 
 
 “ The funeral took place on Tuesday morning at 5 o’clock. The 
 attendance w r as large and respectable; though the shortness of 
 
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 the time, the state of the weather, the prevalence of sickness, and 
 other causes, prevented many from being present, who sent their 
 kindest assurances of sympathy with us, and of reverence and 
 regard for the departed. Before leaving the house. Rev. M. Hill, 
 now supplying Union Chapel, Calcutta, engaged in prayer. The 
 procession then slowly moved to the burying-ground. As we 
 passed along, the road was lined by the poor natives, for whom 
 our aged brother laboured so long and so successfully; amongst 
 them there were many of our native brethren and sisters, who 
 joined the procession and accompanied their pastor and friend to 
 his long home. When we arrived at the grave we sung the 
 Hymn, 
 
 ‘Why do we mourn departing friends P 
 Why shake at death’s alarms ? 
 
 ’Tis but the voice that Jesus sends 
 To call them to his arms.’ 
 
 “ Dr. Marshman then delivered the address. lie gave a brief 
 sketch of the providences and grace that brought Dr. Carey to 
 India; that enabled him to effect so much for the perishing hea¬ 
 then ; that preserved him during so many years; and at last 
 crowned his long and laborious life with so peaceful and blessed 
 an end. It was intended that Brother Mack should address the 
 native brethren in Bengalee on this occasion, as they had so deep 
 an interest in every thing connected with Dr. Carey. However 
 the time did not admit of this; as, by the time Dr. Marshman 
 had concluded, the sun was getting too high and the heat too 
 great, to permit our being longer in the open air with safety. 
 Brother Robinson therefore concluded with prayer; and we com¬ 
 mitted the remains of our venerated father to the dust, in the 
 sure and certain hope of a blessed and glorious resurrection. 
 
 “ On Sabbath last, the 15th instant, Dr. Marshman preached the 
 funeral sermon in the Danish Church. A few weeks a^o Dr. 
 Carey had requested him to perform this last service for his old 
 friend, and selected the first clause of the eighth verse of the 
 second chapter of the Ephesians, as the text from which he 
 wished him to preach on that occasion.— f By grace are ye saved/ 
 After an introduction suited to the mournful event, the Doctor 
 proposed first to explain this passage; and then to consider how 
 it was exemplified in our departed friend. In the first part of 
 the discourse he gave a very able and edifying account of the 
 salvation of the gospel, and of the grace whence it sprung, and 
 
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 wliicli it exhibits in every part of it, from its commencement till 
 its consummation in glory. And then in a highly interesting 
 manner he shewed how this grace appeared and reigned in the 
 life,, and experience, and labours of Dr. Carey. This grace he 
 observed appeared in the conversion of Dr. Carey, which seems 
 to have been accomplished through the instrumentality of a 
 fellow-apprentice ; the preaching of the late Rev. Thomas Scott, 
 the able expositor; and the perusal of f Hall’s Help to Zion’s 
 Travellers/—a work of which Dr. Carey always spoke in the 
 highest terms of commendation. This grace was seen also in 
 leading him, as soon as he knew the grace of God himself, to seek 
 the spiritual good of others. Here Dr. Marshman referred to the 
 little private meetings in the villages of Northamptonshire, where 
 Dr. Carey first began to expound the Scriptures—to Cook’s 
 Voyages, the perusal of which was the first thing that turned the 
 Doctor’s attention to the state of the heathen world—to his con¬ 
 nexion with Sutcliffe, Ryland, and Fuller—to the abundant suc¬ 
 cess that attended his labours at Moulton and Leicester—to the 
 publication of his work on Missions—and finally to the forma¬ 
 tion of the Society, and his determination to leave all, to go and 
 preach unto the heathen the unsearchable riches of Christ. This 
 grace was seen also in fixing the scene of his labours at Seram- 
 pore. In this part of his address Dr. Marshman pointed out the 
 various gracious providences that attended Dr. Carey’s leaving 
 home ; his voyage over the deep; his settlement at Mudnabatty; 
 and finally, his removal to Serampore, where he enjoyed such 
 ample jwotection, and such abundant facilities for carrying on 
 the purposes of his vigorous, enlarged, and benevolent mind. 
 The grace of God, Dr. Marshman still further remarked, was 
 seen in Dr. Carey’s abundant labours. Here reference was made 
 to his acquisition of languages; to his preaching among the 
 heathen ; to his formation of Christian churches in this benighted 
 land ; and especially to his unparalleled success in translating the 
 word of God into so many of the languages and dialects of the 
 East. • And then, finally, the grace of God was seen in his peace¬ 
 ful and happy end. It was grace that preserved him to us so 
 long; that smoothed the decline of his life with so many com¬ 
 forts; that dealt so gently with him in those sufferings that seem 
 inseparable from our mortal state; that gave him to see that the 
 means and the instruments necessary for carrying on the cause 
 
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 that he loved so much, would be provided, though he w r ere taken 
 away ; and then closed his eyes in peace and blessedness. 
 
 rf Brother Mack also preached a funeral sermon in our own 
 chapel, in the evening; but as I was similarly engaged myself at 
 Dum-Dum, I am sorry I cannot give you an account of it. 
 Brother Robinson also preached on the occasion in his chapel in 
 Bow Bazar. On Monday evening I accompanied Brother Mack 
 to our Christian village, to improve the event among our native 
 brethren. We commenced by singing our usual funeral hymn. 
 f Paritran Krister morone/ f Salvation by the Death of Christ/ 
 Our aged brother, Prun Krishna, prayed. Then Brother Mack 
 preached from Acts xiii. 36. f For David, after he had served 
 his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep/ This pas¬ 
 sage he considered as descriptive of the useful life, and the peace¬ 
 ful death of our aged Brother. lie pointed out how the 
 Doctor had served his generation as a Christian, as a minister, 
 as a missionary, and especially as a translator of the Holy 
 Scriptures. He showed he did this “ by the will of God,”—-in 
 obedience to his call, and in accordance with his instructions. 
 This was most eminently conspicuous in all that Dr. Carey did. 
 He was induced, not by the romance of a missionary life, to 
 enter upon and prosecute his arduous labours : it was the autho¬ 
 rity of God that touched the spring that set his mighty energy 
 in motion; and a regard to his will and pleasure in all things, 
 enabled him to persevere to the end of his life. Thus having 
 faithfully, and diligently, and perseveringly served God and his 
 generation, he fell asleep; he rested from his works, from his 
 difficulties and sorrows. And surely it may with truth be said 
 of him ; ‘ And X heard a voice from heaven saying unto me. 
 Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from hence¬ 
 forth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their la¬ 
 bours ; and their works do follow them/ 
 
 “ It is an interesting fact that the very last thing in which our 
 dear Doctor appeared to take any interest was the Missio?i; and 
 it must gratify our friends at home not a little to know, that his 
 last thoughts respecting it were thoughts of gratitude, thanks¬ 
 giving, and praise. It was about the 22d of last month, that we 
 received the delightful news of the deep and increasing interest 
 that our friends at home are taking in the cause of God among 
 us in this dark idolatrous country. The large contributions that 
 
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 liad been made for the cause, and particularly the noble otter¬ 
 ing for Chirrapoongee—the many prayers that were continually 
 ascending in our behalf to the God of missions—and the many 
 cheering letters that brought this information, were all like cold 
 water to a thirsty soul. When Brother Mack took these letters 
 and read the most important of them to the dear old man, as 
 he was able to hear them, his heart revived, his strength seemed 
 to return; and the whole day he was filled with gratitude to 
 God and to his dear people, for the goodness thus manifested to 
 the cause that he loved. I went in to see him shortly after 
 Brother Mack had left him, and I shall never forget how the 
 aged saint raised his emaciated hands to Heaven, and expressed 
 his delight, though he was then so weak that we could scarcely 
 distinguish what he wished to say-—he could only speak in the 
 lowest whisper. This was the last thing in which he took an 
 interest. The last chord that vibrated in his heart was gratitude 
 to God and his people on behalf of the mission. Very soon after 
 this his mind began to wander. But this was still uppermost 
 even in his incoherent thoughts. Often in his delirium he was 
 anxious to get to his desk that he might write a letter of thanks 
 to his friends at home, and particularly to that friend who has 
 contributed so liberally for Cliirra.* In that part of the mission 
 he always took a deep concern. He bore the half of the expense 
 of the station himself to the last, notwithstanding all his losses. 
 And he lived to see it in a very prosperous state, before he was 
 taken to his great reward. Indeed it was one of the most con¬ 
 soling circumstances connected with our dear Doctor’s removal, 
 that he has left the mission in a more peaceful and prosperous 
 state than he could have done at any previous period of its history. 
 The little church that he at first formed has branched out into 
 six and twenty churches now connected with the mission, in 
 which the ordinances of the gospel are regularly administered ! 
 Gften did he exclaim in astonished thankfulness, f What has 
 God wrought!’ 
 
 “ And now, my dear Sir, what shall we do ? God has taken 
 up our Elijah to heaven—he lias taken away our master from 
 our head to-day. But we must not lie discouraged. The God 
 
 * A Lady, anonymously, £500 to Chirrapoongee; £500 to the College; 
 and before, £500 to the Translations, and £100 to the Mission generally. 
 
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 of missions lives for ever. His cause must go on. Tlie gates of 
 death, the removal of the most eminent, will not impede its pro¬ 
 gress or prevent its success. Come, we have something else to 
 do than to mourn and be dispirited. With our departed father 
 all is well. He has finished his course gloriously. But the work 
 now descends upon us ! Oh ! that a double portion of the Spirit 
 of God may descend upon us too, that we may enter into the 
 labours of those who have gone before. And as we have been 
 honoured to be fellow-workers with Carey on earth, may we 
 have grace to be faithful unto death, and at last share with him 
 the repose and the blessedness of heaven.” 
 
 As our contributions this evening are in aid of the print- 
 ing of the sacred Scriptures into the languages of India; that 
 work in which Dr. Carey has laboured so long, and in which 
 provision has happily been made for carrying it on, without 
 any interruption—you will have now an opportunity of testi¬ 
 fying your esteem for his character ; your regard for his me¬ 
 mory and his work. * 
 
 I only hope, no one can suppose that I have wished, for one 
 moment, to hold him up as a perfect character—-far from it; 
 but as an exhibition of what the grace of God can do, and that 
 we may glorify God in him. At the same time, all that was 
 imperfect, he has left behind; his spirit is now before the 
 throne ; he has sat down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in 
 the kingdom above ; while the day must also come when even 
 the dust of such a man shall rise and shine as the brightness 
 of the firmament—as the stars for ever and ever. 
 
 *£91, 12s. 6d. have been received. 
 
A^D CHARACTER OF CAREY. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 As the letters expected have since arrived, I must not omit to give 
 such farther particulars as may prove gratifying' to the friends of this 
 Cause : the first, referring - to Dr. Carey’s state of mind for some time 
 previous to his decease; the second, being- a copy of his last Will and 
 Testament; and the third, giving- some additional information with 
 regard to his funeral. 
 
 I. From Mr. Mack to Mr. Anderson , dated Serampore, 7th June 
 1834, about forty-eight hours before his death.—“ Respecting the 
 great change before him, a single shade of anxiety has not crossed his 
 mind ever since the beginning of his decay, as far as I am aware. Ilis 
 Christian experience partakes of that guileless integrity, which has 
 been the grand characteristic of his whole life. Often when he was 
 yet able to converse, has he said to his friends—“ I am sure that 
 Christ will save all that will come to him—and if I know any thing of 
 myself, I think I know that I have come to him.” The ascertaining 
 of that all-important fact had been his object in much honest self- 
 examination, and the result was a peaceful assurance that his hopes 
 were well grounded. Having pursued the inquiry to this result; 
 when in the prospect of death, he seems to have been enabled to dis¬ 
 miss all farther anxiety on the subject, and to have committed all that 
 concerned his life and death to the gracious care of God, in perfect 
 resignation to his will. We wonder much that he is yet alive, and 
 should not be surprised were he taken off in an hour. Nor could 
 such an occurrence be regretted : as it would only be weakness in us 
 to wish to retain him. He is ripe for glory, and already dead to all 
 that belongs to life.” 
 
 II. The last Will and Testament of Dr. Carey\ 
 
 From an East Indian Paper. 
 
 “ I, William Carey, Doctor of Divinity, residing at Serampore, in 
 the province of Bengal, being in good health, and of sound mind, do 
 make this my last will and testament in manner and form following:— 
 
 “ First—I utterly disclaim all or any right or title to the premises 
 at Serampore, called the Mission Premises, and every part and parcel 
 thereof, and do hereby declare, that I never had, or supposed myself 
 to have, any such right or title. 
 
 “ Secondly;—I disclaim all right and title to the property belonging 
 to my present wife Grace Carey, amounting to 25,000 rupees, more 
 or less, which was settled upon her by a particular deed, executed 
 previously to my marriage with her. 
 
 “ Thirdly—i give and bequeath to the College of Serampore, the 
 whole of my Museum, consisting of minerals, shells, corals, insects, 
 and other natural curiosities, and a Hortus Siccus. Also the folio 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 edition of Hortus Woburnensis, which was presented to me by Lord 
 Hastings; Taylor’s Hebrew Concordance, my collection of Bibles in 
 foreign languages, and all my books in the Italian and German lan¬ 
 guages. 
 
 “ Fourthly—1 desire that my wife, Grace Carey, will select from 
 my library whatever books in the English language she wishes for, 
 and keep them for her own use. 
 
 “ Fifthly—From the failure of funds to carry my former intentions 
 into effect, I direct that my library, with the exceptions above made, 
 be sold by public auction, unless it, or any part of it, can be advan¬ 
 tageously disposed of by private sale, and that from the proceeds 1500 
 rupees be paid as a legacy to my son Jabez Carey, a like sum having 
 heretofore been paid to my sons Felix and William. 
 
 “ Sixthly—It was my intention to have bequeathed a similar sum 
 to my son Jonathan Carey, but God has so prospered him that he is in 
 no immediate want of it. I direct that if any thing remains, it be 
 given to my wife Grace Carey, to whom I also bequeath all my house¬ 
 hold furniture, wearing apparel, and whatever other effects I may pos¬ 
 sess, for her proper use and behoof. 
 
 “ Seventhly—1 direct that before every other thing, all my lawful 
 debts may be paid ; that m}^ funeral be as plain as possible ; that I be 
 buried by the side of my second wife Charlotte Emilia Carey; and 
 that the following- inscription, and nothing more, may be cut on the 
 stone which commemorates her, either above or belong as there may 
 be room ; viz.— 
 
 “ William Carey, born August 17, 1761, died- 
 
 “ A wretched, poor, and helpless worm, 
 
 “ On thy kind arms 1 fall.” 
 
 “ Eighthly—I hereby constitute and appoint m}^ dear friends the 
 Rev. William Robinson, of Calcutta, and the Rev. John Mack, of Se- 
 rampore, executors to this my last will and testament, and request 
 them to perform all therein desired and ordered by me, to the utmost 
 of their power. 
 
 “ Ninthly—1 hereby declare this to be my last null and testament, 
 and revoke all other w ills and testaments of a date prior to this. 
 
 (Sd.) “ William Carey. 
 
 (Sd.) “ W. H. Jones, Samuel MTntosh.” 
 
 The first disclaimer is simply declaring by w ill, what is in conso¬ 
 nance with the recorded sentiments of those who survive, in which 
 Dr. Carey had united; hut as for the second, it will be remembered 
 that the property has been swept away since, by the calamitous 
 failures in w hich, as already hinted, all parties suffered. Some grati¬ 
 fying information, with regard to the Doctor’s relatives, w hether by 
 blood or marriage, will be found in the following letter. The instruc¬ 
 tions, w r ith respect to his funeral, have already been attended to, and 
 those w ith regard to his tombstone, either have or will be literally 
 obeyed ; though this, of course, does not prevent the erection of any 
 suitable mark of respect for his memory, at Serampore, by his sur¬ 
 viving brethren. 
 
AFFENDIX. 
 
 III .—From Dr. Marshman to Mr. Anderson , 19 th Jane 1831. 
 
 “ If closing 1 my last letter to you ten days ago, I told you that our 
 venerable and dear Brother had just, that hour, entered into the joy 
 of his Lord. He had been confined to his couch more than a month.” 
 And after mentioning the means employed in ministering to his com¬ 
 fort, the Doctor proceeds : “Thus was the life of our beloved Brother 
 sustained, when lie was so weak that it was with difficulty he could 
 speak three words so as to be heard ; without being in any pain, how¬ 
 ever, beside what weakness brings, and without any disease whatever ; 
 continuing to sleep at night, and being laid on his couch, to beat com¬ 
 parative ease ail the day-—understanding what he heard, but unable to 
 speak—his mind in the most placid and tranquil state—having not a 
 doubt, and, as he often told me, not a wish left unsatisfied ! His weak¬ 
 ness however gradually so increased, that 1 think he was not always 
 sensible of what passed around him. the last few days. I visited him 
 perpetually, our houses being so near to each other. The last Sab¬ 
 bath of his life, June 8th, 1 visited him about noon, eighteen hours be¬ 
 fore his decease, and found him lying on his couch, by the side of the 
 table, in his dining-room above stairs, placed there for the sake of the 
 air. He was scarcely able to articulate, and after a little conversa¬ 
 tion, 1 knelt down by the side of his couch and prayed with him. 
 Finding my mind unexpectedly drawn out to bless God for his good¬ 
 ness, in having preserved him and blessed him in India for above forty 
 years, and made him such an instrument of good to his church ; and 
 to entreat that on his being taken home, a double portion of his spirit 
 might rest on those who remained behind : though unable to speak, 
 he testified sufficiently by his countenance, how cordially he joined in 
 this prayer. I then asked Mrs. Carey whether she thought he could 
 now see me. She said, yes, and to convince me, said, ‘ Mr. Marsh- 
 man wishes to know whether you now see him ?’ He answered so 
 loudly that I could hear him, ‘ yes I do,’ and shook me most cordially 
 by the hand. 1 then left him, and my other duties did not permit me 
 to reach him again that day. The next morning, as I was returning 
 home before sun-rise, I met our Brethren Mack and Leechman out on 
 their morning* ride, when Mack told me that our beloved brother had 
 been rather worse all the night, and that he had just left him very ill. 
 J immediately hastened home, through the College, in which he has 
 lived these ten years, and when I reached his room, found that he had 
 just entered into the joy of his Lord,— Mrs. Carey, his second son Jabez, 
 my son John, and Mrs, Mack being present. 
 
 “ About an hour after we came together, and after consulting Mrs. 
 Carey, we fixed the time of his funeral at five the next morning, June 
 the 10th, it being the general custom, in this extreme heat, to bury 
 one who may die in the morning, the same evening. 1 then wrote to 
 our old friend Lindeman of Calcutta to take charge of the funeral, 
 which, at Dr. Carey’s express desire, was to be as plain as was con¬ 
 sistent with neatness. Brother Mack undertook to write to Mr. 
 Yates to give notice to all his brethren, to Mr. Micaiah Hill of the 
 London Society, desiring him to inform all his; and to Mr. Duff of 
 the Scotch Church, requesting him to inform Mr. M‘Kay and Mr. 
 Charles. John undertook to write to Mr. Dealtry and Archdeacon 
 
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 Corrie. I wrote to Sir Charles Metcalfe and the Bishop of Cal¬ 
 cutta ; and Jabez wrote to Lady Bentinck and his own brother Jona¬ 
 than. Mr. Yates attended for himself and the Circular Road Bre¬ 
 thren ; Messrs. Hill, Lacroix, and Gogerly from the London brethren; 
 Mr. Duff returned a most kind letter, being 1 unable to come; Sir 
 Charles Metcalfe and the Bishop wrote very feelingly in return, and 
 Lady Bentinck sent the Rev. Mr. Fisher in her room; also a most 
 kind and feeling answer, for I believe she truly loved the venerable 
 man. As he was buried so early, many who would have come from 
 Calcutta were unable. 
 
 “ Mr. Micaiah Hill prayed in the house, Mr. Yates not being quite 
 well. We then walked to the Mission burying-ground. There Bro¬ 
 ther Leechman gave out the hymn, ‘ Why do we mourn departing 
 friends ?’ I then addressed the audience, and contrary to Brother 
 Mack’s foretelling that I should never get through it for tears, I did 
 not shed one. Brother Mack was then asked to address the native 
 members, but he seeing the time so far gone, publicly said he would 
 do so at the village. Brother Robinson then prayed, and weeping, 
 then neither myself nor few beside could refrain. 
 
 “ The Governor and Members of Council were there, and, I think, 
 the Governor’s Lady; and he, of his own accord, had the Danish flag 
 hoisted half-mast high, as at the death of a Governor of Serampore. 
 it was a most solemn funeral; not a word was uttered. 
 
 “ We, as a Mission, took the expense on ourselves, not suffering his 
 family to do so, as we shall that of erecting a monument for him. 
 Long before his death, we had by a letter signed by us all, assured 
 him, that the dear relatives, in England and France, should have their 
 pensions continued as though he were living, and that Mrs. Carey 
 as a widow, should have 100 rupees monthly, whatever MTntosh’s 
 house might yield her.” 
 
 Respecting the Mission since, the intelligence is of the most en¬ 
 couraging description. An additional Church is mentioned, viz. Agra 
 -—consisting already of about forty members, raised in the first in¬ 
 stance through the exertions of Captain LI., and making the number 
 of churches twenty-six. Thus if is through the mercy of God. The 
 light which has dawned upon India, will not, cannot remain stationary; 
 it will shine more and more unto the perfect day.