The Life of William Carey D D Author:George Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III INDIA AS CAREY FOUND IT 1793 Tahiti v. Bengal—Carey and Thomas appointed missionaries to Bengal— The farewell at Leicester—John Thomas, first ... more »medical missionary— Carey's letter to his father—The Company's " abominable monopoly " —The voyage—Carey's aspirations for world-wide missions—Lands at Calcutta—His description of Bengal in 1793—Contrast presented by Carey to Clive, Hastings, and Cornwallis—The spiritual founder of an Indian Empire of Christian Britain—Bengal and the famine of 1769-70—The Decennial Settlement declared permanent—Effects on the landed classes—Obstacles to Carey's work — East India Company at its worst — Hindooism and the Bengalees in 1793 — Position of Hindoo women—Missionary attempts before Carey's —Ziegenbalg and Schwartz—Kiernander and the chaplains—Hin- dooised state of Anglo-Indian society and its reaction on England— Guueshan Dass, the first caste Hindoo to visit England—William Carey had no predecessor. Carey had desired to go first to Tahiti or Western Africa. The natives of North America and the negroes of the West Indies and Sierra Leone were being cared for by Moravian and Wesley an evangelists. The narrative of Captain Cook's two first voyages to the Pacific and discovery of Tahiti had appeared in the same year in which the Northampton churches began their seven years' concert of prayer, just after his own second baptism. From the map, and a leather globe which also he is said to have made, he had been teaching the children of Piddington, Moulton, and Leicester the great outlines and thrilling details of expeditions round the world which roused both the scientific and the simple of England as much as the discoveries of Columbus had excited Europe. When the childlike ignorance and natural grace of the Hawaiians, which had at...« less