Serampore Letters Author:William Carey 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: 24 GREAT MISSIONARY MOVEMENT. great cause that was so near his heart. Almost his last words were, " I wish I had strength enough." " To do what, father?" inqu... more »ired his daughter. He replied, " To worship, child." : Dr. Carey died on the pth of June, 1834, in the seventy-third year of his age, and was buried at Serampore. Meantime a fresh generation of missionaries had sprung up, and among those who continued to preach the Gospel to the heathen were several of Carey's sons. Other bodies of Christians too had founded Missionary societies and sent ministers into various parts of the world. The London Missionary Society was founded in 1795, the Church (of England) Missionary Society in 1799, the Wesleyan Missionary Society in 1817. The interest Americans showed in the good work has already been alluded to, and the agents of their various organizations are still doing, as they did in Carey's time, very effective work in many fields. THOMAS WRIGHT. chapter{Section 4SERAMPORE LETTERS. A FTER the full and picturesque account, which Mr. Wright has given in his introduction, of the events which led to the sending forth of William Carey and his associates in 1793, it may seem almost unnecessary to add any words as to the men and the district from which they came. And yet, for American readers at least, some little account of the town of Olney may not be amiss. To those accustomed only to the busy, bustling streets of some city in the Western world, Olney would scarcely seem to deserve the name of town, consisting, as it does, for the most part, of one long, broad street, which even its accomplished and ardent eulogist, Mr. Wright, admits to be somewhat deserted; but in the days when Cowper was living in Olney, and Carey cobbling away in his little shop in the neighboring haml...« less