… Baptists to act as other churches and nations had been acting for centuries. When Carey reached India, he had more support from Continental missionary societies and missionary minded friends from Scandinavia and Germany than from the Baptist Missionary Society which Fuller re-structured it Carey’s absence. Indeed, Carey founded his mission in a Danish, not British Protectorate. So fierce was Fuller’s and later Ryland Junior’s chauvinistic, political interference in the Indian Mission …
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… projects were financed by the Indian mission itself, with the added assistance of friends in India. The Mission now owned property valued at several thousand pounds, but to avoid rumours that the missionaries were lining their own pockets they naively but ideally signed over all the Serampore Mission rights and assets to the Society. This was eventually altered to allow the missionaries a tenth of their profits in order to make provisions for widows and orphans. This meant that Carey’s …
… of the Great Awakening’ provided George Whitefield with his pattern of preaching and evangelism. India was supplied with missionaries from these churches long before Carey’s outreach. The Reformed pietistic revival which lasted for over a century, caused Neander, Spener, Franke, Gerhardt and Bengel to model their own Bible studies, family and house worship on Mülheim lines. Of these, only Neander, converted under Undereyk, was Reformed, the others were highly influential Lutheran …
… lands. That young man was William Carey who became one of the first Baptist missionaries to India.
The truth is that few Baptists at that time knew who Carey was and what he was capable of doing and in his new devotion to evangelism Carey made many blunders. Indeed, during the following three or four years as his great plans became known, most of the leading Baptist pastors disagreed with him in strong terms. Yet modern duty-faith adherents are striving to recreate a false …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Exalter of Christ Alone
William Carey (1761-1834): Using God’s Means to Convert the People of India (I-IV)
William Cowper (1731-1800): Christian Campaigner
William Cowper and Home-Schooling
William Cowper’s Friendship with John Newton
William Grimshaw (1708-1763): Apostle of the North
William Huntington (1745-1813): Pastor of Providence
William Perkins (1558-1602): Preacher of Law and Grace
William Romaine (1714-1795): Evangelical Pillar
William Tyndale (c. 1484-1536): Heir of …
… brought him close to being arrested several times, for the best of causes, before leaving for India. The Mission Board must have wondered about the human and political risk of sending out Ward to such a conservative country as India. However, Ward found himself busy doing so many chores that neither the Marshmans nor Carey could manage so he had no time for controversy accept when disagreeing strongly with Fuller concerning the latter’s insistence on ruling the Serampore church like an …
… gives some new and very interesting reasons why Ryland protested against Carey’s plans for India. The best reason probably remains the old one, i.e. that Ryland thought Carey ill-prepared for the work.
Some denominational bigotry is shown in Naylor’s handling of the deep friendship of Ryland with Anglican James Hervey as if Hervey gave Ryland an inferiority complex for being a mere Dissenter. This is an insult to both men. Here, references of Hervey and Toplady to Ryland …
… Society were prepared to cut the rope and abandon Carey hardly a year after Carey reached India. Fuller criticised the young work at Serampore at times so harshly that Carey had to tell him that he was ‘killing’ such as Fountain, an excellent missionary. So, too, Ward and Marshman were greatly grieved to find that Fuller was sabotaging their church planting. Fuller demanded Society-controlled British Baptist churches only and not indigenous churches with non-denominational names. …
… greatly in their circulation, calling Bengel ‘the prophet of this age’. The German mission to India at Tranquebar welcomed Bengel’s work as it assisted them greatly in their task of translating the Bible and bringing the gospel to people who had been strangers to it.
Strong criticism came from Erasmus scholars as Bengel had introduced readings absent from Erasmus’ Greek New Testament. Bengel explained that Erasmus work was a rushed job and where Erasmus had no Greek …
Robert Oliver on Huntington
Aug 15
… as also Brainerd, who followed in his footsteps. Cranz in Greenland and Ziegenbalg’s work in India have long fired me with a zeal to evangelise the nations. August Hermann Franke and Cotton Mather on missionary strategy have thrilled me for years. Even those missionaries of a later time such as William Carey and J. G. Paton, about whom I have a shelf full of precious books, are a constant encouragement. I am trying to get Paton’s biography published in German at present. Who, too, …
