My reason for publishing this account of William Carey and his Indian mission on my website.
On 18-21 February, 2010 a conference will be held at Muscle Shoals, Alabama under the theme ‘The Quagmire of Hyper-Calvinism’. The key speaker will be Dr. Michael Haykin who will lecture on Andrew Fuller as a missionary pioneer. The myth that Andrew Fuller pioneered a missionary movement is superstitiously believed by Dr. Haykin and his circle …
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Part II: The Mission Prospers
The mission at Serampore prospered and spread. Carey was given the most prominent building in the city for the church in which he preached for the next thirty-four years. The town of Serampore, too, prospered as it proved an asylum of peace for fugitives from the Americo-Franco-British wars and it persuaded many wealthy investors to settle there. More missionaries were urgently needed as Brunsdon soon died of a liver complaint. Fountain, who …
… clearly the importance of bringing the gospel into foreign 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 …
Hold Fast
Aug 17
… kind who looked to such as Romaine, Toplady, Hawker and Huntington as their mentors. Here we find Pierce, Gadsby, Warburton, Philpot and Kershaw who have also become mentors to present-day Christians. The anecdotes told of these men are spiritually moving.
Though thrilled with the book up to this stage, I missed mention of the fair sex who held fast to sound words. In Chapter 8 entitled Literature, Hazleton meets this need. Here we find writers such as Mrs A. B. Hoblyn, Ruth Byron …
… as a figure of speech to describe an ‘as if’ state. Oliver quotes Fuller’s letter to Carey in which Fuller claims Booth misunderstood him but Fuller’s Six Letters to Dr. Ryland show that Booth’s criticism was just. Oliver finds Fuller’s view of penal substitution orthodox, though Fuller denies that Christ was punished on our behalf and robs the term ‘substitution’ of all concrete meaning.
Sharon James gives a most balanced pen-portrait of John Rippon, …
… brief study of this subject would have been helpful as it is here that Fuller differed mostly from Carey who never mixed his missionary strategy with severe right-wing colonial, political thinking as did Fuller. So, too, Haykin ought to examine the ‘holding the rope’ theory of Fullerites which has reached mythological proportions. The Baptist Missionary Society were prepared to cut the rope and abandon Carey hardly a year after Carey reached India. Fuller criticised the young work at …
… 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 ministers, but of Reformed piety.
Alsace, where Arndt and Spener …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Pastor of the Marian Exiles
Tobias Crisp (1600-1643): 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 …
… a mere quibble. Naylor 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 …
