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The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary
by George Smith

This Etext was created by John Bechard, London, England
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{Note from the preparer of this etext: I have had to insert a view
comments mainly in regards to adjustments to fonts to allow for some
of the characters in the Indian names; you will find any of my own
notes enclosed in these brackets--{}. I have also renumbered the
footnotes and placed them at the end of this e-text, removing them from
within the document where they fell at the end of each corresponding
page.}

PREFACE
On the death of William Carey In 1834 Dr. Joshua Marshman promised
to write the Life of his great colleague, with whom he had held almost
daily converse since the beginning of the century, but he survived too

short a time to begin the work. In 1836 the Rev. Eustace Carey
anticipated him by issuing what is little better than a selection of
mutilated letters and journals made at the request of the Committee of
the Baptist Missionary Society. It contains one passage of value,
however. Dr. Carey once said to his nephew, whose design he seems to
have suspected, "Eustace, if after my removal any one should think it
worth his while to write my Life, I will give you a criterion by which
you may judge of its correctness. If he give me credit for being a
plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too
much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe
everything."
In 1859 Mr. John Marshman, after his final return to England,
published The Life and Times of Carey, Marshman, and Ward, a
valuable history and defence of the Serampore Mission, but rather a
biography of his father than of Carey.
When I first went to Serampore the great missionary had not been
twenty years dead. During my long residence there as Editor of the
Friend of India, I came to know, in most of its details, the nature of the
work done by Carey for India and for Christendom in the first third of
the century. I began to collect such materials for his Biography as were
to be found in the office, the press, and