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The Life and Times of Carey, Marshman, and Ward, Embracing the History of the Serampore Mission (Volume 1 )

The Life and Times of Carey, Marshman, and Ward, Embracing the History of the Serampore Mission (Volume 1 )

Marshman, John Clark

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ISBN10: 1235704386
ISBN13: 9781235704383
Publisher: General Books
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... out an admission which might afterwards be turned against the mission, and that this conviction made Dr. Marshman cautious, though at the time he and Mr. Ward wished him to be explicit. He remarked that they were placed between Scylla and Charybdis, and that it was difficult to know how to act. To this Mr. Fuller rejoined in the last letter but one which he wrote to Serampore before his death. As to the correspondence with Mr. Ricketts, in remarking on which you consider me just but not merciful, having expressed my thoughts, I thought no more on the subject, and I hope brother Marshman was not greatly wounded. I feel my deficiency in not being able always to express my sentiments so as not to 'break the head.' I hope I need not say I love you all, and hope to live and die with you. In writing to Mr. Fuller regarding these troubles, Mr. Ward said he suspected the Court of Directors had resolved to have a victim or two, to be hung up in terrorem as an example, lest the country should be inundated with missionaries. Dr. Carey remarked that their necks had been more or less under the yoke ever since the year of the pamphlets, and that the preaching of the Gospel stood in much the same political light as committing an act of felony. He said he had endeavoured to acquit the Government of religious persecution, but was sorry to say that his mind would not do it, though Lord Minto had no dislike to them, and was a friend to liberty, and a man of the mildest manners, and not a persecutor. He then described the feelings and conduct of the secretaries, on whom the whole blame of these transactions rests, in language of the greatest severity. The Charter, he says, allows the Company to send all interlopers to Europe. The Company have been clamorous since 1807...

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