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“Shoemaker by trade, but scholar, linguist and his amazing ‘Enquiry’; he pastor of a small
missionary by God’s training,” William Carey was
one of God’s giants in the history of evangelism!
One of his biographers, F Dealville Walker, wrote of
Carey: “He, with a few contemporaries, was almost
singlehanded in conquering the prevailing life as a whole, it is not too much
indifference and hostility to missionary effort;
Carey developed a plan for missions, and printed
influenced timid and hesitating Baptist congre-
men to take steps to the gation. It was
evangelizing of the world.” there that Carey
Another wrote of him, “Taking his heard the mis-
sionary call. In his
to say that he was the greatest own words: “My
and most versatile Christian attention to mis-
missionary sent out in modern sions was first
times.” awakened after I
Carey was born in a small was at Moulton, by
thatched cottage in Paulerspury, reading the ‘Last
a typical Northamptonshire Voyage of Captain
village in England, August 17, Cook’.”
1761, of a weaver’s family. When To many, Cook's
about eighteen, he left the Church Journal was a
William Carey
of England to “follow Christ”. thrilling story of William Carey
1761-1834
At first he joined the Congre- adventure, but to 1761-1834
gational Church at Hackleton Continued on p. 12
where he was an apprentice
shoemaker. It was there he
married in 1781. And it was in
Hackleton he began making five-
mile walks to Olney in his quest
for more spiritual truth. Olney was
a stronghold of the Particular
Baptists, the group that Carey
cast his lot with after his baptism,
October 5, 1783. Two years later
he moved to Moulton to become a
schoolmaster.
One year later he became the