Ebook Memoir of William Carey, D.D

The ensuing Memoir was composed at the request of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society. The subject of it was their first and principal agent, by whose instrumentality they sought to confer the blessings of the gospel upon the heathen world. To perpetuate some memorial of his character and labors, appeared a just tribute of their esteem for him; whilst it offered _a suita ble occasion for renewing the recollection of those events and incidents which marked the origin and early progress of the institution whose affairs they administer. The of fice of biographer was devolved upon me, it is presumed, from my relationship to Dr. Carey, and from my suppos ed intimate conversancy with the history of their Eastern Mission. I have endeavored, throughout the work, to exhibit the Christian and the missionary, rather than the philosopher and the scholar. The materials to which I had access were more applicable to this purpose; and it appeared, also, that a work so prepared, would be more accordant with the purposes of such a Society.