The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. From Cobbler's Bench to Bengal: Missionary Translation, Education, and Reform in British IndiaBy George Smith
Length15h 53m
About this audiobook
George Smith's The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary is a richly documented Victorian biography of the Baptist pioneer whose journey from cobbler's bench to Bengali mission field helped inaugurate the modern Protestant missionary movement. Written in a fluent, reverent, and evidentiary style, the book combines narrative history, spiritual portraiture, and institutional chronicle, situating Carey's labors in translation, education, printing, and social reform within the wider expansion of evangelical missions and British engagement with India. Smith, a Scottish journalist, editor, and historian of missions, brought to Carey's life both archival discipline and sympathetic understanding. His own long involvement with Indian affairs and missionary literature equipped him to interpret Carey not merely as a pious hero but as a linguist, educator, reformer, and organizer. Smith's biography reflects the nineteenth-century conviction that individual faith, scholarly labor, and moral persistence could alter cultures and institutions. This book is recommended to readers interested in missionary history, colonial India, religious biography, and the intellectual roots of global Christianity. Though shaped by its era's assumptions, it remains an indispensable account of Carey's extraordinary vocation and enduring influence.
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- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
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Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length15 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 18, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary
3Preface
4Chapter I: Carey's College
5Chapter II: The Birth of England's Foreign Missions
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6Chapter III: India as Carey Found It
7Chapter IV: Six Years in North Bengal—Missionary and Indigo Planter
8Chapter V: The New Crusade—Serampore and the Brotherhood
9Chapter VI: The First Native Converts and Christian Schools
10Chapter VII: Calcutta and the Mission Centres From Delhi to Amboyna
11Chapter VIII: Carey's Family and Friends
12Chapter IX: Professor of Sanskrit, Bengali, and Marathi
13Chapter X: The Wyclif of the East—Bible Translation
14Chapter XI: What Carey Did for Literature and for Humanity
15Chapter XII: What Carey Did for Science—Founder of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India
16Chapter XIII: Carey's Immediate Influence in Great Britain and America
17Chapter XIV: Carey as an Educator—The First Christian College in the East
18Chapter XV: Carey's Christian University for the People of India
19Chapter XVI: Carey's Last Days
20Appendix.
21I.—Charter of Incorporation of Serampore College
22II.—Statutes and Regulations of Serampore College
23III.—Article Vi., Clause 2, of the Treaty of Purchase, Transferring Serampore to the British Government
24Memorable Quotes
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