INSPIRATIONAL TRUE STORY "Candle in the Dark" The Story of William Carey.
In 1793, William Carey sailed to India with a reluctant wife and four children to bring the message of Jesus. This man of God shows dramatically how a life dedicated to God and obedient to His calling can make a profound difference in the world. Question to all of us: would we have continued as William Carey? Or gone home at the first sign of trouble of which this man had so many. Enjoy the film and be challenged
In 1793, William Carey sailed to India with a reluctant wife and four children to bring the message of Jesus. This man of God shows dramatically how a life dedicated to God and obedient to His calling can make a profound difference in the world. Question to all of us: would we have continued as William Carey? Or gone home at the first sign of trouble of which this man had so many. Enjoy the film and be challenged
William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was a British Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India.[1]
He went to Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1793, but was forced to leave the British Indian territory by non-Baptist Christian missionaries.[2] He joined the Baptist missionaries in the Danish colony of Frederiksnagar in Serampore. One of his first contributions was to start schools for impoverished children where they were taught reading, writing, accounting and Christianity.[3] He opened the first theological university in Serampore offering divinity degrees,[4][5] and campaigned to end the practice of sati.[6]
Carey is known as the "father of modern missions."[7] His essay, An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens, led to the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society.[2][8] The Asiatic Society commended Carey for “his eminent services in opening the stores of Indian literature to the knowledge of Europe and for his extensive acquaintance with the science, the natural history and botany of this country and his useful contributions, in every branch.”[9]
He translated the Hindu classic, the Ramayana, into English,[10] and the Bible into Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Marathi, Hindi and Sanskrit.[2] William Carey has been called a reformer and illustrious Christian missionary.
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