twenty years dead. During my long residence there as Editor of the
Friend of India, I came to know, in most of its details, the nature
of the work done by Carey for India and for Christendom in the first
third of the century. I began to collect such materials for his
Biography as were to be found in the office, the press, and the
college, and among the Native Christians and Brahman pundits whom he
had influenced. In addition to such materials and experience I have
been favoured with the use of many unpublished letters written by
Carey or referring to him; for which courtesy I here desire to thank
Mrs. S. Carey, South Bank, Red Hill; Frederick George Carey, Esq.,
LL.B., of Lincoln's Inn; and the Rev. Jonathan P. Carey of Tiverton.

My Biographies of Carey of Serampore, Henry Martyn, Duff of
Calcutta, and Wilson of Bombay, cover a period of nearly a century
and a quarter, from 1761 to 1878. They have been written as
contributions to that history of the Christian Church of India which
one of its native sons must some day attempt; and to the history of
English-speaking peoples, whom the Foreign Missions begun by Carey
have made the rulers and civilisers of the non-Christian world.


CONTENTS

I. CAREY'S COLLEGE
II. THE BIRTH OF ENGLAND'S FOREIGN MISSIONS
III. INDIA AS CAREY FOUND IT
IV. SIX YEARS IN NORTH BENGAL--MISSIONARY AND INDIGO PLANTER
V. THE NEW CRUSADE--SERAMPORE AND THE BROTHERHOOD
VI. THE FIRST NATIVE CONVERTS AND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
VII. CALCUTTA AND THE MISSION CENTRES FROM DELHI TO AMBOYNA