. Along the lines at the front : A general survey of Baptist home and foreign missions. ospel, in that these brethren, so pre-eminently qualified for the work, were compelled todevote most of their time to the acquisition and the use ofthe native languages in the translation of the Scripturesand in the preparation of a Christian literature. It wasseven years before the first convert was baptized. The Society entered upon the interesting work inJamaica in 1813, but Serampore still commanded themost attention. The natives called the first missionpress a balathe dhoiirga— English idol. Yet theyso
. Along the lines at the front : A general survey of Baptist home and foreign missions. ospel, in that these brethren, so pre-eminently qualified for the work, were compelled todevote most of their time to the acquisition and the use ofthe native languages in the translation of the Scripturesand in the preparation of a Christian literature. It wasseven years before the first convert was baptized. The Society entered upon the interesting work inJamaica in 1813, but Serampore still commanded themost attention. The natives called the first missionpress a balathe dhoiirga— English idol. Yet theysoon learned that it was not speechless. The word ofGod was issued in Bengali, Hindustani, Chinese, San-scrit, Hindi, Malay, Singhalese, Tamil, Javanese, be-sides numerous lexicons and grammars and other liter-ature in several of these languages. Dr. Yates becamethe successor of Dr. Carey in this vast translation work,and before they and their associates, Drs. Marshman andWard, entered into rest, the Bible, either in whole or inpart, had been issued by them in forty-four of the Ori-. WILLIAM CAREY, D. 108. MISSIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND EUROPE. IO9 ental languages or dialects, spoken by more than fivehundred millions of people. An immense number ofreligious tracts also were placed in circulation, whichcontributed to undermine the popular confidence inidolatry and to lay the foundations for Asiatic Chris-tianity. The sacrifices of these early Baptist missionaries havenever been surpassed in the history of modern receiving at times large compensation for thevaluable services they were able to render to the Eng-lish Government on account of their knowledge of somany native languages, they drew but a dollar per weekeach for their food for long periods, and were enabledthus to contribute several hundred thousand dollarsthemselves to their translation enterprises and to thefounding of the Serampore college. I visited this col-lege, as also the Calcutta press est
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