William Carey is considered the Father of Modern Missions. Born in England in 1762, the son of Anglican and raised in the Church. From a young age have a mind checking which did not seem to thirst for knowledge never satiated. Especially was fascinated by languages. Working as a shoemaker at 16 years, always had a book study next to the shoes. One day a colleague invited to a meeting does not Anglican. I was 18 and heard the sermon on Hebrews 13:13-14 made to surrender their lives to Christ. When then understood that God guided him out of the Anglican Church obeyed, but had trouble. Followed thirteen years of hard work as a shoemaker, a teacher of children, as fervent preacher, above all, as a tireless student. You married and had families.
Each time he weighed more than the unspeakable need of the heathen. Looking back, we understand that William was experiencing something like 'pain-of-birth'. But speaking of this 'burden' with other servants of God, was not always understood or well received. Once, at a meeting of Baptist ministers, when he emphasized the need to take the gospel to the heathen, a pastor of more age and experience was exasperated. He snapped: "Young man, sit, sit! You are an enthusiast, but when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will know it without consulting you or me. "
However, the October 2, 1792, Carey and twelve servants of God, 'deliver' the Baptist Missionary Society. And, next year, after great trials, the same William and young family, along with a partner, Danish sail on a sailboat. This required five months to reach Kolkata in India. During this trip
William Carey learned Bengali well enough to understand the people. Shortly after landing he began to preach, and listeners came to hear him in ever increasing numbers. Carey felt the urgent need for the people had a Bible in their own language and promptly gave the task of translating it. How quickly learned the languages \u200b\u200bof India, is a source of admiration for the best linguists.
Nobody knows how many times our hero felt great discouragement in India. His wife had no interest in the efforts of her husband and went crazy. Most of the English with whom Carey had contact, believed mad for almost two years received no letter from England. Often Carey and his family lacked money for food. To support his family, the farmer returned missionary, and worked as a laborer in a factory of indigo.
For over thirty years Carey was professor of Oriental languages \u200b\u200bat the College of Fort William. He also founded Serampore College to train workers. Under his leadership the school flourished and played a big role in the evangelization of the country. On reaching India, Carey continued his studies he had begun as a child. Not only founded the society of agriculture and horticulture, but also created one of the best botanical gardens, wrote and published the Hortus Bengalensis. The book Flora Indica, another of his works, was considered a masterpiece for many years.
should not think, however, that William Carey gardening was just a distraction. He also spent much time teaching in schools for poor children. But, above all, always burned in his heart to carry on the work of winning souls.
When one of his sons began to preach, Carey wrote: "My son, Felix, answered the call to preach the gospel." Years later, when that same son accepted the post of ambassador to Great Britain in Siam, the father, disappointed and distressed, wrote to a friend: "Felix is \u200b\u200bdwarfed to become an ambassador!"
During forty-one years Carey went to India, did not visit England. He was fluent in more than thirty languages \u200b\u200bof India, led the translation of the Scriptures in all those languages \u200b\u200band was appointed to undertake the arduous task of official government translator. Hindu wrote grammars and compiled several important dictionaries of the languages \u200b\u200bBengali, Marathi and Sanskrit. The dictionary consists of three volumes Bengali and includes all the words of the language, with its roots and origins, and defined in every way.
This was possible because Carey always save time, as is apparent from what he wrote to his biographer:
"Herculean perform these tasks without jeopardizing your health, because it methodically and rigorously applied to its program of work year after year. He enjoyed going from one task to another. He said that loses more time when working without a finding and carelessly, with interrupts visits. Observed, therefore, the norm to take, without hesitation, the work marked and not let anything distract him during their period of work. "
The following, written for a friend to apologize for the delay in answering your letter, it shows how advanced many of his works together:
" Today I got up at six, I read a chapter of the Hebrew Bible, I spent the rest of the time, until seven in prayer. Then I went to worship in Bengali domestic servants. As I brought the tea, read a bit in Persian with Munchi I expected, I observed, before breakfast, a portion of Scripture in Hindustani. Then, after breakfast, I sat with a pundit waiting for me to continue the translation from Sanskrit into ramayuma. Work until ten. So I went to school to teach up to almost two in the afternoon. On returning home, I read the proofs of the translation of Jeremiah into Bengali, and ended just when it was time to eat. After lunch, I started to translate, aided by the chief pundit school, most of the eighth chapter of Matthew to Sanskrit. In this I was busy until six o'clock. After six sat down with Pundit Telinga to translate the Sanskrit language it. At seven I started to think about the message I preached a sermon in English after seven and a half. Close forty people attended the worship, including a judge Dewany Sudder Dawlut. After the service the judge contributed 500 rupees for the construction of a new church. Everyone who attended went to worship at nine in the night then sat down to translate the eleventh chapter of Ezekiel into Bengali. I ended up at eleven, and now I'm writing this letter. Then shall close my activities on this day in prayer. Not a day you can have more time than this, but the program varies. "
In advancing age, his friends insisted that disminuyese their efforts, but his aversion to inactivity was such that he continued working, even when physical force was not sufficient to activate the necessary mental energy. At last he was forced to stay in bed, where he continued to correcting the proofs of the translations.
Finally, on June 9, 1834, at age 73, William Carey asleep in Christ.
Humility was one of the salient features of his life, that is, being at the pinnacle of his fame, he heard a British officer cynically ask: "Is the great Dr. Carey was a shoemaker?" Carey to overhearing Question answered
"No, my friend, was only a cobbler."
When William Carey arrived India, the British refused permission to disembark. At death, however, the government ordered Izas the flags at half mast to honor the memory of a hero who had done more for India than all the British generals.
estimated Carey translated the Bible for the third of the world's population. So wrote one of his successors, the missionary Wenger: "I do not know how Carey was able to do even a quarter of their translations. Twenty years ago (in 1855) that missionaries, in presenting the gospel in Afghanistan (country of Central Asia), found that the only version that people understand, was made Pushtoo in Sarampore by Carey. "
The translation of the Bible highlighted in the work of Carey, and when he died in 1834 at the age of 73 years, the entire Bible, or parts of it had been translated and printed at no less than 44 languages \u200b\u200band dialects. His exemplary life and work was the instrument in the hand of God to 'trigger' missionary movements in England and in several other countries. In the next two centuries these had to come up with countless gospel around the world.
William Carey's body rests, but his work continues to be a blessing to much of the world.
Daniel E. Dañeiluk. www.biografas.blogspot.com
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