II. LATEST JUSTIFICATION OF CAREY'S PIONEER WORK III. THE ANGLO-ORIENTAL AND THE ANGLO-VERNACULAR v. INDEX 441 452 457 "As time passes it appears that we are in the hands of a Providence which is greater than all statesmanship, that this fabric so blindly piled up has a chance of becoming a part of the permanent edifice of civilisation, and that the Indian achievement of England, as it is the strongest, may after all turn out to be the greatest of all her achievements."PROFESSOR J. R. SEELEY. UNIV. OF LIFE OF WILLIAM CAREY, D.D. CHAPTER I. CAREY'S COLLEGE. 1761-1785. The Heart of England-The Weaver Carey who became a Peer, and the weaver who was father of William Carey-Early training in Paulerspury-Impressions made by him on his sister-On his companions and the villagers-His experience as son of the parish clerk-Apprenticed to a shoemaker of Hackleton- Poverty - Famous shoemakers from Annianus and Crispin to Hans Sachs and Whittier-From Pharisaism to Christ-The last shall be first-The dissenting preacher in the parish clerk's home-He studies Latin, Greek and Hebrew, Dutch and French-The cobbler's shed is Carey's college. WILLIAM CAREY, the first of her own children of the Reformation whom England sent forth as a missionary, who became the most extensive translator of the Bible and civiliser of India, was the son of a weaver, and was himself a village shoemaker till he was twenty-eight years of age. He was born on the 17th August 1761, in the very midland of England, in the heart of the district which had produced Shakspere, had fostered Wiclif and Hooker, had bred Fox and Bunyan, had for a time been the scene of the lesser lights of John Mason and Doddridge, of John Newton and Thomas Scott. William Cowper, the poet of missions, made the land his chosen home, writing Hope and The Task in Olney while the shoemaker was studying theology under Sutcliff on the opposite side of the market-place. Thomas Clarkson, 10 VIMU born a year before Carey, was beginning his assaults on the slave-trade by translating into English his Latin prize poem on the day-star of African liberty when the shoemaker, whom no university knew, was writing his Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use means for the Conversion of the Heathen. William Carey bore a name which had slowly fallen into forgetfulness after services to the Stewarts, with whose cause it had been identified. Professor Stephens, of Copenhagen, traces it to the Scando-Anglian Car, CÆR or CARE, which became a place-name as CAR-EY. Among scores of neighbours called William, William of Car-ey would soon sink into Carey, and this would again become the family name. In Denmark the name Caròe is common. The oldest English instance is the Cariet who coined money in London for Æthelred II. in 1016. Certainly the name, through its forms of Crew, Carew, Carey, and Cary, still prevails on the Irish coast-from which depression of trade drove the family first to Yorkshire, then to the Northamptonshire village of Yelvertoft, and finally to Paulerspury, farther south-as well as over the whole Danegelt from Lincolnshire to Devonshire. If thus there was Norse blood in William Carey it came out in his persistent missionary daring, and it is pleasant even to speculate on the possibility of such an origin in one who was all his Indian life indebted to Denmark for the protection which made his career possible. The Careys who became famous in English history sprang from Devon. For two and a half centuries, from the second Richard to the second Charles, they gave statesmen and soldiers, scholars and bishops, to the service of their country. Henry Carey, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth, was the common ancestor of two ennobled houses long since extinctthe Earls of Dover and the Earls of Monmouth. A third peerage won by the Careys has been made historic by the |