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Bengal Carey and Thomas appointed missionaries to Bengal The farewell at Leicester John Thomas, first medical missionary Carey's letter to his father The Company's "abominable monopoly" The voyage Carey's aspirations for world-wide missions Lands at Calcutta His description of Bengal in 1793 Contrast presented by Carey to Clive, Hastings, and Cornwallis The spiritual founder of an Indian Empire of Christian Britain Bengal and the famine of 1769-70 The Decennial Settlement declared permanent Effects on the landed classes Obstacles to Carey's work East India Company at its worst Hindooism and the Bengalees in 1793 Position of Hindoo women Missionary attempts before Carey's Ziegenbalg and Schwartz Kiernander and the chaplains Hindooised state of Anglo-Indian society and its reaction on England Guneshan Dass, the first caste Hindoo to visit England William Carey had no predecessor.
But Ziegenbalg certainly was not wanting in his estimate of the chief end in view, and his success was undoubtedly far greater for the intelligent plan upon which he labored. The time came when a change had passed over the society which had sent him forth.
Before them the number of Protestant versions of the Bible in the speeches of India could be counted on the fingers of one hand. The Dutch of Ceylon undertook a Tamil New Testament in 1688, which was followed in 1715 by another version from the pen of Ziegenbalg.
The pioneer of India's missions, the devoted Ziegenbalg, had not been long in his field before he learned the mistake which the churches in Europe had made in regard to the religion and philosophy of the Hindus.
Ziegenbalg, and some others, to Tranquebar, on the Coromandel coast in the East-Indies, who were useful to the natives, so that many of the heathens were turned to the Lord.
Its influence has been the most pervasive and marked in the development of what is best in thought and truest in life. Perhaps no change has overtaken Protestant missions during these two centuries greater than that which has transformed the missionaries themselves. There is a wide gulf between Ziegenbalg and Carey.
In South India, for the greater part of the century, the Coast Mission, as it was called, had been carried on from Tranquebar as a centre by the Lutherans whom, from Ziegenbalg to Schwartz, Francke had trained at Halle and Friedrich IV. of Denmark had sent forth to its East India Company's settlement.
W. Miller developed the Christian College. But the way for the harvest now being reaped by the Evangelicals and Anglicans of the Church of England, by the Independents of the London Missionary Society, the Wesleyans, and the Presbyterians of Scotland and America, was prepared by the German Ziegenbalg and Schwartz under Danish protection.
The prejudice which has existed in regard to this subject has taken two different forms: First, there has been the broad assumption upon which Franke wrote to Ziegenbalg, that all knowledge of heathenism is worse than useless. Good men are asking, "Is not such a study a waste of energy, when we are charged with proclaiming the only saving truth?
Others, less friendly than he to the Gospel of Christ, had studied Hinduism, and had paraded it as a rival of Christianity; and in self-defence against this flank movement, the long-neglected work of Ziegenbalg was brought forth from obscurity and published.
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