{"pages":{"71":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00095-a3ab895e6f9a85a5ae40.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":462,"y":150,"width":249,"height":18}},{"text":"71","box":{"x":999,"y":148,"width":41,"height":17}},{"text":"60. CAREY ON METHODS OF EVANGELISM (1796 A.D.)","box":{"x":132,"y":234,"width":905,"height":29}},{"text":"The work of William Carey and his colleagues at Serampore and","box":{"x":220,"y":294,"width":766,"height":27}},{"text":"Calcutta played an important part in the development of the modern","box":{"x":183,"y":319,"width":803,"height":27}},{"text":"missionary movement. Here Carey describes his evangelistic methods","box":{"x":182,"y":343,"width":803,"height":28}},{"text":"in his journal of 11 January 1796. Cited in Eustace Carey, Memoir","box":{"x":186,"y":369,"width":802,"height":27}},{"text":"of William Carey, pp. 255-258.","box":{"x":183,"y":396,"width":369,"height":25}},{"text":"I wish to say something about the manner of my preaching,","box":{"x":179,"y":451,"width":858,"height":32}},{"text":"but scarcely know how. As a specimen, however, I will just describe","box":{"x":130,"y":476,"width":905,"height":35}},{"text":"the season at a large village, about four miles from Mudnabatty,","box":{"x":130,"y":505,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"called Chinsurah. I went one Lord's Day afternoon to this place,","box":{"x":134,"y":535,"width":900,"height":31}},{"text":"attended by a few persons from Mudnabatty. When I got into","box":{"x":134,"y":561,"width":901,"height":34}},{"text":"the town, I saw an idolatrous temple, built very finely with bricks.","box":{"x":133,"y":591,"width":904,"height":31}},{"text":"In order to excite attention, I asked what place that was they","box":{"x":133,"y":619,"width":904,"height":29}},{"text":"said it was Thakooranne, that is a Debta. I asked if it was alive;","box":{"x":136,"y":645,"width":900,"height":31}},{"text":"they said, yes; well, said I, I will see her, and accordingly went","box":{"x":134,"y":673,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"towards the place, when they called out, 'No, Sir, no, it is only a","box":{"x":133,"y":700,"width":904,"height":34}},{"text":"stone.' I however mounted the steps, and began to talk about","box":{"x":134,"y":729,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"the folly and wickedness of idolatry. A bazaar or market, near,","box":{"x":133,"y":757,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"was very noisy; I therefore removed to a little distance under a","box":{"x":132,"y":785,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"tamarind-tree, where we began by singing the hymn 'O who besides","box":{"x":133,"y":812,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"can deliver.' By this time a pretty large concourse of people","box":{"x":134,"y":843,"width":898,"height":32}},{"text":"was assembled, and I began to discourse with them upon the things","box":{"x":133,"y":868,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"of God. It is obvious that giving out a text and regularly dividing","box":{"x":134,"y":897,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"it, could not be of any use to those who never heard a word of the","box":{"x":136,"y":925,"width":898,"height":31}},{"text":"bible in their lives; I therefore dwelt upon the worth of the soul","box":{"x":132,"y":953,"width":903,"height":31}},{"text":"and its fallen state, the guilt of all men who had broken God's","box":{"x":136,"y":983,"width":898,"height":31}},{"text":"righteous law, and the impossibility of obtaining pardon without","box":{"x":136,"y":1008,"width":900,"height":35}},{"text":"a full satisfaction to divine justice. I then inquired what way of","box":{"x":134,"y":1036,"width":904,"height":36}},{"text":"life consistant with the justice of God was proposed in any of their","box":{"x":136,"y":1065,"width":898,"height":32}},{"text":"shastras. They, said I, speak of nine incarnations of Vishnu past,","box":{"x":136,"y":1093,"width":896,"height":32}},{"text":"and one to come, yet not one of them for the salvation of a sinner.","box":{"x":134,"y":1120,"width":898,"height":34}},{"text":"They were only to preserve a family, kill a giant, make war against","box":{"x":134,"y":1149,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"tyrants, &c.; all which God could have accomplished as well","box":{"x":136,"y":1177,"width":898,"height":32}},{"text":"without these incarnations. An incarnation of the Deity, said I,","box":{"x":132,"y":1205,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"is matter of too great importance to take place in so ludicrous a","box":{"x":137,"y":1232,"width":901,"height":35}},{"text":"manner and for such mean end purposes. Mutchee Obeetar, or fish","box":{"x":133,"y":1261,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"incarnation said I, was to become rudder of a boat, and preserve a","box":{"x":134,"y":1289,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"family in a great flood; and the wild hog incarnation was to kill","box":{"x":137,"y":1316,"width":897,"height":32}},{"text":"a giant and draw up the earth out of the sea when it was sinking;","box":{"x":136,"y":1345,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"but this God who created it could have accomplished without any","box":{"x":133,"y":1369,"width":903,"height":39}},{"text":"such interposition. I then observed how miserable they were,","box":{"x":134,"y":1401,"width":900,"height":35}},{"text":"whose religion only respected the body, and whose shastras could","box":{"x":132,"y":1429,"width":904,"height":32}},{"text":"point out no salvation for the sinner. I then spoke of the way of","box":{"x":137,"y":1456,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"life by Christ, his substitution in our place, suffering in the sinner's","box":{"x":134,"y":1485,"width":901,"height":31}},{"text":"stead and the like.","box":{"x":136,"y":1513,"width":241,"height":25}}]}}}