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| | Revival Library | Life Of William Carey by George Smith, C.I.E., LL.D. | Chapter 1 |
 | | WILLIAM CAREY, the first of her own children of the Reformation whom England sent forth as a missionary to India, where he became the most extensive translator of the Bible and civiliser, was the son of a weaver, and was himself a village shoemaker till he was twenty-eight years of age. |
 | | George Fox was only nineteen when, after eight years’ service with a shoemaker in Drayton, Leicestershire, not far from Carey’s county, he heard the voice from heaven which sent him forth in 1643 to preach righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, till Cromwell sought converse with him, and the Friends became a power among men. |
 | | Carey was going alone, or with one equally to be depended on along with him, he would not oppose him; but his strong disapprobation of Mr. |
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