Carey, William

Once, after William Carey had become a notable missionary in India, an aristocrat remarked cuttingly that he had been merely a shoemaker. "Not a shoemaker," Carey is supposed to have replied. "Merely a cobbler." Carey was indeed a poor cobbler and Baptist preacher, but he had an immense vision for the lost souls of the world, and strained every faculty to learn the extent of the world's spiritual need and focus the attention of his fellow englishmen upon it. Although there had been other Protestant missionaries before him, particularly among the Moravians, and the Catholic church never ceased