Book Description

Title:

The Life of John Thomas. Surgeon of the Earl of Oxford and First Baptist Missionary to Bengal

Author:

Charles Bennett Lewis [1821-1890]

Publication Year:

1873

Location:

London

Publisher:

MacMillan & Co.

Pages:

417

Subjects:

Christian Mission, India, Baptist Missionary Society

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Contents

• Preface

1. Mr Thomas's Early Life—1757-83
2. Calcutta in the Latter half of the Eighteenth Century
3. Voyages to Calcutta and engagement as a Missionary—1783-87
4. The First Year at Malda—1787-8
5. Controversy and Disaster—1788-89
6. Harla Gachi—1789-90
7. Reconciliation and Return to England—1790-92
8. Missionary Projects in Bengal
9. The Baptist Missionary Society and its First Enterprise
10. How the Lord made Room for His Servants, that they might dwell in the Land—1793-4
11. Moypaldiggy—1794-7
12. Having no certain dwelling-place—1797-9
13. Serampore—1799-1800
14. Cast down, but not destroyed—1799-1800
15. Dinajpur and Sadamahal—1801
16. Concluding Observations

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