| | |

John Thomas, First Baptist Missionary to Bengal

ByRob
John Thomas (1757-1801)
Photo credit: Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

Dr John Thomas [1757-1801] was a founding member of the Baptist Missionary Society and accompanied William Carey to India in 1793. Charles Bennett Lewis’s biography is one of the standard works on Thomas. The original from which this digital copy was made is held in Spurgeon’s College Library. This book is in the public domain.

Charles Bennett Lewis [1821-1890], The Life of John Thomas. Surgeon of the Earl of Oxford and First Baptist Missionary to Bengal. London: MacMillan & Co., 1873. Hbk. pp.417. [Click to visit the download page for this title]

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
  • Appendix

Similar Posts

By Searching: Autobiography of Isobel Kuhn, Part 1

ByRob

Isobel Kuhn and her husband were missionaries to the Lisu people of China and Norther Thailand. This book is the firt part of her autobiography, concluded in In the Arena. My thanks to OMF International UK for their kind permission to digitise and host this book and to Book Aid for making a copy available…

Press Release: Operation Mobilisation Archive

ByRob

International missions archive to move to Leuven — On 19 October in Leuven, Belgium, Operation Mobilisation International (OM) will formally signify the transfer of the organisation’s records to EVADOC, Belgium’s archive for Protestantism and Evangelicalism. The archive will include sixty years of material which covers Bible smuggling into Soviet Russia, shipwreck, overland passage to India, mountain adventures in the Himalayas, and the growth of a movement estimated…

Egypt and Palestine – The Way of Partnership

ByRob

This little book tells the story of the Church Missionary Society’s work in Egypt and Palestine up to the early 1930s. S.A. Morrison, The Way of Partnership With the C.M.S. in Egypt and Palestine. London: Church Missionary Society, 1936. Hbk. pp.87. Click to download in PDF. Reproduced by kind permission of the Church Missionary Society…

Fishermen’s Saint – an Address on St. Andrew by Wilfred Grenfell

ByRob

This little book is an address by Wilfred Grenfell – missionary to deep sea fishermen – on St. Andrew, the Patron Saint of fishermen. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a copy to scan. This book is in the Public Domain. Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell [1865-1940], The . Rectorial Address Delivered at…

Life Story of Lucy Evangeline Guinness

ByRob

Karl Wilhelm Kumm [1874-1930] and Lucy Evangeline [Guinness] [1865-1906] were founders …of the Sudan United Mission (SUM) Kumm, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, felt called to missionary work among Muslims. He was serving with the North Africa Mission in Egypt when, in 1899, he met Henry Grattan Guinness, the celebrated evangelist, and his daughter, Lucy. Lucy…

Karl Kumm’s Social and Natural History of the Sudan

ByRob

To understand this book you will need to forget the borders of the modern nation of Sudan because, as the map above shows, in the 1900s “Sudan” referred to a much larger area. Karl Kumm’s work provides a wealth of background information about this region. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing me with a…