John Thomas, First Baptist Missionary to Bengal

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