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