Cards, John, a minister of the German Reformed Church, was bom in Northumberland county. Pa., in September, 1811. He studied theology in the Theo- lodcal Seminary of the German Reformed Church at York, Pa. In 1882 be was licensed and ordained, and immediately became pastor of the German Reformed church in York, Pa., which post be occupied till his death, April 5, 1848. As a preacher, he was clear, compact, earnest, and solemn. In his manner, looks, and tones there was a peculiarity which l>elongs but to few— a kind of holy Cascination which chained the hearer, and awed his conscience. Deep impressions were made wherever he preached ; and for this, more than ibr any talents or learning he possessed, he was widely known and grateftilly remembered. He pos- sessed also the rare talent of preaching in both Ger- man and English with a correctness that made it im- possible to determine which was his native tongue.
Carey, Felix, son of Dr. William Carey, was bom m 1786, assisted his fitther in his labors in Bengal, and died at Serampore in 1822. Ansong his works were. Grammar and Dictionary of the Burman Language (Serampore, 1814, 8vo); PaU Grammar; a Bengalese translation of the PUgrinCi Progress, etc — Gorton, 2%. Dic^onary, s. ▼.
Carey, William, an eminent Baptist misdonazy, vas boro Aug. 17, 1761, at Pftulersbury, Northamp- tonshire, England. His father was clerk of the par- ish, and master of a ftee school, in which his son re- ceived his elementary education. Having early em- braced Baptist principles, he was in 1788 inmiersed in the river Xen, and afterward became pastor of a Bap- tist church in the village of Moulton. Here he was a diligent student, not only of theology, but also of nat- qibI history, botany, and modem languages. In 1787 he removed to Leicester, where he had every prospect of a useful and happy lifs. But his mind, long occu- pied with tlie duty of missionary exertions among the heathen, would not allow him to indulge the prospect of remaming at home. The cause of missions was his Civorito theme; and having, at the urgent recom- mendation of hit fHends, Fuller, Ryland, and Sntdiffe of Olney, directed public attention to the snl^Ject thioagh the press, steps were forthwith taken to com- mence practical operiitions among the Baptists. Chief- ly through his exertions the Baptist Missionary Soci- ety was formed, Oct. 2, 1792. Mr. John Thomas, who had abeady spent some years in Bengal, and was im- boed with a similar enthusiasm in ^e cause of mis- sions to the heathen, had recently returned home. Carey volunteered for India, associated Thomas with him, and embarked June 18, 1798, accompanied by his wife and whole fiimily, Mrs. Carey's sister having con- sented also to form one of the emigrants. Arrived in India, all their property was lost on the river Hooghly. Thos left destitute in a strange land, Carey retained unshaken fiaith in the providence of God. In 1794 he was employed by a Mr. Udney in an indigo factory, And was brought into close contact, in this sphere, ^ith the nadves. Here he spent five years, preach- ing, itod3rnig the Bengalee and Sanscrit languages, sod establishing schools. Carey, having made satis- factory inquiries, resolved to establish his head^iuar-
ters at Mudnabatty. The home society sent out two pious and excellent laborers — Marshman and Ward — the former of whom had been a teacher, the latter a printer. On thefa: arrival at Calcutta in 1799, the Indian government refused permission to increase the missionary force at Mudnabatty, and accordingly forced them to break up that establishment at a great loss to their Ainds. Mr. Carey and his fHends fixed their residence at the Danish settlement of Serampore, where, under the patronage of the governor, who was most friendly to the object of thebr mission, they en^ joyed a tide of prosperity beyopd their most sanguine expectations, and were placed in the centre of a much more numerous population, among whom they were ftee to carry on their work of Christian instruction. In 1801 the marquis of Wellesley, who founded the College of Fort William fbr instructing the youth in the Company's service in the vernacular languages of India, offered Carey the professorship of Bengalee. After considerable hesitation, and satisfactory evidence that the duties of this situation would not interfere with his missionary labors, Carey accepted the situa- tion ; and though the teaching of the Sanscrit and Biahratta languages, being subsequently devolved on the occupier of this chair, added greatly to the routine of his duties, he continued for thirty years — the whole period of its existence— to contribute to the usefulness and the fkme of that institution. He now formed the acquaintance of learned pundits from all parts of In- dia, through whom, in the course of years,- he was en- abled to translate the Scriptures into all the principal languages of Northern Hhidostan. For the students in the college he had to compile grammars of the lan- guages he taught them, and after many years he com- pleted his voluminous Bengalee dictionary. All his phAological researches were made subservient to the design of translating the Sacred Oracles into the ver- nacular langfllges of India. '^The versions of the sacred Scriptures, in the preparation of which he took an active and laborious part, included the Sanscrit, Hindee, Brgbhassa, Mahratta, Bengalee, Voriga, Telin- ga, Kufnata, Maldivian, Gojarattee, Bnloshee, Push- too, Punjabee or Shikh, Kashmeer, Assam, Burman, Pali or Magudha, Taroul, Cingalese, Armenian, Ma- lay, Hindoetanee, and Persian. In six of these tongues the whole Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were printed and circulated ; the New Testament ap- peared in twenty-three languages, besides various diiu lects, in which smaller portions of the sacred text were printed. The whole number of languages is stated at forty, and we are probably below the truth when we state that the Sei«mpore press, under the auspices chiefly of Dr. Carey, was honored to be the instrument, in about thirty years, of rendering the Word of God accessible to tfiree hundred millions of human beings, or nearly one third of the population of the world.** He died June 9, 1884. See Life of Carey, by Eustace Carey (Lond. 1887, 2d ed. 12mo); Belcher, Biography of Carey (Phila. 1865, 18mo) ; Jamieson, Cyclop, of Bi- ography, 103 ; Marshman, lAtfee of Carey, Marshman, and Ward (Lond. 1869, 2 vols. 8vo) ; Christian Review, 1,681.