eousness? There,
there shall in nowise enter in anything that defileth; none of that
wickedness which has made men worse than wild beasts, none of those
corruptions which add still more to the miseries of mortality, shall be
seen or heard of any more."

No more is known of Henry Martyn save that he died at Tocat on the 16th
of that same October of 1812, without a European near. It is not even
known whether his death were caused by fever, or by the plague, which was
raging at the place. He died a pilgrim's solitary death, and lies in an
unknown grave in a heathen land.

What fruit has his mission zeal left? It has left one of the
soul-stirring examples that have raised up other labourers. It has left
the Persian Bible for the blessing of all to whom that language is
familiar. It left, for the time, a strong interest in Christianity in
Shiraz. It left in India many English quickened to a sense of religion;
and it assuredly left Sheik Salah a true convert. Baptized afterwards by
the name of Abdul Messeh, or Servant of the Messiah, he became the
teacher of no less than thirty-nine Hindoos whom he brought to Holy
Baptism. Such were the reapings in Paradise that Henry Martyn has won
from his thirty-one years' life and his seeming failure.

CHAPTER V. WILLIAM CAREY AND JOSHUA MARSHMAN, THE SERAMPORE
MISSIONARIES.

The English subjects and allies in India had hitherto owed their scanty
lessons in Christianity to Germans or Danes, and the first of our own
countrymen who attempted the work among them was, to the shame of our
Government be it spoken, a volunteer from among the humblest classes, of
no more education than falls to the lot of the child of a village
schoolmaster and parish clerk.

In 1761, when Schwartz was just beginning to make his way in Tanjore,
William Carey was born in the village of Paulerspury, in
Northamptonshire. He showed himself a diligent scholar in his father's
little school, and had even picked up some Latin before, at fourteen
years old, he was apprenticed to a shoemaker at the neighbouring village
of Hackleton. Still he had an earnest taste for study; and, falling in
with a commentary on the New Testament full of Greek words, he copied
them all out, and carried them for explanation to a man living in his
native village, who had thrown away a classical education by his
dissipated habits.

The young shoemaker, thus struggling on to instruct himself, fell under
the notice of T