William Carey | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sun, 16 Mar 2014 11:22:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg William Carey | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 William Carey–“I can plod. To this I owe everything.” https://anitamathias.com/2010/05/22/william-carey-proceeding-single-mindedly-in-the-direction-of-his-dreams-2/ Sat, 22 May 2010 20:56:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/05/22/william-carey-proceeding-single-mindedly-in-the-direction-of-his-dreams-2/   William Carey is often attributed the title ‘Father of Modern Missions’. He was born into a desperately poor family, and consequently obtained a poor education. He was apprenticed as shoemaker, but simply did not make the grade. He tried his hand at starting and running a school, but it functioned badly. His marriage was […]

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