1821. Bhugeli "
the Greek. And now one of these cobblers was prompted and enabled by the Spirit who is the author of the truth in the Scriptures, to give to South and Eastern Asia the sacred books which its Syrian sons, from Moses and Ezra to Paul and John, had been inspired to write for all races and all ages. Emphatically, Carey and his later coadjutors deserve the language of the British and Foreign Bible Society, when, in 1827, it made to Serampore a last grant of money for translation--"Future generations will apply to them the words of the translators of the English Bible--'Therefore blessed be they and most honoured their names that break the ice and give the onset in that which helped them forward to the saving of souls. Now what can be more available thereto than to deliver God's book unto God's people in a tongue which they understand?'" Carey might tolerate interruption when engaged in other work, but for forty years he never allowed anything to shorten the time allotted to the Bible work. "You, madam," he wrote in 1797 to a lady as to many a correspondent, "will excuse my brevity when I inform you that all my time for writting letters is stolen from the work of transcribing the Scriptures into the Bengali language."
From no mere humility, but with an accurate judgment in the state of scholarship and criticism at the opening of last century, Carey always insisted that he was a forerunner, breaking up the way for successors like Yates, Wenger, and Rouse, who, in their turn, must be superseded by purely native Tyndales and Luthers in the Church of India. He more than once deprecated the talk of his having translated the Bible into forty languages and dialects.16 As we proceed that will be a apparent which he did with his own hand, that which his
16 THIRTY-SIX BIBLE TRANSLATIONS, MADE AND EDITED BY DR. CAREY AT SERAMPORE First Published in
1801. BENGALI--New Testament; Old Testament in 1802-9. 1811. Ooriya " " in 1819. 1824. Maghadi " only. 1815-19. Assamese " " in 1832. 1824. Khasi. 1814-24. Manipoori. 1808. SANSKRIT " " in 1811-18. 1809-11. HINDI " " in 1813-18. 1822-32. Bruj-bhasa " only. 1815-22. Kanouji " only. 1820. Khosali--Gospel of Matthew only. 1822. Oodeypoori--New Testament only. 1815. Jeypoori " 1821. Bhugeli " 1821. Marwari " 1822. Haraoti " 1823. Bikaneri " 1823. Oojeini " 1824. Bhatti " 1832. Palpa " 1826. Kumaoni " 1832. Gurhwali " 1821. Nepalese " 1811. MARATHI-- " Old Testament in 1820. 1820. Goojarati " only. 1819. Konkan " Pentateuch in 1821. 1815. PANJABI " " and Historical Books in 1822.