Henry Martyn was one of the earliest missionaries into India and the first to ever reach and do ministry as a protestant in Iran. Listen to his tragic story and his heroic call to share the Word of God.
Thanks to Pastor Ed Backell for reading this episode! Pastor Ed Backell is a Washington state native, and has taught for 30+ years in churches in Oregon, Washington and Nebraska, currently in Spokane Valley, WA. He has been serving Holy Trinity Lutheran Church since September, 2024.
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00:00 --> 00:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Revived thoughts is a production of Revived Studios.
00:08 --> 00:11 [SPEAKER_02]: This is Troy and Joel and you're releasing two Revived Thoughts.
00:19 --> 00:29 [SPEAKER_00]: So let us work to the best of our judgment and put in our strength, because regardless of the successes of our plans in this world,
00:31 --> 00:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Every episode we bring you a different voice from history and a sermon that they delivered today We're going back to the early 19th century in India to listen to a sermon by Henry Martin Troy How's the how's it going how's the house life?
00:48 --> 00:49 [SPEAKER_02]: Things are good over here.
00:49 --> 00:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Actually, I can't think of any major things that would be exciting.
00:53 --> 00:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Just the normal run of the mill stuff, I will say.
00:56 --> 01:01 [SPEAKER_02]: My country is getting ready and imprept to start Ramadan.
01:01 --> 01:05 [SPEAKER_02]: You can tell the signs are there, so we have to get ready and prepped as well.
01:05 --> 01:07 [SPEAKER_02]: So I guess that's kind of what was on my mind.
01:07 --> 01:12 [SPEAKER_02]: I was going for a run in the evening and I saw like a lot of festival tents and stuff getting set up.
01:12 --> 01:15 [SPEAKER_02]: But I was like, why are they setting up festival tents?
01:15 --> 01:19 [SPEAKER_02]: and different neighborhoods and now it's like, oh, we're in the last couple of days before Ramadan starts.
01:20 --> 01:25 [SPEAKER_02]: So that will change the, the, the, the lay of the land for a month or so.
01:25 --> 01:26 [SPEAKER_02]: So that's what's going on over here.
01:27 --> 01:28 [SPEAKER_02]: What's going on over there?
01:28 --> 01:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, family sickness is what's going on here.
01:32 --> 01:34 [SPEAKER_01]: For some reason, I have been protected from this.
01:35 --> 01:45 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how or why, but my family is going on almost a full week of feverish flu, and it is not a fun place at my house.
01:45 --> 02:01 [SPEAKER_01]: very sad visitor both ways and I am the disinfector I'm the one that who's brain is uncompromised by fever that is trying to keep trying to keep everything steady so yeah you'd be pretty far so we're lovely.
02:01 --> 02:04 [SPEAKER_01]: I wear everything remedies here soon.
02:04 --> 02:08 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if it's, if it's just common, I just feel like in my house is the same way.
02:08 --> 02:12 [SPEAKER_02]: If the whole family gets sick with something, I feel like I'm always the one who's healthy.
02:12 --> 02:15 [SPEAKER_02]: And then if I'm sick, I feel like I'm always sick by myself.
02:15 --> 02:18 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's like, you know, you know, you know, and we're quite blessed.
02:18 --> 02:21 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't, I really don't feel like our family gets sick that often.
02:21 --> 02:25 [SPEAKER_02]: So this is like a once a year occurrence where I feel like everyone's down but me.
02:25 --> 02:28 [SPEAKER_02]: But in, like historically, the record is pretty clear.
02:28 --> 02:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm always the odd band out and I don't know if that's the way it is with you guys or not.
02:31 --> 02:50 [SPEAKER_02]: I've wondered I'm like, is this the Lord's like protection like so that families don't have both parents go down at the same time I don't know but it's always been something I've noticed that here over here at least And I don't think that no, I usually do get that You're usually down with them, so I do guys aren't do that.
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05:43 --> 05:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Henry Martin.
05:44 --> 05:51 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like this might be this ad as to, I don't know if it was in a weird spot when I was just reading it, but I feel like this is one of the saddest ones we've ever done.
05:52 --> 05:53 [SPEAKER_01]: This guy is such a sad story.
05:54 --> 05:55 [SPEAKER_02]: So he doesn't really sad.
05:55 --> 05:56 [SPEAKER_02]: I think he's got a great story.
05:56 --> 06:08 [SPEAKER_02]: And Henry Martin is like a famous missionary, like whenever you're researching, missionary people who inspired them, Henry Martin is like right next to William Carey on their list of names.
06:08 --> 06:09 [SPEAKER_02]: But for some reason,
06:09 --> 06:11 [SPEAKER_02]: He didn't like get to the modern day.
06:11 --> 06:15 [SPEAKER_02]: So a lot of people back in the day knew about him, but he his story just didn't get to us.
06:16 --> 06:18 [SPEAKER_02]: I told Joel as we were starting this.
06:18 --> 06:21 [SPEAKER_02]: I really feel like I snagged this one out of the hands of martyrs and missionaries.
06:21 --> 06:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Kind of like I did with William nib, really recently as well.
06:25 --> 06:34 [SPEAKER_02]: This episode is very, very missionary focused, but I really liked this episode because it is so rare to get a missionaries sermon.
06:34 --> 06:54 [SPEAKER_02]: out on the field like we've only like we've had a few episodes of mission we've done Hudson Taylor we've done uh William Nib we've we've done these guys who traveled and did missions work before but I can only think of a handful like a handful of sermons and our six and a half years of going where we got the sermon from the field like they were out among the people
06:54 --> 06:57 [SPEAKER_02]: doing the work that they were called to do when they did it.
06:57 --> 06:59 [SPEAKER_02]: There was one in a guy in China.
06:59 --> 07:01 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's very rare.
07:01 --> 07:05 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm actually not remembering what his name was, but he got killed by pirates in China and his sermon.
07:05 --> 07:09 [SPEAKER_02]: The only one he ever preached in Chinese got published and sent everywhere.
07:09 --> 07:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Cool story.
07:10 --> 07:13 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm so sorry I can't tell you what his name is off the top of my head.
07:13 --> 07:30 [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, to tell you to go check them out, but I really like this story, and uh, that was one I really remember how special it was because he was actually on the field Hudson Taylor has one where he's talking to all the missionaries in Shanghai Um, but there's just not that many so it's really cool when we get our hands on one of these guys and can say like hey, we can tell you a story and
07:30 --> 07:44 [SPEAKER_02]: Also, this is coming from the field because the thing about the work of what a missionary does, on the one hand, they must be amazing preachers because they're preaching to people in other languages from their natural language and they're having to learn so much and they're bringing the gospel to them.
07:44 --> 07:50 [SPEAKER_02]: You know that some of the best preachers that ever lived, that belong on revive thoughts, absolutely have to be these missionaries.
07:50 --> 07:59 [SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, by the nature of their job, nobody's probably writing their sermons down to preserve them, to send them back,
07:59 --> 08:01 [SPEAKER_02]: these kind of sermons in our hands.
08:02 --> 08:02 [SPEAKER_01]: It's neat.
08:02 --> 08:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.
08:03 --> 08:08 [SPEAKER_01]: It is great to have one that was actually preached on the mission field.
08:09 --> 08:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Henry Martin, born in Cornwall, England in 1781.
08:13 --> 08:18 [SPEAKER_01]: And during his life, he'd only lived the age of 31, so not a long life.
08:18 --> 08:20 [SPEAKER_01]: But in those short years, he'd do a lot.
08:20 --> 08:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He'd do a lot.
08:21 --> 08:23 [SPEAKER_01]: And he lived a lifetime in those short years.
08:23 --> 08:25 [SPEAKER_01]: He experienced so much.
08:25 --> 08:28 [SPEAKER_01]: As a boy, Henry was he was smaller than the rest of
08:28 --> 08:37 [SPEAKER_01]: The other boys his age and he was not particularly athletic and seems to affect him pretty deeply was pretty sensitive about it.
08:37 --> 08:42 [SPEAKER_01]: But what he lacked for in physical strength, he made up for with a brilliant mind.
08:42 --> 08:43 [SPEAKER_01]: He was a smart kid.
08:43 --> 08:47 [SPEAKER_01]: His family was hardworking and had a successful business.
08:47 --> 08:51 [SPEAKER_01]: They were prosperous and disciplined and they were serious about life.
08:51 --> 08:54 [SPEAKER_01]: But Henry's childhood, he still experienced sorrow.
08:55 --> 09:03 [SPEAKER_01]: He still had hard times his mother passed away when he was young, and, you know, it's something that seems to really affect him as it would any kid.
09:03 --> 09:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Illness also shadowed his family, him and his sister would have continuous bouts with tuberculosis.
09:11 --> 09:16 [SPEAKER_01]: at 16 Henry entered Cambridge and there his intellect flourished, right?
09:16 --> 09:30 [SPEAKER_01]: He was excellent mathematics and he earned high honors there and he was so gifted in language, winning recognition for his works in Latin, but as his academic success grew, so this is pride.
09:30 --> 09:40 [SPEAKER_01]: He later admits that during those years he became arrogant and intoxicated with achievement, and his own words, he said that he turned his back on God.
09:40 --> 09:48 [SPEAKER_01]: And even while he was drifting away, someone was quietly interceding for him, and that's his sister Sally.
09:48 --> 09:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Him and his sister have this kind of
09:51 --> 09:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Beautiful dynamic throughout their life again.
09:53 --> 10:02 [SPEAKER_01]: This is his sister that he would get tuberculosis with and, you know, spend time sick with and his sister is his prayer warrior, constantly praying for him.
10:02 --> 10:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And so while he is drifting away from the will of God, his sister Sally is keeping him in his in her prayers and, you know, her faithfulness is kind of that contrast that we see between the two.
10:17 --> 10:22 [SPEAKER_01]: After Henry turned 20 years old, everything kind of shifted for him.
10:22 --> 10:34 [SPEAKER_01]: His father, who was a godly and steadfast influence in his life, he passed away, leaving them the parentless at 20 years old, and that the loss really shook Henry to his core.
10:35 --> 10:43 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's in his stage of life, maybe you've been there as well as in where you're confronted with grief and mortality.
10:43 --> 10:48 [SPEAKER_01]: and these questions that he had been ignoring, we're pressing in on him.
10:48 --> 10:49 [SPEAKER_01]: What was life for?
10:49 --> 10:51 [SPEAKER_01]: What happens after death?
10:51 --> 10:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Does God exist?
10:53 --> 10:55 [SPEAKER_01]: He talks about thinking through this process here.
10:56 --> 11:02 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was in that moment of loss that Henry began to re-examine, not only his future,
11:02 --> 11:14 [SPEAKER_02]: But the very foundation of his faith is actually the first person that we've covered in our show before where the death of their father motivates them to kind of reevaluate their life.
11:14 --> 11:20 [SPEAKER_02]: I know that there are others, but the one that's coming to mind is John Calvin, where he was kind of going down this path.
11:20 --> 11:27 [SPEAKER_02]: that a dad is dad had set up for him and it was his dad's death that made him kind of started tending Bible study and questioning things.
11:27 --> 11:44 [SPEAKER_02]: So it is something we see throughout history these young people who are in if we count like the death of siblings that that list of those even higher were these young people are just wandering around and kind of not having any expectation to live for God and then the death of a close loved one completely upends everything.
11:44 --> 11:47 [SPEAKER_02]: uh he started attending church and met a doctor Charles Simian.
11:48 --> 12:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Simian was a big proponent of the great awakening style of evangelism uh but within Anglicanism so the Church of England which was pretty opposed to the great awakening or it was not a big fan of it for the most part in the early 1700s when it was happening.
12:03 --> 12:07 [SPEAKER_02]: but they started to incorporate these Evangelical ideas in this guy.
12:07 --> 12:09 [SPEAKER_02]: It was one of them who was saying, hey, we need to get more on board with this.
12:10 --> 12:12 [SPEAKER_02]: He never had a family or got married.
12:13 --> 12:14 [SPEAKER_02]: This Dr. Charles Simian.
12:14 --> 12:18 [SPEAKER_02]: So on Fridays, he'd invite all the undergraduates at the school to his house.
12:18 --> 12:23 [SPEAKER_02]: And he'd give them lessons on how to teach the Bible and how to preach the Bible and things like that.
12:23 --> 12:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Simeon was a huge proponent as well, and would tell the guys like looking to be reading all these great books, David Brainer's journal, especially how to huge impact on Martin and the works of William Carey, which at this point are very new.
12:36 --> 12:49 [SPEAKER_02]: William Carey is only been on the mission field for a few years at this point, so they're kind of reading the stuff as it's coming in, but he also encouraged them to read Jonathan Edwards, Puritans, John Newton, and William Wilberforce, who are both still alive at this time as well.
12:49 --> 12:53 [SPEAKER_02]: So again, reading the
12:53 --> 13:18 [SPEAKER_02]: uh... simian mentored martin directly and promoted the value of missions and uh... simian would also be helping found the in looking missionary society so this really meant a lot to him and his love of mission says love of these good books has loved a tutor and mentored people had a huge impact on a lot of them but especially here on martin uh... simian slowly wash as martin came to the faith and belief in god and as he
13:18 --> 13:20 [SPEAKER_02]: came to the conclusion that he believed in God.
13:20 --> 13:22 [SPEAKER_02]: He felt they call of missions on his life.
13:23 --> 13:31 [SPEAKER_02]: So he kind of turned his back on the academic career to go in the direction of preaching, which many, he said, many people told him, this is a waste of your gifts.
13:31 --> 13:33 [SPEAKER_02]: This is a waste of what God, you're so smart.
13:33 --> 13:38 [SPEAKER_02]: You're too smart to do missions, you're too smart, to be a preacher, don't do this.
13:38 --> 13:39 [SPEAKER_02]: But he graduated top honors.
13:40 --> 13:45 [SPEAKER_02]: He detained everything that he'd been aiming for when he was at arrogant, young man.
13:45 --> 13:53 [SPEAKER_02]: But was surprised to find that the quote he used here is he said I obtained my highest wishes But was surprised to find I had grasped a shadow.
13:54 --> 14:06 [SPEAKER_02]: It just wasn't worth it He thought being smart being the top of his class was all he wanted But when he compared it to knowing God and going to foreign missions He was like I was chasing the shadow the real thing wasn't there
14:06 --> 14:17 [SPEAKER_02]: Two years later, he finishes getting his theological studies, gets ordained, and he begins preaching this, you know, once top graduate, top honors student, two years later is preaching at a small country church.
14:18 --> 14:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Henry's life, but Henry's life in general wasn't very easy.
14:21 --> 14:25 [SPEAKER_01]: This road that he was on was also filled with great struggles.
14:26 --> 14:27 [SPEAKER_01]: And one of his biggest
14:27 --> 14:31 [SPEAKER_01]: struggle, struggles as a hard word, not maybe not the best word.
14:31 --> 14:44 [SPEAKER_01]: One of his greatest dynamics in life, a moving forward, that's this kind of recurring theme, is this romantic interest that he has.
14:44 --> 14:48 [SPEAKER_01]: He actually refers to her as a beloved idol.
14:48 --> 14:50 [SPEAKER_01]: So this is kind of an internal struggle for him.
14:50 --> 14:55 [SPEAKER_01]: And he figures out this life quest that God has him called to.
14:55 --> 14:57 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was this girl named Lydia.
14:58 --> 15:00 [SPEAKER_01]: And she lived not too far from him.
15:00 --> 15:02 [SPEAKER_01]: And they seemed to have known each other since childhood.
15:02 --> 15:05 [SPEAKER_01]: This, you know, it was a real affection that they had for each other.
15:06 --> 15:08 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't kind of a fling.
15:08 --> 15:10 [SPEAKER_01]: It was like something that
15:10 --> 15:12 [SPEAKER_01]: You see right out of the hallmark movies, right?
15:12 --> 15:16 [SPEAKER_01]: They're childhood kind of friends and they fall in love as they get older.
15:17 --> 15:25 [SPEAKER_01]: But Henry's heart was being called and stirred towards mission, especially after reading about William Carey and his work in India.
15:25 --> 15:28 [SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard to understand how important
15:28 --> 15:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Carrie's influence on him was, he himself, Henry Martin would end up going to India as a missionary.
15:33 --> 15:37 [SPEAKER_01]: So like that's, I feel like a pretty clear one to one, like he's really inspired by him.
15:38 --> 15:44 [SPEAKER_01]: But tensions would grow between him and Lydia because Lydia was a homebody.
15:44 --> 15:51 [SPEAKER_01]: She did that, I have this desire to go overseas and live in a foreign country in an unfamiliar place.
15:51 --> 15:55 [SPEAKER_01]: And Henry did, he,
15:55 --> 16:01 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not necessarily a desire for India, but he had a desire to go where he felt God was calling him to him.
16:02 --> 16:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Lydia from accounts seems to think that she would never leave England, and this was really hard on Henry.
16:10 --> 16:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Henry reports that she seems sincere in her faith, but she just didn't have any desire for missionary life.
16:17 --> 16:21 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I've known people like this that had to make a choice.
16:21 --> 16:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you choose?
16:23 --> 16:30 [SPEAKER_01]: What you feel like God is calling you do or do you choose the girl or the guy, you know, whatever the relationship is there.
16:31 --> 16:34 [SPEAKER_01]: And William Carey concluded that God must win.
16:34 --> 16:46 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he wrote that he would rather serve God alone with a Bible in his left hand and Christ holding his right hand than to turn back from what he believed God had called him to.
16:47 --> 16:49 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he had to
16:49 --> 16:52 [SPEAKER_01]: go through the painful process of letting Lydia go.
16:52 --> 17:05 [SPEAKER_01]: In 1805, he finally set off, and he boarded a ship bound for India, but in, I think, a really sad tragic circumstance, that the ship had to turn around due to a technical error.
17:05 --> 17:06 [SPEAKER_01]: So it didn't get very far.
17:06 --> 17:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Had to return back to its home port, and spend what seems like several weeks or maybe months there, until they were able to set out again.
17:16 --> 17:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Port Henry Martin he finally he finally made his piece and moved on and now he's back just down the road from The woman she he's in love with again.
17:27 --> 17:27 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
17:27 --> 17:43 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like Troy and I were talking about this maybe it was like God giving Lydia a second chance like you can go with him like you should go with him and and She doesn't take him up on it, but It this seems
17:43 --> 17:52 [SPEAKER_01]: like that time also caused him quite a bit of heartache as well because like they would continue to talk into chat and he loves this lady.
17:53 --> 18:01 [SPEAKER_01]: but just kind of had to go through that heartache twice now of leaving a first time and then getting spend more time and then having to leave again.
18:01 --> 18:18 [SPEAKER_01]: But Henry Als talks about being very thankful for that time because he was also able to spend additional time with his sister Sally who again they've both become the spiritual warriors now and he found great encouragement in each other.
18:18 --> 18:23 [SPEAKER_01]: and it really enjoyed praying for each other in that time.
18:23 --> 18:25 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's the knee.
18:25 --> 18:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know a lot of siblings that have
18:29 --> 18:32 [SPEAKER_01]: like a super spiritually encouraging dynamic with each other.
18:32 --> 18:34 [SPEAKER_01]: And so that's really neat to see.
18:35 --> 18:37 [SPEAKER_01]: He records the date of his last visit.
18:37 --> 18:44 [SPEAKER_01]: August 10th is what the last time that he would see Lydia before heading out to see.
18:44 --> 18:49 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, he records it almost like, almost like the end date on a life.
18:49 --> 18:52 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like a burial date, is that, because that's what it felt like for him.
18:52 --> 18:54 [SPEAKER_01]: This intense heartbreak,
18:54 --> 19:09 [SPEAKER_01]: This time of no turning back, he's finally off here, sealed towards India, and he wrote in his journal, he said, I thought at night of living in a beautiful country united with Lydia, but I could see no pleasure in it.
19:09 --> 19:13 [SPEAKER_01]: I have declared war against the world, the flesh, and the devil.
19:13 --> 19:18 [SPEAKER_01]: My single question should be, what is the Lord's will?
19:18 --> 19:28 [SPEAKER_01]: And that ended up being some of the battles that Henry would go on to face, not a battle of love, but of a greater love that would not let him stay.
19:29 --> 19:44 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I can't even begin to emphasize, I think, how hard that would be to say goodbye to your family, your loved ones, your emotionally prepared, your heading off to leave everything behind, especially back in those days.
19:44 --> 19:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Very high chance, very high chance between disease, between how difficult travel is the riots that happen in India because of people sharing the gospel there and stuff is very high chance you will never see any of them again.
19:56 --> 20:11 [SPEAKER_02]: And if you do it'll be years down the road before you do again, and then to have the boat break down and go back and to see what I mean, I'm sure on one hand There were probably precious moments he savered with his sister and stuff for the rest of his life
20:11 --> 20:17 [SPEAKER_02]: And on the flip side, I just can't imagine the emotional yo-yoing that would do to you as somebody who has moved overseas.
20:18 --> 20:22 [SPEAKER_02]: It is difficult to do that when you're ready to go and like had flight gets delayed or something like that.
20:22 --> 20:23 [SPEAKER_02]: It's annoying now.
20:24 --> 20:26 [SPEAKER_02]: I can't even, I can't even begin to fathom it then.
20:26 --> 20:32 [SPEAKER_02]: And on top of that, I also, in my opinion, I feel like the Lord was giving Lydia one last chance to go on the boat.
20:33 --> 20:37 [SPEAKER_02]: That's just my opinion, but I just feel like the Lord was like, girl, you need to get on this boat.
20:37 --> 20:38 [SPEAKER_02]: She does not.
20:38 --> 20:41 [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so on the ship, he begins sharing the gospel with the sailors.
20:42 --> 20:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Good sign, by the way, when the missionaries not content to wait till he gets there.
20:46 --> 20:47 [SPEAKER_02]: But he's already sharing them.
20:47 --> 20:52 [SPEAKER_02]: One sailor wrote in his journal, he sends us to hell every Sunday, which I think he meant was a compliment.
20:52 --> 20:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, the email he gives fiery sermons.
20:54 --> 20:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, hopefully that's what he meant.
20:56 --> 20:59 [SPEAKER_02]: I took about nine and a half months for him to arrive in India.
20:59 --> 21:03 [SPEAKER_02]: He met an old Dutch missionary while they were traveling through South Africa.
21:03 --> 21:07 [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, the trip to India very confusing to me because he'll stop in Brazil.
21:08 --> 21:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Then they'll stop in South Africa.
21:09 --> 21:13 [SPEAKER_02]: South Africa makes sense, but Brazil seems out of the way.
21:13 --> 21:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Morty's in South Africa, and he asked this old Mitch Dutch missionary me to go, hey, do you ever regret that this is what you spent your life doing to which the man says no, I would not exchange my work for an entire kingdom.
21:25 --> 21:26 [SPEAKER_02]: It's not a good sign.
21:27 --> 21:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, now a 50 years later when Hudson Taylor is sailing to China, it takes them I think four to six months to arrive in China and that's considered a slow trip like there were a lot of problems multiple times when the boat just didn't sail and China's a lot further away than India to get to Calcutta takes
21:45 --> 21:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Henry Martin in 1806, nine and a half months, so significantly longer than Hudson Taylor took on his very slow trip to China, and he's going a shorter distance.
21:58 --> 22:02 [SPEAKER_02]: But again, he taken detours over to Brazil, so I don't know what's going on there.
22:02 --> 22:04 [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so Martin lands in Calcutta at the age of 25.
22:05 --> 22:07 [SPEAKER_02]: And he gets to work with his hero, William Carey.
22:07 --> 22:09 [SPEAKER_02]: He gets to be right under him.
22:10 --> 22:18 [SPEAKER_02]: Their Carey is a Baptist, but happily accepts Martin's help as a translator because Martin has all this language training from his time at university.
22:19 --> 22:22 [SPEAKER_02]: And his years of academic study became very essential.
22:22 --> 22:24 [SPEAKER_02]: He becomes with overnight.
22:24 --> 22:32 [SPEAKER_02]: One of the best translators they've ever had because he has already just so much skill over Latin.
22:32 --> 22:37 [SPEAKER_02]: that he is instantly very good at his job of translating the Bible into the language of Urdu.
22:37 --> 22:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so when Henry arrived there in India, he threw himself into the work.
22:41 --> 22:43 [SPEAKER_01]: He helped establish schools in India.
22:43 --> 22:46 [SPEAKER_01]: He helped minister to Europeans that were stationed there.
22:46 --> 22:47 [SPEAKER_01]: He visited hospitals.
22:47 --> 22:49 [SPEAKER_01]: He met with local area leaders.
22:50 --> 22:57 [SPEAKER_01]: He steadily and painstakingly gave himself into Bible translation work.
22:57 --> 22:59 [SPEAKER_01]: And this was a big part of his life.
23:00 --> 23:08 [SPEAKER_01]: On Sundays, he was expected to simply read from the book of Common Prayers and say a few formal remarks on it.
23:09 --> 23:12 [SPEAKER_01]: But that was the custom that you were supposed to do.
23:12 --> 23:15 [SPEAKER_01]: But Henry, he just couldn't restrain himself.
23:16 --> 23:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, whenever he got the opportunity to preach, he would preach earnestly and urgently pleading with the hears to no Christ.
23:27 --> 23:29 [SPEAKER_01]: He was preaching in Urdu.
23:29 --> 23:36 [SPEAKER_01]: This language that he was translating into, he had kind of picked it up and was good enough to preach in it after only a year of studying it.
23:37 --> 23:48 [SPEAKER_01]: This language that had once been foreign on his tongue was now caring the gospel, but the translation work was very slow and very grueling and he once wrote that quote.
23:48 --> 23:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Employed all of the days in translating the first chapter of Acts into Urdu.
23:53 --> 24:11 [SPEAKER_01]: In quotes that's something that seems to kind of grind on him here He's he seems like a personable person like he wants to be engaging with the people But he also wants to do what God is calling him to do and utilizing him to do But he now he's saying like I spent the whole day translating one chapter That's all I did the whole day.
24:11 --> 24:14 [SPEAKER_01]: It was just work on this one chapter of translating
24:14 --> 24:16 [SPEAKER_01]: didn't get a talk with no one, didn't get a do anything.
24:16 --> 24:24 [SPEAKER_01]: It seems to be like that that push and pull of his obedience of how again he thinks God is trying to utilize them there.
24:24 --> 24:29 [SPEAKER_02]: I know people who can tell me that that is exactly how it goes like me.
24:29 --> 24:41 [SPEAKER_02]: I know I have talked with people who say I've spent the entire day just trying to get one verse right because I had to go and double-check like 50 different dictionaries to see what is the best word for this in English.
24:42 --> 24:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Just figure out what the best word for it is and another language, then then get it into the proper language for the tribe that they're working with.
24:48 --> 24:56 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean I have so much respect for the people who do language translations and it's stressful, it is hard and getting
24:56 --> 25:06 [SPEAKER_02]: all the things, I mean because you're thinking about the words in the Bible that you, you know, you don't think much about like you go through, you take the book of Acts, so you're transiting that first chapter of Acts.
25:06 --> 25:13 [SPEAKER_02]: It seems like okay, a lot of it, you know, whatever your word for the Holy Spirit is, whatever your word for walking or waiting, but then you've got
25:13 --> 25:33 [SPEAKER_02]: so many words that you don't use regularly, that are in your Bible, that are just sitting there, that are not going to be the kind of words that you put into that language, it's going to affect every single person who reads that from that point on until a second translation shows up and maybe fixes your mistake if you make one.
25:33 --> 25:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but just think of all the words that are in your scriptures, that you're reading through all the time, uh, tabernacle, right, uh, circumcision.
25:41 --> 25:42 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that word, I guess there's a lot of words.
25:42 --> 25:49 [SPEAKER_02]: Literally, there's so many things that if they're, if that's not something they understand and relate to, you've got to get that just the right way.
25:49 --> 25:58 [SPEAKER_02]: And if you're, if the person you're talking to gives you a mistranslation that word, the new mistranslate, the Holy Spirit works through it, but it is a stressful process.
25:59 --> 26:02 [SPEAKER_02]: And so I have just, again, enormous respect for people who can be
26:03 --> 26:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
26:05 --> 26:15 [SPEAKER_01]: We see in his life, one of his biggest kind of deepest frustrations and I think he could say fears later on on life with how it kind of materializes.
26:16 --> 26:18 [SPEAKER_01]: But it is this isolation, right?
26:18 --> 26:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Isolation on all front, whether that's in his relationship for romantically, he's isolated, he doesn't have any
26:25 --> 26:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, one of his heart is kind of still with Lydia back home, right, uh, but also just kind of socially or academically back in England.
26:34 --> 26:37 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, men were earning prestigious degrees in Cambridge and Oxford.
26:37 --> 26:47 [SPEAKER_01]: He's brilliant minds, but he was all alone here translating scriptures without a team that he desperately long for that he wanted.
26:47 --> 26:53 [SPEAKER_01]: the harvest was great, but the laborers, they felt painfully few to him.
26:53 --> 26:58 [SPEAKER_01]: They're all out there in India, all remote without more collabers.
26:58 --> 27:02 [SPEAKER_01]: And in these inner battles, they didn't disappear.
27:03 --> 27:07 [SPEAKER_01]: He continued to wrestle with his thoughts for Lydia and his journal.
27:07 --> 27:10 [SPEAKER_01]: He'd confess, quote, Lydia is a snare to me.
27:10 --> 27:17 [SPEAKER_01]: My heart is still entangled with this idolatrous affection and
27:17 --> 27:26 [SPEAKER_01]: So even 1 miles away, he still had that hardache for Lydia, which I feel bad for him, but you can't move on my man.
27:26 --> 27:28 [SPEAKER_01]: You got to move past it.
27:28 --> 27:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Then in 1809, more Saro's reached him, his sister Sally passed way of tuberculosis.
27:34 --> 27:42 [SPEAKER_01]: And so this is the same sister that prayed so
27:42 --> 27:48 [SPEAKER_01]: He would attribute like her prayers with helping bring him back into the fold.
27:48 --> 27:51 [SPEAKER_01]: And so this loss would cut very deeply for him.
27:51 --> 27:58 [SPEAKER_01]: He talks about grieving not only her absence, but also grieving the absence of her prayers.
27:59 --> 28:01 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was something that he took great encouragement from.
28:02 --> 28:04 [SPEAKER_01]: And so not having that in something that he...
28:04 --> 28:05 [SPEAKER_01]: He felt.
28:05 --> 28:20 [SPEAKER_01]: At the same time, Henry could feel his own body weakening, tuberculosis, the illness that had shadowed their family for years, the illness that they had as kids, the illness that took his sister, seemed to be tightening its grip on him.
28:20 --> 28:32 [SPEAKER_01]: But instead of slowing down, he intensified his work and he pressed on harder, he labored longer, as his ministry expanded his health kind of would steadily decline.
28:32 --> 28:52 [SPEAKER_02]: I will say this I mean at this point I don't I don't think you're going to make it out of my thoughts or uh... martyrs missionaries if you don't get if you don't work even harder the second the doctor says he might need to slow down you're getting sick uh... unless the doctor tells you we're going to write you a prescription for a tropical island or something yeah for a vacation in that case and then you're totally fine
28:52 --> 28:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, if you don't know what we're referring to in many episodes, we've had to point out that a doctor or we're like, oh no, you're sick.
28:59 --> 29:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, why don't you go take some time off in France or you're something like that?
29:02 --> 29:11 [SPEAKER_02]: So, um, which was a prescription that they used to get back out back in the 1800s and I encourage anybody in the insurance world to, to maybe bring it back.
29:11 --> 29:16 [SPEAKER_02]: I certainly think there have been times I felt unwell and I think a trip to France might have cured me.
29:16 --> 29:18 [SPEAKER_02]: So, all right, um,
29:18 --> 29:26 [SPEAKER_02]: After a time, it was seen as a good idea to get him somewhere with better weather for a Southland, right on cue here in the description.
29:26 --> 29:26 [SPEAKER_02]: He takes an...
29:26 --> 29:28 [SPEAKER_02]: But this time, I will say this is not quite the same.
29:29 --> 29:31 [SPEAKER_02]: They were like, hey, you seem pretty sick and Calcutta.
29:31 --> 29:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's take you out to see.
29:33 --> 29:37 [SPEAKER_02]: And so they like do some, like put him on a boat that's traveling back and forth between places.
29:37 --> 29:38 [SPEAKER_02]: I guess the fresh.
29:38 --> 29:54 [SPEAKER_02]: literally the fresh ocean air will help open them up and i mean you know what i live in a pretty humid place but it's a lot more human hot and calcada and that might have they might have been right about that maybe that was the way to get them out some fresh air out there away from all the humidity and heat and swampiness of india
29:54 --> 30:01 [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, so while he's out there, you know, taking it easy on this vessel, I don't know what kind of boat he was on.
30:02 --> 30:05 [SPEAKER_02]: He translates to Bible and Arabic, or at least works on it pretty heartily.
30:06 --> 30:08 [SPEAKER_02]: And when the voyage is finished, he gets a new opportunity.
30:09 --> 30:11 [SPEAKER_02]: They're kind of like, hey, we're not really heading back to Calcutta.
30:11 --> 30:13 [SPEAKER_02]: We could, but it'll be a while before we get back to India.
30:14 --> 30:19 [SPEAKER_02]: But we're going to stop by and Iran, and there's an opportunity for you to be a missionary to Iran.
30:19 --> 30:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Would you be interested in?
30:20 --> 30:23 [SPEAKER_02]: And so he becomes the first official.
30:23 --> 30:33 [SPEAKER_02]: Protestant missionary, to ever do work in Iran, and they had only just kind of barely opened the door to any kind of Protestant missionary work he gets there, takes this opportunity to be the first.
30:33 --> 30:41 [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, the time Iran was not called Iran, it was called Persia, and he's there for about one year.
30:41 --> 31:08 [SPEAKER_02]: uh... he lived in an open-minded muslims house that moved in gave him some room uh... he worked on a translation of the new testament of course he's a immediately back into translation work uh... in uh... parsi in the language of the Persian people here he accepted no pay from any Europeans this time he's like i'm a little really live among the people be with the people uh... he wears the clothes that the Persians are wearing he he makes his money working through them and the stuff that comes from donations back home
31:08 --> 31:25 [SPEAKER_02]: He, uh, Hudson Taylor is very famous for this missionary method where he'll wear the clothes, get the haircut, live like the people of China do, but Henry Martin is actually doing this here in Persia about 50 years before Hudson Taylor ever tries it out in, it may actually like 60 years before Hudson Taylor even arrives in the mission.
31:25 --> 31:27 [SPEAKER_02]: say like, oh, Hudson Taylor stole it from Henry Martin.
31:28 --> 31:31 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying like, this guy was had figured it out quite early on as well.
31:32 --> 31:38 [SPEAKER_02]: On one occasion during this time, he actually becomes surrounded by a fanatical group of Muslim clerics who are trying to convert into Islam.
31:39 --> 31:41 [SPEAKER_02]: They're in a very passionate, angry discussion with him.
31:42 --> 31:44 [SPEAKER_02]: And they start blasphemy in the name of Jesus Christ.
31:44 --> 31:47 [SPEAKER_02]: And when they do that, Henry Martin just begins to weep.
31:47 --> 31:48 [SPEAKER_02]: And they're kind of like,
31:48 --> 31:51 [SPEAKER_02]: Whoa, this guy's been so calm, he's so smart, why is he suddenly crying?
31:52 --> 31:56 [SPEAKER_02]: And so they asked him why he's weeping for they said we didn't say anything mean about you, what's your problem kind of thing.
31:57 --> 31:59 [SPEAKER_02]: And he replies, he blasts me into the name of my wonderful friend.
32:00 --> 32:03 [SPEAKER_02]: My savior, Jesus Christ, of course I'm going to weep basically.
32:04 --> 32:07 [SPEAKER_02]: And they said this, this is a profound effect on the group that they kind of like calm down.
32:07 --> 32:14 [SPEAKER_02]: And they're like, well, maybe this guy has a real relationship with his God in a way that they just, they weren't expecting.
32:14 --> 32:23 [SPEAKER_02]: when he finished the New Testament and the Psalms in Parsie language first time it's going to be in Persian for at least like the Christianian bit in Persian before but it'd been a while.
32:24 --> 32:30 [SPEAKER_02]: He makes a two months, two months dangerous bandit filled trek where he could get attacked and killed any point.
32:31 --> 32:40 [SPEAKER_02]: He's got his bad health with him but he wants to present this to the leader of Iran the Shaw and show him the New Testament let him see it maybe he'll be excited about it.
32:40 --> 32:44 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, when he gets there, the shot is not present to you somewhere else.
32:45 --> 32:49 [SPEAKER_02]: He waited for the shot to come, but the shot kind of sends him a message like, I don't want to see your Bible.
32:49 --> 32:51 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not interested in what you've got to show me.
32:51 --> 32:54 [SPEAKER_02]: You've wasted your time coming all the way out here, basically.
32:54 --> 32:55 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm got other things going on.
32:55 --> 33:01 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not in town, and even if I were, I'm not going to beat with you, and I'm not going to go back home to visit with you, like just forget about this basically.
33:02 --> 33:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Take your Bible and leave.
33:04 --> 33:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, any kind of goes, you know, I'm sick, it's been hard.
33:08 --> 33:10 [SPEAKER_02]: I, you know, I, you know, this isn't gone very well for me.
33:10 --> 33:12 [SPEAKER_02]: I think I need to go back to England.
33:12 --> 33:15 [SPEAKER_02]: I think I need to recover health-wise, which is common.
33:15 --> 33:18 [SPEAKER_02]: Hudson Taylor got sick as well, and did the same thing a couple times.
33:18 --> 33:20 [SPEAKER_02]: So people would do this back in the day when they're really sick.
33:20 --> 33:24 [SPEAKER_02]: They go back to where medicine's a little bit better, and it does help them.
33:24 --> 33:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Um,
33:25 --> 33:27 [SPEAKER_02]: But he also had another plan.
33:27 --> 33:39 [SPEAKER_02]: He also thought, and maybe while I'm there recovering, I might meet with Lydia because, you know, we've been exchanging letters this whole time and maybe she's a little more interested in joining me on the field this time.
33:39 --> 33:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Who knows?
33:41 --> 33:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Let's just check in on that.
33:42 --> 33:43 [SPEAKER_02]: It's only been five years, right?
33:43 --> 33:44 [SPEAKER_02]: She's not married.
33:44 --> 33:45 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not married.
33:45 --> 33:46 [SPEAKER_02]: We're early 30s.
33:46 --> 33:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we'll see what happens, right?
33:48 --> 33:49 [SPEAKER_02]: So maybe.
33:49 --> 33:55 [SPEAKER_02]: So he begins, two great loves of his life, definitely the Lord by far, but also Lydia.
33:55 --> 34:03 [SPEAKER_02]: He, this guy holds a flame for her, and he begins a 1500 mile journey to Constantinople across deserts.
34:04 --> 34:09 [SPEAKER_02]: He's got to get to Constantinople so we can get a ride back to England from the Mediterranean side of things.
34:10 --> 34:14 [SPEAKER_02]: But this is not an easy trip at all.
34:21 --> 34:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, quite a brutal trip, really.
34:23 --> 34:32 [SPEAKER_01]: By this point, Henry, and he was so weak, scholars now believe that he was not only suffering from tuberculosis, but also likely malaria as well.
34:33 --> 34:39 [SPEAKER_01]: But yet they pressed on, traveling across what was very harsh terrain in very fragile health.
34:39 --> 34:42 [SPEAKER_01]: To make things worse, he was assigned a bodyguard.
34:42 --> 34:54 [SPEAKER_01]: The British ambassador there in Persia gave him a bodyguard that was supposed to help protect him along this treacherous route, but this bodyguard ended up being kind of jerky, was a devout Muslim.
34:54 --> 34:57 [SPEAKER_01]: The guard was very harsh and unkind to him.
34:57 --> 35:01 [SPEAKER_01]: He refused to allow him to rest.
35:01 --> 35:05 [SPEAKER_01]: And again, this was like a really rough route.
35:05 --> 35:15 [SPEAKER_01]: So the the the the stints that the bodyguard was requiring them to travel would have been very taxing and exhausting for a completely healthy person.
35:15 --> 35:21 [SPEAKER_01]: But for Henry for a frail sick man that had tuberculosis and malaria, it was just devastating.
35:21 --> 35:31 [SPEAKER_01]: The journey dragged on they were headed towards Turkey, but it became clear that Henry was not
35:31 --> 35:40 [SPEAKER_01]: It seems very clear that he was trying to kind of kill Henry off so that he could, you know, it would be more convenient for the bodyguard to, he's probably got paid either way, right?
35:41 --> 35:55 [SPEAKER_01]: So, but when Henry wasn't dying quick enough, he would, the bodyguard would just eventually end up abandoning him all by himself and he took nearly all of Henry's remaining possessions and he rode back to Persia leaving him behind.
35:55 --> 36:12 [SPEAKER_01]: sick and alone, and this is where I say like this is one of the saddest things I've ever read because this is Henry here now at the end of his life he had written so often of loneliness and his journals throughout and now he's facing this in the most severe form.
36:12 --> 36:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Far away from England, far away from friends, far away from Lydia, far away from the mission field that had consumed his whole life and his strength up to this point.
36:22 --> 36:30 [SPEAKER_01]: He's now on the side of the road in Turkey, stripped of everything, and in weak handwriting, he penned his final diary entry.
36:30 --> 36:41 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, quote, I thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God, who in solitude was my company, my friend,
36:42 --> 37:02 [SPEAKER_01]: I just don't have any words like what we like happy endings here on Rift High Thoughts when we can get in, which is not very often, but I can't think of much more sadness than to spin your final moments in such the exact scenario that you dreaded and feared for your whole life, you know?
37:02 --> 37:03 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
37:03 --> 37:10 [SPEAKER_01]: It's definitely reeks of like the finale to a dark movie.
37:10 --> 37:13 [SPEAKER_02]: I hear you see it throughout.
37:13 --> 37:15 [SPEAKER_02]: He's always talking about Lydia.
37:15 --> 37:19 [SPEAKER_02]: He wants the girl, but he also is talking about how, hey, where's my other translator helps?
37:19 --> 37:20 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm out here about myself.
37:20 --> 37:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Where's my colleague?
37:22 --> 37:32 [SPEAKER_02]: You really do see that he wanted to be just a part of the team doing the work and his poorly picked body card ends up being the final nail here, but he was already barely hanging on.
37:32 --> 37:34 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he does remind me of another story.
37:34 --> 37:37 [SPEAKER_02]: There was a guy named Alan Gardner who wanted to share.
37:37 --> 37:54 [SPEAKER_02]: I would did this one a long time ago, if you remember Joel, where he wanted to share Jesus with these people, and I think at least in episode of this guy too, in South America, but like the boats and stuff didn't communicate correctly and he ended up on an island with no supplies, and they ended up starving to death, really sad story.
37:54 --> 37:56 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a bunch of those, so like, this is something that happened.
37:56 --> 37:59 [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't really happen anymore, thankfully, we don't,
37:59 --> 38:04 [SPEAKER_02]: tend to send missionaries and the places without being able to get them food or get them safely.
38:04 --> 38:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Not true actually, safely missionaries do still die on the field, but it is something that does happen and Henry Martin is one of them, but what's amazing is
38:14 --> 38:17 [SPEAKER_02]: A, look at his finale though, you can tell he's trusting the Lord all the way to the end.
38:18 --> 38:24 [SPEAKER_02]: I really appreciate, you know, it would be so sad if his final words were, you know, it hadn't been worth it all along, right?
38:24 --> 38:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Or I would have been happier with it, you know, it's nothing like that at all.
38:27 --> 38:30 [SPEAKER_02]: He's putting his final pen to God and saying it was all worth it for God.
38:31 --> 38:35 [SPEAKER_02]: But the other thing too, is his death does not end as ministry.
38:35 --> 38:43 [SPEAKER_02]: that Bible translation he didn't get to the Shah ends up making its way to Russia and getting printed and brought in.
38:43 --> 38:47 [SPEAKER_02]: So the Persians get this Bible to them partially because of his death.
38:48 --> 38:52 [SPEAKER_02]: The tragedy of his life and death so moved the people who were Britain.
38:52 --> 39:17 [SPEAKER_02]: that again, many missionaries, just like you've heard of the name William Kerry, this was a David brainerd baby, this was a household name for a long time, you know, and they actually in England because India was a colony of England at the time, they passed a lot on Parliament to basically force India to allow unrestricted preaching of the gospel for in Martins name, basically at that point, they've been kind of been like, oh, I don't, you know, we don't want any of the missionaries making too much of a wave and
39:17 --> 39:22 [SPEAKER_02]: causing problems in India, and after they found out about the life and death of Martin, they were like, you know what?
39:22 --> 39:24 [SPEAKER_02]: No, this is a colony of ours.
39:24 --> 39:26 [SPEAKER_02]: We want Christianity to share here.
39:26 --> 39:30 [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to pass a law and say the missionaries are allowed to go and share the gospel.
39:30 --> 39:34 [SPEAKER_02]: However, they want India and nobody should be there to stop them.
39:35 --> 39:40 [SPEAKER_02]: His translations of the Bible get a lot more attention and money and get into a lot more hands.
39:41 --> 39:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Interestingly, just a side note, Lydia herself,
39:45 --> 39:49 [SPEAKER_02]: dies in 1829 about 16 or 18 years later.
39:49 --> 39:50 [SPEAKER_02]: So unmarried.
39:51 --> 39:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Never gets married.
39:52 --> 39:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Die is a lonely woman herself at 54.
39:55 --> 40:00 [SPEAKER_02]: So I, you know, I can't but wonder, maybe Lydia also was missing on Martin.
40:00 --> 40:03 [SPEAKER_02]: And it wasn't, I don't think it was unrequited love.
40:03 --> 40:09 [SPEAKER_02]: I just, but I think they both, they both, I think she should have gotten on the
40:09 --> 40:12 [SPEAKER_02]: The sermon was given to Europeans who live in India.
40:12 --> 40:19 [SPEAKER_02]: So at this time, he's speaking to his fellow British, but not just British, they're probably were Dutch Germans, probably a lot's of different people there, but they were people who speak English.
40:20 --> 40:35 [SPEAKER_02]: And the people of India had basically said, like, if you can give us but the Christians, had said, if you get us Bibles, we will read them, but we don't have the money to buy the Bibles, and he had set things up with publishers, printers, he had the translation work that he had done.
40:35 --> 40:47 [SPEAKER_02]: And he told the people of his fellow countrymen, he's like, we're here doing, you know, you're here doing business or somebody you're here doing business, but we can get the Bible in the hands of literally tens of thousands of people.
40:47 --> 40:51 [SPEAKER_02]: If we just raise some money to do it, won't we be the people who do it?
40:51 --> 40:57 [SPEAKER_02]: I think this isn't really cool, very unique sermon where he's calling on his fellow people and he may say, well, what do you know?
40:57 --> 40:58 [SPEAKER_02]: What does this have to do with me?
40:58 --> 41:01 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not, I'm not involved in mission work in any or only, I'm not.
41:02 --> 41:05 [SPEAKER_02]: This is a 1800 certain, this is so different for me.
41:05 --> 41:11 [SPEAKER_02]: But I think his love of getting the word of God into other people's hands should definitely inspire you today.
41:11 --> 41:24 [SPEAKER_02]: And I think that even though our circumstances are very different, much of what he says here, much of what he's preaching and encouraging his people with boy, is sure, is sure still applies today.
41:40 --> 41:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Galatians 610.
41:42 --> 41:48 [SPEAKER_00]: As we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to them who are of the household of faith.
41:49 --> 41:55 [SPEAKER_00]: It is somewhat discouraging to observe how many of our best efforts for the benefit of mankind prove ineffective.
41:56 --> 41:58 [SPEAKER_00]: So much money is given away in charity.
41:59 --> 42:03 [SPEAKER_00]: But then again, the goal of our charity is afterwards found to do have not been a proper one.
42:04 --> 42:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Charitable institutions are founded for the instruction of the poor, but instead many of them use their knowledge for a mischievous purpose.
42:12 --> 42:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Plans are made for the spread of the gospel yet many of the schemes come to nothing.
42:16 --> 42:17 [SPEAKER_00]: What then?
42:18 --> 42:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Are we just to sit still and not act until we are assured of all the successes that we wish for?
42:25 --> 42:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us look to the farmer.
42:26 --> 42:33 [SPEAKER_00]: He scatters the seed, some seed falls by the wayside and the birds eat it,
42:34 --> 42:36 [SPEAKER_00]: some fall among thorns.
42:36 --> 42:37 [SPEAKER_00]: It springs up but it is choked.
42:38 --> 42:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Some seed only falls into good ground and of that part it is but a small quantity that brings out a yield of 100 fold.
42:48 --> 42:52 [SPEAKER_00]: But in the hope of a harvest of some kind the farmer works on.
42:54 --> 42:55 [SPEAKER_00]: So let us work.
42:56 --> 43:06 [SPEAKER_00]: So, let us work to the best of our judgment and put in our strength because regardless of the successes of our plans in this world, we do not lose our reward in the next life.
43:07 --> 43:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Our work is built upon the certainty of a future reward.
43:12 --> 43:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Galatians 6-9 in due season you will reap if we do not faint, so we have the opportunity.
43:19 --> 43:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us do good to all men.
43:22 --> 43:24 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the duty that we must finish.
43:24 --> 43:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And next, in order, though not in importance, is the duty of paying particular attention to the household of faith.
43:31 --> 43:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us take some time to look at this text in all its parts.
43:35 --> 43:40 [SPEAKER_00]: First, of the duty of doing good to all men.
43:40 --> 43:47 [SPEAKER_00]: We have heard more than enough in recent years under the name of philanthropy or universal benevolence.
43:47 --> 43:55 [SPEAKER_00]: There is certainly something imposing in the idea of a passionate charity which goes beyond the narrow limit of personal relationships.
43:56 --> 44:00 [SPEAKER_00]: This charity is zealous to have its energies felt on the fringes of the system.
44:01 --> 44:04 [SPEAKER_00]: But the misfortune is that it is only just a theory.
44:05 --> 44:11 [SPEAKER_00]: The reality of things presents an insurmountable barrier to its ever-being realized and practiced.
44:11 --> 44:18 [SPEAKER_00]: For the world is clearly created in a way that we cannot act upon things remotely except through the medium of that which is near.
44:19 --> 44:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Our experience at least is entirely against the likelihood of the existence of such a kind of charity.
44:26 --> 44:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything that we see in a system only works as each part of the system, each person works
44:34 --> 44:41 [SPEAKER_00]: in the human frame, in the body politic, in the material world, effects are, for the most part, produced by a process.
44:42 --> 44:47 [SPEAKER_00]: And impulse is given to one part, which is communicated to the rest in time, and then comes the result.
44:49 --> 45:00 [SPEAKER_00]: And though this discussion may seem tedious for those who struggle, the sea systems abstractly, at the same time, it is wisely appointed by God for humans to work this way.
45:00 --> 45:10 [SPEAKER_00]: for, in this way, all the vast parts of his system come into use in their turn, and nothing is so insignificant that it may be eliminated.
45:11 --> 45:18 [SPEAKER_00]: With that in mind, it is trifling to talk about doing good to all men, if the neuro-relationships in which we stand are overlooked.
45:19 --> 45:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And if this is all that is meant by philanthropy, it is worse than bigotry.
45:24 --> 45:34 [SPEAKER_00]: The bigot, at least, will do good in his little circle for his people, but the philanthropist, by attempting to do too much, does nothing good.
45:35 --> 45:41 [SPEAKER_00]: From these observations, it is shown that the apostle has properly qualified the preceptive universal love to all men.
45:42 --> 45:45 [SPEAKER_00]: As we have opportunity, let us do good to all men.
45:46 --> 45:50 [SPEAKER_00]: With equal truth, is the Christian precept expressed?
45:50 --> 45:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Love your neighbor as yourself.
45:52 --> 45:57 [SPEAKER_00]: For this moves the theory of universe love into practical action.
45:58 --> 45:59 [SPEAKER_00]: For who is our neighbor?
46:00 --> 46:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone that comes within the sphere of our actions, our observation, our knowledge.
46:06 --> 46:10 [SPEAKER_00]: All who are beyond this are as if they were not our neighbor.
46:10 --> 46:15 [SPEAKER_00]: If there are those, we cannot imagine that we cannot be moved with love or hatred for them.
46:16 --> 46:27 [SPEAKER_00]: It is here, we remark, that human systems of morality constructed on a plan, apparently more large and generous than that of the gospel itself, deserve very little attention.
46:28 --> 46:32 [SPEAKER_00]: For whatever goal they had was already finished in the gospel long before.
46:32 --> 46:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything less than the gospel is crude and imposed by those without experience.
46:39 --> 46:49 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not a sign of a superior mind to entertain such ideas, but in fact the love of such theories rather that proves a lack of intellectual power.
46:50 --> 46:55 [SPEAKER_00]: For all these theories which all have a grandeur which captivates many are actually plain and simple.
46:56 --> 47:01 [SPEAKER_00]: And for this reason, minds of a narrow span comprehend them so easily.
47:02 --> 47:11 [SPEAKER_00]: We see that the young and weak are pleased with romantic idealism, where the coincidences are exaggerated and the events extravagant.
47:11 --> 47:16 [SPEAKER_00]: They rush to anarchy because they are tired of the current political systems.
47:16 --> 47:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Weary of this current state, they go all the way back again to slavery.
47:21 --> 47:24 [SPEAKER_00]: So a weak man is like a restless ocean.
47:25 --> 47:37 [SPEAKER_00]: We are happily in the possession of that book of wisdom, which marks its superiority to the flimsy productions of today's visionaries, for it adapts itself to the circumstances of life as it actually is.
47:37 --> 47:43 [SPEAKER_00]: It points out a certain and reasonable method of attaining good.
47:44 --> 47:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us now attend to it.
47:47 --> 47:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Do good.
47:48 --> 47:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Do amen.
47:50 --> 47:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Let your charity begin at home, but do not let it end there.
47:54 --> 48:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Do go to your family and connections, and if you please to others in your life, then after that, look abroad, look at the universal church, and forget its divisions, look at your country, and be a patriot.
48:08 --> 48:11 [SPEAKER_00]: But look at the nations of the earth, and be a philanthropist.
48:12 --> 48:15 [SPEAKER_00]: God does not require impossibilities nor loves disorder.
48:16 --> 48:21 [SPEAKER_00]: On the contrary, he would have us adhere to his own way of doing things.
48:21 --> 48:26 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we cannot do all that we would like to do, we are satisfied if we can do all that we can.
48:26 --> 48:32 [SPEAKER_00]: For those who really have no opportunity to help, we do not speak, but to the rest, we do.
48:32 --> 48:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Your wealth is itself an opportunity.
48:38 --> 48:41 [SPEAKER_00]: For you have it in your power to bless many around you.
48:41 --> 48:47 [SPEAKER_00]: You may contribute to the support of hospitals, schools, and other benevolent institutions here or at home.
48:48 --> 48:54 [SPEAKER_00]: make your selection in favor of those which promise to be most extensively useful.
48:56 --> 49:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Those to whom age and experience have given wisdom will then notice the young and the unprotected, especially those who on their first arrival in this country find themselves without a guide.
49:06 --> 49:25 [SPEAKER_00]: people who have many dependence or whose influence over others is extensive, and those who live in the neighborhood of large bodies of men or are in the way of meeting many different people should remember that they perform an acceptable service to God and man if they make use of their opportunities by communicating the knowledge of God to their connections.
49:26 --> 49:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Let them know about he who converts the sinner from the era of his ways and who will save a soul from death and will hide a multitude of sins James 520.
49:36 --> 49:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Those who are wise in this way will shine as the brightness of heaven and they who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever Daniel 123.
49:46 --> 50:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Energize by the promise of these high rewards, let us be quick, even instant, to in-season and out-of-season with godly persistence, looking for opportunities to do good, and exercising our minds in imagining in what way our means may be employed with the best effect.
50:05 --> 50:15 [SPEAKER_00]: The intelligent Christian will perceive the advantage which comes from the combination of strength and will gladly embrace the opportunity of acting in conjunction with others to love their neighbors.
50:16 --> 50:27 [SPEAKER_00]: For the power of groups associating and coming together is incalculably greater than the total of the power of each part by itself, because wisdom and strength are found together in them.
50:28 --> 50:37 [SPEAKER_00]: On this ground, we recommend you become members of some of the various associations for benevolent purposes, by which the commencement of the 19th century is distinguished.
50:38 --> 50:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Among these, the British and foreign Bible society undoubtedly holds the most distinguished place.
50:44 --> 50:59 [SPEAKER_00]: whether we consider the simplicity of the methods which it uses or the grandeur of its object, the reasons which exist for such a society, the specific goal which it embraces, and the principles by which its operations are directed will best be explained by their own advertisement.
51:01 --> 51:11 [SPEAKER_00]: The reasons which call for such an institution chiefly refer to the prevalence of ignorance, superstition and idolatry over so large portion of the world,
51:11 --> 51:21 [SPEAKER_00]: the limited nature of the respectable societies now in existence and their acknowledged in adequacy to supply the demand for bibles in the United Kingdom and foreign countries.
51:22 --> 51:40 [SPEAKER_00]: The exclusive object of this society is to spread the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by circulating them in the different languages throughout Great Britain and Ireland and also according to the extent of its funds by promoting the printing of them in foreign languages and the distribution of them into foreign countries.
51:41 --> 51:50 [SPEAKER_00]: The principles upon which this undertaking will be conducted are as comprehensive as the nature of the object suggests that they should be in the execution of the plan.
51:50 --> 52:00 [SPEAKER_00]: It is proposed to embrace the common support of Christians at large and to invite the concurrence of people of every description who profess to regard the scripture as the proper standard of faith.
52:01 --> 52:05 [SPEAKER_00]: In this statement, there are two things that I'd like to call to your attention.
52:06 --> 52:07 [SPEAKER_00]: The first
52:07 --> 52:11 [SPEAKER_00]: is that the exclusive object of the society is to promote the circulation of the scriptures.
52:12 --> 52:17 [SPEAKER_00]: They neither give out religious tracts nor are they connected with any missionaries' society.
52:18 --> 52:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Their only wish is to put the sacred text within the reach of every human being.
52:24 --> 52:31 [SPEAKER_00]: You can be assured that they will not depart from this rule because the very existence of the society depends upon their adherence to it.
52:32 --> 52:39 [SPEAKER_00]: The certainty that nothing will be given but the Bible is the only principle upon which Christians of all denominations will unite around.
52:40 --> 52:51 [SPEAKER_00]: You will observe, secondly, that they profess to begin with their native country and to proceed as their funds allow to the distribution of the Scriptures in foreign lands.
52:52 --> 52:57 [SPEAKER_00]: The Friends of the Bible Society in India acted on the same principle.
52:57 --> 52:58 [SPEAKER_00]: the European regiments.
52:59 --> 53:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Now in our country have already been supplied with the English scriptures, so it became a duty to consider to whom they should next direct their attention.
53:08 --> 53:20 [SPEAKER_00]: This point was soon determined and they feel no doubt that the British public in India will entirely agree with them in reaching the state of the native Christians as requiring immediate attention.
53:21 --> 53:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Their present goal of being of considerable magnitude, they feel themselves justified in requesting assistance.
53:28 --> 53:36 [SPEAKER_00]: And from a view of its obvious importance, they have no hesitation in believing that their countrymen will cooperate with them in the execution of their plan.
53:36 --> 53:42 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you understand why I've brought this example up in the context of this verse.
53:43 --> 53:52 [SPEAKER_00]: We are commanded to do good to all men, but especially to them who are of the household of faith.
53:53 --> 54:01 [SPEAKER_00]: We should, indeed, always be superior to those petty prejudices and partialities, which combine and cramp the work of many.
54:02 --> 54:11 [SPEAKER_00]: And should imitate the grace of Him, who makes His son rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust Matthew 545.
54:11 --> 54:18 [SPEAKER_00]: But we will also be following the method of his grace by doing good, especially for the household of faith.
54:19 --> 54:22 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord is good to all, and his tendermircies are over.
54:23 --> 54:26 [SPEAKER_00]: All his works, Psalm 140, verse 9.
54:27 --> 54:34 [SPEAKER_00]: But the Lord loves the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob, Psalm 87, verse 2.
54:34 --> 54:35 [SPEAKER_00]: And so should we.
54:35 --> 54:41 [SPEAKER_00]: The household of faith should be our special desire.
54:41 --> 54:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the household of faith means all those who believe in our Lord Jesus Christ and are baptized in his name.
54:48 --> 54:48 [SPEAKER_00]: All these are one.
54:49 --> 54:58 [SPEAKER_00]: United to one another in him and as the Lord has said, be in them and you in me that they may be made perfect in one.
54:59 --> 55:00 [SPEAKER_00]: John 1723.
55:01 --> 55:15 [SPEAKER_00]: In this united capacity, they are often compared to a body of which Christ is the head, sometimes a building of which he is the foundation stone, but here to a family of which God is the Father.
55:15 --> 55:29 [SPEAKER_00]: The last representation was the most appropriate in this place, for because we are naturally disposed to care for our own families, it was proper to remind us that all believers in Christ are a part of the same family as ourselves.
55:30 --> 55:40 [SPEAKER_00]: The account which we have of this family in the Word of God is that they were once strangers and foreigners but have now become the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
55:41 --> 55:46 [SPEAKER_00]: They receive the Spirit of adoption and are led by Him and being children.
55:46 --> 55:47 [SPEAKER_00]: They are heirs.
55:47 --> 55:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, Ephesians 219, Galatians 326, Romans 814 to 17.
55:54 --> 55:56 [SPEAKER_00]: The individuals who
55:57 --> 56:03 [SPEAKER_00]: which compose the family are connected with one another by chains more indestructible than the tie of blood.
56:04 --> 56:09 [SPEAKER_00]: In earthly families the father dies, and the children separate, and they are seldom reunited.
56:10 --> 56:20 [SPEAKER_00]: They neither form one body nor are animated by one spirit nor pursue the same goals, nor respond in taste, and inclination nor serve the same master.
56:20 --> 56:25 [SPEAKER_00]: But choosing a different profession, they leave their home as fast as opportunities are afforded them.
56:25 --> 56:29 [SPEAKER_00]: And at last, seem to almost forget that they ever live together under the same roof.
56:30 --> 56:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Not so for the family of faith.
56:33 --> 56:35 [SPEAKER_00]: There, there is one body and one spirit.
56:36 --> 56:40 [SPEAKER_00]: As they are called also in one hope of their calling.
56:41 --> 56:50 [SPEAKER_00]: One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all, who is above all and through all and in them all,
56:51 --> 56:54 [SPEAKER_00]: We will take it for granted that this is the desire of your hearts.
56:55 --> 56:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Only two things, therefore, remain to be considered.
56:58 --> 57:01 [SPEAKER_00]: First, where is this family to be found?
57:02 --> 57:04 [SPEAKER_00]: And secondly, what can be done for them?
57:05 --> 57:06 [SPEAKER_00]: The first question we have already answered.
57:07 --> 57:10 [SPEAKER_00]: You need not go out into India to look for the family.
57:10 --> 57:12 [SPEAKER_00]: They dwell in the land and our natives of it.
57:13 --> 57:17 [SPEAKER_00]: And the only favor we ask on their behalf is the present of a Bible.
57:17 --> 57:22 [SPEAKER_00]: The native Christians of India may be arranged according to their languages in four divisions.
57:22 --> 57:27 [SPEAKER_00]: First, the Portuguese, of which there are about 50.
57:27 --> 57:33 [SPEAKER_00]: On the Malabar coast alone, there are 36 and at Calcutta, 7 in Salon, 5.
57:34 --> 57:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Besides these, there are settlements of Portuguese all along the coast, from Madras to Cape Corman.
57:40 --> 57:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And families of them are to be found in all the major towns on the Ganges and Jumma.
57:46 --> 57:52 [SPEAKER_00]: They are, more or less, mixed in with the natives, and their language has in consequence lost much of its purity.
57:53 --> 58:01 [SPEAKER_00]: But there is no reason to believe that the version of the scriptures in the pure Portuguese would not be perfectly intelligible and highly acceptable to them.
58:02 --> 58:09 [SPEAKER_00]: copies of the Portuguese scriptures could be procured immediately from England, and they might be put into circulation without much difficulty.
58:10 --> 58:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Because here, as well as in Europe, the Roman Catholic priests are no longer against the translation and dispersion of the scriptures.
58:17 --> 58:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The next class of Christians to be noticed are those of Tanjor, who were converted to the Christian faith, chiefly by the laborers of Swartz.
58:26 --> 58:28 [SPEAKER_00]: They number about 12 and speak Temmel.
58:29 --> 58:36 [SPEAKER_00]: A version of the Scriptures in this language was made longer though by Famercice, one of the Danish missionaries who devoted his whole life to the work.
58:37 --> 58:39 [SPEAKER_00]: These people are all Protestants.
58:39 --> 58:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Every one of them can read the Bible and their desire to be more fully supplied with the Scriptures appears from a letter sent by the missionaries who superintend them.
58:47 --> 58:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Last year, at the present season,
58:49 --> 58:57 [SPEAKER_00]: These circumstances were stated to you, and with a readiness and love which will long be remembered, you came forward at once to assist your brethren.
58:58 --> 59:04 [SPEAKER_00]: The donations of a few individuals were deemed sufficient to supply their immediate needs.
59:04 --> 59:09 [SPEAKER_00]: But we are persuaded that still greater work would have been made, had the occasion required it.
59:09 --> 59:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I am now authorized to inform you that 600 old testaments, 400 new, and 300 soldiers are in-temble.
59:17 --> 59:24 [SPEAKER_00]: 200 Old Testament's 150 new and 500 Salters in Portuguese have been purchased and distributed.
59:25 --> 59:37 [SPEAKER_00]: That we may be able to render them further assistance and anticipate their future needs, a new addition of the Scriptures in Tamil should instantly be prepared, and for this, nothing is lacking, but funds.
59:38 --> 59:42 [SPEAKER_00]: There are Tamil presses at Trinkbar and Vephiri and Persons to supervise them.
59:42 --> 59:47 [SPEAKER_00]: The third class of Christians are those who speak Malaysian or Malabara.
59:48 --> 59:58 [SPEAKER_00]: These are, first, the Roman Catholics in number 150 composed partly of converts from paganism and partly of proselytes from the Syrian Church.
59:59 --> 01:00:06 [SPEAKER_00]: And secondly, the Syrians, who retain their ancient form of worship, no estimate has been made of their population.
01:00:06 --> 01:00:08 [SPEAKER_00]: But their number of churches is just to be 55.
01:00:10 --> 01:00:16 [SPEAKER_00]: There are then, perhaps, not fewer than 200 Christians who use the Malabar language.
01:00:17 --> 01:00:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The four gospels are in the press at Bombay, and nearby printed off for the Syrac being formally spoken by these mountaineers.
01:00:25 --> 01:00:33 [SPEAKER_00]: The priests occasionally explain the scriptures in Malam to the people, but this good custom, like many others, is gradually going away.
01:00:34 --> 01:00:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the people understand the Syrian prayers, but the Syrian language is not used as a common language.
01:00:39 --> 01:00:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the elders of the church were asked whether they were willing to give out the Malayan scriptures if they were aided in the expense.
01:00:47 --> 01:00:57 [SPEAKER_00]: We are most willing, they said, one of them added, the truth is, in former times, all of our people understood the Syriac, but as time has passed, the language of the country took over.
01:00:58 --> 01:01:06 [SPEAKER_00]: A malayum translation should certainly be made before now, but we have not had in these later times, neither learned men nor competent means.
01:01:08 --> 01:01:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Our three colleges have been destroyed.
01:01:11 --> 01:01:20 [SPEAKER_00]: and being often left without a bishop ruler or representative we have suffered from time to time from the cruelty of the rajas mosques.
01:01:20 --> 01:01:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing could have saved us, but the peaceful demeanor and Christian conduct of our people.
01:01:25 --> 01:01:36 [SPEAKER_00]: As to your proposal of circulating the scriptures in the vernacular tongue, all the fathers of the church would unite with me into clearing that we will most cheerfully do it, if we have the means to do a good work.
01:01:37 --> 01:01:50 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the elder step forward and said, to convince you of our earnest desire to have the Bible in the malelem tongue, I need only mentioned that I have lately translated the Gospel of St. Matthew for the benefit of my own children.
01:01:50 --> 01:01:52 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's often borrowed by other families.
01:01:53 --> 01:01:56 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not in an elegant language, but the people love to read it.
01:01:57 --> 01:02:01 [SPEAKER_00]: It was then proposed to them that a standard translation
01:02:01 --> 01:02:10 [SPEAKER_00]: of the millennium should be prepared and sent to each of the fifty-five churches on the condition that the church should multiply the copies and circulate them among the people.
01:02:11 --> 01:02:14 [SPEAKER_00]: We accept your offer, said the priests, and with thankfulness.
01:02:15 --> 01:02:23 [SPEAKER_00]: One in particular said, I engage for the heads of the families in this church that every man who can write will be happy to make a copy of the scriptures for his own family.
01:02:24 --> 01:02:29 [SPEAKER_00]: It was mentioned before that 150 Roman
01:02:30 --> 01:02:38 [SPEAKER_00]: to which it may be added that the role-mish bishop, the thicker apostolic of the Pope in India, has consented to the circulation of the scriptures throughout his diocese.
01:02:39 --> 01:02:46 [SPEAKER_00]: So there are upward of 200 people who are ready to receive the Malayalum Bible.
01:02:47 --> 01:02:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we come to the fourth and last class of Native Christians, the Singalese.
01:02:53 --> 01:03:02 [SPEAKER_00]: In the island of Seilon, in the year 1801, the number of Native schools amounted to 170, and the number of Native Protestant Christians exceeded 12.
01:03:03 --> 01:03:09 [SPEAKER_00]: The Christians, professing the religion of the Church of Rome, are also guests to be still numerous.
01:03:09 --> 01:03:14 [SPEAKER_00]: No part of India offers such encouragement to attempts at evangelism as salon.
01:03:15 --> 01:03:23 [SPEAKER_00]: The New Testament has been translated into singalese and printed at Columbus in the expense of the government for the purpose of giving to the native's professing Christianity.
01:03:24 --> 01:03:26 [SPEAKER_00]: But must we suffer to have the government do it?
01:03:26 --> 01:03:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't we blush when we are asked to find assistance from home where funds are raised with such difficulty?
01:03:34 --> 01:03:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Not for lack of goodwill in the people.
01:03:36 --> 01:03:57 [SPEAKER_00]: But from the unexampled pressures of the times and the pressure of the funds raised at home being expected to go out to three quarters of the world, Asia must be our own concern here or if not Asia, India, at least must look too none but us, honor calls as well as duty.
01:03:58 --> 01:04:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Your reputation for generosity requires that you make a Britain's assistance unnecessary, let us hurry then and anticipate their needs, and show to our friends on the world that the mother country never need be ashamed of her sons in India.
01:04:14 --> 01:04:16 [SPEAKER_00]: What a splendid opportunity is she present.
01:04:17 --> 01:04:23 [SPEAKER_00]: The example first set by a few has produced, as you will proceed by their report,
01:04:24 --> 01:04:30 [SPEAKER_00]: auxiliary societies are forming from town to town to take charge of their respective facilities and to aid the parent to charity.
01:04:31 --> 01:04:35 [SPEAKER_00]: It is now time that we should step forward.
01:04:36 --> 01:04:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Will every town in Hamlet in England engage in the glorious cause and the mighty representatives of those from India do nothing?
01:04:43 --> 01:04:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Won't our wealth and dignity be our disgrace if we do not
01:04:51 --> 01:04:56 [SPEAKER_00]: what plan could be proposed with so few objections and so becoming our national character?
01:04:57 --> 01:05:05 [SPEAKER_00]: A plan so simple and practical, but so extensively beneficial as that of giving the word of God to the Christian part of our land.
01:05:07 --> 01:05:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing of a questionable nature has been brought before you.
01:05:09 --> 01:05:20 [SPEAKER_00]: We contend for nothing, the
01:05:20 --> 01:05:26 [SPEAKER_00]: There are, as you have seen, no less than 900 Christians close at hand.
01:05:28 --> 01:05:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Many of them are relapsing fast into idolatry and are already indeed little better than pagans.
01:05:35 --> 01:05:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet, they are forever broken off from their fellow pagans for they have left the casts.
01:05:41 --> 01:05:44 [SPEAKER_00]: They cannot be received back again even if they wanted to do so.
01:05:45 --> 01:05:49 [SPEAKER_00]: They have none to whom they can look to, but us.
01:05:51 --> 01:05:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Are we to cast them out?
01:05:53 --> 01:05:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Or, which is nearly the same to continue to neglect them?
01:05:57 --> 01:06:04 [SPEAKER_00]: And so exhibit, as we have too long done, to their heathen and muslim neighbors, a dreadful example of what Christianity would do for them.
01:06:04 --> 01:06:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Of all of the Christians whom they see, they must observe that the greater number know nothing about their own religion and those who have the light have no love.
01:06:15 --> 01:06:18 [SPEAKER_00]: It was truly said by St. Paul concerning him,
01:06:18 --> 01:06:29 [SPEAKER_00]: who on any pretense did not provide for his own, and especially of them for his own house, that he had denied the faith, and his worse than an infidel, first Timothy 58.
01:06:30 --> 01:06:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Truly, if we do not provide for these, we will be worse than the Muslims, who consider their proselites as entitled to their care and attention.
01:06:39 --> 01:06:47 [SPEAKER_00]: We will be reversing the Christian rule, and instead of loving our enemies, we'll be hating our friends.
01:06:48 --> 01:06:50 [SPEAKER_00]: permit us to plead for their cause.
01:06:51 --> 01:06:55 [SPEAKER_00]: We beg it that you will love and help them as branches of your own family.
01:06:56 --> 01:06:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not judge them as simple or backward, help them.
01:06:59 --> 01:07:04 [SPEAKER_00]: They have been degraded by society, by the Hindus and Muslims.
01:07:05 --> 01:07:09 [SPEAKER_00]: How can you look down on them for errors they make in life?
01:07:09 --> 01:07:11 [SPEAKER_00]: They cannot even get a Bible to read.
01:07:12 --> 01:07:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, if they had been blessed with your advantages, maybe you'd think they are the kind of people you can respect.
01:07:18 --> 01:07:25 [SPEAKER_00]: It has been said, and sadly there is some truth to it, that they scarcely deserve the name of Christians.
01:07:26 --> 01:07:35 [SPEAKER_00]: But how is it possible that they would be otherwise without the Bible just consider how little oral teaching they have received?
01:07:36 --> 01:07:45 [SPEAKER_00]: If the Jews with all the care that was taken on them and the discipline to which they were subjective could not escape the contagion of idolatry which we see in the Old Testament,
01:07:46 --> 01:07:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Then is it really to be expected that these poor people who are constantly persecuted should do better?
01:07:52 --> 01:08:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Can they unenlightened and uninformed be expected to rise up against their own human depravity and beat the seductions of idolatry?
01:08:03 --> 01:08:14 [SPEAKER_00]: The ridiculous ceremonies of the heaven worship, the gross splendor of their displays, their songs and their flowers and their festivities, though we only feel repulsion and disgust.
01:08:15 --> 01:08:18 [SPEAKER_00]: have a mighty importance in the mind of those from India.
01:08:18 --> 01:08:20 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a national heritage to them.
01:08:22 --> 01:08:25 [SPEAKER_00]: But the Bible would elevate those views.
01:08:26 --> 01:08:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And there seems no other way of doing it.
01:08:29 --> 01:08:35 [SPEAKER_00]: It must be reminded that these persons have no books as we have to supply in some measure the lack of the Bible.
01:08:35 --> 01:08:40 [SPEAKER_00]: They have no books in or spurred with passages of Scripture, pointing the way to eternal life.
01:08:41 --> 01:08:42 [SPEAKER_00]: But aren't there teachers you will ask?
01:08:43 --> 01:08:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, here and there, one is to be found.
01:08:46 --> 01:08:50 [SPEAKER_00]: But the number hardly deserves notice when the needs of the people are considered.
01:08:50 --> 01:08:57 [SPEAKER_00]: And how can Europe continue to send missionaries to a population continually increasing the sites?
01:08:58 --> 01:08:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Missionaries have done their work.
01:09:00 --> 01:09:03 [SPEAKER_00]: It was for them to bring the gospel to the Hindus and they get it.
01:09:04 --> 01:09:10 [SPEAKER_00]: It is now time for the converts to have their own ministers and pastors, from among themselves.
01:09:10 --> 01:09:16 [SPEAKER_00]: But men can never be qualified for the ministry without studying the Bible.
01:09:17 --> 01:09:24 [SPEAKER_00]: On the other hand, there is every reason to believe that if they had free access to the scriptures, some would soon be found ready to teach others.
01:09:25 --> 01:09:33 [SPEAKER_00]: It has always been this way, in every country they were first called and directed by the missionary and after a little time went on by themselves.
01:09:34 --> 01:09:40 [SPEAKER_00]: If the Indians have not yet done so, it is because of their specific circumstances.
01:09:41 --> 01:09:44 [SPEAKER_00]: The former rulers of this country have generally been their enemies.
01:09:45 --> 01:09:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Their low situation paralyzes them.
01:09:48 --> 01:09:54 [SPEAKER_00]: If you make a great effort and lift them only just a little you will soon find that they will awake and put on their own strength.
01:09:55 --> 01:09:57 [SPEAKER_00]: They will shake themselves from the dust and arise.
01:09:57 --> 01:10:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 52 vs. one and two.
01:10:01 --> 01:10:05 [SPEAKER_00]: They will advance rapidly in knowledge and go on without your aid.
01:10:05 --> 01:10:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine if they had the scriptures, they would read it in their houses, they would teach it to their children, they would talk about it in a way, come then.
01:10:14 --> 01:10:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Beloved brethren, begin the year well before many years, many of you will have left the country.
01:10:21 --> 01:10:32 [SPEAKER_00]: If this opportunity isn't neglected, you will not perhaps have the satisfaction of recollecting that you ever did anything for the good of India.
01:10:32 --> 01:10:41 [SPEAKER_00]: You must also reflect and it is a proper reflection for the beginning of the year that death will soon put a period to your own opportunities.
01:10:42 --> 01:10:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Your wealth will soon be of no use to you.
01:10:45 --> 01:10:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, while life lasts, make it the instrument of happiness to thousands.
01:10:54 --> 01:10:58 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no room for fear that you will incite any riots or promotions,
01:10:59 --> 01:11:05 [SPEAKER_00]: The people for whom we plead call our Lord theirs and hold his word in the same veneration as we do.
01:11:05 --> 01:11:15 [SPEAKER_00]: They will not eye with suspicion, the sacred volume, but seize it with delight as a book which they have often longed to see.
01:11:16 --> 01:11:20 [SPEAKER_00]: The undertaking, which we urge you to engage.
01:11:20 --> 01:11:25 [SPEAKER_00]: has nothing in the nature of it at which anyone can reasonably contain.
01:11:25 --> 01:11:28 [SPEAKER_00]: The method of accomplishing the desired purpose is not controversial.
01:11:28 --> 01:11:36 [SPEAKER_00]: The success is certain for God himself has declared concerning the word which goes out of his mouth, then it will not return void.
01:11:36 --> 01:11:45 [SPEAKER_00]: It will accomplish that which he pleases it, and it will prosper in the place where it is sent Isaiah 55-11.
01:11:45 --> 01:11:48 [SPEAKER_00]: The frame of the skies may pass away.
01:11:48 --> 01:11:51 [SPEAKER_00]: How much more will the schemes of men pass away?
01:11:51 --> 01:11:56 [SPEAKER_00]: But my words said, Christ will not pass away.
01:11:56 --> 01:12:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 2435, we encourage you to be instrumental in saving souls.
01:12:03 --> 01:12:05 [SPEAKER_00]: While we are preaching, they are perishing.
01:12:05 --> 01:12:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, lose no time.
01:12:09 --> 01:12:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us reflect a moment upon the unhappy state of those who live without a Bible,
01:12:14 --> 01:12:16 [SPEAKER_00]: who died without one.
01:12:16 --> 01:12:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine the sad situation of a sick or dying Christian who has just heard enough of eternity to be afraid of death and not enough of a Savior to look beyond it with hope.
01:12:33 --> 01:12:42 [SPEAKER_00]: He cannot call for a Bible to look for something to support him or ask his wife
01:12:43 --> 01:12:47 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a treasure which they have never had the happiness to possess.
01:12:49 --> 01:12:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Pity their distress.
01:12:51 --> 01:12:55 [SPEAKER_00]: You who have hearts to feel the miseries of your fellow man.
01:12:56 --> 01:13:02 [SPEAKER_00]: You who have discernment to see that a wounded spirit is far more agonizing than any on earth begotten woes.
01:13:03 --> 01:13:07 [SPEAKER_00]: You who know that you two must one day die.
01:13:07 --> 01:13:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Give to him what might comfort him in a dying hour.
01:13:14 --> 01:13:31 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord who loves our brethren, who gave His life for them and for you, who gave you the Bible before them, and now wills that they should receive it from you, He will reward you.
01:13:32 --> 01:13:37 [SPEAKER_00]: They cannot repay you, but you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.
01:13:38 --> 01:13:48 [SPEAKER_00]: the king himself will say to you in the same as you have done it to the least of these my brother-in-law.
01:13:48 --> 01:14:00 [SPEAKER_00]: You have done it to me.
01:14:02 --> 01:14:05 [SPEAKER_02]: I really like the sermon for a number of reasons as I said, the uniqueness of it's great.
01:14:06 --> 01:14:09 [SPEAKER_02]: The passion he has for getting the Bible and the people's hands, every I should.
01:14:10 --> 01:14:11 [SPEAKER_02]: I hope that it convicts and encourages you.
01:14:11 --> 01:14:14 [SPEAKER_02]: It makes me wonder, you know, who my passion on the streets?
01:14:14 --> 01:14:17 [SPEAKER_02]: That would want a Bible, if I just asked them, hey, do you want a Bible?
01:14:18 --> 01:14:21 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, do you do the ice to keep some Bibles in my car when I was in Bible college?
01:14:21 --> 01:14:26 [SPEAKER_02]: And it didn't give them out very often, but okay, once in a while, somebody would want a Bible and I'd be like, I got you.
01:14:26 --> 01:14:27 [SPEAKER_02]: I can get you one.
01:14:27 --> 01:14:29 [SPEAKER_02]: And I miss, I don't do that as much anymore.
01:14:29 --> 01:14:31 [SPEAKER_02]: You live in a very different context.
01:14:31 --> 01:14:43 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll have you as reasons why, but still with that said, it just makes you wonder how many people in your life If you have even asked them if they want one, you know you how you all people are always wondering how can I stop the conversation with my neighbor or my co-workers?
01:14:43 --> 01:14:44 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, what about that one?
01:14:44 --> 01:14:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Wait, hey, do you I got an extra Bible, do you I was wondering do you want one that?
01:14:48 --> 01:14:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Who knows that might be that door opener, right?
01:14:50 --> 01:14:52 [SPEAKER_02]: There are people you're not even trying to force it on them, right?
01:14:52 --> 01:14:54 [SPEAKER_02]: This point Martin was making.
01:14:54 --> 01:14:56 [SPEAKER_02]: He's like, is people who are asking for one, just give them a bite.
01:14:57 --> 01:14:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you might, entire family is might be saved.
01:14:59 --> 01:15:02 [SPEAKER_02]: If you would just hand a Bible out.
01:15:02 --> 01:15:04 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's, it's, it's, it's so,
01:15:04 --> 01:15:10 [SPEAKER_02]: I think convicting, it's encouraging, it's encouraging, you know, he points out these people don't live like Christians.
01:15:10 --> 01:15:14 [SPEAKER_02]: The Europeans apparently have the time have been judging these guys, like all of those Christians, they don't live like one.
01:15:14 --> 01:15:16 [SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, well, can you expect them to do any better?
01:15:16 --> 01:15:18 [SPEAKER_02]: They don't have Bibles.
01:15:19 --> 01:15:29 [SPEAKER_02]: You have a Bible, and you see how much our Christian quote-unquote nations struggle with their Bibles, but they don't have one, maybe you should help them out with that by giving them a Bible.
01:15:29 --> 01:15:33 [SPEAKER_02]: But the other thing I really liked about this sermon, too, was the conversations he's having.
01:15:33 --> 01:15:35 [SPEAKER_02]: This, how do I reach this people group and all this stuff?
01:15:35 --> 01:15:42 [SPEAKER_02]: That is a conversation that it may be 200 years old, but it is still being had around the world.
01:15:42 --> 01:15:44 [SPEAKER_02]: And I hope that it's still being had for a very long time.
01:15:44 --> 01:15:48 [SPEAKER_02]: I obviously hope everyone comes to Christ so we don't add that conversation.
01:15:48 --> 01:15:49 [SPEAKER_02]: But
01:15:49 --> 01:15:52 [SPEAKER_02]: I hope that, that, that, that kind of work of how do you reach this people group?
01:15:52 --> 01:15:53 [SPEAKER_02]: What do you need to do?
01:15:53 --> 01:15:56 [SPEAKER_02]: That is, I have seen those conversations happen.
01:15:56 --> 01:15:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Joel, you probably seen these conversations happen.
01:15:59 --> 01:16:02 [SPEAKER_02]: If you've ever wondered, like, what kind of conversations happen around the world?
01:16:02 --> 01:16:09 [SPEAKER_02]: That, that is, it sounds not too different than what this guy is talking about, where you will be going to work with this group and talk to that group.
01:16:09 --> 01:16:12 [SPEAKER_02]: And if we do all these things and pull all these levers, who knows?
01:16:12 --> 01:16:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you will see the Bible reach some more people.
01:16:17 --> 01:16:20 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
01:16:21 --> 01:16:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for listening to today's episode of Revived Thoughts Today's Sermon was narrated by Pastor Ed Beckell.
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01:16:37 --> 01:16:51 [SPEAKER_01]: He is taught for 30 plus years in churches in Oregon, Washington and Nebraska, and currently in Spokane Valley, Washington, he has been serving the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church since September of 2024.
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