Excerpt from Catalogue for the Session, 1957-1958: The 1957-58 Session Begins September 6, 1957 When God gave William Carey to the modern world he gave a spiritual statesman without a peer. A survey of the biographic facts of Carey suggests the impossibility of exhausting the reasons why William Carey is known as the father of modern missions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.