Meanwhile, on a global scale, Protestantism was becoming missionary-minded. British shoemaker and teacher William Carey had taken the lead in 1792 by publishing the book An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.

Awake!  October 22, 1989 p. 17

 

The first Protestant missionaries to India arrived in 1706, some 85 years before William Carey published An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens. This book’s publication has been called “a landmark in Christian history.” After writing it, Carey served 40 years in India as a missionary.

Awake!  November 8, 1994 p. 21

 

An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens

Alexander Pope, the famous English poet, in An Essay on Man (1733-34), described this relationship between all things as a “Vast chain of Being! which from God began.”

 

Awake!  December 22, 1984 p. 5

 

 

An Essay on Man

In 1644 the English poet John Milton, who may best be remembered for Paradise Lost, wrote the famous pamphlet Areopagitica as an argument against restrictions of freedom of the press.

Awake!  July 22, 1996.  p. 4

 

Areopagitica