William Carey’s Bible Translations
It was William Carey's ambition to translate the Bible into all the leading languages of India, and to a remarkable degree he was enabled to realize his ambition; for at the time of his death he had translated the Scriptures, or parts of them, into twenty-four languages. Writing of this in a letter to a correspondent in Boston, dated April 25, 1806, he says: “We are now engaged in a great undertaking. I mean that of translating the Word of God into fourteen languages. Whether we shall live to finish it, must be left with God. Considerable progress has been made already in four languages, and some progress in three others. We hope to begin on two or three more in a fortnight. I consider this the greatest undertaking in which my life can be spent, and wish my ability for it were a thousand times greater than it is.”