Search Results for: Life Of Henry Martyn Missionary To India And Persia 1781 To 1812

I hold in my hand an album adorned with pictures of missionaries, my brethren and sisters, the ambassadors of the King. On one of the first pages is "the tomb o

This biography of Henry Martyn, the linguist, scholar and missionary to India and Persia in the 19th century, presents the facts of his life as objectively as p

April 21, 1806, the nine months' journey is complete, and they land at Madras. Mr. Martyn gives first impressions and description of the natives, ending in thes

Henry Martyn was born in Cornwall in 1781. Following a brilliant academic career at Cambridge University, he was ordained in 1803 as curate to Charles Simeon. H