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Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar / First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812

Chapter 34: Transcriber’s Notes:
By George Smith
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The work recounts the life of a devout scholar who leaves England for prolonged travel and missionary service across South America, South Africa, India, Ceylon, Arabia, Persia, and Anatolia, combining clerical duties with rigorous scholarship. It details his Cambridge training, intimate correspondence, and tireless labors translating the Scriptures into Persian, producing a New Testament and engaging in theological debates with Muslim, Sufi, and Jewish interlocutors. Drawn from journals and letters, the narrative emphasizes personal piety, intellectual struggle, travel hardships, and an early death abroad, closing with reflections on his methods, legacy, and the practical challenges of missionary work among Muslim communities.

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Transcriber’s Notes:

  • Insignificant punctuation corrections have been made without note.
  • Legitimate variant spellings have been retained.
  • Variations in hyphenation have been retained.
  • Pg 95. One instance of the word ‘to’ was removed from the following sentence, “I disclose those feelings to Him I have no power to to any earthly friend.”
  • Pg 167. The word ‘ong’ was changed to ‘long’.
  • Pg 170. The word ‘natives’ was changed to ‘native’s’.
  • Pg 234. The word ‘Crhist’ was changed to ‘Christ’.
  • Pg 403. A closing quotation mark was added to the end of the following phrase: “‘... he has taken upon himself to write the following pages.’”
  • Pg 498. The following sentence does not appear to be correct, “Though it was near midnight I had a fire lighted to dry my books, took some coffee and sunk into deep sleep; from which awaking at the earliest dawn of”. This has been retained.
  • Pg 498. The following sentence does not appear to be correct, “Ararat was now quite near; at the foot of it is Duwala, six parasangs from Nakshan, where we arrived at seven in the morning of”. This has been retained.
  • Pg 500. The word ‘delivreance’ was changed to ‘deliverance’.
  • Pg 549. The word ‘a’ was added to the following sentence: “The remembrance of the event of the day has been rendered useless by my absence from home a great part of it.”
  • Pg 574. The word ‘Bundelkhund’ was changed to ‘Bundlekhund’.
  • Pg 579. The index entry for ‘Rich, C.J., 517, 563’ was changed to ‘Rich, C.J., 516, 563’.
  • Pg 579. The word ‘Serafino’ was changed to ‘Serrarfino’.
  • Pg 579. The index entry for ‘Simeon, Charles, 13, 27, 34, 42, 109, 190, 544, 553’ was changed to ‘Simeon, Charles, 15, 27, 34, 42, 109, 190, 544, 553’.
  • Pg 580. The index entry for ‘Wolverton, Lord, 46’ was changed to ‘Wolverton, Lord, 44’.