Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens

The year is 1792. The British Empire spans the globe, yet the churches of England sleep soundly, indifferent to the spiritual fate of millions who have never heard the name of Christ. Into this comfortable stupor hurls William Carey, a self-taught shoemaker with meagre education but an irrefutable conviction: that the Great Commission is not an optional aspiration but an obligation binding every Christian soul. This slim, ferocious treatise cracked open the doors of modern Protestant missions and refused to let them close. Carey constructs his case like a courtrooms lawyer: Scripture by Scripture, century by century, he builds an unanswerable indictment of Christian complacency. He traces the history of mission from the early church, catalogues the spiritual needs of a world drowning in darkness, dismantles every objection, and then does what few theological writers dare: he proposes a practical strategy. Ships, translators, schools, the whole machinery of redemption deployed to India and beyond. The book that launched a thousand missionaries. Read it and understand where modern global Christianity began, and why the question of mission remains as urgent now as it was then.