William Carey’s most impressive achievement, though, is his single-minded perseverance. In England, when the vision of world evangelism was still vague and the social obstacles immense, Carey plodded relentlessly toward the vision. In northern Bengal, poverty, disease, grief, culture shock, and loneliness racked him and his family, yet he doggedly pursued his calling. During those first six agonizing, bitter years, Carey produced not a single convert. But in the manner of a later resolute Briton,