...during a ministerial conference, attempted to dissuade Carey from evangelizing the heathen by saying, "Young man, sit down; when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine."2'' Carey rejected this fatalism with the reply, "If it be the duty of all men to believe the...

...ministers that they discuss the implications of the Great Commission. Dr. John C. Ryland retorted, "Young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert...heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine!" How does Ryland s understanding of God's sovereignty mesh with verses 14-15? «6# APPLYING THE WORD...

...a group of ministers to send out foreign missionaries. One minister gave this now famous retort, " When God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine." But Carey persisted, offering to go himself as a missionary to India in 1793. After nearly seven years...

...calling to become a missionary began to germinate. He was told to let it go with the words, "Young man, when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine." (Ruth A. Tucker, From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 1983, p. 115) In 1793, he and...

...heathen nations." The presiding minister, the venerable John Ryland, Sr., is reported to have said, "Young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert...heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine!" A later tradition says that the elder minister referred to Carey as a "miserable enthusiast" for even...

...Gospel among heathen nations.' The venerable preacher sprang to his feet, frowned, and thundered out, 'Young man, sit down ! "When God pleases to convert...heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.' All the old men of his denomination were steadily against him. By degrees the young were brought to...

...so severely on the zealous Carey pleading to be sent among the heathen with the gospel. " Sit down, young man, sit down ! When God pleases to convert...heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine." Such was the orthodox interpretation, less than a hundred years ago, of that plainest passage, " Go...

...by the rebuke, the spirit of which was then prevalent even amongst the most devout of ministers, " When God pleases to convert the heathen He will do it without your aid or mine." Nothing daunted, he published at Leicester, where he went to minister in 1789, an essay on the same...