FORSYTH, Nathaniel

[s. 257] : The first mi ionary LMS to India. Of very few mi ionaries known. In tho last decade of the 17th century a certain landowner in Scotland named Holdane became fired with mi ionary of the is so little zeal for the conversion of India, sold his magnificent estate, and proposed to devote his substance to this object, going himself and taking other workers with him. The British Government, however, could not tolerate any such schemes, and forbade the enterprise so persistently that the mi ion was abandoned. One of the party, Mr. Forsyth, then offered himself to the LMS, was accepted, and went out to India as a mi ionary but without salary, supporting himself from his own property. He landed at Calcutta in the latter part of 1798, while Carey was still in the despairs of his fruit He promptly learned that le Indigo culture. he would be expelled from India if he stayed in Fort Aijal Free Metliodliit Calcutta. So he quietly went 26 miles up the river to the Dutch settlement of Chinsurah. Quietly, perscveringly, conscientiously, he did his work, attracting no attention from the world, and even left for 14 years by his society absolutely unsupported. He was indefatij^able in his efforts to do good, and he supported himself. So he was not heeded until he died, when in 1813 another mi ionary was sent to take up Chinsurah, with Hugli, now is a his work. flourishing mi ion center of the tlFS, and the name of the pioneer evangelist of that field should not be forgotten. 258