“The loss is heavy, but as traveling a road the second time is usually done with greater ease and certainly than the first time, so I trust the work will lose nothing of value...We are cast down but not in despair”.
That statement was made by William Carey, a missionary in India, whose print shop in Serampore was destroyed by fire on March 11, 1812. Everything he had labored for was suddenly gone: A whole version of the Bible, sets of types for 14 eastern languages, two grammar books and a multilingual dictionary.
On this anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku (Great East Japan) earthquake, Carey's words, of a disaster on the same date 199 years earlier, prove to be true as we witness Japan's steady and impressive recovery.
No comments:
Post a Comment