Send Our Best to the Nations: Missionary Education with Henry Martyn

“Employed all the day in translating the first chapter of the Acts into Hindoostanee.” That could be the diary entry of many Bible translators if we replace the name of the language. Henry Martyn (1781–1812) recorded these words in 1806 as he traveled up the Ganges River to his station for the first time. A mere 25 years old, Martyn was no seasoned veteran and had arrived in India from England only four months earlier. Here he was, in the relentless heat of India, beginning work on his foundatio