As a pastor, Carey also worked as a schoolteacher. While serving in that capacity he designed a shoe-leather globe to teach his students about geography. It is said that at times while he was teaching his eyes would fall on that globe. Soon Carey would be weeping, crying out, "And these are pagans, pagans!" Many a young Christian, including this author, have been moved toward the ministry by reading the account of Carey’s shoe-leather globe and his passion for the unreached masses. As he studied and prayed William Carey saw in Christ the perfect example of a missionary. He wrote: "If Christ could stoop so low as to visit our ... sinful world, and be moved with compassion upon the most undeserving and guilty, the most sinful and depraved ... in what better way could we demonstrate that we are partakers of His grace than by earnest endeavor to imitate His example ... by laboring to promote the salvation of the most ignorant and helpless of mankind? - Taken from a biography on William Carey
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