Description: On Wednesday, May 30, 1792, at Friar Lane Baptist Chapel, Nottingham, William Carey delivered an epoch-making sermon based on Isaiah 54:2-3: 'Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited'. In this sermon, Carey called on his Baptist colleagues to enlarge its tent through missionary outreach to the 'heathen' (which, at the time this was said, was the rather pompous and racist view of anyone who wasn't a Christian, and which, today, is not a term endorsed or acceptable to the compilers of this web-site). William Carey then became a Baptist missionary to India. He was born in Northhamptonshire in 1761. Pastor before going to the mission field, he spent an active forty-one years serving the Lord in India, including translating the Scriptures into many languages. He died in 1834.