The missionary life of Henry Martyn is one of single-minded perseverance to obey the call of God, laborious allegiance to the Word of God, and most importantly, a passionate love for Jesus Christ the Son of God, such that constrained a life of boasting in the cross.
A Cambridge graduate who was a protege of Charles Simeon and the Clapham Sect, and later a colleague in India to the father of modern missions, William Carey — Henry Martyn — ought to be a household name.
As Jesse Page wrote in her biography of Martyn (Pickering & Inglis), he was as brave a knight as ever carried the pennant of the cross. He crossed the Cornish border in his boyhood, to win the highest university honours. Later refusing opportunities of service that would have secured him status and recognition, he left for an unknown continent, and laboured for only a few years before his death in lonely martyrdom on Armenian soil.
