Student cracks code of shorthand manuscripts left by Baptist 'patron saint'
Coded documents left by one of the founders of the modern missionary movement have been deciphered by a student at the University of St Andrews.
Baptist leader Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) was a supporter of William Carey, the first modern missionary to India, and hugely influential in the growth of the Baptist movement.
Fuller was a profoundly signficant figure in the Baptist story, he told Christian Today. 'First, he wrote the book that brought Particular Baptists into the evangelical movement, overcoming hard-line Calvinism,' he said. 'All contemporary British Baptists are his heirs....