This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV MISSIONARIES AND THEIR METHODS The Aboriginal Conception of Deity--Supplanting NatureWorship with Christianity--A Missionary's Beginnings-- Teaching the Converts Independence--Status of the Mission Worker Under the Law--Mistakes Which Can be Avoided--The Hospital as a Faith-Bridge--Marital ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV MISSIONARIES AND THEIR METHODS The Aboriginal Conception of Deity--Supplanting NatureWorship with Christianity--A Missionary's Beginnings-- Teaching the Converts Independence--Status of the Mission Worker Under the Law--Mistakes Which Can be Avoided--The Hospital as a Faith-Bridge--Marital and Sex Problems--Ecclesiastical Controversies in the Schools --A Pagan Indian's Regard for his Vow. What is the Indian's religious life? One who is unfamiliar with the native tongues is apt to be puzzled by the phrases with which ignorant interpreters express the aboriginal conception of deity. Sometimes they speak of "the Great Spirit," sometimes of "the spirits"; now of "God," anon of "the gods." Doubtless the concept is as vague in the Indian's mind as in his interpreter's jargon. The only generalization we can venture is that he has a sense of the existence of some mysterious spiritual essence which pervades and controls the universe, and which finds its visible embodiment in the forces and phenomena of nature. Hence in its outward forms his religion is primarily nature-worship. Power is the attribute which most impresses him in any being, animate or inanimate. The sun, source of all warmth; the earth, mother of all life; the rains which cause the earth to become fruitful; the winds which blow from various points on the horizon; a huge crag which could crush him if it fell; a roaring river at its flood; a cataract he is powerless to stem, or a mountain he cannot scale: such are the objects which typify for him the ultimate principle of might and majesty, and to which he pays homage with his hopes and fears. He mixes much imagery with his fetichism, too; so that, if you could look into an Indian's mind when it is in the attitude of...
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