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. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...When these records were published they created great interest, both at home and abroad, in missionary work for the Indians. This may have influenced Edwards to succeed John Sargeant in carrying the gospel message to the Stockbridge Indians, whose preacher he became when he removed from Northampton. One ...
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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. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...When these records were published they created great interest, both at home and abroad, in missionary work for the Indians. This may have influenced Edwards to succeed John Sargeant in carrying the gospel message to the Stockbridge Indians, whose preacher he became when he removed from Northampton. One result of his residence at Stockbridge was the writing of his greatest work in theology, the treatise on "The Freedom of the Will," but it will always be gratifying to recall that the loftiest mind of the Pilgrim Faith was ready to preach to the Indians and to live among them as a faithful missionary worker. Brainerd and Edwards--the mystic and the theologian--each suffered and labored for the conversion and civilization of the natives of America. The American Board had cherished from the first the idea of a mission to the Indians, as it specifically stated in its address to the Christian public in 1811. The first mission opened by the Board was established in 1817 among the Cherokees in southern Tennessee. Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury was the missionary in charge of the station, which was appropriately named "Brainerd," for David Brainerd. Its purpose was not only to influence the Indians to accept the Christian faith, but also to teach them agriculture and useful arts and to bring them into a thoroughly civilized condition. The mission was paid a distinguished honor by President Monroe, who on one occasion visited it in person, entirely unexpectedly, and commended its work very highly. In 1818 the next mission was founded. It was located among the Choctaws, in the State of Mississippi, and was named "Eliot," perpetuating the memory of the earliest service of the Pilgrim Faith in behalf of the Indians. In Mississippi there was gross immorality to...
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