Historic Sketches Of The Pioneer Work And The Missionary Educational And Benevolent Agencies Of The Presbyterian Church In Canada Classic Reprint

Author : Woman's Foreign Missionary Socie Church
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ISBN 13 : 9781331776116
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book Historical Sketches of the Missions written by Woman's Foreign Missionary Socie Church and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the Missions: Under the Care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church I. - Before the Formation of the Presbyterian Board Of Foreign Missions. The Presbyterian Church of the United States very early in its history recognized the duty of offering the gospel to the Indians of our country. The first formal mission instituted by it (according to Dr. Ashbel Green) was in the appointment of Rev. Azariah Horton to labor as a missionary among the Indians of Long Island. He was selected by a commission appointed by the "Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge," and entered upon his work in 1741. "He was well received by most and cordially welcomed by some of them," and many were led to ask the solemn question, what they should do to be saved. In a short time Mr. Horton baptized thirty-five adults and forty-four children. Some of them, however, gave way to temptation, and relapsed into their darling vice of drunkenness. Rev. David Brainerd was also appointed by the same commission, and labored one year - 1743 - in Connecticut, and afterwards in New Jersey at several different points, visiting the Indians on the Susquehanna, and settling at last at Cranbury. His missionary service was ended by his death in 1747. He was succeeded by his brother, Rev. John Brainerd. In 1751 the Synod of New York "enjoined all its members to appoint a collection in their several congregations once a year, to be applied" to the support of the missionaries employed. Mr. Brainerd continued to labor among the Indians of New Jersey till his death, in 1781. A missionary, Mr. Occam, was also sent to the Oneidas in 1763. Several rather desultory efforts, in the way of missionary tours by ministers appointed to the work, were made during the next ten years among the Delawares in Ohio, then the frontier. For the next twenty years we have no records of missionary labors. The Revolutionary war, and the excited state of the Indians, everywhere prevented such efforts. In 1801 and 1802 the Synod of Virginia sent three missionaries to spend two or three months each among the "Shawanese and other tribes about Detroit and Sandusky," and also "a young man of pious character to instruct them in agriculture, and to make some instruments of husbandry for them." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.